Francesco Masala | Faculty | Languages, Literature and Philosophy

Department of Languages, Literature and Philosophy

Office Address: 305 Holland
Phone: 615-963-5541
Email: fmasala@tnstate.edu

Ph.D., University of Kentucky
M.A., University of Kentucky
B.A., Università di Genova (Italy)

• Masala, Francesco. No White No More. A Memoir of a Former Italian. Volume in Progress.
• Planting the Seeds of the Future: Harvesting the Story of Immokalee Farmworkers. Directed by Jason Parmer, performance by Francesco Masala, Yaissy Solis, Gerardo Reyes Chávez. 2020.
• Masala, Francesco (ed.). “YOU Think Therefore I Am: Constructing and (Re)presenting Identity In and Outside Ecuador.” Crossing Journal of Migration and Culture, vol. 11, no 1, 2020.
• Masala, Francesco. La representación de los ecuatorianos en España: El discurso como expresión de poder, racismo e ideologías. 2020. PhD dissertation. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses.
• Masala, Francesco. “El neorrealismo en el cine italiano y español.” Polifonía, vol. 9, no. 1, 2019, pp. 67-83.
• Masala, Francesco. “¿Poder del discurso o discurso de poder? La representación de los migrantes ecuatorianos en La utopía de Madrid.” Nomenclatura. Aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos, vol. 7, no. 1, 2019, pp. 1-20.
• Masala, Francesco. “Ecuatorianos en España en el siglo XXI: Prometeo deportado y la representación del migrante a través del Análisis Crítico del Discurso.” Polifonía, vol. 7, no. 1, 2018, pp. 57-75.

• “Latin American Migrants in Spain in the Twenty First Century: Critical Discourse Analysis in Rabia (2009) By Sebastián Cordero,” International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, July 1-3, 2020. (virtual conference)
• “El poder del discurso: Representación de la identidad ecuatoriana en Prometeo Deportado,” Southeast Modern Language Association Conference, Nov. 15-17, 2019.
• “La Guerra è finita! E adesso, che? The Influence of Italian Neorealism in Spanish Cinema,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Apr. 11-13, 2019.
• “El poder del discurso y el discurso de poder: españoles y ecuatorianos a comparación en Nunca pasa nada de José Ovejero,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Apr. 19-21, 2018.
• “Making the City in Latin America and Spain: A Transnational Study between Ecuador and Spain,” Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies Conference, University of Kentucky, Sep. 30, 2016.
• “Viajo, luego existo: Las interminables peripecias de los ecuatorianos migrantes en la literatura latinoamericana,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Apr. 14-16, 2016.
• “El inmigrante ecuatoriano en España: representaciones literarias en el siglo XXI,” South East Coastal Conference on Languages and Literatures, Georgia Southern University, Apr. 7-8, 2016.
• “Identity Crisis: Representation of Migrant Ecuadorians in La utopía de Madrid,” 22nd Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages, Literatures and Films, Stetson University, Feb. 25-27, 2016.
• “La imagen del inmigrante ecuatoriano en España a través del análisis crítico del discurso literario,” 35th Annual Romance Languages Conference, University of Cincinnati, Apr. 9-11, 2015.
• “La inmigración ecuatoriana en España: un viaje a través de la película Prometeo deportado,” 34th Annual Romance Languages Conference, University of Cincinnati, Mar. 27-29, 2014.
• “La inmigración y el desarrollo intercultural en el ámbito educativo en Estados Unidos e Italia”, 9th Annual Colloquium in Latin American and Peninsular Languages, Literatures, and Cultures “Convergences II: Literary, Linguistic, Cultural and Film Studies”, UC, Davis, Oct. 18, 2013.
• “Los ecuatorianos en Italia: guetización, asimilación, ventajas y desventajas,” 5th Crossing Over Symposium, Cleveland State University, Oct. 11-13, 2013.

• SPAN 1010 Beginning Spanish 1
• SPAN 1020 Beginning Spanish 2
• SPAN 2010 Intermediate Spanish 1
• SPAN 2020 Intermediate Spanish 2
• SPAN 3050 Advanced Spanish