Joint PhD in Literary Studies / Theatre Studies in English

Graduate Faculty

University of Guelph
Wilfrid Laurier University

Martha Nandorfy, BA, MA (University of Ottawa), PhD (University of Toronto).

Associate Professor (2003).

E-mail: mnandorf@uoguelph.ca

Research Interests

Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies, Human Rights and Literature, Film and Popular Culture. Current projects include: a book Hispanic, Mestiza, and Queer Visions of the New Human, a co-authored book Human Rights and the Ethics of Literary Production in the Americas and a co-edited book Writing Rights: Interdisciplinary and Emergent Rights Discourses, and an essay on "Border Thinking and Radical Multiculturalist Responses to NAFTA".

Books

  • Eduardo Galeano: Through the Looking Glass. Co-authored with Daniel Fischlin. Montréal: Black Rose Books, 2001.

  • The Poetics of Apocalypse: García Lorca’s Poet in New York. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP and Associated University Presses, 2003.

 

Selected recent articles

  • “Sublime Negation in García Lorca’s Apocalyptic Imagery.” Literary Texts and the Arts. Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Eds. Corrado Federici and Esther Raventos-Pons. New York: Peter Lang, 2003.

  • “The Right to Live in Peace: Freedom and Social Justice in the Songs of Violeta Parra and Victor Jara.” Rebel Musics: Human Rights, Resistant Sounds and the Politics of Music Making. Eds. Daniel Fischlin and Ajay Heble. Montréal: Black Rose Books, (forthcoming August 2003).

  • “Grafted Images and Gathered Voices: The Realism of Need in Galeano’s The Book of Embraces.” Special Issue of RCEH. (forthcoming Fall 2003).

  • “Two Radical Storytellers for the Young (and) Old.” Latin American Narratives and Cultural Identity: Selected Readings. Eds. Irene Blayer and Mark Anderson. New York: Peter Lang. (forthcoming 2003).

  • “The Ethics of Literary Pedagogy: Memories and New Directions.” Tropelias. Ed. Marzena Walkowiak. UP of Zaragoza (forthcoming).

  • “Duende and Apocalypse in Lorca’s Theory and Poetics.” Homage to Mario J. Valdés, RCEH 35.2 (Winter 2002): 255-70.

  • “El Con-tacto con el Otro en Muerte por el tacto.” Ensayos a la memoria de Jaime Saenz. Ed. Elizabeth Monasterios. La Paz: Plural Editores. (forthcoming).

  • “La representación ideológica de los instintos básicos en Basic Instinct y Matador.” RCEH Cinema in Spain and Spanish America 20.1 (1995): 81-92.

  • “Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!: Subverting the Glazed Gaze of American Melodrama and Film Theory.” CineAction, 31 (Spring/Summer 1993): 50-61.

Reprints in Translation

  • [Book Chapter]: “La Literatura Fantástica y la Representación de la Realidad.” Teorías de lo fantástico. Ed. David Roas. Trans. Gonzalo Pontón Gijón. Madrid: Editorial Arco Libros, 2001. 243-61.

Journals Edited

  • Special Issue of Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. Homage to Mario J. Valdés. Co-ed. with Elizabeth Monasterios. Vol. XXXV, nos. 1 and 2 (Fall 2001 and Winter 2002). Introduction and Interview with Mario J. Valdés co-authored with E. Monasterios.