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VICTORIA L. MC CARD,
Ph.D.
Department of Spanish
University of North Georgia
Dahlonega, GA 30597
Work: (706) 864-1965
E-Mail: victoria.mccard@ung.edu
FAX: (706) 864-1485
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Literature of Spain and Latin America, Emory University.
Dissertation: "The Symbiosis of Federico García Lorca and Salvador Dalí."
Advisor: Carlos Rojas.
Master of Arts, Spanish, University of Georgia.
Thesis: "Feminine Psychology in Four Novels of Silvina Bullrich.”
Bachelor of Arts, Spanish, University of Georgia.
APPOINTMENTS
2006 - present Professor of Spanish, North Georgia College & State
University
1998 - 2006 Associate Professor of Spanish, North Georgia College &
State University
1993 - 1998 Assistant Professor of Spanish, North Georgia College & State
University.
1992 - 1993 Assistant Professor of Spanish, Morehouse College.
1990 - 1992 Instructor of Spanish, Morehouse College.
1987 - 1990 Instructor of Spanish, Evening at Emory, Emory University.
1984 - 1990 Teaching Assistant of Spanish, Emory University.
1979- 1984 Spanish Teacher, Lithonia High School, Dekalb County (Ga.) School
System.
1977- 1978 Instructor of English as a Second Language. Ejército del Aire.
Madrid, Spain.
1975- 1976 Teaching Assistant of Spanish, University of Georgia.
AWARDS AND HONORS
Department of the Army Certificate of Appreciation for Patriotic
Civilian Service, 2004.
Department of the Army Commander's Award for Public Service, 2003.
NGCSU Candidate for Regents' Excellence in Teaching Award, 2001.
TRANSLATIONS
Gannon, Michael. "1565 San Agustín
1965." Trans. Victoria L. McCard. Proceedings of the
Conference:
Culturally La Florida: Spain's New World Legacy. May 2012, Flagler College.
Print.
O' Sullivan, Maurice. "La doble hélice: la idea de España en la
imaginacón literaria de Florida 1513-2013."
Trans. Victoria L. McCard. Proceedings of the Conference:
Culturally La Florida: Spain's New World Legacy.
May 2012, Flagler College. Print.
Parker, Susan Richbourg. "Renegados,
cimarrones y los vecinos de San Agustín." Trans. Victoria L. McCard.
Proceedings of the
Conference: Culturally La Florida: Spain's New World Legacy.
May 2012,
Flagler College. Print.
Yáñez, Mirta. "The Escape." "Havana is a
Really Big City." "The Beatles Versus Duran Duran."
"Prophet of Doom.” Trans. Victoria
L. McCard. Havana is a Really Big City and Other
Short Stories,
Ed. Sara Cooper. Chico:
Cubanabooks, 2010. Print.
ARTICLES
"Christ and the Choteo:
Approaches to Authority in the Stories of Nancy Alonso,"
South
Atlantic Review 75 No. 1, Winter 2010: 115-134. Print.
“Compañera or ciudadana? The Double Life of the Jinetera in
Daína Chaviano’s El hombre, la hembra y el hambre,”
Hispanet, Volume 1 (2008).
http://www.fiu.edu/~hispanet/
"Soldaderas of the Mexican Revolution,"
West Virginia University
Philological Papers
51 (2006):
43-51.
Print.
“Salvador Dalí or the Persistence of Memory -True and False,” CiberLetras:
Revista de crítica literaria y de cultura
14 (Dec. 2005)
http://www.lehman.edu/ciberletras
“Recognizing
and Rewarding Teaching Excellence Discussion Forum: A Synopsis,”
The Teacher, North Georgia College & State University, Vol. 2, No.
3 (May, 1999): 5. Print.
“El mundo mítico y mágico de Salvador Dalí. Con Ortega y Freud para
crear orden del
caos.” Literatura, arte, historia y mito en la obra de Carlos Rojas. Ed.
Cecilia
Castro Lee. Bogotá: Fundación
Universidad Central de Colombia. 1998. 333-355. Print.
“El banquete Nerudiano,” Literatura y Linguística, Universidad Católica
Blas Cañas,
Santiago, Chile, 10(1997):
15-28. Print.
"El subalterno en Cortázar," Revista de Estudios Hispánicos,
University of Puerto Rico,
XVII-XVIII (1990-91):
247-257. Print.
BOOK REVIEWS
Camacho
c’est moi: Parodia social y géneros literarios en La tía Julia y el
escribidor, by
Liliana Tiffert Wendorff.
South Atlantic Review, Spring 2010:
183-186. Print.
Entrevistas
con quince autoras mexicanas,
by Emily Hind. South Atlantic Review,
Fall 2004:
148-150.
Print.
History and Memory in the Two Souths:
Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction,
by Deborah N. Cohn. South Atlantic Review,
Fall 2002: 163-169. Print.
Reyita: The Life of a
Black Cuban Woman in the Twentieth Century, by
María de los Reyes
Castillo Bueno. South Atlantic Review,
Fall 2002: 169-172. Print.
The Sexual Woman in Latin American Literature: Dangerous Desires, by
Diane E. Marting.
South Atlantic Review, Spring 2002: 95-100.
Print.
Solitaire of Love, by Cristina Peri Rossi.
South Atlantic Review, Winter 2002:169-173. Print.
Afro-Cuban Voices: On Race and
Identity in Contemporary Cuba,
ed. Pedro Pérez Sarduy,
and Jean
Stubbs. South Atlantic Review, Summer 2001:
134-138. Print.
Prelude to Pleasure: A Bilingual Edition of Víspera del
gozo, trans. and ed. Noel Valis.
Letras Peninsulares,
Winter 1995-1996: 473-474. Print.
LECTURES
"Is Yunior a chip off the old
block? Machismo and
hombría in Junot Diáz
Atlanta, February 2013.
"Christ and the Choteo: Approaches to Authority in the
Stories of Nancy Alonso," at the
65th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language
Conference. Lexington, April 2012.
"Skin Color and Racism in 21st Century Cuba," at the North Georgia Arts &
Letters Confernce on the
Significance of Color in the Humanities
and Social Sciences. Dahlonega, February 2012.
"The Bleeding Wound," at the 15th Annual Conference on the Americas. Atlanta, February 2012.
“Spanish Chronicles and lo real
maravilloso in James Cameron’s Avatar,”
at the 14th Annual Conference on the Americas.
Atlanta, February 2011.
“Literature and Life in the Salt
Mines,” at the 13th Annual Conference on the Americas.
Atlanta, February 2010.
"Carnival with Choteo in Centro Habana," at The Measure of a
Revolution: Cuba, 1959-2009.
Kingston Ontario, May 2009.
"Choteo and Authority in the Stories of Nancy Alonso," at the 11th
Annual Conference on the Americas.
Atlanta, February 2008.
"Compañera or Ciudadana?: The Double Life of the Jinetera,"
at the 27th International Congress of the
Latin American Studies Association.
Montreál, September 2007.
“Can We Truly Be Friends in a World Like This? The Tourist, the Hustler and
Social Class
in Cuba,” at the 9th Annual Conference on the Americas.
Armstrong Atlantic State University,
February 2006.
“Jineterismo: between the Margin and the Mainstream in Luis
Manuel García’s ‘Tú qué sabes,
Vivian,’” at the Annual Convention of The Modern Language
Association,
Washington D.C., December, 2005.
“Mirta Yáñez o la retórica feminista vestida de ironía,” at the Annual
Convention of
The Modern Language Association. Philadelphia, December 2004.
“Salvador Dalí
or the Persistence of Memories (True and False),” at the International
Conference on Truth and Mendacity in Literature and the Visual Arts,
including
Cinema. Atlanta, October, 2004.
"Female Characters of the Mexican Revolution: Will the
real “Adelita” Please Stand Up?"
at The Evolution of War and its Representation in Literature and Flim, the
Twenty-eighth
Annual Colloquium on Literature and Film of the University of West Virginia.
Morgantown,
W.Va., September, 2003.
"Women and Publishing: Factors Affecting Scholarly
Production of Female Academics," at
NGCSU Department of Language and Literature Research
Colloquium. Dahlonega, Ga.,
September, 2001.
"Interpretation and Ekphrasis: Carlos Rojas's Two Approaches to Salvador
Dalí," at the Blue
Ridge International Conference on the Humanities and
the Arts. Appalachian State
University. Boone, NC, April, 2001.
“El banquete Nerudiano,” at the International Conference on Utopia and
Dystopia in Literature
and the Visual Arts, including Cinema. Atlanta, November, 1999.
“The Trip to the Moon of An Andalusian Dog,” at Language into Light: The
Written
Word Becomes Cinema, the Twenty-fourth Annual Colloquium on Literature and Film
of the University of West Virginia. Morgantown, W.Va., September, 1999.
“Decolonization and Capitalism in El búfalo ciego, a
Post-Revolutionary Cuban Short
Story,” at the First International Conference on Caribbean Literature. Nassau,
Bahamas, November, 1998.
"El mundo mítico y mágico de Salvador Dalí. Ortega and Freud Create
Order from
Chaos,” at Representing Identities: Biography and Autobiography, the
Twenty-third
Annual Colloquium on Literature and Film of the University of West Virginia.
Morgantown, W.Va., October, 1998.
“Incest as Foundational Act and Cultural Border in One Hundred Years of
Solitude.”
International Conference on Borders and Frontiers. Atlanta, October, 1997.
“The Two Guernicas.” World War II Days. Dahlonega Ga., February, 1997.
"Despair and Desire in Federico García Lorca's Poeta en Nueva
York."
International Conference on Despair and Desire. Atlanta, October, 1996.
"New Testament History as Subverter of the Scapegoat Myth in Gabriel
García Márquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold. " Twenty-First Annual
Colloquium on Literature and Film: The Uses of History in Fiction and
Film. Morgantown, W. Va., October, 1996.
"Myth, History and the Scapegoat in Crónica de una muerte anunciada."
International Conference on the Sacred and the Profane in Literature
and the Visual Arts. Atlanta, October, 1995.
"'Nadadora sumergida': Treading Water between Tradition and the Avant-
Garde." Twentieth Century Literature Conference. Louisville, February,
1995.
"The Dissertation: Factors Affecting Completion." Convention of the
South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Atlanta. November, 1993.
"Love and Death: Literary and Visual Representations of the Relationship
of Federico García Lorca and Salvador Dalí." West Georgia Conference on
Representations of Love and Hate. Atlanta, October, 1993.
"Salvador Dalí and Federico García Lorca: Mirrors in
Confrontation."
West Georgia College Conference on "Surrealism and the Oneiric
Experience." Atlanta. October, 1990.
"Silvina Bullrich: A Call to Consciousness." Convention of the
South
Atlantic Modern Language Association. Atlanta. November, 1985.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Academic Advocate for UNG Corps of Cadets Delta Company
Faculty Associate
Coach for UNG softball team
Faculty Advisor to Circle K Club
NGCSU Representative on The Americas Council
Administrator of USG Latin American Studies Certificate
Chair NGCSU Faculty Affairs Committee
Chair NGCSU Faculty Grievance Committee
Member and Chair NGCSU School of Arts and Letters Committee on Promotion and Tenure
Member NGCSU Academic Integrity Council
Member NGCSU Discipline Committee
Member NGCSU Cultural Events Committee - International Film Festival Director
Member NGCSU Faculty Senate 2000-2002
Member NGCSU Committee on Committees
Member NGCSU Dispute Resolution Board of Review
Member NGCSU Academic Activities Committee
Member NGCSU Strategic Planning Committee
Member NGCSU Institutional Assessment Committee
Member NGCSU Library Committee
Member NGCSU Writing Skills Committee
Member and Chair of NGCSU Hoag Lecture Series Committee
Member NGCSU Minority Affairs Committee
Secretary NGCSU chapter of AAUP
Coordinator of Language Bowl (NGCSU Foreign Language Day)
Faculty sponsor of The Language Club at North Georgia College
Member of the Section on Cuba of the Latin American Studies Association
Volunteer English as a Second Language Instructor (Dahlonega Baptist Church)
Volunteer translator for Dahlonega-Lumpkin County Chamber of Commerce
Volunteer translator for Lumpkin County School System
Volunteer interpreter for Legal Aid Society of Atlanta
Volunteer interpreter for Noa’s Ark battered women’s shelter
Member of the Board of Directors of NOA’s Ark battered women’s shelter
Volunteer visitor for Prisoner Visitation and Support
Graduate student representative on the Executive Committee of the Modern
Language
Department of EmoryUniversity
Teaching Assistant for the Emory University Studies Abroad Summer Program in
Madrid
Travel experience: India, Nepal, Middle East, Western Europe, Mexico, Central
America,
Uruguay, Argentina,
Colombia and Cuba
Resided in Madrid for two years
LANGUAGES
SPANISH-- near native fluency
FRENCH-- fair knowledge
GERMAN-- fair knowledge
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Modern Language Association
Latin American Studies Association
American Association of University Professors
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
