College of Liberal and Fine Arts

Recent Courses

2018-2019  

• Creative writing (Teoría y práctica del cuento corto).

• Introduction to textual analysis (Viaje, exilio y migración en Latinoamérica).

• Elementary Spanish.

2016-2018

• “El género autobiográfico en la literatura mexicana (diario, autobiografía y autoficción)”

• Latin American Culture

• Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced Spanish

Research in Progress

The current book project “El diario de escritor en la literatura latinoamericana del siglo XX” proposes the concept of the “diario de escritor” (“writer’s diary”) in order to systematize the presence and function of the diary in Latin America through the articulation of a critical framework that encompasses diaries published by their authors in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The research highlights the work of José Donoso (Chile), Eduardo Lalo (Puerto Rico), Mario Levrero (Uruguay), Augusto Monterroso (Guatemala), Alejandra Pizarnik (Argentina), Federico Gamboa, María Luisa Puga (Mexico), and Julio Ramón Ribeyro (Peru), among others. This research focus on four main topics: the reception of European diaries in Latin America; the transition of diaries from manuscripts to published works; the representations of travel and displacement in the modern city; and the metaphorical depiction of illness and corporeal fragility in writers’ diaries. Through critical examinations of pastiches, collages, and textual hybridizations in diaries, this research establishes a connection between the diary’s fragmented structure and postmodern skepticism about representations of totality and unity in art and literature.

Recent Publications

Book Chapters

• “El diario de Julio Ramón Ribeyro entre la tentación de la crítica y la tentación de la muerte”. Memoria del Perú. Actas del VIII Congreso Internacional de Peruanistas en el Extranjero. Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Ed. José A. Mazzotti y Luis Abanto, Ottawa University, 2018, 123-140.

• “La filiación literaria de los diarios de Alejandra Pizarnik”. Escrituras al margen,  Ed. by Asunción Rangel. Universidad de Guanajuato, 2013, pp. 52-85.

Edited Volumes

• Párrafo Magazine. The Animal Issue. Editor-in-Chief (with David Ramírez). Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA, 2016.

Journal Articles

• “En camino, Taan U Xiimbal. Una video excavación de Christiane Burkhard”. Revista Tierra Adentro 186 (2013): 24-28.

• “Cosecha de verano, novela corta y autoficción” [Essay]. Boletín 17. Centro de Estudios de Teoría y Crítica Literaria de la Universidad de Rosario, Argentina, 2013.

• “Empatía e interpretación de la palabra ajena en algunos cuentos de José Revueltas” (co authored with Norma Angelica Cuevas), Semiosis 3.8. (2008): 31-52.

• “Alejandra Pizarnik: acuerdo y separación”. Semiosis 2.7 (2007): 167-179.

Reviews

• Review of: Homenaje y diálogo. Norma Cuevas, Ismael Martínez and Elba Sánchez (Eds.), in Revista de Literatura Mexicana 22.1 (2011): 255-259.

• Review of: La escritura invisible by Patricia Venti, in Semiosis 6.11 (2010): 233-236.

• Review of: Autofagia y narración. Estrategias de representación en la narrativa iberoamericana de vanguardia by Yanna Haddaty Mora, in Semiosis. 2.5 (2007): 259-263.

Interviews

• “El poema es también una batalla incesante con el mundo: Max Rojas”. Interview with the Mexican poet Max Rojas, co-authored with Antonio Riestra. Luvina 62 (2011): 97-104.

•  “Una charla con César Aira”. Coauthored with Abraham Sánchez and Elisa Sanchez Vizcaino. Luvina 56 (2009): 253-265.

Creative Writing Publications

Books

• Un día en Kilimanján [Children’s book], Mexico City: Ed. Fernandez Press, 2012. (Selected in 2014 to be part of the “Libros del Rincón” special collection for full time school libraries in Mexico)

• Cosecha de verano [Novel], Chiapas: CONECULTA, 2010. (National Award of Short Novel Rosario Castellanos, 2010)

• La casa al fin de los días [Novel], Guanajuato: Universidad de Guanajuato, 2007.

Literary Magazines

•  “Mirando las ventanas” [Short story]. Revista de la Universidad de México 113 (2013): 66-68.

Recent Courses

University of Montana

- Graduate Courses:

Special Topics in Spanish Grammar, Grad Seminar: Teaching FLs to Young Learners

- Linguistics courses:

Language in the Real World: Introduction to Applied Linguistics, Foreign Language Teaching Methods, Introduction to Spanish Linguistics, Spanish Phonetics

- Spanish Language Courses:

Advanced Composition and Conversation, Intermediate Spanish I, Elementary Spanish I

- Independent Studies and Research Courses:

Corpus study on Spoken Spanish, Experimental Research, Child L1 Development, Corpus Study of L1 Development

- Service Learning Course:

L2 Teaching Support Internship

The Pennsylvania State University

- Linguistics Course:

Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics (TA)

- Spanish Language Courses:

Basic Spanish II, Basic Spanish III

Research in Progress

Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Variation

• Variable Clitic Placement

In Spanish, direct object pronouns may appear before or after certain verb constructions (e.g., lo quiero comprar vs. quiero comprarlo both meaning ‘I want to buy it’). This variation is affected by the particular verb used (e.g., querer ‘want’), by whether the direct object pronoun refers to an animate or an inanimate entity (e.g., a person = animate vs. a car = inanimate), and by other variables. When do children learn that this variation is affected by each of those variables? Does it take longer for children to learn some of the constraining factors that affect the placement of this pronoun? Do all Spanish-speaking children acquire this variation at the same age even across dialects that may display differences in the ways in which each factor affects this variation? What happens with this variation in Spanish-speaking children immersed in an English-speaking community, given that English only allows direct object pronouns to appear after the verb (e.g. She has to tell him)?

• Differential Object Marking

This project analyzes the acquisition of the “a” marking (sometimes referred to as “a personal”). How do children learn that only some lexical Spanish direct objects (those that are animate and specific) are usually preceded by “a”? Could they use information on the verb in order to figure out how this pattern?

Acquisition of Tense, Aspect, or Mood

• Ser and estar Copula Selection

The distinction that the two copula verbs in Spanish encode when used with adjectives allows speakers to distinguish properties that are temporally bounded (estar ‘be’, as in Juan está alto) versus properties that are not constrained by the present time (ser ‘be’, as in Juan es alto), among other meanings. How do children acquire the meaning distinction between these two verbs? Dr. Requena’s previous research has contributed evidence for the acquisition of this distinction among monolingual Spanish-speaking children by age four. Do children younger that four also know this distinction? If not, when do they acquire it? In addition, is the acquisition of this semantic distinction impacted by low frequency of Spanish use (as in children growing up in the U.S.)?

• Mood Selection

Adult-like mastery of Spanish sentences like No creo que mi hermano venga ‘I don’t believe that my brother will come’ require a lot of knowledge of the grammar. One particular piece of knowledge that is required is the selection mood for the verb in the subordinate clause (venir ‘to come’). Spanish mood selection (between the Indicative and the Subjunctive moods) in these clauses has been found to depend not just on the verb in the main clause (e.g. no creer ‘not believe’) given that some verbs allow only one mood to follow, where other verbs allow both with some meaning distinction. How do children learn which mood/s is/are allowed with particular verbs in the main clause? When do children get adult-like in their selection of mood? What happens to mood selection when children live in an environment that does not require to select mood that frequently (as in Spanish-speaking children immersed in the U.S.)?

Recent Publications

Dracos, M.; Requena, P. E. & Miller, K. L. 2019. Acquisition of mood selection in Spanish-speaking children. Language Acquisition 26(1), 106-118.

Mannoiloff, M. L., Requena, P. E., Carando, C., Defagó, M. C., Alonso Alemany, L., Cesaretti, D., Ferrero, C., Ramirez, A., & Segui, J. 2018. Factores que influyen en la comprensión de las cláusulas subordinadas de relativo en español. (Factors that influence the comprehension of Spanish relative clauses). Onomázein 42, 23 – 52.

Requena, P.E. & *Tissera, M. V. 2018. Variation in Spanish L2 Textbooks: A Study of Variable Clitic Placement.  Hispania 101(1), 55-68.

Requena, P. E. & Dracos, M. 2018. Impermeability of L1 syntax: Spanish variable clitic placement in bilingual children. In: Bertolini, A.B. & M.J. Kaplan. (2018). Proceedings of the 42nd Boston University Conference on Language Development. (Volume 2) pp. 644-658. Somerville, MA. Cascadilla.

Requena, P. E.; Dracos, M.; & Miller, K. L. 2017. Acquisition of Spanish Mood Selection in Complement Clauses. In LaMendola, M. & J. Scott. Proceedings of the 41^st Boston University Conference on Language Development. (Volume 2) pp. 563-575. Somerville, MA. Cascadilla.

Shin, N. L.; Requena, P. E. & Kemp, A. 2017. Bilingual and monolingual children's patterns of syntactic variation: Variable clitic placement in Spanish. In A. Auza Benavidez & R. G. Schwartz (Eds.) Language Disorders in Spanish-Speaking Children: Language Processing and Cognitive Functions. Zug, Switzerland: Springer.

Requena, P.E., Liruso, S.M., & Bollati, M.S. 2016. The young learner’s textbook as a visual model of interaction. Proceedings of the Federación Argentina de Profesores de Inglés Conference. (San Juan, September).

Requena, P. E., Román-Hernández, A. I., & Miller, K. 2015. Children’s Knowledge of the Spanish Copulas Ser and Estar with Novel Adjectives. Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics 22(2), 193-207.

Recent Courses

Recent Courses

CHN 1014.001 - Elementary Chinese I

CHN 1014.002 - Elementary Chinese I

CHN 2013 - Intermediate Chinese I

FL 3043.001 - Advanced Chinese

Recent Publications

Articles in peer review journals:

• Ward, L. L. Teachers’ perceptions of using web-based videoconferencing for adult virtual English language instruction. Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.
• Ward, L. L. The role of linguistics in second language classrooms. American International Journal of Contemporary Research, 4(3).
• Ward, L. L. Understanding pronunciation variations facing ESL students. International Journal of humanities and Social Science, 4(5).
• Ward, L. L., & Ekiaka Nzai, V. (2014). Using iPad apps to enhance literacy skills of English language learners with special needs. International Journal of Languages and Literatures, 2(1).
• Ward, L. L., & Enchelmayer, E. J. (2014). The practice and effect of a workshop approach to teaching English writing in ESL composition courses. International Journal of humanities and Social Science, 4(5).

Conference proceedings:

• Ward, L. L., & Terry, A. (2018). Language Acquisition through the IB Middle Years Programme in US Schools. Proceeding of 2018 International Conference on Education, Psychology, and Organizational Behavior, Taipei, Taiwan.
• Ward, L. L. (2013). Understanding pronunciation variations facing ESL students. Proceeding of International Conference on Education, Economic, Psychology and Society, pp. 44-51, ISBN 978-986-89298-9-0, Beijing, China.
• Ward, L. L. (2013). Teaching English with iPad apps. Proceeding of the Fourteenth Conference on Applied English Personnel Cultivation, pp. 27-37, ISBN 986-884-062-1, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
• Ward, L. L. (2013). Improving English skills via social networks. Proceeding of 2013 International Language Education Conference, pp. 19-23, ISBN 978-986-6417-21-4, Yunlin, Taiwan.
• Ward, L. L., & Ekiaka Nzai, V. (2013). Using iPad apps to enhance literacy skills of English language learners with special needs. Proceeding of International Conference on Education, Economic, Psychology and Society, pp. 36-43, ISBN 978-986-89298-9-0, Beijing, China.
• Ward, L. L., & Guzman, N. A. (2013). Teaching English writing with workshop approach in ESL composition courses. Proceeding of 2013 International Language Education Conference, pp. 70-82, ISBN 978-986-6417-21-4, Yunlin, Taiwan.

Book review:

• Ward, L. L. (2013). Review of the book Children, language, and literacy: Diverse learners in diverse times, by C. Genishi & A. H. Dyson. Journal of Creative Education, ISSN Online: 2151-4771, USA.

Recent Courses

Graduate and upper-level linguistics classes

Spanish 4113/5943, Language and Identity, The University of Texas at San Antonio. Spring 2015.

Spanish 4113, Spanish in Contact with Other Languages, The University of Texas at San Antonio. Fall 2013/2015.

Spanish 4113/Linguistics 3883, Sociolinguistics, The University of Texas at San Antonio. Spring 2014/2016.

Spanish 4113/Linguistics 4013, Language and Gender, The University of Texas at San Antonio. Fall 2014.

Spanish 3113, Linguistic Structures of Spanish, The University of Texas at San Antonio. Spring 2014/2015/2016.

Spanish 3013, Spanish Phonetics and Pronunciation, The University of Texas at San Antonio. Fall 2013/2014/2015.

Spanish 401, Advanced Spanish Grammar, The Ohio State University. Winter 2012.

Lower-level language classes

Spanish 103, Intermediate Spanish I, The Ohio State University. Spring 2012.
Spanish 102.66, Intensive Spanish for Review, The Ohio State University. Fall 2011. 

Composition classes

English 104, Rhetoric and Composition II, Northern Illinois University.  Two classes, Spring 2009. 

English 103, Rhetoric and Composition I, Northern Illinois University. Fall 2008. 

Global studies classes

 LAS 102, Global Studies, University of Illinois. Spring 2006.
 LAS 101, Global Studies, University of Illinois. Fall 2005.

Research in Progress

Chappell, Whitney. Under review. “Actitudes lingüísticas de los misquitos en un entorno multicultural y multilingüe siempre en desarrollo.” Manuscript submitted for publication.

Chappell, Whitney. Under review. “Rate of speech or attention to speech?: A qualification about coarticulation.” Manuscript submitted for publication.

Chappell, Whitney. Under review. “The importance of motivated comparisons in variationist studies.” Manuscript submitted for publication.

Chappell, Whitney. In prep. “Svarabhakti vowel perception among native, heritage, and L2 Spanish speakers.” Manuscript in preparation to be submitted for publication.

Chappell, Whitney. In prep. “Costa Rican Spanish speakers’ phonetic discrimination of intervocalic [s] and [z].” Manuscript in preparation to be submitted for publication.

Chappell, Whitney. In prep. "En esta petsa, este anio: The Spanish sound system in contact with Miskitu." Invited chapter for Spanish Phonetics/Phonology in Contact.

Chappell, Whitney and Christina García. In prep. “Factors conditioning /s/ voicing in Costa Rica Spanish.” Manuscript in preparation to be submitted for publication.

Chappell, Whitney and Francisco Martínez Ibarra. In prep. “Intervocalic [z] in Valencian Spanish: Contact feature or language-internal change?” Manuscript in preparation to be submitted for publication.

Recent Publications

• Chappell, Whitney. In press. “Bilingualism & aspiration: Coda /s/ reduction on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua.” To appear in Spanish Language and Sociolinguistic Analysis. [In the Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics series].

• Chappell, Whitney and Francisco Martínez Ibarra. In press. “Rhotacism of /s/ in Elche Spanish: Social and linguistic factors conditioning the variant.” To appear in Contemporary Studies on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics of Spanish Variation. [In the Theoretical Developments in Hispanic Linguistics series].

• Chappell, Whitney. In press. “On the social perception of intervocalic /s/ voicing in Costa Rican Spanish.” To appear in Language Variation and Change.

• Chappell, Whitney. In press. “On Spanglish: Denominator of Linguistic Hybridity or Sociocultural Identity?” To appear in Hispania.

• Chappell, Whitney. 2015. “Linguistic factors conditioning glottal constriction in Nicaraguan Spanish.” Italian Journal of Linguistics/Rivista di Linguistica 27(2): 1-42

• Chappell, Whitney. 2015. “Formality strategies in Managua, Nicaragua: A local vs. global approach.” Spanish in Context. 12(2): 221-254.

• Chappell, Whitney. 2014. “Reanalyses and hypercorrection among extreme /s/-reducers.” University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol. 20: Iss. 2, Article 5. Available at: http://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol20/iss2/5

• Chappell, Whitney. 2013. “Intonational Contours of Nicaraguan Granadino Spanish in Absolute Questions and Their Relationship with Pragmatic Meaning.” In Selected Proceedings of the 15th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, ed. Chad Howe et al., 119-139. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. http://www.lingref.com, document #2880.

• Chappell, Whitney. 2011. “The Intervocalic Voicing of /s/ in Ecuadorian Spanish.” In Selected Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, ed. Jim Michnowicz and Robin Dodsworth, 57-64. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. http://www.lingref.com, document #250.

• Chappell, Whitney. Accepted for publication. [Financial issues have delayed publication]. “Los bajamientos vocálicos en el quechua ancashino: Un análisis fonético y fonológico.” Por los senderos de las lenguas en Ancash: Pasado, presente y futuro del Quechua. Lima-Huaraz: CILA-UNMSM and UNASAM.

Recent Courses

FL 3003 Introduction to Translation and Interpreting

SPN 6083 Theory and Practice of Translation

SPN 6973 Interpreting in Legal Settings

MES 3113 Film Studies

FL 5043 Principles of Translation

SPN 5023 Writing and Editing in Spanish

Research in Progress

• (Tentative title) Language Access Compliance in Texas Courts: An Environmental Scan. This project and consists of an environmental scan of compliance with language access legislation in Texas Courts. It will be based on a survey administered to 3000 Texas judges to get a snapshot of how, when and if spoken language interpreters are provided in court proceedings at all levels. A complementary survey might explore experiences from the perspective of LCIs (Licensed Court Interpreters) who practice in the state. The overarching goal of the study would be to discover deficiencies in the provision of spoken-language interpreters in Texas courts and to use that information to inform future statutory changes in the next legislative session. The Office of Court Administration and the Judicial Branch Certification Commission have expressed strong interest in supporting the study.

• (Tentative title) The Development of National Standards for US Court Interpreter Training Programs. This project will develop a roadmap for the drafting of a research-driven set of national standards of training for court interpreter programs, with specific recommendations on the teaching and learning required for interpreters entering into practice.  The model will be correlated with the knowledge, skills and abilities already tested on two of the US’s extant psychometrically-normed certification exams. In collaboration with the National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators, Wallace intends to carry out focus groups, national surveys, empanel an advisory board, and gather a group of subject matter experts in order to execute the roadmap and develop specific findings which will meet the needs of the judiciary by addressing program content standards, instructional methods standards, and programmatic standards.

• (Fulbright project) The Transposition of Directive 2010/64/EU and its Impact on University-Level Court Interpreter Training. The objectives of this research project are to critically examine recent changes in university-level training of legal interpreters at the University of Tampere in light of Directive/2010/64/EU. Tampere is one of six Finnish universities that have introduced a novel approach to university-level training for court interpreters by having reconceptualized the Principles of Authorised Translation course and by opening it up to active professional members of the Finnish Association of Translators and Interpreters, or SKTL. The results of this project will produce meaningful research, improve and enhance teaching, and meet the Fulbright program's vision of public diplomacy and the cultivation of international friendship.

Recent Publications

• In press (Spring 2015) “Access and Protection: Civil Court Remedies for Victims of Domestic Violence and the Current State of Free Language Mediation in US Courts.” Proceedings of The FIRST INTERNATIONAL SOS-VICS CONFERENCE: Building communication bridges in gender violence at the University of Vigo, Spain, on the 25^th and 26^th September, 2014.

• “A further call to action: Training as a policy issue in court interpreting.” Monzó Nebot, E. & L. Cheng (eds.) Special issue of The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, Volume 9, Number 2, June 2015. Routledge.

• “Current Dilemmas in Court Interpreting: Improving Quality and Access through Smarter Testing and Administration Protocols.” Ortega Herráez, Juan Miguel and Catalina Iliescu (eds). MonTI Special Issue (June 2015) – Insights in Interpreting: Status and Developments.

• “Resisting Market Disorder and Ensuring Public Trust: Reimagining National Registers for Legal Interpreters in the United States and the European Union.” Blasco Mayor, María Jesús and Maribel del Pozo Triviño (eds). MonTI 7 (April 2015) – Legal Interpreting at a Turning Point. ISSN 1889-4178.

• “Team-Based Learning in Introductory Translation Courses.” Handbook of Research on Teaching Methods in Language Translation and Interpretation. Released in the Advances in Educational Technologies & Instructional Design (AETID) Book Series, IGI Global, October 2014.

• “Rethinking Bifurcated Testing Models in the Court Interpreter Certification Process.” Tsagari, D. & R. van Deemter (eds.) (March 2013). Assessment Issues in Language Translation and Interpreting. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang GmbH. (Language Testing and Evaluation Series, Vol. 29) ISBN: 978-3-631-63603-9. 

• “Writing the Wrongs of Literature: The Figure of the Feminist and Post-Colonialist Translator”, Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Fall 2002, Volume 35, Number 2, ISSN 0742-5562. 

Wallace obtains healthcare interpreter certification

Wallace appointed to NAJIT research and education board

Meet a Roadrunner: Melissa Wallace

Recent Courses

CSH 1113 - Lit Masterpieces W Culture II

CSH 2113 - Foreign Film: Italian

CSH 3823 - Topics: Italian Drama

ITL 1024 - Elementary Italian II

ITL 2023 - Intermediate Italian II

ITL 2043 - Begining Language-Study Abroad in Urbino Italy

Recent Courses

• CSH 3823 - Tops: Germany in the 1920's

• GER 3023 - Advanced Language Skills

Research in Progress

Research Interests:

• 18th and early 19th century literature and culture

• 20th century literature and culture

• Adelbert von Chamisso

• Literature and science

• Poetry

• Film

• Singer-songwriters

• Dialect literature

• Regionalism

• German artists in the U.S.

Recent Publications

• "Representation and Mediation in Edgar Reitz' Heimat" in German Quarterly 64 (1991), pp. 35‑45.

• "The Business of Survival: Aspects of Economy in Pevny/Turrini's Alpensaga" Modern Language Studies 24:3 (Summer 1994), pp. 55-61.

• "postmodern mundart: Zum Schnubiglbaierisch des Felix Hoerburger," Rüdiger Harnisch, Anthony Rowley, Ludwig Eichinger (eds.), "...im Gefüge der Sprachen": Studien zu System und Soziologie der Dialekte. Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik, Beihefte 90 (1994), pp. 218-236. (Refereed)

• "Oil and Water: The Development of the Portrayal of Native Americans by 19th Century German Painters" Yearbook of German-American Studies 13 (1996), pp. 63-106.

• "Vom Wert der Worte: Zu Ernst Jandls 'oberflächenübersetzung'" Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 57.3 (2007), pp. 365-370.

Recent Courses

JPN 1024 - Elementary Japanese II

Recent Courses

• SPN 1024 - Elementary Spanish II
• SPN 4003 - Advanced Language Skills:Oral
• SPN 3033 - Oral Communication Skills

Recent Courses

LNG 3813 - Introduction To Linguistics

SPN 1024 - Elementary Spanish II

SPN 3063 - Grammar & Composition

SPN 6011 - Supervised Teaching in Spanish

Recent Courses

SPN 1024 - Elementary Spanish II

SPN 1014 - Elementary Spanish I

Recent Courses

Recent Undergraduate Courses

SPN 4303 Topics in Hispanic Cultures: La narcocultura

SPN 4303 Topics in Hispanic Cultures: Popular Religions of Latin America
SPN 4203 Topics in Hispanic Lits: The Fantastic and the Marvelous in Latin American Fiction
SPN 3463 Latin American Literature to Modernism
SPN 3473 Latin American Literature since Modernism
SPN 3623 Latin American Culture and Civilization
SPN 3043 Introduction to Literature

SPN 4203 Topics in Hispanic Literatures: Women Writers of Latin America
WS 3953 Special Topics in Women Writers
WS 3713 Special Topics in Women’s Studies
SPN 2333 Hispanic Literature in English Translation

Recent Graduate Courses

SPN 5483 Studies in Hispanic Culture: La narcocultura

SPN 5813 Studies in Hispanic Literature: Women Writers of Latin America

AmericaSPN 5483 Studies in Hispanic Culture: Popular Religions of Latin America

SPN 5813 Studies in Hispanic Lit: The Fantastic and the Marvelous in Latin American Fiction
 

Research in Progress

Research in Progress

“Continuity of Feminine Symbolism in Popular Art from Prehistory to the Present.” Manuscript in progress

“Baba Yaga: An Eastern European Liminal Deity.” She Is Everywhere! Vol.4. 10 ms. pages. Accepted for publication.

Recent Publications

Recent Publications

Books

Fierce Feminine Divinities from Eurasia and Latin America: Baba Yaga, Ka̅li̅, Pombagira, and Santa Muerte. New York, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Hardcover (204 pages, 40 halftones; Ebook, 204 pages, 40 halftones)

The Black Madonna in Latin America and Europe: Tradition and Transformation. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico Press, 2011. Electronic edition (246 pages, 140 halftones, 15 color plates)

The Black Madonna in Latin America and Europe: Tradition and Transformation. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico Press, 2009. Paperback edition, revised (246 pages, 140 halftones, 15 color plates)

The Black Madonna in Latin America and Europe: Tradition and Transformation. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. Hardcover (246 pages, 140 halftones, 15 color plates)

Book Chapters

“Sara-La-Kâli y las vírgenes negras/ Sara-La-Kâli e as virxes negras/ Sara-La-Kâli et les vierges noires.” Les gens du Chemin. Peregrinación a Saintes Maries de la Mer. Santiago de Compostela, Spain: Xunta de Galicia, 2013. 21-31 & 105-110

“Origini e transformazioni  del culto della Madonna Nera oltre Atlantico” (“Origins and Transformations of the Black Madonna Devotion across the Atlantic”).  Nigra Sum. Culti santuari e Imagini delle Madonne Nere d’Europa. Paolo Pellizari, ed. Parco Naturale e Area attrezzata del Sacro Monte di Crea, Italy: ATLAS Centro di documentazione dei Sacri Monti Calvari e Complessi devozionali europei, 2012. 197-208.

“Saint Sara-La-Kâli: The Romani Black Madonna.” She Is Everywhere! Vol.3. Mary Saracino and Mary Beth Moser, eds. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2012. 128-143

Articles

“Holy Death, Our Protectress: The Mexican Santa Muerte /Święta Śmierć, Nasza Opiekunka: Meksykańska Santa Muerte.” Etnografia nowa /The New Ethnography 5 (2013): 119-139.

 “El narcotráfico y la religión en América Latina.” Revista del CESLA 13, vol. 1 (2010): 211-224

“Reloj, no marques las horas: patetismo y ausencia en La hora de la estrella de Clarice Lispector.” Revista del CESLA 12 (2009): 53-61. Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos, Warsaw University

“Los hispanos en los Estados Unidos y la identidad: el símbolo de la Virgen de Guadalupe.” Simposio aculturación y transculturación, las diversas voces de América. Margarita Alegría de la Colina, ed. Azcapotzalco: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2007. 81-97

Additional Information

Radio Programs. “The Popularity of Santa Muerte in San Antonio/South Texas.” Interview as expert. Aired on All Things Considered, Nov 1, 2016, and on Morning Edition on Nov 2, 2016, Texas Public Radio

“Santa Muerte, Skeletal Folk Saint of Death, Gains Followers in San Antonio,” by Aaron Schrank. http://tpr.org/post/santa-muerte-skeletal-folk-saint-death-gains-followers-san-antonio, Nov. 2, 2016

Documentary. “Santa Muerte.” Filmed interview as expert by Charlie Lockwood. Texas Folklife Resources, Austin, TX, October 11, 2016

“Oleszkiewicz Researches Feminine Symbolism in Art,” October 24, 2016

“Alvarez Grant Funds Unique Education Abroad Course in Oaxaca,” by Sherrie Voss Matthews. UTSA International and UTSA Today, December 14, 2015

“Searching for Santa Muerte in San Antonio,” by Michael Marks. San Antonio Current, October 28, 2015

Recent Courses

Modern Spanish Literature, Culture, and Film (Spanish and Latin American), and Digital Filmmaking.

Recent Courses:

• SPN 3423/5703 Spanish Literature since 1700

• SPN 3613/5463 Spanish Civilization

• SPN 4303/5123 Cuban Film

• SPN 4303/5123 The Mexican Revolution in Film and Literature

• MES 3333 Digital Filmmaking

• MES 4333 Advanced Digital Filmmaking

Research in Progress

Film Studies

Spanish Theater

Translation

Subtitling

Film Production

Bibliography

Recent Publications

Published Books:

• (ed.) Eliseo Subiela, the Poet of Latin American Cinema. Essays, Interviews, and Photographs. Lewiston, NY: Mellen Press, 2014.

• (ed.) The Cinematic Art of Eliseo Subiela, Argentine Filmmaker. Lewiston, NY: Mellen Press, 2007.

Published Book Chapters:

• Chapter 12 on “Cine” for Humanidades hispánicas: Lengua, cultura y literatura en los estudios graduados. Ed. Francisco Marcos-Marín, UTSA. New York: Peter Lang, 2018. 307-338.

• “De la ópera bufa a la zarzuela grande: los barberos Fígaro y Lamparilla”. Teatro lírico español: Ópera, drama lírico y zarzuela grande entre 1868 y 1925. Eds. M. Pilar Espín Templado, Pilar de Vega Martínez, Manuel Lagos Gismero. Madrid, UNED, 2016. 265-287.

Published Journal Articles (juried):

• “‘Soy Rantés y soy el Dr. Denis’: Hombre mirando al sudeste 30 años después. La última entrevista con Eliseo Subiela, el 28 de agosto de 2016. Montreal, Canadá” and “Pequeña biografía apócrifa de Eliseo Subiela”. Nuevo Texto Crítico. Coordina el número Jorge Ruffinelli (Stanford University). Nuevo Texto Crítico 29.52 (2016): 95-102.

• Prize-winning essay: “La antena torcida: Subiela y el enigma de K-PAX” Imagofagia (ISSN: 1852-9550) 11 (abril de 2015). http://www.asaeca.org/imagofagia/index.php/ imagofagia/article/view/713.

• “Tres novelistas del siglo XIX (Galdós, Clarín, Palacio Valdés) y el teatro por horas.” Hecho Teatral. Revista de teoría y práctica del teatro hispánico (Madrid). Dir. Ricardo de la Fuente. 9 (2009): 104-114.

DVD

Featurettes of the Kino Lorber DVD/Blu-ray of Man Facing Southeast, directed by Eliseo Subiela. 2016.

• Introductory essay on Eliseo Subiela and his film Man Facing Southeast for the Kino Lorber DVD/Blu-ray insert booklet. 1500 words.

• “Screenwriter-Director Eliseo Subiela Talks About Madness and Man Facing Southeast.” Interviewed, shot, edited, and subtitled my interview with Eliseo Subiela in Montreal, Canada on August 28, 2016. 20 minutes.

• “Director of Photography Ricardo de Angelis Talks About Man Facing Southeast.” Interviewed, shot, re-edited to 26 minutes, and subtitled this piece.

• “Actor Hugo Soto Talks About Man Facing Southeast and Working with Writer-Director Eliseo Subiela, in 1993.” Camera and Interviewer Jorge Ruffinelli, Stanford University (1993). Newly restored, edited and subtitled by NJM. 22 minutes.

Translation and Subtitling Published:

• Revised English subtitles (over 200) for Man Facing Southeast. Line credit at end of movie. Kino Lorber DVD/Blu-ray. 2016.

• Translation of screenwriter-director Eliseo Subiela’s 500-word essay for the Kino Lorber DVD of Man Facing Southeast insert booklet. 2016.

• World Premiere of Subiela’s film Paisajes devorados with my English subtitles in place. Guadalajara International Film Festival, Mexico. March 2012.

Original Feature Film

• Portrait in Sepia Tone. 2008. 1:54. MPAA rating: “PG-13 for sexual content and some drug material.”

Accepted for Publication:

• Contracted: Book. (ed.) Memory in World Cinema. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2019.

• Contracted: Book. (ed.) War and Remembrance in World Cinema. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2019 or 2020.

• Contracted: Monograph. The Persistence of Vision of Filmmaker Eliseo Subiela. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2019 or 2020.

• Book Chapter. “The falda-pantalón (Skirt-Pant) Scandal in Madrid in 1911.” Spanish Fashion. Eds. Marcela Garcés, Siena College, and Francisco Fernández de Alba, Wheaton College. Publication expected in 2019 or 2020.

• Interview. Filmed, edited, transcribed and annotated the “Mesa redonda con los directores de cine Juan Carlos Valdivia, Celina Murga, Mariana Chenillo, Carlos Marqués-Marcet, Javier Corcuera y Gabriela Martínez Escobar.” Special Issue of Peripherica (Journal of Social, Cultural, and Literary History): Image and Storytelling: New Approaches to Hispanic Cinema and Literature. Eds. Isabel Jaén-Portillo and Gina Herrmann. Spring 2019.

Books in Progress

• Translation. El que tenga valor que me siga, a novel by Spaniard Eduardo Garrigues. Let the Brave Follow Me. The Life and Times of Bernardo de Gálvez. 50 chapters of 58 translated as of this writing. 2018-2019.

• Preliminary Translation into Spanish of The White Shaman Mural by Carolyn E. Boyd. University of Texas Press, 2016 Finished. 2017. Francisco Marcos-Marín will correct and polish it. To be published in Mexico in 2019 or 2020.

Filmmaker: See her short subjects on Vimeo.com/nancymembrez.

And published poet:

Antes los besos iban a tu boca

Hoy obedecen a una tecla send.

—Mario Benedetti, “Windows 98”.

E-Mail 3: Red Flag

Click on me and read

my soul therein,

digital soulmate.

Don’t lose that Paperclip:

my heart is a QuickTime

attachment.

Send me

to your Personal Folder

and Delete me not

from your Inbox

nor Forward me

to another.

Please, oh, please do

Reply

and never, ever

Delete me twice.

• Honorable Mention in the 2004 San Antonio Poetry Fair. San Antonio, TX. Published in the Voices Along the River Anthology, 2004.

Recent Courses

• FL 5043 - Principles Of Translation
• SPN 4113 - Top: Spanish of the US
• SPN 6973 - SpecialProb: Spanish of the US
• SPN 5893 - Spanish Dialects

Research in Progress

Recent Courses

• SPN 3043 - Advanced Reading

• SPN 3473 - Latin Amer Lit Since Modernism

• SPN 4303 - Top: Latin American Culture

• SPN 5473 - Latin American Civilization

• SPN 5763 - Latin American Literature to Modernism

Recent Publications

• "Chronologic Deployment of Fictional Events in M. A. Asturias' El Señor Presidente." Hispanic Journal 12 (Fall 1991): 181‑209. Print.
• " Antonio de Saavedra Guzman=s 'Tirano amor'(1599): The Rhetoric of Love." Hispanic Journal 22 (Spring 2001): 227-35. Print.
• "M. A Asturias's El Señor Presidente: Chaos Begotten from Order." Hispanófila 135 (mayo 2002): 107-23. Print.
• "On the Anonymous Italian ("Binelli") Monologue in and the Gestation of El Señor Presidente: A Critical Note." Hispanófila 136 (septiembre 2002): 55-60. Print.

• "El relato de Camila y Cara de Ángel en El Señor Presidente de M. A. Asturias: Un análisis folklórico y socioanalítico". Actas del coloquio internacional 1899-1999 Un siècle de/ un siglo de Miguel Ángel Asturias. Eds. Jean-Pierre Clément, Jacques Gilard, Marie-Louis Ollé. Poitiers: Centre de Recherches Latino-Américaines / Archivos Maison des Sciences de lCantar de Mio Cid: A Morphological-Syntagmatic Analysis of the Exile of the Cid." eHumanista: Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Studies 6 (2006): 1-18.

Recent Courses

JPN 1024 - Elementary Japanese II

JPN 2023 - Intermediate Japanese II

JPN 3023 - Advanced Language Skills (Japanese)

JPN 3053 - Business Japanese

JPN 4213 - Topics: Japanese Culture

JNP 3113- Film Studies: Japanese

Recent Courses

• SPN 3423 - Lit Of Spain:1700-Present
• SPN 3493/5803 - Mexican American Literature

Recent Publications

Author of Café Labrapalabra, Literary Blog

Recent Courses

SPN 1024 - Elementary Spanish II

SPN 2013 - Intermediate Spanish I

SPN 3033 - Oral Communication Skills

SPN 4003 Advanced Language Skills

Recent Courses

• RUS 1024, Elementary Russian II
• RUS 2023, Intermediate Russian II
• RUS 3033, Oral Communication Skills
• RUS 3633/CSH 1213, Topics: Russia Today