C. Andrea Herrera, Ph.D.

 

 

EDUCATION
Ph. D., May 1993: University of Delaware, Department of English
Dissertation: Nuns and Lovers: Tracing the Development of Idyllic Conventual Writing

M.A., December 1988: West Chester University, Department of English
Thesis: Eliot, and Other Observations: A Jungian Analysis of the poetry of T. S. Eliot

B.A., May 1980: Saint Joseph's University
Major: English Literature; Minor: Drama and Secondary Education (PA Teaching Certificate, Instructional 1)

Fluent in Spanish; basic reading knowledge of French.

PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapters/Introductions & Edited Collections
"Introduction," A Secret Weavers Anthology. Ed. Andrea O'Reilly Herrera. fredonia, NY: White Pine Press, 1998: 17-34.

A Secret Weavers Anthology. Ed. Andrea O'Reilly Herrera. Fredonia, NY: White Pine Press, 1998.

"Introduction," Family Matters in the British and American Novel. Eds. Andrea O'Reilly Herrera, Sheila Foor, and Elizabeth Nollen. Bowling Green, OH: The Popular Press, 1997: 1-13.

" 'Herself Beheld': Marriage, Motherhood, and Oppression in Brontë's Villette and Jacobs' Incidents in
the Life of a Slave Girl," Family Matters in the British and American Novel. Eds. Andrea O'Reilly
Herrera, Sheila Foor, and Elizabeth Nollen. Bowling Green, OH: The Popular Press, 1997: 55-77.

"Joseph Krumgold," Writers of Multicultural Fiction for Young Adults: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Daphne Kutzer. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996: 209-19.

" 'Chambers of Consciousness': Sandra Cisneros and the Development of the Self in the BIG House on
Mango Street," Having Our Way: Women Rewriting Tradition in Twentieth-Century America. Ed. Harriet Pollack. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell U P, 1995: 191-204.

Refereed Journal Articles
"Introduction to (His)tory (Her)story," Modern Language Studies. 27.3, 4 (Fall-Winter 1997): 67-68.

"Women and the Revolution in Cristina García's Dreaming in Cuban," Modern Language Studies. 27.3,  4 (Fall-Winter 1997): 69-91.

"Ron Arias' The Road to Tamazunchale and the Idea of Death," The Americas Review. 22, 3-4 (Fall-Winter 1994): 114-24.

"Liberating Duras: 'The Staircase that Never Stops'," Women & Language. XII 2 (Fall 1990): 21-26.

Magazine Articles
"Re-Membering Cuba," Masthead Literary Arts Magazine. 3 (Spring 1999): 12-13

FORTHCOMING WORKS
Book Articles, Forthcoming Works
"Imagining A Self Between A Husband or a Wall: Charlotte Brontë's Villette," Foreign Women in
British Literature: Exotics, Aliens and Outsiders. Ed. Marilyn D. Button. Westport, CN: Greenwood  Press (forthcoming Winter 2000).

Refereed Journal Articles, Forthcoming Works
" 'The Consciousness of Exile': Memory and the Vicarious Imagination in Cuban-American Literature
and Art," Journal Of West Indian Literature 8:1 (forthcoming).

Books, Forthcoming Works
ReMembering Cuba: The Legacy of a Diaspora. Ed. Andrea O'Reilly Herrera. Austin, TX: The University of Texas Press (forthcoming Spring 2001).                                                                                                                                                                            

CREATIVE WRITING
Fiction, Published Works
"The Homecoming," Little Havana Blues, A Cuban-American Literature Anthology. Ed. Virgil Suarez  and Delia Poey. Houston, TX: Arte Público Press, 1996, 192-99.

"The Dispossessed," Part One Caesura 10 (Spring 1990): 49-60. Part Two Caesura 11 (Spring 1991): 65-78.

Fiction, Forthcoming Works
The Pearl of the Antilles (forthcoming Fall 2000, The Bilingual Review/Press).

Poetry, Published Works
"Inhabited Woman," Masthead, Literary Arts Magazine. 3 (Spring 1999): 13

"Untitled," The Seed. (Spring 1998): 8.

"on the road to orlando," Mangrove. 4:1 (Spring 1997): 103.

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Postcolonial literature and theory; ethnic/women's studies/race and gender theory; US multi-ethnic literature

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Cuba/Cuban Americans; Race and Gender Theory; Latino/a Writers; I'm also a creative writer.

COURSES TAUGHT AT UCCS
Introduction to Ethnic/Women's Studies; Contemporary Novel: The Ethnic Minority Experience; Race, Writing, and Difference; The Brontës; Autobiography and the Creation of the Self; Ethnic Studies Capstone Seminar; Race, Modernity, & Culture (interdisciplinary-team taught course); The Visual, Verbal, and the Audible (cross-listed with Visual & Performing Arts); Creative Writing (fiction); Introduction to Literary Studies; Postcolonial Literature and Theory; U.S. Latino Writers; Faulkner, Morrison, and the Myth of the South (I will teach these last three courses next academic year--2004-05)

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