Dr. Rachel VanWieren

Honors and Awards

2016, Teaching Pair Project Funding, COLS, NU
2014, Departmental Appreciation Award
2013, Alpha Mu Gamma Honors Society
2010, Del Amo Travel Grant
2009, Latin American Institute Tinker Field Rsch Grant

Publications

VanWieren, R. (2017). Reconsidering the Patagonian Worker Movements of the 1920s: Francisco Coloane's and Luis Sepúlveda's Rebellious Chilotes. A Contracorriente, 14(3): 127-142.
VanWieren, R. (2015). Sketching Social Mobility in the Gold Rushes of California and Patagonia: Bret Harte and Manuel Rojas. Hispanófila, 173: 281-291.
VanWieren, R. (2010). Crisis in the Search for Gold in Depression Era Chilean Rewritings of the Legend of the City of the Caesars. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 44: 127-46.
VanWieren, R. (2010). "A Conversation with Andrew Brown: Mashing Up Latin American Literature, Science,Technology, and the Post-human." Interview by Victoria L. Garrett and Rachel VanWieren. Mester, 39: 149-160.
VanWieren, R. (2007). La ciencia al servicio del imperio español: Antonio de Córdoba y el
Estrecho de Magallanes. Revista de Humanidades, 15-16: 169-80.
Eds. Elena Oliva, Alondra Peirano, Elisabet Prudant, Javiera Ruíz.. (2009). La amenaza del femicidio: Mujeres selk'nam e inmigrantes fueguinos en El guanacoblanco (1980) de Francisco Coloane y El corazón a contraluz (1996) de Patricio Manns. América Latina en el nuevo milenio: procesos, crisis, y perspectivas.
Rachel Vanwieren And Teresa Rinaldi. (2016). Traveling toward Emptiness: Patagonia in Luis Sepúlveda's and Daniel Mordzinski's Writing and Photography. Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference. Pasadena, CA. 12 Nov. 2016..
VanWieren, R. (2016). Venganza ballenera en la Patagonia. Congreso Chile Transatlántico. Santiago, Chile. 16 Aug. 2016..

Presentations

VanWieren, R. (2015). Refocusing History in Fictional Portrayals of Patagonian Worker Movements. Poster presented at the National University Spring Symposium, San Diego, CA.
VanWieren, R. (2014). Humanizing Sealers in Francisco Coloane¿s `Cabo de Hornos'. Conference presented at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, Riverside, CA.