Julie Ann Ward Department. of Modern Languages, Literatures, & Linguistics University of Oklahoma Kaufman Hall, Rm. 120 780 Van Vleet Oval Norman, OK 73019-2302 (405) 325-2992 wardjulie@ou.edu 1600 Ann Branden Blvd. Apt. 1024 Norman, OK 73071 (510) 387-6039 wardjulie@gmail.com PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS 2014 present Assistant Professor of 20 th - and 21 st -century Latin American Literature, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, University of Oklahoma 2013 2014 Postdoctoral Scholar in Residence, University of California Institute for Mexico and the US, Riverside, California EDUCATION 2013 PhD Hispanic Languages & Literatures 2008 MA in Spanish, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 2005 BA in Spanish, Summa Cum Laude, University of Tulsa, Oklahoma DISSERTATION Self, Esteemed: Contemporary Auto/biographical Theatre in Latin America Co-directors: Francine Masiello & Candace Slater PUBLICATIONS Refereed Journal Articles Staging Postmemory: Self-representation and Parental Biographying in lagartijas Tiradas al Sol s El rumor del incendio 47.2 (2014): 25-44. "Ficciones de temporada: La nueva novela de la Revolución Mexicana." Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea 52 (2012): 23-34. Chapters in Edited Volumes Documentary Dramaturgy in Brazil. The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy. Ed. Magda Romanska. New York: Routledge, 2015. Forthcoming. Yangali, Jorge Luis, Julie Ann Ward, and María José Pasos. Los límites del yo: Representar la familia. Teatro con genes resurrectos. Bilbao: Artezblai, 2013.
Ward CV 2 Book Reviews "Review of Elena Poniatowska, Nathanial Gardner (Trans.), Dear Diego / Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela." Lucero 22 (2012). Web. "Review of Amy K. Kaminsky. Argentina: Stories for a Nation." Chasqui 38.2 (2009): 196-98. Web-based Publications "Buenos Aires." Lucero 21 (2011). Web. Other Publications "La verdad desde la casilla: Electores 2012 de Teatro Ojo." Paso de Gato 51 (2012): 114-15. "La representación frustrada." Letra Viva 29 June 2012: 2. Entrevista con Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol. Latin American Theatre Review, 45.2 (2011): 139-46. CONFERENCES Panels Organized 2013 Documentary Positioning American Comparative Literature Association s 2013 Annual Meeting, April 4-7 2012 Identidades imposibles: Literatura e identidad nacional en Colombia y México Latin American Studies Association s XXX International Congress, May 23-26 2010 The Madness of Modernity: Arlt, Andrade, and the Avant Garde Latin American Studies Association s XXIX International Congress, October 6-9 Papers Presented 2014 Staging Human Rights: Mujeres de arena and the Activist Apparatus American Comparative Literature Association Meeting, March 20-23, New York University, 2013 "Escenificar los derechos humanos: Mujeres de arena y el aparato activista" Estrategias para Representar lo Irrepresentable, May 7, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 2013 Self-Representation in the Ballot Booth: Electores 2012 128th Modern Language Association Convention, January 3-6, Boston 2012 Rumores de una nación: Teatro documental contemporáneo en México Latin American Studies Association s XXX International Congress, May 23-26 2011 Rumores: Biography, History and Theatre in El rumor del incendio XVII Congreso de Mexicanistas Juan Bruce-Novoa: Biografía y Autobiografía, April 28-May 1, University of California, Irvine 2010 From Charisma to Contemporáneos: Shifting Visions of Authorship in Post- Revolutionary Mexico Latin American Studies Association s XXIX International Congress, October 6-9, Toronto TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Ward CV 3 University of California, Riverside Mexican Documentary Theatre, Spring 2014 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Analysis of Brazilian and Portuguese Theatre, Fall 2012 Intensive Intermediate Portuguese Intersemester 2013, Spring 2013 20th-Century Brazilian Novel, Spring 2013, Introduction to Research, Fall 2013 17 Centro de Estudios Críticos, Instructor, Mexico City, Mexico The Autobiographical Voice: Origins, (Online Course) Fall 2012, Intensive Beginning Spanish, Summer 2012, Spring 2010 Intermediate Spanish Spanish, Spring 2011 Beginning Spanish, Fall 2008 University of Kansas Intermediate Spanish, Summer 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007 Intensive Beginning Spanish, Spring 2007, Fall 2006 University of Kansas Summer Language Institute Intermediate Spanish, Barcelona, Spain (Co-taught), Summer 2007 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2013 Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics, Art and Resistance Workshop, Chiapas, Mexico 2011 2012 Member, Seminario Permanente de Historia del Teatro Mexicano, Centro Nacional de Investigación, Documentación e Información Teatral Rodolfo Usigli, Mexico City, Mexico 2011 2012 Visiting Student, Research Visit at the Colegio de México, Mexico City, Mexico 2011 Research Trip, Project: Autobiography and Collaboration in Contemporary Latin American Theatre Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2010 Portuguese Studies Program Summer Research, Project: Sights from the South, and Who is Looking: Portuguese Literature on the International Stage, Coimbra and Porto, Portugal 2009 Research Assistant to Professor Charles Faulhaber, University of California,
Ward CV 4 Berkeley, California 2006 2007 Editorial Assistant, Latin American Theatre Review, Lawrence, Kansas AWARDS AND HONORS 2012 Special Mention, Premio Internacional de Ensayo Teatral 2012, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico 2011 2012 Dean s Normative Time Fellowship,, USA 2011 Graduate Division Summer Grant to study autobiographical theatre in Argentina and Brazil,, USA 2011 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for Portuguese Language study in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, US Department of Education 2011 Summer Research Grant to study autobiographical theatre in Argentina and Brazil, Department of Spanish & Portuguese,, USA 2011 Tinker Grant for summer research travel, Center for Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA 2008 2010 Chancellor s Fellowship,, USA 2010 Portuguese Studies Program Student Research Award, Portuguese Studies Program,, USA 2009 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for Italian Study, US Department of Education DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE 2014 Small and Collaborative Research Grants Selection Committee, UC MEXUS, University of California, Riverside, California, USA 2013 Dissertation Research Grants Selection Committee, UC MEXUS, University of California, Riverside, California, USA 2013 Admissions Exam Committee, Colegio de Letras Modernas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico 2009 2013 Founding Member of Graduate Spanish & Portuguese Organizing Committee, Department of Spanish Portuguese,, USA 2011-12 Reviewer for Lucero, Berkeley, California, USA 2008 2009 Planning Committee, 4th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium, Department of Spanish and Portuguese,, USA 2009 2010 Submissions Editor, Lucero, Berkeley, California, USA 2008 Ad hoc Graduate Curriculum Review Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA 2004 2005 Student Representative, College of Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee, University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA LANGUAGES
Ward CV 5 English Native Speaker Spanish Fluent Portuguese Fluent German Reading Knowledge, Intermediate Conversation Italian Reading Knowledge PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS 2008 present Modern Languages Association 2009 present Latin American Studies Association 2013 present University of California Mexicanistas 2013 present American Comparative Literature Association REFERENCES Francine Masiello Departments of Spanish and Portuguese & Comparative Literature 5523 Dwinelle Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-2590 (510) 642-0471 frm@berkeley.edu Candace Slater Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 5523 Dwinelle Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-2590 (510) 642-0471 cslater@berkeley.edu Vicky Unruh Department of Spanish and Portuguese 1445 Jayhawk Blvd., 2620 Wescoe University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045 (785) 864-3851 kunruh@ku.edu