Department of Language and Literature

Beth Ransdell Vinkler Professor (Spanish) Kindlon 221 bvinkler@ben.edu office | 630.829.6264 fax | 630.960.4805 office hours (fall 2008) | MW 12:30-2 pm; TR 1:30-2:30 pm; F 11:00 am-12:00 pm

Education

Ph.D., University of Chicago | 1990
M.A., University of Chicago | 1984
B.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 1981

Selected Publications and Presentations

Brazilians in the United States: A Study of Immigrants in Massachusetts. Translation of book by Ana Cristina Braga Martes. [under consideration by University of Florida Press]

“Improving the Race: Eugenics and the Leite Criôlo Manifestos (1929).” 31st Annual 20th-Century Literature and Culture Conference: Louisville, KY (February 2003).

Bitita’s Diary: The Childhood Memoirs of Carolina Maria de Jesus. Ed. Robert M. Levine. Trans. Emanuelle Oliveira and Beth Vinkler. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1998.

“Woman Scorned: The Silenced Woman of the Latin American Avant-Garde.” Mester 27 (1998): 35-44.

“Professional Development with Articulation across Levels: Elementary School through Post-Secondary” (with Dr. Luz Berd and Ms. Virginia Gramer). American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) conference: Nashville, TN (November 1997).

“The Anthropophagic Mother/Other: Appropriated Identities in Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago.” Luso-Brazilian Review 34.1 (1997): 105-11.

Courses Taught

HNRS 190 | First-Year Colloquium I
HUMN 250 | The Contemporary World
SPAN 201 | Intermediate Spanish I
SPAN 211 | Intermediate Grammar and Composition
SPAN 221 | Introduction to Contemporary Latin American Lit
SPAN 231 | Elements of Latin American Culture
SPAN 291/391 | Topics: Latin American Cinema
SPAN 310 | Contemporary Latin American Narrative