Sarah E. Finley Curriculum Vitae Department of Modern Languages and Literatures Office: (740) 427-5170 Kenyon College finleys@kenyon.edu 202 College-Park Street Ascension Hall Gambier, OH 43022-5002 Education 2014 University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY Ph.D. with Distinction in Hispanic Studies Dissertation: Acoustic Epistemologies and Transcultural Resonances in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 2012 University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY M.A. in Hispanic Studies 2010 Middlebury College, Guadalajara, Mexico Summer Session Abroad 2004-2008 Petrie School of Music at Converse College, Spartanburg, South Carolina B.M. summa cum laude in Vocal Performance, May 2008 Additional areas of study in Music Composition and Modern Languages Academic Appointments 2014-Present Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish, Kenyon College Areas of Specialization Spanish American Literary and Cultural Studies Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Sound Studies and Auditory Culture Media and Popular Music Studies Peer-Reviewed Publication 2012 La vida muerta: lo abyecto como la negación de la autoridad en La carne de René de Virgilio Piñera. Realismo y decadentismos en la literatura hispánica. Ed. Ricardo de la Fuente Ballesteros and Jesús Pérez-Magallón. Valladolid: Universitas Castellae, 2012. 77-86.
Grants and Fellowships 2013 Dissertation Research Travel Grant, Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies Program, University of Kentucky 2013 Dissertation Enhancement Award, Graduate School, University of Kentucky 2010-2012 Travel grants (3) for conference presentations, Graduate School, University of Kentucky 2010 Tuition grant, Middlebury Language Schools 2007 South Carolina Colleges and Independent Universities Research Grant 2004-2008 Converse College Presidential Scholar Academic Awards and Honors 2012 Winner of the Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas (pre-1800) 2012 Graduate Student Award 2012 University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences Certificate for Outstanding Teaching 2011 McCrary Award for the Outstanding Second-Year Graduate Student, University of Kentucky 2011 Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Kentucky Scholarly Presentations 2014 Roundtable Discussion Recovering Early Modern Female Voices: Translation and Theory. Tracing Paths hosted by the Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y Latinoamérica (pre-1800) (Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal), September 2014. 2014 Visual Harmony and Musical Portraiture: Vestiges of Athanasius Kircher s Musical Thought within Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz s Acoustico-Poetic Imagination. Conference on Music Literature, Historiography and Aesthetics (University of London, London, United Kingdom), July 2014. 2014 Of Mirrors and Echoes: Optics, Acoustics and Affect in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz s Take on Courtly Love. KFLC: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference (University of Kentcuky, Lexington, KY), April 2014.
2013 Melopoeta: The Hidden Harmonies of musica poetica in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Colonial Resonance Conference (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI), September 2013. 2012 Unsung Song: A Model for Theorizing the Sounds of a Repressed Musical Canon in the Works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Building Bridges hosted by the Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y Latinoamérica (pre- 1800). (Portland State University, Portland, OR), September 2012.. 2011 Smogopolis a la Transnacional: Re-Mapping Contemporary Mexico City through Musical Masking in Café Tacuba s Revés and Sino. 4th Annual Crossing Over Symposium (Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH), October 2011. 2010 La literatura es y no es : Duelo, renacimiento del relato y resistencia a las fuerzas del mercado en Los fantasmas de César Aira. Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference (Radford University, Roanoke, VA), October 2010. 2010 Más allá de la forma poética: La reproducción de la sonata en Alianza (sonata) de Pablo Neruda. Boston College Conference in Romance Languages and Literatures (Boston College, Boston, MA), March 2010. 2008 Re-thinking the Artistic Identity of Octavio Paz: A Musical Analysis of Concierto en el jardín. 11 th Annual Ohio State University Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics (Ohio State University, Columbus, OH), April 2008. Editorial Experience 2012, 2014 Reviewer, Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos Conference Organization 2011-2013 Assistant Director of the KFLC: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference (formerly the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference) Responsibilities: Manage website, publicity, and all communications for approximately 700 participants and exhibitors; coordinate budgetary and logistical arrangements for 8 participating academic units at University of Kentucky; assist in management of $120,000 budget; liaise with e-commerce provider for fund transfer and online registration; prepare conference program; manage registration and technology throughout the conference.
2010-2011 Organizer and Chair of Panels in the Spanish American Division, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference Responsibilities: Assist in the review of all Spanish American abstracts, creating thematically coherent sections; confirm acceptance and logistics with participants; facilitate discussion portion of the conference sessions. Teaching Experience 2014 Visiting Assistant Professor, Kenyon College Courses: Spanish Conversation and Composition 2009-2014 Teaching Assistant, University of Kentucky Courses: Elementary, High Elementary, Intermediate, High Intermediate Spanish; Survey of Latin American Literature and Culture; Intermediate Spanish Conversation; Spanish Composition through Textual Analysis Summer, 2013 Spring, 2013 Fall, 2011 Fall, 2010 Summer Coordinator of Elementary Language Instruction, University of Kentucky McGraw-Hill World Languages Symposium (Indianapolis, Indiana), March 2013. Workshops on digital resources and language learning led by Leticia McGrath, Elizabeth Dowdy and Melissa Logue Invited lecturer for the Nisbet Honors Program at Converse College MUH 299H, Honors Seminar: Song, Music and Poetry, Dr. Laura F. Brown and Mrs. Mildred Roche Written Spanish Workshop Series, University of Kentucky Led by Cecilia M. Colombi, Janet C. Eldred and Judith Liskin Gasparro Professional Service 2011-2013 President, Hispanic Studies Graduate Student Association 2011-2012 Representative, Graduate Student Congress Steering Committee 2010-2011 Assistant to the Director of Graduate Studies 2010-2011 Secretary, Hispanic Studies Graduate Student Association Language Proficiencies Spanish French Italian German Near-native Reading, elementary speaking and writing Reading, elementary speaking and writing Reading
Professional Memberships American Musicological Society Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas (pre-1800) Modern Language Association