Luna, I.| Curriculum Vitae| 1
Ilana Sarah Dann Luna
Curriculum Vitae
December 2016
Arizona State University
New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies
4701 W. Thunderbird Rd.
Glendale, AZ 85306-4908
(602) 543-5681 (office)
(602) 543-3006 (fax)
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EMPLOYMENT
Aug. 2012 – PresentAssistant Professor,Latin American Studies; School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies;Arizona State University
- Program Lead, Latin American Studies and Spanish (2015-)
- Faculty Affiliate – M.A. in Social Justice and Human Rights (2014-)
- Faculty Affiliate - School of Transborder Studies (2013-)
- Barrett Honors Faculty (2013-)
Aug. 2011- June 2012 Visiting Assistant Professor,Department of Modern Languages
Hampden-Sydney College
Sep. 2004-July 2011Teaching Assistant, Department of Spanish and Portuguese;
University of California, Santa Barbara
Fall 2010Teaching Associate,Department of Latin American and Iberian Studies; University of California, Santa Barbara
Winter 2007, 2008Reading Assistant, Department of Film and Media Studies (Mexican Film, Latin American Film); University of California, Santa Barbara
Fall 2004, Fall 2006Reading Assistant, Department of Spanish and Portuguese (Colonial Literature, Medeival Literature); University of California, Santa Barbara
Oct.2001-June 2004Spanish teacher, Londonderry High School, Londonderry, NH
2000-2001Spanish teacher, Manchester West High School, Manchester, NH
1999Spanish department tutor, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
1997-1998Director/lead instructor of “Escuelita,” a bilingual summer cultural program for low-income Latino children ages 5-13.Developed curriculum and cultural excursions for 6-week day-long program.El Centro Latinoamericano, Manchester, NH
EDUCATION
2011 Ph.D., Hispanic Languages and Literature with an emphasis in Translation Studies; University of California, Santa Barbara
2007XVII Curso Internacional de Verano en Estudios de Género (International Summer Institute on Gender Studies)
El Colegio de México/ PIEM; Mexico City, Mexico
200683˚ Curso de Férias de Língua e Cultura Portuguesas (83rd Summer Institute for Portuguese Language and Culture)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2006M.A., Spanish and Portuguese; Wofsy Award for Outstanding M.A. University of California, Santa Barbara
2001B.A., Magna Cum Laude; Spanish Literature with departmental honors; Bryn Mawr College
1998-1999 Departamento de letras (Department of Letters/ Literature, Junior Year Abroad)Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico
ACADEMIC AWARDS/ HONORS/FELLOWSHIPS
2016Arizona State University Institute for Humanities Research – Subvention awarded for the publication of Adapting Gender: Mexican Feminisms from Literature to Film
2015Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion Award – Faculty Nominee, Arizona State University
2011Wofsy Travel Grant, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Santa Barbara
2010Convention Travel Grant, Modern Language Association
2009Academic Senate Graduate Student Travel Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara
2009Wofsy Travel Grant, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Santa Barbara
2008Jewish Studies Graduate Student Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara
2007-2008 Grant of Opportunity, Academic-Year Central Fellowship for excellent students, University of California, Santa Barbara
2007Fellowship, National Women’s Studies Association Jewish Women’s Caucus
2007Excellence in Teaching Award, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Santa Barbara
2007Excellence in Teaching Award – Honorable Mention, Graduate Student Association, University of California, Santa Barbara
2006Wofsy Travel Grant, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Santa Barbara
2006Barbara S. Uehling Book Scholarship, Women’s Professional Association, University of California, Santa Barbara
2006Center for Portuguese Studies Award for study at Universidade de Coimbra,Portugal, University of California, Santa Barbara
2006Samuel A. Wofsy Memorial Award for Outstanding M.A. Exam, University of California, Santa Barbara
2005Wofsy Travel Grant, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Santa Barbara
2004Consortium Scholar Award, Consortium of Theory, Literature and Culture, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004.
2001B.A. Magna Cum Laude, Bryn Mawr College
2001Departmental honors in Spanish, Bryn Mawr College
1996National Merit Scholarship Finalist
1996National Honor Society, Londonderry High School Chapter
1994-1995Rotary International Scholarship – Academic Year in Argentina
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Luna, Ilana.Adapting Gender: Mexican Feminisms from Literature to Film
.(In production SUNY Press)
Refereed Journal Articles
Luna, Ilana. “Cruzando fronteras: México-EUA en el cine del libre comercio.”Ventana
Abierta: Special Edition,Fuentes de Lealtad hacia el norte y hacia el sur México y Estados Unidos. November, 2014.124-31.
Luna, Ilana.“Otro modo de ser humano y libre: La mirada feminista de Busi Cortés en el nuevo cine mexicano.”Eds. José Antonio Mazzotti, Jorge Ruffinelli, Fernando Birri. Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana. 73.1 (2011): 205-225.
Luna, Ilana. “Revelaciones y renovaciones: mujer, cine, revolución.” (reprint from
chapter in book). Pie a tierra. Suplemento literario para Gaceta de la Universidad Veracruzana: Centenarios. 11.88 (julio–septiembre 2010): XXII-XXIX.
Chapters in Books
Luna, Ilana, “Neo-liberalism and Necropolitics: Contagion of State (and Supra-National) Violence in Recent Mexican Film.” Eds. Breanne Fahs, Eric Swank, Sarah Stage, Annika Mann. Transforming Contagion: Risky Contacts Among Bodies, Nations, and Disciplines. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers UP. Forthcoming.
Luna, Ilana. “También la lluvia: Of Coproductions and Re-encounters, a Re-vision of the Colonial.” Eds. Oswaldo Estrada and Anna Nogar. Colonial Itineraries of Contemporary Mexico:Literary and Cultural Inquiries.Tucson: U of Arizona P, 2014.
Luna, Ilana. “Revelaciones y renovaciones: mujer, cine, revolución.” Independencia, Revolucionesy Revelaciones:doscientos años de literaturamexicana. Eds. Rodolfo Mendoza Rosendo, Alicia Rueda Acedo and Ignacio Ruiz-Pérez. Xalapa: U Veracruzana; UT Arlington; UC-Mexicanistas, 2010. 473-501.
Luna, Ilana. “Tras el Poncho de Fernández: La imposible masculinidad en Los años
falsos de Josefina Vicens.” Realidades y fantasías- Realities & Fantasies: In Memoriam Tim McGovern. Ed. Sara Poot-Herrera. Mexico: UC-Mexicanistas, UAM, 2009. 353-64.
Luna, Ilana. “Una Krisis por encima de toda sospecha.” Cien años de Lealtad: En honor a Luis Leal, One Hundred Years of Loyalty: In Honor of Luis Leal. Eds. Sara Poot-Herrera, Francisco Lomelí, María Herrera Sobek.Mexico:UNAM; UC-Mexicanistas, 2007. 741-52.
COMPLETED MANUSCRIPTS
In Refereed Journals
Luna, Ilana. “Sueños de celuloide: Festejos y la ficción de la Historia que revindica.” In process of submission
Luna, Ilana.“An Author Performs Himself: Cabrera Infante’s Self-Translation of Delito por bailar el chachachá.”
In process of submission
BOOK REVIEWS
Invited
Review of Nationbuilding en el cine mexicano de la época de Oro hasta elpresente. Ed. Friedhelm Schmidt-Welle and Christian Wehr. In Revista de estudios hispánicos. Forthcoming.
Review of To Die in Mexico: Dispatches from Inside the Drug War by John Gibler. In Textos híbridos: Revista de estudios sobre la crónica latinoamericana. 4 (2015).
Review of Translocalities/Translocalidades: Feminist Politics of Translation in the
Latin/a AméricasEd. Álvarez et al. In AmeriQuests. 11:2 (2014): “Illegality Regimes: Mapping the Law of IrregularMigration”
Review of Latino Los Angeles In Film and Fiction: The Cultural Production of Social Anxietyby Ignacio López-Calvo. In Hispanófila. 167 (2013): 112-114.
Refereed
“Review of: Rubén Darío-Songs of Life and Hope: Cantos de vida y esperanza. Eds. and
Trans. Will Derusha and Alberto Acereda.”Hipertexto. 1 (invierno 2005): 124-6.
SCHOLARLY TRANSLATION/ INTERPRETATION
Huapaya, Giancarlo. Sub-Versive Workshop. Trans. Ilana Luna. (Under Review Ugly Duckling Press)
Guillen, Paul. “Times of War,” “With E.C. We Smell Joel-Peter Witkin’s Photographs,” “The Invisible Spectator,” “Crocodile Tears,” “Uccello’s The Hunt in the Forest,” “Garcilaso and the Garcilasists (Fake Presentation).” Trans. Ilana Luna.Hostos Review/ Revista Hostiana. Forthcoming.
Ruíz Pérez, Ignacio. “Coastal.” Trans. Ilana Luna. Houston Poetry Festival Anthology. Fall 2014. P. 9.
Ruíz Pérez, Ignacio. “Song of a Wounded Deer.“Trans. Ilana Luna. Askew 16 (2014).
35-36.
De la Mora, Sergio. “Domar a la mujer bravía: Lucha Reyes, Arturo Ripstein y la representación de un ícono nacional.” Trans. Ilana Luna. Nationbuilding en el cine mexicano desde la Época de Oro hasta el presente.Eds. Friedhelm Schmidt- Welle and Christian Wehr. Berlin: Vervuert/Iberoamericana, 2015. 91-107.
Luna, Ilana. Conference interpretation and conversation with Dr. Manuel Ramos Medina, Director of the Mexican History Center of the Carso Foundation in Mexico City. “Viviendo el centro histórico de la Ciudad de México. Logros y citas.” University of California, Santa Barbara, May 16, 2012.
Luna, Ilana. Conference Interpreter forArgentine filmmaker Fernando Solanas: UC- Regents’ Lecturer in Latin American and Iberian Studies, March 3-5, 2008.
Ruiz Pérez, Ignacio.“Cats” and “Edgar Allan Poe Lays Dying at Washington College Hospital.” Trans. Ilana Luna. Translation: A Translation Studies Journal . Eds. Ilana Luna, Summer Starr, Stacey Van Dahm. California: University of California, Santa Barbara. 2 (2007): 133-9.
Luna, Ilana. Department of Education: transcription, translation and discourse analysis of bilingual classroom, translation of educational surveys, 2006-2007.
Luna, Ilana. Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Sociology, UCSB: Translation and discourse analysis of popular Latin American song lyrics, Winter, Spring 2006.
CONFERENCE/ PANEL PRESENTATIONS
Invited
Luna, Ilana. “De pérdidas y perdidas: La contracara del cine de violencia.” XX Colloquium on Mexican Literature: Canon Perdido. University of California, Santa Barbara. November 10-12, 2016.
Luna, Ilana. Public Lecture: “A Central American Lens: Women and Film in the 21st Century.” In Northern Arizona University’s Latin American Studies Series. September 29, 2016.
Luna, Ilana. Public Lecture: “Behind the Lens: Mexican Women Make Movies.” In Bluffton University Women’s Forum Speaker Series. Ohio. March 22, 2016.
Luna, Ilana. Public Lecture: “El premio: Dictatorship, Repression and the Secret Jew.” Department of Spanish, University of Florida, Gainesville. November 3, 2015.
Luna, Ilana. Public Lecture: “Juan Gabriel Meets Bollywood: Mexican Melo-Drama Goes Global.” Lunchtime lectures: Popular Culture and Neoliberal Politics: Insights on the Current State of Latin America. Arizona State University, West. September, 16 2015.
Luna, Ilana.“Mexico at the Crossroads: New Directions and Digital Possibilities.” In Film Section Invited Session: The End of the Road or a New Directorial
Turn?: Argentine and Mexican Cinema in a Shifting Digital Era. Chaired by Miriam Haddu and Gabriela Copertari.Latin American Studies Association (LASA 2015) Congress. San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 27-30, 2015.
Luna, Ilana. Keynote Speech for induction to National Spanish Honor Society, BASIS, Peoria. April 28, 2015.
Luna, Ilana. Panel discussion for screening of Ava DuVernay’s Selma. Hosted by The
Center for the Study of Race and Democracy and Changemaker Central, Arizona
State University, Downtown. February 23, 2015.
Luna, Ilana. Presentation and public discussion of Marcela Zamora’s María en tierra de nadie. SJ/HR Human Rights Film Festival. Arizona State University, West. November 12, 2014.
Luna, Ilana. “Cruzando fronteras: México-EUA en el cine del libre comercio.” XVII Colloquium on Mexican Literature: Tan Lejos de Dios. University of California, Santa Barbara. November 6-8, 2014.
Luna, Ilana. Panel discussion accompanying the screening of Mary Mazzio’s Underwater
Dreams. Hispanic Heritage Series, Arizona State University, West.September 24, 2014.
Luna, Ilana. Film presentation and conversation with filmmaker Luciana Kaplan in
screening of Eufrosina’s Revolution (La revolución de los alcatraces). 4th Annual
Human Rights Film Festival. Arizona State University, Tempe. April 11-13, 2014.
Luna, Ilana. “Uneasy Interdependence: Esmeralda and her 5 husbands, From Text to
Screen.” New College Faculty Research Colloquium. Arizona State University, West. November 21, 2013.
Luna, Ilana. “Alta infidelidad, El silencio de las amantes: apuntes desde la cama de ‘las otras.’” XVI Colloquium on Mexican Literature: Huellas del tiempo/ Traces of Time. November 7-9, 2013.
Luna, Ilana. “Discursos divergentes: Hermosillo interpreta a Poniatowska en ‘De noche vienes, Esmeralda.’”XV Colloquium on Mexican Literature: Dedicated to Elena Poniatowska and CarlosFuentes. University of California, Santa Barbara. November 1-3, 2012.
Luna, Ilana and Sergio de la Mora. “The Current State of Queer Cinema in Latin America.” Keynote dialogue. Closing ceremonies of the Fourth Annual GayCharlotte Film Festival. Charlotte, NC. March 25, 2012.
Luna, Ilana. “De dobles y deseos desplazados: Las Violetas son flores del deseo de Ana Clavel.” XIV Colloquium on Mexican Literature. University of California, Santa Barbara. November 3-5, 2011.
Luna, Ilana. “Dana Rotberg’s Ángel de fuego, women’s cinema and the Mexican New Wave.” Guest lecture in Mexican cinema. Department of Film and Media Studies University of California, Santa Barbara. February 5, 2011.
Luna, Ilana. “Entre Pancho Villa y una estrategia desnuda: adaptación cinematográfica de la propia Sabina Berman.” 101 años de Luis Leal- y con don Luis – En Tijuana: Coloquio binacional de literatura mexicana y chicana. Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT), Mexico. October 24, 2008.
Luna, Ilana. “En busca de la femme desnuda: relaciones textuales entre el teatro y el cine de SabinaBerman.” X Colloquium on Mexican Literature: Homenaje Nacional a don Luis Leal, UC-Mexicanistas; INBA; UNAM; Universidad Claustro de Sor Juana, Mexico. November 15-17, 2007.
Luna, Ilana. “La malasangre: Tainted Blood That Stains Us All.” Special Panel on
Griselda Gambaro and Latin American Drama; The 5th Annual Graduate Student Conference of the Consortium forLiterature, Theory & Culture at the University of California, SantaBarbara: Epistemologies of Torture: Limits, Bodies, Black Sites. University of California, Santa Barbara.April 5-6 2007.
Luna, Ilana. “Tras el Poncho de Fernández: la imposible masculinidad en Los años falsos de Josefina Vicens.” IX Colloquium on Mexican Literature: Realidades y fantasías/ Realities and Fantasies. In Honor of Tim McGovern (1965-2006). University of California, Santa Barbara. November 3-4, 2006.
Refereed
Luna, Ilana. “Pobrecitos los ricos: Judíos que representan la marginalidad en Así del precipicio y No sé si cortarme las venas o dejármelas largas.” In panel organized by Ilana Luna and Elissa Rashkin: “Identidades y representaciones judías en el cine mexicano y centroamericano.” Latin American Jewish Studies Association 18th Internacional Research Congress, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, 3-5 July 2017. Forthcoming
Luna, Ilana.“Another World-View is Possible: Making the Political Personal in Postales de Leningrado and Princesas rojas.” In session organized by Ilana Luna and Noah Zweig: “Small Cinemas, Women’s Stories: Screening the Personal and Political.”Latin American Studies Association (LASA 2017) Congress: Diálogo de Saberes. April 29-May 1. Lima, Peru. (ACCEPTED – FORTHCOMING)
Luna, Ilana. “Portraying Cultural Agency: Girls on Film in Nicaragua.” In session organized by Ilana Luna and chaired by Carlos Vargas: “Resisting Erasure: Cultural Sovereignty and Regional Affiliation in Small Cinemas.”Latin American Studies Association (LASA 2016) Congress. May 27-30, NY, New York.
Luna, Ilana. “Towards a Queer Mexican Iconography: Don Hermosillo y sus juegos.” In Panel chaired by Sergio de la Mora, Laura Gutierrez:“Mexican Queer Aesthetics and Iconography” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)Annual Conference. Atlanta, Georgia. March 30-April 3, 2016.
Luna, Ilana and Michelle Tellez, Ana Terminel Iberri, Vanessa Nielsen de Molina, Yessica del Rincón, Marivel Danielson, Montye Fuse, Teresa Avila (Entre NosOtr@s collective). “Arizona Artivism: Feminist Collectives and Radical Interventions in Border Discourse” Tenth Biennial Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference. Arizona State University, Tempe. October 28-31,2015.
Luna, Ilana. “Neo-liberalism and Necropolitics: The Contagion of State Violence in Amat Escalante’s Heli” in Panel organized by Ilana Luna “Vectors of Discord: Contagion in Contemporary Mexican Cultural Production.”Symposium: Transforming Contagion. Arizona State University, West. October 23, 2015.
Luna, Ilana. “Including Excess: Camp Aesthetics and the Creation of a Third Space in the Films of Teresa Suárez.” In session organized and chaired by Ilana Luna “Cracks in the Screen: Theorizing a Third Space in Mexican Cinema” Latin American Studies Association (LASA 2015) Congress. San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 27- 30, 2015.
Luna, Ilana. “El cine de Michel Franco: Violencia neoliberal y aislamiento social”. IV Foro de Análisis Cinematográfico (FACINE)(Fourth Forum on Film Analysis). Centro Cultural Tijuana(CECUT), Mexico. September 5-6, 2014.
Luna, Ilana. “Adolescent alienation and nation: violence from above in the works of Michel Franco.” In session chaired by Cynthia Tompkins, “Afecto en el cine
latinoamericano reciente.” Latin American Studies Association (LASA 2014) Congress. Chicago, Illinois. May 21- 24, 2014.
Luna, Ilana.“La bobe y Tela de Sevoya: La muerte y el lenguaje del amor.” XX Annual Juan Bruce Novoa Mexican StudiesConference. University of California, Irvine. May 15-17, 2014.
Luna, Ilana. “Tela de sevoya: lenguaje y memoria. Rastreando una identidad sefardita en México.” XIX Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, University of
Texas, El Paso. March 6-8, 2014.
Luna, Ilana. “Pésame mucho: viajes de lo judío hacia lo mexicano a través de la muerte.”
XIX Annual Juan Bruce Novoa Mexican Studies Conference. University of California, Irvine. April 25-27, 2013.
Luna, Ilana. “Batalla en el cielo: The Unfinished Struggle for Economic and Social Independence.” In session chaired by Oswaldo Estrada.“Questioning Independence and Marginalities in Contemporary Latin American Film.” Latin American Studies Association (LASA 2012) Congress. San Francisco, California. May 23-26, 2012.
Luna, Ilana.“También la lluvia: Decolonial Praxis and the Question of National Cinema.” The 18th Annual Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures - Visual Reading: Images, Perspective, and the Text. The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.March 22-24, 2012.
Luna, Ilana. “Personal and Political: Recent Mexican Film Narratives of Adolescence and
Post-NAFTA Identity.” In Special Session Panel chaired by Hilda Chacón: “Personal Narratives of Home and Displacement: Mexico and the United States.” Modern Language Association Convention. Los Angeles, California. January 6-9, 2011.
Luna, Ilana. “Madres ausentes, padres malogrados: Representando la experiencia adolescente en el cine mexicano reciente.” Quinto Congreso Internacional de Teoría y Análisis Cinematográfico,7to Festival Internacional de Cine. Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico.SEPANCINE. October 1-3, 2009.
Luna, Ilana. “From Román to Romelia: Busi Cortés' Reinscription of the Female Body.” “Terrains of Transgression, Spaces of Survival: (Re)producing the Body in Latin American Literature and Visual Art.” Latin American Studies Association (LASA 2009)Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. June 11-14, 2009.
Luna, Ilana. “Sites of Resistance: Mexico-U.S. Media, Self-Reflection and the Destabilization of Border Notions.” XV UCI Mexican Conference: Imagine México, University of California, Irvine. April 30-May 2, 2009.
Luna, Ilana.“Relaciones intertextuales: Entre Villa y SabinaBerman.” 10th Graduate Student Conference on Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics: The Palimpsest of Memory and the Recycling of Language. University of California, Santa Barbara. February 22-23, 2008.
Luna, Ilana.“De kosher a culpa: La experiencia transatlántica en tres escritoras judío- mexicanas –Margo Glantz, Rosa Nissán, y Sabina Berman.” 60th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky, Lexington. April 19-21, 2007.
Luna, Ilana. “Josefina Vicens and the Negotiation of Difference in Film.” 2nd Annual
Graduate Portuguese and Hispanic Symposium (GRAPHSY 2006). Georgetown University. September 28-9, 2006.
Luna, Ilana. “Sabina Berman: Una Krisis por encima de toda sospecha.” XI Annual Mexican Conference: La construcción de la identidad mexicana: “Performance” de una nación. University of California, Irvine. April 29-30, 2005.
GRANTS (External)
Title of proposal: “What’s Blood Got to Do With It?: Religious Minorities Challenging Notions of National Identities in 20th and 21st Century Latin America”