CURRICULUM VITAE

Work Address:

Josefa Salmón 
Associate Professor
Modern Foreign Languages                    
Loyola University               
P.O. Box 229
New Orleans, LA 70118            e-mail:   salmon@loyno.edu
  (504) 865-3844                          
  (504) 865-2692 Fax (504) 865-2348

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:

-Phi Kappa Phi
-Sigma Delta Phi
-Institute of Hispanic Culture research grant (1980)
-Selected as Visiting Scholar by University of California, Berkeley, 7/88-8/89.
-Excellence in Teaching Award from the Loyola University Student Alumni Association, Fall 1994.
-Faculty Development Grant. 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."
-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.
-Received two grants from the Biever Lecture Series to bring speakers to campus in October, 1994 and March 1995.
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.  For the Spring 2001, another Biever grant to bring Claribel Alegria, March 2001 and the Mexican Philosopher Bolivar Echeverria, and the Mexican cultural historian Antonio García de León.
-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.
-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."
-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.


Professional Appointments:

-Chair of the Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures Department, 1996-1999.
-Chair of the Latin American Studies Committee, 1998-1999.
-Member of the Women's Studies Committee, 1998-present.
-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
-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:

A.  Publications
  
Books:
El espejo indígena:  El discurso indigenista en Bolivia (1900-1956) .  La Paz:  Plural Editores, UMSA, 1997.
  
Book Manuscript:
Essays on Latin American Culture.  Co-editor with Annette Hammerschmidt and Nicholas Robins. 
  
Articles:
  
"Bolivia," general entry for Routledge Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Cultures, 2000 words, November 2000.
  
"Pueblo Enfermo," entry for Routledge Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Cultures, 500 words, November 2000.

"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:

"Mexico City Poets and Translations," edited with an "Introduction" by Josefa Salmón, The 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.   


B. Conference Papers:
  
-"Crossing over:  Vámonos con Pancho Villa from novel to film" Mid-American
Conference on Hispanic Literature, Madison, Wisconsin, 9/21-9/23, 2000
  
-"Mestizaje y etnicidad en Franz Tamayo" Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana (JALLA 99 Cusco) from August 9-13, 1999 in Peru.

-Chaired, co-organized and served as discussant of a panel "Indigeneous Institutions and the Bolivian State" at the Latin American Studies Association XX International Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, April 17-19, 1997.

-"Franz Tamayo, el mestizaje o el juego de posiciones culturales", presented at the Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana (JALLA), Tucumán, Argentina, 10-15 August, 1995.

"Anaité:  una percepción de los naturales de la selva",  presented at the Tercer Congreso de Literatura Centroamericana", Ciudad de Guatemala, February, 1995.   

"El espejo indígena: algunos aspectos del indigenismo y nacionalismo en Bolivia",  presented at Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamerican (JALLA), in La Paz, August 19-23,     1993.

"Castigo Divino:  la familia o el poder", presented at the XVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association at Los Angeles, California, September 24-27, 1992.

"Ethnicity and nationalism in Tristan Marof and José Carlos  Mariátegui", invited guest speaker by the Spanish and Portuguese Department and the Center for Latin American Studies of Tulane University, April 23, 1991

"La Chaskañawi:  nacionalismo y mestizaje en la chola", paper presented at the "Symposium on Women of the Americas", on April 10, 1991, at the University of California, Berkeley.

"Etnicidad y nacionalismo en el discurso indigenista peruano y boliviano de principios de siglo", presented at the conference "Translating Latin America", April, 1990.

"Indigenismo with or without Indians", presented to the "Colonial Discourse Group  of the University of California, Berkeley, Spring 1989.

"Indigenismo, Nacionalismo y Revolución, 1900-1952"; Talk given to the Department of Spanish and Portuguese of the University of California, Berkeley, Spring, 1989.

"A Proposition Paper", presented at the "Conference on Ethnicity and Nationalism", University of California, Berkeley, Spring 1989.

"La historia y el discurso indigenista en Bolivia", presented to  the Latin American Studies Association, New Orleans, March   1988.

"La tierra como referente de nación e indio en Franz Tamayo y Alcides Arguedas", Southwest Conference of Latin American Studies, Nacogdoches, Texas, March 1987.

"El nacionalismo en Bolivia a principios de siglo", SECOLAS  meeting, Mérida, Mexico, April 1987.

"La raza indígena y el 'nacionalismo' en Pedagogía Nacional",IV International Symposium on Latin American Indian Literatures, Yucatán, Mexico, January 1986.

"La pugna por la prevalencia de la visión indígena en 'Agua' de José María Arguedas", II International Symp  'osium on Latin    American Indian Literatures, Washington, D.C., Spring 1984.

"The power of foretelling in Chronicle of a Death Foretold", Symposium on International Cultural Perspectives in Literature, Arlington, Virginia, Fall 1983.

"El ambiente en dos novelas de la guerra del Chaco", SCOLAS  meeting, Austin, Spring, 1980.

C.  Editorial Positions:
  
-Member of Editorial Board of Bolivian Studies Association  electronic Journal [bolianstudies.org].
-Edited two chapters of the tetxbook Literatura y Arte by Hartcourt College Publishers, in     July 2000.
-Refereed article for PMLA, Fall 98'.
-Consultant Editor for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Cultures, 1995-1999.
-Co-Editor of  Prismal/Cabral literary magazine, 1981-1985.
-Editorial staff member, Revista Chicano-Riqueña, literary magazine, 1980-1981.
D.  Professional Associations
Co-founder and Vice President of the Bolivian Studies Association and website which includes an electronic journal at [bolivianstudies.org].
Member of LASA (Latin American Studies Association, MLA, Asociación de Ecuatorianistas de Norteamérica.

UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
-Gave a power point presentation to Lusher Elementary School as part of the project to integrate technology into language teaching thanks to a grant NOCTIITe.
-University Senate representative, Fall 2000 to present
-Sigma Delta Pi, Spanish Honor Society, Advisor, Fall 1999 to present.
-Organized a talk for International Week with the help of the Provost Office by David Carrasco, "City of Sacrifice:  The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization", April 3, 2000,7:30 p.m, Audubon Room, Dana Center, Loyola University.
- Organized a talk on "The idea of nation in Mexican Films of the 1930's to 1950's through landscapes, music and songs:  The case of Emilio 'Indio' Fernandez and Julio Bracho," November 8, 1999, 7:30 p.m. Multimedia Room 1, Monroe Library.
-Organized a bilingual poetry reading with 4 poets from Mexico and 4 from New Orleans through a grant from the US/Mexico Fund for Culture at Loyola in March, 1999.
-Organized a talk by Chirstopher Dominguez Michael on Mexican Literature in February, 1999.
-Invited Mexican writer Hector Manjarréz to give a talk at Loyola University durimg International Week, April 20, 1997.
-Invited the Bolivian poet and critic Monica Velasquez to give a talk on October 21, 1997.
-Judge of a poetry reading contest at the 1995 New Orleans Foreign Language Festival at
De La Salle High School on March 18, 1995.
-Presided over panels "Problems of identity in Latin American Literature" and"Distintas modalidades narrativas en la literatura hispana" at the the Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures sponsored by Tulane University, on  February, 1995.
-Organized a talk by Jorge Aguilar Mora entitled "But only she knew to talk about her
dead" thanks to a grant from Biever Guest Lecture Series (October 17, 1994)
-Judge at Foreign Language Festival at Academy of the Sacred  Heart (March 5, 1994)
-Invited Debra Castillo together with Kathy Detent of Tulane University to give a talk on "Signifying, Testifying: Memoires of Mexican Loose Women" in March 1995.
-Gave a talk at Loyola in a panel entitled "Latin American Women: beyond machismo" sponsored by the Women's Issues Organization of Loyola University (February 24, 1994) -Organized together with professor Bob Dewell a departamental talk given by Annette Hammerschmidt on the topic of"Conditions for Intercultural Understanding" (February 7,                                        1994).          
-Director of the Language Center (Spring 1988)
-Admissions Coordinatior for MFL (Fall 1990-Spring &1991)
-Library liaison for MFL (Fall 1986-1988)
-Administered and prepared the Spanish Placement Exam together with Professor Sabatini (1986-1987)
-Served on the recruitment committee for the Spanish position as well as the German/Russian appointment (Fall 1989-Spring 1990)
-Invited guest speaker at the Spring Meeting of the Louisiana Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (March 26, 1988)
-Invited by the Center for Latin American Studies of Tulane University to give a talk on "Racial tensions in Bolivia as seen through its Literature" at a New Orleans Teacher's Workshop (October 29, 1987)
-Presided over panel "Comparative Readings: Borges and Others" at the CHISPA Meeting, New Orleans, February 1987
-Invited panelist at a conference by the Argentine writer and anthropologist Adolfo Colombres on "An Approach to Contemporary Latin American Literature" sponsored by the Consulate General of Argentina, Loyola University and Casa Argentina (June 20, 1991)
-Organized a conference on "Theology of Liberation and the Church in Nicaragua", as part of the departments contribution to "International Week", Loyola University (April 1987)
-Organized a talk by Paraguayan journalist Josefina Kostianovsky at Loyola University (September 1987)