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File type: Audio; MP3; File size: 2.29 MB; File duration: 2:30

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The Academic Minute

Document Type

Interview

Publication Date

10-27-2022

Subjects

Inclusive education, Education -- Research -- Methodology, Higher education -- United States, Educational equalization, Diversity, Psychic trauma, Storytelling in education, Social justice in education, Minorities -- Education -- Social aspects -- United States

Abstract

Sharing traumatic stories can increase awareness and charitable giving, but does it always help those afflicted?

Oscar Fernandez, senior instructor in university studies at Portland State University, finds out.

Dr. Óscar Fernández works at Portland State University. He is an immigrant scholar from Costa Rica. He specializes in inter-American studies, literary theory, and the intersection of culture, sexuality, and representations of disease in Iberoamerican literature. His published work appears in Comparative Literature Studies, Oregon Literary Review, the Journal of General Education: A Curricular Commons of the Humanities and Sciences, Textbook & Academic Authors Association’s book—Guide to Making Time to Write—, PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association), and Routledge’s Global South Scholars in the Western Academy. He earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from The Pennsylvania State University.

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