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Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Patricia C Valladares-Ruiz
717B Old Chemistry Building
513-556-0402
patricia.valladares-ruiz@uc.edu
Education
Ph.D., Université de Montréal, 2005.
M.A., McGill University, 2000.
Professional Summary
Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Affiliate Faculty Member in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Prof. Valladares-Ruiz has taught in Canadian and Venezuelan universities (McGill University, Concordia University, Université de Montréal, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, and Universidad del Zulia). Her research and teaching interests deal with issues of identity, nationalism, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and religion in the Caribbean region.
http://www.patriciavalladares.com
Research Interests
19th, 20th, and 21st century Latin American fiction and essay.
Hispanic and Francophone Caribbean literatures.
Neo-slave narratives.
Film studies.
Cultural politics.
Postcolonial studies.
Cultural studies.
Gender and sexuality studies.
Peer Reviewed Publications
“La invención de una promesa: Nostalgia colonial y jerarquía racial en Doña Inés contra el olvido de Ana Teresa Torres." Revista Iberoamericana. Sponsoring Organization: International Institute of Ibero-American Literature. Forthcoming.
“Desplazamiento y disenso político en la narrativa de Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles.” Inti: Revista de estudios literarios. Special Issue on Contemporary Venezuelan Literature. Ed. Miguel Gomes. Forthcoming (2013).
“Memoria histórica y lucha de clases en el nuevo cine venezolano”. Revista Hispánica Moderna 66.1 (2013): 57-72. Sponsoring Organizations: Hispanic Institute (Columbia University) and University of Pennsylvania Press.
"El ocultismo paródico en la narrativa de Teresa Dovalpage." Monographic Review 27 (2012): 149-166. Sponsoring organization: Texas Tech University.
"Narrativas del descalabro: El sujeto migrante en dos novelas de Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez" MLN: Modern Language Notes 127.2 (March 2012): 385-403. Sponsoring Organization: The Johns Hopkins University.
"'No hay negro bueno ni tamarindo dulce': El blanqueamiento en Santa Lujuria de Marta Rojas." Romance Quarterly 58.2 (2011): 126-143. Sponsoring Organization: University of Kentucky.
"El discurso exotérico en Compendio y descripción de las Indias Occidentales (1628-1629) de Antonio Vázquez de Espinosa." eHumanista. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Studies 17 (2011): 460-477. Sponsoring Organization: University of California.
"Lo más prohibido: Sexualidad femenina y relaciones de poder en Sonia Rivera-Valdés." Letras femeninas 36.1 (summer 2010): 255-274. Organization: International Association of Feminine Hispanic Literature and Culture.
"Cultos afrocubanos e identidad nacional en el cine cubano contemporáneo." La Torre. Revista de la Universidad de Puerto Rico 14.53-54 (Winter 2010): 567-590.
Interview with Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez. Espéculo 42 (July 2009). Sponsoring Organization: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain).
"Los dos melicios: Traducción literaria y afiliaciones identitarias en la novelística sefardí del Levante." Hispania 90 (2007): 356-367. Sponsoring Organization: International Association of Feminine Hispanic Literature and Culture.
"Lo especial del período: Políticas editoriales y movimiento generacional en la literatura cubana contemporánea". Neophilologus 89 (2005): 383-402. Sponsoring Organization: Universiteit van Amsterdam.
“Cicatriz, memoria y deseo: La reescritura del pasado esclavista en Fe en disfraz de Mayra Santos-Febres”. Under review.
Books
El tránsito vacilante: Miradas sobre la cultura venezolana contemporánea. An edited collection of essays by leading scholars on contemporary Venezuelan cultural productions. Introduction and co-edition with Leonora Simonovis. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2013 (in press).
Sexualidades disidentes en la narrativa cubana contemporánea. Woodbridge: Tamesis Books, 2012.
Editor. Special Issue on Afro-Hispanic Subjectivities. Cincinnati Romance Review 30 (winter 2011). Collection of eleven refereed articles.
Book Chapters
"Genealogía de una intermitencia: Subjetividades afrodescendientes en la literatura venezolana contemporánea". El tránsito vacilante: Miradas sobre la cultura venezolana contemporánea. New York & Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013 (in press).
Electronic Journal Articles
"Pavores racistas y etnopopulismo en Venezuela". Prodavinci. Ideas para el progreso. May 13, 2011.
Reviews
Enriqueta Faber: travestismo, documentos e historia by James J. Pancrazio, Cincinnati Romance Review 32 (2011): 168-170.
La insensata geometría del amor by Susana Guzner, Grafemas: Revista de la Asociación de literatura femenina hispánica 9.1 (2002). Sponsoring Organization: International Association of Feminine Hispanic Literature and Culture.
Editorials
Cincinnati Romance Review 29-32 (2010-2011), with María Paz Moreno and Michèle Vialet.
Introductions
Prefaces
Afro-Hispanic Subjectivities. Cincinnati Romace Review 30 (2011).
Work in Progress
Female subjectivities in Caribbean Neo-slave Narratives (manuscript in preparation).
Mapping Cultural Dissidence in the Bolivarian Revolution(manuscript in preparation).
Invited Presentations
(2006). “Zonas de poder y transgresión en Fire de Deepa Mehta” . Lectures Series: “Cine y Violencia de Género: el cine como instrumento de educación y concienciación sobre el maltrato a la mujer”, School of Political Science and Sociology, Universidad de Granada (Spain).
(2003). “Reflexiones metodológicas y teóricas en la investigación literaria” . Master of Hispanic Studies Program, Université de Montréal (Canada).
Paper Presentations
"Desplazamientos y dislocaciones en la narrativa venezolana del nuevo milenio". Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, University of Nebraska. 2012.
“Parodias ocultistas en Muerte de un murciano en La Habana y El difunto Fidel de Teresa Dovalpage.” . Negritud: Third International Conference on Afro-Latin American Studies, San Juan, Puerto Rico. 2012.
“Construcción del sujeto migrante en dos novelas de Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez”. 36th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, Curacao. 2011.
“(Des)erotización del sujeto femenino esclavizado en la narrativa caribeña contemporánea.” Panel: “La condición (neo-) colonial y la experiencia esclavista” . 64th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY. 2011.
“Racial and Cultural Politics in Post-Revolutionary Venezuela”. Conference on Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean, University of California, San Diego.. 2011.
Propuestas ideoestéticas del nuevo cine venezolano. Screening Spanish American Revolutions. Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference, McGill University (Montreal, Canada). 2010.
“Reescritura del pasado esclavista en Fe en disfraz de Mayra Santos-Febres” . Second International Conference on Caribbean Studies, Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI). 2010.
“Cubanas Freestyle: Representaciones periféricas de género, sexualidad y raza en 'Las Krudas'”. "Rethinking Inequalities", Latin American Studies Association annual conference, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). 2009.
"Sexual and Gender Displacements and Afro-Caribbean Rituals in Haitian and Cuban Cultural Practices". 62nd annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky. 2009.
“Parodias nacionales: La renuncia del héroe Baltasar como novela anti-fundacional”. Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature: Race, Religion, and Resistance. University of Kansas. . 2009.
“Reescrituras de la esclavitud en la novela cubana contemporánea”. Rethinking the Mangrove: Second Symposium of Critical Practices in Caribbean Cultural Studies, University of Puerto Rico. 2009.
"Mecanismos de confesión y expiación en _Las historias prohibidas de Marta Veneranda_ de Sonia Rivera-Valdés". Masculinities, Femininities and More – An Interdisciplinary Conference on Gender in the Humanities, 23rd annual conference, University of West Georgia (Carrollton, GA). 2008.
“Rectificaciones: Nuevas formas de resistencia e inclusión en la producción cultural cubana contemporánea”. Symposium: “Transgressing Genders and Sexualities: (Re-)Writing and Teaching the History of the Americas,” 52nd International Congress of Americanists, Universidad de Sevilla (Spain). 2006.
"Saldando deudas: Subjetividades sexuales en la producción literaria de los ‘(post)novísimos". Fourth Biennial Conference on Spanish and Latin American Literatures and Film, Florida International University (Miami, FL). 2004.
“Représentations identitaires sexuelles, ethniques et nationales dans le récit cubain (1990 – 2000)”. Annual Conference of the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Studies Association as part of the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ryerson University, Toronto (Canada). 2002.
“Fracturar el silencio: El sujeto erótico en Ena Lucía Portela y Pedro de Jesús López Acosta”. Congress of the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, UQAM (Montreal, Canada). 2002.
“Economía del Otro: Género, sexualidad y etnicidad en la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea” (chair and organizer of the session). XXXVIII Congress of the Canadian Association of Hispanists, Ryerson University, Toronto (Canada). 2002.
“Hacia una dislocación del imaginario nacional en la narrativa cubana”. XXXVIII Congress of the Canadian Association of Hispanists, Ryerson University, Toronto (Canada). 2002.
"Reyes sin tronos: subversión, representación e identidad en _El Rey de La Habana_ de Pedro Juan Gutiérrez". XIII Annual conference “Image, Film, Text”, Binghamton University. 2002.
“Oralidad, nostalgia y búsqueda identitaria en _La última mudanza de Felipe Carrillo_ de Alfredo Bryce Echenique," . XXXVII Congress of the Canadian Association of Hispanists, Quebec (Canada). 2001.
"Los placeres de la ventriloquía en _Aquí no ha pasado nada_ (Ángela Zago) y _La aventura de Miguel Littín clandestino en Chile_ (Gabriel García Márquez)". XXXV Congress of the Canadian Association of Hispanists, Bishops University, Sherbrooke (Canada). 1999.
“Alegorías de la inmediatez política y disensión en la narrativa venezolana contemporánea (2000-2012)” (Forthcoming). Annual Conference of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, D.C.. 2013.
Events Organized
Conference. Panel organizer: “Disonancias y disidencias en la cultura venezolana del nuevo milenio”. Annual Conference of the Latin American Studies Association. (), Washington, D.C..
Conference. Panel organizer and discussant. “Racial Identities in Contemporary Venezuelan Cultural Productions.” 2011 Conference on Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean. (11-2011), University of California, San Diego..
“La condición (neo-)colonial y la experiencia esclavista” (organizer and discussant) (2011), 64th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference.
“Representaciones de la esclavitud en el Caribe hispano” (organizer and discussant) (2011), 64th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference.
"Estética del (des-)arraigo en el Caribe francófono e hispano" (organizer and discussant) (2009), 62nd annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky.
“Hispanic Caribbean Literature and Globalization” (co-organizer and discussant) (2005), CALACS, Montreal.
"Voces transgresoras: Género y sexualidad en la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea" (organizer) (2002), Universite du Quebec a Montreal.
"Economía del Otro: Género, sexualidad y etnicidad en la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea" (chair and organizer) (2002), 38th Congress of the Canadian Association of Hispanists, Ryerson University, Toronto.
Conference. Panel organizer. “Procesos de racialización en la literatura contemporánea del Caribe insular y continental.” 3rd Negritud International Conference (), .
Conference. Panel organizer and chair: “Postmodern Narratives of the Hispanic Caribbean.” (), Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures. University of Cincinnati..
Honors & Awards
Selected grants, fellowships, and Awards: Faculty recognition, 8th Annual Breakfast of Champions, Darwin T. Turner Scholars Program, UC (2013), Library Travel Research Grant (Center for Latin American Studies of the University of Florida, Summer 2012); Taft Summer Research Fellowship (Summer 2012); Taft Domestic Travel Grant (2011); Taft Publication Subvention (2011); Taft International Conference Travel Grant (2011); Taft Domestic Travel Grant (2011); Taft Research Funds (2010); Taft Domestic Travel Grant (2010); Taft International Conference Travel Grant (2010); Taft Domestic Travel Grant (2009); Taft Summer Research Fellowship (2009); Taft International Conference Travel Grant (2009); Taft Domestic Travel Grant (2009); 52nd International Congress of Americanists Travel Grant (2006); Modern Language Association (MLA) Travel Grant for Attendance at the Annual Conference (2004); Excellence Doctoral Fellowship, Section of Hispanic Studies, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Université de Montréal (2001-2004); Excellence Doctoral Fellowship (bourse d’excellence), Faculty of Graduate Studies, Université de Montréal (2003-2004); Conference Travel Grant, Section of Hispanic Studies, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Université de Montréal (2003); Doctoral Fellowship (bourse d’excellence), Fonds pour la formation de chercheurs et l’Aide à la recherche, Canada (2000-2005); Scholarship (bourse d'excellence), Fonds pour la formation de chercheurs et l’Aide à la recherche, Canada (1998-2000). , .
Courses Taught
15-SWLC-801 INTRO LIT THEORY .
15-SPAN-323 LATIN AMER CIV II.
15-SPAN-322 LATIN AMER CIV I.
15-SPAN-300 GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION.
15-SPAN-113 EXT BASIC SPANISH 3 .
15-RLL720 CONSTRUCTING THE SELF: NEGOTIATING IDENTITIES IN PAN-CARIBBEAN LITERATURES.
15-SPAN-302 INTRODUCCIÓN A LA LITERATURA IBEROAMERICANA.
15-FREN-755 APPARTENANCE, FILIATION CULTURELLE ET IDENTITÉ NATIONALE DANS LA LITTÉRATURE FRANCOPHONE CONTEMPORAINE.
15-SPAN-421 REPRESENTATIONS OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN HISPANIC LITERATURES.
15-SPAN-314 HISPANIC WOMEN FILMMAKERS.
15-SWLC-802 TOPICS IN LITERARY THEORY I.
15-FREN-385 LITTÉRATURES FRANCOPHONES DES ANTILLES.
15-SPAN-3002 SPEAKING IN SPANISH.
15-SPAN-767 HISPANIC CARIBBEAN LITERATURES.
15-SPAN-314 SOCIAL ISSUES IN SPANISH FILMS..
15-SPAN-422 POPULAR CULTURE IN HISPANIC CARIBBEAN LITERATURE & FILM.
15-SPAN-784 SPECIAL TOPICS IN LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE..
15-SPAN-4001 Advanced Grammar.
15-SPAN-3031 Social Issues in Spanish Films..
Additional Information
http://www.patriciavalladares.com
