Gabriela McEvoy
Chair of Languages
Professor of Spanish
- Chair of the Department of Languages, Lebanon Valley College.
- Spanish Editor at the Irish Migration Studies in Latin America journal.
- Member of the Executive Committee- Society for Irish Latin American Studies (SILAS)
- Faculty of the Year- Notice of Multicultural Achievement (NOMA) Lebanon Valley College, May 2013
- Summer Library Research Fellowship in Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh, May 2013.
Books
Dr. Gabriella McEvoy, Irish Immigrants in Peru: The invisible experience, Cork University Press, Ireland, Oct. 2024.
Dr. Gabriela McEvoy, author, “Catalina,” Irish Studies in Latin American (December 2023, Vol. 10, No. 1).
La experiencia invisible. Inmigrantes irlandeses en el Per. Lima: Fondo Editorial Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima. July 2018.
Carrasco Weston, José Manuel. Appraising Gabriela McEvoy’s La experiencia invisible. V. 20, no. 1 (2018)
Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Walsh, Edward. Review of Gabriela McEvoy. La experiencia invisible. Inmigrantes irlandeses en el Perú. Irish Migration Studies in Latin America. 9.2.2019. Cork, Ireland.
https://irlandeses.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IMSLA-9-2-Aug-12-chapter-4.pdf
Reflections from the author:
“Reflections on The Invisible Experience. Irish Immigrants in Peru. V. 20, no. 1 2018). Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Revista Histopia. Publicación de Filosofía e Historia Universal. “Reseña del autor.” Cartografía y cultura. Un recorrido por el mundo antiguo. Año 1 Número 2. Junio 2019. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13dJTiqxBwSKUgJtcIVitVdd448ik
Online Articles
Dr. Gabriela McEvoy, co-editor, Irish Migrations Studies in Latin America (IMSLA) journal issue, “Migration Memories in Times of Change” (December 2023, Vol. 10, No. 1).
Irish Immigrants in Peru in the Nineteenth Century.
The reconfiguration of cultural and political identities in the Argentine nation in Pedro Orgambide.
Assimilation and collective memory in the novel “Barrio Palestina” by Susana Gertopán.
La construccion de la imagen heroica. El caso de la activista peruana Maria Elena Moyano.
http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.phppid=S012116172008000100006&script=sci_abstract&tlng=en
Memory and writing in Chilean exile novels: Reversible Collection and The Garden next door.
Book Reviews
Irish Migration Studies in Latin America
Leonard O’Brien, “Children of the Sun: The Cork Mission to South America”
Eliza Brown, la hija del inmigrante. Silvia Miguens. Buenos Aires: Editorial El Ateneo, 2012 at Irish Migration Studies in Latin America journal (IMSLA), March 2013. https://irlandeses.org/wpcontent/uploads/2012/10/Vol8No2-1.pdf
Interviews
Reflections on The Invisible Experience. Irish Immigrants in Peru.
An interview with Gabriela McEvoy. Lima, Perú.
Revista Histopia. Publicación de Filosofía e Historia Universal. “Reseña del autor.” Cartografía y cultura. Un recorrido por el mundo antiguo. Año 1 Número 2. Junio 2019. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13dJTiqxBwSKUgJtcIVitVdd448ikmp1w/view
Presentations
Dr. Gabriela McEvoy, Denise Colon Olivencia ’25, and Mary Petruschke ’25, Presentation, XXXVI Congreso Internacional de Literatura y Estudios Hispánicos, San Sebastian, Spain, June 2024.
Dr. McEvoy presented “The Case of Mr. Henry Hilton Leigh: When folk tale interprets the Otherness” at the IX Conference of the Society for Irish Latin American Studies (SILAS) at the University of Galway (Ireland) in June 2023. She was also elected SILAS vice president for 2023–27.
- All levels of Spanish language, culture, and literature.