Assistant Professor, Spanish and French Studies
B.A. Universidad de Málaga; M.A. Nottingham University; M.A., Ph.D University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Appointed In
2025
Office
Johnson Hall 411
Hours
MWF 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. & by appointment
Prof. Borzone is a literary scholar whose work focuses on the representation of the Argentine gaucho in literature, illustration, and film. She also works on Western comics created in Argentina. At APP, she teaches a variety of courses which range from Spanish language to upper-level literature and culture.
Research
On Literature and Culture
- Paper Frontiers: Refiguring National Belonging through Gaucho Literature and Print Culture (book manuscript in progress)
- “Illustrating Alliance: Florencio Molina Campos’s Pan American Propaganda in World War II” (article draft in progress)
- “Lines of Tradition: Artistic Legitimacy and Representation in Illustrated Gaucho Editions” (article draft in progress)
- “The Transnational Comic Book Western in Mexico and Argentina,” with Christopher Conway, in The Routledge Companion to the Transnational Western, edited by Christopher Conway et al (under review).
- “Modestia Aparte: Women’s Rights in the First All-Women Feminist Murga in Argentina” in Bodies on the Line: Performance, Gender, and Sexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean, ed. by Brenda Werth and Katherine Zien, University of Michigan Press (2024). Association for Theatre in Higher Education Honorable Mention.
- “Jorge Luis Borges’s Gauchesca and the Issue of Genre Death,” The Latinamericanist, vol. 67, issue 2, June 2023 (102-120).
- “Old and New Voices in the Gaucho Frontier: Undoing the Legacy of Silence in Las Aventuras de la China Iron (2017) by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara,” in The Literary Western in the Global Imagination, ed. by Christopher Conway et al, Brill Publishers, 2022.
- “Argentina’s Outlaws and the Revisionist Western: The Case of Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Hugo Pratt’s Sargento Kirk” in Another West: The Comic Book Western. New Perspectives on a Global Genre, ed. by Christopher Conway and Antoinette Sol, University of Nebraska Press, 2022. Winner of the “Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular and American Culture.”
On Teaching and Learning
- “Advancing Inclusive Teaching through Student Pedagogical Partnerships during the COVID-19 Pandemic,” International Journal for Students as Partners, vol. 6, no. 1, May 2022. In collaboration with Tracy M. Addy et al.
- “The Development of the Protocol for Advancing Inclusive Teaching Efforts (PAITE),” in collaboration with Tracy M. Addy et al, Journal of Educational Research & Practice, vol. 12, issue 0, 2022 (65-93).
Honors
- Helen Delpar Award for Best Peer-Reviewed Article in The Latinamericanist for “Jorge Luis Borges and the Issue of Genre Death” (2024)
- Faculty Scholar of the Year, Nebraska Wesleyan University (2024)
- Distinguished Teaching Award. Center for Teaching and Learning, UMass Amherst (2018)
- Pre-Dissertation Research Award. Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies, UMass Amherst (2016)
Teaching
- SPA 102: Beginning Spanish II
- SPA 374: Imagining the Argentine Nation
- SPA 375: Narratives of Confinement in Latin American Literature