CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: María Camí-Vela
University Address: University of North Carolina-Wilmington 601 S. College Rd. Wilmington, NC 28403-5954 Tel: (910)962-3342 E-mail: [email protected]
I. EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Spanish Literature Spring 1995 Romance Languages and Literatures University of Florida Dissertation: La búsqueda de la identidad en la obra de Carme Riera (The Search for Identity in Carme Rieras’s Narrative)
Summer 1993 Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain Course title: “Mujeres Creadoras” (“Women Creators”)
M.A. in Spanish Fall 1989 Romance Languages and Literatures University of Florida Master’s Thesis: El feminismo en la obra periodística de Emilia Pardo Bazán (Feminism in Emilia Pardo Bazán’s Journalistic Works)
B.A. in Spanish Fall 1986, Romance Languages and Literatures University of Florida
Other Studies Fall 1975-Fall 1976 Universidad de Murcia, Spain
II. TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Professor: 2007- Associate Professor: 2003- 2007 Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, U. of North Carolina -Wilmington. Assistant Professor: 1997-2003 Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, U. of North Carolina -Wilmington.
III.PUBLICATIONS AND ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS
A. Publications
Books Mujeres detrás de la cámara: Entrevistas con cineastas españolas 1990-2004. (Women Behind the Camera: Interviews with Spanish Women Filmmakers 1990-2004.) Madrid: Madrid/Ocho y Medio, 2005.
Mujeres detrás de la cámara: Entrevistas con cineastas españolas de la década de los 90. (Women Behind the Camera: Interviews with Spanish Women Filmmakers of the 90’s.) Madrid: Festival de Cine Experimental de Madrid/Ocho y Medio, 2001.
La búsqueda de la identidad en la obra literaria de Carme Riera. (The Search for Identity in the Narrative Works of Carme Riera.) Madrid: Pliegos, 2000.
Articles
“Mujer y cine en Cuba: La peregrina y revolucionaria mirada de Rosina Prado.” Ámbitos feministas, vol. 5 (Fall, 2015): 101-15.
“Directoras de cine en Cataluña: Un recorrido histórico” Zeitschrift für Katalanistik/Revista d'Estudis Catalans 27 (2014): 27-45.
"Negociar con la “Otredad” La mirada fílmica de las directoras españolas del nuevo milenio”. In Directoras de cine en España y América Latina: Nuevas voces y miradas. Feenstra, Pietsie, Gimeno Ugalde, Esther and Sartingen, Kathrin (eds.). Frankfurt; Peter Lang (2014): 149-164.
“Contemporary Barcelona Through The Female Eye”. World Film Locations: Barcelona. Helio, San Miguel and Lorenzo Torres Hortelano Eds. Intellect: UK (2013): 106-107
“De la repugnancia a la humanidad: El viaje físico y cinemático de Marceline Loridan-Ivens de Chronique d’un été (1961) a La Petite Prairie aux Bouleaux (2003)”. La piel en la palestra. Estudios Corporales II. Del Pozo, Alba and Alba Serrano Eds. Barcelona: (2011): 115-126.
“Cineastas españolas que filman en inglés. ¿Estrategia comercial o expresión multicultural?” In Rodríguez Pérez, María Pilar (Ed.). Bilbao: Estudios Culturales y de los medios de comunicación. (2010): 52-70
“Filmando lo invisible: la ausencia-presencia del cuerpo como metáfora existencial en La vida secreta de las palabras.” Cuerpos que cuentan. Pasen y vean: Estudios Culturales. Clúa, Isabel and Pau Pitarch Eds. Barcelona: (2010): 25-31.
“El cine militante de Helena Lumbreras.” Puntos de vista. Una mirada poliédrica a la historia del cine. Aranda, Daniel, Esquirol Meritxell and Sánchez-Navarro, Jordi Eds. Barcelona: Editorial UOC (2009): 207-224.
“Between Hope and Disillusion. The Militant Cinema of Helena Lumbreras.” Plan Rosebud. On Images, Sites and Politics of Memory. Ruído, María Ed. Galicia: Xunta de Galicia/Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo. (2009): 251-262.
“Entre la esperanza y el desencanto. El cine militante de Helena Lumbreras.” Plan Rosebud: sobre imágenes, lugares y políticas de memoria. Ruído, María Ed. Galicia: Xunta de Galicia/Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo. (2009): 543-54.
“Cineastas españolas que filman en inglés: Isabel Coixet.” Miradas sobre pasado y presente en el cine español (1990-2005). Feenstra, Pietsie and Hub Hermans Eds. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. (2008): 179-91.
“Manuel Huerga y Salvador Puig Antich.” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Studies. (2007): 181-207. “Una cineasta española en la Revolución cubana: Margarita Alexandre”. El viejo topo. 231 (2007): 101- 07. “Mujeres, toreros e identidad en el cine español: Sol y sombra (1922) de Musidora.” ¿Savia nutria? El lugar del realismo en el cine español. Córdoba: Filmoteca de andalucia. XI Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Historiadores de Cine. (2006): 82-93.
“El modelo autobiográfico en Me llamo Sara de Dolores Payás.” Cuadernos de la Academia. Madrid: Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España y Asociación Española de Historiadores del Cine. (2005): 479-492.
“Entrevista con Helena Taberna.” Extranjeras: Guía didáctica. Helena Taberna Ed. Pamplona: Lamia. (2005): 48-53.
“Mujer y sexo: Las directoras españolas de los noventa.” Los hábitos del deseo. Formas de amar en la modernidad. Carme Riera, Meri Torres, Isabel Clúa y Pau Pitarch Eds. Valencia: Ediciones Escultura. (2005): 71-79.
“Mujer, erotismo y cinco cortometrajes: El dominio de los sentidos.” Años de Corto: Apuntes sobre el cortometraje español desde los noventa. Juan Francisco Cerón Ed. Murcia: Universidad de Murcia. (2002): 89-106.
“Flores de otro mundo: Una mirada negociadora.” Cine-Lit 2000: Essays on Hispanic Film and Fiction. George Cabello-Castellet, Jaume Martí-Olivella and Guy H. Wood Eds. Oregon: Oregon State U. (2001): 176-88.
“Una entrevista con Icíar Bollain.” Cine-Lit 2000: Essays on Hispanic Film and Fiction. George Cabello- Castellet, Jaume Martí-Olivella and Guy H. Wood Eds. Oregon: Oregon State U. (2001): 232-43.
“From ‘Reespañolar’ to ‘Europeizar’: The Subversión of Francoist Mythology in La flor de mi secreto (The Flower of My Secret) by Pedro Almodóvar.” The Seeing Century: Film, Vision, and Identity. Wendy Everet Ed. Amsterdan: Rodopi B.V. (2000): 111-23. (Translation of the Spanish article published in Annual of Foreign Films and Literature).
“Las dos caras de Bigas Luna: El cineasta y el artista.” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. 4 (2000): 249-64.
“Entrevista con la realizadora-guionista Rosa Vergés.” España Contemporánea. XII, 2 (otoño 2000): 93-102.
“El desdoblamiento, la mascara y la seducción: Metáforas de la escritura.” El espejo y la mascara: Veinticinco años de ficción narrativa en la obra de Carme Riera. Luisa Cotoner Ed. Barcelona: Destino, 2000.
“De “reespañolear” a “europeizar”: la subversión de la mitología franquista en la (re)construcción de la identidad nacional: La flor de mi secreto de Pedro Almodóvar.”Annual of Foreign Films and Literature. V (1999): 25-44.
“El amor lesbiano: exilio, rechazo y búsqueda en ‘Te deix, amor, la mar com a penyora’ y Temps d’una espera de Carme Riera.” Letras femeninas. XXV, 1-2 (1999): 173-84.
“La de-doxificación en Contra l’amor en companyia de Carme Riera.” España Contemporánea. XII, 1 (1999): 45-58.
“El uso de lo carnavalesco-fantástico en Epitelis Tendrissimis.” Lectora. Revista de dones i textualitat. 2 (1996): 43-49.
Forthcoming publications
Book/Film reviews/Artistic publications
Book review: Teoría y práctica de la adaptación fílmica. In Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. 38.2 (2014): 416-418
The cinema of Iciar Bollaín. Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas. 11.1 (2014): 101-109.
Film Review: “Barcelona Before/Barcelona abans que el temps ho esborri (2010)” World Film Locations: Barcelona. Helio, San Miguel and Lorenzo Torres Hortelano Eds. Intellect: UK (2013): 120- 121.
Contribution to Film Jounal Decine 29 (June-July), 2012
Editorial Review for the book Exile Through a Gendered Lens: Women's Displacement in Recent European History, Literature, and Cinema. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Film review: Cami-Vela, M. In Lorenzo Torres (Ed.), The Secret Life of Words. Directory of World Cinema: Spain. (2011) http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4791/
Film review: Cami-Vela, M. In Lorenzo Torres (Ed.), Flowers from Another World. UK: Directory of World Cinema: Spain. (2011) http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4791/
Poem: “Suena el despertador”. El País. Suplemento cultural La noche en blanco. September 22, 2007.
Book review: Raquel Medina and Barbara Zecchi, eds. Sexualidad y escritura (1850-2000). Symposium 58.3 (2004): 194-97.
Book review: “Temps d’una espera de Carme Riera” Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea 25 (2000): 337-39.
Other Artistic activities Film: The Shift (2013). Associate Editor http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2881296/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt
Video clip. Participant in the EWA (European Women Audiovisual Network) campaign video clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni9EwWEDIyI&list=TL9IcmzU0ZLkifP1i7PQnkPgwlWpFr3HC5
TV Interview with film director Joseph Johnson Camí. UNC-TV. Wilmington, NC, USA. (April 21, 2011). http://uncwtv.uncw.edu/video/filmmaker_joseph_g20.mov
Actor-Interview for the documentary: Amparito Puerto y los agujeros de gusano (2011). Almudena Verdes, director. Spain. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1880119/
Associate producer of short film Keepers of the Water (2010), Ayelen Liberona director. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1743339/ http://www.keepersofthewater.com/home.html
Film interview with Mariano Lisa for the documentary Plan Rosebud 2 (2008), María Ruído director. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2_IlpX6JVc Film Interview with José Ricardo Johnson Camí, director of documentary A grain of sand (2008) and Brendon Grimshaw.
Associate producer of documentary A grain of sand (2008) A mythical journey to one of the last remaining battlegrounds where the future of one man and an island stand against the ever-expanding reach of our insatiable desires. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3194563/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP_arV9s60k http://www.agrainofsandthefilm.com
Film Interview with Margarita Alexandre for the Film Interview Series by Iberautor, Portal Latino and AACC (Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas). See: www.portalatino.com/lanzamientos/memoriaviva/
Executive producer of film United We Stand, director JRJC (2004)
Actor in United We Stand, director JRJC (2004)
Actor in film My Life Without Me (2003), director Isabel Coixet’s http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1695676/
B. Conferences
Presentations:
“Summoning the ghosts: Images, sites and politics of memory. The Great Flight (2015), by Carolina Astudillo.” CMCI Conference 2016 "(In) Visible Cultures"! King’s College. London, UK. June 13, 2016.
“Barcelona in Film: Catalan Women Directors.” In Panel: Dissent from within: Contesting Basque and Catalan National Narratives. NEMLA Convention. Toronto, Canada. May 3, 2015.
“Trauma, memoria y cuerpo: El testimonio femenino en Elisa (K)iseljak”. III Congreso Internacional Los Textos del Cuerpo. Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain. December 3, 2014.
“Yo decido. El tren de la libertad. El colectivo de mujeres cineastas contra la reforma de la ley del aborto”. Asociación de Mujeres Cineastas y de los Medios Audovisualaes. CCCB. Barcelona, Spain. July 10, 2014.
“Mujer y cine en la Revolución Cubana: Rosina Prado”. VII Congreso Asociación Hispánica de Humanidades. Santiago de Compostela, Spain. June 26, 2014.
“Catalan Women Directors: Contemporary Barcelona through the Female Eye”. The Ebb and Flow: Navigating the Changing Landscapes of Feminism. SESA. Wilmington, NC. March 28, 2014.
“Activist Cinema”, “Tactical Media” and “La Nouvelle Cyber Vague.” The Films of Joseph Johnson-Camí. European Network for Cinema and Media Studies International Conference. Prage. June 23, 2013.
“May 68 and the Politics of Memory in Spain: The militant cinema of Helena Lumbreras.” European Network for Cinema and Media Studies International Conference. Lisbon, Portugal. June 23, 2012.
“Elisa (K)iseljak: The Novel and the Film”. Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain. (December 13, 2011)
“Mujer, inmigración e identidad en tres films realizados por directoras catalanas” University of Florida, Gainesville, Fl. (September 30, 2011).
"Catalanas detrás de la cámera". Cervantes Institute, New York. (April 13, 2011). http://nyork.cervantes.es/FichasCultura/Ficha70036_27_1.htm
"Negociar con la “Otredad” La mirada fílmica de las directoras españolas del nuevo milenio". 18 Congreso de la Asociación Alemana de Hispanistas, Universität Passau, Passau, Germany, (March 24, 2011). http://www.phil.uni-passau.de/es/die-fakultaet/lehrstuehle-professuren/romanistik/romanische- literaturen/hispanistentag-2011/hispanistentag-20110.html "De la repugnancia a la humanidad: El viaje físico y cinemático de Marceline Loridan-Ivens de Chronique d’un été a La Petite Prairie aux Bouleaux". II Congreso Internacional Los Textos del Cuerpo , Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain., (December 2, 2010). http://cositextualitat.uab.cat/?p=72&lang=es
"Women, Bullfighters and Identity in Spanish Silent Cinema: Musidora (1889-1957)". Women and the Silent Screen VI, Cineteca di Bologna, Bologna, June 25, 2010). http://wss2010.wfhi.org/ocs/index.php/wss/WSS6
“Les dones pioneres del cinema espanyol des dels anys 20 fins a la Guerra Civil”. Universitat de Vic, Spain. (November 25, 2009).
“Between hope and disillusion. The militant cinema of Helena Lumbreras.” Spanish cinema, Women on the Other Side of the Lens. University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, USA. April 24, 2009 http://www.pragda.com/university-washington-seattle-2009-women.php
“El cine actual por mujeres en España.” Cine por mujeres: Nuevas Perspectivas. Cervantes Institute. Vienna, Austria. March 23-25, 2009. http://viena.cervantes.es/es/default.shtm
“La situación actual de las mujeres en el panorama cinematográfico”. I Encuentro Internacional de Mujeres del Audiovisual. Auditorio del Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. Madrid, Spain. December 3, 2008. http://www.cimamujerescineastas.es/congreso.html
“Pioneer Women Directors in Spanish Cinema”. 58th Mountain Interstate International Foreign Language Conference. Wilmington, NC. October 10, 2008.
"Entre la esperanza y el desencanto. El cine militante de Helena Lumbreras". XII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Historiadores del Cine. Castellón, Spain. March 8, 2008.
“Spanish Female Directors Filming in English: Isabel Coixet”. European Network for Cinema and Media Studies International Conference. Vienna, Austria. June 23, 2007.
“Filmando lo invisible. La ausencia-presencia del cuerpo como metáfora existencial en el cine de Isabel Coixet.” Congreso Internacional Los Textos del Cuerpo. Barcelona, Spain. March 26-30, 2007.
“Una cineasta española en Cuba: Margarita Alexandre.” Filmoteca de Catalunya. Barcelona, Spain. January, 2007.
“Mujeres, toreros e identidad en el cine español: Sol y sombra (1922) de Musidora.” XI Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Historiadores de Cine. Córdoba, Spain. February, 2006.
“Mujer e identidad en el cine español de los años veinte.” Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain. December, 2006.
“Cine con subtítulos. Una visión panorámica del ser y estar del cine europeo en los EEUU.” I Muestra de Cine Europeo. Murcia, Spain. May, 2005.
“Homenaje a Margarita Alexandre y Rafael Torrecilla.” Filmoteca Española. Madrid, Spain. March 29, 2005.
“Mujeres tras la cámara: Presencia, reconocimiento y triunfo de las realizadoras en los últimos años.” IX Muestra de Cine Realizado por Mujeres. Bilbao, Spain. October 23, 2004.
“Mujer y sexo: Las cineastas españolas de los noventa.” II Congreso Internacional Mujeres y Textualidad. Barcelona, Spain. March 22, 2004. “La presencia femenina en el cine de Julio Diamante.” Filmoteca de Catalunya. Barcelona, Spain. October 20, 2003.
“Mujer, sexo y transgresión: Un recorrido erótico por la cinematografía de las cineastas españolas de los noventa.” Cine-Lit. Portland, Oregon. February 27, 2003.
“Mujer y erotismo: Las directoras españolas de los 90.” Universidad de Vic, Barcelona. December 12, 2002.
“Mujeres delante de la cámara. El modelo autobiográfico en Me llamo Sara (1998) de Dolores Payás.” IX Congreso de la Asociación Española de Historiadores del Cine. Valencia, Spain. November 30, 2001.
“Engendering Cinema: Women and Film in 1990´s Spain.” Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference. Wilmington, NC. October 11, 2001.
“Mujeres detrás de la cámara: Una nueva generación de cineastas españolas.” Universidad Europea de Madrid. Madrid, Spain. June 5, 2001.
“Fresh Looks: Spanish Women Directors.” 9th. Spanish Cinema Now. The Film Society of Lincoln Center. New York, NY. December 9, 2000.
“Identidad y alteridad: los discursos culturales no hegemónicos en la narrativa de Carme Riera.” Trobada Internacional d’especialistes en l’obra narrativa de Carme Riera. Barcelona, Spain. November 8, 2000.
“La construcción de la mirada negociadora en los filmes de la nueva generación de directoras españolas: Flores de otro mundo y Sexo por compasión.” Spain in the Twenty-First Century. Columbus, Ohio. November 4, 2000.
“Realizadoras españolas de la década de los 90: ¿Una mirada femenina ” Cine-Lit 2000. Portland, Oregon. February 20, 2000.
“Fresh Looks: Spanish Women Directors.” 9th. Spanish Cimena Now. The Film Society of Lincoln Center. New York. December 9, 2000.
“New Voices Behind the Camera: Spanish Women Filmmakers of the 90s.” Second Biennial Conference on Iberian/Iberian-American Literatures. Miami, Florida. October 30, 1999.
“From Reespañolear to Europeizar. The subversion of Francoist Mythology in La flor de mi secreto of Pedro Almodóvar.” Millennium Film Conference. Bath, United Kingdom. June 30-July 2, 1999.
“El amor lesbiano: exilio, rechazo y búsqueda en ‘Te deix, amor, la mar com a penyora’ y Temps d’una espera de Carme Riera.” IX International Conference of the Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica. Tempe, Arizona. September 19, 1998.
“La de-doxificación en Contra l’amor en companyia.” Iberian American Literatures Conference. Miami, Florida. October 24, 1997.
“La búsqueda de la identidad en la cinematografía de Pedro Almodóvar: La flor de mi secreto.” MLA Conference at Toronto. December 30, 1997.
“Lo carnavalesco-fantástico en Contra l’amor en companyia.” MLA Conference at Chicago. December 29, 1996.
Organizing and/or presiding conferences sessions:
Spanish Cinema: A Historical Review. 58th Mountain Interstate International Foreign Language Conference. UNCW. Wilmington, NC. October 10, 2008. Chaired the panel: Geography, Body and the Spanish Voice. 58th Mountain Interstate International Foreign Language Conference. UNCW. Wilmington, NC. October 11, 2008. Member of the Scientific Committee of the Association of Spanish Film Historians 2003-2004. Presided over the conference session “Documental, carcoma de la ficción.” X Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Historiadores del Cine. Granada, Spain. February 12-15, 2004. “Mujeres detrás de la cámara.” Organize panel discussions and give presentations about Spanish women Filmmakers at the XI International Experimental Film Festival. Madrid. November 16-23. “Fresh Looks: Spanish Women Directors.” 9th Spanish Cinema Now. The Film Society of Lincoln Center. New York, NY. December 9, 2000. “Nuevas subjetividades (Diferencias) entre el cine y la literatura española contemporánea.” Second Biennial Conference on Iberian/Iberian-American Literatures. Miami, Florida. October 30, 1999. “Women in and on Film: Spain and the Americas.” MLA Conference at San Francisco. December 27, 1998. “Erotismo.” IX International Conference of the Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica. Tempe, Arizona. September 19, 1998.
C. Other scholarly or professional efforts Book presentation: Sobrevives. Diario de una mujer embarazada. FNAC, Barcelona. June 27, 2007. Docúpolis. VIII Festival Internacional Documental de Barcelona. Jury member. Octubre, 2007. See: http://www.docupolis.org/2007/2007-ing.html and page 49 in http://www.docupolis.org/2007/prensa/Docupolis07-catalogo.pdf Member of the jury at the XI International Experimental Film Festival. Madrid. November 16-23, 2001. Organized panel discussions and gave presentations about Spanish Filmmakers at the XI International Experimental Film Festival. Madrid. November 16-23, 2001. Presided panel discussion “Fresh Looks: Spanish Women Directors.” 9th Spanish Cinema Now. The Film Society of Lincoln Center. New York, NY. December 9, 2000. Organized and presided over the conference session “Nuevas subjetividades (Diferencias) entre el cine y la literatura española contemporánea.” Second Biennial Conference on Iberian/Iberian-American Literatures. Miami, Florida. October 30, 1999. Organized and presided over the conference session “Women in and on Film: Spain and the Americas.” MLA Conference at San Francisco. December 27, 1998. Presided over the conference session “Erotismo.” IX International Conference of the Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica. Tempe, Arizona. September 19, 1998.
IV. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Profession: External evaluator and member of the Scientific Committee for the Film Journal Archivos de la Filmoteca (2012-Present) http://www.archivosdelafilmoteca.com/index.php/archivos/about/editorialTeam http://www.archivosdelafilmoteca.com/index.php/archivos/index External Evaluator for the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies External Evaluator for Hispania
University: Lumina Theater International Film Series Committee for 2010-2011. International Programs and ACE, Film Screening Event Organizer (February 2010). Member of CAS Research Committee 2008-09 Member of the College of Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee 2005-2008 Member of the Graduate Council 2002-2008 Member of 2 Film Studies Position Search Committee 2004-2005 (See Appendix VI) Member of the Film Studies Cultural Events Committee 2004-2005 Member of the Film (Critical Studies/History) Position Search Committee 2003-2004 Member of the Film (Production) Position Search Committee 2003-2004 Member of the Film Studies Advisory Committee 1999-2005 Member of the Film (Critical Studies/History) Position Search Committee, 2002-2003 Member of the Film (Production) Position Search Committee, 2002-2003 Member of the Film Studies Search Committee, 2000-2001 Member of the Cape Fear International Film Series Committee, 2000-2001 Member of the Cape Fear International Film Series Committee, 1999-2000 Member of the Financial Aid Committee, 1998-1999 Fullbright Interview Committee, 1998-1999
Department: Chair Curriculum Committee International Programs Liaison (2012- Member of the Spanish M.A. Advisory Committee (present) Placement Committee (2012- Spanish Section Coordinator, (May 2010 - 2012). M.A. Advisory Committee, Committee Member, (August 2009 - Present). Assessment of graduating SPN majors, Student Placement, (August 2007 - Present). Senior Members Committee, Committee Member, (August 2007 - Present). Chair of the Peer Evaluation Committee 2008-09, Chair of the Peer Review Committee 2003-2005 Library-Deparment Liason 2008-09 Member of the Executive Committee Exit assessment 2004-present Member of the Executive Committee 2004- present Member of the Curriculum Committee 2002-2008 Member of the Spanish Lecturer Position Search Committee 2005-2006 Member of the Spanish Position Search Committee 2004-2005 Departmental Senator 1999-2004 Member of 1 French Position Search Committee 2003-2004 Member of 3 French Position Search Committees 2002-2003 Member of the Peer Review Committee 1998-2003 Member of Spanish Search Committee, 2001-2002 Member of Spanish Search Committee, 2000-2001 Member of Spanish Search Committee, 1999-2000 Member of German Search Committee, 1999-2000 Member of Spanish Search Committee, 1999-2000 Member of the Library Committee, 1998-2000 Member of German Search Committee, 1998-1999 Presentation at The Foreign Languages and Literatures Colloquium, 1998
Community: Film introduction and discussion with Graduate Students at Cinematique. Asked byToni Whiteman Graduate Liberal Studies, Seahawk Perch Coordinator. April 10, 2012. Film Screening,. UNCW Film Screening with Q & A with the director. (April 27, 2011). TV interview for Valencia TV on the subject of the role of women in the Spanish film industry. Madrid, Spain. December, 2008. TV interview: The role of militant cinema during the Spanish transition from dictatorship to the democracy. Barcelona, Spain. March 2008. Book presentation: Sobrevives. Diario de una mujer embarazada. FNAC, Barcelona. June 27, 2007. Film Festival Jury member: Docúpolis. VIII Festival Internacional Documental de Barcelona. October, 2007. See: http://www.docupolis.org/2007/2007-ing.html and page 49 in http://www.docupolis.org/2007/prensa/Docupolis07-catalogo.pdf Television interview about the presence and reception of European cinema in the USA. Murcia, Spain. May, 2005. Spanish newspaper interview about the growing presence of women filmmakers. Bilbao, Spain. October, 2004. Member of the jury at the XI International Experimental Film Festival. Madrid. November 16-23, 2001. Organized the Spanish Film Series Spain: Women and Film in the 90s. The films where free and open to the public. Fall 2000. Was interviewed by the public radio station WHQR about the Spanish Film Series and the role of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures in the Film Studies major at UNCW. Fall, 2000. Organized the visit of Spanish director Isabel Coixet and the screening of her films. The films where free and open to the public, 2000. Organized the visit of Spanish director Chus Gutiérrez and the screening of her films. The screen was free and open to the public, 1999. Flamenco dance presentation at the Latino Festival at Wilmington, 1999. Paper presentation at the Cape Fear Foreign Language Collaborative, 1998.
V. GRANTS AND AWARDS 2009. Research Grant, Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spanish Ministry of Culture and United States Universities., International. 2009. Awarded a Summer Research Initiative from the College of Arts and Sciences. 2007: Awarded a Faculty Travel Award from the Office of International Programs. Awarded a $750 Project Fund Request to purchase Spanish DVD’s for the library. 2005: Awarded a Research Grant from the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain´s Ministry of Education and Culture and United States´ Universities. 2004: Awarded a College of Arts and Sciences Summer Curriculum Development Initiative for the creation of WMS 230 (FLL 230, FST 230) Women in Film. 2001: Awarded a Faculty Travel Award from the Office of International Programs. 2001: Received the Film-Historia 2001 award from the Film Research Center of Barcelona for its contribution to film and cultural studies. 2000: Awarded a Research Grant from the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain´s Ministry of Education and Culture and United States´ Universities. 2000: Awarded a College of Arts and Sciences Summer Curriculum Development Initiative for the development of new Film Studies courses. 1999: Awarded a Faculty Travel Award from the Office of International Programs. 1999: Summer Curriculum Development Award from the Graduate School and Research of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington for the development of the new Film Studies “Perspectives” core course “Introduction to Foreign Film.” 1998: Charles L. Cahill Award for Faculty Research from the Graduate School and Research of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Research project: Spanish Women Film Directors. 1998. Library Project Fund Award for the Development of Library Resources in the area of Spanish Film from the Randall Library of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. 1997. Library Project Fund Award for the Development of Library Resources in the area of Spanish Film from the Randall Library of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. 1997: Summer Initiative Research Award from the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. 1986: Outstanding Achievement Award in the area of Scholarship from the Minority Affairs Office of the University of Florida. 1986: Academic Excellence Award of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences of the University of Florida.
VI. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
A. Professional Memberships Member of EWA (European Women Audiovisual Network) http://www.ewawomen.com/ Member of NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) http://www.necs-initiative.org Member of CIMA (Association of Women Directors in Film and the Media) http://www.cimamujerescineastas.es Member of AEHC (Spanish Association of Film Historians) http://apolo.uji.es/cine Cervantes Institute http://www.cervantes.es Consejería de Educación. Spanish Embassy http://www.mec.es/exterior/usa/es/home/index.shtml
B. Professional Interests Cinema Studies; Feminist studies; Cultural studies; Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Spanish literature; Literary and film theory.
C. Languages Spanish; English; French