Maite
Profile/Bio
Dr. Maite Villoria Nolla is a Lecturer and Head of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of The West Indies. She received her BA in Spanish and Latin American Studies from the University of Southampton, UK, and her MA and PhD in Latin American Studies from the University of Nottingham, UK.
Research Interests
Dr. Villoria's research interests are in Hispanic Studies (Latin American and Spanish studies) and Spanish Language. The main areas of research include Hispanic detective fiction, narco-culture in literature and film, historical and collective memory, and the rearticulation of urban imaginaries in Latin American literature and film. She has presented her work at over 30 international conferences and published in international journals such as Iberoamericana (Liverpool, UK) and Cuadernos de Literatura (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota) among others. She also serves on the editorial boards of academic journals in the Caribbean, Spain and the USA.
Courses Taught
- SPAN1001 - Spanish Language 1A
- SPAN1002 - Spanish Language 1B
- SPAN1401 - Introduction to Spanish Peninsular Literature
- SPAN1402 - Introduction to Spanish American Literature
- SPAN1412 - Hispanic Popular Culture
- SPAN2001 - Spanish Language 2A
- SPAN2002 - Spanish Language 2B
- SPAN2705 - Literature of the Spanish Caribbean
- SPAN3001 - Spanish Language 3A
- SPAN3002 - Spanish Language 3B
- SPAN3714 – Latin American Cinema
Selected Publications
Refereed Publication
Refereed Chapters in Books
2018
“Entre ollas y santos. Transgresiones e identidad en La cola de la serpiente de Leonardo Padura.” En Escrituras locales en contextos globales. Tomo I: Literaturas, lecturas y sujetos de tránsito, Claudia Hammerschmidt (Ed.). Postman and London: Inolas Publishers, 2018, p.p.157-179. ISBN: 9783946139270
Refereed Journal Articles
2023
Transculturación e identidad cultural cubana; el eslabón perdido en Monkey Hunting de Cristina García y La isla de los amores infinitos de Daína Chaviano. Cuadernos de Literatura. Gina Saraceni (ed.). Accepted for publication in second semester, 2023.
M. Villoria & Erick Mendoza, “Autonomía y aprendizaje; factor clave del proceso de construcción del conocimiento”. Edusol, Revista de divulgación científica y pedagógica. vol.24, número 83, 2023 (abril-junio).
“Consideraciones metodológicas para la enseñanza remota (ER) del español como lengua extranjera en contingencias sanitarias”. Órbita Científica, 29, n.122, 2023, pp. 1-12.
2021
"Approaches and Initiatives for navigating the Teaching and Learning of Spanish as a Foreign Language in the contexts of Covid-19". Special issue: Navigating Higher Education in a Pandemic: Teaching and Assessment in the time of Covid-19 and beyond, ed. Paulette Ramsay. The UWI Quality Education Forum, n. 25, May 2021, pp. 162-193. https://journals.sta.uwi.edu/ojs/index.php/qef/issue/view/818
2020
“Academic Literacies in Foreign Language Acquisition Challenges, Strategies and Practices”. The UWI Quality Education Forum, n. 24, January, 2020, pp. 215-235. https://journals.sta.uwi.edu/ojs/index.php/qef/issue/view/809
“Working towards Learning Autonomy: Shifting roles and Learning by doing at the UWI”. CJE, Caribbean Journal of Education, Vol. 41, number 2, 2020, pp. 66-83. https://www.mona.uwi.edu/soe/publications/cje/journal/cje-vol-41-no-2
2017
“Las transfiguraciones de Leonardo Padura: verdad y travestismo tras el juego de Máscaras”. Cuadernos de Literatura, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Vol. XXI N. 41, June 2017, pp. 268-287. https://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/cualit/article/view/19380
2011
“Colombian Drug Trafficking Subculture and its Literary Representation”. Caribbean Quarterly, Vol. 57, N. 2, June 2011, p.p. 75-91. https://doi.org/10.1080/00086495.2011.11672403
2008
Villoria, M, &J. Cedeño, “Una cultura para las masas.” Violentamente Colombia. Edited by Maite Villoria and Jeffrey Cedeño. Revista Iberoamericana, 2008, Vol.74, 223, p.p. 391-404. https://doi.org/10.5195/reviberoamer.2008.5274
Cedeño J and Villoria M, “Introduction.” Revista Iberoamericana, Vol. LXXIV, n.23, 2008, p.p. 333-344. https://doi.org/10.5195/reviberoamer.2008.5271
2005
“Re-escribiendo Medellín; una ciudad apocalíptica”. Antropologías y estudios de la ciudad. Sergio Tamayo (Ed.) Revista de Antropología, México: ENAH (Escuela de Antropología ), 1, January-June 2005, p.p.29-47.
2002
“Narrativas y (sub)culturas en la sicaresca colombiana”. Cuadernos de Literatura, Bogotá: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Año VIII, n. 15, 2002, pp.106-114. https://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/cualit/article/view/7992
2001
“Cóndores no entierran todos los días: ficcionalización de la memoria colectiva” Special Issue: Poéticas y trayectos de la literatura contemporánea. España, Hispanoamérica, Colombia.. Cuadernos De Literatura, vol. 7(13-14), 2001, pp. 224–232. https://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/cualit/article/view/7839
Refereed Edited Journal Issues
2008
Special Issue: Violentamente Colombia. Edited by Maite Villoria and Jeffrey Cedeño. Revista Iberoamericana, 2008, Vol.74, 223, p.p. 391-404. https://doi.org/10.5195/reviberoamer.2008.5274
Non refereed Journal Publications
2012
With J. Cedeño, "Culture and Power: Interculturality as a Combined Political, Ethical and Theoretical Project. Interview with Daniel Mato". Special Issue: The Academic Institutionalization of Cultural Studies in Latin America. Edited by Gregory J. Lobo, Jeffrey Cedeño & Chloe Rutter-Jensen. Cultural Studies. Routledge, Taylor & Francis. Vol. 26 Issue 1, 2012, p.p. 126-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2012.642600
With J. Cedeño, "Cultural Studies and Latin Americanism: Intellectuals, Culture and Ideology. Interview with Santiago Castro-Gómez". Special Issue: The Academic Institutionalization of Cultural Studies in Latin America. Edited by Gregory J. Lobo, Jeffrey Cedeño & Chloe Rutter-Jensen. Cultural Studies. Routledge, Taylor & Francis, V.26, Issue 1, 2012, p.p. 62-70. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2012.642610
With J. Cedeño, "Modernity, Dissemination and Culture: Reconstructing Political Platforms in Approaching Society and Culture. Interview with Mabel Moraña". Special Issue: The Academic Institutionalization of Cultural Studies in Latin America. Edited by Gregory J. Lobo, Jeffrey Cedeño & Chloe Rutter-Jensen. Cultural Studies. Routledge, Taylor & Francis, Vol.26, Issue 1, 2012, p.p.153-165. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2012.642606
Published Refereed Conference/Scientific Papers
2005
“The Schizophrenic City, Images of Urban Violence and Fragmentation in Latin American Cinema.” Antes y después del Quijote. Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland, 2005, p.p. 543-550.
2002
“Cóndores no entierran todos los días - a Fictionalisation of Collective Memory?”. Poéticas y trayectos de la literatura contemporánea: España y Colombia, X Symposium of Literature, October 2001, Bogotá. In Poéticas y trayectos de la literatura contemporánea, Cuadernos de Literatura, Bogotá: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Año VII, n. 13-14, 2002, pp.224-232.
