Assistant Professor of Spanish Manuela Borzone has received Nebraska Wesleyan University’s Faculty Scholar Award for the 2023-2024 academic year.
“Now in her second year at NWU, Manuela’s scholarship has been formidable and has received many accolades,” her nominator says.
Borzone’s article on Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges has earned the Helen Delpar Award as the top essay of 2024 in the peer-reviewed journal, The Latin Americanist. Her work has also appeared in the University of Nebraska Press’s 2022 volume, The Comic Book Western: New Perspectives on a Global Genre.
The book won the 2023 Ray and Pat Browne Award for best edited collection in popular and American culture from the Popular Culture Association.
In addition to her teaching, Borzone is working on a book on print culture in Argentina, and contributes to conferences and roundtables for the Modern Languages Association and the Latin American Studies Association.
“I attract student interest by creating courses that include a wide range of materials, of which comics are just one representative example,” Borzone says. “By showing students how scholarly research can be conducted using such materials.”