NANCY KARINA QUINTANILLA English Department Cornell University 250 Goldwin Smith Hall Ithaca NY 14850 (562) 415-3699 nq28@cornell.edu www.nancyquintanilla.com EDUCATION Ph.D. Candidate in English Language and Literature, Cornell University, Fall 2017 (anticipated) M.A. in English Language and Literature, Cornell University, February 2014 B.A. with majors in English and Global Cultures, University of California, Irvine, June 2010 DISSERTATION Archives of Failure: Missing Bodies and the Practice of Recovery Advisors: Mary Pat Brady (chair), Margo Crawford, Debra Castillo, Helena Maria Viramontes HONORS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS Latin American Studies Graduate Fellow, 2017-2018 Martin Sampson Teaching Award, Cornell University, 2016 Provost Diversity Fellowship, Cornell University, 2016 Ford Foundation Dissertation Diversity Fellowship, Honorable Mention, 2016 Humanities Dissertation Writing Group Award, Cornell University, 2015-2016 Peer Collaboration Program Grant, Cornell University, 2013, 2015 Sage Fellowship, Cornell University, 2011-2012, 2014-2015 Readership, Children s Literature and Desire, Cornell University, 2013, 2015 Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Diversity Fellowship, Honorable Mention, 2013 Chancellor s Award for Excellence in Research, UC, Irvine, 2010 RESEARCH GRANTS American Studies Research Travel Grant, Cornell University, 2015, 2016, 2017 Latino/a Studies Program Research Grant, Cornell University, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017 Graduate Research and Teaching Fellowship (GRTF), Cornell University, 2016 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Practitioners Program Award, Cornell University, 2016 Society for the Humanities Travel Grant, Cornell University, 2015 Eunaudi Center International Travel Grant, Cornell University, 2015 Graduate School Research Travel Grant, Cornell University, 2015
CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS Alternative Geographies of Struggle: Mobilizing a New Poetics of Resistance, Paper to be presented at the The Sense of Sight: Visuality, Visibility, and Ways of Seeing Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, HI, [November 2017] Teaching Race and Ethnicity in Prison Education, Roundtable discussion at the Teaching As Research Conference sponsored by the Center for Teaching Excellence and CU-CIRTL, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Summer 2017 Platicas: The Electronic Disturbance Theatre, Research presented at the Latino/as Studies Program Platicas colloquium, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, October 2016 Working in the Shadows: Cargo Culture in Oscar Martinez s The Beast, Paper presented at the Deliberating Latino/a Studies: Promiscuity, Incivility, and (Un)Disciplinarity Latino/a Studies Association Conference, CA, July 2016 Voices in Movement: Central American Women and the Quest for Social Change, Paper presented at the Where are you going? Where have you been? Living Latina Feminisms Symposium, Cornell University, NY, April 2016 Performing Diaspora: A Re-View of Political Exodus, Paper presented at the Latina/o Utopias: Futures, Forms, and the Will of Literature Conference, John Jay College, NY, April 2015 Generational Returns and Post-Civil War Guatemala: Reimaging the Archive of Trauma in Sellers-Garcia s When the Ground Turns in its Sleep, Paper presented at the MALCS Mapping Geographies of Self: Woman as First Environment Conference, El Rito College, NM, July 2014 Platicas: El Pocho-Che Collective, Research presented at the Latino/as Studies Program Platicas colloquium, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, January 2014 Migrant Dissent: Countering Gender Violence and Racial Governance in Immigration Law Enforcement, Roundtable Panelist at the American Studies Association, Washington DC, November 2013 Movement and Spaces of Relationality: Arriving To A State of "Queer (un)belonging" in Achy Obejas's We came all the way from Cuba so you could dress like this?," Paper presented at the Haciendo Caminos: Mapping the Futures of U.S. Latina/o Literatures Conference, John Jay College, NY, March 2013
COLLEGE-LEVEL TEACHING EXPERIENCE English Department Lecturer English 1105, Writing and Sexual Politics: Mexico s Other Border: Sex Labor and Human Trafficking, Cornell University, Spring 2018 (anticipated) English 1168, Cultural Studies: U.S. Latinx Science Fiction in the Age of Dystopia, Cornell University, Spring 2018 (anticipated) First-Year Writing Seminar Instructor English 1170-107 and English 1170-108, Short Stories: Cuentos Latinx, Cornell University, Fall 2016 English 1158, American Voices: Central Americans, Cornell University, Fall 2015 English 1134 and English 1111, True Stories and Writing Across Cultures: Afro-Latina Writing and Identity, Cornell University, Fall 2013-Spring 2014 English 1134, Memoir and Memory, Cornell University, Fall 2012-Spring 2013 Cornell Prison Education Program Instructor English 3601, Literature Seminar: Latinx Science Fiction in the Age of Dystopia, Auburn Correctional Facility, Fall 2017 Writing 101, Pre-College Writing Seminar: Short Stories, Auburn Correctional Facility, Summer 2017 English 1905, Critical Writing: Flesh that Weeps : The Legacy of Trauma in Toni Morrison s and William Faulkner s Writing, Auburn Correctional Facility, Fall 2016 Tutorial Leader, Auburn Correctional Facility, Spring 2016 English 1905, Critical Writing: Central American Writing, Auburn Correctional Facility, Fall 2015 Foreign Language Across the Curriculum (FLAC) Spanish Instructor Spanish 3020, Spanish in the Disciplines, Cornell University, Spring 2016, Spring 2017 Latino/a Studies Program 3020, Spanish in the Disciplines, Cornell University, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015 Teaching Assistant American Studies 1101, Introduction to American Studies, Cornell University, Fall 2017 OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE English Literature Summer School Instructor, Saint Joseph High School, Lakewood, CA, Summer 2016 As summer school instructor, my job was to teach three courses: English I and II Review, and Language Arts. I facilitated discussions on textbook readings, administered exams and projects, and facilitated a curriculum designed to help students improve their grammar and reading skills. The Language Arts course was a pre-requisite class for incoming High School students who were admitted on a conditional basis. English I and
II were review courses for students already enrolled who did not receive a passing grade during the school year. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND ACADEMIC SERVICE Graduate Assistant for Minority, Indigenous, and Third World Studies Research Group, 2017-2018 Decolonizing Knowledge and Power: Postcolonial Studies, Decolonial Horizons Summer School Attendee, Spain, July 2017 English Department Roundtable Moderator, January 2014 English Graduate Student Organization (EGSO) President, 2013-2014 English Graduate Student Organization (EGSO) Treasurer, 2012-2013 Substitute Teacher, Introduction to U.S. Latino/a Literature, Professor Ella Diaz, Department of English. March 2013 Discussion Leader, Film Series: 9500 Liberty, Latino Studies Program. February 2013 Latino/a Graduate Student Coalition Graduate Representative, 2012 LANGUAGES English: Native Language Spanish: Native Language French: Basic Proficiency (speaking and writing) PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, 2017-Present Modern Language Association, 2016-Present Cornell Prison Education Program Advisory Board Member, 2016-2017 American Studies Association, 2013-2014 MALCS, 2012-2013 RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Central American-American Literature and Culture American Literature, History, and Culture Diaspora Theory Decolonial Theory Immigration Border Studies Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality
REFERENCES Associate Professor, Dr. Mary Pat Brady Committee Chairperson 281 Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University, (607) 255-7566, mpb23@cornell.edu Associate Professor, Dr. Margo Natalie Crawford Committee Member 269 Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University, (607) 255-6707, mc884@cornell.edu Associate Professor, Dr. Debra Castillo Committee Member 104 Morrill Hall, Cornell University, (607) 255-6199, dac9@cornell.edu Director of Creative Writing, Helena Maria Viramontes Committee Member 367 Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University, (607) 255-8573, hmv2@cornell.edu Executive Director of the Cornell Prison Education Program, Robert Scott 115 Day Hall, Cornell University, (607) 255-9091, robscott@cornell.edu