Scholar of the Month

Micah McKay: July 2022 Scholar of the Month

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ASLE’s Scholar of the Month for July 2022 is Micah McKay. 

Micah McKay is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Alabama. His research focuses primarily on the representation of trash in contemporary Latin American cultural production and attempts to consider the ecological, political, and aesthetic stakes of waste. He is the co-editor of Environmental Cultural Studies Through Time: The Luso-Hispanic World (Hispanic Issues On Line, 2019), and his work has appeared in such venues as Latin American Literary ReviewLuso-Brazilian Review, and Revista Canadiense de Estudios ...