Associate Professor of Spanish
Education
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Licenciada en Filolog鱈a e Idiomas (espa単ol/ingl辿s). Monograph: "An叩lisis sociolol坦gico de Un chistoso de aldea de Soledad Acosta de Samper"
- Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Master in Latin American and Colombian Literature. Thesis: "Trilce. En busca de un lenguaje competente"
- The University of Iowa, Ph.D. in Hispanic American and Latin American Literature. Dissertation: "Representaciones ficcionales de la criminalidad juvenil del narcotr叩fico"
Courses Taught
- SN 104 Intermediate Spanish II
- SN 201 Spanish Conversation and Composition
- SN 203 Introduction to Reading Literature
- SN 302 Culture and Civilization of Latin America
- SN 308 Violence and Culture: Colombia in the 20th Century
- SN 366 Latin American Testimony
- SN 381 Latin American Avant-garde
- ML 392 Introduction to Latin American and Latino Studies
Publications
Book
- La novela sicaresca. Testimonio, sensacionalismo y ficci坦n. Fondo Editorial Universidad EAFIT. Medell鱈n: 2009.
Book Chapters
- "Lenguaje e impunidad en La Virgen de los sicarios." Fernando Vallejo. Condici坦n y figura. Ed. Eufrasio Guzm叩n Mesa. Medell鱈n, Colombia: Taller El ngel Editor, 2005. 129-153.
Volume Edited
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La otra mirada: victimarios en la literatura latinoamericana reciente. Ana Mar鱈a Mutis and Margarita J叩come. M辿xico: Bonilla-rtigas Editores (forthcoming 2021).
Articles
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Testaferrato narrativo en El resucitado.&稼恢壊沿;La otra mirada: victimarios en la literatura latinoamericana reciente. Edited by Ana Mar鱈a Mutis and Margarita J叩come. M辿xico: Bonilla-rtigas Editores (forthcoming 2021)
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Introducci坦n.&稼恢壊沿;La otra mirada: victimarios en la literatura latinoamericana reciente. Edited by Ana Mar鱈a Mutis and Margarita J叩come. M辿xico: Bonilla-rtigas Editores (forthcoming 2021).
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"Deseo, memoria y liberaci坦n en la poes鱈a de Luz Argentina Chiriboga" Poemas y cantos. Antolog鱈a cr鱈tica de autoras afro-descendientes de Am辿rica Latina. Edited by Mercedes Jaramillo and Betty Osorio. Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Online, 2020.
- "Narrar la historia: identidades armadas en la narcoliteratura colombiana reciente." Narcodependencia. M辿xico: Humbold-Kolleg-Colegio Nacional, 2018.
- 多Narco-novela o novela del narcotr叩fico? Apuntes sobre el caso colombiano.&稼恢壊沿;Narcoficciones en Colombia y M辿xico. Madrid: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2016, pp. 27-52.
- Ret坦ricas del desplazamiento forzado en Lugares ajenos&稼恢壊沿;Hispan坦fila, 173, January 2015, pp. 379-394.
- Reconfiguraci坦n del sicario en Felicidad Quiz叩s de Mario Salazar Montero y Los restos del vellocino de oro de Alfredo Van鱈n. Per鱈frasis 4.5 (enero-junio 2012): 98-111.
- "Rosario Tijeras: novela sicaresca sentimental." Colombia: Tiempos de imaginaci坦n y desaf鱈o. Edici坦n y pr坦logo Jos辿 Eduardo Jaramillo Zuluaga. Bogot叩: Asociaci坦n de Colombianistas, Spring 2007. 202-217.
- "Polifon鱈a y silencio: subversi坦n del "叩ngel del hogar" en la obra de Carolina Coronado." Torre de Papel. Iowa City, 2004. Volumen XIV: 22-30.
Book Reviews
- Francisco Villena Garrido. Las m叩scaras del muerto:autoficci坦n y topograf鱈as narrativas en la obra de Fernando Vallejo. Revista de Estudios Colombianos 2012, 39: 65.
Translations
- "La sociabilidad plebeya en las pulper鱈as y tabernas de Lima y Cusco, 1600-1690. "M叩s all叩 de la dominaci坦n y la resistencia: Ensayos de historia peruana. Paulo Drinot and Leo J. Garofalo, eds. Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2005. 104-135.
Areas of Specialization
- Latin American narratives of violence and displacement
- Colombian literature and culture
- Latin American and Latino studies
Presentations
Lectures
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Invited Commentator: The Contexts and Receptions of Gabriel Garc鱈a M叩rquez. The Johns Hopkins University. Department of German and Romance Languages and Literature. March 10, 2017.
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Invited Presenter: Narconarratives in Colombian Culture.&稼恢壊沿;VPAA Faculty Scholarship Series. 91心頭. February 24, 2017.
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Invited Speaker. "Narrar la historia: protagonismo armado en la narco-literatura colombiana reciente". Narcodependencia: Simposio sobre Narconarrativa/Narcocultura en el Hemisferio Occidental. Colegio Nacional, M辿xico City, April 27-29, 2015.
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Keynote Speaker. 多Narco-novela o novela del narcotr叩fico? Apuntes sobre el caso colombiano.&稼恢壊沿;International Conference Narcoficciones en Am辿rica Latina. Universit辿 de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, April 3-5, 2013.
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"Hit men in Colombian fiction: Consuming the Drug-trafficking Culture of Violence." Denison University, October 16, 2009.
- Presentation of the book La novela sicaresca. Testimonio, sensacionalismo y ficci坦n. 22. Feria Internacioal del Libro. Bogot叩, August 14, 2009.
- Invited Speaker: "The Sicario Culture and its Depiction in Colombian Narratives." Latin American Colloquium. The University of Iowa, April 2005.
Conferences
- "Identidades forzadas en "El metro m叩s limpio y ordenado del mundo." XIX Congreso de la Asociaci坦n de Colombianistas. Medell鱈n, July 1-3, 2015.
- "Reconfiguraci坦n del sicario en Felicidad quiz叩s de Mario Salazar Montero y Los restos del vellocino de oro de Alfredo Van鱈n." XVII Congreso de la Asociaci坦n de Colombianistas. Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, August 2011.
- "La novela sicaresca en el rese単ismo cultural de la globalizaci坦n." XV Congreso de la Asociaci坦n de Colombianistas. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogot叩, August 2007.
- "La Virgen de los sicarios y Rosario Tijeras: la novela sicaresca en el cine." Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana. Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogot叩, August 2006.
- "Sangre ajena: la voz infantil de la violencia." 26th Cincinnati Conference of Romance Languages and Literatures. Cincinnati, May 2006.
- "Rosario Tijeras: novelas sicaresca sentimental". XIV Congreso de la Asociaci坦n de Colombianistas. Denison University, August 2005.
- "Literatura y Mercado: del Siglo de las Luces al Show de las estrellas." Department Colloquium. The University of Iowa, April 2002.
- "Influences of the Writing Tutor on Student Revision in L2." Flare Series. University of Iowa, October 2001.
- "Characters as Ghosts in Three Short Stories by Cristina Peri Rossi." Symposium of Hispanic Women Writers. Denison University, March 2000.
- "Creaci坦n de lo fant叩stico en los cuentos de Cristina Peri Rossi," International Conference of Literature and Visual Arts, University of West Georgia. Atlanta, November 1999.
Service Activities, Memberships in Academic Societies
Service: College Activities (Representative Assignments)
- Faculty Evaluation Committee. Fall 2016-Present.
- Kolvenbach Committee. Fall 2015-Present.
- Head. Spanish section. Fall 2014-Spring 2016.
- Honors Council. Fall 2013-Spring 2016.
- Education for Life. Fall 2013-Spring 2015.
- Chair. Language Learning Center Oversight Committee. Spring 2013-Spring 2015.
- Latin American and Latino Studies Steering Committee. Fall 2009-Present.
- Student advisor for exchange programs traveling to El Salvador, Chile and Argentina. 2010-Present.
- Sigma Delta Pi Adviser. Fall 2009-Spring 2013.
- 26th Hanna Geldrich-Leffman Colloquium on Language, Literature and Society: Internationally Criminal: Contexts and Practices of Detective Fiction, on April 18, 2012. Co-organizer with Prof. Jinghua Wangling, Prof. Andrea Thomas, and Prof. Matthew Harper.
- Search Committee. The Cardin Chair in the Humanities. Fall 2010-Spring 2011.
- Board on Discipline. Spring 2010-Fall 2011.
- Exchange student host. Office of International Programs. Spring 2011.
- 24th Hanna Geldrich-Leffman Colloquium on Language, Literature and Society: Music and the Art of Subversion: the Meaning Behind the Melody, on April 13, 2010. Co-organizer with Prof. Ursula Beitter, and Prof. Ana G坦mez-P辿rez.
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Lectures Organized: Martha Rodr鱈guez (2008); Corn and Social Movements (2013, co-organized with Johns Hopkins).
Memberships in Academic Societies
- Association of Colombianists
- Latin American Studies Association
