ELENA MACHADO SÁEZ
CURRICULUM VITAE
3436 CHATELAINE BOULEVARD
DELRAY BEACH, FL 33445-2247
(718) 915-4427; [email protected]
http://www.fau.edu/english/facultypages_machado.php
HIGHER EDUCATION
Degrees Earned
Ph.D., English Language and Literature, State University of New York at Stony Brook; 2003.
Dissertation: “Going Global in a Caribbean Locale: Traveling Home in the Works of Paule
Marshall, Cristina Garcia, Andrea Levy and Caryl Phillips.”
-Helen Cooper (co-Director), Román de la Campa (co-Director), David Sheehan, Gillian Johns,
Kelly Oliver.
Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies, State University of New York at Stony Brook; 2000.
B.A., English Language and Literature, Fordham College, Fordham University; 1998.
Non-Degree
School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University; Seminar with Maryse Condé, “Cannibalism: a
Caribbean Literary Strategy;” June-July 2004.
EMPLOYMENT
Director, Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Florida Atlantic University; 2014 to present.
Associate Professor, English Department; Florida Atlantic University; 2009 to present.
Assistant Professor, English Department; Florida Atlantic University; 2003-2009.
Undergraduate Advisor, English Department; State University of New York at Stony Brook; 2001-2002.
PUBLICATIONS
Monograph
The Market Aesthetics of Caribbean Diasporic Historical Fiction. New World Studies Series, Modern
Language Initiative. University of Virginia Press, [Spring 2015]. Discusses the novels of Julia
Alvarez, Dionne Brand, David Chariandy, Michelle Cliff, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Díaz, Marlon
James, Andrea Levy, Ana Menéndez, and Monique Roffey.
Coauthored Book
Dalleo, Raphael and Machado Sáez, Elena. The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties
Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Analyzes the relationship of politics and the
market in the works of Chantel Acevedo, Julia Alvarez, Angie Cruz, Nilo Cruz, Junot Díaz,
Cristina Garcia, Ana Menéndez, Pedro Pietri, Ernesto Quiñonez and Abraham Rodriguez.
Paperback version issued in January 2013.
Reviews: (for full-text versions see http://home.fau.edu/rdalleo/web/reviews.htm)
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Reviews: (for full-text versions see http://home.fau.edu/rdalleo/web/reviews.htm)
Camino Real 3 (2010): 189-190.
Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies 22.2 (Spring 2010).
Latino Studies 7.3 (September 2009) 400-402.
Sargasso: A Journal of Caribbean Literature 1 (2008-2009): 179-182.
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 6.1 (Spring 2008).
MELUS 33.1 (Spring 2008): 174-176.
Latino(a) Research Review 6.3 (2007-2008): 121-124.
Juried or refereed journal articles
“Dictating Desire, Dictating Diaspora: Junot Díaz’s Oscar Wao as Foundational Romance.”
Contemporary Literature 52.3 (2011): 522-555.
“Reconquista: Ilan Stavans and Multiculturalist Latino/a Discourse.” Latino Studies 7.4 (2009): 410–434.
“Bittersweet (Be)Longing: Filling the Void of History in Andrea Levy’s Fruit of the Lemon.” Anthurium:
A Caribbean Studies Journal 4.1 (2006): 26pp. 12 Sept. 2006
<http://scholar.library.miami.edu/volume_4/issue_1/saez-bittersweet.html>
“The Global Baggage of Nostalgia in Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban.” MELUS 30.4 (2005): 129147.
“Resistance, Atlantic Orders and the Migrant Male in the Writings of Caryl Phillips.” Small Axe 17
(2005): 17-39.
“‘Latino, U.S.A.’: Statehooding Puerto Rico in Rosario Ferré’s The House on the Lagoon.” Phoebe 16.1
(2004): 23-38.
“The Routes of Global Nostalgia in Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban.” Sargasso: A Journal of
Caribbean Literature & Culture 2 (2002): 91-104.
Book Chapters
“Static Signals: Celia Cruz, Santería and Markets of Latinidad in Jennine Capó Crucet’s How to Leave
Hialeah.” Write in Tune: Representing Contemporary Music in Fiction. Eds. Erich Hertz and
Jeff Roessner. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2014. 183-196.
“Teaching Brathwaite’s MR within a Caribbean Fabulist Tradition.” Approaches to Teaching Kamau
Brathwaite. Ed. Elaine Savory. New York: The Modern Language Association of America,
[Forthcoming].
Coauthor (with Raphael Dalleo) “The Formation of a Latino/a Canon.” Routledge Companion to
Latino/a Literature. Eds. Frances Aparicio and Suzanne Bost. New York: Routledge, 2012. 385395.
Academic Reviews
Rev. of Valérie Loichot's The Tropics Bite Back: Culinary Coups in Caribbean Literature. College
Literature, [Forthcoming Spring 2014].
“Citizenship and the Landscapes of Latinidad.” Rev. of Maya Socolovsky’s Troubling Nationhood in U.S.
Latina Literature. [Under review with Latino Studies]
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“Embodying the Archive.” Rev. of Donette Francis’s Fictions of feminine Citizenship: Sexuality and the
Nation in Contemporary Caribbean Literature. Journal of West Indian Literature 20.1 (2011):
101-106.
Book Reviews
“Worth the Wait for Wondrous Tale.” Rev. of Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, South
Florida Sun Sentinel 9 Sept. 2007: A&E 6H.
“Globalization Bringing Us Closer.” Rev. of Cristina Garcia’s A Handbook to Luck, South Florida Sun
Sentinel 29 April 2007: A&E 10G.
“A Family’s Bonds of Love, Money.” Rev. of Love and Ghost Letters by Chantel Acevedo, South Florida
Sun Sentinel 11 Sept. 2005: A&E 18.
“Hemingway as Proxy for Cuba’s Woes.” Rev. of Leonardo Padura Fuentes’ Adíos Hemingway and
Alfredo José Estrada’s Welcome to Havana Señor Hemingway, South Florida Sun Sentinel 19
June 2005: A&E 18.
“Cigar Roller’s life goes up in smoke.” Rev. of Pablo Medina’s The Cigar Roller, South Florida Sun
Sentinel 6 Mar. 2005: A&E 18.
Work in Progress
Book Manuscript; Canon Formation, Markets of Latinidad and the Shifting Cultural Capital of US Latino
Writers. [Employs a historiographic approach to analyzing the disciplinary formation of US Latino
literary studies and processes of canonization, by reviewing gatekeeping institutions such as
anthologies in order to identify parallel trends within literary criticism on US Latino/a literature].
Essay; “Nilo Cruz’s Sibling Rivalries: Imagining Politics and Sexuality during Cuba’s Special Period.”
INVITED LECTURES
“Mixed Blessings: The Market Aesthetics of Julia Alvarez’s In the Name of Salomé.” From Coalitions to
Comparativism: Chicana/Latina Studies and Native American Studies Now. English Department,
UC Berkeley; 2014.
“Junot Díaz and the Dictatorship of the Market.” Symposium on Junot Díaz. Stanford University; 2012.
“Static Signals: Arlene Dávila, Jeannine Capó Crucet, and Markets of Latinidad.” wRites of Spring
Festival. Out of the Coffee House: New American Voices. Broward College, Fort Lauderdale, FL;
2011.
“The Market Aesthetics of Caribbean Diasporic Historical Fiction: Domesticating Difference in Junot
Díaz’s Oscar Wao.” Hemispheric Studies IRG Lecture Series. University of Miami; 2010.
“The Stony Brook Ph.D. – Entering the Real World.” English Alumni Representative for the
Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Academic Job Market. Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate
Series, State University of New York at Stony Brook; 2005.
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CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Selected Conference Presentations
“Intimacy, Ethics, and Caribbean Diasporic Historical Fiction.” Imagining the Unimaginable:
Film, Fiction, and Fabulation in Narratives of New World Slavery. American Historical
Association Conference, New York; [Jan. 2015].
“Postcolonial Police-states and Legacies of Anticolonial Masculinity in Monique Roffey’s The White
Woman on the Green Bicycle.” National Women’s Studies Association Conference, San Juan,
Puerto Rico; [Nov. 2014].
“How Junot Díaz unseated Julia Alvarez: critical popularity, the MFA generation and the US Latino
literary canon.”
 Latino Studies Association Inaugural Conference, Chicago; [July 2014].
 Canon Formation, Markets of Latinidad and the Shifting Cultural Capital of US Latino Writers
Seminar. Capitals. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Conference, New York
University; 2014.
“Static Signals: Arlene Dávila, Jeannine Capó Crucet, and Markets of Latinidad.”
 Haciendo Caminos: Mapping the Futures of U.S. Latina/o Literatures. 1st Biennial U.S. Latina/o
Literary Theory and Criticism Conference, CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice, NY;
2013.
 Latino Cultures of New York City. 7th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, New York Institute of
Technology; 2011.
 Brown Bag Luncheon Talk. English Department, FAU; 2011.
“Anthologies: Consolidating and Questioning the US Latino/a Literary Canon.”
 Haciendo Caminos: Mapping the Futures of U.S. Latina/o Literatures, 1st Biennial U.S. Latina/o
Literary Theory and Criticism Conference, CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice, NY;
2013.
 American Studies Association (ASA) Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico; 2012.
“Literacy in Las Américas: Teaching the Reader in Julia Alvarez’s In the Name of Salomé.”
 Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Conference, San Francisco, CA; 2012.
 Southwest Council of Latin American Studies (SCOLAS) Conference, Miami, FL; 2012.
“Dehistoricized Diaporas: The Postcolonial Imperative of David Chariandy’s Soucouyant.” British
Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference, Savannah, GA; 2012.
“Writing the Reader: Audience and Historical Imagination in Marlon James’s The Book of Night
Women.” Caribbean Philosophical Association (CPA) Conference. Rutgers U; 2011.
“‘Now I Calculating’: Re-membering Revolution through Romance in Dionne Brand's In Another Place,
Not Here.” Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) Conference, Piscadera Bay, Curaçao; 2011.
“Teaching Las Américas in the Historical Novels of Julia Alvarez and Michelle Cliff.” Women and Girls
of Color: History, Heritage, Heterogeneity. 19th Annual Women’s Studies Conference, Southern
Connecticut State U; 2010.
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“Locating the Market Aesthetics of Caribbean Diasporic Historical Fiction.”
 Time and Global Space Seminar. Creoles, Diasporas, Modernisms: ACLA Conference, New
Orleans, LA; 2010.
 Global Caribbean(s): Interrogating the Politics of Location in Caribbean Literature and Culture
Conference, U of Miami; 2010.
“Imagining Washington Heights from the Dominican Diaspora: Urban Space and Genre in Junot Díaz
and Angie Cruz.” Special Session on “Latinas/os and Cities: Migrations in Context.” Modern
Language Association (MLA) Convention, Philadelphia, PA; 2009.
“Edwidge Danticat’s Dewbreaker as Postcolonial Tragedy.” ASA Conference, Washington, DC; 2009.
“Dictating the Diaspora: Yunior, Intertextuality, and the Problem of Authenticity in Drown and Oscar
Wao.”
 CSA Conference, Kingston, Jamaica; 2009.
 Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Conference, Boston, MA; 2009.
 Special Session on “Postcolonial Histories and Intertextuality in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous
Life of Oscar Wao.” MLA Convention, San Francisco, CA; 2008.
“En-gendering a Postcolonial, Post-Sixties Vision: Reading Michael Eric Dyson, Juan Flores, David Scott
and Ana Menéndez.” National Association For Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS)
Conference. New Brunswick, NJ; 2009.
“Reconquista: Ilan Stavans and the Indigenous Other in Multiculturalist Latino Discourse.”
 Confluence of Multi-Ethnic Arts and the University, MELUS Conference, Ohio State U; 2008.
 Nuestra America in the U.S.?: U.S. Latino Studies Conference, U of Kansas; 2008.
“The Politics of Genre in the work of Juan Flores and Junot Díaz.” LASA Conference, Montreal, Canada;
2007.
“En-gendering Revolution through Romance in Ana Menéndez’s Loving Che.”
 CSA Conference, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil; 2007.
 MLA Convention, Philadelphia, PA; 2006.
“Sink or Drown: The Dead End of Ghetto Fiction in the Work of Junot Díaz.” NEMLA Conference,
Baltimore, MD; 2007.
“Bittersweet (Be)Longing: The Caribbean Diasporic as Tourist in Andrea Levy’s Fruit of the Lemon.”
 CSA Conference, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; 2005.
 Ph.D. Colloquium Series, FAU; 2005.
 The Ties that Bind II: Africa Dispersed Symposium, Barry U; 2004.
“Movin’ on Up and Off the Hyphen: Engaging Lowercase Latino Conversations in Angie Cruz’s
Soledad.”
 Ph.D. Colloquium Series, FAU; 2005.
 Urban Ethnicities, MELUS Conference, U of Illinois at Chicago; 2005.
“Global Routes of Nostalgia in Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban.” Caribbean Currents: Navigating
the Word and the Web, XXII Annual West Indian Literature Conference, U of Miami; 2003.
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Conference Service
Organizer; Seminar Streams A & B on “Canon Formation, Markets of Latinidad and the Shifting Cultural
Capital of US Latino Writers.” ACLA Conference, New York University, 2014.
Chair and commenter; “Race and Visual Cultures” Session. Beyond the Logic of Debt: Towards an Ethics
of Collective Dissent. ASA Conference, Washington, DC, 2013.
Moderator; Viewing of De agua dulce , Reconstruyendo al héroe, Juan de los muertos. “Mitología
Tropical” Panel. Submerged 2013: Alternative Cuban Cinema Festival. FAU; 2013.
Facilitator; Latina/o Studies Association Brainstorming Session. Haciendo Caminos: Mapping the
Futures of U.S. Latina/o Literatures, 1st Biennial U.S. Latina/o Literary Theory and Criticism
Conference, CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice, NY; 2013.
Panel Chair and Organizer; Panel on “Translating Identity: The Routes and Reception of Latinidad.”
Haciendo Caminos: Mapping the Futures of U.S. Latina/o Literatures, 1st Biennial U.S. Latina/o
Literary Theory and Criticism Conference, CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice, NY;
2013.
Moderator; Viewing of Potiche: Trophy Wife. The Tournées Festival: New French Films on Campus,
FAU; 2012.
Panel Chair and Organizer; Panel on “Art and Ethics: Witnessing History in US Latino/a Literature.”
SCOLAS Conference, Miami, FL; 2012.
Panel Chair and Organizer; Panel on “(Re)Locating Diaspora: New Histories of Sexuality and Gender.”
CSA Conference, Piscadera Bay, Curaçao; 2011.
Chair of 2011 MELUS Conference Committee; MELUS Conference, FAU; 2011.
Panel Chair; Panel on “Documenting the Undocumented: Genre and History in Hispanic/Latino Writing.”
MELUS Conference, FAU; 2011.
Panel Chair; Panel on “Haitian Narration.” Haiti and the Americas: Histories, Cultures, Imaginations
Conference, FAU; 2010.
Panel Chair and Organizer; Panel on “En-gendering US Diasporic Visions of Caribbean Migration.”
ASA Convention, Washington, DC; 2009.
Panel Chair and Organizer; Special Session on “Postcolonial Histories and Intertextuality in Junot Díaz’s
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” MLA Convention, San Francisco, CA; 2008.
Panel Chair; “Reading Andean Indigenous Identity.” Southeast Conference on Amazonian and Andean
Studies, FAU; 2008.
Panel Chair; “Writing from the Dominican Diaspora.” Nuestra América in the US?, US Latino Studies
Conference, University of Kansas; 2008.
Member; Conference Organizing Committee; MELUS Conference, FAU; 2006.
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Panel Chair; “Caribbean Identities.” CSA Conference, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; 2005.
Panel Chair; “Dr. Sibylle Fischer: The Haitian Revolution and Modernity.” The Haitian Revolution:
Myth, History and Promise. FAU; 2005.
Member; Haitian Revolution Symposium Committee; FAU; 2004-2005.
Panel Chair; “Representación y género: entre estrategias visuales y discursivas.” Myths, Realities and
Cultural Paradigms: Iconography in Hispanic Women’s Literature, XIV Congreso Internacional
de la Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica. FAU; 2003.
TEACHING
Undergraduate Courses
U.S. Latino/a Theater and Film
U.S. Latino/a Literature
Caribbean Literature in English
Historical Fiction
Women in Literature
20th Century Major American Writers: Butler, Danticat, Díaz, Alexie
American Literature since 1865
Honors Senior Seminar
Introduction to Literary Studies
Interpretation of Drama
Graduate Seminars
U.S. Latino/a Performance
U.S. Latino/a Historical Fiction
U.S. Latino/a Literature and Theory: Genre and Writing the Hyphen
U.S. Latino/a Literature and Theory: Politics and the Market
Caribbean Historical Fiction
Caribbean Fabulist Fiction
Caribbean Literature and Theory: Migration in the Caribbean Imaginary
Principles and Problems of Literary Study
Teaching Colloquium for English GTAs
Research Colloquium for MA Thesis Students
Course Added to FAU Curriculum
Caribbean Literature in English (undergraduate)
Teaching Nominations and Awards
College of Arts and Letters Finalist for Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award; FAU; 2014.
Nomination for Owl Award in Graduate Mentoring; Graduate Student Association; FAU; 2010.
University Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for 2007-08; $2,000; FAU; 2008.
Alan Babich Prize for Excellence in Teaching; $400; English Department, SUNY Stony Brook; 2001.
Thesis Advising
MA Theses
Chair; Cowboy Figure in Paule Marshall and The Harder They Come; Paula Wilson; English; in progress.
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Chair; The subaltern and intellectual in the novels of Julia Alvarez; Raquel Alonso; English; Graduated
2010. Winner of Howard Pearce Award for best thesis of the year.
Chair; US Latina Writers and Sexuality; Kimberly Barron; English; Graduated 2007.
Reader; Derek Walcott; Nicole Hedmark; English; in progress.
Reader; James Joyce and Derek Walcott: Colonial Voices; Sebastian Terneus; English; Graduated 2011.
Reader; Black Women Playwrights and Depictions of Lynching; Tinéa Williams; English; Graduated
2009.
Reader; Postmodern Fairy Tale; Brittany Rigdon; English; Graduated 2009.
Reader; Jean Toomer and Interfaith Symbolism; Laura Gayle Fallon; English; Graduated 2009. Winner of
Howard Pearce Award.
Reader; Zora Neale Hurston and Environmentalism; Frederick Redman; English; Graduated 2008.
Reader; American Women Writers and Religious Patriarchy; Renee Dowbnia; English; Graduated 2008.
MFA Theses
Reader; Monique Mcintosh, Short Story Collection; in progress.
Reader; Kristian Mecom, “We Once Lived in Caves” and other stories; Graduated 2010.
PhD Dissertations
Chair; (Re)Making Men: Contemporary Anglo-Caribbean Writers’ Renegotiation of Authorship and
Nation; Sheryl Gifford; Graduated 2013.
Reader; Postcolonial and Caribbean Literature; Kerry-Ann Brown; in progress.
Outside Reader; Caribbean Bodyscapes and the Politics of Sacred Citizenship; Josie Urbistondo,
University of Miami; Graduated 2012.
Reader; The Consumption of Haiti in Hispanic Caribbean literature; Walteria Tucker; Graduated 2011.
Reader; Migration, nationalism, and exodus in contemporary Indo-Guyanese literature; Savena Budhu;
Graduated 2010.
AWARD AND GRANT EXPERIENCE
Awards and Fellowships
Full Year Sabbatical; College of Arts and Letters; FAU; 2011-2012.
Arts and Letters Fellow; one semester full course release; College of Arts and Letters; FAU; 2010.
Arts and Letters Fellow; single course release; College of Arts and Letters; FAU; 2006.
Marilyn and Ira Hechler Dissertation Scholarship; SUNY Stony Brook; 2003.
W. Burghardt Turner Fellowship, SUNY Stony Brook; 1998-2003.
Funded Research Performed
Scholarship, Creative Accomplishment, and Teaching Development Award; $3,000; College of Arts and
Letters, FAU; 2006.
Division of Sponsored Research Travel Award; $1,000; FAU; May-June 2005.
Scholarship, Creative Accomplishment, and Teaching Development Award; $2,000; College of Arts and
Letters, FAU; 2005.
Matching Funds Reduction Award; $300; School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University; 2004.
Scholarship, Creative Accomplishment, and Teaching Development Award; $3,000; College of Arts and
Letters, FAU; 2004.
External Grant Applications
Principal Co-Investigator with Barclay Barrios; John C. Graves Fund Grant; $100,000; Community
Foundation of Broward; submitted Feb. 2014, not awarded May 2014.
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Internal Grant Applications
Principal Investigator and Budget Manager; WGSS Student Center and Seminar Room; $41,756.72;
Upgrades and Naming of AH 207, Technology Fee Grant; College of Arts and Letters, FAU;
funded, July 2014.
Principal Investigator and Budget Manager; Initiative on “Surviving Slavery: Sex Trafficking in South
Florida;” $5,000; Collaborative Faculty Research Initiative Grant; College of Arts and Letters,
FAU; funded, Feb. 2014.
PROFESSIONAL
Professional Service
Co-founder and Member; Coordinating Committee for Latino/a Studies Association, 2012-2014.
Senior Scholar Advisor; NEH Application for Traveling Exhibit, “Routes of Writing: Immigrants and
21st Century American Literature,“ American Writers Museum, 2011.
External Reviewer; Promotion and Tenure Application, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, [2014].
External Reviewer; Promotion and Tenure Application, University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), 2012.
External Reviewer; Promotion and Tenure Application, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, 2011.
External Reviewer; Promotion and Tenure Application, Kansas State University, 2010.
Manuscript Peer Reviewer; University of New Mexico Press, 2010.
Manuscript Peer Reviewer; Norton Anthology of Latino Literature. Ed. Ilan Stavans; 2005.
Journal Peer Reviewer; Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal
Caribbean Studies
CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies
Criticism
Digital Humanities Quarterly
Dissidences: Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism
Hispanic Review
Journal of the Caribbean Philosophical Association
Journal of Commonwealth Literature
Journal of West Indian Literature
Latino Studies
MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States)
Modern Fiction Studies
Oxford Journal of Contemporary Women’s Writing
Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Small Axe
Voces del Caribe
Department Committees
Chair; Asian American Literature Search Committee, English Department, FAU; 2013-2014.
Member; Graduate Program Committee; English Department, FAU; 2003-2008; 2012-present.
Member; Undergraduate Program Committee; English Department, FAU; 2008-2012.
Member; Writing and Rhetoric Hiring Committee; English Department, FAU; 2009-2010.
Member; American Indigenous Literatures Search Committee; English Department, FAU; 2006-2007.
Member; Writing Across the Curriculum Committee; English Department, FAU; 2004-2005.
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Member; Undergraduate Program Committee; English Department, SUNY Stony Brook; 2001-2002.
Department Service
Faculty Participant; Inaugural English Department Spelling Bee; FAU; 2014.
Assessment Reader; Department Undergraduate Assessment and Grading Criteria Project; 2009.
Organizer and Discussant; “Writing Your MA Thesis Proposal.” English Graduate Student Society
(EGSS) Workshop; FAU; 2009.
Panel Member; “Getting to Where You’re Going: A Conversation about the Profession of English
Studies.” 4th Annual Conference of EGSS, FAU; 2008.
Panel Member; “Adapting Class Papers for Conference Presentation and Scholarly Publication. 2nd
Annual Conference of EGSS, FAU; 2006.
Panel Member; “Academic Professionalization: Conferencing and Publishing.” Alleyways: Marginal
Voices from Society's Boundaries. Inaugural Conference of EGSS. FAU; 2005.
College Committees
Member, Master Teacher Selection Committee; FAU; 2011.
Member, Caribbean and Latin American Studies Committee; FAU; 2003-present.
Member, Ethnic Studies Executive Committee; FAU; 2005-2006.
Member, Ethnic Studies Committee; FAU; 2004-2006.
Member, Caribbean and Latin American Studies Scholarship Committee; FAU; 2005.
Member, Africana Studies Committee; FAU; 2004-2005.
Member, Caribbean Studies Committee; FAU; 2003-2004.
College and University Service
Keynote Speaker; Lavender Graduation Ceremony, LGBTQA Resource Center; FAU; [2014].
Co-Organizer with Jennifer Peluso; Inaugural WGSS Career Fair, featuring Dr. Mary Ann Mason’s
keynote address, “Do Babies Matter? Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower,” and alumni
roundtable of MA in Women's Studies program graduates, Megan Tomei, Heather Boyer Samuels,
and Judith Seltzer; Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies; FAU; [2014].
Co-Organizer with Karen Leader; Feminist Graduate Student Association Brunch for Academic Ink Event
featuring Dr. Margot Mifflin; Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies; FAU; 2014.
Organizer; “Ain’t I a Woman” Performance by Core Ensemble, WGSS Faculty Associates Soiree, and
Faculty Development Workshop; Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies; FAU; 2014.
Faculty Website Manager; Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Website; 2014.
Reader; College of Arts and Letters Commencement Ceremony; 2011.
Reader and Graduate Marshal; College of Arts and Letters Commencement Ceremony; 2010.
Panel Member; “Third Annual Women's Studies FAU Women Authors Panel.” Women's Studies
Program and Ph.D. Colloquium Series, FAU; 2008.
REFERENCES
Marta Caminero-Santangelo, Professor
English Department, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045
(785) 864-2529, [email protected]
Rodrigo Lazo, Associate Professor
English Department, University of California, Irvine
(949) 824-4830, [email protected]
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Benigno Trigo, Professor
Spanish and Portuguese Department, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235-1617
(615) 322-6930, [email protected]
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