CURRICULUM VITAE
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Dept. of Foreign Languages,
Literatures, and Cultures |
Home address: provided upon request barra1vt@cmich.edu |
Ph.D. 2005 Spanish. The University of Arizona. Tucson,
AZ.
Major: Modern Latin American Literature.
Minors: Peninsular, Literary Theory.
Dissertation: From the Serialized Story to the Reality
Show: A Theoretical Approach to Models of Reading and Consuming about Fiction
and Reality. Directed by Dr. Malcolm Compitello.
M.A. 2000 Spanish. The Catholic University of America.
Washington D.C.
Major:
Hispanic Literature.
B.A. /Diploma 1998 (Licenciatura). Journalism. Universidad Austral de Chile. Valdivia, Chile
Majors: Social
Communication – Journalism.
Thesis: Semiosis del Lenguaje Gestual y del Vestuario de los Animadores de Televisión
en Chile. Directed by Dr. Iván Carrasco Muñoz.
08 / 2005 - present Assistant Professor of Spanish. Central Michigan University. Dept. of Foreign
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
III. Teaching Experience
08 / 2005 - present Assistant Professor of Spanish. Central
Michigan University. Dept. of Foreign Languages,
Literatures, and Cultures.
Courses
taught:
- Beginning Spanish II: Fall 2005, Spring
2006
-
Intermediate Spanish I: Fall 2006
- Intermediate
Spanish II: Fall 2007
-
Advanced Grammar and Composition: Spring
2006, Spring
2007
-
Culture and Civilization of Latin America: Fall 2005, Spring
2006
- Culture and Civilization of Spain: Spring
2007
- Hispanic Film,
History and Culture: Fall 2007
2000 - 2005 Graduate
Associate in Teaching / Research. Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
University of Arizona.
Courses
taught:
Beginning
Spanish II: Fall 2000, Spring 2001, Summer 01
Intermediate
Spanish I: Winter 2001-2002
Intermediate Spanish II: Fall 2001, Spring
2002, Spring 2003
Intermediate
Grammar: Fall 2002 (in Spain), Fall 2003
Introduction
to Literary Genres: Winter 2003-2004, Fall 2004,
Spring 2005
1998
- 2000 Spanish
Teacher Assistant. Department of Modern Languages. The
Catholic
University of America.
Courses taught:
Intermediate Spanish I: Fall 1998, Spring 1999, Fall 1999, Spring 2000
1996
- 1998 Semiotics
Teacher Assistant. Linguistics and Literature Institute.
Universidad
Austral de Chile.
Course
taught (1 day per week):
Semiotics: Spring 1996, Spring
1997, Spring 1998
1995
- 1996 English
Teacher Assistant. English Institute. Universidad Austral de Chile
Course
taught (1 day per week):
English II:
Fall 1995, Spring 1996
Spring 1994 Topics in the Contemporary Culture
Teacher Assistant. Social Sciences
Institute. Universidad Austral
de Chile.
Course grader:
Problems of
the Contemporary Culture: Spring 1994
IV. Overseas Position Experience
Winter
2006 Visiting Faculty to
Evaluate the Master’s Study Abroad Program in Valdivia,
Chile.
Fall 2002 Assistant
of the Director Overseas Program in Spain, Instituto
de Estudios
Norteamericanos, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
V. Publications
a. Book articles
2007 “La reestructuración y el desplazamiento
social en el espacio urbano de
Bogotá”. El universo literario
de Laura Restrepo. Ed. Elvira Sánchez-
Blake; Julie Lirot. Bogotá: Taurus, 2007. 273-291.
b. Refereed journals
2007 A Phenomenological and Cultural Perspective on Mariano Barroso’s Éxtasis. Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 40 (2). To appear
2006 “Lectura y performance en la narrativa de Cortázar,
un fenómeno más allá de la metaficción”. Cincinnati Romance Review
25.
116-131.
2004 “‘La gentileza de los
desconocidos’: Postmodernidad, caos y diálogo de sistemas discursivos”. Revista Signos 37.55: 77-87.
2004 “La flauta rota” de
Benítez Rojo: nuevas dimensiones de la escritura de la historia. Revista Logos 13: 41-57.
2003 “Nueva novela policíaca:
un nuevo modelo exegético”. Mester 32 (2003): 155-78.
c. Selected Proceedings
2005 Gran Hermano:
producción narrativa (o ficción y ‘realidad’) de un reality
show. Memoria del XIX Coloquio Internacional de Literatura Mexicana e
Hispanoamericana. 375-86.
2002 “‘No quiero
engañarlos’: Autoridad performativa y mecanismos de
representación textual”. Céfiro.
3.1: 52 -
65.
2002 “El control de la
imagen en Nadie conoce a nadie”. Selected Proceedings. Twelfth
Annual Graduate and Professional Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian
Literature, Language and Culture. University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ: 49 - 56.
d. Other publications
2007 “La
palabra tiene algo de magia negra y blanca. Entrevista a Andrea
Maturana”.
Grafemas (Feb). www.grafemas.org (Interview)
2005 “Vértices de la representación en Éxtasis de Barroso (1996):
Aproximaciones
fenoménicas entre literatura y cinematografía”. Espéculo: Revista de Estudios Literarios.
Universidad Complutense de Madrid. 31: no pagination.
(Online literary magazine)
e. Book reviews
2006 “No decir por Andrea Maturana”. Revista Alpha: Revista de Artes,
Letras y Filosofía 23: 310-13.
2005 “Victims
of the Chilean Miracle: Workers and Neoliberalism in
the Pinochet
Era,
1973- 2002”. Arizona Journal of
Hispanic Cultural Studies. 9: 231-33.
2004 “Latin American Science Fiction Writers: An A-to-Z
Guide”. Arizona Journal
of Hispanic
Cultural Studies. 8: 270-71.
2004 “El imperio de los sentimientos
por Beatriz Sarlo”. Revista Alpha:
Revista de
Artes, Letras y Filosofía 20: 295-96.
2003 “Imagining
Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings by Magali Carrera”. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. 7: 312 -13.
2002 “Desembarcos en
el papel: La imagen de la literatura de Julio Cortázar por
María de Lourdes Dávila”. Arizona Journal of Hispanic
Cultural Studies. 6: 303.
VI. Presentations at professional meetings
2007 “Trauma,
lenguaje y memoria entre El daño y “Al fondo del patio’ de Andrea
Maturana”. Presented at the XXVII
International Congress of the Latin
American
Studies Association (LASA) (Sept).
2006 “Approaching Cinema:
A Phenomenological Perspective on Barroso's Éxtasis”. Presented at the 48th Annual Convention
of the Midwest Modern Language Association. Chicago, IL (Nov).
2006 ”Delirio: la reestructuración y el
desplazamiento social convergen en el espacio urbano de Bogotá”. Presented at JALLA 2006 (Jornadas Andinas de Literatura
Latinoamericana). Bogotá, Colombia (Aug).
2006 “Mujer y capital: un maridaje incompatible en La
novia oscura de Laura Restrepo”. Presented
at the XIV
Congreso Internacional de Estudios Literarios (SOCHEL). Arica,
Chile (Aug).
2006 “Carmen de Burgos: Solidaridad de género en la obra periodística de una dama de principios del siglo XX”. Presented at the XXV Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Louisiana State
University, Baton Rouge, LA (Feb).
2005 Lectura y performance de Cortázar, un fenómeno más
allá de la metaficción”. Presented at the 25th Annual Cincinnati Conference on
Romance Languages and Literatures. The University of Cincinnati.
Cincinnati, OH
(May).
2003 “Gran Hermano: ficción
y realidad de un ‘reality show’”. Presented
at the XIX Coloquio Internacional de
Literatura Mexicana e Hispanoamericana. Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo.
Sonora, México (Nov).
2003 “Ana Lydia Vega: Letra
para salsa y tres soneos por encargo, la reversión de
lo divertido”. Presented at the
X Jornadas Metropolitanas de Estudios Culturales. Centro de Cultura Casa Lamm. México D.F, México (July).
2001 “La pregunta modela la
respuesta: estrategias de composición de la crónica después de 500 años”. Presented at Fosteriana 2001, Conferencia internacional en honor
de David William Foster. Arizona State University. Phoenix, AZ (Oct).
2000 “La gentileza de los
desconocidos: diálogo postmoderno de sistemas discursivos”. Presented at the
Primeras Jornadas de Literatura Española. Santiago de Chile (July ).
Talks
2004 Invited by the Audiovisual Program (Área Audiovisual) of the
Social Communication Institute,
at the Universidad Austral de Chile (UACh), to present
the lecture “Del Folletín
al Reality Show, Alcances de la ficción y la realidad
desde una mirada de los estudios culturales” in Valdivia, Chile (June).
2004 Invited
by the Latin American Area Center and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, at The University of Arizona, to the Fall 2004 Teacher Workshop entitled From Moorish Spain to the Americas: The Meeting of Cultures, to present the lecture “Literary
journeys: From the Spanish Reconquista to the
Americas Conquista” (Oct).
VII.
Grants
2007 Summer
Faculty Scholars. Faculty Research Grant. College of
Humanities and Social and Behavioral Sciences. Project: “The
Mother-
Daughter Crossroad:
a Dilemma in Recent Hispanic Cultural Production.”
The project
was carried out in Spain (June). (3,500)
2007
Travel grant. FACiT. Professional Growth Funds
to attend the summer course “Género, transacciones y transformaciones
en diálogo con las ciencias sociales y las humanidades” (“Gender,
Transactions, and Transformations in Dialogue with Social Sciences and
Humanities”) offered by the Programa interdisciplinario de estudios de la mujer
(Interdisciplinary Program on Women Studies - PIEM) at El Colegio de
México, México, D.F. (July).
2007 PIEM/Ford Foundation Scholarship. Tuition waiver for the summer
course “Género, transacciones y transformaciones en
diálogo con las ciencias sociales y las humanidades” funded
by the Ford Foundation and awarded by the
Programa Interdisciplinario de estudios de la mujer at El Colegio de México, México, D.F. (1,500)
2006 Faculty
International Development and Initiatives Grant from the Office of
International Education in Chile. This grant funded a travel to Chile to
interview the Chilean author Andrea Maturana, and to
study her literary work at the National Library in Santiago (June).
(1,200)
2006 Site
Visit to Evaluate the Study Abroad Program in Valdivia, Chile, Department of
Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures, to accompany graduate students in
the summer of 2006 as the faculty liaison with Universidad Austral de Chile
(June). (2,000)
2006 Travel
Grant. Faculty Research and Creative Endeavor for a Premier
Display at the XXV Louisiana Conference
on Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
(Feb).
2005 Awarded by the Spanish Foreign Affaires Ministry (Beca
del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y Cooperación -MAE). I
studied the journalistic work of the Spanish writer Carmen de Burgos, at the
National Library in Madrid, Spain (July - August). (4,000)
2005 Alltel Fund for the Arts recipient. I lead the project “Student/Faculty Interaction Grants
Program: Hispanic movies at the Arizona International Film Festival”. This
grant gave me the opportunity to develop an activity outside the classroom with
my SPAN 350 students: We watched two Hispanic films at the International Film
Festival (April).
VIII.
Research assistantship
2001 Research
assistant for the project Glosas croniquenses: el mundo andino
lenguas nativa y castellano. Directed by Dr.
Lydia Fossa (Spring –
Summer)
IX.
Course
2007 The
17th International Summer Course on
Gender Studies “Gender,
Transactions, and Transformations in
Dialogue with Social Sciences
and Humanities” (XVII Curso
Internacional de Verano en Estudios de Género “Género, transacciones y
transformaciones en diálogo con las ciencias sociales y las humanidades”) offered by the
Interdisciplinary Program on Women’s
Studies - PIEM (Programa Interdisciplinario de
estudios de la mujer) at El Colegio de
México, México, D.F. June 25th
– July 27th.
X.
Editorial collaboration
2007 Invited to collaborate with SLAPC (Studies in Latin American Popular Culture)
2004 – present Editorial Collaborator (abstract
reviewer) for Revista Alpha: Revista de Artes, Letras y
Filosofía
2002-2005 Editorial Collaborator
for Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies
2003-2005 Co-founder and Editor of Divergencias.
Revista de estudios lingüísticos y literarios. Graduate Students journal2002 Nominated for the
Graduate Student Leadership award of the Graduate & Professional Student
Council at The University of Arizona