Faculty

Biography

Roxana Delbene holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in Hispanic Linguistics. Her bachelor degree was in Literature from the “Instituto de Profesores Artigas” in Montevideo, Uruguay. Her personal and academic interests are focused on the discursive construction of stigmatized identities, such as the stigma of people living with HIV/AIDS disease and the representation of Hispanic immigrants in the United States press. Her most recent publication, “Resisting a stigmatized identity: Patients’ strategies for the management of the HIV/AIDS stigma in a public hospital in Uruguay” (2007) has been posted in the dossier on “Health Related Stigma” at the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam.

Dr. Delbene has taught a variety of courses involving the Spanish language, such as Latin American literature, art and history, Sociolinguistics, and in her specialization, Medical Discourse. Her teaching philosophy embraces an ethnographic approach within the community, which includes Service Learning activities. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Arts and Languages at Alvernia University.