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Juanamaria Cordones-Cook |
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<< back to Faculty Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1990 Professor Cordones-Cook has published extensively articles on contemporary Spanish American literature and culture with special interest on Afro-Hispanic, in major national and international journals in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Latin America. Her numerous articles have appeared in Revista Iberoamericana, Hispamérica, Revista de Estudios Canadienses, Hispanófila, Plural, La Palabra y el Hombre, Théatre, Graffitti, Conjunto, Casa de las Américas, among others. Presently she is working on postcolonial theories and issues of identity, race, and gender. Professor Cordones-Cook also explores the way in which authors incorporate the political processes of their regions into their works. She has collaborated on numerous projects with authors such as Nancy Morejón and Luisa Valenzuela. Her books include Poética de transgresión en la novelística de Luisa Valenzuela (1991), ¿Teatro negro uruguayo? Texto y contexto del teatro afro-uruguayo de Andrés Castillo (1996), Looking within / Mirar adentro: Selected Poems/Poemas escogidos,1954/2000 (2003), a bilingual critical anthology of Nancy Morejón's poetry (Wayne State University Press bestseller), and Mujeres en las tablas: Antología crítica de teatro biográfico hispanoamericano (2005). Professor Cordones-Cook has also edited two special journal issues, one of Letras Femeninas devoted to Luisa Valenzuela, and another one of Callaloo, devoted to Nancy Morejón. She is currently working on two critical anthologies of theater, a book-length study of Nancy Morejón's poetry as well as another project on postcolonial identity in Spanish American literature. In addition to being widely published, Professor Cordones-Cook has received media attention in the press in San Antonio (Texas), Montevideo (Uruguay), Buenos Aires (Argentina), and Havana (Cuba). She has appeared in interviews in several radio and television programs in Uruguay, Argentina, and the United States, discussing her research on different writers as well as on contemporary cultural issues. Professor Cordones-Cook is frequently invited as a featured speaker at conferences in major academic/cultural institutions in the United States—Smith College, New York University, Washington University, Barnard College—as well as overseas—"Fundación Internacional Jorge Luis Borges" (Argentina), U.N.E.S.C.O. / Casa de las Américas (Cuba), "Cabildo de Montevideo" (Uruguay). Juanamaría Cordones-Cook and María Mercedes Jaramillo are winners of the Theater of the World Award from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, for their work as editors of Mujeres en las tablas. Antología crítica de teatro biográfico hispanoamericano (Buenos Aires: Editorial Nueva Generación, 2005). The Theater of the World Award is an annual distinction given by the members of the Cultural Center Rector Ricardo Rojas, from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the Area of Theater Theory and History. This award honors and distinguishes the best theater work of the year. A team of forty critics and scholars specializing in theater reviewed drama, performances, acting, direction, foreign theater, essays, journals, editions, and translations. 2005 Outstanding Works were selected in the areas of translations, essays, journals, theatrical photography, and editorial work. |
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