Ivonne Gordon-Vailakis Ph.D.
Education
- Ph.D., Latin American Literature, University of California, Irvine
- specialization in Contemporary Latin American Poetry, and Literary Theory with an emphasis Chicano Studies
- M.A., Spanish, San Diego State University
- with emphasis on Latin American and Peninsular Literature
Professional Background
Previous Teaching Experience
- University of California, San Diego, Visiting Assistant Professor, International Relations and Pacific Studies 1989-1991
Professional Experience
- Editor of several poetry journals, translator, professor for court interpreting translating certificate
Affiliations
- Modern Literature Association (MLA)
- Association of Spanish and Portuguese Teachers (ASPT)
- Ecuatorianistas Association (EA)
- Latina/os Network, Faculty Advisor since 1992
Areas of Expertise
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Human Rights Literature
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Travel Literature
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Exile, Diaspora, Immigration
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Literature of the Fantastic
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Literature of the Body
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Literature Representing the Other in Latin America
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Border Writers: Literature of the Border/Borderlands
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Latin American Contemporary Poetry
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Gabriela Mistral
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Jorge Carrera Andrade
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Women Writers
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Myths and Rituals
Publications
Books
Meditar de sirenas: Sweden: Simon Editor, 2013
El barro blasfemo: Blasphemous Clay. Madrid, España: 2009
Manzanilla del insomnio. Quito, Ecuador: El Conejo Press, 2002.
Colibríes en el exilio. Quito, Ecuador: El Conejo Press, 1997.
Chicano Literary Prize: 1985-1987: University of California, Irvine, 1988.
Nuestrario. Mexico: Impretei Press, 1987.
Book Chapters
"A Hungry Wolf: The Mask and the Spectacle of Gender in Gabriela Mistral" in The Audacious Traveler: Gabriela Mistral, ed. Marjorie Agosín, (Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2003).
"Running Borders: La Llorona as a Mode of Resistance" Culture and Society: Dialoguing Issues in Chicana Scholarship, ed. María Herrera-Sobek, (University of California Press, 2000).
Scholarly Articles
"La marginalización de la literatura ecuatoriana." Estudios de literatura ecuatoriana. (Forthcoming)
"Jorge Carrera Andrade." Hispanic Literatura Enciclopedia. (Forthcoming)
"Mientras más deseo más tentación: Lo carnavalesco en La casa del sano placer de Alicia Yánez Cossío: "Letras del Ecuador (Forthcoming)
"Búsqueda de memoria: el poeta sin cielo Jorge Carrera Andrade,"Homenaje a Jorge Carrera Andrade, Kipus: Revista Andina de letras, No. 15, (2002-2003).
"La trasgresión en la voz maternal en Gabriela Mistral" Alpha, No. 19, (2003).
"Estaba la pájara pinta sentadita en otro verde limón: Gabriela Mistral y la otredad en su poesía." Quimera, (Barcelona, España, 2001).
"El mar como espacio de resistencia en la poesía de Gabriela Mistral" Alpha., No. 15, (1999).
Creative Writing
Poetry: Anthologies:
"The Foreigner" and other poems: in Women's Writing Anthology: Honoring other Women Poets,(forthcoming).
"To Wash Your Feet" and other poems: in Prometeo: Medellin, Colombia, 2009.
"El buda" and other poems: in Cuando sale el sol. ed. Rei Berroa (Santo Domingo: Editorial Banco Central, 2008).
"La maleta estaba llena," and other poems, Writing Towards Hope: The Literature of Human Rights in Latin America, ed. Marjorie Agosín, (Yale University Press: 2006).
"Las plazas," "Como huesos albinos," and other poems, in Mujeres mirando al Sur: Antología de poetas suramericanas en los U.S.A. ed. Zulema Moret, (Spain: Ediciones Torremoza, 2004). 97-104.
Awards and service
- Professor sought for international event 2016
- Honored Guest at Cultural Center in Santiago Chile (2014)
- Honored Guest to International Poetry Festival, El Salvador (2014)
- Honored Guest at Cultural Center in Carmen del Viboral, Antioquia, Colombia (2013)
- Named Honored Poet of new Cultural Movement: Gesta de Cantores: A cultural group with no boundaries or borders (2012)
- Invited as Honored Guest Poet to Medellin's Cultural Center, Cerro del Angel (2012)
- Writing Award for EKAMEA, Greece (2010)
- Invited to read at International Poetry Festival, Medellín, Colombia(2009)
- Invited poet to read at Library of Congress, Washington, D.C
- Finalist of Brazil's International Poetry Contest, for manuscript I Dream with Two Pillows (2005)
- Oxford Round Table Discussant, "Women's Rights," Lincoln College, Oxford, England. (2004)
- Poetry Award "Jorge Carrera Andrade" for the book, Manzanilla del insomnio. (2003)
- Award for Outstanding Research/Creative Activity, U. of Redlands
- Fulbright Senior Research Scholar: The Trouble of Travels: Jewish Diaspora in Ecuador, (1999)
- Advisor of the Year Award, U. of Redlands
- Finalist of the Most Prestigious Award in Latin America, "Casa de las Américas" for Bilingual manuscript, Hummingbirds in Exile.
- Mortar Board Professor of the Year Award
Presentations
- "Marginality and Ecuadorian Literature," Literature Conference, University of Louisville. (2012)
- "Geographies of a Poet," Twentieth International Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Kentucky (2012)
- "An Identity Has Multiple Sides," Celebrating Hispanic and Cultural Diversity Month, SUNY, New York (2012)
- "A University without walls: Service learning within the Humanities," HERA Conference, San Francisco, California. (2011)
- "I am Word, Celebrating Hispanic Month, Western University, Kentucky (2011)
- "Identity and Travels in the Poetry of Jorge Carrera Andrade," International Conference on Travels, Berlin, Germany (2009)
- "Erotic Graffiti," Disjunctions Conference: English Dept. University of California, Riverside. (2003)