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Rita M. Palacios
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School |
School of Interdisciplinary Studies
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Program | -
Bachelor of Applied Health Information Science (Honours)
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Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) - Accounting, Audit and Information Technology
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Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) - International Business Management
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Bachelor of Community and Criminal Justice (Honours)
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Bachelor of Early Learning Program Development (Honours)
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Bachelor of Engineering - Electronic Systems Engineering
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Academic and Professional Designations |
PhD, Spanish |
Title |
Professor |
Courses Taught
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SPAN71010
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SPAN72010
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SPAN73010
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Areas of Expertise & Interest |
Contemporary Maya Literature and Culture
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Latin American Studies
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Gender and Cultural Studies
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Industry Experience, Professional Currency Activities |
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Concordia University
Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature, California State University, Long Beach
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Major research projects, scholarly activities, and/or publications |
Select Grants and Research Projects -
Conestoga New and Emerging Research Grant (CNERG), Project title: "From Huehuetla to Turtle Island: A Collaborative Model for Indigenous Language Preservation and Revitalization" January 2023-May 2023.
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Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Grant, Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP), Global Affairs Canada. 2022-2023.
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eCampus Ontario, Central Virtual Learning Platform Support Grant for OER development. October 2021-February 2022.
Select Publications
Book
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Palacios, Rita M. and Paul Worley. Unwriting Maya Literature: Ts'íib as Recorded Knowledge. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2019, 2022.
Journal articles and book chapters
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“Central America: Poetry.” Handbook of Latin American Studies No.76. Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. University of Texas Press, 2023. 391-392.
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“Recentering the World: Reading Maya Literatures through Xocom Balumil,” co-authored with Paul M. Worley. Central American Literature as World Literature. Edited by Sophie Esch. In press.
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“Belonging Beyond Nations Indigenous Writers Rewriting Latin America,” co-authored with Paul M. Worley. Teaching Indigenous Studies of and in Latin America. Edited by Tracy Devine Guzmán. Modern Language Association. Forthcoming.
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“’We are the canon’: On Reconceptualizing Hispanic Studies from Indigenous Studies,” co-authored with Juan Castillo Cocom and Paul M. Worley. Tearing Down Disciplinary Barriers: Dialogues between Hispanic Studies and Indigenous Studies. Edited by Gloria Chacón, Juan Guillermo Sánchez, and Lauren Beck. Forthcoming.
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“Maya Literature” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. November 2022. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.1295
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“Las palabras pintadas de Comalapa: Ts’íib en la obra de Negma Coy y Edgar Calel.” (Comalapa’s Painted Words: Ts’íib in Negma Coy’s and Edgar Calel’s Work). Co-authored with Paul M. Worley. Cuadernos de Literatura, vol. 26, 2022.
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“Maya Poetry from Guatemala: Moving Beyond the Written Word.” Approaches to Teaching Central American Literature. Edited by Gloria Chacón and Mónica Albizúrez. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2022. 148-160.
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Additional information |
Rita is a passionate teacher who
enjoys challenging her students to think beyond language. She
loves
to
laugh with her students
and sees learning opportunities everywhere. |