About Dr. S. Alba D. Skar

B.A.      (1991) Spanish, University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana)
M.A.      (1993) Spanish, University of Wisconsin (Madison)
PH.D. (1997) Spanish American Literature, University of Wisconsin (Madison)
                         Minor: Portuguese

Dissertation: "Political Violence in Latin American Narrative: Re-Presenting Torture and the Re-Constructing 'I'"

Contemporary Latin American Literature
Latino/a and Chicano/a Writers in the U.S.
Testimonial Narrative and Human Rights
Women Writers
Jewish Writers

1999-Current -- Visiting Assistant Professor & Senior Lecturer: Trinity College (Connecticut)

Intermediate Spanish I, II
Advanced Grammar & Composition
Spanish for Heritage Speakers
Foundations in Literary & Cultural Analysis
Latin American & Caribbean Culture (in English)
Latin American Culture II
Latina/Latino Writers in the United States
Literature of Popular Consciousness & Revolution
Colonialism and the American Consciousness
Gender & Sexuality in Spanish America
Hispanic Women from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century

Intermediate Spanish I, II
Spanish Composition & Conversation
Latin American Civilization
Peninsular Literature: Medieval and Golden Age Survey
Latin American Literature: Survey of Colonial Literature
Seminar: US Latino Literature
Introduction to Hispanic Cultures (In English)
First Year Seminar: Gender in the Arts and Sciences (In English)
Revolution and Counterrevolution: Cuban Culture and Politics from 1959-1999 (In English)

1995-1997 -- Lecturer: Fairfield University & University of Bridgeport (Connecticut)

Intermediate Spanish I, II
Continuing Spanish: Advanced Grammar and Latin American Civilization
Survey of Latin American Literature

Reviews

Reviewed in "La República de las Mujeres" Sunday Cultural Supplement to La República (Montevideo, Uruguay, February 11, 2001).

Reviewed by Víctor Fuentes in Ventana Abierta 3.10 (Spring 2001) 85-86.

Reviewed by Alejandra Molina in Letras Femeninas (Fall 2001).

Review by Maribel Acosta Lugo in Pheobe: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Feminist Scholarship (Spring 2002).

Interviews

El Mercurio (Chile) March 2, 2001 "Desde las entrañas del monstruo"

Elgolpe.com (Chile) January 31, 2001 "Entrevista"

Reviews

Reviews should be coming soon!

Interviews

"El Infierno de Luz Arce en EE.UU".

"La poética de una cosmología femenina en la poesía chicana" Aérea: Revista Hispanoamericana de Poesía 4 (March 2001) 5-22.

"Jacobo Timerman's Preso sin nombre, celda sin número and the Reconstructing 'I'" in MACLAS: Latin American Essays from the Middle Atlantic Conference on Latin American Studies 14 (2000) 13-26. Awarded James H. Street Prize for best article by the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies.

“Hacia una conciencia fronteriza en la poesía chicana: El caso de Gloria Anzaldúa y ‘la nueva mestiza’” Aérea: Revista Hispanoamericana de Poesía 3 (March 2000) 5-17.

"Arriesgando la transculturación en Tiempo al tiempo de Isaac Goldemberg" in Alpha: Revista de Artes, Letras y Filosofía 14 (Fall 1998) 27-43.

"En-gendering Violence: A Study of Sexuality in Roberto Athayde's Apareceu a Margarida and Plínio Marcos' Dois perdidos numa noite suja" in Cincinnati Romance Review 16 (1997) 52-59.

"La narrativa política y la subversión paradójica en Por la patria de Diamela Eltit" in Confluencia 11.1 (Fall 1995) 113-25.

“Relecturas del testimonio contemporáneo en Chile: Desde 'el infierno' hasta 'la verdad'" in Ideologías y Literatura. Homenaje a Hernán Vidal. Eds. Moraña, Mabel and Javier Campos. Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (Forthcoming 2005).

“Pedagogía y tecnología en la educación norteamericana: Vínculos con la literatura y la lectura” in Fomento del Libro y la Lectura/3. Argentina: Ed. Fundación Mempo Giardinelli, 2002. 11-21.

"Tiempo femenino y maternidad: La construcción de una subjetividad femenina en la poesía chicana" in La poesía hispánica de los Estados Unidos: Aproximaciones críticas. Eds. Lilianet Brintrup, Juan Armando Epple, Carmen de Mora. Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla--Secretariado de Publicaciones, 2001. 69-87.

"Latin American Women's Testimonial Writing: What is Feminism's Role in Social Liberation?" in Latina Visions for Transforming the Americas. Connecticut: Southern Connecticut State University, Spring 2000. 13-19.

"Sonia Guralnik" in Jewish Writers of Latin America: A Dictionary Ed. Darrell B. Lockhart. Garland: New York, 1997. 247-51.

"Testimonial Dictionary to the Reading of Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú" with R. Avellaneda, K. Bilbija, L.Gutiérrez, M. Osorio and A. Wasia in Teaching and Testimony: Rigoberta Menchú in the North American Classroom. Eds. Allen Carey-Webb and Steve Benz. New York: SUNY Press, 1996. 205-21.

"Children's Stories Written from the Spaceship IV, VI" from El astronauta en llamas [The Astronaut in Flames] by Javier Campos. Phoebe: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Feminist Scholarship 10.2 (1999) 74-77.

"Writing from the Borderland" by Javier Campos. Review: Latin American Literature and Art 54 (Spring 1997) 57.

Review of Blessed by Thunder: Memoir of a Cuban Girlhood by Flor Fernandez Barrios. Pheobe: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Feminist Scholarship 12.1-2 (2001) 265-66.

Review of Delia’s Way by Olga Berrocal Essex. Pheobe: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Feminist Scholarship 10.2 (1998) 102-103.

Review of Grandmother's Grandchild: My Crow Indian Life by Alma Hogan Snell. Ed. Becky Matthews. Pheobe: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Feminist Scholarship 13.1 (2001) 117-118.

Review of I Used to Be a Superwoman Chicana by Gloria L. Velásquez. Pheobe: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Feminist Scholarship 11.1 (1999) 87-88.

Review of Relaciones de poder y carnavalización en la novela chilena contemporánea by Guillermo García-Corales. Revista Chilena de Literatura 50 (1997) 147-48.

Conference paper: "El sujeto fronterizo en EEUU: 'Yo soy Joaquín' de Rodolfo Gonzales e Hija de la fortuna de Isabel Allende" XXXV Congreso Internacional del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana: "Fronteras de la literatura y de la crítica" University of Poitiers, Poitiers, France (June-July 2004)

Conference paper: "Ficciones históricas de la trans(cultura)ción puertorriqueña y debates de la identidad nacional" XIII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispánica, Centro de Investigaciones Literarias, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana (October 2002)

Conference paper: "La casa en llamas: (Des)construcciones de una geografía doméstica en la narrativa de Rosario Ferré" XII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispánic, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky (September 2001)

Conference paper: "Problematización de la identidad fronteriza: Un estudio de la poesía de mujeres chicanas y latinas de Estados Unidos" Poesía Hispánica de Europa y de Las Américas, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile (January 2000)

Conference paper: "Voces femeninas y discursos nacionales en la narrativa de Cristina García" XI Congreso Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispánica, York University, Toronto, Canada (September 2000)

Conference paper: "Jacobo Timerman's Preso sin nombre, celda sin número and the Reconstructing 'I'" MACLAS Human Rights Conference, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York (April 2000)

Conference paper: "Hacia una reconstrucción pos-traumática de la identidad: La voz testimonial de Nora Strejilevich y Alicia Partnoy" Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages & Literatures, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (March 2000)

Conference paper: “Arquetypal Mothers and Creative Cosmologies: A Study of Chicana Poetry” Global Justice, Women’s Rights, Southern Connecticut State University, Connecticut (October 1999)

Conference paper: "Chicana Feminist Consciousness and Literary (Re)visions of Identity" Communities of Women: Woman Writing and Written in Literary & Cultural Experience, Baylor University, Waco, Texas (September 1999)

Conference paper: “Soñar en cubano de Cristina García: Un paisaje familiar y su na(rra)ción” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, The University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky (April 1999)

Conference paper: "Tiempo femenino y maternidad: La construcción de una subjetividad femenina en la poesía chicana" Encuentro de Poesía Hispánica, Universidad de Sevilla, España (September 1998)

Conference paper: "Latin American Women's Testimonial Writing: What is Feminism's Role in Social Liberation?" Latina Visions for Transforming the Americas, Southern Connecticut State University, Connecticut (October 1997)

Conference paper: "En-gendering Violence: A Study of Sexuality in Three Contemporary Brazilian Plays" Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati, Ohio (May 1996)

Conference paper: "Feminismo y tortura: Desconstrucción literaria del espectáculo del poder" SCOLAS: Southwest Council of Latin American Studies, Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca, México (March 1996)

Conference paper: "Nacer de la cripta: La poesía y la cárcel en 'Que diré de la cárcel...' de Lucía Fabbri" Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky-Lexington (April 1995)

Conference paper: "La identidad heterogénea y fronteras culturales en Tiempo al tiempo de Isaac Goldemberg" Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, University of Kansas-Lawrence (September 1994)

Conference paper: "La narrativa política y la subversión paradójica en Por la patria de Diamela Eltit" Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky-Lexington (April 1994)

Modern Language Association: Field Bibliographer since 1996 for MLA International Bibliography
Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica

Film Presenter for Latin American & Iberian Film Series (Trinity College)
Organizer of Visiting Lectures (Trinity College)
Organized Teaching Workshop for the Orientation of Professors from Spain, Mexico, France and Austria (Hartwick College)
Language Program Coordinator: Intermediate Spanish (Hartwick College)
Organized Modern Languages Poetry Reading Contest for Students of German, French and Spanish (Hartwick College)
Organized Weekly Spanish Coffee Hour (Hartwick College)
Director of Film Series for Latin American & Caribbean Studies (Hartwick College)

Created Spanish Resouces Web Site (Trinity College)
Created Modern Language Department Web Page (Hartwick College)
Revised the Spanish Major/Minor with 10 New Course Requirements (Hartwick College)

Women’s Studies Committee (Trinity College)
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Committee (Hartwick College & Trinity College)
Fulbright Advisor, Awards Committee (Hartwick College)
Representative from Humanities to Committee on Committees (Hartwick College)
Committee for January Term 1999 at Hartwick College: Topic "Revolution" (Hartwick College)

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