With writer Perla SuezMaría Graciela Giordano

Assistant Professor (Latin American Studies)

Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

 

 

PhD in Hispanic Studies (2006, McGill)

BA Honours in Spanish (2001, Concordia)  

 

Office: H-543-9    Phone: 514-848-2424  ext. 5475

With writer Perla Suez, Resistencia (Chaco, Argentina), 2005

 

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San Ignacio ruins of Jesuit missions (Misiones, Argentina, 2005)

 

With writer

Ana María Shua

(2005)

 

 

 

                                                                                                     With writer Tununa Mercado (2005)

 

 
RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Narrative on exile, dictatorship, and memory; testimonial literature; indigenismo

Cinema and theater on dictatorship and exile; Contemporary Latin-American cinema

Women writers, feminist theories, postcolonial issues, cultural studies

Genocide, violence, and witnesses accounts

The Southern Cone

Translation; Teaching of translation techniques

 

 

COURSES TAUGHT:

2005-present: Assistant Professor, Latin American Studies, Concordia University, Montreal

Translation Courses:

·         SPAN 306 Introduction to Translation (Fall 05, Winter 06, Fall 06, Winter 07)

·         SPAN 307 Translation Practice (Winter 06, Fall 07)

Literature and Culture Courses:

·         SPAN 320 Defining Difference in Spanish America: Lit. from 1500 to 1880 (Fall 07)

·         SPAN 362 Cultures of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean (Fall 05, Winter 06)

·         SPAN 363 Cultures of the Southern Cone and Andean Region (Winter 07)

·         Tutorial SPAN (to be determined) – (Winter 08)

Language and Grammar Courses:

·         SPAN 201 Introductory Spanish I (Fall 05, Spring 06, Fall 06, Spring 07, Winter 08)

·         SPAN 301 Grammar and the Process of Writing I (Fall 06, Winter 07, Fall 07, Winter 08)

·         SPAN 302 Grammar and the Process of Writing II (Winter 07)

 

2001-05: Lecturer of Spanish Language, Translation, and Hispanic Literature, courses taught:

                    Lecturer of Spanish, Literature and Translation - 36 credits:

·         SPAN 257 Translation II, 3 cr.   (Concordia - Winter 2004)

·         HISP 210 Spanish Beginners, 6 cr.   (McGill - Fall 2001/02, Winter 2002/03, Summer 2002/03/04)

·         HISP 220 Spanish Intermediate, 6 cr.    (McGill - Fall 2003/Winter 2004)

·         HISP 241  Survey of Spanish (Peninsular) Literature I, 3 cr.    (McGill - Fall 2003/04)

Teaching Assistant, Literature – 6 credits:

·         HISP 433 Gaucho Literature (McGill - Winter 2005) T.A. for Prof. K.M.Sibbald.

         Special lectures on Hilario Ascasubi (cuentos) and José Hernández (Martín Fierro)

            ·         HISP 242 Survey of Spanish Literature II  (McGill - Winter 2004/05) T.A. for Prof. K.M.Sibbald.

                            Special lectures on Ortega y Gasset, Bécquer, Azorín

 

 

 

Summer Institute: Literatura argentina en la crítica y la creación. June 12-24, 2005 – Resistencia, Argentina.
 University of Virginia / Centro de Altos Estudios Literarios y Sociales Chaco (CAELS)
 

Left to right: Professor David Gies (U. of Virginia), writers

Mempo Giardinelli  and Ana María Shua (Argentina).

 

Writer Antonio Skármeta (Chile).

 

 

"Asado de despedida": casa de Mempo Giardinelli

 

                                                                     

  graciela@aei.ca