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Uses of cyberspace in Latin America, Mexico-USA cultural exchanges/relation, political cartoons and comics from Latin America (in cyberspace), gender issues, post-war literature from Central America.

Education

1999                          Ph.D in Latin American Literature and Cultures,

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese

The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Major Field: Contemporary Latin American Literature and Cultures (Modernity and Postmodernity from 1880)

Secondary Field: Indigenous, Colonial & National Discourses to 1880

Minor Field: Cultural Studies

Dissertation directed by Dr. Jorge A. Trigo: “Comunicación y poder en las crónicas urbanas del México de fin de siglo: Elena Poniatowska y Carlos Monsiváis”

 

1993                          Master of Arts

Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University

 

1984                          Bachelor of Arts

University of Costa Rica, Central America

Major in Mass Media Communication, Emphasis: Journalism

 

Publications

PRINT PUBLICATIONS

Online Activism in Latin America, Hilda Chacón, editor. NY: Routledge, 2019.

Entre Villa y una mujer desnuda de Sabina Berman: ¿a poco somos tan machos?” [Between Villa and a Naked Woman by Sabina Berman: Are We All That Manly?]. Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea (RLMC), 2011 Year XIVI, Number 45, vol. 15. El Paso, TX: University of Texas at El Paso. [ISSN: 14052687]

“Simulacrum en Alta fidelidad de Rosa Beltrán”. Explicación de Textos Literarios 36.1-2 (2008), Sacramento: California State University, ISSN 0361-962 (107-119). [Published in 2010]

“Testimonial Narrative As A Form Of Literary Journalism: A Collage Proposal With Students.” Speaking desde las heridas. Transborder/ Transfronterizo Cibertestimonio Writings (septiembre 11, 2001-marzo 11, 2006). Compiled and Edited by Claire Joysmith. Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas de América del Norte (CISAN)/Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and Whittier College, California, publishers. Mexico: 2008.

El crepúsculo de Heterolandia. Mester de jotería (2006) de Antonio Marquet: crónicas de la Nación Queer mexicana” [El crepúsculo de Heterolandia. Mester de jotería (2006) by Antonio Marquet: Chronicles of the Mexican Queer Nation]. Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea (RLMC), 2008 Year XIV, Number 39, vol. 15. El Paso, TX: University of Texas at El Paso. [ISSN: 14052687]

“Elena Garro: ‘cabra loca’, ‘bocona’, apropiadora de palabras” [Elena Garro: ‘Crazy Goat’, ‘Big Mouth’: Reappropriating Words]. Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea (RLMC), 2007 Year XIII, Number 35, vol. 14. El Paso, TX: University of Texas at El Paso. [ISSN: 14052687]

“Escritura como locus de resistencia y de identidad: Telling to Live, Latina Feminist Testimonios” [Writing as Locus of Resistance and Identity: Telling to Live, Latina Feminist Testimonios]. Letras Femeninas. Número Especial, Summer 2006, Number 1, vol. XXXII. Tempe: Arizona State University Press.

“Niveles performativo-cibernéticos, de un evento trágico” [“Cybernetic-Performative Levels of a Tragic Event”]. One Wound For Another: Testimonios Latinos In The U.S., 11 September 2001 – 11 January 2002. Compiled and Edited by Joysmith, Claire, Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas de América del Norte (CISAN), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and Clara Lomas, Institute for Southwest Studies (SWS), Colorado College. México: UNAM, 2005.

“Crónica, nación y cultura popular en Escenas de pudor y liviandad de Carlos Monsiváis” [“Chronicle, Nation, and Popular Culture in Escenas de pudor y liviandad by Carlos Monsiváis”]. Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea (RLMC), 2005 Year X, Number 26, vol. 11. El Paso, TX: University of Texas at El Paso.

“Crónicas de la post-mexicanidad en tiempos de globalización” [Chronicles of Post-Mexicanness in Times of Globalization]. Ístmica, No. 8, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica [National University of Costa Rica], Serie: “Globalización y Cultura” [Globalization and Culture Series], 2005; ISSN: 1023-0890.

“Crónica, postmodernidad y poder civil en Las mil y una… (la herida de Paulina) de Elena Poniatowska” [“Chronicle, Postmodernity, and Civil Role in Las mil y una… (la herida de Paulina by Elena Poniatowska”]. Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea (RLMC), 2003 Year VIII, Number 21, vol. 9. El Paso, TX: University of Texas at El Paso.

“The Creation of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Literature and Arts of Central America: A Declaration of Regional Solidarity in the ‘Post-War’ Era”. LASA FORUM, Latin American Studies Association, Volume XXXII, Number 4, Winter 2002. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh, 2002.

Aguirre: o la ira de Dios (1972): zonas de contacto epistemológico” [“Aguirre: or the Wrath of God (1972): Zones of Epistemological Contact”]. Con-textos: Revista de Semiótica Literaria 22, University of Medellín, Colombia (October 1998): 79-92.

ARTICLES IN CYBER-JOURNALS

“Poética y (post)modernidad en usos contestatarios del ciberespacio en América Latina” (pp. 231-260). Poesía y poéticas digitales/electrónicas/tecnos/New-Media en América Latina: definiciones y exploraciones. Eds. Luis Correa-Díaz and Scott Weintraub. Bogota, Colombia: Universidad Central Publisher. 23 May, 2016. ISBN: 978-958-26-0228-4 <http://www.ucentral.edu.co/editorial/catalogo/poesia-poeticas-digitales>

“Afterword. Paperless Text: Digital Storytelling in Latin America and Spain (1976-2016).” Eds. Osvaldo Cleger and Philip Penix-Tadsen. Letras Hispanas, Special Issue 11(2015). <http://www.modlang.txstate.edu/letrashispanas/currentvolume.html>

“’Monstruosidades’, ‘maravillas’ e intersticios en Viajero que huye de Uriel Quesada” [Writing as Homeland in Viajero que huye by Uriel Quesada]. Istmo, Online Journal on Literary and Cultural Studies on Central America, no. 19, ISSN: 1535-2315; http://istmo.denison.edu/n19/articulos/5.html Topic: “Sexualities in Central America” (Fall of 2009).

Co-editor. Istmo, Online Journal on Literary and Cultural Studies on Central America, no. 19, ISSN: 1535-2315; http://istmo.denison.edu/n19/articulos/index.html Topic: “Sexualities in Central America” (Fall of 2009).

“Grafemas/August 2004”. Boletín electrónico de la Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica (AILCFH) [Electronic Informative Bulletin of the International Association of Hispanic Feminine Literature and Culture (AILCFH), editor]. Available at http://www-pub.naz.edu:9000/~hchacon6/grafemas/ .

“The Problematic of Exile and Homeland: A ‘Collage’ Proposal” (Cyber-Publication); Presented at The Poetics of Exile; An International Conference, July 17-19, 2003, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Available at http://www-pub.naz.edu:9000/~hchacon6/poetics/.

“Poderia Internet (ou lógica do capitalismo avançado) subverter o projeto de globalização?” [“Can the Internet (or the Logic of Late Capitalism) Subvert the Globalization Project?”]. DataGramaZero. Revista de Ciência da Informação, vol. 2, n.3, Junho 2001 (Brazil, Internet). ISSN 1517-3801. http://www.dgz.org.br/jun01/F_I_aut.htm

“¿Puede Internet (ó la lógica del capitalismo avanzado) subvertir el proyecto de la globalización?” [“Can the Internet (or the Logic of Late Capitalism) Subvert the Globalization Project?”]. CiberLetras. Revista de crítica literaria y de cultura/Journal of Literary Criticism and Culture, vol. 4, January 2001 (USA, Internet). ISSN: 1523-1720. http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/v04.html

BOOK CHAPTERS:

“Mujeres al rescate: imaginación creadora como atributo femenino en los filmes de Pedro Almodóvar.” How the Films of Pedro Almodóvar Drawn Upon and Influence Spanish Society: Bilingual Essays on His Cinema. María R. Matz, and Carole Salmon, editors. NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2012. (Book Chapter)

“Political Cartoons in Cyberspace: Rearticulating Mexican and US Cultural Identity in the Global Era.” Mexico Reading the United States, Linda Eagan and Mary K. Long, eds. Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, 2009. (Book Chapter)

BOOK REVIEWS:

“Artz, Lee, ed. The Pink Tide: Media Access and Political Power in Latin America. New York: Routledge, 2017.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies. Hispanic Studies and Researches on Spain, Portugal, and Latin America. University of Glasgow and Queen’s University Belfast. Volume 96, 2019. Issue 9: 1564-1565 pp. NY: Routledge, 2019. Published online on 24 Feb 2020. (Book Review) https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NJSAFKKAV4EF2NZ7ETHI/full?target=10.1080/14753820.2019.1723925

“Claire, Taylor, and Thea Pitman. Latin American Identity in Online Cultural Production. New York and London: Routledge, 2013. 254 pp.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. Washington University, St. Louis. Tomo XLVIII, Número 1, March 2015. (Book Review)

“Mujeres al frente: el teatro de Ana Istarú” [“Women to the Front: the Theatre of Ana Istarú”] (Book Review on Istarú, Ana. Baby boom en el Paraíso/ Hombres en escabeche. San José, Costa Rica: Editorial Costa Rica, 2001). Confluencia: Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura, Fall 2004, Volume 21, Number 1; ISSN: 0888-6091. Greeley, Colorado: University of Northern Colorado. (Book Review)

CREATIVE WRITING

“De piedra.” [Stonemade]. Penélope. Setenta y cinco cuentistas centroamericanas [Penelope. Seventy-five Female Central American Short Story Writers]. Editor: Consuelo Meza Márquez, Aguas Calientes University Publisher. Aguas Calientes, Mexico, 2017. [ISBN: 978-607-8523-10-8]

“Maneras de irse” [Ways to Leave]. Letras Femeninas 38.2 (2012).

“Rituales” [Rituals]. Ámbitos feministas 2012, Revista Crítica Multidisciplinaria de la Coalición Feministas Unidas.

“Exilio y cárcel” [Exile and Prison]. Diálogo 15:1 (2012); Exile and Dislocation, De Paul University, Chicago, IL.

“Yo también tengo dos abuelas” [I, Too, Have Two Grandmothers]. Anthology of Memories of Hispanic Grandmothers as Remembered by Their Grandchildren. Casanova-Marengo, Ilia and Marina Llorente, editors. Madrid: Editorial Torremozas, 2012.

“Desaparecida” [Missing Female]. Ostara. Revista del Cuerpo Académico de Estudios de Género [Ostara. Academic Journal on Gender Studies], Centro de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades [Center for Social Sciences and Humanities], Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes [Autonomous University of Aguascalientes], 2009, Year 1, Numbers 1-2. Aguascalientes, Mexico. Número 1 y 2, Vol 1, 2009.

“De piedra”. XV Premio Ana María Matute de Relatos de Mujeres 2003. Ellas también cuentan, Madrid, Spain: Ediciones Torremozas. [“Stonemade”, XV Award Ana María Matute of Short Stories Written by Women 2003. Women Also Tell Series, Madrid, Spain; Torremozas Publisher].

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Memberships

1994                Modern Language Association of America (MLA)

1996                 Latin American Studies Association (LASA)

1996                  Graduate Student representative for the Humanities Technology Advisory Committee, in charge of advising the Dean of the College of Humanities of The Ohio State University on technology necessities.

1999                 The Ohio State University Alumni Association, Inc.

1999                   Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica, AILCFH (International Association of Hispanic Feminine Literature and Culture)

2000                   International Society for Luso-Hispanic Humor Studies, Penn State University

2001                    Feministas Unidas/ Feminists United (FemUn. Inc., MLA-allied organization)

2004                  American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)

2007                   National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)

2007                   American Association of University Women (AAUW)

2007                  North East Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

2011                   American Association of University Professors (AAUP)

2012                  Lake Erie Latin American Cultural Studies Consortium (LELACS)

 

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