Teresa Prados-Torreira
Teresa Prados-Torreira, PhD, is Associate Professor of
History in the Department of Humanities, History, and Social Sciences at
Columbia College Chicago.
Dr. Prados-Torreira received her BA in History from the
Univesidad Autónoma de Madrid, and her MA and PhD in American Intellectual
History from the University of Missouri at Columbia.
Dr. Prados-Torreira’s classes include “Cartoons and Satire
in American History,” “American Cultural History,” and “Letters from the
American Past.” She is the creator and organizer of the annual Paula Pfeffer
Political Cartoon Contest for Columbia College students. Her areas of study are
the United States and Cuba, and her research interests include cultural
history, political satire, and women’s history.
Dr. Prados-Torreira is on the Advisory Board of Editors of Raritan, a quarterly review published by
Rutgers University, and on the Advisory Board of the Hull House Museum in
Chicago. She has presented her work at numerous conferences in the United
States, Cuba, and Spain. She is the author of Mambisas: Rebel Women in Nineteenth Century Cuba (University Press
of Florida, 2005.) She is currently working on a second book entitled Cartooning Her. Women’s Image in Graphic
Humor.
Other Publications include “Hissing Geese:
Nineteenth-century Graphic Humor and Women’s Right.” In progress: “Archer
Huntington y el Movimiento Estético Americano.” El Tesoro Arqueológico de La Hispanic Society of America. Manuel
Bendala et al. eds. Museo Arqueológico Regional: Alcalá de Henares, 2008;
"Adios Hemingway" Introduction and translation. Raritan, A Quarterly Review. (Fall 2004): 159-167; "Cubans
Divided" In These Times (April 3, 2000): 19; With Barbara Iverson,
“Liberal Ed meets High Tech: Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Improve
Instruction” in Creative Interactive
Teaching. Case Method and Other
Techniques. Hans E.Klein ed. Omni Press, Madison, WI, 2000; "Desatando
las Alas: La Mujer Cubana en las Guerras de Independencia" Revista Santiago, Universidad de
Oriente, Santiago de Cuba (Mayo-Septiembre, 1998): 249-275; "Women and the
Spanish-American War" in Understanding
the Past. Cultural Resource Management, U.S. Department of Interior. (Vol.
21, No.11, 1998): 30-31; "Chicago, de la Pasion a la Apatia." El País
(August 27, 1996): 4; "Canada , Hoy." Historia 16 Cuadernos de Historia Actual 34 (Abril, 1994); "La
Infanta Eulalia de Borbon en la Exposicion Universal de Chicago." Historia
16, 202 (Febrero, 1993): 26-34.
Contact Dr. Teresa Prados-Torreira:
Mail:
Dr. Teresa Prados-Torreira
Columbia College Chicago
Department of HHSS
600 S. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL
60605
Phone:
312.369.7567
Email:
tprados-torreira@colum.edu
