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| << back to Faculty Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1990 Member of the Academy of Letters of Uruguay Black Studies Program Faculty Affiliate Professor Juanamaria Cordones-Cook's documentary work on renowned Cuban poet Nancy Morejón MU Alumni Magazine's video about Professor Juanamaria Cordones-Cook's work on the Ediciones Vigia books, a series of handcrafted books from Cuba Professor Cordones-Cook has published extensively articles on contemporary Spanish American literature and culture with special interest on Afro-Hispanic, writers in major national and international journals in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Latin America. Her articles have appeared in Revista Iberoamericana, Chasqui, Hispamérica, Revista de Estudios Canadienses, Hispanófila, Plural, La Palabra y el Hombre, Théatre, Conjunto, Casa de las Américas, Anales del Caribe, among others. She works on projects related to postcolonial theories and issues of identity, race, and gender as they relate to the Afro-Latin American Diaspora. Professor Cordones-Cook also explores the way in which writers incorporate the cultural and political processes of their regions into their works. She has collaborated on numerous projects with authors and artists such as Luisa Valenzuela, Nancy Morejón, Manuel Mendive, Rogelio Martínez Furé, Georgina Herrera, Gerardo Fulleda León, Alberto Lescay, Eduardo Rivero Walker, Inés María Martiatu Terry, Soleida Ríos, Rolando Estévez, Roberto Diago, Gloria Rolando, Pedro Pérez Sarduy, and Adriana Genta, among others. Her books include Poética de transgresión en la novelística de Luisa Valenzuela (Peter Lang 1991); ¿Teatro negro uruguayo? Texto y contexto del teatro afro-uruguayo de Andrés Castillo (Grafitti 1996); Looking within / Mirar adentro: Selected Poems / Poemas escogidos, 1954/2000 (Wayne State University Press 2003), a bilingual critical anthology of Nancy Morejón's poetry (press bestseller); Soltando amarras y memorias (Cuarto Propio 2010). She has also co-edited Mujeres en las tablas: Antología crítica de teatro biográfico hispanoamericano (Nueva Generación 2005), First Place for the “Theater of the World Award” from the Universidad de Buenos Aires; and Más allá del héroe: Antología crítica de teatro biográfico hispanoamericano (Universidad de Antioquia Press 2008). She is presently working on a bilingual anthology of poetry on the city, La Habana expuesta (forthcoming with Ediciones Vigía, Matanzas), on a book-length study of a generation of Afro-Cuban intellectuals who came of age with the Cuban Revolution, Havana’s Black Renaissance, as well as on a critical anthology of Afro-Latin American theater, Del palenque a las tablas, among other projects. Professor Cordones-Cook has been guest-editor for the leading professional journals in their fields: Letras Femeninas (2001), Callaloo (2005), and Revista Iberoamericana (2011). In 2006, Professor Cordones-Cook founded and has continued to develop the “Nancy Morejón Special Collection of Afro-Romance Literature and Culture,” which is housed at the University of Missouri’s Museum of Anthropology. This collection makes available to scholars an invaluable array of published and unpublished material, books, manuscripts, journals, including rare editions and films from the Afro-Romance cultures and traditions. Professor Cordones-Cook has as well founded and developed a special collection of Cuban Ediciones Vigía art object books at the University of Missouri Museum of Art and Archaeology. In addition she has filmed over 100 hours of events in Cuba, the USA, and Canada on topics related to the Afro-Romance Diaspora and literature, such as conferences, interviews, ritual dances, and theatrical performances. Building upon her research, Professor Cordones-Cook is filming a series of living histories of Afro-Hispanic intellectuals (30 already) and is also directing and producing documentaries in Cuba and the United States. She has completed La silla dorada: Una antología audiovisual (Havana 2010), and Cimarroneando con G.H. (Havana 2011), and is working on several others. In addition to being widely published, Professor Cordones-Cook has a well-recognized national and international professional reputation. She has carried out over seventy professional interviews overseas with Spanish American writers and artists and has organized numerous national and international conferences. She has been covered by the press and has also participated in interviews on several radio and television programs in Uruguay, Argentina, Cuba, and the United States. Additionally, she is frequently invited as a featured speaker at major events at highly respected academic / cultural institutions in the United States including Washington University, Barnard College, Smith College, New York University, Wayne State University, as well as overseas including the "Fundación Internacional Jorge Luis Borges" (Argentina), M.A.L.B.A. Museum (Argentina), U.N.E.S.C.O. / Casa de las Américas (Cuba), U.N.E.A.C. (Cuba), “Feria Internacional del Libro” (Cuba); “Ediciones Vigía” (Cuba), the University of Birmingham (England), and "Cabildo de Montevideo" (Uruguay). Juanamaria Cordones-Cook displaying her private collection of art–object Cuban Books |
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