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Sonia Zarco-Real, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Spanish

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Specialty / Language: Spanish,

Sonia Zarco-Real (pronouns: she/her) completed her B.A. degree in English Philology with a concentration on British Modernism from the Universidad Complutense and an M.A. in Creative Writing, Literature, and Literary Theory from the Escuela de Letras in Madrid. At the University of Connecticut, she earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies. 

Dr. Zarco-Real specializes in contemporary 19th-21st Century Hispanic Transatlantic Studies and Spanish Literature. Her research interests also include post/neo colonial, nation-building, and transnational studies. She has written several articles on these topics which have appeared in journals as Bulletin of Spanish StudiesRevista de Estudios HispánicosRevista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, among others. She has also participated in peer conferences in the United States and abroad. At WVU, she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses. Currently, she is working on a book-length project entitled Neo-Coloniality in Early Twentieth-Century Periodicals across the Hispanic Atlantic: Hispanismo, Catalanism, and Indigenismo. 


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