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Research Areas
Spanish American women writers and journalists of the nineteenth century, with an emphasis on fashion, consumption and identity politics in Argentina.
Doctoral Dissertation:听, 2006
麻豆影院
A faculty member of the CU-麻豆影院 Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Dr. Hallstead specializes in 19th century Argentine fashion narratives and has several publications on Argentine narratives. She has traveled frequently to Argentina and throughout Latin America, and is very familiar with the local customs and cultural heritage.
Teaching
Dr. Hallstead teaches Advanced Spanish Grammar (3120), Latin American culture (3220) and late 19th听and 20th听century Argentine literature (3260, Global Seminar in Rosario, Argentina). Since teaching at CU, Dr. Hallstead has won the CU-LEAD award, the Marinus Smith Award from the CU Parents Association for excellence in teaching and the "Champion of International Education for Study Abroad Students" award, administered by听.
Study Abroad Global Seminar in Rosario, Argentina
Dr. Hallstead is the director to the听Study Abroad Global Seminar to听. This faculty-led Global Seminar is conducted听each summer from early June to mid July. The intensive 5 week program, hosted by the private university听听offers 6 upper-division credit hours to its participants (there is one culture class and one literature class offered each year), an all-expense included home stay with an Argentine family, several cultural excursions and guest lectures by local intellectuals and much more. For more information, you may contact听Dr. Hallstead听or visit听.听If your are interested in applying, you can do so听听for summer 2018.
Books and Articles
2019 鈥淛ose虂 Ma虂rmol鈥檚 Amalia (1851, 1855) and the Politics of Consumption. Journal of Latin American Culture Studies, 28 (1): 23-41.
2017听(co-edited with Regina Root, The College of William and Mary). Ampersand: Buenos Aires forthcoming
2017听鈥淒e hombres afeminados a los peligrosos: la pol铆tica identitaria de las modas y la vestimenta masculinas en la literatura Argentina decimon贸nica鈥�.听 Forthcoming in Pasado de moda. Expresiones culturales y consumo en la Argentina (Hallstead, Susan and Root, Regina, eds.) Buenos Aires: Edhasa.
2017 鈥淚ntroducci贸n a la moda argentina: de la 茅poca colonial a la actualidad鈥� (together with Regina Root). Forthcoming in Pasado de moda. Expresiones culturales y consume en la Argentina. Hallstead, Susan and Root, Regina (eds.) Buenos Aires: Edhasa.
2016 听鈥淢odas y m谩scaras de la civilizaci贸n: Juana Manso frente al consumo鈥�. Saga: Revista de Letras, No. 4, Segundo Semestre: 75-119.
2012 鈥淚ntroduction鈥�, student edition of El a帽o del desierto by Pedro Mairal.听 StockCero.
2012 鈥淟a pol铆tica de la frivolidad: consumo, bajas pasiones y g茅nero en Blanca Sol de Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera鈥�. In El lenguaje de las emociones: afecto y cultura en Am茅rica Latina (Mora帽a, Mabel and S谩nchez Prado, Ignacio, eds.) Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2012: 109-124.
2012 鈥淚dentity Crises and Immigration in Argentina: Consumption and Belonging in En la sangre (1887) by Eugenio Cambaceres鈥�.听 Confluencia: Revista Hisp谩nica de Cultural y Literatura. Vol. 27, No. 2, Spring 2012: 16-33.
2012 鈥淧asiones fatales: consumo, bandidaje y g茅nero en El Zarco鈥� co-written with Juan Pablo Dabove. In Pensar el siglo XIX desde el siglo XXI: Nuevas miradas y lecturas.听 Raleigh: Editorial A Contracorriente, 193-212.
2011听鈥�En la sangre (1887): Appearance, Consumption, Class and National Identity in Cambaceres.鈥� In Lenguaje, Arte y Revoluciones Ayer y Hoy: New Approaches to Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Studies. (Cort谩zar, Alejandro and Orozco, Rafael, eds.) 听New Castle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 44-54.
2009 鈥淒isease and Immorality: The Problem of Fashionable Dress in Buenos Aires (1862-1880)鈥�. Latin American Literary Review. Vol. 37, No. 73. January-June 2009: 90-117.
2008 鈥淒e peinetones a grandes tiendas finiseculares: Consumo, moda e identidad nacional argentina鈥�. In Cultura y cambio social en Am茅rica Latina, ed., Mabel Mora帽a. Mabrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert: 179-208.
2004听鈥淧ol铆ticas vestimentarias sarmientinas: tempranos ensayos sobre las modas y el buen vestir nacionales鈥�. Revista Iberoamericana, Special issue 鈥淧ol铆ticas familiares: g茅nero y espacio dom茅stico en Am茅rica Latina鈥� edited by Lelia Area. LXX.206: 53-69
2003 鈥淏lack Bodies, White Readers: The Representation of the Slave Body in Francisco and El Negro Francisco鈥�. Tropos XXIX: 37-58.
2001 听鈥溌縐na naci贸n enfermiza? Enfermedad grotesca y escritura femenina en Dolores de Soledad Acosta de Samper鈥�. Working Papers in Romance Languages and Literatures IV: 69-81
2000 鈥淐ruzando las fronteras de la identidad subalterna: las mujeres tontas de Julio Cort谩zar y Manuel Puig鈥�. Ciudadan铆a: apropiaciones y definiciones. Eds. Marta L贸pez-Luaces and Alicia Cipria. Washington: Literal Books. 53-63
Book Reviews
2015听Book Review of Workers Go Shopping in Argentina: The Rise of Popular Consumer Culture. (Milanesio, Natalia).听 Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
2012听Book Review of Entre hombres: Masculinidades del siglo XIX en Am茅rica Latina. (Peluffo, Ana and S谩nchez Prado, Ignacio, eds.) Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2010. In A Contracorriente, Vol. 9, No. 3, spring 2012: 420-426.
2012听Book Review of Couture and Consensus by Root, Regina A.听 Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2010. Revista de Estudios Hisp谩nicos, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Washington at St. Louis.听
2011听Book Review of Women and Print Culture in Post-Independence Buenos Aires. Macintyre, Iona. Warminster: Tamesis, 2010. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Volume LXXXVIII, No. 5 (July 2011) University of Glasgow (769-771).
2011听Book Review of Gendered Self-Consciousness in Mexican and Chicana Women Writers: The Female Body as an Instrument of Political Resistance. Roberts-Camps, Traci. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2008. In Hispania Vol. 94, No. 1, March 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听2011: 216-217.
2010 Book Review of Rewriting Womanhood: Feminism, Subjectivity, and the Angel of the House in the Latin American Novel, 1887-1903. LaGreca, Nancy. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009. In Hispania Vol. 93, No. 2, June 2010: 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听328-330.
2009听Book Review of Prisma: An谩lisis cr铆tico de textos en espa帽ol. Sobejano-Mor谩n, Antonio and Bianco, Paola. Wilkes Barre: Panda Publications, 2008. Hispania 92, 737-738.
Translations
2003 听Spanish to English of Mabel Mora帽a鈥檚 article: 鈥淓l boom del subalterno鈥�. Trigo, Abril (ed. and introd.); The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader. Durham, NC: Duke UP; 2004: 643-54.
2000 English to Spanish of Jean Franco鈥檚 article: 鈥淎 Ghost Dance in the Fields of the Cold War鈥�. Nuevas Perspectivas desde/sobre Am茅rica Latina:el desaf铆o de los estudios culturales. Ed. Mabel Mora帽a. Santiago de Chile-Pittsburgh: Editorial Cuarto Propio / IILI.
2000听English to Spanish of Debra A. Castillo鈥檚 article: 鈥淏order Lives: Prostitute Women in Tijuana鈥�. Nuevas Perspectivas desde/sobre Am茅rica Latina: el desaf铆o de los estudios culturales. Ed. Mabel Mora帽a. Santiago de Chile-Pittsburgh: Editorial Cuarto Propio / 听 听 听 听 听 听IILI
1999 Spanish to English of Hugo Achugar鈥檚 article: 鈥溾�楴uestro Norte es el Sur鈥�. A prop贸sito de representaciones y localizaciones鈥�. Read at the University of Chicago.
Papers Presented at Conferences / Conferences Attended
2016听Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association (March 17-20).听 Paper titled: 鈥淎rgentine Romanticism and the Politics of Consumption: on Jos茅 M谩rmol鈥檚 Amalia鈥�.
2016 Attended the Western Regional CIBER Consortium/Rocky Mountain CIBER Network Conference. University of Colorado-Denver (Oct 27-29).
2014听Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association (March 18-21).听 Paper titled: 鈥淔ashion as Capital鈥�.
2011听Reading Emotions in Latin America: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Represenation of Affect. Third South by Midwest International Conference, Washington University in St. Louis. Paper titled: 鈥淭he Politics of Frivolity: Consumption, Base Passions and Gender in Blanca Sol by Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera鈥�.
2010听Latin American Studies Association, XXIX International Conference. Toronto, Canada.听 Organized Panel: Argentine Fashion and Consumption 1800-2010. Paper Titled: 鈥淔rom the Effeminate to the Dangerous: The Identity Politics of 19th Century Argentine Male Fashion and Dress鈥�.
2010听XXVII Biennial Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures.听 Paper titled: 鈥�En la Sangre, En la apariencia: Consumo e identidad nacional en Cambaceres鈥�.
2006听Latin American Studies Association, XXVI International Conference. San Juan, Puerto Rico. Paper titled: 鈥�Fashionable Desires: Consumption and Gender in Post-Caseros Buenos Aires鈥�.
2003听University of Utah 22nd Annual Western Humanities Alliance Conference title 鈥淢emory, Material and Meaning鈥�. Paper titled: 鈥淩emembering Juana Manso: The Other Voice of 19th Century Argentine Nationalism鈥�.
2001听University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 7th Annual Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures. Paper titled: 鈥淔ashionNation: Male Discourses on Fashion in Alberdi鈥檚 La Moda (1837) and Sarmiento鈥檚 El Progreso (1842) in 19th Century 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听Argentina鈥�.
1999听Arizona State University Conference title 鈥淧arody, Satire and the Grotesque鈥�. Paper titled: 鈥溌縐na naci贸n enfermiza? Enfermedad real y simb贸lica en Dolores de Soledad Acosta de Samper鈥�.
1999听Montclair State University Conference title 鈥淐itizenship: Appropriations and Definitions鈥�. Paper titled: 鈥淐ruzando las fronteras de identidad subalterna: las mujeres 鈥渢ontas鈥� de Julio Cort谩zar y Manuel Puig鈥�.
1999听University of Minnesota Conference title: 鈥淏order Crossings: An Interdisciplinary Forum鈥�. Paper titled: 鈥�La nieve del Almirante by Alvaro Mutis: A Reading of the Post-Colonial Gothic鈥�.
1999听New York University Conference title: 鈥淥uter Limits: Geograf铆as m贸viles鈥�. Paper titled: 鈥淛uegos ambiguos y fronteras simb贸licas: La mujer 鈥渢onta鈥� en Rayuela de Julio Cort谩zar y en Pubis Angelical de Manuel Puig.
Honors and Awards
2019 Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) Certification
2016听Arts and Sciences Fund for Excellence Grant, University of Colorado-麻豆影院, for travel to Harvard University, annual ACLA conference.
2014听Arts and Sciences Fund for Excellence Grant, University of Colorado-麻豆影院, for travel to New York University, annual ACLA conference.
2011听Champion of Study Abroad, University of Colorado-麻豆影院 for Global Seminar to Rosario, Argentina.
2011听Dean鈥檚 Fund for Excellence, University of Colorado-麻豆影院 for travel to Buenos Aires to fund research for El a帽o del desierto edition.
2011听Kayden Research Grant, University of Colorado-麻豆影院 for edited volume Pasado de moda: expresiones culturales y consumo en la Argentina.
2010听Dean鈥檚 Fund for Excellence, University of Colorado-麻豆影院 for travel to Toronto, Canada for LASA XXIX International Conference.
2009听Travel Grant, Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities, University of Colorado-麻豆影院 for travel to Lima, Peru for archival research.
2009 Dean鈥檚 Fund for Excellence, University of Colorado-麻豆影院 for travel to IILI conference, Washington, D.C. June, 2010.听
2006听Women鈥檚 Studies Dissertation Prize, University of Pittsburgh, awarded to the best graduate dissertation of 2006, chosen by a panel of university scholars.
2005听Travel Grant, Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities, University of Colorado-麻豆影院 for travel to Buenos Aires, Argentina for archival research,
2005听Dean鈥檚 Fund for Excellence, University of Colorado-麻豆影院 for travel to San Juan, Puerto Rico for LASA XXVI International conference.
2002听Women鈥檚 Studies Research Award, University of Pittsburgh, to conduct research at Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
2001听Teaching Fellowship Recipient for Women鈥檚 Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh, to teach course 鈥淲omen and Society鈥�.
2001听Center for Latin American Studies Travel Grant recipient, University of Pittsburgh, to conduct research at the National Library, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2001听Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (FLASF) recipient, for the advanced study of Portuguese in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at the Instituto-Brasil-Estados Unidos (IBEU) (Department of Education, Washington, D.C.).
2000-2001听听Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (FLASF) recipient, for the study of Portuguese at the University of Pittsburgh (Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and Department of Education, Washington, D.C.).
2000听听Center for Latin American Studies Travel Grant recipient, University of Pittsburgh to conduct research at the National Library, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1998 听Phi Beta Kappa Member, University of Pittsburgh.
Teaching Awards
2008 Marinus Smith Award from the CU Parents Association for excellence in teaching
2008 CU-LEAD award for excellence in teaching
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