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  6633, Lattie F. Coor Hall
  Arizona State University
  
   480-965-5091

  P.O.Box 873502
  Arizona State University
  Tempe, AZ-85287-3502

  Cordelia Chavez Candelaria
   Professor and Chair

  Ph.D, Notre Dame

 
 

  Contact Information:

Cordelia Chávez Candelaria
Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies
P.O. Box : 3502
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona 85287-3502 		Office Rm. Engineering Annex (second floor) ,ASU
Tel: 480-727-8588
Fax: 480-965-8309
E-mail: Cordelia.Candelaria@asu.edu
Office Hours: T 10:00a-12:00p by appt.
   
 
 Academic Experience:
  
July 15, 2001 Chair, ASU Department of Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o studies
1998 Professor, Arizona State University, Department of CCS and Department of English (75/25% elective reassignment)
1991 - 93 Director, Chicana/Chicano Studies Development Project, ASU Office of the Provost.
1991 - 92 Visiting Professor, Stanford University.
1991 - 98 Professor, ASU, Tempe, Department of English w/Research Appointment in the Hispanic Research Center.
1985 - 91 Associate Professor, English Dept, University of Colorado at Boulder (UCB).
1986 - 88 Founding Director, UCB Center for Studies of Ethnicity & Race in America (included Chicano Studies Program).
1983 - 89 Chair, Chicano Studies Program, UCB.
1978 - 85 Assistant Professor, English Department & Chicano Studies, UCB.
1975 - 77 Program Officer, Division of Research, National Endowment for the Humanities (N.E.H.), Washington, D.C.
 
  Grants:
2003 - 04 Submitted application to NEA for "' Aquellos Mariachis ': Tuning in to America's Borderlands" for television & radio documentary programming; $!92,000 pending
1998 - 2000 Co-Principal Investigator (w/Gary D. Keller), 1848/1898@1998 Transhistoric Thresholds Grant Project, Rockefeller Foundation et al ., $250,000.
1994 Minigrant received, Arizona Humanities Council, “ Aqui : A Key to Arizona's Heritage,” $5000.
1988 - 89 Critical Studies of the Americas grants, $37,000, UC-Boulder.
1987 - 88 NACS XVI Conference, IMPART & President's Award, combined $8100
1986 - 87 C.U. Outreach Council Project, Second Wind Drama Productions, CO-PI with Helen Walker-Hill; $6600.
1987 Seed Grant, "AMERICAS" Project, UCB Arts and Sciences; $9000.
1984 - 85 Distinguished Scholars Lecture Series, College of Arts and Sciences, Chicano Studies Program; $10,000.
1981 Grant Consultant, Public Schools Curriculum Project, CU Women Studies; FIPSE: $250,000.
1979 - 83 Grant Consultant/Writer, Project Somos, National Council of La Raza film project; NEH and CPB. $1.5 million.
1979 - 80 Grant Consultant/Writer/Panelist, Proyecto Resolana, NCLR humanities writing & discussion project; NEH: $100,000.
1979 - 80 Research Grant, Southern Fellowships Fund, $11,500.
1979
Member, Society for Values in Higher Education Evaluation Team, Oakes College, University of California at Santa Cruz; $15,000.
 
Honors:

1999 - 2002

Nominated for senior administrative and faculty positions at the Universities of Notre Dame, Cornell, Brown, New Mexico , Riverside , and Arizona .

2001

Scholar of the Year, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies.

2000

Elected Secretary, Arizona Humanities Council Board of Directors.

1999 -

Elected to Executive Committee, National Council of La Raza , Washington , D.C.

1998

Distinguished Alumnus, Fort Lewis College , Division of Arts and Letters.

1998 - 99

Named to the W.W. Norton Publishers' Advisory Editorial Board for The Norton Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry , Robert Pinsky, General Editor, 2000.

1997 - current

Elected to Board of Directors, National Council of La Raza , Washington , D.C

1997 - current

Appointed to Board of Directors, Arizona Humanities Council, Phoenix . Chaired Program Committee 1997-2000. Elected Vice Chairperson 2002-03.

1997

Inaugural Visiting Professor to Richmond College , Kensington Campus, London .

1996 - 97

Fulbright Scholar in American Literature to Peru .

1994

White House Invitation, AAUP Committee R meeting with President Policy Advisors on Higher Education.

1993

Keynote Speaker: Martin Luther King, JR., Commemoration, University of Utah .

1991

Americas Award, University of Colorado , Boulder (1 st awarded to writer Carlos Fuentes).

1990 - 93

Advisor, Writing the Southwest Radio Project, University of Colorado , Boulder (UCB).

1989

UCB Equity and Excellence Faculty Award.

1988

UCB Faculty Assembly First Annual Service Award.

1986

Invited speaker, International Congress on Hispanic Literature, University of Paris , France , March, 1986.

1984

The Thomas Jefferson Award (for faculty excellence), UCB.

1983

EOP Service Award, University of Colorado at Boulder .

1979 - 80

Honorary Fellowship, National Chicano Council on Higher Education.

1977

Mellon Fellowship to the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies.

1970 - 76

Kent Graduate Fellowship.

1970 - 72

Woodrow Wilson Graduate Fellowship

 
  Publications:
BOOKS — Sole Author

  1. Ojo de la Cueva/Cave Springs . Maize Publications: San Diego , CA , 1984 [poetry] (63 pp.)
  2. Chicano Poetry, A Critical Introduction . Greenwood Press: Westport , Connecticut , 1986 (276 pp.)
  3. Seeking the Perfect Game: Baseball in American Literature . Westport , CT : Greenwood Press, 1989 (165 pp.)
  4. Arroyos to the Heart . Santa Monica , CA : Lalo Press/Santa Monica College, 1993 [poetry & personal essay] (142 pp.)

BOOKS — Edited

  1. Editor, Multiethnic Literature of the United States : Critical Introductions and Classroom Resources, Boulder, CO: Univ. of Colorado , 1989 (221pp.)
  2. Co-editor, Estudios Chicanos and the Politics of Community . San Francisco : NACS Editorial Committee, 1989 (192 pp.)
  3. Co-editor, Community Empowerment and Social Justice (Proceedings of the XVII Annual NACS Conference). San Francisco : NACS Editorial Committee, 1991 (185 pp.)
  4. Co-editor, Women Poets of the Americas : Toward a Panamerican Gathering (w/Jacqueline V. Brogan), Notre Dame, IN: U Notre Dame Press, 1999.
  5. Co-editor, The Legacy of the Mexican and Spanish-American Wars: Legal, Literacy, and Historical Perspectives (w/Gary D. Keller), Tempe , AZ : Bilingual Review Press, 2000.
  6. General Editor, Encyclopedia of Latina and Latino Culture . Multi-volume project under contract w/Greenwood Publishing Group ( Westport , CT ) in progress, 2003 expected.

BOOKS — Chapters

  1. “Furthering a Rich [Arts/Humanities] Tradition,” Chapter 20 in Julian Samora and Patricia Simon, A History of the Mexican American People . Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1977: 203-216.
  2. “Social Equity and Film Portrayals of La mujer hispana ” Chapter 1 in Gary Keller, ed., Chicano Cinema: Research, Reviews, and Resources . Binghampton , NY : Bilingual Review/Press, 1984: 64-70.
  3. “Code-switching as Metaphor in Chicano Poetry” in Genéviève Fabre, ed., European Perspectives on Hispanic Literature of the United States . Houston , TX : Arte Publico Press, 1988: 43-55.
  4. “Chicana/Chicano Arts and Letters,” (Revised and expanded) Chapter 20, Samora's A History of the Mexican American People , 2nd Edition. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1993: 155-176.
  5. “ Latina Women Writers: Chicana, Cuban American, and Puerto Rican Voices” in Francisco Lomeli et al., eds., Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States : Literature and Art . Houston , TX and Madrid , Spain : Arte Publico Press & Instituto de Cooperacion Iberoamericana, 1993: 134-162.
  6. “Différance and the Discourse of ‘Community' in Writings by and about the Ethnic Other(s)” in Alfred Artéaga,, ed., An Other Tongue: Nation and Ethnicity from the Linguistic Borderlands . Duke U P, 1994, 185-202.
  7. “Letting La Llorona Go, or Rereading Histories ‘Tender Mercies”' in Manuel de Jesus Hernandez-Gutierrez & David William Foster, eds., Literatura chicana, 1965-1995: An Anthology in Spanish English, and Calo . New York & London : Garland , 1997, 93-97.
  8. “Constructing a Chicana-identified ‘Wild Zone' of Critical Theory” in Diane P. Herndl, ed., Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism . Rutgers U P, 1997, 248-256.
  9. “Rethinking the ‘Eyes' of Chicano Poetry, or Reading the Multiple Centers of Chicana Poetics” Chapter 7 in J.Brogan and C. Candelaria, eds., Women Poets of the Americas : Toward a Panamerican Gathering . U Notre Dame P, 1999, 113-29.
  10. “Engendering Re/Solutions: The (Feminist) Legacy of Estela Portillo Trambley” for Arturo Aldama & Naomi Quiñonez, Eds., Decolonial Voices: Chicana/o Cultural Studies in the 21st Century. Bloomington : Indiana U Press, 2002, pp. 195-207.
  11. “Chicana Girlhood” for Miriam Brunell-Formanek, ed., ABC-CLIO Girlhood in America Encyclopedia . Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO (June 2001), pp. 107-114.
  12. “La Malinche, Feminist Prototype” reprinted in Frontiers Classic Edition: Chicana Studies Reader. U Nebraska Press, 2002, pp.1-10.
  13. "Towards a NACCS-umentary of Chicana/o Studies: Multiple Cases of Academic Leadership," essay in progress for XXlX Proceedings of the NACCS Annual Conference.
  14. "Tightrope Walking the Border: ¡Alambrista! and the Acrobatics of Mestizo Representation" for David Carrasco's Casebook on ¡Alambrista! ( Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2003), forthcoming.

PERIODICALS

  1. Guest Editor, “Chicanas in the National Landscape,” Frontiers: A Journal of Womens Studies , 5:2 (Summer 1980).
  2. Guest Editor, American Book Review , Second Chicano/a Literature Focus (Winter 1989).
  3. Guest co-editor, “Chicanas in the National Landscape,” Frontiers: A Journal of Womens Studies , 11:1 (Spring, 1990).

ARTICLES

  1. “Structuralist Technique: The Algebras of Literature,” Notre Dame Scholastic , 114:11 (March 1973), 18-22; 19-23 (interview).
  2. “Ethnic Minority Literature Teaching Module.” 85pp. Idaho State University , 1976.
  3. “The Future of Bilingual, Multicultural Education,” Agenda , 7:2 (Mar/Apr 1977), 30-33.
  4. “Women in the Academy,” Rendezvous: Journal of Arts and Letters , 13:1 (Fall 1978), 30-33.
  5. “A Decade of Ethnic Fiction by Jay Neugeboren,” MELUS , 5:4 (W 1978), 71-82.
  6. “ Los Ancianos in Chicano Literature,” Agenda , 9:6 (Nov/Dec 1979), 4-5, 33.
  7. “Reflecting on Character,” Agenda: A Journal of Hispanic Issues , 10:5 September/October 1980), 14-17, 29.
  8. “Six Reference Works on Mexican-American Women: A Review Essay,” Frontiers, 5:2 (Summer 1980), 75-80.
  9. “La Malinche, Feminist Prototype,” Frontiers: Journal of Women Studies , 5:2 (Summer 1980), 1-6.
  10. “Film Portrayals of La Mujer Hispana,” Agenda: A Journal of Hispanic Issues , 11:3 (May/June, 1981), 32-36.
    a) REPRINTED IN monograph, Chicano Images in Film (Denver: Bilingual Communication Center, 1982), 8-20.
  11. “Literary Fungoes: Allusions to Baseball in American Ficetion,” Midwest Quarterly , 23:4 (Summer, 1982), 411-425.
  12. “Jay Neugeboren,” Twentieth-Century American-Jewish Fiction Writers, Dictionary of Literary Biography Series, Vol. 28 (Detroit: Gale Research, 1984), 181-188.
  13. “On Rudolfo A. Anaya,” Chicano Literature; A Reader's Encyclopedia . Greenwood Press: Westport Connecticut , 1985, 34-51.
  14. “The Study of Chicanas: A Comprehensive Syllabus,” Syllabi & Instructional Materials for Chicano Studies . Mary Romero, ed. (Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Assn. 1985), 1-12.
  15. “Seeking the Perfect Game in the Playfields of Fiction,” American Book Review , 9:2 (Spring 1987), 1-9.
  16. “Ron Arias,” Dictionary of Literary Biography , Vol. 82. Columbia , SC : Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1989, 37-44.
  17. “Rudolfo Anaya,” Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 82 Columbia , SC : Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1989, 24-35.
  18. “Notes on a Chicana-identified ‘Wild Zone” of American Culture,” Trabajos Monograficos: Studies in Chicana/Latina Research (Davis, CA: MALCS Institute, 1993).
  19. “Piñatas of Memory,” Preface to The Mystery of Survival and Other Stories by Alicia Gaspar de Alba . Tempe , AZ : Bilingual Review/Press, 1993, 1-5.
  20. “Ray Gonzalez,” Dictionary of Literary Biography , vol. 84. Columbia , SC : Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1993. 55-58.
  21. “Letting La Llorona Go, or Rereading History's ‘Tender Mercies”' Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art & Politics (Issue 27, 1993): 111-115 (Pushcart nomination).
  22. “Chicana Poetry”; “Girlhood”; “La Llorona”; “La Malinche”; and “Latina Writers” entries, Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States , Oxford U P, 1994, pp. 173-75, 468, 474, and 477-81.
  23. Interview w/ Cordelia Candelaria by Margaret E. Montoya, “LatCrit Theory…” in Miami Law Review , 53:04 (July 1999), 1119-1142.

NOTES

  1. “On the Whiteness at Tsalal: A Note on Arthur Gordon Pym,” Poe Studies , 6:1 (June 1973), 26.
  2. “On La Llorona,” Agenda , 7:4 (July/August 1977), 46-47.
  3. “A Radical Apprenticeship” (abstract), Danforth Graduate Fellowship Program Newsletter , 3:1 (April 1979), 19-21.
  4. “Another Reading of Three Poems by Zamora ,” MELUS , 7:4 (Winter 1980), 78-81.
  5. “The Emergence of Chicano Identity, 1848-1982,” Minority Notes , 2:3 (Winter, 1982), 1-2, 31.
  6. “Chinche Parasites Bleed Our Constitution(s),” Silver & Gold Record ( 11-19-87 ), 2.
  7. “Que Sera “CSERA”—CU Revitalizes Ethnic Studies,” Parents & Campus (December, 1987), 3.
  8. Guest Editorials on Censorship, Pluralism, and English Only Movement in Denver Post (May 5, 1990) and Boulder Daily Camera (May 5, 1990).
  9. Preface to Standards (Crosscultural Creative Writing Journal), 1:2 (1991), ii.
  10. First Issue, Plural: Interdisciplinary Chicana and Chicano Studies, Newsletter (June 1993).
  11. “Reminiscences of Julian Samora (1920-95),” Noticias de NACCS [Newsletter of the Nat'l Assn for Chicana and Chicano Studies], (March 1999), 13-14.

REVIEWS

  1. Review of Richard Ruland's America in Modern European Literature , MELUS, 8:1 (Spring 1981), 61-64.
  2. “ Anahuac Again and Chicano Writers,” Review of D. Peters' The Luck of Huemac for American Book Review , 4:4 (May/June 1982), 10-11.
  3. Review of Fiesta in Aztlan and Flor y Canto IV and V for La Red/The Net , 61 (December, 1982), 6-9.
  4. “Hang-up of Memory: Another View of Growing Up Chicano,” Review of Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory for American Book Review , 5:2 (April, 1983), 4.
  5. Review of Rudolfo Anaya's Tortuga , La Palabra: Revista de Literatura Chicana , 4/5:1/2 (1982-83), 167-169 (in Spanish).
  6. “Problems and Promise in Anaya's Llano,” American Book Review , 5:5 (October, 1983), 18-19.
    a) REPRINTED IN MELUS , 10:2 (Summer, 1983), 79-82.
  7. Review of Anna Macias' Against All Odds in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies , 7:2 (1983), 88-90.
  8. Review of Five Indiscretions and Celso for Puerto del Sol , 22:2 (Spring 1987), 175-181.
  9. Review of Las Mujeres Hablan in American Book Review , 11:6 (Winter, 1989), 1-4.
  10. Review of Chicana Creativity and Criticism: Charting New Frontiers in American Literature in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies , 11:1 (1990), 85-86

 
 
 

 

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