TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY / CLASSICAL & MODERN LANGUAGES & LITERATURES
Dr. Miguel Caballero (Northwestern University)
Dr. Miguel Caballero is Assistant Professor of Iberian Studies, specializing in the 20th and 21st centuries, with an interdisciplinary approach connecting literature, art, and philosophy. His research centers on avant-garde art and literature, anti-fascism, and heritage studies, work developed in his book The Monument of Tomorrow: Avant-Garde Conservation and the Spanish War (Penn State University Press, 2025) and through exhibitions he has curated in Moscow and at IVAM in Valencia. His second line of research focuses on medical humanities, particularly HIV/AIDS studies, and draws on his activist work and fieldwork in scientific and biotech settings. At this conference, Dr. Caballero will present “Creative Conservation and the Spanish Civil War”.
Dr. Lynnette Arnold (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Dr. Lynnette Arnold is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is a linguistic anthropologist with a primary area of focus in the Americas, where she has conducted research on language, care, and migration. Dr. Arnold works to create interdisciplinary conversations about the social power of language, demonstrating that attention to linguistic practices can generate consequential new understandings into pressing current issues. This approach is exemplified in her role as co-director of the Demystifying Language Project, an initiative that works to make scholarship on the politics of language available in public high schools. At this conference, Dr. Arnold will present "Convivir a través de las fronteras: Cuidado comunicativo y acompañamiento en una etnografía con familias transnacionales".
