EDUCATION

Ph.D. Spanish, Tulane University, May 2001 Dissertation: "Re-Reading the Conquest and Reconquest: The Return of the Moors in Contemporary Spain" Co- directed by Teresa S. Soufas and Christopher Soufas

M.A. Spanish, Tulane University, 4.00 GPA, 1997

B.A. Spanish, University of New Orleans, 3.95 GPA, 1995 Literature and Law, University of Buenos Aires, 1990-93

GRANTS, HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Dr. Nuala Mcgann Drescher Award, SUNY/UUP, Spring 2005

2004 SUNY Stony Brook Junior Nomination for NEH Summer Stipend Grant

Participant in US team, Rockefeller Foundation Seminar in Bellagio. Submitted by the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook. "Trans/cultural Translators: Mediating Race, Indigeneity, Ethnicity in Four Nations." Bellagio, Italy, August 5-12, 2003

2002-03 Individual Development Award, SUNY/UUP Research Grant to Spain, Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States Universities. "Battles of Identity: the 'Fiestas de Moros y Cristianos' in the Context of Current North African Immigration to Spain." Alicante, Spain. July 2002

Graduate School Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2000-01

Dissertation Research Grant to Spain, Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States Universities. "La recepción de las representaciones teatrales de la leyenda de la 'pérdida de España' en el siglo XIX." Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, Spain. Summer 1999

Fellowship to be Research Assistant for Dr.Teresa S. Soufas, Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of Spanish, in the project "Melancholy in Golden Age Women Writers." Tulane University, 1998-99

William Y. Lobdell Jr. Foreign Language Faculty Scholarship, University of New Orleans, 1995

Certificate for Outstanding Achievement in Spanish, University of New Orleans, 1995

PUBLICATIONS

Books

The Return of the Moor: North African Immigration in Contemporary Spain. An analysis of Spanish responses to current North African immigration through film, literature and the media. (Accepted/Forthcoming from Purdue UP)

"Invasiones" moras: la "pérdida de España" a través de los siglos (In Progress).

Articles published in refereed journals

"New Racism, Intercultural Romance, and the Immigration Question in Contemporary Spanish Cinema." Studies in Hispanic Cinemas 1:2 (2004): 103-18.

"Battles of Identity, or Playing 'Guest' and 'Host': the Festivals of Moors and Christians in the Context of Moroccan Immigration to Spain." Co-authored with Adrián Pérez Melgosa. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 4:2 (2003): 151-68. [Available online through Carfax Publishing Company, part of the Taylor & Francis Group ISSN: 1463-6204 (Paper) 1469-9818 (Online)]

"Cristianas y moras: la identidad híbrida de España en Moras y cristianas de Angeles de Irisarri y Magdalena Lasala y El viaje de la reina de Angeles de Irisarri." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 37 (2003): 413-35.

"Contradicción y heterogeneidad en Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez de Carlos Sigüenza y Góngora." Romance Notes 42:2 (2002): 163-9.

"De la inmigración marroquí a la invasión mora: discursos pasados y presentes del (des)encuentro entre España y Marruecos." Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 5 (2001): 73-88.

"Rodrigo, Julián y la monarquía en el Romanticismo español: el Duque de Rivas, Espronceda, Zorrilla y García Escobar." Crítica Hispánica 23:1-2 (2001): 82-90.

"El Rodrigo de Pedro Montengón: la leyenda de la 'pérdida de España' entre la Ilustración y el Romanticismo." Dieciocho 24:1 (2001): 1-14.

Invited articles

"Marketing Convivencia: Contemporary Tourist Appropriations of Spain's Jewish past" co-authored with Adrián Pérez Melgosa, in Spain is (Still) Different: Tourist Locations, Attractions, and Discourses in Modern Spanish Culture. Ed. Eugenia Afinoguénova and Jaume Martí Olivella. Forthcoming.

"Playing with Saint Elizabeth: Drama from the Pen of an Unknown Adolescent", in Recovering Spain's Feminist Tradition. Ed. Lisa Vollendorf. Co-authored with Teresa S. Soufas and class members of Graduate Seminar. New York: MLA, 2001. 123-41.

Interviews published
"Conversación con Lourdes Ortiz." Letras Peninsulares 14:2 (2001): 9-14.

Book Reviews

"España exótica. La formación de la imagen española moderna de Jesús Torrecilla." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 39 (2005): 235-37.

"Mujer, inmigrante y trabajadora: la triple discriminación." Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 9 (2005) (forthcoming).



Articles in progress

"From Cluny to Schengen: Spain and Europe in Urraca by Lourdes Ortiz and El día de todas las almas by Cees Nooteboom."

"Buenas y malas madres: Urraca de Lourdez Ortiz y La reina Urraca de Angeles de Irisarri"

Invited article for the book 711, 9/11, 3/11: Spain's Past, the Global Present, and the Question of Historical Relevance ed. by Simon Doubleday and David Coleman.

INVITED LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PAPERS

"Looking for Ghosts: Moroccan Immigration in Spanish Social and Fictional Texts." Vassar College. April 12, 2004.

"Ghostly Presence: The 'Moor' and the Moroccan Immigrant in Contemporary Spanish Texts." Columbia University. February 10, 2004.

"Shattered Frontiers: the Regional, the National and the Foreign in Contemporary Spain." Ohio State University. February 2, 2004.

"New Racism, Intercultural Romance, and the Immigration Question in Contemporary Spanish Film and Fiction." University of California at San Diego. January 26, 2004.

"Differentialist Racism in Spanish Immigration Films." Hispanic Cinemas Conference. Institute of Romance Studies, London. November 28-29, 2003.

"An Unsettling Present: Writing Moroccans in Contemporary Spanish Literature." Midwest MLA Convention. Chicago, IL. November 7-9, 2003.

"Intercultural Romance and the Immigration Question in Contemporary Spanish Films." Bellagio, Italy. August 5-12, 2003.

"Negotiating Spain's difference in Europe: Moroccan Immigration in Spanish Social and Fictional Texts" Mobilizing the Mediterranean: Migration, Alterity, Identity. Conference at the University of London. July 4-5, 2003.

"Impossible Love: Muslim Men and Spanish Women in Isabel Gardela's Tomándote and Antonio Chavarrías' Susanna." Cine-Lit V. Portland, OR. February 26-March 2, 2003.

"Africa Doesn't Begin at the Pyrenees Anymore: Spanish National Identity in the New Europe." Faculty/Graduate Students Literature Coloquium, SUNY Stony Brook. December 4, 2002.

"Pateras, Pañuelos, and Chadors: Veilings and Unveilings of Moroccan Immigrants in the Spanish Press" and "Shattered Frontiers: the Regional, the National and the Foreign in Contemporary Spain." Midwest MLA Convention. Minneapolis, MN. November 8-10, 2002.

"Battles of Identity: The "Fiestas de Moros y Cristianos" in the Context of Current North African Immigration to Spain." Co-authored and presented with Adrián Pérez Melgosa. Hispanic Cultural Studies: The State of the Art. Tucson, AZ. September 18-21, 2002.

"Cristiana y mora: la identidad híbrida de España en Urraca de Lourdes Ortiz." Midwest MLA Convention. Cleveland, OH. November 1-3, 2001.

"El nuevo regreso marroquí a España: cruces, violaciones y fronteras." SUNY Stony Brook. February 2001.

"Florinda in the XVIIIth century: from Feijóo to Cadalso to Gálvez." Davidson College. January 2001.

"The Return of the Moors in Contemporary Spanish Narrative." Union College. January 2001.

"El Orientalismo en la España de los noventa." Spain in the XXIst Century: an International Symposium. Ohio State University. November 1-4, 2000.

"La leyenda de la pérdida de España en el Romanticismo: el Duque de Rivas, Espronceda, Zorrilla y Ventura García Escobar." Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference. Duquesne University. September 29-30, 2000.

"Moras y cristianas de Ángeles de Irisarri y Magdalena Lasala y El viaje de la reina de Ángeles de Irisarri: la narrativa histórica y la representación del 'otro' moro en la España medieval." 53rd Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky. April 27-29, 2000.

"La sombra del gudari de Rosa Pereda: versiones vascas y versiones femeninas del activismo antifranquista." Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Louisiana State University. March 2-4, 2000.

"Disculpando y acusando al monarca: El Rodrigo de Pedro Montengón." Cultural Encounters 1999. Second Annual Conference. Spanish and Portuguese Department, Tulane University. March 12-14, 1999.

"Reivindicación del Conde don Julián de Juan Goytisolo: el cruce de fronteras y el lenguaje como traición nacional." XXIV Annual Hispanic Literatures Conference. Indiana University of Pennsylvania. October 22-24, 1998.

TEACHING

SUNY Stony Brook.
Assistant Professor of Spanish. August 2001-today

Undergraduate courses
HUS 255: Modern Spain (in English). Fall 2005, Fall 2004, Fall 2003
SPN 410: Theory in Contexts. Reading Testimonio in Latin Am and Spain. Fall 2005 SPN 410: Theory in Contexts. Spanish Women Writers. Fall 2004
SPN 415: North African Immigrants in Contemporary Spanish Texts. Spring 2003
SPN 312: Introduction to Literary Studies. The Text and its Context. Spring 2003
SPN 311: Spanish Conversation and Composition. Fall 2002
SPN 321: Advanced Spanish Grammar and Composition. Fall 2001, Spring 2002
SPN 405: New Issues in 20th Cent. Spanish Culture. Race and History. Fall 2001

Graduate courses
SPN 595: (Directed Independent Study): Post-War Spanish Women Writers. Spr 2005
SPN 595: (Directed Independent Study): 20th-century Spanish Novel. Spring 2004 SPN 510: Transnationalism in the Contemporary Spanish Novel. Fall 2003
SPN 595: (Directed Independent Study): Spain and Europe. Fall 2003
SPN 543: Moros en la costa: Immigrat. and Nat. Identity in Contemp. Sp. Fall 2002 CEJ 545: Dissident Voices in Spanish Novel and Film (in English). Spring 2002

Tulane University.

Teaching Assistant of Spanish. August 1996-May 2000
Spanish 101: Elementary Spanish I. Fall 1997
Spanish 102: Elementary Spanish II. Spring 1998
Spanish 203: Intermediate Spanish. Summer 1999, Fall 1999, Spring 2000
Spanish 326: Spanish Conversation. Fall 1999
Assistant to Dr. Carole Cloutier, Language Program Coordinator. Spring 2000. Supervised and created exams for all sections of Spanish 101, 102, 112, 203.


UNIVERSITY AND DEPARTAMENTAL SERVICES

SUNY Stony Brook
SUNY Stony Brook Dissertation Reader:
Rosario Torres (August 2002)
María Elena Bisabarros (October 2002)
Sergio Callau (April 2003)
Eduardo Barros (August 2003)
Eva Copeland (May 2004)
María Bobadilla (August 2004)
Mary Filou (December 2004)
Catherine Wood Lange (March 2005)
Tania de Miguel Magro (June 2005)
Nieves Almagro (in progress)
Margaret Frohlich (Second Reader, in progress)

Dissertation Director:
Catherine Simpson (in progress)
Natalia Núñez (in progress)
Aura Colón (in progress)

Member of Comprehensive Exam Committee for the following Ph.D. students:
Tania de Miguel Magro (December 2003),
Fernando Guerrero (December 2003),
Carmen Rodríguez Marín (March 2004),
Nieves Almagro (May 2004),
Margaret Frohlich (May 2004),
Paulina Froemel (September 2004),
Catherine Simpson (May 2005)
Aura Colón (May 2005)
Natalia Núñez (May 2005)
Manuel Urrutia (October 2005)
Silvina Trica-Flores (October 2005)

Selection committee for the Partnership Scholarship for Latino Scholars and Research, Latin American Center. Fall 2001
Collaborated with Undergraduate Studies Director in Prime Time Event. Fall 2002 and Spring 2003
Selection committee for Annual Undergraduate Essay Award. Hispanic Languages. Spring 2003
Design of Departmental Poster advertising Graduate Program. Spring 2003

Tulane University

Graduate Student Representative, Students/faculty liaison. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 1999-2000

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Member of the Humanities Institute Advisory Board. Fall 2004-present

University Senate Representative. Fall 2004, Spring 2005

Member of the Selection committee for the Partnership Scholarship for Latino Scholars and Research, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center. Fall 2001

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Chair and Organizer, "Peninsular Literature after 1700" Panel: "Transnationalism in Modern Peninsular Literature." Midwest MLA Convention. Chicago, IL, November 2003

Chair and Organizer, "The Exoticism of the Foreign in Contemporary Spanish Cinema" with Stony Brook graduate students. Cine-Lit V. Portland, OR, February 2003

Participation on Humanities Institute Internal Faculty Seminar directed by Ann Kaplan: Spring 2002 -present.

Planned and organized Survival Strategies for Graduate Students. Spring Series. Interdisciplinary Scholars Network (ISN), Tulane University, Spring 2000

Planned and organized Visit of Hayden White with ISN, and participated in his workshop, "Witness Literature: Primo Levi". November 1999

Designed the basis of Graduate Student Professional Development Seminar Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Tulane University, October 1999

Translated for Dr. Carole Cloutier class materials for Spanish 601: Methods of Teaching Spanish and Portuguese, from English to Spanish. July 1999

Planned and organized Cultural Encounters 1999. Second Annual Conference. Spanish and Portuguese Department, Tulane University. March 12-14, 1999

LANGUAGES

Spanish: Native speaker
English: Near-native
French and Portuguese: Reading Proficiency

MEMBERSHIPS

Modern Language Association
Midwest MLA Association
Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese

REFERENCES
Dr. Teresa Scott Soufas, Tulane University, tsoufas@tcs.tulane.edu
Dr. Christopher C. Soufas, Tulane University, csoufas@tcs.tulane.edu
Dr. Lou Charnon-Deutsch, SUNY Stony Brook, ldeutsch@notes.sunysb.edu
Dr. Kathleen Vernon, SUNY Stony Brook, kvernon@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
Dr. E. Ann Kaplan, SUNY Stony Brook, eakaplan@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
Dr. Susan Martin-Márquez, Rutgers University, susanmm@rci.rutgers.edu
Dr. Jo Labanyi, University of Southampton, UK, J.Labanyi@soton.ac.uk