Analisa Taylor
Associate Professor of Spanish
Department of Romance Languages
1233 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1233
(541) 346-4047
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT:
Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages, University of Oregon
2008-present
Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages
2002-2008
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies; Mexican, Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies;
Class, Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality, and Social Movements; Literary Non-fiction and Documentary Film; Translation and Intercultural Communication; Globalization, Food Systems and Cultural Identity.
ACADEMIC PREPARATION:
Ph.D., Department of Romance Studies, Duke University (2002)
M.A., Department of Romance Studies, Duke University (1996)
B.A., Sociology/Spanish, University of Oregon (1991)
BOOK IN PRINT:
Indigeneity in the Mexican Cultural Imagination: Thresholds of Belonging. University of
Arizona Press, 2009.
BOOKS IN PROGRESS:
Daughters of the Moon: True Life Stories from the Lacandon Rain Forest. (Translation and Scholarly Edition of Entre anhelos y recuerdos by Marie-Odile Marion)
Mesoamerican Diaspora: Stories and Strategies of Resistance to Corporate Food Production
BOOK CHAPTERS:
Under Review, Tucson: University of Arizona Press,“Heart of the Milpa: Mesoamerican Resistance to Agricultural Imperialism” Understanding Mexico Through Art. Stuart Day, Ed., 15 pp.
“El intelectual indigenista ficcionalizado e histórico en una novela de Rosario Castellanos: Oficio de Tinieblas,” Formaciones sociales e identidades culturales en la literatura hispanoamericana. Rosamel S. Benavides, ed., Valdivia, Chile: Barba de Palo, 1997, 215-228.
ARTICLES IN PRINT:
“Maya Lessons in Modernity: Reinventing the Lacandón: Subaltern Representations in the Rain Forest of Chiapas by Brian Gollnick and Maya Nationalisms and Postcolonial Challenges in Guatemala by Emilio del Valle Escalante,” book review essay,Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Vol XLVII, N. 3, October 2013, 561-570.
“Malinche and Matriarchal Utopia: Gendered Visions of Indigeneity in Mexico,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Vol 31 No 3 Special Issue: New Feminist Theories of Visual Culture, Spring 2006, 815-840.
“The Ends of Indigenismo in Mexico,” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Vol 14 No 1 March 2005, 75-86.
“Between Official and Extra-official Indigenismos in Post-revolutionary Mexican Literature (1935-1950),” Latin American Literary Review, Vol 31 No. 62, Jul-Dec, 2003, 96-119.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
“Daughters of the Moon: True Life Stories from the Lacandon Rain Forest.” 2016 CSWS Annual Review, University of Oregon
“The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism by Estelle Tarica,” book review,Latin American Literary Review.Vol. 38, No. 76, 2010.
AWARDS:
Williams Council Instructional Grant, 2016-17, “Mesoamerican Foodways”
CSWS Faculty Research Award, 2015-16, “Between Longing and Memory in the
Lacandon Rain Forest: Mayan Women Speak”
CAS Humanities Faculty Research Award, 2015-16, “Between Longing and Memory in
the Lacandon Rain Forest: Mayan Women Speak
Office of International Affairs Faculty-led Study Abroad Program Development Grant,
summer 2014
Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies Collaborative Research Grant, “Strengthening Networks of Support for Latino Students,” 2014-15
Americas Big Ideas Strategic Initiative Grant, “Designing Graduate Level Spanish
Courses with Heritage Learners in Mind” 2011
Williams Council Instructional Grant, “Designing Upper Division Undergraduate
Spanish Courses with Heritage Learners in Mind” 2011
CSWS Research Interest Group Development Grant, “Race, Gender and Coloniality in
the Americas” Reading Series and Speaker, 2010
CSWS RIG Development Grant, “Shifting Ideologies of Gender in Mesoamerica”
Speaker Series, 2008
CSWS RIG Development Grant, “Race, Gender and Coloniality in the Americas”
Reading and Lecture Series, 2009
CSWS RIG Development Grants, Oaxaca Seminar for Interdisciplinary Research on
Gender, August 2006, July 2007.
University of Oregon Nominee, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer
Research Stipend, 2006.
Summer Research Award, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon, 2005.
Faculty Research Award, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of
Oregon, 2004.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Institute “Mesoamerica and
the Southwest: A New History for an Ancient Land,” 2004.
Junior Faculty Research Award, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon,
2003.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS:
“Truth, Beauty, and Transnational Responsibility in Literary Non-fiction” presented by invitation at the “Transnational(ist) Mexico: Displacement, Migration, and Mobility,” conference hosted by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Maryland, College Park, September 25-26, 2015.
Keynote Address: “Sustenance, Globalization and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Mesoamerica,” by invitation of the University of Puget Sound V Annual Spanish Matters Colloquium, April 22, 2010, Tacoma, WA.
“Between Malinche and Matriarchal Utopia: Nationalist Myths in Post-national Mexico” by invitation of the Latin American and Latino Studies Program, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, March 2, 2005.
“Género, etnicidad y tradiciones de representación social en el Istmo de Tehuantepec: Blossoms of Fire de Maureen Gosling,” by invitation of the Universidad Veracruzana. Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, July 15, 2003.
“Malinche and Matriarchal Utopia: The Myth of Isthmus Zapotec Exceptionality” presented at the University of Oregon Center for the Study of Women in Society, Eugene, OR, January 12, 2005.
OTHER SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS:
"Between Poetic License and Criminal Injustice in an Ethnographic Testimonio," to be presented at the Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Jan 7, 2017.
Pending Acceptance,“Comunidades interculturales en Chiapas: una propuesta para el servicio social en los estudios universitarios al extranjero,” to be presented at the Latin American Studies Association Meeting, Lima, Peru, April 29-May 1, 2017, pending proposal acceptance.
“Rape, Femicide, and the Fault Lines of Jurisprudence in Borderlands Narratives,” Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 27-30, 2015.
“Translated Women of the Lacandón: Autoethnography and Intersubjectivity in “Between Longing and Memory” presented at the XXX International Latin American Studies Association, May 23-26, 2012, San Francisco, CA. (panel organizer and chair)
“Documenting Forced Migration, Family Fragmentation and Eco-Ethnocide in Letters from the Other Side by Heather McCourtney and Entre anhelos y recuerdos by Marie Odile Marion” presented at CINE-LIT VII, Portland, OR, Feb 34-26, 2011.
“Reclaiming the Milpa: Indigeneity and Agri-Cultural Production in Chiapas and Oaxaca” presented at the XXIX International Latin American Studies Association, October 6-9, 2010, Toronto, Canada.
“You Are What You Eat: Food Sovereignty and Cultural Agency in Contemporary Mesoamerica,” presented at the XVI Annual UC-Irvine Mexican Studies Conference, April 30, 2010, Irvine, CA.
“Mesoamerica Rising: Imagining the Milpa in a Borderized Land,” presented at the XXVII International Latin American Studies Association, September 6-8, 2007, Montreal, Canada.
“Lacandon Women Narrating Familial Fragmentation and Cultural Survival in Marie-Odile Marion’s Entre anhelos y recuerdos” XIII Annual UC-Irvine Mexican Conference, April 26-28, 2007, Irvine, CA.
“Picturing Indigeneity and Insurgency in Mexico: From Chiapas to Oaxaca and Beyond,” Cine Lit VI Conference on Hispanic Film and Fiction, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, February 21-24, 2007.
“Malinche y matriarcado en el México post-nacional,” 52nd Congreso de Americanistas, Seville, Spain, July 22-34 2006.
“Malinche and Matriarchal Utopia: Gendered Visions of Indigeneity,” XXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 15-18, 2006.
“Gendered Myths of Revolutionary Nationalism in Mexico,” Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association, Pepperdine University, Nov 11-13, 2005.
“Literary and Ethnological (con)Fusions in Mexican Indigenismo and Testimonio,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA, December 27-30, 2004.
“Applied Anthropology in Mexico: A Literary Retrospective,” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Reed College, Portland, OR, November 5-7, 2004.
“Pluricultural Production and the Ends of Indigenismo,” XXV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Las Vegas, NV Oct. 7-9, 2004.
“Género y tradiciones de representación social en el Istmo de Tehuantepec: reflexiones sobre Ramo de Fuego, un documental de Maureen Gosling,” X Jornadas Metropolitanas de Estudios Culturales, Mexico City, July 1-3, 2003.
“Fiesta of the Word: Indigenous Literary Production and Struggles for Autonomy in Post-indigenista Mexico,” XXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Dallas, TX, March 27-29, 2003.
“Searching for Gendered Utopias in Juchitán,” Cine-Lit V Conference. Portland, OR, February 26-28, 2003.
“Neozapatismo: Beyond the Fascination with mestizaje in Mexican Art and Politics,” Critical Articulations: Economies of Knowledge in and about the Americas, symposium of the Working Group on Discourses of Knowledge and Ideological Articulations in the Americas, Duke University, April 13, 2002.
“Mestizaje as Pharmacos in Post-revolutionary Mexican Literature,” The Consortium in Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University, Working Group on Conflicts at the Limits of Mexican Centralism, Oct. 24, 2001.
“Postindigenismo: Contemporary Mexican Literary Production and the Question of Ethnic Representation,” Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, March 23, 2001.
“Representaciones del otro México: indigenismo y testimonio en el México de hoy,” The Consortium in Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University, Working Group on Conflicts at the Limits of Mexican Centralism, Oct. 21, 1998.
“Indigenismo literario e indigenismo estatal en Oficio de tinieblas de Rosario Castellanos,” XVIII Annual Institute of Latin American Studies Student Association Conference on Latin America, University of Texas at Austin, Feb 27, 1998.
“Rituales anodinos, sueños trasendentales: dictadura y liberación femenina en la obra literaria de Pía Barros,” Publication Debut for bilingual edition of A horcajadas/Astride by Pía Barros, Translated and Edited by Analisa Taylor, Chilean-North American Cultural Institute, Santiago, Chile, Dec. 15, 1992.
BOOK TRANSLATION IN PRINT:
Pía Barros. A horcajadas / Astride (bilingual edition). Taylor, Analisa, ed. and trans. (Santiago, Chile: Asterión, 1992). Includes translations by Amanda Powell, Steven F. White, Alice A. Nelson and Kathryn Kruger-Hickman.
DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE:
Director of Graduate Studies 2011-14
Graduate Committee 2007-14
Faculty Search Committees 2004-05; 2009-10
Faculty Search Committee Chair 2011-12
Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Liaison 2010-11
Undergraduate Committee 2002-03
Affirmative Action Committee 2003-08, 2012-present
Library Committee 2004-08
UNIVERSITY SERVICE:
Dean’s Advisory Committee, 2016-2018
“Maya Communities and Social Justice in Chiapas,” a GEO Faculty Led Study Abroad
Program, Summer 2016
Distinguished Service Awards Committee 2013-2015
Distinguished Teaching Awards Committee 2010-12
Cofounder and Faculty Co-coordinator, CSWS Americas Research Interest Group
CSWS Faculty Research Grant Review Committee, 2005-07
DEPARTMENTAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAM AFFILIATIONS:
Comparative Literature, Latin American Studies Program, Women’s and Gender Studies, Center for the Study of Women in Society, Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies (Advisory Board 2007-11), Folklore Program
PARTICIPATION IN ACADEMIC ORGANIZATIONS:
Modern Language Association
Latin American Studies Association
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association
Presiding Officer, Latin American Studies Section, 2005-2006
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Article Peer Review, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2016
Dissertation Review, University of British Colombia, 2014
Tenure Review, Old Dominion University, 2011
Book Manuscript Peer Reviews, University of Arizona Press, 2009, 2010, 2011
Latin American Studies Association Panel Organizer and Chair, 2012
OTHER INITIATIVES:
Host of "Service Learning and Intercultural Engagement in Study Abroad Programs: The
Chiapas Experiment"by Helga Loebell , October 14, 2015
Faculty Advisor and Co-coordinator: “Americas” Research Interest Group, Center for the
Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 2006-07; 2009-10
Symposium co-organizer, “Oaxaca Week,” University of Oregon, April 17-19, 2007.
Symposium Co-organizer, “History, Contested Memory and the Politics of
Reconciliation: Understanding Truth Commissions in Latin America,” Latin
American Studies Program, University of Oregon, May 2007.
Symposium Co-organizer, “Smoldering Ashes: Revisiting the Legacy of the Cold War in
Central America,” Latin American Studies Program, University of Oregon, May 5-7, 2005.
Coordinator of winter 2004 Film Series “The Urban and Its Other in Mexico, ” featuring
Blossoms of Fire and public appearance by filmmaker Maureen Gosling, March 5, 2004.
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION ADVISING:
Luz Romero, Romance Languages, (chair), completed fall 2015
Erin Moberg, Romance Languages, (chair), completed fall 2015
Roberto Arroyo, Romance Languages (chair), completed fall 2014
Blanca Aranda, Romance Languages (co-chair), completed spring 2011
Assistant Professor, Western Washington University, fall 2012-present
Eva Serfozo, Romance Languages, projected completion spring 2017
Aara Zweiffel, Romance Languages, completed fall 2015
Patrick Moneyang, Romance Languages, completed spring 2013
Paulo Henríquez, Romance Languages, completed spring 2013
Sonja Burrows, Romance Languages, completed spring 2009
Shyla Osborn, Comparative Literature, completed Spring 2005
MASTER OF ARTS ADVISING:
Jessica Orellana (essay advisor and chair), spring 2015
Alicia Luque-Ferrera (essay advisor), spring 2015
Chris Cavagnaro (chair), spring 2014
Rosalba Montes (chair and essay advisor), spring 2014
Andrew Stewart (chair) spring 2014
Elena Overold (chair) spring 2014
Aara Zweiffel (chair), spring 2011
Amal Eqeiq, Comparative Literature (chair) spring 2006
Lillian Darwin López (chair) spring 2006
Monica Olvera (chair) spring 2006
Blanca Aranda (essay advisor) spring 2005
Roberto Arroyo (chair), spring 2005
Sonja Burrows (chair and essay advisor), spring 2004
Michelle Brown (chair), spring 2003
Cameron Lougee (essay director) spring 2003
Max Gimbel (chair), spring 2004
Ximena Torres (chair), spring 2004
María Teresa Carmona, spring 2015
Sheela Hadjivassilliou, spring 2015
Renée Marshall, spring 2013
Margherita Ghetti, spring 2013
Melanie Hyers, spring 2012
Miguel Silva, spring 2012
Roxana Candia, spring 2011
Adrianna Delgadillo, spring 2011
Adriana da Silva, spring 2010
Kaitlin Guidarelli, spring 2010
Silvia Herman, spring 2010
Jennifer Servi, spring 2004
Elizabeth Braun, spring 2003
Ana Warren, spring 2003
UNDERGRADUATE THESIS ADVISING:
As primary advisor: Clark Honors College unless otherwise noted
Emma Dorland, spring 2015
Jennifer Servi, fall, 2003
Lindsay Henning, spring 2004
Lark Sullivan, spring 2004
Magalí Rabasa, spring 2004 (International Studies)
Thomas Maffai, spring 2006
Elizabeth Sampson, spring 2007
Elizabeth Chapman, spring 2008
Leah Bright, spring 2010
Alexis Stickel, spring 2010
Jacqueline Hamm, spring 2010
Katie Hulse, spring 2010
Anna Wooley, spring 2011
Meredith Lafrance, spring 2011 (Spanish Honors)
As Second Reader:
Rachel Hershey, spring 2016
Collette Crouse, spring 2010
COURSES TAUGHT:
Faculty Led Study Abroad Program, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico
SPAN 388: Histories and Cultures of Indigenous Communities in Chiapas, summer 2016
SPAN 407: Intercultural Communities, summer 2016
SPAN 490: The Soul of Food in Mesoamerica, summer 2016
University of Oregon, Department of Romance Languages
SPAN 448/548: National Identities and Border Cultures, fall 2016
SPAN 490: Mesoamerican Migrations, spring 2015
SPAN 344: Hispanic Cultures through Literature, winter 2015, fall 2016
SPAN 348: Chicana/o and Trans-border Mesoamerican Studies, fall 2014
SPAN 407/507: Testimonio and Coloniality of Power, fall 2014
SPAN 448/548: National Identities and Border Cultures, fall 2012, fall 2013, winter 2014
RL 607: PhD Academic Writing and Professional Development, winter 2014
SPAN 490: Mesoamerica in Diaspora: Strategies for Cultural Survival, fall 2011
SPAN 690: Testimonio in Latin America, fall 2011
SPAN 363: Food Sovereignty and Cultural Identity in Mexico, spring 2011
SPAN 328: Chicana/o and US Latina/o Literary and Cultural Studies spring 2011
SPAN 407: Testimonio in Latin America, winter 2011
SPAN 490/590: Mesoamerican Migrations, fall 2010
SPAN 690: Latin American Cultural Studies, fall 2009
SPAN 407: Gender, Ethnicity and Agri/culture in Mexico, fall 2009
SPAN 328: Aztlán, Nepantla, NAFTA: Latina/o Literature in the United States, fall 2002, winter 2004, spring 2005, summer 2005, winter 2007, summer 2009, summer 2010, spring 2011, winter 2012
SPAN 333: Narratives of the Mexican Revolution, fall 2002.
SPAN 319: Introduction to Modern Latin American Literature, winter 2003, fall 2003;
winter 2005, fall 2005, winter 2006, spring 2007; spring 2008, spring 2009,
fall 2010, winter 2010, summer 2011, winter 2012
SPAN 363: The Urban and its Other in Mexican Literature and Film, winter 2003,
winter 2004
SPAN 407/507: Mexican Narratives of Transculturation, spring 2003.
SPAN 407/507: Testimonio in Latin America, fall 2003, spring 2009, winter 2011.
SPAN 407: Food Sovereignty and Cultural Autonomy in Mesoamerica, spring 2008.
SPAN 463/563: Fieldwork: Indians and Ethnographers in Mexican Literature,
spring 2004.
SPAN 410/510: Mexican Narratives of City and Countryside, spring 2006
SPAN 463: Revolution and Development in Mexico, winter 2007
SPAN 690: Testimonio, Feminism and Subaltern Consciousness in Latin America,
spring 2007
College Scholars Program:
Spanish 150:Place, Identity and the People of Corn, fall 2005, winter 2006
Comparative Literature Program:
COLT426/526: Intercultural Intersections: Locating Mesoamerica, winter 2006
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