Amanda E. Gerke

Datos / Personal Information


Docencia / Teaching Assignments

Primer semestre:
  • Lengua Inglesa V - 102508 (Grado en Estudios Ingleses)
Segundo semestre:
  • Lengua Inglesa IV - 102506 (Grado en Estudios Ingleses)

Investigación / Research

Estancias y proyectos de investigación recientes
  • 2019. Visiting Scholar: University of Coimbra (Portugal): “Discourse Communities and Identity Formation in Latino/a Films”.
  • 2017. Hospitality in European Film (Proyecto Erasmus+ 2017-1-ES01-KA203-038181)
  • 2016. Historia Crítica de la literatura étnica norteamericano: Una aproximación intercultural (ID Q4718001C).
  • 2015. Fronteras e identidades en los estudios culturales de Estados Unidos y España
    (SA007A10-1) Junta de Castilla y León. Directora: Ana Manzanas Calvo
  • 2013/2014. The Language Textbook as Ambassador: A critical discourse analysis of how the textbook reveals cultural values. University of Cambridge, England.
  • 2009. Mexican Women and Work on Both Sides of the U.S.-Mexican Border. Led by Dr. Mary King, funding by Portland State University, Oregon, USA.
  • 2008. La trata humanaoaxacana.Oaxaca, México/Portland, Oregon, USA.
Publicaciones

Amanda Gerke’s main areas of research are (critical) discourse analysis and genre analysis. She has given various conference papers and has published articles that focus on cultural values, attitudes, and beliefs that are transmitted through written texts, as well as code-switching, linguistic spaces, and diasporic literature.

  • Gerke, Amanda Ellen (forthcoming). 'Discourse Communities and Identity Formation in Latino/a Films'. en A. Gerke and Luisa González Rodríguez (eds.) Towards New Perspectives on Latinidad in American Literature and Culture. Brill
  • Gerke, Amanda Ellen (forthcoming). 'A 21st Century Concept of Latinidad”. en A. Gerke and Luisa González Rodríguez (eds.) Towards New Perspectives on Latinidad in American Literature and Culture. Brill
  • Gerke, Amanda Ellen and Luisa Gonzále Rodríguez (forthcoming). Towards New Perspectives on Latinidad in American Literature and Culture. Brill
  • Gerke, Amanda Ellen (2020). 'Linguistic Hospitality: Gatekeeping physical and verbal spaces'. en Gerke, A., Patricia San José Rico y Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan (eds.) The Poetics and Politics of Hospitality in U.S. Literature and Culture. Brill
  • Gerke, A., Patricia San José Rico y Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan (eds.) The Poetics and Politics of Hospitality in U.S. Literature and Culture. Brill
  • Gerke, Amanda Ellen (2018). 'Discursive Boundaries: Code-Switching as Representative of Gibraltarian Identity Construction M.G. Sanchez’ Rock Black'. Miscelánea 57: 35-57.
  • Gerke, Amanda Ellen (2015). 'Walking Out on Language: Verbal Spaces in Junot Díaz's 'Invierno'. Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos. 19, 83-97.
  • Gerke, Amanda Ellen (2015). Reseña del libro A Multi-dimentional Approach to Discourse Coherence: From Standardness to Creativity de Pilar Alonso. ES Revista de Filología Inglesa .36: 191-196.
  • Gerke, Amanda Ellen (2014). 'Situational Determinants in Code-switching among L1-L2 English-Spanish Adults'. en Lázaro Lafuente, Alberto y Porto Requejo, Ma Dolores (eds.) English and American Studies in Spain: New Developments and Trends. Alcalá de Henares: Universidad de Alcalá: UAH Obras Colectivas Humanidades. 197-205.
  • Gerke, Amanda Ellen (2014). 'Textbook as Genre: Part Two'. CoDis Working Papers 3, 18-32
  • Gerke, Amanda Ellen (2013). 'Textbook as Genre: Part One'. CoDis Working Papers
  • Gerke, Amanda Ellen (2009). 'She’s Not Oppressed, She’s a Prostitute: An anecdote of the Marginalized'. The Spectrum Quarterly Review. Spring 2009, 3,6.

Cargos de Gestión / Position

  • Assistant editor for the Rodolpi series “Critical Approaches to Ethnic American Literature”. http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?SerieId=CAEAL
  • Assistant editor for ES Review Spanish Journal of English Studies. https://revistas.uva.es/index.php/esreview.