Jason B - Marquette University

Dr. Jason Meyler
Home address:
6825 Cedar Street
Wauwatosa, WI 53213
414-412-3557
[email protected]
Special Fields:
Education:
Institution address:
Marquette University
Lalumiere Hall, 254
526 N. 14th Street
Milwaukee, WI 53233
US Latino/a narratives, US Latino/a audiovisual culture (music, film,
performance art, and painting), Latin American Visual Culture (film).
B.A.
1997
1998
M.A. 2000
Ph.D. 2006
Dissertation Title:
Director:
University of Richmond
Fulbright Scholar at the Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
University of Arizona
SUNY at Stony Brook
Reconstructing the US Latino/a Image in Literature and Performance Art
Román de la Campa
I. PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
2005 2004 – 2005
2002 – 2003
2000 – 2004
1999 – 2000
1998 – 2000
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Marquette University
W. Burghardt Turner Dissertation Fellow
Multimedia Coordinator for Hispanic Languages, SUNY at Stony Brook
Teaching Assistant, SUNY at Stony Brook
Graduate Assistant to the Basic Language Director, University of Arizona
Teaching Assistant, University of Arizona
II. PUBLICATIONS:
A. Articles:
2013
“No todas las carcajadas son iguales: un análisis del humor en Un cubiche en la luna de
Iván Acosta.” Voces del Caribe: Revista de Estudios Caribeños, 5.1. (2013): 275-307.
2004
“Los tzántzicos ecuatorianos apuntalan su poesía.” HiperFeira: Arts and Literature
Journal, 7. Last accessed on 1 August 2014
http://www.sinc.stonybrook.edu/Publish/hiper/, No pagination, nine pages
single-space typescript.
B. Chapters in Books:
2013
“The Staging of Religion and Popular Culture in Dolores Prida’s Botánica.” Critical
Essays of Afrocuban Theater in Exile. Ed. Armando Gónzalez-Pérez. Ediciones La gota
de agua, 189-214. Translation of previously published chapter in Spanish.
2012
“La puesta en escena de la religión y la cultura popular en Botánica por Dolores
Prida.” Ensayos Críticos del Teatro Afrocubano en el Exilio. Ed. Armando GónzalezPérez. Ediciones La gota de agua, 2012. 191-217.
2009
“La experiencia cuasi mística de un cubano en Rusia: apuntes sobre la Livadia de José
Manuel Prieto.” El español, baluarte del humanismo: literatura, lengua y cultura. Ed. Jorge
H. Valdivieso and L. Teresa Valdivieso. Turlock, California: Editorial Orbis Press,
2009. 295-302.
C. Articles under review:
“Sounds like El Vez: Mimesis and the Mexican Elvis.” Submitted to The Journal of
American Culture. 12 pages single-spaced typescript (Submitted May 2014; decision
expected August 2014).
“The Challenges of Reading Enrique Chagoya's Visual Art as Cultural Narrative.”
(Will be submitted to Image & Narrative August 2014).
D. Book Review:
2012
Review of A Recipe for Discourse: Perspectives on Like Water for Chocolate. Hispania: a
journal devoted to the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese. The Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2012. 359-361.
E. Published Classroom Assignments:
2008
“Who Counts? Math Across the Curriculum for Global Mission.” Co-created with
John Moyer. Pathways to a Life That Counts: A Mission Guidebook for the Marquette
University Class of 2012. Edited by Christine L. Krueger and Susan P. Kuehl with
Susan Mountain and Philip Rossi, S.J.. Pearson Custom Publishing, 2008. 88-89.
F. Research in progress:
“Popular Culture and Narratives of Conflict: An Interview with Enrique Chagoya.”
“The Ethical Treatment of the US Latino/a Imaginary Through the Visual Narration of
Abraham Rodriguez, Jr..”
“El ojo de Sauron: Junot Díaz and a Ghetto Nerd’s Telling of Postcolonial Histories from
the Dominican Republic and Its Diaspora.”
II. PARTICIPATION IN PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS AND PAPERS PRESENTED:
2014
Paper Read: “Exploring the Role of Latin@ Artifice in Contemporary Imaginings of
US Latin@ Identity.” Imagining Latina/o Studies Pas, Present, & Future: An
International Latina/o Studies Conference. Chicago, IL July 17-19, 2014.
2013
Paper Read: “El artificio de la transculturación en el arte visual de Enrique Chagoya.”
Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Milwaukee, WI
November 7-10, 2013.
2013
Paper Read: " Resistencia e identidades múltiples en el Codex Espangliensis de Enrique
Chagoya, Guillermo Gómez-Peña y Felicia Rice." North Central Council of Latin
Americanists Annual Conference. Steven’s Point, WI September 27-28, 2013
2013
Paper Read: “The Interdisciplinary Possibilities of Interpreting Enrique Chagoya’s
Visual Art.” Conversations Across the Humanities Conference at Marquette
University, April 19, 2013.
2013
Paper Read: “Visual Narratives of the Caribbean and its Diaspora.” Third
International Conference on Caribbean Studies, Marquette University, April 11-13,
2013.
2012
Paper Read: “Prevenidos, Cámara ¡Acción!: una exploración de las contribuciones del
cine a la literatura latinounidense.” Midwest Modern Language Association Annual
Conference, Cincinnati, OH, November 8-11, 2012.
2012
Paper Read: “The Challenges of Reading Enrique Chagoya's Visual Art as Cultural
Narrative.” International Society of the Study of Narrative, Las Vegas, NV, March
15-17, 2012.
2012
Paper Read: “No todas las carcajadas son iguales: un análisis del humor en el teatro
de Iván Acosta.” Congreso de Dramaturgia y Artes Escénicas. Miami, FL, January
12-14, 2012.
2011
Paper Read: “La intertextualidad leída por la frontera: los latinounidenses nos
(re)articulan su identidad.” 39th Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture
Since 1900, University of Louisville, February 26, 2011.
2010
Paper Read: “El Caribe visto desde la diáspora: cine y literatura en perspectiva.”
Second International Conference on Caribbean Studies, Marquette University,
October 7-9, 2010.
2010
Paper Read: “Storytelling from the Dominican Diaspora: An Analysis of Junot
Díaz’s narrators in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” American Comparative
Literature Association Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 3, 2010.
2009
Panelist: “Growing Up Spanglish.” Invited speaker at “Latino Solidarity Day III,
Nuestra Generación: A Contemporary Reflection on Latino Art, Culture and
Politics.” Marquette University, September 29, 2009.
2009
Panelist: “Service Learning Beginner’s Workshop.” Marquette University, February 4,
2009.
2009
Panelist: “Who Counts? Math across the Curriculum for Global Mission.”
Marquette University, January 9, 2009.
2008
Participant: The Sixth Annual Invitational Art and Social Change Forum at the
Haggerty Museum [held in conjunction with the Caras Vemos, Corazones No
Sabemos, Faces Seen, Hearts Unknown: The Human Landscape of Mexican
Migration exhibition], April 2008.
2008
Panelist: “Who Counts? Math across the Curriculum for Global Mission.”
Marquette University, February 27th and 28th, 2008.
2008
Paper Read: “Do You Get It?: Beyond Intertextuality in US Latino/a Narrative.”
Nuestra América in the U.S? Latino/a Studies Conference. Kansas University,
February 2008.
2007
Panelist: “Who Counts? Math across the Curriculum for Global Mission.”
Marquette University, October 12th and 26th, 2007.
2007
Paper Read: “La revisión de los ecos e las imágenes precolombinos en el arte
latinounidense.” 89th Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish
and Portuguese. San Diego California, August, 2007.
2007
Participant: The American Association of Colleges and Universities Shared Futures
Summer Conference, Sonoma State University, July, 2007.
2006
Panelist: Conversations on Faculty and Community Engagement, Office of Service
Learning, Marquette University, November, 2006.
2006
Paper Read: “From Passion to Objectivity: Notes on Community Based Research
and Engagement.” Marquette University, November, 2006.
2006
Participant: “From Passion to Objectivity: International and Cross-Disciplinary
Perspectives on Service Learning Research.” Portland, OR, October, 2006.
2006
Paper Read: “Imagen y comida: las complejidades gastronómicas en Guillermo
Gómez-Peña.” 88th Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and
Portuguese. Salamanca, Spain, July, 2006.
2006
Paper Read: “Un cubano en Rusia: notas sobre la Livadia de José Manuel Prieto.”
Fourth Meeting of the Hispanic Association of the Humanities. Madrid, Spain, July,
2006.
2006
Participant: Indigenous Peoples and Movements in Latin America Workshop
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, August, 2006.
2006
Paper Read: “Visual Culture and the Constructions of US Latino/a Identity.”
Fourth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (U.S). George Mason
University, April, 2006.
2005
Paper Read: “Eat Me: Latinos/as and Cultural Cannibalism.” Presented for the
permanent panel: Art What Thou Eat? Food in Literature and Culture. Midwest Modern
Language Association Annual Conference. Milwaukee, WI, November, 2005.
2003
Paper Read: “Visual Narration in Abraham Rodriguez’s The Buddha Book.” Textual
Visions: Visual Texts Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
2003
Paper Read: "How Tasty Was My Little Tele-mundo?: A Case for Cultural
Cannibalism in Contemporary US Latino Art". Presented at the Third Interdepartmental
Literature Colloquium. SUNY at Stony Brook.
2002
Paper Read: "Alma Guillermoprieto's Cultural Translation in 'The Heart That
Bleeds': New Readings, New Stories of Latin American Modernities." Geografías de
Carlos Fuentes: Congreso Internacional Para Conmemorar Cuarenta Años de 'La
muerte de Artemio Cruz' y 'Aura'. Brown University.
III. TEACHING, ADVISING, AND STUDY ABROAD EXPERIENCE:
A. Teaching:
Introduction to Inquiry Freshman Seminar
Beginning Spanish I – Summer course
Intermediate Spanish I – Summer course
Intermediate Spanish II – Summer course
Spanish Grammar Review and Writing
Advanced Oral Skills in Spanish – Course coordinator Fall 2007 and Fall 2008
Hispanic Literature in English Translation
Peoples and Cultures of Spanish-America
Introduction to Literary Analysis in Spanish
Contemporary Issues of the Hispanic World
Spanish American and Latino/a Film
US Latino/a Literature
Independent Study: Hispanic Assimilation in America
Visual Narratives of Latin American and Latino/a USA
Spanish American and Latino/a Film (graduate cross-listed course)
Visual Narratives of Latin American and Latino/a USA (graduate cross-listed course)
Independent Study: Latin American Film; US Latino/a Boom (graduate course)
B. Advising
2006 – present
Pre-major advisor through the Introduction to Inquiry
seminar (an average of nine students per semester until they
declare their majors).
C. Study Abroad
2014
Co-leader of the Applied Global Business Learning project
to Chinique, Guatemala. (Short term study abroad)
IV. COMMITTEES, UNIVERSITY, AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES:
A. University Service
2013- present
Haggerty Museum Faculty Advisory Committee
2010
Member: Fulbright campus interview of Brooke McEwen
2005
Core of Common Studies’ “Diverse Cultures” Focus Group
B. Department Committees
2010 - present
External Communications Committee
2005 – 2010
Committee on Teaching and Technology
2008 – 2009
Member: Advisory Committee
2005
Member: Committee on Teaching Excellence
C. Department Service
2014
Master’s Exam Committee Member for Andrew Holzman,
Kirsten Lehman, Carlos Millan, and Vanessa Varela-Morales.
2013
Master’s Exam Committee Member for Alejandra Briones,
Cristina Edgar, Jamie Lynn Laurie, and Caroline Wolcyk.
2008 - present
Co-organizer of the Annual International Poetry Readings,
Marquette University, April, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013,
and 2014.
2010
Master’s Exam Committee Member for Luis RodriguezCortes, Oscar Molina, and Myriem Bennani-Cazco.
2009
Master’s Exam Committee Member for Katherine Powers,
Calie Henrickson, Jason Bolton, and Alejandro Elizondo
Romero.
2006
Master’s Exam Committee Member for Melissa Huerta.
2005 – present
Spanish Teaching Assistant and Peer Reviewer.
2005
Guest Speaker at the Spring initiation ceremony of Sigma
Delta Pi Hispanic Honors Society.
D. Professional Service
2014
Invited Manuscript Review for Hispania: a journal devoted to the
Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese.
2014
Review of Revista Fourth Edition, Vista Higher Learning.
2013
Review of Opiniones: A 4-Skills Approach to Intermediate-High /
Advanced Spanish, 2nd Edition. ($150 Honorarium).
2013
Review of the Spanish Conversation Textbook, Charlemos
($100 Honorarium).
2012
Invited Manuscript Review for Hispania: a journal devoted to the
Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese.
2011
Invited Manuscript Review for Hispania: a journal devoted to the
Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese.
E. Community Service
2005
Discussion Panel for the Milwaukee International Film
Festival’s presentation of Te doy mis ojos (Take my eyes),
October, 2005.
V. MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
2008 – present
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
(AATSP)
2005 - present
Modern Language Association (MLA)
2005 – present
Mid-West Modern Language Association (MMLA)
2005 – present
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at
the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
2000 – 2007
HiperFeira: Arts and Literary Journal - Editorial Board Member
VI. GRANTS:
2014:
Mellon Fund Project titled “Celebrating 200 years of Gertrudis
Gómez de Avellaneda: A Transnational Figure of Hispanic
Literature.” Co-written with Dr. Armando González-Pérez ($5300
for AY 2014-2015)
2013:
Faculty Development Award, Graduate School, Marquette
University ($345)
2012:
Renewal of the Mellon Fund Project titled “Contemporary Issues,
Film, and Visual Culture: Integrated Learning from / with a Spanish
Speaking Film Director in Residence.” Co-written with Drs.
Afinoguenova, González-Pérez, and Sánchez de la Calle ($13880 for
AY 2012-2013)
2012:
Faculty Development Award, Graduate School, Marquette
University ($300)
2011:
Renewal of the Mellon Fund Project titled “Contemporary Issues,
Film, and Visual Culture: Integrated Learning from / with a Spanish
Speaking Film Director in Residence.” Co-written with Drs.
Afinoguenova, González-Pérez, and Sánchez de la Calle ($13180 for
AY 2011-2012)
2010:
Mellon Fund Project titled “Contemporary Issues, Film, and Visual
Culture: Integrated Learning from / with a Spanish Speaking Film
Director in Residence.” Co-written with Drs. Afinoguenova,
González-Pérez, and Sánchez de la Calle ($8200 for AY 2010-2011)
2010:
Who Counts: Summer Analysis Project ($3500)
2008:
Faculty Development Award, Graduate School, Marquette
University ($300)
2007:
Who Counts? Math across the Curriculum for Global Missions
Honorarium ($1388)
2006:
Faculty Development Award, Graduate School, Marquette University
($600)
2006:
Faculty Development Award for Summer 2007, College of Arts and
Sciences, Marquette University ($5000)
2006:
Summer Faculty Fellowship Grant ($5500)
VIII. LANGUAGES
English and Spanish
Portuguese and French
Native fluency in speaking, reading, and writing
Advanced reading proficiency