PAULA D. COSTA-STRAILE

Year Joined RCNJ: 2003

Courses Offered:

• Spanish Lanuage all levels and Spanish Literature

Teaching Interest:

• Inter-American Literatures: (Spanish American and Brazilian Literatures; Literatures of the United States; Afro-Hispanic Literatures); Literary Theory and Criticism; Communicative Language Teaching and Second Language Acquisition Languages of Scholarship: English (Native speaker), Spanish (Near-native), Portuguese (Brazilian Near-native), French (Reading fluency).

Research Interest:

• Inter-American Literatures: (Spanish American and Brazilian Literatures; Literatures of the United States; Afro-Hispanic Literatures); Literary Theory and Criticism; Communicative Language Teaching and Second Language Acquisition Languages of Scholarship: English (Native speaker), Spanish (Near-native), Portuguese (Brazilian Near-native), French (Reading fluency).

 Recent Publications:

• “Redeeming Acts:  Religious Performance and Indigenismo in Cherríe Moraga’s Feminist Revision of Chicano Activist Theater.” American@  Vol. III, Issue 1 The Anticapitalist Struggle of Native Peoples in America. Fall 2005. America.  
• “The Pillory/Pelourinho in Open Air Museums in the U. S. and Brazil:  A Site of Racism and Racial Reconciliation.”  Erasing Public Memory:  Race, Aesthetics, and Cultural Amnesia in the Americas (Voices of the African Diaspora). Eds. Joe Young and Jana Braziel. Macon, GA:  Mercer University Press, 2007. 
• “Psychological Insights into the Life of Saint Rose of Lima.”  Rev. of Frank Graziano, Wounds of Love:  The Mystical Marriage of Saint Rose of Lima.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 2004.  Clio’s Psyche:  Understanding the “Why” of Culture, Current Events, History, and Society. II.3  (December 2004): 108-110. 
• “Myth and Ritual in The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea:  Cherríe Moraga’s Xicana Indígena Interpretation of the Medea.” Medea: Mutations and Permutations of a Myth. Anne Simon and Heike Bartel, Eds. (Forthcoming – contract with Oxford’s Legenda Publishing.) 
• “Cherríe Moraga,” Luz Elena Ramirez, ed. “Hispanic American Literature,” vol. 1, “Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature,” Facts on File Online Database (Forthcoming) 
• “Goddess of the Americas:  Writings on the Virgin of Guadalupe”  Luz Elena Ramirez, ed. “Hispanic American Literature,” vol. 1, “Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature,” Facts on File Online Database, (Forthcoming) 

Grants:

Ramapo Foundation Grant Proposal - "Faculty Colloquia through the Disciplines: Economic Crisis and The Worker:  Historical Perspectives, Global Challenges".