In this section you can read selected publications, view my lectures and invited talks, and learn about the grants I have received.
Books
El Espíritu del río: Una novela socialista by Juana Fernández Ferraz. Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Ediciones Idea (2020).
Canarias, Cuba y Francia: Los exilios literarios de Nivaria Tejera, Madrid: Editorial Torremozas (2012).
Insularidad narrativa en la obra de Nivaria Tejera: Un archipiélago transatlántico. Madrid: Editorial Verbum (2009).
Book in Progress
Antifascist Women Activists: Hunter College Students and the Spanish Civil War.
Articles and Book chapters
“Creación audiovisual y resistencia. El barranco de Nivaria Tejera en las cineastas canarias.” Revista de la Academia Canaria de la Lengua. issue 3 (2022).
Co-authored with Jennifer Newman .“Reading the Archives: Students Interpret Institutional History” in Undergraduate Research and theAcademic Librarian: Case Studies & Best Practices, Volume 2.
Co-authored with Wendy Hayden and Iris Finkel. “Narrating Memory through Rethorical Reflections: CUNY Students and Their Archives.” The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (Accessed on January 7, 2019).
“La literatura cubano-canaria: un legado de cuatrocientos años.” El Bucio: pensamiento crítico y autocentrado para el siglo XXI. Vol. 0, issue 1 (2018): 41-45.
“Writing to Resist: Remembering Nivaria Tejera.” Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas Routledge/Taylor & Francis. 49 (2016): 172-175.
“Liborio y el humor isleño: la representación del emigrante canario en el imaginario cubano.” Co-authored with Germán Santana Pérez, in El Atlántico como frontera: Mediaciones y cruces literarios entre España y Cuba, edited by Damaris Puñales, Editorial Verbum, 2014, pp. 91-107.
“El espíritu del río: una novela transatlántica.” Anuario de Estudios Atlánticos. 58 (2012): 645-677.
“Nivaria Tejera.” Passages et Ancrages: Dicctionare des écrivaines migrants de langue française (1981-2011), edited by Ursula Mathis and Birgit Mertz, Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2012, pp. 811-13.
“The Four Free Walls of Paris: Nivaria Tejera’s Exiles in Espero la noche para soñarte, Revolución.” Voices from the Margins: Female Exiles in 20th and 21st Century Europe, edited by Maureen Tobin Stanley and Gesa Zinn, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. 224-245.
“Una escritura sin márgenes.” Encuentro de la cultura cubana 39 (2006): 35-39
“Las islas de Nivaria Tejera: Un archipiélago trasatlántico.” Ínsula 695 (2004): 21-24.
“Entrevista a Nivaria Tejera: El viaje literario de una mujer entre islas.” Hispamérica 97 (2004):43-48.
“Textos transatlánticos: Nivaria Tejera y Dulce María Loynaz en Canarias.” Gaceta de Cuba 1 (2004): 30-32.
Reviews
“Crónica de Orígenes. Arqueología y poblamiento de las Islas Canarias.” Revista Atlántica-Mediterránea de Prehistoria y Arqueología Social. Universidad de Cadiz, 18, 2016, pp.196-198.
Tejera, Nivaria. The Ravine. Trans. Carol Maier. Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, 81, 2010, pp. 266-7.
Conference Proceedings
“Espacios de resistencia: la literatura canaria en un contexto transatlántico” Memoria del Coloquio Internacional de Literatura Mexicana Hispanoamericana, 9-11 Nov. 2005, Sonora, Mexico, Universidad de Sonora 2007, pp. 111-118.
“La escritura transterior de Nivaria Tejera” Memoria del Coloquio Internacional de Literatura Mexicana Hispanoamericana, 12-14 Nov. 2003, Sonora, Mexico, Universidad de Sonora, 2005, pp. 227-233
Other Publications
“Juana Fernández Ferraz” Archipiélago de las letras. Academia Canaria de la Lengua (2022).
Entrevista a Alberto Berrios intro libro juana comprobar que salio
Co-authored with José Farrujia “¿Y ahora qué? Los indígenas canarios en la nueva Ley de Patrimonio Cultural” La Provincia, Oct. 6, 2019, p. 72.
“A Chance Find at the Archive: The Completed Life of Vicente García Riestra”. The Volunteer (XXXVI), The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives, March 2019.
“A Transformative Dive into the Archive: CUNY Students Work in the ALBA Collection.” The Volunteer (XXXVI), The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives, March 2019.
“Nivaria Tejera.” Archipiélago de las letras. Academia Canaria de la Lengua (2019).
Interview in Juan Garcia Lujan’s De un tiempo, de un país. Madrid: Editorial Tamaimos, 2015.
Translation of Virgil Suárez’s “Lazarito & the Habanero Chilis”.Co-translated with Juan Carlos Galeano, El Tiempo, January 18, 1998, Colombia Sunday Edition: 10.
Translation of Virgil Suárez’s “Leo, Lazarito & the Habanero Chilis”.Co-translated with Juan Carlos Galeano, Ulrika 26 (1998): 46.
Invited Talks
Round Table: “Into the Fire: American Women in the Spanish Civil War.” The National Council of Jewish Women in Colorado, March 10th, 2022.
Evento documentales el barranco, Teatro Guiniguada, 20 enero 2022 La granja 26 enero, 2022
Feria de libros costa rica
“El pensamiento político de Nivaria Tejera. Una poética de resistencia.” Organized by the Cultural Cuban Center of New York and the Cervantes Institute, March 2021.
“Lazos históricos y literarios entre Cuba y Canarias” Co-presented with Professor Germán Santana Pérez at the XIX Annual Conference of Cultural Cuban Center of New York, November 2020.
“Fighting Fascism: American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War” The New School, November 2019.
Panel Discussion: “The Silence of Others” Film Forum, New York, September 2019.
Keynote Speaker, “Un proyecto transatlántico: el Centro de Estudios Canarios de CUNY.” I Congreso Internacional de Jóvenes Investigadores en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, October 2018.
“El futuro de los estudios de género en el siglo XXI. Una perspectiva multidisciplinar.” Instituto Universitario de Estudios de las Mujeres, University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands. October 2018.
“The Role of Women in the Spanish Civil War. Discussion of Milicianas” Film Festival: Impugning Impunity, Abraham Lincoln Brigades Archive. Downtown Community Television Center. Round Table Discussion, September, 2018.
“The Use of archives in Research and Teaching” Library Day, Hunter College-CUNY, April 2018.
Keynote Speaker, “Pensadoras latinoamericanas: el discurso anarquista y feminista en las publicaciones periódicas cubanas (1902-1915)” Spanish and Portuguese International Colloquium, University of Florida, Gainsville, January 2017.
“La literatura como resistencia: Nivaria Tejera. In Memoriam.” Miami International Book Fair, November 2016.
“Students in the Archive: Narrating the Legacy of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.” Brooklyn College, Tanger Auditorium, Brooklyn, New York, April 2016.
“Revolutionary Women Writers: Anarchist Representations of Latin America in the Early 20th Century” New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, New York, June 2011.
“Reescribir el Atlántico: Las escritoras del cruce Canarias-América” at Baruch College. Co-sponsored by The Feit Lecture Series and the Cuban Cultural Center of New York, March 2011.
“Cruces Ideológicos Entre Canarias y Costa Rica a Principios del Siglo XX” Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain, November 2010.
Lectures and Conference Presentations
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Teaching showcase en zoom
“Faculty and Librarian Collaborations”, ACERT seminar, Hunter College (February 2020)
“African Islands, European Thoughts: Indigenous Archaeology in the Canarian Archipelago”. Co-authored with Professor José Farrujia at the conference European Islands Between Isolated and Interconnected Life Worlds. Interdisciplinary Long-Term Perspectives. Organized by the AG Insularitäten / Island Work Group. University of Tuebingen, Germany (November 2019).
“Teaching for Civic Engagement”, ACERT seminar, Hunter College, (October, 2019).
“Indigenous knowledge in the Canary Islands? A case study at the margins of Europe and Africa.” Co-presented with José Farrujia. Conference Indigenous Knowledge as a Resource? Transmission, Reception, and Interaction of Global and Local Knowledge between Europe and the Americas, 1492-1800. (Sept. 2018), University of Tuebingen, Germany. Conference presentation.
“Indigenous bones and ethical dilemmas.” Co-presented with Professor José Farrujia at the 24th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists., University of Barcelona, Spain (September 2018)
“Writing for the Web: The Narrating Memory Project.” ACERT seminar, Hunter College, (October, 2017).
Panel organizer, “Decentering the Atlantic: The Canary Islands and the Limits of the Atlantic”, for International Conference Culture and Identity Configurations: Reflections on the 21st Century. Hofstra University, (October 2017).
“Mapping the Colony: The Canary Islands as a Monolithic Literary Cosmos,” read at Culture and Identity Configurations: Reflections on the 21st Century. Hofstra University, (October 2017).
“New York City and its Archives: Engaging Students with Original Sources,” ACERT seminar, Hunter College, (October, 2017).
“Libertarias cubanas: La representación de la mujer anarquista en los textos literarios de ¡Tierra! (1902-1915).” Latin American Studies Association, LASA, (May 2016).
“El espíritu del rio: Representaciones literarias de la Colonia Cecilia.” Modern Languages Association (MLA), (January 2016).
Panel organizer, Geografia inventada: Poder y colonialidad en las islas atlánticas, Latin American Studies Association (LASA), (May 2014).
“La cartografía ficticia de las Islas Canarias” Latin American Studies Association, LASA, (May 2014).
“Los exilios literarios de Nivaria Tejera.” Organized by the Cuban Cultural Center of New York and the Department of Romance Languages at Hunter College, (November 2012).
A series of lectures on several Latino and Latin American texts by Ed Vega, J.L Gonzalez, Carmen Boullosa, Julia Alvarez, Junot Diaz and Reinaldo Arenas. Presented during the NEH Summer Institute (July 2011).
“Transatlantic Ties: Cuba and the Canary Islands,” co-presented with Professor Germán Santana Pérez from the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria at The Bildner Center’s Cuba Project, CUNY Graduate Center (October 2010).
“Social Anarchism in Transatlantic Author Juana Fernandez Ferraz,” Xoán González Millan Seminar, Department of Romance Languages, Hunter College (April 2010).
Fronteras atlánticas: Memorias isleñas en las escritoras canario-americanas, presented at the AILCFH XIX Annual Congress, Quito, Ecuador (October 2009).
Session Organizer and Chair: “Identidades isleñas: Discursos de humor en la literatura de las Islas Canarias” held at the Humor in Romance Language Literatures Conference, Hofstra University (April 2008).
“Imágenes atlánticas: Humor y adversidad en la literatura canaria de viaje” presented at the
Humor in Romance Language Literatures Conference, Hofstra University (April 2008).
Session Organizer and Chair: (Pen)ínsulas transatlánticas: Intersecciones literarias entre Cuba y España” held at the XXVII Latin American Studies Association in Montreal, Canada (September 2007).
“Diálogos de nación: Cruces literarios entre Cuba y Canarias desde el S. XVII al XXI” XXVII Latin American Studies Association in Montreal, Canadá (September 2007).
“Resisting Utopia: The Literature of the Canary Islands beyond National Models” Conference Rethinking the Iberian Atlantic, University of Liverpool, (April 20-22, 2006).
“Lorca y Bombal: Conexiones transatlánticas entre La última niebla y La casa de Bernarda Alba” presented at the XXVI Latin American Studies Association in San Juan, Puerto Rico (March 2006).
“Espacios de resistencia: la literatura canaria en un contexto transatlántico”, XX Coloquio Internacional de Literatura Mexicana e Hispanoamericana. Universidad de Sonora/Arizona State University, Sonora, Mexico (November 2005).
“Animales y dioses en la memoria africana: Intersecciones afrocanarias en el siglo XX” Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies 52nd Annual Meeting, Vanderbilt University, Nashville (April 2005).
“Sonámbulo del sol: un viaje sensorial por La Habana” Latin American Studies Association, Las Vegas, Nevada (October 2004).
“Drowning Texts, Resisting Islands: Cuban-Canarian Literature in Utopic/Heterotopic Spaces” Transatlantic Studies Association, Dundee University, Scotland (July 2004).
“La primera novela de la Guerra Civil española en Canarias” Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Literature and Language XXIV. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (February 2004).
“La escritura ‘transterior’ de Nivaria Tejera” XIX Coloquio Internacional de Literatura Mexicana e Hispanoamericana. Universidad de Sonora/Arizona State University, Sonora, Mexico (November 2003).
“Los espacios liminares de una voz en el exilio: la narrativa de la escritora cubano-canaria Nivaria Tejera” presented at the 51 Congreso de Americanistas: Repensando las Américas en los umbrales del siglo XXI. Santiago de Chile (July 2003).
“Fronteras tri-continentales: la literatura cubano-canaria” presented at the “Sixth Annual Gathering: Literature on the border” Texas A&M International University/ Casa de la Cultura de Nuevo Laredo (April, 2003).
“(Con)textos y a-isla-mientos canarios de dos autoras cubanas: Un verano en Tenerife de Dulce María Loynaz y El barranco de Nivaria Tejera” Coloquio Internacional: Ciclos de vida, edades y generaciones
de mujeres en la cultura latinoamericana y caribeña. Casa de las Américas, La Habana, Cuba (February 2003).
“Cuestionando el canon: el aislamiento de la crítica hispana hacia la escritora Nivaria Tejera” Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies 49th Annual Meeting, Mobile, Alabama (February 2002).
“Las novelistas españolas de fin de siglo” La Chispa 1999: The Twentieth Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Tulane University, New Orleans (September 1999).
“La poesía de la escritora española contemporánea Margarita Merino” 21st Annual Conference on Film and Literature, Florida State University (January, 1996).
Selected Grants
Conference Organizer: The Limits of the Atlantic II: Transit and Migrations.” Second conference of Centro de Estudios Canarias-America, funded by HISPANEX (Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deportes of Spain), and the Office of the Provost at Hunter College (September, 2015).
Conference Organizer: The Limits of the Atlantic: Island Epistemologies.” First conference of Centro de Estudios Canarias-America, funded by HISPANEX (Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deportes of Spain), and the Office of the Provost at Hunter College (April 2014).
NEH Summer Institute Co-Director and Organizer, Latino Identity in New York, organized at Hunter College, (July 9th-31st, 2011). This seminar was funded entirely by a National Endowment for the Humanities grant. It gathered a group of distinguished faculty and writers to discuss Latino identity with 25 selected teachers from around the US.
Conference Organizer, Cuba, France and The Canary Islands: Nivaria Tejera’s Literary Exiles, organized at Hunter College and The Cervantes Institute, (March 7-8, 2008). This project consisted of a two-day conference that gathered national and international scholars to discuss the literary works by Cuban writer Nivaria Tejera and her significance in the Hispanic literary world. Funded by the New York Council For the Humanities Grant and Hunter College.
BMCC/HCAP Faculty Seminar Series, Identity and Purpose: Student Lived Experiences in the Classroom.
Presidential Initiative for Student Engagement (2018, 2022, 2023).
Faculty Fellow at Hunter’s Academic Center for Excellence in Research and Teaching (ACERT) (2017-2018).
Runner-Up CUNY Research in the Classroom Grant (2016-2017).
Faculty Innovations with Teaching with Technology (FITT), Hunter College (2016).
Hispanex, Grant for the Centro de Estudios Canarias-America at Hunter College, by the Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte, Government of Spain, (2013-2014), (2014-2015).
Chapter Project Grant, Spanish Honors Society, Sigma Delta Pi, Fall 2015.
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, Summer Institute Director “Latino Identity in NY” (2011).
Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and US Universities (2010-2011).
Auxiliary Enterprises Corporation, Hunter College (2009-2010).
New York Council for the Humanities Grant (2007-2008).
