FACULTY

Makela Brizuela presented “Fervor of Buenos Aires’ Suburbs: Argentine Culture through Literary Texts by Jorge Luis Borges” and “The Magic Wand of the Argentine Culture: The Tango” at the Spanish and French Global Conference Training organized by Jonathan Friedlander, UCLA International Institute in July 2005.

Michelle Clayton published an article on Mario Vargas Llosa's La guerra del fin del mundo in The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Literature, ed. Efrain Kristal (Cambridge University Press, 2005), as well as reviews of poetry translations, of a book on "mestizo modernism" and of a critical study of Brazilian concrete poetry.  In June she presented a paper on modernista orientalism at the first Congreso Regional del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana in Rosario, Argentina and in November she participated in the Modernist Studies Association conference in Chicago with a paper on Cesar Vallejo's chronicles.  She was delighted to receive a UCLA faculty career development award this year and the UCLA Latin American Center Faculty Fellowship for 2005-2006, which will allow her to dedicate the winter to a book-project on Vallejo.  She is currently on sabbatical in Boston.

Verónica Cortínez has published the following articles: “No pasarse de la raya: Una estética cinematográfica de la transición en El chacotero sentimental,” Memoria, duelo y narración. Chile después de Pinochet: literatura, cine, sociedad, eds. Roland Spiller et al.  Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert Verlag, 2004, 81-97 and “Teillier,” Pausa: Revista del Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes 5 (octubre 2005): 92-99.  Profesor Cortínez has delivered the following lectures: “¿Escribir en tiempos visuales? Las películas de mi vida y Cortos: textos del siglo XXI.  Diálogo con Alberto Fuguet,” Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, May 16, 2005; “La obra de Jorge Teillier,” Lanzamiento Revista Pausa, XXV Feria Internacional del Libro de Santiago, Centro Cultural Estación Mapocho, Santiago, Chile, November 1, 2005; “Canon de la literatura chilena,” Tufts University Exchange Program, Universidad  de Chile, Santiago, Chile, July 21, 2005; “La Castilla de Bernal,” Departamento de Letras Modernas, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, June 14, 2005.  Professor Cortínez acted as Jury President at the XII Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia, Valdivia, Chile, September 30-October 6, 2005.  She is currently serving as the University of California Education Abroad Program Study Center Director in Chile.

John Dagenais represented the UCLA Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the Meeting of Chairs of PhD-Granting English and Foreign Language Departments and at the Meeting of Chairs of Spanish Departments at the Modern Language Association Conference in Washington, DC, in December 2005.

Guillermo Hernández published “En busca del autor de ‘El contrabando de El Paso.’” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies. 2 Fall (2005): 139-156;  “Corridos.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States. Suzanne Oboler and Deena J. González, eds. Vol I. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005: 407-409; “Libros y libreros” Reforma. [México City] August, 22, 2005: A8.  Profesor Hernández presented “El mexicano ante la globalización. Cultura e identidad”. Diplomado de Maestría. Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. Tijuana, Baja California Norte [México], 3 de diciembre de 2005; “Voto de los mexicanos en el extranjero.” Reforma del Estado. Escuela de Estudios Internacionales y Políticas Públicas/Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Universidad de Sinaloa, Mazatlán, Sinaloa [México], 21 y 22 de octubre de 2005; “The UCLA Strachwitz Frontera Collection.” The Latinization Of Art & Culture In America. Understanding Its Impact and Why it Matters. University of Southern California/In partnership with USC Annenberg School for Communication. Los Angeles, California., October 19, 2005; “ Corridos: Ballads of Unofficial Mexican History” Spanish and French in a Global Culture. UCLA International Institute. August 3, 2005.

Carroll B. Johnson remains active as the 400th anniversary of Don Quijote I winds down.  He has read the following papers at conferences: "De Osama bin Ladin a la Insula Barataria: Don Quijote II, 44-54," at the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Huntington Library, October 28, 2005; "Reading Don Quijote in the Age of Osama bin Ladin," at California State University, Dominguez Hills, 12/1; "In Search of a Lost Symmetry: the Morisco Presence in Cervantes," at the University of Washington, December 3, 2005.  Professor Johnson has published "The Algerian Economy and Cervantes' First Work of Narrative Fiction" in "Coronente tus hazanas": Studies in Honor of John Jay Allen. Ed. Michael J. McGrath (Newark DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2005), 271-300.

Randal Johnson published “Post-Cinema Novo Brazilian Cinema” in Traditions in World Cinema, edited by Steven Jay Schneider, Linda Bradley and R. Barton Palmer for Edinburgh University Press (2006), “Operação Cinema,”in Márcio Souza. Cadernos de Literatura Brasileira 19 (Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Moreira Salles, 2005), and the book review “’The New Brazilian Cinema’” in Film Quarterly 59:1 (2005).  He has completed a book on Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira for the University of Illinois Press.  On July 1, 2005, he became Director of the UCLA Latin American Center.

Brian Morris was invited to give the inaugural lecture at the “Congreso Internacional Pedro García Cabrera,” which took place in La Gomera (Canary Islands) on October 10-14; his lecture was entitled “Olas en el alma, espinas en el cuerpo: la vía dolorosa de Pedro García Cabrera.” An interview with him appeared in Diario de Avisos (Santa Cruz de Tenerife).  Recent publications include: “Bodegas, castillos y arboledas perdidas: las elegías venguardistas de Rafael Alberti,” which appeared in Serge Salaün y Zoraida Carandell (eds.), Rafael Alberti et les avant-gardes (Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2005), pp. 45-56; this essay was a paper read at the conference “Rafael Alberti et les avant-gardes” held at the Sorbonne in November 2002.  Also recently published is “José María Hinojosa, jinete de veleros y de dudas,” which appeared in Julio Neira and Almoraima González (eds.), Escondido en la luz. Congreso Internacional José María Hinojosa y su tiempo (Málaga: Centro Cultural de la Generación del 27, 2005), pp. 89-99; this was a lecture given at the “Congreso Internacional José María Hinojosa y su tiempo,” which was organized by the Centro Cultural de la Generación del 27, Málaga, in October 2004. He also participated in October 2004 in a colloquium on Hinojosa held at the Residencia de Estudias, Madrid.     In May 2004 he gave a lecture entitled “Luis Buñuel y los ‘poemas irracionales’ de Benjamin Péret y Buster Keaton” at the conference entitled “Ola Pepín. Dalí, Lorca y Buñuel en la Residencia,” which took place at the Residencia de Estudias, Madrid.

Tiffany Powell presented at the Pacific Coast Council of Latin American Studies Conference on November 5, 2005 held at Loyola Marymount University.  The topic of her presentation was "el testimonio latinoamericano y dos obras autobiograficas chilenas."  In early January, 2006 she will present at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities in Honolulu, Hawaii.  The title of her presentation is:  "The absence of the 1780 Tupac Amaru rebellion in the colonial work El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes."

John Skirius gave a lecture on "Labyrinth of Identities: UN SIGLO TRAS DE MI, a Mexican-American saga by Eloy Urroz" on July 31, 2005 in New York at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.

Maite Zubiaurre has authored the following recent articles: “Serrallos, sicalipsis y máquinas de escribir: erotismo, exotismo y modernidad en España.” Romance Quarterly 52/3 (2005): 197-220. “About Diurnal Tales and Nocturnal Stories: Ana Rossetti’s Erotic Fiction.”  P/Herversions:Critical Studies of Ana Rossetti.  Editor: Jill Robbins; Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press, 2004: 183-202.  “De identidades, olvidos y mixtificaciones: Protagonismo femenino y Generación del 98.” Mester.  Volume XXXIII (2004): 91- 109.  “Culinary Eros in Contemporary Hispanic Fiction: From Kitchen Tales to Table Narratives.” College Literature. (Forthcoming): “Carmen Nestares’ Venus en Buenos Aires: Neocolonialist Cyber-Romance, Virtual Lies, and the Transatlantic Queer.”  Studies in Twentieth-and Twenty-First Century Literature. (Forthcoming).  She was invited to give the following talks in 2005: “The Secret Museum: Visual Erotica and Popular Culture in Modernist Spain,” Special Event organized in the context of the Exhibition Julio González: Sculptures and Drawings from the IVAM Collection, USC Fisher Gallery and the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, October 2005.  “Topografía sexuada, modernidad y megalomanía: de la ficción literaria a las artes visuales.” Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Irvine, April 2005. She is completing a book manuscript on the cultures of the erotic in Spain (1898-1936).

Graduate Students

Argelia Andrade presented "Ceremonias de bienvenida: encuentro de dos mundos" at the Primer Encuentro Internacional de Estudiosos de Cultura Colonial conference organized by the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana/Universidad de California (UC-Mexicanistas). The conference took place at Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana in Ciudad de México, México on September 12-13, 2005.  Next summer, Argelia will be participating in the symposium "Visiones del encuentro de dos mundos en América: Lengua, cultura, traducción y transculturación en los albores de la colonia y después" with UCLA’s Centro de Estudios Coloniales Iberoamericanos (CECI) during the 52º Congreso Internacional de Americanistas conference at the Unversidad de Sevilla in Sevilla, España on July 17-21, 2006.

Cecilia Choi  presented “From Dream to Reality in Estrella distante” at the “Nuevas Fronteras” themed Inaugural Tierra Tinta Conference on Latin American, Spanish and Luso-Brazilian Literature at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, October 13-14, 2005.

Vanina Eisenhart presented a paper “Primeira dama-tropical: a cidade e o corpo femenino na ficção de Júlia Lopes de Almeida” at XI Seminário Nacional Mulher e Literatura and II Seminário Internacional Mulher e Literatura GT Anpoll, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil, August 2-5, 2005. She is also the recipient of the following awards: 2005 James and Sylvia Thayer Short-Term Research Fellowship at the UCLA YRL Special Collections with the topic “Literatura de cordel: Social and political visions of Brazil through its popular culture”; the 2005 Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Program in the Humanities and Social Sciences for “The city and The city and body in Júlia Lopes de Almeida” and the 2005 Ben and Rue Pine Travel Award and Friends of Spanish and Portuguese Research Travel Award with the topic “Literatura de Cordel and its African Roots.”

Catherine Fountain presented a paper entitled “La metátesis en el español antiguo” at the XIV Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina (ALFAL) in Monterrey, Mexico in October 2005.

Liz Goodin-Mayeda presented "On the Non-native Acquisition of Spanish Aspectual Morphology in Tutored Second Language Learners" at the national conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) in New York City in July 2005.   In November 2005 she presented "On the Acquisition of Preterit and Imperfect Contrast by L2 Adult Learners: Examining Implications of Methods of Instruction" at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) at Pepperdine University.  She will present on a similar, related study involving the acquisition of aspectual morphology at Going Romance in Utrek, Netherlands this December.

Sarah Harris presented a paper titled "Who Is in the Back Room?: The Intertextuality of Don Quixote and El cuarto de atrás" at the “Celebrating 400 years with Don Quixote (1605-2005)” Symposium at Cal State University Dominguez Hills on December 1, 2005.

Ángela Helmer presented "Ceremonias de bienvenida: encuentro de dos mundos" at the Primer Encuentro Internacional de Estudiosos de Cultura Colonial conference organized by the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana/Universidad de California (UC-Mexicanistas) at Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, Ciudad de México, México on September 12-13, 2005.  She also presented, along with Kenneth Luna and Professor Claudia Parodi, a paper titled "El leísmo en América y en España. Bifurcación de una norma" at theXIV Congreso Internacional ALFAL Conference at Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, México on October 17-21, 2005.  Next summer, Angela will be participating in the symposium "Visiones del encuentro de dos mundos en América: Lengua, cultura, traducción y transculturación en los albores de la colonia y después" with UCLA’s Centro de Estudios Coloniales Iberoamericanos (CECI) during the 52º Congreso Internacional de Americanistas conference at the Universidad de Sevilla in Sevilla, España on July 17-21, 2006.

Allison Li wrote was a book review for the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain(AARHMS) on Norman Roth's book titled, Conversos, Inquisition, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain,  Madison:  The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002.  It was published in the ARRHMS newsletter, in the Fall 2005 issue and is also available on their website: http://libro.uca.edu/aarhms/reviews/Roth.html

Kenneth V. Luna, along with Ángela Helmer and Professor Claudia Parodi presented a paper entitled "Bifurcación de una norma: el leísmo en el Viejo y el Nuevo Mundo" at the XIV ALFAL Conference, held in Monterrey, México, October 17-21, 2005.  He also presented a paper entitled "El vino en Las Casas" at the Primer Encuentro Internacional de Estudiosos de Cultura Colonial, held in México, D.F., México, September 12-13, 2005.

Cristina Moon presented “Francisco López de Gómara: Historian of the Conquest of Mexico” at the 2005 Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California in November 2005.  She also presented “Dos pilares confrontados: la Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España de Bernal Díaz del Castillo y la Historia de la conquista de México de Francisco López de Gómara” at the Arms and Letters: 20th Annual International Conference on Literature, Visual Arts and/or Cinema in Atlanta, Georgia in October 2005.

Lizy Moromisato presented a paper titled “El canibalismo como instrumento político en Las Casas” at the Primer Encuentro Internacional de Estudiosos de Cultura Colonial, held in Mexico City on September 12-13, 2005.

Ronaldo Nibbe will have his paper, "Claudia Hernandez: La esperanza que nace de la muerte," published in the forthcoming issue of Maga, a literary magazine edited by Enrique Jaramillo Levi, published at the Universidad Politecnico de Panama. He presented an initial version of this paper in January in the mini-lecture series sponsored by Motus Sodalis, and read the final version at the Congreso Internacional de Literatura Centroamericana in San Salvador, El Salvador last March.  A number of his fellow grad students have collaborated in the writing of his paper at every stage, by way of their comments, questions, and suggested clarifications, for which he thanks them all; it really has been a collective process.

Nadia Sanko completed the University of Zagreb’s summer language program in the beautiful walled Mediterranean city of Dubrovnik, Croatia.  In addition to six hours of language instruction per day, she visited the Renaissance palaces and churches within the old city of Dubrovnik and attended classical music concerts and theatrical events which were part of Dubrovnik's annual international festival.  She also went on excursions to the islands of Lopud, Lokrom, the city of Split, and Marco-Polos' hometown island of Korcula.

Amanda Williams attended a two-week seminar at UC Irvine this summer. It was a seminar in Experimental Critical Theory, and the topic was "present tense, race, empire, and biopolitics." Jasmina Arsova, Carolina Sitnisky, Illiana Alcantar also attended.  Presently, she is working with Allison Ramay, Jasmina Arsova, Ana Maria Vargas, and Cecilia Choi to plan next year’s 3^rd annual Graduate Student Conference, tentatively titled “Globalization as Culture?” It is an interdisciplinary conference hoping to attract graduate students from all over the country. It will be held April 28, 2006 in Royce 306.

Nora Zepeda presented a paper entitled “Empowering the Woman’s Body in Spain’s Golden Age Literature” at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese’ Graduate Student Conference in April.  She also published “Perfecting the Woman’s Body in Early Modern Spain” in the latest edition of Mester and will be participating as a workshop organizer with three professors in the Attending to Early Modern Women and Men Workshop to be held at the University of Maryland in November.  In February, she will present at the 15th Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium in Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Studies at the University of Miami.