Contact Information:
Dr. Analisa De Grave
Assistant Professor
Office: HHH 353
Ph: (715) 836-4546
degravae[at]uwec[dot]edu

Analisa DeGrave is an assistant professor of Spanish in the Foreign Languages Department at UW-Eau Claire. In addition to serving on the Latin American Studies committee, Dr. DeGrave teaches Latin American literature and civilization. Her areas of interest include constructions of utopia and dystopia in Latin American poetry, U.S. Latino cultural expressions, and literature of Latin American revolutionary movements.

During the summers of her college and graduate school years Dr. DeGrave worked with the Hispanic migrant community in rural Minnesota at Migrant Head Start, Title I and Migrant Health Services. Her ties to the Midwest also led her to volunteer through Project Minnesota-León in León, Nicaragua.

Analisa DeGrave received her Ph.D. and Masters degree in Spanish at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and earned her B.A. in Spanish and History at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota.

This summer she will be working with the non-profit organization Puentes/Bridges, student researchers, and UW-Eau Claire graduates to create the first segments of (the tentatively titled) “Resource Booklet for New Hispanics in Western Wisconsin.”  This project is supported by the UW-Eau Claire’s Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.  

She continues to study Latino/Latin American expressions of utopia. Current projects include a book chapter on the poetry of Nuyorican author Tato Laviera and another on utopian representations of Quilombo dos Palmares in colonial Brazil.

Publications:

November, 2007: DeGrave, Analisa. “Ernesto Cardenal” and “Hora 0” in R. Victoria Arana, ed. The Facts on File Companion to World Poetry, 1900 to the Present. Facts on File: New York, NY.

DeGrave, A.  “Ecoliterature and Dystopia: Gardens and Topos in Modern Latin American Poetry.” Confluencia: Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura 22.2 (Spring 2007): 89-104.

DeGrave, Analisa DeGrave, Eva Santos-Phillips, Jeff DeGrave, eds. Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Latin American Issues. Dubuque, IA: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 2006.

DeGrave, A. “Nancy Morejón: Caution: Yoruban Silences in Utopia.” MaComère : The Journal of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars7 (2005): 119-135. 

DeGrave, A. 2005: “Santiago Waria (1541-1991) o Santiago Waria y Las Primeras Letras: la distopia urbana de Elvira Hernández.” Hispanic Poetry Review 5. 1: 42-57.

DeGrave, A. 2003: “Volviendo al Edén para hacer unos cambios: la utopía y la poesía evaísta de Gioconda Belli. ” Ixquic: Revista Hispánica Internacional de Análisis y Creación. Issue 4.

RECENT FACULTY/STUDENT RESEARCH COLLABORATION:

Summer 2008: Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates, María Boland (with non-profit organization, Puentes/Bridges): “Resource Booklet for New Hispanics in Western Wisconsin”

Summer 2008: Diversity Mentoring Project, Carlos Villagrán Arias (with non-profit organization, Puentes/Bridges): “Resource Booklet for New Hispanics in Western Wisconsin”