Curriculum Vitae - University of Wisconsin

Curriculum Vitae - University of Wisconsin

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Nancy Bird-Soto
[email protected]
(H) 414-967-5735
(C) 608-658-1495
5699 N. Centerpark Way #608
Glendale, WI 53217
Education:
PhD in Spanish, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006
M.A. in Spanish, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999
B.A. in Spanish, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 1996
Diploma in Hispanic, Latin American and European Studies, Fundación, José Ortega y
Gasset, Toledo, Spain, 1993
Title of doctoral dissertation:
Tono y expresión: Escritoras puertorriqueñas de la transición del siglo XIX al XX
Academic and professional positions:
August 2007-Present
Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee
August 2006-May 2007
Lecturer (Spanish) at the University of WisconsinMadison
June 2005-present
Reader: ETS/ AP Spanish reading session (summer)
August 2003-May 2006
Associate Lecturer (Spanish) at UW-Madison
January 2003-May 2004
Adjunct Faculty at the Madison Area Technical College
August 1997-May 2003
Teaching Assistant at UW-Madison; Head TA for
Spanish 102 for the academic year 99-00, and for
Spanish 101 for fall 2000 and fall 2001)
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Publications:
Refereed/Peer-reviewed
Books
Sara la obrera y otros cuentos: El repertorio femenino de Ana Roqué. Lewiston,
N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2009.
Escritoras puertorriqueñas de la transición del siglo XIX al XX: Carmela Eulate
Sanjujo, Ana Roqué y Luisa Capetillo. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press,
2009.
Articles
“The (Un)Making of the Woman as Sinner: The Memories of Ana Calderón.”
Cuarto Propio 5 (2009) [online]
“Incorporando a las mujeres: Luisa Capetillo y Nuestra América”. Identidades 7
[forthcoming]
“Recovering the Self: The Unnamed Characters of Luisa Capetillo’s How Poor
Women Prostitute Themselves.” Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage
Vol. vii (2009): 45-56.
“Simply María or the American Dream: Lessons in Gender…And Action!”
Identidades 6 (2008): 131-147.
“Rompiendo el molde o arrancándose el corset: La propuesta educativa de Luisa
Capetillo.” Identidades 5 (2007): 161-175.
Book/ Mongraphic volume chapters
“Por el mundo que falta: Los viajes isleños de Luisa Capetillo.” Viajeras entre
dos mundos. Ed. Sara Beatriz Guardia. CEMHAL, Lima, Perú [forthcoming
2010]
Co-authored with Patricia Rengel: “Podcasting and the Intermediate-Level
Spanish Classroom.” Second Language Teaching and Learning in the Net
Generation. Eds. Oxford, R. & Oxford, J. National Foreign Language Resource
Center Monographs, U of Hawai’i at Manoa, 2009. 101-109
Non-refereed or published as newspaper articles
Book reviews
“Ese otro mundo: Fe en disfraz de Mayra Santos Febres”. En Rojo: Claridad.
21-28 enero 2010.
<http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=4870E2DF304856266F
0E45FEC61A4659> (Review of Mayra Santos-Febres’s Fe en disfraz. Alfaguara,
2009).
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“Un espejo de poderes mágicos: El vampiro del Río Grande”. En Rojo: Claridad.
30 abril-6 mayo 2009. <http://claridadpuertorico.com/content/view/403886/32/>
(Review of Roberto de la Torre Hurtado’s El vampiro del Río Grande”. Monterrey,
México: La&Go, 2008).
“La obra completa de una voz inextinguible”. En Rojo: Claridad. 12-18 mar
2009: 18, <http://claridadpuertorico.com/content/view/403585/32/> (Review of
Norma Valle Ferrer’s Luisa Capetillo, Obra Completa. “Mi patria es la libertad”.
Departamento del Trabajo y Recursos Humanos y el Proyecto de Estudios de las Mujeres
de la UPR-Cayey, 2008).
Creative Writing
“Crónica de un sueño y su realidad.” Speaking desde las heridas:
Cibertestimonios Transfronterizos/ Tansborder. Ed. Claire Joysmith, México:
UNAM. 154-156.
Conference Proceedings and Other Presentations:
March 2010
“Subversivo y sin verbos: ‘Acto de fe’ de Mayra Santos Febres” –II International
Congress on Caribbean Studies, Cartagena, Colombia
October 2009
“Artificios de la imposibilidad: La muñeca de Carmela Eulate Sanjurjo y Sirena
Selena vestida de pena de Mayra Santos Febres” –XIX Congreso de la
Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica, Quito,
Ecuador
March 2009
“The Un(Making) of the Woman as Sinner: Graciela Limón’s The Memories of
Ana Calderón” – 42nd Annual Conference of the Southwest Council on Latin
American Studies, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Nov 2008
“The Outsider and the Outcast in Jesús Colón’s Dalmau” –Recovering the U.S.
Hispanic Literary Heritage Project Conference, Houston, TX
*Also presented the Jesús Colón paper at the MMLA Conference in Minneapolis,
MN.
“A Driving Agent: The Spectator in Eliseo Subiela’s El camión” –SCMLA
Conference, San Antonio, TX. *Invited by panel coordinator, Dr. Nancy J.
Membrez (UTSA).
October 2008
Panel: Recuperación de la memoria histórica a través de la ficción –North Central
Council of Latin Americanists Conference, Whitewater, WI
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“Feminism in Puerto Rico and its Literature” –UWM Union Sociocultural
Programming Series
May 2008
“Incorporating Women: Luisa Capetillo and Nuestra América” –Invited speaker
at UW-Whitewater as part of the Capetillo performance-related activities. Also
presented this at UWM as part of the workshop sponsored by the Roberto
Hernández Center.
February 2008 “Incorporating Women: Luisa Capetillo and Nuestra América” –Latino Studies
Conference at KU, Lawrence, KS
Nov 2007
Invited Panelist: Luisa Capetillo Colloquium with Norma Valle Ferrer and
Carmen Centeno Añeses, UPR-Cayey
October 2007
Panel: Recuperación de la memoria histórica a través de la ficción –NCCLA
Conference, Eau Claire, WI
“La propuesta educativa de Luisa Capetillo” –MACHL, UW-Madison
Sept 2007
Taller: Recuperación de la memoria histórica a través de la ficción, LASA,
Montreal, Canada
Nov 2006
“Acento en Internet: Personalidades de la cultura hispánica (podcasting)” –
Congreso Internacional de Literatura, UPR-Arecibo
October 2006
“Recovering the Self: The Unnamed Characters of Luisa Capetillo” –Recovering
the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project Conference, St. Louis, MO
April 2006
Creative writing panel –XVII Symposium on Spanish, University of Texas-Pan
American
March 2006
“Luisa Capetillo y los contratos sociales” –V Congreso de Literatura Hispánica,
Lima, Perú
April 2005
“Reclaiming the Self: Esmeralda Santiago’s Almost a Woman” –Kaleidoscope:
Graduate Student Colloquium, UW-Madison
April 2002
“La modernidad en El negocio de Manuel Zeno Gandía” –American
Comparative Literature Association Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico
October 2000
“La ficción y la historia en Fortunata y Jacinta de Benito Pérez Galdós”
MACHL, UW-Madison
Other pedagogical, academic and/or techonological projects:
2010
UWM’s Institute of Race and Ethinicity Campus Reading Seminar
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Co-coordinator for the UWM’s Women’s Studies Feminist Research Group;
session leader for Gloria Anzaldúa reading
2006
lnterviewer for: Personalidades de la cultura hispánica podcasting program.
Awards and grants:
2010
CIE Travel Grant for conference in Cartagena, Colombia
2009
CLACS Course Development Grant: Zonas de contacto- Latin American and
U.S. Latino Literatures (from Cabeza de Vaca to Luchi Corpi)
CIE, Arabic for Students of French and Spanish research cluster grant
2008
CLACS Faculty Travel Award (Fall)
Arts & Humanities Faculty Travel Awards (Spring and Fall)
Roberto Hernández Center, Grant for Applied Latino Research
2005
UW-Madison, Departmental nominee for Capstone Teaching Award
Service:
Institutional:
2007-2010
MALLT Coordinating Committee
Union Restaurant Operations Committee
2008-2011
Women’s Studies Steering Committee
CLACS Undergraduate Certificate Committee
Honorary Degrees Committee
Awards and Recognition Committee
Spring 2009
Graduate School Fellowships Sub-Committee
Ongoing
FLAG (Foreign Language Advisory Group)
2009-2011
Libraries Committee
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Roberto Hernández Center Advisory Committee
LACUSL Advisory Committee
Departmental:
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Ongoing
Apuntes -Spanish and Portuguese Newsletter Editor
Graduate Studies Committee (Spanish)
Luna Creciente (creative writing journal)
2008, 2009
Open House Coordinator for Spanish and Portuguese
Spring 2010
Exit Exam Coordinator
Community Service:
April 2009
Hunger Clean-Up Team participant
May 2009
Orientation about Spanish and Portuguese at UWM for St. Francis High
School students; event organized by Senior Lecturer M. Estrella
Sotomayor
Languages:
English; complete fluency
Spanish; native speaker
Portuguese; PhD minor
French; Reading knowledge, partial fluency