Janet N. Gold

Professor

Spanish Program, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Murkland 210 D

University of New Hampshire

Durham, NH 03824

603-***-**** office

abqbht@r.postjobfree.com

Education

Ph.D. Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 1990.

Concentrations: Latin American Literature and Women Writers

Dissertation: "The Portrait in the Mirror: A Biography of Honduran Poet

Clementina Su rez"

M.Ed. Worcester State College, Worcester, MA, 1981.

Concentration: Bilingual Education

B.A. Albertus Magnus College, New Haven, CT, 1971.

Major: English; Minor: Spanish

Grants and Awards

UNH Center for the Humanities Fellowship, for spring, 2013

UNH Faculty Development Grant, summer, 2010

Center for International Education Travel Grant, summer, 2010

UNH Center for the Humanities Senior Fellowship, spring, 2005

University of New Hampshire Vice-President’s Research Grant, summer, 2002

Gustafson Fellowship, Center for the Humanities, University of New Hampshire, spring, 1999

University of New Hampshire Center for International Education Travel Grant, 1997, 1998

University of New Hampshire Faculty Research Grant, 1996

University of New Hampshire Faculty Summer Fellowship, 1996

Louisiana State University Research Council Grant for summer research, 1992

Fulbright Grant for dissertation research in Honduras, 1988-89

University Fellowship, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 1987-88

Teaching Experience

2007-present: Professor of Spanish, Dept. of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

1998-2007: Associate Professor, Dept. of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of New Hampshire, Durham

1995-1998: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Spanish and Classics, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

1991-1995: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.

1989-1991: Instructor, Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures, Bates College, Lewiston, ME

1984-88: Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

1974-82: Classroom teacher, Grades 1-6, Spanish-English Bilingual Program, Worcester Public Schools, Worcester, MA.

1973: Instructor of English as a Second Language, Centro Internacional de Idiomas, Cuernavaca, Mexico.

1971-72: Classroom teacher, Grade 5, Escuela Americana, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Professional Service

At UNH:

Coordinator, Spanish Graduate Program, 2006-2008; fall, 2011-present

Coordinator, Spanish Program Honors in Major, 2008-2010

College of Liberal Arts Executive Committee, 2006-2007

AAUP caucus representative for Dept. of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, spring, 2006

LLC liaison for IROP, fall, 2005-present

LLC Council, fall, 2005-2007

UNH Faculty Senate, 2005-2006

Freshman orientation, 2004; 2006; 2007; 2010

Spanish Dept. library liaison, 1995-1996; 2002-2010

Coordinator, Latin American Studies Minor, 1995-1999; 2003-2008

Post-tenure review committee member for Aleksa Fleszar (1998), Nadine Berenguier (2002), Mary Rhiel (2002); John Chaston (2011)

Pre-tenure review committee Chair for Carmen Garc a de la Rasilla (2004); Holly Cashman (2009)

P&T Committee member for Stephen Brunet (2004); Amy Boylan (2012)

P&T Committee Chair for Alicia Woodruff (1997); Lori Hopkins (2001); Marco Dorfsman (2004); Carmen Garc a de la Rasilla (2005); Lina Lee (2010)

Continuing Education workshop: Post-Colonial Literature, Nov. 4, 2000

Fulbright campus interview committee, 1999, 2000, 2007

Coordinator, Spanish Program, 1999-2001; fall, 2002

University Committee on International Studies, 1997-2000

University Committee on Study Abroad, 1995-96

Foreign Language Governance Committee, 1996-98

Spanish Dept. film coordinator, 1995-1996

Other:

Contributing Editor, Central American fiction, Handbook of Latin American Studies, 2009-present.

External reviewer for the Modern Languages Program at Keene State College, Nov. 2-3, 2005.

Organizing committee for XVI Annual Conference of the Asociaci n Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hisp nica, Oct. 19-22, 2005, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Board of Advisors, Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, Ed. Steven R. Serafin (NY: The Continuum Publishing Co., 1993 and Farmington Mills, MI: St James Press, 1999).

Latin American Studies Association (LASA): Task Force on Scholarly Relations with Central America, 1992-1994.

Occasional reviewer for University of Massachusetts Press, University of Texas Press, University Press of Florida and Ix'Balam Editores.

Occasional outside reviewer for candidates for associate and full professor at other universities.

Publications

Books (Authored)

Silver Mountain/La Monta a Plateada. El Centro de Arte, Educaci n y Cultura de Santa Luc a, Honduras and Proyecto Aldea Global, 2011.

Culture and Customs of Honduras. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2009.

Sagatara M o, San Salvador: Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen, 2005.

El retrato en el espejo: una biografi a de Clementina Su rez. Tegucigalpa: Editorial Guaymuras, 2001. (A Spanish translation of Clementina Su rez: Her Life and Poetry, translated by Ester Granillo and the author.)

Clementina Su rez: Her Life and Poetry. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995.

Books (Edited)

Mujeres y cambio desde la letra. Ed. Asunci n Horno-Delgado, Associate Ed. Janet N. Gold. Santo Domingo: Secretaria del Estado de la Mujer, 2005.

Volver a imaginarlas: Retratos de escritoras centroamericanas. Ed. Janet N. Gold. Tegucigalpa: Editorial Guaymuras, 1998.

Rediscovering America: National, Cultural and Disciplinary Boundaries Re-examined. Selected Proceedings of the Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Feb. 27-30, 1992, co-edited with L. Bary, M. Laurila, A. Ram rez, J. Ricapito and J. Torrecilla.

Published Poetry

Bondades de la cibern tica. Guatemala City: Fundaci n Coloquia, 1998. (Bilingual edition of poetry by A da Toledo and Janet N. Gold)

Articles in Journals

Las Intertextualidades Biogr ficas y Literarias de Un Romance de Dos Mundos, Cultura, Revista del Ministerio de Cultura de El Salvador, No. 92, 2006.

Viajeros en el R o, in El ojo de Adri n, on-line journal of art and literature, San Salvador 9:1 (2006).

"Primeros poemarios: horizontes y laberintos," Revista Ixbalam, 2:2 (2005), 29-33.

"Retratos y espejos," in Tatuana, on-line journal of literature, culture and art of the Department of Foreign Languages of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, 2004.

"La nueva narrativa popular, estilo hondure o," Revista de la Academia de la Lengua de Honduras, 8 (2004), 71-91.

‘Todo lo que significa el nombre poeta’: Entrevista a cinco poetas j venes guatemaltecas, Guaraguao, Revista de Cultura Latinoamericana, Barcelona, 3:9 (oto o 1999), 111-129.

Ning n lugar al cual poder llamar hogar, Guaraguao, Revista de Cultura Latinoamericana, Barcelona, 3:9 (oto o 1999), 9-43. (Reprint of chapter 5 of El retrato en el espejo).

Clementina Su rez: Su lugar en la galer a de mujeres extraordinarias. Tegucigalpa: Editorial Guaymuras: 1990. Also published in Prisma, (Tegucigalpa) IV, 2: 31-34 and 3: 33-38.

"The Feminine Bond: Victimization and Beyond in the Novels of Gertrudis G mez de Avellaneda, Letras Femeninas (Spring, 1990), 86-93. Reprinted in Spanish American Literature: A Collection of Essays, vol 5, From Romanticism to Modernism in Latin America. Eds. David William Foster and Daniel Altamirano. Garland Publishing, 1995.

"Elena Poniatowska: The Search for Authentic Language," Discurso Literario, VI, 1 (Fall, 1988), 181-93.

"Arr ncame la vida: Textual Complicity and the Boundaries of Rebellion," Chasqui, XVII, 2 (Nov., 1988), 35-41.

"Clementina Su rez: Comunicaci n con una poeta," SobreVuelo (Tegucigalpa), 4 (abril-julio, 1988), 17-20.

"Reading the Love Myth: Tusquets with the Help of Barthes," Hispanic Review, 55 (Summer, 1987), 337-46.

Essays in Books

Historias de vida, historias de literatura, Visiones y revisiones de la literatura centroamericana. Ed. Jorge Rom n-Lagunas. Guatemala: Editorial Oscar de Le n Palacios, 2000, 13-22.

Clementina Su rez, Volver a imaginarlas: Retratos de escritoras centroamericanas. Ed. Janet N. Gold. Tegucigalpa: Editorial Guaymuras, 1998, 166-196 (Spanish translation of Clementina Su rez, in A Dream of Light and Shadow, 1995).

Yo quer a ser yo, amar yo, elegir yo, Volver a imaginarlas: Retratos de escritoras centroamericanas, Ed. Janet N. Gold. Tegucigalpa: Editorial Guaymuras, 1998, 144-165.

"Clementina Su rez," A Dream of Light and Shadow: Portraits of Latin American Women Writers, Ed. Marjorie Agos n. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995, 75-93.

"Yolanda Oreamuno: The Art of Passionate Engagement," Reinterpreting the Spanish American Essay: Studies of 19th and 20th Century Women's Essays, Ed. Doris Meyer. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994, 157-166.

"Teresa de la Parra: Keeping the Contradictions Alive." La escritora hisp nica, Eds. Juan Cruz Mendiz bal and Nora Erro-Orthmann. Miami: Ediciones Universal, 1990, 243-250.

"Feminine Space and the Discourse of Silence," In the Feminine Mode, Eds. Carol Maier and No l Valis. Bucknell University Press, 1990, 195-203.

Entries in Reference Books

Gioconda Belli, Reference Guide to World Literature, St. James Press, 2002.

Clementina Su rez, The Encyclopedia of World Literature of the 20th Century. Ed. Steven Serafin. Farmington Hills, MI: St. James Press, 1999.

Salarru, The Encyclopedia of World Literature of the 20th Century. Ed. Steven Serafin. Farmington Hills, MI: St. James Press, 1999.

"Central American Literature," Encyclopedia of World Literature of the 20th Century, Ed. Steven R. Serafin. NY: The Continuum Publishing Co., 1993, 120-125. Revised for 1999 edition by St. James Press, Farmington Mills, MI.

Articles on Mar a Isabel Carvajal, Miguel Angel Asturias and Ernesto Cardenal, Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature. Eds. Mary Ellen Brown and Bruce A. Rosenberg. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1998.

"Honduras: 19th-and 20th-Century Prose and Poetry", Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature. Ed. Verity Smith. London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997, 424-27.

"Costa Rica: 19th-and 20th Century Prose and Poetry" Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature. Ed. Verity Smith. London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997, 229-233.

"Salarru " Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature. Ed. Verity Smith. London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997, 746-47

"Claribel Alegr a," Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, Ed. Steven R. Serafin. NY: The Continuum Publishing Co., 1993, 9-10.

"Ernesto Cardenal," Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, Ed. Steven R. Serafin. NY: The Continuum Publishing Co., 1993, 115-117.

Survey articles on Central American narrative, poetry, theatre and essay of the twentieth century, Diccionario de la literatura espa ola y latinoamericana. Madrid: Alianza, 1993 .

"Spanish American Women Prose Writers 19th Century." The Study of Women: History, Religion, Literature and the Arts, Ed. Helen Tierney. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991, 325-327.

Book Reviews

Dancing in the Streets, review of Carnival and National Identity in the Poetry of Afrocubanismo. Thomas F. Anderson. Gainesville: U P of Florida, 2011, Confluencia (2011), 185-187.

Antolog a de cuentistas hondure as, Willy O. Mu oz. Tegucigalpa: Editorial Guaymuras, 2003. Letras femeninas (2006), 195-197.

"'The past is not what it was . . . and neither is the future'" review of Writing Women in Central America: Gender and the Fictionalization of History. Laura Barbas-Rhoden. Athens, OH: Ohio UP, 2003, Confluenica (2005), 253-254.

An Annotated Bibliography of Hispanic Feminist Criticism, Lou Charnon-Deutsch. Stony Brook, NY: Feministas Unidas, 1994.; Latin American Women Writers: Class, Race, and Gender, Myriam Yvonne Jehenson. Albany: SUNY Press, 1995; Lesbian Voices from Latin America: Breaking Ground, Elena M. Mart nez. New York: Garland, 1996. National Women's Studies Association Journal. IX:1 (Spr, 1997): 126-30.

A Perfect Silence, Alba Ambert. Houston: Arte P blico Press, 1995. Letras femeninas. XXI: 1-2 (1996).

Our Lady of Guadalupe: Faith and Empowerment among Mexican-American Women, Jeanette Rodriguez. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994. Letras femeninas. XXI: 1-2 (Spr-Fall, 1995): 186-87.

Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina Garc a. Houston: Arte P blico Press, 1993 and Singing to Cuba, Margarita Engle. New Yor: Ballantine Books, 1992. Letras femeninas. XX: 1-2 (1994): 185-87.

Jos Miguel G mez: una aproximaci n biogr fica. Tegucigalpa: Editorial Guaymuras, 1993. El Heraldo, May 9, 1994.

In Search of Bernab, Graciela Lim n. Houston, TX: Arte P blicoPress, 1993. Letras femeninas. XX:1-2 (Spr-Fall, 1994): 190-91.

Life Stories of the Nicaraguan Revolution. Denis Lynn Daly Heyck. Hispania, 75, (Sept., 1992): 576-77.

Women, Culture and Politics in Latin America. Emilie Bergmann et al. Letras femeninas, (Fall, 1992): 159-161.

After the Bombs, Arturo Arias. Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1990. American Book Review, XIII, 4 (Oct.-Nov., 1991): 16.

Woman as Myth and Metaphor in Spanish American Literature, Eds. Carmelo Virgilio and Naomi Lindstrom. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1985. Dispositio, XI, 28-29, (1986): 229-232.

Women Writers of Spain: An Annotated Bio-Bibliographical Guide. Ed. Carolyn Galerstein. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986. Literary Research, XI, 2-3, (Spr-Sum, 1986): 187.

Translations

Eighteen poems by Leonora Nichols in Sagatara M o. San Salvador: Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen, 2005.

Twenty poems by A da Toledo in Bondades de la cibern tica. Guatemala City: Fundaci n Coloquia, 1998.

"El ambiente tico y los mitos tropicales" and "Protesta contra el folklore," Yolanda Oreamuno, in Rereading the Spanish American Essay: Translations of 19th and 20th Century Women's Essays. Ed. Doris Meyer. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995, pp. 215-225.

Ten poems by Clementina Su rez, These Are Not Sweet Girls: Latin American Women Poets: An Anthology, Ed. Marjorie Agos n. Fredonia, NY: White Pine Press, 1994, pp. 70-76.

"La feria de Jimena," Laura Riesco, Landscapes of a New Land: Fictions by Latin American Women. Ed. Marjorie Agos n White Pine Press, 1989, 135-148.

"Se ores, don't leibol mi, please!: ya soy Luz Mar a Umpierre," Asunci n Horno-Delgado, Breaking Boundaries: Latina Writings and Critical Readings, Eds. Horno-Delgado, et al. Amherst: UMASS Press, 1989, 136-145.

Prologues

El paso de la muerte. Amanda Castro. Tegucigalpa: IxBalam Editores, 2006.

Papalote. Rub n Berr os. Tegucigalpa: Editorial Guaymuras, 1999.

Honduras: Mujer y poes a, Antolog a de poes a escrita por mujeres 1865-1998, Ed. Adaluz Pineda de G lvez. Tegucigalpa: Ediciones Guardabarranco, 1998.

Cultural Collaborations

Selection committee for Postrmouth, NH Poet Laureate, March-April, 2011.

Editorial and research consultant for A People’s History of Santa Luc a, a collaborative project with the Santa Luc a, Honduras Cultural Center and Global Village. 2010-2012,

Research consultant and interviewee for video documentary La manzana azul, on Salarru in New York, 1946-1957, Tom s Guevara, director and producer, 2006.

Video script and voice for documentary Sagatara M o, produced by Carlos Henr quez Consalvi, Director, Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen, San Salvador. First public showing Oct. 22, 2005.

Judge for "Gabriela Mistral" women's essay contest, sponsored by Mujeres en las Artes, Tegucigalpa, 1998.

Research consultant and interviewee for projected film on Clementina Su rez by Paula Heredia, 1998.

Invited Lectures and Readings

La Monta a Plateada, Club Rotario Tegucigalpa Sur, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, March 14, 2012.

La Monta a Plateada, Universidad Nacional Pedag gica Francisco Moraz n, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, March 14, 2012.

Santa Luc a en la historia, Colegio Santa Luc a, Santa Luc a, Honduras, March 13, 2012.

Interview by Juan Antonio Medina on Hablemos Bien, Canal 13 (Educational television), Tegucigalpa, Honduras, aired Monday, March 12, 2012.

Guest speaker at book launching of La Monta a Plateada, Centro de Arte, Educaci n y Cultura, Santa Luc a, Honduras, March 9, 2012.

NGOs are People, Too, presented at New Hampshire International Symposium, University of New Hampshire, April 5, 2011

Silver Mountain : The Story of a Local History Project in Santa Luc a, Honduras, presented at Seacoast Active Retirement Association, March 31, 2011.

Poetry reading, Kittery Art Association, April 25, 2010.

Poetry reading at Red Door Pottery Studio, Kittery, Maine, September 26, 2009.

Autobiograf a y memoria hist rica, Centro Cultural, Santa Luc a, Honduras, March 17, 2008.

Sagatara M o: A Romance of Two Worlds, University of New Hampshire Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellows Lecture Series, February 1, 2006.

Poetry reading at the XVI Annual Conference of the Asociaci n de Literatura Femenina Hisp nica, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Oct. 20, 2005 (invited participant in the round table of Central American Women Poets as an "honorary Honduran writer").

"Salarru en Nueva York: intertextualidades biogr ficas," presented at the Universidad Dr. Jos Mat as Delgado, San Salvador, by invitation of the Centro de Investigaciones, Feb. 23, 2005.

"Salarru : un poemario y un amor in ditos," Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen, San Salvador, October 22, 2003.

"Salarru en Nueva York: Literatura, amor y teosof a," presented at the University of California, San Diego, invited by the Literature Department, UCSD, April 29, 2003.

"Salarru in New York: Literature, Love and Theosophy," presented at San Diego State University, invited by San Diego State University Library and the Center for Latin American Studies, April 28, 2003.

Poetry reading at River Run Bookstore, Portsmouth, NH, Poemas y canciones de Latinoam rica," organized by Oyster River Press, April 11, 2003.

"Salarru in New York," presented at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, invited by the Department of Modern Languages and Classics, March 21, 2003.

A Lady’s Ride across Spanish Honduras, Or, What to Pack When You Don’t Know How Long You’re Staying? University of New Hampshire Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellows Lecture Series, October 14, 1999.

"Ser mujer y escribir: im genes y posibilidades," presented at the Banco Nacional, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, by invitation of the Asociaci n Nacional de Escritores de Honduras, August 5, 1998.

Ser mujer y escribir: im genes y posibilidades, presented at the Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, Guatemala City, by invitation of Fundaci n Coloquia, July 30, 1998

La escritura de biograf as de escritoras centroamericanas, presented at Fondo de Cultura Econ mica, Guatemala City, by invitation of the Instituto de Estudios de la Literatura Nacional de la Universidad de San Carlos, July 29, 1998.

Reading of selected poems at presentation of Bondades de la cibern tica, Janet N. Gold and A da Toledo, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, Guatemala City, July 28, 1998.

"Retratos y espejos," presented at "Homenaje a Clementina Su rez" by invitation of the Museo del Hombre, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, March 6, 1992.

"Clementina Su rez: su lugar en la galer a de mujeres extraordinarias," Instituto Hondure o de Cultura Interamericana, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, April 11, 1989.

"El creador y su obra son uno," presentation of Con mis versos saludo a las generaciones futuras, Clementina Su rez, Caf Paradiso, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Dec. 18, 1988.

"Clementina Su rez, poeta olanchana," presented at the Casa de la Cultura, by invitation of the Rotary Club of Juticalpa, Olancho, Honduras, Dec. 4, 1988.

Sessions Organized for Professional Conferences

El imaginario centroamericano: Exploraciones a trav s del espacio, IX Congreso Internacional

de Literatura Centroamericana, Belize City, Feb. 28-March 2, 2001.

El delicado arte de la biograf a, VI Congreso Internacional de Literatura Centroamericana, Panama City, March 19, 1998.

"Rethinking the History of Central American Literature," Latin American Studies Association, Atlanta, March, 1994.

"Writing the Borderlands: Gender and Identity," Rediscovering America Conference, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, February, 1992,

"Autobiography and Fiction," Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, March, 1988.

Papers Presented at Professional Conferences

El vibrante teatro actual hondure o: arte y acci n, XVII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Centroamericana, Costa Rica, April 8, 2008.

"La de los ojos grandes y el vestido rojo: la poes a de Amanda Castro," XVI Conferencia Anual de la AILFH, Tegucigalpa, Oct. 21, 2005.

"Apuntes para descifrar el universo simb lico de Salarru," XIV Congreso Internacional de Literatura Centroamericana, San Salvador, March 3, 2005.

"Un poemario in dito de Salarru," XI Congreso Internacional de Literatura Centroamericana, San Jos, Costa Rica, March 5, 2003.

Travelers on the River: The Comings and Goings of Poets, Explorers and Filibusters on the San Juan River, Alexander von Humboldt Conference 2001, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, June 19, 2001.

Viajeros en el r o, IX Congreso Internacional de Literatura Centroamericana, Belize City, Belize, March 1, 2001.

La poes a cuenta su propia historia: trascendencia y rechazo de la misma en algunos poetas j venes, VIII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Centroamericana, Antigua, Guatemala, March 2, 2000.

"Que esto no es realismo m gico: La loca de Gandoca de Anacristina Rossi," V Congreso Internacional de Literatura Centroamericana, San Jos, Costa Rica, Feb. 20, 1997.

"The Writer and Her Biographer: Texturing the Past, Negotiating the Present," Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Feb. 16, 1996.

"Las cuatro paredes de la poes a de Jos Luis Quesada," III Congreso Internacional de Literatura Centroamericana, Guatemala City, Feb. 24, 1995.

"Historias de vida, historias de literatura," II Congreso Internacional de Literatura Centroamericana, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Feb. 23, 1994.

"Hacia una reivindicaci n biogr fica de la escritora centroamericana," IV Simposio Internacional de Cr tica Literaria y Escritura de Mujeres de Am rica Latina, Guadalajara, Mexico, Dec. 2, 1993.

"Still Lost in Nicaragua: The Writer's Journey through Central America," The Novel of the Americas Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder, Sept. 22, 1992.

"From Paris to Paradiso: Honduran Literature on the Margin," Conference on "The Canon and Marginality," SUNY-Binghamton, May 3, 1991.

"Costa Rican Women Writers: A Small Circle of Friends," Northeast Modern Language Association, Toronto, April, 1990.

"Latin American Women Writers' Strategies for Breaking the Silence," Round Table on "Language and Discrimination," University of Massachusetts, April 29, 1988.

"Clementina Su rez: La reconstrucci n de una poeta," Segundo Congreso Creaci n Femenina en el Mundo Hisp nico, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayag ez, Nov. 16, 1987.

"Teresa de la Parra: Keeping the Contradictions Alive," XIII Congreso de Literaturas Hisp nicas, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Oct. 3, 1987.

"The Narrator as Accomplice: Angeles Mastretta and the Boundaries of Rebellion," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, April 23, 1987.

"The Feminine Bond: Victimization and Beyond in the Novels of Gertrudis G mez de Avellaneda," Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Boston, April 4, 1987.

"Feminine Space and the Discourse of Silence in Three Spanish American Short Stories," Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati, May 15, 1986.

"Elena Poniatowska: The Search for Authentic Language," XI Congreso de Literaturas Hisp nicas, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Oct. 11, 1985.

"Reading the Love Myth: Tusquets with the Help of Barthes," Conference on Language and Creativity, University of Massachusetts, Feb. 22, 1985.

"The Voices of Bal n Can n: Orality and Literacy in Rosario Castellanos," Mid-Hudson MLA Conference, Marist College, Nov. 26, 1984.

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