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1 STACEY ALBA D. SKAR, PH.D. Address: 24 Country Hollow Road Naugatuck, CT Phone: Home (203) Office (203) Web Page: EDUCATION PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHY 1997 Ph.D. Completed in Spanish American Literature Title: "Political Violence in Latin American Narrative University of Wisconsin-Madison - Dissertation director: Dr. Ksenija Bilbija Minor: Portuguese 1993 M.A. in Spanish, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1991 B.A. in Spanish, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2009-Current Associate Professor & Chair of World Languages & Literature: Western CT State University Assistant Professor & Chair of World Languages & Literature: Western CT State University Spanish Translation Conversation & Composition: Film Foundations of Analysis Hispanic Cultures of Connecticut Cultures of Spanish America Spanish-American Civilization Survey of Spanish-American Literature Latino/a Literature in the USA Spanish-Caribbean Identities Gender & Sexuality in Spanish-American Literature Revolution, Testimony & Memory in Spanish-America Teaching Methods - Spanish in Secondary Schools Online: Spanish Film (In English) Online: Latin American Film (In English) Summer Study Abroad: Global Academy (Puerto Rico) Summer Study Abroad: Global Academy (Nicaragua) Visiting Assistant Professor / Senior Lecturer: Trinity College (Connecticut) All levels of Spanish language, including Spanish for Heritage Speakers Topics in Latin American Studies: Colonialism, US Latino/a Literature, Women Writers, Caribbean Literature, Literature of Revolution, Gender & Sexuality, Senior Thesis Seminar

2 STACEY ALBA D. SKAR (PAGE 2) Assistant Professor: Hartwick College (New York) All levels of Spanish language, Latin American Culture, and Hispanic Literatures First Year Seminar: Gender in Arts & Sciences Lecturer: Fairfield University (Connecticut) All levels of Spanish Language and Latin American Culture Teaching Assistant: University of Wisconsin-Madison Beginning and Intermediate Spanish Language SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS Translations Pachakuti Rhythms: Popular-Indigenous Uprising and State Power in Bolivia. Translation with Notes of Los ritmos del pachakuti: Mobilización y levantamiento indígena-popular en Bolivia by Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar. Durham: Duke University Press. Forthcoming in Adiós Muchachos: Memoirs of the Sandinista Revolution. Translation with Notes of Adiós muchachos: Memorias de la Revolución Sandinista by Sergio Ramírez. Durham: Duke University Press, pages. Those Forgotten Migratory Birds Translation of Esos olvidados pájaros migratorios bajo las Torres Gemelas. One Wound for Another/Una herida por otra: Testimonios de Latinos in the U.S. (11 septiembre marzo 2002). Ed. Joysmith, Claire. Centro de Investigacion sobre America Latina (CISAN) at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), The Inferno: A Story of Terror and Survival in Chile. Translation with Notes of El infierno by Luz Arce. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, pages. "Children's Stories Written from the Spaceship IV, VI." Translation of poetry from El astronauta en llamas [The Astronaut in Flames] by Javier Campos. Phoebe: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Feminist Scholarship Vol. 10 Num "Writing from the Borderland. Translation of Memoir by Chilean/Latino author Javier Campos. Review: Latin American Literature and Art Vol. 54 Spring Scholarly Monographs Mujer, neoliberalismo y mercado cultural: Ensayos sobre la literatura y el cine de América Latina. (In progress) Voces híbridas: La literatura de chicanas y latinas en Estados Unidos. Santiago de Chile: RIL Editores, pages.

3 STACEY ALBA D. SKAR (PAGE 3) Journal Articles, Book Chapters, Conference Proceedings Contemporary Poetry in Guatemala: Other Voices Redefine The Lettered City in National Association of Hispanic & Latino Studies 2010 Monograph Series. 18 (2010) Interview with Maya Cu Choc in Hispamérica: Revista de Literatura. 111 (2008) Authoring Puerto Rican Identity: The Politics of Language and Literature in National Association of Hispanic & Latino Studies 2008 Monograph Series. 16 (2008) "El narcotráfico y lo femenino en el cine colombiano internacional: Rosario Tijeras y María llena eres de gracia" Alpha: Revista de Artes, Letras y Filosofía 25 (December 2007) Relecturas del testimonio contemporáneo en Chile: Desde el infierno hasta la verdad in Ideologías y Literatura. Homenaje a Hernán Vidal. Eds. Moraña, Mabel and Javier Campos. Pittsburg: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, "El sujeto fronterizo en EEUU: 'Yo soy Joaquín' de Rodolfo Gonzales e Hija de la fortuna de Isabel Allende" "Fronteras de la literatura y de la crítica": XXXV Congreso Internacional del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana: Eds. Moreno, Fernando, Sylvie Josserand, and Fernando Colla. Poitiers, France: Centre de Recherches Latino- Américaines, Pedagogía y tecnología en la educación norteamericana: Vínculos con la literatura y la lectura in Fomento del Libro y la Lectura/3. Argentina: Ed. Fundación Mempo Giardinelli, "Tiempo femenino y maternidad: La construcción de una subjetividad femenina en la poesía chicana" in La poesía hispánica de los Estados Unidos: Aproximaciones críticas. Eds. Lilianet Brintrup, Juan Armando Epple, Carmen de Mora. Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla--Secretariado de Publicaciones, Jacobo Timerman s Preso sin nombre, celda sin número and the Re-Constructing I in MACLAS: Latin American Essays 14 (2000) Awarded James H. Street Prize for best article by the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies. "Latin American Women's Testimonial Writing: What is Feminism's Role in Social Liberation?" in Selected Papers from Latina Visions for Transforming the Americas / Perspectivas de la mujer latina en la transformación de las Américas. Vol. 1 (Spring 2000) Hacia una conciencia fronteriza en la poesía chicana: El caso de Gloria Anzaldúa y la nueva mestiza Aérea: Revista Hispanoamericana de Poesía Vol. 3 (March 2000) "Arriesgando la transculturación en Tiempo al Tiempo de Isaac Goldemberg" in Alpha: Revista de Artes, Letras y Filosofía Vol. 14 (Fall 1998) "En-gendering Violence: A Study of Sexuality in Roberto Athayde's Apareceu a Margarida and Plínio Marcos' Dois perdidos numa noite suja" in Cincinnati Romance Review Vol. 16 (1997) "Testimonial Dictionary to the Reading of Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú" with R. Avellaneda, et al. in Teaching and Testimony: Rigoberta Menchú in the North American Classroom, Eds. Allen Carey-Webb and Steve Benz, New York: SUNY Press, Winter "La narrativa política y la subversión paradójica en Por la patria de Diamela Eltit" in Confluencia Vol. 11 Num. 1 (Fall 1995)

4 STACEY ALBA D. SKAR (PAGE 4) National Reports "Hispanic Student Success in State Colleges and Universities: Creating Supportive Spaces on Our Campuses." Multiple authors. Washington D.C.: American Association of State Colleges & Universities, (48 pages) Selected Conference Papers & Invited Lectures Conference paper: "Narcotráfico, mercado literario y denuncia social: Del neoliberalismo a la demanda global". LASA (Latin American Studies Association) Washington D.C. (May-June 2013) Conference paper: "El feminismo posrevolucionario en la literatura de Gioconda Belli" CILH (Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica) Cuzco, Perú. (March 2012) Conference paper: "Territorios domésticos en la poesía centroamericana escrita por mujeres" CILH (Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica) San Juan, Puerto Rico. (March 2011) Conference paper: "Desmitificaciones domésticas en la poesía guatemalteca: Maya Cú, Rosa María Chávez Juárez y Carolina Escobar Sarti". LA JALLA VIII (Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana: Latinoamericanismo y Globalización) Universidad de Chile. Santiago, Chile (August 2008) Conference paper: "Colonialism, Diaspora and Bilingualism: The Violence of 'Home' in the Literature of Rosario Ferré" 32nd Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil (May-June 2007) Conference paper: "El narcotráfico y lo femenino en el cine colombiano internacional" 54th Meeting of the South Eastern Council of Latin American Studies, San José, Costa Rica (April 2007) Invited Lecture: "Reconstruir el 'yo' testimonial en la traducción de El infierno (Chile, 1994) de Luz Arce. VI Seminario Internacional de Traducción y Poética, Asociación Internacional de Amigos da Universidade Libre Iberoamericana en Galicia, Rianxo, A Coruña, Spain (November 2005) Conference paper: "La mujer y los derechos humanos en Chile: Dos voces al margen del feminismo" XV Congreso Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispánica, Tegucigalpa, Honduras (October 2005) Conference paper: "Entre la reconciliación y la justicia: El discurso testimonial en Chile y la redemocratización" Democracy in Latin America: 30 Years after Chile's 9/11, University of Albany, New York (October 2003) Conference paper: "Ficciones históricas de la trans(cultura)ción puertorriqueña y debates de la identidad nacional" XIII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispánica, Centro de Investigaciones Literarias, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana (October 2002) Conference paper: "Fronteras de la hibridez: La poesía hispánica de mujeres en Estados Unidos" Poetic Discourses at Play 2001: Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian and US Latino/a Poetry Conference, University of California-Irvine, California (April 2001) Conference paper: "Problematización de la identidad fronteriza: Un estudio de la poesía de mujeres chicanas y latinas de Estados Unidos" Poesía Hispánica de Europa y de Las Américas, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile (January 2000) Conference paper: "Voces femeninas y discursos nacionales en la narrativa de Cristina García" XI Congreso Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispánica, York University, Toronto, Canada (September 2000) Conference paper: "Jacobo Timerman's Preso sin nombre, celda sin número and the Reconstructing 'I'" MACLAS Human Rights Conference, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York (April 2000)

5 STACEY ALBA D. SKAR (PAGE 5) SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS & AWARDS 2013 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship: Translation in the Humanities 2013 CSU-AAUP Research Grant for Latin American Women Writers ($5,000) 2012 WCSU Curriculum Development Grant for Spanish Translation (New Course) ($3,800) 2012 CSU-AAUP Research Grant for Bolivian Culture in Translation ($5,000) 2012 WCSU Faculty Development Grant for March 2012 CILH Conference ($1,200) 2011 CSU-AAUP Research Grant for Latin American Women Writers ($5,000) 2010 CSU-AAUP Research Grant for Translation of Memoirs of the Sandinista Revolution ($4,500) 2009 WCSU Faculty Development Grant for February 2009 Poetry Festival in Granada, Nicaragua ($750) 2008 CSU-AAUP Research Grant for Contemporary Guatemalan Women Writers ($5,000) 2007 Nellie Mae Foundation Project Compass Grant: Latino/a Student Success Writing Team ($100,000) 2007 WCSU Faculty Development Grant for May 2007 Caribbean Studies Association Conference ($1,080) 2006 WCSU Curriculum Development Grant for Curricular Revision of Spanish Programs ($3,741) 2006 WCSU President s Initiatives Fund Grant for Global Academy in Puerto Rico ($10,000) 2000 James H. Street Prize for best article. Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies. "Jacobo Timerman's Preso sin nombre, celda sin número and the Reconstructing 'I'" in MACLAS: Latin American Essays from the Middle Atlantic Conference on Latin American Studies 14 (2000) Dean s Grant: Technology & Pedagogy (Hartwick College) ($1,000) 1992 Elizabeth Brown Scholarship for Academic Achievement (University of Wisconsin-Madison) ($500) 1991 Joseph S. Flores Award for the outstanding undergraduate of the year, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese (University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana) ($500) 1991 Sigma Delta Pi Honors Society (University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana) CURRENT PROFESSIONAL SERVICE - WCSU Chairperson, World Languages & Literature University Senate Representative Fulbright Awards Committee Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching Advisory Member Center for Compassion, Creativity and Innovation Planning Committee Member Assessment Coordinator for Spanish Placement Coordinator for World Languages & Literature Advisor to World Languages Student Organization LETRA Webmaster for World Languages & Literature Website Transfer & Articulation Policy Representative for Connecticut State University System