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Karen Martin

University Professor of Language and Discipline Coordinator

About

Dr. Karen Martin holds a Bachelor of Arts in French from Â鶹ÊÓƵ University, a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from Samford University, a Master of Arts in Spanish from the University of Alabama, and the Doctor of Modern Languages from Middlebury College. She frequently publishes translations of scholarly essays and reviews in Latin American Literature Today, and her scholarship on contemporary Spanish-American and Latina authors has been published in South Atlantic Review, Letras Femeninas, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia. She won the Victoria Urbano Prize for the Outstanding Critical Paper from the Association of Hispanic Women’s Literature. She has received two Pew Grants from Â鶹ÊÓƵ University. The most recent grant supported research on the role of African Americans in the Spanish Civil War; she presented this work at MIT and published it as a chapter in the Routledge collection Black USA and Spain: Shared Memories in 20th Century Spain. At Â鶹ÊÓƵ she teaches an array of Spanish courses, including Spanish-American literature surveys, Contemporary Hispanic Cultural Studies, US Latino Literature and Culture, and Phonetics and Diction.

Education

  • D.M.L., Middlebury College

  • M.A., The University of Alabama

  • B.A., Samford University

  • B.A., Â鶹ÊÓƵ University

Scholarship

Books

  • Espectros: Ghostly Hauntings in Contemporary Transhispanic Narratives (2015)

    Bucknell University Press

  • Tamesis Books

Articles

  • Dynamics of Encounter: Sino-Cuban Memory and Migrations in La isla de los amores infinitos. (2010)

    Orientalismos

  • Contemporary Women's Writing

  • Review of Susan Carvalho’s Mapping the Narrative: Contemporary Spanish-American Fiction by Women (2009)

    Contemporary Women's Writing (Oxford Journals)

  • Review of Carlotta Caulfield and Darién Davis, eds., A Companion to U.S. Latino LIteratures. (2009)

    Hispania

  • Grafemas

  • Vlady Kociancich (2008)

    Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia

  • The House (of Memory) on Mango Street: Sandra Cisneros’s Counter-Poetics of Space. (2008)

    South Atlantic Review

  • Syria Poletti (2008)

    Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia

  • Review of Perla Suez’s Entre Rios Trilogy (2007)

    Letras Femeninas

Presentations

  • Invented Geographies: Migrating Themes in Isabel Allende’s Recent Work (2010)

    Contemporary Women's Writing Network Conference

  • La ficción Fidel: Writing Diaspora, Framing Identities in Contemporary Cuba. (2009)

    Kentucky Foreign Language Conference

  • Dynamics of Encounter: Sino-Cuban Memory and Migrations in La isla de los amores infinitos. (2009)

    Symposium on Asian Influence on Spanish and Spanish-American Literature and Film.

  • Mapping Ethnicity in Isabel Allende’s Daughter of Fortune and Portrait in Sepia (2006)

    Asociacion Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispanica

  • Gendered Spaces and Border Crossings: Mapping Identity in Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits Trilogy. (2006)

    Kentucky Foreign Language Conference

  • La narracion del cuerpo: La violencia contra el cuerpo femenino en Cambio de armas y La casa de los espiritus. (2006)

    Twentieth-Century Literature Conference

Dissertations

  • Challenging Borders: The Demarcation of Space in Isabel Allende’s Trilogy (2006)

    Middlebury College, Vermont

  • Derribando fronteras: La demarcacion del espacio en la trilogia de Isabel Allende (2006)

    Middlebury College, Vermont

Awards

  • Premeo de Critica Victoria Urbano (2006)

    Awarded for the Outstanding Critical Paper presented at the 2006 International conference of the Asociacion Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispanica