Roberta Fernández

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Roberta Fernández
Occupation novelist
Nationality USA
Writing period 1990-
Genres composite novel, story cycle
Notable work(s) Intaglio: A Novel in Six Stories
Notable award(s) Multicultural Publisher's Exchange, Best Fiction (1991)
Texas Institute of Letters
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Roberta Fernández (b. birthdate) is a Tejana novelist, scholar, critic and arts advocate. She is known for her novel Intaglio and for her work editing several award-winning women writers. She was a professor in in Romance Languages & Literatures and Women's Studies at the University of Georgia.[1]

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life and education

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Fernández is a fifth-generation tejana from Laredo, Texas. She received her B.A. and an M.A. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, and her Ph.D. in Romance Languages & Literatures from the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation, "Towards a Contextualization of José Carlos Mariátegui’s Concept of Literary and Cultural Nationalism,"[1] examined the role of José Carlos Mariátegui in the early 20th century Peruvian cultural wars.

Fernandez held a post-doctoral fellowship at the Center for Mexican American Studies at UT, Austin; she received a Rockefeller Fellowship from the Womanist Consortium of the Institute of African American Studies at UGA to study Chicana literary feminism and nationalism.[1]

[edit] Art advocacy

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  • Assistant to the Director, Mexican Museum in San Francisco
  • Director, Bilingual Arts Program, Oakland Unified School District
  • Founder, Prisma: A Multicultural, Multilingual Women's Literary Review (1979-1982) at Mills College
  • Directed two major conferences: "The Cultural Roots of Chicana Literature, 1780-1980" (Mills Collge and Aztlán Cultural, 1981; see here for photo of the exhibit's poster) and "Latinos in the United States: Cultural Roots and Diversity" (Brown University and Casa Puerto Rico, 1985).

[edit] Editorial and curatorial work

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  • Editor, Arte Público Press, from 1990-1994. Several of the women she worked with received national awards for their novels.
  • Curator, "Twenty-Five Years of Hispanic Literature of the United States, 1965-1990" (traveling), sponsored by the Texas Humanities Resource Center.

[edit] Marriage and children

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[edit] Philosophical and/or political views

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[edit] Published works

  • Intaglio: A Novel in Six Stories (1990)
  • Fronterizas: Una novela en seis cuentos (2001; Spanish translation of Intaglio)
  • In Other Words: Literature by Latinas of the United States, ed. (1994; anthology)
  • En nuestras palabras: Ficción y poesía de las latinas en los Estados Unidos (forthcoming; anthology)
  • Her articles have been published in such articles as Revista de Linguística y Filología de la Universidad de Costa Rica; Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies; and Women’s Studies

[edit] Awards

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[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d e Arte Público Press bio page, accessed 9 March 2008
  2. ^ UGA Institute for Women's Studies Newsletter (accessed March 2008)

[edit] Notes/Further reading

  • Gómez-Vega, Ibis. "La mujer como artista en Intaglio." The Bilingual Review/La Revista Bilingue, 1993 Jan-Apr; 18 (1): 14-22.
  • Kelley, Margot. "A Minor Revolution: Chicano/a Composite Novels and the Limits of Genre." Ethnicity and the American Short Story. Ed. Julia Brown. New York, NY: Garland; 1997. pp. 63-84.
  • Muthyala, John Sumanth. "Roberta Fernández's Intaglio: Border Crossings and Mestiza Feminism in the Borderlands." Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue Canadienne d'Etudes Américaines, 2000; 30 (1): 92-110. (PDF online)

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