Amy Katz Kaminsky
167 Seymour Avenue SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414
(612) 331-1681
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA
Education
Ph.D. 1975 The Pennsylvania State University (Spanish.)
Dissertation: "Marta Lynch: The Expanding Political Consciousness of an Argentine Woman Writer.” Director, Martin Stabb
M.A. 1969 Rutgers, The State University (Spanish)
B.A. 1967 Queens College, The City University of New York (Spanish)
1965-66 attended the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, University of Granada, Spain
Current Appointments
Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies University of Minnesota, (appointed 1984, tenured 1988, promoted 1995)
Professor of Gobal Studies (appointed 2002)
Member, faculty in Jewish Studies (appointed 2006)
Member, graduate faculty in Spanish and Portuguese (appointed 1993)
Member, graduate faculty in Feminist Studies (appointed 1998)
Previous Academic Appointments
Chair, Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, 1992-1995, 1999-2000 (acting), 2001-2004, 2005-06 (acting), spring 2008 (acting)[1]
Associate Director, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, University of Minnesota (1997-1999)
Coordinator, Women's Studies Program, SUNY-Oswego, 1980
Research Associate, Department of Literature, University of Umeå, 1983
Foreign Lecturer, Department of English, University of Umeå, 1982-84
Assistant Professor of Spanish, State University of New York, College at Oswego, 1976-82
Lecturer, Department of Modern Languages, Bucknell University, 1969-74
Scholarly Development
NEH Summer Institute: Venice, the Jews, and Italian Culture, summer 2006
SCHOLARSHIP
Books
Argentina: Stories for a Nation (University of Minnesota Press, 2008). Sole author
After Exile: Writing the Latin American Diaspora (University of Minnesota Press, 1999, 208 pp.) Sole author
reviewed in Multi Cultural Review (March 2000) by Patrick O’Connell, RMMLA (Rocky Mountain MLA journal's on-line review) 54: 1 (spring 2000) by Kathryn Bishop-Sánchez, South Atlantic Review 65: 2 (Spring 2000) by Linda Crawford.
Reading the Body Politic: Latin American Women Writers and Feminist Criticism (University of Minnesota Press, 1992, 192 pp.). Sole author.
reviewed in Choice, Sept. 1993 by K.F. Nigro; Letras Femeninas, XX:1-2 (Spring-Autumn, 1994) by R. Geisdorfer Feal; South Central Review 11:3 (1994) by Cecelia Lawless; Signs, 20:3 (Spring, 1995) by Sara Castro Klarén; Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas (1994) by Jonathan Silverman; Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, 18: 2 (Summer 1994) by Naomi Lindstrom; Notas, 2: 2 (1995), by Montserrat Ordóñez, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies: 72 (1995), by Anny Brooksbank Jones, Latin American Literary Review 25:49 (1997), by Javier Durán.
Water Lilies/Flores del agua: Anthology of Spanish Women Writers from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century (University of Minnesota Press, 1995, 592 pp.). Bilingual anthology, edited, annotated, and with an introduction
reviewed in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos by Joyce Tolliver, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies by Julia Biganne
Is Academic Feminism Dead?: Theory in Practice, co-edited volume, (NY: New York University Press, 2000)
Book Chapters
17. “Nation, Gender, and Exile: Narratives of Displacement and Meaning.” The Painful Chrysalis: Contemporary Constructions of the Self, Juan Ignacio Oliva, ed. La Laguna, Tenerife: University of La Laguna Press (forthcoming)
16. “Luisa Valenzuela toma la vía lunar,” Texto, Contexto y Postexto: Aproximaciones a la obra de Luisa Valenzuela” Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (forthcoming)
15. “Argentina White” At Home and Abroad: Whiteness in Performance, Politics, and Popular Culture, La Vinia Jennings, ed. Tennessee Studies in Literature vol 40. University of Tennessee Press (in press).
14. “The Jew in the City: Buenos Aires in Jewish Fiction,“ CITY/ART: The Urban Scene in Latin America, ed. Rebecca Biron, Duke University Press, 213-239, (in press).
13. “Another Site of Globalization: ‘Woman’ as Symbol of Nation and Diaspora in Martín (H),” Género y globalización en América Latina. Décimo aniversario de la Red Haina (1996-2006), Serie Haina vol. 6. Eds. Maria Clara Medina, Edmé Dominguez & Rosalba Icaza Garza. Instituto Iberoamericano, University of Gothenburg, 2007 (2008).
12. “Internationalizing Feminist Pedagogies,” Encompassing Gender, eds. Deborah Rosenfeld, Janice Monk, Mary Lay, and Beverly Guy-Sheftall (The Feminist Press, 2002, invited and refereed)
11. “Intertextualidad y desafío en los Cantos de Ifigenia de Michele Najlis (Spanish version of “The Poet After the Revolution: Intertextuality and Defiance in Michele Najlis's Cantos de Ifigenia”), Mujer, Creación y Problemas de Identidad en América Latina. Mérida, Venezuela: Universidad de los Andes consejo de Publicación, 1999 (2000).
10. “Sujetividad y visibilidad femininas en el cine histórico de María Luisa Bemberg: El caso de Camila," La Mujer en la Historia de América Latina (The narrative uses of history in the Films of María Luisa Bemberg: The case of Camila"Women in Latin American History), ed. Roland Forgues (Merida, Venezuela: University of the Andes Press, 1999)
9. "Ethnicity, Race, and Gender in Feminist Studies," Kvinnovetenskapens vadan och varthän. Rapport från en Konferens, (Feminist Studies' Origin and Development, Selected Procedenings from the Conference), eds. Eva Borgström and Anna Nordenstam. Gothenburg: University of Gothenburg, 1996, 69-85.
8. "Residual Authority and Gendered Resistance." Critical Theory, Cultural Politics and Latin American Narrative, eds. Steven M. Bell, Albert H. LeMay, and Leonard Orr. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1993, 103-121. (Invited submission, refereed by editors and Manuscript reviewers for the press).
7. "Essay, Gender and Mestizaje: Victoria Ocampo and Gabriela Mistral," The Politics of the Essay: Feminist Perspectives, eds. Ruth Ellen Joeres and Elizabeth Mittman. Indiana University Press, 1993, 113-130. (Invited submission, refereed by editors and manuscript reviewers for the press).
6. "Lesbian Cartographies: Body, Text and Geography," Cultural and Historical Grounding for Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Feminist Literary Criticism, ed. Hernán Vidal. Minneapolis, 1989, 223-256.
5. "Nearly New Clarions: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Pays Homage to a Swedish Poet," In the Feminine Mode," eds. Carol Maier and Noël Vallis. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1990, 31-53.
4. "Gender and Exile in Cristina Peri Rossi," Selected Proceedings of the Wichita State University Conference on Foreign Literature," eds. Eunice Myers and Ginette Adamson. University Press of America, 1987, 149-159.
3. "Kvinner i eksil. Tre latinamerikanske forfattare," (Gerd Bjørhovde, trans.) Oppbrudd. Skrivendekvinner over hela verden, eds. Anne Cathrine Andersen, Gerd Bjørhovde, and Åse Hiorth Lervik. (Tromsø-Oslo-Bergen-Stavanger: Universitetsforlaget, 1985), 215-235. English title: "Women in Exile: Three Spanish American Writers," Departures: Contemporary Women Writers from around the World.
2. "Women Writing about Prostitutes: Amalia Jamilis and Luisa Valenzuela," in The Prostitute in Modern Literature, eds. Pierre L. Horn and Mary Beth Pringle. (NY: Ungar, 1984), 119-131.
1. "Women and Feminism in the Testimonios of Victoria Ocampo, "Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Hispanic Literatures Conference at Indiana, Pennsylvania, October 1980, ed. Juan Cruz de Mendizábal, 69-85.
Journal Articles
22. “Densely Woven Skeins: When Literature Is a Practice of Human Rights,” Hispanic Issues On Line (16 pp., in press).
21. Kaminsky, Amy. "Hacia un verbo queer". Los estudios lésbico-gays y ‘queer’latinoamericanos. Ed. Luciano Martínez. Número especial de Revista Iberoamericana LXXIV.225 (octubre-diciembre 2008): 879-895.
20. “Latin America, Feminism, and Human Rights: Response to Vidal and Tompkins” Hispanic Issues. HIOL Debates (Fall 2008), 10 pp. http://spanport.cla.umn.edu/publications/HispanicIssues/pdfs/DebatesFeministas-Kaminsky
19. “Autobiographical Criticism,” Intertexts 10:1 (Spring 2006), 87-103.
18. “The Cinema of Witness: Marco Bechis’s Garage Olimpo and the Language of Memory,” Jump/Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media 48 (winter 2006) 19 pp.
http://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/index.html
17. “Genealogies and Diasporas: A Personal Reading of a Family History” Letras Femeninas 27: 2 (2001), 42-53.
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16. “María de Zayas and the Invention of a Women’s Writing Community,” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 35 (2001), 487-509.
15. “The Queering of Latin American Literary Studies,” Latin American Research Review 36: 2 (2001), 209-219 (review article, invited).
14. “Identity at the Border: Narrative Strategies in María Novaro’s El jardín del Edén and John Sayles’s Lone Star,” Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, 25:1 (Winter, 2001), 91-117.
13. “Feminist Criticism and Latin American Literary Scholarship,” Dispositio/n 22.49 (1997[2000]), 135-153. (invited)
12. "Los usos feministas de Barba Azul," Anales Nueva Época No. 1 (1998) número sobre “Género, Poder,” Etnicidad ("The feminist uses of Blue Beard," Anales 7 on the theme of Gender, Power, and Ethnicity," invited, 229-243)
11. "The Poet After the Revolution: Intertextuality and Defiance in Michele Najlis's Cantos de Ifigenia." Latin American Literary Review 23:46 (July-Dec 1995), 48-65.
10. "Entradas a la Historia: La mujer habitada de Gioconda Belli," Hispamérica, 23: 67 (April, 1994), 19-31.
9. "Gender, Race, Raza." Feminist Studies, 20: 1 (Spring 1994), 7-31. (1994 Joan Jensen-Darlis Miller Prize for the outstanding article on the history of women in the North American West.)
8. "Issues for an International Feminist Literary Criticism," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 19: 1 (Autumn 1993), 213-227 (review essay, invited).
7. "The Construction of Immortality: Sappho, Saint Theresa, and Carolina Coronado," Letras Femeninas, 19: 1-2 (Spring-Autumn 1993), 1-13.
6. with A. Bush, R. Pope, and R. El Saffar, "El cuento de nunca acabar. A Critical Dialogue," Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 22: 1 (Jan 1988), 107-134 (invited).
5. "Dress and Redress: Clothing as Narrative Device in the Desengaños amorosos of María de Zayas y Sotomayor," Romanic Review, 79, 2 (March 1988), 377-391.
4. "Julia Yáñez, agonista: Nada menos que todo un hombre como novela del patriarcado," Káñina. Revista de Artes y Letras de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 4, 2 (julio-diciembre 1980), 89-95.
3. "Inhabitants, Visitors and Washerwomen: Prostitutes and Prostitution in the Novels of Mario Vargas Llosa," Inti: Revista de Literatura Hispánica, 8 (otoño 1978), 45-56.
2. "The Real Circle of Iron: Mothers and Children in Four Argentine Novels," Latin American Literary Review, 4, 9 (Fall-Winter 1976), 77-86.
1. "El Calendario de Alfonso Reyes y una nota sobre Cartones de Madrid" Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica, 22, 1 (1973), 104-114.
Reprints
"The Real Circle of Iron: Mothers and Children in Four Argentine Novels," special issue of Letras Femeninas 2006
"Gender, Race, Raza." Women and Gender in the American West, Mary Ann Irwin and James F. Brooks, eds. University of New Mexico Press, 2004, 110-133.
Other articles
"Race and Gender in Literary Studies: Some thoughts on difference, sameness, and making trouble," Feministiskt Perspektiv 2:1998, p. 2 (published as “Tankar om kön och ras” [Thoughts on Sex and Race], invited)
Bio-bibliographical Essays
"Michele Najlis," Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American Caribbean Cultures (London: Routledge, 2000)
“Marta Lynch, Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American Caribbean Cultures (London: Routledge, 2000)
"Ana Caro Mallén de Soto," Spanish Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook, eds. Linda Gould Levine, Ellen Engelson Marson, and Gloria Waldman. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993, 86-97.
"Gioconda Belli," Contemporary World Writers, ed. Tracy Chevalier. London: St. James Press, 1993, 52-53.
Translations
"I love you this and other nights," poem by Cristina Peri Rossi. Latin American Women Writers: A Critical Anthology, eds. Sara Castro Klarén, Beatriz Sarlo, and Sylvia Molloy. Westview Press, 1991.
"The Streak of Green," short story by Elena Poniatowska, Tiger Lily. Magazine by Women of Colour, 5 (1989), pp. 19-22.
with Elaine Dorough Johnson, "To Restore Honor and Fortune: The Autobiography of Leonor López de Córdoba," The Female Autograph, ed. Domna Stanton. (NY: New York Literary Forum, 1984), 77-88; repr. University of Chicago Press, 1987) Includes a scholarly introduction.
Book Reviews
“Diana Niebylski, Humoring Resistance.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 39:1 (January 2005), 221-222.
“Daniel Balderston and Donna Guy, eds. Sex and Sexuality in Latin America,” Revista Iberoamericana 65: 186 (Jan-Mar 1999), 219-222
“Beth Jorgensen, Engaging Dialogues: The Writing of Elena Poniatowska," Letras Femeninas (1997)
"Francisco Javier Cevallos-Candau, et. al., Coded Encounters: Writing, Gender and Ethnicity in Colonial Latin America; Marta Peixoto, Passionate Fictions: Gender Narrative, and Violence in Clarice Lispector; Claudio Esteva-Fabregat, Mestizaje in Ibero-America," Signs 22: 3 (Spring 1997), 749-752.
“Doris Meyer, ed. Reinterperting the Spanish American Essay,” Latin American Literary Review 24:48 (1997), 97-99.
“Marta Peixoto, Passionate Fictions: Gender Narrative, and Violence in Clarice Lispector; "Francisco Javier Cevallos-Candau, et. al., Coded Encounters: Writing, Gender and Ethnicity in Colonial Latin America; Claudio Esteva-Fabregat, Mestizaje in Ibero-America," Signs 22: 3 (Spring 1997), 749-752.
"Mary Elizabeth Perry, Gender and Disorder in Early Modern Seville" Letras Femeninas 18: 1-2 (1992), 140.
"Palabra de Mujer: Revista de Poesía Femenina," Letras Femeninas 18: 1-2 (1992), 168-169.
"Nancy Saporta Sternbach, et. al, eds. Breaking Boundaries: Latina Writing in the United States," Studies in Twentieth Century Literature 15: 1 (Winter 1991), 188-190.
"Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Stealing the Language," Criticism, 31: 4 (Fall,1989), pp. 505-507.
"Octavio Paz, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, o Las trampas de la fe," Hispamérica, 15, 43 (1986), 126-131.
"Marjorie Agosin, Conchalí" Hispamérica, 12, 34-35 (1983), 165-166.
"Julio Matas, La cuestión del género literario," Revista de Estudios Hispánicos,17: 3 (1983), 461-463.
"Lucía Guerra Cunningham, Mujer y sociedad en América Latina and María Luisa Bombal," Hispamérica, 11: 32 (1982), 135-136.
"Inés Malinow, Entrada Libre," Hispamérica, 9: 25-26 (1980), 179-180.
"Marta Traba, Homérica Latina," Hispamérica, 9: 27 (1980), 113-114.
"Doris Meyer, Victoria Ocampo. Against the Wind and the Tide," Hispamérica, 9: 27 (1980), 122-123.
Work in Circulation
“Espacio urbano e imaginario global: Buenos Aires en Carlota Fainberg de Antonio Muñoz Molina” submitted to CiberLetras
Work in Progress
Books:
•Jews, Gender, and Modernity in Argentina
•Desire, Embodiment, and Solidarity: Trust and Feminist Knowledge (with Naomi Scheman)
•Tales from the Venice Ghetto (with Shaul Bassi)
Articles
“¿Dijo gay o goy? Identidades étnicas y prácticas sexuales en Esperando al Mesías de Daniel Burman.” (Did she say ‘gay’ or ‘goy’? Ethnic identities and sexual practices in Daniel Burman’s Waiting for the Messiah)
PRESENTATIONS
Invited Lectures//keynote addresses
2008 "Nation, Gender, and Exile: Narratives of Displacement and Meaning," The Painful Chrysalis: Contemporary Constructions of the Self. University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands. October 6-9.
2007 “Trans/formations” New Directions in Latin American Feminisms University of Minnesota April 21.
2006 “On Bridges, Borders, and Boundaries: Women and National Identity,” keynote lecture. Asociación Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispánica. Ogden, Utah. Oct 5-8.
“Exile, Language, and the Subject of Natioinal Identity.” Carnegie Mellon Humanities Center Lecture in the series “Migration and Identity.” Mar 30.
2005 “Dos para el tango: La representación de la Argentina en el imaginario estranjero,” Centro de Arte Moderno, Madrid, Spain (Mar. 17)
2002 “Foggy Mirrors: Argentina in the International Imaginary. Washington University in St. Louis (Jan 11)
2000 “After Exile: Writing the Latin American Diaspora,” public lecture, Davison College (Mar 29)
“John Sayles’s Lonestar and Maria Novaro’s “El jardín del Edén,” public lecture, Davison College ( Mar 30)
1998 “Women After Exile,” Women’s Studies/ CAFS Colloquium Series
“Desire, Transgression, Trust: How to Be an Honest Outlaw when You’re Trying to Get a Job at the Bank,” with Naomi Scheman