Metropolitan State University of Denver

Dr Ana-Maria Medina

Personal Biography Statement

Before starting at Metro in Aug. 2011, Dr. Medina was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish for two years at the University of Houston Downtown. She holds a Ph.D. in Peninsular Literature from the University of Houston, an M.A. in Peninsular Literature from Saint Louis University and a B.A. in Hispanic Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation, Manuel Rivas: A Revolution in Contemporary Galician Literature & Beyond, a study of narrative and film from the feminist perspective in the context of XX and XXI century Spain, delves into the pressing questions of cultural conflict and assimilation, union and disunion, historical memory, feminine space, and trans-cultural and multilingual artistic production in the Peninsula. As a graduate student she taught at UH and was an Assistant Professor at the University of Belize where she coordinated the Language Department of the Belize City Campus and was a lead member on the committee to design and implement a Bachelor’s Degree in Spanish Education. In 2007 she was the Assistant Coordinator to the Summer Abroad Program in Cádiz for the University of Houston, where she was the recipient of the UH Teaching Excellence Award (2007) and the Hispanic Studies Departmental Teaching Excellence Award (2009). Dr. Medina teaches beginner and intermediate language classes, heritage language courses and 20th and 21st Century Peninsular literature, film and culture courses. She has published in various mediums including scholarly journals, collections, and magazines and has presented at national conferences . She is a member of the Sigma Delta Kappa Spanish and the Phi Beta Delta Honor Societies and part of the Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee for the MLA.

Research Areas/Interests

Contemporary Peninsular Literature, Culture and Film. Gender Studies.

Educational Biography

Ph.D. in Modern Peninsular Literature with a Certificate in Women’s Studies, May 2009, University of Houston
Dissertation: “Manuel Rivas: A Revolution in Contemporary Galician Literature & Beyond”
Director: Dr. María Elena Soliño
- Study of narrative and film from the feminist perspective in the context of XX and XXI century Spain.
- Subtopics: pressing questions of cultural conflict and assimilation, union and disunion,historical memory, feminine space, and trans-cultural and multilingual artistic production in the Iberian Peninsula.
M.A. in Peninsular Literature, December 2005, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO.
Master’s Thesis: “La novela cortesana y su influencia en los episodios interpolados del Quijote”
Director: Dr. Ana Montero
B.A. in Hispanic Studies with a Minor in Sociology, May 2003
University of Texas at Austin

Selected Presentations

• “Children and war; the transmigration of the textual to the filmic in Manuel Rivas’ La lengua de las mariposas" Children in Film Area of the 31st annual PCA/ACA & SWTX PCA/ACA. April 20-23, 2011.
• “The Sea as Life and Metaphor: Galician Identity in La mano del emigrante by Manuel Rivas” PAMLA hosted by Chaminade University. Honolulu, Hawaii. November 13-14th. 2010.
• “Manuel Rivas’ Woman in the Bath: Women through the arts” 2010 Carnegie Vanguard High Speaker Series. Invited Lecture. Houston, Texas. October 13, 2010.
• “El texto rivarsiano: De la página a la pantalla” Memory in World Cinema Conference. The University of Texas at San Antonio. Sept 24-25, 2010.
• “El teatro rivarsiano: Memoria y olvido en El Heroe”. NeMLA. Montreal, Canada. April 7-11, 2010.
• “Re-defining art: Artistic genre in literary works. New voices of past visions”: Seminar Organizer. ACLA. New Orleans, Luisiana. April 1-4, 2010.
• “Re-defining Art: Manuel Rivas’ Woman in the Bath ”. ACLA. New Orleans, Louisiana. April 1-4, 2010.
• “The creation of the feminine space in “The house of seagulls’”: Panel Organizer. IV Annual Convention of the Georgia Philological

Selected Publications

• “Re-defining Art: Manuel Rivas’ Woman in the Bath”. ACLA 2010: Creoles, Diasporas,Cosmopolitanism Collection Volume. Ed. David Gallagher. Forthcoming.
• “Detections as a means of resistance in El embrujo del Shanghai” Detecting Detection. Ed. Deborah Shaller and Peter Baker. Continuum: New York. 2011.
• “Las voces del exilio: Su remembranza mediante la construcción literaria híbrida " Hybridity in Spanish Culture. Ed. María Tajes. Cambridge Scholars, 2011.
• “Camen Betanzos Cordoba de Torres” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latino Literature Vol. I Ed. Nicolás Kanellos. Westport, Ct: Greenwood Publishing Group: Westport, 2008:1159.
• “Ángel González: El poeta y su poesía” La línea del cosmonauta. V. 2. March 2006:9.

Links

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Ana-Maria-Medina/153435504720613

Courses Taught

SPA-1800,SPA-2110,SPA-2120,SPA-2310,SPA-2320,SPA-2800,SPA-3110,SPA-3150
,SPA-3200,SPA-3250,SPA-3800,SPA-390H,SPA-4020

Office Hours

Tuesday - [11:30 to 02:00]
Thursday - [11:30 to 02:00]

Current Semester Schedule