Ángela Pérez-Mejía - Brandeis University

Ángela Pérez-Mejía - Brandeis University

Curriculum Vitae
Ángela Pérez-Mejía
Brandeis University (MS024)
415 South St, Waltham, MA 02454
E-mail [email protected]
Education
1997. Ph.D.
1991. M.A.
1985. B.A.
Spanish Literature. State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Latin American Literature. University of Maryland at College Park.
Journalism, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. Medellín, Colombia.
Teaching experience
8/1996 – Present
6/2004-7/2004
9/1991 – 5/1996
1/1994 – 7/1996
1995/summer
1/1989 – 5/1991
Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Women Studies
Brandeis University.
Latin American Film, Hispanic Studies Department, UMASS, Boston.
Teaching Assistant at State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Spanish instructor at the United Nations, New York.
Spanish instructor at Baruch College, New York.
Teaching Assistant of Spanish at the University of Maryland, College
Park.
Journalism experience
1986 –1988.
1985 – 1986.
1984 – 1985.
Colombia.
Assistant editor, Boletín Cultural y Bibliográfico del Banco de la
República, Bogotá, Colombia.
Reporter, News Agency Sobretodo Editores, Medellín, Colombia.
Journalist, Cultural section, Revistas Especializadas, Medellín,
Publications
Books
La geografía de los tiempos difíciles: escritura de viajes a Sur América durante los
movimientos de independencia 1789-1845. Medellín: Universidad de Antioquia, 2002.
http://www.editorialudea.com/publicacionesanteriores/geografia.html
A Geography of Hard Times: Narratives about Travel to South America During the
Independence Movements 1789-1845. (Translated by Dick Cluster) New York: State
University of New York University Press, 2004.
http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=60895
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/biography/v027/27.4maura.html
Articles
“The sling of David”: Travel to Stay Among the Giants. Review of the Americas, New York
2005.
“’Trae la espada bien ceñida y así la vida’ o el doble viaje de la Monja Alférez,” Revista
Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia. 274 (2003): 38-43
“Into the Lion’s Mouth’: Parody as Possibility for Displacement Writing in Servando Teresa de
Mier,” Studies in Travel Writing, a journal of Nottingham Trent University: England. 7 (2003):
63-81
http://152.71.65.197/stw/seven_1abstracts.html
“Entre caníbales y caballeros: la representación de los bucaneros en Inglaterra 1684-1742,”
Revista Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia. 270 (2002): 24-33
“Ana Lydia Vega contextualiza la violencia con la risa,” Feministas Unidas 22.2 (2002): 3741.
“Fronteras de la legalidad: bucaneros en el siglo XVII,” Historia y Sociedad, Universidad
Nacional, Medellín (Marzo 2002): 179-198.
“Roberto Fernández: entre la nostalgia y los flamingos.” Revista Número 31 (Noviembre
2001): 38-45.
http://www.revistanumero.com/31entre.htm
“Humboldt y la Nostalgia de América.” Revista Credencial Historia 134 (February 2001): 1215.
http://www.temakel.com/vehumboldt.htm#HUMBOLDT%20Y%20LA%20NOSTALGIA%20DE
%20AMÉRICA
“Una escritora entre dos mundos y varios géneros.” Nuevos acercamientos a la obra de
Rima de Vallbona (Actas del Simposio-Homenaje). Ed. Jorge Chen Sham. San José, Costa
Rica: Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica (2000) 173-184.
“Flora Tristan (1802–1844),” “Sor Francisca Josefa del Castillo (1671-1742):” “Catalina de
Erauso, la monja Alférez”. Feminist Encyclopedia.
http://www.hope.edu/latinamerican/castillo.html
http://www.hope.edu/latinamerican/Tristan.htm
http://www.hope.edu/latinamerican/erauso.html
“His-panics and mine.” The Journal of Pedagogy, Pluralism & Practice. Lesley College,
Cambridge. 3 January 1998. http://www.lesley.edu/journals/jppp/3/perez.html
“Trazando Fronteras: Cabeza de Vaca.” Fronteras (México) 2.7 (January 1998): 33-41.
“ María Graham: La blanca hija de oriente y su nuevo continente.” Mapocho (Santiago de
Chile) 42.2 (1997): 89-113.
“Mutis o la trampa de la mutisia.” Boletín Cultural y Bibliográfico (Bogotá) 46 (1998): 29-59.
http://www.lablaa.org/blaavirtual/publicacionesbanrep/boletin/boleti1/bol46/mutis.htm
Interview with María Mercedes Carranza. Revista de Estudios Colombianos (Asociación de
Colombianistas) 5, 1 (November 1986): 16-19.
Articles in Press
“Shifting Ground: Gender and Race in the Travel Narratives of Maria Graham and Mary
Seacole”, Connecting Continents: England and Latin America XIX century, Ross Forman
and Robert Aguirre, ed. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
“Viajeras Latinoamericanas y del Cribe: escritura de viajes y género en Seacole y Mansilla”
Memorias del Congreso Género y Géneros: Escritura y Escritoras Iberoamericanas, Madrid
Mayo 2004.
“Catalina de Erauso: Constructing masculinity through virginity,” Memoirs of the Conference
Mulheres Más, Portugal.
Journalism
Op ed “Bilingual education necessary for the future” The Justice, Dec 7, 2004.
Numerous journal articles, interviews, book reviews and reports in the following: Boletín
Cultural y Bibliográfico, Revista Semana, Revista Nueva Frontera, Periódico El Mundo,
Revista Avianca, Revista (1985-1990)
Translations
Translation of Pedro Lastra. “Imágenes of José María Arguedas,” José María Arguedas
Reconsiderations for Latin American Cultural Studies, Ciro A. Sandoval and Sandra M.
Boschetto-Sandoval, eds. Athens, Ohio: University Center for International Studies, (1998).
234-249
Co-translator Ficciones Fundacionales by Doris Sommer. Bogotá: Fondo de Cultura
Económica, 2005.
Book Reviews
Moreno de Angel, Pilar y otros. Caminos reales de Colombia. Bogotá, Fondo FEN, Colombia,
1995. Review for Latin America Literary Review: 25/50 (July-December 1997): 181-83.
Rev. of Women at Sea: Travel Writing and Margins of Caribbean Discourses, ed. Lizabeth
Paravisini-Gebertand Ivette Romero Cesareo. Colonial Latin American Review 2001.
Lectures
Invited
“Como era Gostoso O Meu Francês: Strategies for De-colonization”. Vassar College, Nov 11,
2002.
“Report on Alexander Exquemelin,” for the panel Empire, Mercantilism and Piracy at the
Early Ibero/Anglo Americanist Summit, which will take place in Tucson, Arizona, May 16-19,
2002.
“Del texto periodístico al cinematográfico: la experiencia de ‘Rodrigo D,’” Tufts University,
Boston, April 1, 2002.
“Fronteras de la legalidad,” Colombian Colloquium at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin
American Studies, March 2002.
“Geografías ilegales en el Darién siglo XVII,” lecture series at the David Rockefeller Center
for Latin American Studies, April 2001.
“Between Cannibals and Gentleman: The ambiguous representation of Buccaneers in
England 1678-1742, ” John Carter Brown Library, July 2001.
“The North American South Border as represented in ‘Cabeza de Vaca’,” Brown University,
February 2000.
“Naufragios vs laCabeza de Vaca: el trazo de la frontera méxicoamericana,” Juárez Filmfestival, Ciudad Juárez, México, May 2, 1997.
“La geografía como noticia,” Journalism Program, Universidad de Antioquia, August 2, 1997.
“’Rodrigo D’: del lenguaje periodístico al cinematográfico,” Baruch College, CUNY, June
1992.
Papers presented at Conferences:
“Agentes Culturales y pedagogía” en V Encuentro de Performance y Política, Belo Horizonte,
Brasil, Marzo 2005.
“Como era Gostoso O Meu Francês:, Nelson Pereira dos Santos (1971): el montaje
cinematográfico como estrategia de lectura postcolonial” LASA, Las Vegas, October 2004.
“Viajeras Latinoamericanas y del Cribe: escritura de viajes y género en Seacole y Mansilla”
Género y Géneros: Escritura y Escritoras Iberoamericanas, Saint Louis University, Madrid
May 27 2004.
“Espejo de Paciencia: un reto a la épica” NEMLA, Boston, March 6-7 2003.
“Ana Lydia Vega contextualiza la violencia con la risa,” ALFH Conference, Dominican
Republic, October 24-26 2002.
“Illegal Geographies,” Brown University Conference on “Las Geografías de Carlos Fuentes,”
April 18, 2002.
“Entre caníbales y caballeros: la representación de los bucaneros del Darién, siglo XVII,”
panel: “Latinoamérica ilegal: rebeldes, piratas y narcocorridos,” LASA, Washington,
September 2001.
“Subvirtiendo el orden con la risa: Ana Lydia Vega,” III Conference of the Luso-Hispanic
Society for the Study of Humor,” Loyola University, Chicago, September 2001.
“El hogar soy yo: género y raza como subterfugio de Mrs. Seacole,” III International
Conference in Caribbean Literature, Universidad de Ponce, Puerto Rico, November, 2000.
“Tomás Carrasquilla: la función del humor en la formación del concepto de nación”
Conference “Mito y Nación,” Guatemala City, August 1999.
“The Creation of an Illegal Geography: Spanish Representations of Buccaneers,” Colonial
Latin American division session: Old Texts, “New” Genres, MLA Convention, Chicago, 1999.
“The Traveling Pariah: Flora Tristan and the Freedom to Journey,” panel: Reshaping the New
World: Travel Books in Colonial Times,” MLA Convention, Chicago, 1999.
“María Graham: The White Daughter from the East, ” panel: England and Latin America
during the 19th century, MLA Convention, San Francisco, December 1998.
“The Illegal Geography of Gold,” New England Latin American Studies Conference, Wellesley
College, November 1998.
“Flora Tristan: La geografía incendiaria,” Conference on Constructing Identities: Ideology and
the Formation of the Subject, Columbia University, New York City, March 1998.
“Mutis: el mal de América,” University of San Francisco Conference on Hispanic Cultural
Locations, San Francisco, October 1997.
“Cabeza de Vaca: la frontera geográfica entre el texto y la película,” Portland State University
Conference: CINE LIT III, Oregon, February 1997.
“Geografías imaginadas: los átlas de Humboldt,” Barnard College Conference on “La
representación femenina: imagen y escritura,” New York City, October 1995.
“His-panics and mine,” panel: Black, Brown and White Intellectuals, Marxist Literary Group
Meeting at the Institute of Culture and Society, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, June
1995.
“Orality in Caribbean Literature: Lydia Cabrera and Ana Lydia Vega,” III Asamblea General:
Asociación de Literatura Hispánica Femenina, Cornell University, Ithaca, September 1992.
Co-presenter: “Gender and Spanish Language Textbooks Workshop,” MLA Convention, New
York City, 1992.
“Too Many Uteruses Together: a History of a Differentiation,” Third World Feminist Activist
Meeting, organized by COMADRES, University of Maryland, College Park, March 1990.
Honors
Honorable mention in the category of literary essay, the International Literary Prize Casa de
las Americas, Cuba 2000, for the manuscript: “La Geografía de los tiempos difíciles: viajes a
Sur América durante los procesos de independencia”.
The Jeannette D. Black Memorial Fellowship to do research at the John Carter Brown Library
at Brown University, summer 2001.
Kermit H. Perlmutter Award for Teaching Excellence 2000-2001. Brandeis University
Co-winner with Professor Deborah Levenson-Estrada, Boston College, of a grant from the
Graduate Consortium in Women Studies to develop and teach an interdisciplinary graduate
course entitled “Latin American Women Represent Themselves,” which was offered by the
Consortium, Spring 2000.
Mazer Travel Grant and Latin American Studies Development Grant to do research at the
Archivo de Indias, Seville, 1998.
Commissioned by Vienna Music Festival to write the libretto for the theater piece “Ilusa,”
1993. Grant included funds to write the piece and travel funds to go to Vienna.
Elected Outstanding Teacher 1992 by the Students Association, University of Maryland.
Co-winner of first prize in VI Competition of Cinematographic Screenplays FOCINE,
Colombia, with “No Futuro Rodrigo D” which participated in the Main event at Cannes 1990
and was the winner of best picture at the New York Latino Film Festival, 1990.