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January 31, 2006
UNM's Rebolledo Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
University of New Mexico Regents' Professor Tey Diana Rebolledo, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, recently received a lifetime achievement award for scholarship in the field of American Ethnic Literatures. The award was presented by MELUS, the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association.
“As a member of MELUS's executive committee, I nominated Professor Rebolledo for this recognition because I believe my colleague deserves to be recognized nationally for her long-time work in Chicana/o literary and cultural studies,” said Jesse Alemán, associate professor, UNM Department of English.
Noting that the group didn't honor one particular piece of Rebolledo's work, but instead recognized her outstanding achievement in the field of U.S. ethnic literary studies, Alemán said, “This spans her published scholarship, her years of teaching and mentoring, and her active participation in the Modern Language Association.”
Rebolledo, former chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, earned her master's degree at UNM, and began her career at UNM as director of the Women's Studies program. A scholar in the areas of Chicano/a and Latin American literature, she was named UNM regents' professor in 1999 and distinguished professor by the Modern Language Association in 2003.
She is also the 2004 winner of the Rudolfo and Patricia Critica Nueva Award for scholars in Chicana/o literary criticism. She specializes in Latin American poetry, women's literature, and Chicana literature. She is co-editor of “ Infinite Divisions: An Anthology of Chicana literature ,” published by the University of Arizona Press in 1993 and “ Women Singing in the Snow: A Cultural Analysis of Chicana Literature” (1995), and is the author of many articles and book chapters.
Named a New Mexico Eminent Scholar, she has received an NEH Fellowship, a Rockefeller Fellowship and a Danforth Fellowship. Her current research focuses on colonial and contemporary Southwest Hispana literature and culture.
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