bakhtiarovag@wcsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\nProfessor Galina Bakhtiarova holds her Bachelor\u2019s degree\u00a0in English and Spanish and Master\u2019s in translation from Moscow Linguistic University, and Master\u2019s and Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.\u00a0 At WestConn, she teaches classes in Spanish language, literature and culture and leads a study program to Spain each summer. Her dissertation and unpublished manuscript explore the complex relationship between Spanish, Catalan and Caribbean culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through music, literature, and cinema.<\/p>\n
She writes on nineteenth and twentieth century Spanish, Catalan and Latin American music, songs, film, cuisine, tourist attractions and more. In recent years, her interest in cultural studies has lead her on a variety of academic endeavors, such as the exploration of cultural heritage in Ecuador; women artists and writers associated with surrealism in the Hispanic world; the transformation of culinary culture in Spain and the legacy of Spanish immigrants in the United States. Her essays and book chapters have\u00a0appeared\u00a0in\u00a0Il Capitale Culturale.\u00a0<\/em>Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage,\u00a0<\/em>(UNIMC,\u00a0<\/em>10\/2020);\u00a0International Journal of Arts and Sciences<\/em>, 10 (2), (December 2017);\u00a0Athens Journal of Humanities and Arts<\/em>\u00a0(April, 2017);\u00a0Oceanide \u2013 Journal of the Spanish Society for the Study of Popular Culture<\/em>\u00a0(SELICUP, 2014);\u00a0Film International<\/em>\u00a0(Intellect, UK, 2014) and in\u00a0Interdisciplinary Humanities<\/em>\u00a0(2014).\u00a0She also published in Journal of Transatlantic Studies,<\/em> Quaderns-e del Institut Catal\u00e0 d\u2019Atropologia , Music in Art, Memoria colonial e inmigraci\u00f3n: La negritud en la Espa\u00f1a posfranquista<\/em> (2006), Transatlantic Conflict and Consensus<\/em> (2008) and Sex and Sexuality in a Feminist World <\/em>(2009), among others.<\/p>\nShe has received multiple AAUP CSU grants for her research and was the recipient of the Connecticut State University System-wide Trustees Teaching Award in 2011.<\/p>\n
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Galina Bakhtiarova, Ph.D. Professor of Spanish Western Connecticut State University 181 White Street Danbury, CT 06810 Office: HI 218 B, Midtown Campus Phone: (203) 837-8734 Fax: (203) 837-8912 Email: bakhtiarovag@wcsu.edu Professor Galina Bakhtiarova holds her Bachelor\u2019s degree\u00a0in English and Spanish …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":23,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"left-navigation.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-145","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/wlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/wlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/wlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/wlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/wlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/wlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/wlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/wlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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