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Nuria Vilanova Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor World Languages and Cultures

Bio
N煤ria Vilanova teaches Latin 猫咪社区app Culture, Literature and Cinema. Her research is devoted to the impact of social change and migration on cultural production. She works on textual and cinematic narratives of violence, inequality and poverty, particularly in the Andean region and the Mexican-猫咪社区app border. After completing her PhD at the University of Liverpool, UK (1993), Vilanova lived and worked in several Latin 猫咪社区app countries for over fifteen years. She has also taught in Europe. She is the author of Border Texts: Writing Fiction from Northern Mexico (San Diego University Press, 2007) and The Impact of Social Change upon Peruvian Literature (1970-1990) (Edwin Mellen, 1998). She is currently working on a third book about the representation of indigenous peoples on Latin 猫咪社区app cinema and co-editing the a forthcoming collection on transnationalism in the humanities, to be published by New Mexico University Press. She joined 猫咪社区app University in 2009.
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Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Research Interests

  • Andean Region: Peruvian literature and social change; fiction writing and the city; indigenous cultures (Bolivia, Peru)
  • Mexico: literature and culture: territoriality and cultural processes; artistic/literary production and the border; migration and culture: memory/anonymity
  • Latin 猫咪社区app Cinema: representation of indigenous peoples; violence; migration
  • Migration and Culture: Mexico-猫咪社区app border; Peruvian rural/urban diasporas
  • Narratives of Poverty and Violence (Cinema, Documentary, Literature- Fiction and poetry- Music and Lyrics): Mexico-猫咪社区app border; Mexico City; Lima

Professional Presentations

Invited Lectures (a selection):

  • 鈥淎ndean Representations in Latin 猫咪社区app Cinema鈥, Ohio State University. May 2011.

  • 鈥淏order Theory and Literature鈥,聽 Universidad Mayor de San Andr茅s, La Paz, Bolivia, July 2009.

  • 鈥淢emoria y anonimato: representaciones discursivas de las muertas de Ju谩rez.鈥 Discursos sobre la pobreza: Literatura, artes visuales, ciencias sociales- Am茅rica Latina y pa铆ses luso-africanos.聽 Centre Stefano Franscini,聽 Monte Verit脿 (Ascona, Suiza), organized by Z眉rich Universit盲t (Prof. Martin Leinhard) June 13鈥18, 2004.

  • 鈥淔rontera de silencio: narrativa y desierto en el norte de M茅xico.鈥 Colonial Frontiers, Postcolonial Border Writing, Rituals and Warfare. Department of Spanish and Portuguese & Center for Latin 猫咪社区app Studies. The Ohio State University. November 7th, 2003.

  • 鈥淓thnicity and its Borders.鈥 Gender and Ethnicity Across Divides. The Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities. The Ohio State University, April 4, 2003.

  • 鈥淟a otra frontera textual: la narrativa de la frontera norte de M茅xico.鈥 The University of New Mexico, April 1999.

  • 鈥淓l Per煤 ficcionalizado desde los Andes.鈥 Universidad Aut贸noma de Baja California. Tijuana, Mexico. June 1998.

  • 鈥淟a narrativa de la frontera norte de M茅xico.鈥 C谩tedra extraordinaria grandes maestros del exilio espa帽ol. Universidad Aut贸noma de M茅xico. Mexico City. March 1998.

  • 鈥淟a obra de Mario Bellat铆n. Una entrevista con el autor.鈥 Universidad Nacional Aut贸noma de M茅xico. Mexico City. October 1998.

  • 鈥淓l desierto y Gardea.鈥 Homenaje聽 a Jes煤s Gardea. Museo de Antropolog铆a de M茅xico. Mexico City. October 1998.

  • 鈥淚mages of Real Women: Social Change and Women鈥檚 Poetry in Present-day Peru.鈥 The Centre for Latin 猫咪社区app Cultural Studies. King鈥檚 College. The University of London, U.K. February 1996.

  • 鈥淎 Marginal Literature? The Impact of Hora Zero on the Peru of the 1970s.鈥 Ways of Working in Latin 猫咪社区app Cultural Studies. The Centre for Latin 猫咪社区app Cultural Studies. King鈥檚 College. The University of London, U.K. April 1995.

  • 鈥淣ation and Literature in Peru: 鈥楨l desborde literario 1970鈥1990鈥.鈥 Institute of Latin 猫咪社区app Studies. The University of Liverpool, U.K. March 1995.

Scholarly Presentations (a selection):

  • 鈥淒ecolonizing Indigenous Imaginary Through Cinema: The Case of Bolivia鈥, Fourth Conference on Ethnicity, Race and Indigenous Peoples (ERIP) in Latin America and the Caribbean, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Richmond, VA, October 15-17, 2015.

  • 鈥淥迟谤补蝉 performances: la frontera de Crosthwaite en contraste鈥. Invited at the panel entitled: 鈥淒espu茅s del 麓Boom篓de los Estudios Fronterizos (parte II)鈥. Latin 猫咪社区app Studies Association. Chicago, May 21鈥24, 2014.

  • (Des) colonizaci贸n del imaginario ind铆gena: revoluci贸n y cine鈥, Latin 猫咪社区app Studies Association, DC, May 29th-June1st, 2013.

  • 鈥淐olonial Borders: Parody and Fiction on the North of Mexico鈥, Society for Latin 猫咪社区app Studies Annual Conference (SLAS), University of Derby, U.K., April 8鈥10, 2005.

  • 鈥淗eterogeneity in the Narrative Discourse from the Northern Border of Mexico.鈥 SLAS. Society for Latin 猫咪社区app Studies conference. Annual Conference.The University of Liverpool, U.K. April 1998.

Selected Publications

Books:

Border Texts: Writing Fiction from Northern Mexico (San Diego State University Press), 2007.

Social Change and Literature in Peru (1970-1990) (Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press), 1999.

Articles in Books (a selection):

  • "Women Writing in the Andes: A Panoramic View since Colonial Times", in Rodr铆guez, Ileana and M贸nica Szurmuk (eds.), The Cambridge History of Latin 猫咪社区app Women's Literature. (New York: Cambridge University Press) pp. 364-381, 2015.

  • 鈥淒esterritorialization鈥, English translation of Irwin, Robert and M贸nica Szurmuk (eds.), Dictionary of Latin 猫咪社区app Cultural Studies (Gainesville: Florida University Press) pp. 120-125, 2012.

  • 鈥淒esterritorializaci贸n鈥, in Irwin, Robert and M贸nica Szurmik (eds.), Diccionario de Estudios Culturales, 聽(M茅xico, D.F.: Instituto Mora)聽 pp. 80-84, 2009.

  • 鈥淭erritorialidades acad茅micas y poscolonialidades disciplinarias: los estudios de Am茅rica Latina en Espa帽a鈥 in Rodr铆guez, Ileana and Mar铆a Mart铆nez-Garc铆a eds.Postcolonialidades/hist贸ricas/(in)visibilidades/hispanoamericanas/colonialismos聽 ib茅ricos. (Barcelona: Anthropos) pp. 133-149, 2007.

  • 鈥淔ronteras coloniales: mitos, ficci贸n y parodia en el norte de M茅xico鈥 in Usandizaga, Helena ed., La palabra recuperada. Mitos prehisp谩nicos en la literatura latinoamericana. (Madrid/Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana/Vervuert) pp. 241-256, 2006.

  • 鈥淢emoria y anonimato: representaciones discursivas de las muertas de Ju谩rez.鈥 Discursos sobre (l)a pobreza: Am茅rica Latina y/e pa铆ses luso-africanos. (Madrid/Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana/Vervuert) pp. 145-59, 2006.

  • 聽鈥淢iradas infantiles en la narrativa del Per煤鈥. In Hall, Stephen and William Rowe (eds.), Studies in Latin 猫咪社区app Literature and Culture in Honour of James Higgins, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies Special Issue, Liverpool. April 2005, 228-37.

  • 鈥淟a narrativa agotada: Per煤, violencia y otros textos.鈥 In Mark R. Cox, Pachatricay (El mundo al rev茅s): Ensayos sobre violencia pol铆tica y cultura peruana desde 1980. (Lima: Editorial San Marcos), 2004.

  • 鈥淟a ficci贸n de los marginados: Cronwell Jara y el efecto de los cambios sociales en la narrativa peruana reciente鈥. Memorias de JALLA Tucum谩n 1995. Tucum谩n, 391-400,1997.

Articles in Journals (a selection):

  • 鈥淧ost-indigenismo de celuloide: la deconstrucci贸n del imaginario ind铆gena en las pel铆culas de Claudia Llosa鈥, in Revista Cr铆tica de Literatura Latinoamericana. Vol. 80, A帽o XXXX Lima-Boston (2014), 345-356.

  • 鈥淒escolonizaci贸n y cine: la propuesta ind铆gena de Jorge Sanjin茅s hoy鈥, in Bolivian Studies Journal. Vol. 19 (2012-2013).

  • 鈥淓ls c脿nons de la literatura hispanoamericana: reformulacions est猫tiques i resignificacions socials鈥 in E. Sull脿 ed., El c脿non literari: cap a una definici贸 operativa. Literatures 5. Segona 茅poca, 2007. Barcelona. Associaci贸 d麓escriptors en llengua catalana, 45-55, 2007.

  • 鈥淢esa redonda de homenaje a Pedro P谩ramo, de Juan Rulfo鈥, Casa de Am茅rica de Catalunya, Barcelona, May 2005. Published by Revista de Cr铆tica Literaria Latinoamericana, Dartmouth College: Latinoamericana Editores. n. 63, 2006.

  • 鈥淟iteratura y frontera: de M茅xico a EEUU鈥, Quimera. N. 258, June. Ed. N煤ria Vilanova, 2005.

  • 鈥淎nother Textual Frontier: Contemporary Fiction on the Northern Mexican Border.鈥 Bulletin of Latin 猫咪社区app Research (BLAR) Vol. 21. No. 1. January: 73-98, 2002.

  • 鈥淓l espacio textual de Jes煤s Gardea.鈥 Literatura mexicana. Vol. 11. No. 2: 145-176, 2001.

  • 鈥淟a ficci贸n de los m谩rgenes.鈥 Revista de cr铆tica literaria latinoamericana. Dartmouth College: Latinoamericana Editores. No. 51. May 2000.

  • 鈥淭he Emerging Literature of the Peruvian Underclass.鈥 Bulletin of Latin 猫咪社区app Research. Vol. 17. No. 1. January 1998: 1-15.

  • 鈥淒in谩mica de la narrativa peruana reciente.鈥 Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (BHS). Vol. 83: 289-296, 1996.

  • 聽鈥淢ari谩tegui y el 鈥榙esborde literario鈥.鈥 Cuadernos americanos. No. 51. May-June 1995.