UCLA Department of Women's Studies

Elizabeth Marchant

marchant@ucla.edu

Office: 5326 Rolfe Hall
E-mail: marchant@ucla.edu

Class Websites
Curriculum Vitae

2008-2009 Courses:
Portuguese C235, Brazil and the Black Atlantic, F 2008

Women's Studies 296, Doctoral Roundtable, F 2008

Spanish & Portuguese M44, Civilization of Spanish America and Brazil, W 2009

Women's Studies 185, Latin American Women and Cultural Expression, W 2009

Education
	New York University. Ph.D., Spanish & Portuguese, 1995.
	Stanford University. M.A., Spanish and M.A., Latin American Studies, 1987.
	Smith College. B.A., cum laude, Economics & Latin American Studies, 1984.
	Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, 1982-1983.

Appointments
	Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese, Women's Studies, and Comparative Literature University of California, Los Angeles, 2008-present.
	Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese and Women's Studies. University of California, Los Angeles, 2005-present.
	Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese. Department of Spanish & Portuguese, University of California, Los Angeles, 2001-present.
	Assistant Professor, Spanish & Portuguese. Department of Spanish & Portuguese, University of California, Los Angeles, 1998-2001.
	Assistant Professor, Spanish & Portuguese. Department of Spanish & Portuguese, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1994-1998.
	Instructor, Institute for Recruitment of Teachers. Phillips Academy at Andover. Instruct and advise in program for gifted college students of color to continue their education at the graduate level. Summer 1995.
	Tenure-track Instructor, Spanish. Department of Romance Languages, Brandeis University, 1993-1994.
	Lecturer, Spanish and Portuguese. Department of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania, 1992-1993.

Administrative Positions
	Graduate Chair, Women’s Studies Program. UCLA. 2004 - present.
	Director, Travel Study Program in Brazil. UCLA. 2000 and 2004.
	Chair. Program on Brazil. UCLA Latin American Center. 2004-2005.

Grants/Awards
	UCLA Council on Research Award. 2007-8.
	UCLA Council on Research Award. 2006-7.
	UCLA Council on Research Award. 2005-6.
	UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, 2005.
	UCLA Council on Research Award. 2004-5.
	UCLA Council on Research Award. 2003-4.
	Ford Foundation "Affinity Grant." Provides $1,000 for development of service learning course component. 2002-3.
	UCLA Council on Research Award. 2002-2003.
	UCLA Office of Instructional Development Award. Provides $5000 for course development. 2002-2003.
	UCLA Council on Research Award. 2001-2002.
	UCLA Council on Research Award. 2000-2001.
	UCLA ISOP Faculty Research Award. Provides $3,910 in research funds. 2000-2001.
	UCLA Council on Research Award. 1999-2000.
	UCLA Council on Research Award. 1998-1999.
	Humanities Research Institute Fellowship, University of California. In residence for faculty research seminar "Latin America and the Narratives of Globalization" at UC Irvine. Winter-Spring,1998.
	Ford Foundation grant under the "Crossing Borders" initiative. $50,000 to Humanities Research Institute research group. P.I. Patricia O’Brien. 1998.
	National Endowment for the Humanities. $25,000 to Humanities Research Institute research group. P.I. Patricia O’Brien. 1998.
	Faculty Career Development Award. University of California, Santa Barbara. Provides release from one teaching quarter for research. 1997.
	Award of Committee on Research. University of California, Santa Barbara. Provides $3,423 in research funds. 1997-1998.
	Research Award, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center. University of California, Santa Barbara. Provides $1,000 in research travel funds. 1997-1998.
	Selected by students as one of nine "Terrific Teachers" featured in the University of California, Santa Barbara Student Handbook "The Kiosk." 1997-1998.
	Instructional development mini-grant. University of California, Santa Barbara. For development of "Brazilian Cinema" course. 1996-1997.
	Ford Foundation Grant, Brandeis University. Provides $1,000 stipend for research mentorship of two minority students. 1994.
Publications
	Books
	Afro-Latin America: Community, Culture, and Conflict, ed. Essays draw upon sources from across the disciplines and span the gap between Portuguese-speaking and Spanish-speaking Latin America. They address the status and impact of African peoples and their descendants in a variety of historical, national, and regional contexts from Mexico and the Caribbean to Bolivia, Peru and Brazil. The volume focuses on the dynamics of community and nation and the fluidity of racial concepts and categories (under review).
	Brazil and the Black Atlantic: Cultural Inclusion and Citizenship. This study examines contemporary Afro-Brazilian expressive culture as a means to re-conceptualize the notion of the "Black Atlantic." Includes chapters on Zumbi, Palmares, the Pelourinho, and the “New Black Consciousness” in Brazil (in progress).
	Critical Acts: Latin American Women and Cultural Criticism. University Press of Florida. 1999.
	Essays
	"João Guimarães Rosa, Antônio Callado, Clarice Lispector, and the Brazilian Difference.” A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture. Ed. Sara Castro-Klarén. Blackwell Publishing, 2008. 495-508.
	"Feminist Insurrections: from Queiroz and Castellanos to Morejón, Poniatowska, Valenzuela, and Eltit," co-author with Adriana Bergero. A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture. Ed. Sara Castro-Klarén. Blackwell Publishing, 2008. 509-530.
	"National Space as Minor Space: Afro-Brazilian Culture and the Pelourinho." Minor Transnationalisms. Eds. Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shi. Duke University Press, 2005. 301-315.
	“Minha vida de menina: Rereading Helena Morley's Diary.” Mester Vol. 22, 2003. 85-102.
	“Interview with Fernando Conceição.” Callaloo 25:2 (2002): 613-619.
	"Naturalism, Race, and Nationalism in Aluísio Azevedo's O mulato." Hispania 83.3 (2000): 445-453.
	"Reivindicando el pasado africano: Zumbi como icono social." Modernindad:y modernización: cultura y literatura en latinoamérica. Ed. Luiza Lobo. Quito, Ecuador: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 2000. 81-93.
	"The Professional Outsider: Gabriela Mistral on Motherhood and Nation." Latin American Literary Review Vol. 27, No. 53 (1999): 49-66.
	"The Angel in the House: A Memorialist Reconstruction in The Diary of 'Helena Morley.' " Siglo XIX (1999): 135-147.
	"Sylvia Molloy." Gay and Lesbian Literature, Vol. 2. Tom and Sara Pendergast, eds. Detroit: St. James Press, 1997. 263-264.
	"Adolfo Caminha." Gay and Lesbian Literature, Vol. 2. Tom and Sara Pendergast, eds. Detroit: St. James Press, 1997. 70-71.
	"Lúcia Miguel Pereira's Critical Discourse." Mulher e Literatura. Ed. Lúcia Helena Vianna. Rio de Janeiro: Associação Brasileira de Literatura Comparada, 1992. 204-211.
	Translations
	"Published Works and Collections of Brasiliana." By José Mindlin and Cristina Antunes. Brazil in the Making: Reflections on Brazilian National Identity. Carmen Nava and Ludwig Lauerhass, Jr., eds. Rowman and Littlefield, 2006. 71-93.
	With Holly Staver. "Bad Poetry, Worse Society." Iumna Maria Simon and Vinicius Dantas. On Edge: The Crisis of Contemporary Latin American Culture. George Yúdice, Jean Franco, and Juan Flores, eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992. 147-159.
	Reviews
	"Review of Nísia Floresta: a primeira feminista do Brasil. " Ellipsis: Journal of the American Portuguese Studies Association 4 (2006).
	"Review of Polifonía de la marginalidad: la narrativa de escritoras latinoamericanas." Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 25.3 (2001): 559-601.
	"Review of Proceed With Caution, When Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas." American Literature 72.3 (2000): 649-650.
	"Review of Escritoras brasileiras do século XIX." Luso-Brazilian Review 37.1 (2000): 150.
	"Review of Seven Faces: Brazilian Poetry Since Modernism." Latin American Literary Review. 27:54 (1999): 99-100.
	"Review of Entre resistir e identificar-se: para uma teoria da práctica da narrativa brasileira de autoria feminina." Luso-Brazilian Review. Vol 35. 2, 1998: 151-152.

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