EVENT: Bodies of Marvel, Monsters and Women at H & F Fine Arts

Mount Rainier, Maryland—Bodies of Marvel, Monsters and Women, opens on September 4 – September 28, 2008 at the H&F Fine Arts Gallery located at 3311 Rhode Island Avenue, Mount Rainier, MD.  An opening reception will take place on Saturday, September 6, from 5-8pm.

Curated by Marvette Pérez and Tonya Jordan, eight women artists explore ideas of the grotesque and other worldly, the monstrous, the unimaginable, the uncanny, and the strange through painting, woodcut, installation, mixed media, video, photography, and illustration. Robbi Behr, Deidra Defranceaux, Andrea Meyers, Michelle Morby, Marta Pérez García, Kharlla Piñeiro, Raquel Quijano Feliciano and Lisa-Renee Thompson present work focused on the dark side of the human psyche and the humorous side of the grotesque.

Bodies of Marvel features internationally renowned artists from the East and West Coasts and Puerto Rico, who have exhibited in Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States. From kinetic sculptures, Caribbean Baroque woodcuts of hybrid beings, a video game inhabited by women and their tormentors and victims, to images of mental hospitals; these artists force us to come to terms with disturbing and fantastical themes. From monsters and wondrous creatures, women with superpowers, culture bending Ganguros, and Possible Mothers—this exhibit showcases the magnificent talent of this group of female artists.

For this month long exhibit, the H&F Fine Arts Gallery will become a mythic territory where destroyers, tormentors, protectors, creators, hybrid creatures, and tortured souls challenge perceptions of personal truths and the dualities of creation and destruction.

For information contact Marvette Pérez at 240.535-0278/marvetteperez@verizon.net or Tonya Jordan at 202.297-1053/tjordan226@hotmail.com.

Lecturers needed for Fall semester

UNIT: School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
STARTING SALARY: Commensurate with qualifications and experience
CLOSING DATE: Open until filled.

DUTIES: The School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (SLLC) of the University of Maryland, College Park, seeks to hire part-time non-tenure track faculty to provide language instruction in Spanish language at various levels. Especially desirable is the ability to teach Spanish Heritage language learners, Spanish applied linguistics, Latin American studies core courses for non-specialists, translation or business language.

QUALIFICATIONS: Qualified candidates will have at least an M.A. in the discipline area, with a PhD. preferred, and teaching experience.

TO APPLY:  For best consideration, please send a curriculum vitae and contact information for at least three references to: Heather Ettus, Coordinator for Academic Affairs, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, 1105 Jimenez Hall, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. 20742 by July 15, 2008.

The University of Maryland, College Park is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.

Student news

Congratulations to Rachel Linville for the defense of her dissertation : Imaginarios de la resistencia antifascista española:
memoria, literatura, cine
and for her acceptance of a position as Assistant Professor of Spanish at SUNY Brockport.

In addition, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese is proud to announce the accomplishments of two of our undergraduates who have been admitted to prestigious doctoral programs in Spanish and Portuguese.

Matthew Goldmark, a Banneker-Key Scholar and Maryland Distinguished Scholar, graduated with a 4.0 GPA from UMD with a double major in Spanish Language and Literature and Art History. In the Fall 2008, he will attend the University of Pennsylvania with a five year Benjamin Franklin Fellowship (including five years of summer support). He was also admitted to Yale University with a five year University Fellowship and to the University of Texas with a College of Liberal Arts Fellowship. At the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Goldmark plans to focus on transatlantic studies and visual arts and to work with Drs. Yolanda Martínez, Barbara Fuchs, and Reinaldo Laddaga, among others.

Gladys Guzmán, a professional photographer, completed a Bachelors degree at UMD in Spanish Language and Literature with academic honors.  In the Fall 2008, she will attend the University of Virginia, where she will specialize in Latin American Literature and hold teaching assistantships. She was also admitted to the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University.

Congratulations to new ABD graduate students

Congratulations to three of our graduate students who have successfully defended their Dissertation Proposals, advancing to candidacy!

Angela De Lutis-Eichenberger

La textualización del sujeto en conflicto durante el siglo XIX:  Un estudio discursivo de la identidad de Andrés Bello
The Textualization of the Conflicted Subject during the 19th Century: A Discursive Study of the Identity of Andrés Bello
Dir: Jorge Aguilar Mora
Second Reader: Laura Demaria

María Verónica Muñoz
Ecstasy or Fall? Reading the Sublime in Nineteenth-Century Latin American Short Stories. (Instantes, disonancias y disidencias: una aproximación a lo sublime/fantástico en la literatura latinoamericana del siglo XIX).
Dir: Jorge Aguilar Mora
Second Reader: Laura Demaria

Laura Maccioni
On Fleeing: Revolutionary Utopia and Escape in Juan Jose Saer and Reinaldo Arenas. (Darse a la fuga: utopía revolucionaria y escape en Juan José Saer y Reinaldo Arenas).
Dir: Juan Carlos Quintero Herencia
Second Reader: Laura Demaria

Angie, Verónica and Laura´s proposals were brilliant and we expect great and prompt results in the defense of their PhD Dissertations.

Sandra Cypess attends conference in honor of Professor Luis Leal

 

 

To celebrate the 100th birthday of Luis Leal, a distinguished professor of Chicana and Chicano studies, the University of California, Santa Barbara hosted a two-day conference featuring panel discussions, special remembrances, and the premiere screening of a film commissioned specifically for the event. Dr. Cypess was a student of Professor Leal and was the only student chosen to speak. Her talk was part of a panel and was entitled “Reading the Layered Universe of Tlatelolco with Don Luis Leal and José Emilio Pacheco”.

Leal, author of more than 45 books and 400 scholarly articles, remains a prolific researcher and writer. He has received numerous honors, including the Distinguished Scholarly Award, which was presented to him by the National Association for Chicano Studies in1988 in recognition of his lifetime achievement. In 1992, he was awarded the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest honor granted to foreign citizens by the Mexican government, and in 1997 he received the National Humanities Medal, which was presented to him at The White House by then President Bill Clinton.

Alumni update

Amalia Ran
Amalia Ran graduated with her doctorate in Latin American Literature this past June and has a tenure track position at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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