Pilar Martinez-Quiroga’s article “La detective Bruna Husky de Rosa Montero: Feminismo, distopía y conciencia cyborg” (Hispania 101.2, 2018, pp. 306–17) was recently nominated as the winning Outstanding Article of this year’s competition held by the American Association of teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AASP) flagship research journal Hispania.

Pilar is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Having earned her BA in Hispanic Philology and PhD in Spanish Literature, Pilar’s research interest lies in representations of female communities in Spanish women’s literature. She analyzes literature from multidisciplinary perspectives, including political, sociological, economic aspects and more, to address women’s resistance, citizenship, and social change through feminist and postcolonial lens.

Winning AASP’s Outstanding Article of the Year award marks the prominent insight Pilar incorporates into her research on Spanish women’s literature. As a leading organization that  supports teaching and learning Portuguese (K-16+) in the United States, AASP provides resources such as an Annual Conference over the scale of 300 participants, and a monetary prize to the award winner, which, this year, will be presented at the AASP Annual Conference in San Diego.