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Josefa Salmón, Ph.D.

Degrees Earned:

  • University of Houston, B.A. (1976), Spanish major, minor in French
  • University of Houston, M.A. (1980), Spanish American Literature
  • University of Maryland, College Park, Ph.D. (1986), Spanish American Literature, Spanish Literature

Language Proficiency:

  • Spanish/English: native speaker
  • Italian: quasi-native fluency
  • French and Portuguese: elementary speech, good reading
  • Elementary knowledge of Aymara from Bolivia

Honors and Awards:

Teaching: Received recognition for excellence in teaching from the “1540 Secret

Society” in the Fall of 2003 and Fall 2001. Excellence in Teaching Award from the Loyola University Student Alumni Association, Fall 1994.

Grants:

-Biever Lecture grants: to bring Dr. Aurelio de los Reyes to give a talk on “Einstein’s ‘Viva Mexico’”, April, 2004. . For the Spring 2001, to bring Claribel Alegria, March 2001 and the Mexican Philosopher Bolivar Echeverria, Biever Lecture grants to bring the Mexican writer Chirstopher Dominguez Michael in February 1999, in Fall 1999 to bring Mexican film historian, Aurelio de los Reyes. Received two grants to bring speakers to campus in October, 1994 and March 1995.

-Faculty Development Grant. Travel research grant from Loyola, November 4-21, 2002. Release time to create two new courses at Loyola University, Spring 1994, and in the Spring of 2000 to create a Common Curriculum course entitled "Latin American Thought."

-Faculty Technology participant in a grant to integrate technology into teaching, NOC-TIITE for one year, Spring 2000, Summer, 2000 and Fall, 2000, a project between Loyola University and the University of New Orleans

Outside grants-US/Mexico Fund for Culture grant of $15,760 to organize a poetry reading and translation project of US and Mexican poets in New Orleans, March 7 and 8, 1999.

-NEH Summer Institute Grant from June 21-July 31, 1998 on "Center and Periphery in New Spain: 16th and 17th century Indigenous Cultures in Mexico and New Mexico."

-Selected as Visiting Scholar by University of California, Berkeley, 7/88-8/89.

-Granted an NEH Summer Seminar fellowship on "Images of Amazonia and ideas of image-making" directed by Candace Slater at the University of California, Berkeley, June 12-July 28, 1995.

-Institute of Hispanic Culture, Houston, Texas, research grant (1980)

Honor Societies

  • -Phi Kappa Phi
  • -Sigma Delta Phi

Professional Appointments:

  • -Chair of the Latin American Studies Committee, 2004-present.
  • -Member of Editorial Board of the electronic journal “Bolivian Research Review” 2001-
  • -President of the Bolivian Studies Association, 2002, Vice President, 2001.
  • -Associate Professor at Loyola University, Department of Modern Foreign Languages, New Orleans, Louisiana, Fall 1986 to present.
  • -Visiting scholar, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Center for Latin American Studies, Berkeley, California, July 1988 to August 1989
  • -Director of the Ross Language Center (Spring 1988).
  • -Instructor, Tulane University, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, New Orleans, Louisiana, Fall 1985
  • - Teaching Fellow, University of Maryland, Department of Spanish and Portuguese College Park, Maryland, Fall 1980 to Fall 1984.
  • - Teaching Fellow, University of Houston, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Houston, Texas, Fall 1976 to Spring, 1977, Fall 1978 to Spring 1980.

RESEARCH ACTIVITY:

Publications

Books:

  • El espejo indígena: El discurso indigenista en Bolivia (1900-1956). La Paz: Plural Editores, UMSA, 1997.
  • There are five reviews of this book, in Revista Iberoamericana, Hispamérica, Chasqui,(well known Latin American Literature Journals) Historias(a Bolivian history journal), and Lazos(a Bolivian journal in French published in France) plus a long article of presentation of this book by Victor Hugo Quintanilla..
  • Identidad, ciudadania y participación popular desde la colonia al siglo XX. Co-ed with Guillermo Delgado. La Paz: Plural Editores, 2003.
  • Construcción y poética del imaginario boliviano. Edition and Introduction by Josefa Salmón. In progress for 2004 publication.

Articles:

  • “Ukhamawa Jakawisaxa y el nacimiento de un pensamiento indianista”, submitted for publication, September, 2004, 1-29.
  • “Introducción” to Construcción y poética del imaginario boliviano. La Paz: Plural Editores, will appear in November 2004, 1-19.
  • “La historiografía de los pueblos indígenas y la creación del indianismo en Bolivia”, accepted for publication by the journal of the Coordinadora de Historia, Historias, will be published in 2005, 1-15.
  • “Introducción”,co-authored with Guillermo Delgado. Identidad, ciudadania y participación popular desde la colonia al siglo XX. La Paz: Plural Editores, 2003, 7-13.
  • “In Bolivia, gas sales sparks an uprising”, Editorial, Times Picayune, October 27, 2003.
  • “La lucha por la diferencia: Mestizaje y etnicidad en Franz Tamayo,” Hispamérica June, 2002, 29-39.
  • “Ricardo Jaimes Freyre,” entry for “Modern Spanish American Poetry I” in the Dictionary of Literary Biography edited by María Salgado, 162-165, 2,729 words.
  • "Bolivia," general entry for Routledge Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Cultures, 2000 words, November 2000, Volume 1, 198-199.
  • "Pueblo Enfermo," entry for Routledge Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Cultures, 500 words, November 2000, 1215-1216.
  • "Esencialización e historificación de la imagen indígena en Yanakuna de Jesús Lara". Kipus. Revista Andina de letras (1998): 77-83.
  • "El espejo indígena: algunos aspectos del indigenismo y nacionalismo de la primera mitad del siglo XX". Memorias: Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latino Americana. La Paz: Plural Editores, UMSA (1995): 711-718.
  • "La Mestiza como modelo nacional y transgresora social en La Chaskañawi de Carlos Medinaceli". Romance Languages Annual, Purdue University (May 1994): 502-505.
  • "Castigo Divino: la familia o el poder" in Cambios estéticos y nuevos proyectos culturales en Centroamérica, Washington, D.C., Literal Books (1994): 209-216.
  • "Etnicidad y nacionalismo en el discurso indigenista peruano y boliviano de principios de siglo", was selected for publication by the Symposium "Translating Latin America" in 1991. Published in volume VI of Translation Perspectives.
  • Translating Latin America: Culture as Text (1991): 179-184.
  • "Naturaleza e historia en la ideología nacionalista de Franz Tamayo y Alcides Arguedas", La Chispa 89' (1989): 277-283.
  • "El poder de la anunciación en Cien años de soledad y Crónica de una muerte anunciada", Discurso Literario, Fall (1983): 67-77.
  • "El paisaje en Berceo, Garcilaso y Balbuena: tres concepciones del universo", Prismal/Cabral, Spring (1982): 57-73.

Interviews, Editions and Reviews:

  • Co-edition with the poet Andrea Young of Cuban Poetry for an issue of The New Laurel Review. In process to be published 2004-2005.
  • “Interview with Edmundo Paz-Soldán” [http://www.bolivianstudies.org/eng1/journal/2002_02.pdf]
  • Review of Alfredo de Palchi’ poetry, Addictive Aversions. Le viziose avversioni. Riverside, California: Xenos Press, 1999, for The New Laurel Review, New Orleans, 166-168.
  • "Mexico City Poets and Translations," edited with an "Introduction" by Josefa Salmón, Thê New Orleans Review, Volume 25, numbers 1&2, Spring 99.
  • "Interview with the South African poet Farouk Asvat", Third World, August, 1990.
  • "Entrevista con Norma Alarcón", Encuentros, Spring 1989, Num. 1.
  • Javier S. Sanjinés, ed ., Tendencias actuales en la literatura boliviana (review), Hispamérica, 1988.
  • Luis Ramiro Beltrán Salmón , Panorama de la poesía boliviana. Reseña y antología (review), Hispamérica, December, 1985.
  • Juan Manuel Marcos, Roa Bastos, precursor del Post-Boom (review), Prismal/Cabral, Winter 1985.

 

Updated September 27, 2004