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Paola
Marín
Assistant
Professor
Co-Editor
of KARPA,
Journal of Theatrical and Cultural Critcism
College
of Arts and Letters
Department
of Modern Languages and Literatures
Office: King Hall A-3031
Phone: 323-343-4239
Fax: 323-343-4234
E-mail: pmarin@calstatela.edu
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A native Spanish speaker, I graduated in
Literature at Universidad Javeriana, Bogota. My studies encompassed
Spanish and Spanish American Literature, Aesthetics, and Arts. I got my
M.A. from Arizona State University (ASU), with a focus on Golden Age
culture. In 2002 I graduated from the University of Minnesota with a
Ph.D. in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Cultures. There,
under the direction of Nicholas Spadaccini and Rene Jara I wrote my
dissertation entitled “Cuerpo y saber en los Siglos de Oro: Sor
Juana y Santa Teresa” [Sor Juana and Teresa of Avila: Body and
Knowledge in the Golden Age].
I do not believe in purity in terms of race and/or culture.
As a Professor of Spanish Classical Culture and Literature in 21st
Century California I firmly believe that language is alive and in
constant transformation. While I am aware of the need for an
“academic” form of Spanish in higher education courses, I
consider my role as an educator also consists of reminding bilingual
students the language they use is legitimate because it belongs to the
context in which they live. In addition, I want to convey to my
students that a university is a place to call things into question,
even if that means revising what we have taken for granted throughout
our whole lives.
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I have always enjoyed working in a
student-oriented setting. At Cal State I appreciate having the opportunity to
acquire experience in a public institution and working with a truly
diverse student population. I have particularly enjoyed teaching
courses related to Medieval Studies, Don Quijote, the Baroque period, and Spanish
Civilization. One goal of mine consists of finding teaching strategies
to help students realize how relevant are the literature and arts from
the past for understanding our post-modern present. Another goal of my
teaching is inspiring students to understand Spanish-speaking cultures
in a global sense: theater, fine arts, literature, popular culture,
dance, music, and rituals, Life is not compartmentalized, neither is
Art.
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My central areas of research are
Trans-Atlantic Cultural Studies (Golden Age Spain and Colonial Latin
America), and Medieval Spanish Culture. I am also interested in
contemporary theater, dance and opera, and the connections between the various
aesthetic languages.
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PUBLICATIONS
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"Totó la Momposina". Mujeres Afro-latinoamericanas. Ed. María Mercedes Jaramillo. Medellín: Universidad de Antioquia. (forthcoming)
"La
muerte y el hablador o del arte como integración de
lenguajes
estéticos." Article on Mexican opera composer Leopoldo
Novoa,
forthcoming in the proccedings of International Art Forum held at the
Autonomus University of the State of Mexico in November 2006. (forthcoming)
Review of “The Woman Saint in Spanish Golden Age Drama. By Christopher Gascon (Bucknell UP, 2006). Caliope: Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry. (forthcoming)
Introductory essay and notes to the play “Amor pasado: Horacio
Quiroga.” By Uruguayan playwright Víctor Manuel
Leites. Más allá del héroe: Antología de teatro histórico latinoamericano.
Eds. María Mercedes Jaramillo & Juana M. Cordones-Crook.
Medellín (Colombia): Universidad de Antioquia. 2008.
"Introduction" to Palavra
de Contador
(A Storyteller's Word). By Nicolás Buenaventura.
Lisbon:
Apenas Livros/Instituto de Estudos de Literatura Tradicional, 2007, pp.
2-5.
“Etica,
estética y erotismo en Jorge Gaitán
Durán”. Revista
Iberoamericana 218-219
(2007): 301-18.
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2007-2008
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Sor Juana:
Teología y conciencia criolla. Ediciones Clásicas:
Madrid. Biblioteca Crítica Luso-Hispánica.
Editores: Anthony Zahareas y Rodolfo Cardona.
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2006
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“Freedom and
Containment in the Colonial Theology of Sor Juana Inés de la
Cruz. Hispanic Baroques: Reading Cultures in Context. Hispanic Issues Series.
Editores: Nicholas Spadaccini y Luis Martín-Estudillo.
Vanderbilt UP.
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2005
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”Lenguaje y
representación en Alejandra Pizarnik”. Romance Notes 13.3.
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2002
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“Teresa de Avila.
[Teresa de Jesús]”.
Spanish Writers on Gay
and Lesbian Themes: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook. Ed. David W. Foster.
Connecticut: Greenwood Press.
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1999
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Ph.D Hispanic and
Luso-Brazilian Studies 2002
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
MA Spanish (Golden Age) 1997
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
BA Literary Studies 1994
Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
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Medieval Studies Seminar
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SPAN 418
SPAN 424
SPAN 414
SPAN 310
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Survey
of Spanish Literature I
Golden Age Spanish Prose and Poetry
Golden Age
Spanish Theater
Don Quijote
Spanish Civilization
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