Blake
Seana Locklin
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Department of
Modern Languages |
telephone: (512) 245-1350 |
|
Southwest
Texas State University |
facsimile:
(512) 245-8298 |
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601 University
Drive |
email: |
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San Marcos, TX
78666-4616 |
LOCKLIN@modlang.swt.edu |
EDUCATION
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, August 1998
M.A. in Comparative Literature, January 1996
Special Committee: Debra Castillo
(Chair), Walter Cohen, Jonathan Tittler
Dissertation: “Orientalism and the Nation: Asian Women in Spanish American Literature”
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
A.B. cum laude in Comparative Literature, June 1988
Certificate in European Cultural Studies
Senior thesis on metafiction in Diderot, Cervantes, and Puig
Advisor: Sandra Bermann
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Southwest Texas State University Research
Enhancement Program Grant, Summer 2000
Mellon Dissertation Completion
Fellowship, 1997-98
John S. Knight Writing
Program Certificate in Recognition of Achievement in Teaching, 1997
Mellon Post-A Exam Dissertation Research
Fellowship, Spring 1996
John S. Knight Writing Program Assignment
Sequence Award, Fall 1994
Sage Fellowship, 1991-92
Spanish
American Literature
Postcolonial
theory and Latin America
Literatures
of the Americas
Orientalism
in Spanish American literature
Mexican
literature and cultural studies
Pacific
Rim literatures
Hispanic
women writers
U.S. Latino literature
Spanish
Language
PUBLICATIONS
“‘Qué triste es ser mujer’: The Chinese Microcosm of Reina Roffé’s Monte de Venus,” Revista
de Estudios Hispánicos 33 (Fall 1999): 473-94.
Rev. of The Lieutenant Nun: Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire, and Catalina
de Erauso, by Sherry
Velasco. Letras femeninas. 28.1 (Spring 2002).
CONFERENCE PAPERS
“A Seductive Country: Japan as Paraguayan Paradise in Madama Sui,” South Central Modern Language Association Conference, Austin, TX, November 2002
“Citizens of the World: The Dream of a Transnational Community,” Crossroads in Cultural Studies Fourth International Conference, Tampere, Finland, June 2002
“At Home in Japan?: Travel, Migration, Identity,” Latin American Studies Association XXIII International Congress, Washington, D.C., September 2001
“Negotiating Technologies: Peruvians in Japan,” Conference on Ibero-American
Culture and Society: “Latin American Literature, Technology, Ideology,”
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, February 2001
“María Novaro's El jardín del Edén: Local
and Global Crossings in Tijuana,” Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica
Conference: “Cruzando Fronteras,” Glendon College, York University, Toronto,
Canada, September 2000
“Chinese Doll, Japanese Doll: Views of the Orient from Spanish America,”
Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, Lexington, KY, April 2000
“Geishas and Factories: Representations of Japan in Latin America,”
Faculty Colloquium, Southwest Texas State University Department of Modern
Languages, November 1999
“Japón
no da dos oportunidades: Images of
Japan in Peru,” American Comparative Literature Association Conference:
“Transnationalisms: Past and Future,”
Montreal, Canada, April 1999
“A Woman in the Orient: Sex, Politics, and Self-discovery in Luisa
Futoransky’s Son cuentos chinos,”
Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica Conference: “Imaginarios Femeninos,” Arizona State
University, Tempe, September 1998
“‘Qué triste es ser mujer’: Language, Orientalism, and Identity in Reina
Roffé’s Monte de Venus,” Asociación
de Literatura Femenina Hispánica Conference:
“(Des)articulaciones,” Emory University, Atlanta, October 1997
“Orientalism and Mexican Identity: The China Poblana’s Asian Mother,” American
Comparative Literature Association Conference:
“New Worlds for Old,” Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, April 1997
“Catarina de San Juan and the China
Poblana: The Myth of the Asian Woman in
Mexico, 1688-1996,” “Mythology and Ethics” Conference, Cornell University,
March 1997
“Where in the World is Gran Mogor? Mapping Latin American Orientalism,”
“Offroad Disciplines: ‘Who’s Got the
Map?’” Conference, Cornell University, February 1997
“Bridges and Borders: Powerful Spaces in Olga Nolla’s ‘La única
ventana,’” “Cultural Cartographies in the Romance Languages and Literatures”
Conference, Cornell University, February 1995
“Reconstructing Fertility: Reproducing the Family in María Luisa
Mendoza’s El perro de la escribana,”
“Theorizing a Material World: Objects
in the Romance Languages and Literatures” Conference, Cornell University,
February 1993
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages, 1999-present
Facilitator, John S. Knight Writing Program, Fall 1998
Teaching Associate, Department of Modern Languages, 1998-99
Teaching Assistant, Department of Modern Languages, 1996-97
Teaching Assistant, Department of Comparative Literature, 1992, 1994-95
Comparative Literature 108.2: Language and Politics: Public Words, Private Wars, Fall 1995
Comparative Literature 103.2: Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds, Other
Worlds: Negotiating Worlds, Fall
1992
University
of East Asia (now the University of
Macau)
Lecturer, Junior College and Polytechnic Institute, 1988-91
English as a Foreign Language: beginning through advanced classes
Ka
Ho Vietnamese Refugee Camp, Macau
English Teacher (volunteer), 1988-91
Conversation
and culture classes: to
prepare refugees for resettlement
RESEARCH AND STUDY ABROAD
Research
Enhancement Program Grant, Summer 2000
Puebla, Mexico and Mexico
City
Dissertation
research, Spring 1996
San José, Costa Rica
Travel grant, Summer
1995
Inter-University Program
for Chinese Language Studies in Taipei
Full-time intensive
study of Mandarin
Courses on Taiwanese short story and on Chinese film, 1993-94
RECENT PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
Executive Council member, Latin America and the Pacific Rim Section, Latin American Studies Association, elected Fall 2001.
Participant in NEH Faculty
Seminar, Southwest Texas State University, Fall 1999-Fall 2001
Department of Modern
Languages committee on literature in translation, 2000; Spanish section MA/MAT
revisions committee, Spring 2001; organizer for Faculty Research Colloquium,
2001-2; Reading Room committee, 2001-02
SWT workshops attended:
Creating a Web Page (Fall 2002), 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Spring
2002), Communication to Maximize Student Learning (Spring 2002) Diversity (Fall
2001), Micrograde, Powerpoint (2000)
Editorial consultant, K.T.D.
Press, Woodstock, NY, Mountain Dharma
Retreat Manual (forthcoming)
English
(native), Spanish (near-native), Chinese (intermediate), French (reading)
American Comparative
Literature Association
American Association of
Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
Asociación de Literatura
Femenina Hispánica
Latin American Studies Association
Modern Language Association
South Central Modern
Language Association
Available on request.