Eunice Rojas, PhD

Experience/Background

• July 2009 - Present - Lynchburg College, Assistant Professor of Spanish
• August 2008 - May 2009 - University of Richmond, Visiting Instructor of Spanish
• August 2004 - May 2008 - University of Virginia, Graduate Teaching Assistant
• August 2002 - July 2004 - University of Georgia, Graduate Teaching Assistant
• August 2003 - July 2004 - Gainesville College, Adjunct Professor of Spanish

Degrees and Certifications

• PhD in Spanish Literature - University of Virginia - 2010
• MA in Spanish Linguistics - University of Georgia - 2004
• J.D. cum laude -University of Puerto Rico Law School - 2001
• Licenciatura en derecho - University of Barcelona - 2001
• J.D./MA Candidate, Joint Degree program in Law and International Affairs - American University (transferred after one year) - August 1997 - May 1998

Research Interests

20th-Century Latin American Literature

• Contemporary Argentine narrative
• Contemporary Cuban narrative
• Madness and irrationality
• Postmodern detective fiction
• Dictatorial and Post-dictatorial narrative in Argentina, Cuba, and Spain

Linguistics

• History of the language
• Ser and estar in Spanish and Catalan

Publications

• “Ricardo Piglia’s Schizophrenic Machine: The Madness of Resistance in La ciudad ausente.” Hispanet Journal 6 (2013) (Forthcoming).
•  “El efecto del pronombre locativo hi/ý en la evolución de los usos locativos de ser y estar en castellano y catalán.” Estudis Romànics 35, (2013) (Forthcoming).
•  “Pulling at the Stake of Oppression:  Lluís Llach’s Catalan Nationalism from Dictatorship to Democracy.” The Sounds of Resistance: The Role of Music in Multicultural Activism. Eds. Lindsay Eades and Eunice Rojas. New York: Praeger Press, 2012. (Forthcoming)
• “Madness as Redemption in Ulysses’ “Circe” Episode” Papers on Joyce 16 (2010).
• Translation of "Mujeres en sociedad en el setecientos español." by Maria Victoria López-Cordón Cortezo in Eve's Enlightenment: Women's Experience in Spain and Spanish America, 1726-1839Ed. Catherine Jaffe and Elizabeth Franklin Lewis. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009.

Conferences

• “Detecting Space Outside the Asylum: A Rhythmanalysis of Barcelona in Eduardo Mendoza’s Ceferino Trilogy.”  Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference.  Winston-Salem, VA. October 18-20, 2012.
• “Visiones y re-visiones del tiempo imaginario:  Intentando “Volver” a “El milagro secreto” at the Carolina Conference of Romance Literatures, Chapel Hill, NC. March 23-25, 2012.
• “The Mad Detective in Post-Dictatorial Spain and Argentina.” at South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA.  November 4-6, 2011.
• “Insane Inception: Saer’s Las nubes as a Foundational Text for Argentina.” Carolina Conference of Romance Literatures, Chapel Hill, NC. March 24-26, 2011.
• “Tumor or Tuber:  Lezama’s Fibroma as Deleuzian Rhizome.” Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference.  Roanoke, VA. October 7-9, 2010.  Presented as part of one of several panels honoring the 100^th anniversary of the birth of the Cuban novelist and poet, José Lezama Lima.
• “Bordering on Madness: Luisa Valenzuela’s Characters Return to Argentina.”  Carolina Conference of Romance Literatures, Chapel Hill, NC. March 25-27, 2010.
• “Writing about Riding: From Pedro de Aguilar to Don Quixote.” Lynchburg College Medieval and Renaissance Evening. Lynchburg, VA. March 24, 2010 and March 17, 2011.
• “Ricardo Piglia’s Schizophrenic Machine.”  Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Greenville, SC, October 8-10, 2009.
• “Cuerpos de modelo en Modelos de mujer de Almudena Grandes.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April 20-22, 2006.
• “Ser/Ésser y estar en la época medieval: un estudio comparativo del castellano y el catalán.” Internacional Congreso on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 5-8, 2005.
• “Ser/Ésser y estar:  Análisis comparativo-diacrónico de su uso en castellano y en catalán.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April 21-22, 2005.
• “Verdad, mentira y locura en ‘Delirio’ de Laura Restrepo.” International Conference on Truth and Mendacity, Atlanta, GA, October 22, 2004.

Information on Classes Taught

• Hispanic Prose
• Advanced Language Practice
• Spanish for International Relations and Criminology
• Intensive Intermediate Spanish
• Literary Analysis
• Advanced Grammar and Composition
• Spanish for the Legal Profession
• Grammar Review
• Intermediate Spanish 1 & 2
• Intermediate Spanish II
• Elementary Spanish I
• Accelerated Elementary Spanish

Awards and Grants

• Dissertation Acceleration Award - University of Virginia
• Departmental Dissertation Fellowship - University of Virginia
• Outstanding teaching assistant award - University of Georgia
• Highest grade in law school class: Legal Methods, Property II, - American University

Languages

• English - Native language
• Spanish - Native language
• Catalan - Proficiency
• Italian - Reading proficiency
• French - Reading proficiency

Professional Associations

• Modern Language Association
• State Bar of Georgia, 2002 to present