Dawn F. Stinchcomb, Ph. D.
I am currently researching literature written by Latin American (primarily Hispanic Caribbean) women for a book-length manuscript to be entitled Sex and the Latin American Woman: Sexual Culture, Ethics, and Prohibitions in Contemporary Latin American Fiction.
I continue to strive to research and publish works about sexually ambiguous characters in Caribbean literature, the cultural importance of African-based religions for the poor and middle-classed characters in Latin America, and the absence and depiction of certain archetypes, as I remain committed to the study of literature written by and about people relegated to the margins of Latin American and the Hispanic Caribbean societies.
SIGNIFICANT RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Monograph:
The Development of Literary Blackness in the
Dominican Republic. University Press of
Florida, (2004).
Negritud literaria en la República Dominicana.
Marcelo González, trans. Abya-Yala Editoriales, Quito (2010).
Essays:
“The Archetypes of the Physical and
Immaterial Bodies of the African
‘Supernatural’: Transience, Sexual
Ambiguity, and Santería in
Contemporary Hispanic Caribbean
Novels.” Chasqui 42.2 (2013); 3-14.
“Las máscaras como modo de expresar la
identidad en el teatro puertorriqueño:
Vejigantes, Quíntuples, y Vlad”. CLA Journal.
53.4. (2010).
“The Mirrored Text: Gender Performativity and Character Symmetry in Otra vez el mar”.
Chasqui 37.1 (2008); 36-48.
“Multiculturalism and Diversity in the Spanish
Undergraduate Classroom: Truth, Tradition,
Literary Canons and Academia’s Resistance
to Integration”. ADFL. 38.3 (2008); 23-34.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROFESSION
Book Reviews:
“Review of Divergent Dictions: Contemporary Dominican Literature. By Néstor E. Rodríguez.” For New West Indian
Guide / Nieuwe West Indische Gids. 86.3-4 (2012).
“Review of The Latin American Identity and the African Diaspora. Ethnogenesis in
Context. By Antonio Olliz Boyd.” For New
West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids. 86.1-2 (2011).
“Review of Black Behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops by Ginetta E. B. Candelario” for American Ethnologist. 36.1 (2009); 201-02.
RESEARCH AGENDA
Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality, Class, and National Identity in literature and culture of Latin America and the Hispanic Caribbean
RESEARCH INTERESTS
-Latin American literature and Cultural Studies
-Afro Hispanic Studies
-Hispanic Caribbean Literature
-Gender and Sexuality Studies
-Cuban Cinema
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT
Introduction to Reading Hispanic Literature
Hispanic Prose
Latin American Civilization and Culture
GRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT
Hispanic Caribbean Literature
19th Century Latin American Literature
Latin American Literature (1946-present)
GRADUATE SEMINARS TAUGHT
Nation-Building and Identity Formation in Hispanic Caribbean Literature
Afro Hispanic Literature de Malabo a Chambacú
Public Women/Public Sex: Writing the Prostitute in Latin America
(Sexual) Revolutions & Identities in Cuban and Puerto Rican Literature
SPECIAL TOPICS
Cuban Cinema and Revolution
The Depiction of Sex and Sexuality in the Hispanic Caribbean Narrative
The Novel of the Cuban Revolution
The Race, Nationality, and Sexuality in US Latino Prose
Santería and Sexual Ambiguity in Hispanic Caribbean Prose
New Archetypes in Afro Hispanic literature
(Re)Presentations of Latin American Feminism and Sexual Liberation in Contemporary Latin American Literature
Present Research Projects
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR of SPANISH
Department of Spanish & Portuguese
School of Languages & Cultures
640 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907
EDUCATION
Ph D (2001) University of TN-Knoxville
M A (1995) Furman University
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2012-2016 Chair, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
2012- 2014 Chair, School of Languages &
Cultures’ Recruitment Committee
2014- present Member, Advisory Committee on
Equity
2014- present Member, University Grade Appeals Committee
2011-12 Resident Director, WIP-Madrid
2012-2014 Member, CLA Grade Appeals Committee
2010 Chair, Diversity Action Committee
2008-2011 Member, Diversity Action Committee
2006-2009 Member, University Appeals Committee
2004-2007 Member, Faculty Affairs Committee
