MEGAN JEANETTE MYERS [email protected] (616) 634-1839 ADDRESS Department of World Languages and Cultures Iowa State University 2338 Pearson Hall Ames, IA 50011-2205
EDUCATION Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature (Minor in Portuguese), August 2016 Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203
M.A. in Spanish, May 2013 Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203
B.A. in Spanish (Minors in Portuguese and Education), May 2011, summa cum laude Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753
PUBLICATIONS Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles “Raquel Cepeda’s Digital and Literary Publics: Twitter and Bird of Paradise.” Submitted.
“Literary Cross-Over in the Domingo del Monte Tertulia: Anselmo Suárez y Romero's and Cirilo Villaverde’s C. Valdés Protagonists." Hispania 100.1 (2017): 213-24.
“Dos rayanos-americanos Rewrite Hispaniola: Julia Alvarez and Junot Díaz.” Confluencia 32.1 (2016): 168-81.
“Ana Lydia Vega’s ‘Pollito Chicken’: Stripped to the Bone.” CARIBE 15.1 (2014): 47-66.
Interviews "Project ñ and Latinidad in the Digital Age: A Conversation with Latina Filmmaker Denise Soler Cox.” Label Me Latina/o Vol. VII (2017). Web.
“Dialogando con Pedro Blas Julio Romero: su “Terreiro” sin fronteras.” Afro- Hispanic Review 34.2 (2016): 177-82.
“The true tesoras of The Cuban Literacy Campaign: A conversation with Maestra director, Catherine Murphy.” Afro-Hispanic Review 33.1 (2014): 261-72.
“Big Ideas in Little Haiti: Haitian Contemporary Artist Edouard Duval-Carrié.” Afro- Hispanic Review 32.2 (2014): 93-98. 1 Myers
“A Promise Kept: A Conversation with Julia Alvarez.” Afro-Hispanic Review 31.1 (2011): 169-76.
Peer-Reviewed Book Reviews “Víctor Figueroa. Prophetic Visions of the Past: Pan-Caribbean Representations of the Haitian Revolution.” SX Salon. Forthcoming.
“Erika Martínez, ed. Daring to Write: Contemporary Narratives by Dominican Women.” Latino Studies 15.3 (2017).
“Kaisary, Philip. The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination: Radical Horizons, Conservative Constraints.” Afro-Hispanic Review 33.2 (2015): 185-87.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS Iowa State University Council on International Programs (CIP) Grant, 2017
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Scholar, Iowa State University Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, May 2017-Present
Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) Tuition Scholarship, University of Victoria, June 5-9, 2016
Iowa State Foreign Travel Grant, 2016
Iowa State LAS Small Grant Award, 2016, 2017
AATSP Graduate Student Travel Grant, 2016
Modern Language Association Graduate Student Travel Grant, 2016
Mary and Joe Harper Dissertation Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, 2015-2016
Curb Center Public Scholar, Vanderbilt University, 2015-2016
E. Inman Fox Award for Excellence in Teaching, Vanderbilt University, 2015
Arts and Science Graduate Summer Research Award for Dissertation Enhancement, Vanderbilt University, 2014
Caribbean Studies Association Travel Grant, 2014
Afro-Hispanic Review Travel Scholarship, 2014
Miguel Enguídanos Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research, Vanderbilt University, 2013
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Florida International University Latin American and Caribbean Study Abroad Scholarship, 2013
Foreign Languages and Area Studies Award (FLAS, Haitian Creole), 2013
University Graduate Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, 2011-2016
University Graduate Fellowship Supplemental Award for Outstanding Academic Record, Vanderbilt University, 2011-2016
Vanderbilt Graduate Student Travel Grant, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
Samuel Guarnaccia Spanish Prize, Middlebury College, 2011
Americorps New England Service Scholarship, 2009, 2010, 2011
Undergraduate Research Grant, Middlebury College, 2010
Academic Outreach Endowment Grant, Middlebury College, 2010
Mahoney Family Internship Fund, Middlebury College, 2009
PRESENTATIONS “Digital Natives as the Assessed and the Assessors: Secondary to Post-Secondary Digital Assessments in the Spanish-Language Classroom.” Paper presented at AATSP (American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese), Chicago, IL, July 6-9, 2017.
“From ‘Every Student’s an Entrepreneur’ to ‘Every Instructor Teaches Languages for Specific Purposes’: How-To Use Hispania Articles.” Paper presented at AATSP (American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese), Chicago, IL, July 6- 9, 2017.
“Digital Dominicanidad: Race (On)-line(s).” Paper presented at Latinx Lives, Matters, and Imaginaries: Theorizing Race in the 21st Century (John Jay College of Criminal Justice), New York, NY, April 13-15, 2017.
“Border of Lights: The 1937 Massacre and Statelessness in the Dominican Republic.” Presentation at ISCORE (Iowa State University Conference on Race and Ethnicity), Ames, IA, March 3, 2017.
“Bordering Paradise: Dominicans and Haitians in the U.S. Diaspora.” Paper presented at MMLA (Midwest Modern Language Association), St. Louis, MO, November 10-13, 2016.
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“Spanish and Portuguese Review: Combining Scholarship with Mentoring.” Panel presentation at AATSP (American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese), Miami, FL, July 8-11, 2016.
“Visualizing the Digital Humanities: Geospatial Analysis.” Paper presented at HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory), East Lansing, MI, May 27-30, 2015.
“Rewriting Hispaniola: The ‘Buenos y verdaderos dominicanos’-americanos: Julia Alvarez and Junot Díaz.” Paper presented at Latina/o Utopias: Futures, Forms, and the Will of Literature, New York, New York, April 23-25, 2015.
“Seeing Through the Veil: Ramón Marrero Aristy’s Over.” Paper presented at the Caribbean Studies Association, Mérida, México, May 26-30, 2014.
“Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) in the Foreign Language Classroom: Who Makes the Calls?” Paper presented at the Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT), Memphis, TN, March 14, 2014.
“‘Pollito Chicken’ or ‘Chicken Pollito’: The Truth Behind Ana Lydia Vega’s Spanglish.” Paper presented at The Baroque Legacy: Past and Present in Hispanic America and Central and Eastern Europe, Allendale, Michigan, October 23-26, 2013.
“Cultural Mixing in the Kitchen: Exploring Food in Monkey Hunting and Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García.” Paper presented at SAMLA, Durham, NC, November 9-11, 2012.
“Mario Vargas Llosa: El peruano que llevó la narrativa trujillista al mercado internacional.” Paper presented at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April 19-21, 2012.
INVITED SPEAKER “Border of Lights: Commemorating a Massacre.” Guest Lecture for Spanish course. The Galloway School, Atlanta, GA. May 2017. Skype.
“Dominicans and Haitians in the U.S. Diaspora.” Guest Lecture for “U.S. Latino Writers: Identity, Citizenship, and Community.” University of Alabama at Birmingham. December 2016. Skype.
“Muerte por mil cortes: Screening Discussion Panel.” Panel with Director Jake Kheel at Border of Lights. Dajabón, Dominican Republic. October 2016.
“Afro-Hispanic Review Tenth Anniversary at Vanderbilt University.” Panel with Narciso J. Hidalgo, Ifeoma Nwakwo, and Emanuelle Oliveira. November 2015.
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“Voices from the Diaspora: Dominican American Literature.” Guest Lecture for Latino/a Studies class. Vanderbilt University. March 2014.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE Iowa State University Assistant Professor of Spanish Spring, 2017: Spanish Grammar and Composition
Spring, 2017: Introduction to Latino/a Studies
Fall, 2016: Spanish for the Professions
Fall, 2016: Introduction to Latino/a Studies
Vanderbilt University Graduate Student Instructor/Teaching Assistant Summer, 2015: Mellon Institute in Digital and Public Humanities for Early-Career Scholars, TEI Workshop
Fall, 2014: Introduction to Hispanic Literature and Introduction to Latino/a Studies
Summer, 2014: Spanish for Oral Communication Through Cultural Topics: The Way of Saint James (Maymester in Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Spring, 2014: Intensive Elementary Portuguese, 2014
Fall, 2013: Accelerated Intermediate Spanish
Summer, 2013: Vanderbilt Medical School, Spanish for Medical Professionals and Cultural Competence (Nashville, TN and Managua, Nicaragua), 2013
Spring, 2013: Spanish for Beginners
Fall, 2012: Spanish for True Beginners
Other Lead Teacher of Reading/Literature, Mariposa Foundation, Cabarete, Dominican Republic, June 2016
Instructor, Saturday Academy at Vanderbilt for the Young (SAVY), February 2015- June 2015
Spanish Tutor, The Office of Academic Support for Student-Athletes, July 2014- Present
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Spanish Activities Director and Teaching Assistant, Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy, Claremont, CA 91711, June 2011-August 2011
Volunteer Instructor of English and Language Arts, Escuela República de Suiza, Proyecto Llanganates, El Triunfo, Ecuador, December 2009-May 2010
Summer Literacy Camp Director, Finca Alta Gracia, Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic, May 2008-August 2008
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), June 4-10, 2017, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
TEI Summer Institute, June 23-June 27, 2014, Vanderbilt Center for Second Language Studies, Nashville, TN 37203
Mellon Institute in Digital and Public Humanities for Early-Career Scholars, May 2014, Nashville, TN 37203
Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Graduate Seminar 2014, Vanderbilt Center for Second Language Studies Nashville, TN 37203
Latino/a Studies Graduate Certificate, May 2014, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203
Graduate Student Teaching Certificate, December 2013, Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203
SERVICE Academic Journals Production Assistant of Hispania, May 2017-Present
Social Media Manager of Spanish and Portuguese Review, May 2016-Present
Editorial Board Member of Afro-Hispanic Review, May 2016-Present
Copy Editor of The Bulletin of Comediantes, April 2016-May 2017
Managing Editor of Afro-Hispanic Review, January 2016-May 2016
Associate Editor of Spanish and Portuguese Review, July 2014-May 2016
Assistant Editor of Afro-Hispanic Review, Nashville, TN, May 2013-August 2014
Vanderbilt Editorial Board Member of Afro-Hispanic Review, September 2012-May 2016
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Service to Iowa State University Continuous Improvement Course Reporter for 303b, 2017-Present
Chair, Spanish Lecturer Search Committee, 2017
Aubrey E. Galyon Award Selection Committee, 2017
Textbook Selection Committee, Iowa State University, August 2016-May 2017
Professional Development Translator of paper “Literature and Opression/Literatura y opresión.” Talk given by Donato Ndongo at Iowa State University, Ames, IA, April 10, 2017
Session Organizer and Moderator of panel “Textual, Visual, and Archival Contestations of Blackness and Afro-Latinididad in the Puerto Rican and Dominican U.S. Diasporas.” Latinx Lives, Matters, and Imaginaries: Theorizing Race in the 21st Century, New York, NY, April 13-15, 2017
Program Assistant, Vanderbilt University Latino/a Studies Program, Nashville, TN, May 2015-May 2016
HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) Scholar with Humanities Tennessee, Nashville, TN, August 2014-August 2015
Session Chair of panel “History Repeated: The Haitian Massacre of 1937 and Ruling 0168-13 (October, 2013),” Caribbean Studies Association, Mérida, México, May 26- 30, 2014
Graduate Student Council Department Representative, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, September 2014-May 2014
Co-President and Founder of Vanderbilt University Graduate Student Modern Language Association (GSMLA), Nashville, TN, May 2013-May 2015
Co-organizer of “Caribbean Literature” a graduate-student led seminar sponsored by the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University, 2012-2013 Vanderbilt Center for Second Language Studies Graduate Student Affiliate, Nashville, TN, December 2011-Present
Other Service Alta Gracia Foundation Vice-President, Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic, January 2013-Present
Border of Lights Organizer, Dajabón, Dominican Republic, May 2012-Present (www.borderoflights.org)
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External Consultant, Cengage/Heinle, Exploraciones (Beginner Level Spanish Textbook), 2012
LANGUAGES English, native Spanish, near-native Portuguese, advanced Haitian Creole, intermediate
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHPS Modern Language Association Midwest Modern Language Association Caribbean Studies Association AATSP (American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese) HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory)
REFERENCES Available upon request
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