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Dr. Karen Martin holds a Bachelor of Arts in French from Union University, a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from Samford University, a Master of Arts in Spanish from the University of Alabama, and the Doctor of Modern Languages from Middlebury College. She frequently publishes translations of scholarly essays and reviews in Latin American Literature Today, and her scholarship on contemporary Spanish-American and Latina authors has been published in South Atlantic Review, Letras Femeninas, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia. She won the Victoria Urbano Prize for the Outstanding Critical Paper from the Association of Hispanic Women’s Literature. She has received two Pew Grants from Union University. The most recent grant supported research on the role of African Americans in the Spanish Civil War; she presented this work at MIT and published it as a chapter in the Routledge collection Black USA and Spain: Shared Memories in 20th Century Spain. At Union she teaches an array of Spanish courses, including Spanish-American literature surveys, Contemporary Hispanic Cultural Studies, US Latino Literature and Culture, and Phonetics and Diction.