Dara E. Goldman

Dept. of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Urbana, IL 61801

217-333-3390 ext. 30986

217-244-8430 FAX

degoldma@uiuc.edu

Education

B.A. in Latin American Studies, Columbia University, 1992

M.A. in Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Columbia University, 1994

Ph.D. in Spanish, Emory University, 2000

Dissertation: “Lost and Found: Insularity and the Construction of Subjectivity in Hispanic Caribbean Literature” (Prof. Carlos J. Alonso, director)

Certificate in Women's Studies, Emory University, 2000

Appointments, UIUC

Assistant Professor of Spanish, 2000-2006

Honors, Fellowships and Grants

Funding from the Humanities in a Globalizing World initiative for "Beyond Empire:  A Cross-Cultural Approach to Globalization" (to subsidize the travel of 3 professors and 2 graduate students to Havana in order to establish sustained research engagements on issues of globalization between scholars in Cuba and at UIUC)

Funding from the U.S Department of Education for "Next Year in the Diaspora:  The Uneasy Articulation of Translocal Positionality in Cuban Literatures and Culture" (for travel and expenses for research to be conducted in Havana, Cuba)

Funding from the Campus Research Board for "Beyond the Island:  Charting the Rhetoric of Hispanic Caribbean Spatiality"

LAS State of the Art award for Iconographies of Space Conference (proposal co-authored with Professors Jagoe, Meléndez, Romero, Roncador)

List of Teachers Consistently Ranked as Excellent, 2001-2004, 2007

Funding from Campus Research Board for "Enemy Mine:  Insularity and Contested Spaces in the Hispanic Caribbean"

Selected Publications

Out of Bounds:  Islands and the Demarcation of Hispanic Caribbean Identity. Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory. (Bucknell University Press, 2007)

• There's (Always) Something About Cuba: Security and States of Exception in a Fundamentally Unsafe World. SAQ 107.2 (2007) forthcoming

• Urban Desires: Melancholia and Fernando Pérez's Portrayal of Havana." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. forthcoming

• “Looking Like a Lesbian Narrative: Towards a Queer Caribbean Poetics.” Strange Affinities: The Sexual and Gender Politics of Comparative Racialization Ed. Grace Kyungwon Hong & Roderick Ferguson. accepted

• “Érase una isla: la llegada como fundamento retórico en el Caribe hispánico” Revista Candiense de Estudios Hispánicos 29.2 (2005): 285-305

• “Next Year in the Diaspora: The Uneasy Articulation of Transcultural Positionality in Achy Obejas’s Days of Awe.” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. 8 (2004): 59-74

• “Virtual Islands: The Reterritorialization of Puerto Rican Spatiality in Cyberspace” Hispanic Review 72.3 (2004): 375-40

• “Los límites de la carne: los cuerpos asediados de Virgilio Piñera.” Revista Iberoamericana 69.205 (2003): 1001-15

• “Out of Place: The Demarcation of Hispanic Caribbean Cultural Spaces in the Diaspora ” Latino Studies 1.2 (2003): 1-21

• "Once on this Island: The Performance of Spatiality in Salvador Brauís La vuelta al hogar" Chasqui 23.1 (2003): 74-84

• “El otro que no es uno: configuraciones retóricas en los estudios coloniales recientes” Cuadernos Americanos 5.71 (1998): 163-179

Selected Papers Delivered

• "No Place Like Home: Traditional Tales and the Transnational Queer Subject." Latin American Studies Assocation Conference, Montreal, Sept. 2007

• "Queer Islands: Caribbean Landscapes and the Place of Transgressive Desires." Modern Language Association Conference, Philadelphia, Dec. 2006

• “Erika Lopez’s Queer Latina Sexcapades.” Latin American Studies Association Conference, San Juan, Apr. 2006

• Boricua Unbound: Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Giannina Braschi’s Yo-Yo Boing.” Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, D.C., Dec. 2005

• “Tomato’s Tale: The Trans-Narrativity of ‘An (Illustrated) All-Girl Road Trip Novel Thing.’” Puerto Rican Studies Association Conference, New York, Oct. 2004

• “Urban Desires: Melancholia and Fernando Pérez’s Portrayal of Havana.” Latin American Studies Association Conference, Las Vegas, Oct. 2004

• “Happily Ever After? The Latina ‘Girl-Meets-Girl’ Story.” Crossroads in Cultural Studies, 5th Annual Association for Cultural Studies Conference, Urbana, Jun. 2004

• “Queer Elsewhere: ‘Global Divas’ and Border Patrol in Mayra Santos Febres’s Sirena Selena vestida de pena.” Modern Language Association Convention, San Diego, Dec. 2003

• “Yours, Mine and Ours: The Uneasy Combination of Cultures in Achy Obejas’s Days of Awe.” Latin American Studies Association Conference, Dallas, Mar, 2003

• “Once on This Island: Insularity and Performance in 19th Century Puerto Rican Theater.” Puerto Rican Studies Association Conference, Chicago, Oct. 2002

• “Virtual Islands: Translocation and Insular Topographies in Cyberspace.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, San Juan, Apr. 2002

• “The Island Within: Alterity and the Reconstruction of Insular Historiography in Severo Sarduy’s Pájaros de la playa.” Latin American Studies Association Conference, Sept. 2001

• “The Limits of the Flesh: Virgilio Piñera’s Assaulted Bodies.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Apr. 2000

• “Across the Great Divide(s): The Significance of Context in Nelly Richard’s Masculino/Femenino.” (Des)Articulaciones: actos, cuerpos e ideologías en las literaturas femeninas hispánicas, Congreso de la Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica, Atlanta, Oct. 1997

• “Vision of the Vanquished Texts: The Editorial Project of Miguel León-Portilla in El reverso de la Conquista,” Latin American Studies Association Conference, Guadalajara, Apr. 1997

• “The Never Ending Story: The Impossibility of the Recuperative Narrative Project in Georgiana Pietri’s ‘Lo que me contó Ramiro’.” Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, D.C., Dec. 1996

• "We're Here, Now What? The View of Humanistic Labor from Spanish, Latina/o Studies, and Latin American Studies." The Future of the Humanities: The View from Illinois. University of Illinois at Chicago. Mar. 2007

• "Lines in the Sand: Guantánamo and the Representation of 'Enemy Territory' in Cuba." University of Toronto, Toronto, Jan. 2006

• “Happily Ever After? Erika López’s Flaming Iguanas and the Latina Girl-Meets-Girl Story.” Harvard U, Cambridge, Mar. 2005

• “Dancing With the Enemy: Guantánamo and the Strategy of Undesirable Neighbors." U of Illinois at Chicago, Nov. 2004

• "Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Caribbean: Crossings of Languages, Histories, Empires, Cultures” Round-table Discussion, Strong Winds of Change: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Caribbean Studies. Oberlin C, Nov. 2004

• “Difference(s) in the Academy: Reflections on Gender, Sexuality and Ethnic Studies.” Columbia College Coeducation Celebration, Columbia U, New York, Apr. 2004

• “Looking Like a Lesbian Narrative: Towards a Queer Latina Poetics.” Tetatúd: Queer Latina Conference, Cornell U, Ithaca, Feb. 2004

• “Enemy Mine: Insularity and Contested Spaces in Hispanic Caribbean Literatures.” Unit for Criticism and Interpretative Theory Colloquium, Urbana, Dec. 2001

• "What Does a Feminist Want?: Gender Studies in the 'Post' Era." Feminismos/Hispanismos, Urbana, Nov. 1999

• “The Impossible Journey: The Rhetoric of Insularity in Eugenio María de Hostos’s La peregrinación de Bayoán. U of Wisconsin, Madison, Mar. 1999

Teaching

Globalization and Its Discontents: The Case of Cuba

Introduction to the Study of Hispanic Literatures (1800-present)

Global Women and Desperate Housewives: Iamges of Latinas in Contemporary Literarture and Film (taught in English)

Literature and Popular Cultures in Latin America

Women, Gender and Sexuality in 20C. Spanish American and Caribbean Literatures

Cuéntame: Narrative Innovation and Self-Representation in the 20C. Spanish American Short Story

Territorial Fictions:  Frontiers of the Nineteenth Century Latin American Novel

Gendered Voices in 20C. Spanish American Literature

The Spanish American Short Story

Mapping Identities:  The Discourse of Space and the Latin American Essay

Gender and Sexuality in 20C. Caribbean Cultures

Urban Desires: Sex and the City in Caribbean Cultures

"Essentials/Essentialisms of Feminism and Gender:  A Brief Introduction,"  introductory course on Western philosophy at University of Illinois Laboratory High School, Urbana, Dec. 2002

"From Stereotypes to Latinos, Inc.:  Images of latinidad in U.S. Media," undergraduate survey of Hispanic literatures, UIUC, Dec. 2002

"Caribbean Diasporas and Queer Globalizations," graduate seminar on Queer Globalizations, Anthropology, UIUC, Nov. 2002

"The Story of Guantánamo: America's Cuban Colony." History 47, The Migrant in American Life, UIUC, Oct. 2005

Thesis Direction

Dissertations Directed

Kathy Noftsger León, "Divorcing Tradition:  Marriage, Family and Female Homosociality in 20C. Puerto Rican Literature."  defended Spring 2003

Tim Wilson, "Rocking The Regime: The Role of Argentine Protest Music in a Changing Socio-Political Context (1970-85)." defended Summer 2005

Sara María Rivas,  "Sátira, religión popular y espectáculo: la formación de la nación puertorriqueña en las obras de Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá" defended Fall 2005

Henry James Morello, “Masking the Past: Trauma in Latin American and Peninsular Theatre” defended Spring 2006

   In progress

Irune del Río, "Errant Family Ties: Reconfigurations of Female Kinship Models in U.S. Caribbean Literature"

Selected Professional Activities

2002-

Co-chair, Chancellor's Cross-Campus Initiative, "The Humanities in a Globalizing World"

2000-2

Cuba Leadership Group (proposing and exploring sustained research exchange with Cuban scholars and institutions) 

2001

Organized and directed session on Diaspora (Caribbean focus), Unit for Criticism and Interpretative Theory seminar on Postcolonialisms (with Prof. H. Adlai Murdoch)

2003-

Secretary/Treasurer, Sexualities Studies Section, Latin American Studies Association

2004-

Executive Committee, Puerto Rican Literature and Culture Discussion Group, Modern Language Association

2006-7

Program Track Chair, LASA2007, Latin American Studies Association

2001-2

Organizing committee for the Puerto Rican Studies Association conference, Haciendo Patria:  Here and Elsewhere

2002

Organized seminar on "The Space of Caribbean Diasporas," American Comparative Literature Association conference (with Prof. Eva-Lynn Jagoe)

2000

Chair of panel entitled "Critical Articulations in Hispanism:  Literature, Criticism, Theory," Modern Language Association Convention

1999

Co-Chair of panel entitled "Desplazamientos:  Women and Resistance," Modern Language Association Convention

Respondent to:  Somervile, Siobhan B.  "Towards a Queer Genealogy of U.S. Citizenship."  Unit for Criticism and Interpretative Theory Colloquium, Oct. 2003

Respondent to:  Radding, Cynthia.  "Ethnic Mosaics and Gendered Identities in Two Colonial Frontiers."  Unit for Criticism and Interpretative Theory Colloquium, Nov. 2002

Respondent at Género, sexualida, cultura II:  performatividad, transgresión, texto.  Haciendo Patria:  Here and Elsewhere, Puerto Rican Studies Association conference, Oct. 2002

Participation in reading groups sponsored by the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities on Travel Writing, Comparative Queer Studies and Globalization and Empire

Mentoring of Ronald McNair Scholar, Summer 2002

Research conducted at the Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños, Hunter C, Jan. 2002

Participation in University of Illinois Teachers for Peace and Justice

Research conducted at Archivo General de Indias, Sevilla

Teaching English at Teachers College and Riverside Language Program, New York

Teaching and Research Interests

Caribbean, U.S. Hispanic Caribbean and contemporary Latin American literatures and cultures; gender and sexuality studies; contemporary literary theory

Membership in Professional Organizations

American Comparative Literature Association, American Studies Association, Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CUNY), Association for Cultural Studies, Feministas Unidas, Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, Latin American Studies Association, Modern Language Association, Midwest Modern Language Association, Puerto Rican Studies Association