Carlota Caulfield CV
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Carlota Caulfield Curriculum Vitae (excerpted) Professor and Head of the Spanish and Spanish American Studies Program, Department of Languages & Literatures Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA 94613 Tel: 510 430-2356 Fax: 510 430-3314 [email protected] Professional Overview CARLOTA CAULFIELD is Professor of Spanish and Spanish American Studies, Department of Languages and Literatures. From 2011 to 2012, she was Mills College Trefethen Professor. Caulfield received her Licenciatura in History from the University of Havana, her MA in Spanish from San Francisco State University and her PhD in Spanish and Portuguese from Tulane University. Her work includes numerous articles on Iberian and Latin American literatures. She is the co-editor, with Helena Buffery, of Barcelona: Visual Culture, Space and Power (University of Wales Press, 2012 & 2014). Her research interests include the avant-garde and interdisciplinary approaches to art and poetry. From 1998 to 2012, she was the editor of Corner, an online magazine dedicated to the avant-garde. Caulfield’s work as an editor includes: From the Forbidden Garden. Letters from Alejandra Pizarnik to Antonio Beneyto. Ed. and Intro. by Carlota Caulfield (Bucknell University Press, 2003); The Other Poetry of Barcelona. Spanish and Spanish- American Women Poets. Co-editor (with Jaime D. Parra) (Corner, An imprint of InteliBooks Publishers, 2004); No soy tu musa. Poetas irlandesas contemporáneas. (Ediciones Torremozas, 2008, and A Companion to US Latino Literatures (UK Tamesis, 2007, 2010). Caulfield is an award-winning poet, author of nine poetry books, including Book of the XXXIX Steps, a poetry game of discovery and imagination (Intelibooks, 1995, CD ROM, 1999), Estrofas de papel, barro y tinta (Cafè Central, 1994), 34th Street and other poems, with a preface by Jack Foley (Eboli Poetry Series, 1987), Autorretrato en ojo ajeno (Betania, 2001). Quincunce/Quincunx (Puerto del Sol, 2004), Movimientos metálicos para juguetes abandonados (Gobierno de Cultura, Canarias, 2003) First Hispanoamerican Poetry Prize “Dulce María Loynaz” (Spain-Cuba 2002), A Mapmaker’s Diary. Selected Poems (White Pine Press, 2007) and JJ/CC (Ediciones La Mirada, 2014). She is also the author of Ticket to Ride. Poems, essays and interviews (InteliBooks, 2005) and Fashionable. Una poeta adicta a la moda (Torremozas, 2013). Her work has appeared, among others, in Visions, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Texas Review, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Puente Libre, Nómada, Inti, Textos, Aleph, 2 Turia, Poetry San Francisco, Hostos Review, Irish Migration Studies in Latin America, Barcarola, Cerise Press, Resonancias and Baquiana . You can read interview with her at Cerise Press, Summer 2011, Vol. 3, Issue 7 at http://www.cerisepress.com/03/07/the-multiple-poetic-cartographies-of-carlota-caulfield Education • Licenciatura. (M.A.). History. University of Havana, Cuba, 1979. •M.A. Spanish. Summa Cum Laude. San Francisco State University, 1986. •Ph.D. Philosophy and Letters (Spanish). With Honors. Tulane University, 1992. Posts held 1984-85 San Francisco State University, Teaching Assistant. 1985-87 San Francisco State University, Lecturer. 1988-91 Tulane University, Teaching Assistant. 1991-92 Tulane University, Lecturer. 1992-98 Mills College, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies. 1998 Mills College, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies. 2005-2014 Professor of Spanish & Spanish-American Studies Visiting Appointments: •May 2000, Guest Lecturer at the Department of Romance Languages, Faculty of Letters, University of Gröningen, The Netherlands; •May-June 2001, Visiting Professor at the Department of Romance Languages, Faculty of Letters, University of Gröningen, The Netherlands; •Fall 2002, Visiting Fellow, Institute of Romance Studies, University of London; •Fall 2006, Visiting Professor at University College London and Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London; • July-August 2009, Research Visiting Scholar at the University of New Mexico Library (Las Cruces, New Mexico). Honors and Awards •Distinguished Achievement Award, School of Humanities, San Francisco State University, 1985. • Cintas Fellowship for Poetry, Institute of International Education, 1987. •Mellon Summer Research Fellowship, Mexico, 1990. •National Hispanic Scholarship and Fund Scholar, 1991. •Passed the Doctoral qualifying exams with high honors. •Steve J. Miller Foundation Fellowship, 1991-92. •Distinguished Dissertation Research Award, Tulane University, 1992. •Mills College Summer Research Grant, 1993. •Guest at the UNESCO’s dedication of the City of Verona as the home of Opera and Poetry. Gruppo Internazionale di Lettura and Libera Accademia Galileo Galilei, 3 Italy. July 11-15, 1996. •Mills College Summer Research Grant, 1994. •Guest Poet at the Miami Book Fair International. Miami, Florida. November 21-24, 1996. •Irvine Grant. 1995. •Mills College Course Development Grant, 1996. •Mills College Women's Studies Quigley Summer Fellowship, 1996. •Guest Writer at “20anys of feminisme a Catalunya,” INEFC, Barcelona. May 25-27, 1996. •Mills College Women’s Studies Quigley Summer Fellowship, 1997. •Mills College Summer Research Grant, 1997 and 1998. •Mills College Irvine Multicultural Grant, Fall 1998. •Mills College Summer Research Grant, 1999. •Guest Lecturer/Poet in Residence. Department of Languages and Linguistics and Department of English, University of New Mexico, Las Cruces. October 17-25, 1999. •Guest Lecturer. Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies, University College London. November 2-5, 1999. •Mills College Summer Research and Course Development Grant, 2000. •Mills College Summer Research Grant, 2001. •Irvine Grant, 2000-2001. •Quigley Fellow, Women’s Studies, Mills College, 2001-2002. •Poet-in-Residence at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. February 26-28, 2002. •Keynote Speaker at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), Santa Rosa, California. April 20, 2002. •Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Romance Studies, University of London. Fall 2002. •Mills College Summer Research Grant, 2003. •Mills College Women's Studies Quigley Summer Fellowship, 2003. •Mills College Summer Research Grant, 2004. •Mills College Women's Studies Quigley Summer Fellowship, 2004. •Guest Researcher, Instituto de Estudios Chicanos, NMSU, Las Cruces, August, 2004. •Mills College Summer Research Grant, 2005, 2006 &2007. •Mills College Women's Studies Quigley Summer Fellowship, 2005, 2006 & 2007. •Mills College Jewish Women’s Studies Course Development Grant, 2006. •Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London, Fall 2006. •Mills College Women’s Studies Quigley Summer Grant 2008. Project: “Lligans-Nexus. The Art of Carme Riera. Script and production of a Short Documentary. Directed by Ona Vega Passola. •Mills College Summer Research Grant / Course Development: 2008: Project: Contemporary Hispanic/Latino,, Catalan and Spanish Theatre. •Mills College Summer Research Grant 2009. Project: “Kitsch, Cursi, ‘High’ and ‘Low’ and other Fashions in Hispanic Literature.” Essay. •Mills College Women’s Studies Quigley Summer Grant 2010. Project: Essays about Alejandra Pizarnik. •Mills College Summer Research Grant 2010. Project: Book about Catalan culture. •Trefethen Professor, Mills College (2011-2012). •Mills College Summer Research Grant 2011: Research in Barcelona. Project: Avant- 4 garde modalities in Atonio Beneyto’s A Barbarian in Barcelona. •Mills College Summer Research Grant 2012: Catalan Visual Poetry. • Guest Lecturer/Poet iDepartment of Languages and Linguistics University of New Mexico (NMSU), March and October 2014. Poetry Prizes •Honorable Mention in the “Mairena International Poetry Prize.” University of Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, 1983. •International Poetry Prize “Ultimo Novecento,” Italy, 1988. •Honorable Mention in Premio Plural of Mexico City, 1993. •Honorable Mention in the Spain-USA poetry prize “Federico García Lorca,” 1994. •International Poetry Prize “Riccardo Marchi-Torre di Calafuria,” Italy, 1995. •Latino Poetry Prize (Honorable Mention). The Latin American Writers Institute of New York, 1997. •First International Hispanoamerican Poetry Prize “Dulce María Loynaz,”(Spain-Cuba) 2002. Editorial Board El Gato Tuerto (1986-1990) Óleo y Mármol. Argentina (1984-1988) Corner (1998-2012) Textos (1999-2003) Caribe (2003-) Hostos Review (2004-) Societies and Listings Modern Language Association (MLA). American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP). Professional Women’s Advisory Board, American Biographical Institute. Asociación Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispánica (AILFH). PEN International. Latin American Jewish Studies Association (LAJSA). SouthWest Council of Latin American Studies (SCOLAS). American Literary Translators Association (ALTA). Gruppo Internazionale di Lettura, Italy. Libera Accademia Galileo Galilei, Italy. Member of the Institute of Romance Studies, University of London. Who's Who in U.S.Writers, Editors & Poets. Who's Who in America. Contemporary Authors Autobiography. Contemporary Authors Online. Biography Resource Center. Directory of International Writers and Artists. Who’s Who of American Women. International Bibliographical Centre, Cambridge, UK. Board member of the Center for Cross-Cultural Study. Member of the international poetry group Poció I Poesia, Barcelona. 5 Publications Poetry (See author’s PoetryPage at www.intelinet.org/Caulfield/) Poetry Books 1) El tiempo