Claire Emilie Martin

Education:
PhD Dec. 1988 Yale University
MA May 1982 University of Massachusetts, Amherst
BA May 1980 University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1977-78 Rhode Island College
1975-76 Centre d'études universitaires de Savoie, France
1973-74 Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, La Plata, Argentina .

Professional Experience:
July 1998-2003 Chair, RGRLL

July 1996 Full Professor, RGRLL, CSULB

August 1988-92 Assistant Professor, RGRLL, CSULB

1985-87 Spanish Instructor and Coordinator. Hampshire College

Spanish Instructor. International Language Institute. Northampton and Holyoke , MA

1986 Spanish Instructor. Amherst College

1985 Spanish Instructor. University of MA , Amherst

Research Assistant to Dr. Roberto González Echevarría, Yale University

Summer 1984 Spanish Instructor. Yale Summer Institute

1982-84 Spanish Instructor. Yale University

1979-82 Teaching Assistant. University of MA , Amherst

Academic honors :
Spring 1990 CSULB Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award ($2,500)

AY 1990-91 CSULB Scholarly and Creative Activities Award: " My First Twelve Years by the Countess of Merlin: Portrait of Colonial Times in Cuba."
CSULB University Mini-Grant: "Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda: The Abolitionist Narrative in Latin America."

AY 1991-92 CSULB Scholarly and Creative Activities Award: "Telling Tales: The Figure of Scheherazade in the Narratives of Isabel Allende & Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)."

Fall 1991 CSULB Affirmative Action Faculty Development Program Award: "Alejo Carpentier and the Chroniclers: Origins of a American Writing".

AY 1992-93 CSULB Scholarly and Creative Activities Award: " Observations by the Countess of Merlin on the Conditions of Slaves in the Spanish Colonies: An Essay from a Cuban Living in Paris."

AY 1993-94 CSULB Scholarly and Creative Activities Award: Clorinda Matto de Turner's Aves sin nido: The Changing Face of Nineteenth-Century Spanish America." Innovation in Teaching Grant: "Teaching Spanish to Native Speakers: Creating a Multi-Media Environment."
College of Liberal Arts Recognition Award for Service to Department.

AY 1994-95 CSULB Scholarly and Creative Activities Award: “Nineteenth-Century Salons in Spanish America , and the Emergence of Epistolary Discourse: From Orality to the Written Word.".
Summer 1994 College of Liberal Arts Curriculum Development Award with Dr. María Carreira. Award: $800.

AY 1995-1996 CSULB Scholarly and Creative Activities Award: "Daughters of the Empire: Nineteenth Century Women Travelers to Latin America."
College of Liberal Arts . Spanish Immersion Program proposal and development of course. Award: $4,000.

Summer 1995 University College and Extension Services. Wrote a proposal to develop Spanish and French for Teachers course. Award: $15,000.
M odern Language Association Teacher Training Project. Team member representing one of six foreign language departments nationwide. Award: $1,000.

AY 1996-1997 CSULB Scholarly and Creative Activities Award: "In Search of a Model Nation: Eduarda Mansilla's Recuerdos de viaje."
Language Mission Project. Team member. Sponsored by the AAC&U and the National Foreign Language Center at the Johns Hopkins University.

AY 1997-1998 CSULB Scholarly and Creative Activities Award: "Traditional recipes for the Family and for the Republic: feminist Journalism in Nineteenth-Century Mexico." CSULB Mini-Grant Award. "The Spanish Heritage Language Student: Theoretical Considerations and Practical Applications". $2,989.00

AY 1998-1999 CSULB Scholarly and Creative Activities Award: "'To Live Forever in the Memory of Argentinean Children': Eduarda Mansilla's Pioneering Work of Children's Literature" NEH Humanities Focus Grant "The Spanish Heritage Speaker". ($25,000)

CSULB Assessing Student Learning Outcomes. Planning Grant and Full Grant with Griselda Sasayama and María Carreira ($6,600).

CSULB Summer Stipend: “Writing from the Margins: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers in Spanish America ”.

CSULB Scholarly and Creative Activities Award: “ Los misterios del Plata by Juana Manso: a ‘family romance' set in the times of Rosas' dictatorship in Argentina [1829-1852]”.

AY 2000

2000 Educational Innovations and Assessment Award. Travel Award ($500) to pay for Dr. Kay Bailey's trip to a three-day workshop on technologies in FL instruction
( Monterrey Bay ).

CSULB Summer Stipend: “Writing from the Margins: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers in Spanish America. An Anthology” Volume II.

I was a member of a team (Ken Curtis, Margie Merryfield, and Larry George) charged with designing an International Pathways, and with drafting the definition of the GE Global designation). Funded by the Office of the Provost ($1,600).

2000 Educational Innovations and Assessment Award: "Developing Bilingual Fluency by Linking Spanish 250 and English 100". Team consultant. ($500)

AY 2001 Reader for Publications of the Modern Language Association.

AY 2002 CSULB Summer Stipend: “Argentinean Literature of the Nineties: Reconstructing Bloodied Memories.”

Awarded Sabbatical Leave for Spring 2003. “Argentinean Literature of the Nineties: Deconstructing a Nation's History.”

AY 2003 CSULB Summer Stipend: “Family Matters: Violence and Remembrance in Padreoscuro by the Argentinean novelist José Viñals”.

Publications:

BOOKS :
Entre Tú y yo . Collaborator. (Holt, January 1990)

Alejo Carpentier y las crónicas de Indias : orígenes de una escritura americana. Hanover, N.H.: Ediciones del Norte, 1995.

Las mujeres toman la palabra: escritura femenina hispanoamericana del siglo XIX . Volume I. Antología de escritoras hispanoamericanas del siglo XIX . Vol II. (with Dr. María Cristina Arambel Guiñazú / Lehman College, CUNY). Frankfurt-Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2001.

ARTICLES :
"Un morisco astrólogo, experto en mujeres," [Co-authored] Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica . Tomo XXXVI Num. 1 (1988): 261-76.

"Un morisco astrólogo, experto en mujeres," Actas del 111 Simposio Internacional de Estudios Moriscos. Las Prácticas Musulmanas de los Moriscos Andaluces (1492-1609). (Publications du Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Ottomanes, Morisques, de Documentation et d'Information: Zaghouan, 1989)

"La señora Ordóñez o el discurso del silencio," Mujer y Sociedad en América. VI Simposio Internacional. Juana Arancibia, ed. Vol II (1990): 85-91.

"Entrevista con Isabel Allende" [Co-author: Edith Dimo Gary] Alba de América. Revista literaria . Vol VI, Nos.14 y 15 (1990): 331-43.

"Los pasos perdidos: Carpentier y la máscara autobiográfica" Monóculo. Revista de literatura. No. 3, November 1991.

"La condesa de Merlin y Mis doce primeros años o el contradiscurso de la subjetividad romántica. Alba de América, Vol VIII, No. 17 (Fall 1992).

“Entrevista con Mercedes Valdivieso” [Co-author: Edith Dimo Gary] Alba de América (1997).

BOOK ARTICLES :

"Slavery in the Spanish Colonies: The Racial Politics of the Countess of Merlin," in Reinterpreting the Spanish American Essay. Women Writers of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Ed. Doris Meyer. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1995.

"Letter XXV from La Havane. A Brief Account of its Reception on Both Sides of the Atlantic," and " Havana. Letter XXV To George Sand," in Rereading the Spanish American Essay: Translations of 19th and 20th Century Women's Essays . Ed. Doris Meyer. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1995.

" Montaña adentro de Marta Brunet," in Diccionario Enciclopédico de las Letras de América Latina, ed. Nelson Osorio. Caracas, Venezuela: Fundación Biblioteca Ayacucho, 1995.

" Ifigenia de Teresa de la Parra y el lenguaje de la moda" in Escritura y desafío: narrativa venezolana escrita por mujeres . Edts. Amarilis Hidalgo de Jesús and Edith Dimo. Caracas, Venezuela : Monte Avila Editores, 1996.

Contributing Editor. " 20th Century Prose Fiction in Argentina ". Handbook of Latin American Studies. Vol 58. Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, 1998.

"Creating Teaching Communities: A Model for reform and On-Going Renewal In Foreign Language Teacher Preparation at CSULB." Co-authored with Clorinda Donato. In Preparing a Nation's Teachers . Edts. Phyllis Franklin, David Laurence & Elizabeth Wells. MLA Publication, 1999.

“Daughter of the Empire: Merlin's La Havane .” In Women at Sea. Travelers and the Caribbean . Edts. Yvette Romero and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert. New York-London: Palgrave, 2001.

Articles accepted for publication :

"En el umbral de la fama: la condesa de Merlin". Siglo XIX . Valladolid, Spain. [2001]

“'Vivir en la memoria de los niños argentinos': Cuentos de Eduarda Mansilla” in Proceedings from the XXXII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana . Santiago, Chile .

“Models of Good Practice: A Study of Foreign Language Programs in United States Colleges and Universities, 1995-1999”. ADFL Bulletin . Modern Language Association, 2003.

BOOK REVIEWS:

Breaking Boundaries: Latina Writings and Critical Readings, edited by Asunción Horno-Delgado, Eliana Ortega, Nina M. Scott, and Nancy Saporta Sternbach; Las románticas: Women Writers and Subjectivity in Spain, 1835-1850 by Susan Kirkpatrick; Plotting Women: Gender and Representation in Mexico by Jean Franco. [Co-author: Shirley Mangini] Signs. Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Vol 16, No. 2 Winter (1991): 282-85.

Poética del desengaño. Deseo, poder, escritura: Barrios, Bombal, Asturias y Yáñez . Kemy Oyarzún. Santiago, Chile: Ediciones LAR, 1989. Anales del Pacífico/Pacific Annals [CSULB Press, 1993].

Politics, gender, and the Mexican Novel, 1968-1988. Beyond the Pyramid. Cynthia Steele. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992. Revista Chilena de Literatura. 43 (Noviembre 1993): 162-3.

Breaking Boundaries: Latina Writings and Critical Readings, edited by Asunción Horno-Delgado, Eliana Ortega, Nina M. Scott, and Nancy Saporta Sternbach; Plotting Women: Gender and Representation in Mexico by Jean Franco; La escritora hispánica by Nora Erro-Orthman and Juan Cruz Mendizábal. An Annotated Bibliography of Hispanic Feminist Criticism. Ed. Lou Charnon-Deutsch. Stony Brook, New York: Feministas Unidas, 1994.

PAPERS PRESENTED:

October 1987. "'El camino de Santiago ' y las crónicas americanas." Conference on the Hispanic Short-Story. Indiana University of PA.

March 1988. " Los pasos perdidos o la máscara autobiográfica." Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Providence, R.I.

October 1988. "Marta Lynch o el discurso del silencio." International Conference on "Women in the Hispanic World," California State University, Northridge.

November 1988. " El arpa y la sombra: crónica carpenteriana," Modern Language Association of Southern California, West L.A. College .

March 1989. " El arpa y la sombra como text/amento paródico," Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Wilmington, DEL.

March 1989. "Feminism and the literature of Spanish America ," Annual Celebration of Women Studies, CSULB.

September 1989. " Eva Luna de Isabel Allende: una pícara Scheherezada," XV Congress of Hispanic Literatures, Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

April 1990. "La condesa de Merlín: (Auto)/biografía de una ausencia." Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Toronto, Canada .

October 1991. “Crónica de una mitificación: Carpentier y América.” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

April 1992. “La condesa de Merlin: Memoirs from Havana.” Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, SUNY, Buffalo, NY.

October 1993. “The Countess of Merlin's Correspondencia Intima: Textual Self-Representations.” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

October 1993. “The Epistolary Genre and the Condesa de Merlin's Correspondencia Intima : A Battle for Authorship.” IV Asamblea General de la Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica, Loyola University, Chicago.

March 1994. Chair of panel, “From Colony to Nation/From Private to Public: Women and Writing in XIX Spanish America. Presented: “En el umbral de la fama: educación, publicación y política en la obra de la condesa de Merlin.” Latin American Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia.

October 1994. “XIX Century representations of Self and Nation: Mercedes Merlin's La Havane.” V International Conference of the “Asociación de literatura femenina hispánica”, Davidson College, NC.

March 1995. “ Ifigenia y la recreación del sujeto femenino.” Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, New Orleans .

September 1995. "Daughters of Imperialism: XIX Century Women Travelers to Latin America," and "Gender and Imperialism: Mercedes Merlin's Cuba." Latin American Studies Association, Washington, D.C.

October 1995. "Daughters of the Empire: Mercedes Merlin's La Havane and Flora Tristán's Peregrinaciones de una paria, " VI International Conference of the "Asociación de literatura femenina hispánica," Barnard College, New York, N.Y.

October 1996. "Eduarda Mansilla's National Romance: Pablo ou la vie dans les pampas," VII International Conference of the "Asociación de literatura femenina hispánica," University of Colorado, Boulder .

March 1997. Chair of panel for the XXXII Comparative Literature Conference "The City in Latin American Literature". CSULB. Long Beach , CA .

April 1998. ""Vuelta a la semilla": The Journey Back: Mercedes Merlin, Viaje a La Habana (1841) and Juana Manuela Gorriti, La tierra natal (1889). Northeast Modern Language Association Convention. Baltimore .

June 1998. Chair of panel: "Visiones y revisiones decimonónicas: pioneras y peregrinas" . "'Vivir en la memoria de los niños argentinos': Los Cuentos de Eduarda Mansilla." XXXII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. Santiago , Chile .

September 1998. Chair and presenter of panel: " Literature, política y sociedad: las escritoras del diecinueve”. “ Los misterios del Plata de Juana Paula Manso: paradigmas étnicos de la nueva república.” Chicago . LASA.

October 21-23, 1999 . Invited presentation on "Model Programs" at the "Rethinking the Purposes and Practices of Foreign Language Education" conference organized by the Association of American Colleges and Universities, Des Moines , Iowa .

June 1-4, 2000 . Invited presentation: "Curricular Dialogues: Faculty Listening", Plennary Session III: "Teaching Tomorrow's Children". Association of Departments of Foreign Languages. Seminar West. Arizona State University .

September 21-23, 2000 . "La condesa de Merlin: re/construcción de una identidad nacional". XI International Conference of the "Asociación de literatura femenina hispánica". Glendon College , York University-Toronto, Canada .

October 23, 2000 . Invited lecture: "The Foreign Language Department and Curricular Change". Brandeis University , Waltham , MA .

June 18-22, 2001 “ La Havane de la Condesa de Merlin: una vuelta a la semilla”. Alexander von Humboldt Conference on Travel Literature in Arcada , CA .

June 21-24, 2001 . Chair of a Session: “Planning, Supporting, and Capitalizing on Campus-Based Research on Language Learning”. ADFL West, University of Texas , Austin.

September 2001. Participated in Workshop on the National Endowment for the Humanities. CSULB.

April 12-14, 2002 . “Literatura argentina de los noventa: memoria y recuperación”. Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Universtity of Toronto .

April 20, 2002 . “The NEH Focus Grant”. Invited presentation for the California Language Teachers Association. Long Beach , Westin Hotel.

September 26-28, 2002 “Narrativa del exilio: Cuaderno de inviern o de Sara Rosenberg”. Mid America Conference. St. Louis .

March 20-23, 2003 . “Memorias del exilio. Escritores argentinos de los noventa”. Conference on Hispanic Literature. California State University , Sacramento .

October 4, 2003 . “ Padreocuro de José Viñals: alegoría de la violencia”. Mid-America Conference. Boulder , Colorado.

June 28-July 1, 2004. XXXV Congreso Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. “Las múltiples voces de la condesa de Merlin: del ‘bel canto' a la escritura”. Universtity of Poitiers, France.

Other professional activities:

Fall 2002--External Reviewer for the Foreign Languages and Literatures Department at California State University , Fullerton .

October 2002--External scholarship evaluator for Dr. Lori Hopkins ( University of New Hampshire ).

Winter 2003-- External Appraiser for The Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics Department of Concordia University ( Montreal , Canada ).