C. Andrea O’Reilly Herrera

Department of English/Ethnic Studies Program

e-mail: aherrera@uccs.edu

 

University Of Colorado, Colorado Springs                                                                 912 N. Hancock Avenue

1001 Columbine Hall, Box 7150                                                                        Colorado Springs, Co 80903

1420 Austin Bluffs Pkwy.                                                                                                 Tel: 719.447.1177

Colorado Springs, CO 80933-7150                                                                                   fax: 719.262.4557

Tel: 719.262.4001/Fax: 719.262.4557

                                                                                 

Education

 

          Ph. D. May 1993 (GPA 4.0): University of Delaware, Department of English.

              Dissertation: Nuns and Lovers: Tracing the Development of Idyllic Conventual Writing

 

          M.A., December 1988 (cum laude, GPA 3.9):  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 (cum laude,GPA 3.5): Saint Joseph’s University.

              Major: English Literature

              Minor: Drama and Secondary Education (PA Teaching Certificate, Instructional 1)

              ** Foreign Languages: Fluent in Spanish; basic reading knowledge of French.

 

Teaching Experience

 

University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (Interim Assistant Vice Chancellor of Academic Diversity and

           Development, 2002-03; Full Professor, fall 2002--; Department of English/Director of

           Ethnic Studies Program, Associate Professor Fall 1999—spring 2002)

           Courses Taught (2/2 work load):

            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 Theory & History; U.S. Latino/a Literature;

            Service & Learning; Women of Color: Image and Voice; Introduction to Race & Gender.

 

State University of New York, College at Fredonia, Fredonia, NY (Assistant Professor fall 1993-98;

           Associate Professor fall 1998-spring 1999; Co-Director Women’s Studies 1994-96; Director

           Ethnic Studies 1997-98).

          Courses Taught (4/3 work load):

            Multiethnic Literature: World Poetry; Novels & Tales: A Multicultural Sampler;

                                                        Tales Of the Sea; Women’s Autobiography; Caribbean Literature (*taught

                                                 for the Departments of English and Foreign Languages).

            English Education: The Adolescent in Literature.

            British Literature: The Victorian Age; The Brontës; Major British Writers.

            Graduate M. A. Courses: Major British Writers: Retelling the Cinderella Story; The Brontës;

                                                   Latina/ Writers; Colonial & Post-Colonial Literature & Theory.

            Colloquia/Graduate Course: The Relationship Between the Visual, the Audible, and the Verbal.

            Senior Seminar: ‘ Memory, History,  and Autobiography’

            English Composition.

            Women’s Studies: Introduction to Women’s Studies (undergraduate independent study).

 

Immaculata College, Immaculata, PA (Adjunct Faculty 1990-92).

          Courses Taught:              

            The English Romantics; Modern American Novel; Victorian Literature; Senior Seminar: 

            Twentieth-Century Writers; Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature; English

            Composition & Research.

 

University of Delaware, Newark, DE (Adjunct Faculty 1989-91; Visiting Professor, spring 1993)     

          Courses Taught:

            Multicultural Studies; Women in the House of Fiction; Research on Women Seminar (*all

            three courses were cross-listed between the Department of English and Women’s Studies);

            Approaches to Literature; Freshman Summer Reading Program.

   

West Chester University, West Chester, PA (Adjunct Faculty, 1988-92)

          Courses Taught:

            English Composition; English Tutoring Program; Freshman English Composition Placement

            Committee.

 

Saint Agnes School, West Chester, PA (1988-89)

          Subject Taught:

           Art Goes to School (Grades 2-3).

 

Radnor Senior High School, Radnor, PA (1977-78)

          Student Teaching:

            The Short Story (in both a regular, mainstreamed classroom and in the Alternative Program);

            Drama (Grades 9-12).

 

Saint Charles of Boromeo Elementary School, Philadelphia, PA (1977-78)

          Teacher’s Aid (Grades 1-2).

 

Southwest Volunteer Organization, Navajo Reservation, Thoreau, NM (summer 1977)

          Subjects Taught:

            Reading; Creative Writing; Music; Art.

 

BIA, Saint Katherine’s Indian School, Santa Fe, NM and Santa Clara Pueblo (summer 1976)

          Subjects Taught:

             Reading; Creative Writing; Music; Art.

 

 

Publications

 

Scholarly Criticism

 

Published Works:

 

Book Chapters; Introductions; & Edited Collections:

 

“Sandra Benítez and the Nomadic Text,” PostModern Approaches to the Short Story.  Ed. Farhat

     Iftekharrudin, Joseph Boyden, Joseph Longo, and Mary H. Rohrberger.  Westport, CT: Praeger

     Publishers, 2003.

 

“Cristina García’s Dreaming in Cuban.”  Reading U.S. Latina Writers: Remapping American Literature.

     Ed. Alvina Quintana.  Palgrave Macmillan Press: 2003.

 

 Cuba Transported’: A Special Issue of Sugar Mule.  Guest Editor, Andrea O’Reilly Herrera.  1:15 

      (February 2003).

 

ReMembering Cuba: Legacy of a Diaspora.  Ed. Andrea

     O’Reilly Herrera.  Austin, TX: The University of Texas Press, 2001.

 

 “Cuban(d)  Diasporic Consciousness and the Myth of Authenticity,” Challenging Cultural Practices in

     Contemporary Postcolonial Studies.  Eds. Belén Martín Lucas and Ana Bringas, Vigo, Spain: Feminario

     Teorias de Diferencia, 2001.

 

 “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, 1999: 67-78.

 

“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:

 

“Introducing the Concepts of Oppression & Privilege into the Classroom,” (co-authored with Dena

     Samuels & Abby Ferber) Race, Gender, & Class: American Sociological Association.  10:4

     (spring 2004): 5-21. 

 

 “The Consciousness of Exile”: Memory and the Vicarious Imagination in Cuban American Literature,” 

     Journal of West Indian Literature  8:1 (October 1998): 82-98.

 

“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, etc:

 

“Sidelights” (biographical article).  Contemporary Authors. v 193 (2002), Farmington, MI: Gale Group:

     190-92. 

 

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

 

 “The ‘Consciousness of Exile.’ ”  Brochure/text for Silence and Darkness, a special exhibit of the work of

     artist Alberto Rey.  Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA: 1997.

 


Forthcoming Works/Works in Progress

 

Book Chapters:

 

“Teaching Inclusivity: Diversity and Faculty Development,” (co-authored with Abby Ferber), Teaching

     Inclusivity: Integrating the Individual, Departmental, and University Levels.  Ed. Matthew Ouellett (in

     Progress, New Forums Press, Stillwater, OK).

 

 “From the Pulpit to the Podium: Marginality and the Discourses of Race.”  (co-authored with Paul Harvey)

      Color, Hair & Bone.  Ed. Linden Lewis (forthcoming anthology, Bucknell University Press, 2004)

 

Refereed Journal Articles:

 

 “‘Sliding into the Beyond: On Testimonio in the Cuban Diaspora,” Callaloo (forthcoming fall 2004).

 

Books:

 

Rethinking the Cuban Diaspora: The ‘Idea of a Nation’ Displaced. Ed. Andrea O’Reilly Herrera (a

      collection of critical essays in progress).

 

 

Creative Work

 

Short 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.

 

Novels

Published Works:

 

The Pearl of the Antilles.  Tempe, AZ: The Bilingual Review/Press, 2001.

 

Poetry

 

Published Works:

 

“Upstate New York Winter,” Latino Stuff Review. 31 (July 2002).

 

“hymn to an iris,” Latino Stuff Review. 31 (July 2002).

 

‘in praise of passion,” Latino Stuff Review. 31 (July 2002)

     (“in praise of passion” will concurrently appear in Sugar Mule, forthcoming 2003)

 

 “Cantabrian Pilgrimage,”  Sugar Mule. 9 (December 2001)

 

“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.

 

 

Forthcoming Works/Works in Progress:

 

Short Stories

 

“The Song of the Nightingale.”  (accepted for an anthology of Cuban American Writers tentatively entitled

     Why We Left Cuba, ed. Joel Font)

 

Plays

 

The Pearl of the Antilles (adapted from my novel The Pearl of the Antilles; under review, Hudson

     Exploited Theatre Company, New York State Council of the Arts)

 

 

Art Work

 

Frontispiece for The Pearl of the Antilles (watercolor); Bilingual/Review Press, 2001.

 

Curatorial Work

 

Cuba: A Jewish Journey.  (photographic exhibit). University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Gallery of

     Contemporary Art, fall 2003.

 

Café II:  The Journeys of Cuban Artists.  (in collaboration with curator Leandro Soto) University of

      Colorado at Colorado Springs, Gallery of Contemporary Art, fall 2002.

 

The Arpilleristas of Chile.  University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Gallery of Contemporary Art, fall

      2000, and the Gallery of Art, Dunkirk, New York, spring 1997.

 

Organization of Symposiums/Colloquiums

 

Race, Gender, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Comparative, Cross-Cultural Dialogue. University of

     Colorado at Colorado Springs, summer 2004.

 

Café II:  The Journeys of Cuban Artists.  University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, fall 2002.

 

Invitational Fiction/Poetry Readings

 

Fiction Reading/Lecture.  Con Cuba en la distancia, Cadiz, Spain, November 2004

 

Reading/Lecture.  Le Maison L’Amerique Latine, Paris, France: April 2004.

 

Fiction Reading.  Literatures of the Americas Book Festival, Manchester, England: April 2004.

 

Reading & Panel Discussion, “History, Conflict, Memory & Identity,” Manchester Public Library,

     Manchester, England, April 2004.

 

Reading/Workshop.  “Writing in Exile,” Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, England, April

     2004.

 

Reading/Lecture.  Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ: October  2003.

 

Reading/Lecture.  University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ: October 2003.

 

Reading/Lecture.  The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT: September 2003.

 

Fiction Reading/Book Presentation.  University of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona: December 2002.

 

Fiction Reading/Book Presentation.  University of Southern Colorado, Pueblo, Colorado: November 2002.

 

Fiction Reading/Book Presentation.  D’Youville College, Buffalo, NY: October 2002.

 

Fiction Reading/Book Presentation.  SUNY, Fredonia, Fredonia, NY: October 2002.

 

Guest Lecture/Presentation.  University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, England, May 2002.

 

Fiction Reading/Presentation at John Moores University, Liverpool, England: May 2002.

 

Fiction Reading/Presentation at Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, England: May 2002.

 

Panel Presentation/Fiction Reading with author Ana Menendez, at Cuba Cuba, Denver, Colorado and

     Chinook Bookstore, Colorado Springs, Colorado, April 2002.

 

“ReMembering Cuba in the Diaspora: A Reading and Book Presentation.”  The College of the Holy Cross,

     Worchester, MA: March 2002.

 

Forum Presentation for the Race Awareness and Cultural Empowerment Series (R.A.C.E.) sponsored

     by the Multicultural Center, Wheaton College, Massachusetts: March 2002.

 

Panel Presentation/Fiction Reading at The University of Delaware, Newark, DE: March 2002.

 

Fiction Reading/Book Presentation at The Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville, VA: March 2002.

 

Keynote Address (with author Laura Glen Louis).  Second Annual Women’s Leadership Symposium and

      Luncheon, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs: March 2002.

 

Panel Presentation/Fiction Reading with authors Erika Krouse and Dana Spiotta, the Boulder Bookstore,

     Boulder, Colorado: February 2002.

 

“The Road Not Taken: Cultural Identity in Cuban-American Writing.”  Fiction Reading/Book Presentation  

     sponsored by the Cuban Cultural Center and the Americas Society, NYC, New York: December 2001.

 

Fiction Reading/Book Presentation at The Miami Book Fair, Miami, Florida: November 2001.

 

Fiction Reading/Book Presentation at Books & Books, Coral Gables, Florida: June 2001.

 

Fiction Reading/Panel Presentation at The Rocky Mountain Book Festival, Denver, CO: March 2001.

 

Fiction Reading at The American Women Writers of Color Conference; Ocean City, Maryland: October,

     1999.

 

Fiction Reading at the Fifth International Conference of the Short Story; New Orleans, LA: June 1998.

 

“An Afternoon of Cuban-American Literature & Art.”  Reading for the ‘Just Buffalo’ Literature Series:

     September 1997.

 

Art Exhibits

 

Standing in the Storm: Women’s Art Exhibition 2003,  Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, CO,

     March 2003. (group show/juried)

 

Café II; Journeys of Cuban Artists, Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado at Colorado

     Springs, CO, October-November 2002. (group show/by invitation)

 

Immaculata Stone Sculptors’ Exhibit, Immaculata, PA, May 1992. (group show/by invitation)

 

Conference/Symposium Presentations

 

“La idea de una nacion desplazada,” Con Cuba en la distancia, Cadiz, Spain, November 2004.

 

“Helping Women & Faculty of Color to Succeed,” Women Succeeding: Faculty Development Symposium;

     Denver, CO, March 2004.

 

“Inscribing the Silence: Rhetoric, Race, and the Lost Generation in the Cuban Diaspora,” The  Fourth

     Cuban Research Institute Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies; Florida International

     University, Miami, FL, October 2003.

 

“Retracing the Cuban Diaspora: The ‘Idea of a Nation’ Displaced” (roundtable discussion), The Fourth

     Cuban Research Institute Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies; Florida International

     University, Miami, FL, October 2003.

 

Invitational Roundtable Discussion of ReMembering Cuba: Legacy of a Diaspora:  Latin American Studies

     Association, Houston, TX, March 2003.

 

“Finding Mentors: Building Supportive Relationships,” Women Succeeding: Faculty Development

     Symposium; Denver, CO, February 2003.

 

 “From the Pulpit to the Podium: Marginality and the Discourses of Race” (co-authored and presented with

     Dr. Paul Harvey, History).  Color, Hair, and Bone: The Persistence of Race Into the 21st Century,

     Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, September 2002.

 

Invitational Roundtable Discussion of ReMembering Cuba: Legacy of a Diaspora. The Third Cuban   

     Research Institute Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies; Florida International University,

     Miami, FL, March 2002.

 

 “Díaspora y nación: hacia una disarticulación del discurso cubano,”  Encuentro internacional sobre

     creación y exilio: “Con Cuba en la distancia,”  Cadíz, Spain, November 2001 (cancelled).

 

“The Cuban Diaspora at the Millennium.”  Special Session, Modern Language Association, Washington

     D.C., December 2000.

 

Ajiaco con platano, ajiaco con carne y res,” Caribbean Research Institute International Conference,

     Miami, FL: October 2000.

 

 “Re-assessing Woolf and Women’s Studies for the 21st Century” (roundtable panel discussion). Virginia

     Woolf Conference; University of Delaware, Newark, DE: June 1999.

 

“Cuban(d) Diasporic Consciousness and the Myth of Authenticity.”  The Second Cuban Research Institute

     Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies; Florida International University, Miami, FL:

     March 1999.

 

“The Legacy of the Cuban Revolution” (invitational address).  International Conference of Post-Colonial

     Studies; Universidad de Vigo, Vigo, Spain: November 1998.

 

“Sandra Benítez and the Nomadic Text.”  Fifth International Conference of the Short Story in English;

     University of New Orleans; New Orleans, LA: June 1998.

 

“The ‘Consciousness of Exile’.” The First Cuban Research Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American

     Studies; Florida International University, Miami, FL: October 1997.

 

“The Artist and the Un(re)membered Memory in Caribbean Literature and Art.”  The International

     Conference of the West Indies, Miami, FL: April 1997.

 

“ ‘Bridges’ Back to Cuba: Re(en)visioning the Past in Cuban and Cuban-American Art and Writing.” 

     The National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies Conference; Houston, TX: February 1997.

 

“ ‘And the Lady T’Is a Whore’: Women and the Economy in Caribbean Fiction.”  Modern Language

     Association; Washington, D. C.: December 1996.

 

“Identity, Memory and the Vicarious Imagination in Contemporary Cuban-American Literature and Art.” 

     ‘What is An American?’: Changing Faces of Identity in American Life, Fall Festival and National

     Conference; Michigan State University, Lansing, MI: November 1996.

 

“ ‘A Prophetic Vision of the Past’: Sandra Benítez’s A Place Where the Sea Remembers.”  American

     Women Writers of Color Conference; Ocean City, MD: October 1996.

 

“Contemporary Caribbean Authors Writing From the Margins.”  North East Modern Language

     Association; Montréal, Québec: April 1996.

 

“Contemporary Caribbean-American Female Authors Expanding the Esthetic.”  International Conference

     of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars; Miami, FL: April 1996.

 

“From Here to There and Back Again: The Children of the Revolution Write Back.”  Modern Language

     Association; Chicago, IL: December 1995.

 

“ ‘Herself Beheld’: Slavery and Motherhood in the Works of Harriet Jacobs and Charlotte Brontë.”  Other

     Voices: American Women Writers of Color Conference; Ocean City, MD: October 1995.

 

“Communal Parenting in Barbara Kingsolver’s The Bean Trees.”  Popular Culture Association National

     Conference; Philadelphia, PA: April 1995.

 

“Ron Arias’ The Road to Tamazunchale and the Idea of Death.”  North East Modern Language

     Association; Boston, MA: March 1995.

 

“Among Themselves: Women in History in the Works of Cristina García and Laura Esquivel.”  Modern

     Language Association; San Diego, CA: December 1994.

 

“The Form of History in Carmen Laforet’s Nada and Cristina García’s Dreaming in Cuban.”  South

     Atlantic Modern Language Association; Baltimore, MD: November 1994.

 

“Blurring the Lines Between the Private and the Political in Contemporary Latina Fiction.”  Other

     Voices: American Women Writers of Color Conference; Ocean City, MD: October 1994.

 

“Scheherazade’s daughters: Women Writing the Short Story.”  Third International Conference on the

     Short Story; University of Iowa, Aimes, IA: June 1994.

 

“The ‘Disappeared’ in the Women’s Movement.”  Conference in Celebration of Women’s Studies;

     University of Delaware, Newark, DE: April 1994.

 

“Female Writers and Victorian Religion.”  North East Modern Language Association; Pittsburgh, PA:

     April 1994.

 

“Vision and Revision in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights.”  Popular Culture Association National

     Conference; Chicago, IL: April 1994.

 

“Women in Love in the Work of Federico García Lorca and Laura Esquivel.”  North East Popular Culture

     Association; Philadelphia, PA: November 1993.

 

“Maxine Hong Kingston: ‘On Linguistic Discovery’.”  National Women’s Studies Association

     Conference; Washington, D. C.: June 1993.

 

“The ‘Complete World’ of Leslie Marmon Silko and R. C. Gorman.”  American Women Writers of Color

      Conference; Ocean City, MD: June 1993.

 

“Parables of Survival: Gabriel García Márquez, Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and the Shipwrecked

     Sailor.”  North East Modern Language Association; Philadelphia, PA: March 1993.

 

“Unveiling the Nun: The Search for Selfhood in Brontë’s Villette.”  Popular Culture Association National  

     Conference; New Orleans, LA: April 1993.

 

“Sandra Cisneros and the BIG House on Mango Street.”  American Women Writers of Color Conference;

     Ocean City, MD: May 1992.

 

“Mario Vargas Llosa and Joseph Conrad: ‘Heart of Darkness’ Heart of Light.”  North East Modern

     Language Association; Buffalo, NY: April 1992.

 

“Mad Women Across the Border: Madness and Consciousness in the Work of Maria Luisa Bombal,

     Federico García Lorca, and Clarice Lispecter.”  Research on Women Conference; University

     of Delaware, Newark, DE: May 1991.

 

“A (Woman’s) Space for Madness.”  Eighth Annual Graduate Women’s Studies Conference; University

     of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI: March 1991.

 

“Emily Brontë’s Androgynous Vision.”  Research on Women Conference; University of Delaware,

     Newark, DE: April 1990.

 

“Tennyson’s Taj Majal: Filling the Void Through the Screen of the M(other).”  Seventh Annual Graduate

     Women’s Studies Conference; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA: February 1990.

 

“ ‘The Short Season Between Two Silences’: Virginia Woolf and the Issue of Meaning.”  Research on

     Women Conference; University of Delaware, Newark, DE: April 1989.

 

“Mother as Creator—Mother as Destroyer: Representations of Motherhood in the Work of Virginia Woolf

     and D. H. Lawrence.”  Grace Cochran Research on Women Conference; West Chester University,

     West Chester, PA: April 1988.

 

Campus/Community Addresses/Lectures (Invitational), etc.

 

“Cultural Competency,” Address to the Daniel’s Scholars Organization, Colorado Springs, CO: June 2004.

 

Keynote Address, American Association of University Women Annual Luncheon: May 2004.

 

The Last Lecture Series, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs: February 2004.

 

Presentation at the University of Colorado System-wide Diversity Summit, Colorado Springs, CO:

     November 2003.

 

Presentation/Discussion: The Latino Youth Leadership Conference, Pikes Peak Community College,

     November 2003.

 

“Celebrating Frida,” The Pikes Peak Watercolor Association, Colorado Springs, CO: September 2003.

 

“Revisiting the Cuban Revolution,” Palmer High School, Colorado Springs, CO: April 2003.

 

 “Celebrating Cultural Diversity,” Pine Creek High School, Colorado Springs, CO: January 2003.

 

“Valuing Cultural Diversity: From Soup to Nuts,” The Provost’s Lecture Series, Northern Arizona

     University. Flagstaff, AZ: December 2002.

 

Keynote Address for National Hispanic Heritage Month, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO:

     September 2002.

 

Discussion/Presentation with the Fireside Reading Club, Colorado Springs, CO: April 2002.

 

Keynote Address for the Second Annual Women’s Leadership Luncheon with author Laura Glen Louis,

     University of Colorado, Colorado Springs: April 2002.

 

Address for National Hispanic Heritage Month.  Centennial Elementary School, Colorado

      Springs, CO: October 2001.

 

“Women and the Cuban Revolution,” The History Club Lecture Series, University of Colorado, Colorado

     Springs: April 2001.

 

Keynote Address at the Hispanic National Honor Society Induction Ceremony, Pine Creek High School,

     Colorado Springs, CO: December 2000.

 

Keynote Address at the Women Dean’s Breakfast, The Annual Meeting of the Council of Colleges of Arts

     and Sciences, Toronto, Canada: November 2000.

 

Guest Lecturer (Ethnic Studies Program) at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO: March 2000.

 

“The Incongruence of Memory,” an address at the Colorado Springs Senior Center: February 2000.

 

Faculty/Student Panel for the College Fair Day. University of Colorado, Colorado Springs: November

     1999.

 

‘Remembering our Histories’, an address to the Latino Student Union as part of Unity Week, University of

     Colorado, Colorado Springs: November 1999.

 

Invitational Address to the Diversity Coalition at the Department of Human Services, in celebration of

     National Hispanic History Month, Colorado Springs, CO: September 1999.

 

“The Legacy of the Cuban Revolution, A Joint Arts and Humanities Colloquium,” SUNY, Fredonia,

     Fredonia, NY: December 1998.

 

“Keynote Address.”  Students of Color Concerns Conference: Cultural Exploration, Return to the Source.

     (sponsored by the Black Student Union); SUNY, Fredonia, Fredonia, NY: April 1998.

 

“Tapestries of Hope: The Arpillera Movement in Chile.”  Adams Art Gallery, Dunkirk, NY: March 1998.

 

“Marjorie Agosín and the Arpillera Movement in Chile.”  Address to the Rotary Club; Fredonia, NY:

     March 1998.

 

“The Cuban Community in Exile.”  Address to The American Association of University Women;

     Dunkirk, NY: February 1998.

 

The Fredonia High School Career Breakfast Panel on the Arts and Humanities; Fredonia, NY: February

     1998.

 

“The Relationship Between the Visual, the Audible and the Verbal.”  Chautauqua Institution;

     Chautauqua, NY: August 1997.

 

“The State of Public Education.”  Televised Public Forum; Fredonia, NY: January 1997.

 

“ ‘Hispanic Women and Feminism’: The Current Picture.”  Address to the Women’s Student Union;

     SUNY, Fredonia, Fredonia, NY: September 1996.

 

“Life’s Balancing Acts: Managing Career and Family.”  Address to the residents of McGinnies Hall;

     SUNY, Fredonia; Fredonia, NY: February 1996.

 

“Loading the Canon.”  Address to the Torch Club; Dunkirk, NY: March 1995.

 

Café au lait, cappuccino, café con leche and multiculturalism.”  Engaging the Public: Lecture Series on

     Community and the Public Sphere; The Gallery Café, Fredonia, NY: October 1994.

 

“The Need to Include the Minority Experience in Education.” (sponsored by Latinos Unidos); SUNY,

     Fredonia, Fredonia, NY: March 1994.

 

Coordinated/Facilitated Workshops, Consulting Work, etc.

 

Consultation/Program Review.  SUNY, Fredonia, Fredonia, New York.  April 2004.

 

Consultation/Program Review.  University of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona, December, 2002.

 

Workshop Facilitator. University of Colorado System-wide Diversity Symposium, Denver, CO, April

      2002.

 

“Integrating Race and Gender in the Classroom,” Freshman Seminar Workshop, Colorado Springs,

     Colorado, May 2001.

 

Partners Program, ‘Valuing Diversity’ Workshop/Presentation, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs,

     February 2001.

 

Facilitated ‘Diversity and Multiculturalism Workshop’ at the SVHE New Teachers Workshop at Colorado

     College, Colorado Springs, CO, July 2000.

 

Coordinated/Facilitated the Ethnic Studies/Women’s Studies Curriculum Transformation Workshop,  

   University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, summer(s) 2000-.

 

Scholarly/Academic Awards, Fellowships and Grants

 

The President’s Emerging Leaders Institute, June 2004.

The Chancellor’s Award for Research, Scholarship and Service, spring 2004.

The College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Research Award, spring 2003.

The Ethnic Minority Affairs Committee’s System-wide Diversity Award, spring 2003.

The President’s Fund Mini-Grant, fall 2002.

The Teaching and Learning Center Faculty Partnership Grant, spring 2002.

The Center for the Study of the Individual and Government Grant, spring 2002.

The Presidents Fund for the Recruitment and Retention of Women and Minority Faculty, 2002.

The President’s Fund for the Humanities, fall 2002.

The Wye Institute Fellowship/Faculty Seminar, summer 2001.

The Center for the Study of the Individual and Government Grant, spring 2001.

The Presidents Fund for the Recruitment and Retention of Women and Minority Faculty, fall 2001.

The President’s Fund for the Humanities, fall 2000.

The President’s Diversity Fund, fall 2000.

The President’s Fund for the Humanities, spring 2000.

The Presidents Fund for the Recruitment and Retention of Women and Minority Faculty, 2000.

The 1998-99 AY Recipient of the Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Affirmative Action Leave

The 1998 State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

The NEH World History Workshop: June 1998.

United University Professions PDQWL (Professional development) Grant: spring 1998.

The Carnahan Jackson Humanities Fund: spring 1998.

The Amy Everett Award: spring 1997.

The Scholarly Incentive Award: spring 1997.

African-American Studies Workshop (conducted by Abdul Alkalimat): May 1997.

The Carnahan Jackson Humanities Fund: spring 1997.

The Scholarly Incentive Award and Research Grant to attend the Caribbean Writers Seminar and

     Workshop at the University of Miami: June-July 1995.

United University Professions PDQWL Research Grant: 1994-95.

The Scholarly Incentive Award: June 1994.

The University of Delaware Visiting Professorship: spring 1993.

Commission of the Status of Women Travel Award: spring 1992.

The Thomas W. Molyneaux Fiction Award (selected by Fred Chappell): spring 1991.

The University of Delaware’s Women’s Research Center Mini Grant: 1991.

Dissertation Fellowship: spring 1991.

The Thomas W. Molyneaux Fiction Award (selected by Alicia Ostriker): spring 1990.

University of Delaware Full Tuition Scholarship: 1989-91.

Graduated cum laude; West Chester University, West Chester, PA: December 1988.

The Grace Cochran Research on Women Award: Spring 1988.

University Tuition Scholarship/Graduate Assistantship.  West Chester University: 1988.

Graduated cum laude; Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA: May 1980.

Dean’s List. Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA: 1976-80.

 

Professional Organizations and Offices

 

Fredonia Central School Board of Education (elected to a 5 year term: 1998-2003).

Chautauqua County School Boards Association.

Advisory Board for White Pine Press; and The Center for the Study of Government and the Individual.

Listed in “Who’s Who Among Hispanic American and University Teachers” and Contemporary Authors.

 

Modern Language Association; Latin American Studies Association; National Women’s Studies Association; Latin American Studies Association; British Popular Culture Association; Society of the Study of the Short Story; Immaculata Sculptors Association.

 

Panels Chaired:

Crossing the Diasporic Divide: Discourse, Margins, and Borders,” Díaspora y nación: hacia una

     disarticulación del discurso cubano,”  Encuentro internacional sobre creación y exilio: “Con Cuba en la

     distancia,”  Cadíz, Spain, November 2001.

“The Cuban Diaspora at the Millennium.”  Special Session, Modern Language Association, Washington

     D.C., December 2000.

Moths & Stars: Determination and Spirituality in Helena María Viramontes’ “The Moths” and Under the

     Feet of Jesus. American Women Writers of Color Conference; Ocean City, MD: October 1999.

Latina Writers: Alvarez & Cisneros.  American Women Writers of Color Conference; Ocean City, MD:

     October 1996.

Reconfiguring the Americas Through Caribbean Culture: Music, Religion and Magic.  International

     Conference of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars; Miami, FL: April 1996.

Chicana Theory: The New Chicana. American Women Writers of Color Conference; Ocean City, MD:

     October 1995.

Contemporary Latin American Fiction.  North East Modern Language Association; Boston, MA: March

     1995.

History Herstory: Blurring the Lines between the Private and the Political in Contemporary Women’s

     Writing.  Modern Language Association; San Diego, CA: December 1994.

Latina Writers. American Women Writers of Color Conference; Ocean City, MD: October 1994.

Mario Vargas Llosa. North East Modern Language Association; Philadelphia, PA: March 1993.

Beyond English Borders: Influences Abroad.  Popular Culture Association National Conference; New

     Orleans, LA: April 1993.

Defining and Disrupting the Boundaries of Self in Contemporary African-American and Caribbean

     Fiction. American Women Writers of Color Conference; Ocean City, MD: June 1993.

Cross-Cultural Considerations: Hurston, Erdrich, Morrison and Momaday. American Women Writers of

     Color Conference; Ocean City, MD: May 1992.

 

Additional Duties:

Coordinator and Judge for The Rosa Parks Scholarship Competition,.  University of Colorado at Colorado

     Springs: 2001—

Coordinator and Judge for the Annual Student Research on Women Conference.  SUNY, Fredonia,

     Fredonia, NY: 1996-1998.

Judge for the Best Graduate Essay presented at the American Women Writers of Color Conference; Ocean

     City, MD: 1994—.

Secretary of Contemporary Latin American Writers Panel. North East Modern Language Association;

      Pittsburgh, PA: April 1994.

Respondent to Prime Suspect Series—Novel and Film.  Popular Culture Association National Conference;

     Chicago, IL: April 1994.

 

External Reader: The University of Virginia Press, White Pine Press, The Popular Press, University of Delaware Press, University of Nebraska Press, Florida University Press, McGraw Hill, University of Texas Press, Latino Studies, and MELUS.

 

Faculty Governance at SUNY, Fredonia:

 

Coordinator of the Multiethnic Studies Program: Spring 1998-99.

President’s Task Force on Minority Recruitment and Retention: spring 1998.

Faculty Advisor to The Writer’s Guild: 1997-99.

Personnel Search Committee to Select a Dean of Arts and Humanities: fall/spring 1997-98.

Chair Curriculum Development Committee: 1997-98.

Ad Hoc Committee for the Development of a Multiethnic Studies Program (outside consultant Aubrey

     Bonnet): 1996-97.

Personnel Committee for the department of Education to Select a Director of the School of Education:

     1996-97.

Co-Chair of the Coalition of Faculty and Staff of Color: 1995-98.

Co-Director of Women’s Studies Minor: 1994-96.

Academic Affairs Committee: 1994-97.

Rosa Parks Scholarship Committee: 1994-99.

Curriculum Development Committee, Department of English: 1994-99.

Faculty Advisor to Women’s Field Hockey Team-99.

Faculty Advisor to Latinos Unidos: 1993-99.

Women’s Studies Curriculum Advisory Committee: 1993-99.

Ad Hoc Committee for Affirmative Action and Faculty Retention: 1993-95.

 

*Ad Hoc Member of the Personnel Committee for the Departments of English, Foreign Languages and Philosophy.

 

Faculty Governance at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

 

Faculty Advisor for Phoenix (non-traditional student Organization): fall 2003—.

College of education Diversity Committee, fall 2004—.

Faculty Advisor for AWARE (Women’s Student Organization): fall 2003—.

Minority Student Recruitment Ad Hoc Committee, spring 2003—.

Student/Faculty mentoring Program, fall 2003—.

CU System-Wide Diversity Task Force, fall 2002—.

Dean’s Review Committee, fall 2002—.

Advisory Board for the CU Trauma Center: fall 2002.

Faculty Advisor for the Student Diversity Counsel, fall 2002—.

Minority Faculty Review Committee: fall 2001—.

Advisory Board for the Center for the Study of Government and the Individual: fall 2001.

Ad hoc LAS Gen-Ed Core Curriculum Committee: spring 2001—.

Rosa Parks Student Scholarship Committee (Chair): spring 2001—.

UC-Opportunity Committee (ex-oficio) fall 2000—.

Ad hoc Salary Grievance Committee: spring 2000.

Ethnic Studies Advisory Committee (Chair): 1999—.

Faculty Minority Affairs Committee: 1999—. (Co-Chair) 2000—.

LAS Diversity Task Force: fall 1999-spring 2000.

Advisor to the Latino Student Union: 1999—.

Women’s Studies Advisory Committee: 1999—.

Women’s Faculty Council: 1999—.

Campus Activities Board: 1999-2000.

Ad hoc Committee (to establish an international exchange program): 1999-2000.

 

Languages & Cultures Search Committee, fall 2004—.

Assistant Vice Chancellor of Academic Diversity Search Committee: spring 2004—.

Ad Hoc Search Committee for Interim Associate Dean of LAS, fall 2001.

VCAA Search Committee, Co-Chair: summer 2001; fall/spring 2002.

Department of History Search Committee: fall 1999.

Search Committee for the Assistant Vice Chancellor of Multicultural Affairs: fall/spring 1999-2000.

Search Committee for the Department of Languages and Cultures: fall 1999-spring 2001.

Search Committee for the Department of English: fall/spring 1999-2000.