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Elia J Armacanqui-Tipacti

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Elia J Armacanqui-Tipacti

 

Dr. ELIA J. ARMACANQUI-TIPACTI

 
Foreign Languages Department
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
3501 Harmony Lane #6
Stevens Point, WI 54481
UWSP, CCC 406 (office)
(715) 346 2308 (W)
   

EDUCATION

 
Graduate University of Wisconsin, Ph.D received May 1995 Doctoral Thesis: Sor María Manuela de Santa Ana : Una Genuina Teresina Peruana

Minor: Portuguese and Brazilian literature and language

University of Wisconsin, M.A. Major: Spanish Literature

   
Undergraduate Universidad Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú B.A. in History. 

Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Lima, Perú Course work in Economics.

Escuela de Educación Superior Juan XXIII, Ica, Perú

  • Degree: Bachelor of Education.
  • Major: Profesora de Educación Primaria
  • Thesis: Influencia del Medio Ambiente en la Formación Educativa de los Niños en la Educación Primaria.
   

ACADEMIC HONORS


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2004

2001                                                                                                                     
The Excellence in Teaching Award by Sigma Alpha Pi:
The National Society of Leadership and Success.

Justus and Barbara Paul Sabbatical Grant

University Personal Development Committee (UPDC) Sabbatical Grant

The University of Wisconsin System Recognition for her outstanding contributions to the UW System and Women of Color in Education,

UPDC
Grant to research during the summer of 2004

Mrs. H. K. Backock highest Award
given to an outstanding faculty member for her cooperation with the students through governmental, social, and literary activities has generously given of her time to assist, guide, teach, and advise students
 
2001 The Mortar Board Honorary Award, to a faculty member who best advances the spirit of scholarship, teaching, recognizes and encourages leadership, and provides service to Elia J. Armacanqui-Tipacti, assistant professor of Spanish, for her dedication to students studying Spanish and her devotion to i Viva! And the Fox Valley Hispanic Community
   
2000 Summer Faculty Grant to research in Peru and Mexico, to compile an Anthology of Latin American Women Mystics in the Colonial times in Peru
   
1996 Lawrence University Community Council Achievement Award by LUCC for outstanding contribution to Lawrence University Community
   
1988 Research Grant, "Peruvian Nuns' Writings during the Colonial Period" Tinker-Nave Fund, Ibero-American Studies, University of Wisconsin
   
1984-86 Graduate Fellowship from Instituto National de Becas, Per� to study at University of Wisconsin, Madison
   

EMPLOYMENT

 
August 2002 to present Department of Foreign Languages, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
  • Position: Associate Professor of Spanish
   
September 1, 1995 to 2002 Department of Spanish at Lawrence University
  • Position: Assistant Professor of Spanish
  • Duties: -Teaching all levels of Spanish language and Latin American literature (colonial to contemporary), culture and civilization.
  • Teaching Portuguese language and literature
  • Serving at ad hoc committees for the university
   
Summer 1998 to present Lawrence University Outreach Program
  • Duties: teach a course of Spanish Advanced Placement Examination (AP) to high school teachers
   
August 23, 1993 to December 1994 Department of Spanish and Portuguese
  • Position: Lecturer
  • Duties: Teaching Spanish 225 (conversation, advanced grammar and culture)
  • Serving at ad hoc committees for the department.
   
September 1987 to July 1995 Department of Extension-Outreach Programs University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Position: Spanish Instructor
  • Duties: designing and teaching Spanish language and culture (beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels) and Spanish language designed for children as well.
   
1990- May 1995 Forest Products Laboratory United States Department of Agriculture, Madison, WI
  • Position: Spanish Instructor, beginning and intermediate levels.
  • Duties: designing and teaching Spanish language and culture courses to meet the needs of forest scientists, working in Latin America and Spain
   
September 1986 to June1993 Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Wisconsin
  • Position: Teaching Assistant
  • Duties: Spanish Language 101,102, 203, 204 (first and second year sequence); full responsibility for teaching grammar, composition, conversation, culture and literature to classes of 15-22 undergraduates
   
December 1992 to March 1993 Nedrebo's Formal Wear Inc.
  • Position: Spanish and English Instructor
  • Duties:
    1. Designing and teaching conversational Spanish to American employees
    2. Designing and teaching conversational English to Hispanic employees.
   
Madison Area Technical College Madison Area Technical College
  • Position: Spanish Instructor for beginning, intermediate, and advanced courses
   

PUBLICATIONS

 
BOOK  

Sor María Manuela de Santa Ana: Una Teresina Peruana, (Sister Maria Manuela de Santa Ana: A Peruvian Theresian). Centro Bartolomé de las Casas Publisher, Cuzco, Peru, 1999

 
ARTICLES AND ENTRIES
  • "El lenguaje literario y el arte en El jardín de las glicinas" por Nela Rio, virtual article published at La Red Cultural Hispánica, Otawa, Ontario, Canada, 2008.
  • "La propia escritura y la re-escritura de un transcriptor en Vida de la Madre María Manuela Ripa" en Diálogos espirituales. Manuscritos femeninos, Asunción Lavrin y Rosalva Loreto, editoras. Universidad Autónoma de Puebla-Universidad de las Américas-Puebla, México, 2005
  • A woman's voice behind a veil" proceeding from the Conference on Arts and Humanities at the University of Hawaii, 2004.
  • "Sor María Manuela: Obras y significado de una voz en Hispanoamérica colonial." Canon Formation/Exclusion: Hispanic Women Writers, spec. issue on MonographicReview/Revista Monográfica vol. XIII (1997): 139-153. Texas : U.T. Permian Basin
  • "Colonial Literature: Peru", an entry in Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature, 215- 218. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, London, Chicago, 1997
  • "Mysticism" in Latin American Literature, an entry in Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature, 572-73. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, London, Chicago, 1997
  • "Sor María Manuela de Santa Ana una voz de las mujeres de la Colonia."en Sociológica, 203- 231. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México, 1994.
  • "Sor María Manuela de Santa Ana: A Peruvian Window on the World." Hispanic Literary Autobiography, spec. issue in Monographic Review/Revista Monográfica vol. IX (1993): 125-139. Texas: U.T. Permian Basin.
  • "Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz." Proc. from the Conference of The Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery. 11-13 March, 1993. University of Southern Colorado.
 

FORTHCOMING PAPERS

  • "El aprendizaje del Runasimi o quechua puede ser divertido y agradable" STILLA, University of Indiana, 2009
  • "Sor María Manuela: La palabra de las Mujeres Peruanas" en Cuadernos de la Luciérnaga, Guadalajara, México
  • "Sor María Manuela de Santa Ana: Una Nueva Poeta Peruana del siglo XVIII," Biblioteca de Textos Universitarios in Salta, Argentina
 

PRESENTATIONS AND PANELS

1. Chair and discussant at the panel: La Latina no vencida at the North Central Council of Latin Americanists, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, October 31- November 1, 2008.

 2. Latin American Studies a Call for Collaboration workshop at UW- Milwaukee, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, OPID, UW-System, September 26-27, 2008.

4.  "El aprendizaje del idioma Runasimi o quechua puede ser divertido y agradable" paper presented at the First Biennal Symposium of Teaching Indigenous Languages of Latin America (STILLA 20008) at Indiana University, August 14-16, 2008. 

5.  "El lenguaje literario y el arte en el Jardín de las glicinas de Nela Rio" paper at the International Symposium at UNAM-ESECA (Escuela de Extensión in Otawa, Ontario, Canada, May 15, 2008.

6.  Teaching Colloquium: Service Learning Project Development, April 18, 2008, UWSP, Dreyfus University Center.

7. The 13th annual La Mujer Latina Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 15 to 16, 2008.

8. "Vida de la Madre María Manuela de Ripa una ventana de los movimientos indígenas en el Perú colonial"(Life, Sister Marïa Manuela de Ripa's a window of the indigenous up-raising during the Colonial times), Latin America :Visions of Social Justice in a Global World, an interdisciplinary conference Luther College-Decorah, Iowa, October 22-3, 2004.

9. "How does literature Provide Useful Information for Improvement of Teaching? at the 8 th Annual Teaching conference. The Dynamics of Teaching in a Rapidly Changing World, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, January 15, 2004.

10.  "A Woman's voice behind a veil" International Conference on Arts and Humanities at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 8-11, 2004.

11. "El discurso teológico de Sor María Manuela en Vida" (Sister María Manuela's theological discourse on her Life, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos-Lima, Perú) October 1-3, 2003.

12. "La propia escritura y la re-escritura de un transcriptor en Vida de la Madre Mar�a Manuela de Ripa", paper presented at the Women's writings Conference in Oaxaca, Mexico, May 13-17, 2003

13.  "Sor María Manuela of Perú: Inner Spirituality and Eroticism" paper presented at the Midwest Modern Language Association (M/MLA), conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 8-10, 2002.

14.  "La mujer en la sociedad colonial: Sor Mar�a Manuela", Asociación Annual de Escritoras de España y las Américas (1330-1800): Conference at the University Portland, Oregon, September 12-14, 2002

15.  "El rol económico de los conventos en la sociedad peruana colonial" VI Asociación annual de Escritoras de España y las Américas (1330-1800), Conference at the University of Portland, Oregon, Septiembre 12-14, 2002.

16. "La mujer en la sociedad colonial: Sor María Manuela", VI Asociación anual de Escritoras de España y las Américas (1330-1800): Las mujeres mas allá del limite, Conference at the Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., September 20-22, 2001.

17. "Del ejercicio espiritual al ejercicio pragmatico: Sor María Manuela, mística y mujer de negocios", paper presented at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, September 13-15, 2001

18. "Elementos culturales de la Colonia en Vida de Sor María Manuela" presentation at the 2000 Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, Sept. 21-23.

19. "Sister María Manuela de Ripa a new voice from the Santa Catalina Convent in Arequipa, Peru", a paper presented at the V Conferencia de las Mujeres escritoras en El Convento de Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Antiguo Convento de San Jeronimo, Ciudad de Mexico, 5, 6 y 7 de octubre del 2000

20.  "Intertextualidad de Sor María Manuela y Santa Teresa de Jesús paper presented at the Fourth Annual Conference on Women Writers of Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain and Colonial Latin America, at the University of Arizona, Tucson, from September 16-18, 1999

21. "El indigenismo de Clorinda Matto de Turner y el de Rosario Castellanos", paper presented at the Congreso Intenacional Rosario Castellanos" at La Universidad San Cristóbal de Chiapas, San Cristóbal, Chiapas from August 26-28, 1999

22.  "Sor Juana In�s de la Cruz: marginación multiple" paper presented at the Third Annual Conference on Women Writers of Medieval and Early Modern Spain and Colonial Latin America : "Recapturing the Female Hispanic Body: Cultural Representations and Discourse." at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles from October 22-24, 1998

23. "La mujer puertorriqueña en Este ojo que me mira" paper presented at the Internacional conference in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, at the University of San Juan, Bayamón, November 16-19, 1998

24.  "Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and cooking" paper presented at Latin American Studies Association, (LASSA) in Chicago, September 23-25, 1998

25. A panel entitled "Violencia implícita y explícita en los textos de mujeres" ("Implicit and explicit violence within women's narratives") at the First Internacional Conference of Women Writers at the the Centro Cultural BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA in Rosario, Argentina from August 19-22, 1998. The members of the panel were: Dr. Liliana Miraglia from Ecuador, Dr. Ang�lica Robledo from Colombia, Dr. Miriam Tlali from South Africa, Dr. Lina Pleltter from Austria, and Dr. Marie Nimier from France.

26. "Sor Manuela de la Asunción Ripa: un reciente hallazgo en el Perú"(Sister Manuela de la Asunción Ripa: a recent finding in Peru") was presented at the Conference on Women Writers of Later Medieval and Early Modern Spain and Colonial America, October 30 to November 1, 1997 at University of Virginia, Charlotesville, Virginia.

27. Panel entitled "Doing Archival Research in Europe and Latin America : Tips from the Trenches" at at the Conference on Women Writers of Later Medieval and Early Modern Spain and Colonial America, October 30 to November 1, 1997, at University of Virginia, Charlotesville, Virginia.

28. "Sor Mar�a Manuela: una voz latinoamericana de la Colonia" paper given in The Conference of the Spanish Golden Age and Latin American Colonial Period held at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas from October 10-12, 1996  

29. "Sor María Manuela: Modelo de mujer financiera" was presented at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference at the University of Kentucky, Lexington from April 18-20, 1996.

30. "La literatura criolla en el Perú" will be presented at University of Yucatán, México, March 1996

31. "Las coplas: una expresión de la literatura negra en el Perú," paper presented at the Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, September 22-24, 1995.

32. "Sister María Manuela: A defiant Voice of Peruvian Colonial Times," paper presented at Conference on the History of Women Religious called: "Beyond the Convent Walls: Religious Women in Historical Context" at Cardinal Stritch College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 18-21, 1995.

34. " Vida de Sor María Manuela: espejo de la conciencia nacional," paper given at V International Conference of the Asociacion de Literatura Femenina Hispánica: Modalidades de representación del sujeto auto/ bio/ gráfico femenino, at Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina; October 20-22, 1994.

35. "Este ojo que me mira," Loreina Santos Silva's autobiography a Puerto Rican contemporary writer, paper presented at the Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, September 23-25, 1994.  

36. Sor María Manuela de Santa Ana: ejemplo de resistencia a la censura y marginalidad colonial" was presented at XII Simposio Internacional de Literatura: la voz del otro: Disensión y Marginalidad, Caracas, Venezuela from august 1-6 1994.

38. "Sor María Manuela de Santa Ana: ejemplo de resistencia a la censura y marginalidad colonial." will be given at the International Conference: Censorship, exile and marginality in Hispanic Literature from the XVIII Century until today. The Conference is organized by The Department of Hispanic Studies of the University of London, England from June 1-4, 1994.

40. "Sor Juana Inés and the Metaphor of Nature" was presented at 47th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference April 21-23, 1994.

41. "Sor María Manuela: Palabra de las Mujeres Peruanas," paper presented at the Cuarto Simposium Internacional de Crítica literaria y escritura de mujeres de América latina en la Escuela de Escritores en Guadalajara, México, Dec. 1-4, 1993

42. "Latin American Authobiography and Theory," paper presented at Women's Caucus for the Midwest Modern Language Association, Nov. 4-6, 1993, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

43. "Sor María Manuela de Santa Ana : a Peruvian Window on the World," paper presented at Foreign Language Conference at Duquesne University, September 24-26, 1993, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

44. "Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz," paper presented at the Conference of the University of Southern Colorado in Colorado Springs, March 11-13, 1993.

45. "Sor María Manuela de Santa Ana: Una voz de las mujeres de la Colonia," paper presented at the International Congress in Mayaguez-Puerto Rico, Nov. 15-21, 1992.

46. "Sor María Manuela de Santa Ana: A Peruvian Theresa," paper given at Midwest Modern Language Association, Nov. 5-7, 1992, St. Louis, Missouri.

47. "Aplicación del cuento en la enseñanza de la lectura y escritura," presentation at Teachers' Conference, Ica ; Perú 1976.

 

LANGUAGE TEACHING CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

1. Faculty and Staff Professional Development organized by the UW-Stevens Point Academic Affairs, August 31, 2004.

2. Grant Proposal Workshop, January 14-15, 2003, UW-Stevens Point.

3. Language Gain and Study Abroad conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Global Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the Pyle Center, Friday October 25-Saturday 26, 2002

4. An interdisciplinary, Interconsortial Conference for Faculty and Staff of the ACM, ACS, and GLCA, : "Teaching Latin America in a Liberal Arts College" November 5-7, 1999 at Wabash College.

5. ACM/Mellon Conference, "Technology and the Teaching and Learning of Foreign Languages" at Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin, October 29-31, 1999

6. I attended the Computer Technology Workshop at Milwaukee University, in Milwaukee, April 24, 1999

7. I attended the Latino Studies Workshop, February 26-28, 1999 at Colorado College. The conference was supported by the Ford Foundation's Diversity Initiative and Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM).

8. Lawrence University Foreign Language Coalition sent several of their members, among them I, to attend the ACTFL Convention in Chicago, from November 20-21, 1998

9. Every year, I attend the WAFLF conference at the Paper Valley Convention Center on the first weekend of November

 

CAMPUS ACADEMIC SERVICE AT UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT

Professional Service:

a. Department:

1) The salary and Merit Committee

2) Supervising the student's teaching practicum

  • North High School, Appleton
  • Stevens Point Area High Schools
  • Almond High School, Almond

3) Initiative of an interdisciplinary course with the Women's Studies program

4) Initiative to sponsor the Presentation of the Bachata documentary with History and communications departments

5) Advisor for 24 Spanish majors

6) Member to the Center for the Latin American & Caribbean Studies

7) Attended the Foreign Language Home Coming Reunion

8) Club de Espa�ol, advisor

9) Search and Screening German Instructor committee

10) Departmental webpage updating leader

11) Organized the Poetry and Art Exhibition: Elimination of all forms of violence against women/ Eliminaci�n de toda forma de violencia contra la mujeres, in March 2-5, 2005

b. University:

1) The Equity and Affirmative Action Committee

2) Student's marshal on the Fall commencement

3) an active faculty member to the SALSA students' organization I helped with its major Cultural activity in September 2002

4) In the Spring I'll be the SALSA advisor


5) Attended consistently the cultural-diversity meetings

6) Supported student organizations dinners

7) I gave a lecture in the Professor Valentina Peguero's History Class

8) Participation UWSP faculty women's book publication display on campus sponsor by the Women's Studies program

9) mentor for minority students on campus

10) Search and Screening Committee for the Executive Director Foundation, spring 2004

11) Mission, Vision, Values committee, spring 2004- fall 2004

12) Search and Screening Committee for the Dean of the Natural Resources College 2004- 2005

c. Community:

An active member at the Portage County Cultural Fair in Stevens Point community in charge of Peruvian booths and helping with fundraising for a Casa Hogar orphanage in Lima and a Health Center in Arequipa, Peru respectively.

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • Member for Latin American and Caribbean Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  • Member of la Asociaci�n de Escritoras de Espa�a y las Am�ricas
  • Contributor to the current Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature, London
  • Member of the Newsletter History of Women Religious
  • Member: National Modern Language Association (MLA)
  • Midwest / Modern Language Association (M/MLA)
  • Member of the Women Writers of Later Medieval and Early Modern Spain and olonial America Association
  • Member of Latin American Studies Association (LASSA)
  • Member of ACTFL
  • Member of the WAFLF
 

CURRENT AND FUTURE RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Compiling and anthology on the writings of Mystics during the Colonial period with Dr. Asunci � n Lavrin
  • Preparing the translation of Sister Maria Manuela de Santa Ana : A Peruvian Theresian into English.
  • " 'Las Capillas' de Sor Mar�a Manuela de Santa Ana: una forma de Intertextualidad," (manuscript in preparation).
  • Edition of Latin American Mystic's Poetry with Professor Rima de Vallbona from the University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas. (in preparation)
  • The writings of Peruvian Nuns during the Colonial Period book (in preparation)
  • Preparation of an anthology of Peruvians women writers.
  • Transcription and Introduction for a 900 - page manuscript from the Santa Catalina Monastery of Arequipa, Peru. (in progress)
  • Preparing an anthology of Afro-Latin American Writers (long term plan)
 

LANGUAGES

  • Spanish native speaker
  • Fluent in English
  • Quechua, a Peruvian Indian Language is my second language, (fluent reading, writing, and conversation)
  • Portuguese (fluent reading, writing, and conversation); able to teach the language and Portuguese and Brazilian literature as well
  • Italian (reading knowledge)