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Claire Anne Althea Joysmith Smith, Master
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Professor Joysmith, a doctoral candidate in literature at the UNAM School of Philosophy and Letters, received her masters in contemporary English and U.S. American literature from London Universitys Queen Mary College, and her bachelors from the UNAM School of Philosophy and Letters. She is currently a researcher in the CISAN Area of Integration Studies.
Her main areas of research are literary, cultural, border, and gender studies, as well as Chicana/Latino-U.S. cultural production and cultural-linguistic translation. She has taught at the UNAM, Earlham College, and Colorado College, and has been advisor for several bachelors and graduate theses.
She is the author of several book chapters and journal articles, outstanding among which are Cuchicheos, gritos y silencios: Transbordering Sandra Cisneros Woman Hollering Creek into México y el Español, in Forum for Inter-American Research (Bielefeld University, Germany, 2012); "'Godzilla con sombrero de charro': visiones testimoniales y el imaginario anti(in)migrante estadunidense post-11 de septiembre" (Godzilla in a Charro Hat: Testimonial Visions and the U.S., Post-9/11 Anti(im)migrant Imaginary), in Mónica Verea Campos, ed., Anti-Immigrant Sentiments, Actions and Policies. The North American Region and the European Union/Sentimientos, acciones y políticas antiinmigrantes. América del Norte y la Unión Europea" (Mexico City: CISAN, 2012); Anzaldúas Bordercrossing into Mexico, Signs. Journal of Women in Culture and Society 37, no.1 (autumn, 2011); The Eye of Pain/El ojo del dolor, in Scott L. Baugh and Victor Sorrel, eds., Born of Resistance: Cara a Cara. Encounters with Chicana/o Visual Culture (Arizona University Press, at press); May We Do Work That Matters: Bridging Gloria across Borders, in Ana Louise Keating and Gloria González, eds., Bridging: How Gloria E. Anzaldúas Life and Work Transformed Our Own (University of Texas Press, 2011); Collective Introduction (third edition, 20th anniversary) of Borderlands/La Frontera. The New Mestiza de Gloria E. Anzaldúa (Aunt Lute, 2007); (Re)Mapping Mexicanidades: (Dis)Placement, (Dis)Location and Translation of Chicana Writings, in Gabriela F. Arredondo, Aida Hurtado, Norma Klahn, Olga Najera-Ramirez, and Patricia Zavella, eds., Chicana Feminisms. A Critical Reader (Duke University Press, 2003 and 2006).
She edited Cantar de espejos. Poesía testimonial chicana de mujeres (Mexico City: CISAN/ Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, 2012; Second edition, 2014. Publicaciones y fomento Editorial de la UNAM/Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana) Las formas de nuestras voces. Chicana and Mexicana Writers in México (Mexico City: CISAN-UNAM/Third Woman Press, California, 1995), which won the University Art Fair Award 1996; and Speaking desde las heridas. Cibertestimonios Transfronterizos/Transborder (September 11, 2001-March 11, 2007) (Mexico City: CISAN-UNAM/Whittier College/ITESM, Humanities Chair and Alfonso Reyes Chair; with a prologue by John Beverley, Cristina Rivera Garza, and Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger, 2008). She co-edited One Wound for Another/Una herida por otra: Testimonios de Latin@s in the U.S. Through Cyberspace (11 de septiembre de 2001-11 de marzo de 2002) with a prologue byElena Poniatowska (Mexico City: CISAN-UNAM/Colorado College/Whittier College, 2005).
Professor Joysmith has participated in several collegiate bodies at the UNAM and has been awarded fellowships to do research abroad.
Main lines of research:
● Manifestaciones culturoliterarias contemporáneas femeninas de las etnias en Estados Unidos
● 2- Gloria Anzaldúa y el Nepantla--- 2, OTRO- Cibertestimonios transfronterizos post-11 de septiembre de 2001
● In What Language Do We Dream?
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elaire@unam.mx
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56-23-03-00 al 56-23-03-09
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