Associate Professor, Spanish
galarrdf@jmu.edu
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Read Diana Galarreta's Profile
Dr. Diana Galarreta-Aima is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and the coordinator of the Medical Spanish minor. Her research currently focuses on language policies affecting the health of the Spanish-speaking community in the US, and on community service-learning for Spanish Heritage learners. Most recently, Dr. Galarreta-Aima's research focuses on the development and evaluation of Medical Spanish education at the undergraduate level. She has appeared in the Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, the Bulletin of Spanish Studies, the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, and other peer-reviewed journals and non-academic journals. Dr. Galarreta-Aima has been working on a new textbook on Medical Spanish titled Intermediate Medical Spanish: a Healthcare Guide for the Latino Patient which was published in the Fall of 2021.
Affiliation
Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Coordinator of the Medical Spanish minor
Publications
Intermediate Medical Spanish: a Healthcare Guide for the Latino Patient (2021)
"Desmembramiento del cuerpo social y familiar, y la construcción de la incipiente identidad nacional española en el 'Quijote' de 1615: Ricote y Ana Félix: extirpación de miembros infecciosos" (2018)
"El problema morisco y la retórica de la infección corporal en 'La historia del cautivo'" (2017)
"Renegados cervantinos como personajes oximorónicos: travestismos culturales y amistades heterodoxas" (2017)
"Anotaciones sobre Viaje de Turquia" (2016)
“Topografía e historia general de Argel: testimonio de un cautivo desde el otro lado del Mediterráneo” (2015)
“El tiempo en La Celestina: el deseo, el placer y el egoísmo como motivos de interpretación de la obra” (2011)
