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CURRICULUM VITAE
CYNTHIA TOMPKINS
School of International Letters and Cultures home phone (602) 263-5375
Arizona State University office phone (480) 965 6446
Box 87-0202 office fax (480) 965 0135
Tempe, AZ 85287-0202 e-mail:
EDUCATION
1989 Ph.D Comparative Literature, Penn State University
Dissertation: “The Spiral Structured Quest in Selected Interamerican Female Fictions: Gabrielle Roy’s La Route d’Altamont, Marta Lynch’s La señora Ordóñez, Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying, Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing, and Clarice Lispector’s Agua viva.”
Dissertation Committee: Dr. Earl E. Fitz, Dr. Thomas O. Beebee, Dr. Christiane P. Mawkard, Dr. Daniel Walden, Dr. Carl E. Hausman.
Minor in Literary Theory, Criticism, and Aesthetics.
1985 M.A. Comparative Literature, Penn State University.
1981 Licenciada en Letras Modernas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
[6 year program, M.A. equivalent], Minor: British Literary Criticism].
Profesora de Lengua y Literatura Inglesa, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
[5 year program, Certified Teacher of English Literature].
1978 Profesora de Lengua Inglesa Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
[4 year program, Certified Teacher of English].
1978 Traductora de Inglés. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
[4 year program, Certified Translator of English].
EMPLOYMENT
Spring 1983 - Spring 1988 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and Comparative Literature Program, Penn State University.
Fall 1988 - Spring 1989 Instructor of Spanish, Spanish and Portuguese,
Dickinson College.
Fall 1989 - Spring 1992 Assistant Professor of Spanish, Department of Modern Languages,
University of Wisconsin-Parkside.
Fall 1992 - Spring 1998 Assistant Professor, Women's Studies Program,
Arizona State University West.
Fall 1998 - Spring 1999 Associate Professor, Women's Studies Program,
Arizona State University West.
Fall 1999 - Present Associate Professor of Spanish, Department of Languages and Literatures,
Arizona State University Tempe.
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Postmodern Latin American Women Writers, Latin American Film and Cultural Production, Latin American Critical Discourse: Postmodernism, Postcolonialism, Subalternity, Latinamericanism, Globalization and Transnationalism.
COURSES TAUGHT
Arizona State University
SPA 191: Freshman Seminar—Adventures in Spanish and Portuguese
SPA 325: Introduction to Spanish Literature
FLA 401/598: Translation Theory and Practice
FLA 481/598: Technical and Scientific Translation
SPA 413: Advanced Spanish Grammar
SPA 427: Spanish American Literature I (Conquest to 1888)
SPA 428: Survey of Spanish American Literature (1888 to present)
SPA 472: Spanish American Civilization
SPA 500: Bibliography and Research Methods
SPA 576: Contemporary Latin American Short Story
SPA 581: Latin American Popular Culture
SPA 582: Studies in Latin American Film
SPA 598: Contemporary Critical Discourse on Latin America and Spain
SPA 601: Latin American Feminism: literary and cultural production, theory
SPA 691: Contemporary Critical Discourse on Latin America
Arizona State University West
WST 431: Women and Film
WST 462: Twentieth Century Women Writers
WST 467: Ethnic Women Writers
WST 494: Mexican and Mexican American Women Writers
WST 494: Latin American Women Writers
GRADUATE STUDENT MENTORING
Gerardo García, Ph.D, Chair, Spring 2005.
Elia Hatfield, Ph.D., Co-Chair, Spring 2008.
Gloria Encinas, Ph.D., Chair, Spring 2009.
Chair
Melissa Carpenter, M. A. in Comparative Literature, 2001.
Soledad Etchemendy, M. A. in Spanish, 2001
Martha Martínez, M. A. in Spanish, 2002.
Lady Cohen, M. A. in Spanish, 2007.
Rebecca Baker, M. A. in Spanish, 2010.
Member, anticipated completion
Barbara Riess, Ph.D. Member, 1999.
Juana Suárez, Ph.D. Member, 2000.
Cecilia Rosales, Ph.D. Member, 2000.
Mónica Castillo, Ph.D., Member, 2001.
Alvaro Vergara Mery, Ph.D., Member, 2001.
Cecilia Mafla-Bustamante, Ph.D. Member, 2002.
María Inés Cottingham, Ph.D., Member, 2003.
Mikel Imaz, Ph.D., Member, 2003.
Mary Lou Babineau, Ph.D. Member, 2006.
Eduardo Caro, Ph.D. Member, 2006.
Eduardo Muslip, Ph.D., Member, 2007.
María Martel, Ph.D., Member, 2007.
Karen Díaz Reátegui, Ph.D., Member, 2008.
Jorge González, Ph.D. 2010 (Theater).
Bill Brashears, Ph.D., 2010
Ramona Ortiz, Ph.D., 2010.
Rosario San Miguel, Ph.D., 2010.
Member of Ph.D.Comprehensive Examination
Rigoberto Guevara, Ph.D. Member, 2001.
Luis Soto, Ph.D. Member, 2002.
Daniel Smith, Ph.D. Member, 2002.
Beatriz Trigo, Ph.D. Member, 2002.
Trino Sandoval, Ph.D. Member, 2003.
Milagros Peláez-Casellas, Ph.D. Member, 2003.
Rita Plancarte, Ph.D. Member, 2004.
Graciela Silva Rodríguez , Ph.D. Chair, 2005.
Angela González Echeverry, Ph.D. Member, 2005.
Gabriel Osuna Osuna, Ph.D. Member, 2006.
Isabel Sans, Ph.D. Member, 2007.
Sandra Correa, Ph.D Member, 2008.
Assen Kokalov, Ph.D. Member, 2008.
Gonzalo Martín de Marcos, Ph.D. Member, 2008.
Roberto Campa-Mada, Ph.D. Member, 2009.
Lorenz Chan (abd)
Member of M.A. Committee
Jana Carter, M.A. in Comparative Literature, 2001.
Jean Lauer, M.A. in Humanities, 2001.
Tulia Saavedra, M.A. in Spanish, 2001.
Carmen Sanjuán Pastor, M.A. in Spanish, 2002.
Alicia Coffey, M.A. in Spanish, 2003.
Paty Cruz, M.A. in Spanish, 2003.
Robert Decker, M.A. in Spanish, 2003.
Charles St. George, M.A. in Spanish, 2004.
Jami Rangel M.A. in Spanish, 2005.
Carmen Scales M.A. in Spanish, 2005.
Gabriella Sanchez, M.A. in Spanish, 2005.
Angela Lopez, M.A. in Spanish, 2006.
Regina E. Robbins, M.A. in Spanish, 2006.
Cristina de Isasi, M.A. in Spanish, 2007.
Amber Workman, M.A. in Spanish, 2007.
Adam Crofts, M.A. in Spanish, 2007.
Christopher Kark, M.A. in Spanish, 2008.
Aaron Arizmendi, M.A. in Spanish, 2009.
Member of M.A. Comprehensive examination
Fernando Pezzino, Gladys Delgado Meyers, José Burgos.
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT MENTORING
Nina Huerta, Member Honors Thesis, graduation May 2000.
Kaimipono Wenger, Member Honors Thesis, graduation May 2000.
Sydney Moss, Member Honors Thesis, graduation May 2003.
Gina Gromley, Member Honors Thesis, graduation May 2004.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Latin American Postmodernisms: Women Writers and Experimentation. University Press of Florida: Gainesville, Florida, 2006. 226 pages. Sole author.
Refereed Articles
Published:
“Fabián Bielinsky’s El aura [The Aura]: Neo-noir Inscription and Subversion of the Action Image.” Confluencia. 24.1 (Fall 2008): 17-27.
“Imagining New Identities and Communities for Feminisms in the Americas. 1-33.
http://spanport.cla.umn.edu/publications/HispanicIssues/Debates_2008.html
Translation to Spanish requested on June 3, 2009 by Dra. Cecilia Luque, Directora, Programa Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Mujer y Género, for Proyecto de investigación "El sesgo de género en las disciplinas sociales. Presupuestos ideológicos" radicado en el Programa Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Mujer y Género del Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Delivered July 1st, 2009.
“A Deleuzian approach to Carlos Reygadas’ Japón and Battle of Heaven.” Hispanic Journal. 29-1 (Spring 2008): 155-69.
“Imágenes trizadas y significados flotantes: Lo anterior de Cristina Rivera Garza.” Hispanófila. 152 (January 2008): 145-56.
“La somatización del neoliberalismo en Mano de obra de Diamela Eltit.” Hispamérica. 33. 98 (2004): 115-23.
“Maitena Burundarena: Feminismo Made in Argentina.” Studies in Latin American Popular Culture. 22. (2003): 35-60.
“Aporía en La Selva de Alicia Steimberg” Hispamérica 31. 91 (2002): 107-10.
“Experimentación y concientización en Buenos Aires Viceversa de Alejandro Agresti.” Ensaios. 4 (Dec. 2001): 27-33.
“Representations of Gender, Race, Subalternity in Marianne Eyde’s La vida es una sola.” Studies Latin American Popular Culture. 20 (2001): 135-148.
“Humor y melodrama en el repertorio cuartetero de Carlitos ‘La Mona’ Jiménez.” Confluencia. 16.2 (Spring 2001):16-23.
“Aporía: la Vaca sagrada de Diamela Eltit.” Explicación de Textos Literarios 27:1 (Fall 1999): 50-61.
“Pasos bajo el agua y 'Bosquejo de alturas' de Alicia Kozameh: tortura, resistencia y secuelas.” Chasqui: Revista de literatura latinoamericana. 27.1 (mayo 1998): 56-69.
“Aporías resultantes de la deconstrucción del sujeto en Como en la guerra de Luisa Valenzuela, Son vacas, somos puercos, de Carmen Boullosa y Las andariegas de Albalucía Angel.” [Special issue on Postmodernism]. Torre de papel. 7.3. (Fall 1997): 148-165.
“Intertextualidad en Amatista (1989) y Cuando digo Magdalena (1992) de Alicia Steimberg” [Intertextuality in Alicia Steimberg's Amatista and Cuando digo Magdalena] Hispamérica 26. 76-77 (1997): 197-201.
“Los Devorados de Alina Diaconú: Vía mística? Atracción Tanática? Alegoría Social?” [Mysticism? Death Drive? Social Allegory?” Alina Diaconú's Los Devorados]. Confluencia. 9.2 (Spring 1994): 88-97
“El poder del horror: Abyección en la narrativa de Griselda Gambaro y de Elvira Orphée” [Powers of Horror: Abjection in the Fiction of Griselda Gambaro and Elvira Orphée]. Revista Hispánica Moderna 46.1 (June 1993): 179-192.
“La construcción del subalterno en textos de Homérica latina, de Marta Traba y Los Heréticos, Libro que no muerde, y Donde viven las águilas, de Luisa Valenzuela” [Construction of the Subaltern in texts by Marta Traba and Luisa Valenzuela] Confluencia 8.1 (Fall 1992): 31-37.
“La palabra, el deseo, y el cuerpo o la expansión del imaginario femenino: Canon de alcoba de Tununa Mercado” [Language, Desire, and the Body or the Expansion of the Feminine/Female Imaginary: Tununa Mercado's Canon de alcoba]. Confluencia. 7.2 (Spring 1992): 137-140.
“La posmodernidad de Como en la Guerra de Luisa Valenzuela” [Luisa Valenzuela's Como en la Guerra: A Postmodernist Text] Nuevo Texto Crítico. 4.7 (1991): 169-174.
Co-Edited Books
Tompkins, Cynthia M. and Kristen Sternberg, eds. Teen Life in Latin America and the Caribbean. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2004, pp. 325.
Tompkins, Cynthia M. and David W. Foster, eds. Notable Twentieth-Century Latin American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2000, pp. 324.
Gimbernat González, Ester y Cynthia Tompkins, eds. Utopías, ojos azules, bocas suicidas: La narrativa de Alina Diaconú. [Utopias, Blue Eyes, and Suicidal Mouths: Alina Diaconú's Fiction]. Buenos Aires: Editorial Fraterna, 1993, pp. 138.
Chapters In Books
Translation of excerpts of Alina Diaconú's “Autobiografía” in Gimbernat González, Ester y Cynthia Tompkins, Eds. Utopías, ojos azules, bocas suicidas: La narrativa de Alina Diaconú. [Utopias, Blue Eyes, and Suicidal Mouths: Alina Diaconú's Fiction]. Buenos Aires: Editorial Fraterna, 1983. 9-20, for Constantin Roman's Blouse Roumaine [Romanian women] e-book http://www.blouseroumaine.com/orderthebook_p1.html 2009.
“Ironía, parodia y perfomatividad en Mina cruel, Sueños del seductor abandonado y Cine continuado de Alicia Borinsky” Borinsky: Tatuajes, tango y la escritura hologramática de Buenos Aires. Miriam Balboa Echeverría, ed. Buenos Aires: Editorial Nueva Generación, 2008. 29-44.
“Pasos bajo el agua y 'Bosquejo de alturas' de Alicia Kozameh: tortura, resistencia y secuelas.” [reprint--Chasqui: Revista de literatura latinoamericana. 27.1 (mayo 1998): 56-69] in Escribir una generación: la escritura de Alicia Kozameh. Edith Dimo, ed. Córdoba, Argentina: Alción editora, 2005. 13-29.
“Introduction” with Kristen Sternberg, in Teen Life in Latin America and the Caribbean. Cynthia M. and Kristen Sternberg, eds. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2004. 1-12.
“Intertextualidad y différance en El miedo de perder a Eurídice, de Julieta Campos, y Cuando digo Magdalena, de Alicia Steimberg” en Luzelena Gutiérrez de Velasco (coord.). Género y Cultura en América Latina. Arte, historia y estudios de género. El Colegio de México, Centro de Estudios Sociológicos, Programa Interdisciplinario de Estudios de la Mujer: Unesco, 2003. 189-202.
“La posmodernidad de Como en la guerra de Luisa Valenzuela.” [reprint--”Luisa Valenzuela's Como en la guerra: A Postmodernist Text.”] Twentieth-Century Spanish American Literature since 1960. David W. Foster and Daniel Altamiranda, eds. New York: Garland Press, 1997. 305-10.
“Historiographic Metafiction or the Rewriting of History in Carmen Boullosa's Son vacas, somos puercos.” The Other Mirror: Women's Narrative in Mexico 1980-1995. Kristine Ibsen, ed. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing, 1997. 85-98.
“Intertextuality as Différance in Julieta Campos; El miedo de perder a Eurídice: A Symptomatic Case of Latin American Post-Modernism.” The Postmodern in Latin and Latino American Cultural Narratives. Claudia Ferman, ed. Garland Press: New York, 1996. 153-180.
“La re-escritura de la historia en Doña Inés contra el olvido de Ana Teresa Torres.” [The Re-Writing of History in Ana Teresa Torres' Doña Inés contra el olvido] Escritura y desafío: narradoras venezolanas del siglo xx. Edith Dimo and Amarilis Hidalgo de Jesús, eds. Caracas: Monteávila, 1996. 103-123.
“Erica Jong.” Bruccoli Clark Layman's Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Novelists Since World War II. James R. Giles and Wanda H. Giles, eds. Detroit: Gale Research Inc. 1995, 99-106.
“Sandra Cisneros.” Bruccoli Clark Layman's Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Novelists Since World War II. James R. Giles and Wanda H. Giles, eds. Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1995. 35-41.
La posmodernidad de Cama de ángeles de Alina Diaconú.” [Postmodernism in Alina Diaconú's Cama de ángeles]. Utopías, ojos azules, bocas suicidas: La narrativa de Alina Diaconú. Ester Gimbernat González and Cynthia Tompkins, eds. Buenos Aires: Editorial Fraterna, 1993. 107-120.
“Introducción.” [Introduction] Utopías, ojos azules, bocas suicidas: La narrativa de Alina Diaconú. Ester Gimbernat González and Cynthia Tompkins, eds. Buenos Aires: Editorial Fraterna, 1993. 17-20.
Interviews
“Re/presentaciones: Entrevista con Alicia Borinsky.” Confluencia. 17.1 (2001): 112-16.
Chapters In Proceedings Volumes
“Reclaiming the Erotic: Alma Villanueva's The Ultraviolet Sky and Tununa Mercado's Canon de alcoba.” 14th GLCA (Great Lakes Colleges Association) Women's Studies Conference: “Feminism, Ethnocentrism, and the Production of Knowledge.” Bergamo Conference Center, Dayton, Ohio, November 2-4, 1990. 104-112.
Articles in Newsletters
“Postmodern approaches to negotiating religion in the classroom,” Feministas Unidas Newsletter 26.2 (Fall 2006): 33-51.
OTHER
Co-Translated Book
Tompkins, Cynthia and Elizabeth Rosa Horan, trans. of Martin Hopenhayn’s No Apocalypse, No Integration: Modernism and Postmodernism [Ni apocalípticos ni integrados] Duke University Press, 2001.
Translated Articles
Rossana Reguillo's “Teens at the Border: for a Politics of Representation.” “Introduction” in Tompkins, C. M. and Kristen Sternberg, eds. Teen Life in Latin America and the Caribbean. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2004. 13-19.
“Polarized Modernity: Latin America at the Postmodern Juncture,” translation of Raúl Bueno’s “Sobre la modernidad polarizada: el caso de América Latina en la coyuntura de la posmodernidad.” Latin America Writes Back: Postmodernity in the Periphery. An Interdisciplinary Cultural Perspective. Ed. Emil Volek. Hispanic Issues 28, New York/London: Routledge, 2002. 189-201.
“Latin American Writer in these Postmodern Times,” translation of Abelardo Castillo’s “El escritor latinoamericano en la posmodernidad.” Latin America Writes Back: Postmodernity in the Periphery. An Interdisciplinary Cultural Perspective. Ed. Emil Volek. Hispanic Issues 28, New York/London: Routledge, 2002. 202-213.
“Latin America and Postmodernity” translation of Nelly Richard’s “Latinoamérica y la posmodernidad.” Latin America Writes Back: Postmodernity in the Periphery. An Interdisciplinary Cultural Perspective. Ed. Emil Volek. Hispanic Issues 28, New York/London: Routledge, 2002. 225-233, based on an earlier version by Heidi García and Barbara Reiss.
Accepted
Co-Translated Book
Translation of Katherine Dreier’s Five Months in the Argentine: From a Woman’s Point of View 1918- to 1919. New York: Frederic Fairchild Sherman, 1920: Buenos Aires: Editorial Catálogos /Siglo XXI, forthcoming, 2009.
Articles
“Nostalgia en El cielito (2004) de María Victoria Menis.” Revista de Culturas y Literaturas Comparadas Vol II. Córdoba. Facultad de Lenguas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba: El Copista Editorial, 2008. Forthcoming.
“Paradoxical Inscription and Subversion of the Gendered Construction of Time, Space, and Roles in María Victoria Menis’ El cielito (2004) and Inés de Oliveira Cézar’s Como pasan las horas (2005) and Extranjera (2007)” Chasqui. Forthcoming 2009.
Accepted
“Walter Salles’s Central do Brasil: The Paradoxical Effect of the Conventions of the Documentary.” Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature. 33.1 (Winter 2009) forthcoming.