PhD, University of Virginia 1991
MA, Syracuse University 1981
BA, Universidad del Valle, Colombia 1970

Email - emunoz@vcu.edu
Phone - 804.827.0959
Fax - 804.828.0127

Office - Lafayette Hall, Rm 114
            312 N. Shafer St.
            Richmond, VA 23220

Curriculum Vitae

Eugenia Muñoz, was born in Colombia. She received her Bachelor's degree in Literature from the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia, and was a professor at the Universidad del Cauca, in Popayán, Colombia. She is a Ph. D in Spanish American Literature and a minor in Spanish Literature from the University of Virginia, and an associate professor at Virginia Commonwealth University.  Currently she is Coordinator of the Spanish Program and Director of the Study Abroad Program in Cuernavaca, Mexico for Virginia Commonwealth University. 

Among her literary criticism publications are the book Novelización y Parodia en obras de Gabriel García Márquez, Rafael Humberto Moreno Durán, Fanny Buitrago y Jorge Eliécer Pardo ( Editorial Pijao,Bogotá). She has alsowritten numerous articles, published in journals in diverse countries, on Spanish American authors such as Fanny Buitrago, García Márquez, Laura Esquivel, Gabriela Mistral, Isabel Allende, Rosario Castellanos, César Vallejo, Sandra Cisneros, among others.

As a poet she has published three books: Voces y Razones, (Editorial Pijao, Bogotá), Ser de mujer, (Ediciones Torremozas, Madrid) and  La vida en poemas, (CD,  Nomega Studios, Richmond, Va U.S.A.). She has also published poems in anthologies in the U.S., Spain, Argentina, and websites such as  www.mujeresdejuarez.org/3poemasemunoz.htm/. Her poem “Una madre sin su hija” is part of the play Mujeres de arena by Mexican playwright Humberto Robles. This poem along with the play is being presented in cities in Mexico, the U.S., Uruguay, Chile, Argentina, Costa Rica, Colombia, Spain, Italy,  England with translation into Italian and English.

She has three other poetry books to be published:  Vida ensombrecida, De inmigraciones y reflexiones and  Silencios y distancias.

Eugenia Muñoz’s poetry is deeply rooted in life and it expresses emotions, joys, tenderness, suffering and injustices. It is poetry of testimony, protest, and feelings that speak of real events and about human and universal situations. That is why when she writes, she always has in mind that her voice speaks to human beings such that anyone can relate to her poetic writing.

Colombian writer Jorge Eliécer Pardo says about Eugenia Muñoz’ poetry that “those who read her poems will be able to find individual scenes that become universal not only for their likeness but for the idiomatic energy of each word that recreates life and organizes the puzzle of images which will appear as the totality of a special voice in the Colombian poetry”. The literary critic Donald L. Shaw says that “this poet's poetry, as with some of the poetry of Cisneros in Perú or Pacheco in México, is primarily concerned with the direct communication of the experiences lived. In this manner it is resembles the poetic sensibility of Alfonsina Storni in Argentina and Gabriela Mistral in Chile, although Eugenia Muñoz uses a more modern technique.”