Ana María Gómez Laguna
Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Rutgers University at Camden
Armitage Hall-436
311 North 5th St
Camden, NJ 08102
303 Vine St. Apt 512
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Phone: (856) 225-6115
e-mail: alaguna@camden.rutgers.edu
(215) 925 4607
anagomezlaguna@yahoo.com
Education
1998-2002
Ph.D, Comparative Literature, Purdue University.
Dissertation: “Defleshing Jealousy: An Ideological Device in
Shakespeare Cervantes and Zayas.”
1996-98
M.A. Spanish and Spanish American Literature, Purdue
University. "El discurso genérico en el teatro español del Siglo de Oro
escrito por mujeres."
1989-94
B.A. with Honors, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
Areas of Interest:
Spanish Golden Age
Gender and Race Theory
European Renaissance
Teaching experience:
2003- present Assistant professor. Rutgers University at Camden. Golden Age
and Medieval literature and culture.
2000-2003
1996-2000
Visiting Assistant Professor, Illinois Wesleyan University. Spanish
GoldenAge, Advanced Conversation, Intermediate Spanish Language, Culture
and Civilization, Spanish Cinema.
Teaching Assistant. Purdue University. Department of Foreign
Languages and Literatures. Taught basic and intermediate language courses,
advanced grammar and composition, introduction to literature.
Grants and Awards:
2004
2004
Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award at Rutgers’s University for Teresa Pérez
García’s “Autonomía y dependencia en el Lazarillo de Tormes.”
Travel and Seminar grant at the Shakespeare Folger Institute, Washington DC.
Spring Semester.
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2003
National Endowment for the Humanities. Seminar at the University of Chicago.
Summer.
2003
Fellow of the International Seminar of Salzburg-- attendance renounced for
conflict of dates.
2000
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Department of Foreign Languages and
Literatures, Purdue University.
2000
Purdue University Research Foundation Grant.
Publications
(Forthcoming)
“An Exemplar Case of Jealousy. Cervantes's Jealous Old Man from
Extremadura: Fall and Rise of Virtue as an Operative Principle.” Hispanófila.
(Forthcoming)
“Ekphrasis in the Prologue to Don Quijote I: Urganda ‘the Unknowable’
and the Mirrors of Fiction.” Recapturing the Renaissance: Cervantes and
Italian Art. Ed. Frederick de Armas.
1997
“Carmen Martín Gaite. El eco postmoderno de una historia nostálgica.”
Romance Languages Annual 9 (1997): 505-07.
Conference Presentations
2004
2002
“Cervantes and the Visual Arts: Flemish Aesthetics and Italian Desertion in El
coloquio de los perros.” University of Chicago at Paris. November 5 to 7th.
(Invited)
"Effacing La perfecta casada: Cervantes, Zayas and the question of
female education. " Spanish and Latin-American Female Writer's Association.
University of Portland. September.
2002
“The Jealous Old Man from Extremadura: Fall and Rise of Virtue as an
Operative Principle.” Cervantes Symposium. Newberry Library.
2001
“How to Negate What Never Happened: Zayas and Cervantes Devices to Protest
La perfecta casada.” Asociación de Escritoras Americanas y Españolas.
Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., September. (Conference postponed
until September, 2002, because of the events of September 11.)
2000
“Las manipulaciones retóricas como discurso de autoridad en dos autoras de la
Edad Moderna: Teresa de Cartagena y Feliciana Enríquez de Guzmán.”
Asociación de Escritoras Americanas y Españolas. Mexico City, October.
2004
“Conspicuous Jealousy in Othello.” Graduate Student Conference. Purdue
University, February.
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1999
“De la polisemia a la poligamia: Usos discursivos de Feliciana Enríquez de
Guzmán.” Association of Hispanic Classical Theater. El Paso, April.
1998
“Del sexo de los ángeles: conflictividad del sujeto poético y código semiótico en
Carolina Coronado.” The Poetics of Politics and the Politics of Poesis. U of
Missouri-Columbia, March.
1997
“Carmen Martín Gaite. El eco postmoderno de una historia nostálgica.” Purdue
University Conference on Romance Languages, Literatures and Film. October.
1996
“Luces de Bohemia: El esperpento como paseo y deleite del espíritu oscuro.”
University of Portland, February.
Service
2004
Faculty Travel Seminar Grant.
2004
Co-coordination of basic level of instruction in Spanish.
2004
Creation of new sequence of courses
Span 215 Spanish for Business,
Span 216 Spanish for the Legal Professions,
Span 217Spanish for Health Professions.
2004
Member of Teaching Excellence Committee
2004
Member of World Masterpieces Committee
2004
Member of Affirmative Action Committee.
2004
Director of t Jennifer Stephens’ Spanish and History Honor Thesis “Myths of
tolerance in 1492 Spain”
2004
Director of the Spanish Club at Rutgers University
2001
Coordinator for the living/learning Spanish House Project La casa at Illinois
Wesleyan University.
2000
Production of an adapted version of Life is a dream in Spanish, Department of
Hispanic Studies, Illinois Wesleyan University.
2000
Textual supervision for the adaptation and production of Life is a dream. School
of Theater Arts, Illinois Wesleyan University. Performed November30December 1 and 2, 2000.
2000
Organization of Calderón 2000: Series of lectures with specialists on Golden
Age Theater. Illinois Wesleyan University.
2000
Participation in the International Film Series at Illinois Wesleyan University,
2000.
Member of International Studies Program.
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1995
Organizer of the first Congress of Languages and Literatures, Department of
Modern Languages, University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain.
1994
Coordinator for an Homage to Toni Morrison. University of Castilla La Mancha,
Spain.
Student Representative to the Faculty Committee, University of Castilla La
Mancha, Spain.
Other Professional Experience:
2002
Translator for the Department of Business of Illinois Wesleyan
University.
1999
Occasional copy-editor for the Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
Coordinator for all Intermediate Spanish Sections, Summer.
Translator Child Development Inc, Lafayette.
1998
Translator for the Entomology Department at Purdue University.
Volunteer teacher of Spanish for first graders at Cumberland School, Lafayette,
IN
1998
Volunteer Spanish Teacher for the Lafayette, IN YMCA and Safe House
for Abused Women.
1996
Interpreter for Family Services Inc., Lafayette, IN
1992-94
Translator for English publications edited and submitted by the Chemistry
Department of the University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain.
Memberships
2003
Asociación de Escritoras Españolas y Americanas.
Association for Hispanic Classical Theater.
Member of Honor of Spanish Honor Society Sigma Delta Pi.
Languages
Native Spanish
Fluent English
Read French, Italian, Arabic and Classical Latin.
References:
Frederick de Armas
Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Humanities
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL 60637
Ph. (773) 834 7405
dearmas@uchicago.edu
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Charles Ganelin, Professor of Spanish
Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
Ph. (513) 529-4500
e-mail: ganelic@muohio.edu
Carolyn Nadeau
Associate Professor
Department of Hispanic Studies
Illinois Wesleyan University.
Bloomington, IL 61702
Ph. (309) 556- 3332
e-mail: cnadeau@titan.iwu.edu
Kathleen Bollard
Chair, Dept. of Modern Languages
Campus Box 178
University of Colorado at Denver
Denver, CO 80217-3364
Ph:(303) 556-2572
e-mail: kathleen.Bollard@cudenver.edu