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College of Arts and Humanities

Gloria Medina-Sancho

Professor

Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures | 559.278.6963 | Office: PB336

gmedina@csufresno.edu

Education

  • Washington University in St. Louis - Ph.D. in Spanish, 2003
  • The University of Iowa - M.A. in Spanish, 1997
  • Universidad de Chile - Licenciatura (B.A.) en Humanidades con mención en Lengua y Literatura hispánica, 1991

Courses Taught

  • Spanish 203 - Applied Literary Theory
  • Spanish 210 - Spanish American Short Story
  • Spanish 215 - Hispanic Women Writers
  • Spanish 224 - Major Hispanic Novelists
  • Spanish 247 - Spanish American “Boom”
  • Spanish 257 - Spanish American Testimonio
  • Spanish 117 - Advanced Conversation and Reading
  • Spanish 125 - Hispanic Culture
  • Spanish 140 - Introduction to Literary Analysis
  • Spanish 143 - Introduction to Spanish-American Literature
  • Spanish 147 - 20th Century Spanish-American Literature
  • Spanish 148 - Topics: Cultural Memory in Latin America
  • Spanish 170 - Senior Seminar in Spanish Studies

 
Gloria Medina-Sancho was born in Santiago, Chile, where she obtained her B.A. (Licenciatura) at the Universidad de Chile. Dr. Medina-Sancho received her M.A. at the University of Iowa and her Ph.D. at Washington University in St. Louis, where she was awarded the Judith Tytel Catalano Scholarship in Women’s Studies. Dr. Medina-Sancho has published several articles in national and international journals, such as Revista Iberoamericana, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, MLN, Latin American Perspectives and Revista Documentos Lingüísticos y Literarios. Her book on Southern Cone Women Writers entitled A partir del trauma: narración y memoria en Traba, Peri Rossi y Eltit was published by Editorial Cuarto Propio in 2012.

Dr. Medina-Sancho is Graduate Coordinator and Advisor for the Spanish M.A. Program at CSU Fresno. She teaches courses in Latin American literature and culture at both the undergraduate and the graduate level. 
  • 20th to 21st Century Spanish-American Narrative
  • Southern Cone Narrative
  • Gender and Cultural Studies
  • Poetics and Politics of Memory
  • Testimonial Literature
  • Film Studies
Selected Publications:

Book:

A partir del trauma: narración y memoria en Traba, Peri Rossi y Eltit. Santiago de Chile: Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2012.

Articles:

“El trauma del exilio como condena y liberación en la narrativa de la década de los ochenta de Cristina Peri Rossi”. Erotismo, transgresión y exilio: las voces de Cristina Peri Rossi. Ed. Jesús Gómez de Tejeda. Sevilla, España: Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2017.

“De la crónica al testimonio: desestabilizando el recuerdo en Loco Afán (crónicas de sidario) de Pedro Lemebel”. Textos Híbridos. Revista de Estudio sobre la crónica latinoamericana. DOI: 10.15691/textoshibridos.v5i1.61 (April 2016). https://textoshibridos.uai.cl/index.php/textoshibridos/%20article/view/61

“Espacios recuperados por la memoria: lenguaje fílmico y testimonial en Estadio Nacional de Carmen Luz Parot”. El documental político en Argentina, Chile y Uruguay: de los años cincuenta hasta la década del dos mil. Eds. Antonio Traverso and Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli. Santiago de Chile: LOM editores, 2015. 267-280.

“Film Language and Testimony in Parot’s Estadio Nacional.” Latin American Perspectives 40.1 (January 2013): 161-169. Special Issue on “Political Documentary Film and Video in the Southern Cone (1950s-2000s).”

“Memoria y trauma en la narrativa breve de Cristina Peri Rossi.” Revista Documentos Lingüísticos y Literarios 30 (December 2007). Special Issue on “Discurso testimonial.” http://www.humanidades.uach.cl/documentos_linguisticos/document.php?id=1356

“El infarto del alma de Diamela Eltit y Paz Errázuriz: un tributo a la memoria afectiva.” Revista Iberoamericana LXXI-210 (January-March 2005): 223-239. Special Issue on “Imaginarios femeninos en la literatura latinoamericana.”

Book Reviews:

Género y violencia en la narrativa del Cono Sur (1954-2003) by Betina Kaplan in MLN Hispanic issue 124.2 (2009): 531-533.

Political Bodies. Gender, History, and the Struggle for Narrative Power in Recent Chilean Literature by Alice A. Nelson in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 38.3 (2004): 616-617.

Interview:

“Una artesana implacable de la palabra: conversando con Diamela Eltit.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 40.1 (January 2006): 103-111.

Encyclopedia Entry:

“Orphée, Elvira (1930- ).” World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia. Eds. Maureen Ihrie, and Salvador Oropesa. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2011.