spanish Faculty

Publications

Articles - Referred Published

- "Carpentier's El Reino de Este Mundo in a New Light: Toward a Theory of the Fantistic." Journal of Spanish Studies: Twentieth Century 8.1-2, 1980, pp. 29-34.

- "Literatura Crítica y Crítica de la Literatura: Teoría y Práctica en la Obra de Salavdor Elizondo." Chasqui, 11.1, 1981; 41-52.

- "Hacia el Apocalipsis: La Violencia en Los Cuentos de Alvarez Gardezábal." Crítica Hispánica 3.1, 1981; 3-16.

- "Realism Rewritten: An-other Reading of Hawkes's Second Skin." Ball State University Forum 23.3, 1982; 64-68.

- "Camera Luacute;cida, Camera Obscura: El Posible Imposible de la Escritura." Letra 5.7, 1984; 22-27.

- "Literature, Self-Consciousness, and Writing: The Example of Barth's Lost in The Funhouse." International Fiction Review 11.2, 1984; 84-89.

- "The Book of Life and Death: Quevedo and the Printing Press." Hispanic Journal 5.2, 1984; 7-15.

- "Quevedo y la Imprenta." Boletín Editorial de El Colegio de México 34 (nov.-dic. 1990): 14-22. (Translated and reprinted from Hispanic Journal, 1984.)

- "Postmodern Fiction in Spanish America: The Example of Salvador Elizondo and Néstor Sánchez." Arizona Quarterly 42.1, 1986; 5-16.

- "Entrevista a García Ponce." Hispamérica XV.43, 1986; 45-55.

- "La Vocación Crítica en México: A Propósito de Segunda Voz de Ignacio Trejo." Semanario Cultural de Novedades (México) #303, 1988; 11, 16.

- "Juan García Ponce: El Arte de Vivir La Ambiguedad Esencial." La Orquesta 3.16, 1988; 44-47.

- "Literature, Self-Consciousness, and Writing: The Example of Barth's Lost in the Funhouse." In Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 51, D.G. Marowski & R. Matuz, eds. Detroit: Gale Research, 1989: 22-24. (Reprinted from International Fiction Review, 1984.)

- "Contexts of Critical Reception in El Laberinto de la soledad: The Contingencies of Value and the Discourse of Power." Siglo XX\Twentieth Century 10.1&2, 1992; 101-24.

- "Mexico." In Handbook of Latin American Literature. 2nd edition. D.W. Foster, ed. Garland Publishers, 1992.

- "Critical Theory, Cultural Politics and Latin American Narrative: A Prolegomenon." 39 pp. ms. Essay to appear in Critical Theory, Cultural Politics and Latin American Narrative. S. Bell, et.al., eds. University of Notre Dame Press, 1993, pp. 1-32.

- "Salvador Elizondo." 25 pp. ms. Contemporary Latin American Fiction Writers. 2nd Series W. Luis, ed. Vol. 145 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography; Clark, Bruccoli, Layman, pp. 108-117.

- "Sailing East into the Southern Boom: John Barth's The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor." American Book Review. 14.6, Feb.- Mar. 1993); 16, 25.

-"Into the (Theoretical) Mainstream, Into the (Political) Maelstrom" in SigloXX/Twentieth Century 13.1 & 2. (1995) pp.269-279.

-"Mañanita blusera," by G. Samperio, translation (University of New Mexico Press volume, forthcoming).

Book Publications

- Co-author. Critical Theory, Cultural Politics and Latin American Narrative. University of Notre Dame Press, May 1993.

Book Reviews

-"Simple Variations Arresting Modulations in the Experimental Mode." by R. Appel in American Book Review (forthcoming).

(B.A., University of Kansas, 1977; M.A., University of Kentucky, 1979; Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1984), joined the University of Arkansas in 1992 and is currently an Associate Professor of Spanish. Professor Bell works primarily in the area of modern Spanish American Literature and specializes in the Latin American Novel, Mexican literature, and Critical Theory. Professor Bell has presented many conference papers on these subjects, and he has published numerous articles and reviews in national and international journals, including an extensive entry on "Mexico" in the Handbook of Latin American Literature, 1992. He also co-authored and edited the volume entitled Critical Theory, Cultural Politics, and Latin American Narrative, 1993.

LINDSAY PUENTE

Publications

--“Creating Revolutionary Cuba’s National Hero: The Cultural Capital of the Cimarrón.” Mester Vol XLI (forthcoming).

--“Voicing the Nation: El masacre se pasa a pie” Antípodas XX (2009): 205-220.

(B.A., University of Southern California; M.A. & Ph.D., University of California, Irvine) joined the department in Fall 2010. She is currently an Assistant Professor, and holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in comparative literature, and a B.A. in comparative literature and Spanish. Puente's dissertation is titled "Locating Slavery in the Modern National Imaginary: The Legacy of Haiti," and it examines the convergences of history and fiction, postcolonial theory and contemporary cultural production in the Caribbean. Currently she is working on a project that examines the production of popular culture in relation to tourism and the state in Brazil. Her teaching interests include Caribbean literature and culture, the Afro-Latin world, and U.S.-Latino literature and culture.

KAY PRITCHETT

Publications

Articles

--“Functions of Irony in Manuel Vázquez Montalbán's Coplas a la muerte de mi tía Daniela.” Anales de la Literature Española Contemporánea 8 (1983): 47-58.

--“Myth and Contemporaneity in the Poetry of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán.” Discurso Literario 3.1 (Fall, 1985): 145-51.

--“Recent Love Poems by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán.” Selected Proceedings of the 34th Annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference. Ed. Eduardo Zayas-Bazán and Christa I. Hungate. Johnson City, TN: East Tennessee State University, 1986. 313-20.

--Bio-bibliographic studies on Guillermo Carnero, José María Castellet, José Agustín Goytisolo, Félix Grande, Juan Panero, Leopoldo Panero, Leopoldo María Panero, Baltasar Porcel, Carlos Sahagún and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula. Greenwood Press, 1993.

--“'Bécquer en Veruela, julio de 1864' de José Agustín Goytisolo (1973): A New Style and Voice.” Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea 13 (1988): 249-59.

--“Antonio Colinas's Larga carta a Francesca: A Lacanian Analysis of Its Formal Construction.” Hispania (May, 1991): 262-68.

--“Pureza Canelo: Recalling the Child in the Mirror.” Monographic Review 6 (1990): 158-69.

--“Cristina Fernández Cubas’ “Agatha en Estambul”: Traveling into Mist and Mystery,” Monographic Review, XII (1996): 247-57.

--“The Feminine Subject in Juana Castro’s Cóncava mujer and Arte de cetrería.” El sujeto femenino en la literatura hispánica de mujer. Ed. Susana A. Cavallo et al. Scripta Humanistica, 1998. 123-36.

--“Computerized Literature Lessons: Extending the Time and Space of the Classroom.” Technology for Language Learning: Faculty Authored LIBRA Courseware. Ed. Robert Fischer. San Marcos: Southwest Texas University Press, 1998. 49-56.

--“El sujeto femenino en Cóncova mujer y Arte de Cetrería” (my translation of my Castro article for Sujeto femenino y palabra poética. Estudios críticos de la poesía de Juana Castro. Ed. Sharon Keefe Ugalde. Madrid: Huerga & Fierro, 2002.

--Bio-bibliographic study on Pureza Canelo in Feminist Encylopedia of Spanish Literature (Westport, CN: Greenwoood Press, 2002). Pp. 98-99.

--Bio-bibliographic study on Juana Castro in Feminist Encylopedia of Spanish Literature (Westport, CN: Greenwoood Press, 2002). Pp. 111-112.

--“Sacred Spaces: The Mediterranean in Poems by Antonio Colinas,” Hispania 88.2 (2005): 278-283.

--“Abriles, ahogados y otros recursos residuales en Pero el viajero que huye,” in Manuel Vázquez Montalbán: El compromiso con la memoria. Ed. José F. Colmeiro. London: Tamesis, 2007.

--“Julia Uceda: Lo extraño en nosotros mismos.” Mujer, creación, exilio (España 1939-1975). Ed. Mónica Jato, Sharon Keefe Ugalde, and Janet Pérez. Icara, 2009. 275-300.

--“No escribir: ‘Escritura frugal.’” Esfera poesía: Pureza Canelo. Ed. José Luis Bernal Salgado. Cajalmendralejo, Spain: Unión de Bibliófilos, 2009. 161-74.

--“Commodity Fetishism in Lucía Etxebarría’s Amor, curiosdad, prozac y dudas.” Monographic Review 25 (2009): 161-179.

--“Exegetic Dissonance in Pureza Canelo’s Dulce nadie.” Hispanófila (forthcoming in 2012). 25 MPP.

--“Dark Mater: Sorcery and Self in Pedraza's ‘Mater Tenebrarum.’” Monographic Review (forthcoming in 2012). 25 MPP.

--“Coplas que la poeta hizo a la muerte de sus padres: Juana Castro's Los cuerpos oscuros.” Cuadernos de ALDEEU (forthcoming in 2012). 25 MPP.

Book Publications

--Four Postmodern Poets of Spain: A Critical Study with Translations of the Poems (University of Arkansas Press, 1991). 259 pp.

--Jonah and the Pink Whale. Trans. of the novel by José Wolfango Montes Vannuci. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1991. 264 pp.

--In the Land of Silence. Trans. of the novel by Jesús Urzagasti. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1994. 376 pp.

--Pureza Canelo's Celda verde / Green Cell: A Critical Study with Translations of the Poems. New York: “Nuestra Voz,” 2000. 177 pp.

--Nature’s Colloquy with the Word: Pureza Canelo’s Early Poetics. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University, 2003. 156 pp.

--In Pursuit of Poem Shadows: Pureza Canelo’s Second Poetics. Lewiston, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2011. 220 pp.

Short Translations

--Poems by Antonio Colinas: "Head of the Goddess in My Hand and "Giacomo Casanova Accepts the Position of Librarian Offered to Him, in Bohemia, by the Count of Waldstein," Poetry Miscellany, 15 (December, 1984), pp. 34-5.

--Position of Librarian Offered to Him, in Bohemia, by the Count of Waldstein.” Poetry Miscellany 15 (December, 1984): 34-5.

--"Man on the Rim,"trans. of the short story by Manuel Vargas. In Oblivion and Stone, ed. Sandra Reyes (University of Arkansas Press, 1999).

--"November," "Labyrinth," and "I Can Tonight," trans. of poems by Pureza Canelo. In Atlanta Review. Spain: Poetry from the Castillian, Catalan, Basque and Galician Languages, vol. 9 (Spring/Summer2003): 70-73.

Reviews

--G. L. Solner's Poesía española hoy. Círculo: Revista de Cultura 12 (1984): 133-5.

--Ana María Moix's A imagen y semejanza. Círculo: Revista de Cultura 15 (Fall, 1986): 154-6.

--Antonio Colinas's Un año en el sur. Círculo: Revista de Cultura 17 (1988): 170-2.

--Antonio Colinas's Larga carta a Francesca. Twentieth Century / Siglo XX, VII (1989-90), pp. 35-6.

--José Enrique Martínez's Antología de la poesía española (1939-1975). Hispania (September, 1991): 673.

--Soledad Puértolas's Queda la noche. World Literature Today (Spring 1991): 275-6.

--Alfonso Costafreda's Poesía completa. Hispania (December 1991): 893.

--Juan José Millás's La soledad era esto. World Literature Today (Winter 1992): 98.

--Pedro Crespo's El cuaderno de Forster. World Literature Today (Autumn 1991): 674.

--Luis Mario's Ciencia y arte del verso castellano. Hispania (December 1992): 1200.

--Ramón “Tianguis” Pérez's Diary of an Undocumented Immigrant and Edgardo Cozarinsky's UrbanVoodoo. Hispania (September 1992): 583-4.

--Antonio Colinas's Tratado de armonía, José Angel Valente's Variaciones sobre el pájaro y la red. Precedido de La piedra y el centro, and Valente's No amanece el cantor. Hispania (May 1993): 272-4.

--Sharon Keefe Ugalde's Conversaciones y poemas. Hispania (December 1993): 732-3.

--Elena Gascón Vera's Un mito nuevo: La mujer como sujeto / objeto literario. World Literature Today(Winter 1994): 93-4.

--Forrest Gander's Mouth to Mouth: Poems by Twelve Contemporary Mexican Women. World LiteratureToday (Spring 1994: 348-349.

--Carmen Boullosa's La Milagrosa. World Literature Today (Autumn 1994): 788.

--Carlos Bousoño's El ojo de la aguja. Hispania (December 1994): 804-5.

--Cristina Fernández Cubas's Con Agatha en Estambul. World Literature Today (Spring 1995): 327.

--Francisco Nieva’s Viaje a Pantaélica: Diario secreto del caballero Cambicio de Santiago. WorldLiterature Today (Spring 1995): 330-1.

--Susana Thénon’s distancias / distances. World Literature Today (Autumn 1995): 767-8.

--Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies. World Literature Today (Autumn 1995): 789.

--Andrew P. Debicki’s Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond. Hispania (March 1996): 47-9.

--Juan Luis Panero’s Los mitos y las máscaras. Hispania (May 1996): 241-2.

--Mercedes Abad’s Soplando al viento. World Literature Today (Spring 1996): 365.

--David K. Herzberger’s Narrating the Past: Fiction and Historiography in Postwar Spain. World Literature Today (Spring 1996): 373.

--Noël Valis’s trans. of The Poetry of Julia Uceda. World Literature Today (Autumn 1996), pp. 924-925.

--Juana Salabert’s Arde lo que será. World Literature Today (Winter 1997):120.

--Robert C. Spires’ Post-Totalitarian Spanish Fiction. World Literature Today (Spring 1997): 359-60.

--José F. Colmeiro’s Crónica del desencanto: La narrativa de Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. Hispania(September 1997): 490-1.

--Karica Urbanc’s Novela femenina, crítica feminista: Cinco autoras españolas. World Literature Today(Autumn 1997): 764.

--Fernando Aramburu’s Fuegos con limón. Hispania (March 1998): 120-1.

--Enrique Vila-Matas’ Extraña forma de vida. World Literature Today (Spring 1998): 342-3.

--Rodrigo Fresán’s Esperanto. Hispania (September 1998): 570-1.

--Montserrat Lunati’s Rainy Days (Días de lluvia): Short Stories by Contemporary Spanish Women Writers. World Literature Today (Summer 1998): 589.

--Eduardo Mendicutti’s Yo no tengo la culpa de haber nacido tan sexy. Hispania (March 1999): 100.

--Rosario Ferré’s Eccentric Neighborhoods. World Literature Today (Winter 1999).

--Soledad Puértolas’ Bordeaux. World Literature Today (Winter 1999).

--Juan M. Godoy’s Cuerpo, deseo e idea en la poesía de Luis Antonio de Villena. Hispania (May 1999): 250-1.

--Diana Cullell's La poesía de la exeperiencia espanola de Fin del Siglo XX al XXI. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (forthcoming in 2012). 4 MSS pp.

Conference Papers

--“Recent Anthologies of Contemporary Spanish Poetry,” Arkansas Philological Society, Jonesboro, AR. (October, 1982).

--“The Controversial joven poesía española,” Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, New Orleans, LA (February, 1983).

--“Vázquez Montalbán's Autobiographical Poetry,” Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Baton Rouge, LA (March, 1984).

--“Myth and Contemporaneity in the Poetry of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán,” Fifth Colloquium on Spanish Poetry, Bloomington, IL (April, 1984).

--“Recent Love Poems by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán,” Mountain Interstate Foreign Languages Conference, Johnson City, TN (October, 1984).

--“The Poetry and Poetics of José Agustín Goytisolo: 1955-1968,” Philological Association of the Carolinas, Winston-Salem, NC (March, 1985).

--“Bécquer en Veruela, julio de 1864' (1973): A Meaningful Stylistic Deviation,” American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, New York, NY (November, 1985).

--“Antonio Colinas's Larga carta a Francesca: A Lacanian Approach,” Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, New Orleans, LA Tulane University (February, 1989).

--Panel participant: “Lacanian Theory and Its Application,” Conference on Literature and Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (March, 1990).

--“The Falcon as a Symbol of Transcendence in Juana Castro's Arte de cetrería, Feminisms, Psychoanalyses, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (April, 1994).

--“Cristina Fernández Cubas’ “Agatha en Estambul”: Slipping into Mist and Mystery,” Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis, MO (Novermber, 1995).

--“Pureza Canelo’s El barco de agua:The Poet Encounters Her Public; Nature Encounters the Word,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY (April 2002).

--“‘Al-Andalus’ and ‘Middle East’: Ethnic Alterity in Works by Two Women Writers of the Transition,” Convivencia and Lost Paradises, Al-Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco (May, 2002).

--“A Century of Symbolism: From Rimas (1871) to Celda verde (1971),” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY (April 2003).

--“Constructing a Sacred Space: The Mediterranean in Poems by Antonio Colinas,” University of Hawaii Humanities Conference, Honolulu, HI (January 2004).

--“Abriles and ahogados: Residual Devices in Pero el viajero que huye by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY (April 2005).

--“Canelo’s [Tiempo y] Epacio de Emoción: Revision and the Purification of Vision,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY (April 2006).

--“Canelo’s “Second Poetics” and the Vocational Poem in Prose,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY (April 2007).

--“Julia Uceda: Lo extraño en nosostros mismos,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY (April 2008).

--“Canelo’s No escribir: Brevity is the Key.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY (April 2009).

--“Commodity Fetishism in Lucía Etxebarría’s Amor, curiosdad, prozac y dudas.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY (April 2010).

--“Exegetic Dissonance in Canelo’s Dulce nadie.” Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, Lexington, KY (April 16, 2011).

--“'Coplas que la poeta hizo a la muerte de su[s] padre[s]’: Juana Castro's Los cuerpos oscuros.” South Central Modern Language Association Conference, Hot Springs, AR (October 28, 2011).]

--“Dark Mater: Sorcery and Self in Pedraza's ‘Mater Tenebrarum.’” Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, Lexington (April 19, 2012).

--“Image and the Inscrutability of Transformation in Pilar Pedraza's Las novias inmóviles.” South Central Modern Language Association Conference, San Antonio, TX (November 15, 2012).]

(B.A., Millsaps College, 1968; M.A., University of North Carolina, 1973; Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1979) joined the University of Arkansas faculty in 1982 and is currently a Professor of Spanish. Dr. Pritchett commonly teaches three undergraduate courses (Introduction to Literature, Monuments of Spanish Literature II, and Spanish Civilization) and three graduates classes (Nineteenth-Century Spanish Drama and Poetry, Nineteenth-Century Spanish Narrative, and Spanish Literature Since 1898). Once she had completed her graduate work at the University of North Carolina, as a recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Travel Grant to Spain she began her research into recent poetry and later published Four Postmodern Poets of Spain: A Critical Study with Translations of the Poems (1991) and Pureza Canelo's Celda verde / Green Cell: A Critical Study with Translations of the Poems (2000). Her most recently published critical studies are Nature’s Colloquy with the Word: Pureza Canelo’s Early Poetics (Bucknell, 2004) and In Pursuit of Poem Shadows: Pureza Canelo's Second Poetics (Bucknell, 2011). This last book has recently been awarded the South Central Modern Language Association Book Award for criticism. Dr. Pritchett has published critical essays in journals as well as translations of two Bolivian novels: Jonah and the Pink Whale (1991) and In the Land of Silence (1994). Her primary research interests are contemporary poetry and fiction, psychoanalytic theory, feminism, and the occult.

LUIS FERNANDO RESTREPO

Publications

--Antología critíca de Juan de Castellenos. Bogotá: Centro Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2004: 456 pages. Contains a 50-page introduction and annotated text.

--Un nuevo reino imaginado: Las ElegÌas de varones ilustres de Indias de Juan de Castellanos. Instituto Colombiano de Cultura Hisp·nica, 1999: 233 pp. Finalist. Colombian National History Award, 1997. Reviews in Estudios de Literatura Colombiana [Universidad de Antioquia, MedellÌn, Colombia] 8 enero-junio (2001): 107-9; and Fronteras de la Historia 5 (2000) 152-56.

--First Encounters: Native Americans and Europeans in the Mississippi Valley. CD-Rom co- produced with George Sabo and Linda Jones. Arkansas Archeological Survey, 2000. National Endowment for the Humanities Teaching with Technology Project.

ARTICULOS Y CAPITULOS EN LIBROS

“Infausto teatro de sombras” Estudios de literatura colombiana 18 (2006): 149-167.

“La ópera Furatena de Uribe Holguín” Cuadernos de Literatura 10.19 (2005):10-23.

Naturaleza Muisca y los límites de la epistemología moderna según las letras anuales de los jesuitas del Nuevo Reino de Granada, siglo XVII”. Jesuit Knowledge, Natural Histories and the New World. Luis Millones-Figueroa and Domingo Ledezma, eds. Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Verveurt, 2005. 173-194.

“Creole Politics of Memory: The Ambivalent Nativism of Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita’s Historia general de las conquistas del Nuevo Reyno de Granada.” Forthcoming in Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas. Ralph Bauer and José Antonio Mazzotti, eds. Univ. of North Carolina Press and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History.

“Reflexiones sobre los estudios Muisca y las etnopolíticas de la memoria”. Los Muiscas: Representaciones, cartografías y etnopolíticas de la memoria. Edited by Ana Gomez. Bogotá: Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2005. 316-330.

"The Cultures of Colonialism". Latin American Studies: A Companion. Philip Swanson, ed. London: Arnold, 2003: 47-68.

"The Latin American City: A Cultural Studies Approach." Cultural Studies in the Curriculum: Teaching Latin America. Danny Anderson and Jill Kuhnheim, eds. New York: Modern Languages Association Teaching Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Series, 2003. 85-104.

"Estudios subalternos y tiempo insurgente: memorias Maya-Tzeltal de la rebelión de 1712 en Chiapas." Revista Iberoamericana 63.201(2002): 1091-1109.

"Sacred and Imperial Topographies in Juan de Castellanos's Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias." Mapping Colonial Spanish America. Santa Arias and Mariselle Meléndez, eds. London: Bucknell University Press, 2002. 84-101.

"Narrating Colonial Interventions: Don Diego de Torres, cacique of Turmeque." Colonialism Past and Present. Alvaro Félix Bolaños and Gustavo Verdesio, eds. Albany: SUNY Press, 2002. 97-117.

"La estética de la violencia en la épica colonial". Concepciones de la conquista. Felipe Castañeda y Mathias Vollet, eds. Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes, 2001. 203-220.

"Las canciones del Coro Alto del archivo del Convento de Santa Clara de Santa Fe de Bogotá" written in collaboration with historian Constanza Toquica, Director Museo del Convento de Santa Clara, Bogotá. Cuadernos de Literatura [Pontifica Universidad Javeriana] 6.12 (2000-01): 90-117.

"Retos y encrucijadas de los estudios coloniales" Cuadernos de Literatura [Pontificia Universidad Javeriana] 6.12 (2000-01): 118-126.

"Códigos fundacionales de la ciudad colonial en la obra de Juan de Castellanos" Pensamiento y Acción [Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia] 6-7(2000): 159-167.

"Primitive Bodies in Latin American Cinema: Nicolas Echevarría's Cabeza de Vaca" Primitivism and Identity in Latin America. E. Camayd and J.González, eds. U. of Arizona Press, 2000. 189-208.

"Somatografía épica colonial: Las Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias de Juan de Castellanos." Modern Language Notes (MLN) 115.2 (2000): 248-267.

"Tomás Carrasquilla y la resistencia al proyecto centralista de la Regeneración," in Tomás Carrasquilla: Nuevas aproximaciones críticas. Edited by Flor María Rodríguez Arenas. Medellín: Universidad de Antioquia, 2000. 163-192.

"El mestizaje y la política de lo local en Jovel: serenata de la gente menuda" Chiapas: La realidad configurada. Flor M. Rodríguez Arenas, Ed. Tuxtla-Gutiérrez, Chiapas, Mexico: Centro de Estudios Superiores de México y Centroamérica, 1999. 91-132.

"La ciudad y sus signos: Tunja c. 1600." Revista Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana 48.146 (1999): 9-33.

"Closure and Disclosure of the Caribbean Body." A History of Literature in the Caribbean. James Arnold, ed. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1997. 251-266.

"Voces heroicas y cadáveres exquisitos: la estetización del otro y del dolor en la épica colonial" Revista Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. 46.142 (1997): 63-75.

"Bounding the Self: Subject Positions and Contestation in Rigoberta Menchu's Testimonio." Torre de Papel. 6.1 (1996): 37-49.

"Imbricaciones de un proyecto histórico." Thesaurus: Boletín del Instituto Caro y Cuervo. [Bogotá, Col.] 51.2 (1996): 201-249.

"Discurso épico y orden social en la Historia del Nuevo Reino de Granada." Aleph 8. 2 (1993): 8-19.

RESEÑAS

Ana Maria Lorandi, The Spanish King of the Incas. Review for Bulletin of Spanish Studies.

“Popol Vuh,” “Chilam Balam,” “Cantares Mexicanos,” “Florentine Codex” Headnotes for the Thomston Anthology of American Literature, edited by Ralph Bauer.

“Testimonio” Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative. Ed. Marie-Laure Ryan et al. 2004.

“Testimonio”, “Indigenismo.” “Rigoberta Menchú,” and “Roberto Fernández Retamar”. Greenwood Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics. Ed. Keith Booker. 2006.

Alvar Felix Bolaños, Elites y desplazados en el Valle del Cauca. Review for Hispamérica, 2006.

Sanjinés J. Mestizaje Upside Down. MLN 120.2(2005): 502-504.

Mills, Kenneth, William B. Taylor, and Sandra Lauderdale Graham. Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History (2002). Review for Bulletin of Spanish Studies 82.5(2005). 714-15.

Salvador Velazco, Visiones de Anáhuac (2003) Review for Mesoamérica (submitted Jan. 2004)

Charles Ronan. Juan Ignacio Molina: The Worlds Window on Chile. Review for Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 80.6 (2003). 760-1.

Ileana Rodríguez, ed. The Latin American Studies Subaltern Studies Reader (2001). Review in Dispositio/n. (U Michigan 2005).

Robin Fiddian, ed. Postcolonial Perspectives on the Cultures of Latin America and Lusophone Africa (2000). Review for Modern Language Notes (MLN) 118.2 (2003): 496-499.

Verónica Cortínez. Memoria original de Bernal Díaz del Castillo (2000). Review for Bulletin of Spanish Studies 80.2 (2003). 263-4.

James Nicolopolus. The Poetics of Empire in the Indies (2000). Review for Sixteenth Century Journal 33.2 (2002): 557-8.

Serge Gruzinski. La guerra de las imágenes (1994). Review for Inti: Revista de Literatura Hispánica 51-52 (2000): 245-49.

José Mazzotti. Coros Mestizos del Inca Garcilaso (1996). Review for Inti:Revista de Literatura Hispánica 51-52 (2000):241-3.

José Mazzotti et al, eds. Asedios a la heterogeneidad cultural (1996). Review for Hispamérica 26.76-77(1997): 215-6.

Manuel Mejía Vallejo. La casa de las dos palmas. Review for Hispamérica 21.63 (1992): 99-100.

(B.A. Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellin, Colombia, 1988; M.A. University of Maryland, 1992; Ph.D. University of Maryland, 1996), joined the Department in the Fall of1995 and has provided much additional expertise in Spanish American Literature and Culture to our expanding B.A. and M.A. programs. His specialization is in Colonial Latin American Literature, and he has a special interest in film and interdisciplinary studies. In the Spring of 2000, he was a visiting professor at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia, with a Fulbright Scholar Award. He has served in the executive committe of the MLA's Division of Colonial Spanish American Literature and in the Fulbright Senior Scholar Peer Review committee of Andean Countries. In 2005 and 2006, he was a visiting professor at the Universidad de Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia. He serves in the editorial boards of Confluencia (Colorado), Revista Estudios de Literatura Colombiana (Universidad de Antioquia) and Cuadernos de Literatura (Universidad Javeriana). His current research project is on the Muisca and the ethnopolitics of memory in Colombia. Since 2004, he has been directing the graduate program in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies.

M. REINA RUIZ

Publications

BOOK

--Monstruos, mujer y teatro en el Barroco: Feliciana Enríquez de Guzmán, primera dramaturga española. New York: Peter Lang, 2005.

ARTICLES

-- "De pícaros y hermafroditas: Más cosillas sobre el caso Lazarillo de Tormes." Romance Notes 41.3 (2001): 281-290.

-- "La otra mirada de Gloria Fuertes: ékfrasis y poesía." Letras Femeninas 29.2 (2003): 85-96.

-- "Entreactos de la Tragicomedia de los jardines y campos sabeos: galería cómica de monstruos y deformes." Hispania 87.4 (2004): 665-674.

-- "De orgía y bacanal a sátira política: entreactos de la segunda parte de Los jardines y campos sabeos de Feliciana Enríquez de Guzmán." Bulletin of the Comediantes 57.1 (2005): 107-123.

-- "El gran teatro del mundo: Un montaje transatlántico producido en Cali por la Corporación Teatro del Valle." Análisis de espectáculos teatrales (2000-2006). Ed. José Romera Castillo. Madrid: Visor, 2007. (501-513).

--"Memoria y final del juego en Una noche cualquiera de Susana Torres Molina." Latin American Theatre Review 41.1 (2007): 53-66.

-- "Historia, mito y realidad: la representación de lo trágico en el teatro de Rojas Zorrilla." Teatro clásico español: Hacia la tragedia. Eds. Frederik de Armas et al. Frankfurt, Madrid: Vervuert Iberoamericana, 2008. (351-361)

-- "La criada en la comedia del Siglo de Oro: ejemplos, variaciones y denominadores comunes." Ed. Luciano García Lorenzo. Madrid: Editorial Fundamentos, 2008. (113-124)

-- "El teatro en las aulas: del texto dramático a la práctica escénica." Revista Galega de Teatro. 59 (2009): 33-35.

-- "Humortal: Cuatro hombres, un ataúd y un muerto de risa." Cartografía teatral: Los escenarios de Cádiz en el FIT 2008. (2009): 170-174.

-- "Cervantes, Góngora y Feliciana Enríquez de Guzmán: voces discordantes de la monarquía cómica." Cuatrocientos años del Arte Nuevo de hacer comedias de Lope de Vega. Ed. Vega García-Luengos, Germán and Héctor Urzáiz Tortajada. Valladolid: U de Valladolid Secretariado de Publicaciones e Intercambio Editorial, 2010(929-936).

-- "El teatro español sin fronteras: Rafael Rodríguez y 2RC Teatro Compañía de Repertorio." Gestos 49 (2010): 177-182.

-- "Lectura semiótica y eficacia teatral en el uso de máscaras en el teatro áureo: Feliciana Enríquez y Calderón." Máscaras y juegos de identidad en el teatro español del Siglo de Oro. Madrid: Visor Libros, 2011. (351-360).

CREATIVE/ARTISTIC ACTIVITIES (Plays directed in Spanish)

-- Historia del hombre que se convirtió en perro / The man who turned into a dog by Argentine author Osvaldo Dragún. April 2002.

-- MISCELANEA (two one act plays: El delantal blanco / The White Uniform by
Chilean playwright Sergio Vodanovic; Estudio en blanco y Negro / Study in Black and
White by Cuban dramatist Virgilio Piñera). November 2003.

-- El retablo de las maravillas / The Magic Wonder Show (1615) by Miguel de Cervantes.
November 2005.

-- Los empeños de una casa / The House of Trials by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. April
2007.

-- El cepillo de dientes / The Toothbrush (1966) by Chilean playwright Jorge Díaz. April
2008.

-- La verdad sospechosa / The Liar by Juan Ruiz de Alarcón. November 2009.

-- La casa de Bernarda Alba / The House of Bernarda Alba (1936) by Federico García
Lorca. April 2011.

(B.A. University of León, Spain, 1989; M.A. Kansas State University, 1993; Ph.D. Washington University in St. Louis, 2002) Dr. M. Reina Ruiz joined the University of Arkansas in fall 2001 and is currently an Associate Professor of Spanish. Research interests include Golden Age literature with special emphasis on 17th century female playwrights. Other interests include Spanish and Spanish American contemporary drama, performance and the visual arts. She has directed plays by Cervantes, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Juan Ruiz de Alarcón and García Lorca amongst others. After publishing her book on 17th century female playwright, Feliciana Enríquez de Guzmán, professor Ruiz is working on a book manuscript containing a critical edition on Feliciana's complete works. She has presented papers at international, national and regional conferences and teaches graduate literature courses on the Spanish Golden Age, contemporary Spanish and Spanish American theater. Ruiz has also taught courses on language, phonetics, business, conversation, culture and the Spanish Civil War in literature and cinema. She is currently the Spanish MA coordinator and directs the Tertulia, a weekly Spanish table.

JOAN TURNER

Publications

Book Publications

-Montaje: An Intermediate Spanish Reader co-authored with Glynis Cowell (McGraw-Hill, forthcoming).

Chapters in Books

-"A Cognitive Model for the Teaching of the Literary Elements," co authored with Glynis Cowell in Issues in Program Direction (forthcoming) \ Scientific, and Cultural Organizations, (forthcoming).

(B.A., Brown University, 1967; M.A.T. Brown University, 1969; Ph.D. The Ohio State University, 1988) joined the University of Arkansas in 1994 and is currently Assistant Professor of Spanish and coordinator of the first two-years of the Spanish language program. She is also the Spanish TA supervisor. She has written articles and presented papers at national and regional conferences on her research interests: TA training/supervision and language learning disabilities, teaching the short story, Latino culture, and nontraditional students. She is the co-author of the reader, Tapices literarios and has begun work on a 4th semester textbook based on Latino culture. She is a member of the MLA grant team working on the high school to college articulation project.

SERGIO VILLALOBOS

Publications

Journal articles and chapters in books

--“La oreja de los nombres. Tristeza y emancipación en el pensamiento contemporáneo.” Revista Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación, S/D (Santiago, 2008). In press.

--“Activismo mapuche y post-dictadura chilena: el potencial afectivo del conflicto.” Cuadernos de Literatura, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales (Colombia, 2007). S / D.

--“El amigo del pensamiento.” Revista de Crítica Cultural 34 (Santiago, 2006): 84-87.

--“El problema Mapuche y los límites del pensamiento liberal.” Revista de Crítica Cultural 33 (Santiago, 2006): 42-45.

--“Severo Sarduy: extenuación, enfermedad y muerte neobarroca.” Filosofía y mimesis, Ed. Willy Thayer and Pablo Oyarzún. Santiago de Chile: in press.

--“La nihilización del nihilismo.” Revista Pública N° 1 (Santiago: 2006). S / D.

--“Abbas Kiarostami: la política como estética minimalista.” Objeto Visual, No 12 (2006): 38-67.

--“En torno a la Academia Norteamericana.” Revista Extremo Occidente 2, 3 (2005): 14-16.

--“Cine, Imagen y verdad: el documentalismo de Michael Moore.” Objeto Visual, No 10 (2004), 112-129.

--“La academia norteamericana.” Osamayor, XV-15 (2003): 51-58.

--“Fin de la dictadura y destrabajo del pensar: repetición y catástrofe en post-dictadura.” Pensar desde / sobre postdictadura. Ed. Nelly Richard and Alberto Moreiras. Santiago de Chile: Cuarto Propio, 2002. 73-101.

--“Empire, a Picture of the World.” Re-thinking Marxism Vol. 13 3/4, (Indiana, 2001): 31-42. [An expanded and revised Spanish version appeared subsequently as “Empire, una imagen del mundo.” Cuadernos Sociológicos Vol. 1 (Santiago, 2002): 115-135.]

--“Critical Thought in Post-dictatorship.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 9: 3, (London, 2000): 229-234.

--“Chile y post-dictadura. El escándalo Pinochet como síntoma de un país atribulado.” Revista de crítica cultural N° 18 (Santiago, 1999): 20-23.

--“Crítica a la operación efectiva del derecho.” Perspectivas Críticas en Teoría Política. Ed. Tomás Moulian. Santiago de Chile: Editorial Universidad ARCIS, 1998. 88-120.

--“Dos notas breves y una posdata. Sobre el acontecimiento.” Cultura, experiencia y acontecimiento. Ed. Federico Galende. Santiago de Chile: Editorial ARCIS-LOM, 1998. 253-271.

--“La Izquierda y el fin de la conciencia desventurada.” La Izquierda ante el fin de milenio. Ed. Federico Galende. Santiago de Chile: Editorial ARCIS-LOM, 1997. 283-298.

--“Los Fantasmas de la Crítica.” Espectros y Pensamiento Utópico. Ed. Federico Galende. Santiago de Chile: Editorial ARCIS-LOM, 1996. 204-223.

Reviews and prologues

--Review of Alberto Moreiras, Tercer espacio: literatura y duelo en América Latina. Revista de Filosofía, Universidad ARCIS, 2002. www.philosophia.cl.

--Review of Martín Hopenhayn, Después del Nihilismo. Revista de crítica cultural, N° 17 (1998): 49-50.

Edited work

--Ernesto Laclau, Hegemonía y antagonismo: el imposible fin de lo político.Santiago de Chile: Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2002. [This is an edition of three talks given by Ernesto Laclau in Chile in 1997, along with some debates on his works, a translation of the new prologue to Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (2000), one general bibliography of Laclau’s works and criticism, another bibliography of the Chilean debate on Post-dictatorship, and an introductory essay: 13-34.]

Translation into Spanish

--John Beverley, Subalternidad y representación. Translation of Subalternity and Representation: Arguments in Cultural Theory. Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana-Verveut, 2004.

--William V. Spanos, Heidegger y la crisis del humanismo contemporáneo. Translation of The End of Education: Toward Post-humanism. In Press. [This translation includes an introduction of the translator, 20 pages approximately, which deals with the works of William Spanos and elaborates around the relationship between the crisis of contemporary higher education in Latin America and the new articulations of global power.]

Translation into Spanish in Progress

--Gareth Williams, El otro lado de lo popular. Neoliberalismo y subalternidad en América Latina. Translation of The Other Side of the Popular Neoliberalism and Subalternity in Latin America. In process: Ediciones Metales Pesados, Colección Crítica de la Cultura. 2009.

Books in progress

--Lecturas de postdictadura. Approaching final step. To appear in 2009 [This is a project which title has suffered some changes in the last three years. However, this is a book that collects many unpublished papers dealing with the post-dictatorship field in the Latin American Southern Cone.]

--Kaleidoscopio. Formas de lo in-humano en la imaginación literaria latinoamericana contemporánea. In progress. To appear in 2010. [This is a book that reconsiders my doctoral dissertation incorporating new readings and discussions, which I have been elaborating throughout the last two years.]

--Guerra y sociedad en América Latina, in process. To appear in 2009 [This is a long essay dealing with the configuration of Latin American society through war, starting with the independence wars and particularly with the Haitian revolution, through the process of pacification and the sovereign wars in the middle of the XIX century, until the partisans conflict of the 1960s, this essay links the contemporary phenomena of political quarrels and populism to the capitalist foundation of Latin American republics in the XIX century.]

(B.A., Universidad ARCIS, Chile; M.A. and Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh) joined the Department of Foreign Languages in the fall of 2005. He has since taught classes on Latin American Culture and Literatures, special topics concerning Latin America today and graduate seminars on Latin American XIX century literature. He also participates in the MA in Cultural Studies, Universidad ARCIS, as a visiting professor and is an active researcher and translator. His field focuses in literary and cultural studies, and he is finishing two manuscripts-- one related to postdictatorship in the Southern Cone and the exhasution of politics, and another related to War and Society in Latin America in the XIX century. He also serves as an undergraduate adviser for our Spanish Program.

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