Kathryn Joy McKnight
Professional Experience
POSITIONS HELD
| 2009- | Associate Director for Academic Programs, Latin American and Iberian Institute, University of New Mexico |
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2005- |
Associate Professor of Spanish, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque |
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2000-2005 |
Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque |
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1998-2000 |
Spanish Teacher, Booker T. Washington High School, Tulsa Public Schools |
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1997-1998 |
Coordinator and Telephone Service Specialist, Babyline, Community Service Council, Tulsa, Oklahoma |
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1992-1997 |
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa |
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1984-1986 |
Visiting Lecturer in Spanish, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana |
SERVICE
University of New Mexico
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2009-2010 |
Member, Search Committee for Hispanic Linguistics Position, Department of Spanish and Portuguese |
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2008 |
Associate Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Fall |
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2008 |
Acting Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Summer |
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2007- |
Member, Merit & Salary Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese |
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2007-2009 |
Member, Interdisciplinary Committee on Latin American Studies |
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2007 |
Member, Search Committee for SSL Coordinator, Department of Spanish and Portuguese |
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2007 |
Member, Organizing Committee, "Interdisciplinary Methods in Colonial Studies in the Americas: Exchanges over Space and Time," Colloquium of the Colonial Studies Working Group, UNM, March 23-24-2007. |
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2006 |
Co-Coordinator, 14th Annual University of New Mexico Spanish and Portuguese Department Conference on Ibero-American Culture and Society. "Relocations and Translated Identities: Migration, Exile, and Diaspora in the Spanish- and Portuguese-Speaking Worlds," February 16-18, 2006. |
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2004-2006 |
Undergraduate Adviser and Chair of the Undergraduate Studies Committee |
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2004-2006 |
Coordinator & Trainer of Teaching Assistants for Spanish 301: Cultural Topics, and Spanish 302: Developing Spanish Writing Skills |
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2005 |
Executive Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese |
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2005 |
MA Admissions Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese |
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2005 |
Discussant, Roundtable: "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Voice and Culture," Writing Across Communities, November 11, 2005 |
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2005 |
Co-leader; Workshop of Grants and Fellowships, for graduate students, Department of Spanish and Portuguese |
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2004-2005 |
Member, Search Committee for Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese |
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2004 |
"African Experiences in Spanish America." Interview on University Showcase, local NPR affiliate, KUNM, 89.9 FM |
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2004 |
Member, Grants and Awards Committee, Latin American and Iberian Institute |
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2004 |
Chair, Activities Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese |
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2003 |
Member, Lina A. Ruiz y Ruiz Memorial Award Selection Committee |
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2001-2003 |
Faculty Representative to the Latin American-Iberian Institute Policy Committee |
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2002 |
Member, Search Committee for Interim Spanish as a Second Language Coordinator |
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2009-2002 |
Member, Activities Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese (Chair: 2001-2002) |
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2000-2002 |
Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of Spanish and Portuguese |
Community
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2009 |
Presentation on Latin American Literature, Academic Decathlon Team, Belén High School, invited by the Center for Latin American Resources and Outreach, Latin American and Iberian Institute, March 24 |
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2008 |
Judge, Voces Poéticas, Ibero-American Poetry Contest for elementary school students, sponsored by the Center for Latin American Resources and Outreach, Latin American and Iberian Institute, April 22 |
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2005 |
"The Daring Intellectual Lives of Nuns," talk to OASIS, Albuquerque, April 6, 2005 |
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2004 |
"University Showcase," interview, local NPR affiliate, KUNM, 89.9 FM, December 3, 2004 |
Grinnell College
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1996-1997 |
Coordinator of the Spanish Tutoring Laboratory |
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1996-1997 |
Member, Gender and Women's Studies Committee |
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1996-1997 |
Member, Multi-Intercultural Curricular Development Committee, including co-leadership of the Faculty Seminar in Multicultural Education: 1996 & 1997 |
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1994-1995 |
Member, Noun Committee (Noun Program in Women's Studies) |
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1993-1995 |
Faculty Liaison to the Spanish House |
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1993-1995 |
Member, Teacher Education Committee |
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1992-1997 |
Member, Latin American Studies Committee |
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1992-1995 |
Coordinator of Guest-Speaker Visits, Spanish Department |
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND EDITORIAL BOARDS
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2008- |
Member, Editorial Board of Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature |
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2007- |
Member, Editorial Board of the Colonial Latin American Historical Review |
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2002-2006 |
Member, Executive Committee of the Division on Colonial Latin American Literatures of the MLA, Secretary 2005, Chair 2006 |
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2005- |
Member, Colonial Studies Working Group, University of New Mexico |
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2003- |
Member, Colonial American Studies Organization |
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2003- |
Member, Afro/Latin American Research Association |
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2002- |
Member, Asociación de Colombianistas |
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1992- |
Member, Latin American Studies Association |
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1991- |
Member, Modern Language Association |
OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
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2004 |
Panel organizer, “Public Spectacles and Clandestine Performances in Colonial Latin America,” Annual Convention of the MLA, Philadelphia, December 27-30 |
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2004 |
Reader, Latin American Studies Selection Panel, Scholarships, National Endowment for the Humanities |
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2003 |
Panel organizer, “Afro-American Voices and Representations of Blackness in Colonial Latin America,” Annual Convention of the MLA, San Diego, December 27-30 |
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2001-04 |
Article manuscript referee, Colonial Latin American Historical Review |
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2003 |
Book manuscript referee for the University Press of Florida |
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