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Dr. Gabriela McEvoy

Gabriela McEvoy

Chair of Languages
Professor of Spanish

Email: mcevoy@lvc.edu

Phone: 717-867-6253

Office Location: Humanities 301-B

Expertise:
Spanish, Latin American Literature, Certified Spanish Medical Interpreter

Research & Practice Areas:
Diaspora Studies (European immigrants to Latin America in fiction and non-fiction).

  • Chair of the Department of Languages, Lebanon Ƶ College.
  • Spanish Editor at the Irish Migration Studies in Latin America journal.
  • Member of the Executive Committee- Society for Irish Latin American Studies (SILAS)
  • Faculty of the Year- Notice of Multicultural Achievement (NOMA) Lebanon Ƶ College, May 2013
  • Summer Library Research Fellowship in Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh, May 2013.

Books

Dr. Gabriella McEvoy, , Cork University Press, Ireland, Oct. 2024.

Dr. Gabriela McEvoy, author, “,” Irish Studies in Latin American (December 2023, Vol. 10, No. 1).

La experiencia invisible. Inmigrantes irlandeses en el Per. Lima: Fondo Editorial Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima. July 2018.

Carrasco Weston, José Manuel. Appraising Gabriela McEvoy’s La experiencia invisible. V. 20, no. 1 (2018)
Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Walsh, Edward. Review of Gabriela McEvoy. La experiencia invisible. Inmigrantes irlandeses en el Perú. Irish Migration Studies in Latin America. 9.2.2019. Cork, Ireland.

Reflections from the author:

“Reflections on The Invisible Experience. Irish Immigrants in Peru. V. 20, no. 1 2018). Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Revista Histopia. Publicación de Filosofía e Historia Universal. “Reseña del autor.” Cartografía y cultura. Un recorrido por el mundo antiguo. Año 1 Número 2. Junio 2019. Buenos Aires, Argentina.

 

Online Articles

Dr. Gabriela McEvoy, co-editor,  (IMSLA) journal issue, “Migration Memories in Times of Change” (December 2023, Vol. 10, No. 1).

The reconfiguration of cultural and political identities in the Argentine nation in Pedro Orgambide.

La construccion de la imagen heroica. El caso de la activista peruana Maria Elena Moyano.

 

Book Reviews

Eliza Brown, la hija del inmigrante. Silvia Miguens. Buenos Aires: Editorial El Ateneo, 2012 at Irish Migration Studies in Latin America journal (IMSLA), March 2013.  

 

Interviews

Reflections on The Invisible Experience. Irish Immigrants in Peru.

An interview with Gabriela McEvoy. Lima, Perú.

Revista Histopia. Publicación de Filosofía e Historia Universal. “Reseña del autor.” Cartografía y cultura. Un recorrido por el mundo antiguo. Año 1 Número 2. Junio 2019. Buenos Aires, Argentina.

 

Presentations

Dr. Gabriela McEvoy, Denise Colon Olivencia ’25, and Mary Petruschke ’25, Presentation, , San Sebastian, Spain, June 2024.

Dr. McEvoy presented “The Case of Mr. Henry Hilton Leigh: When folk tale interprets the Otherness” at the IX Conference of the Society for Irish Latin American Studies (SILAS) at the University of Galway (Ireland) in June 2023. She was also elected SILAS vice president for 2023–27.

  • All levels of Spanish language, culture, and literature.