carmen pereira-muro Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures Department Texas Tech University e-mail: carmen.pereira@ttu.edu EDUCATION Ph.D. Spanish Language and Literature University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1998 Dissertation: Mujer, nación y literatura. Emilia Pardo Bazán en la literatura española y gallega Director: Alda Blanco Ph.D. Examinations University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1995 (Honorable Mention) Concentration: Modern and Contemporary Peninsular Literature Supporting Fields: Golden Age and Latin American Literature Minor: Art History M.A. Spanish Language and Literature, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1993 (Special Distinction) B.A. (Licenciatura) Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (Spain), 1986-1991. Area: Geography and History, concentration in Medieval and Ancient Art ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Texas Tech University; Assistant Professor of Spanish Language and Literature, Fall 2005 to present University of Miami; Assistant Professor of Spanish Language and Literature; 2001 to 2005 Albion College; Assistant Professor of Spanish Language and Literature; 1998 to 2001 University of Wisconsin-Madison University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lecturer, 1996-1997 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Teaching Assistant, 1991-1996 AWARDS, HONORS AND GRANTS Research Grants TTU Spring Research Enrichment Fund ($ 12,000), Spring 2008 Texas Tech Arts and Humanities Research Award ($ 5,000), Fall 2007 TTU Humanities Fellowship ($ 10,000), Fall 2005 General Research Summer Award, University of Miami, Summer 2004 General Research Summer Award, University of Miami, Summer 2003
Max Orovitz Summer Award in Arts and Humanities, University of Miami, Summer 2002 Center for History and Culture Large Research Grant for Research on Spain s Subaltern Cultures, Albion College, Summer 2000 Large Grant from Faculty Development Committee, Albion College, Summer 1999 Dissertator Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997 Tinker Foundation/ Nave Fund Field Research Grant for doctoral research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996 University Fellowship, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 1986-1991. Travel Grants TTU Dean of Arts and Sciences travel grant for MACHL Conference, University of Kansas ($ 600), Fall 2009 TTU College of Arts and Sciences Travel grant for the MACHL Conference at Madison WI ($ 983), Fall 2007 Honors and Awards Nominated for the TTU Equity and Diversity Award, 2006 Nominated for the TTU Service and Leadership Award, 2007 Inducted in Sigma Delta Pi, National Hispanic Honor Society, Texas Tech University, 2006 Honorable Mention for Preliminary Doctoral Exams, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1995 Special Distinction for Masters Exams, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1993 Elizabeth Brown Scholarship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992 Teaching Awards TTU President s Excellence in Teaching Award, 2010. Nominated for the Hemphill Wells New Professor Excellence in Teaching Award by the CMLL Awards Committee, 2008. Arthur Andersen New Professor of the Year Award, Albion College, 2000 I. RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS BOOKS (Peer Reviewed) Culturas de España: Una perspectiva histórica y temática. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. Second edition under preparation.
Book under consideration to be published by Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures: Género, nación y literature: Emilia Pardo Bazán en la literature gallega y española. BOOK CHAPTERS (Peer Reviewed) When an Image is not worth a Thousand Words: Divergent Codes of Representation of Death and the Afterlife in Francisco de Quevedo s Satirical Works and the Art of Hieronymus Bosch. Death in Words and Images. The Case of the Early Modern Hispanic World. University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming. ARTICLES Peer Reviewed Maravillosas supercherías: género sexual y nacionalismo en los Apuntes autobiográficos de Pardo Bazán y Trafalgar de Galdós Hispanic Review 78.1, Winter 2010: 71-100 Conocimiento y poder: la respuesta al regionalismo gallego en Morriña. La literatura de Emilia Pardo Bazán. Fundación Caixa Galicia: A Coruña 2009: 577-586 Emigración, nacionalismo y literatura: Los gallegos de Cuba en la obra de Rosalía de Castro y Fernando Ortiz. Revista Hispánica Moderna 61 (2), Winter 2008: 119-134 Relecturas femeninas del modernismo: El teatro de Wilde y las óperas de Strauss y Wagner en Dulce Dueño. Actas del IV Simposio Emilia Pardo Bazán y las artes del espectáculo. Fundación Caixa Galicia: A Coruña, 2008. 259-278. De la crisis del pensamiento liberal al pensamiento poético: Subirats, Zambrano, el Padre Feijoo y la figura del intelectual en la modernidad española. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 8.3 (2007): 317-340. Mimetismo, misticismo y la cuestión de la escritura femenina en Dulce Dueño de Emilia Pardo Bazán. La Tribuna. Cadernos de Estudos da Casa Museo Emilia Pardo Bazán, 4, 2006: 153-177. Feminismo y política cultural en Werther de Pilar Miró. Lecturas: Imágenes, 4, 2005: 213-223. La amistad masculina en el siglo XVIII: género, sensibilidad y nacionalismo. Dieciocho, Spring 2003: 325-342 Non Peer Reviewed Os EEUU que coñezo e o futuro que espero non coñecer. Tempo exterior 7, Xullo-Decembro 2003: 31-37. BOOK REVIEWS (Invited) McKenna, Susan M. Crafting the Female Subject. Narrative Innovation in the Short Fiction of Emilia Pardo Bazán. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (forthcoming). Cadalso, José de. Lugubrious Nights. An Eighteenth-Century Spanish Romance. Translated from the Spanish with an Introduction by Russell P. Sebold. Intertexts 12.2, 2008: 173-174
Epps, Brad y Luis Fernández Cifuentes, eds. Spain Beyond Spain. Modernity, Literary History, and National Identity. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2005. Hispania 91.4, 2008: 819-820 Smith, Alan E. Galdós y la imaginación mitológica. Madrid: Cátedra, 2005. Hispania 90.4, 2007: 698-699 Amago, Samuel. True Lies. Narrative Self-Consciousness in the Contemporary Spanish Novel. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 2006. Revista Hispánica Moderna, 62.1, 2009: 109-11 Arkinstall, Christine R. Gender, Class, and Nation: Mercé Rodoreda and the Subjects of Modernism. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2004. Hispanic Review 73.4. Autumn 2005: 511-513 Zamora, Andrés. El doble silencio del eunuco. Poéticas sexuales de la novela realista según Clarín.. Madrid: Fundamentos, 1998. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 25.2, 2001: 370 TRANSLATIONS AND EDITIONS Lohania Aruca. El cementerio Cristobal Colón en La Habana. Cuban theme issue of The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts (Spanish supplement) 22, 1996. Narciso G. Menocal. La búsqueda de la identidad nacional en la pintura. Cuba theme issue of the Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, 22 (1996), 111-132. Narciso G. Menocal. De la cultura cubana y el contenido de este número. Cuba theme issue of the Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, 22 (1996), 7-11. Spanish translator (1998-2002) for the journal Cancer Pain Release. WHO Collaborating Center for Policy and Communications in Cancer Care. University of Wisconsin, Madison. El prodigio de Etiopía, Lope de Vega. Edición, introducción y notas de John Beusterien. Carmen Pereira-Muro co-editora. Pontevedra: Mirabel Editorial, 2005 142 pp.; il; 15 cm; ISBN: 84-934275-9-4 BOOKS IN PREPARATION Second edition of Culturas de España: Una perspectiva histórica y temática. Género, nación y literatura. Emilia Pardo Bazán en la literatura española y gallega. (Book proposal accepted by Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures). JOURNAL ADVISORY Referee for Letras Femeninas Referee and Member of the Editorial Board for Céfiro INVITED LECTURES "Relecturas feministas del modernismo: el teatro de Wilde y las operas de Strauss y Wagner en Dulce Dueño. IV Simposio Emilia Pardo Bazán, La Coruña, España, Junio 2007. Especularidad, misticismo y la cuestión del sujeto femenino en Dulce Dueño de Emilia Pardo Bazán. University of Houston Symposium La mujer y la literatura española, Fall 2006
Carmen, de Vicente Aranda: el mito de Carmen re-visitado. Centro Cultural Español y de Cooperación Iberoamericana. Coral Gables, FL, Spring 2005 Spanish Contemporary Culture: National Identity in the Age of Globalization. Bass Museum, Miami, Spring 2004 Humor, sexualidad y política en el cine de Luis García Berlanga. Centro Cultural Español y de Cooperación Iberoamericana. Coral Gables, FL, Spring 2002. Cine literario y política cultural en las adaptaciones de Werther, Beltenebros y El perro del hortelano de Pilar Miró. Centro Cultural Español y de Cooperación Iberoamericana. Coral Gables, FL, Spring 2002 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Of Oaks and Pines: Landscape, Nationalism and Eco-criticism in Spanish Regional Romantic Poetry. 2011 Comparative Literature Symposiumn, Where Have All the Wild Things Gone? Eco-criticism and Comparative Literature, Texas Tech University, April 2011. Constructing a National Landscape: Nature and National Identity in the Romantic Poetry of Rosalía de Castro (presenter and panel organizer). Pioneering Romanticisms: The 2010 International Conference on Romanticism, Texas Tech University, November 2010. La orientalización de Galicia en La mayorazga de Bouzas de Emilia Pardo Bazán (chair and panel organizer). Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, April 2010. Reescrituras de Don Juan: la versión femenina del mito romántico en Insolación de Pardo Bazán (chair and panel organizer). Mid-America Conference in Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Lawrence, Kansas, October 2009. Mujeres transgresoras: ideología, sociedad y literatura en dos cuentos de Emilia Pardo Bazán. South Central Modern Language Association Sixty-fifth Annual Meeting, November 6-8, 2008. Muerte y postrimerías en imágenes y palabras: la obra del Bosco y los Sueños de Quevedo. Death in Words and Images. The Case of the Early Modern Hispanic World. The Early Modern Image and Text Society Conference. October 23-25, 2008. Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX. Determinismo e identidad en Morriña de Emilia Pardo Bazán. I Congreso Internacional La literatura de Emilia Pardo Bazán, A Coruña 30 junio-4 julio de 2008. Genero sexual y pedagogía nacional: la epifanía de la patria en Pardo Bazán y Galdós. Midwest Conference in Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Madison, WI, October 2007. Chair and panel organizer: Los fantasmas de la dictadura. Paper: Relecturas del franquismo desde la periferia: Os libros arden mal, de Manuel Rivas, y los intelectuales ante la periferia. Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, April 2007. Imagen, palabra y genero sexual en los entremeses de Cervantes. Céfiro s 8th Annual Conference, Texas Tech University, March 2007. Chair and panel organizer. Panel: Literature and the Construction of Latin American Identities: From Colonial Times to Chicano Literature. Paper: Melancolía, choteo y romance: la colonia gallego-cubana en la construcción nacional de Galicia y Cuba en el cambio de siglo. 54th Annual Conference of the Rocky
Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Santa Fe, Spring 2007. Chair and panel organizer. Panel: De gallegos, negros y otras transculturaciones: procesos de formación de la identidad nacional cubana. Paper: Colonias desplazadas: el debate trasatlántico en torno a la colonia gallego-cubana. International Conference on Caribbean Studies, South Padre Island, sponsored by the University of Texas-Pan American, Fall 2006 Diálogos trasatlánticos: género y modernidad en De sobremesa de José Asunción Silva y Dulce Dueño, de Emilia Pardo Bazán. 88 th Annual International Conference, The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Salamanca, Spain, Summer 2006 Yo no soy amigo de figuras rebozadas : engaño y género sexual en el entremés de El viejo celoso de Cervantes. Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Symposium. El Paso, Texas, Spring 2006 Visiones heterodoxas del pensamiento español: lecturas alternativas del Padre Feijoo. MLA Conference, San Diego 2004. Werther de Pilar Miró y el nacionalismo cultural del socialismo. II Conferencia sobre Mujer y Cultura, Universidad de Vigo, 2003. La amistad masculina en la poesía española del siglo XVIII: homoeroticismo, nacionalismo, y la crisis de la razón. Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, 2002. Colonias desplazadas: la emigración gallega a Cuba, 1898, y el fracaso del nacionalismo gallego. Arizona Journal of Cultural Studies Conference, Tucson, Arizona, 2002. La cultura gallega ante el siglo XXI. Spain in the Twenty-First Century: Literature, Arts, and Culture, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 2000. Qué din os rumorosos? Panorama de la literatura gallega de los 90. Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Madison, Wisconsin, 2000. Ut Pictura Poiesis: The Order of Things in Hyeronimus Bosch s Paintings and Francisco de Quevedo s Sueños. Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Florence (Italy), 2000. Más allá del telón de grelos: el neorromanticismo de Manuel Rivas y la incorporación de Galicia al imaginario español. Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, 2000. De la invención de la literatura española: historia literaria y esquizofrenia cultural en la España del siglo XVIII. Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, Spring 1999. Yo te daré la sangre que me sobra : Emilia Pardo Bazán y el lugar de la mujer en la Nación. La Chispa, Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Literatures, Spring 1999. Cuentas ajustadas, medio cobradas : Manuel Murguía, Emilia Pardo Bazán y la mujer en el nacionalismo cultural gallego. Conference The Poiesis of Politics, the Politics of Poiesis. University of Missouri, Columbia, 1998. "Género, memoria y nación en Emilia Pardo Bazán, Re-thinking Nationalisms: Women's Writings of Resistance and Accomodation in the Modern Period, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 1996. "La dialéctica entre el éxtasis y la stasis en Tirano Banderas de Valle-Inclán, Mid-America Conference, Lawrence, Kansas, 1994.
II. TEACHING New courses developed SPAN 5364 Don Juan y otras ficciones: género sexual e intertextualidad en la literatura española del siglo XIX Graduate Seminar, TTU, Fall 2009 SPAN 5364 La novela realista en la España del siglo XIX. Graduate Seminar, Seville TTU campus, Spring 2009. SPAN 4324 Hispanic Poetry. Fourth year undergraduate course, TTU, Fall 2008 SPAN 5352 Methods of Literary Criticism. Redesigned Graduate Seminar, TTU, Fall 2007 SPAN 5354 Concepts in Hispanic Literature. Redesigned Graduate Seminar, TTU, Spring 2007 SPAN 4343 Advanced Language Skills. Fourth year undergraduate course redesigned with Dr. Elola. TTU Seville, Summer I 2006 SPAN 4346 Spanish Culture and Life. Redesigned for Seville Summer I 2006. Redesigned again with graduate student Luis I. Prádanos-García, TTU Seville Spring 2009. SPAN 3305 Intermediate Spanish Grammar. Third year undergraduate course, redesigned with Dr. Elola and adopted as part of the Spanish standardized undergraduate curriculum, TTU Spring 2006. SPAN 5373 Modernismo trasatlántico. Graduate Seminar, TTU, Spring 2006. SPAN 5364 La novela realista en la España de la Restauración: construcciones de nacionalidad y género en la modernidad española. Graduate seminar, TTU, Fall 2005. SPAN 4321 La prosa realista en la España de la Restauración. Fourth year undergraduate course, TTU, Fall 2005. 7 SPAN 7000 Independent Studies Other courses developed Re-visiting the canon: Galdós, Clarín, Pardo Bazán and the construction of a national novel. Graduate/Undergraduate seminar, University of Miami, Fall 2004. Women in the Spanish Realist Novel. Graduate/Undergraduate seminar, University of Miami, Fall 2003. Sex and Sensibilities in Eighteenth-Century Spanish Literature and Culture. Graduate seminar, University of Miami, Fall 2001. Migration, Exile, Nostalgia and Hibridity. Undergraduate Cultural Topic Course, U. of Miami, Spring 2003. Identities under Construction in Spanish Cinema. Undergraduate Cultural Topic Course, U. of Miami, Spring 2002 From Buñuel to Almodóvar: Re-figuring Gender in Spanish Cinema. Advanced Undergraduate Seminar, Albion College, Spring 2001
Representing National Identities in Spanish Cinema. Advanced Undergraduate Seminar, Albion College, Spring 2000 Pilgrimages in the 21 st century: Past and Future of El Camino de Santiago. Interdisciplinary Freshman Seminar, Albion College, Fall 1999 Other courses taught Surveys of Modern and Contemporary Peninsular Literature Spanish Culture and Civilization Introduction to Literary Genres Advanced Grammar through Composition Beginning and Intermediate Spanish Fifteen graduate and undergraduate independent studies Undergraduate Honors Thesis Committee, Albion College 2001, 2003 MA Committees Completed Chair, Olimpia González, Spring 07 Chair, Valerie Wehmeyer, Spring 10 Luis I. Prádanos García, Fall 05 (master s thesis) Pedro González, Spring 06 Jeff Scott Barnett, Spring 07 Cheri Grissom, Fall 08 (master s thesis) Magdalena Pando, Spring 10 PhD Committees Completed Curtis Bauer (English, Creative Writing and Translation), Spring 09 Tara Lockwood, Spring 09 Manuel Regueiro, Spring 09 Luis Ignacio Prádanos-García, Spring 2010 Mario Morera, Spring 2010 Leonor Juárez, University of Miami 2004 Omar García, University of Miami 2002 In Progress Chair, Brenda Adcock (thesis defense scheduled for Fall 2011)
Vanessa Rodríguez García (thesis defended Summer 2010) Cheri Grissom (Doctoral exams scheduled Spring 2011) Daniel Hopkins (Doctoral exams scheduled Spring 2011) Chair, Sara Pink (Doctoral exams scheduled Fall 2011) III. SERVICE TTU SPANISH GRADUATE STUDIES A. Graduate Advisor, starting Spring 2011 B. Graduate Student Recruiter and Admissions Officer (with John Beusterien), TTU 2007 to present. 1. Write recruitment letters, create Spanish Graduate Studies brochure and poster 2. Visit University of Vigo and Santiago, Spain, to distribute recruitment materials. 3. Develop Deputy Peer recruiting program with existing TTU Spanish graduate students. 4. Review dossiers and interview new applicants 5. Arrange campus visits for visiting applicants 6. Determine if new graduates student merit teaching appointments 7. Nominate and apply for scholarships for new graduate students. Nominations that succeeded: Spring 2008 AT&T Chancellor s Fellowship for incoming Spanish graduate student Sabrina Laroussi (4,000 $ per three years). Spring 2009 AT&T Chancellor s Fellowship for incoming Spanish graduate student Gerardo Aguilar (4,000 $ for three years). 8. Organize Spanish Graduate Studies orientation and social mixer for incoming graduate students. C. Graduate Committee for the Spanish Division, TTU, 2005 to present. 1-Collaborate in a proposal for redesign Spanish graduate program 2-Review Spanish graduate students surveys and write a qualitative report for faculty 3-Member of committee for establishing a graduate courses rotation D. Job Market Workshop for Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Students, TTU, Fall 2009. Prepared and presented the section on Letters of Recommendation. E. Mentor graduate students for job market Review letters of intent and dossier, write letters of recommendation and offer mock interviews for: Sara Fernández-Medina, assistant professor at The Citadel since 2008 Luis I. Prádanos-García (Iñaki), assistant professor at Westminster College (Salt Lake City) René Ibarra F. Collaborate with Annual Céfiro Conference 1. Organize a panel with TTU Spanish graduate students at the 8 th Annual Céfiro Conference 2. Mentoring services for organization of 8 th Annual Céfiro Conference (scheduling, organization of panels, transportation and hosting services for guest speakers). 3. Chair and moderator for panels at Céfiro Conference 2006-2008, 2010, 2011 G. Mentor and organize panels in three national conferences for six Spanish graduate students H. Spanish 18 th -19 th- and 20 th -centuries MA Committee, 2005 to present TTU SPANISH UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES Coordinator SPAN 3305 (Intermediate Spanish Grammar), 2007 to present
Upper Undergraduate Committee for the Spanish Division. 2005 to present. Ad Hoc Committee for Redesigning the Spanish Curriculum, TTU 2006 to present Committee for Development of Learning Outcomes and Assessments for Spanish for the Lower and Upper Undergraduate and Graduate Levels, TTU 2006. DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICAL AND MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES Departmental Search Committee (Spanish, Medieval/Colonial position), 2005-2006 Ad Hoc Committee to review proposal for a dual Spanish/Applied Linguistics MA, Fall 2008 SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Collaborate in the interdepartmental organization of the conference Death in Words and Images. The Case of the Early Modern Hispanic World, TTU, Fall of 2008. Collaborate in the organization of 2011 Comparative Literature Symposium TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY Judge for Sabor Hispano poetry contest, Fall 07 and Fall 08 Member of Black and Hispanic Faculty Collaborate with Cross Cultural Academic Advancement Center initiatives to increase diversity at the TTU campus. Member of the Teaching, Learning, and Connecting Committee Member of a TLTC panel and round table What the best teachers do, Spring 2011 Member of a Latino Faculty Association panel on diversity, Spring 2011 SERVICE AT OTHER INSTITUTIONS Graduate Advisor, University of Miami 2002-2003 Supervisor for Study Abroad program at the Universidad de Cantabria, Santander (Spain), July 2002 Undergraduate Committee, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Miami, 2002-present
Lectures Committee, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Miami, 2001 2003 Faculty Advisor for Study Abroad Programs, Albion College 1998 to 2001. Academic Advisor, Albion College 1999 to 2001 Member of the Center for History and Culture, Albion College 1999 to 2001 Organizer of Albion College International House Cultural Events, 1998 to 2001 Co-organizer of Guest Speaker Series, Center for History and Culture, Albion College 2000 to 2001 Member of the Ethnicity, Gender and Globality Institute, Albion College, 1998-1999 Proficiency Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997 MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Member of the South Central Modern Language Association Member of EMIT (The Early Modern Image and Text Society) LANGUAGES Spanish (native) Galician (native) English (near native) Reading Knowledge: Portuguese, French, Italian, and Latin.