Catherine Vallejo

In general, my research interests and publications, based on the perspectives of feminist criticism, sociocriticism and discourse analysis, center on nineteenth-century Spanish-American women’s issues and writing, especially as related to the Spanish Caribbean. Research on-site has allowed me access to and (re)publication of little known, but interesting and important works by women writers from the Dominican Republic (Virginia Elena Ortea), Cuba (Mercedes Matamoros, Graziella Garbalosa), and Colombia (Soledad Acosta de Samper). My long association and collaboration with Casa de las Américas in Havana has also resulted in several collective publications of Latin-American women’s writing before 1900 (see Books published…). After publishing a number of articles on (Cuban) Women in Spanish-American modernismo  I have recently submitted a monograph on that subject , which is currently under consideration for publication. For the past few years I have been working on Spanish and Spanish-American women’s texts on their travels to the Paris (1889, 1900) and Chicago (1893) World Exhibitions (see Articles published), for which I have recently submitted the last few articles (see Work in progress). My next project will center on the 500-year literary “construction” of Anacaona, an Indian woman executed by the Spanish governor on the Island of Hispaniola in 1503, about whom a large number of writers have produced fictionalized biographies in some form, generally with a specific ideological purpose (see for example, my February 2011 presentation at Casa de las Américas in Havana).

 

Academic Background

PhD. 1991 (Littérature), Université de Montréal.

• Specialization in contemporary Latin-American literature;
• Thesis: Elementos para una semiótica del cuento hispanoamericano del siglo XX

          (Thesis Director: Prof. Monique Sarfati-Arnaud; thesis published, see below, 1992).

M.A. 1976, (Hispanic Studies), McGill University, Montreal.

• Specialization in contemporary Latin-American literature;
• Thesis: Hombres de maíz: Miguel Angel Asturias y el ideal del hombre integrado

          (Thesis Dir.: Prof. N. Martínez).

B.A. with distinction, 1968 (Major in French and Spanish), Sir George Williams University

                                         

Employment History (all at Concordia University)

• June 1, 2005-present, Professor of Spanish
• July 1-December 31, 2008, Associate Vice-President Int’l (Interim; leave replacement)
• June 1, 1999-2005, Assoc. Prof. of Spanish and Chair, CMLL
• 1997-1999, Associate Professor of Spanish
• 1996-1997, Associate Professor of Spanish and Acting Chair, Dept. of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics (Sabbatical replacement, depts. of Classics and MODL merged)
• 1995-1996, Associate Professor of Spanish (with Tenure, granted June 1, 1995)
• 1994-1995, Assistant Professor of Spanish (Tenure Track)
• 1992-1994, Assistant Professor of Spanish (Limited Term Appointments)
• 1989-1992, Lecturer in Spanish (Part-time Faculty)
• 1988-1989, Assistant Professor of Spanish (L.T.A. sabbatical replacement)
• 1968-1988, Lecturer in Spanish (Part-time Faculty, Dept. of Modern Languages and Linguistics)

                                                                            

I. RESEARCH

Publications: See covers of publications

Books, monographs

• Las madres de la patria y las bellas mentiras: Imágenes de la mujer en el discurso literario nacional de la República Dominicana, 1844-1899. Miami: Eds. Universal, 1999 (340pp.) [The mothers of the country and the beautiful lies: Images of woman in the national literary discourse of the Dominican Republic...]

              Reviewed: Hispania 83 (Dec. 2000) 816-817 (E. Gimbernat)

• Elementos para una semiótica del cuento hispanoamericano del siglo XX. Miami: Ediciones Universal, 1992 (165 pp.) [Elements for a semiotics of the 20th-Century Spanish-American Short Story]                   Reviewed: Hispania 76:3 (Sep. 1993), 482 (R.A. Kerr)

Books edited and co-edited

• Campuzano, Luisa & Catharina Vallejo, eds. ‘Tenemos que hablar y hacer.’ Discurso femenino latinoamericano del siglo XIX Estudios y textos. La Habana/Montreal: Casa de las Américas/Concordia University, 2010. [in press] [contributed 3 studies and texts, see below, ‘Invited papers’.and coordinated all 23 X 2 entries from int’l experts in the field].

• Vallejo, Catharina, Prólogo, ed. y notas. Graziella Garbalosa, La gozadora del dolor. Buenos Aires: Stockcero, 2007.

• Vallejo, Catharina, Prólogo, ed. y notas. Acosta de Samper, Soledad. Una holandesa en América. La Habana/Bogotá: Casa de las Américas/Universidad de los Andes, 2007.

•  Vallejo, Catherine, ed. Matamoros, Mercedes. Obras, 1892-1906. La Habana: Eds. Unión, 2004. ["Edición, notas y estudio preliminar"]

• Campuzano, Luisa & Catharina Vallejo, eds. "Yo con mi viveza...": Textos de conquistadoras, monjas, brujas, poetas y otras mujeres de la colonia.[250pp] Habana: Casa de las Américas/ Concordia University, 2003. Appeared in Feb. 2004] [co-wrote introduction; wrote five of the introductory texts; solicited and edited half (18) of the contributions]

• Rojas-Trempe, Lady & Catharina Vallejo, eds. Celebración de la escritura femenina contemporánea en las Américas. Ottawa/Montreal: Girol/Enana blanca, 2000. 255pp.

• Rojas-Trempe, Lady & Catharina Vallejo, eds. Poéticas de escritoras hispano-americanas al alba del próximo milenio. Miami: Ed. Universal, 1998. 248 pp. [incl. extensive bibliography of women poets]

              Notas 3, Vol. 7, 2000: 104-106 (Erna Pfeiffer)

              Hispania 82, Sept. 1999, 501-502 (Margarita Krakusin)

              World Literature Today, Winter 1999 (Naomi Lindstrom)

              Mujer, Cultura y Sociedad en América Latina, Vol. I., 1998, 327-333 (Mirla Alcibiades)

              Rev. Casa de las Américas 212 (jul-sep. 1998): 150-151

• Vallejo Catharina, Ed., notas y estudio preliminar. Virginia Elena Ortea, Obras [Works], Santo Domingo: Ce-Mujer/Ed. Búho, 1997. (all known work of this author, incl. unpublished mss).

• Vallejo, Catherine, ed. Antología de la poesía del romanticismo hispanoamericano (1820-1890). Miami: Eds. Universal, 1993. (406 pp.). [ed., intro, notes]

              Reviewed: ABC Cultural (Madrid) Jan. 28, 1994 (Joaquín Marco)

• Vallejo, Catherine, ed. Teoría cuentística del siglo XX. Aproximaciones hispánicas. Miami: Ediciones Universal, 1989 (300 pp.). [Collective work; solicited all contributions & wrote intro]

              Reviewed: Inti 29-30 (primavera-otoño 1989), 304-305 (M. Gutiérrez)

              Hispania 73:4 (Dec. 1990), 1001 (I. Guerra-McSpadden)

              Inter-American Review of Bibliography XL:3 (1990), 368-369 (A. Planells)

              Rev. Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos XVII:1 (otoño 1992), 228-229 (M. Bertolussi)

 

Articles published, 1991-2011, Refereed

“Vasos comunicantes: Persistencia, revisión y el nuevo ensayo de mujeres cubanas, 1947-2007”, Revista iberoamericana 25pp mss [accepted, in press]

“’Seeing’ ‘Spain’ at the 1893 Chicago World (Columbian) Exhibition” Hispanic Issues 25 pp. mss [accepted, in press; re SSHRC-funded research]

"La gozadora del dolor y otras novelas de Graziella Garbalosa: erotismo, naturalismo y vanguardismo en la narrativa femenina cubana de los años veinte". Revista Iberoamericana Vol. LXXV #226, enero-marzo 2009. 153-166.

"Emilia Pardo Bazán, modernity, gender and nationalism at the Paris World Exhibitions of

              1889 and 1900." Rev.  Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos  Vol. 32, #3, Primavera

              2008 (appeared Jan. 2009). 453-474 [SSHRC-funded research].

"From muse to poet: Paratextual practices of women poets in Cuba at the end of the        nineteenth century". Decimonónica, I, 1 (Winter/Invierno 2007): 79-92.

"Writing the World and the Female Self: A Cuban Woman's Perspective of the Paris (1889)

              and Chicago (1893) World Expositions." Decimonónica I, 1, Fall 2004, 114-127 (see

               www.decimonónica.org) [SSHRC-funded research].

"Estrategias discursivas para la constitución de la identidad femenina en el espacio nacional cubano, 1890-1910" [Discursive strategies towards the constitution of feminine Identity in the Cuban national sphere...]  Revista Iberoamericana, LXIX, #205 (Oct.-Dec. 2003). 969-984.

"Women writers and modernismo: strategies of expression in the Cuban poet Nieves Xenes."

              Rev. Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. Vol. XXVI, #3. (Spring) 2002. 511-526.

"El bumerang de las cuentistas novísimas cubanas: Adelaida Fernández de Juan y Oh vida! (1998)", 203-212 IN Rojas-Trempe & Vallejo eds. Celebración de la escritura femenina contemporánea en las Américas. Ottawa: Girol/Montreal: Enana blanca.

"Las madres de la patria y las bellas mentiras: la mujer en el discurso identitario de la

República Dominicana, 1844-1899", 9-26 in Sexualidad y nación. Daniel Balderston, ed. Special issue of Revista Iberoamericana. Pittsburgh PA: IILI, 2000. 9-26.

"Comunión especular del expatriado en cuatro cuentos de Enrique Anderson Imbert"], Alba de

              América. XVIII, 33-34 (July 1999): 61-73. Reprinted in La lógica del crítico en la

              creación lúdico-poética. Homenaje a Enrique Anderson Imbert [Critical logic in ludic-

              poetic creation. Hommage to Enrique Anderson Imbert]. Juana Alcira Arancibia, ed.

              Westminster CA: Inst. Literario y Cultural Hispánico, 2001. 205-216.

"La imagen de lo femenino en la lírica de los poetas del romanticismo hispanoamericano: Inscripción de una hegemonía" [The image of the feminine in the lyrical poetry of Spanish-American Romantic poets: Confirmation of hegemony]. Thesaurus. Boletín del Instituto Caro y Cuervo, (Bogotá) XLVIII (mayo-agosto 1993) #2 (appeared August 1998). 336-373.

"El espejo creativo de Emilia Macaya" [The creative mirror of Emilia Macaya], Káñina. Revista de Artes y Letras, U. de Costa Rica. XXII, #3 (especial), 1998. 13-21.

"Dichotomy and Dialectic: Soledad Acosta de Samper's Una holandesa en América and the Canon," Monographic Review/Rev. Monográfica (Texas Tech U.), XIII, 1998. 273-285.

"Descubrimiento de una escritora dominicana polivalente del siglo XIX: Virginia Elena Ortea"

 [Discovery of a multitalented Dominican woman writer of the nineteenth century:...], Káñina. Revista de Artes y Letras. San José, Costa Rica. XXI, 2, 1997. 45-51 (Proceedings of the Seminario Internacional, U. de Costa Rica, August 1996). 45-51.

"Trascendencia poética del binarismo de lo público y lo doméstico en la obra de Salomé

              Ureña de Henríquez" [Poetic transcendence of binarity in the public and private, in the

              works of ....], IN Lady Rojas-Trempe and Catherine Vallejo, eds. Poéticas de escritoras

              hispanoamericanas al alba del próximo milenio. Miami: Universal, 1998. 35-48.

"Aspectos de una dialéctica especularia en Una luz muy lejana de Daniel Moyano" [Aspects of

a specular dialectic in Daniel Moyano's A very far light], Revista Iberoamericana, vol. 62 #175 abril-junio 1996. 447-459.

"La cacica Anacaona en las Crónicas de la colonia" [The cacica Anacaona in Colonial

              chronicles], Boletín de la U. de Costa Rica, #13-14-15, enero-dic. 1995. 13-22.

"Beautiful Lies: Legitimation of the national identity in two series of Indianist poems of the Dominican Republic, 1877-1882." In Alvina Ruprecht, ed. Cultures in Transition: Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada and Beyond. Ottawa: Carleton UP, 1995. 519-532.

"'La noche boca arriba' de Julio Cortázar: la estética como síntesis entre dos cosmovisiones" [Julio Cortázar's 'The night face up': Aesthetics as a synthesis between two worldviews], Káñina. Revista de Artes y Letras, U. de Costa Rica. XVI, 2 (jul.-dic. 1992). 115-120.

"Las estructuras significativas de El lugar sin límites de José Donoso" [The significant structures of José Donoso's The limitless place], Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. XV,2 (invierno 1991). 283-294.

Articles published, by invitation

“Eva Canel en la Exposición Colombina de Chicago, julio-octubre 1893” , 15pp mss IN

    Campuzano, Luisa & Catharina Vallejo, eds. ‘Tenemos que hablar y hacer.’ Discurso femenino latinoamericano del siglo XIX Estudios y textos. La Habana/Montreal: Casa de las Américas/Concordia University, 2011. [in press; SSHRC-funded] 15pp. mss

“’La historia de una mujer’ (1849) de Manuela Aybar o Rodríguez ”, [in press] IN above,

           12pp.mss.

“La autoridad de la tradición en Almacén de las señoritas (1860) de Emilia Serrano, baronesa

              de Wilson,” [in press] IN above. 12 pp. mss.

“Salomé Ureña de Henríquez (República Dominicana): un espíritu en la tensión de

confluencias  productivas”, 68-85 IN Silvana Serafin, Emilia Perassi, Susanna

 Regazzoni, Luisa Campuzano, coords. Más allá del umbral. Autoras

hispanoamericanas y el oficio de la escritura. Sevilla: Renacimiento, 2010.

“Mujer y modernismo: representación y teoría,” Casa de las Américas 248 (Jul-Sept. 2007):

           41-53 [SSHRC-funded research].

"La 'Historia de una mujer' (1849) de la dominicana Manuela Aybar o Rodríguez," ... IN Márgara Russotto ed. Ansiedades autoriales. Caracas: U. Central de Venezuela/Ed. Equinoccio, 2006. 147-162.

"Legitimación de la expresión femenina y apropiación de la lengua en Una holandesa en América de Soledad Acosta de Samper: dialéctica de cultura y traducción" 483-492 IN Soledad Acosta de Samper: Escritura, género y nación en el siglo XIX, C. Alzate ed. Frankfurt/New York: Vervuert, 2005.

"Dicotomía, dialéctica y paradoja: Una holandesa en América y el canon" [Dichotomy, dialectics and paradox: A Dutch girl in America and the canon]. 289-300 IN Soledad Acosta de Samper: Escritura, género y nación en el siglo XIX, C. Alzate ed. (as above) (translation of item "Dichotomy and Dialectic: Soledad Acosta de Samper's Una holandesa en América.... see above, “Articles published, refereed”).

"Innovación, calidad y riqueza en la cuentística dominicana femenina contemporánea"               [Innovation, quality and abundance in women's short stories of the Dominican

               Republic], IN Mujeres como islas. Antología de narradoras cubanas, dominicanas y

              puertorriqueñas [Women like islands….]. Habana/Santo Domingo: Unión/Ferilibro,

              2002. 89-102. 2nd ed. in press.

"Ángela Hernández: continuidad y cambio en la cuentística femenina dominicana" [Ángela Hernández: continuity and change in Dominican women's short stories]. In La mujer en la literatura del mundo hispánico, Los Angeles: ILCH, 1999. 229-234.

"El eje paradigmático como dominante del cuento hispanoamericano, y su funcionamiento en 'Rosa María' de Rafael Arévalo Martínez" In P. Frohlicher & G. Güntert, Teoría e interpretación del cuento. Berne: Peter Lang AG, 1995. 460-474. 2nd. ed. 1996.

Articles published, other: Conference Proceedings, Working Papers, etc.

"'Nunca extranjera... la patria llevo conmigo:' Lola Rodríguez de Tio y la dialectica de las fronteras," ... IN Chonín Horno Delgado & Ylonka Nacidit Perdomo eds. Mujeres y cambio desde la letra (Proceedings of the 2002 XIII AILFH Conference, Sto Domingo RD). Santo Domingo: Secretaria de la Mujer, 2005.

"Emergencia de la sex/tex/tualidad de la mujer: dos cuentos de Emilia Macaya" [Emergence of sex/ text/uality: two short stories by Emilia Macaya], IN Luisa Campuzano, coord./ed. Mujeres latinoamericanas del siglo XX: Historia y cultura. México/La Habana: U. Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa/Casa de las Américas, 1998 (appeared Jan. 2000). 113-122.

"Cuarenta años de Casa de las Américas" [Forty years of Casa de las Américas], IN Rojas-Trempe & Vallejo eds. Celebración de la escritura femenina contemporánea en las Américas. Ottawa/Montreal: Girol/Enana blanca, 2000. 217-219.

"Nieves Xenes (Cuba 1859-1915): poeta modern(ist)a transgresora" [Nieves Xenes..., transgressive modern(ist) poet], IN Charles Reiss & Catherine Vallejo, eds. CMLL Working Papers, Vol. II, 1998-1999. 129-137.

"Angela Hernández: Continuidad y cambio en la cuentística femenina dominicana" [see also above], Cultura (Sto Domingo), junio 1998. 2-3.

"Virginia Elena Ortea y la conciliación de contradicciones" [Virginia Elena Ortea and the reconciliation of contradictions], Isla Abierta, Rev. Cultural (Sto Domingo), Año XVI #693, marzo 1997. 8-9.

"La mujer en las letras coloniales dominicanas. El caso de Anacaona". IN Mujeres latinoamericanas: Historia y cultura, siglos XVI al XIX. Luisa Campuzano, coord. La Habana-México: Casa de las Américas/UAM-Iztapalapa, 1997. Tomo I. 23-33.

"Lo personal y lo patriótico en la obra de Salomé Henríquez de Ureña: los márgenes significativos del sujeto poético" [The personal and the patriotic in the works of ....: the signifying margins of the poetic subject]. IN Mujeres latinoamericanas: Historia y cultura, siglos XVI al XIX. Luisa Campuzano, coord. La Habana-México: Casa de las Américas/UAM-Iztapalapa, 1997. Tomo II. 307-313.

"Las feministas, la zarzuela inédita de Virginia Elena Ortea" [The Feminists, Virginia Elena Ortea's unpublished operetta]. IN Mujeres latinoamericanas: Historia y cultura, siglos XVI al XIX. Luisa Campuzano, coord. La Habana-México: Casa de las Américas/UAM-Iztapalapa, 1997. Tomo II. 259-269.

"Estudio preliminar" [Preliminary study]. Virginia Elena Ortea, Obras. Sto Domingo: Ce-Mujer/Búho, 1997. 11-29.

"La mujer, la familia y la identidad nacional en la primera novela dominicana: El montero de Pedro Francisco Bonó (1856)" [Woman, the family and national identity in the first Dominican novel: The hunter by....]. IN Working Papers of the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Concordia University, 1995-96. 215-228.

"Explicación/Introducción" to Antología de la poesía del romanticismo, C. Vallejo ed. Miami:

              Universal, 1993. XIII-XXVI.

"Introducción", to Teoría cuentística del siglo XX, C. Vallejo ed. Miami: Universal, 1989. 7-14.

Reviews published

Lauro Zavala, Teorías del cuento. IV. Cuentos sobre el cuento. México: UNAM, 1993. IN: Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. XXV, 2 (Invierno 2001). 357-359.

Gabriela Mora, El cuento modernista hispanoamericano. Lima-Berkeley: Latinoamericana

              Eds, 1996. IN: Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. XXII, 3 (Primavera 1998).

               572-573.

Ibid. IN Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, XXIV, #48, 1998. 257-258.

Derek Flitter, Spanish Romantic literary theory and criticism. Cambridge: Cambridge

              University Press, 1992. IN: Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean

              Studies, Vol. 19 #37, 1994. 276-277.

Mariano Baquero Goyanes, El cuento español. Del romanticismo al realismo. Madrid: CSIC, 1992. IN: Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, XVIII, 1 (otoño 1993). 110-111.

Willy O. Muñoz, El personaje femenino en la narrativa de escritoras hispanoamericanas. Madrid: Ed. Pliegos, 1992. IN: Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. XX , 2, 1996. 370-372.

Work in progress

• Book manuscript: Blue Roses: Cuban Women Poets of Modernismo (1880-1905). Submitted to publisher for consideration. (SSHRC funded)
• Article on José Martí's translation of Helen Hunt Jackson's novel Ramona, submitted for publication.
• Article on Eva Canel’s reports to the Havana Chamber of Commerce on the Chicago World Exhibition of 1893; submitted for publication.
• Article on the Infanta Eulalia’s visit to the Chicago World Exhibition of 1893; submitted for publication.
• Article on nineteenth-century Spanish-American travellers’ texts relating to their visit to Niagara Falls; submitted for publication.
• Book manuscript on the literary history of Anacaona, an Indian woman of the Island of Hispaniola, executed by the Spanish in 1503.

Conference papers presented, 1998-2011

59.  “La ‘construcción’ de Anacaona, cacica taína muerta en 1503, en dos textos de

España de mediados del siglo XIX – la emancipación negada”. Coloquio Casa de las Américas, La Habana, Feb. 2011.

58. “Columbus seen through the eyes of the U.S., Cuba and Spain at the 1893 Chicago

              (Columbian) World Exhibition” Can. Ass. of Hispanists, May 2010

57. “Cuban women see the Cuban Revolution, 1959-2009”, NEMLA, Montreal, April 2010.

56. “La llegada a América: mujer y ambiente”, Coloquio Casa de las Américas, La Habana,

              Feb. 2010: Mujer y ambiente.

55. “La mujer y la ciudad: la conquista de la dimensión simbólica del espacio urbano en

torno al cambio de siglo XIX”. Coloquio Casa de las Américas, La Habana, Feb.

2009.

54. “Vasos comunicantes: Periodismo y creación literaria en César Vallejo (1892-1938),”

              Concordia University César Vallejo commemoration, October 22, 2008.

53. “La des-figuración de la violencia en cuatro poetas (1840-1915)” Coloq. Casa de las

              Américas, La Habana: La mujer y la violencia, feb. 2008.

52. “Between Lucas and Uncle Sam: Jose Martí and other intellectuals’ writing on imperialism,

              1889-1899” LASA, Montreal (Sept. 5-8, 2007).

51. “La mujer y el modernismo: Representación y teoría”, Femenino y Masculino: Teorías y

              representaciones de género en la cultura de mujeres latinoamericanas y caribeñas,

               Casa de las Américas (Havana), Feb. 2007.

50."Autobiografía, memoria y narrativa: El ‘Diario’ y una novela de Soledad Acosta de

              Samper," LASA, Puerto Rico, March 2006 (as item 47).

49. As #48, expanded to one hour: by invitation, Bishop's University, November 23, 2005.

48."Viajeras caribeñas y españolas a la exposición de Chicago de 1893: una visión femenina de América Latina", NECLAS, Bowdoin College, Brunswick ME, October 2005.

47."Autobiografía, memoria y narrativa: El ‘Diario’ y una novela de Soledad Acosta de Samper," Can. Assoc. of Hispanists, London ON, May 2005.

46.  "Los silencios del Diario: autobiografía, ficción y escritura en Soledad Acosta de Samper," Coloq. Casa de las Américas, Havana: "Las escrituras del yo." Feb. 2005.

45.  "Caribbean Women Writers today" Keynote address, 9th Int'l Conference of the Assoc. of

              Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars (ACWWS), April 27, 2004, Sto Domingo,

              Dominican Republic.

44.  "Women's place: Caribbean women travelers to the World Exhibitions in the 19th century," 9th Int'l Conference of the Assoc. of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars (ACWWS), April 26-30, 2004, Sto Domingo, Dom. Rep.

43.  "Viajeras caribeñas a las exposiciones mundiales de París (1889) y Chicago (1893): exposición de la mujer hispanoamericana al mundo", Coloquio Cultura y mujer, Representaciones culturales de viajes, exilios y migraciones de mujeres. Casa de las Américas, Havana, Febr. 17, 2004.

42.  "The Education of Women in the nineteenth century Spanish America: Eugenio María de Hostos and Ideological Utopia". NECLAS Conference, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH, Oct. 18, 2003.

41.  "Tiempo, mujer y modernismo" ejes dinámicos en el Caribe, 1880-1915",  Casa de las Américas, Havana, Feb. 17-21, 2003.

40.  "Nunca extranjera...." (as 39) ALFH Conference, Santo Domingo, October 23-26, 2002.

39.  "Nunca extranjera.... La patria llevo conmigo: Lola Rodríguez de Tió cruzando fronteras

              en las Antillas y entre los géneros." Amsterdam: "Cruzando Fronteras en América

              Latina: Tercer Congreso Europeo de Latinoamericanistas", July 3-6, 2002.

38.  "Musas recíprocas: legitimación y apoyo entre poetas cubanas, 1890-1915." Congress of

               the Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas, Toronto, 25-28 May, 2002.

37.  "Graziella Garbalosa y La gozadora del dolor: Erotismo y realismo en la concientización escritural del cuerpo femenino." Casa de las Américas, Feb. 18-22, La Habana, Cuba.

36.  "Mercedes Matamoros (1858-1906) y Safo (s. VII a.C.): mitificación de lo clásico y entrada en lo moderno", Casa de las Américas, Feb. 19-23, 2001 La Habana.

35.  "La mujer en el modernismo hispanoamericano: el caso de Nieves Xenes". Annual Conference of the AATSP, San Juan PR, August 3-6, 2000.

34.  "La apropiación de la lengua en Una holandesa en América de Soledad Acosta de

               Samper: rebelión y conquista," Latin American Studies Assoc. XXII Int'l Congress,

               Miami, March 16-18, 2000 (ref.).

33.  "El bumerang de las cuentistas novísimas cubanas: Adelaida Fernández de Juan y (Oh

               vida!", Coloquio Internacional: Celebración de la escritura femenina de las Américas,

               Concordia University, March 9-11, 2000.

32.  "La autoridad de la tradición en Almacén de las señoritas (1860), de Emilia Serrano, baronesa de Wilson," Coloquio Int'l La mujer en Latinoamérica: Cultura popular y cultura de masa. Casa de las Américas La Habana, Feb. 14-18, 2000.

31. "Las madres de la patria y las bellas mentiras: La mujer en la literatura dominicana del

              siglo XIX," Celebración int'l del idioma español. Toronto: October 30, 1999.

30. "La mujer en el teatro caribeño del siglo XIX", Punto y contrapunto: dramaturgia femenina.

               Subversión del código biográfico, Santo Domingo, July 1999.

29. Opening address. Punto y contrapunto: dramaturgia femenina. Subversión del código biográfico, Santo Domingo, July 1999.

28. "Nieves Xenes: poeta modern(ist)a transgresora." Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas,

               Bishop's University, June 2, 1999.

27. "Anacaona, Enriquillo y las Vírgenes de Galindo: Convergencia y escamoteo de clase,

              raza y género en la República Dominicana del siglo XIX," Coloquio Int'l Género, raza y

              clase en la cultura latinoamericana y caribeña, La Habana, Feb. 15-19, 1999.

26. "Ángela Hernández: Continuidad y cambio en la cuentística femenina dominicana", IV

               Congreso de Creación Femenina, Univ. Central de Bayamón PR, Nov. 20, 1998.

25. "La nueva cuentística femenina de la República Dominicana: Aurora Arias," Feria Internacional del Libro, San Juan de Puerto Rico, November 18, 1998.

24. "La visión de la literatura en la cuentística de Aída Cartagena Portalatín," Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas, Ottawa, May 30, 1998.

23 Papers presented nationally and internationally, 1992-1997: mainly on nineteenth-century Dominican and Colombian women writers.

Funding Received  External

2005-08 SSHRC Standard Research Grant: $15,824, $11,400 and $13,723 (total $40,947) for: "Writing the World: Spanish and Cuban Women at the World Expositions of 1889, 1893, and 1900."

2001-04 SSHRC Standard Research Grant: $11,325, $11,191, $12,307 resp. (ttl $34,823) for: "The women and the men's club: Women writers and Spanish Caribbean modernismo, 1885-1920." Book manuscript completed and submitted as: Blue Roses: Women writers of Modernismo in the Spanish Caribbean, 1880-1905.

 

1999-00 SSHRC Aid to Occasional Conferences: $9,952 towards the cost of organizing an International Colloquium Celebración de la escritura femenina contemporánea de las Américas, Concordia University, March 2000 (with Lady Rojas-Trempe and Hugh Hazelton).

1995-98 FCAR Nouveaux chercheurs: $13,110, $13,210 & $10,900 resp. (ttl $37,220  towards research costs of "Contradictions of cultural ideology: Women's role in the construction of a national identity in the literary discourse of the Dominican Republic, 1844-1899". Project completed; published as Las madres de la patria..., 1999 [Mothers of the country...] (see Monographs).

Funding Received Internal

2011                   Jan.-June, Leave Research Grant, $3,500, Office of Vice-President Research.

2008-09           Fund # VA 0068         Vice-Pres. Research & Grad. Studies, $2,500 in partial support for the publication of women’s writing in 19th century Latin America, in conjunction with Casa de las Américas in Havana (see Books edited; in press).

2008-09           Fund # S0 1269         Faculty of Arts and Science, $2,500. for project as above.

2003-04           CASA: $1,500             in partial support towards the publication of the Obras of Mercedes Matamoros. Published by Eds Unión, Havana, Cuba, in 2004 (Project completed, see Books edited).

2002-03           CASA: $2,500             in partial support towards the publication of Yo con mi viveza. Textos de.... mujeres de la colonia. Co-edited with L. Campuzano of Casa de las Américas and co-published with that institution in 2003 (Project completed, see Books edited).

2000                   CASA: $500                  towards publication costs of the Proceedings of the CCLEH conference (Project compl., see Celebración de la escritura femenina contemporánea, 2003)

2000-03           Three-year Institutional Support CCLEH, resp. $3,000, $2,000 and $1,000

1999-00           FRDP: $7670 'Bridge Grant' for part of Team-grant application to SSHRC and FCAR: Dialogue: Spanish Caribbean Women Poets at the Dawn and the Dusk of the Twentieth Century. [Re: SSHRC application (4A, not funded), Sept. 1999.

1994-96           FRDP Start-up Research Grant: $6,600 and $5,800 resp. towards research costs of "Contradictions of cultural ideology: recuperation and semiotic analysis of marginalised literature of the Dominican Republic, 1844-1899". (Published as Las madres de la patria y las bellas mentiras..., 1999; see also FCAR grant awarded).

1993                General Research Funds: $3,500 towards research costs of "Contradictions of cultural ideology: recuperation and semiotic analysis of marginalised literature of the Dominican Republic, 1844-1899". (Project completed under slightly modified parameters; see above).

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II. TEACHING

Courses taught, graduate

SPAN651 –Visions of the Self and the Other: Travel Writing in 19th C. Spanish America

              Fall 2010

Courses taught, undergraduate, 1992-2010             Assigned Courses

Literature (3-cred. courses except where indicated):

              - Critical Reading of Hispanic Texts (SPAN303)

              - Survey of Spanish American Literature I & II (SPAN320 and 321)

              - Peninsular Neoclassicism and Romanticism (SPAN416)

              - Peninsular Realism and Naturalism (SPAN417)

              - The Generation of 1898 (SPAN420)

              - 20th Century Spanish Literature (SPAN431; 6-cred.)

              - 20th Century Spanish-American Lit. (SPAN432; 6-cred.)

              - Spanish-American Romanticism (SPAN441)

              - Spanish-American Modernism and Vanguardism (SPAN442)

              - Women and Hispanic Literature (SPAN430)

              - Hispanic Essay (SPAN498I, now SPAN471)

              - Introd. to Hispanic Literature (SPAN304, now SPAN303, see above)

              - Methods of Literary Analysis (SPAN403, now SPAN491)

Language (all 200-level courses, incl. first session of SPAN250 intensive, now SPAN240)

Translation - Intermediate Translation I and II (SPAN306/307)

Spanish American Civilization - SPAN362/363; Issues in Span. Am. Civilization (SPAN464)

Honours Theses and other Tutorials, 1993-2010

Total 65 students, many varied subjects

TEACHING Other

Supervision of graduate students

2006-08: Ana-Maria Kerekes, M.A. SIP, principal supervisor; instructor of SPEC632V/2, "Contemporary cultures of indigenous peoples of Latin America," and co-instructor of SPEC637V/2, "Text Revision in Spanish" (with H. Hazelton).

2002-05: Carmen Puga Peña, M.A. SIP, principal supervisor; instructor of SPEC620 Fall 2002

Visiting Professor: Université de Montréal, January-April 1994: Nineteenth-Century Spanish American Poetry, emphasis on Argentina and on poets' literary theory

Guest seminar: Université Laval, graduate class on Women in Latin American literature: "Women and modernismo," November 2002 (Dr. E. Deffis de Calvo, prof.)

 

(Teaching) Grants awarded

2001 Concordia University Teaching Development, Innovative Teaching: $2,000 for You have to know the lab to use the lab (co-investigators: L. Ochoa, Janeth Luz Ospina).

1996 Heritage Canada: $4,000 one-year grant for Inmersión en lo hispánico, an immersion weekend for Introductory and Intermediate Spanish students (held March 1996, and again Nov. 1997).

1995 Concordia University Teaching Development, Innovative Teaching: a one-time $4,000 grant for T.R.I.M. (Triple Instruction Method) Spanish teaching (lecture-tutorial-lab).

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III. SERVICE TO THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY , 1992 to present

In Concordia University - As Professor of Spanish (promoted June 1, 2005)

- Honours Advisor, CMLL, June 2009-2010 (sabbatical replacement)

- member, Faculty Curriculum Committee (Arts &Science), June 2006-June 2008

- member, Academic Programs Committee (Senate sub-committee), June 2006-May 2009

              + member, subcommittee on University Calendar Editorial Board, Jan 2008- May 2009

- member Faculty Personnel and Tenure Committee, Jan-June 30, 2009

- member Int’l Advisory Comm. (under Assoc. VP. Int’l), Jan.-June 2008, Jan. 09-May 10

- co-coord. (w. Dr. Lady Rojas) Colloq. celebrating Peruvian writer César Vallejo Oct. 2008

                                          - As Associate Professor of Spanish (Tenured June 1, 1995)

- member, Faculty Ad hoc Committee on determination of GPA's for U/grad prizes, 2003-04

- member, Senate Library Committee, 2003-2005

- rep. for FAS Humanities Sector on the SGS Internal SSHRC Selection comm.., 2002-2004

- member ex-officio departmental Self-Appraisal Committee, 2002-2003

- member, Chair-Search Committee, Dept. of History, Spring 2001

- member, Faculty of Arts and Science Research Committee, 2000-2003

- organization Int'l Colloquium Celebración de la escritura femenina contemporánea en las Américas, with L. Rojas-Trempe, March 9-11, 2000 (SSHRC funded)

- member University Senate, Jan. 1999-May 2002, Sept. 2003-May 2005

- Co-editor (w. Charles Reiss), Working Papers of the Dept. of CMLL, 1998-99 (June 1999)

- Co-editor (w. Mark Hale), Working Papers of the Dept. of CMLL, 1995-96 (appeared 1997)

- Chair, CMLL & member ex-officio of all departmental committees, 1999-2005

- member Faculty Appraisal Committee, Etudes Françaises, Feb.-April 1996

- member, Chair-search Committee, Etudes Françaises, Jan.-Feb. 1996

- member Faculty Curriculum Committee, 1995-97

- Dept. Honours Advisor, 1995-2003 (except for medical leave and sabbatical, 1998)

- Language Courses Coordinator, Spanish, 1992-1999

- Acting chair, CMLL, 1996-97 (sabb. repl.) (incl. move to SGW campus & merger w. Classics)

- Arts and Science Faculty representative Faculty Council Commerce (1995-97, 1998-99)

Beyond Concordia University:

- member SSHRC committee 19 Literature 2: American, modern and contemporary literatures in English, English Canadian, First Nations, French Canadian & Quebec, Romance, other languages and literatures; 2008-09 and 2009-10

- External evaluator, Bishop’s U., Dept. of Modern Languages, Fall 2009

- External evaluator, U. Windsor, Dept. of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Spring 2008

- Grant application reviewer, Nat. Endowment for the Humanities, January 2004

- Organizing and evaluation committee [French sector], 9th Int'l Conference of the Assoc. Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars (ACWWS), April 2004, Sto Domingo, Dom. Rep.

- member, editorial board, Casa de las Américas, for a series of books on women's writing in Spanish America (first vol. publ. in 2004; second vol. in press; see Publications, books edited)

- Manuscript reviewer, Rev. Can. de Estudios Hispánicos (1997 - present, 16 articles)

- Manuscript reviewer, Victorian Review, 2003 (one article)

- Concordia U. Modern Languages rep. to the meetings of the Commission Universitaire sur les Programmes (CUP), Sous-Commission #7 (Langues et Littératures), 1997-98

- Grant application reviewer, SSHRC, January 1997 & January 2004

- assisted in data collection for comp. study, Quebecois vs Mexican students in L2 acquisition (UNAM, Centro de Enseñanza de Lenguas Extranjeras, 1998. 65-93).

 

As Assistant Professor of Spanish (L.T.A. and Tenure-track, 1992-1995):

- organized Inmersión en lo hispánico weekend, March 1996

- organized one-day Grad. Student Symp. Women and Lit. in Spanish America, March 1996

- member of Part-time Faculty Affairs Committee, 1988-92, 1994-95

- member of Department Curriculum Committee, 1993-95

- Honours Advisor 'language disciplines' CMLL, 1994-2003

- Spanish Language courses coordinator, 1994-2003

- participated in the curriculum programming for Spanish

- organized series of three Lectures (with two guest Lecturers) on 'Women and Latin American Lit.', October-November 1993

Service on Scholarship Juries and Graduate Theses Committees

Concours Bourses Québec/Brésil, Québec/Colombie, Québec/Mexique 1993-1994, 1994-1995, Gouvernement du Québec, Ministère de l'Enseignement superérieur et de la Science (December 1992 and 1993, served as Chair on both occasions).

Prix GRAL Montréal, 1992-93 (Université de Montréal, Groupe de Recherche sur l'Amérique Latine), awarded to the best M.A. thesis on Latin America produced in Québec during the previous two years (March 1994).

Reread, appeal of Comprehensive PhD. exam, McGill University, June 2000 (name and further data confidential)

External Examiner, Graduate Theses (Ph.D)

Sueños y desencantos en novelas y películas cubanas del Periodo especial, Diana SARABIA ACOSTA, University of Ottawa, December 2007.

Gender and Representation: The Writings of Puerto Rican Authors in the Late Nineteenth Century (1870-1900), Marcela BERGLUND, UBC, Fall 2004.

El indigenismo en Ernesto Cardenal, Philip MORROW, U. Toronto, Dept. of Hispanic Studies, May 2000.

Literatura argentina y autoritarismo. Los relatos testimoniales: Walsh, Bonasso y Martínez,

 Ernesto Daniel ZAMORANO. U. de Montréal, Dépt. de Litt. Comparée, February 1999.

External Examiner, Graduate Theses (M.A.)

"Lo carnavalesco en 'Confabulación de la araña' de Guillermo Vidal," Helen FILIPPOU, McGill

              University, Dept. of Hispanic Studies, January 2000.

"La imagen de la madre en la obra de Isabel Allende," María Olivia CUEVAS, McGill University, Dept. of Hispanic Studies, April 1998.

"Translation of Gabriela Mistral poetry," Marie-Thérese BLANC, McGill University, Dept. of

              Dept. of English (Creative Writing), April 1996.

Curriculum Development

I was extensively involved in the curriculum revision of the Spanish programmes (1994), following Departmental appraisal in 1993; initiated the development of the 60-credit 'Specialization in Spanish' in 1994, and saw it through its various stages until approval, effective June 1, 1999. As of 2001, again coordinated curriculum changes, effective 2004. Equally extensively involved in the development of a Masters program in Hispanic Studies, which became effective Sept. 2010.

Since 1988, I have been involved in the creation of new courses, subsequently adopted for the Spanish programme and initially taught by me:

- Introduction to Hispanic Studies (SPAN304, now SPAN303)

- Panorama of Latin American Literature I & II (SPAN320 and 321)

              - Effective Written Communication in Spanish (SPAN401)

- Methods of Literary Analysis (SPAN303, then SPAN403, now 491)

              - Hispanic Short story (SPAN450)

- Women and Hispanic literatures (SPAN430, now SPAN453 in new curric.)

- Issues in Spanish American civilization (SPAN464)

              - Hispanic Essay (SPAN498I now SPAN467 in new curric.)