Lizely López Cordero

Lizely M. López Cordero is a Spanish instructor and a Phd candidate in the Department of World Languages and Culture at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Her research interests are diverse. These include Contemporary Spanish and Puerto Rican Film, TransArea Studies, Cultural Studies, Ethnomusicology and the use of digital media as New Digital Cinema. A teacher by vocation, Lizely has taught English and Spanish at inner city schools and private schools where she successfully has incorporated her research interests to her language teaching methodology. Her current research project explores the role of sound in visual representations of Puerto Rico in film and digital media.
To nurture her creative side, Lizely also writes poetry, micro-fiction and creative essays, some of which have been published in Tinta Nueva, the creative magazine of the University of Puerto Rico in Cayey, Letras salvajes and Puerto Rican newspapers such as El Nuevo día and Las Estrella de Puerto Rico.

Publications

PUBLICATIONS:

• “La gran fiesta: Reframing Puerto Rico’s National Discourse Through Sound,” Polifonía. Vol 13.1. 2024.
• “Pan negro: en pos de una pedagogía de liberación,” Vernacular: New Connections in Language, Literature, & Culture: Vol. 4. 2019.
• “Hibridez e identidad: los espacios imaginarios en La gran fiesta y Bienvenido Míster Marshall. University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 2014.
• “El grito de Lares: a través de una óptica más clara”. La Estrella. 2005.
• “Insularismo: desde una perspectiva futurista.” Diálogo. 2004.

CONFERENCES:

• Presenter (Forthcoming). Congreso XI de la Sociedad Hispanica de Humanidades “Afilando cuchillos”: Schizophonia and Digital Cinema in El verano del 2019. Tarragona, Spain, June 26-28 2024.
• Panel Organizer, MIFLC (Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference), “Diálogos sobre la construcción de una identidad Latinoamericana Transnacional en la producción literaria del siglo veintiuno.” University of North Carolina in Greensboro, NC, October 21, 2022.
• Presenter, MIFLC (Mountain Intersate Foreign Language Conferece), “Hijos del cañaveral:” Refashioning Puerto Rico’s Transnational Identity.” University of North Carolina in Greensboro, NC, October 21, 2022.
• Presenter, CILH (Congresos Internacionales de Literatura y Estudios Hispánicos). “Broche de oro: un inventario del Puerto Rico del siglo XXI.” Virtual Conference, June 25, 2021.
• Presenter, Vernacular Symposium. “Representaciones de la emigración española en Puerto Rico de 1930-1940 en El vuelo de dragón”. University of Knoxville, TN, February 28, 2020.
• Presenter, Southeast Coastal Conference on Languages and Literatures. “Coto vedado: el toro por los cuernos.” Savannah, Georgia, April 11, 2019.
• Chair, Southeast Coastal Conference on Languages and Literatures. “Cultura nacional, caudillos y conceptos filosóficos de identidad nacional.” Savannah, Georgia, April 11-12, 2019.
• Presenter, LLC Symposium: The Global Sixties. “!Lucha Sí, Entrega NO!”: Student Activism and Resistance Against the Colonial System in Puerto Rico.” University of North Carolina in Greensboro. Greensboro, North Carolina, March 21, 2019.
• Presenter, The Second Annual Vernacular Symposium. “La isla como imaginario femenino en Lazos de Sangre de Rosario Ferré.” University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee, February 22, 2019.
• Presenter, Congreso XI de la Sociedad Hispanica de Humanidades. “Pan Negro: en pos de una pedagogía de liberación”. Cáceres, Extremadura, June 22, 2018.

CREATIVE WRITING:

• “La marcha.” Tinta Nueva. Cayey, PR: Círculo Literario, Universidad de Puerto Rico en Cayey. Año X (2013): 21-22. (Essay)
• “Paradoja.” Tinta Nueva. Cayey, PR: Círculo Literario, Universidad de Puerto Rico en Cayey. Año X (2013): 21-22. (Poem)
• “El síndrome de Macondo.” Tinta Nueva. Cayey, PR: Círculo Literario, Universidad de Puerto Rico en Cayey. Año 7 (2008): 27-28. (Essay. 1st place winner, University of Puerto at Cayey Literary Contest, 2008)
• “III.” Tinta Nueva. Cayey, PR: Círculo Literario, Universidad de Puerto Rico en Cayey. Año 7 (2008): 24-25. (Short Story)
• “Alucinación.” Tinta Nueva. Cayey, PR: Círculo Literario, Universidad de Puerto Rico en Cayey. Año 7 (2008): 26. (Short Story)
• “Viaje al pasado.” Tinta Nueva. Cayey, PR: Círculo Literario, Universidad de Puerto Rico en Cayey, Año 6 (2007): 24-26. (Essay. 2nd place winner, University of Puerto Rico at Cayey Literary Contest, 2007).
• “Tempestad.” Tinta Nueva. Cayey, PR: Círculo Literario, Universidad de Puerto Rico en Cayey, Año 6 (2007): 23. (Poem)
  “Las incongruencias de la pena capital.” Tinta Nueva. Cayey, PR: Círculo Literario, Universidad de Puerto Rico en Cayey, Año 5 (2006): 26-27. (Essay)
• “Centrifuga.” Tinta Nueva. Cayey, PR: Círculo Literario, Universidad de Puerto Rico en Cayey, Año 5 (2006): 24. (Poem)
• “Hecatombe.” Tinta Nueva. Cayey, PR: Círculo Literario, Universidad de Puerto Rico en Cayey, Año 5 (2006): 26-27. (Poem)

Awards/Honors

• Graduate Student Travel Senate Award. University of Tennessee in Knoxville. May 2024.
• Excellence in Service, Sigma Delta Pi Chapter Award. Sigma Delta Pi Epsilon Upsilon Chapter. April 26, 2017.
• GSA Research Travel Grant, June 2014

Email: llopez8@vols.utk.edu

Personal Website: www.linkedin.com/in/lizely-m-lópez-69319976

Education

• 2020 – May 2025 (Expected Graduation), University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
  Ph.D. in Modern Foreign Languages with a concentration in Spanish (ABD)
• 2013- 2014, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
  M.A Master of Arts (MA) in Romance Languages and Literatures with a concentration in Spanish
• 2003-2008, University of Puerto Rico, Cayey, PR B.A. in Secondary English Education