LYNN MARIE WALFORD 960 McCormick St. Shreveport, LA 71104-4280 Phone: (318) 797-5140 Fax: (318) 797-5316 E-mail:
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PRESENT POSITION Professor of Spanish, Louisiana State University in Shreveport.
DEGREES B.A., English, 1986. Louisiana State University in Shreveport. M.L.A., 1992. Louisiana State University in Shreveport. Thesis: “Linear Time and Cyclical Time in Three Novels of Carlos Fuentes.” Ph.D., Comparative Literature, 2000. Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Dissertation: “A Matter of Life and Death: José María Arguedas, Mario Vargas Llosa, and the Postmodern Condition.”
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Publications “A Rereading of Mario Vargas Llosa’s Historia de Mayta.” Celebrations and Connections in Hispanic Literature. Ed. Andrea Morris and Margaret Parker. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007. “Truth, Lies, and Politics in the Debate over Testimonial Writing: The Cases of Binjamin Wilkomirski and Rigoberta Menchú.” The Comparatist 30, 2006. “Vargas Llosa’s Leading Ladies.” Leading Ladies: Mujeres en la literatura hispana y en las artes. Ed. Margaret R. Parker and Yvonne Fuentes. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2006. ‘“Fuimos cómplices también’: Violence and Sacrifice in Vargas Llosa’s Lituma en los Andes.” Confluencia 19, Spring 2004. “Flirting with Postmodernism in Los ríos profundos and La casa verde. Hispanófila 134, January 2002. “Beyond Chaos: El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo.” Hispanic Journal 21, Fall 2000. “America as a Community of Violence in Three Early Novels of Gabriel García Márquez.” Hispanófila 119, January 1997.
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“Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda’s Sab: A Novel of Reconciliation or of Capitulation?” Diáspora 5, Spring 1996. “Mess as the Natural State: Reflections of Bakhtin and Eisenberg in Carlos Fuentes’ Cristóbal Nonato.” Hispanic Journal 15, Fall 1994. Book Reviews Jean-François Lejeune, ed. Cruelty and Utopia: Cities and Landscapes of Latin America. Utopian Studies 17, 2006. Patricia R. Pessar. From Fanatics to Folk: Brazilian Millenarianism and Popular Culture. Utopian Studies 15, 2004. Tatiana Pavlović. Despotic Bodies and Transgressive Bodies: Spanish Culture from Francisco Franco to Jesús Franco. Quarterly Journal of Ideology 26, 2003. Beatrice Battaglia. Nostalgia e mito nella distopia inglese: saggi su Oliphant, Wells, Forster, Orwell, Burdekin. Utopian Studies 13, 2002. Idelber Avelar, The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning. Journal of Contemporary Thought, Winter 2000. Nina Gervassi-Navarro, Pirate Novels: Fictions of Nation-Building in Spanish America. South Eastern Latin Americanist 44, Fall 2000. Inderpal Gerwal, Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire, and the Cultures of Travel. Journal of Contemporary Thought 6, 1996. Conference Papers “Chaos and Beyond: El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo.” Celebration of Centenary of José María Arguedas, Villanova University, Philadelphia, PA, October 2011. “Politics, Irony, and the Utopian Vision in Two Novels of Milan Kundera and Mario Vargas Llosa.” Society for Utopian Studies, Portland, ME, October 2008. “Bad Girls in a Wicked World: Thackeray’s Vanity Fair and Vargas Llosa’s Travesuras de la niña mala.” Fifth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities. Paris, France, July 2007. “‘I Can No Longer Get Rid of the Feelings of Disgust and Shame’: The Memoirs of Victor Klemperer and Primo Levi.” Answering Auschwitz: Primo Levi’s Science and Humanism after the Fall. Hemptstead, NY, April 2007. “From Page to Screen: Rewriting and Rereading the Novel in Two Films of Arturo Ripstein.” Cine-Lit VI: Sixth International Conference on Hispanic Film and Literature. Portland, OR, February 2007. “A Rereading of Mario Vargas Llosa’s Historia de Mayta.” Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Baton Rouge, LA, February 2006.
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“Meditations on Utopia in Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Way to Paradise.” Society for Utopian Studies, Memphis, TN, October 2005. “Truth, Lies, and Politics in the Debate over Testimonial Writing: The Cases of Rigoberta Menchú and Binjamin Wilkomirski.” International Conference on Truth and Mendacity in Literature and the Arts, Atlanta, GA, October 2004. “Vargas Llosa’s Leading Ladies.” Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Baton Rouge, LA, February 2004. “Poetry and Totalitarianism in the Novels of Milan Kundera and Mario Vargas Llosa.” American Comparative Literature Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 2002. “‘El gusto real de ese animal desconocido’: Cannibalism in Juan José Saer’s El entenado.” Interdisciplinary Conference on Food Representation in Literature, Film and the Other Arts, San Antonio, TX, February 2002. “Mario Vargas Llosa’s Utopian Nightmare.” Society for Utopian Studies, Buffalo, NY, October 2001. “The Treacherous Utopias of Milan Kundera and Mario Vargas Llosa.” American Comparative Literature Association, Boulder, CO, April 2001. “‘Una historia más o menos coherente’: Mario Vargas Llosa’s El hablador.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, April 2000. “Fuimos cómplices también”: Violence and Sacrifice in Vargas Llosa’s Lituma en los Andes.” South Eastern Council on Latin American Studies, Myrtle Beach, SC, March 2000. “Denial and Despair in Arguedas’ Todas las sangres.” Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Baton Rouge, LA, March 2000. “Decir lo indecible: desvíos literarios en El entenado de Saer y El hablador de Vargas Llosa.” Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana, Cusco, Peru, August 1999. “Todas las sangres and Peruvian Sociopolitical Reality: A Successful Failure.” South Eastern Council on Latin American Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, March 1999. “Indians and Others: Racial and Gender Stereotypes in José María Arguedas.” Afro-Hispanic Literature and Culture Conference, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, May 1998. “Modernists in a Postmodern World: Nabokov’s Lolita and De Lillo’s White Noise.” Philological Association of Louisiana, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, March 1998. “Gertrudis Gómez Avellaneda’s Sab: A Novel of Reconciliation or of Capitulation?” Afro-Hispanic Literature and Culture Conference, Shreveport, LA, November 1995. “Identidad sexual e identidad nacional en Amalia y Aves sin nido.” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, October 1995.
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“Mess as the Natural State: Reflections of Bakhtin and Eisenberg in Carlos Fuentes’ Christopher Unborn.” Comparative Literature Symposium, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, January 1994. Workshops and Public Lectures “La Malinche.” Hispanic Women in the Making of the Americas. Public lecture series, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, October 1996. “La Llorona.” Ghost Stories East and West. Japanese Culture Festival, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, October 1996. “Business Sense in the Spanish Classroom.” Louisiana Department of Education Workshop for Secondary School Language Teachers, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA, November 1993. Grants Board of Regents Support Fund (BORSF) grant for conversion of Foreign Language Audio Laboratrory from audiocassette stations to computer stations ($48,041). PI/PD, 2006. Board of Regents Support Fund (BORSF) grant for two technologically enhanced “smart” classrooms for Fine Arts, Foreign Languages, Humanities Department ($29,600). Co-PI/PD with Megan Conway. 2003. Board of Regents Support Fund (BORSF) grant for Multimedia Film Studies Classroom for College of Liberal Arts ($55,989). Co-PI/PD with three other faculty members and PI/PD Diane Boyd. 2003. Louisiana State University in Shreveport Technology Fee grant for student workers for Foreign Language Laboratories ($5,985). 2004; 2005; 2006; 2008; 2009; 2010. Louisiana State University in Shreveport Faculty Research Grant ($400) to present paper at annual meeting of The Society for Utopian Studies, Buffalo, NY, 2001. Louisiana State University in Shreveport Faculty Development Grant ($500) to present paper at Comparative Literature Symposium, Texas Tech University, 1993. Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Minigrant ($1,300) for Rocinante public lecture series, Southfield School, 1990. Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Minigrant ($1,300) for Rocinante public lecture series, Southfield School, 1988. Fellowships Louisiana State University Program in Comparative Literature ($2,950) to attend International School of Theory in the Humanities summer seminar in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 1998.
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TEACHING Experience Professor of Spanish, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, 2007-present. Associate Professor of Spanish, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, 2002-2007. Assistant Professor of Spanish, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, 1998-2002. Director of General Studies, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, 1997-2001. Instructor of Spanish, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, 1993-1998. Teaching Assistant, Spanish, Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, 1994-1995. Adjunct Instructor of Spanish, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, 1991-1993. Adjunct Instructor of English, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, 1988-1990. English and Spanish Teacher, Southfield School, Shreveport, 1986-1991. English and Spanish Teacher, Instituto Anglo-Mexicano, Mexico City, 1975-1979. Courses Taught at LSU in Shreveport (1988-present) SPAN 490/690 Utopia in Latin American Literature SPAN 403/603 Cervantes and the Golden Age SPAN 404/604 Spanish Cinema. SPAN 490 Representations of Women in Latin American Cinema SPAN 495 Twentieth-Century Latin American Women Novelists (Independent Study) SPAN 495 The Latin American Short Story (Independent Study) SPAN 405/605 Latin American Cinema SPAN 419 Spanish American Literature I: The Colonial Period through Modernism SPAN 420 Spanish American Literature II: The Twentieth Century SPAN 390 Translation SPAN 316 Spanish Culture and Civilization SPAN 318 Hispanic American Culture and Civilization SPAN 331 Survey of Spanish Literature I SPAN 332 Survey of Spanish Literature II SPAN 303 Business Spanish SPAN 301 Spanish Phonetics and Conversation SPAN 205 Readings in Spanish Literature SPAN 201 Intermediate Spanish SPAN 101 Elementary Spanish I SPAN 102 Elementary Spanish II ENGL 105 English Composition I ENGL 115 English Composition II WMST 405 Women in the Making of the Americas (Women’s Studies) New Courses Developed Utopia in Latin American Literature Women in the Making of the Americas Representations of Women in Latin American Cinema Spanish Cinema. Twentieth-Century Latin American Women Novelists Representations of Women in Spanish Cinema
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Latin American Cinema The Latin American Short Story Translation
HONORS Awards Sybil T. and J. Frederick Patten Professorship for Excellence in Teaching in the College of Liberal Arts. (two-year endowed professorship), 2006-2007. Allena J. Longfellow M.L.A. Scholarship, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, 1990. English Department Academic Award, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, 1986. H. J. Sachs English Scholarship, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, 1985.
Honor Societies Phi Sigma Iota Foreign Language Honor Society, 1993. Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, 1990. Public Relations Officer and Acting Secretary, 1993-1994. President-elect, 1996-1997. President, 1997-1998. Treasurer and Public Relations Officer 2006-2007.
SERVICE Institutional Service Coordinator, College of Arts and Sciences Lecture Series, 2008-present. Coordinator, Foreign Language Audio and Multimedia Laboratories, 2002-present. Thesis director for MLA candidate Charlotte Webb, 2011-present. Thesis director for MLA candidate Mark Hux, 2009-2010. Thesis director for MLA candidate Mary Ann Valiulis, 2007-2008. Thesis director for MLA candidate David Rheams, 2008. Thesis director for MLA candidate Saravasti Otero, 2005-2007. Thesis director for MLA candidate Jonathan Stewart, 2005-2007. Thesis director for MLA candidate Nelwyn Anderson, 2005-2006. Thesis director for MLA candidate Lillian Moskeland, 2000-2002. Thesis committee member for MLA candidate Kelly McDade, 2010-2011. Thesis committee member for MLA candidate Rebecca Nichols, 2008. Thesis committee member for MLA candidate Elise Parker, 2005-2006. Thesis committee member for MLA candidate Jeremy Jinks, 2004-2005. Thesis committee member for MLA candidate Robert Darrow, 2002. Thesis committee member for MLA candidate Samuel Shult, 2002. Thesis committee member for MLA candidate Helaine Braunig, 2002. Thesis committee member for MLA candidate Lisa Marshall, 2000-2002. Director, General Studies Program, 1997-2001. Faculty Senate Secretary, 1997-1999; 2004-2005. Faculty Senator, 1996-2000; 2003-2005. Project Director, Women’s Leadership Studies Program, 1996-1997.
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Advisor, Spanish Club, 2009-2010. Advisor, International Club, 1993-1997; co-advisor, 2002-2008. Coordinator, Foreign Language Festival, 1993-1996. Committees Honors Committee, 2004-2008; 2011-present. Graduate Council, 2009-present. Film Studies Minor Committee, 2004-2008. Policy and Personnel Committee, 2003-2006. Chair, 2004-2006. Fine Arts, Foreign Languages Department Search Committee, 2002, 2007, 2009 . Chancellor Evaluation Committee, 2001. University Courses and Curricula Committee, 2001-2004, 2007-present. Chair, 2002-2004. University Planning Committee, 2000-2002. Campus-wide Day Care Committee, 1999-2000. Technology Fee Committee, 1997-2000. Vision and Quest (Strategic Planning) Task Force, 1996-1998. Women’s Leadership Studies Committee, 1996-1998. Professional Service (other) Presentation: “The Memoirs of Victor Klemperer and Primo Levi.” CLA Symposium, March 2009. Presentation: “Politics and Truth: Rigoberta Menchú and Binjamin Wilkomirski.” CLA Symposium, October 2008. Presentation, “Easing the Transition from High School to College for Foreign Language Students.” Caddo Parish School Board In-service colloquium for foreign language teachers. January 2005. Presentation, “Mario Vargas Llosa’s Utopian Nightmare.” English/Foreign Language Colloquium, October 2001. Lecture, “Food and Fire in Like Water for Chocolate.” LEH summer seminar for teachers, June 1999. Assisted in developing series of career track options within the General Studies program. Co-coordinator, Women and the Cult of Beauty. Public forum, March 1997. Coordinator, Hispanic Women in the Making of the Americas. Public lecture series, October 1996. Presenter and panelist, Ladies of the Evening: Women Characters of Prime Time Television, LEH panel, March 1994. Panelist, The Hour of the Poor, the Hour of Women, LEH panel, March 1992. Panelist, Five Faces of Feminism: Perspectives on Womanhood, LEH panel, March 1991. Community Service St. Luke’s Episcopal Medical Ministry Board of Directors, 2008-present. Secretary, 2009-present. Red River Radio Board of Directors, 2004-2008. Philadelphia Center Board of Directors, 2004-2008, 2010-present. Holy Cross Episcopal Church Vestry, 2004-2007, 2010-present. Junior Warden, 2005. Senior Warden 2006. Secretary 2010, 2011. Shreveport Symphony Orchestra Board of Directors, 2002-2006. Secretary, 2005-2006. Philadelphia Center Auction Against AIDS planning committee, 2002-present. Committee on Immigrants in North Louisiana, 2002-2008. Shreveport 2000 Coalition, 1999-2001. League of Women Voters: Chair of Committee to Study Metro Government, 1996.
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Red River Radio volunteer for spring and fall fundraisers, 1995-present. Shreveport Regional Arts Council: Neighborhood Installations Committee: 1992-1994. Philadelphia Center volunteer grant writer, 1996. American Civil Liberties Union: Chapter Board of Directors, 1987-1993, 1997-1998; State Board of Directors, 1987-1991. Coalition to Support Cuban Detainees: volunteer translator/interpreter, 1987-1990. Literacy Volunteers of America: Board of Directors, 1987-1990. Shreveport Police Department, Bossier City Police Department, Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Department, Louisiana State University Medical Center: volunteer interpreter, 1986-1994. PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), 2000. Association of General and Liberal Studies (AGLS), 1997-2000. Modern Language Association (MLA), 1997. Instituto ,Literario y Cultural Hispánico (ILCH), 1996. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), 1995. South Eastern Council on Latin American Literature (SECOLAS), 1994. Institución Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI), 1993. Southern Comparative Literature Association (SCLA), 1993. South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA), 1991. American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP), 1990. American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), 1990.
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