Dra. Yvonne Gavela-Ramos Instituto de Lengua y Cultura Españolas (ILCE) Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Universidad de Navarra Campus Universitario 31009 Pamplona, Navarra (Spain) ygavela@unav.edu September 20 th, 2016 FACULTY POSITIONS 2016 present Profesora asociada, Instituto de Lengua y Cultura Españolas (ILCE) ILCE s Professional Development Coordinator Universidad de Navarra (Spain) Summer 2016 Profesora invitada, Instituto de Lengua y Cultura Españolas (ILCE) Universidad de Navarra (Spain) 2008 2016 Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of Miami 2006 2008 Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of Miami Spring 2007 Invited Assistant Professor of Spanish, The Pennsylvania State University 2005 2006 Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of Massachusetts Amherst 2004 2005 Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish, Mount Holyoke College EDUCATION Ph.D. Spanish, The Pennsylvania State University, 2004 Dissertation: Vértigo, violencia e imagen en la narrativa española de los noventa: novela y cine. M.A. Foreign Languages (TESOL Spanish), West Virginia University, 1999 Teaching Certification 5-12, English and Spanish, Certificado de Aptitud Pedagógica (CAP) Universidad de Burgos, Spain, 1998 Licenciatura, Filosofía y Letras M.A. English, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain, 1997 B.A. Humanities, Universidad de Burgos, Spain, 1995 SCHOLARSHIP AREAS Spanish Second Language Teaching and Learning Spanish Language Proficiency Testing Spanish Modern and Contemporary Literature Spanish Textbook Development Spanish Film Studies Spanish Women Writers
2 PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS Acreditación de Examinadores DELE (Niveles A1 y A2), Instituto Cervantes, 2016 PUBLICATIONS Book Monograph El espejo de Perseo: Cultura visual en la narrativa y el cine español. Vigo: Editorial Academia del Hispanismo, 2015 Pedagogical Publications Armstrong, K., Y. Gavela, and E. Negueruela. De Nuevo. Spanish for High Beginners. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2004 Negueruela, E. and Y. Gavela. Quiosco Testing Program. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2002 Refereed Journal Articles Mediación y memoria en la creación de un mito en la pantalla: Juana la Loca Crítica Hispánica. Monográfico: Nuevas aproximaciones al cine histórico español XXXVIII.1 (2016): 75-94 La piel que habita el cine de Almodóvar: la autenticidad del artificio. La Nueva Literatura Hispánica 17. Monográfico: Hacia la obra de arte total: Identidad y autenticidad en la cinematografía de Pedro Almodóvar (2013): 113-138 La retórica de lo icónico: El espejo en Veo Veo de Gabriela Bustelo. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 45.2 (2011): 307-328 El acto colectivo de recordar: Historia y fantasía en El espíritu de la colmena y El laberinto del fauno Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 88.2 (2011): 179-196 Aunque tú no lo sepas: La mirada de Juan Vicente Córdoba al vocabulario de los balcones de Almudena Grandes. Hesperia. Anuario de filología hispánica XI-2 (2008): 105-123 Refereed Book Chapters La adaptación fílmica de la narrativa de la generación X en la España de los noventa. In Teoría y práctica de la adaptación fílmica. Barbara Zecchi (ed.) Madrid: Editorial Complutense, 2012. 161-175 Voces para el recuerdo: La función dialógica en Soldados de Salamina y María querida. In La literatura y el cine hispánicos en el bicentenario de las independencias iberoamericanas. Santiago Juan-Navarro and Joan Torres-Pou (eds.) Barcelona: Promociones y Publicaciones Universitarias, 2011. 141-157 La imagen como elemento mediador de la realidad ficticia de Historias del Kronen. Memoria histórica: género e interdisciplinariedad. Los estudios culturales hispánicos en el s. XXI. Santiago Juan-Navarro and Joan Torres-Pou (eds.) Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2008. 215-226
3 REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Trauma y conciencia historiográfica en la cultura española Congreso Trauma individual y/o colectivo: Reflexión y representación en la cultura hispánica McGill University y Universitas Castellae, Valladolid, June 25-27, 2015 La mirada ensimismada ante el espejo de la violencia en Tesis. II Congreso Internacional Historia, Literatura y Arte en el cine en español y en portugués. De los orígenes a la revolución tecnológica del siglo XXI. Universidad de Salamanca, Spain, June 26-28, 2013 La carnavalización en La piel que habito de Almodóvar XXXIII Asamblea y Congreso Internacional de ALDEEU-Spanish Professionals in America, St. Augustine, FL, April 17-19, 2013 La piel que habita el último cine de Almodóvar: arte y realidad. 25th Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference. Duquesne University, September 21-22, 2012 Melancolía e inmigración en Un Franco 14 pesetas VI Congreso Internacional. Asociación Hispánica de Humanidades. Literatura y cine: el Bicentenario de la Independencia Iberoamericana y de la Constitución de Cádiz. Madrid, June 28-30, 2012 Cultura audiovisual en la narrativa lírica de Ray Loriga I Congreso Internacional Historia, Literatura y Arte en el Cine español y brasileño, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain, June 28-30, 2011 Entre la memoria y la historia: el recordar colectivo a través del cine español contemporáneo. Hispanic Literature and Film at the Bicentennial of Latin American Independences (1810-2010) Seventh Biennial Florida International University Conference on Spanish and Spanish-American Cultural Studies, April 1-3, 2010 Entre el viaje imaginado y el espacio real en el cine de Daniel Calparsoro. El imaginario geográfico y el cine hispano. An International Conference on Hispanic Cinemas, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 4-7, 2009 La ficción audiovisual como espacio de la realidad en Caídos del cielo de Ray Loriga. VIII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica. Puntarenas, Costa Rica, March 9-12, 2009 El acto colectivo de recordar: Historia y fantasía en El espíritu de la colmena y El laberinto del fauno European Film Conference: The University of Texas San Antonio, September 8-10, 2008 Retrato del conflicto violento desde la mirada infantil. Memoria y fantasía en El laberinto del fauno de Guillermo del Toro. 61st Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky, April 17-19, 2008 Pastiche y parodia en el Madrid post-movida de Gabriela Bustelo en Veo Veo. Sixth Biennial Florida International University Conference on Spanish and Spanish-American Cultural Studies. Florida International University March 6-8, 2008 Aunque tú no lo sepas: La mirada de Juan Vicente Córdoba al vocabulario de los balcones de Almudena Grandes. Literature: Eternal Inspiration for Films. 20th Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference. Duquesne University, September 21-22, 2007
4 La cinematografía española de los 90: Globalización, metaficción y violencia en Tesis. 60th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky, April 19-21, 2007 La intertextualidad de la ficción ultraviolenta en la obra de Mañas: La naranja mecánica de Burgess y Kubrick. VI Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica. Riviera Maya, March 7-9, 2007 El discurso violento en Kronen: El caso de La naranja mecánica. AATSP Annual Meeting. Salamanca, Spain. June 28-July 2, 2006 La redefinición de la imagen violenta en Salto al vacío. 59th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky, April 20-22, 2006 The Appropriation of the Image as a Mediating Tool in the Revisited Reality of Stories from the Kronen. Invited talk. Westminster College, March 7, 2006 La imagen como elemento mediador de la realidad ficticia de Historias del Kronen. New Directions in Hispanic Studies. Florida International University, February 23-25, 2006 El fracaso de la última gran narrativa: Kronen y el texto cinematográfico. 58th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky, April 21-23, 2005 Kronen: Entre la imagen y la palabra. La búsqueda del ser en la convergencia del texto escrito y el texto cinematográfico. La Jornada literaria. Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, October 25, 2003 GENERAL AUDIENCE PRESENTATIONS Panelist in Español, la llave de nuevas oportunidades Career Forum: Cultura y Educación, Universidad de Navarra, April 14, 2016 Panelist in Spanish Cinema Today. Coral Gables Art Cinema, October 29, 2012 Present Poetry Award Nuevos valores de la poesía hispana 2010 at the Centro Cultural Español (Miami): La aguja sigue descodificando vinilos, Elena Errázuriz Goyet, Ediciones Baquiana (2011), April 28, 2011 PANELS ORGANIZED Present and moderated Panel on Recent Cinema from Spain (5th edition). Centro Cultural Español (Miami): Miki Esparbé, Goya Toledo, Miguel Ángel Muñoz & William Miller, November 20, 2015 Present and moderated Panel on Recent Cinema from Spain (4th edition). Centro Cultural Español (Miami): Juan Diego Botto, Martiño Rivas, Javier Ruiz Caldera & Elvira Lindo, November 21, 2014 Present and moderated Panel on Spanish Cinema in Times of Crisis: Filming is Easier with Eyes Open Vivir es fácil con los ojos abiertos : hacer cine en tiempos de crisis. Centro Cultural Español (Miami):
5 David Trueba, Jessica Berman & Javier Cámara, June 26, 2014 Presented and coordinated Roundtable with Spanish Authors: Especial de cine y literatura: La guerra civil española en clave de humor. Lunes literarios at the Centro Cultural Español (Miami): José Ovejero & Fernando Royuela, April 19, 2010 Organized Panel with Spanish Writers in collaboration with America Reads Spanish. Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Miami, 2010 José Ovejero & Fernando Royuela, April 20 Organized Panel with Spanish Writers in collaboration with America Reads Spanish. Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Miami, 2009 Care Santos & Susana Vallejo, November 17 Antonio Soler, October 20 Juan Gabriel Vásquez & Almudena Solana, September 15 Juan Bonilla & Rafael Ábalos, April 20 Presented and interviewed Spanish Authors in collaboration with America Reads Spanish at the Centro Cultural Español (Miami), 2009 Antonio Soler, October 19 Juan Gabriel Vásquez & Almudena Solana, September 14 GRANTS & AWARDS Summer 2015 Summer 2013 Summer 2012 Summer 2010 Summer 2009 Summer 2005 Arts & Sciences International Travel Award, University of Miami. Trauma and Historiographical Consciousness in Spanish Culture ($ 1,500) Arts & Sciences International Travel Award, University of Miami. Aesthetics of Violence in Spanish Films ($ 1,200) Arts & Sciences International Travel Award, University of Miami. Immigration in Spanish Cinema ($ 1,200) Provost Research Award, University of Miami. Film and Media Culture in Contemporary Spanish Fiction ($ 4,000) General Research Support Award, University of Miami. Film and Media Culture in Contemporary Spanish Fiction ($ 2,000) Research and Travel Grant, Mt. Holyoke College. Professional Development and Research in Spain ($ 950) ACADEMIC MENTORSHIP Dissertation Co-Directed 2013 Rodríguez, Maidelin. Textos de artista posmodernos: Construcción de proyectos autobiográficos ficcionales vitales a
6 través del arte en narrativas españolas contemporáneas. University of Miami: Ph.D. (Spanish). Co-directed with Dr. Elena Grau-Llevería Undergraduate Thesis Directed 2008 Muñiz, Wendy. Conductas intertextuales desde el hemisferio sur: La vuelta a los mundos de Julio Cortázar en dos cuentos de Cristina Fernández Cubas. University of Miami: Unpublished BA Honor Summa Cum Laude Thesis (Spanish) Dissertation Committee Member 2016 Gámez Pérez, Carlos. On Sciences and Letters: Techno-scientific Thinking and Culture in Spain (1959-2016). University of Miami: Ph.D. (Spanish) In progress 2015 Magdaleno, Ariana. Mexicanidad Reloaded: Multiple Histories and Narratives in Contemporary Novels and Film from 1989 to 2002. University of Miami: Ph.D. (Spanish) In progress 2013-2016 Samit, Julie. Memories That Won t Desert. Transnational Legacies of the Dictatorship and the Spanish Civil War in 21 st Century Novel, Comic, and Film. University of Miami: Ph.D. (Spanish) 2013-2015 Durán, Mónica. Visual Narratives and Metaphors as Tools for Teaching in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Sociocultural and Critical Perspective. University of Miami: Ph.D. (Spanish) 2011-2013 Raggio, Salvador. The Mutant Factor: Transformations and Mutations of the Monstrous in Contemporary Ibero-American Texts. University of Miami: Ph.D. (Spanish) 2011-2013 Téllez-Espiga, Enrique. Remembering Madrid: Urban Space and Memory from the Spanish Civil War to the Transition to Democracy. University of Miami: Ph.D. (Spanish) M.A. Thesis Committee Member 2009 Jubis, Oscar. Lucrecia Martel s Salta Trilogy. University of Miami: Unpublished MA Thesis (Film Studies) Academic Advising 2015-2016 Breadth Exam Committee Member Lorella di Gregorio (PhD student in Spanish) Lina Jardines del Cueto (PhD student in Spanish) Antoni Fernández Parera (PhD student in Spanish) Qualifying Exams Committee Member Carlos Gámez Pérez (PhD student in Spanish) 2016 Prospectus Defense Committee Member Carlos Gámez Pérez (PhD student in Spanish) 2014 Prospectus Defense Committee Member Julie Samit (PhD student in Spanish) 2013 Prospectus Defense Committee Member Qualifying Exams Committee Member Mónica Durán (PhD student in Spanish)
7 Breadth Exam Committee Member Francisca Aguiló Mora (PhD student in Spanish) 2011 Qualifying Exams Committee Member Julie Samit (PhD student in Spanish) 2011 Prospectus Defense Committee Member Vanessa Reynaud (PhD student in French) Salvador Raggio (PhD student in Spanish) Enrique Téllez-Espiga (PhD student in Spanish) 2010 Maidelín Rodríguez (PhD student in Spanish) 2010-2013 Graduate Advisor (Maidelin Rodríguez) 2010-2011 Graduate Advisor (Andrés González) 2008-2011 Graduate Advisor (Enrique Téllez-Espiga) 2009-2010 Breadth Exam Committee Member Enrique Téllez-Espiga (PhD student in Spanish) Alfredo Palacios (PhD student in Spanish) Julie Samit (PhD student in Spanish) Qualifying Exams Committee Member Salvador Raggio (PhD student in Spanish) 2009 Qualifying Exams Committee Member Maidelin Rodriguez (PhD student in Spanish) Vanessa Reynaud (PhD student in French) 2009 MA Thesis Committee Member Oscar Jubis (MA student in Film Studies) 2008 Proctor for Breath Exams, September 21 st 2006-2013 Undergraduate Advising (Majoring/Minoring, Study Abroad) TEACHING EXPERIENCE Universidad de Navarra, 2016-present ILCE Español C1: Comunicación y cultura Español A2: Comunicación y cultura Español A1: Comunicación y cultura Gramática avanzada B2.1 Traducción inglés-español Redacción B2 University of Miami, 2006-2016 Graduate Spanish 621 Voces para el recuerdo: memoria y olvido en la cultura española contemporánea
8 Spanish 616 Generación X: cultura visual en la narrativa y cine contemporáneos Spanish 616 Narrativa y cine en la España contemporánea Undergraduate Spanish 501 Héroes por un día: cultura visual en la narrativa joven española Spanish 501 Juvenismo espectacular en la novela española contemporánea Spanish 591 La narrativa de la Generación X española, una nueva Blank Fiction? Spanish 594 & 595 Senior Honors Thesis I & II LAS 494 Representaciones de mujeres en el cine iberoamericano de directoras Spanish 325 Spooky Spain : Mitos y cuentos de hadas en el cine español Spanish 322 Cine español de los siglos XX y XXI Spanish 321 Adaptación fílmica en la España contemporánea Spanish 321 La narrativa de la generación X en la España de los noventa Spanish 365 20 th to 21 st century Spanish Peninsular Literature: Locura, fantasía y memoria Spanish 364 18 th to 19 h century Spanish Peninsular Literature Spanish 302 Cultura y civilización de España: mujeres notables Spanish 301 Introduction to Literary Genres Spanish 343 Literary Genres for Native Heritage Speakers Spanish 202 & 203 Intermediate and Advanced Spanish The Pennsylvania State University, Spring 2007 Spanish 560 Graduate Seminar: Tendencias en la novela y el cine de la España contemporánea University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2005-2006 Spanish 321 Modern and Contemporary Peninsular Literature Spanish 319 Introduction to Literary Analysis Spanish 301 Advanced Conversation Mount Holyoke College, 2004-2005 Spanish 244 Foundations of Spanish Literature: Medieval and Golden Age Spanish 209 Composition and Culture Spanish 200 Intermediate Spanish Spanish 102 Elementary Spanish Spanish 101 Elementary Spanish Penn State Education Abroad Program, Puebla, Mexico, Summer 2003 Spanish 399A Foreign Study. Intensive Conversation and Reading Graduate Teaching Assistant, the Pennsylvania State University, 2000-2003 Comparative Literature 101 Themes of Identity in World Literature. Race, Class, Gender and Other Issues of Identity (2 sections) Spanish Lecturer, the Pennsylvania State University, 1999-2000 Spanish 3 Intermediate Spanish (4 sections) Spanish 2 Beginner Spanish Spanish 1 Continuing Education: Beginner Spanish Graduate Teaching Assistant, West Virginia University, 1998-99 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE University of Miami Spring 2016 MLL SACS representative
9 MLL Cognate Advisor 2014-2016 MLL Undergraduate Committee MLL Cognate Representative (until Fall 2015) Sigma Delta Pi Chapter Advisor (until Spring 2016) 2011- Spring 2013 MLL Representative for the College Curriculum Committee 2010/ 2012 Sigma Delta Pi Chapter Advisor 2009-2012 Lecture Committee The Pennsylvania State University 2003 Assistant Director, Penn State Education Abroad Program in Puebla, Mexico 2002 2003 Graduate Student Representative of the Activities Committee Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, PSU 2002 2003 Graduate Student Representative, Literature, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese Graduate Student Organization (SIPGSO), PSU 2000 Web-Page Developer Technology project designed for Spanish 130: Iberian Civilization, PSU SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION 2012- present Ad hoc reviewer for Hispanic Review (The University of Pennsylvania Press) Ad hoc reviewer for Letras Hispanas: Revista de Literatura y Cultura (Texas State-University) Ad hoc reviewer for Transitions: Journal of Franco-Iberian Studies (Florida Atlantic University) 2010- present Editorial Board of Revista Literaria Baquiana 2009 Radio Interviews with Spanish Authors in collaboration with America Reads Spanish and Miami-Dade Regional Libraries broadcasted by Univision Radio Care Santos & Susana Vallejo, November 16 th Antonio Soler, October 19 th Almudena Solana, September 14 th West Virginia University 1998 1999 Editorial Board Member of Foreign Languages Student Review, WVU Universidad de Burgos
10 1994 1995 Editor of Studentimes, Departamento de Filología Inglesa. Facultad de Humanidades y Educación. UBU, 1994-95 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cine Españoles Siglo XXI (ALCES XXI) Modern Language Association (MLA) American Association of Teachers of Spanish of Portuguese (AATSP)