Jessica A. Folkart
(updated 12/7/06)

Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
331 Major Williams Hall
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061

Tel: (540) 231-9076
Fax: (540) 231-4812
Email: jfolkart@vt.edu
Class Website: http://www.fll.vt.edu/Folkart/newdatabase/wholething.htm

Angles on Otherness in Post-Franco Spain: The Fiction of Cristina Fernández Cubas. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2002. 254 pages.

Articles:

“Itinerant Identities: Galician Diaspora and Genre Subversion in Manuel Rivas’s A man dos paíños.” Anales de la literatura española contemporánea. Forthcoming.

“On Pencils, Places, and the Pursuit of Desire: Manuel Rivas’s El lápiz del carpintero.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 40.2 (May 2006): 297-315.

“Cristina Fernández Cubas’s Cosas que ya no existen:  The Mnemonics of Place and Time in Truth and Fiction.” Revista Hispánica Moderna LVI.2 (Winter 2004): 47-61.

"El arte apropiado: Construcciones artísticas de la identidad española en El sueño de Venecia de Paloma Díaz-Mas." Symposium 58.2 (Summer 2004): 93-107.

"Body Talk: Space, Communication, and Corporeality in Lucía Etxebarria's Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes." Hispanic Review 72.1 (2004): 43-63.

"Almost the Same, but Not Quite: Re-Orienting the Story of the Subject in Cristina Fernández Cubas's El año de Gracia." Studies in Twentieth Century Literature 26.2 (2002): 285-309.

"Turning Tricks: Oppositionality and Readerly Seduction in the Poetry of Gloria Fuertes." Letras Peninsulares 13.3 (Winter 2000-01): 787-801.

"Desire, Doubling and Difference in Cristina Fernández Cubas's El ángulo del horror." Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 24.2 (Winter 2000): 343-362.

"Interpretations of Gender: Performing Subjectivity in Cristina Fernández Cubas's Los altillos de Brumal." Anales de la literatura española contemporánea 25.1-2 (2000): 101-127.

Homage organizer and director. Homage for Robert C. Spires, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference.  University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky. April 2005.

Panel organizer, chair, and moderator, “Beyond Borders: Place and Pleasure, Past and Present in Spanish Fiction.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference.  University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky. April 2005.

Panel organizer, “Sex, Crime, and the Search for the Feminine in Contemporary Spain.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference.  University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky. April 2005.

Panel chair and moderator, “Spanish Novel II, Part I.” Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference. Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina. October 2002.

Panel chair and moderator, “Spanish Novel II, Part II.” Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference. Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina. October 2002.

Panel organizer, chair, and moderator, "Subversive Splendor and Sites of Exile: Constructing Identity in Pre- and Post-Civil War Spain." Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference. Radford, Virginia. October 2000.

Panel organizer, chair, and moderator, "Constructions of Cultural Identity." Carolina Conference on Hispanic Literatures. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. March 1998.

Contemporary Spanish Film and Fiction: The Power of the Eye/I (SPAN 4334) (http://www.fll.vt.edu/Folkart/newdatabase/wholething.htm )
Cultural and Literary Studies of Spain: 1700 – the Present (SPAN 3314) (http://www.fll.vt.edu/Folkart/newdatabase/wholething.htm)
Sex and Power in Post-Franco Spain (SPAN 4324) (http://www.fll.vt.edu/folkart/4324postfranco/index2.html)
Survey of Peninsular Literature (SPAN 3314) (http://www.fll.vt.edu/Folkart/newdatabase/wholething.htm)
Introduction to Hispanic Literature (SPAN 3304) (http://www.fll.vt.edu/Folkart/newdatabase/wholething.htm)
Spanish Civilization and Culture (SPAN 3204) (http://www.fll.vt.edu/Folkart/newdatabase/wholething.htm)
Introduction to Spanish Civilization and Culture (SPAN/HUM 2744 taught in English; traditional and online versions;
http://www.fll.vt.edu/folkart/2744/)
Advanced Grammar, Composition, and Conversation I (SPAN 3105) (http://www.fll.vt.edu/Folkart/newdatabase/wholething.htm)
Advanced Grammar, Composition, and Conversation II (SPAN 3106) (http://www.fll.vt.edu/Folkart/newdatabase/wholething.htm)
Oral Proficiency I (SPAN 3125) (http://www.fll.vt.edu/Folkart/newdatabase/wholething.htm)
Oral Proficiency II (SPAN 3126) (http://www.fll.vt.edu/Folkart/newdatabase/wholething.htm)
Independent Study: Twentieth Century Peninsular Literature (UH/SPAN 4974)
Independent Study: Modern Peninsular Literature and Culture (UH/SPAN 4974)

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) Training. ACTFL Conference. Boston, Massachusetts. November, 2000.

Profession:

Outside Reviewer, Vanderbilt University Press (2006)
Outside Reviewer, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos (2006)
Outside Reviewer, Harcourt Publishers. (2001)

University:

Selection Committee for the Pamplin Scholar Award (2003)
Faculty Guest Speaker for Distance Education classes (2000)
Faculty Development Institute (FDI) Guest Speaker (1999-2000)
Graduation Usher (1999-2000; 2003)

College:

Selection Committee for the Oustanding Graduate Student of the College of Arts and Sciences (2003)
Faculty Guest Lecturer for the Methods course of the Area Studies M.A. (2000-2002)

Department:

Chair, Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Spanish (2006-2007)
Personnel Committee (2005-6)
Executive Committee (1999-present; Co-Secretary, 2000-2005; Chair, 2005)
Co-Secretary, Executive Committee (2000-present)
Faculty Advisor (1999-present)
Advisor, Círculo Hispánico (2000-present)
Scholarship and Honors Committee (2000-2002)
Chair, Scholarship and Honors Committee (2001-2002)
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (1999-2000)
Director, Café Hispánico (1999-2000)
Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Spanish (1999-2000)