EDUCATION Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures, August

MARÍA ALEJANDRA AGUILAR DORNELLES
136 East 3rd Street
Oswego, NY 13126
maria.aguilar@oswego.edu
(315) 216-6758 (home)
(315) 532-7432 (cell)
EDUCATION
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS, MO
Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures, August 2014.
Dissertation: Herederos de la libertad: criminalización, liderazgo y escritura de afrodescendientes en Colombia, Brasil y Cuba.
Director: Prof. William Acree
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS, MO
M.A. in Spanish, May 2008.
FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACIÓN, MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY
B.A. in Latin American Literature, 2005.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
INSTRUCTOR OF SPANISH, State University of New York at Oswego (Fall 2014-Spring 2015)
GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT, Women, Gender and Sexualities Studies. Washington
University in St. Louis (Fall 2012-Spring 2013)
GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT, Dept. of Romance Languages & Literatures. Washington
University in St. Louis (2007-2012)
RESEARCH ASSISTANT TO PROF. WILLIAM ACREE, Dept. of Romance Languages &
Literatures. Washington University in St. Louis (Summer 2010)
RESEARCH ASSISTANT TO PROF. ELZBIETA SLODOWSKA, Dept. of Romance Languages &
Literatures. Washington University in St. Louis (Summer 2009)
RESEARCH ASSISTANT TO PROF. MABEL MORAÑA, Dept. of Romance Languages &
Literatures. Washington University in St. Louis (2008-2009)
AWARDS
LASA2014 Travel Grant to present a paper in the XXXII International Congress of the Latin
American Studies Association: Democracy & Memory. Chicago, IL: May 21-24, 2014.
Bryant Travel Fund to pursue archival work in La Habana, Cuba: June 2013. Washington
University in St. Louis.
MARÍA ALEJANDRA AGUILAR DORNELLES
Third Place for poster presentation in Humanities. 18th Annual Graduate Research
Symposium February 16, 2013. Washington University in St. Louis. “There Are No Black
Heroes: Afro-Latin American Leaders in the Nineteenth Century.”
Bryant Travel Fund to pursue archival work in Bogotá, Colombia: June 2011. Washington
University in St. Louis.
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching 2010-2011 (for exemplary performance as a
Graduate Teaching Assistant) The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Washington
University in St. Louis.
Eva Sichel Memorial Prize for the Best Critical Essay in Spanish. Dept. of Romance
Languages & Literatures. Washington University in St. Louis. May 2010. “Instancias del
deseo / escenarios de la violencia: (auto)disciplinamiento y fragilidad institucional en Los
ejércitos, de Evelio Rosero.”
FELLOWSHIPS
Invited Workshop Fellow at the Nineteenth-Century Workshop: “On Circulation” with the
discussion paper “My Beloved Commodity: Portrayals of Women Intellectuals and Artists in
the Caribbean Cultural Market, 1868–1912.” Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers
University. October 2-3, 2014.
Invited Workshop Fellow at the “Age of Emancipation: Black Freedom in the Atlantic
World” Workshop with the discussion paper “There Are No Black Heroes: Freedom, Group
Identity, and Racial Equality from Black Latin American Leaders’ Vision.” Robert Penn
Warren Center, Vanderbilt University. April 26-27, 2013.
CERTIFICATES
Teaching Citation (Fall 2012). Washington University in St. Louis. (An optional program for
Washington University Ph.D. students who pursue teaching experience and expertise beyond
the requirements of their departments and of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.)
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Graduate Certificate (Spring 2011). Washington
University in Saint Louis.
PUBLICATIONS
“The Black Heroes of the Nation: Community, Freedom, and Racial Equality from Afro-Latin
American Leaders’ Vision,” under review.
“Espectáculos de la violencia: erotismo e imágenes elusivas en Los ejércitos, de Evelio
Rosero,” under review.
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“Patria y letra: el proyecto intelectual de la poeta afro-cubana Cristina Ayala.” In Poemas y
cantos: Antología crítica de poetas afro-latinoamericanas, edited by María Mercedes
Jaramillo. Forthcoming: Fall 2014.
“El esclavo y el letrado: máscaras de la auto-representación en la temprana narrativa
antiesclavista cubana.” Confluence: Romance Language Journal of Saint Louis University.
Volume 2, Spring 2013.
http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/languages/confluence/publications.html.
“La poesía erótica de Mercedes Matamoros en la genealogía del modernismo
latinoamericano.” Latin American Literary Review 39 78 (July-December 2011).
“La Licorne y Entregas de la Licorne: Susana Soca y su proyecto cultural.” Revistas
culturales uruguayas: estudios e índices (1865-1974). Ed. Pablo Rocca. Montevideo,
Universidad de la República. 2005.
<http://www.sadil.fhuce.edu.uy/revistasuruguayas2004/textos/08_Aguilar.htm>
EDITORIAL WORK
Supervision and proofreading of Rethinking Intellectuals in Latin America. Madrid &
Frankfurt: Iberoamericana & Vervuert, 2010, edited by Prof. Mabel Moraña and Prof. Bret
Gustafson.
Coediting of the Latin American Newsletter, issue 4, along with Prof. Mabel Moraña (Fall
2009)
CONFERENCES
“The Caribbean Roots of Rebellion: Race, Writing, and Black Heroism in Cuba (18681912).” First Annual African and African Diaspora Studies Conference at City University of
New York, College of Staten Island (New York. October 8-10, 2014).
“Asedios a la ciudad letrada: Candelario Obeso en el campo cultural colombiano de fin de
siglo.” LASA 2014 (Chicago, IL. May 21-24, 2014).
“Intelectuales que (no)velan: la narrativa de Contemporáneos, la vanguardia mexicana y el
debate del ‘afeminamiento’ en la literatura”. Coloquio Internacional Montevideana VIII
Nuevos mapas de las vanguardias: Miradas desde (o hacia) América Latina (Montevideo,
Uruguay. 26-28 June, 2013).
“Heroicidad y rebeldía en la poesía patriótica de la escritora afro-descendiente Cristina
Ayala.” Congreso Internacional Cuba Trasatlántica (La Habana, Cuba. 9-12 June, 2013).
“La masculinidad negociada: estrategias de promoción y disidencia en la poesía patriótica de
Juana Borrero, Mercedes Matamoros y Cristina Ayala.” LASA2013 (Washington, DC. May
29-June 1, 2013).
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“Cárceles y conventos: transgresión y disciplinamiento en la pintura de Víctor Landaluze y
Cecilia Valdés, de Cirilo Villaverde.” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature
(Lincoln, Nebraska. October 12-14, 2012).
“El esclavo y el letrado: auto-representación y disidencia en la temprana narrativa
antiesclavista cubana.” Saint Louis University’s 2012 French and Spanish GraduateUndergraduate Student Symposium (St. Louis, MO. April 13, 2012).
“Del ingenio a la calle: desviación y delincuencia femenina como estrategia de exclusión
racial en Los crímenes de Concha y Cecilia Valdés.” Negritud: International Conference of
Afro-Latin American Studies (San Juan, Puerto Rico. March 23-25, 2012).
“Mapeando el deseo femenino: lugares de erotismo y espacios de transgresión en Insolación,
de Emilia Pardo Bazán.” Florida International University Symposium on 19th Century
Spanish and Spanish-American Literatures (Miami, Florida. April 1-2, 2011).
Organizer and Chair: “Alegorías de la transgresión: desafíos a las construcciones de género
y sexualidad en Cuba.” LASA (Washington, DC. May 29-June 1, 2013).
Chair: “Afrocubanismo y su representación literaria” Negritud: International Conference of
Afro-Latin American Studies (San Juan, Puerto Rico. March 23-25, 2012).
Chair: “Market Forces, Letrado Pushback, and Ecocriticism 1837-1987.” Mid-America
Conference on Hispanic Literature (Saint, Louis, MO. October 28-30, 2010).
WORK IN PROGRESS
Book
Chasing Freedom: Black Criminalization, Leadership, and Writing in Colombia, Brazil, and
Cuba.
Articles for Submission to Refereed Journals
“The Caribbean Roots of Rebellion: the Vision of Liberty of Afro-Latin American Leaders.”
“My Beloved Commodity: Portrayals of Women Intellectuals and Artists in the Caribbean
Cultural Market, 1868–1912.”
“Lost in the Lettered City: Afro-Latin American Women Writers and their Struggle for Civil
Rights.”
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
State University of New York at Oswego
Fall 2014.
Elementary Spanish
Continuing Elementary Spanish: Language and Culture
Washington University in Saint Louis
Spring 2013.
Introduction to Women’s Texts. “Writing Love in Times of War:
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Fall 2012.
Spring 2012.
Fall 2011.
Spring 2011.
Fall 2010.
Spring 2010.
Spring 2009.
Fall 2008.
Spring 2008.
Fall 2007.
Latin American Women Writing Modernity” (Women, Gender, and
Sexuality Studies). Responsible for creating the syllabus, the selections of
materials, classroom instruction, and grading students.
Intermediate Spanish
Intermediate Spanish
Grammar and Composition I
Beginning Spanish I (University College at Washington University in St.
Louis). Responsible for creating the syllabus, the selections of materials,
classroom instruction, and grading students.
Grammar and Composition II
Intermediate Spanish
Chronicles, Testimonial Writing, Personal Diaries, and
Autobiography in Latin America, 20th-century. Responsible for the
preceptorial hour, including meetings with undergraduate students and
discussions of reading materials given in class.
Grammar and Composition II
Beginning Spanish Conversation (University College at Washington
University in St. Louis). Responsible for creating the syllabus, the
selections of materials, classroom instruction, and grading students.
Grammar and Composition II
Beginning Spanish Conversation (University College at Washington
University in St. Louis). Responsible for creating the syllabus, the
selections of materials, classroom instruction, and grading students.
Intermediate Spanish
COURSE DEVELOPMENT
Spring 2010.
Fall 2009.
Postmodern Narratives in Latin America.
Latin American Cultural Studies: Critical and Theoretical
Approaches
TEACHING WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
Teaching with Lectures. Beth Fisher in charge. Washington University in St. Louis. October
24, 2012.
Teaching Students Presentation Skills. Beth Fisher in charge. Washington University in St.
Louis. February 7, 2012.
Designing a Course. Beth Fisher in charge. Washington University in St. Louis. March 23,
2011.
Fostering Active Student Engagement in the Classroom. Beth Fisher in charge. Washington
University in St. Louis. February 15, 2011.
Teaching with Discussions. Beth Fisher in charge. Washington University in St. Louis.
October 13, 2010.
Creating a Teaching Portfolio for the Academic Job Market. Beth Fisher in charge.
Washington University in St. Louis. April 21, 2010.
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Writing a Teaching Philosophy Statement. Beth Fisher in charge. Washington University in
St. Louis. April 14, 2010.
Incorporating Active Learning. Beth Fisher in charge. Washington University in St. Louis.
October 14, 2010.
Responding to Student Writing. Beth Fisher in charge. Washington University in St. Louis.
February 10, 2009.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES
Graduate Senate Representative for the Department of Romance Languages and
Literatures. Washington University in St. Louis, 2013-2014.
Member of the Graduate Research Symposium Committee. Washington University in St.
Louis, 2013-2014. Responsible for helping to send out calls for papers, recruit judges and
participants and run the Symposium.
Member of the Professional Development Committee. Washington University in St. Louis,
2013-2014. Responsible for coordinating with the Career Center and Teaching Center to
promote events centering on teaching expertise, and job search (both academic and nonacademic) and life after graduate school.
Co-Organizer. Communications Committee. Spanish Graduate Student Conference: Out of
Bounds: Movements in the Iberian Atlantic (Feb 28-Mar 1, 2014). Washington University in
St. Louis, 2013-2014.
Co-Organizer. Graduate Writing Group. Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Washington University in St. Louis, 2012-2014.
Participant. African Diaspora Reading Group. Washington University in St. Louis, 20112012.
Co-Organizer. Latin American Colloquium. Washington University in St. Louis, 2009-2010.
Responsible for coordinating, along with Prof. Mabel Moraña, and setting the presentation
and discussion of papers, dissertation proposals, works-in-progress, and research projects
related to the study of Latin American culture.
Organizer. Latin American Film Series. Contesting Patriarchal Cultures: A Showcase of
Recent Latin American Films. Washington University in St. Louis, Fall 2009. Responsible for
the organization of the event, a four-film series aiming to stir up discussions on gender issues,
traditional politics, and aesthetic viewpoints in order to get a better understanding of
contemporary social practices in Latin America.
LANGUAGES
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Spanish, Portuguese, and English: Fluent
French and Italian: Reading knowledge
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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERHIPS
Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas (ACH)
Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASAALH)
Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD)
Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica (AILCFH)
Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
Modern Languages Association (MLA)
Sigma Delta Pi
REFERENCES
William Acree. Assistant Professor of Spanish
Romance Languages and Literatures Department
Washington University in Saint Louis
Phone: (314) 935-5145
E-mail: acree@wustl.edu
Elzbieta Sklodowska. Randolph Family Professor of Spanish
Romance Languages and Literatures Department
Washington University in Saint Louis
Phone: (314) 935-7014
E-mail: esklodow@artsci.wustl.edu
Akiko Tsuchiya. Professor of Spanish and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Romance Languages and Literatures Department
Washington University in Saint Louis
Phone: (314) 935-5213
E-mail: tsuchiya@wustl.edu
Mary Ann Dzuback. Director, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of History
Associate Professor, Department of Education
Washington University in Saint Louis
Phone: 314-935-4160
E-mail: madzubac@wustl.edu
Updated: October 13, 2014
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