Sandra Barriales' CV

Education

Ph.D. Hispanic Literatures and Linguistics. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. September, 2003. Title of the dissertation: Exile as Ethical Challenge: the Writing of the Self by the Spanish Republican Refugees.

M.A. Hispanic Literatures and Linguistics. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. February, 2002.

B.A. Hispanic Philology, 1997. University of Oviedo, Spain.

Publications

Articles in Journals

• “Exilio y post-exilio en Luis Cernuda”. Revista Hispánica Moderna, LIX (2006): 27-43.
• “The Ethical Challenge of Autobiography in Exile: The Case of Federica Montseny”. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, October 2004, 38.3: 449-468.
• “Patria de destino versus patria de origen: la visión de los exiliados españoles en Cuadernos Americanos”, Historias, Journal of the National Institute of Anthropology and History, México, 48 (January-April 2001), pp.55-65.

Articles in Books

• “La voz autobiográfica de Federica Montseny en el exilio y en el post-exilio.” Ernestina de Champourcin. Mujer y exilio en el siglo XX. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2006.
• “Los límites de la representación del yo: el Diario de Frida Kahlo”.La ansiedad autorial. Formación de la autoría femenina en América Latina: los textos autobiográficos. Ed. Márgara Russotto. Caracas, Venezuela: Equinoccio, 2006.
• “El laberinto del exilio” in España: ¿laberinto de exilios? Ed. Sandra Barriales-Bouche. Newark, NJ: Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs, 2005.
• “América desde el supra-exilio” in Selected Proceedings of the Third International Colloquium“The 1939 Spanish Exile: Literature and Culture”, Havana, Cuba: Casa del Escritor Habanero-HabanaGraf, 2002.

Edited Volumes

• Zoom in, Zoom out: Crossing Borders in Contemporary European Cinema. Eds. Sandra Barriales-Bouche and Marjorie Attignol Salvodon. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.
• España: ¿laberinto de exilios? Ed. Sandra Barriales-Bouche. Newark, NJ: Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs, 2005.

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Conference Presentations

• “The Ethical Response to a Silenced Past: The Use of the Personal Narrative in Between the Dictator and Me.” Film and History: The Documentary Tradition. November 2006. Dallas, Texas.
• “The Use of Cinema in Spanish 101”. Discovery: Boundaries and Connections. Academic Conference . March 2006. Suffolk University.
• “La voz autobiográfica de Federica Montseny en el exilio y en el post-exilio”. International Conference Ernestina de Champourcin. Mujer y exilio en el siglo XX . October 2005. Vitoria (Basque Country, Spain).
• “Exilio y post-exilio en Luis Cernuda”. 36th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention. April 2005. Cambridge (MA).
• “The Political Campaign of the Spanish Filmmakers: There is a Good Reason (Hay motivo) (2004)”. Faculty Seminar Series. November 2004. Suffolk University.
• “The Ethical Challenge of Writing Poetry in Exile: Pedro Garfias' Primavera en Eaton Hastings”. 35th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention. March 2004. Pittsburgh (PA).
• “Exhuming a Sleeping Voice.The Ethical Grounding of Spain's Latest Culture”. Invited Talk. February 2003. Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley (MA).
• “The Ethical Dimension of Exile: Beyond National Boundaries”. May 2002. “Exile in Modern Europe”. Rutgers University (NJ).
• “Érase una vez la diferencia: cuentos infantiles del exilio español en América Latina”. November 2001. New England Council of Latin American Studies. Salem College State, Salem (MA).
• “Conciencia de crisis: el autor dramático en la España de los noventa”. November 2000. Spain in the Twenty-First Century: An International Symposium. Ohio State University, Columbus (OH).
• “Patria de destino versus patria de origen: la visión de los exiliados españoles en Cuadernos Americanos”. July 2000. Third International Colloquium “The 1939 Spanish Exile: Literature and Culture”. Casa del Escritor Habanero, Havana (Cuba).
• “Del testimonio a la autobiografía: reconstrucción de la identidad histórica en Mis primeros cuarenta años de Federica Montseny”. March 2000. Poetics of Space. State University of New York, Binghamton (NY).
• “La construcción de la autoridad desde los márgenes: la función del paratexto en Sab de Gómez de Avellaneda”. April 1999. 52nd Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky, Lexington (KY).
• “Deslegitimización de discursos: posmodernismo e ironía en Amanece que no es poco”. October 1998. 48th Mountain Interstate Conference. Virginia Tech. University, Blacksburg (VA).

Professional Experience

• Reviewer for Letras femeninas. Spring 2006.
• Reviewer for Houghton & Mifflin. Spring 2005.
• Co-organizer and co-chair of the panel “Crossing Borders in Recent European Cinema”. April 2005. 36th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention. Cambridge (MA).
• Co-organizer of the International Colloquium “Spain: Labyrinth of Exiles”, held at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, October 18-19, 2002.

Research Interests

• Exile Literature
• European Studies
• Autobiography
• Women Writers
• Spanish Film Studies
• The Cultural Manifestations of Democratic Spain.
• Pedagogical Strategies as Applied to the Teaching of Language, Literature and Culture.

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor. Department of Humanities and Modern Languages. Suffolk University, 2003-present.

• SPAN 101 (Elementary Spanish I)
• SPAN 102 (Elementary Spanish II)
• SPAN 201 (Intermediate Spanish I)
• SPAN 301 (Hispanic Culture I: Spanish Heritage)
• SPAN 300 (Introduction to Cultural Texts)
• SPAN 302 (Hispanic Culture II: Latin America)
• SPAN 303 (Advanced Conversation)
• SPAN 400 (Transatlantic Vistas: Cultural Interactions between Spain and Latin America)
• SPAN 401 (Classical Spanish Literature)
• SPAN 404 (Modern Spanish Literature)
• SPAN 406 (Spanish Cinema)
• SPAN 413 (Masterpieces of Spanish Literature in English Translation)
• ARCHER FELLOW SEMINAR (Women and Cinema in Spain)

Visiting Instructor. Spanish and Italian Department, Mount Holyoke College, 2000-2003.

• SPAN 246 (Modern Spanish Literature)
• SPAN 216 (Post-Dictatorial Wounds: Main Trends in Contemporary Spanish Film) Responsible for creating and designing the course
• SPAN 209 (Composition and Culture)
• SPAN 208 (Art on the Threshold of the Spanish Civil War) Responsible for creating and designing the course
• SPAN 204 (Cinema, Music and Literature: Culture in Democratic Spain (1975-2000)). Responsible for creating and designing the course
• SPAN 200 (Spanish for General Purposes, Intermediate level)
• SPAN 102 (Spanish for General Purposes, Beginners II)
• SPAN 101 (Spanish for General Purposes, Beginners I)

Teaching Associate. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Massachusetts, 1997-2002

• SPAN 321 (Introduction to Spanish Contemporary Literature). Responsible for designing the course
• SPAN 320 (Introduction to Spanish Medieval and Golden Age Literature). Responsible for designing the course
• SPAN 319 (Introduction to Literary Analysis). Responsible for designing the course
• SPAN 240 (Spanish for General Purposes, Intermediate level)
• SPAN 230 (Spanish for General Purposes, Intermediate level)
• SPAN 231 (Spanish for Business, Intermediate level)
• SPAN 120 (Spanish for General Purposes, Beginners)
• SPAN 111 (Spanish for Business, Beginners)
• SPAN 110 (Spanish for General Purposes, Beginners)

Teaching Assistant. Spanish Department, Amherst College, 1999.

Languages

• Spanish (Native speaker)

• English (Advanced level)

• Latin (Advanced level)

• Italian (Intermediate level)

Honors and Awards

• Service Learning Seed Grant. Suffolk University, Spring 2005 [$700].
• College of Arts and Sciences' 2005 Summer Stipend Award, Suffolk University, November 2004 [$2500].
• University Fellowship, University of Massachusetts, 2002-2003.
• Grant funded by the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports and United States Universities to organize the International Colloquium “Spain: Labyrinth of Exiles” held at the University of Massachusetts, October 18-19, 2002 [$ 2,700].
• Grant funded by Dean Edwards of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to organize the International Colloquium “Spain: Labyrinth of Exiles” held at the University of Massachusetts, October 18-19, 2002 [$ 1000].
• Phi Kappa Phi, National Honor Society, 2001.
• Certificate of Appreciation for Excellence in Teaching. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Winter 2000.
• Grant funded by the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia for the introduction to research within the Spanish Department at the Universidad de Oviedo, Spain.1996-1997.
• Grant funded by the Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana to teach a two-month seminar on Text Grammar at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, Fall 1996.
• Grant funded by the Universidad de Oviedo (Spain) to study Literature and Italian Culture at the Università per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy, Summer 1995.

Professional Affiliations

• Modern Language Association (MLA)
• American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)
• Phi Kappa Phi
• Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA)