Gina Malagold

Gina Malagold is a Ph.D. candidate in the Spanish and Portuguese Program at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where she is also pursuing a Graduate Certificate in Latin American Studies. She holds a B.A. in Spanish Language, Literature, and Culture (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 2011) and an M.A. in Latin American and Caribbean Studies (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2013.) She has received national and international fellowships and grants, including a Fulbright Scholarship (Argentina, 2012), a Ronald E. McNair Scholarship, U.S. Department State Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Italy), and a Brandeis University Research Fellowship. She has lectured on language, literature, and culture studies at the Institute of Olga Cossettini (Argentina), Westfield State University (Massachusetts), University of Granada (Spain), and is currently a Visiting Researcher and Lecturer at Georgetown University (2018-2019.) Her work and research interests revolve around themes of Jews in the diaspora, US-Mexico cross-border networks, translation and interpretation, and racial and ethnic formations. Her dissertation project focuses on the life and work of transnational Mexican-Jewish anthropologist Anita Brenner.