Curriculum Vitae Maria B. Clark Department of Philosophy

Curriculum Vitae Maria B. Clark Department of Philosophy

Curriculum Vitae
Maria B. Clark
Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and World Languages
Carson-Newman College
Jefferson City, TN 37760
(865) 471-3289
[email protected]
Educational Background
Ph.D.
M.A.
B.A.
Fall, 1992, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Spanish and Portuguese
Dissertation Title: The Feminine Fantastic in Short Fiction from
the River Plate
June, 1986, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Spanish and Portuguese
June, 1983, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Spanish and Anthropology
Education in Germany
Diploma for Translator (English-German, German-English), September 1975,
English Institute, Heidelberg
Diploma for Foreign Language Business Correspondent (English-German,
German-English), February 1975, English Institute, Heidelberg
Abitur, June 1970, Kurfürst-Friedrich Gymnasium, Heidelberg
Academic Specialty
Spanish American and Brazilian literature (emphasis on contemporary,
Latin American women writers using the literary mode of the fantastic) and
feminist and psychoanalytic approaches to the fantastic. Latin American film,
women directors, and, in particular, the use of the fantastic in Argentine cinema.
Professional Experience
2000-present
1993-1999
Associate Professor of Spanish,
Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City
Assistant Professor of Spanish and German,
1991-1992
1990-1991
1988-1991
1988-1989
1983-1991
Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City
Instructor of Spanish and German,
Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City
Instructor (German), Maryville College, Maryville
Graduate Teaching Associate (Spanish and Portuguese),
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Instructor (German), Foreign Language Institute, Knoxville
Graduate Teaching Assistant (Spanish, Portuguese),
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Courses Taught
Elementary, Intermediate, and Advanced Spanish Language
Latin American and Peninsular Spanish Literature
Latin American Film
Hispanic Culture and Civilization
Service Learning for Spanish Majors and Minors
Elementary Portuguese
Elementary, Intermediate, and Advanced German Language
German Literature
German Film
German Culture and Civilization
German Business Language
Publications
“Politics of Seeing: The Fantastic in the Eye of the Split Subject.” Festschrift in
Honor of Armand Singer, West Virginia University. Forthcoming.
“Southern Correspondences and Transnationality in Recent Argentine Film.” In
Films with Legs. Crossing Borders with Foreign Language Films.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Forthcoming.
Three entries (Martha Cerda, Beatriz Guido, Miireya Robles) in Worldliterature in
Spanish [Three Volumes]: An Encyclopedia. Eds. Maureen Ihrie and
Salvador A. Oropesa. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. Forthcoming
‘“Heightened Perceptions in Argentine Film: An analysis of the Gothic Aesthetics
in La casa del ángel and La niña santa’.” In Cine y literatura: Propuestas
de acercamiento a la adaptación cinematográfica. Eds. Bárbara Esparta
Estrada C and Catherine Berthet-Cahuzac. Morelia, Mexico: Morevallado
Editores, 2008. 199-215.
“Martha Cerda.” Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia. Ed. María
Claudia André and Eva Bueno. New York: Routledge, 2008.
"Más allá del género: contagio e intertextualidad en Sobrenatural.” In Discursos
de la modernidad y la posmodernidad, XIII congreso internacional Cultura e
Imagen. Ed. Blanca Cárdenas. UMSNH, 2007. 111-118
“Arturo Ripstein’s Colonel in The Labyrinth of Solitude,” in Cine-Lit V: Essays on
Hispanic Film and Fiction. Corvallis, Oregon: Cine-Lit Publications, 2004.
14-20.
“Hasta la muerte: Lo femenino y la estética en la narratva modernista,” en El sol
en la nieve: Julián Casal (1863-1893). Coordinadora: Luisa Campuzano.
Habana, Cuba: Casa de las Américas, 1999.
“Tradiciones subversivas en ‘Hagiografía de Narcisa la bella’ de Mireya Robles,”
La seduccíon de la escritura: Los discursos de la cultura hoy, 1996 Univ.
Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco, Mexico, (1997): 196-204
“The Dramatic and Spiritual Force of the Faustian Myth,” Carson-Newman
Studies 8.4 (Fall 1997): 37-49.
“Cuerpo-texto en crisis: metáfora y metamorfosis en ‘Ninfas: pasión y muerte’
de Sylvia Lago,” Literatura, historia e identidad: Los discursos de la
cultura hoy, 1994, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco,
Mexico, (1996): 43-46.
“Usurping Difference in the Feminine Fantastic from the Riverplate,” Studies in
Twentieth Century Literature 20.1 (Winter 1996): 235-249.
“Feminization as an Experience of Limits: Shifting Gender Roles in the Fantastic
Narrative of Silvina Ocampo and Cristina Peri Rossi,” Inti 40-41 (otoño
1994-primavera 1995): 249-68.
“Desirous Fiction or ‘El hombre del túnel’ by Armonía Somers, Romance
Languages Annual 1992 IV. (1993): 404-10.
“Psicoanálisis e impostura: El discurso del Otro en ‘El impostor’ de Silvina
Ocampo,” Semiosis (Veracruz, México), 26-29 (enero-diciembre 199192): 303-318.
“Facing the Other in Clarice Lispector’s Short Story ‘Amor,’” Letras femeninas,
16.1-2 (primavera-otoño 1990): 13-20.
Academic Services and Papers Presented at Professional Conferences
“Sanitizing the Fantastic: An Artistic and Political Choice in the Mexican Film La
noche del búfalo,” at Cine-Lit VII, Portland, Oregon, February 24-26,
2011.
“Post-Memories and Mind/Body Implications in Lucrecia Martel’s Film Trilogy,” at
the AILCFH 2010, XX Congreso Anual, University of Texas, Austin,
Texas, October 14-16, 2010.
“Geography of the Heart: Feminine Domains of Influence in Luz silenciosa by
Carlos Reygadas,” at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies:
Geographical Imaginaries and Hispanic Film, Tulane University, New
Orleans, November 4-6, 2009.
“Ultima as a Symbol of Feminine Spiritual and Cultural Conciliation,” Public
Lecture for The Big Read at The Museum of History, Knoxville, Oct. 8,
2009.
“La magia y su función performativa en el arte cinematográfico de Chac y
Japon,” at the I Congreso Internacional: Las cosmovisiones del
pensamiento mágico y mítico, y sus literaturas,” Facultad de Filosofía y
Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City,
Mexico, October 14-17, 2008.
“Argentine National Cinema and Parallel Dimensions in “La sonámbula,” at the
32 Anual Colloquium on Literature and Film: Revisiting the Past in
Contemporary Literature and Film. West Virginia University, Morgantown,
West Virginia, September 11-13, 2008.
“Southern Correspondences and Transnationality in Recent Argentine Film,” at
the Foreign Language Film Conference: Cultural Correspondences and
the Cameria, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, October 11-13,
2007.
“Heightened Perceptions in Argentine Film: An Analysis of the Gothic Aesthetics
in La casa del ángel and La niña santa,” at the Thirty-First Annual
Colloquium on Literature and Film: Stage & Screen Today, West Virginia
University, Morgantown, West Virginian, October 4 -6, 2007
“Mas allá del género: Contagio e intertextualidad en ‘Sobrenatural’,” at the XIII
Congreso Internacional: Cultura e Imagen, La Universidad Michoacana
de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Mexico, October 25-27, 2006.
“Visionary or post-pessimistic? Rules for survival/mankind in Carmen Boullosa’s
Cielos de la tierra,” at the XVI Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de
Literatura Femenina Hispánica, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah,
October 5-8, 2006.
“Failed Domestication in the Mexican Art Horror Film,” at the Southeast Coastal
Conference on Languages and Literatures, Georgia Southern University,
Statesboro, Georgia, March 30- April 1, 2006.
"Encounters with the Other: Feminine Perspectives from Mexico as Scenarios of
Terror," at The 54th Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference,
UT, Knoxville, October 14-16, 2004.
Chaired a session entitled Film and Media at The 54th Mountain Interstate
Foreign Language Conference, UT, Knoxville, October 14-16, 2004
‘Maternidad/modernidad en crisis en “Ángel de fuego,” de Jana Rotberg,’ at the
XI Congreso Internacional de Lengua y Literatura: Cultura: Entre la
tradición y la modernidad, Universidad Michocana de San Nicolás de
Hidalgo, Morelia, Mexico, October 20-22, 2004.
“Perspectivas femeninas y colaboración creativa: La española en el cine de
Arturo Ripstein,” at The International Colloquium for Vernacular, Hispanic,
Historical, American and Folklore Studies, Puebla, Méxcio, October 8-11,
2003.
“The enemy within: Conflating the Public and Private in Argentine Film of the
80s,” at the Twenty-Sixth Annual Colloquium on Literature and Film, West
Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, September 2001.
“El enemigo privado: Hablando desde los márgenes en Hombre mirando al
sudeste de Eliseo Subiela,” at the VIII Jornadas Metropolitanas de
Estudios Culturales: Arte, Literatura y Crítica en México y Latinoamérica,
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico, July 2001.
“Net Surfing as Oppositional Strategy in Herejía contra el ciberespacio by Malú
Huacuja del Toro,” at the Tenth Annual Conference on Ibero-American
Culture and Society: Latin American Literature, Technology, Ideology,
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 2001.
‘La textualización del deseo femenino en los intersticios fantásticos de “El
hombre del túnel” de Armonía Somers,’ at the Segundo Encuentro
Internacional de Escritoras (Centro Cultural Bernardino Rivadavia),
Rosario, Argentina, August 2000.
“Encrucijadas imaginarias: Iconología e intertextualidad en Las mamás, los
pastores y los hermeneutas de Marta Cerda,” at the X Congreso
Internacional de la Asociacíon de Literatura Femenina Hispánica,
Querétaro, Mexico, Sept. 1999.
“The Cannibalistic Discourse in Martha Cerda’s Las mamás, los pastores y los
hermeneutas,” at the Congreso en Homenaje a las Hermanas LópezBaralt, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Colegio Universitario de Arecibo,
November 1998.
“The Given and Created: Martha Cerda’s Interactive Readings of Culture and
Sexuality in Las mamás, los pastores y los hermeneutas,” at the Eleventh
International Conference/ Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica,
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, September 1998.
Attended the National Conference of ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching
of Foreign Languages) in Nashville, November 1997.
“Mestizaje as Body and Text in Duerme by Carmen Boullosa,” at the Eighth
International Conference/ Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica,
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, October 1997.
“Narcisa and the Abject in Mireya Roble’s Carnivalesque Narrative,” at the
Eighteenth Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures
(La Chispa), Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 1997.
“Tradiciones subversivas en Hagiografía de Narcisa la bella de Mireya Robles,”
at the III Jornadas Metropolitanas de Estudios Culturales, Universidad
Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, July 1996.
‘Somatophobia as a Narrative Point of View in Armonía Somers’s “El
derrumbamiento,”’ at the Fifth Annual Conference on Ibero-American
Culture and Society: Latin American Women Writers-Discourse on/of the
Feminine, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico,
February 1996.
Attended the Annual TFLTA Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, November
1995.
Attended a Service/ Learning Pedagogy Workshop on Diversity/Multicultural
Issues at the Learning and Livestock Center of Heifer Project International
in Perryville, Arkansas, October 13-15, 1995.
‘Femenine Difference as Fantastic Agency in Silvina Ocampo’s “Hombres
animales enredaderas‚”’ at the Louisiana Conference on Hispanic
Languages and Literatures (La Chispa), Tulane University, New Orleans,
Louisiana, March 1995.
‘Cuerpo/texto en crisis: Metáfora y metamorfosis en “Ninfas: Pasión y
muerte” de Sylvia Lago,’ at the I Jornadas Metropolitanas de Estudios
Culturales en México y América, Universidad Autónoma MetropolitanaAzcapotzalco, Mexico City, June 1994.
‘Terms of Seduction and Other Fantastic Strategies in “El castigo” by Silvina
Ocampo’ at the 14th Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and
Literatures, University of Cincinnati, May 1994.
“The Feminine Fantastic: Usurping Difference,” at the IV Asamblea de la
Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica, Loyola University, Chicago,
Illinois, October 1993.
“Hasta la muerte: Lo femenino y la estética en el relato modernista,” at the
Coloquio Internacional “Julián del Casal y el modernismo
hispanoamericano,” Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba, September
1993.
Served as chair of a session entitled “Representation, Class, and Politics
in Latin American Literature and Culture,” at the Annual College Language
Association Conference: Multiculturalism: Whose Language, Whose
Literature?, Bethume-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Florida, April
1993.
‘Feminization as an Experience of Limits in Cristina Peri Rossi’s “Los
juegos,’ at the Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and
Literatures (La Chispa), Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana,
February 1993.
‘Desirous Fiction or “El hombre del túnel‚” by Armonía Somers,’ at the Purdue
University Conference of Romance Languages, Literatures and Film,
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, October 1992.
‘Politics of Seeing: “Los extraños objetos voladores” by Cristina Peri Rossi,’ at
the Fifty-Second Annual Convention of the College Language Association,
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, April 1992.
Served as discussant of a session entitled, „Syncretic/Discursive Spaces
inHistory and Literature from Pre-Columbian Times to Present,” at the
39th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American
Studies, The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina, April 1992.
‘Psicoanálisis e impostura: El discurso del Otro en “El Impostor‚” de Silvina
Ocampo,’ at the V Simposium de Campos Semióticos, Instituto de
Investigaciones humanísticas, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa,
Veracruz, July 1990.
‘Framing the Fantastic in Elvira Orphée’s “Su demonio privado,” at the Kentucky
Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington,
Kentucky, April 1990.
‘Facing the Other in Clarice Lispector’s Short Story “Amor‚,” at the Mountain
Interstate Foreign Language Conference, The University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, Tennessee, October 1988.
‘The Treatment of the Traditional Faustian Myth in Calderón’s “El mágico
prodigioso” and Goethe’s Faust,’ at the Kentucky Foreign Language
Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, April 1988.
“Yawar Fiesta: El anuncio de la realidad narrativa arguediana,” at the South
Eastern Council on Latin American Studies, University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, Tennessee, April 1988.
‘“Cuarta versión‚” como texto en crisis: Luisa Valenzuela y su búsqueda de
un discurso nuevo,’ at the XII Annual Hispanic Literatures Conference,
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania, October 1987.
‘Los tormentos y virtudes del tiempo en “El milagro secreto‚ de Borges,”’ at the
Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Wake Forest
University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, October 1986.
“El contagio de lo irreal en Aura de Carlos Fuentes,” at the Mountain Interstate
Foreign Language Conference, Furman University, Greenville, South
Carolina, October 1985.
Academic and Professional Honors
Carson-Newman Mentoring Award ?
Academic Enrichment Award, Fall 2001
Grant towards the Implementation of a Service/Learning Course Component, Fall
2001
Promotion to Associate Professor, Spring 2000.
Carson-Newman College Research Award, Spring 2000.
Appalachian College Association Travel Grants, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000.
2008
Tenure granted 1997.
Faculty Scholars Program (Lexington, Kentucky) Travel Grant to present a paper
at the Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Studies and Literatures, Tulane
University, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1993.
Chancellor’s Citation for Professional Promise, The University of Tennesee,
Knoxville, 1989.
Graduate School Fellowship for research carried out in Brazil, 1989.
Graduate School Award, to present a paper at the Indiana University of
Pennsylvania Conference on Hispanic Literature, 1987.
Sigma Delta Pi, 1986.
Graduate International Student Representative at The University of Tennessee.
Committee Assignments and Academic Service at Carson-Newman College
Environmental Stewardship Committee (2010-11)
Community Service Advisory Committee (2009-2010)
Bonner Scholar Advisory Board (2008)
Multicultural Committee (2008-2009)
Advisor for Honors Project in Spanish (2008-2009)
Academic Standards Committee (2007-2008)
Steeple for International Studies amd Missions (2003-2006)
Editorial Committee for Sacs Self-Study (2002-2003)
Library Committee (2002)
Advisor for Honors Project in Spanish (2002)
Study Abroad Coordinating Committee (2002)
Curriculum Committee (2001)
Committee Assignments and Academic Service before 2000 at Carson-Newman
College
Honors Council (three years)
Residential Fellow for Laboratory for Learning (two years)
Panosophic Officer and President (two years)
Foreign Language Representative, Writing Guide Committee, English Dept.
Faculty Spanish Facilitator for Service/Learning Program in partnership with
Heifer Project International and The University of the South (Summer term
Honduras)
Committee for International and Multicultural Affairs
Committee for Advising and Retention
Professional Organizations and Service
Editorial Board: Sage: Journal of Hispanic Higher Education
Programming Board for YWCA Knoxville
American Association of Teachers (Spanish, German)
Asociación de Literatura Hispánica Femenina
Languages
German
English
Spanish
Portuguese
French
native
near-native
near-native
advanced level
reading knowledge
Travel Abroad
native of West Germany
U.S. permanent resident since 1976
4 months and 3 months residences in Peru
2 month residence in Spain
6 week stay in Brazil
extensive travel in Europe, Mexico and numerous Central and South American
countries,
short visits to Indonesia and China