BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Raquel Chiquillo received her PhD in Spanish and Spanish-American Literature in 2001 from the University of Virginia. She has been an Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Houston-Downtown since 2002. A native of El Salvador, she grew up in Northern Virginia and has lived in the United States for twenty-five years. Her research interests include: Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Latin American poetry, the influence of Spanish poetry on Latin American poetry, metapoetic discourse and the study of ethnicity and mestizaje as seen in poetry. Dr. Chiquillo has presented papers at various conferences, including the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, the Southeast Coastal Conference on Languages and Literatures, MIFLC, the Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures and the Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures.

 

PUBLICATIONS

“Transformaciones antropomórficas y construcciones orgánicas: La ballena y el cangrejo en tres poemas de Antonio Cisneros.” Monographic Review/Revista Monográfica Vol. XX (forthcoming 2005).

 

“El reto de Roque: La metáfora, los símbolos, el humor y la personificación en dos poemas ‘comprometidos.” Antípodas Monographs: Journal of Hispanic and Galician Studies XIII/XIV (2001/2002): 223-238.

 

“El juego intertextual como vía crítica: El caso de Luis García Montero.” Hispanic Poetry Review v.3 n.5 (2001 May): 51-69.

 

CLASSES TAUGHT

SPAN 1401/ 1402—Elementary Spanish I and II

SPAN 2301/ 2302—Intermediate Spanish I and II

SPAN 3301—Advanced Spanish Grammar and Composition

SPAN 3310—Conversation through Literature

SPAN 3322—Translation