Curriculum Vitae - Rebecca Thompson

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REBECCA L. THOMPSON

333 Sunset Dr. Department of Modern LanguagesSelinsgrove, PA 17870 Susquehanna University, Bogar 210

514 University Ave.

Selinsgrove, PA 17870

(817) 773-2728 (570) [email protected] [email protected]

DEGREES AWARDED:

2012 Ph.D. Spanish (Literature) University of Texas, Austin

2008 M.A. Spanish (Literature) University of Texas, Austin2003 B.A. Spanish, Latin American Studies (Cum Laude) Tulane University

DISSERTATION:

“Cusco después de Los zorros: The Legacy of Arguedas in Contemporary Peruvian Andean Literature”

Dissertation Supervisor: Arturo Arias

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

20th Century Latin American Literature

Contemporary Andean Narrative

Literature By or About Quechua Speaking CulturesIndigenous, Marginal and National Identities

Alternative Racial Paradigms

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS:

SCHOLARLY ARTICLES

2013 “Following the Foxes: Identity in Contemporary Andean Narrative After Arguedas,” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Under Review.

2012 “Ch’aska Anka Ninawaman: Violencia, marginalidad e intervención en literatura cusqueña

contemporánea,” Forthcoming in Ángeles y demonios.

2011 “Wakchas literarios: Al filo del rayo de Enrique Rosas Paravicino,” Crónicas urbanas, No.16.

2010 “Heterotopías de subversión y violencia en Para detener el tiempo de Jorge Vargas,” RevistaCinosargo.

2009 “Lituma en los Andes: Optimismo escondido,” Céfiro: The Journal , 9.1/9.2.

2009 “Education and ‘Patria’: The Intersection Between Hegemonic and Marginalized

Languages,” Revista Pterodáctilo.



BOOK REVIEWS

2010 Review of Kunan Pop, Jorge Alejandro Vargas Prado. Cascahuesos Editores, Arequipa, Peru.

(back cover)

TRANSLATIONS

2013 Casusol, Pedro. “Divine Visions: Allen Ginsberg’s Peruvian Trip,” European Beat Studies Network , 2013.

PRESENTATIONS:

2013 “Recycling Narrative, Redefining Identities: Intertextualities in El Alto, Bolivia in Loscuentos del Ch’otoj by Oscar Coaquira Alí,” 70th Annual South Central Modern Languages

Association (SCMLA) Conference, New Orleans, LA.

2013 “Temporal Stagnation and Spatial Transformation in Contemporary Andean Narrative,”

XXXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA),Washington, D.C.

2013 “Violence and Repression: The Secrets of the Home and the City in Contemporary Andean

Narrative,” 44th Annual Northeast Modern Languages Association (NeMLA) Conference,Boston, MA.

2012 “Unhomeliness and Migration: (Re)Weaving the Directionality of Oral Narrative inContemporary Andean Literature,”69th Annual South Central Modern Languages Association

(SCMLA) Conference, San Antonio, TX.

2012 “Reappropriating Language as Identity: Contemporary Andean Literature after Arguedas,”XXX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), San

Francisco, CA.

2011 “Writing on Quechua Walls with Spelling Errors: Identity, Violence and Language in

Contemporary Andean Literature,” 68th Annual South Central Modern Language Association

Conference (SCMLA), Hot Springs, AR.

2011 “Cusco después de Los zorros: El lenguaje de la cosmovisión en la narrativa andina

contemporánea,” Congreso Internacional: Los universos literarios de José María Arguedas,Facultad de Letras y Ciencias Humanas de la UNMSM, Peru.

2011 "Cusco después de Los zorros: Fragmentación de lenguaje e identidad en la literatura pos-Arguediana", Arguedas: La dinámica de los encuentros culturales, Congreso

Internacional en Conmemoración del Centenario del Escritor, Pontificia Universidad Católica

del Peru (PUCP).

2010 “Todos somos cholos: Choledad como construcción de identidad en la literatura peruana

contemporánea,” XXIX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association

(LASA), Toronto.



2010 “Todos somos cholos: La identidad desde los márgenes andinos de la literatura peruana,” IX

Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana (JALLA): América Latina, integración e

interlocución. Instituto de Letras de la Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Brazil.

2010 “Aesthetic Agency through Subaltern Literary Expression: Contemporary Peruvian and

Brazilian Literatures Compared” 36th Annual African Literature Association (ALA)Conference, University of Arizona, Tuscon.

2010 “The Truth of Fiction,” 30th Annual Conference of the Institute of Latin American StudiesStudent Association (ILASSA), University of Texas at Austin.

2009 “Heterotopías de subversión y violencia en Para detener el tiempo de Jorge Vargas,” 18th

Colloquium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Linguistics, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas at Austin.

2009 “El intérprete en las crónicas andinas: la creación de una identidad latinoamericana,” ColonialPeru in Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific Perspectives, A “Year of the Humanities”

Colloquium Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of the Comentarios reales de los incas

1609, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.

2009 “ Lituma en los Andes: Optimismo escondido,” Céfiro's 10th Annual Conference on Latin

American and Iberian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Texas Tech University, Lubbock,

TX.

2009 “Education and ‘Patria’: The Intersection Between Dominant and Dominated Languages,”4th

Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Spanish and Latin American Literatures, Linguistics, andCultures, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.

2009 “Mediating Peruvian Subaltern Identities Through Literature: An Alternative Discourse?” 29th

Annual Conference of the Institute of Latin American Studies Association (ILASSA),University of Texas, at Austin.

2008 “The (Im)possibility of Representation: Creating Indigenous National Identities Through

Peruvian Literature” LAGO-Spanish & Portuguese Department Graduate Student

Conference, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Susquehanna University, Department of Modern Languages.2012 – Present ASSISTANT PROFESSOR. Designed, planned and taught Intermediate

Spanish, Advanced Grammar and Composition, Narratives on Andean Identity:

Contemporary Prose Fiction and Film, Race and Identity: A TransatlanticSurvey.

2013 PROGRAM DIRECTOR. Directed one of Susquehanna’s award-winning

Global Opportunities (GO) Programs: Spanish Language and Culture. Programconsisted of pre-departure meetings with students, organization and travel to

Seville, Spain, and a seven-week reflection course the following semester.



University of Texas at Austin, Department of Spanish and Portuguese2008 – 2011 ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR. Planned and taught all levels of lower-division

Spanish language, grammar and composition.

2006 – 2008 TEACHING ASSISTANT. Assisted professors in various courses including

Second-Year Spanish II, Spanish Civilization, Language Laboratory, plannedand directed discussion sessions.

Spanish Over Coffee, Speak Spanish, Inc.2006 – 2009 INSTRUCTOR. Designed and taught all levels of student-driven intensive

conversation classes, directed sales and human resources for the Austin branch

of the company.

Aledo High School, Aledo, TX 2005 – 2006 INSTRUCTOR. Designed, planned and taught Spanish I and II to high school

students.

Dallas Community College, Construction Education Foundation

2005 – 2006 INSTRUCTOR. Planned and taught various levels of English for constructionworkers.

Upward Bound Program, University of Texas at Arlington.2004 – 2005 INSTRUCTOR. Designed, planned and taught Spanish for Non-Native

Speakers, World Literature, Spanish Grammar and Composition for Native

Speakers to under-privileged high school students in preparation for their first

experiences at the university level.

St. Alban’s Episcopal School, Arlington, TX 2004 – 2005 INSTRUCTOR. Designed, planned and taught Spanish I-IV, High School

Journalism, and Middle-School Keyboarding.

Ven-USA College, Mérida, Venezuela2003 – 2004 INSTRUCTOR. Planned and taught all levels of English as a Second Language,

worked on committees for curriculum improvement, assisted in the inauguration

and maintenance of two separate Ven-USA schools in Trujillo, Venezuela and

El Vigía, Venezuela

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

2013 Center for Teaching and Learning, “Process Writing.” Susquehanna University.

2013 Global Opportunities (GO) Program Lunch Series for Program Directors. SusquehannaUniversity.

2012 Center for Teaching and Learning, “Creating Teaching Portfolios.” Susquehanna University.

2012 Center for Teaching and Learning, “IDEA Forms.” Susquehanna University.



GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS:

2012 Lila M. Casis Dissertation Award, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas.

2011 Summer Research Grant, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas.

2010 Summer Research Grant, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas.

2010 Travel Grant for International Conferences, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Universityof Texas.

2010 Travel Grant from the Warfield Center of African and American Studies, University of Texas.

2009 Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship: Intensive Quechua Course in Cusco, Peru.

PROFESSIONAL AND DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE:

2013-2014 Faculty Advisor for the Susquehanna University chapter of Phi Sigma Iota,International Foreign Language Honor Society.

2013-2014 Faculty Mentor for New Faculty. Susquehanna University.

2013-2014 Co-Director. 19th Annual Latino Symposium. March 31-April 3. Susquehanna

University.

2012-2014 Committee Member. 45th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

Conference, hosted by Susquehanna University. Harrisburg, PA.

2012-2013 Committee Member. 18

th

Annual Latino Symposium. March 14-16. SusquehannaUniversity.

2012 Judge, 38th Annual Poetry Declamation Contest. University of Texas at Austin.


2010 Panel Chair, XX Congreso Anual de la Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura

Femenina Hispánica (AILCFH): Ethics and Cultural Expressions, University of Texas

at Austin.

2010-2011 President, Graduate Student Organization (GSO) of the Department of Spanish and

Portuguese, University of Texas at Austin. 2010 - 2011.


2009-2010 Literature Representative, Graduate Student Organization (GSO) of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas at Austin.

2008-2009 Fundraising Co-Chair, Graduate Student Organization (GSO) of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas at Austin. 2008 – 2009.



COMMUNITY SERVICE:

2013-Present Spanish Conversation Classes at Gelnett Public Library in Selinsgrove, PA. Weeklyclasses open to the community.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

Modern Language Association

Latin American Studies Association

South Central Modern Language Association Northeast Modern Language Association

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY:

English: native fluency

Spanish: native-like fluencyPortuguese: excellent reading, proficient speaking

Quechua: proficient



REFERENCES:

Arturo Arias

University of Texas

Department of Spanish and Portuguese, BEN 4.130Austin, TX 78712

(512) [email protected]

Luis Cárcamo Huechante

University of Texas

Department of Spanish and Portuguese, BEN 3.146Austin, TX 78712

(512) 471-4936

[email protected]

Jossianna Arroyo-Martínez

University of TexasDepartment of Spanish and Portuguese, BEN 3.120

Austin, TX 78712

(512) 232-4536

[email protected]

Melissa Murphy

University of TexasDepartment of Spanish and Portuguese, MEZ 4.142

Austin, TX 78712

(512) 232-4540

[email protected]

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