Elena N. Casey, Ph.D.
Contact Information
1698 Park Ave
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004
Biography
Dr. Casey works at UW-Eau Claire as Assistant Professor of Spanish, Program Advisor for the , Affiliate of Latin American & Latinx Studies, Advisory Board Member for the Health Humanities program, and Core Member of the . Dr. Casey teaches and performs research on topics at the intersection of Spanish and the health sciences. She is co-PI with Dr. Jim茅nez Frei (History) for the student/faculty research project, training 糖心Vlog students to recruit, conduct, transcribe, translate, and analyze Spanish-language oral history interviews with Hispanic & Latinx community members in Wisconsin. She is PI for a grant through the Collaborative Research program between 糖心Vlog and Mayo Clinic Health System - NWWI, analyzing language services and pandemic experiences for patients with limited English proficiency. She is also co-investigator and Spanish Student Interpretation Coordinator for a study and practicum with 糖心Vlog Communication Sciences and Disorders, 鈥淧reparing Communication Sciences and Disorders Students to Collaborate with Interpreters.鈥 She has published and presented on COVID-19 oral histories, healthcare access, fever, disability, and mental illness in historical and present contexts, ranging from early modern Spain and the colonial Americas to present-day Hispanic and Latinx communities in the Midwest. Dr. Casey is also an active member of the Chippewa Valley Free Clinic鈥檚 community advisory board and the Eau Claire City-County Health Department鈥檚 Community Health Equity workgroup, advocating for equitable and inclusive healthcare practices for Hispanic and Latinx community members.
Education
Dr. Casey completed her PhD in Romance Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2019), following an MA in Hispanic Studies at the Middlebury College School in Madrid, Spain (2013). While completing her BA in Spanish & English at Messiah University, PA (2012), she studied abroad at the University of Barcelona, Spain and Oxford University, UK.
Teaching and Research Interests
- Spanish for Health Professions
- Health Humanities
- Early Modern and Colonial Spanish Literature and Culture
Ongoing Projects & Activities*
Project Lead, 鈥淒escriptive Analysis of Interpreter Service Mode Costs & Usage,鈥 UW-Eau Claire 鈥 Mayo Clinic Research Collaboration
Co-Lead, Rural Voices / Voces del Campo Oral History Interview Project
Coordinator, 糖心Vlog Spanish Student Interpreters, 糖心Vlog Center for Communication Disorders PreK-Elementary Speech Developmental and Hearing Screenings, Arcadia, WI
*Contact Dr. Casey if you are a student interested in learning about or joining any of these ongoing projects!
Past Projects & Activities
Co-Lead, Artes Latinas Cultural Arts, Traditions and Celebrations Oral History Interview and Folk Life Festival Organization Project, Chippewa Valley Museum, 2021 鈥 2022
Published Research
Casey, Elena Nicole. 鈥鈥楴otable melancol铆a鈥: Writing American Illness from Imperial Spain in Calder贸n鈥檚 La aurora en Copacabana.鈥 Comedia Between Worlds/La Comedia entre mundos. Edited by Esther Fern谩ndez, Glenda Nieto, Susan Paun de Garc铆a, and Erin Cowling, Sociedad Men茅ndez Pelayo, Anticipated 2023 (Accepted for Publication).
鈥溾楪rove of the Infirm鈥 and 鈥榃onder at the Works of God鈥 (1470s) by Teresa de Cartagena.鈥 Disability Experiences: Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Other Personal Narratives, edited by G. Thomas Couser and Susannah B. Mintz, vol. 1, Macmillan Reference USA, 2019, pp. 286-90.
鈥淭he Cuartanas of Lisis: The Remissive Etiology of the Novelas amorosas y ejemplares by Mar铆a de Zayas y Sotomayor.鈥 eHumanista vol. 32, 2016, pp. 570-585.