Curriculum Vitae:
REGINA HARRISON's scholarship combines the disciplines of anthropology and literature, as reflected in her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her book Signs, Songs, and Memory in the Andes: Translating Quechua Language and Culture (University of Texas, 1989) received the first Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Prize from the Modern Language Association in 1991, and was also awarded prizes from the Latin American Studies Association and the New England Council of Latin American Studies. A Professor in Spanish and Comparative Literature and affiliate Professor in Anthropology, Harrison teaches Quechua, the language spoken by the Incas, as well as Latin American cultures and literatures. Her third book, Entre el tronar épico y el llanto elegíaco (Quito, Ecuador; 1997), analyzes the use of the Indian symbol in poetry as Ecuador "negotiates nation" in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her video, Ethno-tourism in Ecuador: Cashing In On Paradise (2001), is a collaboration with indigenous Ecuadorians who comment on tourism, the economic benefits, and the downside of cultural assimilation. With a Guggenheim Fellowship (1999-2000), Harrison analyzes confession manuals and sermons written in Spanish and Quechua to determine "semantic conversions." She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, and later lived with indigenous communities in the tropical forest and the Andes. Her research has been sponsored by S.S.R.C., A.C.L.S., Rockefeller, Fulbright, N.E.H., and the Mellon Foundation. She is also a Visiting Faculty member at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (Quito, Ecuador) and in the Centro de Estudios Regionalistas Andinos Bartolomé de Las Casas (Cusco, Peru).
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REGINA HARRISON
Comparative Literature Program
2107 Susquehanna Hall
University of Maryland, College Park
College Park, Maryland 20742
(301) 405-2853
Education
| 1979 |
Ph.D. University of
Illinois, Urbana; Latin American Literature Dissertation Topic: "Andean Indigenous Expression: A Textual and Cultural Study of Hispanic-American and Quichua Poetry in Ecuador" |
| 1973 | A.M., University of
Illinois, Urbana; Spanish Minor: Latin American Anthropology |
| 1965 | B.S., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Cum laude |
Teaching Interests
Colonial and Contemporary
Literature, the Andes
Latin American Indigenous Literatures
Translation Theory and Practice, Comparative Literature
Quechua Language and Linguistics
Latin American Cultural Studies
Employment
| 1994- |
University of Maryland, Professor of Spanish and Professor in the Program of Comparative Literature |
| 1996-2001 | University of Maryland, Director of Comparative Literature Program and Professor of Comparative Literature and of Spanish |
| 1977-93 | Bates College |
| 1990- | Professor of Spanish |
| 1984-90 | Associate Professor of Spanish |
| 1979-84 | Assistant Professor of Spanish |
| 1977-79 | Instructor of Spanish |
| 1993 | Director, Bates College Fall Semester in Ecuador, affiliated with the Universidad Católica, in Quito, Ecuador (full responsibility for 225,000 dollar budget for a program of 25 students, one Bates faculty member, and student assistant) |
| 1990 | Director, Bates College Fall Semester in Ecuador, affiliated with the Universidad Católica, in Quito (same budget) |
| 1986 | Acting Head of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Bates College (16 faculty members, of these 6 were newly hired faculty members) |
| 1980 | Acting Associate Dean of the College, Bates College (highest ranking female administrator of College, head of 13 committees, taught 2 courses) |
| 1970 | Teacher, Model Cities Bilingual Program, Youth Tutoring Youth (African American and Hispanic primary and secondary students); Roxbury, Massachusetts |
| 1970 | Teacher, Solomon J. Lewenberg Junior High School; Roxbury, Massachusetts |
| 1967-70 | Peace Corps Volunteer; Galápagos Islands, Ecuador |
Summer Institutes Taught
| 2001 |
"Mito, memoria e historia" for the Master's Program in the Escuela Andina de Posgrado, Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos Bartolomé de Las Casas, 2 weeks, seminar |
| 2001 | "Cosmovisión y conciencia quechua/quichua" for the Master's Program of the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar in Quito, Ecuador, five weeks, seminar |
| 1996 | "Teoría y praxis de los estudios culturales" for the Master's Program of The Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar in Quito, Ecuador, six weeks |
| 1995 | "The Andean Region," National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, University of California at San Diego, July 3-7, 1995 |
| 1992 | "A Week of Literature of the Andes," National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, California, June, 1992 |
| 1983 | Director and Teacher, Summer Institute in Quechua, Intensive Language and Culture, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Connecticut, Storrs, six weeks |
| 1982 | Summer Institute in Quechua, Intensive Language Immersion, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Connecticut, Storrs, four weeks |
Academic Honors Received
| 1997 |
Distinguished Visiting Kreeger Wolf Professor, Northwestern University |
| 1991 | First Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, the Modern Language Association, for a book published in English in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures |
| 1991 | Bryce Wood Book Prize, Latin American Studies Association, Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Book in the Social Sciences and Humanities |
| 1990 | Book Prize, New England Council of Latin American Studies, Honorable Mention |
Grants and Fellowships
| 1999-2000 |
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship |
| 1999 | Graduate School Research Board Semester Fellowship, University of Maryland |
| 1992 | Mellon Foundation Research Grant, direction of two student filmmakers for eco-tourism and ethno-tourism video, on-site in Ecuador |
| 1992 | Roger C. Schmutz Faculty Research Grant, Bates College |
| 1991-92 | Fulbright Award, American Republics Program, for Ecuador and Peru |
| 1991 | Rockefeller Foundation Resident Fellowship, The Literatures and Cultures of Latin America, The University of Maryland, for research |
| 1991 | Bates College President's Discretionary Fund Grant, for translation of two manuscripts |
| 1991 | Roger C. Schmutz Faculty Research Grant, Bates College |
| 1990 | John Carter Brown Library Resident Fellowship, Barbara S. Mosbacher Fellow, for research |
| 1988 | Bates College President's Discretionary Fund Grant, for publication costs |
| 1988 | Cornell University, Research Fellow in Latin American Studies |
| 1988 | Roger C. Schmutz Faculty Research Grant, Bates College |
| 1987 | National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, Summer Institute on Transatlantic Encounters, Newberry Library, Chicago |
| 1985-86 | Roger C. Schmutz Faculty Research Grant, Bates College |
| 1982-83 | National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, Fellowship for College Teachers, independent research |
| 1982 | Bates College Faculty Summer Research Grant, research in Peru |
| 1980 | National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend for independent research in Ecuador |
| 1974-76 | Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Fellowship for research in Ecuador |
| 1973 | Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Illinois, Summer Travel Grant to Ecuador |
| 1971-73 | National Defense Foreign Language Title VI Fellowship for Graduate Studies |
| 1970-71 | Kappa Kappa Gamma Fellowship for Graduate Studies |
Professional Appointments
| 1993- |
Board Member, Division of Literature for the Master's Program, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, in Quito |
| 1987-88 | Program Committee, Latin American Literature Representative, Latin American Studies Association |
| 1985-90 | Faculty Marshall, Bates College |
| 1978 | Humanities Consultant, Maine Council for the Humanities and Public Policy to WCBB Television Station for the program "Head to Head," discussion of controversial topics in the State of Maine |
Election to Professional Offices
| 2000-02 |
Executive Committee, Ecuador Division, Latin American Studies Association |
| 1987-88 | Chair, Division of Twentieth Century Latin American Literature, Modern Language Association |
| 1985-89 | Executive Committee, Division of Twentieth Century Latin American Literature, Modern Language Association |
| 1987-88 | President, New England Council of Latin American Studies |
| 1986-87 | Vice-President, New England Council of Latin American Studies |
| 1984-86 | Executive Committee, New England Council of Latin American Studies |
Panelist/Evaluator for Granting Agencies
| 2000 |
Fulbright-Hays Faculty Grants, U.S. Department of Education |
| 1997 | John Carter Brown Library Fellowships |
| 1992-95 | Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Latin American Grants |
| 1987-88 | National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend Grants to Latin America |
| 1990-91 | Interviewer-Consultant for Masters Candidates in Ecuador, Latin American Scholarship Program for American Universities |
| 1989 | National Endowment for the Humanities, Panelist Evaluator for Travel Grants, Romance Languages |
| 1986-89 | Fulbright Program, Area Advisory Committee for Latin America, Panelist for South American Grants |
| 1984 | National Endowment for the Humanities, Panelist Evaluator for 1985-86 Fellowships for College Teachers |
Professional Memberships
Latin American Studies Association
Latin American Indian Literatures Association
International Association for Andean Studies
American Anthropology Association
Service to University and Departments
| 2000-01 |
CAPA Awards, ARHU |
| 1998-99 | Graduate Admissions
Committee, CMLT Chair, Merger Committee, CMLT |
| 1997-98 | Citation Committee
Review, ARHU Handbook for Graduate Students Committee, Spanish and Portuguese Chair, Merger Committee, CMLT |
| 1996-97 | Senate Executive Committee,
elected by Faculty Senate Faculty Senator for Department of Spanish and Portuguese, elected Task Force on Languages and Literatures, ARHU Selection Committee, Senior Scholar, ARHU Graduate Submissions Committee, CMLT Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Spanish and Portuguese |
| 1995-96 | Faculty Senator for
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, elected Chair, Senate Educational Affairs Committee (26 members) Evaluation Committee, History Department Review Panel Evaluator for Faculty Fellowship Grants, Arts and Humanities Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee, Spanish and Portuguese |
| 1994-95 | Faculty Senator for
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, elected Chair, Senate Educational Affairs Committee Lectures, Fall and Spring semesters, Honors Program Lecture Series, Spanish Grants Evaluator Committee, Honors Program, Fall and Spring submissions, Spanish Chair, Search Committee for Latin American Colonialist, Spanish |
| 1994-96 | Admissions Committee,
Spanish Committee on Selection of Teaching Assistants, Spanish Director, Honors Program, Spanish |
Publications
Books and Series Publications:
Entre el tronar épico y el llanto elegíaco: simbología indígena en la poesía ecuatoriana siglos XIX y XX (Quito: Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar/Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1996).
Signos, cantos y memoria en los Andes:Traduciendo la lengua y la cultura quechua (Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1994).
'True' Confessions: Quechua and Spanish Cultural Encounters in the Viceroyalty of Peru, Latin American Studies Center Rockefeller Fellow Series, no. 5 (College Park: University of Maryland, 1992).
Signs, Songs, and Memory in the Andes: Translating Quechua Language and Culture (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989).
Video Production:
"Eco-tourism in Ecuador: Cashing in on Paradise" (October, 2000), selected for screening at Latin
American Studies Association meetings, September, 2001.
"Caudrando cuentas en el Paraíso" (June, 2001).
Articles:"Religious Works and Doctrinal Works" and "Catechisms: Major Editions," Guide to
Documentary Sources for Andean Art History and Archeology, ed. Joanne Pillsbury
(Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art/Getty Foundation, forthcoming)."Andean Indigenous Expression: Resisting Marginality," Latin American Literary Cultures:
A Comparative History of Cultural Formations, eds. Mario Valdés and Djelel Kadir
(New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)."Convent in the Clouds: Quito as a Cultural Center," Latin American Literary Cultures: A
Comparative History of Cultural Formations, eds. Mario Valdés and Djelel Kadir
(New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)."Perez Bocanegra"s Ritual formulario:Khipus and Confessionals," Narrative Threads: Memory,
Mnemonics, and "Writing" in the Andes, eds. Jeffrey Quilter and Gary Urton (Austin:
University of Texas, forthcoming)."Literaturas quichuas del oriente," Literaturas del Ecuador, vol. 5 (Quito: Corporación
Editora Nacional, forthcoming).
"Indigenous Cultures," "Potato," Yage," "COICA," "Qullor Rit'i," "Gregorio Condori
Mamani," "Ecuador," Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American Culture, eds.
Daniel Balderston, et al. (London: Routledge, forthcoming)."Cashing In On Paradise: Ecological Tourism in the Tropical Forest, Ecuador," Cultura and
Biodiversity, ed. Xu Jianchu (Kunming, China: Yunnan Science and Technological
Press, 2000)."Runa, Rainforests, and Representation: A Video-In-Progress," Transforming Cultures in Latin
America , eds. Debra Castillo and Mary Jo Dudley, Latin American Studies Program,
vol. 4 (Ithaca: Cornell University, 2000), pp. 89-102."En búsqueda del subalterno "auténtico": (aven)turismo ecológico," Nuevas perspectivas
desde/sobre América latina: el desafío de los estudios culturales, ed. Mabel
Moraña (Santiago, Chile: Editorial Cuarto Propio/ Instituto Internacional
de literatura Iberoamericana, 2000), pp. 489-99."Guaman Poma , la construcción de la memoria incaica y la estética corporal," La memoria
popular y sus transformaciones: América latina y países luso-africanos, ed. Martín
Lienhard, con Gabriela Stockli y Mari Serrano (Madrid: Vervuert/Iberoamericana,
2000), pp. 237-49."Ecuador," "Indianism: South America," "Quechua Literature," Encyclopedia of Latin American
Literature (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997), pp. 279-82, 439-40, 693-94."Metaphor Spun: A Conversation with Cecilia Vicuña," (written with Billie Jean Isbell), The
Precarious: The Art and Poetry of Cecilia Vicuña, ed. Catherine de Zegher,
(Middletown, Conn.:Wesleyan University Press/New York: Andy Warhol Foundation,
1997), pp.. 47-59."Yaya Alfaro: Perspectivas indígenas,"La revolución alfarista: 100 años de lucha por el camino
socio-político del Ecuador, ed. Rafael Díaz Ycaza (Guayaquil, Ecuador: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, Guayas, 1996), pp. 32-53."The Case of the Pregnant Penitent: Translating Quechua in the Andes," Latin American Indian
Literatures Journal, 11, 2 (Fall, 1995): 108-128."The Language and Rhetoric of Conversion in the Viceroyalty of Peru," Poetics Today, 16, 1
(Spring, 1995): 1-29."The Theology of Concupiscence: Spanish-Quechua Confessional Manuals in the Andes,"
Encoded Encounters: Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Colonial Latin America, eds.
Francisco Javier Cevallos, Jeffrey A. Cole, Nina M. Scott, and Nicomedes Suárez-
Araúz (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994), pp. 135-153."Confesando el pecado en los Andes: del siglo XVI hacia nuestros días," Revista crítica de
literatura latinoamericana, 19, 37 (1993): 169-185."Praxis comunicativa: discurso colonial en español y runa simi," Críticia y descolonización: el
sujeto colonial en la cultura latinoamericana, eds. Lúcia Helena Costigan y Beatriz
González Stephan (Caracas: Universidad Simón Bolívar, 1992), pp. 449-467."Valorización del idioma quichua: una polémica entre Montalvo y Mera," Universidad Verdad
(Universidad del Azuay) 6 (1990): 225-243."Mythopoesis: The Monster in the Labyrinth According to Supervielle, Gide, Borges, and
Cortázar," Kentucky Romance Quarterly, 32, 2 (1985), 127-39."La canción quechua: simbología e ideología de la mujer indígena, "Cuadernos
hispanoamericanos, 417 (marzo, 1985), 11-25."José María Arguedas: el substrato quechua," Revista Iberoamericana, 49, 22 (enero-marzo,
1983), 111-132."Modes of Discourse: The Relación de antigüedades deste Reino del Pirú by Joan Santacruz
Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamaygua," From Oral to Written Expression: Native Andean
Chronicles of the Colonial Period, ed. Rolena Adorno, the Latin American Monograph
Series of the Maxwell School, No. 4 (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University, 1982), pp.
65-101."La influencia de la poesía quechua en Los ríos profundos," V Annual Conference of Hispanic
Literatures, 1979, ed. J. Cruz Mendizábal (Indiana, Pennsylvania: University of
Pennsylvania at Indiana, 1983), pp. 209-226."The Quechua Oral Tradition: From Waman Puma to Contemporary Ecuador," Review (Center for
Inter-American Relations), 28 (January-April, 1981), 19-22."Rosario Castellanos: On Language," Homenaje a Rosario Castellanos, eds. Maureen Ahern and
Mary Seale-Vásquez (Valencia: Albatrós, Ediciones Hispanófila, no. 11, 1980), pp.
41-64."The Order of Things: An Analysis of the Ceramics from Santarém, Brazil," Journal of the
Steward Anthropological Society 4 (Fall, 1972), 39-57.Translations:
"Excerpts from Dream Time by Ana María Shua," Secret Weavers: Stories of the Fantastic by Women of Argentina and Chile, ed. Marjorie Agosín (Fredonia, New York: White Pine Press, 1992), 144-45.
"Las papas," translation of Julio Ortega's short story, "Avenida Oeste;" The Boston Globe Magazine, February, 1988.
"West Avenue," translation of Julio Ortega's short story, "Avenida Oeste;" Connexions, (Spring, 1987), 13-15.
Reviews:
Amor Brujo: Images and Culture of Love in the Andes by Luis Millones and Mary Louise Pratt, The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History, XLIX, 1 (July, 1992), 87-8.
No Bells to Toll: Destruction and Creation in the Andes by Barbara Bode, Modern Language Studies, 21, 1 (Winter 1992), 117-18.
Hijos de Pariya Qaqa: La tradición oral de Waru Chiri by George L. Urioste, Hispania, 67 (December, 1984), 682-3.
Mensajes icónicos en la cultura de masas, Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, 2 (1983), 244-50.
Work in Progress:
The Language and Rhetoric of Conversion: Quechua-Spanish Texts in the Viceroyalty of Peru,
1560-1650 ( in preparation)."César Vallejo's Search for the 'Primitive': The Cultural Politics of Vanguardist Latin American
Poets" ( in preparation)."Vallejo's Tungsten: The Practice of Interpretation and the Process of Translation" (article).
"Intertextual Photography: Desnoes, Cortázar, Poniatowska, Rulfo" (article).
Participation in Symposia and Seminars
"La tecnicidad en búsqueda de los datos duros: estudios culturales y economías pedagógicas,"
"Encuentro sobre estudios culturales: Retos desde y sobre la región andina,
Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito, 2001."ECOtourism, ECOnomics,and ECOlogy: A Video Filmed with the Quichua Peoples of Capirona,
Ecuador," "Cultures and Biodiversity Congress 2000," Kunming, China, July, 2000."Semantic Conversions: Quechua-Spanish Colonial Sermons in the Andes," "Between Worlds:
Cultural Mixture and Translation," Director: Natalie Zemon Davis, Folger Institute
Seminar, March, 2000."ECOtourism, ECOnomics, ECOlogy: A Humanist Films With Tropical Forest Peoples, Ecuador,"
"Film in 20 Zero Zero," "A Symposium on Film in the Humanities," Coastal Carolina
University, Conway, South Carolina, February, 2000."Andean Popular Religiosity in Representation," "Spectacles of Religiosity," Institute of
Performance and Politics, New York University, April, 1998.
"Aprendiéndo a escuchar: mujeres andinas y el discurso," "La memoria popular y sus
transformaciones: América latina y los países luso-africanos," Zurich University and
King"s College, Centro Stefano Franscini del Monte Veritá (Ascona), April, 1998."Defining Latin American Studies: A Subaltern Video," "New Perspectives In/On Latin America:
The Challenge of Cultural Studies," University of Pittsburgh, March, 1998."Bodies and Boundaries: From Phenotypes to Flirtations in Quechua Expression," "The Quechua
Expressive Art: Creativity, Analysis, and Performance," University of California,
Santa Cruz, September, 1997.
"Tallying Sins: Khipus and Confessionals," "Narrative Records of the Inka Khipus: Memory,
Mnemonics, and Writing in the Andes," Dumbarton Oaks Roundtable (closed session),
April, 1997.
"Texts Without Images: Working with Documentary Sources on Andean Art and Archeology,"
Center for Advanced Study of the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington,
D.C., February, 1996."On Writing and Resistance in Andean Cultures," "Ambiguous Discovery: A Latin American
Literary Symposium on the Repercussions of 1492," Symposium Sponsored by
Marymount Manhattan College and the Americas Society, New York City, October,
1992."Translating Sin: Cultural Confrontation in the Andes," "Andean Worlds: The Incas, Colonial
Cultures, Contemporary Legacies;" Symposium sponsored by Princeton University,
New York University, and the Americas Society; New York City and Princeton, N.J.;
March, 1992.
"Five Hundred Years of Resistance: Cultural Criticism and Indigenous Federations in Ecuador,"
Andean Seminar, George Washington University; Washington, D.C.; April, 1991."Food for Thought (and Sustenance): Understanding Culture in the Andes," "Seminar:
Understanding Contemporary Latin America Through the Humanities," West Virginia
Humanities Council, Marshall University, July, 1990."Cultural Translation and Cultural Pluralism," Lecture, National Endowment for the Humanities
Institute, "Early Latin American Texts: Indigenous and Spanish Cultural Exchange,"
Brown University, June, 1990."The Theology of Concupiscence: Spanish-Quechua Catechisms and Confession Manuals from the
Andes," "Reflections of Social reality, Writings in Colonial Latin America," a Five
College Symposium Honoring Lewis U. Hanke, Amherst, Massachusetts, April, 1990."Tungsteno in Translation," the George Washington University Seminar on Andean Culture and
Politics in collaboration with the Embassy of Peru; Washington, D.C.; March, 1989.
"José María Arguedas: Deep Rivers," "Latin American Literature Series," The Center for
Inter-American Relations, New York City, April, 1982."José María Arguedas: el substrato quechua," "Symposium for José María Arguedas," The
University of Texas, March, 1980.
Papers and Professional Activities"Sex, Lies, and ....Khipus: Quechua Confessions in the Colonial Andes," Latin American Studies
Center, State University of New York, Stony Brook, April, 2000."Semantic Conversions in the Andes: Khipus, Confessions, Catechisms," Department of Spanish /
Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, April, 2000."The Convent in Context: Sor Getrudis in Quito," Latin American Studies Association, Miami,
March, 2000."Khipu y cuerpo: códigos para descifrar," Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana, Cuzco,
Peru, August, 1999."Más allá de las crónicas: testigos, textos, traducciones," Primer Congreso Internacional de
Peruanistas en el Extranjero, Harvard University, April-May , 1999."Khipus and Confessions: The Andes," Boston College, April, 1999.
"High and Low in the Andes: A Life Narrated through Slides, Videos, Songs," Washington
College, April, 1999."ECOnomics, ECO-tourism, and ECOlogy in Tropical Forest Ecuador," Latin American Studies
Center, Cornell University, October,, 1999."Concepto de la cultura y noción de la nación," Jornadas Andinas de Literaturas Latinoamericanas,
Quito, August, 1997."Yaya Alfaro: Perspectivas indígenas," VII Congreso de Ecuatorianistas, Universidad Católica de
Santiago de Guayaquil, Guayaquil, July, 1995."Video Verité: Ecological Tourism in Tropical Forest Ecuador" in session "(De)scribing the
Andes," Latin American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., October, 1995."Fundaciones de la poesía ecuatoriana: desde la independencia hacia nuestros días," Lecture
Series, Open University, Universidad Andina de Simón Bolívar, November, 1993."Sins of Omission: Spanish-American Quechua Confessions in the Viceroyalty of Peru;"
"Religious Encounters in the New World;" Session of the Society for Reformation
Research, American Historical Association; Washington, D.C.; December, 1992."César Vallejo: A 'Vow of Esthetic Conscience,'" Latin American Lecture Series, Harvard
University, Cambridge, November, 1992."La confesión en quechua: una problemática lingüística-cultural en la colonia andina," Facultad
Latino-Americana de Ciencias Sociales, Quito, June , 1992."The Writing of Lives in the Andes," Division of 20th Century Latin American Literature Panel,
Modern Language Association Meeting, San Francisco, December, 1991."True Confessions: The Politics of the Representation of Women in the Andes," Division of Latin
American Literature to 1900 Panel, Modern Language Association Meeting, San
Francisco, December, 1991."Missionary Linguistics: The Language of Conversion in the Andes (1560-1650)," Lecture Series,
University of Maryland, April, 1991."El arte de confesión en la época colonial," Convención de Institutos Peruanos; Washington, D.C.;
April, 1991."Textualizing the Other: Cultural Theories and Literature," Presidential Panel, "Culture and
Society: Perspectives on Research in the 1990s;" Latin American Studies Association
Meeting; Washington, D.C.; April, 1991."Metodología de una traducción cultural: Praxis comunicativa en los textos quechua - españoles
de la época colonial," XXVIII Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura
Iberoamericana, Brown University, June, 1990."Valorización de la literatura quichua: de Juan León Mera a la época contemporánea," Fourth
Congress on Ecuadorian Literature, Cuenca, Ecuador, June, 1990."Textos quechuas de sueño y hechizo," Latin American Studies Association Meeting, Miami,
December, 1989."Signs, Songs, and Memory: The Quechua Oral Tradition," The Center for Latin American
Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, November, 1988."Purina, Shayana, Tiyana: The Metaphysics of Sex," Center for Latin American Studies, Cornell
University, Ithaca, July, 1988."A Quechua Woman's Song," American Anthropological Association Meetings, Phoenix,
November, 1988."Presence as Prescience in Quechua Women's Songs;" Northeast Modern Language Association
Meeting; Providence, Rhode Island; March, 1988."Translating Supai: The Problem of Cultural Categories," Latin American Studies Association
Meetings, New Orleans, March, 1988."Revising the Canon I: Images, Institutions, Ideologies in Latin American Literature," Session
Chair, Modern Language Association Meeting, San Francisco, December, 1987."Revising the Canon II: Translations of Culture in Latin America," Session Chair, Modern
Language Association Meeting, San Francisco, December, 1987."Images of Latin America: Facts and Fallacies;" Latin American Book Fair; Washington, D.C.;
October, 1987."Achachai: Theories of Translation in XIX Century Ecuador," Kentucky Foreign Languages
Conference, Lexington, April, 1987."Sexual Metaphysics: Cultural Translations of Lowland Quichua Songs," Latin American Studies
Association Meeting, Boston, October, 1986."The Andean Oral Tradition," Chair of Session, Latin American Studies Association
Meeting, Boston, October, 1986."Catholic, Protestant and Amerindian Religious Confrontations: The Bible and the Devil in the
Americas;" Symposium on Latin American Indian Literatures; Mérida, Mexico;
January, 1986."Semantic Shift: Definitions of Vanguardismo in Ecuador," Modern Language Association
Meeting, Chicago, December, 1985."Images of Latin America: The Role of Travel Advertising," Symposium on International Cultural
Perspectives in Literature and Language, George Mason University, November, 1985."Woman's Place/Woman's Power: Quechua Songs From the Andes," Bowdoin College,
November, 1985."Intertextual Photography: Desnoes, Cortázar, Poniatowska, Rulfo;" New England Council of
Latin American Studies Association; Providence, Rhode Island; October, 1985."Images and Ideologies: Advertising in Latin America;" Latin American Studies Association
Meeting; Albuquerque, New Mexico; April, 1985."Literature of the Colonies: Religion, Rebellion, and Racial Consciousness;" Session Co-organizer
with Rolena Adorno; Latin American Studies Association Meeting; Albuquerque, New
Mexico; April, 1985."Quechua Poetics: The Function of Memory and Cognition;" Latin American Indian Literatures
Association; George Washington University; Washington, D.C.; April, 1984."Oral Tradition," Literature Discussion Series, Washington, D.C. Community Humanities Council,
April, 1984."Woman in the Kitchen: Narrative Strategies of Rosario Castellanos and Julio Ortega,"
"Escritoras de América Latina," 7th Annual Conference on Latin American Literature,
Montclair State College, March, 1984."The Selling of Mexico: A Study of Cultural Symbols;" Latin American Studies Association
Meeting; Mexico City, Mexico; September-October, 1983."Quechua Discourse and Poetics: Women's Songs from Lowland Ecuador," Latin American
Indian Literature Association Annual Meeting, University of Pittsburgh, April, 1983."La lírica quechua: simbología e ideología de la mujer indígena," Simposio sobre cultura y
literatura en el mundo andino, University of Texas, March, 1983."Oral Tradition in the Andes," Division of Latin American Studies, George Mason
University, February, 1983."Los modos del discurso en el texto de Santacruz Pachacuti," Universidad Nacional de San
Marcos, Lima, June, 1982."Gregorio Condori Mamani's Autobiografía: The Trajectory of Indigenous Literature," Peruvian
Literature Session, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, April, 1982."Latin American Indian Literatures: Research Projects;" Round Table Discussion, Latin American
Studies Association Meeting; Washington, D.C.; March, 1982."Modes of Discourse: The Relación de Antigüedades deste Reino del Pirú;" Latin American
Studies Association Meeting; Bloomington, Indiana; October, 1980."Voices in the Wind: Cultural Continuity in Quichua Lyrics," for the Symposium on "Women and
Change: the Ecuadorian Perspective," American Anthropological Association
Meetings, Cincinnati, November, 1979."La influencia de la poesía quechua en la narrativa de José María Arguedas," V Annual
Hispanic Literature Conference, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, October, 1979."Current Trends in Foreign Languages: Spanish," Foreign Language Association of Maine, Colby
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