Sandra Adriana García Sanborn
Lecturer in Spanish
Special Interests
Literature from the South Cone; Central American Literature; Literary and Cultural Theory; Hispanic and Amerindian Poetry.
Education
- Ph.D. Candidate. University of California, Berkeley.
Hispanic Languages and Literatures with collateral fields in Literary and Cultural Theory and Colonial Spanish American Literature.
Dissertation: “Clases de terror: Gótico y literatura argentina”
- M.A. University of California, Berkeley, 1996. Hispanic Languages and Literatures.
- B.A. California State University, Stanislaus, 1994. Spanish, Summa Cum Laude.
Academic Employment
California State University, Stanislaus. Lecturer in Spanish (2006 to present)
University of California, Santa Cruz. Lecturer in Spanish (2003-2004)
University of California, Berkeley. Spanish Instructor (1995-2001)
Teaching Appointments
At CSU, Stanislaus: La literatura femenina hispánica; La novela hispánica; Spanish American Literature I; Advanced Spanish I; Advanced Spanish II; Spanish for Native Speakers I; Spanish 2020; Spanish 1010.
At UC, Santa Cruz: Intermediate Spanish; Spanish for Beginners I and II.
At UC, Berkeley: Introduction to Spanish American Literatures (discussion sessions);
Conferences
“La mimesis de lo inconcebible en El Diablo sabe mi nombre de Jacinta Escudos”. II Congreso Centroamericano de Estudios Culturales. Upcoming, July 2009. Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
“Collage in the Classroom: Stimulating writing, creativity and collaborative learning”. Foreign Language Association of Northern California Conference, 2008, San Francisco.
VI Jornadas de Historia de las Mujeres y I Congreso Iberoamericano de Estudios de las Mujeres y de Género. Participated in writing workshops, 2004, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
“Creative Writing in the Foreign Language Classroom”. California Language Teachers’ Association, Spring 2000, Oakland.
“Reading Short Stories: How to incorporate music and the cultural context”. Foreign Language Association of Northern California Conference, 1999, Berkeley.
Publications
Article. “Collage in the Classroom: Stimulating writing, creativity and collaborative learning”. Connections. Journal of the Southwest Conference on Language Teaching. April 2009.
Article. “Grotesco, otredad y nación en La cautiva y El matadero”.
(Under consideration for publication in Afro-Hispanic Review.)
Book review. Rascón Banda, Víctor Hugo. Volver a Santa Rosa. In Lucero: A Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, Vol. 8 (Spring 1997) 103-4.
Honors and Awards
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award for the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 1997, UC Berkeley
Appointed to develop Translation for Graduate Students, a course for graduate students from diverse fields. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UC Berkeley, 1997
Appointed Course Coordinator for Intermediate Spanish Courses at UC Berkeley, 1995 and 1996
Award for Outstanding Achievement, Dept. of Modern Languages, 1994, CSU Stanislaus
California Pre-Doctoral Program, Honors List, 1994, CSU Stanislaus
Languages
Spanish, Native Proficiency Portuguese, Advanced Level
English, Native Proficiency French, Intermediate Level
Professional Memberships
Modern Language Association
Latin American Studies Association
Foreign Language Association of Northern California
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
Member of the Editorial Board of Lucero: A Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies. Business Editor, 1997 issue - Assistant Editor, 1998 and 2001 issues