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 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; Associate Professor of Spanish Language and Literature, 2011 to present Texas Tech University; Associate Professor of Spanish Language and Literature, 2005 to 2011 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 AWARDS, HONORS AND GRANTS Research Grants TTU Humanities Center grant ($2000), Summer 2015 CAHSS internal grant ($ 2,500), Summer 2013 CAHSS internal grant ($ 9,337), Summer 2012 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 Honors and Awards Named Honored Faculty by Phi Beta Kappa Member, Spring 2015 TTU President s Excellence in Teaching Award, Spring 2010. 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 Nominated for the Hemphill Wells New Professor Excellence in Teaching Award by the CMLL Awards Committee, Fall 2008. Arthur Andersen New Professor of the Year Award, Albion College, 2000 RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS BOOKS (Peer Reviewed) Culturas de España: Una perspectiva histórica y temática. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003 Culturas de España (second edition). Stamford, CT: Cengage, 2013. Género, nación y literatura. Emilia Pardo Bazán en la literatura española y gallega. West Lafayette: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures, 2013. BOOK CHAPTERS (Peer Reviewed) La reescritura de Carmen en Insolación (1889) de Pardo Bazán: Intersecciones de raza, género y clase. Intersections or Race, Class, and Gender in Fin-de-siècle Spanish Literature and Culture. Ed. Jennifer Smith and Lisa Nalbones. Farnham: Ashgate. Forthcoming An Interdisciplinary Approach to Pardo Bazán: The Dialogue with the Arts in Dulce Dueño. MLA series: Approaches to Teaching Emilia Pardo Bazan. Forthcoming 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. (vol. 7). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
ARTICLES (Peer Reviewed) Razón y locura en Un loco hace ciento de María Rosa Gálvez: la otra modernidad de la Ilustración española. Studi ispanici 40, 2015. Parecía efecto escénico, coro de zarzuela bufa : La zarzuela como intertexto y alegoría nacional en Insolación de Emilia Pardo Bazán. Studi Ispanici 37, 2012. Maravillosas supercherías: género sexual y nacionalismo en los Apuntes autobiográficos de Pardo Bazán y Trafalgar de Galdós Hispanic Review, Winter 2010. Determinismo e identidad nacional en Morriña de Pardo Bazán. La literatura de Emilia Pardo Bazán. Fundación Caixa Galicia: A Coruña 2009. 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. 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. 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 JOURNAL ADVISORY Referee for Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies Referee for Cervantes Referee for Madrygal Referee for Romance Quarterly Referee for Letras Femeninas Referee for Bulletin of Hispanic Studies Referee and Member of the Editorial Board for Céfiro INVITED LECTURES
Round Table on Recent Approaches on Emilia Pardo Bazan. Gender, Nationalism, and the Literary Canon in Nineteenth-Century Spain: Analysis of the Perspective of Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851 1921).Purdue University, West Lafayette IN. (April 11, 2013). "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 Writing the Land: Ecofeminism in Two Spanish 19th century authors. TTU Alumni College, Fall 2015 Género y naturaleza: ecofeminismo en la madre naturaleza de Emilia Pardo Bazán. Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, Spring 2015 Los caminos profundos: tiempo y modernidad en La madre naturaleza de Emilia Pardo Bazán. Mid America Conference in Hispanic Literatures, University of Madison, WI (October 2014). "Constructions of a Modern Subject from the Periphery in Rosalia de Castro's En las orillas del Sar." 2014 ISSEI Porto Conference, Images of Europe: Past, Present, Future. Universidade Catolica de Porto (Portugal), August 2014. Language as Struggle, Subject as Lack: Rosalía de Castro and the Origins of Modern Poetry. Symposium (Re)mapping Galician Studies in North America, U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, May 2014. "San José y la concepción textual en Fortunata y Jacinta," Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, University of Kentucky, April 2014). "Artificios y verdades: la construcción de lo natural en los sainetes del XVIII," 46th NEMLA (North Eastern Modern Languages Association), Harrisburg, Pa., March 2014. "La reescritura de Carmen en Insolación de Pardo Bazán: subversiones de raza, género y clase en la narrativa nacional de fin de siglo." MACHL (Mid America Conference in Hispanic Literature), University of Missouri, Columbia, November 2013.
Paisaje e identidad nacional en Rosalía de Castro: ecocrítica feminista para tiempos de crisis. Northeastern Modern Languages Association Conference, Boston, March 2013. La emigración a América en los cuentos de Emilia Pardo Bazán. Mid-America Conference in Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Lincoln, Nebraska, October 2012. Crossing Identities: The Role of Carmen in the Configuration of Spain's Self-Image in the 19th - century. Diversity in the Modern French and Francophone Novel Conference, Texas Tech University, April 2012. Pardo Bazán y el nacionalismo musical en la España de la Restauración. Northeastern Modern Language Association Conference, Rochester, NY, March 2012 Vanishing Poetry in the Dawn of Modernity: Gender Configurations in the Poetry of Rosalía de Castro and Bécquer. Gender and Gender Identity Colloquium, Texas Tech University October 2012. Constructing a National Landscape: Nature and National Identity in the Romantic Poetry of Rosalia de Castro. Pioneering Romanticisms. The 2010 International Conference on Romanticism. Lubbock, Texas Tech University, November 2010. La emigración gallega a América en los cuentos de Emilia Pardo Bazán: desplazamiento, género sexual e identidad nacional. Conferencia Internacional Trans-acciones: Dos siglos XIX, XX (y comienzos del XXI) de intercambios culturales entre América Latina y España. Cantabria, Spain, July 2010. La orientalización de Galicia en La mayorazga de Bouzas de Emilia Pardo Bazán. Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, Lexington KY, April 2010. Reescrituras de Don Juan: la versión femenina del mito romántico en Insolación de Pardo Bazán (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 PardoBazán. 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, octubre 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. TEACHING New courses developed SPAN 5364: Revisiting the Canon: Fortunata y Jacinta and the Modern Spanish Novel, Summer 2013 SPAN 5364: Sex and Sensibility: Gender and Nation Constructions in 18th and 19th century Spanish Literature 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 5375 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. BA Honors Thesis
Director, Victoria Queneau, in progress MA Committees Completed Christina Fanelli, Fall 2010 Chair, Valerie Wehmeyer, Fall 09 Magdalena Pando, Fall 09 Chair, Olimpia González, Spring 07 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) Chair and director, Yesenia Blanco (master s thesis), Fall 12 PhD Committees Completed Daniel Hopkins, Spring 2013 Director, Brenda Adcock, Fall 2012 Vanessa Rodríguez-García, Summer 2010 Mario Morera, Spring 2010 Luis Ignacio Prádanos-García, Spring 2010 Curtis Bauer (English, Creative Writing and Translation), Spring 09 Tara Lockwood, Spring 09 Manuel Regueiro, Spring 09 In Progress Director, Sara Pink Director, Irina Mozuliova Director, Mónica Fernández
Director, María Luz Bateman Angela Arneson Cheri Grissom SERVICE TTU SPANISH GRADUATE STUDIES Committee Member, Graduate Committee for the Spanish Division. (2005 - Present). Interim director of Spanish and Portuguese program. (December 2013 - May 2014). Spanish Graduate Advisor, TTU, 2010-2013 Graduate Student Recruiter and Admissions Officer, TTU, 2007 to 2010 Job Market Workshop for Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Students, TTU, Fall 2009 to present. Mentor graduate students for job market Collaborator with the Annual Céfiro Conference Mentor and organizer of panels in national conferences for TTU Spanish graduate students Spanish 18 th -19 th- and 20 th -centuries MA Committee, 2005 to present Teach service graduate course SPAN 5352 Methods of Literary Criticism, 2006 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 Associate Chair, Classical and Modern Languages Department, TTU. (2015-) Departmental Search Committees, 2005-2006, 2011/2012 (chair), 2012/2013 (German), 2014-2015 Mentor of Spanish junior faculty 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. Humanities Center Fellow, 2015-present 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 LANGUAGES Spanish and Galician (native) Portuguese (advanced) French (reading knowledge) MEMBERSHIPS MLA NEMLA Galician Studies Group Asociacion Internacional de Galdosistas