Scholarship Project

Karen Martin

University Professor of Language and Discipline Coordinator

18 Results

Book(s), Monograph(s) or Book Chapter(s)

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article(s)

• "Dynamics of Encounter: Sino-Cuban Memory and Migrations in La isla de los amores infinitos.," Orientalismos. (August 2010)
• "Mapping Ethnicity in Isabel Allende's Daughter of Fortune and Portrait in Sepia," Grafemas. (December 2008)
• "The House (of Memory) on Mango Street: Sandra Cisneros's Counter-Poetics of Space.," South Atlantic Review, 73.1, 49-66. (February 2008)

Review Article(s)

• "Contemporary Spanish American Novels by Women: Mapping the Narrative," Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 4, No. 1, 73-74. (March 2010)
• "Review of Susan Carvalho's Mapping the Narrative: Contemporary Spanish-American Fiction by Women," Contemporary Women's Writing (Oxford Journals). (August 2009)
• "Review of Carlotta Caulfield and Darién Davis, eds., A Companion to U.S. Latino LIteratures.," Hispania. (June 2009)
• "Review of Perla Suez's Entre Rios Trilogy," Letras Femeninas, XXXIII.2, 164-65. (February 2007)

Other Article(s)

• "Syria Poletti," Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia, 415-17. (February 2008)
• "Vlady Kociancich," Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia, 258-59. (February 2008)

Presentation(s)

• "Invented Geographies: Migrating Themes in Isabel Allende's Recent Work" Contemporary Women's Writing Network Conference, San Diego, CA. (July 2010)
• "Dynamics of Encounter: Sino-Cuban Memory and Migrations in La isla de los amores infinitos." Symposium on Asian Influence on Spanish and Spanish-American Literature and Film., Florida International University, Miami, FL. (April 2009)
• "La ficción Fidel: Writing Diaspora, Framing Identities in Contemporary Cuba." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY. (April 2009)
• "Mapping Ethnicity in Isabel Allende's Daughter of Fortune and Portrait in Sepia" (with (Winner, Premio Victoria Urbano de Critica for the Outstanding Critical Paper Presented at the Conference))
  Asociacion Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispanica, Weber State University, Ogden, UT. (October 2006)
• "Gendered Spaces and Border Crossings: Mapping Identity in Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits Trilogy." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY. (April 2006)
• "La narracion del cuerpo: La violencia contra el cuerpo femenino en Cambio de armas y La casa de los espiritus." Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, KY. (February 2006)

Award/Recognition(s)

• Premeo de Critica Victoria Urbano Awarded for the Outstanding Critical Paper presented at the 2006 International conference of the Asociacion Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispanica, 2006

Dissertation

• "Challenging Borders: The Demarcation of Space in Isabel Allende's Trilogy" (July 2006) at Middlebury College, Vermont
• "Derribando fronteras: La demarcacion del espacio en la trilogia de Isabel Allende" (July 2006) at Middlebury College, Middlebury Vermont