Graham Ignizio

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Graham Ignizio

Professor of Modern Language

World Languages

Bio

Graham Stefan Ignizio is a Professor of Spanish and Hispanic Studies at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Before arriving at MSU Denver, Graham was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at Union College in New York. Graham received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2009. He also holds degrees from North Carolina State University and Middlebury College. He specializes in twentieth and early twenty-first century Cuban-American literature and has a particular interest in US Latino/a/x studies. In addition, he has broad comparative interests that reach into other disciplines and traditions, such as experiential learning, service learning, Caribbean literature, women’s studies, border studies, film, and post-Franco peninsular women writers. Graham’s dissertation examines twelve Anglophone novels published in the 1990s written by Cuban-American women. He has published a book chapter as well as articles and book reviews in journals such as Romance Notes, MIFLC Review, Hispanófila, Voces del Caribe, Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, Confluencia, College Teaching, Label Me Latina/o, eJournal of Public Affairs, and Studies in Latin American Popular Culture.

As the 2023 Presidential Faculty Fellow, Graham reported to the Chief of Staff and carried out tasks to support the day-to-day operations in the Office of the President at MSU Denver.

Degree

PhD in Romance Studies

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

MA in Spanish

Middlebury College

BA in Spanish Language and Literature

North Carolina State University

Published Works

  • Ignizio, S. G. (2026). Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art: The Body, the Inhuman, and Ecological Thinking by Christina M. García. Hispanófila,
  • Ignizio, S. G. (2025). All Day Is a Long Time by David Sanchez . Voces del Caribe,
  • Ignizio, S. G. (2023). La cuentista cubana: Healing Powers of the Female Storyteller in Chantel Acevedo’s Love and Ghost Letters and The Distant Marvels.. Label Me Latina/a, 13(Spring 2023). https://labelmelatin.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Graham-Ignizio-La-cuentista-cubana-Healing-Powers-of-the-Female-Storyteller-in-Chantel-Acevedos.pdf.
  • Richmond, S. A., Ropp, A., Bradford, L. J., Ignizio, S. G., Hammond, J. J., Mowder, D., Bittman, M. J. (2022). An ecologically valid study of the testing effect across academic disciplines: A focus on higher- vs. lower-level learning. College Teaching, 72(2), 74-81. https://doi.org/10.1080/87567555.2022.2090488.
  • Ignizio, S. G. (2021). Displaced and Misplaced: The Bifocality of Space and the Perpetual Escape in Ana Menéndez’s Adios, Happy Homeland! and Cristina García’s King of Cuba.. Voces del Caribe, 12256-1285. https://vocesdelcaribe.org/volumen-12.
  • Ignizio, S. G. (2018). Advanced Spanish Conversation and the Non-Traditional Student: A Case Study for Implementing Community-Based Learning at the Urban University. Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education.
  • McKinney, L., Ignizio, S. G. (2018, November). Building a service learning program: Lessons learned. American Democracy Project Regional Institute.
  • Jackson Shumate, L. S., Schliemann, S., McKinney, L., Ignizio, S. G., Lyons, E. K., Dillen, F. B. (2018, May). Community based research as service learning. MSU Denver Professional Development Conference.
  • Ignizio, S. G. (2018). Ghosts in the Present: The Haunting Voices of Contemporary Youth in Twenty-First Century Spanish Film. (). Cambridge Scholars.
  • Ignizio, S. G. (2016). Food, Memory, and a Starving Dentist: Jesús Díaz’s Special Period in Times of Peace. Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, 34 .
  • Dillen, F. B., Smith, D. R., Ignizio, S. G. (2015). Some Assembly Required: Building and Evaluating Service-Learning in Higher Education Curriculum.. eJournal of Public Affairs, 4(2). http://ejournal.missouristate.edu.
  • Ignizio, S. G. (2012). Fictional First-Person Discourses in Cuban Diaspora Novels: The Author Within and Beyond Textual Boundaries by Raúl Rosales Herrera. Romance Notes,
  • Ignizio, S. G. (2012). Incest and Insight in Himilce Novas’s Mangos, Bananas, and Coconuts: A Cuban Love Story.. Voces del Caribe , 4(1), 208-232. www.vocesdelcaribe.com/journal/volumen4/Novas.pdf.
  • Ignizio, S. G. (2011). Finding a Way Home: The Return to Cuba in Margarita Engle’s Singing to Cuba and Skywriting. Confluencia , 27(1), 89-98. .
  • Ignizio, S. G. (2011). Mother May I?: Female Genealogies in Cristina García’s Dreaming in Cuban and Ana Veciana Suárez’s The Chin Kiss King.” . LabelMeLatina/o , 1(2), 18. labelmelatin.com.
  • Ignizio, S. G. (2011). Rewriting Womanhood: Feminism, Subjectivity, and the Angel of the House in the Latin American Novel, 1887-1903 by Nancy LaGreca. MIFLC Review ,
  • Ignizio, S. G. (2011). Subversive Silences: Nonverbal Expression and Implicit Narrative Strategies in the Works of Latin American Women Writers by Helene Carol Weldt-Basson. Hispanófila ,
  • Ignizio, S. G. (2009). Cultural Erotics in Cuban America by Ricardo L. Ortiz. Hispanófila ,

Office Hours

Tues-Thurs 9:30-11am and by appointment