Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez, Ph.D.

Ph.D., Latin American Literature, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Professor, Latin American Literature/Spanish
Department Chair, Chicano and Latino Studies, Sonoma State University, 2004-present
Department Chair, Modern Languages & Literatures, Sonoma State University, 2000-03

PUBLICATIONS

 BOOKS:

 BOOK CHAPTERS:

• "Resistance, Revolution and Recuperation: The Literary Production of the Mestizo /Mexican-American /Chicano." In Companion to U.S. Latino Literature. Eds. Carlota Caulfield and Darien Davis. Suffolk, UK: Boydell & Brewer, April 2007
• "Between the Tenements and the Island: Dominican-American Literature." In Companion to U.S. Latino Literature. Eds. Carlota Caulfield and Darien Davis. Suffolk, UK: Boydell & Brewer, April 2007
• "The Latin American Innovative Novel of the 1920s: A Comparative Reassessment." in Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America. Eds. Sophia McClennen and Earl E. Fitz. Paramus, J: Purdue UP, 2004
• “The Subversive Role of Women in the Making of History: Pre-Revolution Mexico and Teresa Urrea.” Ed. Genaro J. Pérez. Monographic Review XVIII: The New Historical Novel, Texas Tech University, 2003
• "La historia antes del viaje al otro lado: La novela Trini de Estela Portillo-Trambley." Pensamiento y Crítica: Los discursos de la cultura hoy. Eds. Manuel Medina & Javier Durán, UAM, México D.F., 2000
• "The Sexual Metaphor in Artistic Creation: Alma Villanueva's `The Ripening,'" in Aztlán: Chicano Culture and Folkore. Ed. Arturo Ramírez. San Diego: McGraw-Hill College Custom Series, 1997

ARTICLES, BOOK REVIEWS:

• "Cultural Fusion and Transformation." INAmericas Magazine (Jan/Feb 2009)
• "More Than Machu Picchu." IN Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education (Jan 2009)
• "Restored Histories," Review essay on Colin Calloway's The Shawnees and the War for America, and Theda Perdue's The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears IN Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education (Dec 2008)
• "A Trailblazing Leader: María Herrera-Sobek." IN Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education (Nov 08)
• "The Pioneers of Mambo." IN Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education (Oct 2008)
• "Passion on the Page: the Cuban, Haitian, and Puerto Rican Novels of Mayra Montero." IN Americas Magazine (Sept/Oct 2008)
• "Not our Mother's Classroom," Commentary. IN Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education (11 Aug 08)
• "Identity and Perspectives." Review essay on Daniel Alarcón's Lost City Radio, Helena María Viramontes' Their Dogs Came With Them, and Cristina García's A Handbook to Luck, IN Americas Magazine 49:6 (Nov/Dec 07)
• "Bearing Witness." Review essay on Flora María González Mandri's Guarding Cultural Memory: Afro-Cuban Women in Literature and the Arts, Alicia Cossío Yánez's The Potbellied Virgin, and Denise Chávez's A Taco Testimony, IN Americas Magazine 59:5 (Sep/Oct 07)
• "A New Style in Chicana Writing: Helena María Viramontes." IN Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education (Aug 07)
• Review of Eduardo Galeano's Voices of Time, IN Americas 59:4 (July/Aug 07)
• "Some Facts about Professors' Salaries" IN Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education (5 Aug 07)
• "Julia Alvarez: Progenitor of a Movement." Americas Magazine 59:3
  (May/June 2007)
• "Mexican Legacies." Themed review essay combining Carlos Fuentes' novel
  The Eagle's Throne, his book This I Believe: Life from A to Z , Elena Poniatowska's novel El tren pasa primero and her book Obra reunida I: Narrativa breve.
  Americas Magazine 59:2 (Mar/Apr 2007)
• "Traveling Through Literature with Julia Alvarez." IN Hispanic Outlook in
  Higher Education (26 Feb 07)
• Review of Cristina García's Monkey Hunting and Angie Cruz's Let it Rain
  Coffee IN Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education (8 Jan 07)
• "Old World Myths, New World Dreams." Themed review essay on Charles
  Mann's 1491, New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus and Kathleen de Azevedo's Samba Dreamers. IN Americas Magazine 58:6 (Nov/Dec 2006); 56-58
• "A Remarkable Woman and Poet: Nancy Morejón." Hispanic Outlook in Higher
  Education 17:2 (23 October 2006); 36-38
• Opinion essay, "The Real Scoop on Professor Salaries." Op-Ed, The Press
  Democrat newspaper (7 Oct 06)
• "Remembering the Borderlands' Forgotten." Themed review essay on Alicia
  Gaspar de Alba's Desert Blood, Luis Alberto Urrea's The Hummingbird's Daughter, and Tey Diana Rebolledo's The Chronicles of Panchita Villa and Other Guerrilleras. Americas Magazine 58:5 (Sept/Oct 06); 60-63
• "Dueling Divas." Themed review essay on Julia Alvarez's Saving the World
  and Laura Esquivel's Malinche: A Novel. Americas Magazine 58:4 (July/Aug 2006)
• Review of re-release of Estela Portillo-Trambley's Trini. IN Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education (June 06)
• "Reflections on Receiving a Teaching Excellence Award." IN Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education (May 2006)
• "Teaching Spanish Caribbean History through In the Time of the Butterflies, the Novel and the Film." IN Journal of Hispanic Higher Education (April 2006); 107-126
• "Dominican Heroines of a New Era." Américas Magazine (Mar/April 2006); 61-63
• "Indigenous Harmony of Life Being Lost: the Examples of Manlio Argueta and Sandra Benítez." Selected Proceedings, 2003 Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies (PCCLAS), Xlibris, 2005; 354-367
• Review of Fatima Mujcinovic's Postmodern Cross-Culturalism and Politicization in U.S. Latina Literature in MELUS 30:4 (Dec 2005)
• "Nuevas Identidades de Mujeres Mexicanas." Américas Magazine (Nov/Dec 2005)
• "Entrelíneas de los Olvidados: Elena Poniatowska." Américas Magazine (Mar/April 2005)
• "Rosa Nissán: Cultural Memory and the Mexican Sephardic Woman." MOSAIC (the University of Manitoba, Canada) 36:4 (March 2004)
• “La identidad mexicana y sefardita en la obra de Rosa Nissán.” Explicación de Textos Literarios 30:1-2, Sacramento, CA (2001-2002), released in 2003
• "Crossing Gender Borders: Sexual Relations and Chicana Artistic Identity." MELUS 27:1 (Spring 2002): 131-148
• "The Cultural Significance of Maya Themes in U.S. Latino/Chicano Literature." Community Colleges Humanities Review (Winter 2001): 114-130
• "Recreating the Macho: Erlinda González-Berry's Paletitas de guayaba." VOCES: A Journal of Chicana/Latina Studies 3:1 (Summer 2001); 47-67
• "Recovering a Space for a History Between Imperialsm and Patriarchy: Julia Alvarez' In the Time of the Butterflies." Thamyris (Amsterdam) 5:2 (Autumn 1998): 263-279
• Review of Priscilla Gac-Artigas' Reflexiones: Ensayos sobre escritoras hispanoamericanas contemporáneas IN Hispania 87:1 (March 2004)
• Review of Elena Poniatowska's La piel del cielo (2001), Hispania 86:4 (Dec 2003)
• Review of Francisco Vázquez' Latino/a Thought: Culture, Politics & Society (2002) MELUS 28:2 (Summer 2003)
• Review of Elena Poniatowska's Las siete cabritas (2000), Hispania 84:4 (Dec 2001)
• Review of Imma Monso's Como unas vacaciones (1999), Hispania 84:3 (Sept 2001)
• "Recreating the Macho: Erlinda Gonzalez-Berry's Paletitas de guayaba, VOCES: a Journal of Chicana/Latina Studies 3:1 (Summer 2001)
• Review of Demetria Martínez's Mother Tongue (1994), Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education (March 2001)
• "Exploring the Mayan World," essay in two parts, Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education (Dec 4 and Dec 17, 2000)
• "On the Mayan Route," Sonoma Insights 7:1 (Sept 2000)
• Review of Rosa Nissan's book No solo para dormir es la noche (1999), Hispania 83:3 (Sept 2000)
• Review of Lucha Corpi, Ed.'s anthology Máscaras, Hispanic Outlook (June 16, 2000)
• Biographical essays on Latina authors: Sandra Benítez, Demetria Martínez, Esmeralda Santiago, Judith Ortiz-Cofer, Rosa Guy, Cherríe Moraga, Helena María Viramontes. American Women Writers. St. James Press, 2000
• Review of Elena Poniatowska's Paseo de la Reforma (1996), Hispania 82:2 (May 1999)
• "Will we have Ph.D.'d Latinos in the Twenty-first Century?", opinion essay, Hispanic Outlook (Summer 1999)
• "Teaching Responsibility: The Freshmen Seminar." Hispanic Outlook (Sept 16, 1999)
• Review of Angeles Mastretta's novel Mal de amores (1996), Hispania 82:1 (March 1999)
• Review of Laura Esquivel's novel La ley del amor, Hispania 81:4 (December 1998)
• "Nostalgia for the Future in Peru: Martín Adán's The Cardboard House." Corner l:1 (Internet journal -- www.cornermag.org), Mills College (Fall 1998)
• Review of María Bustos Fernández' book Vanguardia y renovación en la narrativa lationo-americana, Hispania 81:2 (May 1998)
• "Cultural Lessons by a Puerto Rican American: Esmeralda Santiago." The Bilingual Review 23:1, Arizona State University, Tempe (Jan-May 1998)
• Review of Charles Lyons' book The New Censors: Movies and the Culture Wars, IN Censored 1998: The News that Didn't Make the News. Ed. Peter Phillips. New York: Seven Stories Press, 1998
• "Maid in the USA" (review essay), The Women's Review of Books, 14:4 (Jan 1997)
• "¿Cómo diablos nos salvamos de nosotros mismos?": Antes de Carmen Boullosa." IN Cultura-door 30 (Nov/Dec 1996)
• Review of José E. Limón's book Dancing with the Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican-American South Texas, New Mexico Historical Review, Albuquerque (April 1996)
• "The Mexicano/Chicano's Search for Identity in the Films Los de abajo and American Me." Anuario de cine y literatura, Villanova University, Pennsylvania (Aug 1995)
• "Piquing Spanish-Language Students' Interest in Journalism: A Five-Point Plan." Hispania 78:2 (May 1995)
• "Mexico's First Rebellious Novel: Futurism and Arqueles Vela's El café de nadie. Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery: Selected Papers, the University of Southern Colorado, 1994
• "Genoveva Chávez, Mariachi Singer" and "Verónica García, Educator" (biographical essays), Nuestras Mujeres: Hispanas of New Mexico, Their images and their lives. Ed. Tey Diana Rebolledo. Albuquerque: El Norte/Academina Publications, 1993

TRANSLATIONS

• "Iconography of the Bolero" and "Collection of Texts", The Origins of the Bolero School/Studies in Dance History 4.1 (Spring 1993); 39-60 and 91-120
• "Clipper", "Bolívar" and "Soliman," plays by Venezuelan Isaac Chocrón, unpublished. Mounted by Experimental Theatre Group, Department of Theatre and Arts, University of New Mexico, April, 1992