Dr. Eugenia Muñoz
CURRICULUM
VITAE
I. EDUCATION:
Ph.D.
University of Virginia
1991
Latin-American
Literature
Spanish Language.
Dissertation: Entre
Boom y Postboom:
Fémina
suite de Rafael Humberto
Moreno Durán.
M.A.
Syracuse University
1981
Latin-American Literature
Spanish Language
B.A.
Universidad del Valle
1970
Colombia
Latin-American Literature
European Literature
II. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:
1997 on Virginia Commonwealth University
Department of Foreign
Languages.
Associate
Professor
Spanish Language, Literature, and Culture of Latin
America.
1991-97
Virginia Commonwealth University
Department of Foreign
Languages
1990-91 Virginia Commonwealth University
Department of Foreign
Languages
Associate
Professor
Spanish Language, Literature, and Culture of Latin
America.
1985-90 University of Virginia
Department of Spanish
Teaching
Assistant
Spanish Language and Culture of Latin America
Summer Universidad del Cauca, Colombia
of 1989 Department of
Literatures
Visiting
Professor
Literature of Latin America
1981-85 Universidad del Cauca, Colombia
Department of Foreign Languages
Associate
Professor
Spanish Language, Literature and Culture of Latin
America
1982-84 Universidad del Cauca, Colombia
Department of Foreign Languages
Chairperson
1979-81 Syracuse University
Department of Spanish
Teaching
Assistant
Spanish Language
1970-78 Universidad del Cauca, Colombia
College of Humanities
Assistant
Professor
III. TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
A.
VIRGINIA
COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY:
Courses
taught:
1. Spanish:
a. Elementary
Spa 101 Basic Grammar
Spa 102 Basic Grammar
b. Intermediate
Spa 201 Grammar. Introduction to readings
Spa 202 Introduction to literary readings
Spa 205 Conversation on general topics
c. Advanced
Spa 303
Grammar and Composition
Spa 305 Conversation and discussion on specific topics.
Spa 314 Business Spanish
2.
Literature:
All
genres:
Spa
302 Survey-Spain (18th-20th
centuries)
Spa 321 Survey-Latin America (16th -19th
centuries)
Spa 322 Survey-Latin America (20th century)
Spa 426 Seminar-Latin America(20th theater,
poetry, narrative)
Spa 491 Poetry
and Gender (new course)
FLT 391 Poetry and Gender in Latin America (Taught in
English)
Spa 431 Literary
Periods
Spa 492 Independent Study
3.Latin American
Civilization:
Spa 307 Survey—up
to 20th century
Latin American Culture and Film
Spa 513 Latin American Culture and Film (graduate level)
Honors Course: Latin American Culture, Identity and Film
(In English)
B.
UNIVERSIDAD
DEL CAUCA, COLOMBIA
Courses
taught:
1.
Spanish:
Taller
de Lectura
Taller de Expresión oral
Taller de Escucha
Taller de composición
2. Literature:
a.European: Realism and Naturalism: Balzac, Flaubert,
Dickens,
Zola, Pardo Bazán
b. Spain:Seminar on
El Quijote
Romantic Movement
c. Latin
America:Survey Precolumbian Literature
Survey 16th-19th centuriesSurvey
20th century
Seminar Colombian novel (19th-20th
century)
Seminar Contemporary Latin American Poetry
Seminar on Contemporary short stories (Cortázar, García
Márquez, Rulfo, Téllez, Borges)
Seminar on Boom novel (García Márquez, Carpentier,
Fuentes, Cortázar)
Seminar on Post Boom novel (Moreno Durán, Isabel
Allende)
3.
Methodology:
a. Direction of student teachers’ thesis (Guidelines
for teaching Spanish in 9th
and 10th grades)
b. Supervising of student-teachers program in Spanish
language and literature
C.
ADDITIONAL
EXPERIENCE
As
graduate teaching assistant at the:
1.
University of Virginia
a.
Courses taught:
Elementary
Spanish (Spa 101, Spa 102)
Intermediate Spanish (Spa 201, 202, 205)
Latin American Civilization.
b. Service:
Coordinator
of undergraduate Latin-American cultures courses
Coordinator of intermediate level courses in Spanish
Co-director of Summer program in Valencia, Spain
2.
Syracuse University
Courses
taught:
Intermediate
Spanish (Spa 201, Spa 202)
IV. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
·
International
Center of Hispanic Poetic Studies
·
Association of
North American Colombianists
·
Modern
Languages Association of America
·
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and
Portuguese
·
Foreign
Language Association of Virginia
·
Mountain
Interstate Foreign Languages Association
V. SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY:
Talk
on Latin American Culture to employees of the Social
Security Service, Richmond (1992).
Host
to University of Virginia Professor Donald L. Shaw’s
Lecture on Peruvian poet César Vallejo. Sponsored by
VCU chapter of Sigma Delta Pi (1992).
Vice-president,
The Colombo American Association of
Richmond (1994-1996).
Founder
and mentor of the group POETRY LOVERS. Its members are
most diverse individuals—from VCU and the
community-at-large—who share their devotion to poetry
and promote the work of local and regional writers of
poetry in either Spanish or English (1995- on).
Host
to University of Richmond professor Claudia Ferman’s
presentation and discussion of her award winner video
production based on Ernesto Cardenal’s Canto Cósmico.
At Virginia Commonwealth University (1996).
Host
to University of Virginia professor and poet Fernando
Operé’s talk on poetry and reading from his poetic
work, followed by a colloquium. At Virginia Commonwealth
University (1996).
Talk
and poetry reading to a group of women at The Church of
Jesus Christ of latter Day Saints (1996).
Talk
about Colombia at Randolph Elementary School (1996).
Host
to First International Hispanic Poetic Encounter at
Virginia Commonwealth University (1996).
Latin
American culture and film. Course for high school
teachers of Spanish (1999).
Host
to the Second International Hispanic Poetic Encounter in
conjunction with theVirginia Museum of Fine Arts (1999).
Member
of The
Spanish Inmersion Specialty Steering Committee for the
Chesterfield
County
Public Schools (1999-on).
Honor
Guest in the Midlothian High School Honors Student’s
Ceremony of Initiation into the Spanish Society where
one of my poems was selected to be read in the Ceremony
(1999).
Juror
in the poetic recitation in the Collegiate High School,
Richmond (2000).
Talk
to middle and high school students from all school
counties about literature and poetry reading during the
Firt Festival “Españolización
2000” at Manchester High School (2000).
Spanish translations:
Dr.
Hellen Shaw’s lecture on “Mamography and Breast
Implants.” (1996).
Consultant
in Dr. David Kennamer’s translation of his project
“HIV and AIDS in the Hispanic Community of
Virginia.” (1996).
DMV
Commercial Driver’s License Test, with Dr. Robert Sims
and Mr. Andre Thomas (1994).
Virginia
Driver’s Manual, with Dr. Robert Sims (1993).
Translation
from Spanish into Englih of my two new books of poetry
(1999-2000).
VI. AWARDS/HONORS:
Third
Place Award. The National Library of Poetry. Maryland,
1999.
Who
is Who among American Teachers, 1996.
Presentation
of my poetry book Voces y razones at
“The Association of North American Colombianists’
new books.” Sponsored by Fundación Santillana,
Bogotá, Colombia (1995).
Placement
of Book of Poetry Voces y razones in the National House
of Poetry “Casa de poesía Silva” by its director
Poet María Mercedes Carranza, Bogotá, Colombia (1995).
VCU
Grant-In-Aid (1993).
Sigma
Delta Pi International Spanish Honor Society (1991).
Dupont
Fellowship, University of Virginia (1985-1989).
Stead
Fellowship, University of Virginia (1986-1987).
Merit
Certificate for Innovative Teaching Techniques from the
Ministry of Education, Bogotá, Colombia (1984).
Fellowship
Universidad del Cauca for studies at Syracuse University
(1978-1981).
VII. COMMITTEES and ADDITIONAL SERVICE TO THE
UNIVERSITY:
University
grievance committe, alternate (1998-on).
AA/504
Advisory Committee (1996-on).
English
Department search committee (1998).
Faculty
Council of Humanities and Sciences, alternate member
(1994-1996).
Department
AD-hoc Committee for the rotation of the chairmanship
(1991-1992).
Participant
in the administration of Departmental language placement
test (1992 on).
Department
search committee for Spanish positions (1994-97).
Department
Curriculum Committee (1991-1994), (1998-on).
Program
director Summer Program in Cuernavaca, México (1994).
Paper
on foreign language requirements submitted to the
College Task Force on General Requirements (1995).
Department Honors Grant Committee (1999-on).
Department
Goals Committee (1999-on).
Department
third year Review Committee (2000)
Department
Search Committee for a
Spanish full time adjunct faculty position (
2000).
Coordination
of lower division Spanish program (1995-1997).
Participant
in the revision of the Spanish curriculum (1995).
Member of
the Department Tenure review committee (1997).
Head of
the Spanish Area (1998-on).
Participant
in the project for the Interdisciplinary Master in
Foreign Languages and
Technology,
1998-on
Advising/supervision:
Supervision
of student Spanish teacher at Midlothian High school
(1991).
Judge
Foreign Language on Stage (1991-1996).
Spanish
club (1991-1992).
Hispanic
Students Association (1991).
Latino
Students Alliance (1995-1996).
Latin-American
Studies minors (1995 on).
Spanish
majors (1994 on).
Advising
and supervision of Spanish Adjunct faculty (1995-1996).
Collaborator
in a thesis dissertation of the School of Education of
the University of Virginia, 1996.
ARTICLES:
Refereed:
Muñoz,
Eugenia. “Esteban
Trueba y la ironía en
La casa de los espíritus de Isabel Allende”.
Explicación de Textos Literarios. Vol. XVIII-2
(1989-1990): 79-86.
Muñoz,
Eugenia. “Reflexiones
y contradicciones a partir del mundo femenino de Fémina
suite. Pijao: Arte y literatura latinoamericana. No.8 enero-febrero
(1994): 33-35.
Muñoz,
Eugenia. “El
silencio y la ruptura con el orden patriarcal en La
malasangre de Griselda Gambaro”. Selected Paper.
Proceedings of the LCHLL’94 of the Louisiana
Conference on Hispanic Language and Literatures. Baton
Rouge: Louisiana State University (1994):169-178.
Muñoz,
Eugenia. “The
unconscious struggle in Jorge Eliecer Pardo’s Irene: Octavio Sarria betwween Life and Death.” Trans. Angela
McEwan. Readerly/Writerly Texts: Essays on Literature,
Literary/Textual Criticism and Pedagogy. Eastern New
Mexico University, Spring/Summer (1995): 145-158.
Muñoz,
Eugenia. “Fanny Buitrago y la parodia de la
construcción social de la realidad femenina
latinoamericana”. Selected Paper. Proceedings of the
Annual Conference of Middle Atlantic Council on Latin
American Studies. Lewisburg: Bucknell University (1996).
Muñoz,
Eugenia. “Laura Esquivel y la parodia de la Nueva Era
en La ley del amor.”
Selected paper from Latina Visions for Transforming the
Americas/Perspectivas de La mujer latina en la
transformación de las Américas. The seventh annual
Women’s Studies Conference at Southern Conneticut
State University. New Haven, Connecticut. Vol. 1, Spring
(2000): 106-113.
”Tradición
religiosa y cultura de la violencia en Noticia
de un secuestro y La
Virgen de los Sicarios” Selected Paper. MIFCL
Review, March 2001.
“Al
otro lado de la frontera: Sandra Cisneros y Margarita
Tavera. Conflictos entre una raza y dos culturas”.
Selected Paper. Proceedings of the XVII Coloquio de las
Literaturas Mexicanas. Hermosillo, México: Universidad
de Sonora Press, March 2002.
Under
Review:
“¿Una
parodia del silencio y del discurso femenino en Diatriba
de amor contra un hombre sentado? de Gabriel García
Márquez.” To Monographic Review, Texas Tech
University.
BOOKS REVIEWS:
Muñoz,
Eugenia. Rev.
of Tristes aunque
breves ceremonias, by Tomás López Ramírez. (San
Juan de Puerto Rico: Francisco Vásquez
ed, 1991). Revista Cayey, Vol. XXVI, Núm. 74.
March (1995): 53-55.
Muñoz,
Eugenia. Rev.
of Señora de la miel by Fanny Buitrago. (Bogotá: Arango Editores,
1993). Trans. Eugenia Muñoz, Robert Sims. Readerly/Writerly
Texts: Essays on Literature, Literary/Textual criticism
and Pedagogy. Fall-Winter, (1994): 166-168.
Muñoz,
Eugenia. Rev. of La
novelística de Alfredo Bryce Echenique y la narrativa
sentimental.
Margarita Krakusin. Hispania,Vol 81 No 3 September
(1998):556-558.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
Muñoz,
Eugenia. “For
money.” Poem in Anthology International
Library of Poetry. 1999.
In The
Luminiscent. Anthology. Maryland: Watermark Press,
1999.
Muñoz,
Eugenia. “Las
guías didácticas.” El Liberal {Popayán, Cauca),10
Dec. 1984.
Muñoz,
Eugenia. “Guía
didáctica de Español y Literatura. Grados noveno y
décimo”. Popayán: Cauca Unversity Press, 1985:
36-49.
PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT:
Muñoz,
Eugenia. Voces
femeninas mexicanas más allá de las fronteras
espacio-temporales.
Muñoz,
Eugenia. Book
project about my methods of analysis of short story and
poetry.
VIII.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Papers presented:
“The power of Poetic Words and Images in the
Transformation of Self-Experience. At Montain Interstate
Foreign Language Conference. Radford University.
Radford, Virginia. Octubre de 2000.
“La
parodia de la realidad femenina en Señora
de la miel” At XI Congreso de Colombianistas.
Universidad del Cauca. Popayán. Colombia. Agosto de
2000.
“Al
otro lado de la frontera: Sandra Cisneros y Margarita
Tavera: conflictos entre una raza y dos culturas” At
XVII Coloquio de las Literaturas Mexicanas. Universidad
de Sonora. Hermosillo. Sonora. México. Noviembre de
1999.
“Ecos
político-culturales en la voz poética de Rosario
Castellanos” At Primera Conferencia International
sobre Literatura Mexicana. Homenaje a Rosario
Castellanos. Sponsored by
La Universidad de Puerto Rico-Aguadilla y la
Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas. México. August 1999.
“Tradición
religiosa y cultura de la violencia en Noticia
de un secuestro y La
Virgen de los sicarios”.
At 1999 MACLAS Conference. Ursinus College.
Pennsylvania. March
1999.
“La
poética del dolor humano en César Vallejo. Una
perspectiva cultural”. At the International Conference
on Expressions of Joy and Sorrow in literature and the
Visual Arts. At the State University of West Georgia.
Atlanta. Georgia. November 1998.
“La
violencia sometida en Noticia de un secuestro de Gabriel García Márquez”. At The
48th
Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference.
Virginia Tech. Blacksburg, Virginia. October 1998.
“Laura
Esquivel y la parodia de la Nueva Era en La
ley del amor”. Southern Connecticut State
University. New Haven, Connecticut, October, 1997.
“Voz
femenina, ambigüedad y parodia en Diatriba
de amor contra un hombre sentado de Gabriel García
Márquez at The Eighteenth Annual Conference of MACLAS.
United States Naval Academy, Anne Arandel Community
College. Annapolis, Maryland, April
1997.
“Fanny
Buitrago y la parodia de la construcción social de la
realidad femenina latinoamericana”.
At the Seventeenth Annual Conference Middle
Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS),
Bucknell University. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, March
1996.
“Fairy
Tales as Parody and Popular Enchantment in Lady
of Lusciousness by Fanny Buitrago. At the Twenty
firsth Meeting of Southern Comparative Literature.
Virginia Commonwealth University. Richmond, Virginia.
September 1995.
“Un
caso de segregación e hibridación cultural en Del
amor y otros demonios de Gabriel García Márquez”.
At the Ninth Conference of The Association of North
American Colombianist.” Universidad de los Andes.
Bogotá. July 1995.
“El
rol femenino en la relación víctima/victimario en la
dramática de Griselda Gambaro”. At the Fourth
International Conference on Latin American Theater and
Theory. Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City. August
1994.
“Búsqueda
de significados en la invención del tiempo en Andarse
por las ramas y
La dama boba de Elena Garro”. At the Second
International Conference on Theater. Sponsored by the
University of Tennessee. Puebla, Mexico, July 1994.
“Autoridad
individual de Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz en un mundo
masculino”. At the Kentucky Foreign Language
Conference. University of Kentucky. Lexington, Kentucky.
April 1994.
“El
silencio y la ruptura con el orden patriarcal en
La malasangre de Griselda Gambaro”. At the
Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Language and
Literatures, Louisiana State University. Baton Rouge,
Louisiana. February 1994.
“Identidad
e Imágenes de la ciudad de Cartagena de Indias”. At
the Eighth Annual Conference of the Association of North
American Colombianists. Irvine, California. June 1993.
“Imágenes
de la mujer india en Nueva Crónica y Buen Gobierno de Guamán Poma de Ayala”.
Symposium entitled “Imagen y Discurso Femenino en la
construcción de las Americas”. At Universidad de los
Andes. Bogotá, Colombia. July 1992.
“Feminismo
y parodia en Toque
de Diana de Rafael Humberto Moreno Durán”. At the
Sixth Annual Conference of the Association of North
American Colombianists. Lawrence, Kansas November 1989.
“Mujer
y mundo masculino en Juego de Damas de Rafael Humberto Moreno-Durán”. At the
Fourteenth Annual Colloquium on Literature and Film.
Morgantown, West Virginia. October 1989.
“Esteban
Trueba y la ironía en La casa de los espíritus de Isabel Allende”. At the International
Colloquium on Iberoamerican Literature. Houston, Texas.
April 1988.
“La
voz humana de Miguel Angel Asturias en El
Señor Presidente”. At the Annual Meeting of the
Mid Atlantic Language Association (MALAS). St. Louis,
Missouri. September 1986.
“Conflictos
y tensiones de la mujer en Bodas
de sangre de Federico García Lorca”. At The
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington,
Kentucky. April, 1981.
Invited Papers:
International
Conference on Literature, and Lingüistics. At the
Universidad del Cauca,
Popayán,
Cauca, Colombia. November 1999.
International
Colloquion on the work of Marvel Moreno. Paris, France,
April 1997.
“Latin
American theater and Postmodernism”. At the
International Conference on Contemporary Theatre,
University of Slaski, Katowice, Polland, November 1996.
“Griselda
Gambaro y su descentralización del poder político y
patriarcal”. At The V Encuentro del Instituto
Internacional de Teoría y crítica de teatro
latinoamericano”. At The Instituto de Humanidades y
Comunicación. Universidad Carlos III. Madrid, July,
1996.
“La
marginalidad y el poder en la dramática de Griselda
Gambaro”. At the Cuarta Jornada Internacional de
teatro. Sponsored by the University of Tennessee, Puebla,
México, July, 1996.
Panel:
Chair/Discussant:
Literature as reflection of Reality: Past and Present.
At Student International Studies Research Conference.
Virginia Commonwealth University. April, 1999.
Organizer
of an international panel and poetry reading on critic
and poetry of the Hispanic world, 1997
Workshops:
Direction
of poetry workshops to the Chesterfield County Schools
at “Españolización Day”, March 2000, 2001, 2002.
Direction
of a workshop on specific grammar topics and class
management for Spanish adjunct faculty, 1996.
Organizer
of a poetry workshop on “how to read poems” for
members of the university, city schools and the
community at large.Guest poet Edward Hirsch from The
University of Houston, TX . Virginia Commonwealth
University, Richmond, VA 2000.
Co-organizer
of the event “An International Evening of Poetrty”
sponsored by the Honors Programs and the Foreign
Languages Department of Virginia Commonwealth
University, 2000.
Conference
session/discussion:
Round table:
Participant
in the round table “Poesía y Poéticas”. Sponsored
by The International Center of Hispanic Poetic Studies
and the Latin American Program. At the University of
Virginia, 1996.
Discussion:
Presentation
and discussion of Film El viudo Román for the Latin
American Film Festival, VCU, 1992.
Interviews:
Interwiew
with writer Mempo Giardinelli. Charlottesville,
Virginia, 1988.
Interview
with writer Isabel Allende. Charlottesville, Virginia,
1989.
Interview
with poet Giovanni Quessep. Popayán, Colombia, 1990.
Interview
with writer Jorge Eliécer Pardo. Santa Fe de Bogotá,
Colombia, 1990.
Interview
with writer Rafael Humberto Moreno Durán. Santa Fe de
Bogotá, Colombia, 1992.
Interwiew
with writer Fanny Buitrago. Santa Fe de Bogotá,
Colombia, 1993.
Interview
with writer Elena Garro. Cuernavaca. México, 1994.
Interview
with poet Elsa Cross. Mexico City, México, 1998.
Interview
with writer Laura Esquivel. México City. México, 1998.
Interview
with writer Elena Poniatowska. México City, 1999.
OHER PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES:
POETRY
Participant
in the Florida International Book Fair. Miami, Florida.
November, 1997.
Readings
from Voces y
Razones and a new collection of poems:
To
the participants of the 50th Annual Mountain
Interstate Foreign Language Conference. Radford
University, Radford, VA.October, 2000.
To
the participants of the Primer Congreso Internacional de
Literatura Mexicana. Chiapas, México. August, 1999.
To
the participants of the International Conference on
Expressions of Joy and Sorrow in Literature and the
Visual Arts. State University of West Georgia. Atlanta.
November, 1998.
To
the participants of the Seventh Annual Women’s Studies
Conference. Southern Connecticut State University. New
Haven, Connecticut, October 1997.
To
the audience of the Poetry Mini-Marathon at the Gunston
Arts Center. Arlington, Virginia. January, 1997.
To
the members of the University and the community at
large, sponsored by the Foreign Languages Department and
The Latino Students Alliance. Book presentation by Dr.
Kennet Stackhouse. At Virginia Commonwealth University,
1995.
To
the members of the Hispanic community of Richmond.
Sponsored by The Colombo-American association of Richmond, 1995.
To
the members of the community at large. Sponsored by
Sección Cultural Cámara de Comercio. Book presentation
by writer Dr. Alfredo Caicedo Carvajal. Palmira, Valle,
Colombia, 1995.
To
the members of the Universidad del Cauca and the
community at large. Sponsored by Fondo Mixto de
Promoción de la Cultura y las Artes del Cauca. Book
presentation by poet Giovanni Quessep. Popayán, Cauca,
Colombia, 1995.
To
the members of the Club of lawyers and writers
LLanogrande. Calima, Valle, Colombia, 1995.
To
the members of the University and Community at large.
Sponsored by the School of Humanities, Universidad del
Cauca. Presentation by Profesor Alvaro Riascos. Popayán,
Cauca, Colombia, 1993.
Interviews
and presentations about Voces y Razones:
Television:
“Voces
y Razones de Eugenia Muñoz” Commentary and
reading of
selected
poems by writer Jorge Eliécer Pardo. Colombian National
Television.
Santa Fe de Bogotá, Colombia,1998.
Newspapers:
“Eugenia
Muñoz y su poesía”. By Ismenia Ardila. El Liberal,
Popayán, Cauca, Colombia, 1995.
“Nuestros
valores literarios”.By Bernardo Mejía. El Sol,
Richmond, 1996.
Radio:
Radio
Nacional Caracol de Colombia. By Bernardo Osorio y
Judith Sarmiento. Bogotá, Colombia, 1995.
Radio
1040 de Popayán. By Miguel Fernando Arias y Abelardo
Roldán, Popayán, Cauca, Colombia, 1995.
Radio
Armonías del Palmar. By Jaime Bejarano, Palmira, Valle,
Colombia, 1995.
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