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Nuria Vilanova Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor World Languages and Cultures

Bio
N繳ria Vilanova teaches Latin American Culture, Literature and Cinema. Her research is devoted to the impact of social change and migration on cultural production. She works on textual and cinematic narratives of violence, inequality and poverty, particularly in the Andean region and the Mexican-US border. After completing her PhD at the University of Liverpool, UK (1993), Vilanova lived and worked in several Latin American countries for over fifteen years. She has also taught in Europe. She is the author of Border Texts: Writing Fiction from Northern Mexico (San Diego University Press, 2007) and The Impact of Social Change upon Peruvian Literature (1970-1990) (Edwin Mellen, 1998). She is currently working on a third book about the representation of indigenous peoples on Latin American cinema and co-editing the a forthcoming collection on transnationalism in the humanities, to be published by New Mexico University Press. She joined 51勛圖 in 2009.
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Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Research Interests

  • Andean Region: Peruvian literature and social change; fiction writing and the city; indigenous cultures (Bolivia, Peru)
  • Mexico: literature and culture: territoriality and cultural processes; artistic/literary production and the border; migration and culture: memory/anonymity
  • Latin American Cinema: representation of indigenous peoples; violence; migration
  • Migration and Culture: Mexico-US border; Peruvian rural/urban diasporas
  • Narratives of Poverty and Violence (Cinema, Documentary, Literature- Fiction and poetry- Music and Lyrics): Mexico-US border; Mexico City; Lima

Selected Publications

Books:

Border Texts: Writing Fiction from Northern Mexico (San Diego State University Press), 2007.

Social Change and Literature in Peru (1970-1990) (Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press), 1999.

Articles in Books (a selection):

  • "Women Writing in the Andes: A Panoramic View since Colonial Times", in Rodr穩guez, Ileana and M籀nica Szurmuk (eds.), The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature. (New York: Cambridge University Press) pp. 364-381, 2015.

  • Desterritorialization, English translation of Irwin, Robert and M籀nica Szurmuk (eds.), Dictionary of Latin American Cultural Studies (Gainesville: Florida University Press) pp. 120-125, 2012.

  • Desterritorializaci籀n, in Irwin, Robert and M籀nica Szurmik (eds.), Diccionario de Estudios Culturales, (M矇xico, D.F.: Instituto Mora) pp. 80-84, 2009.

  • Territorialidades acad矇micas y poscolonialidades disciplinarias: los estudios de Am矇rica Latina en Espa簽a in Rodr穩guez, Ileana and Mar穩a Mart穩nez-Garc穩a eds.Postcolonialidades/hist籀ricas/(in)visibilidades/hispanoamericanas/colonialismos ib矇ricos. (Barcelona: Anthropos) pp. 133-149, 2007.

  • Fronteras coloniales: mitos, ficci籀n y parodia en el norte de M矇xico in Usandizaga, Helena ed., La palabra recuperada. Mitos prehisp獺nicos en la literatura latinoamericana. (Madrid/Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana/Vervuert) pp. 241-256, 2006.

  • Memoria y anonimato: representaciones discursivas de las muertas de Ju獺rez. Discursos sobre (l)a pobreza: Am矇rica Latina y/e pa穩ses luso-africanos. (Madrid/Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana/Vervuert) pp. 145-59, 2006.

  • Miradas infantiles en la narrativa del Per繳. In Hall, Stephen and William Rowe (eds.), Studies in Latin American Literature and Culture in Honour of James Higgins, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies Special Issue, Liverpool. April 2005, 228-37.

  • La narrativa agotada: Per繳, violencia y otros textos. In Mark R. Cox, Pachatricay (El mundo al rev矇s): Ensayos sobre violencia pol穩tica y cultura peruana desde 1980. (Lima: Editorial San Marcos), 2004.

  • La ficci籀n de los marginados: Cronwell Jara y el efecto de los cambios sociales en la narrativa peruana reciente. Memorias de JALLA Tucum獺n 1995. Tucum獺n, 391-400,1997.

Articles in Journals (a selection):

  • Post-indigenismo de celuloide: la deconstrucci籀n del imaginario ind穩gena en las pel穩culas de Claudia Llosa, in Revista Cr穩tica de Literatura Latinoamericana. Vol. 80, A簽o XXXX Lima-Boston (2014), 345-356.

  • Descolonizaci籀n y cine: la propuesta ind穩gena de Jorge Sanjin矇s hoy, in Bolivian Studies Journal. Vol. 19 (2012-2013).

  • Els cnons de la literatura hispanoamericana: reformulacions est癡tiques i resignificacions socials in E. Sull ed., El cnon literari: cap a una definici籀 operativa. Literatures 5. Segona 矇poca, 2007. Barcelona. Associaci籀 d織escriptors en llengua catalana, 45-55, 2007.

  • Mesa redonda de homenaje a Pedro P獺ramo, de Juan Rulfo, Casa de Am矇rica de Catalunya, Barcelona, May 2005. Published by Revista de Cr穩tica Literaria Latinoamericana, Dartmouth College: Latinoamericana Editores. n. 63, 2006.

  • Literatura y frontera: de M矇xico a EEUU, Quimera. N. 258, June. Ed. N繳ria Vilanova, 2005.

  • Another Textual Frontier: Contemporary Fiction on the Northern Mexican Border. Bulletin of Latin American Research (BLAR) Vol. 21. No. 1. January: 73-98, 2002.

  • El espacio textual de Jes繳s Gardea. Literatura mexicana. Vol. 11. No. 2: 145-176, 2001.

  • La ficci籀n de los m獺rgenes. Revista de cr穩tica literaria latinoamericana. Dartmouth College: Latinoamericana Editores. No. 51. May 2000.

  • The Emerging Literature of the Peruvian Underclass. Bulletin of Latin American Research. Vol. 17. No. 1. January 1998: 1-15.

  • Din獺mica de la narrativa peruana reciente. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (BHS). Vol. 83: 289-296, 1996.

  • Mari獺tegui y el desborde literario. Cuadernos americanos. No. 51. May-June 1995.

Professional Presentations

Invited Lectures (a selection):

  • Andean Representations in Latin American Cinema, Ohio State University. May 2011.

  • Border Theory and Literature, Universidad Mayor de San Andr矇s, La Paz, Bolivia, July 2009.

  • Memoria y anonimato: representaciones discursivas de las muertas de Ju獺rez. Discursos sobre la pobreza: Literatura, artes visuales, ciencias sociales- Am矇rica Latina y pa穩ses luso-africanos. Centre Stefano Franscini, Monte Verit (Ascona, Suiza), organized by Z羹rich Universit瓣t (Prof. Martin Leinhard) June 1318, 2004.

  • Frontera de silencio: narrativa y desierto en el norte de M矇xico. Colonial Frontiers, Postcolonial Border Writing, Rituals and Warfare. Department of Spanish and Portuguese & Center for Latin American Studies. The Ohio State University. November 7th, 2003.

  • Ethnicity and its Borders. Gender and Ethnicity Across Divides. The Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities. The Ohio State University, April 4, 2003.

  • La otra frontera textual: la narrativa de la frontera norte de M矇xico. The University of New Mexico, April 1999.

  • El Per繳 ficcionalizado desde los Andes. Universidad Aut籀noma de Baja California. Tijuana, Mexico. June 1998.

  • La narrativa de la frontera norte de M矇xico. C獺tedra extraordinaria grandes maestros del exilio espa簽ol. Universidad Aut籀noma de M矇xico. Mexico City. March 1998.

  • La obra de Mario Bellat穩n. Una entrevista con el autor. Universidad Nacional Aut籀noma de M矇xico. Mexico City. October 1998.

  • El desierto y Gardea. Homenaje a Jes繳s Gardea. Museo de Antropolog穩a de M矇xico. Mexico City. October 1998.

  • Images of Real Women: Social Change and Womens Poetry in Present-day Peru. The Centre for Latin American Cultural Studies. Kings College. The University of London, U.K. February 1996.

  • A Marginal Literature? The Impact of Hora Zero on the Peru of the 1970s. Ways of Working in Latin American Cultural Studies. The Centre for Latin American Cultural Studies. Kings College. The University of London, U.K. April 1995.

  • Nation and Literature in Peru: El desborde literario 19701990. Institute of Latin American Studies. The University of Liverpool, U.K. March 1995.

Scholarly Presentations (a selection):

  • Decolonizing Indigenous Imaginary Through Cinema: The Case of Bolivia, Fourth Conference on Ethnicity, Race and Indigenous Peoples (ERIP) in Latin America and the Caribbean, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Richmond, VA, October 15-17, 2015.

  • O喧娶硃莽 performances: la frontera de Crosthwaite en contraste. Invited at the panel entitled: Despu矇s del 織Boom穡de los Estudios Fronterizos (parte II). Latin American Studies Association. Chicago, May 2124, 2014.

  • (Des) colonizaci籀n del imaginario ind穩gena: revoluci籀n y cine, Latin American Studies Association, DC, May 29th-June1st, 2013.

  • Colonial Borders: Parody and Fiction on the North of Mexico, Society for Latin American Studies Annual Conference (SLAS), University of Derby, U.K., April 810, 2005.

  • Heterogeneity in the Narrative Discourse from the Northern Border of Mexico. SLAS. Society for Latin American Studies conference. Annual Conference.The University of Liverpool, U.K. April 1998.