Keynote Speaker
Dr. Rhi Johnson
(The College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Spanish and Portuguese)
Rhi Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, specializing in Iberian cultural production across the 18th and 19th centuries. In addition to journal publications, Johnson is the editor and translator of Because I Want to See the Sea: Poems by Rosalía de Castro (with Valparaíso Ediciones in 2021), and is coeditor and translator of Tears and Flowers: A Poet of Migration in Old Key West,
slated for release in October of 2024 with the University of Florida Press. The current focus of their research links new materialisms and gender studies in the monograph Women and Water: Fluxes of the Feminine in the Nineteenth Century, under advanced contract with the University of Toronto Press. In the scholarship of teaching and learning, Johnson is a fellow of IU College of Arts and Sciences Career Connections, Digital Gardeners, and the Indiana University High School/College Bridge Project; they have presented at the Indiana and North Carolina Foreign Language Teachers Association Conferences, received grant funding at the University of North Carolina to develop L2 learning tools, and published on pedagogic strategy in the Boletin Martiano with the University of Tampa.