136 East 3 rd Street Oswego, NY 13126 maria.aguilar@oswego.edu (315) 216-6758 (home) (315) 532-7432 (cell) EDUCATION WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS, MO Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures, August 2014. Dissertation: Herederos de la libertad: criminalización, liderazgo y escritura de afrodescendientes en Colombia, Brasil y Cuba. Director: Prof. William Acree WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS, MO M.A. in Spanish, May 2008. FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACIÓN, MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY B.A. in Latin American Literature, 2005. ACADEMIC POSITIONS INSTRUCTOR OF SPANISH, State University of New York at Oswego (Fall 2014-Spring 2015) GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT, Women, Gender and Sexualities Studies. Washington University in St. Louis (Fall 2012-Spring 2013) GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT, Dept. of Romance Languages & Literatures. Washington University in St. Louis (2007-2012) RESEARCH ASSISTANT TO PROF. WILLIAM ACREE, Dept. of Romance Languages & Literatures. Washington University in St. Louis (Summer 2010) RESEARCH ASSISTANT TO PROF. ELZBIETA SLODOWSKA, Dept. of Romance Languages & Literatures. Washington University in St. Louis (Summer 2009) RESEARCH ASSISTANT TO PROF. MABEL MORAÑA, Dept. of Romance Languages & Literatures. Washington University in St. Louis (2008-2009) AWARDS LASA2014 Travel Grant to present a paper in the XXXII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association: Democracy & Memory. Chicago, IL: May 21-24, 2014. Bryant Travel Fund to pursue archival work in La Habana, Cuba: June 2013. Washington University in St. Louis.
Third Place for poster presentation in Humanities. 18 th Annual Graduate Research Symposium February 16, 2013. Washington University in St. Louis. There Are No Black Heroes: Afro-Latin American Leaders in the Nineteenth Century. Bryant Travel Fund to pursue archival work in Bogotá, Colombia: June 2011. Washington University in St. Louis. Dean s Award for Excellence in Teaching 2010-2011 (for exemplary performance as a Graduate Teaching Assistant) The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Washington University in St. Louis. Eva Sichel Memorial Prize for the Best Critical Essay in Spanish. Dept. of Romance Languages & Literatures. Washington University in St. Louis. May 2010. Instancias del deseo / escenarios de la violencia: (auto)disciplinamiento y fragilidad institucional en Los ejércitos, de Evelio Rosero. FELLOWSHIPS Invited Workshop Fellow at the Nineteenth-Century Workshop: On Circulation with the discussion paper My Beloved Commodity: Portrayals of Women Intellectuals and Artists in the Caribbean Cultural Market, 1868 1912. Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University. October 2-3, 2014. Invited Workshop Fellow at the Age of Emancipation: Black Freedom in the Atlantic World Workshop with the discussion paper There Are No Black Heroes: Freedom, Group Identity, and Racial Equality from Black Latin American Leaders Vision. Robert Penn Warren Center, Vanderbilt University. April 26-27, 2013. CERTIFICATES Teaching Citation (Fall 2012). Washington University in St. Louis. (An optional program for Washington University Ph.D. students who pursue teaching experience and expertise beyond the requirements of their departments and of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.) Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Graduate Certificate (Spring 2011). Washington University in Saint Louis. PUBLICATIONS The Black Heroes of the Nation: Community, Freedom, and Racial Equality from Afro-Latin American Leaders Vision, under review. Espectáculos de la violencia: erotismo e imágenes elusivas en Los ejércitos, de Evelio Rosero, under review. 2
Patria y letra: el proyecto intelectual de la poeta afro-cubana Cristina Ayala. In Poemas y cantos: Antología crítica de poetas afro-latinoamericanas, edited by María Mercedes Jaramillo. Forthcoming: Fall 2014. El esclavo y el letrado: máscaras de la auto-representación en la temprana narrativa antiesclavista cubana. Confluence: Romance Language Journal of Saint Louis University. Volume 2, Spring 2013. http://www.slu.edu/colleges/as/languages/confluence/publications.html. La poesía erótica de Mercedes Matamoros en la genealogía del modernismo latinoamericano. Latin American Literary Review 39 78 (July-December 2011). La Licorne y Entregas de la Licorne: Susana Soca y su proyecto cultural. Revistas culturales uruguayas: estudios e índices (1865-1974). Ed. Pablo Rocca. Montevideo, Universidad de la República. 2005. <http://www.sadil.fhuce.edu.uy/revistasuruguayas2004/textos/08_aguilar.htm> EDITORIAL WORK Supervision and proofreading of Rethinking Intellectuals in Latin America. Madrid & Frankfurt: Iberoamericana & Vervuert, 2010, edited by Prof. Mabel Moraña and Prof. Bret Gustafson. Coediting of the Latin American Newsletter, issue 4, along with Prof. Mabel Moraña (Fall 2009) CONFERENCES The Caribbean Roots of Rebellion: Race, Writing, and Black Heroism in Cuba (1868-1912). First Annual African and African Diaspora Studies Conference at City University of New York, College of Staten Island (New York. October 8-10, 2014). Asedios a la ciudad letrada: Candelario Obeso en el campo cultural colombiano de fin de siglo. LASA 2014 (Chicago, IL. May 21-24, 2014). Intelectuales que (no)velan: la narrativa de Contemporáneos, la vanguardia mexicana y el debate del afeminamiento en la literatura. Coloquio Internacional Montevideana VIII Nuevos mapas de las vanguardias: Miradas desde (o hacia) América Latina (Montevideo, Uruguay. 26-28 June, 2013). Heroicidad y rebeldía en la poesía patriótica de la escritora afro-descendiente Cristina Ayala. Congreso Internacional Cuba Trasatlántica (La Habana, Cuba. 9-12 June, 2013). La masculinidad negociada: estrategias de promoción y disidencia en la poesía patriótica de Juana Borrero, Mercedes Matamoros y Cristina Ayala. LASA2013 (Washington, DC. May 29-June 1, 2013). 3
Cárceles y conventos: transgresión y disciplinamiento en la pintura de Víctor Landaluze y Cecilia Valdés, de Cirilo Villaverde. Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature (Lincoln, Nebraska. October 12-14, 2012). El esclavo y el letrado: auto-representación y disidencia en la temprana narrativa antiesclavista cubana. Saint Louis University s 2012 French and Spanish Graduate- Undergraduate Student Symposium (St. Louis, MO. April 13, 2012). Del ingenio a la calle: desviación y delincuencia femenina como estrategia de exclusión racial en Los crímenes de Concha y Cecilia Valdés. Negritud: International Conference of Afro-Latin American Studies (San Juan, Puerto Rico. March 23-25, 2012). Mapeando el deseo femenino: lugares de erotismo y espacios de transgresión en Insolación, de Emilia Pardo Bazán. Florida International University Symposium on 19 th Century Spanish and Spanish-American Literatures (Miami, Florida. April 1-2, 2011). Organizer and Chair: Alegorías de la transgresión: desafíos a las construcciones de género y sexualidad en Cuba. LASA (Washington, DC. May 29-June 1, 2013). Chair: Afrocubanismo y su representación literaria Negritud: International Conference of Afro-Latin American Studies (San Juan, Puerto Rico. March 23-25, 2012). Chair: Market Forces, Letrado Pushback, and Ecocriticism 1837-1987. Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature (Saint, Louis, MO. October 28-30, 2010). WORK IN PROGRESS Book Chasing Freedom: Black Criminalization, Leadership, and Writing in Colombia, Brazil, and Cuba. Articles for Submission to Refereed Journals The Caribbean Roots of Rebellion: the Vision of Liberty of Afro-Latin American Leaders. My Beloved Commodity: Portrayals of Women Intellectuals and Artists in the Caribbean Cultural Market, 1868 1912. Lost in the Lettered City: Afro-Latin American Women Writers and their Struggle for Civil Rights. TEACHING EXPERIENCE State University of New York at Oswego Fall 2014. Elementary Spanish Continuing Elementary Spanish: Language and Culture Spring 2013. Introduction to Women s Texts. Writing Love in Times of War: 4
Fall 2012. Spring 2012. Fall 2011. Spring 2011. Fall 2010. Spring 2010. Spring 2009. Fall 2008. Spring 2008. Fall 2007. Latin American Women Writing Modernity (Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies). Responsible for creating the syllabus, the selections of materials, classroom instruction, and grading students. Grammar and Composition I Beginning Spanish I (University College at Washington University in St. Louis). Responsible for creating the syllabus, the selections of materials, classroom instruction, and grading students. Grammar and Composition II Chronicles, Testimonial Writing, Personal Diaries, and Autobiography in Latin America, 20th-century. Responsible for the preceptorial hour, including meetings with undergraduate students and discussions of reading materials given in class. Grammar and Composition II Beginning Spanish Conversation (University College at Washington University in St. Louis). Responsible for creating the syllabus, the selections of materials, classroom instruction, and grading students. Grammar and Composition II Beginning Spanish Conversation (University College at Washington University in St. Louis). Responsible for creating the syllabus, the selections of materials, classroom instruction, and grading students. COURSE DEVELOPMENT Spring 2010. Fall 2009. Postmodern Narratives in Latin America. Latin American Cultural Studies: Critical and Theoretical Approaches TEACHING WORKSHOPS ATTENDED Teaching with Lectures. Beth Fisher in charge. Washington University in St. Louis. October 24, 2012. Teaching Students Presentation Skills. Beth Fisher in charge. Washington University in St. Louis. February 7, 2012. Designing a Course. Beth Fisher in charge. Washington University in St. Louis. March 23, 2011. Fostering Active Student Engagement in the Classroom. Beth Fisher in charge. Washington University in St. Louis. February 15, 2011. Teaching with Discussions. Beth Fisher in charge. Washington University in St. Louis. October 13, 2010. Creating a Teaching Portfolio for the Academic Job Market. Beth Fisher in charge. Washington University in St. Louis. April 21, 2010. 5
Writing a Teaching Philosophy Statement. Beth Fisher in charge. Washington University in St. Louis. April 14, 2010. Incorporating Active Learning. Beth Fisher in charge. Washington University in St. Louis. October 14, 2010. Responding to Student Writing. Beth Fisher in charge. Washington University in St. Louis. February 10, 2009. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES Graduate Senate Representative for the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. Washington University in St. Louis, 2013-2014. Member of the Graduate Research Symposium Committee. Washington University in St. Louis, 2013-2014. Responsible for helping to send out calls for papers, recruit judges and participants and run the Symposium. Member of the Professional Development Committee. Washington University in St. Louis, 2013-2014. Responsible for coordinating with the Career Center and Teaching Center to promote events centering on teaching expertise, and job search (both academic and nonacademic) and life after graduate school. Co-Organizer. Communications Committee. Spanish Graduate Student Conference: Out of Bounds: Movements in the Iberian Atlantic (Feb 28-Mar 1, 2014). Washington University in St. Louis, 2013-2014. Co-Organizer. Graduate Writing Group. Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Washington University in St. Louis, 2012-2014. Participant. African Diaspora Reading Group. Washington University in St. Louis, 2011-2012. Co-Organizer. Latin American Colloquium. Washington University in St. Louis, 2009-2010. Responsible for coordinating, along with Prof. Mabel Moraña, and setting the presentation and discussion of papers, dissertation proposals, works-in-progress, and research projects related to the study of Latin American culture. Organizer. Latin American Film Series. Contesting Patriarchal Cultures: A Showcase of Recent Latin American Films. Washington University in St. Louis, Fall 2009. Responsible for the organization of the event, a four-film series aiming to stir up discussions on gender issues, traditional politics, and aesthetic viewpoints in order to get a better understanding of contemporary social practices in Latin America. LANGUAGES Spanish, Portuguese, and English: Fluent French and Italian: Reading knowledge 6
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERHIPS Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas (ACH) Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASAALH) Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica (AILCFH) Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Modern Languages Association (MLA) Sigma Delta Pi REFERENCES William Acree. Assistant Professor of Spanish Romance Languages and Literatures Department Phone: (314) 935-5145 E-mail: acree@wustl.edu Elzbieta Sklodowska. Randolph Family Professor of Spanish Romance Languages and Literatures Department Phone: (314) 935-7014 E-mail: esklodow@artsci.wustl.edu Akiko Tsuchiya. Professor of Spanish and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Romance Languages and Literatures Department Phone: (314) 935-5213 E-mail: tsuchiya@wustl.edu Mary Ann Dzuback. Director, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of History Associate Professor, Department of Education Phone: 314-935-4160 E-mail: madzubac@wustl.edu Updated: October 13, 2014 7