Curriculum Vitae CHRISTINE A. GARST-SANTOS August 2014 Business Address: Dept. of Modern Languages & Global Studies South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007 Phone: (605) 688-4274 Email: christine.garst-santos@sdstate.edu EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY Higher Education Ph.D. Spanish Literature, The University of Iowa, 2013 Dissertation: Contestatory Subjects: Performance and the Politics of Recognition in Don Quijote Dissertation Co-advisors: Denise K. Filios and Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez M.A. Foreign Languages, Literatures, & Cultures (Spanish), Colorado State University, 1997 *Certification in Chicano Studies from the Center for Applied Studies in American Ethnicity B.A. Spanish, Colorado State University, 1994 Professional and Academic Positions 2011-present, Assistant Professor of Spanish, South Dakota State University 1997-2011, Instructor of Spanish, South Dakota State University 2003-2005, Teaching Assistant, The University of Iowa (on educational leave-of-absence from SDSU) 1995-1997, Teaching Assistant, Colorado State University TEACHING AT SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY Undergraduate General Education Courses Taught Span 101: Beginning Spanish I Span 102: Beginning Spanish II Span 201: Intermediate Spanish I Span 202: Intermediate Spanish II Span 211: Intermediate Spanish Conversation I Span 212: Intermediate Spanish Conversation II WmSt 101: Introduction to Women s Studies Advanced Undergraduate Courses Taught Span 310: Practical Language Review Span 353: Introduction to Spanish Literature Span 433: Peninsular Civilization and Culture Span 476: 19 th and 20 th Century Latin America Narratives of Otherness in 20 th Century Spanish American Literature Span 486: Early Modern Spain Private Affairs, Public Dramas: Spanish Golden Age Theater Negotiating the Mediterranean: Cervantes and the Construction of National Identity MFL 460: Don Quijote in Translation LAS 301: Topics in Latin American Studies Images of Women in Mexico and the Latino U.S. (cross-listed with Women s Studies 300)
Other Contributions to Teaching Intermediate Spanish Coordinator, 2007-2010 and 2013-2014 Fulbright Teaching Assistants Coordinator, 2007-2010 Undergraduate Advisor, 2005-present Honor s Faculty, 2009-present TEACHING HONORS AND AWARDS Edward Patrick Hogan Award for Teaching Excellence, South Dakota State University, 2013 Students Association Teacher of the Year, College of Arts and Sciences, South Dakota State University, 2008-2009 and 2012-2013 PRIMARY AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Cervantes María de Zayas Early Modern Spain Gender and Performance Studies Morisco Studies SECONDARY AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Medieval Spanish Literature Spanish American Narrative, Colonial to Present Spanish Civil War Women s Studies SCHOLARSHIP Publications Dorotea s Displacement: Performing the Possible in Early Modern Spain. Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America. 31.2 (2011): 51-84. Review of The Baker Who Pretended to Be King of Portugal by Ruth MacKay. Renaissance Quarterly. 66.4 (Winter 2013): 1462-63. In Preparation The Politics of Performance: Playing the Moorish Other in María de Zayas s Desengaños amorosos (working title). Article in progress. Witnessing Otherness in La última niebla: An Exploration of the Ethical Obligations of the Literary Critic (working title). Article in progress. Contestatory Subjects: Performance and the Politics of Recognition in Cervantes (working title). Book in progress. Conference Presentations Necessary Citizens : Cervantes and the Articulation of the New Christian Subject in The Captive s Tale. Sixteenth Century Society Annual Conference (San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 2013). The Politics of Passing: María de Zayas Performs the Morisca Other. 38 th Annual European Studies Conference (Omaha, NE, October 2013). Women and Interdisciplinarity: Gender Perspectives in French Art and Spanish Literature. 38 th Annual European Studies Conference (Omaha, NE, October 2013). 2
Bringing Zoraida into Speech: Dorotea and Ruy Pérez as Ethical Activists. Society for Renaissance Studies 5 th Biennial Conference (Manchester, UK, July 2012). Is This Lady a Christian or a Moor? Performing Gender, Race, and Religion in Don Quijote. 64 th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (Lexington, April 2011). Let s Go! Using the Theme of Travel to Integrate Culture in the Conversation Classroom. South Dakota World Languages Association Annual Conference (Brookings, October 2010). Deceit and Desire: María de Zayas Performs the Other (Woman). 62 nd Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (Lexington, April 2009). Yo soy tu esposa : Doing and Being Done by Gender in the Quijote. 50 th Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association (Minneapolis, November 2008). Invited Lectures The National Standards and the Communicative Approach: A Basic Primer for the Second- Language Classroom. Orientation Workshop, Department of Modern Languages, South Dakota State University, 2012. Teaching Culture in the Second-Language Classroom. Orientation Workshop, Department of Modern Languages, South Dakota State University, 2010. Teaching Reading in the Second-Language Classroom. Orientation Workshop, Department of Modern Languages, South Dakota State University, 2010. Constructing Gender: Fashion-Industry Advertising as 21 st Century Conduct Manual. Campus Women s Coalition Fall Symposium, South Dakota State University, 2007. RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS Mark of Academic Excellence Award, $5,000. Project to enhance global perspectives in the classroom and fund an international faculty development seminar in Spain and Morocco, 2013. Women and Giving International Research Grant, $2,000. Project to finish dissertation research at the National Library in Madrid, Spain, 2012. T. Anne Cleary International Dissertation Research Fellowship, $3,000. Project to research Morisco identity narratives in early modern Spain at the National Archives and the National Library in Madrid, Spain, 2009. South Dakota State University New Ideas Grant, $3,000. Project to research and develop new upperdivision courses at the National Archives and the National Library in Madrid, Spain, 2009. The University of Iowa Graduate College Summer Fellowship for Doctoral Students, $3,000. Project to begin research on the dissertation, 2008. South Dakota State University New Ideas Grant, $3,100. Project to design and institute an orientation workshop for Fulbright teaching assistants and new faculty in the Department of Modern Languages, 2005. SERVICE Department Chair, Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Spanish Position, 2012-2013 Member, Search Committee for Instructor of Spanish Position, 2009-2010 Member, Departmental Standards Committee, 2012-2013 Member, Curriculum Committee, 2007-present Spanish Program Coordinator, 2005-present 3
University Member, Search Committee for Coordinator of Study Abroad, 2013-2014 Member, College of Arts and Sciences Think Tank on Learning Organization, 2013-present Member, Dean s Advisory Committee on New Faculty Mentoring, 2011-2012 Member, Women s Studies Advisory Board, 2007-present Faculty Advisor, Campus Women s Coalition, 2006-present Profession Panel Chair, Jews & Muslims in Spanish History and Literature II. 2013 Sixteenth Century Society Annual Conference (San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 2013). Session Organizer, An Interdisciplinary Interrogation of the Role of Place (Social/Geographic) in National Identity. 38 th Annual European Studies Conference (Omaha, NE, October 2013). Session Organizer, Scandalous Performances: Investigating the Limitations and Fluidity of Gender. 50 th Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association (Minneapolis, November 2008). Community Co-Chair, Board of Directors, Brookings Domestic Abuse Shelter, 2008-present SERVICE AWARDS AND GRANTS Board of Regents Award for Organizational Leadership, Campus Women s Coalition Advisor, South Dakota State University, 2010-2011. University Program Council Grant, $3500. Grant to Campus Women s Coalition in order to fund keynote address by Dr. Gail Dines during Week to End Violence against Women Program, 2013. University Program Council Grant, $4100. Grant to Campus Women s Coalition in order to fund keynote address by Dr. Michael Kimmel during Week to End Violence against Women Program, 2011. University Program Council Grant, $1500. Grant to Campus Women s Coalition in order to fund keynote address by Ms. Jessica Valenti during Week to End Violence against Women Program, 2010. Women s Giving Circle Grant, $2000. Award to take students to the Feminist Majority Foundation s National Young Women s Leadership Conference in Washington, DC, South Dakota State University, Spring 2013, 2012, 2011, and 2010. LANGUAGES English, native speaker Spanish, near-native fluency (superior proficiency on the ACTFL Scale) Portuguese, reading ability and intermediate speaking proficiency French, reading ability PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Cervantes Society of America Renaissance Society of America Sixteenth Century Society Modern Language Association South Dakota World Languages Association REFERENCES 4
Denise K. Filios Associate Professor of Spanish Dissertation Co-director University of Iowa 418 Phillips Hall Iowa City, IA 52242 (319) 335-3451 denise-filios@uiowa.edu Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez Assistant Professor of Spanish Dissertation Co-director University of Iowa 422 Phillips Hall Iowa City, IA 52242 (319) 384-1940 ana-m-rodriguez@uiowa.edu Laurie Haleta Professor and Department Head of Modern Languages South Dakota State University 121 Wagner Hall, Box 2275 Brookings, SD 57007 (605) 688-5102 laurie.haleta@sdtate.edu 5