Faculty::Barbara Curiel
bc7@axe.humboldt.edu
(707) 826-3474
EDUCATION
- 1995 Ph.D., Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz
- 1981 A.M., Spanish, Stanford University
- 1979 B.A., English, with honors, and Spanish, with honors, Phi Beta Kappa, Mills College.
INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- Associate Professor, English, Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies, Humboldt State University, 1997-present.
- University of California Humanities Research Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, Post-national American Studies Research Group, John Carlos Rowe, convener, 1996-1997.
- California State University, San Marcos, 1991-1996. Lecturer in Ethnic Studies & Women's Studies, 1994-1996.
SELECTED LIST OF COURSES DESIGNED AND TAUGHT
- English 336: Chicano Literature
- English 336: Latino Narrative
- Ethnic Studies/ Women's Studies 330: Women of Color Feminisms
- Ethnic Studies 304: Migrations and Mosaics
- Ethnic Studies 314/English 480: Chicano Culture and Society
- Ethnic Studies 310: The U.S.-Mexico Border
- Ethnic Studies/ Women's Studies 330: Ethnic Women in America
- English 205: Beginning Creative Writing
- English 220: Literature, Identity, and Representation
- English/ Women's Studies 308: Women in Literature
- English 316: Creative Writing: Poetry
- English/ Ethnic Studies 336: New Latino Narrative
- English/ Ethnic Studies 336: Chicano Literature
- English 465: Writing California
- English 480/580/ Ethnic Studies 343: The Japanese American Internment
- English 536: Transnational Narratives
CREATIVE WORK--COLLECTION
Speak to Me From Dreams, 1989, Third Woman Press, Berkeley
ANTHOLOGIES
- Infinite Divisions: An Anthology of Chicana Literature. Tey Diana Rebolledo and Eliana S. Rivero, eds., University of Arizona Press, l993, 175, 183, 344.
- Vous Avez Dit Chicano: Anthologie Thematique de Poesie Chicano. Elyette Benjamin-Labarthe, ed. and translator, Editions de la Maison de Sciences de L'Homme D'Aquitaine, Centre de Recherches Sur L'Amerique Anglophone, Universite de Bordeaux I, 1993, 69, 73, 209.
- Literatura Chicana 1965-1995: An Anthology in Spanish, English and Caló. Manuel de Jesús Hernández-G. and David William Foster eds., Garland Press, New York, 1997.
The Floating Borderlands: Twenty-five Years of U.S. Hispanic Literature. Lauro Flores, ed., University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1998. - Cantar de Espejos/Singing Mirrors: Antología Bilingüe de Literatura Escrita por Chicanas/ Bilingual Anthology of Chicana Literature, vol. 1, Poesia/Poetry, Claire Joysmith, ed., La Casa de las Imágenes, Mexico, forthcoming.
RESEARCH
Dissertation: "Sex and the Spirit: the Authorization of Narrative in the Works of Three Women Writers of Color" studies Sandra Cisneros' collection of short stories Woman Hollering Creek, Sara Lawrence Lightfoot's biography Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer, and Ana Castillo's novels The Mixquiahuala Letters and So Far From God and how these texts expand and critique previously existing images of heroism and national character to include women of color. Dissertation directed by José David Saldívar. Research Interests Include: Chicano/a literature; narratives by women writers of color; autobiography and biography by American writers which address class, gender and ethnicity; illness and recovery narratives.
SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
- "Heteroglossia in Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters," Discourso Literario: Revista de Estudios Iberoamericanos, 7:1, 1990, Paraguay, 11-23.
- "The General's Pants: A Chicana Feminist (Re)Vision of the Mexican Revolution in Sandra Cisneros' 'Eyes of Zapata,'" Forthcoming in Western American Literature.
- "My Border Stories: Life Narratives, Interdisciplinarity, and Postnationalism in Ethnic Studies," Post-national American Studiesco-edited with John Carlos Rowe, et. al., University of California Press, forthcoming in Fall 2000.
- Work in progress: "The Global Heroine: Culture, Hybridity, and Tradition in Sandra Cisneros' 'Bien Pretty'" & "Making Heroes, Making Nations: Zapata and La Curandera in Chicano Cultural Nationalism"
COLLEGE COMMITTEES
Ethnic Studies Program Committee and Search Committee 1997-1999
Women's Studies Program Search Committee 1997-1998
Women's Studies Curriculum Committee 1999-2000
HONORS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS
1999: Humboldt State University Faculty Development Diversity Award. Course release for research on Cuban-American writer Ruth Behar.
1993-1994 California State University Doctoral Incentive Program Fellow
1986 Third Woman Poetry Prize
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Poetry Reading, Arcata Public Library, National Poetry Month, April 10, 1999
Contest Judge, California Association of Teachers of English, Humboldt County High School Writing Contest, Spring 1999.
Volunteer Reading Tutor, Second Grade, Sunset School, academic year 98-99.