厙ぴ勛圖

Graham Ignizio

Professor of Modern Language

World Languages

Bio

Graham Stefan Ignizio is a Professor of Spanish and Hispanic Studies at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Before arriving at 厙ぴ勛圖, Graham was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at Union College in New York. Graham received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2009. He also holds degrees from North Carolina State University and Middlebury College. He specializes in twentieth and early twenty-first century Cuban-American literature and has a particular interest in US Latino/a/x studies. In addition, he has broad comparative interests that reach into other disciplines and traditions, such as experiential learning, service learning, Caribbean literature, womens studies, border studies, film, and post-Franco peninsular women writers. Grahams dissertation examines twelve Anglophone novels published in the 1990s written by Cuban-American women. He has published a book chapter as well as articles and book reviews in journals such as Romance Notes, MIFLC Review, Hispan籀fila, Voces del Caribe, Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, Confluencia, College Teaching, Label Me Latina/o, eJournal of Public Affairs, and Studies in Latin American Popular Culture.

As the 2023 Presidential Faculty Fellow, Graham reported to the Chief of Staff and carried out tasks to support the day-to-day operations in the Office of the President at 厙ぴ勛圖.

Degree

PhD in Romance Studies

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

MA in Spanish

Middlebury College

BA in Spanish Language and Literature

North Carolina State University

Published Works

  • Ignizio, S. G. (2026). Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art: The Body, the Inhuman, and Ecological Thinking by Christina M. Garc穩a. Hispan籀fila,
  • Ignizio, S. G. (2025). All Day Is a Long Time by David Sanchez . Voces del Caribe,
  • Ignizio, S. G. (2023). La cuentista cubana: Healing Powers of the Female Storyteller in Chantel Acevedos Love and Ghost Letters and The Distant Marvels.. Label Me Latina/a, 13(Spring 2023). .
  • Richmond, S. A., Ropp, A., Bradford, L. J., Ignizio, S. G., Hammond, J. J., Mowder, D., Bittman, M. J. (2022). An ecologically valid study of the testing effect across academic disciplines: A focus on higher- vs. lower-level learning. College Teaching, 72(2), 74-81. .
  • Ignizio, S. G. (2021). Displaced and Misplaced: The Bifocality of Space and the Perpetual Escape in Ana Men矇ndezs Adios, Happy Homeland! and Cristina Garc穩as King of Cuba.. Voces del Caribe, 12256-1285. .
  • Ignizio, S. G. (2018). Advanced Spanish Conversation and the Non-Traditional Student: A Case Study for Implementing Community-Based Learning at the Urban University. Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education.
  • McKinney, L., Ignizio, S. G. (2018, November). Building a service learning program: Lessons learned. American Democracy Project Regional Institute.
  • Jackson Shumate, L. S., Schliemann, S., McKinney, L., Ignizio, S. G., Lyons, E. K., Dillen, F. B. (2018, May). Community based research as service learning. 厙ぴ勛圖 Professional Development Conference.
  • Ignizio, S. G. (2018). Ghosts in the Present: The Haunting Voices of Contemporary Youth in Twenty-First Century Spanish Film. (). Cambridge Scholars.
  • Ignizio, S. G. (2016). Food, Memory, and a Starving Dentist: Jes繳s D穩azs Special Period in Times of Peace. Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, 34 .
  • Dillen, F. B., Smith, D. R., Ignizio, S. G. (2015). Some Assembly Required: Building and Evaluating Service-Learning in Higher Education Curriculum.. eJournal of Public Affairs, 4(2). .
  • Ignizio, S. G. (2012). Fictional First-Person Discourses in Cuban Diaspora Novels: The Author Within and Beyond Textual Boundaries by Ra繳l Rosales Herrera. Romance Notes,
  • Ignizio, S. G. (2012). Incest and Insight in Himilce Novass Mangos, Bananas, and Coconuts: A Cuban Love Story.. Voces del Caribe , 4(1), 208-232. www.vocesdelcaribe.com/journal/volumen4/Novas.pdf.
  • Ignizio, S. G. (2011). Finding a Way Home: The Return to Cuba in Margarita Engles Singing to Cuba and Skywriting. Confluencia , 27(1), 89-98. .
  • Ignizio, S. G. (2011). Mother May I?: Female Genealogies in Cristina Garc穩as Dreaming in Cuban and Ana Veciana Su獺rezs The Chin Kiss King. . LabelMeLatina/o , 1(2), 18. labelmelatin.com.
  • Ignizio, S. G. (2011). Rewriting Womanhood: Feminism, Subjectivity, and the Angel of the House in the Latin American Novel, 1887-1903 by Nancy LaGreca. MIFLC Review ,
  • Ignizio, S. G. (2011). Subversive Silences: Nonverbal Expression and Implicit Narrative Strategies in the Works of Latin American Women Writers by Helene Carol Weldt-Basson. Hispan籀fila ,
  • Ignizio, S. G. (2009). Cultural Erotics in Cuban America by Ricardo L. Ortiz. Hispan籀fila ,

Office Hours

Tues-Thurs 9:30-11am and by appointment