• PHD Spanish Language and Literature, Brown University 1983
World Area Of Focus:
• Latin America 75%-99% • Western Europe/European Union (EU) Less than 10%
Languages:
• French (professional proficiency) • Italian (limited working proficiency) • Latin (limited working proficiency) • Portuguese (limited working proficiency) • Spanish (native/bilingual proficiency)
Specialization:
Contemporary Spanish American literature, modern critical theory, gender issues, literature and science, intellectual history.
Relevant Experience:
• Overseas Experience: Venezuela, France, England, Spain, Cuba • 2016-2016 Organizer, XIV Ometeca Conference • 2007 Member, Advisory Council and Founding Board Member, Benevolence Farm (dedicated to helping women reenter society after prison, not in 2012)
Distinctions:
• 1996-1996 Pogue Research Leave, UNC-CH • 1996-2003 4 Travel Awards, Institute of Latin American Studies, UNC-CH • 1993-1993 Arts and Sciences Fellow, UNC-CH • 1990-1991 Research Development Grant, UNC-CH • 1985-1985 Institutional Foundation Fund Award, UNC-CH
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
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Relevant Courses Taught:
• Hispanic Women's Texts Seminar • The Caribbean and the Southern Cone • Spanish American Civilization I • Spanish American Civilization II • SPAN 260 Introduction to Spanish and Spanish American Literature • SPAN 385 Contemporary Spanish American Prose Fiction • SPAN 613 Colonial and 19th-Century Spanish-American Literature • SPAN 614 Modernist and Contemporary Spanish American Literature • SPAN 745 Vanguards • SPAN 835 Seminar in Spanish American Literature: Nature in Latin American Literature: Ecology, Gender, and Other Issues
Recent Publications:
• 2014 Under review: Book chapter, invited, "Revisiting Nature in Horacio Quiroga: Ecology, Gender, and Race," Charlas del Ateneo: Science and Literature in the Hispanic World.
• 2013 1. Invited, "Simulation, Gender, and Nature in Sarduy: Lezama's Neobaroque, Baudrillard's Simulacra, Butler's Performance, and Ecology.” MIFLC Review 15 (2009-11) [actual publication date Oct. 2013]: 177-94. Print.
• 2009 “La sutura sarduyana en El Cristo de la rue Jacob.” Hispanofila 157: 159-73.2006
• 2006 “La opresión en la narrative de Luisa Futoransky: Son cuentos chinos y De Pe a Pa (o de Pekín a París)” in Luisa Futoransky y su palabra itinerante, ed. Ester Gimbernat González. Ediciones de Hermes Criollo.
• 2006 Invited, "Carlos Fuentes'' Evolution Towards Ecological Awareness in His Essays and Narratives." Science, Literature, and Film in the Hispanic World. Eds. Jerry Hoeg and Kevin Larsen. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006. 75-85.
• 2005 "Heisenberg's Uncertainty in Contemporary Spanish American Fiction." Science and the Creative Imagination in Latin America. Ed. Evelyn Fishburn and Eduardo Ortiz. London, UK: Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, School of Advanced Study, 2005. 129-50.
• 2005 Invited, "Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle in Contemporary Spanish American Fiction."Science and the Creative Imagination in Latin America. Ed. Evelyn Fishburn and Eduardo Ortiz. London, UK: Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, School of Advanced Study, 2005. 129-50.
• 2004 "Ecocide in Paradise: The Turn of the Century in Fuentes' 'Las dos Américas'." Latin American Literary Review 63.32 (2004): 5-23.
• 2004 "Carlos Fuentes's Dystopia: Cristóbal Nonato." Ometeca: Humanities and Science 8.1 (2004): 113-32.
• 1998 Invited editor, special issue on modern Spanish American and Spanish literature and science, Literatura y Ciencia, La Torre: Revista de la Universidad de Puerto Rico 3.9 (1998).
• 1998 Between the Self and the Void: Essays in Honor of Severo Sarduy. Ed. Alicia Rivero [Rivero-Potter]. Cuban Literary Studies Series. Boulder, CO: Society of Spanish and Spanish American Studies, University of Colorado, 1998.
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