CURRICULUM VITAE CLAIRE EMILIE MARTIN
ROMANCE, GERMAN, LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES DEPARTMENT CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH AS 328|1250 BELLFLOWER BLVD. LONG BEACH, CA 90840 TEL: (562) 985-4638 E-MAIL: [email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Dec. 1988 Yale University M. A. May 1983 University of Massachusetts, Amherst B. A. May 1980 University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1977-78 Rhode Island College 1975-76 Centre d'Etudes Universitaires de Savoie, France 1973-74 Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, La Plata, Argentina
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 2015- French, German & Spanish Undergraduate Advisor 2009-2017 Spanish Program Director 2008-Spring Chair, RGRLL 2006-2007 Co-chair, RGRLL 1998-2004 Chair, RGRLL 1996 Full Professor, RGRLL, CSULB 1988-92 Assistant Professor, RGRLL, CSULB 1985-87 Spanish Instructor and Coordinator. Hampshire College Spanish Instructor. International Language Institute. Northampton and Holyoke, MA 1986 Spanish Instructor. Amherst College 1985 Spanish Instructor. University of MA, Amherst Research Assistant to Dr. Roberto González Echevarría, Yale University 1984 Spanish Instructor. Yale Summer Institute 1982-84 Spanish Instructor. Yale University 1979-82 Teaching Assistant. University of MA, Amherst 2
ACADEMIC GRANTS, HONORS AND AWARDS
Summer 2018 Summer Student Research Assistantship with graduate student, Melissa Parra (Spanish/RGRLL).
AY 2015-16 Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity (RSCA): “Latin American Women Writers on the Threshold of Modernity: Constructing a Transatlantic Readership”.
Fall 2014-15 Difference-In-Pay Leave (Sabbatical B): “Beyond the (Blank) Page:Blogs, Tweets & Facebook in Twenty-First Century Argentinean Literature”.
AY 2014 College of Liberal Arts, Small Faculty Grant ($5,000). ELADD: Nineteenth-Century Latin American Women Writers. An Online Resource Collection.
AY 2013-14 Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity (RSCA): “Pola Oloixarac’s Savage Theories: Blogs, Tweets, Google and the New Generation of Argentinean Fiction Writers”
The President’s Commission on the Status of Women Funding Support For: “Between Two Worlds: Landscape and Nation in Gómez de Avellaneda”. A Lecture by Dr. Adriana Méndez Rodenas.” $300.
AY 2012-13 College Block Grant (2012-2013) for the collaborative project “Nineteenth-Century Latin American Women Writers: An Online Resource Collection”: $4650 (with Eileen Bosch and Nelly Goswitz)
Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity (RSCA): “Hortensia Montalvo and Emma Bovary: Women, Adultery and Death in Nineteenth-Century Novels”
AY 2012 College Block Grant (2012) for the collaborative project “Nineteenth- Century Latin American Women Writers: An Online Resource Collection”: $4530 (with Eileen Bosch and Nelly Goswitz)
AY 2012 The President’s Commission on the Status of Women Funding Support For: “Juana Manuela Gorriti’s Circle of Friends. A Lecture.” $300.
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AY 2011-12 Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity (RSCA): From Buenos Aires to Lima: Juana Manuela Gorriti’s Letters to Don Ricardo Palma”
AY 2010-11 Block Grant for Research Support: “Juana Paula Manso and Mary Tyler Peabody Mann: Women Educating Women in the Americas, and the Men Behind Them” AY 2009-2010 Sabbatical B Leave: “Women Writing the Nation: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers from Latin America” Spring 2009 CSULB President’s Commission on the Status of Women Advancement of Women Award
AY 2009-2010 SCAC: “Juana Manuela Gorriti’s Peregrinations of a Sad Soul: The Sick Female Body as Discursive Construction of the Nation/Self”
AY 2008 Awarded (with Lise Sedrez, History) the International Project Award: “Latin American Foundational Fictions and Environmental Studies: Barbarism and Civilization” ($300).
AY 2005-2008 “French for Hispanophones” Grant for Scholarships from the French Cultural Services ($20,000).
AY 2008-2009 SCAC: “Héctor Tizón: Un soldado desarraigado”
AY 2007-2008 SCAC: “Race in Clonial Cuba: The Countess of Merlin’s Conflictive Stance on Slavery and the Slave trade””
AY 2006-2007 ASI Advisor Award.
AY 2006-2007 SCAC: The Education of a Young Creole: the Countess Merlin’s Memoirs and the Enlightenment”
AY 2006-2007 Awarded (with Clorinda Donato) the International Project Award: “Women Reading Women: Nineteenth-Century Latin American and European Images of The Other” ($870).
AY 2005 Outstanding Professor Award
AY 2005-2006 SCAC: “Alienation and Madness in the Argentinean Novels of the Turn of the Century.”
AY 2004 Sabbatical Leave (Spring 2004)
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AY 2003-2004 CSULB Summer Stipend: “Family Matters: Violence and Remembrance in Padreoscuro by the Argentinean novelist José Viñals.”
AY 2002 CSULB Summer Stipend: “Argentinean Literature of the Nineties: Reconstructing Bloodied Memories.”
Awarded Sabbatical Leave for Spring 2003. “Argentinean Literature of the Nineties: Deconstructing a Nation’s History.” AY 2000 2000 Educational Innovations and Assessment Award. Travel Award ($500) to pay for Dr. Kay Bailey's trip to a three-day workshop on technologies in FL instruction (Monterrey Bay).
CSULB Summer Stipend: “Writing from the Margins: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers in Spanish America. An Anthology” Volume II.
I was a member of a team (Ken Curtis, Margie Merryfield, and Larry George) charged with designing an International Pathways, and with drafting the definition of the GE Global designation). Funded by the Office of the Provost ($1,600).
2000 Educational Innovations and Assessment Award: "Developing Bilingual Fluency by Linking Spanish 250 and English 100". Team consultant ($500).
AY 1998-1999 CSULB Scholarly and Creative Activities Award: "'To Live Forever in the Memory of Argentinean Children': Eduarda Mansilla's Pioneering Work of Children's Literature."
NEH Humanities Focus Grant "The Spanish Heritage Speaker" ($25,000).
CSULB Assessing Student Learning Outcomes. Planning Grant and Full Grant with Griselda Sasayama and María Carreira ($6,600).
CSULB Disciplinary/Interdisciplinary Innovations Award (with Maria Carreira, Elizabeth Hoffman, Mark Wiley). “Developing Bilingual Fluency by Linking Spanish 250 and English 100: A project in Support of the Heritage Languages and Cultures Initiatives at CSULB.”
CSULB Summer Stipend: “Writing from the Margins: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers in Spanish America.”
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CSULB Scholarly and Creative Activities Award: “Los misterios del Plata by Juana Manso: a ‘family romance’ set in the times of Rosas’ dictatorship in Argentina [1829-1852].”
AY 1997-1998 CSULB Scholarly and Creative Activities Award: "Traditional recipes for the Family and for the Republic: Feminist Journalism in Nineteenth- Century Mexico."
CSULB Mini-Grant Award. "The Spanish Heritage Language Student: Theoretical Considerations and Practical Applications" ($ 2, 989).
AY 1996-1997
CSULB Scholarly and Creative Activities Award: "In Search of a Model Nation: Eduarda Mansilla's Recuerdos de viaje."
Language Mission Project. Team member. Sponsored by the AAC&U and the National Foreign Language Center at the Johns Hopkins University.
AY 1995-1996 CSULB Scholarly and Creative Activities Award: "Daughters of the Empire: Nineteenth Century Women Travelers to Latin America."
College of Liberal Arts. Spanish Immersion Program proposal and development of course. Award: $4,000.
AY 1994-95 CSULB Scholarly and Creative Activities Award: “Nineteenth-Century Salons in Spanish America, and the Emergence of Epistolary Discourse: From Orality to the Written Word.”
Summer 1995 University College and Extension Services. Wrote a proposal to develop Spanish and French for Teachers course. Award: $ 15,000.
Modern Language Association Teacher Training Project. Team member representing one of six foreign language departments nationwide. Award: $ 1,000.
AY 1993-94 CSULB Scholarly and Creative Activities Award: Clorinda Matto de Turner's Aves sin nido: The Changing Face of Nineteenth-Century Spanish America."
Innovation in Teaching Grant: "Teaching Spanish to Native Speakers: Creating a Multi-Media Environment."
College of Liberal Arts Recognition Award for Service to Department. 6
Summer 1994 College of Liberal Arts Curriculum Development Award with Dr. María Carreira. Award: $ 800.
AY 1992-93 CSULB Scholarly and Creative Activities Award: "Observations by the Countess of Merlin on the Conditions of Slaves in the Spanish Colonies: An Essay from a Cuban Living in Paris."
AY 1991-92 CSULB Scholarly and Creative Activities Award: "Telling Tales: The Figure of Scheherazade in the Narratives of Isabel Allende & Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)."
Fall 1991 CSULB Affirmative Action Faculty Development Program Award: "Alejo Carpentier and the Chroniclers: Origins of a American Writing."
AY 1990-91 CSULB Scholarly and Creative Activities Award: "My First Twelve Years by the Countess of Merlin: Portrait of Colonial Times in Cuba."
CSULB University Mini-Grant: "Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda: The Abolitionist Narrative in Latin America."
Spring 1990 CSULB Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award ($2,500).
1989 Co-writer of Mini Grant Proposal to seek funding for a Media Resource and Lab Instructional Facility.
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS:
Martin, Claire and Clorinda Donato. The Palgrave Handbook of Women’s Writing and Transnational Networks in the Long Nineteenth Century. Palgrave MacMillan, Forthcoming Fall 2022.
Martin, Claire Emilie and María Nelly Goswitz, eds. Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera, Selected Essays. E-Book. Long Beach: ELADD. Web. April 2015. [Non-refereed]
Martin, Claire Emilie and María Nelly Goswitz, eds. Retomando la palabra. Las pioneras del XIX en diálogo con la crítica contemporánea. Frankfurt-Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2012. 7
Martin, Claire Emilie and María Nelly Goswitz, eds. Los amores de Hortensia. By Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera. 1884. Doral, FL: Stockcero, 2011.
Martin, Claire Emilie, ed. Cien años después: La literatura de mujeres en América Latina: El legado de Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera y Clorinda Matto de Turner. Editora. Lima, Perú: Fondo Editorial Universidad San Martín de Porres, 2010.
Martin, Claire Emilie and Cristina Arambel Guiñazú, eds. Las mujeres toman la palabra: escritura femenina hispanoamericana del siglo XIX. Volume I. Antología de escritoras hispanoamericanas del siglo XIX. Vol II. Frankfurt-Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2001.
Alejo Carpentier y las crónicas de Indias: orígenes de una escritura americana. Hanover, N.H.: Ediciones del Norte, 1995.
Entre Tú y yo. Collaborator. Boston: Holt, 1990.
BOOK ARTICLES:
“’My dear Mrs. Mann’: las cartas de Juana Manso a Mary Tyler Peabody Mann y la educación de la mujer en América”. In Retomando la palabra. Las pioneras del XIX en diálogo con la crítica contemporánea. Martin, Claire Emilie and María Nelly Goswitz, eds. Frankfurt-Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2012.
“’La evasión’ de la Condesa de Merlin o la búsqueda del Edén perdido”. In Voyageurs Francais dans les Amériques. Ernesto Mächler Tobar, Coord. Paris: Indigo-Université de Picardie, 2012.
“El segundo volumen de Les loisirs d’une femme du monde: un extraño catálogo de mujeres”, in Cien años después: La literatura de mujeres en América Latina: El legado de Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera y Clorinda Matto de Turner. Editora. Lima, Perú: Fondo Editorial Universidad San Martín de Porres, 2010.
“The Education of a Young Creole: The Countess Merlin’s Memoirs” in Dominant Culture and the Education of Women, Ed. Julia Paulk. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
“Theorizing Life: Argentinean History Recovered.” The Theory and practice of Life Writing:Auto/Biography, Memoir and Travel Writing in Post/Modern Literature. Germany: Ibidem Press, 2007.
“El romance familiar en la narrativa decimonónica femenina: en búsqueda de modelos de ciudadanía.” Proceedings from the XX Coloquio Internacional de Literatura Mexicana e Hispanoamericana. Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico, 2006. 8
“Las múltiples voces de la condesa de Merlin: del ‘bel canto’ a la escritura”. Proceedings from XXXV Congreso Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. Universtity of Pittsburg Press. Spring 2006.
“Models of Good Practice: A Study of Foreign Language Programs in United States Colleges and Universities, 1995-1999.” ADFL Bulletin. Modern Language Association, 2004.
“Daughter of the Empire: Merlin’s La Havane.” In Women at Sea. Travelers and the Caribbean. Edts. Yvette Romero and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert. New York-London: Palgrave, 2001.
“ ‘Vivir en la memoria de los niños argentinos’: los Cuentos de Eduarda Mansilla”. Crisis, apocalípsis y utopias: Fines de siglo en la literatura latinoamericana; XXXII Congreso Internacional de la literatura iberoamericana-Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de letras, 2000. 409-15.
"Creating Teaching Communities: A Model for reform and On-Going Renewal In Foreign Language Teacher Preparation at CSULB." Co-authored with Clorinda Donato. In Preparing a Nation’s Teachers. Edts. Phyllis Franklin, David Laurence & Elizabeth Wells. MLA Publication, 1999.
"Ifigenia de Teresa de la Parra y el lenguaje de la moda" in Escritura y desafío: narrativa venezolana escrita por mujeres. Edts. Amarilis Hidalgo de Jesús and Edith Dimo. Caracas, Venezuela: Monte Avila Editores, 1996.
"Slavery in the Spanish Colonies: The Racial Politics of the Countess of Merlin," in Reinterpreting the Spanish American Essay. Women Writers of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Ed. Doris Meyer. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1995.
"Letter XXV from La Havane. A Brief Account of its Reception on Both Sides of the Atlantic," and "Havana. Letter XXV To George Sand," in Rereading the Spanish American Essay: Translations of 19th and 20th Century Women's Essays. Ed. Doris Meyer. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1995.
"Montaña adentro de Marta Brunet," in Diccionario Enciclopédico de las Letras de América Latina, ed. Nelson Osorio. Caracas, Venezuela: Fundación Biblioteca Ayacucho, 1995.
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
“‘Todo esto para nosotros dos, viejos amigos…’: la correspondencia de Juana Manuela Gorriti y Ricardo Palma”. Ciberletras. Journal of Literary Criticism and Culture. 29. December 2012.
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“‘Shall I Ever Climb the Moors Again?’: Lady Florence Dixie’s Across Patagonia” in Review 84. Literature and Arts in the Americas. Ed. Adriana Méndez Rodenas. Issue 84, Vol 45, No 1, May 2012. Routledge.
“El romance familiar en la narrativa hispanoamericana decimonónica femenina: en búsqueda de modelos de ciudadanía.” ConNotas. Revista de Crítica y Teoría Literarias. Vol. III, Núms. 4-5, 2005.
“Entrevista con Mercedes Valdivieso” [Co-author: Edith Dimo Gary] Alba de América (1997).
"La condesa de Merlin y Mis doce primeros años o el contradiscurso de la subjetividad romántica. Alba de América, Vol VIII, No. 17 (Fall 1992).
"Los pasos perdidos: Carpentier y la máscara autobiográfica" Monóculo.Revista de literatura. No. 3, November 1991.
"La señora Ordóñez o el discurso del silencio," Mujer y Sociedad en América.VI Simposio Internacional. Juana Arancibia, ed. Vol II (1990): 85-91.
"Entrevista con Isabel Allende" [Co-author: Edith Dimo Gary] Alba de América. Revista literaria. Vol VI, Nos.14 y 15 (1990): 331-43.
"Un morisco astrólogo, experto en mujeres," Actas del 111 Simposio Internacional de Estudios Moriscos. Las Prácticas Musulmanas de los Moriscos Andaluces (1492-1609). (Publications du Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Ottomanes, Morisques, de Documentation et d'Information: Zaghouan, 1989).
"Un morisco astrólogo, experto en mujeres," [Co-authored] Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica. Tomo XXXVI Num. 1 (1988): 261-76.
BOOK REVIEWS:
Adriana Méndez Rodenas. Transatlantic Travels to Nineteenth-Century Latin America: European Women Pilgrims. Maryland: Bucknell Univ. Press, 2014. Review 91 (Fall 2015 issue).
Maipina de la Barra, Viuda de Cobo. Mis impresiones y mis vicisitudes en mi viaje a Europa pasando por el Estrecho de Magallanes Y en mi excursión a Buenos Aires pasando por la cordillera de Los Andes. Estudio preliminar, transcripción y modernización ortográfica: Carla Ulloa Inostroza. Santiago, Chile: Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2013. 224 p. I.S.B.N. 978-956-260-663- 9. CiberLetras. Revista de crítica literaria y cultura. No 33. Diciembre 2014.
Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo (Condesa de Merlin). Viaje a La Habana. 10
Edición de Adriana Méndez Rodenas. Doral, FL: Stockcero, 2008. La Habana elegante. Revista semestral de literatura y cultura cubana, caribeña, latinoamericana y de estética. Otoño- Invierno de 2010, No. 48. www.habanaelegante.com.
Martin, Claire Emilie and David Shafer. “The Politics of Race and Slavery in the British Empire and Ancien Régime.” Debbie Lee. Slavery and the Romantic Imagination. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002 and Sue Peabody. “There Are No Slaves in France.” The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Régime (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996). Eighteenth-Century Studies 38.2 (2005) 355-360.
Breaking Boundaries: Latina Writings and Critical Readings, edited by Asunción Horno-Delgado, Eliana Ortega, Nina M. Scott, and Nancy Saporta Sternbach; Plotting Women: Gender and Representation in Mexico by Jean Franco; La escritora hispánica by Nora Erro-Orthman and Juan Cruz Mendizábal. An Annotated Bibliography of Hispanic Feminist Criticism. Ed. Lou Charnon-Deutsch. Stony Brook, New York: Feministas Unidas, 1994.
Poética del desengaño. Deseo, poder, escritura: Barrios, Bombal, Asturias y Yáñez. Kemy Oyarzún. Santiago, Chile: Ediciones LAR, 1989. Anales del Pacífico/Pacific Annals [CSULB Press, 1993].
Politics, gender, and the Mexican Novel, 1968-1988. Beyond the Pyramid. Cynthia Steele. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992. Revista Chilena de Literatura. 43 (Noviembre 1993): 162-3.
Breaking Boundaries: Latina Writings and Critical Readings, edited by Asunción Horno-Delgado, Eliana Ortega, Nina M. Scott, and Nancy Saporta Sternbach; Las románticas: Women Writers and Subjectivity in Spain, 1835-1850 by Susan Kirkpatrick; Plotting Women: Gender and Representation in Mexico by Jean Franco. [Co-author: Shirley Mangini] Signs. Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Vol 16, No. 2 Winter (1991): 282-85.
EDITOR AND REVIEWER:
Contributing Editor. "20th Century Prose Fiction in Argentina". Handbook of Latin American Studies. Volumes 56, 58, 60, 62, 64, 66, 68, 70. Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, 1996 to the present.
Reviewer for the Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. Fall 2009, 2013.
Reviewed “Stravinsky: His Times and Travel in Alejo Carpentier’s Concierto Barroco” for the Publications of the Modern language Association (August 1996 and Spring 2001)
CONFERENCES AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS 11
April 26-27, 2019. “Las confesiones de Mercedes Merlin y el fantasma de Rousseau”. “The Nineteenth Century in 2019. Mapping Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century”. California State University, Long Beach.
April 18-21, 2017. “`La novela moderna’ de Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera: una empresa civilizadora o la modernidad colonizadora”. Congreso Internacional de Historia de las Mujeres – Journal of Women’s History, Universidad de los Andes, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Mujeres, expresión y vida pública: narrativas y acciones en la historia latinoamericana de los siglos XIX y XX. Universidad de los Andes Bogotá, Colombia.
November 24-27, 2015. “Lectoras y escritoras en el umbral de la modernidad. El caso de Hortensia Montalvo, Blanca Sol y Emma Bovary”. Creadoras y Autoras Españolas y Latinoamericanas en Red (1824-1936) CREA(R)ED. Madrid.
September 24-25, 2015. “Leer para vivir: Hortensia Montalvo y Emma Bovary”. Mujeres en movimiento: historias, conflictos y escrituras (Perú, siglos XIX al XXI). Université de Rouen & AMERIBER. Paris-Nanterre.
April 18, 2014. “Transculturación y translenguaje como construcción de la identidad en ¿Vos me querés a mí? de Romina Paula”. Nationalism and Globalization in Hispanic Literature & Film. A SGSA Annual Graduate Student Conference. CSULB.
January 25, 2014. Symposium: Intercomprehension, Intercommunication, and the Multilingual Romance Language Classroom: The Student Perspective on Intercomprehension: Survey Data Analyzed. Tucson, AZ. Fourth International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence. Preparing and Supporting K–16 Language Teachers to Teach for Intercultural Competence in and beyond the Classroom.
November 1, 2013. “Engaños e infidelidades en Los Amores de Hortensia: la expresión melodramática como discurso de la modernidad peruana decimonónica”. “Congreso Perú XIX. Prensa, Narraciones, Imágenes en América Latina”. Lima, Peru.
March 6-8, 2013. “Las teorías salvajes de Pola Oloixarac: entre la microetnografía cultural y Google”. XXXVIII International Symposium of Hispanic Literature. California State University Dominguez Hills.
March 2, 2013. “French and Italian for Spanish Speakers”. CLTA Conference, Hyatt Regency Orange County, CA.
May 16, 2012. “‘Shall I Ever Climb the Moors Again?’: Lady Florence Dixie’s Across Patagonia”. Women travelers in Latin America. Americas Society, New York City.
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March 17, 2012. The fascinating Life of Isabel Allende. Panel Organizer and Moderator with Verónica Cortínez (UCLA), Alicia de l Campo (CSULB), Edith Dimo (CSUN). Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA.
March 16, 2012. “Erotismo”. Panel Moderator. Sex and Sexuality in Hispanic Literature and Film. CSULB Spanish Graduate Student Association. Anatol Center, CSULB.
March 9, 2012. “De Buenos Aires a Lima: la correspondencia de Juana Manuela Gorriti y Ricardo Palma”. 37th International Symposium of Hispanic Literature. CSUDH.
April 14-17, 2011. “Juana Paula Manso and Mary Tyler Peabody Mann: Women Educating Women in the Americas, and the Men Behind Them”. 64th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky.
March 4, 2011. “La ciénaga/The Swamp by Argentinean Director Lucrecia Martel” Film presentation at the Latin American Film Festival. CSUDH.
July 27-31, 2009. “Traveling Women: Letter Writing and “Causeries” in the Works of the Countess Merlin and Eduarda García de Mansilla.” Fifth International & Interdisciplinary Conference Alexander Von Humboldt. Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany.
May 1, 2009. “El segundo volumen de Les loisirs d’une femme du monde: un extraño catálogo de mujeres.” Cien años después: La literatura de mujeres en América Latina: El legado de Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera y Clorinda Matto de Turner. CSULB. Long Beach, CA.
October 2-4, 2008. “Women Reading Rousseau: Politics, Culture and Education in Spanish American Narratives of the Long 18th Century.” GEMELA Internacional Conference. CSULB.
April 15-17, 2008. “Gendered Space in Argentinean Fiction of the XXI Century.” Halic University, Istanbul, Turkey.
November 9-13, 2007. ““El soldado desarraigado de Héctor Tizón: la novela argentina del exilio.” XXI Coloquio Internacional de Literatura Mexicana e Hispanoamericana. Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico.
June 5-7, 2007. “La literatura de viajes de Mercedes Merlin o la educación de una joven criolla.” Conference on “Voyageurs francais dans les Amériques”. Université de Picardie, Jules Verne.
March 15, 2007. “Juana Manuela Gorriti and Peregrinations of a Sad Soul: The Sick Female Body as a Discursive Construction of the Self.” Conference on Scholarship on Women. CSUF, Fullerton, California.
November 9-12, 2006. “The Countess of Merlin’s Memoirs and Travelogues: Voicing Gender and Race in Cuba.” International Conference on Romanticism. Tempe, Arizona. 13
April 19-21, 2006. “Theorizing Life: Argentinean History Recovered.” The Theory and Practice of Life Writing in Post/Modern Literature”. Golden Horn University, Istanbul, Turkey.
March 30-April 2, 2006. “ The Education of a Young Creole: The Countess of Merlin’s Memoirs.” ASECS 2006. Montreal, Canada.
November 9-11, 2005. “El romance familiar en la narrativa decimonónica femenina: en búsqueda de modelos de ciudadanía.” XX Coloquio Internacional de Literatura Mexicana e Hispanoamericana. Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico.
June 28-July 1, 2004. XXXV Congreso Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. “Las múltiples voces de la condesa de Merlin: del ‘bel canto’ a la escritura”. Universtity of Poitiers, France.
October 4, 2003. “Padreocuro de José Viñals: alegoría de la violencia”. Mid-America Conference. Boulder , Colorado.
March 20-23, 2003. “Memorias del exilio. Escritores argentinos de los noventa”. Conference on Hispanic Literature. California State University, Sacramento.
April 20, 2002. “The NEH Focus Grant”. Invited presentation for the California Language Teachers Association. Long Beach, Westin Hotel.
September 26-28, 2002 “Narrativa del exilio: Cuaderno de invierno de Sara Rosenberg”. Mid America Conference. St. Louis.
April 12-14, 2002. “Literatura argentina de los noventa: memoria y recuperación”. Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Universtity of Toronto.
June 18-22, 2001 “La Havane de la Condesa de Merlin: una vuelta a la semilla”. Alexander von Humboldt Conference on Travel Literature in Arcada, CA.
June 21-24, 2001. Chair of a Session: “Planning, Supporting, and Capitalizing on Campus-Based Research on Language Learning”. ADFL West, University of Texas, Austin.
September 2001. Presented in the Workshop on the National Endowment for the Humanities. CSULB.
June 1-4, 2000. Invited presentation: "Curricular Dialogues: Faculty Listening", Plennary Session III: "Teaching Tomorrow's Children". Association of Departments of Foreign Languages. Seminar West. Arizona State University.
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September 21-23, 2000. "La condesa de Merlin: re/construcción de una identidad nacional". XI International Conference of the "Asociación de literatura femenina hispánica". Glendon College, York University-Toronto, Canada.
October 23, 2000. Invited lecture: "The Foreign Language Department and Curricular Change". Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.
Fall 2000. “Finding your way around Pathways: The International and Latin American Studies Approach.” CSULB
October 21-23, 1999. Invited presentation on "Model Programs" at the "Rethinking the Purposes and Practices of Foreign Language Education" conference organized by the Association of American Colleges and Universities, Des Moines, Iowa.
April 1998. ""Vuelta a la semilla": The Journey Back: Mercedes Merlin, Viaje a La Habaa (1841) and Juana Manuela Gorriti, La tierra natal (1889). Northeast Modern Language Association Convention. Baltimore.
June 1998. Chair of panel: "Visiones y revisiones decimonónicas: pioneras y peregrinas". "'Vivir en la memoria de los niños argentinos': Los Cuentos de Eduarda Mansilla." XXXII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. Santiago, Chile.
September 1998. Chair and presenter of panel: " Literature, política y sociedad: las escritoras del diecinueve”. “Los misterios del Plata de Juana Paula Manso: paradigmas étnicos de la nueva república.” Chicago. LASA.
March 1997. Chair of panel for the XXXII Comparative Literature Conference "The City in Latin American Literature". CSULB. Long Beach, CA.
October 1996. "Eduarda Mansilla's National Romance: Pablo ou la vie dans les pampas," VII International Conference of the "Asociación de literatura femenina hispánica," University of Colorado, Boulder.
March 1995. “Ifigenia y la recreación del sujeto femenino.” Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, New Orleans.
September 1995. "Daughters of Imperialism: XIX Century Women Travelers to Latin America," and "Gender and Imperialism: Mercedes Merlin's Cuba." Latin American Studies Association, Washington, D.C.
October 1995. "Daughters of the Empire: Mercedes Merlin's La Havane and Flora Tristán's Peregrinaciones de una paria, " VI International Conference of the "Asociación de literatura femenina hispánica," Barnard College, New York, N.Y.
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March 1994. Chair of panel, “From Colony to Nation/From Private to Public: Women and Writing in XIX Spanish America. Presented: “En el umbral de la fama: educación, publicación y política en la obra de la condesa de Merlin.” Latin American Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia.
October 1994. “XIX Century representations of Self and Nation: Mercedes Merlin’s La Havane.” V International Conference of the “Asociación de literatura femenina hispánica”, Davidson College, NC.
October 1993. “The Countess of Merlin’s Correspondencia Intima: Textual Self- Representations.” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.
October 1993. “The Epistolary Genre and the Condesa de Merlin’s Correspondencia Intima: A Battle for Authorship.” IV Asamblea General de la Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica, Loyola University, Chicago.
April 1992 . “La condesa de Merlin: Memoirs from Havana.” Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, SUNY, Buffalo, NY.
October 1991. “Crónica de una mitificación: Carpentier y América.” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
April 1990. "La condesa de Merlín: (Auto)/biografía de una ausencia." Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Toronto, Canada.
September 1989. "Eva Luna de Isabel Allende: una pícara Scheherezada," XV Congress of Hispanic Literatures, Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
March 1989. "El arpa y la sombra como text/amento paródico," Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Wilmington, DEL.
March 1989. "Feminism and the literature of Spanish America," Annual Celebration of Women Studies, CSULB.
March 1988. "Los pasos perdidos o la máscara autobiográfica." Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Providence, R.I.
November 1988. "El arpa y la sombra: crónica carpenteriana," Modern Language Association of Southern California, West L.A. College.
October 1988. "Marta Lynch o el discurso del silencio." International Conference on "Women in the Hispanic World," California State University, Northridge.
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October 1987. "'El camino de Santiago' y las crónicas americanas." Conference on the Hispanic Short-Story. Indiana University of PA.
PROFESSIONAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE 2018 Faculty Advisor for Melissa Parra: Summer Student Research Assistantship.
2015-16 Sally Casanova Faculty Mentor for Jacqueline Martínez Cerna
1992- Member and Advisor of the Latin American Studies program 2006-2008 2006-2009 Member of the CLA Awards Committee.
Member of the CLA Sabbatical Leave Committee
2007-1999 Spanish Program Representative, Languages Other Than English Committee
2006 Member of the London Semester Interview Team
2005- Member of the CIE committee
2005-2006 Member of CLA Dean’s Search Committee
2006- CLA International Studies Liaison
2005 Spanish Representative, CSU Lower-Division Transfer Pattern Project
2006-1990 Member of the Interview Committee for CSU International Programs
2006-1993 CLA Budget Committee
2007-1994 RGRLL Representative, Community Colleges and High School Counselors’ Day
2006- International Studies Program Faculty
2004-2005 Grader of M.A. Exams in Spanish for the Art History Department
2003-1996 Chicano/Latino Graduation Marshall
2003 Curriculum Developer (Portuguese 101 A/B and 201 A/B courses) for the U.S. Department of Education Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Languages Grant.
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2004- 1998 Latin American Studies Certificate and Minor Advisor
2004-1998 Chair, Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literatures Department
2003-1999 CLA Educational Policies & Curriculum Committee
2003-1992 SOAR representative for RGRLL
2002-1999 CLA representative, Academic Senate
2001-2002 9/11 CLA Faculty-Student Group
2001 Representative and conference co-organizer, California Language Teachers Association
2000 Member of the designing team for the International Pathways and GE Global definition
2000-1999 Member of CSU Strategic Language Initiative Committee
2000 Presenter, Young Scholar Orientation for Translation and Interpretation Students
1998 Coordinated the Spanish Language Program at John C. Fremont Elementary, Long Beach
1995-1989 Member of Partner’s for Success Program
1993 CSULB Student Research Competition (Juror)
1992-1995 Multiple Subject Credential Program/Bilingual Emphasis/ Orientation Meetings
1991-1992 CFA College of Humanities representative
California Pre-Doctoral program (Faculty Sponsor)
1990-91 CSU Forgivable Loan/Doctoral Incentive Program (Faculty Sponsor)
Second Annual Long Beach Latino High School Career Day. Invited by an ex- student to represent the Spanish Department.
1989-1991 Member of The College of Humanities Council
1988-89 Member of Increased Equity for Women and Underrepresented Minorities Committee 18
Member of California Women in Higher Education Sub-committee
Language Proficiency Evaluator. I assessed oral and written language proficiency of Bilingual/Cross cultural Teacher Credential candidates.
Member of Bilingual Teacher Credential Committee
Co-Chair of Quality of Education Campaign Committee.
Member of CFA Membership Committee
Library Visit/Conference Sponsor for students from Santa Ana High School. Spanish Club Outreach Program
Others: I served in one RTP committee for the Women’s Studies Department and in three university-wide search committees for administrators; Language Evaluator for the CSU International Programs Resident Director Program and the Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program; RGRLL representative in the CLA Transfer Student reception; member of the CASTL group on improving teaching and learning; member of the COACH committee, a UC Irvine Foreign Language project involving CSULB, CSUF and the LB Unified District; member of a university-wide chairs’ forum headed by Gary Reichard; panel member of the New International Student Orientation; was selected to participate in the American Council on Education Workshop for Chairs; member of the project (LBUSD, LBCC, CSULB) “Articulating Seamlessly;”discussion leader for the Department Chairs’ workshop; member of the Strategic Language Initiative, Heritage Languages Center Committee, etc.
DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE 2016-18 Chair, RGRLL Curriculum Committee 2015-16 Member of Spanish Search Committee 2014-15 Editor, RGRLL Newsletter 2013-14 SGSA Faculty Advisor 2012-14 Member RGRLL Curriculum Committee 2010-2012 Scholarship Committee Advisory Council Member 2010 RGRLL RTP committee chair 2008-9 Member of Latin American position search committee Advisory Council Member RGRLL Website Consultant
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2008 Faculty mentor for Nelly Goswitz, recipient of the CLA Graduate Student Research Award.
2007-8 Member of Latin American position search committee
2006 Faculty Mentor (with Clorinda Donato) for Brittany Anderson, recipient of the CSU Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program.
1997-2005 Administered LOTE Interviews
2006-2007 Member of the Italian Position Search Committee
2006-2007 Faculty Mentor for six students in the Student Research Competition
2005 Member of Search Committee, Peninsular (Spanish) tenure-track position
Chair, Search Committee, L.O.T.E Coordinator tenure-track position
2005-1992 Member or chair of Peer evaluation, RTP committee
Coordinator of Spanish for the new L.O.T.E document
2003-1999 Editor, RGRLL Newsletter
2002 Member of Search Committee, Italian Studies position
2001 Member of Search Committee, Transatlantic Studies tenure-track position and Language Coordinator tenure-track position
2000 Self-Study editor
1999 Created GE Standard Course Outline for all the language courses in the department
Member of Search Committee, French and Francophone Studies tenure-track position
1999-1988 Spanish Club Faculty Advisor
1997 Member of Search Committee, Translation and Interpretation Studies tenure- track position
1992- Spanish Program Director and Undergraduate Advisor
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1989-92 Spanish & Portuguese Department Undergraduate Advisor
1990-91 Member of Departmental Self Study Committee
1990 Member of Committee to review and update the Master Program's Reading List.
Member of Search Committee, Translation and Interpretation Studies tenure- track position
Others: Member of RGRLL Curriculum Committee, Grade Appeals Committee, Spanish M.A. exams committee; attended the MLA Conference to recruit candidates for three positions; directed five M.A. theses, etc.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
November 2018—Member of the doctoral committee for MARIA NELLY GOSWITZ. UNED, Madrid, Spain.
October 2017--External scholarship evaluator for Dr. Lee Skinnner’s RTP file (Claremont McKenna College).
Spring 2008 -- External Reviewer for the Modern Languages and Literatures Department, California Sate University, Dominguez Hills, CA.
Spring 2007 -- Chair of External Reviewer Team for the Department of World Languages & Cultures at Iowa State University.
Spring 2005—External Reviewer for the Modern Languages and Literatures Department, Santa Clara University, CA.
Spring 2005 -- Chair of the External Review Team for the Modern Languages Department, Hunter College, New York.
Winter 2003-- External Appraiser for The Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics Department at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada).
Fall 2002--External Reviewer for the Foreign Languages and Literatures Department at California State University, Fullerton, CA.
October 2002--External scholarship evaluator for Dr. Lori Hopkins’ RTP file (University of New Hampshire). 21
CONFERENCES ORGANIZED:
April 2019 Co-Organizer of conference The Nineteenth-Century in 2019. Mapping Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century. Women Writers from Latin America, Spain, France and Italy”, CSULB.
March 2014 Co-organizer with Adriana Verdié (CoTA) “Julio Cortázar: A Life in Words and Musical Notes”. CSULB. March 21, 2014.
May 2009 Faculty co-organizer of conference on Spanish American women writers: “Cien años después: la literatura de mujeres en América Latina: El legado de Clorinda Matto de Turner y Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera.” CSULB, Long Beach, California.
May 2002 Institutional Host for the ADFL (Association of Departments of Foreign Languages) Conference
October 1999 Co-organizer (with The National Foreign Language Center at the Johns Hopkins University, and the center for Applied Linguistics) of the First National Conference on Heritage Languages in America, Long Beach, CA.
Spring 1990 Hispanic Culture on the Pacific Coast of the Americas After World War II Conference: From Chilenos to Chicanos I collaborated with Dr. Grínor Rojo to plan and organize this conference hosted by the Spanish Department. I wrote publicity letters to newspapers in the area, I designed the poster and conference logo, I picked up a guest at the LAX airport, and chaired a panel.