Dr. Daniela Abraham
Faculty
Department: Languages
Title: Lecturer of Spanish
Education History
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PhD (Texas A&M University, Hispanic Studies, 2018)
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MA (Texas A&M University, Kingsville, Spanish Language and
Literature, 2013)
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BA (CSU Los Angeles, Economics, 2003)
Biography
Dr. Daniela Abraham's interdisciplinary research bridges the
fields of Hispanic studies and Pan-African studies, with a focus on
Caribbean cultural studies. Her dissertation, Of Pilgrims,
Heretics, and Martyrs: Arturo A. Schomburg's Black Internationalism
and the Antillean Movement of the Late Nineteenth Century,
connects the works of Pan-Africanist intellectual Arturo (Arthur)
Schomburg to the literary and cultural movement that arose out of
the struggles for Cuban and Puerto Rican independence in the
19th-century fin de siècle.
Her work provides a new reading of the writings of Puerto Rican
thinker Eugenio María de Hostos and Cuban intellectual José Martí
as foundational to Schomburg's Pan-Africanism. It also explores the
relevance of Schomburg's ethico-political theory to 21st-century global issues of
social justice, diversity, and inclusion.
Other research interests include the sociology of religion,
social theory, political theory, Latin American literature, and
Peninsular early 20th-century literature.
Dr. Abraham has presented papers in many conferences, such as
the Society for Latin American Studies at the University of
Manchester in England, the Annual African Conference at the
University of Texas in Austin, and the Annual Conference on Latin
American, Peninsular, and French Literatures at the University of
Oklahoma.
She has also written several reviews and essays, and has
contributed to the translation of País mas Allá / A country
beyond of Chilean poet David Rosenmann-Taub.
Prior to joining the faculty at Saint Meinrad, Dr. Abraham
taught Spanish language courses and led seminars in International
Studies at Texas A&M University. She also taught Spanish and
Economics at Pilgrim School in Los Angeles, California.