MARTA J. SIERRA Associate Professor Department of Modern ...

MARTA J. SIERRA
Associate Professor
Department of Modern
Languages and Literatures
Kenyon College
sierram@Kenyon.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Spanish, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2000
M.A. Spanish, Rutgers University, 1997
M.A. National University of Tucumán, Argentina, 1994
B.A. National University of Tucumán, Argentina, 1992
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Associate Professor, Modern Languages and Literatures, Kenyon College, 2008-
Assistant Professor, Modern Languages and Literatures, Kenyon College, 2004-2008
Assistant Professor, Hispanic Studies, University of Massachusetts-Boston, 2001-2004
Teaching Assistant, Rutgers University, 1996-1999
I have taught a number of undergraduate and graduate courses on the literature and cultures
of Latin America, Argentina and neighboring countries of South America; travel, exile and its
literary manifestations; the city and urban spaces in Latin American literature; women’s writing;
Latin American film, and transnational feminisms. A list of courses taught is included at the end
of this CV.
BOOKS and EDITIONS
Virtual Territories: Gendered Spaces and the Quest for Place in Women’s Writing in Argentina,
1910 to the Present. Under review, Palgrave-Macmillan.
Transnational Borderlands: The Making of Cultural Resistance in Women’s Global Networks.
Clara Román-Odio and Marta Sierra, editors. Forthcoming, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011.
Global and Local Geographies: The (Dis)locations of Contemporary Feminisms. Clara Román-
Odio and Marta Sierra, invited editors. Special Issue, Letras Femeninas, XXXIII (1) Summer
2007.
BOOK CHAPTERS
“La frontera norte: El caso argentino en el cine de Lucrecia Martel”. Memoria y Frontera en
América Latina. Bernardita Llanos, Ana María Goestshell, editoras. Santiago, Chile y

Quito, Ecuador: Editorial Cuarto Propio. Forthcoming, summer 2011.
“Tu voz existe”: Percepción mediática, cultura nacional y transiciones democráticas en Pedro
Lemebel. Discurso cultural, resistencia y comunicación en la época neoliberal. Juan
Poblete and Fernando Blanco, Editores. Santiago, Chile: Editorial Cuarto Propio.
Forthcoming, fall 2010.
“Geografías fronterizas: La tierra del fuego de Sylvia Iparraguirre”. Argentina en su literatura.
Buenos Aires: Corregidor, 2009. 293-312
“Los espacios de la crónica en La esquina es mi corazón de Pedro Lemebel.” Tras las huellas de
una escritura en tránsito: La crónica contemporánea en América Latina. Graciela Falbo,
editor. La Plata, Argentina: Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Editorial Al
Márgen, 2007: 89-109
“Cuéntame un cuento chino: la estética sin territorio de Luisa Futoransky.” Luisa Futoransky y
su palabra itinerante. Ester Gimbernat González, editor. Uruguay: Ediciones de Hermes
Criollo, 2006: 225-246
ARTICLES
“In Memoriam” (homenaje a Tomás Eloy Martínez). Argentina en su literatura. Instituto
Interdisciplinario de Literaturas Argentina y Comparadas. Universidad Nacional de
Tucumán. Forthcoming, Winter, 2011.
“Narrativas descolonizadoras de la poesía chilena: el caso de Clemente Ridemann.” Requested
contribution for a special issue on Chilean Literature (1973-2009). Forthcoming, Inti, Fall
2010.
"Scripts for Modern Mothers: Representations of Motherhood in Delfina Bunge and Alfonsina
Storni." Accepted for publication in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos.
Geografías imposibles: la poesía “en bajel” de Luisa Futoransky.” Confluencia, 24.2 (2009): 71-
81.
“Las tierras de la memoria: las estéticas sin territorio de Witold Gombrowicz y Felisberto
Hernández”. Hispanic Review, 74.1 (2006):59-82.
“De caníbales, piratas y polígrafas: escritura, obscenidad y mutilación en Alejandra Pizarnik.”
Latin American Literary Review, XXXIII.66 (2005):77-94.
“Mundo grúa: las paradojas del cuerpo y la máquina en la sociedad argentina de los años
noventa.” Argentina en su literatura, Vol VIII. Instituto Interdisciplinario de Literaturas
Argentina y Comparadas. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, 2005. 351-368
“Máquinas, ficciones y sociedades secretas: Caterva de Juan Filloy y La ciudad ausente de

Ricardo Piglia”. Revista Iberoamericana, 11 (2005): 521-537
“Oblique Views: Artistic Doubling, Ironic Mirroring and Photomontage in the Works of Norah
Lange and Norah Borges.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. 29.3 (2006):
563-584
"Artista, recolección y nostalgia: la figura del artista en la literatura de vanguardia", Confluencia.
18.2 (2003): 42-52.
"Las construcciones de género en la literatura argentina de vanguardia". Revista de estudios
hispánicos, XXXV.1(2000): 21-47.
"La lectura y los mundos posibles de la ficción". Mountain Interstate Foreign Languages and
Literatures Review, 8(1999): 59-71.
“La pesadilla de las imágenes: reproducción mecánica en La invención de Morel”. Acta
Literaria, Universidad de Concepción, Chile. 24 (1999): 121-130.
“Fragmentación del cuerpo y dislocación social: Oliverio Girondo y los juegos de la mirada
pública”. La Jornada Literaria, Actas del V Coloquio de estudiantes graduados del
Departamento de Español y Portugués, Rutgers University. 2.1 (1998): 97-104.
“De extranjerías y discursos ajenos: el caso de La Española Inglesa de Miguel de Cervantes
Saavedra”. La Jornada Literaria, Actas del IV Coloquio de estudiantes graduados del
Departamento de Español y Portugués, Rutgers University. 1.1(1997): 22-27.
“La obra poética de Canal Feijóo”. Actas de las Jornadas Andinas de Literatura
Latinoamericana, JALLA, Argentina, 1996.455-467.
“El ‘proceso’ de la vanguardia en José Carlos Mariátegui”. Actas del VI Congreso Nacional de
amigos de la literatura, Mar del Plata, Argentina, 1996.
“Arturo Alvarez Sosa: la poesía como principio vital”. Argentina en su Literatura, Instituto de
Literatura Argentina y Comparada, número 7,Tucumán, Argentina, 1996.
“Habitante de mí mismo de Julio Ovejero Paz”. Diálogos, número 5, Salta, Argentina, Octubre
de 1993. 29-31.
“La relación escritura-oralidad en la narrativa de Héctor Tizón”. Argentina en su Literatura,
Instituto de Literatura Argentina y Comparada, número 6, Tucumán, Argentina, 1993. 89-
109.
“La ilustración española en el discurso de El telégrafo Mercantil”. La Ilustración y Tucumán a
comienzos del siglo XIX, Secretaría de Ciencia y Técnica, Programa de investigación 206,
Fac. De Filosofía y Letras, Tucumán, Argentina, 1992.45-67.

BOOK REVIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
“Tensiones en el campo cultural argentino: mercado, identidad y memoria en la era neoliberal
(1989-2001)”. Confluencia 24.2 (2009): 141-143.
“Entrevista con María Negroni”. Hispamérica.109 (2008): 61-67
“Victoria Verlichak. Marta Traba. Una terquedad furibunda. Buenos Aires: Universidad Tres de
Febrero-Fundación Proa, 2001”. Letras Femeninas. XXX.1 (2004): 209-211.
ARTICLES SUBMITTED
“Entrevista con Diana Bellessi.” Submitted to Hispamérica.
“La frontera norte: Bordes territoriales y estéticos en el Noroeste argentino.” Submitted to
Chasqui.
INVITED LECTURES
“Geografías Virtuales: Espacio y género en la literatura argentina,” Instituto de Geografía y
Estudios de Género de la Universidad de Buenos Aires; Instituto de Geografía de la
Universidad de Córdoba; Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la Universidad
Nacional de Tucumán, Julio 2010.
PAPERS PRESENTED
“La frontera norte: Bordes territoriales y estéticos en el Noroeste argentino.” Latin American
Studies Association Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, October 3-6, 2010.
“La frontera norte: El caso argentino en el cine de Lucrecia Martel”. Asociación de la Literatura
y Cultura Femenina Hispánica, Quito, Ecuador, October 1-3, 2009.
“Retóricas ‘fuera de lugar’: narración, exilio y prácticas feministas del espacio en Alicia
Kozameh, Tununa Mercado y Reina Roffé”. Congreso Nacional de Literatura Argentina,
Córdoba: Argentina, Julio 2009.
“Scripts for Modern Mothers: Representations of Motherhood in Delfina Bunge and Alfonsina
Storni”. Asociación de la Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica, Atlanta, Georgia,
October 16-18, 2008.
“Nomadic Writings in Neoliberal Patagonia: Intersections of Writing and Media in Belén
Gache.” GLCA Conference on Transnational Feminisms, Kenyon College, September
26-28, 2008
“Geografías imposibles: la poesía “en bajel” de Luisa Futoransky.” MLA Annual Convention as
part of a panel entitled “La poesía del presente.” Chicago, December 27-30, 2007.

“Poetic Cross-overs: Territories and Exiles in Contemporary Women Poetry from
Argentina.” Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, Canada. Panel Chair and
Organizer, “Global/Local Geographies: (Dis)locations in Contemporary Feminisms”.
September 5-8, 2007.
“Geografías fronterizas: La tierra del Fuego de Sylvia Iparraguirre.”Panel organizer and
Chair, “Representaciones geográficas en la Literatura Hispanoamericana.” 60 th Annual
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, April 19-22, 2007.
“Tu voz existe”: Percepción mediática, cultura nacional y transiciones democráticas en Pedro
Lemebel.” Panel organizar and Chair “Media and literary culture in the democratic
transition of Argentina and Chile (1980-2000),” Latin American Studies Association
Annual conference, Puerto Rico, March 2006.
“Visiones desde el corner: construcciones visuales y discurso literario en la producción femenina
de la vanguardia”. XV Conference of the Hispanic Women Literature Association in
Tegucigalpa, Honduras, October 19-22, 2005.
“Cuéntame un ‘cuento chino’: totalitarismos y escrituras del exilio. A propósito de Son cuentos
chinos de Luisa Futoransky”. “Dis/location: Writing Exile/Migrancy/ Nomadism/
Bordercrossing,” Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics at
Concordia University, Montreal, May 5-7 2005.
“Las tierras de la memoria: La estéticas sin territorio de Witold Gombrowicz y Felisberto
Hernández”. 2005 Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky,
April 21-23, 2005.
“Cosa de Negros”: cultura de masas y música popular en dos autores argentinos (Vicente Rossi
y Washington Cucurto). Fronteras de la literatura y de la crítica. XXXV Congreso
Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. Universidad de Poitiers, Francia. June 28th-
July 1st, 2004.
“Trasatlántico de Witold Gombrowicz: el viaje transatlántico en el imaginario argentino”. 57th
Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky, April 15-17,
2004.
“Mundo Grúa: las paradojas del cuerpo y la máquina en la sociedad argentina de los años
noventa.” Panel Organizer and Chair, “Art as Revelation” for the Conference, Democracy
in Latin America 30 Years After Chile’s 9/11, State University of New York – Albany,
October 10-13, 2003.
“De Caníbales, piratas y polígrafas: escritura, obscenidad y mutilación en Alejandra Pizarnik.”
Panel Chair, “Signos en oleaje/ poética en permanencia/decir y decirse”, XIII Conference
of the International Association of Female Hispanic Literature (ALFH), Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic, October 24-27, 2002.

“Cuerpo y escritura: performance en la literatura de vanguardia”. XIII Congreso de Literatura
Española y Latinoamericana: La literatura como juego. Montclair State University, April
2002.
“La figura del poeta en González Tuñón y Leopoldo Marechal”. Carolina Conference on
Romance Languages and Literatures, University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill, March
2001.
"Nostalgia, recolección y memoria: la figura del artista en la literatura de vanguardia". Kentucky
Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, April 27-29, 2000.
"La lectura y los mundos posibles de la ficción en Jorge Luis Borges". 49th Mountain Interstate
Foreign Languages Conference, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, October 6-9,
1999.
"13 bandas y 48 estrellas: las geografías de la diferencia". Outer limits: Geografías Móviles.
Graduate Colloquium on Hispanic Literatures. New York University, March 27, 1999.
“La pesadilla de las imágenes: reproducción mecánica en La invención de Morel”. La Jornada
Literaria, VI Graduate Colloquium on Hispanic Literature, Department of Spanish and
Portuguese, Rutgers University, October, 1998.
“Imaginar la nación: mulataje y escritura vanguardista en Palés Matos”. Eighth Biennial
Northeast Regional Meeting of The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and
Portuguese, Drew University, October, 1998.
“Fragmentación del cuerpo y dislocación social: Oliverio Girondo y los juegos de la mirada
pública”. La Jornada Literaria, V Graduate Colloquium on Hispanic Literature,
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University, October, 1997.
“De extranjerías y discursos ajenos: el caso de La española inglesa de Miguel de Cervantes
Saavedra”. La Jornada Literaria, IV Graduate Colloquium on Hispanic Literature,
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University, October, 1996.
“Utopía y literatura fantástica en Jorge Luis Borges”. National Conference on Argentinean
Literature, National University of Chaco, Argentina, October, 1995.
“La obra poética de Canal Feijoó”. Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana, JALLA,
National University of Tucumán, Argentina, August, 1995.
“El ‘proceso’ de la vanguardia en José Carlos Mariátegui”. VI Congreso Nacional de la
Asociación Amigos de la literatura, National University of Mar del Plata, Argentina,
November, 1994.
“La búsqueda del yo, la búsqueda de la palabra en Alicia Gómez Omil”. International

Conference on Spanish American Poetry, National University of Cuyo, Argentina,
October, 1993.
“Dialogismo y monologismo en Pretérito Perfecto de Hugo Foguet”. Student Colloquium on
Spanish American Literature, National University of Tucumán, Argentina, 1993.
“Real Sayana, afirmación de un espacio cultural”. Congress on Hispanic Presence in the
Americas, National University of Tucumán, Argentina, August, 1992.
HONORS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS
Trustees Distinguished Service Award, Kenyon College, 2009
GLCA New Initiatives Award, 2009.
Faculty Development Grants, Kenyon College, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
Labalme Grant, Kenyon College, 2010.
Teaching Initiative Grants, Kenyon College, 2005, 2009.
Teachers Teaching Teachers (Kenyon College, Mellon Foundation), 2009, 2010.
GLCA (Great Lakes Colleges Association) multi-college grant to support the GLCA Conference
on Transnational Dialogues: De-Centering the Academic Debate on Transnational
Feminisms, 2008.
Faculty Lectureship Funds, Kenyon College, 2007, 2005.
Faculty Development Grant, University of Massachusetts at Boston, 2003.
Secretary of Science and Technology Graduate Fellowship, National University of Tucumán,
Argentina, 1995.
National University of Tucumán Graduate Fellowship, Argentina, 1993-1994.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor, Modern Languages and Literatures, Kenyon College, 2004-
Intensive Introductory Spanish (Span 111-112)
Intermediate Spanish (Span 213-214)
Advanced Grammar, Conversation and Composition (Span 321-322)
Survey Contemporary Spanish American Fiction (Span 338)
The Power of Words: Testimonial Literature in Spanish America (Span 360)
Argentina: The Literature of the National Experience (Span 353)
Literature of the Southern Cone (Span 396)
Cities of Lights and Shadows: Urban Experiences in Latin America (Special Topics, Span 392)
Travel Narratives and Cultural Encounters in Latin America (Special Topics, Span 391.03)
Transnational Feminisms (Special Topics, WGS 391.01)
Assistant Professor, Hispanic Studies/Latin American Studies, University of Massachusetts-
Boston, 2001-2004:
Latin American Film for the Spanish Classroom (Spa 503, graduate level)

Cities of Lights and Shadows: Urban Experiences in Latin America (Spa 505, graduate level)
Contemporary Spanish American Fiction (Spa 467)
Argentina (Spa/LAS 454)
Introduction to Literary Arts (Spa 350)
Spanish- American Civilization (Spa 361)
Spanish- American Essay (Spa 364)
Literature of the Hispanic People in the U.S. (Spa 367)
Grammar for Native Speakers (Spa 281)
Composition for Native Speakers (Z289)
Exile: The Latin American Experience (Spa G 160)
Elementary Spanish I (Spa 101)
Elementary Spanish II (Spa 102)
Teaching Assistant, Spanish and Portuguese Department, Rutgers University, 1996 -1999:
Spanish American Civilization (Spa 401)
Literature and Culture of Spanish America (Spa 333)
Intermediate Spanish Coordinator (Spa 131 -132)
Introduction to Hispanic Literature (Spa 215)
Intermediate Spanish Composition and Conversation (Spa 203)
Spanish Language Experience (Spanish House).
Intermediate Spanish (Spa131 -132)
Elementary Spanish (Spa 101-102)
Teaching Assistant, National University of Tucumán (Argentina):
Argentinean Literature (19th and 20th century), 1993-1995.
Peninsular Literature,1990-1992.
SERVICE
University, College and Departmental Service
Senior Liaison, Kenyon College, 2010-2011
Faculty Affairs Committee, Kenyon College, Fall 2007-2009
Kenyon Academic Partnership (Kenyon Spanish Faculty liaison),Kenyon College, Fall 2006-
Fullbright Program Advisor for teaching Fellowships, Kenyon College, Spring 2007-
Director FLATnet (Foreign Language Tutors’ Network), Modern Languages and Literatures,
Kenyon College, 2004-2006
Personnel Committee, Hispanic Studies, UMass-Boston, 2002-2004.
Latino Studies Board, Hispanic Studies, UMass-Boston, 2002-2004.
Latin American Studies Board, Hispanic Studies, UMass-Boston, 2001-2004.
Curriculum Committee, Hispanic Studies, University of Massachusetts-Boston Fall 2002.
Master of Arts Committee, Hispanic Studies, University of Massachusetts-Boston, 2002-2003.
Director Graduate Certificate for Teachers of Spanish, Hispanic Studies, UMass-Boston, Fall
2002.
Participant in the three-week faculty-student Dialogue Series on Cross Cultural Issues in

Teaching and Learning, UMass-Boston, Fall 2002.
Student-Faculty liaison, elected position, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers
University, 1997
Professional organizations
Member of the Editorial Board of Confluencia, 2009-
Elected treasurer for the Asociación de la Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica, 2008-
Editor for the Special Issue of Letras Femeninas, Summer 2007.
Peer-reviewer for the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies.
Program Evaluator for The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Education
(Educator program approval at Emmanuel College). Responsibilities included: review of
Educator Preparation Programs; conduct interviews with faculty members and students,
review additional information, discuss program approval and produced a report along
with team members during an on-site visit (February 12-13, 2003).
Director Summer Institute for Teachers of Spanish, UMass-Boston, Summer 2002.
Responsibilities included:
Assisting in composing Grant Proposal.
Acted as a liaison between Boston Public Schools and UMass-Boston to facilitate a contract
agreement to complete the funds’ distribution in collaboration with Dr. Yu-Lan Lin,
director Foreign Languages Programs of the City of Boston and the Office of Sponsored
Projects at UMass-Boston.
Coordination of instruction, evaluation and implementation of Institute Sessions
Advertising the Institute throughout the State.
Selection of participants and maintaining correspondence about official notices, evaluation
process, and other information about the institute.
Collecting and composing a list of instructional materials that participants will receive as part of
their participation in the Institute on October 5 th .
Composing a final report on the Institute’s activities.
Membership Professional Organizations
Asociación Internacional de la Literatura y Cultura femenina Hispánica, 2000-
Latin American Studies Association, 2004-
Modern Languages Association, 2004-
References
Professor Ester Gimbernat González, Hispanic Studies, Campus Box 87, University of Northern
Colorado, Greeley, CO 80639, (970) 351-2964, email: ester.gonzalez@unco.edu
Professor Amy Kaminsky, Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, 425 Ford Hall 224 Church
St SE, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, (612) 624-7319, Email:

kamin001@umn.edu
Professor Francine Masiello, Sidney and Margaret Ancker Distinguished Professor in the
Humanities, Departments of Spanish and Portuguese & Comparative Literature,
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley 94720, frm@berkeley.edu
Professor Marcy Ellen Schwartz, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University,
105 George St, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1414, (732) 932-9412 ext. 34 / FAX (732) 932-9837
E-mail: mschwartz@spanport.rutgers.edu
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