Georgina Whittingham

As a Spanish language and Latin American literature professor at SUNY Oswego, I love involving beginning language students in rich conversations about daily life and the Spanish- speaking world. My advanced students have experienced the excitement of performing celebrated Latin American one-act plays to live audiences. I have also been fortunate to research and integrate the works of Hispanic writers, performers, and scholars invited to campus into my classrooms and ensure students participated in conversations with authors and performers. My interest in postmodernist poetics and contemporary Mexican poetry led to my book Gilberto Owen y la crisis del lenguaje poético (Gilberto Owen and the Crisis of Poetic Language), published by Mexico's Autonomous State University Press. The intersection of image and text has been one of the guiding principles in my teaching, several of my conference papers, published articles, and book chapters on a variety of subjects: US-Mexico border environment studies, feminist Latin American theatrical discourse, race, gender, and class conflict in Mexican, Latin American, and Spanish literature, Mexican children's literature and the influence of Japanese art on Mexican poetry. I have felt great joy in teaching, engaging in scholarship, traveling the world, serving as department chair, and celebrating our students' academic achievements, overseas studies, and professional success.

Selected Publications 

Books

• Salcedo, Hugo. Barbara Gandiaga: Crimen y condena en Misión Santo Tomás/ Barbara Gandiaga:
  Crime and Condemnation in Mission Santo Tomas/. Translated by Georgina
  Whittingham and Carolyn Malloy. Mexico, Universidad Iberoamericana, 2022.
• Gilberto Owen y la crisis del lenguaje poético. Mexico: Universidad Autónoma del Estado de
  México, 2005.
• (Invited) Co-Editor, JETS (Journal of Educational Technology Systems), Farmingdale, NY:
  Baywood Publishing company, Inc., (Volume 26, Number 4 / 1997-1998).

Peer-reviewed Articles and Book Chapters 

• “Art as Advocacy: Protecting the U.S.-Mexico Border Environment in Amanda Keller Konya's ‘Specimens.’” Latin American Literary Review, 48.96 (2021). Web
• "Lucha interior/ imagen exterior: Escindido discurso teatral feminista en La colección de relojes de Renée Ferrer y Casa de muñecas de Henrik Johan Ibsen". Vol. 51, No.1. Latin American Theatre Review (Fall 2018). Web
• Invited Book Chapter: Rpt. "Transgresiones ecfrásticas: el texto y la imagen en Los herederos de Segismundo de Schimdhuber de la Mora." Entre vuestras plumas ando: Textos sobre Guillermo Schmidhuber. Olga Marta Peña Doria, Ed. Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, October 2013.
• La relación discurso teatral/estructura social en ‘La colección de relojes’ de Renée Ferrer.” Karpa: Dissident Theatricalities, Visual Arts and Culture 3.2 (Fall 2010). Web
• Invited Book chapter: "El Japón de Hiroshigué en las pioneras innovaciones de Juan José Tablada. “Moros en la costa: el orientalismo en America Latina. Silvia Nagy-Zekmi, ed. Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/ Vervuert/ Verlag, 2008.
• Modified version of the above article published in the online journal Palimpszeszt. 23 April 2005. Web
• Prologue: Silvia Castro, En el agua más clara (libro de poemas para niños). Puebla, México: BUAP, 2007.
• "El texto y la imagen in Los Herederos de Segismundo de Guillermo Schmidhuber" (Text and Image in the play Sigismund’s Heirs by Schmidhuber de la Mora) Vol. 39, No.2. Latin American Theatre Review (Spring 2006). Web
• Invited book chapter: "El movimiento escénico en Lección de historia de Matías Montes Huidobro." Matías Montes Huidobro: su obsesión por la escritura. Yara González, ed. Universal, 2007.
• Invited book chapter: "El Verbo en nupcias borrascosas con la forma de Línea de Gilberto Owen." Primer Encuentro Luis Mario Schneider: Centenario del Nacimiento de Gilberto Owen Estrada. Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (UAEM), 2005.
• Invited journal article: (with Lourdes Silva) "El erotismo en Como agua para chocolate de Laura Esquivel y Del amor y otros demonios de Gabriel García Márquez." Texto Critico: Centro de investigaciones lingüístico-literarias, Universidad Veracruzana, Número 7 (julio-diciembre 1998).
• Book chapter: (with Rachelle Moore) "La relación lenguaje-historia: poscolonialismo y posmodernidad en 'Poemas para un pueblo y 'Caducidad del fuego' de Pedro Shimose" (Silvia Elguea Véjar ed. La otredad: Los discursos de la cultura hoy. Mexico, 1997.

 Invited Reviews

• José Emilio Pacheco: Perspectivas críticas. Pol Popovic Karic and Fidel Chávez Pérez, coordinadores. México, D.F.: Siglo xxi editores, s.a., 2006. Symposium 26.3 (Fall 2007). Syracuse University.
• Winkler, Julie, A. Light into Shadow: Marginality and Alienation in the Work of Elena Garro. New York: Peter Lang, 2001. 196 pp. Latin American Theatre Review 36.2 (Spring 2003)
• Alfonso Sastre. “Death Thrust, estreno norteamericano de La cornada de Alfonso Sastre.” Estreno, Cuadernos de teatro español contemporáneo (Otoño, 1990).
• Quackenbush, L. Howard. "El López" de Jorge Ibargüengoitia. Historia, teatro y autorreflexividad. Mexico: INBA, 1992. Latin America Theater Review (Summer, 1994).
• Yvonne Jehenson. Latin American Women Writers. SUNY Press. SUNY Press has published sections of the review for promotion of book.
• Collaborated with M.H. Loe in review of Double Minorities of Spain: a bio-bibliographic guide to women writers of Catalan, Galicia, and Basque countries, ed. Kathleen McNerney and Cristina Enríquez de Salamanca. Modern Language Association of America, 1995. Choice: Current Review of Academic Books 33.1 (September 1995).

AWARDS AND HONORS

• Manuscript evaluator for Hispanic Review, Invited by Dr. Ignacio Javier López, General Editor, Spring 2021
• Remunerated Guest speaker invitation "Specimens by Amanda Keller-Konya," Border Environments, a Border Environments Special Series event open to the public. Sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Co-Sponsored by Latin American Studies Program, Latina/o Studies Program, Department of Comparative Literature, Cornell Cinema, and the Migrations Initiative. 30
  March 2021. 
• Remunerated External Promotion Reviewer. Hobart and William Smith, Spring 2021
• Grant (4,500.00) for Chilean Teatro La María Performance of El hotel. Tyler Hall, Feb. 14, 2018.
• Grant (1,500.00) for organizing LELACS (Lake Erie Latin American Cultural Studies) Colloquium on “Framing and Negotiating Conflict in Latin America.” Sheldon Hall, SUNY Oswego, April 7, 2018.
• External Promotion Reviewer. Auburn University, 2017
• External Promotion Reviewer, Autonomous State University of Mexico (UAEM), 2011
• Program Reviewer: External evaluator for the Department of Modern Languages and Classics, Siena College, Loudonville, NY.  September 30- October 1, 2013
• Promoted to Full Professor (AY 2006-2007)
• (Invited with most expenses paid by host institution) “El Verbo en nupcias borrascosas con la forma de Línea de Gilberto Owen.” Primer Encuentro Luis Mario Schneider: Centenario del Nacimiento de Gilberto Owen Estrada. Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México UAEM. Malinalco, México (May 2004)
• ATSwego grant (4,000) for Tami Tango Performance and Master Classes (2010)
• ACTFL OPI (Oral Proficiency Interviewer) Certification (2001)
• Distinguished Visitor of Puebla, Mexico. Certificate awarded by Mayor of Puebla, Mexico in for participation in Jornadas Internacionales de Teatro Hispanoamericano (July 2001)
• Admitted to the School of Criticism and Theory at Dartmouth College in Summer of 1990 with a scholarship award from SCT and SUNY Oswego
• Bevier Fellowship for dissertation research, Rutgers University, 1983-84
• Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship, 1968-69.

Classes Taught

• Hispanic Fairy Tales: 2020 Capstone Seminar
• Fake News in Hispanic Literature: 2019 Capstone seminar
• Conflict in the Hispanic Novel: 2017 Capstone Seminar
• Gioconda Belli y Carlos Ruiz Zafón: 2012 Seminar
• Mexican History through the Mexican Dramatists’ Lens: 2010 Seminar
• Mexican Theater Workshop and Imovie Documentary: 2009 Capstone Seminar
• Contemporary Latin American Film: 2009 Honor’s Seminar in English

Classes regularly taught

• Latin American Short Story
• Latin American Theater Workshops and Performances
• Latinos in the United States
• Survey of Latin American Literature
• Survey of Spanish Literature
• Advance Spanish 301/302
• Beginning and Intermediate Spanish

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Spanish and Latin American Literature, The State University of New Jersey, Rutgers
•  M.A. Spanish and Latin American Literature, Portuguese and Brazilian Literature minor. Stanford University
• B. A Spanish and Latin American Literature French minor. Queens College of the City University of New York.