Diplomas/Degrees
Diplomas/Degrees
Ph.D., University Complutense of Madrid, Spain (2011)
M.A., University of Barcelona, Spain (2012)
M.A., Feminist Research Institute-University Complutense of Madrid, Spain (2008)
B. A., University Complutense of Madrid, Spain (2002)
Professional Experience
Professional Experience
May–August 2026
Visiting Research Scholar, Department of Literature and Bibliography. Faculty of Information Sciences, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
2016
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. Hofstra University, New York
2015–2016
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Modern Languages. Molloy College, New York
2013–2017
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. 茄子视频, New York
2012–2017
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages. Nassau Community College, State University of New York, New York
2011–2012
Research Assistant to Professor Lou Charnon-Deutsch. Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature. Stony Brook University, State University of New York
Recent Courses
Recent Courses
S/T: Food.Movies,And Texts In The Afro-Latinx World
First Year Seminar: From Tierra Del Fuego To Pyrenees: Transatlantic Visual Culture
Food,Movies,And Texts In The Afro-Latinx World
Identities On Screen: Movies From Africa To Latin America
Introduction To African American And African Diaspora Studies
S/T: Identities On Screen: Movies From Africa To Latin America
Courses Previously Taught
Courses Previously Taught
0101-350-001 Identities on Screen Movies from Africa to Latin America. Semester: Spring 2025.
0101-257-001 Food, Movies, and Texts in the Afro-Latinx World. Semester: Spring 2025, 2024 and Fall 2023.
0137-211-001 Seminar 360: Race, Culture, and Film. Semester: Fall 2025 and Spring 2024.
0952-110-054 First Year Seminar: From Tierra del Fuego to Pyrenees: Transatlantic Visual Culture. Semesters: Fall 2024, 2023, and 2022.
0952-110-033 First Year Seminar: Gender, Race, Film, & the US in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Semesters: Fall 2024 and 2023.
0952-110-035 First Year Seminar: Women's Voices Global Choices: Feminist Writers in Latin America. Semester: Fall 2025 and 2024.
0137-228-001 Party 360: Why We Party. Session Sep. 28th, 2020: Spanish and Mexican Salon.
0173-210-001 Western Translation Theory, fall 2019, spring 2018, spring 2017, fall 2016, spring 2015.
0173-345-345 Introduction to Interpreting, fall 2018, spring 2016, fall 2015.
0173-455-001 Advanced Translation, spring 2019, fall 2017, spring 2016.
0173-490-002 Independent Study Western Translation Theory, fall 2018, fall 2017, spring 2016.
0173-490-003 Independent Study Advanced Translation, fall 2017, spring 2017.
0172-111-001 Level I Spanish, fall 2020, spring 2020, fall 2017.
0172-121-003 Level III Spanish, fall 2020, fall 2016, fall 2015.
0172-122-001 Level IV Spanish, fall 2020, fall 2020, fall 2019, fall 2018, fall 2017, spring 2017, fall 2016, spring 2016, fall 2015.
0172- 231-001 Spanish Cross-Cultural Concepts, fall 2018.
0172-246-001 Spain Today, fall 2019, fall 2017.
0172-310-001 Strategies in Spanish Oral Communication, fall 2018.
0172-331-001 Survey of the Literature of Spain, fall 2020.
0172-344-001 Spanish Translation Techniques, spring 2018.
0172-390-001 Special Topics: Social Movements in Spain, spring 2019.
0172-412-001 Seminar in Spanish Literature, spring 2020.
0172-422-001 Seminar in Hispanic American Literature, spring 2017.
0172-490-002 Independent Study Advanced Spanish Language and Culture, fall 2019.
0172-490-002 Independent Study Development of Hispanic-American Identity, spring 2017.
0172-490-002 Independent Study Survey of the Literature of Hispanic America, spring 2016, fall 2016.
0172-490-002 Independent Study Survey of Spanish Poetry, fall 2015.
0172-490-003 Independent Study Spanish Translation Techniques, fall 2016.
0172-490-004 Independent Study Seminar in Hispanic American Literature, spring 2017, fall 2015.
0172-490-004 Independent Study Social Movements in Latin America and in Spain, spring 2016.
Specialization/Interests
Specialization/Interests
Iberian and Latin American Literatures and Cultures;
Transatlantic Studies;
Global Hispanophone Studies;
Women's Transnational Literary and Cultural Networks;
Film, Media, and Visual Culture;
Food Studies; Cultural Studies;
Diaspora Studies;
Gender, Queer, and Women's Studies;
Postcolonial and Indigenous Studies.
Research Interests
Research Interests
Nineteenth-Century Iberian and Latin American Literatures and Cultures;
Women’s Literary, Intellectual, and Cultural History;
Women’s Transnational Literary and Cultural Networks;
Biography, Life Writing, and Intellectual History;
Feminist Thought and Women’s Intellectual History;
Epistolary Cultures and Correspondence Networks;
Slavery and Antislavery in the Global Hispanophone World;
Periodical and Print Culture;
Religion, Spiritualism, and Alternative Modernities in the Global Hispanophone World;
Medicine, Health, and Culture in the Global Hispanophone World;
Translation Studies and Cultural Mediators;
Military Culture, War, and Society in the Global Hispanophone World;
Visual Culture and Cinema in the Global Hispanophone World;
Gender, Queer, and Women’s Studies;
Diaspora, Mobility, and the Global Hispanophone World;
Postcolonial and Indigenous Studies;
Food Studies;
Archival Studies;
Transatlantic Studies;
Global Hispanophone Studies;
Books
Books
1- Delaware: Vernon Press, 2023. 283 pages.
Reviews:
María Jesús Horta Sanz. .
Nora Lynn Gardner. .
Bernstein, Beth.
2.- Delaware: Vernon Press, 2023. 281 pages.
Reviews:
María Jesús Horta Sanz. .
Marta B. Ferrari. .
Lisa Nalbone. .
Leticia Romero Chumacero.
Verónica Ramírez Errázuriz..
Andrea García González.
Nerea Aresti Esteban.
Estéfano Efrén Baggiarini.
Mercedes Ontoria Peña. .
Elena Lindholm. .
3.- . Co-editor with Lou Charnon-Deutsch. New York: Routledge, 2022. 180 pages
Reviews:
María Jesús Horta Sanz. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, vol. 32, no. 1, 2022, pp. 477-487.
Catarina Juliane von Wedemeyer. Clepsydra, vol. 23, November 2022, pp. 329-330.
Azucena Trincado Murugarren. Women’s Studies, vol. 52, no. 1, 2023, pp. 144-146.
Estefanía Cabello. Hispanófila, vol. 198, summer 2023, pp. 160-162.
Jennifer Brady. Hispania, vol. 107, no. 1, March 2024, pp. 180-181.
Gloria Fortún. Feminist Modernist Studies, 2024, pp. 1-3.
Mercedes Ontoria Peña. Confluencia, vol. 39, no. 2, 2024, pp. 172-174.
Nuria Torres López. Ámbitos Feministas, vol. 13, 2025, pp. 243-246.
4.- [From the Wild Nineteenth century to the Unstable Twentieth century in Transatlantic Letters: A Retrospective Look at Hispanists.] Editor Ana I. Simón Alegre. Delaware: Vernon Press, 2022. 316 pages.
Reviews:
María Jesús Horta Sanz. World Language Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, June 2022, pp. 60-66.
María Jesús Horta Sanz. Hispanófila, vol. 195, summer 2022, pp. 155-157.
Catarina Juliane von Wedemeyer. Clepsydra, vol. 23, November 2022, pp. 327-328.
Karina M. Walker. Ámbitos Feministas, vol. 11, spring 2023, pp. 145-147.
Benita Sampedro. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, May 2023, pp. 1-4.
Luis Álvarez Castro. Hispania, vol. 106, no. 3, September 2023, pp. 516-518.
Santiago Sevilla-Vallejo. Estudios Humanísticos. Filología, no. 45, 2023, pp. 249-251.
Chapters
Chapters
1.- Simón-Alegre, Ana I. “La vida entretejida de Julia de Asensi (1843–1921): familia, afectos y redes literarias en el Madrid de fin de siglo” [“The Interwoven Life of Julia de Asensi (1843–1921): Family, Affections, and Literary Networks in Fin-de-Siècle Madrid.”] In [Domestic Spaces in Fiction. Family, Society, and Nation in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature.] Edited by Ana Rueda. Gijón: Ediciones Trea-Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 2026, pp. 249-284.
2.- “Cartagena y Murcia antes de Carmen Conde y a través de la pluma de Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer” [“Cartagena y Murcia Before Carmen Conde and through the Quill of Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer”.] In [“Noon Exact Ignited.” Studies on Carmen Conde. ] Edited by Manuel Broullón Lozano, Cari Fernández Hernández, and Fran Garcerá Román. Madrid: Visor, 2024, pp. 25-54.
3.- “Dos de las muchas escritoras que vivieron del cuento: Julia de Asensi y Gloria Fuertes” [“Two of the Numerous Short Story Writers of Their time: Julia de Asensi and Gloria Fuertes”.] In [Gloria: the Poet of Forbidden Loves.] Edited by Lola Lapaz. Madrid: Editorial Dos Bigotes, 2024, pp. 105- 132.
4.- “.” In Edited by Claire Martin and Clorinda Donato. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, pp. 711-727.
5.- “Queer Literary Friendships in Salons: Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer, Carmen de Burgos, and Others.” . Edited by Ana I. Simón-Alegre and Lou Charnon-Deutsch. New York: Routledge, 2022. 51-83.
6.- “No pestañees: Activismo, identidad y firma visual en Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer (1873-1909)” [“Don't Blink: Activism, Identity and the Visual Signature of Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer (1873-1909).”] [From the Wild Nineteenth century to the Unstable Twentieth century in Transatlantic Letters: A Retrospective Look at Hispanists.] Edited by Ana I. Simón-Alegre. Delaware: Vernon Press, 2022. 117-140.
7.- “Activismo social a través de la traducción y el periodismo: Colombine y Magda Donato y sus críticas al sistema penal en el primer tercio del siglo XX” ["Social Activism through Translation and Journalism: Colombine and Magda Donato and Their Criticism of the Penal System in the first third of the Twentieth century."] [Crime, Justice and Punitive Systems.] Coordinated by Tiago da Silva Cesar, Wellington Barbosa da Silva, and Flavio de Sa Cavalcanti de Albuquerque Neto. Editora Fi, 2021, pp. 500-536.
8.- “El suicidio en el Ejército español como detonante de la crisis de la masculinidad hegemónica a principios del siglo veinte” [Suicide in the Spanish Army as Trigger of the Crisis of Masculinity Hegemonic in the Early Twentieth century."] Boston: Peter Lang International Academic Publisher, 2020. 83-102.
9.- “Face to face with Carmen de Burgos: the influence of Nineteenth-century writers on her career and her work.” . Edited by Michelle Sharp and Anja Louis. New York: Routledge, 2017. 60-76.
10.- “Algo más que palabras: Investigar y enseñar siguiendo la senda del lenguaje inclusivo,” [More than Words: Investigate and Teach Along the Path of Non-Gender Designation.] [For an Inclusive Language: Reflecitons and studies on non-sexist strategies in the Spanish Language.] Edited by Tina Escaja and Natalia Prunes. New York: Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española, 2021. 95-127.
Articles
Articles
1.- “” ["Press, Advertising and Masculinities in The Ibero-American Album (1890-1909)"]. Historia y MEMORIA [History and Memory.] special issue Medios de comunicación y memoria: la mediatización del pasado [Media and Memory: The Meditation of the Past] coordinated by Sergio Gálvez Biesca, 22, 2021: 29-75.
2.- “Armando cuerpos armados: Ideario de la masculinidad en los cuarteles a principios del siglo XX”, [“Arming Armed Bodies: Ideology of Masculinity in the Barracks in the Early Twentieth century.”] Alcores. Revista de Historia contemporánea. Masculino/Femenino: Leyendo el cuerpo, 19 (2015): 77-89.
3.- “Corregir, castigar y olvidar a los delincuentes díscolos. Los resortes de la justicia militar en el primer tercio del siglo XX” [“Correct, Punish and Forget the Unruly Criminals. The Tactics of Military Justice in the First Third of the Twentieth Century.”] Segle XX. Revista Catalana d'Història, 6 (2013): 37-61.
4.- “Prácticas y teorías de descubrir paisajes: Viajeras y cultivadoras del estudio de la geografía en España, desde finales del siglo XIX hasta el primer tercio del XX” [“Practices and Theories to Describe Landscapes: Travelers and of the Study of Geography in Spain from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Early Twentieth.”] Written with Arancha Sanz Álvarez. Arenal, 17. 1 (2010): 55-79.
5.- “Entre el amor y la sexualidad: Palabras de mujeres en torno a las cuestiones sexuales, desde el final del siglo XIX y el inicio de la Guerra civil española (1939)” [“Between Love and Sexuality: Womens’ Words on Sexual Issues, from the Late Nineteenth Century and the Beginning of the Spanish Civil War (1939).”] Arenal, 16. 2 (2009): 281-304.
Conference Presentations
Conference Presentations
1.- “Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer: Her Fin-de-Siècle Transatlantic Objects and Friendships through Queercursi Culture and Activism.” Panel: Feminisms in Dialogue: Genealogies, Praxis, and Materialities. Chair: Karina E. Vazquez. The 60th Internacional Annual Conference Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Paris, France, May 27, 2026.
2.- “Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer in the New Orleans Exhibition, 1884-1885” Roundtable: Celebrating the Transatlantic Feminist Legacy: African, American, Caribbean, Iberian, and Indigenous Expressions. Chair: Angela Acosta. Modern Language Association (MLA). New Orleans, LA. January 11, 2025.
3.- “Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer: Writing and Transatlantic Activism Going Back and Forth.” New Scholarly Editions. Chair: Felipe Martínez Pinzón. Modern Language Association (MLA). Philadelphia, PA. January 5, 2024.
4.- “Living Indigenous Cultures: Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer and the Aztec World.” Roundtable: Transatlantic Dissidences from Tierra del Fuego to the Pyrenees. Coordinated by Feministas Unidas-Ana I. Simón Alegre. Modern Language Association (MLA). San Francisco, January 6, 2023.
5.- “Cuerpos de mujeres en las letras peninsulares: desde los folletines a las series de televisión” [“Women’s Bodies in Peninsular Literature: From Folletines to Television Series.”] Seminar: Aging and Gender in Iberian and Latin American Visual Culture. The 51st Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention (NEMLA). Organizer and chaired by Barbara Zecchi and Christina Beaubien. Boston, March 6, 2020.
6.- “Queer Women in Peninsular Spanish Literature.” Roundtable: Queer Women: Readers and Writers in 19th & 20th Peninsular Spanish Literature. Modern Language Association (MLA). Organizer and chaired by Ana I. Simón-Alegre and Lou Charnon-Deutsch. Chicago, January 4, 2019.
7.- “Maura: una novela por entregas de Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer” [“Maura: a Serialized Novel by Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer.”] 100th Annual American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Conference (AATSP). University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, June 28, 2018.
Invited Presentations
Invited Presentations
1.- Queer Bookshelves Before “Queer”: Raras, Objects, and Women’s Networks Across Spain and Mexico. . Keynote speaker. Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, May 13, 2026.
2.- “.” Keynote speaker. Andrew W Mellon Foundation CNY Humanities Corridor Group. Syracuse University, April 20, 2023.
3.- Activista a tiempo completo: Investigar y enseñar a partir del feminismo y la justicia social [Full-Time Activist: Researching and Teaching from the Feminism and Social Justice.] IV Congreso de Investigadoras del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI) y de Iberoamérica [4th Congress of Researchers of Ibero-America and the World Association of Researchers.] University Autónoma of Puebla, México, November 10, 2022.
4.- Murcia y Cartagena antes de Carmen Conde a través de la pluma de Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer [Murcia before Carmen Conde through the Quill of Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer at the Beginning of the Twentieth century.] I Congreso Internacional de estudios sobre Carmen Conde. Homenaje en el 25 aniversario de su Fallecimiento [1st International Congress of Studies on Carmen Conde. Tribute on the 25th Anniversary of her Death.] Patronato Carmen Conde-Antonio Oliver de Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain, December 13, 2021.
5.- Feminismo y literatura (Feminism and Literature.) Graduate Seminar. Friedrich-Schiller Universität, Berlin, Germany, May, 24 2022.
6.- Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer en México: Impacto de la literatura escritas por mujeres antes de la Revolución (1883-1890) [Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer en México: Impact of Literature Written by Women in Mexico, before the Revolution (1883-1890).] Colloquium. College of Latin American Studies of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City, México, August 3, 2020.
7.- Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer en México: libertad para escribir y publicar [Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer in México: Freedom to Write and to Publish.] Colloquium. University of Zacatecas, Zacatecas, México, June 23, 2019.
Other Work
Other Work
Book Presentations
1.- Book Presentation: Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer (1850-1919). Moderator: Professor Elena Hernández Sandoica (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Book store, Sin Tarima Books, Madrid, May 25, 2025.
2.- Book Presentation: (National Museum of Popular Cultures), México City, June 26 2024.
3.- Book Presentation: Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer (1850-1919). Moderator: Professor Vanesa Miseres (Notre Dame University). Latin American Studies Association 2024 Conference (LASA). Bogotá, Colombia, June 12 2024.
4.- Book Presentation: (Museum of Women), México City, May 17 2024.
5.- Interview and Book Presentation: March 27 2024.
6.- Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer (1850-1919). (The 5th Virtual Book Fair of the International Galdosian Association). Moderator: Dr. Wan Sonya Tang (Boston College). November, 10 2023.
7.- Moderator: Dr. Jacqueline Olvera (茄子视频). November, 15 2023.
8.- . Moderator: Dr. Héctor Luis Campos Ortiz (Cronista de Santiago Tuxtla, Veracruz). Town Hall, Santiago Tuxtla, December, 11 2023.
9.- Book Presentation: Moderator: Olivia Domínguez (Archivo de Veracruz, Xalapa). L, Veracruz, December, 15 2023.
10.- Moderator: Marisol Galloso (Versadora, Colectivo "El Son que faltaba"). Café y foro cultural , Tlacotalpan, December, 27 2023.
Mencioned in the News
1.- Kurt Gottschalk. “Taking Adelphi’s Student Radio Station Off “PAWS” and Putting an End to Adelphi’s Radio Silence.” Web. 茄子视频. September 3, 2024.
2.- Alfonso C. Cobo Espejo. “Lengua viva. Crónicas de la lengua: EE. UU. Un idilio académico a través de las ondas” [“Living Language Chronicles. Stories of the Evolution of Language: USA: An Academic Romance Over the Airwaves”] , no. 18 enero-marzo 2023, pp. 28-31.
INTERVIEWS
1.- Mujer Radial (Women in Radio). Podcast. Title: Interview with Ana I. Simón Alegre. México, June 7 2024.
2.- Voces del Sotavento (Voices from Sotavento). Podcast by Marisol Galloso. Title: Josefa Murillo y y el Papaolapan (Josefa Murillo and the Papaloapan). México, June 3 2024.
Sessions Chaired
1.- Simón-Alegre, Ana I. “Panel: Exiled Literatures: Women, Displacements, and Archives in the Global Hispanic World.” Modern Language Association (MLA). Toronto, Canada. January 8, 2026.
2.- Simón-Alegre, Ana I. “Panel: Bodily Narratives in Nineteenth Century Latin America.” Latin American Studies Association 2025 Conference (LASA). San Francisco, CA. May 24, 2025.
3.- Simón-Alegre, Ana I. “Panel: Magic, Science, Spectacle: Exhibition and Knowledge in Nineteenth- Century Popular Venues.” Latin American Studies Association 2024 Conference (LASA). Bogotá, Colombia. June 9, 2024.
4.- “Panel: Black Feminist Theory and Latinx Literature: A Transatlantic Gaze.” Modern Language Association (MLA). Philadelphia, PA. January 4, 2024.
5.- “Roundtable: Voices of Resistance: Black Feminist Perspective on Art. Literature, Music, and Migration.” Modern Language Association (MLA). Philadelphia, PA. January 6, 2024.
6.- “Redes de escritoras decimonónicas: Mapas digitales de activismo allende idiomas y naciones” [Session: Networks of Nineteenth-Century Women Writers: Digital Maps of Activism Across Languages and Nations]. XXIII Congreso de la Asociación Alemana de Hispanistas: Nuevos ambientes de la hispanística: digitalización – reinscripciones – interfaces [23rd Congress of the German Association of Hispanists: New Environments of Hispanistics: Digitization – Reinscriptions – Interfaces.] Co-coordinated with Catarina von Wedemeyer. Graz, Austria, February 24-27, 2023.
7.- “Roundtable: Transatlantic Dissidences from Tierra del Fuego to the Pyrenees.” Modern Language Association (MLA). San Francisco, CA. January 6, 2023.
8.- “Seminar: Effective and Affective Teaching in the Time of Coronavirus.” The 52nd Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention (NEMLA). Co-coordinated with Clara Bauler. Philadelphia, PA. March 14, 2021.
9.- “Seminar: El salvaje siglo XIX en las letras hispánicas: conversación con Lou Charnon-Deutsch” [The Wild Nineteenth Century in Hispanic Literature: Conversation with Lou Charnon-Deutsch.] The 51st Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention (NEMLA). Boston, MA. March 5, 2020.
10.- “Roundtable: Queer Women: Readers and Writers in 19th & 20th Peninsular Spanish Literature.” Co-coordinated with Lou Charnon-Deutsch. Modern Language Association (MLA). Chicago,IL. January 4, 2019.
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