Elvira Sánchez-Blake is Senior Lecturer in Spanish literature
and language. She has a Ph.D. from Cornell University, with a specialization
in Latin American literature and Women's Studies.
Her research focuses mainly on testimonial narrative. She has published
in various journals about Mexican and Colombian women writers, and
the book Patria Is Written With Blood (Antropos, 2000). In
conjunction with Maria Stycos, she received a grant from the Program
for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Education,
Culture and Sports and United States Universities, University of
Minnesota, 2002, to partially fund the anthology, Caleidoscopio:
Voces Hispanas Siglo XXI, DVD Interviews with authors (Yale
University Press, due September 2004). Her more recent articles
are "Deseo y Utopía en Gioconda Belli," Waslala, Anales
de la XIII Conferencia de la Asociación de Literatura Femenina
Hispánica ALFH, 2002 (forthcoming 2004) and, "El
legado del desarme: Voces y reflexiones de las excombatientes del
M-19," Journal of Latin American Anthropology,
2002.
She received a grant for the design and production of the new course,
Spanish 247: "Spanish Through Media and Culture" from
The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning, in 2003. In conjunction
with other language instructors from the Department, she produced
a video entitled "The Good, the Bad and the Worse of Teaching
Languages", a skit project for the Department annual orientation
for novice teachers.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books
El universo literario de Laura Restrepo. (A critical edition). Bogotá: Alfaguara, 2007.
Co-editor with Julie A. Lirot.
Voces Hispanas Siglo XXI: Interviews with Authors in DVD. New Haven: Yale UP, 2005. Co-editor with Maria Nowakowska Stycos.
Patria se escribe con sangre (Testimonials from women in Colombian violence). Barcelona: Anthropos, 2000.
Articles and Book Chapters
“El cofre de los secretos de Márvel Moreno”. Revista de Estudios Colombianos. 31 (2007): 24-30.
“La muralla de la discordia: los medios en el debate migratorio México-EE.UU.” Tercer Milenio. Communication, Journalism and Social Sciences Journal. Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta. 12 (2006): 44-48.
“Sin fronteras: la escisión de los nacionalismos en la literatura de la globalización. Tercer Milenio. Communication, Journalism and Social Sciences Journal. Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta: 11 (2006): 49-54.
“Deseo y Utopía en Waslala de Gioconda Belli.” Mujeres y cambio desde la letra. Eds. Asunción Horno Delgado and Janet N. Gold, República Dominicana: Secretaría de la mujer, 2005: 207-27.
"El legado del desarme: Voces y reflexiones de las excombatientes del M-19”. Journal of Latin American Anthropology 7 (2002): 254-75.
"Los laberintos narrativos de Marvel Moreno y Umberto Eco". Revista de Estudios
Colombianos. 17 (2001): 37-43.
“Testimonio, voz alternativa en la construcción mujer-patria.” Rethinking Feminisms in the Americas. Eds. Debra Castillo, Mary Jo Dudley and Breny Mendoza, Cornell University 5 (2001): 145-56.
“Mujer y patria: la inscripción del cuerpo femenino en Demasiado amor de Sara
Sefchovich.” Confluencia: Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura 13 (1998): 105-14.
Academic Service
Faculty Host for the Cornell A.D. White Professor at large, Laura Restrepo.
Faculty advisor, Teatrotaller Hispanic Theater Organization. Coordinator, supervisor and playwright of theater productions involving students and the Hispanic community.
Faculty advisor, Colombian Students Association.
Advisor and Honors Thesis Director of Undergraduate Spanish majors.
Grants
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) selected by Cornell as one of the University faculty proponents for the NHE Summer Stipends 2008 with the book project “Poetics of Wandering: Mayra Santos in Contemporary Caribbean Literature.”
Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports and United States Universities, to support research for the book Voces Hispanas Siglo XXI: Entrevistas con autores en DVD.
Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning, for the design of materials resources for the course “Spanish through Media and Culture”. 2003.
Cornell Hull Fund for the publication of the book Patria se escribe con sangre. 2000.
RECENT COURSES
Intermediate Composition and Conversation I & II
Spanish Through Media and Culture
Perspectives for Latin America
Introduction to Hispanic Literature
Readings in Modern Spanish Literature
Readings in Spanish-American Literature
Hispanic Theatre Production
Spanish for Reading
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