Maria Nowakowska Stycos earned a B.A. in English, French and Spanish
at King's College, at the University of London, and an M.A. in Spanish
Literature and Latin American Studies at Cornell University, where
she also earned a Ph.D. in Spanish Literature and French Literature.
She is the winner of the NEH Competition for Summer Seminar in Theory
and Practice in Modern Spanish Poetry, directed by Andrew Debicki.
In 2000 she received a grant from the Program for Cultural Cooperation
Between Spain's Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports and United
States Universities to interview Spanish authors for the multi-media
book project, Caleidoscopio co-authored with E. Sánchez-Blake.
A Senior Lecturer, she teaches Modern Spanish and Latin American
Literature. Since 1986 she has taught and directed a course in Advanced
Composition and Conversation, required for a major in Spanish. Her
special interest is in women's writing and poetry. She has worked
on Spanish poets of the Second Post-Civil War Generation and translates
poetry. Her article, "The Construction of the Poetic Voice
in Swir, Castellanos, Rich" (Letras Femeninas) compares poems
from the 1970's in English, Spanish and Polish.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Caleidoscopio: Voces Hispanas Siglo XXI, with DVD Entrevistas
con autores (joint project with Elvira Sánchez-Blake). Yale
University Press. In press. (September 2004).
"Poetry and Writer's Freedom," book chapter co-authored
with G. Borkowska. In Transition to Democracy in Eastern Europe
and Russia, Ed. Barbara Wejnert. Westport, Conn., London: Praeger,
2002.
"March Alcalá, Susana" in Encyclopedia of Contemporary
Spanish Culture, Ed. Eamonn Rodgers. London and New York: Routledge,
1999.
“El ‘espejo’ en La mujer habita de Gioconda Belli.”
AIH (July 1998). Accepted for publication in the Actas.
“The Construction of the Feminine Voice: Rich, Castellanos,
Belli, Swir.” Letras Femeninas, Número Extraordinario
Conmemorativo, 1974-1994.
Biographical entry on Susana March in Dictionary of the Literature
of the Iberian Peninsula, eds. German Bleiberg and Maureen Ihrie.
Greenwood Press, 1993.
“La nueva mujer en los poemas de Mia Gallegos y Gioconda Belli.”
Mairena Ano XI, no. 28 (1989): 103-112.
“Spanish Poetry of the Post-War Period: The Changing Poetics
of the 70’s Generation?” Selected Proceedings, Mountain
Interstate Converence on Foreign Languages, ed. R. Fernández-Rubio,
1986.
“Intertextuality in Selected Spanish Poets since 1939: Intertext/Poetics/Reader.”
in After the War: Essays in Recent Spanish Poetry, 1986.
"El desdoblamiento de Antonio Machado en 'Canciones a Giomar,"
in Revista/Review Interamericana, Vol. IX, no. 2, 1979.
RECENT COURSES
Readings in Modern Spanish Literature
Readings in Spanish-American Literature
Advanced Composition and Conversation
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