LISETTE V. BALABARCA 80 Willett St. Apt. F Albany, NY 12210 Phone (207) 649-3136 E-mail: lbalabarca@siena.edu EDUCATION Boston University (Department of Romance Studies) 2006 PhD in Hispanic Language and Literatures Dissertation Topic: La polémica cristiano-musulmana tras la expulsión (1609-1614): la Contradicción de los catorce artículos de Ibrahim Taybili frente a la Expulsión justificada de los moriscos de Pedro Aznar Cardona Advisor: James Iffland Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú 1996 Bachelor s Degree in Linguistics and Literature 1991 Bachelor s Degree in Psychology 1986 Certificate of General Studies in the Humanities HONORS AND FELLOWSHIP 2012 NEH Grant for the Summer Institute, "Networks and Knowledge: Synthesis and Innovation in the Muslim-Christian-Jewish Medieval Mediterranean" Barcelona (Spain), July 2-27. COTFD Siena Summer Faculty Research Fellowship. Siena College. 2008 Humanities Grant for Research and Travel. Colby College. 1997-2005 Teaching Fellowship in the Department of Romance Studies. Boston University. 2001 Graduate Students Lecture Series Award. Department of Romance Studies. Boston University. Elizabeth Newman Memorial Award. Office of Development and Alumni Relations. Boston University. 1998 Summer Institute Fellowship on Migration and Exile. Dir. Alicia Borinsky. Boston University. 1996 Beca INTERCAMPUS, Fellowship granted by the Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana (Spain). PUBLICATIONS 2013 Social Denunciation of the Politics of Fear: Rock Music through the Eighties in Argentina, Chile And Peru. Song and Social Change in Latin America. Ed. Lauren Shaw. Lexington Books (Forthcoming). Dissertation s Review: La polémica cristiano-musulmana tras la expulsión (1609-1614): la Contradicción de los catorce artículos de Ibrahim Taybili frente a la Expulsión justificada de los moriscos
2 de Pedro Aznar Cardona. Revista Aljamía (Oviedo, Spain) (Forthcoming). 2011 Viaje de Turquía: la representación de los turcos en un diálogo del siglo XVI. Hispania Félix: Revista hispano-rumana de cultura y civilización los Siglos de Oro. 2 (2011): 67-84 Book review: Mil cretinos, by Quim Monzó. El muro: revista de cultura y política. N 1 (January). Online publication. 1998 El monstruo de los jardines : El conflicto entre el destino y el libre albedrío en un drama mitológico de Calderón. Cibertextos- Revista Electrónica (Lima, Peru). 4.9. 1994 Book review: Callado cielo, by Julio del Valle. Dédalo-Revista de Lingüística y Literatura (Lima, Peru). I.3: 84-85. PRESENTATIONS 2012 "Realidad vs ficción: contradicciones en la representación de los hispano-musulmanes en la literatura del siglo XVI. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY) Expulsados: el problema de la identidad morisca a la luz de la Contradicción de los catorce artículos de la fe cristiana de Ibrahim Taybili. NEMLA Conference (Rochester, NY) 2011 Un análisis de la intervención del autor en La Lozana andaluza de Francisco Delicado. 14th Annual Hispanic and Lusophone Studies Symposium. Ohio State University (Columbus, OH) 2010 Realidad y ciencia ficción en la historieta sudamericana: los casos de El eternauta y Rupay. NEMLA Conference (Montreal-Canada) 2009 Denuncia social y entorno político en el rock en español de los ochentas: el caso de Perú, Argentina y Chile. NEMLA Conference (Boston, MA) 2007 Más allá de la violencia: la muerte y sus revanchas en Rosa Cuchillo de Óscar Colchado. Latin American Studies Association Conference. (Montreal-Canada). 2006 Apuntes para una transculturación en Naufragios de Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Transatlantic Studies Conference La geotextualidad atlántica. Brown University. (Providence, RI) 2005 La falsedad de la Trinidad en el poema anti-cristiano de un morisco del siglo XVII. IV Congreso de estudiantes graduados. Brown University. (Providence, RI) 2003 La diatriba anti-eclesiástica en la Contradicción de los catorce artículos de la fe cristiana de Ibrahim Taybili. VI Biennial Conference of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry. Boston University. (Boston, MA) 2001 The Representation of the Turks in Viaje de Turquía, a XVIth.
3 Century Spanish Dialogue. Romance Studies Graduate Students Lecture Series. Boston University. (Boston, MA) RESEARCH INTERESTS Morisco and Aljamiado Literature (16th and 17th centuries) Spanish Islam during the Middle Ages (800-1500 A.D.) Picaresque Literature in Early Modern Spain Travel Literature in Early Modern Spain TEACHING EXPERIENCE Siena College Assistant Professor of Spanish 2011-2012 Spanish American Civilization, SPAN 360 Introduction to Hispanic Prose, SPAN 320 Communication in Spanish I & II, SPAN 301 & 302 Intermediate Spanish II, SPAN 202 Fundamentals of Spanish II, SPAN 102 Colby College Assistant Professor of Spanish 2006-2010 Spanish Seminar: Imagining Muslims in Golden Age Literature, SP493 Portraits of Violence in Latin American Literature, SP298 Intermediate Spanish I, SP127 Elementary Spanish I & II, SP125 & SP126 Independent Study on Spanish Golden Age Theater, SP492 Advisor for January Study Abroad Programs in Peru, Argentina and Ecuador, SP091 Brandeis University Lecturer of Spanish 2005-2006 Writing the Latin American City, Span 166 Portraits of Violence in Latin American Literature, Span 164 Introduction to Latin American Literature, Span 111 Continuing Spanish, Span 20 Simmons College 2005-2006 First & Second Semester Spanish, Spanish 101 & Spanish 102 University of Massachusetts-Boston 2004-2005 Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Spanish Emmanuel College 2003-2004 Beginning Spanish Boston University Teaching Fellow 1997-2005 First, Second, Third & Fourth Semester Spanish, LS111, LS112, LS211 & LS212.
4 Introduction to the Analysis of Hispanic Texts, LS 350 Summer Program in Madrid Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Teaching Assistant 1995-1997 Introduction to Linguistics 1994-1995 Introduction to Literature SERVICE Siena College 2011-2012 Co-organizer of the Spanish Conversation Group Film event organizer: Screening and discussion with filmmaker Silvia Mejía about her documentary Just a click away from home. Advisor for Siena College students that participated in a Foreign Language National Video Contest, organized by Vista Higher Learning. Colby College 2009-2011 Coordinator of SP127 (Intermediate Spanish I). Supervisor of Spanish Tutors. 2007-2011 First-Year Students Advisor OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE 2000-2003 ESL Teacher. Concilio Hispano. Cambrige, MA. ESL Tutor. Intergenerational Literacy Project. Boston University. 2001 Spanish Placement Test Proctor. Boston University. Research Assistant. Modelo de Rehabilitación Vocacional para Latinos con Condiciones Psiquiátricas. Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation. Boston University. 1997 Research Assistant for Spanish-American Literature through the 19th Century, LS 450, and 20th Century Spanish-American Literature, LS 452. Boston University. LANGUAGES Spanish (native speaker); English and French (near-native fluency); Italian, Portuguese and Catalan (reading and oral proficiency); Arabic (proficiency in reading and writing) PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS 2012 Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (AIH) 2009 to the present North Eastern Modern Language Association (NEMLA) 2000 to the present Modern Language Association (MLA) REFERENCES James Iffland, Chair of the Dept. of Romance Studies, Boston University, (617) 353-6216, iffland@bu.edu
Irene Zaderenko, Assoc. Prof. of Spanish, Boston University, (617) 353-6204, izaderen@bu.edu Luis Millones, Assoc. Prof. of Spanish, Colby College, (207) 859-4674, luis.millones@colby.edu 5