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Nancy Bird-Soto
Phone: 608-658-1495
Email: nancybird75@gmail.com
Education
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Spanish 2006
M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Spanish 1999
B.A. University of Minnesota, Spanish 1996
Diploma in Hispanic, European, and Latin American Studies,
Fundación José Ortega y Gasset, Toledo, Spain 1993
Experience
Academic:
• Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee August 2011
• Assistant Professor of Spanish, UWM Aug. 2007-July 2011
• Reader, AP Spanish, summer session 2005-present
• Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Madison Aug. 2003-May 2007
Adjunct Faculty, Madison Area Technical College Aug. 2002-May 2005
• Teaching Assistant /Head TA for several semesters
UW-Madison Aug. 1997-May 2003
Other:
Interviewer: UW Survey Center, Madison, WI 2006
Community Support Provider, Dungarvin Wisconsin 1998-2002
Publications
BOOKS
Academic
• Los hipócritas de Franca de Armiño. Critical Edition. San Juan: Editorial Tiempo
Nuevo, 2013. Print.
• Escritoras puertorriqueñas de la transición del siglo XIX al XX: Carmela Eulate
Sanjurjo, Ana Roqué y Luisa Capetillo. Prologue by Norma Valle Ferrer. Lewiston:
Edwin Mellen Press, 2009. Print.
• Sara la obrera y otros cuentos: El repertorio femenino de Ana Roqué. Prologue by
Carmen Centeno Añeses. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2009. Print.

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Creative
Aries Point o el viaje de Pleione. Novel. Santo Domingo & San Juan: Isla Negra
Editores, 2016. Print.
Sobre la tela de una araña. Short stories. San Juan: Editorial Tiempo Nuevo, 2016. Print.
Put Together: A Minne-Memoir. Narrative/memoir. E-book. New York: Editorial Trance,
2014.
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
“Una noble amistad: Luz y sombra de Ana Roqué.” Cuadrivium 10 (2015): 56-61. Print.
“Felinidad concordante: Breve vistazo al gato en la literatura y otras artes.” Felina:
Antología para gatos. Eds. David Caleb Acevedo & Cindy Jiménez Vera. San Juan:
Editorial La Tuerca, 2015. 49-59. Print.
“A Driving Agent: The Spectator in Subiela’s ‘El camión’ [The Van].” Eliseo Subiela,
The Poet of Latin American Cinema. Ed. Nancy J. Membrez. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen
Press, 2014. 225-232. Print.
“Theory/ Latin-aTheory/ Atheory.” Letras Salvajes: Revista de Literatura, Arte y
Pensamiento de Alta Velocidad 15 (2014): 91-98. Web.
“Lo bueno de todas las razas: De José Martí a Jesús Colón.” Letras Salvajes 14 (2014):
88-99. Web.
“Gender, Censorship and Resistance in Esmeralda Santiago’s Conquistadora.” Genre.
University of California-Long Beach (2013): 1-12. Print.
“The Playful 'i' in Tato Laviera's Poetry: An Arte Poetica." MMLA Journal 46.1 (2013):
1-13. Print.
"In Some Odd Way: The Queer and Meta-Queer in Luisa Capetillo's Mi opinión.” Letras
Salvajes 12 (2013): 65-76. Web.
“Sketching the Colonial Subject: Jesús Colón’s ‘Dalmau’.” Milenio 16-17 (2012-2013):
44-57. Print.
“Por el mundo que falta: Los viajes isleños de Luisa Capetillo.” Viajeras entre dos
mundos. Ed. Sara Beatriz Guardia. Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados, Brazil,
2012. 685-698. Print.
“En la frontera del artificio: La muñeca de Carmela Eulate Sanjurjo y Sirena Selena
vestida de pena de Mayra Santos Febres.” Fronteras de la memoria. Eds. Bernardita
Llanos & Ana Maria Goetschel. Santiago de Chile: Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2012. 219-
238. Print.

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“Subversivo y sin verbos: ‘Acto de fe” de Mayra Santos Febres.” Entre las “ruinas” y la
descolonización. Reflexiones desde la literatura del Gran Caribe. Ed. Silvia Valero.
Tinkuy: Boletín de Investigación y Debate. 13 (2010): 123-130. Print.
“Recovering the Self: The Unnamed Characters of Luisa Capetillo’s How Poor Women
Prostitute Themselves.” Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage 7 (2009): 45-56.
Print.
“The (Un)Making of the Woman as Sinner: The Memories of Ana Calderón.” Cuarto
Propio 5 (2009). Web.
“Incorporando a las mujeres: Luisa Capetillo y Nuestra América”. Identidades 7 (2009):
59-74. Print.
“Simply María or the American Dream: Lessons in Gender…And Action!” Identidades 6
(2008): 131-147. Print.
“Rompiendo el molde o arrancándose el corset: La propuesta educativa de Luisa
Capetillo.” Identidades 5 (2007): 161-175. Print.
Co-authored
Bird-Soto, Nancy & Pilar Melero: “Subsuelo discursivo: El Vampiro del Río Grande de
Roberto de la Torre Hurtado.” Gente de frontera. Ed. J. Oxford. San Juan: Casa de los
Poetas Editores, 2012. 207-230. Print.
Bird-Soto, Nancy & Patricia Rengel: “Podcasting and the Intermediate- Level Spanish
Classroom.” Second Language Teaching and Learning in the Net Generation. Eds.
Oxford, R. & Oxford, J., U of Hawai’i at Manoa, 2009. 101-109. Print.
Reviews
In journals:
“Nuyorican Poets and Their Impact in Latino Poetry.” Centro-Voices, 19 Nov 2014.
http://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/centrovoices/reviews/nuyorican-poets-and-their-impact-
latino-poetry. Web.
Review of: Anderson, Mark D. Disaster Writing: The Cultural Politics of Catastrophe in
Latin America. Hispania 96.1 (2013): 170-171. Print/Web.
“Dismantling the Myth of the Disabled: Body and Soul and Living the
Edges.” Feminist Collections (UW-Madison) 33.4 (2012). Print/Web.
Review of: Lección errante: Mayra Santos Febres y el Caribe contemporáneo. Eds.

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Juan Pablo Rivera & Nadia Celis. San Juan & Santo Domingo:
Isla Negra Editores, 2011. In Ciberletras (2011). Web.
In newspapers:
“La obra completa de una voz inextinguible”. En Rojo: Claridad.12-18 mar 2009. Web.
(Review of Norma Valle Ferrer’s Luisa Capetillo,Obra Completa. “Mi patria es la libertad”.
Departamento del Trabajo y Recursos Humanos y el Proyecto de Estudios de las Mujeres de la
UPR-Cayey,2008).
“Un espejo de poderes mágicos: El vampiro del Río Grande”.En Rojo: Claridad. 30 abril-6
mayo 2009. Web. (Review of Roberto de la Torre Hurtado’s El vampiro del Río Grande”.
Monterrey, México: La&Go, 2008).
“Ese otro mundo: Fe en disfraz de Mayra Santos Febres”. En Rojo: Claridad.21-28 enero 2010.
Web. (Review of Mayra Santos-Febres’s Fe en disfraz. Alfaguara,2009).
“Perderse en/por el lenguaje: El libro del silencio”. En Rojo: Claridad.6-12 mayo 2010. Web.
(Review of Ricardo Chávez Castañeda’s El libro del silencio.Novela Sacrificio. Alfaguara,
2006).
“Persona de palabra/Palabra de persona: La palabra según Clarice Lispector. Aproximaciones
críticas”. En Rojo: Claridad. Abril2011. Web. (Review of César Ferreira and Luciana
Namorato’s trilingual edition: La palabra según/A palavra segundo/The Word According to
Clarice Lispector aproximaciones críticas/ aproximaçoescriticas/ Critical Approaches. Lima:
Universidad Nacional de San Marcos, 2011).
“El arca de la memoria. Hacia el amor de una historia propia.” En Rojo: Claridad. 27 junio
2011. Web. (Review of Dinorah Cortés-Vélez’s El arca de la memoria. San Juan & Santo
Domingo: Editorial Isla Negra,2011).
Other creative contributions and related events
April 2016 Member of the Isla Negra delegation to the International Book Fair in
Santo Domingo (now postponed until September 2016).
Sept. 2015 Storyteller at Ex Fabula’s season 7 event at Garfield 502, Milwaukee, WI
March 2015 Invited to the International Book fair, Caracas, Venezuela
(FILVEN 2015).
2014 “Putting Together a Personal Cartography,” Centro-Voices. 30 Sept
2014.http://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/centrovoices/chronicles/puttingtogeth
er-personal-cartography. Web.
2013 Prologue to Nelson López Rojas’s novel, Semos malos.
< http://contracultura.com.sv/prologo-del-libro-semos-malos>.
2013-present Guest columnist: Revista Cruce, online journal about arts, society and
politics of the Universidad Metropolitana in Puerto Rico. Invited
columnist. http://revistacruce.com/columnistas/nancy-bird-soto.html

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2006 Interviewer and original member of the Personalidades de la cultura hispánica
podcasting project, UW-Madison. Conducted interviews with: Angeles Mastretta,
Norma Cantú, Marjorie Agosín.
Academic Conferences (2009-onwards)
March 2016 “The Queer Spirituality of Gloria Anzaldúa” –VI Coloquio Del Otro La’o,
University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez
October 2015 “The Dialogue of Two Generations: Women, Aging, and Art in José Luis
Figueroa’s Te besaré toda la vida” –XXV Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de
Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica (AILCFH), Marquette University, Milwaukee,
WI
May 2015 “Lucas Guevara and the Failure of the Flâneur” –NeMLA Conference,
Toronto, Canada
March 2015 “Letters of Freedom in Virginia Sánchez Korrol’s Feminist and
Abolitionist: The Story of Emilia Casanova” –V Congreso Escritura, Individuo y
Sociedad, Universidad de Puerto Rico-Arecibo
November 2014 “El tema de la mujer en Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Luisa
Capetillo” -4th International Conference on the Caribbean, Marquette University,
Milwaukee, WI
October 2014 “¿No para ella?: El monstruo de Manuel Zeno Gandía” –Mid-America
Conference on Hispanic Literature, Madison, WI
May 2014 “Where Memory Resides: Graciela Limón’s The Memories of Ana Calderón”
–LASA International Congress, Chicago, IL
April 2014 “Self-Knowledge: Put Together” –Roundtable on Latina Feminisms, John
Carroll University, Cleveland, OH
Nov. 2013 “Soul and Spirit in Alejandro Tapia y Rivera's Póstumo transmigrado and
Póstumo envirginiado” -MMLA Conference in Milwaukee, WI
Nov. 2013 “Global Citizenship: Luisa Capetillo’s Life and Works” –Caribbean
Philosophical Association Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico
April 2013 “A Poetic Manifesto for the Caribbean: Victor Hernández Cruz’s In the
Shadow of Al-Andalus.” -3rd International Conference on the Caribbean, Marquette
University, Milwaukee, WI
March 2012 “Gender, Censorship, and Resistance in Esmeralda Santiago’s
Conquistadora” -47th Annual Comparative Literature Conference, University of
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November 2011 “The ‘i’ Play in Tato Laviera’s Poetry”-Midwest MLA, St. Louis,
Missouri
September 2011 “Género y solidaridad en la obra teatral Los hipócritas de Franca de
Armiño” –North Central Council of Latin Americanists Conference, Milwaukee, WI
May 2011 “Incorporando a las mujeres: Luisa Capetillo y Nuestra América” –Coloquio
Nuestra América, Centro de Estudios Martianos, La Habana, Cuba
April 2011 “Del margen al epicentro: feminidades en la narrativa de Mayra Santos
Febres”- VIII Coloquio Mujeres, Universidad de Puerto Rico en Mayagüez
November 2010 “Frente al Enigma”/ Creative writing panel –Congreso: Escritura,
Individuo y Sociedad, Universidad de Puerto Rico en Arecibo
October 2010 “Frente al Enigma: La ensayística de Luisa Capetillo y Rosario
Castellanos” –XXIX LASA International Congress, Toronto, Canada
March 2010 “Subversivo y sin verbos: ‘Acto de fe’ de Mayra Santos Febres” –II
International Congress on Caribbean Studies, Cartagena, Colombia
October 2009 “Artificios de la imposibilidad: La muñeca de Carmela Eulate Sanjurjo y
Sirena Selena vestida de pena de Mayra Santos Febres” –XIX Congreso de la Asociación
Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica, Quito, Ecuador
March 2009 “The Un(Making) of the Woman as Sinner: Graciela Limón’s The
Memories of Ana Calderón” – 42nd Annual Conference of the Southwest Council on
Latin American Studies, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Guest Lectures/ Book Presentations
Spring 2016, Spring 2015 Guest, Prof. Nelson López Rojas’s class: Introduction to
Latin American Studies, UWM
April 2016, April 2015 Guest, Prof. Pilar Melero’s class: Chicano/Latino
Literature, UW-Whitewater
July 19, 2014 Presentation/Book Release Event for Put Together: A
Minne-Memoir (Trance) with Marlena Fitzpatrick and
Charlie Vázquez (editor) at Chips ‘n Salsa, New York, NY.
April 2014 Guest, Prof. Katherine Ternes’s class: Hispanic Literature,
Washington & Jefferson College, Pennsylvania
April 2014 Guest, Prof. Pilar Melero’s class: Chicano/Latino
Literature, UW-Whitewater
November 25, 2013 Presentation of my critical edition: Los hipócritas de
Franca de Armiño (Tiempo Nuevo) at Librería Isla, Río
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October 2013 Guest, Prof. Gwynne Kennedy’s Women’s Studies
Seminar, UWM
September 2013 Keynote Speaker for the Hispanic Heritage Month
program at UW-LaCrosse
March 2013 Guest, Prof. Nelsón López’s Hispanic Literature,
Marquette University
April 2011 Guest, Prof. Chris Schulenburg’s class: Hispanic Literature,
UW-Platteville
May 2011 Invited presenter for the Martí Colloquium at the
Centro de Estudios Martianos, Havana, Cuba
November 1997 Invited panelist for the Luisa Capetillo Symposium,
UPR-Cayey
Teaching Experience
Courses taught at UWM-Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese:
Advanced Listening and Speaking
Seminar on Latin American women writers
Introduction to US Latino literature in English (US Latino Literature)
Introduction to Literary Analysis
Seminar on the Latin American Essay
Survey of Spanish-American literature and civilization
Seminar on Gender and Resistance in Latin American literature
Seminar on Travel Writing and Contact Zones
Seminar on Hispanic literary criticism and theory
Topics in US Latino/a literature: Latina Writers; Service Learning Component
Survey of Early Hispanic literature and civilization (Medieval to Romanticism)
Spanish for Reading Knowledge (online)
Spanish Culture, Summer Abroad Session, Madrid, Spain, 2008 & 2015
Culture course: Topic -The Hispanic Caribbean through Text and Film
Seminar on Latin American Narratives
Spanish Immersion Weekend – Topic: Creativity in Latin America
Professional Development and Service
2012-2013 Chair of the Midwest MLA Latin American section (Spanish III Permanent
Section)
June 2012 Participated in the Las Dos Brujas Writers Workshop, organized by Cristina
García, at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico. Workshop: Writing from memory, with
Denise Chavez.
2009-present Reviewer for several manuscripts: ALDEEU, Hispania,Centro Journal
Committee Work:
UW System

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2015-present UW Placement Exam Committee - Spanish
Institutional (UWM)
2015-2016 Nominations Committee (Chair)
LACUSL Advisory Committee Co-Coordinator
2014 Nominations Committee
LACUSL Advisory Committee
2013 Nominations Committee
Honorary Degrees Committee
LACUSL Advisory Committee
2012 Nominations Committee (Chair)
Honorary Degrees Committee
Libraries Committee
Academic Planning and Governance Committee – Letters & Science
2011 Nominations Committee (Chair)
Honorary Degrees Committee
Libraries Committee
2010 Nominations Committee
Honorary Degrees Committee
Libraries Committee
Spring 2009 Graduate School Fellowships Sub-Committee
Libraries Committee
Roberto Hernández Center Advisory Committee
2007-2010 Master’s in Languages, Literature and Translation (MALLT) Coordinating
Committee
Union Restaurant Operations Committee
2008-2011 Women’s Studies Steering Committee
CLACS Undergraduate Certificate Committee
Awards and Recognition Committee
Departmental
2015 Scholarship Committee (Chair), Executive Committee, Graduate Studies
Committee, Apuntes (newsletter)
2014 Teaching Assistantship and Chancellor’s Awards Committee (TACA),EC, GSC,
Apuntes
2013 Curriculum Committee, EC, GSC, Apuntes,Fall Exit Exam Coordinator
2012 Curriculum Committee (Chair), EC, GSC, Assessments Coordinator

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2011 Curriculum Committee, EC, GSC, Apuntes,Open House Departmental
Coordinator (2008-2011)
2010 Spring Exit Exam Coordinator
Outreach
2015 Participated in the Somos Latin@s workshop initiative at UWM (10/31/2015)
2012 Mentored two in-coming first-year students for the Summer UWM Program.
Focus: Latino/a Role Models in SE Wisconsin
Coordinator of the Voces Boricuas del Midwest event. Invited writers: Lawrence
LaFountain-Stokes, Dinorah Cortés-Vélez, Nancy Bird-Soto.
2010 Co-coordinator for the Feminist Research Group; session leader for Gloria
Anzaldúa reading (earlier works); UWM-Center for 21st
Century Studies.
Coordinator of the Latin/o American Writers Symposium. Invited speakers:
Ricardo Chávez Castañeda,José Castro Urioste and Pilar Melero.
2008 Coordinator for the events related to the performance, Luisa Capetillo: La musa
activa (by Jessica Gaspar) at UW-Whitewater and UW-Milwaukee. A troupe of
student-actors came to both campuses to perform.
Honors & Language Ability
Honors:
2011 UW-Milwaukee, Nominee for the 2011 Research in the Humanities Award;
Departmental nominee for the Gustave O. Arlt CGS Award in the Humanities
2010 UW-Milwaukee, Nominee for the 2011 UWM Distinguished Undergraduate
Teaching Award
Language ability:
English: complete fluency
Spanish: native speaker
French: conversation and reading knowledge
Portuguese: PhD minor
Nancy Bird-Soto