I. PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION
Position Senior Instructor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Colorado at Boulder
Address McKenna Languages Building, Room 230, 278 UCB, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, 80309-0278
Office Phone (303) 735-6414
Home Phone (303) 772-9093
Fax (303) 492-3699
E-mail hallstea@colorado.edu
II. EDUCATION
2006 Ph.D.
Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh.
Dissertation title: “FashionNation: The Politics and Dress and Gender in Female
Argentine Literature and Journalism” under the direction of Dr. Mabel Moraña.
2005 Doctoral Certificate in Women’s Studies. University of Pittsburgh.
2003 Graduate Certificate in Advanced Latin
American Studies. University of Pittsburgh.
2000 M.A.
Degree Department of
Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh.
1997 B.A.S. Magna
Cum Laude. University of Pittsburgh.
Major:
Spanish and Latin American Literature
Minor:
Latin American Studies
1997 Undergraduate Certificate in Latin American
Studies University of Pittsburgh.
III. RESEARCH
Specialization
Spanish American Women Writers and Journalists of the nineteenth century, with and emphasis on Fashion Narratives.
Publications
2009 Book Review of Rewriting
Womanhood: Feminism, Subjectivity, and the Angel of the House in the Latin
American Novel, 1887-1903. LaGreca, Nancy. University Park: The
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009. Forthcoming in Hispania
2009 Book Review of Prisma: Análisis crítico de textos en español. Sobejano-Morán, Antonio and Bianco,
Paola. Wilkes Barre: Panda Publications, 2008. Forthcoming in Hispania
2009 “Disease and Immorality: The
Problem of Fashionable Dress in Buenos Aires (1862-1880)”. Forthcoming
in Latin American Literary Review
2008 “De peinetones
a grandes tiendas finiseculares: Consumo, moda e identidad nacional argentina”.
In Cultura y cambio social en
América Latina, ed., Mabel Moraña. Mabrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert:
179-208.
2004 “Políticas vestimentarias
sarmientinas: tempranos ensayos sobre las modas y el buen vestir nacionales”. Revista Iberoamericana, Special issue
“Políticas familiares: género y espacio doméstico en América Latina” edited by
Lelia Area. LXX.206: 53-69
2003 “Black
Bodies, White Readers: The Representation of the Slave Body in Francisco and El Negro Francisco”. Tropos XXIX: 37-58.
2001 “¿Una nación enfermiza? Enfermedad grotesca y escritura femenina
en Dolores de Soledad Acosta de
Samper”. Working Papers in Romance
Languages and Literatures IV: 69-81
2000 “Cruzando las fronteras de la
identidad subalterna: las mujeres tontas de Julio Cortázar y Manuel
Puig”. Ciudadanía: apropiaciones y
definiciones. Eds. Marta López-Luaces and Alicia Cipria. Washington: Literal Books. 53-63
Research in Progress
1.
Book “The Politics
of Frivolity: Consumption and Identity in the 19th Century Latin
American Novel”
This
book, stemming from my doctoral dissertation on Argentina, expands
upon the topic of consumption, fashion and identity construction in many
national contexts (Argentina, Peru, Mexico, Cuba). Although
deeply rooted in Women’s Studies, this book intends to appeal to a wide variety
of audiences from Latin American literary critics to social historians.
Estimated completion: fall 2011
2.
Annotated
Anthology Al oído de las
lectoras: Domingo Faustino Sarmiento sobre la mujer. This is an annotated anthology of Sarmiento’s
work dedicated to his writings on women’s fashions, education, religion,
domesticity and childrearing responsibilities, as well as correspondences with
prominent 19th century female literary and/or public figures (such
as Mary Mann and Juana Manso).
Estimated completion: 2012
Translations
2003 Spanish
to English of Mabel Moraña’s article: “El boom del subalterno”. Trigo, Abril
(ed. and introd.); The Latin American
Cultural Studies Reader. Durham, NC: Duke UP; 2004: 643-54.
2000 English
to Spanish of Jean Franco’s article: “A Ghost Dance in the Fields of the Cold
War”. Nuevas Perspectivas desde/sobre América Latina:el desafío de los estudios
culturales. Ed. Mabel Moraña. Santiago de Chile-Pittsburgh: Editorial
Cuarto Propio / IILI.
2000 English
to Spanish of Debra A. Castillo’s article: “Border Lives: Prostitute Women in
Tijuana”. Nuevas
Perspectivas desde/sobre América Latina: el desafío de los estudios culturales. Ed. Mabel
Moraña. Santiago de Chile-Pittsburgh: Editorial Cuarto Propio / IILI
1999 Spanish to English of Hugo
Achugar’s article: “‘Nuestro Norte es el Sur’. A propósito de representaciones
y localizaciones”. Read
at the University of Chicago.
Papers Presented at Conferences
2006 Latin American Studies Association, XXVI International Conference.
San Juan, Puerto Rico. Paper titled: “Fashionable Desires: Consumption
and Gender in Post-Caseros Buenos Aires”
2003 University of Utah 22nd
Annual Western Humanities Alliance Conference title “Memory, Material and
Meaning”. Paper titled: “Remembering Juana Manso: The Other Voice of 19th
Century Argentine Nationalism”
2001 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
7th Annual Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures. Paper titled:
“FashionNation: Male Discourses on Fashion in Alberdi’s La Moda (1837)
and Sarmiento’s El Progreso (1842) in 19th Century
Argentina”.
1999 Arizona State University Conference
title “Parody, Satire and the Grotesque”. Paper titled:
“¿Una nación enfermiza? Enfermedad real y simbólica en Dolores de Soledad
Acosta de Samper”.
1999 Montclair State University Conference
title “Citizenship: Appropriations and Definitions”. Paper titled:
“Cruzando las fronteras de identidad subalterna: las mujeres “tontas” de Julio
Cortázar y Manuel Puig”.
1999 University of Minnesota Conference
title: “Border Crossings: An Interdisciplinary Forum”. Paper titled: “La nieve del Almirante by Alvaro Mutis:
A Reading of the Post-Colonial Gothic”.
1999 New York University Conference title:
“Outer Limits: Geografías móviles”. Paper titled: “Juegos ambiguos y
fronteras simbólicas: La mujer “tonta” en Rayuela de Julio Cortázar y en Pubis Angelical de Manuel Puig.
IV. HONORS AND AWARDS
2006 Women’s Studies Dissertation Prize,
University of Pittsburgh, awarded to the best graduate dissertation of 2006,
chosen by a panel of university scholars
2005 Travel Grant, Graduate Committee on the
Arts and Humanities, University of Colorado-Boulder for travel to Buenos Aires,
Argentina for archival research
2005 Dean’s Fund for Excellence, University
of Colorado-Boulder for travel to San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2005 LASA conference
2002
Women’s Studies Research Award,
University of Pittsburgh, to conduct research at Library of Congress,
Washington, D.C.
2001 Teaching Fellowship Recipient for Women’s
Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh, to teach course “Women
and Society”
2001 Center for
Latin American Studies Travel Grant recipient, University of Pittsburgh, to
conduct research at the National Library, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2001 Foreign
Language Area Studies Fellowship (FLASF) recipient, for the advanced study of
Portuguese in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at the Instituto-Brasil-Estados Unidos
(IBEU) (Department of Education, Washington, D.C.)
2000-2001 Foreign
Language Area Studies Fellowship (FLASF) recipient, for the study of
Portuguese at the University of Pittsburgh (Center for Latin American Studies
at the University of Pittsburgh and Department of Education, Washington, D.C.)
2000 Center for
Latin American Studies Travel Grant recipient, University of Pittsburgh to
conduct research at the National Library, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1998Phi Beta Kappa Member, University of Pittsburgh
V. TEACHING
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Teaching Awards
2008 Marinus
Smith Award from the CU Parents Association for excellence in teaching
2008 CU-LEAD
nomination for excellence in teaching
Courses taught
2007-8 Spanish 3220
Latin American Culture
Spanish 3120 Advanced Spanish Grammar
2006 Spanish 3200 Spanish Culture
Spanish 4010 Spanish Rhetoric and
Composition
Spanish 3120 Advanced Spanish Grammar
2005 Spanish 3120 Advanced Spanish Grammar
Spanish 3001 Spanish Conversation
2004 Spanish 2110 Second Year Spanish
Spanish 2120 Second Year Spanish
Spanish 3001 Spanish Conversation
2003 Spanish 4010 Rhetoric and Composition
Spanish 3120 Advanced Grammar
2002 Spanish 3100 Literary Analysis
Spanish 3120 Advanced Spanish Grammar
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
2001-2002 Women and Society,
Women’s Studies Department
1997-2000 Spanish I through IV (fall, spring, summer semesters)
1996 Mexican and Cuban Comparative History,
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, History Department/Center for Latin American
Studies
Seton Hill College, Greensburgh, PA
2000-2002 Intensive
Hispanic Culture and Language I and II (fall, spring, summer Sessions I and
II) Seton Hill College, Adult Studies Program, adjunct instructor
VI. INSTITUTIONAL ACTIVITIES
2005 Instructor Group Representative, University of Colorado-Boulder
2001 Co-founder and Vice President of the Organization of Women Graduate
Students (OWGS), University of Pittsburgh
2001 Graduate Student Representative for the Steering Committee of the
Women’s Studies Program
(Sept 2001 through April 2002)
2001 Volunteer for the Center for Latin American Studies and the Women’s
Studies Department hosting the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
1999-2000 Editor of Hispanic Newsletter Department of Hispanic Languages and
Literatures, University of Pittsburgh
1997-1998 Assistant Editor of Hispanic Newsletter Department of Hispanic Languages and
Literatures
VII. LANGUAGES
English native
Spanish near native
Portuguese advanced
knowledge
VIII. REFERENCES
1.
Mabel
Moraña, PhD. William H. Gass Professor in Arts & Sciences, Department of Romance
Languages, University of Washington at Saint Louis. mabelmorana@hotmail.com
2. Reid Andrews, PhD. Full Professor,
History Department, University of Pittsburgh. reid1@pitt.edu
3. Emilio Bejel, PhD. Distinguished
Professor, Department of Spanish and Classics, University of California, Davis.
ebejel@uc.davis.edu
4. Peter Elmore, PhD. Full Professor,
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Colorado-Boulder peterelmore531@hotmail.com