EDUCATION:
Ph.D. Comparative Literature (English/Spanish) 1983
University of South Carolina (Columbia)
M.A. Comparative Literature (English/Spanish) 1975
University of South Carolina (Columbia)
B.A. English 1971
University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Dissertation:
La Novela Totalizadora: Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow and Fuentes’ Terra Nostra
CURRENT AND PAST POSITIONS:
2012-2014 Interim Chair, Department of Philososphy, UNC Charlotte
2007-2012 Associate Chair, Dept. of Languages and Culture Studies, UNC Charlotte
2005-06 Director of UNC Charlotte Study Abroad Program to Spain
2004-05 Graduate Program Coordinator, Spanish M.A., UNC Charlotte
1990-present University of North Carolina at Charlotte
2000-Spring University of Costa Rica (visiting—graduate class in American literature)
1999-Fall Director of UNC Charlotte Study Abroad Program to Spain
1998-Spring University of Cantabria, Spain (faculty exchange)
1988-89 University of South Carolina Columbia
1980-87 University of Costa Rica
AWARDS
Choice Magazine’s 2010 Outstanding Academic Title
PUBLICATIONS—BOOKS :
Colorín Colorado: Introducción a la literatura infantil y juvenil. Text book in press. Panda Publications. 400+ ms. Pp. Forthcoming 2013.
Resistance and Survival: Children’s Narrative from Central America and the Caribbean (University of Arizona Press, 2009).
Sí pero no: Fabián Dobles and the Post-Colonial Challenge (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005).
Dictionary of Literary Biography: Modern Latin-American Fiction Writers, Second Series, edited by William Luis and Ann González, Vol. 145 (Detroit: Gale Publishing Co., 1994).
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:
“Los perros mágicos de los volcanes: Cruzando fronteras.” De la hamaca al trono y al más allá: Lecturas críticas de la obra de Manlio Argueta. Eds. Linda Craft, Astvaldur Astvaldsson and Ana Patricia Rodríguez. San Salvador: Editorial UTEC, 2013, pp. 269-287.
“(Re)Visiones de la conquista: La niña blanca y los pájaros sin pies de Rosario Aguilar” in Otros testimonios: Voces de mujeres centroamericanas. Edited by Amanda Castro. Guatemala: Letra Negra, 2001, pp. 167-173.
“La inautenticidad de los modelos feministas eurocéntricos en el context latinoamericano: La narrativa de Gioconda Belli” in Visiones y reviones de la Literatura Centroamricana. Compiled by Jorge Román-Lagunas. Guatemala: Oscar de León Palacios, 2000, pp. 167-175.
“Introduction: Spanish Caribbean and Latin-American Writers” in Concise Dictionary of African, Caribbean, and Latin-American Writers, selected by Bernth Lindfors and Ann González. The Gale Group, 2000, xv-xvi.
ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS:
“The Popol Vuh for Children: Explicit and Implicit Ideological Agendas.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly. Forthcoming in 39.3 (2013).
“The Question of Race: Joaquín Gutiérrez and Cocorí.” Caribe. 10.2 (2007-2008): 1-17.
“Costa Rican Identity and the Stories of Carment Lyra.” SECOLAS Annals 52 (2008): 73-82.
“Transgressing Limits: Belli’s El taller de las mariposas.” Ciberletras 17 (Spring 2007).
“The Origin and Appropriation of ‘Mambrú’ in Hispanic Children’s Literature.” 22 Postscript 22 (Spring 2005): 60-68.
“Dobles’s Una burbuja en el limbo: Colonialism, Identity and the Role of the Artist,” The Latin Americanist (2004): 7-22.
“El Legado de Tata Mundo” Istmo: Revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos. No. 3 (enero-junio 2002), http://www.denison.edu/istmo/articulos/tata.html
RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS:
2013 Changmarín: El Cholo and Panamanian Identity. SECOLAS. Panama City, March 2013.
2012 The Popol Vuh: Adaptations for Spanish Speaking Children. Children’s Literature Association. Simmons College, Boston.
2012 Four Versions of the Popol Vuh for Children: Postcolonial Agendas. SECOLAS. Gainesville, Fla.
2011 The Study of Hispanic Children’s Literature. Children’s Literature Association. Hollins College, Virginia.
2011 Race and Children’s Literature in Central America.” FIPSE. Minas Gerais, Brazil.
2011 “Popol Vuh for Children.” SECOLAS. UNC Wilmington, NC.
2010 “Hispanic Children’s Literature in the U.S. Academy.” SECOLAS. Mexico City.
2009 “What Latin American Children’s Literature is All About.” ChLA Children’s Literature Association. UNC Charlotte, NC.
2008 “Cuentos subversivos: Carmen Lyra y Los cuentos de mi tía Panchita” National Association of Hispanic and Latino Culture. February. Baton Rouge.
2008 “Racism in Cocorí.” Brown bag series. Department of Languages and Culture Studies.
UNC Charlotte.
2007 “Costa Rican Identity and the Stories of Carmen Lyra.” SECOLAS. April. Costa Rica.