María Esparza Rodríguez
Education
M.A., Spanish, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Delaware, 2014
Dissertation
"Mapping Vulnerabilities: Space and Body in Contemporary Mexican Literature and Culture"
Research Interests
- Contemporary Latin American Literatures and Cultures
- Canon formation
- Literary and critical theory
- New narrative
- Cultural studies
- Feminist theory
- Gender studies
- Mexican history
- Mexican historiography
Teaching
- Composition 1 (Spanish 3010): Fall 2016, Spring 2017
- Writing Center Advisor: Fall 2016
- Study Abroad in Costa Rica, Intermediate Spanish: Summer 2016
- Business Spanish: Fall 2015, Spring 2016
- Intermediate Spanish: Fall 2014, Spring 2015, and Summer 2015
- Residential Advisor/Ambassador to students from China: Summer 2015
- Panamá Bilingüe Community Advisor and Ambassador: Spring 2015
Publications
Presentations
“Terror contemporáneo: Vulnerabilidad y dinámicas de poder en Fuerzas especiales de Diamela Eltit” MIFLC, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA. October 2016.
“Defensa y promoción”; Collaborative paper with Michelet McLean, Matthew Richey, Astrid Lorena Ochoa, and Gonzalo Hernández-Baptista: Roundtable on Advocacy: SALALM LXI, “Nuestro norte es el sur”: Mapping Resistance and Resilience in Latin
American, Caribbean, and Iberian studies. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA, May 9 – May 13, 2016.
“Bologna-Duke Summer School on Global Studies and Critical Theory”: Seminar member and participant. University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy. June 22 nd -July 3 rd , 2015.
“Effective error correction in written assessments in the Foreign Language classroom: Spanish 2010”; Action Research in the Foreign Language Classroom: Roundtable on Foreign Language Teaching and Learning, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, November 21 st , 2014.
“El comportamiento del protagonista y la creación de la identidad nacional mexicana en La muerte de Artemio Cruz”; Octavio Paz: Labyrinths of the Poet 2014: International Colloquium, Ottawa, Canada, March 28-29, 2014.
Grants & Awards
University of Virginia, Office of the Dean Travel Fellowship: Summer 2015
University of Delaware Graduate Fellowship: Fall 2013/Spring 2014
University of Delaware Graduate Fellowship: Fall 2012/Spring2013
Sigma Delta Pi: 2011
Aspira Award of Excellence: May 2006