REBECCA L.

THOMPSON
333 Sunset Dr. Selinsgrove, PA 17870 (817) 773-2728 rebeccathompson@utexas.edu DEGREES AWARDED: 2012 2008 2003 Ph.D. Spanish (Literature) M.A. Spanish (Literature) B.A. Spanish, Latin American Studies (Cum Laude) University of Texas, Austin University of Texas, Austin Tulane University Department of Modern Languages Susquehanna University, Bogar 210 514 University Ave. Selinsgrove, PA 17870 (570) 372-4727 thompsonr@susqu.edu

DISSERTATION: Cusco despus de Los zorros: The Legacy of Arguedas in Contemporary Peruvian Andean Literature Dissertation Supervisor: Arturo Arias RESEARCH INTERESTS: 20th Century Latin American Literature Contemporary Andean Narrative Literature By or About Quechua Speaking Cultures Indigenous, Marginal and National Identities Alternative Racial Paradigms ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS: SCHOLARLY ARTICLES 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2009 Following the Foxes: Identity in Contemporary Andean Narrative After Arguedas, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Under Review. Chaska Anka Ninawaman: Violencia, marginalidad e intervencin en literatura cusquea contempornea, Forthcoming in ngeles y demonios. Wakchas literarios: Al filo del rayo de Enrique Rosas Paravicino, Crnicas urbanas, No. 16. Heterotopas de subversin y violencia en Para detener el tiempo de Jorge Vargas, Revista Cinosargo. Lituma en los Andes: Optimismo escondido, Cfiro: The Journal, 9.1/9.2. Education and Patria: The Intersection Between Hegemonic and Marginalized Languages, Revista Pterodctilo.

BOOK REVIEWS 2010 Review of Kunan Pop, Jorge Alejandro Vargas Prado. Cascahuesos Editores, Arequipa, Peru. (back cover)

TRANSLATIONS 2013 Casusol, Pedro. Divine Visions: Allen Ginsbergs Peruvian Trip, European Beat Studies Network, 2013.

PRESENTATIONS: 2013 Recycling Narrative, Redefining Identities: Intertextualities in El Alto, Bolivia in Los cuentos del Chotoj by Oscar Coaquira Al, 70th Annual South Central Modern Languages Association (SCMLA) Conference, New Orleans, LA. Temporal Stagnation and Spatial Transformation in Contemporary Andean Narrative, XXXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Washington, D.C. Violence and Repression: The Secrets of the Home and the City in Contemporary Andean Narrative, 44th Annual Northeast Modern Languages Association (NeMLA) Conference, Boston, MA. Unhomeliness and Migration: (Re)Weaving the Directionality of Oral Narrative in Contemporary Andean Literature,69th Annual South Central Modern Languages Association (SCMLA) Conference, San Antonio, TX. Reappropriating Language as Identity: Contemporary Andean Literature after Arguedas, XXX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), San Francisco, CA. Writing on Quechua Walls with Spelling Errors: Identity, Violence and Language in Contemporary Andean Literature, 68th Annual South Central Modern Language Association Conference (SCMLA), Hot Springs, AR. Cusco despus de Los zorros: El lenguaje de la cosmovisin en la narrativa andina contempornea, Congreso Internacional: Los universos literarios de Jos Mara Arguedas, Facultad de Letras y Ciencias Humanas de la UNMSM, Peru. "Cusco despus de Los zorros: Fragmentacin de lenguaje e identidad en la literatura pos-Arguediana", Arguedas: La dinmica de los encuentros culturales, Congreso Internacional en Conmemoracin del Centenario del Escritor, Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Peru (PUCP). Todos somos cholos: Choledad como construccin de identidad en la literatura peruana contempornea, XXIX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Toronto.

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Todos somos cholos: La identidad desde los mrgenes andinos de la literatura peruana, IX Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana (JALLA): Amrica Latina, integracin e interlocucin. Instituto de Letras de la Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Brazil. Aesthetic Agency through Subaltern Literary Expression: Contemporary Peruvian and Brazilian Literatures Compared 36th Annual African Literature Association (ALA) Conference, University of Arizona, Tuscon. The Truth of Fiction, 30th Annual Conference of the Institute of Latin American Studies Student Association (ILASSA), University of Texas at Austin. Heterotopas de subversin y violencia en Para detener el tiempo de Jorge Vargas, 18th Colloquium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Linguistics, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas at Austin. El intrprete en las crnicas andinas: la creacin de una identidad latinoamericana, Colonial Peru in Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific Perspectives, A Year of the Humanities Colloquium Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of the Comentarios reales de los incas 1609, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. Lituma en los Andes: Optimismo escondido, Cfiro's 10th Annual Conference on Latin American and Iberian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX. Education and Patria: The Intersection Between Dominant and Dominated Languages,4th Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Spanish and Latin American Literatures, Linguistics, and Cultures, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Mediating Peruvian Subaltern Identities Through Literature: An Alternative Discourse? 29th Annual Conference of the Institute of Latin American Studies Association (ILASSA), University of Texas, at Austin. The (Im)possibility of Representation: Creating Indigenous National Identities Through Peruvian Literature LAGO-Spanish & Portuguese Department Graduate Student Conference, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE: 2012 Present Susquehanna University, Department of Modern Languages. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR. Designed, planned and taught Intermediate Spanish, Advanced Grammar and Composition, Narratives on Andean Identity: Contemporary Prose Fiction and Film, Race and Identity: A Transatlantic Survey. PROGRAM DIRECTOR. Directed one of Susquehannas award-winning Global Opportunities (GO) Programs: Spanish Language and Culture. Program consisted of pre-departure meetings with students, organization and travel to Seville, Spain, and a seven-week reflection course the following semester.

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University of Texas at Austin, Department of Spanish and Portuguese ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR. Planned and taught all levels of lower-division Spanish language, grammar and composition. TEACHING ASSISTANT. Assisted professors in various courses including Second-Year Spanish II, Spanish Civilization, Language Laboratory, planned and directed discussion sessions. Spanish Over Coffee, Speak Spanish, Inc. INSTRUCTOR. Designed and taught all levels of student-driven intensive conversation classes, directed sales and human resources for the Austin branch of the company. Aledo High School, Aledo, TX INSTRUCTOR. Designed, planned and taught Spanish I and II to high school students. Dallas Community College, Construction Education Foundation INSTRUCTOR. Planned and taught various levels of English for construction workers. Upward Bound Program, University of Texas at Arlington. INSTRUCTOR. Designed, planned and taught Spanish for Non-Native Speakers, World Literature, Spanish Grammar and Composition for Native Speakers to under-privileged high school students in preparation for their first experiences at the university level. St. Albans Episcopal School, Arlington, TX INSTRUCTOR. Designed, planned and taught Spanish I-IV, High School Journalism, and Middle-School Keyboarding. Ven-USA College, Mrida, Venezuela INSTRUCTOR. Planned and taught all levels of English as a Second Language, worked on committees for curriculum improvement, assisted in the inauguration and maintenance of two separate Ven-USA schools in Trujillo, Venezuela and El Viga, Venezuela

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: 2013 2013 2012 2012 Center for Teaching and Learning, Process Writing. Susquehanna University. Global Opportunities (GO) Program Lunch Series for Program Directors. Susquehanna University. Center for Teaching and Learning, Creating Teaching Portfolios. Susquehanna University. Center for Teaching and Learning, IDEA Forms. Susquehanna University.

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS: 2012 2011 2010 2010 2010 2009 Lila M. Casis Dissertation Award, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas. Summer Research Grant, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas. Summer Research Grant, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas. Travel Grant for International Conferences, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas. Travel Grant from the Warfield Center of African and American Studies, University of Texas. Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship: Intensive Quechua Course in Cusco, Peru.

PROFESSIONAL AND DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE: 2013-2014 2013-2014 2013-2014 2012-2014 2012-2013 2012 2010 2010 Faculty Advisor for the Susquehanna University chapter of Phi Sigma Iota, International Foreign Language Honor Society. Faculty Mentor for New Faculty. Susquehanna University. Co-Director. 19th Annual Latino Symposium. March 31-April 3. Susquehanna University. Committee Member. 45th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference, hosted by Susquehanna University. Harrisburg, PA. Committee Member. 18th Annual Latino Symposium. March 14-16. Susquehanna University. Judge, 38th Annual Poetry Declamation Contest. University of Texas at Austin. Judge, 36th Annual Poetry Declamation Contest. University of Texas at Austin. Panel Chair, XX Congreso Anual de la Asociacin Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispnica (AILCFH): Ethics and Cultural Expressions, University of Texas at Austin. President, Graduate Student Organization (GSO) of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas at Austin. 2010 - 2011. Judge, 35th Annual Poetry Declamation Contest. University of Texas at Austin. Literature Representative, Graduate Student Organization (GSO) of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas at Austin. Fundraising Co-Chair, Graduate Student Organization (GSO) of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas at Austin. 2008 2009.

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COMMUNITY SERVICE: 2013-Present Spanish Conversation Classes at Gelnett Public Library in Selinsgrove, PA. Weekly classes open to the community. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: Modern Language Association Latin American Studies Association South Central Modern Language Association Northeast Modern Language Association LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY: English: native fluency Spanish: native-like fluency Portuguese: excellent reading, proficient speaking Quechua: proficient

REFERENCES: Arturo Arias University of Texas Department of Spanish and Portuguese, BEN 4.130 Austin, TX 78712 (512) 232-4549 arturo_arias@austin.utexas.edu Luis Crcamo Huechante University of Texas Department of Spanish and Portuguese, BEN 3.146 Austin, TX 78712 (512) 471-4936 carcamohuechante@austin.utexas.edu Jossianna Arroyo-Martnez University of Texas Department of Spanish and Portuguese, BEN 3.120 Austin, TX 78712 (512) 232-4536 jarroyo@mail.utexas.edu Melissa Murphy University of Texas Department of Spanish and Portuguese, MEZ 4.142 Austin, TX 78712 (512) 232-4540 mmurphy@mail.utexas.edu