EVELYN FISHBURN

CURRICULUM VITAE

Honorary Professor, University College London

Emeritus Professor, London Metropolitan University

Email: e.fishburn@ucl.ac.uk

Biography | Publications and Other Papers

University College London

Honorary Professor, 2011 -

Honorary Senior Research Fellow, now Associate, 2003

Visiting Professor, 1999 - 2003

Honorary Lecturer, University College 1979-80

Part-time Teacher

London Metropolitan University, formerly University of North London

School of Languages and European Studies

• Emeritus Professor 2002 -
• Professor 1996 – 2001
• Senior Lecturer 1987-96
• Lecturer 1980-1987
• Lecturer in Latin-American Studies
• Member of Research Committee
• Coordinator of Research in American Studies for RAE
• Coordinator of Latin American Special Interest Group

Other Universities

• San Martin Visiting Professorship, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2003-4
• Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley 1997
• Visiting Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge 1994
• PT Lecturer in Spanish Literature, Westfield College 1990-1
• PT Lecturer, King’s College, London 1988-90
• PT Lecturer, Birkbeck College 1975-88

Qualifications

• Ph. D. University of London 1978
• B.A. University of London 1973 (First Class)
• Diplome de Traducteur (avec approbation)
• Ecole d'Interpretes, Université de Geneve 1956

Awards and Grants

• Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship 2003 - 2005
• UNL Research Committee grant for co-organizing conference at ILAS
• Nuffield Foundation grant for research in language teaching
• UNL Development Fund award for research on feminism
• Faculty sabbatical for performance
• British Academy grant in support of conference 1996

Current professional membership

• Member of International Editorial Board, Variaciones Borges Journal of the J.L.Borges Center for Studies and Documentaion
• Associate Fellow of Institute of Latin American Studies
• Member of Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland
• (Commitee Member 1995-1999)

Research Projects

• Humour in Latin American Fiction
• Language and biculturalism
• Borges

Areas of teaching:

Literature:

• Special subject: Borges and Cortázar (BA and MA)
• Introduction to Latin American literature
• The literature of the Pampas
• Course on short stories, Feminist perspectives in Latin American writings
• Representations of the family in Latin-American film and fiction
• Spanish Literature: selected authors
• Women Writers and Nation

Interdisciplinary:

• Comparative American studies
• ‘Discourse’
• European Literature
• Language and Style
• Europe as “Other”

Spanish language:

• All levels, from ‘ab initio’ to BA finalists
• Advanced translation course.

Postgraduate Supervision:

• Supervisor and director of studies on M.Phil/PhD on ‘Aspects of magic realism in the post-colonial novel’
• Supervisor of PhD on ‘Appropriation and Resistance in Philippine Marian Devotion’; 'The notion of specularity in Spanish Caribbean Narrative Forms'; Argentine Women Writers.

Consultancy:

• BBC radio 4: In Our Time, programme on Borges, 4th Jan. 2007
• Assessor for publications for Tamesis, Peter Lang Ashgate Publications
• Advisor on Spanish and Latin American section for an ‘Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature’, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, London and Chicago
• Interviewed regularly by BBC World Service and Radio Four
• Interviewed by TELAM (Argentine Government News Agency)

Occasional Reader for Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Oxford University Press, BLAR, Bloomsbury Press (consultant for Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature ) BBC Drama and Short fiction, BBC World Service, Variaciones Borges, British Academy, Hebrew University, Comparative Literarure Studies, Peter Lang, Tamesis, University of Virginia Press.

External Examining:

External examiner of PhD theses for the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Universities of Cambridge, St Andrews, Bristol, Birmingham, Warwick, Westminster, London (University College London, Birkbeck College).

External Examiner for Spanish: Goldsmith College, University of London, 2003 -05; Queen's University, Belfast, 2002 - 05

Validator and External Examiner for Spanish for the Humanities Modular Degree Course, University of East London, 1990-4

External Examiner for Spanish, BA Hons Course, Polytechnic of Central London, (University of Westminster) 1988-92 (Chief External Examiner for BA/BA Hons Humanities Course, 1990-2

External Assessor to MA and BA Hons Hispanic Board and Romance Board, London University, 1985 - 9

Conferences and seminars convened:

Seminar series ‘OJO! Latin America and the Visual Arts’ (with Maxine Molyneux), ISA, 2007-8 and 2011

Humour in Latin American Literature, ISA, October 2005

Convenor (with Prof. Eduardo Ortiz, Imperial College, London) of an International Conference on ‘Science and the Creative Arts’, at the Institute of Latin American Studies, March 2001 (Co-editor of Proceedings)

International conference on 'Borges and the European Tradition', at the Institute of Romance Studies, with funding from the Institutes of Romance Studies, Latin American Studies, University College London and The British Academy 24 May 1996 (Editor of Proceedings)

As convenor of Cultural Studies at ILAS, 1996-present:

• Lecture by Santiago Kovadloff
• round table on Maria Luisa Bemberg's cinema (Argentina)
• Elena Poniatowska (Mexico)
• Catalina Bronstein (London, Institute of Psychoanalysts)
• Marco Antonio Flores (Guatemala)
• Alicia Dujovne Ortiz (Buenos Aires and Toulouse)
• Alicia Steimberg, (Buenos Aires)
• Maria Negroni, (Buenos Aires and Columbia)
• Diana Sorensen (Wesleyan College, USA)
• Prof. Edna Aizenberg (Marymount College, USA)
• Prof. Sylvia Molloy, Albert Schweizer Professor of Humanities, (New York University)
• Prof. Marjorie Agosín (Wellesley College, USA)
• Luisa Valenzuela (Buenos Aires)
• Prof. Rafael Olea Franco, (Colegio de Mexico)
• Dr. Diana Sorensen (Columbia)
• Prof. Doris Sommer (University of Harvard)
• Prof. Martha Canfield (Florence and Venice)
• Prof. Beatriz Sarlo (Buenos Aires)
• Prof. Edwin Williamson (Edinburgh)
• Prof. Alicia Borinsky (Boston)
• Prof. Efrain Kristal, (UCLA)
• Dr. Jean Andrews (Nottingham University)
• Prof. Dawn Adés, (Essex University).
• Prof. Valerie Fraser (Essex University)
• Oriana Baddeley (Camberwell College of Arts)
• Ana María Pacheco

As Coordinator of Seminar Series of the Latin-American Special Interest Group at University of North London.

Past guest speakers at Occasional Lectures include:

• Alicia Dujovne Ortiz, (Buenos Aires and Toulouse)
• Dr. Alicia Steimberg (Buenos Aires)
• Dr. María Negroni (Buenos Aires and Columbia)
• Dr. Amanda Philimore (London and Paris)
• Prof. Margo Glanz (Emeritus Prof. at UNAM, Mexico)
• Alan Pauls (Argentina, Editorial Sudamericana)
• Prof. Santiago Kovadloff (Argentina)
• Prof. Daniel Balderston (Tulane), Carmen Boullosa (Mexico)