Curriculum Vitae Claudia Young Department of English, Foreign Language & Humanities Northwestern Oklahoma State University 709 Oklahoma Boulevard Alva, OK 73717 Telephone: (580) 327-8464 E-mail: coyoung@nwosu.edu Education Ph.D. in Spanish, Texas Tech University, 2010 M.A. in Spanish, The University of Texas at San Antonio, 2003 Master s Studies in Applied Linguistics, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, 1998 B.A. in Spanish Language and Literature, UNAM, Escuela Nacional de Estudios Profesionales (ENEP) now called Facultad de Estudios Superiores (FES) Acatlán, 1996 Research and Scholarly Activities Book Tovar Young, Claudia. El mesticismo en la novelística de Jorge Icaza. Buenos Aires, Editorial Croquis, 2012. Edited Volume Tovar, Claudia. El problema de los tiempos pretérito y copretérito en los extranjeros de habla inglesa que estudian español como segunda lengua en la UNAM. Diss. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1996. Estado de México: privately printed, 1996. Translation Brown, Dale B. Mrs. Brown and the ugly bugs. Trans. Claudia Young. Alva, OK: Northwestern Oklahoma State University, 2011. Articles Young, Claudia Julia y Paula, Cougars? Análisis de dos personajes en La tía Julia y el escribidor de Mario Vargas Llosa y Fruta verde de Enrique Serna. Texto crítico. Instituto de Investigaciones Lingüístico-Literarias 17.35 (2014) : 123-32. Impreso. Young, Claudia. Luis Alfonso Romero y Flores o lo negativo de un personaje. Pegaso 4 (2010) : 51-62. Impreso. Tovar, Claudia. El triángulo amoroso en la trilogía de sonetos de discreción de Sor Juana. Hipertexto. Online Journal 3 (2006) : 123-29. Web. 27 Sep. 2011. Tovar, Claudia. Los efectos de la Guerra Civil en la sociedad española: alusiones en Nada de Carmen Laforet. Hiperferia. Arts and Literature International Journal (2005) : 5 pp. Web. 27 Sep. 2011.
2 Forthcoming Publications Young, Claudia. Vindictiveness: Psychological and Emotional Effects in Jorge Icaza s Atrapados. International Journal of Literature and Psychology. Ongoing Research Projects The Negative Love Syndrome in Esmeralda Santiago s Almost a Woman. Parallelisms between Jorge Luis Borges The Immortal and Jules Verne s Journey to the Center of the Earth. Creative Writing Young, Claudia. A Memoir. Fifteen Years After. Conference Presentations Ecocrítica: La interiorización de la experiencia exterior en Barranca grande de Jorge Icaza. Southeast Coastal Conference on Languages and Literatures, Savannah, Georgia. March 2015. El discurso ambientalista en el cuento El inmortal de Jorge Luis Borges. XX Congreso de la Asociación Alemana de Hispanistas. Neue Universität. Heidelberg, Germany, March 2015. El trauma psicosocial y otras secuelas psíquicas en el cholo en Cholos y Media vida deslumbrados de Jorge Icaza. Fifth Hispanic Studies Annual Graduate Conference, Texas A&M, College Station, Texas, March 2015. Psicoanálisis en las primeras novelas de Jorge Icaza. 71st Annual South Central MLA Conference, The University of Oklahoma, Austin, Texas, October 2014. Psicoanálisis en los cuentos de Jorge Icaza. XL Congreso La literatura iberoamericana entre dos orillas. El Colegio de México, Mexico City, Mexico, June 2014. Manifestaciones del deseo sexual en Fruta verde de Enrique Serna. Ninth Annual Tierra Tinta Conference, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, October 2013 Los pintores y su arte en Rosaura a las diez de Marco Denevi y La mujer de mi hermano de Jaime Bayly. Seventieth Annual South Central MLA Conference, The University of Oklahoma, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 2013 Julia y Paula Cougars? Análisis de dos personajes en La tía Julia y el escribidor de Vargas Llosa y Fruta verde de Enrique Serna. Tercer Congreso Internacional de Investigaciones Literarias. Xalapa, Veracruz, México, June 2013. Homosexualidad en Tía Nela y Fruta verde de Enrique Serna. IX Encuentro Internacional de Literatura Hispanoamericana. Tlaxcala, México, May 2013. Razas y mestizaje en Cholos de Jorge Icaza, Conferencia AATSP-CT Mulataje y mestizaje cultural: El quehacer pedagógico contemporáneo. Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut, April 2013. Formas de dominio y control en Huairapamushcas y Cholo Ashco de Jorge Icaza, Twentyseventh Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities: Systems of Control / Modes of Resistance, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia, November 2012 Desplazamiento y viajes. Causas y consecuencias emocionales en Los amigos que perdí de Jaime Bayly, Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature: Exiles, Migrations and Movements, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, October 2012
3 Escritura automática e inconsciente en Atrapados de Jorge Icaza, VIII Congreso Internacional. Literatura, memoria e imaginación de Latinoamérica y el Caribe (por los derroteros de la oralidad y la escritura), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Perú, August 2012 Media vida deslumbrados o la obsesión por ser blanco, Nineth Annual Southeast Coastal Conference on Languages and Literatures, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, March 2012 Visiones del poder en tres novelas de la democracia española, Seventh Annual Tierra Tinta Conference, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, October, 2011 Historia y geografía en la leyenda de Nay y Sinar en María de Jorge Isaacs, Symposium on Nineteenth Century Spanish and Spanish American Literatures, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, April 2011 La problemática de la sociedad española vista por cuatro autores: Larra, Ganivet, Unamuno y Ortega y Gasset, Sixth Annual Tierra Tinta Conference, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, October 2010 La mujer como objeto sexual y de deseo en El pozo de Juan Carlos Onetti, Eleventh Annual Céfiro Conference, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, April 2010 Indicios de feminismo en Arráncame la vida de Ángeles Mastretta, XV Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, March 2010 El lado oscuro del mestizo en El chulla Romero y Flores de Jorge Icaza, Fifth Annual Tierra Tinta Conference, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, October 2009 Echeverría y Sarmiento: entre la civilización y la barbarie, Third Annual Tierra Tinta Conference, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, October 2007 Personajes celestinos como alcahuetas en Pepita Jiménez de Juan Valera y Tristana y Doña Perfecta de Benito Pérez Galdós, Second Annual Tierra Tinta Conference, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, October 2006 Los efectos de la Guerra Civil en la sociedad española: alusiones en Nada, Graduate Student Conference, Stony Brook University, Long Island, New York, April 2005 Los efectos de la Guerra Civil en la sociedad española: alusiones en Nada, Sixth Annual Céfiro Conference, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, April 2005 El triángulo amoroso en la trilogía de sonetos de discreción de Sor Juana, Fifth Annual Céfiro Conference, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, April 2004 Pospre qué? Primer enfrentamiento a un tiempo desconocido, II Simposio del Centro de Enseñanza de Lenguas Extranjeras, Escuela Permanente de Extensión en San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, October 2001 El pretérito y el copretérito en la enseñanza del español a nativo-hablantes de habla inglesa, Jornada sobre la enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, México, July 1997 Conference Attendance American Psychoanalytic Association. 104th Annual Meeting. Palace Hotel, San Francisco, June 2015.
4 Awards, Fellowships, Grants and Training Northwestern Oklahoma State University Grants Training for NWOSU Faculty and Staff, 2012 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Western Union Scholarship, 2002 Escuela Nacional de Estudios Profesionales BA Graduation with Honorary Mention, 1996 Professional Experience Northwestern Oklahoma State University, August 2010 to date Associate Professor of Spanish (tenured starting Fall 2015) Assistant Professor of Spanish (2010-2015) Courses Taught: SPAN 1114 Elementary Spanish I; SPAN 1224 Elementary Spanish II; SPAN 2151 Spanish Pronunciation; SPAN 2183 Conversation/ Reading I; SPAN 3183 Conversation II; SPAN 3193 Composition / Grammar II; SPAN 4103 Survey Peninsular Literature; SPAN 4193 Composition / Grammar III; and SPAN 4223 Survey Spanish American Literature Texas Tech University Graduate Part-Time Instructor of Spanish, June 2008 to August 2009 Courses Taught: SPAN 1507 Comprehensive Spanish Review; SPAN 2301 A Second Course in Spanish I; SPAN 2302 A Second Course in Spanish II; and SPAN 3303 Intermediate Spanish Conversation Texas Tech University, Seville Campus Graduate Part-Time Instructor of Spanish, January to May 2008 Courses Taught: SPAN 1507 Comprehensive Spanish Review; SPAN 2301 A Second Course in Spanish I; SPAN 2302 A Second Course in Spanish II Texas Tech University Graduate Part-Time Instructor of Spanish, August 2004 to December 2007 Courses Taught: SPAN 1507 Comprehensive Spanish Review; SPAN 2301 A Second Course in Spanish I; SPAN 2302 A Second Course in Spanish II; and SPAN 3303 Intermediate Spanish Conversation San Antonio College Spanish Instructor, March to May 2004 (Intensive Spanish Course) Courses Taught: SPAN 1411 St. Philip s College Spanish Instructor, 2003-2004
5 Courses Taught: SPAN 1411 and SPAN 1412 Mexican American Cultural Center at San Antonio Language Teacher, July 2003 (Intensive Spanish Course) The University of Texas at San Antonio Teacher Assistant and Lecturer in Spanish, 2002-2004 Courses Taught: SPN 1014 Escuela Permanente de Extensión en San Antonio Spanish Instructor, 1999-2001 Centro de Enseñanza para Extranjeros, Mexico City Campus Instructor of Spanish as a Second Language, 1998 Centro de Enseñanza para Extranjeros, Taxco Campus Instructor of Spanish as a Second Language, and Instructor of Mexican Literature, 1996-1997 Escuela Nacional Preparatoria Plantel 3 Justo Sierra, Mexico City Instructor of Mexican, Spanish and World Literature, 1995-1996 Escuela Nacional de Estudios Profesionales, Acatlán Instructor of Spanish as a Second Language, 1995-1996; 1991-1992 Professional Activities Memberships American Association of University Women (Since 2012) Golden Key International Honour Society (Since 2009) Modern Language Association (Since 2010) Sociedad Nacional Honoraria Hispánica Sigma Delta Phi (Since 2010) South Central Modern Language Association (Since 2013) The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (Since 2009) The Oklahoma Foreign Language Teachers Association (Since 2010) Committees Honors Committee 2013-15 Social Affairs Committee, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, 2012-13 Diversity Committee, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, 2011-12 Graduate Council Student Representative, University of Texas at San Antonio, 2003-2004 Advising Council Faculty Representative, Escuela Permanente de Extensión en San Antonio, 2000
6 Language Abilities English (fluent) Spanish (native speaker) Portuguese (reading and some speaking) Italian (reading) Service Advance Placement Program AP Reader at the 2015 AP Reading, Cincinnati, OH Northwestern Oklahoma State University Thanksgiving Visit at Local Nursing Home (Fall 2013 & 2014) Faculty Senate Vice-President (Spring-Fall 2013) Organizer of the Salsa Contest (Spring 2013-15) Faculty Sponsor of the Hispanic American Leadership Organization (Since Spring 2011) Organizer of the Day of the Dead (Annual Fundraising Event) Volunteer of the Big Event 2011 Volunteer of the Woods County Fair 2010-14 Texas Tech University Attendant, Latino Education Summit, March 31, 2010. Vicepresident, Céfiro: Enlace hispano cultural y literario. Graduate Student Organization, 2007-2009. Conference Organizer in 2006.