Sara Anne Potter, Ph.D. Department of Languages and Linguistics The University of Texas at El Paso 500 West University Avenue Liberal Arts Building 137 El Paso, TX 79968 915.747.7039 [email protected]

EDUCATION • Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis, Romance Languages and Literatures, 2013 o Graduate Certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. • M.A. Middlebury College, Spanish, 2000. • B.A. Central Michigan University, summa cum laude, Music, Spanish, 1999.

TEACHING AND RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS • Assistant Professor of Spanish at The University of Texas in El Paso, September 2013-present. • Graduate Assistant at Washington University in St. Louis, 2006—2013. • Visiting Professor of Spanish at Grand Valley State University, 2004-2006. • Affiliate Professor of Spanish at Grand Valley State University, 2003-2004. • Adjunct Professor of Spanish at Aquinas College, 2002-2003. • Spanish Instructor at St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes’ Upper School, 2000-2002.

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS • Contemporary Mexican and Latin , avant-garde movements, technology, gender studies, theories of the body, poetry, popular culture, urban space, graphic novels, and science fiction.

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS • Latin American Studies Association Dissertation Award, Mexican Section, May 2014 • Washington University Dissertation Fellowship, 2013 • Travel Grant, Modern Languages Association Conference in Boston, MA, 2013. • Fulbright García Robles Grant, City, 2011-2012 • Helen Fe Jones Award for Teaching Spanish, Washington University in Saint Louis, 2011. • Travel Grant, Latin American Studies Association, 2010 LASA Conference in Toronto, Ontario. • Of Monsters and Malinches: Signifying Violence in Edgar Clément’s Operación Bolívar and Tony Sandoval’s El cadáver en el sofá, presently under review Washington University Graduate Teaching Assistantship and Fellowship, 2006-2012 • Centralis Scholarship (full scholarship), Central Michigan University, 1995-1999.

PUBLICATIONS Refereed Journal Articles • Of Monsters and Malinches: Signifying Violence in Edgar Clément’s Operación Bolívar and Tony Sandoval’s El cadáver en el sofá. Forthcoming from the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. • (Post)colonial Invasions: Urban Wastelands and Neoliberal Contagion in Con Z de Zombie and Juan de los muertos. Forthcoming in Alambique 6, (2018). • “In and Out of Bondage: Identity, Eroticism, and Desire in Inés Arredondo and Juan García Ponce,” Confluencia. 33.1 (Fall 2017).

1 • “Disfruto disfrutar”: Corporeality, Cross-Dressing, and Jouissance in Carmen Boullosa’s Duerme.” Romance Notes 57.1 (2017). • “Había…¿una vez?: Los cuentos de hadas y la construcción del mito de la historia mexicana en Los recuerdos del porvenir”. Hispanófila. September 2012 (166). • “Nocturnos silenciosos y vacíos fructíferos: El sonido y el espacio en la poesía de Xavier Villaurrutia”. Confluencia. Spring 2012 (26.2). • “There Goes My Hero: Heroic Figures, Utopic Discourse, and Cultural Identity in Carlos Monsiváis’s Aires de familia.” Textos Híbridos. December 2011 (1.2). • “Before and After Tlatelolco: On Violence, Experience, and Living to Tell About It.” Nomenclatura. 2011 (1.1).

Refereed Book Chapters • “Fluidity and Fixity in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.” The American Mosaic: The Latino American Experience. ABC-CLIO, January 2015. Web. • “‘Ella me cegó con la ciencia”: Deseo, patología y perfección en Inmanencia viral de Fausto Alzati Fernández”. Antología crítica del ensayo mexicano contemporáneo. Eds. Mayra Fortes and Ana Sabau. México: Ediciones Eón, 2012.

Encyclopedia Entries • “Frida Kahlo, (1907-1954).” Icons of Mexico: An Encyclopedia from Acapulco to Zócalo, Vol. 1. Ed. Eric Zolov. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, August 2015. 294-99. Print.

Book Reviews • Review. Melero, Pilar. Mythological Constructs of Mexican Femininity. Forthcoming in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, October 2017. • Review. Penix-Tasden, Phillip. Cultural Code: Video Games and Latin America. Forthcoming in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, October 2017. • Review. Gibler, John. México rebelde: Crónicas de poder e insurrección. In Textos Híbridos: Revista de estudios sobre la crónica. Fall 2015.

Web-Based Publications • “‘Porque el sueño y la muerte todavía tienen mucho que decirse’: Muerte, eros y cuerpos que des/aparecen en Crónica de la intervención de Juan García Ponce”. Frontera: Gaceta digital de crítica literaria. November 4, 2014.

Other Publications • “So You Want to Go to Grad School: Dilemmas of Ethical (and Useful) Advising.” The Alt-Ac Diaries. Web journal. August 16, 2015.

TRANSLATIONS • Palou, Pedro Ángel, Mestizo Failure(s): Race, Film, and Literature in XXth Century Mexico. Boston: Art Life Lab LLC and , Mexico: Consejo de Ciencias y Tecnologías del Estado de Puebla, 2015. • Bisama, Álvaro. “Bolaño and Science Fiction: Deformities.” Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice. J. Andrew Brown and M. Elizabeth Ginway, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

INVITED TALKS • Journey to the Center of (21st Century) Mexico City: Memory, Spatial Practices, and the Metro in Guadalupe Nettel’s El huésped and Karen Chacek’s La caída de los pájaros. February 1, 2016.

2 Guest of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Latin American Studies Program at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. • Book Presentation: Teoría general de lo fantástico. Del fantástico clásico al posmoderno, Omar Nieto. November 28, 2015. Invited by the author to present at the Feria Internacional del Libro in Guadalajara, Mexico and guest of the UACM (Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México). • “Hacking Icons: Memory and Migrations in Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer.” March 11, 2015. Guest of the Spanish Program of the Department of Languages and Literatures at University of San Diego.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS • “Mapping the Apocalypse: Utopic Paths to Destruction in Carmen Boullosa’s Cielos de la tierra.” October 26-28, 2017. Mid-American Association of Hispanic Literatures, Washington University in Saint Louis. • “Hacking Global(ized) Mythologies: Posthuman Revolutions in Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer and Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita’s Lunar Braceros 2125-2148. July 6-9, 2017. American Comparative Literature Association, Universiteit Utrehct, Netherlands. • “Masculinidades en conflicto: Bonnie Bremser en la contracultura mexicana”. March 2-4, 2017. XXII Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, University of Texas-El Paso. • “De monstruos y ángeles: Interpretaciones novela gráficas de dos musas pos-TLCANistas en Operación Bolívar de Edgar Clément y El cadáver en el sofá de Tony Sandóval”. November 10- 12, 2016. The XX Colloquium on , University of California-Santa Barbara. • “(Post)colonial Invasions: Urban Wastelands and Neoliberal Contagion in Con Z de Zombie and Juan de los muertos.” November 3-5, 2016. Mid-American Association of Hispanic Literatures, The University of Kansas. • Fantasmas (inter)nacionales: Spectral Mexicanness in Mexico and Beyond. (Panel discussant.) May 27-30, 2016. Latin American Studies Association, New York, NY. • “Time After Time: Dissections of Race and Gender in Carmen Boullosa’s Cielos de la Tierra.” May 27-30, 2016. Latin American Studies Association. New York, NY. • “‘I Take Pleasure in Pleasure’: Corporeality and Jouissance in Carmen Boullosa’s Duerme (Sleep).” March 31-April 2, 2016. Carolina Conference for Romance Studies, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. • “Excavaciones de memoria: El metro como nexo histórico en La caída de los pájaros de Karen Chacek. March 3-5, 2016. XXI Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, University of Texas-El Paso. • “Hacking (Neoliberal) Borders: Contagion as Revolution in Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer.” October 23, 2015. Transforming Contagion conference, Arizona State University. • “Once Upon A Series Of Revolutions: Questioning Identities in Los recuerdos del porvenir.” May 27-30, 2015. Latin American Studies Association. San Juan, Puerto Rico. • “Memorias de retazos: Juegos de género, historia(s) e inspiración en La mañana debe seguir gris de Silvia Molina.” March 5-7, 2015. XX Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, University of Texas-El Paso. • “Journey to the (Urban) Center of the Nation-State: Political History and the Female Body in Guadalupe Nettel’s El huésped (The Host).” November 13-16, 2014. National Women’s Studies Association Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico. • "México y los beats: Conversaciones e inspiraciones contraculturales". November 6-8, 2014. XVII Colloquium on Mexican Literature, University of California-Santa Barbara. • “On Disturbing Bodies, Doubles, and Medical Discourse: Memory, Eroticism, and Counterculture in ’s Palinuro de México.” May 24-27, 2014. Latin American Studies Association Congress, Chicago, Illinois.

3 • “Así en la tierra como en el cielo marciano: Las colmenas letradas y pesadillas fronterizas de Bernardo Fernández (Bef).” April 2013. XIX Annual Juan Bruce-Novoa Mexicanist Conference. University of California-Irvine. • Performing Spaces, Transforming Places: Deviant Women in Chile, Cuba, and Mexico. (Panel organizer.) October 2012. Mid-American Conference on Hispanic Literatures, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. • “The Artist With a Thousand Faces: Autobiography, National Identity, and Storytelling in the Work of Leonora Carrington. October 2012. Mid-American Conference on Hispanic Literatures, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. • “Nahuales, NAFTA, and Narcos: Edgar Clément vs. Mexico’s Bogeymen.” May 2012. Latin American Studies Association Congress, San Francisco, California. • “Silbando en la oscuridad: La risa de guerra de El huésped de Guadalupe Nettel.” April 2012. XVIII Annual Juan Bruce-Novoa Mexicanist Conference. University of California-Irvine. • “Strapping It On: Alchemy, Play(s), and Technological Extensions in the Work of Remedios Varo.” March 2012. XVII Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, University of Texas-El Paso. • “Breaking On Through and Telling It Slant: Autobiography and Fantasy in the Writings of Leonora Carrington.” April 2011. Biography and Autobiography, XVII Annual Juan Bruce- Novoa Mexicanist Conference. University of California-Irvine. • “She Blinded Me With Science: Desire, Pathology, and Perfection in Fausto Alzati Fernández’s Inmanencial viral.” March 2011. XVI Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, University of Texas-El Paso. • Cuerpos políticos, cuerpos (porno)gráficos: Género, tabú y heridas en la novela mexicana. (Panel organizer.) October 2010. Latin American Studies Association Congress, Toronto, Ontario. • “Does She or Doesn’t She?: Politics, Erotism, and Desire in Juan García Ponce’s Inmaculada, o los placeres de la inocencia”. October 2010. Latin American Studies Association Congress, Toronto, Ontario. • “Silent Nocturnes and Fertile Vacuums: Sound and Space in the Poetry of Xavier Villaurrutia.” April 29-May 1, 2010. Tradición y ruptura/Tradition and Rupture, XVI Mexicanist Conference. University of California-Irvine. • “The (Organic) Agony and the (Virtual) Ecstasy: Amputations and Desiring Avatars in Bernardo Fernández’ Gel azul.” March 2010. XV Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea—La Revolución en la literatura. University of Texas-El Paso. • “De senos electrónicos y abrazos hertzianos: Modernization, Anxiety, and Sexuality in El café de nadie.” June 2009. Latin American Studies Association Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. • “The Cyborg of Avignon: Reading the Feminine Figure in “La señorita, etc.”.” April 30-May 1, 2009. Imagine Mexico/Imagine México, XV Annual Mexicanist Conference, UC-Irvine. • “La abyecta exaltada: Pathology, Power, and Resistance in Word from : The Spiritual Autobiography of Madre María de San José.” November 2008. Masculinities, Femininities, and More—An Interdisciplinary Conference on Gender in the Humanities, U of West Georgia. • “Layers of Memory: Culture and the Metro in Mexico City.” October 2007. Mid-American Conference on Hispanic Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE The University of Texas at El Paso, Fall 2013-present • Spanish 3300, Critical Introduction to Hispanic Literature • Spanish 3304, Survey of Latin American Literature from Modernismo to the Present • Spanish 4320, Latin American and Spanish Popular Cultures [designed course]

4 • Spanish 4324, Mexican Literature [designed/developed course] • Spanish 4360, 20th-21st century Spanish-American Novel [developed course] • Spanish 4390, Special Topics: Neoliberalism in Latin American Film [designed course] • Spanish 5301, Critical Approaches to Hispanic Literature [developed graduate course] • Spanish 5317, Contemporary Latin American Poetry [designed/developed graduate course] • Spanish 5321, The 20th-21st c. Hispanic American Novel [developed graduate course]

Washington University in St. Louis, Fall 2006-Spring 2012 • University College 112-113, first and second semester Spanish (for non-traditional students) • Spanish 201-308, third-sixth semester Spanish, including advanced grammar and composition • Spanish 322, Conversation & Culture after 1975, taught during summer session in , Spain • Spanish 380, Survey of Hispanic Cultures: Popular Culture in Latin America, Fall 2010 • WGSS 100B, Introduction to Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, taught Spring 2011

Grand Valley State University, September 2003- May 2006 • Spanish 101-321, beginning Spanish through advanced grammar and composition

Aquinas College, September 2002-December 2003 • Spanish 101-202, beginning through fourth semester courses

Saint Stephen’s and Saint Agnes’ Upper School, August 2000-June 2002 • Spanish I-V, first through fifth year language instruction, honors and regular sections • Designed Spanish V, a service-based course for seniors in the metro Washington DC area.

UNIVERSITY AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE • Humanities Essay Prize Committee for the Mexican Section of LASA, 2017. • Outstanding Thesis Selection Committee for the College of Liberal Arts, UTEP, 2016-2017. • Search committee for Chair of the Languages and Linguistics Department, 2016-2017 • Director of the Translation and Interpretation Program, Spanish Section, Fall 2015-present • Assessment Coordinator for the Spanish Department, Spring 2015-present • Book Review Editor: Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, Fall 2014-present • Participant in UTEP AWARE Program, 2014-2015 • Faculty Advisor: Queer Student Alliance, UTEP, 2013-present • Minute taker at Languages and Linguistics faculty meetings, UTEP, 2013-2014 • Graduate Student Council (GSC) Student Representative, Wash U, 2012-2013 • Assistant to the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Newsletter, Spring 2011 • Graduate Assistant, Study Abroad Program in Spain at Washington University, Summer 2010 • Peer Mentor Coordinator, Washington University in St. Louis, 2008-2009. • Faculty Consultant, Spanish Writing Center; Grand Valley State University, 2004-2005. • Co-facilitator of weekly student conversation hour, Grand Valley State University, 2003-2006. • Study Abroad Assistant in Madrid, Spain; Aquinas College, 2003.

LANGUAGES • English: native fluency • Spanish: near-native speaking, writing, and reading ability • French: intermediate speaking, writing, and reading ability • Portuguese: basic speaking, writing, and reading ability

SCHOLARLY AFFILIATIONS

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