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.. (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, cris.
• 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.

Presentations

• VanWieren, R. (2016). Traveling toward Emptiness: Patagonia in Luis Sepúlveda's and Daniel Mordzinski's Writing and Photography. Conference presented at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, Pasadena, CA.
• VanWieren, R. (2016). Venganza ballenera en la Patagonia. Conference presented at the Congreso Chile Transatlántico, Santiago, Chile.
• 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.