CURRICULUM VITAE
Work Address: Home Address:
Josefa Salmón 2915 Calhoun St.
Associate Professor New Orleans, LA 70118
Modern Foreign Languages
Loyola University Tel. (504) 866-1586
P.O. Box 229
New Orleans, LA 70118 e-mail: [email protected]
(504) 865-3844
(504) 865-2692 Fax (504) 865-2348
Degrees Earned:
University of Maryland, College Park, Ph.D. (1986), Spanish American Literature and Culture, Spanish Literature
University of Houston, M.A. (1980), Spanish American Literature
University of Houston, B.A. (1976), Spanish major, minor in French
Language Proficiency:
Spanish/English: native speaker
Italian: quasi-native fluency
French and Portuguese: elementary speech, good reading
Elementary knowledge of Aymara from Bolivia
Professional Appointments:
-Chair of the Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures Department, 1996-1999.
-Chair of the Latin American Studies Committee, 1998-1999.
-Member of the Women's Studies Committee, 1998-present.
-Associate Professor at Loyola University, Department of Modern Foreign Languages, New Orleans, Louisiana, Fall 1986 to present.
-Visiting scholar, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Center for Latin American Studies, Berkeley, California, July 1988 to August 1989
-Instructor, Tulane University, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, New Orleans, Louisiana, Fall 1985
RESEARCH ACTIVITY:
A. Publications
Books:
El espejo indígena: El discurso indigenista en Bolivia (1900-1956). La Paz: Plural Editores, UMSA, 1997.
Co-ed with Guillermo Delgado. Identidad, ciudadanía y participación popular desde la colonia al siglo XX. La Paz: Plural Editores, 2003.
Articles:
“La lucha por la diferencia: Mestizaje y etnicidad en Franz Tamayo,” Hispamérica
June, 2002.
“Ricardo Jaimes Freyre, entry for “Modern Spanish American Poetry I” in the Dictionary of Literary Biography edited by María Salgado
"Bolivia," general entry for Routledge Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Cultures, 2000 words, November 2000.
"Pueblo Enfermo," entry for Routledge Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Cultures, 500 words, November 2000.
"Esencialización e historificación de la imagen indígena en Yanakuna de Jesús Lara".Kipus. Revista Andina de letras (1998): 77-83.
"El espejo indígena: algunos aspectos del indigenismo y nacionalismo de la primera mitad del siglo XX". Memorias: Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latino Americana. La Paz: Plural Editores, UMSA (1995): 711-718.
"La Mestiza como modelo nacional y transgresora social en La Chaskañawi de Carlos Medinaceli". Romance Languages Annual, Purdue University (May 1994): 502-505.
"Castigo Divino: la familia o el poder" in Cambios estéticos y nuevos proyectos culturales en Centroamérica, Washington, D.C., Literal Books (1994): 209-216.
"Etnicidad y nacionalismo en el discurso indigenista peruano y boliviano de principios de siglo", was selected for publication by the Symposium "Translating Latin America" in 1991. Published in volume VI of Translation Perspectives.
Translating Latin America: Culture as Text (1991): 179-184.
"Naturaleza e historia en la ideología nacionalista de Franz Tamayo y Alcides Arguedas", La Chispa 89' (1989): 277-283.
"El poder de la anunciación en Cien años de soledad y Crónica de una muerte anunciada", Discurso Literario, Fall (1983): 67-77.
"El paisaje en Berceo, Garcilaso y Balbuena: tres concepciones del universo", Prismal/Cabral, Spring (1982): 57-73.
Interviews, Editions and Reviews:
Review of Alfredo de Palchi’ poetry, Addictive Aversions. Le viziose avversioni. Riverside, California: Xenos Press, 1999, for The New Laurel Review, New Orleans.
"Mexico City Poets and Translations," edited with an "Introduction" by Josefa Salmón,Thê New Orleans Review, Volume 25, numbers 1&2, Spring 99.
"Interview with the South African poet Farouk Asvat", Third World, August, 1990.
"Entrevista con Norma Alarcón", Encuentros, Spring 1989, Num. 1.
Javier S. Sanjinés, ed., Tendencias actuales en la literatura boliviana (review), Hispamérica, 1988.
Luis Ramiro Beltrán Salmón, Panorama de la poesía boliviana. Reseña y antología (review), Hispamérica, December, 1985.
Juan Manuel Marcos, Roa Bastos, precursor del Post-Boom (review), Prismal/Cabral, Winter 1985.
B. Invitations to give lectures and serve as discussant:
-“Indigenismo in Bolivia: Ideological Roots of 20th Century Politics”. Invited to give a talk by the Center for Development of Latin America, Michiel Baud (Director), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 14, 2002.
-Chair of panel “Sexual Outlaws: Bohemian Demi-monde, Man-Boy Love, The Famous 41” at the “Centenary of the Famous 41: Sexuality and Social Control in Latin America, c.1901,” Tulane University, November 15-17 2001.
- Invited as discussant of Nicolas Shumway’s paper “La formación nacional como proyecto racional y nostalgia metafísica” at the “Coloquio: Sujetos y discursos nacionales en Hispanoamérica, Siglo XIX,” The Ohio State University, April 19-20, 1996.
C. Professional Associations
Co-founder and President of the Bolivian Studies Association (2001-2002) and website which includes an electronic journal at [bolivianstudies.org].
Member of LASA (Latin American Studies Association, MLA, Asociación de Ecuatorianistas de Norteamérica.