Alice Weldon
Associate Professor, Spanish
Department of Foreign Languages
Women's Studies
Contemporary Spanish-America Literature, Peninsular and Spanish-American
Narrative by Women, Bolivia, Latino and Immigration issues, Literary
translation, Service-Learning
230 New Hall, CPO 2860
828 251-6285
aweldon@unca.edu
Weldon's dissertation was one of the first critical looks at narrative by Bolivian women as well as on narrative by other Spanish American women. She has continued to publish on that theme, in journals such as Revista Monográfica, the Bolivian journal Signos, and Bricha Review, and SECOLAS Annals (journal of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies). In addition, she does literary translation, and has published her English version of Bolivian Gaby Vallejo's novel, Hijo de Opa/Son of the Murdered Maid, and a short story by Bolivian Gumucio Dagrón. She is recently completed translation of Argentinean Gloria Lisé's first novel, Viene clareando.
Other publications include articles on feminist literary theory, pedagogy, especially on service-learning, in the AATSP journal Hispania, and the book Juntos: Community Partnerships in Spanish and Portuguese. Editor: Josef Hellebrandt. She is currently co-authoring and co-presenting on research and focus groups about motherhood and non-motherhood at a small public liberal arts institution, with sociologist, Karin Peterson.
She regularly teaches courses on literature in Spanish by women and on literature with human rights themes, on Women's Studies, and Humanities.
Non-academic pursuits include bicycling, music, political activism, and time with her grandchildren.