Song No - Purdue University

Education
Song No
Purdue University
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
640 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2039
E-mail:sno1@purdue.edu
1997 Ph.D. Romance Languages and Literatures
University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation Title: “Orality and Writing in Comentarios reales”
Directors: Antonio Cornejo-Polar and Ignacio Navarrete
1991 B.A. Spanish, University of California, Davis
Foreign and Summer Studies
2007 Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil (NEH Summer Institute)
S. No 1
2000 Center for Educational Technology, Middlebury College (Mellon Grant)
1999 Centro de Bartolomé de las Casas, Cusco, Peru (Quechua Program)
1995 Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Portuguese Program)
1994 The School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth College
1988-89 Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Professional Academic Experience:
2010- Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education and International Programs
College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University
2010- Director of Latin American and Latino Studies
Purdue University
2009-2010 Interim Co-Director of Latin American and Latino Studies
Purdue University
2009- Associate Professor of Spanish
Purdue University

2008-09 Resident Director
The Wisconsin-Indiana-Purdue Overseas Study Program
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
2002-09 Assistant Professor of Spanish
Purdue University
1997-02 Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts
1991-96 Graduate Student Instructor
University of California, Berkeley
1987-88 Calculus Tutor
Learning Center
University of California, Davis
Other Work Experience
1983-86 The United States Army
Enlisted Soldier
Active Duty
Publications
Book
S. No 2
2008 Cien años de contrahegemonía: Transculturación y heterogeneidad.
Lima, Peru: Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Nacional
Mayor de San Marcos, 2008. 256 pages.
*Reviewed
Alan Martín Pisconte Quispe, Desde el Sur 1.2 (2009): 414-21.
Edited Book
2010 400 años de Comentarios reales: Estudio sobre el Inca Garcilaso y su obra.
Co-edited with Elena Romiti
Montevideo, Uruguay: Universidad de la República,
Uruguay, 2010. 274 pages.
Guest Editorship
2010 Special Issue on Latinoamericanidad
Desde el Sur: Revista de ciencias humanas
y sociales de la Universidad Científica del Sur, 1.2 (2009)
[Invited]

Refereed Articles
2008 “Teaching De unico vocationis modo: The Maternal Discourse
of Bartolomé de Las Casas.” Approaches to Teaching the Writings of
Bartolomé de Las Casas. Eds. Santa Arias and Eyda Merediz.
New York: Modern Language Association, 2008. 124-131.
2006 “La oralidad garcilasista en los Comentarios reales de los Incas.”
Perspectivas Latinoamericanas 3 (2006): 161-172.
S. No 3
2006 “The Dynamics of Ortiz’s Transculturation in the Contrapunteo cubano.”
Estudios Hispánicos 41(2006): 281-299.
2006 “Entre el idealismo práctico y el activismo filosófico: La doble vida
de Pedro Zulen.” Solar: Revista de Filosofía Iberoamericana 2 (2006): 73-88.
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
2006 “Una mentira colonial: Análisis de la Ynstruçion…de Titu Cusi.”
Pórtico 1 (2006): 99-118.
2005 “La heterogeneidad suturada: Titu Cusi Yupanqui.”
Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana 62 (2005): 229-241.
2005 “La narrativa automarginal de Cervantes y el Inca Garcilaso.”
Perfiles culturales en la literatura hispánica. Serie Encuentros.
Lima: Asociación de Estudios Culturales Hispánicos, 2005. 73-84.
2005 “Los Sueños de Francisco de Quevedo: Pesadillas entre las perversas
y las renegadas.” LEMIR: Revista de literatura española medieval
y del renacimiento 9 (2005).
Universidad de Valencia, Spain
Please visit: http://parnaseo.uv.es/Lemir/Revista/Revista9/Revista9.htm
1999 “La oralidad y la violencia de la escritura en Los Comentarios Reales
del Inca Garcilaso.” Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana
49 (1999): 27-39.
Book Chapters
2010 “Los Comentarios reales en la tradición de la historiografía española.”
Humanismo, mestizaje y escritura: En los 400 años de los Comentarios
reales. Ed. Mora, Carmen de, Guillermo Serés and Mercedes Serna.
Madrid and Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2010. 241-260

S. No 4
2010 “El punto de partida de la ideal garcilasista: los Diálogos de amor.”
400 años de Comentarios reales: Estudio sobre el Inca Garcilaso y su obra.
Ed. No, S and Elena Romiti. Montevideo, Uruguay: Universidad
de la República, Uruguay, 2010. 89-108.
2010 “La desmarginzalización del discurso en la Historia general del Perú.”
Entre el arma y la pluma. Ed. Chang-Rodríguez, Raquel.
Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2010. 97-108.
2009 “La mediocri(olli)dad heterogénea de la Prosopopéia de Bento Texeira.”
Poéticas de lo criollo. Eds. David M. Solodkow and Juan Vitulli
Buenos Aires: Editorial Corregidor, 2009. 81-103.
Book Reviews
2010 Review of Rolena Adorno, The Polemics of Possession in Spanish
American Narrative. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2007.
Bulletin of Spanish Studies 87.5 (2010): 710-11.
2008 Review of Rocío Quispe-Angoli, La fe andina en la escritura:
Resistencia e identidad en la obra de Guamán Poma de Ayala.
Lima: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2006.
Revista Iberoamericana 74. 225 (2008): 1163-66.
2005 Review of Christian Fernández, Inca Garcilaso: Imaginación, memoria
e identidad. Lima: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2004.
Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 39. 1 (2005): 217-218.
2002 Review of Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela, Colonial Angels: Narrative
of Gender and Spirituality in Mexico, 1580-1750.
Austin: U of Texas P, 2000. Hispanic Review 70. 1 (2002): 104-105.
Other
1996 “Defining Marginality.” Lucero: A Journal of Iberian and Latin American
Studies 7 (1996):1-2 (Editor's Column).
Papers Delivered
Invited International Lectures
2010 “La heterogeneidad de Antonio Cornejo Polar.”
Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Montevideo, Uruguay

2010 “Transculturation as Critical Theory of Latin America”
Institute of Latin American Studies
Seoul National University, South Korea
2009 “Interculturalidad negociada: León Hebreo y el Inca Garcilaso.”
Humanismo, mestizaje y escritura. En los 400 años de
los Comentarios reales. Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain.
2009 “La matriz oral del Inca Garcilaso de la Vega.”
Homenaje al Inca Garcilaso en España, Museo de América
Madrid, Spain.
2009 “La historicidad de La ciudad letrada.”
Seminario Historia(s) de América Latina, Università di Bologna
Bologna, Italy.
S. No 5
2009 “La vigencia actual del planteamiento orticiano: transculturación.”
I Seminario Internacional sobre los estudios de América Latina,
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
2006 “Pedro Zulen.” Pensar en español: tradición y proyección de
la filosofía hispanoamericana. Universidad Nacional Mayor
de San Marcos, Lima, Peru.
Invited National Lectures
2011 “Genderizing a Hegemonic Voice: Bartolomé de las Casas.”
Center for Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California.
2009 “La desmarginalización del discurso Historia general del Perú.”
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and His Royal Commentaries (1609; 1617):
A Rereading for the 21st Century, The Graduate Center, CUNY
and the Americas Society, New York City, New York.
2008 “The Origin(ality) of Latin American Transculturation:
A Carnivalesque R/evolution.” Center for Latin American and
Caribbean Studies, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.
2008 “Pedro Salvino Zun Leng: A Philosopher Becomes a Rebel
with a Cause.”Latin American Studies, University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada.

S. No 6
2007 “Las Casas’s Maternalist Metaphor of Nonviolence.”
The 2007 Midwest Regional Workshops on Latin America
The Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana.
2002 “Lying with the Enemies: A Study of Titu Cusi's Ynstruçion...”
Catholic University of America, Washington DC.
1999 “El Inca Garcilaso y el renacimiento europeo.”
Dept. of Romance Langs. and Lit., University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1998 “La conquista española y la violencia epistemológica.”
Dept. of Spanish, University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California.
International Conference Presentations
2009 “El garcilasismo antípoda: De los Comentarios reales a la Historia
general del Perú.” XXVIII International Congress of the Latin
American Studies Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2007 “Bartolomé de las Casas como madre pacificadora y
colonizadora.” The Third International Interdisciplinary
Symposium on Colonial Studies, Quito, Ecuador.
2005 “El origen carnavalesco de la transculturación orticiana.”
The Seventh International Conference on Caribbean Literature
Cartagena, Colombia.
2005 “Cervantes y el Inca Garcilaso de la Vega: Escribir
de las márgenes imperiales.” Congreso Internacional de
Literatura Hispánica, Bayahibe, Dominican Republic.
2003 “El Inca Garcilaso entre el amor y la conquista.” Segundo Congreso
Internacional de Literatura Hispánica, Lima, Peru.
1999 “La posible influencia de quechua en los Comentarios reales
del Inca Garcilaso.” Jornada Andina de Literatura
Latinoamericana, Cusco, Peru.

National Conference Presentations
S. No 7
2011 “Colonial (De)construction of Images and Words.”
The Session of “Visual Textualizations: Latin American Colonial Lives”
Organized by the Division of Colonial Latin American Literatures
Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, CA.
2010 “Francisco Pizarro: His Concept of City and Territories.”
The Third Early Ibero/Anglo Americanist Summit, St. Augustine, Florida,
2009 “Local Reframing of the Global History: The Elusive Good (El bien esquivo)
by Augusto Tamayo San Román.” The 33 rd West Virgina University
Foreign Language Colloquium, Morgantown, West Virginia,
2008 “Narrative Subversion and Ideological Resistance.”
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky.
2007 “La problemática del discurso lascasiano”
Mid-West Modern Language Association, Cleveland, Ohio.
2007 “Reivindicación global y regeneración local.”
XXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association
Montreal, Canada.
2006 “La conciencia oral del Inca Garcilaso en los Cometarios
reales de los Incas.” The XVII International Symposium
on Latin American Indian Literatures, Columbus, Ohio.
2005 “Teaching Bartolomé de Las Casas beyond the Brevísima relación.”
Modern Language Association, Washington DC.
2005 “Heterogeneidad Suturada: Titu Cusi Yupanqui.”
Noveno Encuentro Latinoamericano en Berkeley, California.
2003 “Textuality and Sexuality in Early Colonial Chronicles.”
Mid-West Modern Language Association, Chicago, Illionis.
2003 “Colonial Images in Latin American Cinema.”
Mid-West Modern Language Association, Chicago, Illinois.
2003 “Centrifugal and Centripetal Power of Transculturation.”
Simposio Internacional: Identidad(es) del Perú, University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Canada.

2003 “Dialogical and Dialectical Transculturation: Fernando Ortiz
and Angel Rama.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference,
Lexington, Kentucky.
2003 “Transatlantic Reading of Ortiz’s and Rama’s Transculturation.”
XXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association, Dallas, Texas.
2001 “A Voice from Peripheries: A Study of Japanese-Brazilian Writings.”
Midwest Modern Language Association, Cleveland, Ohio.
2000 “Self-Marginalization in Inca Garcilaso's Comentarios reales.”
Modern Language Association, Washington DC.
1999 “Difficulties in Identifying Possible Quechua Oral Resonances
in Inca Garcilaso's Comentarios reales.” La Chispa
New Orleans, Louisiana.
1997 “La oralidad y la violencia de la escritura en Los Comentarios
reales del Inca Garcilaso.” VIII Encuentro Latinoamericano
en Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California.
1997 “Yo escribo...lo que mamé en la leche de mi madre.”
Hispanics: Cultural Locations, University of San Francisco
San Francisco, California.
1996 “La lengua que mamé en la leche de mi madre: A Phenomenological
Approach to the Colonial Body in the Comentarios reales.”
Modern Language Association, Washington DC.
S. No 8
1994 “Justifying and Understanding Lying in Early Colonial Context
of Latin America: An Analysis of Titu Cusi Yupangui's Ynstruçion...”
Modern Language Association, San Diego, California.
Teaching
Graduate Seminars at Purdue
Latin American Contemporary Literature
(Fall 2011)
Latin American Continentalism
(Fall 2010)

Latin American Colonial Literature
(Spring 2010; Spring 2004)
Latin American 19 th -Century Literature
(Spring 2008; Spring 2006; Spring 2005)
Latin American Literature after 1970
(Fall 2007)
Latin American Transculturation
(Spring 2006)
Spanish Golden Age Literature
(Fall 2005)
S. No 9
Traductora, traidora, transcultora: Latin American Women’s Identities
(Spring 2003)
Undergraduate Classes at Purdue, Wheaton and UC, Berkeley
Hispanic Prose [Honors]
(Fall 2009; Spring 2008; Fall 2006; Fall 2004)
Hispanic Literature [Honors]
(F 09; F 06; F 04; S 04; S 95; F 94)
Latin American Literature in Translation: Myths and Stories
(Fall 2007 taught in English)
Latin American Cultures
(Maymester 10; S 07; F 02; S 01; F 00; S 98)
Hispanic Poetry and Drama [Honors]
(F 05; S 05; S 03; F 02)
Latin American Colonial Literature
(Spring 2000; Fall 1998)
Yearning for Immortality
Freshman Year Seminar, taught in English
(Fall 2000; Fall 2001)
All levels of Spanish Language Courses
(Wheaton College, Massachusetts, and University of California, Berkeley)

Honors
External
2009-10 Korea Foundation-American Association of Teachers of Korean
Teaching Fund ($10,000)
2008-09 Korea Foundation-American Association of Teachers of Korean
Teaching Fund ($10,000)
2007 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute
Brazilian Literature and Culture, Universidade de Campinas
Campinas, Brazil
2006 Academic Recognition Award
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru
2000 Summer Mellon Grant
Center for Educational Technology, Middlebury College
Middlebury, Vermont
1995 Camões Institute Scholarship, Lisbon, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra
Coimbra, Portugal (Portuguese Language Program)
Internal
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2010 Grant for Study Abroad and International Learning ($6,000)
To develop opportunities for study abroad and international collaboration
with the Universidad de la República de Uruguay, Montevideo
Purdue University
2007 Dean’s International Travel Grant
Purdue University
2003 School of Liberal Arts International Travel Grant
Purdue University
1998 Faculty Development Summer Grant
Wheaton College, Massachusetts
1996-97 President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship
University of California, Berkeley
1991-93 Graduate Opportunity Fellowship,
University of California, Berkeley

Professional Activities
2011 Referee, Ohio University Press
Ohio University, Athens, OH
2010 Referee, Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production
of the Luso-Hispanic World
University of California, Merced
2010 Referee, Revista Perífrasis
Departamento de Humanidades y Literatura
Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
S. No 11
2010 Panel organizer for the “Location and Narration of Self and
the Colonial Other” session, Midwest Modern Language Association
Chicago, November 2010
2009- Editor of JHLiST
Journal of History, Literature, Science and Technology
2009-10 Director, The 2010 Interdisciplinary Conference of AHLiST
(Association of History, Literature, Science and Technology)
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Co-hosted by Purdue University, Universidad Complutense and
Universidad de Antonio Nebrija
Please visit http://www.ahlist.com
-Soliciting funds
-Overseeing the budget
-Inviting plenary and guest speakers
-Delegating administrative and financial duties
-Searching for future conferences sites and venues
2009- President of AHLiST
Association of History, Literature, Science and Technology
2009 Commencement Speaker of Study Aboard Program Consortium
The First Graduation Ceremony of the Universidades
Norteamericanas REUNIDAS at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
2009 Panel moderator, Seminario Historia(s) de América Latina
Università di Bologna, Italy.
2007- Member of Consejo Internacional
Solar: Revista de filosofía iberoamericana

S. No 12
2007 Session organizer for the “Latin American Narrative and Sociopolitical
Resistance” session, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference
University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.
2007 Panel organizer for the “Between Testimonies and Historical
Narratives” session, Mid-West Modern Language Association
Cleveland, Ohio.
2007 Panel moderator for the “Towards a Narrative Theory
of Mind” session, Theory of Mind and Literature Conference,
Purdue University
2007 Panel organizer for the “Intervención feminista en el discurso
colonial” session, The Third International Interdisciplinary
Symposium on Colonial Studies, Quito, Ecuador
2003 Panel organizer for the “Colonial Orature and Textuality” session
Mid-West Modern Language Association, Chicago, Illinois.
2002-03 Co-director for Chicago Area Colonial Latin American Workshop
with Dr. Lisa Voigt of University of Chicago
2000 Panel organizer for the "Movable Peripheries" session
Modern Language Association, Washington DC.
1995-96 Editor-in-chief
Lucero: A Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Berkeley
1995 Director for a Townsend Center study group “Otras voces,
otros ámbitos: Studies on Latin American Marginalized Literatures,”
University of California, Berkeley
1993-94 Editorial board, Lucero: A Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Berkeley
Professional Assignments
Purdue University
2010- Member of Common Reading Committee
Purdue University
2010- Member of Supplemental Instructional Committee
Purdue University

2010- Member of Summer Budget Committee
Purdue University
2010- Co-Chair of Grade Appeal Committee
College of Liberal Arts
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2010- Member of Steering Committee of Re-Visioning Terrorism Conference
College of Liberal Arts
2010- Co-Chair of Teaching Award Committee
College of Liberal Arts
2010- Senator for Interdisciplinary Program
College of Liberal Arts
2010- Member of World Film Forum
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
2010 Referee, Purdue Studies in Romance Literature
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
2009 PhD Assessment Committee Member
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
2008-09 Resident Director
Wisconsin-Indiana-Purdue Overseas Study Program
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Madrid, Spain
2008-10 Korean Program Supervisor
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
2008 Supervisor of SPANISH 235 classes
(Spanish American Lit. in Translation)
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
2007- Committee for Student Excellence
University Senate
2007 Referee, Purdue Studies in Romance Literature
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
2007 Supervisor of SPANISH 235 classes
(Spanish American Lit. in Translation)
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

2006-07 Member of the Job Search Committee on a tenure-track assistant
professor of Arabic
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
2006 Referee, Purdue Studies in Romance Literature
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
2006 Chair of the Committee for SPANISH 235 classes
(Spanish American Lit. in Translation)
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
2005-06 Member of the Job Search Committee on a tenure-track assistant
professor of Arabic
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
2005-08 Senator
College of Liberal Arts
2004 Referee, Purdue Studies in Romance Literature
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
2002-07 Member of Teaching Committee
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Doctoral and MA Committees
Doctoral Committee Chair
Peter Dy-Liacco
Cody Hanson
Doctoral Committee Co-Chair
Doctoral Committee Member
Ana P. Vélez-Rendón
“La crónica fundacional en Colombia: la raza, la clase y el género
en el discurso nacional,” Ph.D., 2008 (unpublished).
Co-chaired with Dr. Marcia Stephenson.
Manuel Apodaca-Váldez (Comparative Literature)
Nalda Báez-Smith
Sarah Gretter
Kelly Keith
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MA Committee Chair
Yan Li
MA Committee Member
Wheaton College, Mass.
María Silvina Meza
María Luisa Torres
Yasmina Vallejos
Rhonda von Werder
Socorro Zaragoza
Peter Dy-Liacco
Muriel Gallego
Niovel Hidalgo
Kelly Keith
Johanna Barrero
María Bellocq
Carla Castaño
Sarah Gretter
Isabel Iglesias
Michelle Madeiro
María Mejía
George Palacios
Lucia Pérez-Bernardo
Jessica Ribble
Iván Sáenz
1991-2001 Academic Advisor
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International Graduate Student Recruitment
2009 Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2009 Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
2007 Universidad de San Francisco, Quito, Ecuador
2007 Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
2006 Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru
Community Service
2011- Member of Police Merit Committee
West Lafayette, Indiana
Purdue University
2010- Steering Committee of Asian Pacific American Caucus
2008-09 Advisor of Purdue Korean Culture Club
Please visit www.purduekcc.org
Ivy Tech Community College, Lafayette, Indiana
2008- Member of Diversity Council
2007-08 Member of Executive Board, the Second Tippecanoe Latino Festival
2006- Member of the Community Activity Committee
Outreach to the Hispanic/Latino Community
2006-07 Member of Executive Board, the First Tippecanoe Latino Festival
Languages
Professional Affiliations
Near-native fluency in Spanish
Intermediate fluency in Portuguese, French, Italian
Reading Knowledge in Quechua, Catalan, Latin
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Association of History, Literature, Science and Technology (AHLiST)
International Association of Comparative Literature (IACL)
Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
Midwest Modern Language Association (M/MLA)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Sigma Delta Phi, National Honor Society