Research Activities
My research interests include:
19th-21st Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies
Reproduction, Motherhood, and Non-Patriarchal Parenthood
Queer and Feminist Theory
Popular Culture
Feminist Social Movements
Travesti and Trans* Studies
Popular Religion
Southern Cone Studies
Mexican Studies
Transnational Studies
National Identity
Women of Color Studies
Translation
Language Pedagogy
My current research looks at the construct of motherhood within Argentina, specifically how women’s corpses are attributed narratives to achieve political aims.
mfelmanpanagotacos@middlebury.edu
LASA 2024 Prizes – Southern Cone Studies Section
About Me
BIOGRAPHY
Madison is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Luso-Hispanic Studies Department at Middlebury College. She graduated with a PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures and a MA in Spanish from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a Fulbright-Hays scholar and translator, who currently resides in Vermont with her dogs Mochi and Possum. Her areas of research center on the cultural production of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Mexico and Argentina, and focus on studies of feminist social movements, maternity and non-patriarchal parenthood, abortion rights, and women’s citizenship. She has been published in A contracorriente, Imagofagia, Mester, and the LA Review of Books. Currently, she is writing about synecdochal bodily representations in Latin American protest artwork.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
At Middlebury College
Reproduction, Maternity, and Abortion in Latin America. Spring 2024.
Latin American Queer Cultures. Fall 2023. Fall 2024.
Rewriting National Fictions: Adapting Citizenship in Foundational Narratives. Winter 2024.
Intermediate Spanish II. Fall 2023. Spring 2024.
Beginning Spanish II. Fall 2024.
At the University of California, Los Angeles
Variable Topics in Queer Diversities (Queer Historiography in Argentina). Fall 2020.
Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies. Winter 2020. (TA)
Introduction to Gender Studies. Fall 2019. (TA)
Literature in Historical Context. Spring 2018. Winter 2023. (TA)
Latin American Cultures. Fall 2021. (TA)
Academic Reading and Writing. Summer 2020.
Advanced Spanish Composition for Heritage Speakers. Spring 2023.
Advanced Spanish Composition. Winter 2021.
Introductory Spanish for Heritage Speakers. Fall 2022.
Intermediate Spanish 5. Winter 2019. Spring 2019.
Intermediate Spanish 4. Spring 2021.
Elementary Spanish 3. Summer 2018. Fall 2018. Summer 2020.
Elementary Spanish 2. Winter 2018. Summer 2021.
Elementary Spanish 1. Fall 2017.
At Universidad de Belgrano (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Taking it to the Streets – Spanish in the Community (Summer 2018, Summer 2019)
Tango and the Argentine Identity (Summer 2018, Summer 2019)
