Scholarly Activity of Isabel Balseiro
Books
Book Chapter
鈥淕ender Identity and the Reconstruction of the Self.鈥� Twentieth Century Criticism Literature on A Question of Power, edited by Lawrence Trudeau, Layman Publishing Group. (forthcoming)
Book Preface
Preface. , Praxis Magazine Online, p. 1. (2019)
Journal Articles
Balseiro, Isabel, et al. 鈥淎djuncts in Higher Education in the United States.鈥� Education, 21 Jan. 2016. Oxford Bibliographies: Education, doi:10.1093/OBO/9780199756810-0136
, Screen, Volume 48, Number 4 (2007): 443-461
Translations
鈥淪outhbound: leaving Chicago by Greyhound.鈥� HERM膾NEUS: Journal of Translation and Interpreting, by Rustum Kozain, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 398-402. (2016)
鈥淔or W.鈥� HERM膾NEUS: Journal of Translation and Interpreting, by Rustum Kozain, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 403-406. (2016)
鈥淔ebruary Moon: Cape Town.鈥� HERM膾NEUS: Journal of Translation and Interpreting, by Rustum Kozain, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 407-413. (2016)
鈥淔耻苍办.鈥� HERM膾NEUS: Journal of Translation and Interpreting, by Rustum Kozain, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 413-415. (2016)
鈥淢emory of Revolutions.鈥� HERM膾NEUS: Journal of Translation and Interpreting, by Rustum Kozain, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 415-419. (2016)
Book Reviews
Review of La puerta peque帽a, by Carlo Fabretti and Patricia Metola. Lazarillo: Revista de la Asociaci贸n Espa帽ola de Amigos del Libro Infantil y Juvenil, vol. 33, no. 1, p. 25. (2015)
Review of Tan tarde, by Giovanna Zoboli and Camilla Engman. Lazarillo: Revista de la Asociaci贸n Espa帽ola de Amigos del Libro Infantil y Juvenil, vol. 33, no. 1, p. 18. (2015)
Peer Reviewer
African Studies
Black Camera
Feminist Studies
Gestos: Revista de teor铆a y teatro hisp谩nico
Heinemann Press
Higher Education Quarterly
International Journal of Intercultural Relationships
Journal of African Cultural Studies
Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa
Men and Masculinities
New Directions in the Humanities Journal Collection
PMLA
Routledge
Screen
SUNY Press
The Arts Collection
The International Journal of the Book
University of California Press
University of Manchester Press
Conference Participation
鈥淢istress of Her Own Silences: The Transatlantic Poetry of Mar铆a Acu帽a.鈥� The Poetics of Memory, Modern Languages Association International Symposium, Lisbon, Portugal. (2019)
鈥淟a edici贸n musical en el siglo XXI en Espa帽a y Portugal.鈥� Encuentro Hispano-Luso de Editores Musicales, Asociaci贸n Espa帽ola de Documentaci贸n Musical, Madrid, Spain. (2016)
鈥淭he Next Wave: Effecting Change Through Applied Women鈥檚 Studies.鈥� The Claremont University 15th Anniversary Celebration, Claremont, CA. (2016)
鈥淪emifictional Representation in Cinema.鈥� SEMIOSFERAS: Congreso internacional sobre cine, literatura, m煤sica y artes esc茅nicas, Universidad de Alcal谩, Alcal谩 de Henares, Spain. (2015)
Invited speaker: 鈥淒igitizing the Vernacular: Zora Neale Hurton in Digital Humanities.鈥� Bite of Learning Series, 无忧视频, Claremont, CA. (2018)
Film Work
Cinema Workshops
Selected for week-long workshop on painting and cinema with Spanish director V铆ctor Erice. Talleres de Escritura Fuentetaja, Madrid, Spain. (2018)
Selected for week-long workshop on fiction and documentary film with Spanish director V铆ctor Erice. Nautilus Films, Madrid, Spain. (2016)
Festival Participation
SANBONANI! Film Festival 2018, Pomona College, Claremont, CA. Participant. (2018)
Maruleng Film Festival/Limpopo Marula Festival, Limpopo Province, South Africa. International Patron. (2017)
Festival Internacional de Cine de Murcia – Ibn Arabi International Film Festival (IBAFF), Murcia, Spain. Participant. (2016)
Recent Spanish Cinema, American Cinematheque, Los Angeles, CA. Participant. (2014)
Documentary Film
Featured in Lloyd Ross’s documentary An American in Sophiatown (2007) as film historian. Wrote inter-titles for the film that serve to contextualize the history of apartheid for an international audience. The documentary premiered at the American Film Institute International Film Festival in Dallas in March 2007. It was also screened at the Bologna Film Festival, Italy, in the summer of 2007. An American in Sophiatown is to be included in the release of the newly restored DVD version of Lionel Rogosin鈥檚 Come Back Africa(forthcoming).
Script Consultant
鈥淭he Village under the Forest,鈥� full-length documentary film by Mark Kaplan and Heidi Grunebaum (2014). Audience Award, ENCOUNTERS South African Documentary Film Festival, 2013, and Official Selection TRI CONTINENTAL Human Rights Film Fesival, 2013.
Voiceover
Voiceover narration for 鈥淧rimate Cinema: Apes as Family,鈥� by Rachel Mayeri. Experimental film screened at Nottingham Contemporary, 2011, The Arts Catalyst, London, 2011, AND Festival, Liverpool, 2011, Prix Ars Electronica, Austria, 2011, Imagine Science Film Festival, 2012, Sundance Film Festival, Utah, 2013 (New Frontier Short Films category), Rockland Shorts: An International Short Film Series, 2013, and Berlinale Film Festival, 2013. Los Angeles premi猫re at Cinefamily, February, 2013.
Film Market Forum
In attendance,鈥淢adrid de Cine,鈥� Spanish Film Screenings, Madrid, Spain, 2012. An international television market that aims to offer a platform for the trade in film and television productions in a European context. Filmmakers, producers, distributors, and critics participate in the gathering.
International Advisory Board
Journal of African Cultural Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. (2012-2018)
International Professional Service
Research team, 鈥淭he Emotional Body: The Cultural, Textual and Traductological Rhetoric of Emotion and Feeling as an Epistemic Source in American Literature by Women,鈥� Universidad Aut贸noma de Madrid. Collaboration with colleagues from CUNY, Rutgers University and University of Bremen. (2020-)
Scholar evaluator, National Research Foundation of South Africa. Also occupied position during 2007-2008. (2013-2014)
International Book Award Selection Committee, Faculty of the Arts, University of the Western Cape. (2013)
Photography
“Anthropologist at work, Campinas, Brazil.” In Barbara D. Miller’s Cultural Anthropology. (Pearson, 2013) (7th edition of text with a circulation of up to 40,000; also an e-book).
Front cover photograph for the American Anthropological Association Anthropology News, Volume 48, Number 2, February 2007.
Archival Research
Fondo Documental de Radio Televisi贸n Espa帽ola (Spanish Radio and Television National Archive) (2011-)
Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa (1996-2016)
Filmoteca Espa帽ola (National Film Institute) (2012-)
Biblioteca Nacional de Espa帽a (National Library of Spain) (2012-)
Fundaci贸n Francisco Largo Caballero (Francisco Caballero Foundation) (2011)
Centro Documental de la Memoria Hist贸rica (Historical Memory Documentation Center) (2011)
Archivo General de la Guerra Espa帽ola (Spanish Civil War National Archive) (2011)
(1996-2016)
Research Grants
Avery Fellowship, Claremont Graduate University. (2020-2021)
Fletcher Jones Summer Research Fellowship, 无忧视频. (2020)
Summer Research Creative Work Award, 无忧视频. (2020)
Mudd European Travel Fund, 无忧视频. Also awarded in 2019. (2020)
Presidential Grant, 无忧视频. (2019)
Mellon Foundation Presidential Leadership Grant for Course Development, 无忧视频. Also awarded in 2016. (2018)
Carnegie Foundation Research Grant in the Humanities Social Sciences and the Arts, 无忧视频. (2018)
Brian Butler 鈥�89 Faculty Enhancement Fund Research Award, 无忧视频. (2017-2018)
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation Research Award, 无忧视频. Also awarded yearly from 1993 through 2004 and from 2013 through 2016. (2017-2018)
Multi-Campus Teaching Observation Program, Claremont Colleges Center for Teaching and Learning. (2017)
Harvey S. Mudd Memorial Fund, 无忧视频. Also awarded in 1994, 1998, 2000, and 2006. (2016)
HISPANEX Program Grant, Spanish Ministry of Culture. (2015-2016)
Professional Development Networks at the Claremont Colleges, Pomona College. Also awarded in 2014. (2015-2016)
Teaching
Humanities 197: Traditional, Experimental, and Interactive Narratives
Humanities 198: Arundathi Roy: Creative Writer and Political Activist
Writing 1: Writing Matters
Writing 1E: Writing as a Second Language
HSA10 Critical Inquiry: Reading and Writing Race
HSA10 Critical Inquiry: English with an Accent