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Beth Ransdell Vinkler office hours (spring 2009) | |
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
New Land, New Immigrants: A Study of Brazilian Immigrants in Massachusetts. Translation of book by Ana Cristina Braga Martes. [forthcoming from University of Florida Press]
“Bright Lights, Big City: Urbanization and the City as Metaphor in the Spanish American Vanguardia and Brazilian Modernismo.” Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900: Louisville, KY (February 2008).
“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 240 | Converging Hemispheres
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