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LYNN MARIE WALFORD 960 McCormick St. Shreveport, LA 71104-4280 Phone: (318) 797-5140 Fax: (318) 797-5316 E-mail: [email protected] PRESENT POSITION Professor of Spanish, Louisiana State University in Shreveport. DEGREES B.A., English, 1986. Louisiana State University in Shreveport. M.L.A., 1992. Louisiana State University in Shreveport. Thesis: “Linear Time and Cyclical Time in Three Novels of Carlos Fuentes.” Ph.D., Comparative Literature, 2000. Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Dissertation: “A Matter of Life and Death: José María Arguedas, Mario Vargas Llosa, and the Postmodern Condition.” PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Publications “A Rereading of Mario Vargas Llosa’s Historia de Mayta.” Celebrations and Connections in Hispanic Literature. Ed. Andrea Morris and Margaret Parker. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007. “Truth, Lies, and Politics in the Debate over Testimonial Writing: The Cases of Binjamin Wilkomirski and Rigoberta Menchú.” The Comparatist 30, 2006. “Vargas Llosa’s Leading Ladies.” Leading Ladies: Mujeres en la literatura hispana y en las artes. Ed. Margaret R. Parker and Yvonne Fuentes. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2006. ‘“Fuimos cómplices también’: Violence and Sacrifice in Vargas Llosa’s Lituma en los Andes.” Confluencia 19, Spring 2004. “Flirting with Postmodernism in Los ríos profundos and La casa verde. Hispanófila 134, January 2002. “Beyond Chaos: El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo.” Hispanic Journal 21, Fall 2000. “America as a Community of Violence in Three Early Novels of Gabriel García Márquez.” Hispanófila 119, January 1997. 1 “Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda’s Sab: A Novel of Reconciliation or of Capitulation?” Diáspora 5, Spring 1996. “Mess as the Natural State: Reflections of Bakhtin and Eisenberg in Carlos Fuentes’ Cristóbal Nonato.” Hispanic Journal 15, Fall 1994. Book Reviews Jean-François Lejeune, ed. Cruelty and Utopia: Cities and Landscapes of Latin America. Utopian Studies 17, 2006. Patricia R. Pessar. From Fanatics to Folk: Brazilian Millenarianism and Popular Culture. Utopian Studies 15, 2004. Tatiana Pavlović. Despotic Bodies and Transgressive Bodies: Spanish Culture from Francisco Franco to Jesús Franco. Quarterly Journal of Ideology 26, 2003. Beatrice Battaglia. Nostalgia e mito nella distopia inglese: saggi su Oliphant, Wells, Forster, Orwell, Burdekin. Utopian Studies 13, 2002. Idelber Avelar, The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning. Journal of Contemporary Thought, Winter 2000. Nina Gervassi-Navarro, Pirate Novels: Fictions of Nation-Building in Spanish America. South Eastern Latin Americanist 44, Fall 2000. Inderpal Gerwal, Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire, and the Cultures of Travel. Journal of Contemporary Thought 6, 1996. Conference Papers “Chaos and Beyond: El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo.” Celebration of Centenary of José María Arguedas, Villanova University, Philadelphia, PA, October 2011. “Politics, Irony, and the Utopian Vision in Two Novels of Milan Kundera and Mario Vargas Llosa.” Society for Utopian Studies, Portland, ME, October 2008. “Bad Girls in a Wicked World: Thackeray’s Vanity Fair and Vargas Llosa’s Travesuras de la niña mala.” Fifth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities. Paris, France, July 2007. “‘I Can No Longer Get Rid of the Feelings of Disgust and Shame’: The Memoirs of Victor Klemperer and Primo Levi.” Answering Auschwitz: Primo Levi’s Science and Humanism after the Fall. Hemptstead, NY, April 2007. “From Page to Screen: Rewriting and Rereading the Novel in Two Films of Arturo Ripstein.” Cine-Lit VI: Sixth International Conference on Hispanic Film and Literature. Portland, OR, February 2007. “A Rereading of Mario Vargas Llosa’s Historia de Mayta.” Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Baton Rouge, LA, February 2006. 2 “Meditations on Utopia in Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Way to Paradise.” Society for Utopian Studies, Memphis, TN, October 2005. “Truth, Lies, and Politics in the Debate over Testimonial Writing: The Cases of Rigoberta Menchú and Binjamin Wilkomirski.” International Conference on Truth and Mendacity in Literature and the Arts, Atlanta, GA, October 2004. “Vargas Llosa’s Leading Ladies.” Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Baton Rouge, LA, February 2004. “Poetry and Totalitarianism in the Novels of Milan Kundera and Mario Vargas Llosa.” American Comparative Literature Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 2002. “‘El gusto real de ese animal desconocido’: Cannibalism in Juan José Saer’s El entenado.” Interdisciplinary Conference on Food Representation in Literature, Film and the Other Arts, San Antonio, TX, February 2002. “Mario Vargas Llosa’s Utopian Nightmare.” Society for Utopian Studies, Buffalo, NY, October 2001. “The Treacherous Utopias of Milan Kundera and Mario Vargas Llosa.” American Comparative Literature Association, Boulder, CO, April 2001. “‘Una historia más o menos coherente’: Mario Vargas Llosa’s El hablador.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, April 2000. “Fuimos cómplices también”: Violence and Sacrifice in Vargas Llosa’s Lituma en los Andes.” South Eastern Council on Latin American Studies, Myrtle Beach, SC, March 2000. “Denial and Despair in Arguedas’ Todas las sangres.” Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Baton Rouge, LA, March 2000. “Decir lo indecible: desvíos literarios en El entenado de Saer y El hablador de Vargas Llosa.” Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana, Cusco, Peru, August 1999. “Todas las sangres and Peruvian Sociopolitical Reality: A Successful Failure.” South Eastern Council on Latin American Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, March 1999. “Indians and Others: Racial and Gender Stereotypes in José María Arguedas.” Afro-Hispanic Literature and Culture Conference, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, May 1998. “Modernists in a Postmodern World: Nabokov’s Lolita and De Lillo’s White Noise.” Philological Association of Louisiana, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, March 1998. “Gertrudis Gómez Avellaneda’s Sab: A Novel of Reconciliation or of Capitulation?” Afro-Hispanic Literature and Culture Conference, Shreveport, LA, November 1995. “Identidad sexual e identidad nacional en Amalia y Aves sin nido.” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, October 1995. 3 “Mess as the Natural State: Reflections of Bakhtin and Eisenberg in Carlos Fuentes’ Christopher Unborn.” Comparative Literature Symposium, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, January 1994. Workshops and Public Lectures “La Malinche.” Hispanic Women in the Making of the Americas. Public lecture series, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, October 1996. “La Llorona.” Ghost Stories East and West. Japanese Culture Festival, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, October 1996. “Business Sense in the Spanish Classroom.” Louisiana Department of Education Workshop for Secondary School Language Teachers, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA, November 1993. Grants Board of Regents Support Fund (BORSF) grant for conversion of Foreign Language Audio Laboratrory from audiocassette stations to computer stations ($48,041). PI/PD, 2006. Board of Regents Support Fund (BORSF) grant for two technologically enhanced “smart” classrooms for Fine Arts, Foreign Languages, Humanities Department ($29,600). Co-PI/PD with Megan Conway. 2003. Board of Regents Support Fund (BORSF) grant for Multimedia Film Studies Classroom for College of Liberal Arts ($55,989). Co-PI/PD with three other faculty members and PI/PD Diane Boyd. 2003. Louisiana State University in Shreveport Technology Fee grant for student workers for Foreign Language Laboratories ($5,985). 2004; 2005; 2006; 2008; 2009; 2010. Louisiana State University in Shreveport Faculty Research Grant ($400) to present paper at annual meeting of The Society for Utopian Studies, Buffalo, NY, 2001. Louisiana State University in Shreveport Faculty Development Grant ($500) to present paper at Comparative Literature Symposium, Texas Tech University, 1993. Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Minigrant ($1,300) for Rocinante public lecture series, Southfield School, 1990. Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Minigrant ($1,300) for Rocinante public lecture series, Southfield School, 1988. Fellowships Louisiana State University Program in Comparative Literature ($2,950) to attend International School of Theory in the Humanities summer seminar in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 1998. 4 TEACHING Experience Professor of Spanish, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, 2007-present. Associate Professor of Spanish, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, 2002-2007. Assistant Professor of Spanish, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, 1998-2002. Director of General Studies, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, 1997-2001. Instructor of Spanish, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, 1993-1998. Teaching Assistant, Spanish, Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, 1994-1995. Adjunct Instructor of Spanish, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, 1991-1993. Adjunct Instructor of English, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, 1988-1990. English and Spanish Teacher, Southfield School, Shreveport, 1986-1991. English and Spanish Teacher, Instituto Anglo-Mexicano, Mexico City, 1975-1979. Courses Taught at LSU in Shreveport (1988-present) SPAN 490/690 Utopia in Latin American Literature SPAN 403/603 Cervantes and the Golden Age SPAN