Curriculum Vitae

 

Zoya Khan

Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature

Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures,

331, HUMB

University of South Alabama

Tel: 251 461 1360 (Office)

zkhan@usouthal.edu

 

FIELDS OF INTEREST

 

Spanish American Literature and Culture:

Andean Literature

Literary Theory

Women’s Studies

Subaltern Studies

 

EDUCATION

 

Ph.D: Dissertation titled “Cholos, Mestizos  and The (Un) Making of the Bolivian Nation State: Bolivian Novel on the Eve of the National Revolution of 1952”

(September 1997 – October 2003).

M.A. in Spanish, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, awarded December 2002.

M. Phil in Spanish Literature, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

(August 1995-May 1997).

M.A. in Spanish Literature, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

(August 1992-May 1994).

B.A (Hons.) in Spanish, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

(August 1989-May 1992).

 

DISSERTATION

“Cholos, Mestizos  and the (Un) Making of the Bolivian Nation State: The Bolivian Novel on the Eve of the National Revolution of 1952”

Chair: Javier Sanjinés

Committee Members: Fernando Coronil, Santiago Colás, Sergio Hugo Moreno and Gareth Williams.

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“Chuño Palma: A National Subject in Mother’s Time” A Contracorriente Winter 2010, 137-164.

“Oscar Cerruto’s Aluvión de fuego: An Incomplete Narrative of a Fragmented Bolivian Nation” Chasqui, May 2009, 84-103.

“Moon, stars and Sharing the Sky of Nationhood in Cristina García’s The Aguero Sisters” Hispanófila, September 2008, 73-86.

“The Emergence of Mestizaje in the Works of Adolfo Costa du Rels” The Latin Americanist, Fall 2006, 74-102.

 

Non Peer-Reviewed Review Essay

 

“Acercamientos a estudios de recepción: dos obras sobre India y el mundo hispánico” (trad.) Rita Fernández. Papeles de La India. Vol. 25, 1997, 112-129.   

 

Book Review

“The Andes Imagined: Indigenismo, Society and Modernity”  Forthcoming, The Latin Americanist.

Works in Progress

“Homelessness as Praxis in the Novels of Edmundo Paz Soldán”

 

CONFERENCE PAPERS

 

 

Electric Dreams and Evanescent Realities: Technology and the Emergence of a Globalized Culture in the Fictions of Edmundo Paz Soldán and Philip K. Dick. PCAS Conference held in Jacksonville florida on September 29th-29th 2007.

(In)corporating the Indian: power, Body and Identity in Jesús Lara’s Yanakuna. 53rd South Eastern Council of Latin American Studies, Charlotte, NC, April 2006. .

National Spaces, Political Subjects and Indigenous Bodies in Oscar Cerruto’s Aluvión de fuego. 59th Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, April 2006.

“The Limits of Exteriority or Exteriority as Limit?”: Enrique Dussel and the   Modern Project in Bolivia. 52nd South Eastern Council of Latin American Studies conference, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, April 2005.

“Nations at a Crossroads: the Emergence of Mestizaje in Adolfo Costa du Rels’ Tierras hechizadas” 3rd Bolivian Studies Association Conference, Florida International University, Miami, February 2005.

Engendering the Bolivian Nation-State: The Mestiza, the Popular, and the Pedagogical in La niña de sus ojos and La Chaskañawi V women in Spanish and Portuguese Studies conference, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, U.K. March-April 2004

“The Hybrid Others of a Hybrid Modernity: A Critical Appraisal of the Other in Enrique Dussel and Dipesh Chakrabarty” Mid American Conference of Hispanic Literatures, Washington University, St. Louis, September 2002

 “The Fissured Texts of Brilliant Weavers: A Discussion of Translation through Two Bolivian Novels” Boston College, Boston, April 2002.

 “ Aluvión de fuego: A Narrative in Quest of Nation” Eleventh Charles Fraker Graduate Student’s conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, February 2002.

 “The Agüero Sisters: Subaltern Positions, Hegemonic Designs” British Society for Latin

American Studies, Birmingham University, Birmingham, United Kingdom, April

2001.

 “The Fissured Texts of Brilliant Weavers” Tenth Charles Fraker Graduate Students’

Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 2001.

 “Provincializing Europe: A Latin American Perspective” Comparative Literatures Inter

Faculty and Students’ Forum (CLIFF), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, February 2001.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

The University of South Alabama, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

LG 131 Elementary Spanish I

LG 132 Elementary Spanish II

LG 231 Intermediate Spanish I

LG 232 Intermediate Spanish II

LG 333 Spanish Conversation and composition

LG 336 Introduction to Textual Analysis

LG 431 Introduction to Hispanic culture and Civilization

LG 435 Readings in Latin American Literature of the 20th century

LG 480 Senior Seminar

LG 592 The Urban Space in the Latin American Novel of 20th and 21st Centuries

LG 592 Motherhood and the State in the Latin American Novel of  Late Nineteenth and

Early Twentieth Centuries

LG 592 Themes and Tendencies of Contemporary Latin American Literature

LG592 The Pioneers: Feminine Interventions in Political, Social and Literary debates

during the Nineteenth Century in the Hispanic World

LG 592

 

 

University of Michigan, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

 

SP101 Elementary Spanish

SP103 Elementary Spanish (Intensive course)

SP 111 Introduction to Readings in Spanish I

SP 112 Introduction to Readings in Spanish II

SP 232 Intermediate Spanish II

SP 276 Reading and Composition

SP320 Introduction to the Study of Literature

 

University of Michigan, Residential College

SP 324 Readings in Spanish Literature

 

University of Michigan, Department of Asian Languages

Elementary Hindi,

Intermediate Hindi,

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Introduction to Spanish Oral Expression

Introduction to Spanish Oral Expression

Introduction to Spanish Culture and Civilization

Introduction to Latin American Culture and Society .

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

 

University of South Alabama Research Council Award, 2004

Arts And Sciences Summer Research Fellow award 2004

Rackham One Term Fellowship (2003)

Romance Languages Summer Research Fellowship (2002, 2001, 2000&1999)

Rackham Humanities Research Fellowship (2001)

Latin American and Caribbean Studies Summer Research Fellowship (2000)

University Grants Commission of India’s Junior Research Fellowship (1995-1997)

Rafael Iruzubieta Outstanding Student in M.A. Award, Jawaharlal Nehru

University, New Delhi, (1994). 

 

ACADEMIC SERVICES

 

Departmental Committees

Chair, International Film Series, Department of foreign Languages and Literatures

Chair, Curriculum Committee

Study Abroad and Scholarship Committee 2006-09

Teaching Evaluation and Certification Committee, member

Library Committee, Member

Organizing committee, International Film Series, Department of foreign Languages and Literatures (Chair till Spring 2006)

Collegiate Committees

International Studies Committee

Arts and Sciences summer Professional Development Award Committee

University Committees

University Scholarship and Financial Aids Committee

Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Mentoring Committee (2006-07)

Faculty Senate Evaluations Committee ( 2005-06)

Writing Committee

 

Member, Organizing Committee, Twelfth Charles Fraker Graduate Students’ Conference,

September 2002-Present

Member, Organizing Committee, Eleventh Charles Fraker Graduate Students’

Conference, September2001-April 2002.

Fall 2000-Winter 2001: Graduate Students’ Mentor, Department of Romance Languages

and Literatures, University of Michigan.

 

 

 

LANGUAGES

 

English, Spanish, Hindi, French (Reading), Quechua (Elementary).