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Silvia Nagy-Zekmi

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Editorial Boards

Editorial Board member Guest editor Manuscript reviewer

Celaan Review (2003)

Palimpszeszt (2005)

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Organized Events

    ·       Cultural Studies Association conference 2016 (member of the organizing committee)

    ·       Symposium on Bolivia, the Plurinational State. April 15, 2015. Villanova University

    ·       (Re)invenciones de lo andino” Special session at the IILI congress in Cádiz, Spain (2012)  

    ·       José María Arguedas Centenary conference. Villanova U. October 28-29, 2011.

    ·       International Conference of Arab and Islamic Studies “Mirror Images”. Villanova U. April 1-4, 2009.

    ·       Cultural Studies Conference. Villanova University. March 2008.

    ·       Three sessions at the MLA in 2005 for the 20th century Comparative Lit. Division:

    o   Dromocracy/Acceleration

    o   Representations of Empire 

    o   Academe vs. Society? The Role of the Intellectual.

    ·       International Conference, “Don Quijote at 400” at Villanova University. March, 2005.

    ·       International conference: “Democracy in Latin America 30 years After Chile's 9/11” SUNY Albany, October 2003.

    ·       Conference on Cultural and Postcolonial Studies at SUNY Albany in April 2003

    ·       Organizer and host of the Postcolonial Film Series SUNY Albany Spring, 2003

    ·       Double session: “Orientalist Representations in Latin American Literature” 5th Annual Congress of the Mediterranean Studies Association, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary (May 28-31, 2003).

    ·       Vice-President of the Third International Congress of Hispanic Poetry to be held at the University of Pécs, Hungary in May 2002.

    ·       Invitation of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo SUNY Albany, 1999

    ·       Organized and chaired the First and Second Graduate Colloquium on Hispanic, French, German and Italian Literature and Culture. Catholic University, 1995, 1996.

    ·       Organized and chaired a session titled: “Estética e ideología en la textualidad neo-indigenista de los países andinos” LASA Symposium, Washington DC. 1995.

    ·       Organized and chaired a session titled “Current approaches to Latin American literary classics” LASA Symp., Miami, FL, 1989.


 GRANTS:

  • Faculty Development grant (2017) Villanova University
  • Faculty Development grant (2015) Villanova University
  • Fulbright (finalist, but unsuccessful) 2013
  • Faculty Summer research grant (2008) Villanova University
  • VITAL grant for development of a graduate course on Postcolonial Theories. Villanova University, 2008.
  • Book grant: Moros en la costa: Orientalismo en Latinoamérica. Villanova U. 2007.
  • Fulbright senior grant for conducting research and teaching 2 postgraduate courses at ELTE University. Budapest, Hungary 2007.
  • Seminar grant on Forgiveness (competitive). Paper produced: “Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: Their Effect on Human Rights and Democratization” Villanova University 2006.
  • SUNY system grant: “Conversation in the Disciplines” for organization of an international conference: Democracy in Latin America 30 years After Chile’s 9/11 held at the SUNY Albany in 2003. www.albany.edu/democracy  
  • UUP Grant, SUNY 2002 and a grant from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for organization of the Third International Congress of Hispanic Poetry in Pécs, Hungary.
  • Faculty research grant, SUNY 2000 for participation (paper and moderator of another session) in the CIEF (Conseil International d’Études Francophones) Congress. Sousse, Tunisia 
  • Fellowship. Instituto de Investigaciones  Literarias, Universidad de los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela. 1995
  • Faculty Research Grant. Paralelismos transatlánticos. Catholic Univ.1995 
  • Faculty Research Grant. Fieldwork: Quechua oral tradition in Ecuador. Instituto de Cultura, Quito. 1991
  • Research grant: Historia de la canción folklórica de los Andes. University of Richmond. 1987
  • Fieldwork and research: Mapuche poetic genres. Universidad de la Frontera, Temuco, Chile. Universidad de Richmond. 1986

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

·       American Association of University Women (AAUW),

·       Association Bartolomé de Las Casas (ABC),

·       American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)

·       Association of Hungarian American Educators (AHEA),

·       Asociación de Letras Femeninas Hispánicas (ALFH)

·       Association of Third World Studies (ATWS),

·       Canadian Latin American Studies (CALACS)

·       Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CELAC) Member, Advisory Board (2000-2003)

·       Conseil International d'Études Francophones (CIEF),

·       Federación Internacional de Estudios Latinoamericanos y Caribeńos (FIEALC),

·       Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI),

·       International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI),

·       International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS),

·       International Assoc. of Cultural Studies

·       Latin American Studies Association (LASA),

·       Latin American Indigenous Literatures Assoc. (LAILA),

·       Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS)

·       Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA)       

·       Modern Language Association (MLA), member, Comparative Literature Executive Committee (2003-2006) chair 2005.

 Outside reviewer for tenure cases for

  • American University

  • Boston College

  • Cleveland State University 

  • Connecticut College (2)

  • CUNY Queens College

  • Drexel University

  • Hartwick College

  • Lewis and Clark College

  • Indiana  University 

  •  Purdue University

  •  Lawrence University

  •  Sarah Lawrence College

  • Skidmore College (2)

  • SUNY Albany

  • SUNY Binghamton

  • SUNY Potsdam

  • SUNY Oswego 

  • Temple University

  • University of Alabama 

  • University of Georgia (3)

  • University of Indiana

  • University of Memphis

  • University of Maryland (2)

  • University of Oregon

  • University of Sarjah


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