Roberta Fernández Explained

Roberta Fernández
Occupation:Novelist
Nationality:American
Education:University of Texas at Austin (BA, MA)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Period:1990–present
Genre:Composite novel, short story cycle
Notableworks:Intaglio: A Novel in Six Stories
Awards:Multicultural Publisher's Exchange, Best Fiction (1991)
Texas Institute of Letters
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Roberta Fernández 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 Romance languages & literatures and women's studies at the University of Georgia.[1]

Biography

Early life and education

Fernández is a fifth-generation tejana from Laredo, Texas. She earned her B.A. and an M.A. degrees at the University of Texas at Austin and her PhD 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 University of Georgia to study Chicana literary feminism and nationalism.[1] She received a second Rockefeller Fellowship from the CRIM (Centro Regional de Investigacion Multidisciplinarias), a research center in Cuernavaca associated with the National University of Mexico. The seminar topic for 2005 was "The Empowerment of Women." Her own topic dealt with "The Role Played by Community-Based Organizations in the Transculturation Process & Empowerment of Mexican Women Recently Arrived in Georgia."

Art advocacy

Editorial and curatorial work

Published works

Awards for creative writing

Scholarly awards

See also

Notes/Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.arte.uh.edu/view_book_creator.aspx?CreatorID=164 Arte Público Press bio page
  2. Web site: ThriftBooks . An Autobiography of an Abused Child book by Roberta Fernandez . 2024-05-07 . ThriftBooks . en.
  3. Web site: ThriftBooks . Intaglio: A Novel in Six Stories book by Roberta Fernandez . 2024-05-07 . ThriftBooks . en.
  4. Web site: ThriftBooks . Roberta Fernandez Books List of books by author Roberta Fernandez . 2024-05-07 . ThriftBooks . en.
  5. Book: In Other Words: Literature by Latinas of the United States. registration. 1994. Roberta Fernández . Arte Publico Press. 9781611921823.
  6. http://www.uga.edu/iws/news/index.htm UGA Institute for Women's Studies Newsletter