CURRICULUM VITAE

 

 

Patricia Rubio

Professor and Chair

Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

Skidmore College

 

 

I.  Degrees

Ph.D. Hispanic Literatures, University of Alberta, Canada (1982)

Profesora de Castellano. Universidad Cat—lica de Valpara’so, Chile (1972)

 

 

II. Teaching

Skidmore College, Professor 1(999 to present)         

Skidmore College, Associate Professor (1991-1999)                  

Skidmore College, Assistant Professor (1985-1991)                  

Middlebury College,  Visiting Assistant Professor (1984)

 

III. Publications 

Books:                       

Entre mujeres. Colaboraciones, influencias e intertextualidades en la literatura y el arte latinoamericanos (co-edition with Mar’a Claudia AndrŽ) (Santiago: Red Internacional del Libro, 2005).

 

Escritoras chilenas: narrativa (editor) (Santiago: Editorial Cuarto Propio, 1999).

 

Gabriela Mistral ante la cr’tica, bibliograf’a anotada (Santiago: Direcci—n de Archivos, Bibliotecas y Museos 1995).

 

Carpentier ante la cr’tica: bibliograf’a comentada (in co-authorship with Richard Young (Xalapa: Universidad Veracruzana, 1985).

 

Diccionario de tŽrminos e "ismos" literarios (in co-authorship) (Madrid: Ediciones JosŽ Porrœa, 1974).

 

Claves de la narrativa contempor‡nea (co-author, Juan Carlos LŽrtora) (Valpara’so: Ediciones Universitarias de Valpara’so, 1970.

 

 

In Progress:                          

JosŽ Donoso: ensayos necesarios (to be published by Red Internacional del Libro, Santiago 2007)

 

 

Articles:                    

 "Escritura/Imagen: acercamientos a la colaboraci—n art’stica entre Diamela Eltit y Lotty Rosenfeld", en Mar’a Claudia AndrŽ y Patricia Rubio, Entre  mujeres: Colaboraciones, influencias e intertextualidades en la literatua y el  arte latinoamericanos (Santiago: Red Internacional del Libro, 2005), 41-66.

 

"Pr—logo", Rosario Orrego.  Alberto el  jugador (Santiago: Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2001), 2-12.

 

"Elisa Serrana", in Patricia Rubio (ed.), Escritoras chilenas:  novela y cuento (Santiago: Editorial Cuarto Propio, 1999), 393-421.

 

"Introducci—nÓ in Patricia Rubio (ed.), Escritoras chilenas: novela y cuento (Santiago: Editorial Cuarto Propio, 1999), 11-26.

 

ÒHouse of Mist, de Mar’a Luisa Bombal: una novela olvidada", LingŸ’stica y Literatura (Santiago), 11, 1998, 181-200. 

 

"Los discursos de la memoria en la prosa de Marjorie Agos’n", Taller de Letras (Santiago), 25, 1997, 77-90.

 

"Sobre el indigenismo y el mestizaje en la prosa de Gabriela Mistral", Taller de Letras, Special issue on Gabriela Mistral, 1996, 25-40.

 

"Carmen Naranjo: From Poet to Minister," in Marjorie Agos’n (ed.) A Dream of Light and Shadow. Portraits of Latin American Women Writers (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995), 195-206; as "Carmen Naranjo" (abridged version), in David W. Foster and Cynthia Tompkins, Notable Twentieth Century Latin American Women: A Biographical Dictionary (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2000), 43-47.

 

"Lavando la esperanza y Volver a empezar, dos muestras del testimonio femenino chileno," in Emma Sepœlveda (ed.), El testimonio como escritura contestaria (Santiago: Asteri—n, 1995), 177-197.

 

"The Literature of Carmen Naranjo," in Diane Marting (ed.) Fifty Spanish American Women Writers (Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1990). Spanish version in Escritoras de HispanoamŽrica (Colombia: Siglo XXI, 1991), 375-385.

 

"Fragment and Fragmentation in Luisa Valenzuela's narrative," Salmagundi, 83-83, Spring-Summer 1989, 287-296.  Spanish version in Diamela Eltit (ed.) Escribir en los bordes (Santiago: Editorial Cuarto Propio, 1989), 207-216. Reprinted in Literatura Chilena, Creaci—n y Cr’tica (Los Angeles, CA), 1989, 63-71.

 

"Funciones del nivel descriptivo en Los recuerdos del porvenir," Caravelle: Cahiers du Monde Hispanique et Luso-BrŽsilien (Toulouse), 49, 1987, 129-138.

 

"El discurso de persona no espec’fica en la narrativa de Onelio Jorge Cardoso," Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hisp‡nicos (Toronto), IX, 3 Spring 1987, 627-632.

 

"Niveles y sujetos de focalizaci—n en Pedro P‡ramo," Semiosis (Veracruz), 14-15, January-December, 1985, 152-166.

 

"La figura del narratario en la narrativa de Onelio Jorge Cardoso," Revista de Cr’tica Literaria Latinoamericana (Lima), 11-12, 1985, 193-204.

 

"La duplicaci—n de la estructura narrativa en la cuent’stica de Onelio Jorge Cardoso," Garabato (Lima), 2, January-June 1981, 83-93.

 

"El concepto de focalizaci—n. Su aplicaci—n a la cuent’stica de Onelio Jorge Cardoso," Semiosis (Mexico) 6, January-June 1981, 99-123.

 

In progress:

"En blanco y negro, de Elisa Serrana.  Bildungsroman de una ni–a ciega".

 

 Bibliographies and Chronology:

"Diamela Eltit: bibliograf’a," in Juan Carlos LŽrtora (ed.) Una poŽtica de literatura menor: la narrativa de Diamela Eltit (Santiago: Editorial Cuarto Propio, 1993), 185-193.

 

"Bibliograf’a cr’tica," in Gabriela Mistral, Antolog’a Mayor (Santiago: Editorial Cochrane, 1992), vol. III, 127-205.

 

"Guillermo Cabrera Infante: bibliograf’a," in Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Tres Tristes tigres (Caracas: Editorial Ayacucho, 1990), 363-373.

 

"Gabriel Garc’a M‡rquez: cronolog’a," in Garc’a M‡rquez, Cien a–os de soledad (Caracas: Ediciones Biblioteca Ayacucho, 1989), 335-342.

 

"Gabriel Garc’a M‡rquez: bibliografia," in Garc’a M‡rquez, Cien a–os de soledad (Caracas: Ediciones Biblioteca Ayacucho, 1989),345-356.

 

"La Naci—n: 1970-1973: bibliograf’a cr’tica de literatura chilena," Revista Chilena de Literatura (Los Angeles, CA) 25, July-September, 1983, 29-36.

 

"Foreword" to Marjorie Agos’n, Women in Disguise (Falls Church: Azul Editions, 1996), 13-16.

 

"Luisa Valenzuela," in Reference Guide to Short Fiction (Chicago: St. James Press, 1993), 562-563.

 

"Elena Garro," in Contemporary World Writers (London: Gale Research International, 1993), 195-196; reprinted inMichael S. Werner (ed.), Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society and Culture (Chicago: Fitzroy Publisher, 1997), vol. 1, 552-553.

 

"Forbidden Fruit and Foreign Trade," Skidmore Voices, Summer 1989,44.

 

"El ayllu incaico," Desde Aqu’ Cultura y Artes Hisp‡nicas, (Rhode Island) 1, 1988,9.

 

"On Octavio Paz," Salmagundi, 70-7 1, Spring-Summer 1986, 154-157.

 

 

Reviews:

"Domecq, Brianda. The Astonishing Story of the Saint of Cabora ", Multicultural Review, VIII, 1, March 1999, 58.

 

"Benedetti, Mario. Blood Pact and Other Stories",

Multicultural Review, 1, March 1998, 66.

 

"Ubidia, Abd6n. Wolve's Dream", Multicultural Review, V1, 3, September 1997, 64.

 

"Bencastro, Mario. A Shot in the Cathedral", Multicultural

Review, V1, 2, June 1997, 65.

 

"Gioconda Belli, Inhabited Woman," Multicultural Review,

IV, 3, September 1995, 63.

 

Reviews of the works of Elena Aldunate, Ximena

Adriazola, Berta Aguirre, Marfa Elena Gertner, Chela

Reyes, Elisa Serrana, Sor Tadea de San Joaqufn, Gabriela Sotomayor, and Mercedes Valdivieso for Diane Marting (ed.), Women Writers of Spanish America: An Annotated Bio-Bibliographical Guide (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1987), 4, 7-8, 154-155, 301-302, 326-328, 354-355, 364, 379.

 

"Roger Fowler, Literature as Social Discourse", Semiosis, 11, July-December 1983, 165-165.

 

"Robert Scholes, Semiotics and Interpretation," Semiosis, 11, July-December 1983, 165.

 

"Paul llie, Literature and Inner Exile. Authoritarian Spain, 1936-1975," Nuevo Hispanismo, 2, Spring 1982, 200-202.

 

"Richard Young. Agust’n Y‡–ez y sus cuentos," Texto Cr’tico, 21, April-lune 1981, 138-140.

 

IV. Conferences, Presentations (selected):

"Diamela Eltit y Lotty Rosenfeld: an‡lisis de una colaboraci—n art’stico/literaria", Democracy in Latin American: 30 Years After ChileÕs 9/11", University at Albany, October 2003.

 

"Se–as de identidad femenina: el epistolario ’ntimo de Gabriela Mistral", Asociaci—n Internacional de Hispanistas Conference, Santo Domingo, November, 2002.

 

"Epistolarios femeninos chilenos del siglo XIX." New England Council of Latin American Studies, Wellesley College, October 1998.

 

"Revaloraci—n y reevaluaci—n de House of Mist, un texto olvidado de Mar’a Luisa Bombal". Asociaci—n Internacional de Hispanistas Conference, Madrid, July 1998.

 

"La narrativa de Elisa Serrana: escritura feminista de mitad de siglo" Eighth Annual Intemational Conference, Asociaci—n de Literatura Femenina Hisp‡nica, Emory University, October 1997.

 

"La escritura chilena en el canon literario", Conference: Palabras de Mujer, Pontificia Universidad Cat—lica de Chile, August 1996.

 

"Los escritos polfticos de Gabriela Mistral," Modem Language Association, Chicago, December 1995.

 

Panelist in "The Prose of a Poet: Gabriela Mistral as Narrator," America's Society, New York, November 15, 1995.

 

"El discurso memorioso en la narTativa de Maijorie Agosin,", Latin American Studies Association Meeting, September, 1995.

 

"El discurso racialista en la prosa de Gabriela Mistral," Conference on Gabriela Mistral, an Itinerant Poet, Wellesley College, September 16, 1995.

 

"Carmen Naranjo: de funcionaria de gobierno a cr’tico cultural," Congreso de Narrativa Centroamericana, Guatemala, February 1995.

 

"Carmen Arriagada, Cartas de una mujer apasionada," Asociaci—n de Letras Femenina Conference, Davidson College, October 1994.

 

"El testimonio en Chile," Women's International Conference, Costa Rica, February 1993.

 

"Volver a empezar, testimonio del exilio y del retorno pol’tico chilenos," Universidad de Alcal‡, March 1992.

 

"El kitsch en Cola de lagartija, de Luisa Valenzuela," El encuentro de dos culturas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, August 1992.

 

"Iron’a y grotesco en Los perros del para’so, de Abel Posse," University of Oregon, May 1991.

 

"El discurso femenino testimonial chileno," Trent University, April 1989.

 

"El quiebre del discurso en la cuent’stica de Luisa Valenzuela," Congreso de Creaci—n Femenina en el Mundo Hisp‡nico, Puerto Rico, November 1988.

 

"Luisa Valenzuela: fragmentaci—n del discurso narrativo," Congreso Internacional de la Literatura Femenina Latinoamericana, Santiago, August 17-21, 1987.

 

"La cuentfstica de Luisa Valenzuela," North East Modem Languages Association, April 2-4, 1987.

 

"Hacia las sefias de identidad femeninas: la narrativa de Elena Garro," Lousiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Tulane University, February 1987.

 

"Chilean Theatre and Social Representation. The Last Decade," New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers' Annual Conference, October 17-19, 1986.

 

"Descripci—n y personajes femeninos en la narrativa de Elena Garro," North East Modem Languages Association, March 1985.

 

At Skidmore:

Panelist Pedagogy Workshop (April 1998)

 

Panelist for the International Affairs Minor First Colloquium (Fall 1995)

 

Guest Speaker for First Year Students'Honors Convocation (Spring 1995)

 

Panelist in Christina Hoff Sommers'" Who Stole Feminism?" Panel (Fall 1994)

 

Panelist in Student/Administration Organized 3D event on Multiculturalism at Skidmore (Fall 1994)

 

Guest Speaker for Multicultural Students' Annual Recognition Dinner (Spring 199 1)

 

 

Attended:

 

Educating All of One Nation. Albuquerque, October 28-30, 1999.

 

Partners in Academic Leadership: Faculty, Chair, and Dean Collaboration. Toronto, September 30-October 2, 1999.

 

National Women's Studies Association, 16' Annual Conference, Norman, Oklahoma, June 1995.

 

 

V. Grants:

Collaborative Research Grant with Sarah Mackin '90. Summer 1997. Title of project: "Josd Donoso: Bibliograffa anotada".

 

Faculty Research Grants for the Summers of 1987, 1989, 1991,1992,1993,1994,1998

 

Fulbright Travel Grant. Summer 1990

 

Izaak Walton Killam Scholar. Hispanic Literature, University of Alberta, 1978-1981

 

Fulbright Scholar, Graduate Program. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1972-1974

 

Other:

Reader for Texas University Press, New Mexico University Press and University of Georgia Press in the field of Spanish American Literature.

 

Secretary Asociaci—n de Literatura Femenina Hisp‡nica (1998-2000)

 

Outside Evaluator for a Promotion to Full Professor Case at the University of Arizona, Tempe. (2001)

 

Outside Evaluator for a promotion case at Denison College (2003)

 

 

Member of the Outside Evaluation Team of the Department of Modem Languages and Literatures, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Atlanta (1997)

 

Outside evaluator of a tenure case at Davidson College (1997)

 

Reader for Heinle and Heinle. Final Accuracy Reading of Pueblo Lindo (1998).

 

Manuscript evaluator for University of Texas Press. Title of Manuscript: "Honorable Exiles: a Journal", by Lillian Lorca de Tagle (1998).

 

Reader for Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hisp‡nicos in the field of Spanish American contemporary literature (1995-present)

 

Reader for Prentice Hall. Evaluator of Conversaci6n y Controversia (1998)

 

Reader for Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Final Accuracy Reading of As’ es, (1995)

 

Invited Reader/Evaluator for FONDECYT (Fondo de Estudios Culturales y Teatrales; Chilean Equivalent of NEH) for a project on Gabriela Mistral (1995)

 

 

VI. Service:

 

Appointments:

 

Department Chair, Foreign Languages and Literatures (2003-present)            

 

Director of Women's Studies Program (1999-2003)                  

 

Coordinator Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum (1999)                           

 

Member of the Sixth Year Evaluation Committee of the Director of the Library (appointed by the Dean of the Faculty) 2000                           

 

Member of the NWSA Plenary Committee (1997)                           

 

Co-Coordinator of the Seventeenth North American Women's Studies Association Meeting, June 12-16, 1996

 

Acting Director, Women's Studies Program (1994-1995)                  

 

Acting Chair, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures (1990-1991)                  

 

Coordinator of the Self Instructional Languages Program (1987-1990)                  

 

 

Major Committees:

 

Presidential Task Force on Intercultural Studies and Global Understanding (co-chair) (2005-present)

 

Faculty Executive Committee (2004-present)

 

Committee on Educational Policy and Planning (2001-2004; 1991-1994; 1986-1989)                     

 

Curriculum Committee (1999-2001)                 

 

Self Determined Majors Committee (1999-2001)

Chair (2000-2001)                         

 1998                            CAPT Review Committee

 

1997-1999                   Women's Studies Advisory Board

 

1996-1998                   University Without Walls Committee (Chair, 1997-1998)

 

1996-1998                   Faculty Development Committee

 

1995-1997                   Masters of Liberal Studies Committee (Chair, 1997-1998)

 

1994-1996                   LS Committee (Chair 1995-1996)

  

1994-1995                   Women's Studies Advisory Board (ex officio)

 

1990-1993                   Admissions Committee

 

1989-1991                   UWW Committee

 

1986-1989                   Faculty Council

 

1994-1995                   Faculty Advisor to Network