MarÌa de las Nieves Pujalte

CURRICULUM VITAE

pujalte@txstate.edu

OFFICE

Department of Modern Languages

Texas State University

601 University Drive

San Marcos, Texas 78666-4616

Tel: (512) 245 23 60

Fax: (512) 245 82 98

EDUCATION

3/2005 Ph.D. in Spanish, The Ohio State University.

Concentration: Modern Peninsular Literatures and Cultures.

Diversification: Classical Peninsular Literatures and Cultures.

Minor: Latin American Literatures and Cultures.

6/1999 M.A. in Hispanic Literature, The Ohio State University.

6/1996 B.A. in English Studies, University of Alicante, Spain.

DISSERTATION

Title: ≥The Levantine landscape as seen by the Eighteenth and Nineteenth travelers.≤

Adviser: Prof. Salvador GarcÌa CastaÒeda.

This study examines the transformation of landscape perceptions that appears in the works of European and North American travelers that visited the Spanish Levant in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries. These writers, who arrived in that region with determinate cultural stereotypes sometimes modified by their personal experiences, recreated them in writing, and projected their visions of the region's identity in the landscape descriptions and engravings. Architectural monuments, countrysides, gardens and human "types" formed part of that iconography that I analyze using cross-cultural theories, such as the concept of reciprocal vision by Mary Pratt and the formulation of orientalism by Edward Said.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Graduate Research Associate for Prof. Salvador GarcÌa CastaÒeda (1998-2000).

Dissertation research in The National Library, Madrid, Spain (summer 2002).

Dissertation research in The National Library, Madrid, Spain (summer 2003).

Dissertation research in The National Library, Madrid, Spain (summer 2004).

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

18^th-21^st Century Peninsular literature and culture; Peninsular Classical literature; travel literature; regional literature (Comunidad Valenciana); cross-cultural studies, Latin American literature and culture; all levels of Spanish.

PUBLICATIONS

≥La representaciÛn de la mujer mediterr·nea en la literatura de viajes (1854-1895)≤. Selected proceedings of the Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference (2005). Ed. Gregorio C. MartÌn. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University, 2006. In progress.

"Salubridad y enfermedad en la literatura de viajes del XVIII". El cuerpo enfermo: representaciÛn e im·genes de la enfermedad. Eds. R. de la Fuente Ballesteros y J. PÈrez MagallÛn. Valladolid: Universitas Castellae, 2006. In progress.

"El pintoresco mundo del Levante espaÒol (1808-1849)". La cultura hisp·nica en sus cruces trans-atl·nticos". Vol. 22. Eds. R. de la Fuente Ballesteros y J. PÈrez MagallÛn. Valladolid: Universitas Castellae, 2006. 251-260.

"Utilitarismo, orientalismo y color local en el paisaje mediterr·neo". Oriente y Occidente en la cultura hisp·nica. Vol. 17. Eds. R. de la Fuente Ballesteros y J. PÈrez MagallÛn. Valladolid: Universitas Castellae, 2006. 171-180.

"El paisaje del campo y de los jardines en el Levante Mediterr·neo (1854-1895)". Selected proceedings of the Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference (2004). Ed. Gregorio C. MartÌn. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University, 2005. 123-131.

Rev. of Viajeros ante el paisaje aragones (1759-1850), de Esther Ortas-Durand. CrÌtica hisp·nica. 25. 1-2 (2003): 206-212.

≥Virtuosas y sufridas: los personajes femeninos en tres comedias de Patricio de la Escosura.≤. Sexo(s) e identidad(es) en la cultura hisp·nica. Vol.12. Eds. R. de la Fuente Ballesteros y J. PÈrez MagallÛn. Valladolid: Universitas Castellae, 2000. 129-135.

"TradiciÛn y regeneracionismo: los personajes femeninos en Tierra de Campos (1897-1898). La representaciÛn de la mujer en la cultura hisp·nica. Vol. 8. Eds. K.M. Sibbald y R. de la Fuente Ballesteros. Valladolid: Universitas Castellae, 1999. 303-310.

PAPERS READ AT PROFESIONAL MEETINGS

"Urbanismo y polÌtica ilustrada en la literatura de viajes por la regiÛn valenciana (1759-1816). Congreso Internacional "Deseo, poder y polÌtica en la cultura hisp·nica". McGill University and Universitas Castellae, Valladolid, Spain (6/2006).

"La costa mediterr·nea vista por los viajeros de la segunda mitad del XIX (1854-1895)". 59^th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington (4/2006).

≥La representaciÛn de la mujer mediterr·nea en la literatura de viajes (1854-1895)≤. 18th Annual Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh (9/2005).

"Salubridad y enfermedad en la literatura de viajes del XVIII". Congreso Internacional

≥El cuerpo enfermo: representaciÛn e im·genes de la enfermedad≤, McGill University and Universitas Castellae, Valladolid, Spain (6/2005).

"El paisaje rural y urbano en el Levante mediterr·neo". 58^th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington (4/2005).

"El paisaje rural en el Levante Mediterr·neo (1854-1895)". 17^th Annual Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh (9/2004).

"El pintoresco mundo del Levante espaÒol (1808-1849). Congreso Internacional "La cultura hisp·nica en sus cruces trans-atl·nticos", McGill University and Universitas Castellae, Valladolid, Spain (6/2004).

"El pintoresquismo exÛtico en el Mediterr·neo espaÒol (1802-1845). 7^th Annual Ohio State University Graduate Student Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brasilian Literatures, Linguistics, and Cultures, The Ohio State University (4/2004).

Chair: "Literatures, Intertexts, and Power". 7^th Annual Ohio State University Graduate Student Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brasilian Literatures, Linguistics, and Cultures, The Ohio State University (4/2004).

"Utilitarismo, orientalismo y color local en el paisaje mediterr·neo". Congreso Internacional "Oriente y Occidente en la cultura hisp·nica", McGill University y Universitas Castellae, Valladolid, Spain (7/2003).

"El paisaje mediterr·neo en los viajeros ilustrados".The 6^th Annual Graduate Student Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brasilian Literature, Linguistics, and Culture, The Ohio State University (3/2003).

"La construcciÛn de la identidad en Comentarios reales de Garcilaso de la Vega, el Inca". 4^th Annual Graduate Student Seminar on Hispanic Literatures and Linguistics, The Ohio State University (5/2001).

"Identidad y vestimenta en Nueva Coronica de Buen Gobierno de Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala y Comentarios reales de Garcilaso de la Vega, el Inca". 11^th Colloquium on Hispanic & Luso-Brasilian and Romance Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin. (3/2001).

≥Gigantes y Cabezudos (1898): lo femenino como principio humano regenerador de EspaÒa". The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, San Juan, Puerto Rico (8/2000).

≥Virtuosas y sufridas: los personajes femeninos en tres comedias de Patricio de la Escosura.≤. Congreso Internacional sobre la sexualidad y las trangresiones en la literatura hispanoamericana y espaÒola, McGill University and Universitas Castellae, Valladolid, Spain (7/2000).

≥TradiciÛn y regeneracionismo: los personajes femeninos en Tierra de Campos (1898-1899) de Ricardo MacÌas Picavea≤. Congreso Internacional de las representaciones de la mujer en la cultura hisp·nica, McGill University and Universitas Castellae, Valladolid, Spain (7/1999).

RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2005 The Foreign Language Center at The Ohio State University: "The 2005 Summer Major Media Workshop for teachers of French and Spanish".

OSU Professional Development Workshop: "Teaching Literature at the Intermediate and Advanced Levels" by Carmen Chaves.

OSU Professional Development Workshop: "104 Orientation Workshop".

Member of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Teaching Associates Mentoring Program whose objective is to guide, supervise, train and observe newly hired teaching associates and lecturers.

OSU Department of Spanish Professional Development Workshop: "Everything you have ever wanted to know, but were afraid to ask, about the Imperfect vs. Preterit"

2004 OSU Department of Spanish Professional Development Workshop: "The Culture

of the Foreign Language Profession: Expanding Our Horizons" by Emily Spinelli.

OSU Department of Spanish Professional Development Workshop: "Latin

Rhythms"

OSU Department of Spanish Professional Development Workshop: "Una dialectologÌa musical"

2003 OSU Department of Spanish Professional Development Workshop: "Technology and the Five Skills"

OSU Department of Spanish Professional Development Workshop: "Teaching Spanish at the Intermediate Level"

OSU Department of Spanish Professional Development Workshop: "Getting Started with Web CT"

1999 OSU Department of Spanish Professional Development Workshop: "The

Professional Development Workshop"

HONORS AND AWARDS

2002 Karpus Award.

2000 Karpus Award to aid me in accomplishing my dissertation research.

2000 Invited guest to The Undergraduate Academic Achievement Banquet (as a

Professor who students highly appreciated at the Ohio State University).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

8/05-8/06 Senior Lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages

at Texas State University

6/2005-9/1997 Graduate Associate and Lecturer of Spanish in the Department of Spanish

and Portuguese at the Ohio State University.

Instructor of short fiction reading (Spanish 250), listening

comprehension (Spanish 240) and writing skills (Spanish 403).

Instructor of any if the Spanish 101-104 sequence, including grammar,

syntax, culture, pronunciation, vocabulary, reading, oral and writing

skills in class and in a laboratory setting through computer/multimedia

resources (IBM/Macintosch). This includes a variety of dialects within

Latin America and Peninsular Spanish.

Member on staff of the Spanish Department's Tutoring Center, the Writing Center, and the Conversation Table.

LANGUAGES

English (fluent).

Spanish (fluent/native).

Portuguese and Catalonian (reading level).

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Sociedad de Literatura EspaÒola del Siglo XIX (SLES XIX). Facultad de FilologÌa, University of Barcelona, Spain.

American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP).

Modern Language Association (MLA).