Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, Chair, Professor of Spanish
Curriculum Vitae

Education l Areas of Specialization l Academic Appointments l Honors and Awards l Publications l Papers and Presentations l Teaching Experience l Service l Editorial Work

Education:
Ph. D. Spanish, Harvard University, 1976
M. A. Spanish, Harvard University, 1971
B. A. with distinction, German, University of Washington, 1970
B. A. summa cum laude, Comparative Literature, UW 1969

Dissertation:
"The tradition of the novela in Spain from Pedro Mexía to Lope de Vega's 'Novelas a Marcia Leonarda'" (directed by Stephen Gilman)

Areas of Specialization:
Chicana/o and Golden Age Studies
Women Writers and Feminist, Queer and Cultural Theory
Theater and Performance, Race and Sexuality

Academic Appointments:

Professor, Spanish, Stanford University, September 1996

Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, Stanford University, 1994-1996

Associate Professor, Romance Languages and Comparative Literature, University of Washington, 1984-1993

Adjunct Associate Professor, Women Studies, University of Washington, 1988-present

Visiting Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, Stanford University, 1981-82

Visiting Assistant Professor, Literature Department, University of California, San Diego, Spring 1978

Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, University of Washington, 1977-84

Assistant Professor, Romance Languages, University of Washington, 1976-84

Instructor, Romance Languages, University of Washington, 1974-76

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Honors and Awards:
Feminist Studies Lesbian/Gay Course Development Award (1999-2000)
CCSRE/Ford Interdisciplinary Workshop Grant (with Pat Zavella) (1999-2000)
CCSRE Course Development Award (1998)
Rockfeller Foundation Grant (Chicana Art) 1995-96
Feminist Studies Course Development Award (Queer Raza), 1995
Bing Technology in Teaching Award (Chicana Art) 1994-95
Irvine Multicultural Curriculum and Conference Session Awards1994-95
Graduate School Research Awards 1977, 1978, 1981, 1983, 1986, 1989, 1993
Scholarly Development Awards 1976, 1979
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, National Chicano Council on Higher Education, 1977-78
Innovative Course Development Award (Wagner's Ring), Summer 1975

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Publications:

Books:
The Wounded Heart: Writing on Cherríe Moraga. (The University of Texas Press, forthcoming Fall 2001).

Feminism and the Honor Plays of Lope de Vega. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1994.

McKenna, Teresa, Richard Griswold del Castillo, Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, eds. Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation. Los Angeles: Wight Art Gallery, UCLA, 1991.

The Tradition of the 'novela' in Spain from Pedro Mexía to Lope de Vega 'Novelas a Marcia Leonarda.' New York: Garland Press, 1991.

Articles and Chapters:
"Ironic Flamings: A Queer Reading of the Family MeloDrama in Lourdes Portillo's El diablo nunca duerme/The Devil Never Sleeps. " "The Devil Never Sleeps" and Other Films by Lourdes Portillo. Ed. Rosa Linda Fregoso. (UT Press, forthcoming).

2000:
"Traveling Transgressions: Cubanidad in Performances of Marga Gómez and Carmelita Tropicana." Reading and Writing the 'Ambiente'. Eds. Susana Chávez Silverman and Librada Hernández. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2000. 200-217.

1999:
"Sexuality and Chicana/o Studies: Toward a Theoretical Paradigm for the 21st Century." Cultural Studies 13(2) 1999: 335-45.

1998:
"Cruzando la frontera con Chabela Vargas: Homenaje de una Chicana." Sexo y Sexualidades en América Latina. Eds. Daniel Balderston & Donna J. Guy. Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Mexico: Paidós, 1998. 69-82. Translation and reprint of "Crossing the Border with Chabela Vargas: A Chicana Femme's Tribute." Sex and Gender in Latin America. An Interdisciplinary Reader. Eds. Daniel Balderston and Donna J. Guy. New York: New York University Press, 1997. 33-43.

"Laying it Bare: The Queer/Colored Body in the Photography of Laura Aguilar." Speaking Secrets: Living Chicana Theory. Ed. Carla Trujillo. Berkeley: Third Woman Press, 1998. 277-305.

1997:
"Crossing the Border with Chabela Vargas: A Chicana Femme's Tribute." Sex and Gender in Latin America. An Interdisciplinary Reader. Eds. Daniel Balderston and Donna J. Guy. New York: New York University Press, 1997. 33-43.

1995:
"The Lesbian Body in Latina Cultural Production." Entiendes? Queer Readings, Hispanic Writings. Eds. Emilie L. Bergmann & Paul Julian Smith. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 1995. 181-97.

"Expanding the Categories of Race and Sexuality in Lesbian and Gay Studies." Professions of Desire. Gay and Lesbian Studies in Literature. Eds. Bonnie Zimmerman & George E. Haggerty. New York: MLA, 1995. 124-35.

1994:
"Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La frontera: Cultural Studies, 'Difference', and the Non-Unitary Subject." Cultural Critique 28 (Fall 1994): 5-28.

"Gloria Anzaldúa," "Ana Castillo," "Lorna Dee Cervantez," "Sandra Cisneros," "Cherríe Moraga," "Helena Maria Viramontes." American Women Writers Supplement (Volume 5). Eds. Carol Hurd Green and Mary Grimley Mason. New York: Continuum, 1994.

"Chicana Drama." The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. Eds. C. N. Davidson & L. Wagner-Martin (Oxford University Press).

1993:
"Cherríe Moraga's Shadow of a Man: Touching the Wound in Order to Heal." Acting Out: Feminist Performances. Eds. Lynda Hart and Peggy Phelan. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993. 85-104.

1992:
"The Multiple Subject in the Writing of Ana Castillo." The Americas Review 20:1 (1992): 65-72.

1991:
"De-constructiing the Lesbian Body: Cherríe Moraga's Loving in the War Years." Chicana Lesbians. The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About. Ed. Carla Trujillo. Berkeley: Third Woman Press, 1991. 143-155; "Reclaiming the Lesbian Body." Out/Look 12 (Spring 1991): 74-79; rprnt. in The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. Eds. Henry Abelove, Michael Barale & David Halperin. New York: Routledge, 1993. 595-603.

1990:
"Masquerade, Male Masochism and the Female Outlaw: A Feminist Analysis of Lope's Embustes de Fabia." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 24: 3 (1990): 11-29.

1989:
"Juan del Encina (1469-1529)." A Companion to Medieval Theatre. Ed. Ronald W. Vince. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989. 113-115.

"Cherríe Moraga." Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 82. Chicano Writers First Series. Eds. F. A. Lomelí & C. R. Shirley. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1989. 165-77.

"Primer Encuentro de Lesbianas Feministas Latinoamericanas y Caribeñas." Third Woman, The Sexuality of Latinas Issue. Eds. N. Alarcón et al. Berkeley: Third Woman Press, 1989. 143-46.

1988:
"Chicana Literature from a Chicana Feminist Perspective." Chicana Creativity and Criticism: Charting New Frontiers in American Literature. Eds. María Herrera-Sobek & Helena María Viramontes. Houston: Arte Público Press, 1988. 139-45. Reprinted in Feminisms. An Anthology of Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism. Eds R. R. Warhol & D. P. Herndl. New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1991.

1987:
"Hacia un analísis feminista del drama de honor lopesco." Trans. Raúl Ianes. La Torre. Estudios en Honor de Albert A. Sicroff 1: 3&4 (julio-diciembre 1987): 615-32.

1986:
"The New Man and the Shepherd: Juan del Encina's First Dramatic Eclogue." Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 11:1 (otoño 1986): 145-160.

"The Female Subject in Chicano Theatre: Sexuality, 'Race', and Class." Theatre Journal 38: 4 (December 1986): 389-407.

"Cherríe Moraga's Giving Up the Ghost: The Representation of Female Desire." Third Woman, 3: 1&2 (1986): 113-20.

1985:
"Cuban Theater Today: Report on the Third Festival of Latin American Theater in Havana." Metamorfosis 5:2 & 6:1 (1984-85): 44-51.

"Chicanas' Experience in Collective Theatre: Ideology and Form." Women & Performance 2:2 (1985): 45-58.

Introduction, Moths and Other Stories by Helena María Viramontes. Houston: Arte Público, 1985.

1984:
"Juan del Encina and Lucas Fernández: Conflicting Attitudes towards the Passion." Bulletin of the Comediantes 36:1 (Summer 1984): 5-21.

"Juan del Encina's 'Representación a la pasión': Secular Harmony through Christ's Redemption." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 9 (1982): 271-78.

"The Artist as Social Critic in Latin American Theater." Intiman Newsletter (October 1984).

1983:
"Juan del Encina's 'Egloga de las grandes lluvias': The Historical Appropriation of Dramatic Ritual." Creation and Re-Creation: Experiments in Literary Form in Early Modern Spain. Eds. R. E. Surtz & N. Weinerth. Newark: Juan de la Cuesta, 1983.

" 'Teatropoesía' by Chicanas in the Bay Area: Tongues of Fire." Revista Chicano-Riqueña 11:1 (1983): 78-94.

Introduction to Chicana Poetry. Women Poets of the World. Ed. D. Lashgari & J. Bankier. New York: Macmillan, 1983.

1981:
"Desafío a la pirámide: Nueva poesía chicana" (con F. Alarcón & J. F. Herrera). La Opinión 38 (19 de abril de 1981).

"Góngora and Gryphius: A Comparative Study in the Baroque." Papers in Romance 3:1 (Winter 1981): 11-33.

"Una experiencia del teatro chicano." La Opinión 59 (6 de septiembre de 1981)

"The Role of Women in Chicano Theater Organizations" and "The Image of the Chicana in Teatro." Revista Literaria de El Tecolote 2: 3&4 (December 1981). "Image" reprt. in Theaterwork 2.4 (1982): 19-21, and Gathering Ground: New Writing and Art by Northwest Women of Color. Eds. J. S. Cochran et al. Seattle: Seal Press, 1984.

El Teatro de la Esperanza: Una experiencia del teatro chicano." Conjunto 49 (1981): 14-25.

"Reseña crítica de revistas literarias chicanas: Problemas y tendencias" (Part Two). La Palabra 3:1&2 (1981): 123-37.

1980:
"Lope's Novelas a Marcia Leonarda." Kentucky Romance Quarterly 27:4 (1980): 459-72

"Reseña de revistas chicanas: Problemas y tendencias" (Part One). La Palabra 2:1 (1980): 76-85.

1979:
"Social Conflict in Lucas Fernández' 'Farsa de la doncella'." Bulletin of the Comediantes 31 (1979): 89-94.

"From acto to mito: A Critical Appraisal of the Teatro Campesino." Modern Chicano Writers. Eds. J. Sommers & T. Ybarra. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1979.

"Un análisis crítico de Zoot Suit de Luis Valdez" (con T. Ybarra). Conjunto 42 (1979): 80-88. Rprt. in Plural 103 (abril 1980): 49-56.

"Zoot Suit Mania" (with T. Ybarra). In These Times 3: 11 (Jan. 31--Feb. 6, 1979).

1977:
"The Sixteenth-Century Drama in Spain: A Theater of Class Conflict." Essays in Honor of Jorge Guillén. Cambridge, MA: Abedul Press, 1977.

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Papers and Presentations:

1999:
"Arte para el gueto y el gueto del arte: Homosexualidad y representación." Multiculturalismo, marginalidad y reivindicatión. Casa de América, Madrid, November 1999.

"Representations/Recuperations of the Female Body in Chicana Visual Art." Mira! Refiguring Cuerpos de Mujeres/Women's Bodies in Video/Visual Art of the Americas. University of Washington. Seattle, November 1999.

"El diablo nunca duerme by Lourdes Portillo: A Queer Reading." NACCS, San Antonio, April 1999.

Panel on queer critical practice and interview with Cherríe Moraga. CLAGS, New York, March 1999.

1997:
"Whiteness in the Last Generation by Cherríe Moraga," "The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness" Conference, UC Berkeley, April 1997.

1996:
"Traveling Transgressions: Cubanidad in Performances by Carmelita Tropicana and Marga Gómez." Crossing National and Sexual Borders: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities in Latin/o America Conference, City University of New York, October 1996.

"Performing Latina Identities: Marga Gómez and Carmelita Tropicana," Performing Race and Ethnicity Panel, American Theatre in Higher Education Conference, New York, August 1996.

"Chicana Arts Activism," American Studies Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, May 1996.

"Crossing Communities: Portraiture in the Photography of Laura Aguilar," The University of Notre Dame, March 1996.

"Self-Representation and the Body in Four Latina Lesbian Artists," "Nahum B. Zenil: Witness to the Self/testigo del ser" panel, Mexican Museum, San Francisco, March 1996.

Moderator, "Lo Chocante: Aesthetic Practice and Oppositional Politics" (with panelists Ondine Chavoya, Laura Pérez, Alicia Arrizón, Eloy Hernández), NACCS Conference, Chicago, March 1996.

Convener, The Body of American National Identity (with panelists Sharon Holland, Darieck Scott, Claire Fox and Richard Rosa), "EPluribus Unum?" Irvine Multicultural Curriculum Conference, Stanford University, February 1996.

1995:
"Political Passions: Chicana Art Practices," El Frente: A Conference on U.S. Latina Feminisms, Cornell University, October 1995.

Moderator, Personal History in the Age of Multiculturalism (with artists Kim Anno, Fan Warren, Celia Rodríguez and L. Frank Manríquez), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, October 1995.

"Enrique Chagoya and Eleven Mexican Poets: A Collaboration," The Making of a Book of Poetry: The Bread of Days/El pan de los días,Stanford University Libraries, March 1995.

"Contesting the Ideal Bodies of Nationalism: The Photography of Laura Aguilar," NACS Conference, Spokane, March 1995.

Panelist, "Is There a Gay/Lesbian Esthetic?" KPFA, Berkeley, June 1995.

"Performance and Desire: The Music of Chabela Vargas," Latino Studies/Theatre Studies, Association of Theatre in Higher Education Conference, San Francisco, August 1995.

1994:
"Chicana Art: Expanding the Meanings of Activism," Fuerza!: Chicana/o Activism in the Arts and Media Conference, Stanford University, March 1994.

Commentator, Kathy Biddick's "The Devil's Anal Eye: Inquisitorial Optics and Ethnographic Authority," Center for Hermeneutical Studies, University of California, Berkeley, April 1994.

"Chicana/o Studies in the 90s: Toward a Theoretical Paradigm," Chicana Caucus Plenary, NACS Regional Conference, University of California, Santa Cruz, April 1994.

"The Place of Race in Queer Theory," A Different Light's Readers and Writers Conference, San Francisco, May 1994.

"Theatrical Language and Gender in Susan-Lori Parks 'The America Play' and Cherríe Moraga's 'Heroes and Saints'," The Space Between the Words: Women of Color Voices and the Avant Garde, Brava! for Women in the Arts, San Francisco, December 1994.

1993:

"The Assertion of Personal Agency and the Cultural Symbolic: Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy and Chicana Visual Art." Women of Color Lecture Series, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, March 1993.

"Flexing Our Interpretive Muscle: Lesbian Readings of Mexican and U.S. Popular Culture." Gender, Sexualities and the State: A Hispanic/Latino Context, Berkeley, March 1993.

"Racialized Bodies, Racialized Desire." National Association of Chicano Studies Conference, San Jose, March 1993.

"New Directions in Chicana Visual Art." Miracle Theater's Latina Lecture Series, Portland, July 1993.

"Heroes and Saints by Cherríe Moraga." Latino Images in Theatre, Summer Session, Portland State University, July 1993.

1992:
"Embodied Subjectivities in Chicana Literature and Visual Art," Spanish Department, Reed College, February 1992.

"Insider/Outsider: Multiple Cultural Critiques in Chicana Art and Literature," 21st Century: New Directions in Chicana Studies, Valle Verde Campus, El Paso, March 1992.

"Strategies of Chicana Lesbian Representation," NACS, San Antonio, March 1992.

"Expanding Race and Gender Categories in Gay and Lesbian Studies: Theory and Practice," Romance Languages Department, University of Oregon, Eugene, April 1992.

"Plural Lesbianisms in the Writings of Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa," Minority Discourse Conference, UC Irvine, June 1992.

"Theory and Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La frontera." The Evergreen State College, October 1992.

1991:
"Reclaiming Lesbian Desire in Chicano Literature," Unearthing and Naming: Latin American Lesbian and Gay Literary Legacies, Outwrite '91 National Gay and Lesbian Writers Conference, San Francisco, March 1991.

"Multicultural Education and the Future: A Critique of Diversity and Two Chicano Cases (Guillermo Gómez Peña and Gloria Anzaldúa)," Hispanic Forum '91, Central Missouri State University, April 1991.

"Hacia una teoría de la diferencia (con una diferencia) y sus implicaciones para Shadow of a Man de Cherríe Moraga," Spanish and Portuguese Department, Stanford University, April 1991.

Respondent, Questions of Diversity within Women in Theatre, Women in Theatre Conference, University of Washington, August 1991.

"Lesbianism as a Category of Chicana Feminist Criticism," MALCS Summer Institute, Laredo State University, August 1991.

"Chicano Literature: A Feminist Critique," El Movimiento: Aspects of Contemporary Chicano Art and Culture, Whatcom Museum and Western Washington University, October 1991.

"Teaching Latina Literature," National Council of Teachers of English Convention, Seattle, November 1991.

"The Lesbian Body in Latino Cultural Production," MLA Convention, San Francisco, December 1991.

1990:
"The Multiple Subject in the Writing of Ana Castillo," NACS Conference, Albuquerque, March 1990.

"Theories of Spectatorship and Difference: Lope's Honor Plays," Department of Foreign Languages, University of Puget Sound, April 1990.

"Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La frontera and the Non-Unitary Subject," Feminist Theory and the Question of the Subject Conference, Critical Studies and the Human Sciences, UCLA, May 1990.

"The Subject of Chicana Literature: Intersections with Cultural Studies Theory," Chicano Cultural Studies Conference, UCSB, May 1990.

"The Politics of Difference," The Politics of Culture Conference, Federation of State Humanities Councils, Portland, October 1990.

Commentator and Chair, "Mestiza Consciousness: A Theoretical Construct for the 1990s," American Studies Association, New Orleans, November 1990.

1989:
"Voices from the Borderlands: Cherríe Moraga's Dramatic Trilogy," Perspectives on Chicano Theater Conference, Grinnell College, iowa, November 1989.

"The Search for Interpretive Power in the Writing of Ana Castillo," MLA Convention, Washington, D.C., December 1989.

1988:
"The Representation of Gender and Sexuality in Chicano Theater," Colloquium Series on Gender in Chicano Studies Research, Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, April 1988.

"Male Traffic in Women and Narrativity in the Honor Plays of Lope de Vega," Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego, April, 1988.

"Staging Sexuality in the Chicano Family: Cherríe Moraga's Shadow of a Man," MLA, New Orleans, December 1988.

1987:
"Chicano Literature from a Chicana Feminist Perspective," Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley, February 1987.

"Gender, 'Race' and Representation," Colloquium, Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley, February 1987.

"What is a Chicana Feminist Criticism?," Charting New Frontiers in American Literature: Chicana Creativity and Criticism, University of California, Irvine, April 1987.

"Towards a Feminist Analysis of Lope de Vega's Honor Plays," Women's Studies Colloquium & Drama Department, University of Hawaii, March 1987.

Writing' in Writing by Chicanas," Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages Conference, Seattle, May 1987.

Participant, Commission on Publication and Information, III Encuentro de Teatristas, La Habana, May 1987.

1986:
"Poetry by Chicanas: The Search for Personal and Collective Identity," International Women's Day, Third World Women, The Evergreen State College, March 1986.

"La complicidad de la narrativa en la exclusión del sujeto feminino en el teatro chicano," 13th Chicano/Latino Theater Festival, Cuernavaca, Mexico, July 1986.

"Giving Up the Ghost as Alternative System of Representation," MLA Convention, New York, December 1986.

1985:
"A Critical Appraisal of the Development of Chicano Theater," 13th Annual NACS Conference, Sacramento, March 1985.

Chicano Theater in California," Latin American Studies Association Conference, Albuquerque, April 1985.

"Women of Color Writers: Specific Problems and Unique Strengths," National Women Studies Association Conference, University of Washington, June 1985. Organizer of session on Women of Color Writers.

"Women in Theater," TENAZ Seminar, Santa Cruz, July 1985.

Chicano Theater and Sexuality: Cherríe Moraga," MLA Convention, Chicago, December 1985.

"Juan del Encina's Theater and Noble Patronage: The Problems of Service," MLA Convention, Chicago, December 1985.

1984:
"Report on the Third Festival of Latin American Theater in Havana," Colloquia Series, Romance Languages, University of Washington, March 1984.

"Chicana Writers: Text and Context," ASUW Women's Commission Fall Lecture Series, University of Washington, November 1984.

"Chicanas' Experience in Experimental and Collective Theatrical Practices," Conference on Women Playwrights, Stanford University, April 1984.

"The Changing Role of Women in Chicano Theater," 12th Chicano/Latino Theater Festival, Santa Barbara, May 1984.

"The Latino Heritage in the United States," U.S. Department of Energy, Richland, Wa., September 1984.

"The Chicano Presence in the Pacific Northwest," Northwest and Alaska Fisheries, NOA, Seattle, September 1984.

"Chicano Culture," Arlington School District, Project REACH Training, Bremerton, Wa., October 1984.

1983:
"Juan del Encina and Lucas Fernández: Conflicting Attitudes towars the Passion," Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, April 1983.

"Juan del Encina's 'Representación a la pasión," Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, November 1983.

"Américo Castro and Encina's First Two Eclogues," MLA Convention, New York, December 1983.

1982:
"Barrio Publications and Academic Journals: 'Metamorfosis'," Third World Writers Symposium, California State University, Sacramento, 1982.

"Chicana Writers in the University," Chicana Writers in Celebration, San Jose, October 1982.

"Cultural and Linguistic Bridging in Chicano Poetry," American Literary Translators Association Meeting, Stanford University, October 1982.

1981:
"The Role of Women in Chicano Literature," Left Write Conference, San Francisco, February 1981.

"Chicano Theater," Symposium of Chicano Literature, University of Oregon, Eugene, May 1981.

"Two Chicano Theater Groups: Myth Making and Myth Breaking," Theater and Politics Seminar (Empty Space Theater and Washington Council for the Humanities), June 1981.

"Voz de la Mujer" and "The Octopus," 11th International Chicano and Latino Theater Festival, San Francisco, September 1981.

"The Role of Women in California Chicano Theater," Cultural Roots of Chicana Literature, Mills College, Oakland, October 1981. Also presented in Chicana Lecture Series on Culture and Economics, University of California, Davis, February 1982, and at the University of California, Santa Barbara, February 1982.

"Juan del Encina First Dramatic Eclogue: The Images of Service," 12th Medieval Workshop on Medieval Drama, University of British Columbia, November 1981.

"Women in Chicano Theater: Valentina Productions," MLA Convention, New York, December 1981.

1979:
Director, with T. Ybarra, Workshop on Luis Valdez' Zoot Suit, 10th Chicano Theater Festival, Santa Barbara, June 1979.

"Un análisis crítico de Zoot Suit," Centro de Investigaciones Histórico-Literarias, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, Mexico, July 1979.

"El Teatro de la Esperanza," MLA Convention, San Francisco, December 1979.

1978:
Juan del Encina's First Eclogue," MLA Convention, December 1978. Organizer of soecial session on 16th-Century Theater in Spain. Also presented at the Centro de Investigaciones, July 1978.

1977:
"The Image of the Chicana in Literature," Humanities Panel, Women's State Conference, Spring 1977.

"Chicano Poetry in the Schools," Jefferson Elementary School, Yakima, Wa., Spring 1977.

"Social Conflict in Lucas Fernández' 'Farsa de la doncella'," MLA Convention, December 1977. Also presented to Spanish & Portuguese Department, Stanford University.

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Teaching Experience:

Stanford University
Graduate Seminars:
Race and Sexuality in Latina/o Representations
Queer Raza
Interrogating Critical Concepts in Chicana/o Literature
Gender, Race and Nation

Undergraduate Courses:
Sophomore College: Remapping the Americas (1998 and 1999)
Freshman Seminar: Introduction to Chicana/o Visual Art and Literature
Chicana Expressive Culture
Introduction to Chicana/o Life and Culture; Chicana/o Identities
Chicana/Latino Theater and Performance
Introduction to Chicana/o Life and Culture: The Interdisciplinary Nature of Chicana/o Studies (coordinator)
Undergraduate Seminar: Queer Raza, Issues of Representation
Sophomore Seminar: Chicana/o Art: Muralism and ASCO (Spring 1996)

University of WashingtonElementary, Intermediate & Advanced Spanish, Advanced Conversation, Advanced Conversation for Bilingual Students (Stanford); Coordinator Chicano Spanish Courses ('76-'77)
Creative Writing Workshop (Chicano Section)
Introductions to Drama, Fiction and Poetry
Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung (Comparative History of Ideas)
Research Problems in Chicano Literature (undergraduate seminar, UCSD)
Cultural Readings for Bilingual Students (Stanford, 1981-2)
Chicano Expressive Culture
Fiction by Women from Spain, Latin America and the U.S. (Chicanas)

Advanced Undergraduate/Graduate and Seminars:
Introduction to 16th and 17th Century Literature in Spain
Survey of 16th Century Literature in Spain
Survey of 17th Century Literature in Spain
15th and 16th Century Theater in Spain
17th Century Theater in Spain
The Honor Play in 17th Century Spain
16th Century Theater in Spain (UCSD & UW)
Survey of 15th Century Literature in Spain
Political Theater: Theory and Practice (Comparative Literature)
Golden Age Drama from Gil Vicente to Calderón (Stanford)
Chicano Literature (Stanford and UW)
Chicano Theater (Stanford '81-82)
Feminism and Political Theater (Comparative Literature)
Feminism and Lope de Vega's Honor Plays
Women Writers from the U.S. (Chicanas/Latinas), Latin America, Germany and Austria (Comparative Literature)
Contemporary Narrative by Spanish Women Writers
Critical Theory
Chicana Writers: Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa, Ana Castillo
Feminist Theory: The Politics of Difference (Comparative Literature, Spring '91)
Chicana Expressive Culture
"Race," Sexuality and Nation
Feminists Write Race

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Service:

Stanford University
Committee on Committees (senate committee)
Modern Thought and Literature, Advisory Board
GRO Fellowships Screening Committee
Search Committee, Drama Department (1999-2000)
Task Force on Diversity (1999-2000)
Senate XXXII of the Academic Council (1999-2001)
Committee on Academic Computing and Information Systems (1998-2000)
Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese (Fall 1998-Spring 2001)
Chicana/o Studies Advisory Board (1998-present)
Advisory Board, Hedgebrook Cottages for Women Writers (1997-present)
Judge, Galarza Graduate Papers Prize (Spring 1996)
Comparative Literature Graduate Admissions Committee ('95-'96)
Executive Committee, Comparative Studies on Race and Ethnicity ('95-'96)
Program Committee, Feminist Studies ('95-96)
Chair, Chicana/o Studies (1995-96)
Casa Zapata Murals Oversight Committee (Spring '95)
Selection Committee, Escobedo Fellowship (Spring '95)
Chair, Selection Committee, Ernesto Galarza Lecture (Spring '95)
Screening Committee, Humanities Center (Fall '94)
Search Committee, Chicana/o Position, English Department ('94-95)
Director, Chicana/o Fellows Program ('94-96)
Steering Committee, Irvine Multicultural Curriculum Conference ('94-'95)
Implementation Committee for CCSRE at Stanford (Winter 1995)
Committee on Undergraduate Studies ('94-Spring '95)
Planning Committee for Chicano Studies at Stanford (Fall '94)

University of Washington:
Spanish House Supervisor ('75)
Chicano Studies Advisory Board ('74-'77; reappt. '84-'86)
Search Committee, Chicano Studies Director ('75)
Search Committee, Chicano Division Supervisor, EOP ('75)
Curriculum Committee, Chicano Studies ('76-'77)
Admissions Committee, Bilingual-Bicultural Education ('74-'77)
Faculty Sponsor, MEChA ('76-'77; '78-'81)
Steering Committee, Comparative History of Ideas ('74-'77)
Chicano Faculty Association (Chair, '84-'85)
Minority Faculty Advisory Committee to the President ('80-'81)
Graduate Fellowships Program Selection Committee, NCCHE ('77-'78)
Policy Board, El Centro Chicano, Stanford University ('81-'82)
Search Committee, Spanish Lecturer, Stanford University ('81-'82)
Evaluator, Scripts by Latinas, Seattle Women's Theater ('80-'81)
Consultant, "Chicano Cultural Expression in the Pacific Northwest," The Evergreen State College ('82)
Judge, "Palabra Nueva" (Chicano Narrative), Chicano Studies, University of Texas, El Paso ('83)
Consultant and Advisory Committee, Latin American Theater Festival, Intiman Theater ('84)
University Grievance Committee ('84-'85)
Special Committee, Minority Faculty Affairs ('84-'86)
Multiple Issues Program Sub-Committee, National Women's Studies Convention organizing Committee, UW ('84)
Women's Coordinator, Board of Directors, TENAZ, National Chicano Theater Organization ('84-'85)
Judge, Minority Playwrights Festival, The Group Theater ('85-'86)
Commissioner, Seattle Arts Commission ('85-'87)
Special Committee, Faculty Women ('86-'87)
Consultant: "Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation" Exhibition, Wight Art Gallery, UCLA ('86-'90)
Task Force on Gender Related Salary Inequities ('86-'87)
Search Committee, Chicano Studies Program, Department of Ethnic Studies ('86-'87)
Juror, Critical Writing, Individual Arts Program, Seattle Arts Commission (April '89)
Showcase Coordinator, Slide Lecture on Chicano/Latino NW Artists, "NW Open Dialogue: Creating a Northwest Agenda for Multi-Cultural Arts," King County Arts Commission (June '89)
Ford Workshop on Contemporary American Women of Color, American Ethnic Studies (July '89)
Fiction Juror, "The Written Arts," King County Arts Commission (December '89)
Gay/Lesbian Staff and Faculty Panel, Diversity Workshop, UW ('90, '91)
Panelist, New Forms Regional Initiative, Interarts Program, NEA, Washington, D.C. (June '90)
Juror, Guest Editor Program, Seattle Arts Commission ('90)
Selection Committee, Cottages for Women Writers, Hedgebrook Farm ('90-'93)
Panelist, Humanities Residency Panel, Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships in the Humanities, New York (March 1991)
Literary Reading for "Old World New World: Three Hispanic Photographers," Seattle Art Museum, October 1991.
Advisory Board, NWCROW ('90-'93)
University of Washington Press Committee ('92-'93)

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Editorial Work:
Co-editor, "Metamorfosis," Northwest Magazine of Literature, Art and Culture, Vols. I-IV; Editorial Board, Vols. V-VI.
Editorial Board, Aztlán (1997-present)

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