Rocío Cortés
Assistan professor
department of foreign languages and literatures
radford hall 321
tel (920) 424-7293
fax (920) 424-7289
Email: cortes@uwosh.edu
http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/cortes/
1998 Ph.D. in
Colonial Spanish American Literature, minor in History,
Dissertation: “Estrategias narrativas en el discurso de la Crónica
mexicana y la Crónica mexicayotl de Hernando Alvarado Tezozomoc”
Major Profesor: Margarita
1991 M.A, Spanish Language and Literature,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1989 B.A, Spanish Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison
OTHER
EDUCATION
1999 Intensive language training in classical and
modern Nahuatl, Nahuatl Summer Language Institute,
FELLOWSHIPS AND
GRANTS
Fall 2005 Minority Faculty Research Award.
Institute of Race and Ethnicity,
Summer 2005 Faculty Development Program Grant,
Summer 2004 Small Faculty Development Grant,
1996-1997 Advanced
1994-1995 NAVE Internship Fellowship,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1993-1994 Advanced
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE
2003-Present Assistant Professor of Colonial Spanish
American Literature, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
1998-2003 Assistant
Professor of Colonial Spanish American Literature,
1996-1997 Instructor,
1995-1996 Lecturer, University of
Wisconsin-Madison
1989-1994 Teaching Assistant, University of
Wisconsin-Madison
Summer 1990 Program Assistant to Professor Lucía
Garner, Intensive Spanish Methodology
for High School Teachers Program,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
TEACHING
INTERESTS
Latin American literature--Colonial and
Modern Periods
Amerindian Literatures (Indigenismo)
Language for Professions, Conversation,
Composition, and Translation
COURSES
TAUGHT
Spanish 224, Introduction to Hispanic Literature
Spanish 468, Conquest
and Colony in Textual and Visual Representations
Spanish
468 Captivity and its Consequences in Colonial Texts
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-Oshkosh
2003-2009
Spanish
204, Intermediate Grammar and Composition
Spanish
301, Advanced Composition and Conversation I
Spanish 320, Survey of Latin
American Literature I
Spanish
334, Latin American Culture and Civilization
Spanish
335, Mexican Civilization
Spanish
364, “Writing and Invention in the Latin American Colonies”
Spanish
420, Latin American Short Story
Spanish
364 “Painting the Conquest and the Colony in Textual an Visual Representations”
Spanish 364 “Wonderlands in Colonial Texts”
Spanish 364 "Transatlantic Colonial
Images"
Spanish 364 “Women in
Colonial
Syllabi available
at:http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/cortes/
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY-St. Louis 1998-2003
Spanish
Level III
Beginning conversation.
Spanish American Literature I
Panorama histórico del siglo
XVIII (graduate/undergraduate survey)
Cultural heterogeneity?
Transculturation? Hybridity? What is all that Anyway? (Graduate Seminar)
Absolutely Fabulous?
Fable and History in Colonial Latin American Narrative
Reflections and Wonders
in Colonial Texts (Undergraduate Seminar)
Visual and Textual
Representations in Colonial
Captivity and Its Consequences: Horror, Desire and Nostalgia in Colonial Narratives Spanish (graduate/undergraduate special topics course)
Syllabi available at:
http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/cortes/courses/Courses.html
OTHER PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
2008
Faculty Leader of the Study Abroad program in Guanajuato, Mexico, University of
Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
2004-2005
Faculty Leader of the Study Abroad Program in
1999-2000 University College Coordinator
(planning of French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian course offerings,
advertising of teaching positions, and selection of instructors) for the
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Washington University, St.
Louis MO
May/Jul 96 Director of the Summer Study Abroad
Program in
1994-1995 Research Assistant for Professor
Margarita Zamora, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1993-1994 Translator for the Pain Research
Group, Collaborator with the World Health Organization,
Spring 1993 Professional Recording for the Spanish
Placement Test Listening Comprehension Examination, University of
Wisconsin-Madison
1991-1992 Research Assistant for Professor
Peter Boyd-Bowman, Lexicographic compilation for an index of Latin American Spanish,
XX century, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1988-1989 Bibliographical Research, Seminary
of Medieval Spanish Studies,
PUBLICATIONS
CRITICAL EDITION
·
El ‘nahuatlato alvarado’ y el Tlalamtl
Huau[h]quilpa[n]: Mecanismos de la memoria colectiva de una comunidad
indígena.” Colonial Spanish Series
of the Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies. A critical analysis of the Tlalamtl
Huau[h]quilpa[n] and a facsimil edition. Forthcoming in February, 2010.
ARTICLES
·
“Visiones y revisiones de la
historia prehispánica: la mexicayotl criolla en la Historia Antigua
de Francisco Javier Clavijero y en la Descripción de las dos piedras de
Antonio León y Gama.” Nuestras Américas: Crítica intercultural del nuevo
siglo. Ed. Julio Ortega. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica. Forthcoming.
·
“The Colegio
de Tlatelolco: Nahua
Intellectuals and the Spiritual Conquest of Mexico” for The
Blackwell Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture. Ed. Sara Castro-Klarén.
·
El nahuatlato Alvarado y su
historia en el Tlalamatl Huauhquilpan y
en la “genealogía de doña Francisca de Guzmán”: Mecanismos de la memoria
colectiva indígena”. Colonial
·
“Los capítulos perdidos en la Crónica
mexicana de Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc.” Colonial Latin American Review 12.2
(2003): 149-167.
·
“¿Dónde está Tlaloc? El
Templo Mayor mexica: edificación real y simbólica del imperio en fuentes
escritas y materiales.” Modern Languages Notes (Hispanic Issue) 18.2 (2003): 341-362.
·
“Demystifying Sacred Geographical Spaces in Two Chapters of the Crónica
mexicana. Mapping Colonial
·
“Los estudios coloniales hispanoamericanos:
reconsideraciones y aperturas.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. 35.3
(2001): 577-584.
·
“La mexicayotl jesuita: una
construcción criollista en la obra de Francisco Javier Clavijero.” La
literatura Iberoamericana en el 2000. Balances, perspectivas y prospectivas. Salamanca,
España: Universidad de
Salamanca, 2001. 668-686.
·
“Reacciones indígenas a la
nueva era cristiano/colonial: reinterpretación histórica en la Crónica
mexicayotl de Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc y movimientos mesiánicos.” Silabario
3 (2000): 81-89.
·
“La apropiación y
recodificación del discurso colonial en la Crónica mexicana y en la
Crónica mexicayotl de Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc.” Cuestiones
culturales 13.3 (2000): 11-16.
·
“Reflexiones: ¿Para qué sirve
el estudio de las humanidades en la preparatoria y en las carreras
científicas?” Duc in Altum (Irapuato
Gto, Mexico) 3 (2004): 6-9. (By invitation).
BOOK REVIEWs
·
Jongsoo, Lee. The Allure of
·
Velazco, Salvador. Visiones de
Anahuac. Reconstrucciones historiográficas y entnicidades emergentes en el México
colonial: Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl, Diego Muñoz Camargo y Hernando de
Alvarado Tezozomoc. Guadalajara, Jalisco, México: Universidad de
Guadalajara, 2003. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. 38.2 (2004): 393-395.
TRANSLATION
·
“Discovery and Gender” by Margarita
·
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRY
Completed Book Manuscript
·
Proyecciones y reflexiones mexica-tenochca en la colonia: El caso de
don Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc . This project is the first complete study of Don
Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc’s production. I analyze his diachronic and
synchronic contribution as history in a study informed by an interdisciplinary
methodological approach, as well as, extensive research of overlooked primary
sources. I look at Tezozomoc’s texts (in Spanish and Nahualt) as products of an
agency that indigenous people, such as himself and other of his contemporaries,
exerted in the emerging new colonial culture in order to provide a record of
indigenous collective memory. With a background set on the intellectual history
of indigenous research during the sixteenth and seventeenth century in New
Spain, my book brings together how the content, intended audience and delivery
of Tezozomoc’s two chronicles, and other documents, give us a better
understanding of indigenous historical consciousness.
ARTICLES IN PROGRESS
·
“A través del cristal: Reflejos
convergentes y divergentes sobre género e identidad en textos novohispanos,
siglos XVI y XVII.”
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
·
“Acercamiento a la enseñanza
de las crónicas indígenas coloniales siglos XVI y XVII: Intersecciones,
yuxtaposiciones y divergencias” Latin American Studies Association XXVI
Internacional Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March, 2006.
·
Session organizer,
“Proyecciones y relaciones de la memoria mexica en la colonia: El caso de don
Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc”, Latin American Studies Association, XXV
Internacional Congress, Las Vegas, NV, October, 2004.
·
“Memoria mexica, política y
colonia: La Crónica mexicana y la Crónica mexicayotl de don Hernando de
Alvarado Tezozomoc” Latin American Studies Association, XXV Internacional
Congress, Las Vegas, NV., October, 2004.
·
“El nahuatlato Alvarado y el Tlalamatl
Huauhquilpan: Mecanismos de la memoria de una comunidad indígena.” Colonial
·
“Intersecciones,
yuxtaposiciones y divergencias: discursos coloniales y teorías poscoloniales,”
Latin American Studies Association, XXIV International Congress.
·
Session leader and
participant, “Formación y asentamiento colonial en la Nueva España:
(Re)presentaciones míticas y reescritura; “La escritura como coherencia
de la historia: mitos y apelaciones jurídicas en textos indígenas del siglo
XVI,” Modern Languages Association Convention, New York, NY, December, 2002.
·
Chair, Andean re-visions of Spanish American Colonial Societies,
Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures St. Louis, MO, September, 2002.
·
“Hernando de Alvarado
Tezozomoc y el llamado Tlalamatl Huauhquilpan: Falsificación y
estrategia de reclamo,” Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura
Iberoamericana (IILI), Iowa City, Iowa, July, 2002.
·
“Visiones y revisiones de la
historia prehispánica: la mexicayotl criolla en la Historia Antigua
de Francisco Javier Clavigero y en la Descripción de las dos piedras de Antonio
León y Gama,” Carlos Fuentes, México y temas trasantlánticos, Brown University,
Providence, RI, April, 2002.
·
“El Templo Mayor mexica:
edificación real y simbólica del imperio en la Crónica mexicana de
Alvarado Tezozomoc,” Latin American Studies Association, XXIII International
Congress, Washington, D.C., September, 2001.
·
“Registros de la memoria
mexica: conflicto de la escritura en las obras de Hernando de Alvarado
Tezozomoc,” Jornadas Metropolitanas de Estudios Culturales, Mexico City, July,
2001.
·
“Neo-aztequismo y
nacionalidad en la producción criolla mexicana,” Mid-America Conference on
Hispanic Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, September, 2000.
·
“La Mexicayotl Jesuita: Una
nueva historiografia del exilio en la obra de Francisco Javier Clavijero,” Congreso del Instituto Internacional de
Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI), Salamanca, Spain, June, 2000.
·
“¿Una nueva Jerusalem
indígena? Paradigma implícito de un nuevo principio mesiánico en la Crónica
mexicayotl,” Latin American Studies Association, XXII International
Congress, Miami, FL, March, 2000.
·
Chair, “Infanticide in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture”,
Projects and Projectors: Inventions of the Enlightenment, University of New
Hampshire-Durham, December, 1999.
·
“Jesuit Mexicayotl: A Nostalgic Construction of Criollismo,” Inventions
of the Enlightenment, University of New Hampshire-Durham, December, 1999.
·
“Discurso heterogéneo en la
narrativa de Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc,” Latin American Studies
Association, XXI International Congress, Chicago IL, September, 1998.
·
“El papel de la crónica
indígena en la formación de una identidad mestiza en el México de los siglos
XVI y XVII,” El nacimiento de dos naturalezas: Lo criollo y lo mestizo en Latinoamérica,
Universidad de Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, March, 1996.
·
“Estrategias discursivas en
la Crónica mexicana de Hernando Alvarado Tezozomoc,” Latin American
Studies Association, XIX International Congress, Washington D.C., September,
1995.
INVITED LECTURES
·
“Native and Mestizo Intelligentsia in Sixteenth
Century
·
“Reflexiones: ¿Para qué sirve
el estudio de las humanidades en la preparatoria y en las carreras
científicas?” Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico, August, 2003.
LECTURES AT
UW-OSHKOSH
·
“Interdisciplinary Research
in Colonial Latin American Studies: Mechanisms of Indigenous Collective Memory
in Sixteenth Century
DISSERTATIONS COMMITTEES,
(Member)
Jan 1999 Alvaro
Kaempfer, “Texto, construcción autorial y fundación nacional: las declaraciones
de independencia de Argentina, Brasil y Chile”
May 1999 Manuel Hierro
Gutiérrez, “En pos de sí mismo: Los Diarios íntimos y cuadernillos de
apuntes de Manuel Azaña”
May 2002 Ana
Hontanilla, “La crítica de la moda en el proceso de formación y diseminación
del gusto burgués en el Madrid del siglo XVIII”
Dec 2002 Juan José
Daneri, “El agua a su molino. Tres historiadores novohispanos y sus crónicas en
castellano (Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl, Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc,
Diego Muñoz Camargo)”
May 2003 Andrea Easley, “Creating
Difference: Representing Ethnicity in Post-Revolutionary Cuban Novel”
UNIVERSITY and
COMMUNITY SERVICE
2008-Present Technological Committee Foreign Language and Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
2008-Present Budget Committee (Chair) Foreign Language and Literatures, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
2007-Pres Council for Equity and Affirmative Action
2005 -PresAcademic
Amnesty Committee,
2004-2005 Academic
Standards Consideration Team
2004-2007
University Compensation Committee,
2004-2005
Study Abroad Committee, Foreign Languages Department
2003-2005
Social Committee. Foreign Languages Department
1998-2003 Undergraduate
advisor
1999-2003 Member, Search Committee
1998-1999
Member, Spanish Graduate Committee
1998-2002 Invited Lecturer, Survey of Latin
American Cultures for the Dept. of Latin American Studies every fall on
pre-Hispanic cultures, Aztecs and Mayas, and Miguel León-Portilla’s Broken
Spears
1998-2003 Advisor, Association of Latin American
Students
1999-2000 Member, “Salon” (Eighteenth-Century
Studies Group), presented “The Mexicayotl Jesuita”
1998-2002 Presenter, panel for graduate students
“Tricks of the Profession”
1999-2000 Coordinator,
1995-1996
Member, Language Proficiency Examination Committee
1994-1995 Mentor of Hispanic undergraduate students
1993-1994 Actor
and director, dramatic productions
1992-1994 TA
Evaluation Review Committee
1992-1996
Spanish Colloquium
1992 Judge, High School Spanish Pronunciation Competition
1991-1992 Steering Committee, Student representative
SERVICE TO THE
PROFESSION
Fall 2003 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), evaluator, Collaborative Research Program
1998-2003 Member, editorial
board, Revista de estudios hispánicos
2001 Referee, for Mesoamérica
2008
Referee, for The Canadian Journal or Latin American and
OTHER SERVICE
ACTIVITIES
April 15, 2009 Organized
Revolutions: A Collaborative Latin American Studies
Workshop on Research and Teaching Ideas.
2008 Latin
American Studies UW System Collaboration Workshop,
2008 Workshop
in D2L and Turnitin
2008 Designed
the Spanish Division web page, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures,
2008 Presentation
on economic, political, and social collaborations among Latin American countries
in the class of World Regional Geography
2004 Presentation
on Pre-Hispanic Indigenous Peoples of
2003 to present Undergraduate
advisor,
1998-2003 Undergraduate advisor,
1998-2002 Lectures in the Survey of Latin
American Cultures for the Dept. of Latin American Studies every fall on
pre-Hispanic cultures, Aztecs and Mayas, and Miguel León-Portilla’s Broken Spears, Washington University,
St. Louis, MO
1998-2003 Professor participant in the
Association of Latin American Students, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
1999-2000 Member of the “Salon”
(Eighteenth-Century Studies), presented “The Mexicayotl Jesuita,”
1998-2002 Presenter every semester in “Tricks
of the Profession” for graduate students, Department of Romance Languages and
Literatures,
1999-2000 Department of Romance Languages and
Literatures, coordinator for University College,
March 1999 Organizer of Spanish Day,
1992-1996 Spanish Colloquium, University of
Wisconsin-Madison
1994-1995 Mentor of Hispanic undergraduate
students, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Spring 1992
Participation
in dramatic productions:
Feb 1994 Directed Sempronio
(Agustín Cuzani), Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
Mar 1993 Acted in Usted tiene ojos de
mujer fatal (Enrique Jardiel Poncela), Department of Spanish and
Portuguese,
Feb 1993 Acted in Saverio el cruel
(Roberto Arlt), Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
COMMUNITY SERVICE
2007 Presentation on Mexican
history to third grade students at
2008 Presentation on
Immigration to fourth and fifth grade students at
2008 Organizer and supervisor
of a five-week Spanish program to Carl Traeger Elementary students from
kindergarten to fifth grade with six students majoring in Spanish and Education
from UW-Oshkosh.
LANGUAGES
Fully bilingual in English
and Spanish (Spanish native speaker)
Portuguese- working knowledge
French, Italian and
Nahuatl-good reading knowledge
AFFILIATIONS
Modern Languages Association
since 1990
Latin American Studies
Association since 1994
Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana since 2000
Northeast American Society
for Eighteenth-Century Studies since 2000
Colonial
Regional Faculty Associate of
the Center for Latin American and
CREDENTIALS
Complete dossier available
from Educational Placement and Career Services,