Karina Zelaya, PhD Assistant Professor of Spanish Department of Classical & Modern Languages and Literatures Mississippi State University [email protected] EDUCATION: University of California, Davis Ph.D. in Spanish Sept. 2013 Dissertation: Cuzcatlán reapropiada: El mito popular en la construcción de la identidad nacional salvadoreña en el siglo XX Advisor: Robert Irwin University of California, Davis M.A. Spanish and Latin American Literature June 2007 University of California, Santa Cruz Dec. 2004 B.A. English/World Literature with an emphasis in Cultural Studies RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS: Late 19th and 20th century Central American cultural production Contemporary literary production of the Central American diaspora Afro-Caribbean culture Latin American Cultural Studies Spanish for Heritage Speakers Literacy Studies (Writing in Ethnic Studies) ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS: Mississippi State University, Assistant Professor Aug. 2016-present Department of Classical & Modern Languages and Literature Mississippi State University, Visiting Assistant Professor August 2014-July 2016 California State University Northridge, Writing Program Director January 2012-July 2014 Central American Studies Department California State University, Northridge, Lecturer August 2011-December 2011 Central American Studies Department University of California, Davis, Teaching Assistant April -June 2011 University of California, Davis, Associate Instructor September 2007-March 2011 PUBLICATIONS: Peer-Reviewed Articles: “Conceptualizing and Problematizing Space: Teaching Central American Literature and Culture in Central America,” Co-authored with Brian Davisson. Forthcoming in Teaching Central American Literature in a Global Context, MLA Anthology Edited by Monica Abizures and Gloria Chacón, 2021 “La Siguanaba y la búsqueda de la identidad cultural salvadoreña en los siglos XX y XXI,” Istmo. No. 34. January-June issue, 2017 Brújula 9, Co-author with Brian Davisson of the issue introduction, 2012 “La Historia, las tradiciones y la literatura: Centralidad de la mitología en Historia moderna de El Salvador (1914) y en “La loba” (1904) de Francisco Gavidia,” Revista Estudios, Universidad de Costa Rica, October 2011 Guest Editor: Issue co-editor with Brian Davisson of “The Origins of Central American Narrative Literature: Revisiting a Lost Canon.” Brújula vol 9, 2012 Interviews: “Problematizing a Century of Central American History, Geography, and Subjectivity: An Interview with Ana Patricia Rodríguez.” Co-conducted with Brian Davisson. Brújula 9, 2012 Book Reviews: “Dos aportaciones invaluables para la crítica socio-cultural y literaria centroamericana en la actualidad,” Chasqui, November 2015 Edited Volumes: CMLL Symposium Series, The Metaphor of the Monster Co-Editor with Keith Moser of the first book in the series. Bloomsbury Press, October 2020 CMLL Symposium - Selected Proceedings: Displacement in Language, Literatures, and Cultures Co-Editor with Silvia Arroyo, August 2018 Current projects: Book length manuscripts: Nuevos sabores in the South: food, community politics and migration, Co-authored with Norbert Ross Ashtu at: Celebrando el legado de Paula Lopez, poeta Nahuat, Vol. Editor, introduction (Dirección de Publicaciones e Impresos Gobierno de El Salvador. Expected submission September 2021) Roca-Celis, Introduction to the novel’s reedition (El Venado Blanco Press, under review) Salarrué’s Aesthetics: Beyond the Terruño, Volume editor Journals: Güirigüri: A Salvadoran Literary and Cultural journal, Co-founder and journal editor (expected launch date Fall 2021) Starkville’s Billingual Cultural Magazine, an on-line community magazine, expected to launch October 2021) Articles: “The cultural politics of Claudia Lars’ Tierra de infancia” (projected completion Spring 2019) Critical Introduction to reprint edition of the 1907 Salvadoran novel Roca-Celis. (expected submission to publisher August 2021) PUBLIC HUMANITIES CONTRIBUTIONS Starkville community bilingual publication (in progress) Spanish Translation for all information and submission forms for the Mississippi State Libraries COVID19 Digital Archive Project. Summer 2020 Online Nahuat Instruction Pedagogical Series. Organized for the Tamachtiluyan ARK Nawat Online Community school. Spring-summer 2021 CONFERENCE PAPERS “Defying Oblivion: The Lenca Women and the Community's Biocultural Map," “Imaginaries of the Future: Transborder Personalities and Imaginaries of the Future, 2021 Symposium, Central American and Transborder Studies at California State, Northridge. Virtual, April 2021 “Arturo Ambrogi: Complejidad e impliaciones de la literatura costumbrista en El Salvador,” Congreso Centroamericano de Historia, Guatemala City, Guatemala, August 2018 “The pureras Jiquilisco: motherhood and the history of a cigar making business and distribution network in eastern El Salvador,” Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, Lexington. Kentucky, April 2018 “The pureras of Jiquilísco,” CMLL Symposium at Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, September 2016 “From early 20thcentury literary representations of popular myths to the 21st century search for the homeland: myth and shattered identity,” Latin American Studies Association (LASA), New York, May 2016 “Against Stereotyping: The Incorporation of Culture in the L2 Classroom,” Mississippi Foreign Language Association Conference, Starkville, November 2015 “Claudia Lars: a problematic gaze toward national identity,” Conferencia internacional de literaturas centroamericanas, New Orleans, March 2015 “De Salarrué a Chacurra: el entorno rural en la producción literaria salvadoreña,” XII Congreso Centroamericano de Historia, San Salvador, July 2014 “El Salvador and la salvadoreñidad en Claudia Lars’ Tierra de infancia,” XXIX Biennial Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Louisiana, February 2014 “El indígena en la nación salvadoreña durante el periodo finisecular (1890-1920): De la marginalidad al centro de la identidad nacional,” Conferencia internacional de literaturas centroamericanas, El Salvador, March 2013 “Indios dentro del discurso patriótico de los Recuerdos Salvadoreños” XI Congreso Centroamericano de Historia, Chiapas, Mexico, July 2012 “Salarrué: artista arraigado al terruño” III Central American Cultural Studies Congress at California State University, Northridge, June 2011 “La nación salvadoreña: centralidad de la mitología en Historia moderna de El Salvador (1914) y “La loba” (1904) de Francisco Gavidia,” X Congreso de Historia Centroamericana, Mangua, Nicaragua July 2010. “Francisco Gavidia: la cuestión de la indiferencia en el periodo finisecular salvadoreño,” Perspectives on Latin American Colloquium, UC Davis Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, 2009. “El Norte/The North: Myth and experience in the Salvadoran context through Mario Bencastro’s Odyssey to the North,” Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2009. “Sentimientos vs. civilización y progreso en Roca-celis, novela del salvadoreño Manuel Delgado,” Conferencia internacional de literaturas centroamericanas, Nicoya, Costa Rica, 2008. “El problema del indígena salvadoreño: indios y el mito del mestizaje en la nación salvadoreña,” Conferencia internacional de literaturas centroamericanas, Antigua, Guatemala, 2007. “Una perspectiva salvadoreña de ‘el norte’,” Perspectives on Latin American Colloquium, UC Davis, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, 2006. INVITED RESEARCH TALKS: “"La Siguanaba" in the diaspora: A Salvadoran Educator's Perspective,” California State University, Northridge. April 2019 “Imagining Cuscatlán: Stories, Myths and Indigeneity in the Making of Salvadoran National and Cultural Identity,” California State University, Dominguez Hills, November 2018 “Central Americans in the United States” February 18th, 2016. College of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas. “Poetics of socio-political conflict in Salvadoran literature” Sonoma State University, Sonoma, California, February 2013 “A Case for Literacy in El Salvador” Invited presenter at panel on Gender Inequality and Literacy Campaign organized by the Central American Studies Department at California State University, Northridge. November 2012 “El Norte: Mito y realidad histórica en el contexto salvadoreño” Invited Expert Speaker. Foro de Literatura, Consulado General de El Salvador en Los Angeles, California, 2011 INVITED LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS ON PEDAGOGY: Support for Language Online Teaching (SOLT), two week virtual workshop, presented on the incorporation of culture in the language and EL classroom. Mississippi State University, June 2021 “El acercamiento comunicativo para aprender nahuat,” Tamatchtiluyan ARK Virtual Nahuat Community School. February 2021 “It’s Academia, It’s not personal! – A Cultural Studies Project or a Journey to Reconcile the Personal and the Academic,” Invited speaker for the Immigrant Scholars Methods and Research graduate seminar at California State University, Dominguez Hills, October 2020. “Incorporating Central American literature into secondary schools and college level course curricula” Pedagogical workshop, February 18, 2016. College of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas. “Armed conflict in Salvadoran Literature” Invited panel participant/presenter. SOMARTS, San Francisco, California, February 2013 “A glimpse of Salvadoran history: The Civil War (1980-1992)” Cultural Perspectives Immersion Seminar for California high school teachers, California State University, Sacramento, 2009 INVITED COURSE TALKS & Seminars: Invited Faculty to teach the Cuento Centroamericano