Mayte de Lama, Assistant Professor of Spanish, was invited to pay homage to writer Marina Mayoral at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference held in Atlanta Nov. 9-11. In her presentation, “La construcción del humor en una novela de Marina Mayoral: Dar la vida y el alma (1996),” de Lama analyzes humor as a technique in order to distance oneself form painful situations and as a mechanism of attack.