CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
Ph.D. - University of Colorado at Boulder, Spanish & Latin American
Literature, 1997.
Dissertation: El archivo
de la memoria: la novela de formación femenina en
Rosa Chacel, Rosa Montero, Rosario
Castellanos y Elena
Poniatowska.
M.A. - University
of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Comparative Literature, 1992.
Thesis: El Bildungsroman femenino en las novelas: Wide Sargasso
Sea y
Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle.
B.A. - University of Puerto Rico,
Río Piedras, Comparative Literature, 1985. Magna Cum Laude
Other:
Post-doctorate Courses in Brazilian Literature, Pontifícia Catholic
University, LetterS
Department, Rio de Janeiro,
RJ, Brazil, 2001-2003.
Faculty Development in International Business, University of South Carolina,
Columbia, SC, 2000.
Graduate Teacher's Program Certificate, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO,
1993-1995.
Exchange Student, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 1982-1983.
Advanced School of Personnel Administration, San Juan, Puerto Rico,
1991-1992.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, Framingham State College, Modern Languages Department,
Framingham, MA, 2005-present.
Classes in Spanish: Advanced Spanish Composition & Conversation I &
II, Business Spanish
(Undergraduate),
Hispanic Media and Culture, Advanced Spanish
Grammar through Textual Analysis,
Contemporary Spanish
Narrative (Graduate).
Classes in Portuguese:
Beginners Portuguese I, Beginners Portuguese II
(Undergraduate).
Foreign Visiting Professor, Pontifícia Catholic University, Letters
Department, Rio de
Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, 2004-2005.
Classes in Portuguese: Melodrama in Nelson Rodrigues and Pedro
Almodóvar, The Latin American Short Story
(Graduate); Memory & Feminine Literature: Lygia
Fagundes Telles (Undergraduate).
Adjunct Assistant
Professor, (Visiting Assistant Professor 2000-2001), Worcester
Polytechnic Institute,
Humanities & Arts
Department, Worcester, MA, 1998-2005.
Classes in
Spanish: Beginners Spanish II,
Intermediate Spanish I & II, Advanced
Spanish I & II,
Spanish XX Century
Literature, Latin American Media and
Culture, Comparative Business
Environments in Latin America, Business
Spanish (Undergraduate).
Adjunct Professor, Assumption College, Foreign Languages Department,
Worcester, MA, 1998-2000.
Classes in Spanish: Basic Spanish 1 & 2 & 3, Intensive
Intermediate Spanish, Introduction to Literature
(Undergraduate).
Class in English for the Comparative Literature Department: Latino
Literature in the United States
(Graduate).
Lecturer, University of Colorado at Boulder, Spanish & Portuguese
Department, Colorado, 1997-1998.
Classes in Spanish: Advanced
Grammar, Composition & Conversation (Undergraduate).
Graduate Part-time Instructor, University of Colorado at Boulder, Spanish &
Portuguese
Department, Colorado,
1993-1997.
Classes in Spanish:
Beginners Spanish I, Beginners Spanish II, Intermediate Spanish I,
Intermediate Spanish II,
Advanced Grammar, Composition &
Conversation, Intensive
Spanish Summer Institute.
PUBLICATIONS
Book: El archivo
de la memoria: la novela de formación femenina en Rosa Chacel, Rosa Montero,
Rosario Castellanos
y Elena
Poniatowska. New Orleans:
University Press of the South, 1999.
Reviewed by Dolores Flores Silva,
“La
formación del Bildungsroman
femenino,” Caligrafias 2.1 (2002): 63-65.
Articles:
“Identidad personal e identidad nacional en Vuelo de Cisne de Rosario
Ferré.” Ed. Celia
Vázquez. Enhebrando palabras
al hilo de la escritura.
Encuentro
Internacional de
Escritoras Rosalía de Castro, 2006.
Vigo:
Editorial
Academia
del
Hispanismo,
2007.
“Cada uno al ritmo de su propio tambor: la poesía negra de Jorge Artel y
Luis Palés Matos.” Ed. Lucía Ortiz.
‘Chambacú, la historia la escribes tú,’ Ensayos sobre cultura
Afrocolombiana. Madrid: Iberoamericana/Vervuert,
2007. 69-86. By invitation.
“Voces
en contrapunto: dialogismo interno en Tú, la oscuridad de Mayra
Montero,” Con-textos 17.35 (2005): 30-41.
“De
Pulp Fiction a metaficción literaria: las transformaciones del
personaje detectivesco en la narrativa policial
brasileña,” Chasqui 34.2 (2005): 78-91.
“Utopías futurísticas: el poder femenino
en Temblor de Rosa Montero,” Annals of the II International
Seminar of Women
and Literature by ANPOLL (National Association of Research and
Graduate Studies in Literature and Linguistics), CD-
ROM, RJ, Brazil, 2005. 1751-1762.
“Re-creación de una historia personal y nacional en La ‘Flor de
Lis’ de Elena Poniatowska.”
Annals of the 17 ABRALIC
Congress (Brazilian Association of
Comparative Literature),
CD-ROM, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, 2004.
“Para comerte mejor: plan de
seducción en ‘Recetario de incautos’ de Carmen Lugo
Filippi.” Virtual Humanistic
Caribbean Congress, University of Puerto Rico, Humacao, 2002.
http://cuhwww.upr.clu.edu/~cvhc/ponenciaspublicadas.htm.
“La voz caribeña femenina en
la literatura de los Estados Unidos.” Exégesis 13.37-38 (2000):
42-46.
“El poder de la
escritura: una alegoría del juego de ajedrez en Urraca de Lourdes
Ortiz,” Mester 24.2 (1995):
13-32.
Reviews: “The Incredible Stories in Spain's Cordel Literature
of the Sixteenth Century.”
Review
for the Sixteenth
Century Journal 35.2 (2004): 567-568.
Poetry:
Poetas en el tiempo.
(2006). Ed. Leticia Ruiz Rosado. Aguadilla: Universidad de Puerto
Rico. 203-206.
Nueva Poesía Hispanoamericana.
14ta ed. (2006). Ed. Leo Zelada. Lima:
Ediciones Lord Byron. 111-112.
Poemas al Mar. (2006). Ed. by the
Female Writers Association. Galicia, Spain.
Poetas sin tregua (2006). Book of
poetry selections from six Puerto Rican Female
Poets. Madrid: Publidisa. 10-17.
Letras Salvajes 3
(2004). Online.
Filo de Juego: los 20 años.
(2003). Ed. Belia Segarra. Online.
Caligrafías 2.1
(2002): 77, 80-83.
Caligrafías 1.1
(2001): 57-60.
Anthology of Puerto Rican Poetry: IV - Contemporary.
Ed. Rubén Alejandro
Moreira. San Juan:
Comisión del quinto
centenario del
descubrimiento de Puerto Rico, 1993.
322-29.
Shadows. Ed. Tracy Thomas.
Texas: Poetry Unlimited, 1990. 78.
Tríptico 2.1 (1989): 4-13.
Exégesis 1.3 (1987): 52.
Método y Sentido 6-7 (1987):
43-45.
Poetic Anthology of Puerto Rican Poets: 1984-1985.
Ed. Manuel
de la Puebla. Río Piedras:
Mairena, 1986.
Filo de Juego
2.2 (1986): 42-43.
Filo de Juego
2.1 (1985): 30.
Filo de Juego
1.3 (1985): 24-26.
Filo de Juego
1.2 (1984): 22-23.
Filo de Juego
1.1 (1984): 3, 7, 11, 14, 27.
PRESENTATIONS
“Topografías de la
violencia: el Cinema da Retomada brasileño,” VII Congreso
Internacional
de Literatura Hispánica,
Cusco, Perú, 2008.
“En busca del
Corazón de Voltaire:
el
detective epistolar de Luis López Nieves,”
XXIX Simposio Internacional de
Literatura, Luján,
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2007.
“Lo que nos hace
humanos: El pintor de batallas de Arturo Pérez-Reverte,” VI Congreso
Internacional de Literatura
Hispánica, Riviera
Maya, México, 2007.
“Identidad personal e
identidad nacional en Vuelo de Cisne de Rosario Ferré,” VII
International Female Writers Congress,
Galicia, Spain, 2006.
“Andando por los márgenes: travestismo y lenguaje en Sirena Serena
vestida de pena,” 62nd South Central Modern
Language Association Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, 2005.
“Utopías futurísticas: el poder femenino en
Temblor de Rosa Montero,” II International Seminar of Women and
Literature,
ANPOLL, State University of Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil, 2005.
“Metáfora e engajamento dos contos de Julio Cortázar,” (in Portuguese)
Symposium: Julio Cortázar’s Life and Work,
Pontifícia Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil, 2004.
“Re-creación de una historia personal y nacional en La 'Flor de Lis'
de Elena Poniatowska,” 17 ABRALIC
Congress (Brazilian
Association of Comparative
Literature), Federal University
of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, 2004.
“Voces en contrapunto: dialogismo interno en Tú, la oscuridad de
Mayra Montero,” 24th
Louisiana Conference on Hispanic
Languages & Literatures, Louisiana State University,
Baton Rouge, LA, 2004.
“De
Pulp Fiction a metaficción literaria: las transformaciones del
personaje detectivesco en la narrativa
policial
brasileña,” Association of Teachers of Spanish
& Portuguese Annual Convention,
Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil, 2002.
“‘Todo es según el
cristal con que se mira’: el enigma de un cuadro en El Sueño de
Venecia
de Paloma Díaz-Mas,” Rocky
Mountain Modern Language Association,
Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2001.
“La memoria bifurcada:
re-creación de una niñez en Ximena de
dos caminos
de Laura Riesco,” Mountain Interstate
Foreign
Language Conference, Radford University, VA, 2000.
“Teaching Latin America Media and Culture,” 16th Mid-America
Conference on Hispanic Literature, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, WI, 2000.
“La voz caribeña
femenina en la literatura de los Estados Unidos,” South Atlantic
Modern Language Association, Georgia
State University, Atlanta, GA, 1999.
“El poder de la
escritura: una alegoría del juego de ajedrez en Urraca de Lourdes
Ortiz,” 12th Mid-America Conference on
Hispanic Literature, University of Nebraska, Lincoln,
NE, 1996.
“Metaficción
apocalíptica: mosaico intertextual en Dulcinea encantada de Angelina
Muñiz-Huberman,” Graduate
Conference of New Readings of Hispanic Literature,
Brown University, Providence, RI,
1996.
“Concordancias y
variaciones del Bildungsroman femenino en Nada y La plaza
del diamante,”
Sixteenth Cincinnati
Conference on Romance Languages & Literatures, University of Cincinnati, OH,
1996.
“African Language and Culture in the
Caribbean,” Association of Teachers of Spanish
& Portuguese Regional
Convention,
Metro College, Denver, CO, 1994.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Interim Advisor for the Study Abroad Program, Framingham State
College, Framingham, MA, Spring 2008.
Interim
Advisor for the Master of Education concentration in Spanish program,
Framingham State College, Framingham,
MA, Fall 2007.
Session Chair,
Reescribiendo la historia: cartas, detectives y revolución, XXIX
Simposio Internacional
de Literatura,
Luján, Buenos Aires,
Argentina, 2007.
Faculty
Consultant, College Board’s Advanced Placement Program, Trinity College,
San Antonio, TX, 2001-2005,
2007.
Presentation of Latin America
Through Films with Prof. Emilce Cordeiro for the American Association of
Teachers
of Spanish and Portuguese, Mass Bay Chapter, Framingham State
College, Framingham, MA, 2006, 2007.
Poetry recital at the VII International Female Writers Congress, Galicia,
Spain, 2006.
Member of the First Year Experience Committee, Framingham State College,
Framingham, MA, 2006.
Independent Study: Marisela Doyle, La situación de la mujer Latina (The
Situation of Latina Women), Framingham State
College, Framingham, MA,
2006.
Advisor of Master students independent studies: Luis Felipe Carvalho,
Glauber Rocha e
o Cinema da América Latina
(Glauber Rocha and Latin America Films Theory) and Marcelo Magalhães,
Estudos Culturais na América Latina (Latin
American
Cultural Studies), Pontifícia Catholic University, Letters Department, Rio de
Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, 2005.
Co-advisor in Master’s Degree Thesis of Irene Bosio, A crônica policial
de Nelson
Rodrigues,
Pontifícia Catholic
University, Letters Department, Rio de Janeiro,
RJ, Brazil, 2004.
English-Portuguese/Portuguese-English,
Spanish-Portuguese/Portuguese-Spanish Translator, 2002-Present.
Coordinator, Programa
Sul-Americano de Apoio às Atividades de Cooperação do
Brasil e dos Países da América do Sul–
PROSUL
(Program of Faculty Cooperation
between Brazil and other South American Countries), Rio de Janeiro, RJ,
Brazil, 2002-2003.
Session Chair,
Texto y contexto: lo interdisciplinario en la literatura hispánica,
Rocky Mountain Modern Language
Association, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2001.
Advisor, Senior Students Sufficiency Project: Adams, Corey. Religion in
Latin America, Worcester Polytechnic
Institute, Humanities & Arts
Department, Worcester, MA, 2001.
Quinteros, Tracy. La industria
de la música:
autenticidad de los Latin Grammy
Awards,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Humanities & Arts Department, Worcester,
MA, 2001.
Chaired Initiation for the new members of the Sigma Delta Pi Honor
Society, University of Colorado at Boulder,
Colorado, 1994-1996.
Administrator, Puerto Rico
Institute of Psychiatry, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1988-1993.
Spanish-English/English-Spanish
Translator, Interpreter, Tutor, 1987-Present.
Poetry recitals with
Filo de Juego and Tríptico poetic groups, Puerto Rico, 1984-1986.
FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
Travel Grant, Modern Language
Department, Framingham State College, Framingham, MA, 2005, 2006, 2007.
Professional Development Funds,
Framingham State College, Framingham, MA, 2006, 2007.
Foreign Visiting Professor
CAPES Grant (Coordination for the Enhancement of Superior Level Faculty from
the
Science and Technology Ministry of Brazil),
Pontifícia Catholic University,
Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, 2004-2005.
Travel Grant, Humanities & Arts
Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, 2000.
Travel Grant, Interdisciplinary
& Global Studies Department, Worcester Polytechnic
Institute, Worcester, MA, 2000.
CIBER Fellowship, University of
South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 2000.
Travel Grant, Assumption
College, Worcester, MA, 1999.
Travel Grant, Graduate School,
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 1996.
University of Colorado at
Boulder Graduate Fellowship, Boulder, CO, 1996.
University of Colorado at
Boulder Protected Class Fellowship, Boulder, CO, 1995.
University of Colorado at
Boulder Protected Class Fellowship, Boulder, CO, 1993.
Teaching Assistant, University
of Colorado at Boulder, Spanish & Portuguese Department, Boulder, CO,
1993-1997.
ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS
Graduate Student Teaching
Excellence Award, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 1996.
Graduate Women Award,
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 1995.
Dissertation Grant Award,
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 1995.
Sigma Delta Pi Spanish Honor
Society, Boulder, CO, 1994.
Honor of Noteworthy Academic
Achievement, University of Colorado, Boulder,
CO, 1994.
Magna Cum Laude -
B.A., University of
Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, P.R., 1985.
Acknowledgment of Academic
Excellence, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, P.R., 1981.