Recent Selected Alumni Professional Activities

Berrizbeitia, Josefina
"La degeneración: un entramado retórico en la novela de fin de siglo". Revista Estudios (Caracas). Vol.12, 1998, pp.126-138.

"Idolos rotos: la retórica de la modernidad en el microcosmos de una novela". Revista Iberoamericana (Hamburg). 24.Jahrgang (2000). Nr.2/3 (78/79), pp.237-250).

"Realismo, naturalismo y decadentismo: categorías problemáticas en la modernidad venezolana". Medio Milenio de Literatura Venezolana. Fundación Casa de Bello, Caracas (forthcoming book chapter).

Crumbaugh, Justin
"From Tourism Studies to the Next Left: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán's Running Critique." Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, (forthcoming)

"'Spain Is Different': Touring Late-Francoist Film with Manolo Escobar." Hispanic Research Journal. 3.3 (October 2002): 261-76.

"An Aesthetic of Industrial Ruins in Bilbao: Daniel Calparsoro's Salto al vacío and Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum Bilbao." International Journal of Iberian Studies. 14.1 (March 2001): 40-51.

"Las suecas y otras proyecciones: el franquismo y el boom turístico." Cultura, formas de representación y la lógica de los objetos: España 1850-2000. Ed. Malcomb Compitello. Madrid: Alianza (forthcoming).

Conference papers

"Tourists, Flaneurs, and Others: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán's Poetics of Displacement," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, April, 2004.

"Olympic Sabotage? Conspiracy Theory and Resistance to the Barcelona Olympic Games," Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Chicago, November, 2003.

"Tours of Late Francoism with Manolo Escobar," North Carolina Conference of Foreign Languages and Literaures," Chapel Hill, April, 2001.

"Spain Is Different: Touring Late-Francoist Film with Manolo Escobar," Modern Language Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, December, 2000.

Dangler, Jean
Mediating Fictions: Literature, Women Healers, and the Go-Between in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia.  Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2001.

Making Difference in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia.  (Forthcoming, University of Notre Dame Press, 2005).

"Motherhood and Pain in Villena's Vita Christi and Roig's Spill."  La corónica 27.1 (1998): 99-113.

"Memory and the Book in Rodríguez Freyle's El Carnero."  Revista de estudios colombianos 20 (1999): 14-23.

"Response to ‘Using Literary Texts in a History of Sexuality.'"  Forum on the conference "Return to Queer Iberia."  La corónica 30.1 (2001):244-47.

"Marriage and Well-Being in Roig's Spill."  Catalan Review 15.2 (2001): 35-47.

"Transgendered Sex and Healing in Celestina."  Celestinesca 25.1-2 (2001): 69-81.

"Abject Pilgrimage and Healing in Jaume Roig's Spill."  Dynamis 23 (2003): 167-92.

"Subject Crossings in Andalusi Lyric."  (Forthcoming in Revista de estudios hispánicos, spring 2004).

"Cutting Poems: Textuality and Alterity in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia."  ( Forthcoming in Medieval Encounters).

Transcription and critical study of the sixteenth-century medical treatise, Tractado del uso de las mugeres.  L.E.M.I.R., Literatura Española Medieval y del Renacimiento, Univ. de València, Spain.  http://parnaseo.uv.es/Lemir/Textos/Trat_mugeres/Trat_mugeres.html

"Mapping Medieval Margins."  Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association, San Diego, California, 2003.

"Mapping Medieval and Colonial Monsters."  The Louisiana Consortium of Medieval and Renaissance Scholars, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 2003.

"The Convert's Two Bodies."  Symposium, "The Practice of Medieval Iberian Studies," Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2004.

"Conversion and Diversion in Iberian Cutting Poems."  Seventh Annual Conference of the Mediterranean Studies Association, Barcelona, Spain, 2004.

"The Texture of Gender in Medieval Iberia."  Newcomb College Consortium for Research on Women, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2004.

Galarza-Sepúlveda, Denise
"‘Las mujeres son las que mandan el mundo': la feminización de lo político en El carnero ." Revista Iberoamericana 67.194 (2001). (55-68).

"Naturales y forasteros: Urban space as patria in Arzáns's Historia de la Villa Imperial de Potosí." First International Interdisciplinary Symposium. Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. October 9-11, 2003.

"The Economics of Identity in the Villa Imperial de Potosí." The International American Studies Association's First World Congress. Leyden University, The Netherlands. May 22-24, 2003.

"Bárbaros y Compadres: Ambivalent Representations Of and By the ‘Other.'" (In)Versions of the New World: Writing Race, Religion & Sex in Colonial Latin America. 36th Annual Symposium on Comparative Literature. Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. March 13-15, 2003.

"Challenges of Diversity in Higher Education." Invited lecture at the Institute for Recruitment of Teachers. Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. July 18, 2002.

"Redeeming Criollos: Bartolomé Arzáns and the Riches of Potosí." Invited Lecture. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, January, 2001.

"‘Llamados vulgarmente criollos': Cultural Identification in the Historia de la Villa Imperial de Potosí ". Modern Language Association Conference, Washington D.C., December 2000.

Garlinger, Patrick
Confessions of the Letter Closet: Epistolary Fiction and Queer Desire in Modern Spain. Minneapolis: U Minnesota Press, forthcoming Spring 2005.

"Sex Changes and Political Transitions; or, What Bibi Andersen Can Tell Us About the Spanish Transition to Democracy." Traces of Contamination. Ed. H. Rosi Song and Eloy Martínez. (Lewisberg: Bucknell UP, forthcoming 2005).

"Camp: What's Spain Got to Do With It?"Coauthored with H. Rosi Song. Introduction: Special Issue: "Camp, Kitsch, Cursilería: Between Aesthetics and Politics." Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 5.1 (2004): 3-10.

"All About Agrado, or The Sincerity of Camp in Almodóvar's Todo sobre mi madre." Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 5.1 (2004): 97-111.

"Travestissement et identité nationale durant la transition démocratique espagnole." Représentations homosexuelles dans la culture hispanophone: Cet obscur objet du désir. Ed. and trans. Nicolas Balutet. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2003. 99-123.

"Acts of Intimacy: Reading, Ethics, and Eroticism in Carmen Martín Gaite's Essays and Fiction," in Carmen Martín Gaite: Cuento de nunca acabar/Never-Ending Story. Ed. Kathleen M. Glenn and Lissette Rolón Collazo. Boulder, CO: Society of Spanish and Spanish American Studies, 2003. 233-52.

"Transgender Nation: Bibi Andersen, Postmodernity, and the Spanish Transition to Democracy." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 37.1 (2003): 3-30.

"Pleasurable Insurrections: Sexual Revolution and the Anarchy of Writing in Lluís Fernàndez's L'anarquista nu." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 80.1 (2003): 83-104.

"Voicing (Untold) Desires: Silence and Sexuality in Federico García Lorca's Sonetos del amor oscuro." Bulletin of Spanish Studies: Hispanic Studies and Researches in Spain, Portugal and Latin America 79.6 (2002): 709-730.

"Corresponding with Carmen Martín Gaite: The Death of the Letter Writer." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 36 (2002): 191-208.

"Interdictions of Desire: Epistolarity and Intertextuality in Adelaida García Morales's El silencio de las sirenas." Revista Hispánica Moderna 54.2 (2001): 437-59.

"Dragging Spain into the ‘Post-Franco' Era: Transvestism and National Identity in Eduardo Mendicutti's Una mala noche la tiene cualquiera." Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 24.2 (2000): 363-82.

"‘Homo-ness' and the Fear of Femininity." Diacritics 29.1 (1999): 57-71.

"Postage Due: Letter Writing, Literature, and the Law." Modern Language Association Conference, San Diego, December 27-30, 2003.

"Sincerely Camp: Melodrama and Sentiment in Pedro Almodóvar's Todo sobre mi madre." Invited Lecture. University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, April 24, 2003.

"Queer Fears, Anxious Readings: Gender, Authority, and the Nation in Early Modern Studies." Invited Response to E. Michael Gerli and Sydney Donnell. Emory University, April 15, 2002

"Peninsularists in Search of a Publisher: Is Spain Different for Academic Presses?" Panel Organizer and Moderator. Modern Language Association Conference, New York, December 27-30, 2002

"The Splendor of Nostalgia: Reliving la Movida Madrileña in Contemporary Spanish Music and Literature." Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, Minneapolis, November 8-11, 2002

"The Uneasy Ménage à Trois of Queer Theory, Psychoanalysis, and Transgenderism."Invited Lecture. Gay and Lesbian Seminar. Humanities Center. Harvard University, May 14, 2001

Goldman, Dara
"El otro que no es uno: configuraciones retóricas en los estudios coloniales recientes." Cuadernos Americanos 5.71 (1998): 163-179

"Once on this Island: The Performance of Spatiality in Salvador Brau's La vuelta al hogar." Chasqui 32.1 (2003): 74-84

"Out of Place: The Demarcation of Hispanic Caribbean Cultural Spaces in the Diaspora." Latino Studies 1.3 (2003): 403-23

"Los límites de la carne: los cuerpos asediados de Virgilio Piñera." Revista Iberoamericana 69.205 (2003): 1001-15

"Virtual Islands: The Reterritorialization of Puerto Rican Spatiality in Cyberspace." Hispanic Review 27.3 (2004) forthcoming

"Érase una isla: la llegada como fundamento retórico en el Caribe hispánico." Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 28.3 (2004) forthcoming

"Happily Ever After?: The Latina ‘Girl-Meets-Girl' Story." Crossroads in Cultural Studies, 5th Annual Association for Cultural Studies Conference, Urbana, to be presented Jun. 2004

"Queer Elsewhere: ‘Global Divas' and Border Patrol in Mayra Santos Febres's Sirena Selena vestida de pena ." Modern Language Association Convention, San Diego, Dec. 2003

"Yours, Mine and Ours: The Uneasy Combination of Cultures in Achy Obejas's Days of Awe " Latin American Studies Association Conference, Dallas, Mar, 2003

"Once on This Island: Insularity and Performance in 19th Century Puerto Rican Theater" Puerto Rican Studies Association Conference, Chicago, Oct. 2002

"Virtual Islands: Translocation and Insular Topographies in Cyberspace" American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, San Juan, Apr. 2002

"The Island Within: Alterity and the Reconstruction of Insular Historiography in Severo Sarduy's Pájaros de la playa ." Latin American Studies Association Conference, Sept. 2001

"The Limits of the Flesh: Virgilio Piñera's Assaulted Bodies." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Apr. 2000

Prendergast, Ryan
"Inquisition, Torture and Confession in Guzmán de Alfarache ," Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Annual Conference, Newport Beach, CA, November 2003

"Frames of (Self) Referentiality: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Colonial Subjectivity," Annual Conference on Hispanic Literature, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, March 2004

Rico-Ferrer, José Antonio
"Gonzalo Guerrero: la frontera del imaginario español." Cuadernos Americanos 81(3). UNAM. May-June 2000, pp. 169-192.

"Prostitutes and Cortesanas in the Age of Political Absolutism." Renaissance Society of America Conference Toronto, CAN. March 27-9, 2003.

"Quevedo, Olivares y la cuestión del validaje." Cincinnati Romance Languages Conference. Cincinnati, OH. May 10, 2002.

"Cultural Appropriation andTransfer: Fraternal Readings in the Spanish Translation of The Book of the Courtier by Joan Boscán." Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference. Lexington, KY. April 19, 2002.

"La estancia de Castiglione en España y los ecos de su poética cortesana en Boscán." Special Session of the Fifth Biennial Conference of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry. Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. Oct. 20, 2001.

"Quevedo: re-validando al valido en la Política de Dios ." Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference. Lexington, KY. April 20, 2001.

Rodríguez Mangual, Edna
Imagining Cuba: Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of a National Identity. Chapel Hill: The U of North Carolina P (forthcoming)

"Driving a Dead Body Through the Nation: Death and Allegory in the Film Guantanamera ." Chasqui 31.1 (May 2002) : 50-61

"Sueño y deseo de una nación en Itinerarios del insomnio: Trinidad de Cuba de Lydia Cabrera." La Habana Elegante: Homenaje a Lydia Cabrera. 7 (August 1999) http:habanaelegante.com/Fall99/Bustos.htm ---, Brent Plate.

"The Gift That Stops Giving: Hélène Cixous and the Shunammite Woman." Biblical Interpretation: A Jourjal of Contemporary Approaches 7.2 (April, 1999) : 113-132

"Santería and the Quest for a Postcolonial Identity in Post-Revolutionary Cuban Cinema." Representing Religion in World Cinema. New York: Palgrave, 2003

"El teatro polifacético de René Marqués: una comparación entre La muerte no entrará en palacio y El apartamento." Selected proceedings, Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Literatures . Baton Rouge: Louisiana State U, 1994. 179-188

"Cuban Cinema, Past and Present." Invited Public Lecture and The Field Museum, Chicago, September 2003

"Antonio José Ponte y la nueva topografía identitaria cubana." Latin American Studies Association, Dallas, TX, March 2003

"Delimitación o desorden del imaginario urbano en Tuyo es el reino de Abilio Estévez." Hispanic Cultural Studies: State of the Art, Tucson, AZ, September 2002

"Cuba Today: The Visible Nation." TCU Latin American Arts Festival, Texas Christian University, TX, April 2002

"Defining the Borders of the Cuban Island: Constructions of National Identity in Lydia Cabrera." Society for the Anthropology of Religion, Cleveland, OH, April 2002

"Desarticulación de la mirada: modos de autoriad y representación en la retórica de El Monte de Lydia Cabrera." International Conference of Caribbean Literature, Ponce, Puerto Rico, November 2002

Rodríguez, Néstor
Escrituras de desencuentro en la República Dominicana. México: Siglo XXI Editores. (Forthcoming, 2005)

La isla y su envés: representaciones de lo nacional en el ensayo dominicano contemporáneo. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 2003.

"La sola escapada: epistemología y erótica en la poesía de Noel Luna y León Félix Batista." Special Issue of Foro Hispánico (Amsterdam). Eds. Efraín Barradas and Rita de Maeseneer. Forthcoming 2005.

"La estrategia de Chochueca: cartografía subversiva de la cultura dominicana." Forthcoming in La Torre (University of Puerto Rico), 2005.

"Los espacios heterotópicos en la narrativa de Aurora Arias." Forthcoming in Anclajes (Universidad de la Pampa, Argentina), 2004.

"El rasero de la raza en la ensayística dominicana." Revista Iberoamericana 207 (2004): 473-490.

"La Palabra está en otra parte: escritura e identidad en Obabakoak." Revista Hispánica Moderna 54 (2001): 176-190.

"Las tribulaciones del cronista: la historia como ‘redención' en La noche oscura del Niño Avilés." La Torre 5-17 (2000): 449-462.

"La táctica lábil del sujeto dominicano en Yelidá." Latin American Studies Association 25th International Congress, Las Vegas. Scheduled for Oct. 2004.

"Las heterotopías de liberación en la narrativa de Aurora Arias." Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars 9th International Conference, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Scheduled for 26 Apr. 2004.

"Las metamorfosis del sujeto dominicano en la poesía de Manuel Rueda." Postcolonial Research Group/Society for Caribbean Research 8th Interdisciplinary Congress. U of Antwerp, Belgium. 30 Sept. 2003.

"Modulaciones del decir dominicano en la narrativa de Rita Indiana Hernández." Latin American Studies Association 24th International Congress, Dallas. 29 Mar. 2003.

"Cartografías subversivas en la narrativa dominicana reciente." U of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. 20 Mar. 2003. (invitation)

"El debate sobre la dominicanidad en el discurso intelectual contemporáneo." II Congreso Internacional Escritura, Individuo y Sociedad en España, Las Américas y Puerto Rico. U of Puerto Rico, Arecibo. 22 Nov. 2002.

"Ética diaspórica y nueva ciudadanía: reconfiguraciones de lo nacional dominicano en la ensayística de Silvio Torres-Saillant." Latin American Studies Association XXIII International Congress, Washington D.C. 6. Sept. 2001.

"Obabakoak y la nueva topografía identitaria vasca." II Conference on Iberian and Iberian-American Literature. Florida International University, Miami. 30 Oct. 1999.

Awards :

Premio al Pensamiento Caribeño 2003-2004 (Caribbean Thought Award 2003- 2004), México (2004)

First Concha Meléndez Award in Literary Criticism, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, Puerto Rico (2002).

Skinner, Lee
"El discurso religioso y los papeles de la mujer en el periodismo decimonónico hispanoamericano." Revista Iberoamericana (forthcoming).

"Género, nación y didacticismo: las novelas históricas de Soledad Acosta de Samper." Textos críticos sobre Soledad Acosta de Samper.  Eds. Montserrat Ordóñez and Carolina Alzate.  Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes (forthcoming).

"Leopoldo Lugones." Dictionary of Literary Biography: Modern Spanish American Poets.  Vol 1 .  Ed. María A. Salgado.  South Carolina: Bruccoli Clark Layman (forthcoming).

"Martyrs of Miscegenation: Racial and National Identities in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America." Hispanófila 132 (2001): 25-42.

"Constructions of Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America." Hispanic Journal 21:2 (Fall 2000): 409-420.

"Closing History's Door: Nationality, Identity, and the Wars of Independence in Nineteenth-Century Latin American Historical Novels." Revista Hispánica Moderna 52 (December 1999): 300-310.

"Carnality in ‘El matadero.'" Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 33:2 (May 1999): 205-226.

"Technology, Progress, and the Rhetoric of Gender".  Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures, Washington University, St. Louis, September 26-28, 2002.

"Public and Private Spaces in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America".  Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, Cleveland, November 6-8, 2001.

"(En)generando los discursos de la modernidad".  Latin American Studies Association Convention, Washington, D.C., September 6-8, 2001.

"Women and Discourses of Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America".  Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, April 19-21, 2001.

"Constructing Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America".  Latin American Studies Association Convention, Miami, March 16-18, 2000.