Dr. Maria Guadalupe Cortina

Dr. Maria Guadalupe Cortina The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Department of Literatures and Cultural Studies (956) 665-5012 Email: guadalupe.cortina@utrgv.edu EDUCATION PhD, The University of Arizona, 1996 Major: 19th and 20th Century Spanish American Literature Areas of Emphasis: Mexican and Mexican American Literature, 13th Century-18th Century Spanish Literature Dissertation Title: Escritoras jud'o-mexicanas y la construcci n de subjetividad: hacia MA, The University of Texas - Pan American, 1992 BA, Pan American University, 1989 EMPLOYMENT Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Texas-Pan American ( 2006) Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of Texas-Pan American (July 2004) Assistant Professor of Spanish,, Texas A&M University (September 1996 - May 2003) Graduate Teaching Associate, University of Arizona (August 1992 - August 1996) Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Texas Edinburg (August 1990 - July 1992) Licensures and Certifications Chicana/Latina Culture, ( ) Contemporary Latin American Novel, ( ) Contemporary Mexican Novel, ( ) Contemporary Spanish and Spanish American Culture, ( ) Conversation and Composition, ( ) Hispanic Civilization and Culture, ( ) Hispanic Writers in the U.S., ( ) Intermediate Spanish, ( ) Generated on Jan 27, 2017 Page 1 of 9

Introduction to Hispanic Literature, ( ) Latin American Theatre and Film, ( ) Latin American Women Writers, ( ) Latin American Women, Culture, Politics and Activism, ( ) Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory, ( ) Readings in the Literary Genres, ( ) Spanish American Literature 1821 to 1935, ( ) Women s representation in the Media, ( ) PUBLICATIONS Book Chapters Maria Cortina. " Andamos huyendo, Gloria: Academia, fronteras y la nueva mestiza." Eds. Norma E. Cantú, Christina L. Gutiérrez, Norma Alarcón and Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz (Ed.) El Mundo Zurdo: Selected Works from the Meetings of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa 2007-2009, 2010: 43-56. Maria Cortina. " Frontera y violencia: exotización geográfica y la respuesta de la ciencia ficción en escritores y escritoras fronterizas.." Co-Eds. Alma Silvia Rodríguez and Lino García, Jr. (Ed.) Monterrey, Nuevo Leon: Cruzando el umbral de la palabra: estudios críticos sobre lenguaje literatura y sociedad, 2010: 69-82. Maria Cortina. "Andamos huyendo, Gloria: Academia, fronteras y la nueva mestiza." Eds. Norma E. Cantú and Christina L. Gutierrez (Ed.) Prietas y Güeras: Celebrating 20 years of Borderlands/La Frontera, 2009: 25-36. Refereed Journals Articles Maria Cortina. "Introduction." GraFemas (November 2008) Maria Cortina. "Introduction." GraFemas (December 2007) Maria Cortina. "Introduction." GraFemas (February 2007) Maria Cortina. "Introduction." GraFemas (February 2006) Maria Cortina. " La problemática de los espacios liminales, o postales desde la frontera en Fuentes y Krauze." Texto Crítico (Nueva Época) Revista de la Universidad Veracruzana 16, (2005): 69-78. Maria Cortina. " Latinos y Latinas en los Mass Media en los Estados Unidos: Is What You See What You Get?." Confluencia: Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura (2004): 21-37. Journal Articles Other Maria Cortina. Introduction. GraFemas. (December 2010) Maria Cortina. Introduction. GraFemas. (December 2009) Maria Cortina. Conversación con David William Foster. Hipertexto. 2, (2005) Generated on Jan 27, 2017 Page 2 of 9

Maria Cortina. Tejanidades desde el Valle del Río Grande y la frontera mexicana. Puentes Revista México-Chicana de Literatura, Cultura y Arte 6. (2008): 27-32. Maria Cortina. Introduction and Editor.. Río Bravo Journal of the Borderlands: Mujeres en la Frontera. 1, no. 1 (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2008): 1-6. Maria Cortina. Mujeres, literaturas, políticas y compromisos en el Nuevo Milenio: diálogos trasatlánticos. New Jersey: Ediciones Nuevo Espacio. 9, no. 22 (2007): 225 pp.. Maria Cortina. La política de la representación: la rebelión de las latinas en los Mass Media. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. 6, no. 1 (2002): 115-127. Maria Cortina. Historias y mujeres: feminización de espacios culturales en la narrativa de Ethel Krauze. Texto Critico 6. (2002): 89-106. Maria Cortina. Nancy Cárdenas. Eds. Cynthia Margarita Tompkins and David William Foster (Ed.) Westport, Connecticut and London: Notable Twentiet-Century Latin American Women: A Biographical and Dictionary. (2001): 68-71. Maria Cortina. Invenciones multitudinarias: escritoras judíomexicanas contemporáneas.. Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs. (2000): 160pp.. Maria Cortina. La Ausencia como presencia en tres novelistas mexicanas: Mendoza, Sefchovich y Swain. Virginia: Los Signos del Tiempo Editores (Ed.) Femenino Plural: la locura, la enfermedad y el cuerpo en las escritoras hispanoamericanas. Ensayos: contra el margen. (2000): 107127. Maria Cortina. Negociación y reformulación: la inclusión de las mujeres en el discurso de identidad nacional. Pensamiento y crítica. Los discursos de la cultura hoy. (2000): 175-187. Maria Cortina. Intertexts: Claiming Voices, Seizing Spaces: Latin American and Latina Women Writers. Guesteds. Laura Beard and Susan Isabel Stein (Ed.) South Central Review. 16, no. 1 (1999): 107-109. Maria Cortina. Política/Sexualidad: Nudo en la escritura de mujeres latinoamericanas. Letras Femeninas. 24, no. 1-2 (1998): 199-201. Maria Cortina. Women of Color: Mother-Daughter Relationships in Twentieth-Century Literature. Ed. Elizabeth Brown-Guillory (Ed.) South Central Review. 15, no. 4 (1998): 61-63. CONTRACTS, GRANTS AND SPONSORED RESEARCH Fellowships Grants Maria Cortina, "IGHLS Humanities Fellowships," (1997) Maria Cortina, " Hispanic Gendering of the Americas," National Endowment for the Humanities, (2002) Maria Cortina, "Modern and Classical Languages," Women s Studies and Honors Program Grant, Other, (1999) AWARDS AND HONORS Distinguished Faculty Service Award. (2006) Provost s Award, Latin American Studies (2006) Generated on Jan 27, 2017 Page 3 of 9

Distinguished Faculty Service Award. (2005) For creating Span 489 Chicana Culture., Honors Curriculum Development Grant Recipient (2001) For creating Span 489 Chicana Culture., Honors Curriculum Development Grant Recipient (2000) For developing Span 489 Latin American films, plays, and television and the representation of women., Honors Curriculum Development Grant Recipient (2000) For developing Span 489 Latin American films, plays, and television and the representation of women., Honors Curriculum Development Grant Recipient (1999) For creating SPAN 489 Latin American Women, Culture and Politics., Honors Curriculum Development Grant Recipient (1998) For creating SPAN 489 Latin American Women, Culture and Politics., Honors Curriculum Development Grant Recipient (1997) PRESENTATIONS Maria Cortina. " Welcome to la frontera: violencias, distopías y espacios en construcción.." XXIX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. LASA 2010 Crisis. Response. Recovery., Toronto, Canada. (October 6, 2010) Maria Cortina. " Fronteras y quimeras: ciencia ficción en el norte mexicano.." 57th RMCLAS Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies., Boulder, Colorado. (April 7, 2010) Maria Cortina. " Utopía, distopías y fronteras: los espacios de la ciencia ficción mexicana.." 43rd SCOLAS Southwest Council for Latin American Studies Conference, Baylor University, Santa Fe, New Mexico. (March 24, 2010) Maria Cortina. " La literatura de la frontera durante la Revolución Mexicana.." FESTIBA 2010 Reading Revolution!, University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg, Texas. (March 22, 2010) Maria Cortina. " Welcome to la Frontera: Espacio en Construcción.." Reflexiones sobre la frontera: Historia, Cine y Literatura. La Tercera Jornada Internacional de Fronteras/Borderlands: Cultura e Historia, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México. (October 7, 2009) Maria Cortina. " Activismo político-social en la frontera, la herencia de Anzaldúa.." Spanish Symposium Fronteras del Siglo XXI: Activism in the Borderlands, University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, TX. (March 28, 2009) Maria Cortina. " La construcción de la ciudad fronteriza como laboratorio del futuro en la Ciencia Ficción." Association of Borderlands Studies Western Social Science Association 2008 Annual Conference, Denver Colorado. (April 23, 2008) Maria Cortina. " Apoyando Procesos Des-Culturalizadores: Edificando Nuevos Paradigmas en el Valle." 2008 NACCS (National Association of Chicana Chicano Studies). Tejas Regional Conference, South Texas College, Mcallen, TX. (February 28, 2008) Maria Cortina. " Andamos huyendo, Gloria: academia, fronteras y la nueva mestiza." Güeras y Prietas: Celebrating 20 Years of Borderland/La Frontera Conference, University of Texas at San Antonio. (November 3, 2007) Maria Cortina. " Frontera y violencia: Exotización geográfica y la respuesta de la Ciencia Ficción." LASA 2007/After the Washington Consensus: Collaborative Scholarship for a new América XXVII, International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Montréal, Canada. (September 5, Generated on Jan 27, 2017 Page 4 of 9

2007) Maria Cortina. " Humoreando la frontera: de melodramas, trafiques y otras cosas." LASA 2006 De-Centering Latin American Studies XXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico. (March 15, 2006) Maria Cortina. " Fragmented Borders: Women s Writing from las Fronteras." 2005 MLA Annual Convention, Washington, D. C.. (December 27, 2005) Maria Cortina. " Zonas demarcadas, espacios conflictivos: la literatura de mujeres fronterizas." Fifteenth International Conference Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica Feminismo, canon y marginalidad, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. (October 19, 2005) Maria Cortina. " Las andariegas en las fábulas de Luisa Josefina Hernández." Décimo Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, University of Texas-El Paso, University of Texas-El Paso. (March 3, 2005) Maria Cortina. " Las Chicanas: desde Miss Clairol hasta Dark Angel." South Central Modern Language Association 59th Annual Meeting-Literature and Language in Global Contexts, Omni Austin Hotel Downtown Austin, Texas. (October 31, 2002) Maria Cortina. " La descodificación de la imagen cosificada, o qué tan importante es ver televisión?." International Association of Feminine/Feminist Hispanic Literature 13th Annual Meeting-Lenguaje y Género Tendencias Errantes Proyectos y Procesos para un Nuevo Mundo, Hotel Lina Barceló, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. (October 25, 2002) Maria Cortina. " La descodificación de la imagen cosificada, o qué tan importante es ver televisión?." International Association of Feminine/Feminist Hispanic Literature 13th Annual Meeting-Lenguaje y Género Tendencias Errantes Proyectos y Procesos para un Nuevo Mundo, Hotel Lina Barceló, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. (October 24, 2002) Maria Cortina. " La política de la representación: Latinas en el cine y la televisión." Bien Pretty: The Beauty and Bodies of Latinas in Literature and the Media. NACCS (National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies) Borrando Fronteras, Erasing Borders, XXVIII NACCS Annual Conference, Tucson, Arizona. (April 4, 2001) Maria Cortina. " Latinas/os en cine, televisión y video en los Estados Unidos: Is what you see what you get?." LASA (Latin American Studies Association) Hands Across the Hemisphere in the New Millenium, XXII International Congress, Miami, Florida. (March 16, 2000) Maria Cortina. " Sujeto, género y representación en la televisión latina del nuevo milenio en los Estados Unidos." X International Conference Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica La mujer y la Literatura Hispánica hacia el año 2000, Querétaro, México. (September 23, 1999) Maria Cortina. " Sex, lies and videotape: el cine y la televisión latina en los EE. UU.." VI Jornadas Metropolitanas de Estudios Culturales, Arte, Literatura Crítica e Identidad en México y América Latina, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Cd. de México. (July 7, 1999) Maria Cortina. " La Ausencia como presencia en tres novelistas mexicanas: Mendoza, Sefchovich y Swain." Ist. International Conference Iberoamerican Cultural Foundation Madness, Illness and Bodies: The Hispanic Woman Writer and Her Fragmented World, George Washington University Washington, D. C.. (October 15, 1998) Maria Cortina. " Las mujeres y el imaginario nacional: la identidad en Demasiado amor y La señora de los sueños." Ninth International Conference Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. (September 15, 1998) Generated on Jan 27, 2017 Page 5 of 9

Maria Cortina. " Sexualidad, lenguaje y mirada: nuevos cuerpos, nuevas biografías." Eighth International Conference Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica (Des) articulaciones: actos, cuerpos e ideologías en las literaturas femeninas hispánicas, Emory University Atlanta, Georgia. (September 17, 1997) Maria Cortina. " Negociación y reformulación: la inclusión de las mujeres en el discurso de identidad nacional." IV Jornadas de Estudios Culturales Arte, Literatura Crítica en México y América Latina, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México D. F.. (July 2, 1997) Maria Cortina. " La problemática de los espacios liminales en La frontera de cristal, de Carlos Fuentes, y Donde las cosas vuelan, de Ethel Krauze." XI International Symposium on Peninsular and Latin American Literature Homenaje a Carlos Fuentes, University of Texas-Edinburg. (April 16, 1997) Maria Cortina. " Función del discurso erótico en Mujeres de ojos grandes de Angeles Mastretta." V Annual Symposium on Contemporary Latin American Literature, University of Arizona, Tucson, Az.. (March 23, 1995) TEACHING Courses Taught Acquisition of the Spanish Language Adv Span Composition Beg Spanish-Non Spkng Beginning Spanish Biblio & Research Method Comprehensive Exam Extension Dir Read Hisp Lit & Ling Dir Res In Lang Lit Cult Film of Latin American Novel Fund of Hispanic Lit Inter Span For Health Pr Inter Span-Native Spkr Intro To Latin Amer Lit Intro to Latin American Lit Intro to Latina/o Lit Intro to Latino Lit Latino Lit In The US Lit Crit And Cult Theory Masterpc Sp-Am Lit II Generated on Jan 27, 2017 Page 6 of 9

Mexico's Contemporary Li Senior Seminar Sp Stud Span-Am Lit Span for Nat/Her Speak I Spanish Native/ Heritage Speakers I Spanish Native/ Heritage Speakers II Spanish Native/Heritage Speakers II Spec Topics Hisp Lit Tech Literary Analysis The Mexican Novel The Span-Amer Short Stor Thesis Thesis I Thesis II Women Writers Hisp Lit Writ & Culture from the Border Directed Student Learning Master's Thesis Committee Chair. Lorena Villarreal, "La evolución del personaje femenino y su transformación político-social en la obra de Julia Álvarez En el tiempo de las mariposas", Modern Languages (UTPA). (May 10, 2013 - May 14, 2014) Master's Thesis Committee Chair. Jonathan Godínez, "Posmodernismo e identidad en la narrativa de Juan Villoro.", Modern Languages (UTPA). (May 10, 2012 - May 10, 2013) SERVICE Master's Thesis Committee Chair. José Roberto Flores, (May 17, 2012) Master's Thesis Committee Member. Marcia Caltabiano, ( 2010) Master's Thesis Committee Member. Carolina Alonso, ( 2009) Master's Thesis Committee Member. Ana Palacios, ( 2008) Master's Thesis Committee Chair. Evérica Rivera, (May 5, 2008) Master's Thesis Committee Member. Arnulfo Salinas, ( 2007) Master's Thesis Committee Member. Ileana Perez Garcini, ( 2007) Master's Thesis Committee Member. Sylvia Lorenzen, ( 2007) Master's Thesis Committee Member. Wendy Cedillo, ( 2006) Department Service Generated on Jan 27, 2017 Page 7 of 9

Committee Member, Colonial Latin American. (2011-2012) Committee Member, Span Applied Linguistics (Medical Span). (2011-2012) Committee Member, MLL Executive Committee. (2010-2011) Committee Member, Latin American Literature. ( 2009) Committee Member, Latina/Latino Literature. ( 2009) Committee Member, Spanish Linguistics/Portuguese. ( 2009) Committee Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee. (2008-2009) Committee Member, Graduate Committee. (2006-2007) Committee Chair, Latin American Lit.. (2006-2007) Committee Member, French. (2005-2006) Committee Chair, Latin American Folklore. (2005-2006) Other (1997-2003) College Service Committee Member, COAH Executive Committee. (2005-2007) Committee Member, COAH Grade Appeals. (2005-2006) University Service Faculty Advisor, Chapter Lambda Tau, National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society. (1999-2003) Committee Member, Advisory Committee Graduate Council Representative to Mr. Yu-Min Tzou. (2000-2001) Committee Member, Advisory Committee Graduate Council Representative to Mr. Seung-Yong Jung. (1999-2000) Development Activities Attended " Flores de Otro Mundo: Women Race and Immigration," FESTIBA (Festival of International Books and Arts) at UTPA.. (March 2008) " Women on the Border, Salt of the Earth," FESTIBA (Festival of International Books and Arts). ( 2008) Faculty Internship, "Reflective Judgment: Teaching Students to Think Critically in a Time of Information Overload," H & R and Faculty Affairs. (February 15, 2012) Seminar, " Liminilades en el discurso femenino latinoamericano"," XIX Annual Symposium on Modern Languages. (April 30, 2008 - May 2, 2008) " Muros y fronteras De dónde hacia dónde con quién," XIX Annual Symposium on Modern Languages. (April 30, 2008 - May 2, 2008) Conference Attendance, FESTIBA 2007. ( 2007) Generated on Jan 27, 2017 Page 8 of 9

" Addressing the Negotiation of Bicultural Identities in Literature Panel," Pan American Days 2007. (April 2, 2007 - April 6, 2007) " Las Mujeres de Juárez y el Activismo Político," Pan American Days 2005. (April 11, 2005 - April 15, 2005) Professional Service Editor, Journal Editor, Hipertexto, Online Journal ( 2010) Other, GraFemas ( 2006) Board of Advisors of a Company, Hipertexto Online Journal ( 2005) Member, Feministas Unidas Essay Prize ( 2012) Member, Victoria Urbano Prize (May 2011) Editorial Review Board Member, Letras Femeninas Special Issue: Cuerpo/género/texto: El imaginario corporal en la literatura femenina hispánica ( 2004) Editor, Journal Editor, GRAFEMAS (1997-2002) Generated on Jan 27, 2017 Page 9 of 9