Mary K. Long

  • Teaching Professor
  • Spanish for the Professions Director
  • Spanish 3000 Levels Coordinator
  • SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE
Address

Fall 2024 office hours: Wednesday 11:00am - 12:00pm in person or on Zoom

McKenna 132B

 

Research Areas

20th-21st Century Mexican Literature and Culture; Language for Specific Purposes Studies (LSP); Spanish for the Professions; Cross-cultural Communication and Exchange between Latin America and the United States; Globalization and Cultural Identity

Books

 

Articles, Book Chapters, and Encyclopedia Entries

Mexican Literature and Culture

  • “’Yo soy’: Public Protest, Private expression: Contestatory uses of Social Media by Contemporary Mexican Youth.” Online Activism in Latin America. Edited by Hilda Chacón. Routledge, 2019.
  • “Organizers of Mexican Culture.” World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia. Edited by Maureen Ihrie and Salvador Oropesa. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2011.
  • “Salvador Novo.” World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia. Edited by Maureen Ihrie and Salvador Oropesa. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2011.
  • “Xavier Villaurrutia.” World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia. Edited by Maureen Ihrie and Salvador Oropesa. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2011.
  • “Carlos Pellicer.” World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia. Edited by Maureen Ihrie and Salvador Oropesa. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2011.
  • “Writing Home: The United States through the Eyes of Traveling Mexican Artists and Writers 1920-40.” Mexico Reading the United States. Edited by Linda Egan and Mary K. Long. Nashville TN: Vanderbilt UP, 2009. 21-40.
  • “Introduction.” with Linda Egan. In Mexico Reading the United States. Edited by Linda Egan and Mary K. Long. Nashville TN: Vanderbilt UP, 2009. 1-17.
  • “Writing the City: The Chronicles of Salvador Novo.” Contemporary Mexican Chronicle: Theoretical Perspectives on the Liminal Genre, Edited by Ignacio Corona and Beth Jörgensen. New York: SUNY Press, 2002. 181-201.
  • “Consumer Society and National Identity in the work of Salvador Novo and Guadalupe Loaeza.” CHASQUI: Revista de literatura latinoamericana. 30.2 (2001): 116-26.
  • “Nota introductoria.” Salvador Novo: Viajes y Ensayos II: Crónicas y periodismo. Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1999. 9-17.
  • “Salvador Novo’s Continente vacío.” Latin American Literary Review. XXIV. 47 (1996): 91-114.
  • “Novo y la fragmentación del yo.” Biblioteca de México. 22 (1994): 36-40.

LSP, Spanish for the Professions, and Cross-Cultural Communication

  • “Introduction.” Language for Specific Purposes: Trends in Curriculum Development. Edited by Mary K. Long. Washington D.C.: Georgetown UP, 2017. 1-12.
  • “Conclusion.” Language for Specific Purposes: Trends in Curriculum Development. Edited by Mary K. Long. Washinton D.C.: Georgetown UP, 2017. 187-190.
  • “New Directions in LSP Research in US Higher Education.” with Lourdes Sánchez-López and Barbara Lafford. Language for Specific Purposes: Trends in Curriculum Development. Edited by Mary K. Long. Washington D.C.: Georgetown UP, 2017. 13-34.
  • “Teaching Gender for the Multicultural Workplace.” Teaching Gender through Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Texts and Cultures. Edited by Leila Gómez, Asunción Horno-Delgado, Mary K. Long and Núria Silleras-Fernández. Sense Publishers, 2015: 159-172.
  • “Social Media: New Directions in Localization and Language Services between Spanish and English.” Cuadernos de ALDEEU. Número especial: Español para las profesiones y otros usos específicos. Volumen 28, otoño 2014: 171-189.
  • "Language for Specific Purposes Job Announcements from the Modern Language Association Job List: A Multiyear Analysis." Scholarship and Teaching on Languages for Specific Purposes. Edited by Lourdes Sánchez-López. UAB Faculty Works, UAB Digital Collections. Birmingham: Mervyn H. Sterne Library, U of Alabama at Birmingham, 2013.
  • “Evolution of Languages for Specific Purposes Programs in the US: 1990-2011.” with Izabela Uscinski. Modern Language Journal, Focus Issue 96(s1), 2012: 173-189.
  • “International Spanish for the Professions Degree Programs in the United States: History and Current Practice.” How Globalizing Professions Deal with National Languages: Studies in Cultural Studies and Cooperation. Edited by Michel Gueldry. Edwin Mellen Press, 2010: 29-53.
  • “Latin America in the Spanish for Business Classroom: Sustainability and the Impact of Foreign Investment on Real Estate, Tourism and Community in Costa Rica.” with Anne Becher. Language and Culture Out of Bounds: Discipline-Blurred Perspectives on the Foreign Language Classroom. Professional Development Series Handbook, Vol VI, Edited by Vicki Galloway and Bettina Cothran. Heinle & Heinle / AATSP, 2006. 134-150.
  • Globalization or Colonization? Teaching Culture for Business While Promoting Social Equity” Journal of Language for International Business 14.1(2003): 71-85.