Nidia Pulles-Linares

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Professor
Modern Languages

EMAIL: npulleslinares@bmcc.cuny.edu

Office: S-601L

Office Hours: Wednesday, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. and Thursday, 10:00 - 12:00 p.m.

Phone: +1 (212) 220-8113

I was born in Cuba and came to the United States as a 1 year old with my family. We settled on East 28th Street in New York City and lived there happily until I was 9 years old. In 1962, we returned to La Habana, Cuba where we remained for a few years. We emigrated once again to the United States in 1968 and settled this time in Queens, New York.
After graduating from Newtown High School, I studied at Queens College from where I obtained a B.A and a M.A degrees. I obtained a few years later a Ph.D. from the Graduate University Center of CUNY.

I have taught Spanish Language and Literature at the BMCC since 1983, when I began as an Adjunct Lecturer of Spanish. Previous to my arrival at BMCC, I had taught Spanish Language and Literature at Queens College (CUNY) from 1977 – 1980.
I am currently a Professor of Spanish Language and Literature in the Modern Languages Department where I teach various levels of Spanish Language and Literature.

Expertise

My field of expertise is Spanish American Colonial Literature.

Degrees

  • Bachelor of Arts, Queens College, 1977. Spanish Language / Secondary Education
  • Master of Arts, Queens College, 1981. Spanish Language and Literature
  • Ph.D., The Graduate School and University Center of CUNY, 1999

Courses Taught

Research and Projects

  • I am currently working on an annotated edition of Canto intitulado Mercurio (1623) by Arias de Villalobos.

Publications

Book:

Gabriel Lobo Lasso de la V De Cortés valeroso, y Mexicana.  Edición, introducción y notas de Nidia Pullés-Linares.  Teci (Textos y estudios coloniales y de la independencia).  Vol. 10.  Frankfurt: Vervuert / Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2005.  ISBN 3-86527-159-6 (Vervuert).

Reviewed by Raúl Marrero-Fente in the following refereed journal:  Colonial Latin American Review, vol. 16, no. 2. December 2007.

Articles in Refereed Journals:

  • “Laudes civitatis y los hechos de la conquista de México en Canto intitulado Mercurio (1603) de Arias de Villalobos.”  Calíope.  Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry.  Vol 16, No. 1, Imaginarios poéticos virreinales (2010), pp. 73-93
  • “El conflicto intergeneracional y los mecanismos de adaptación en Soledad de Angie Cruz,”  MUJERES y CAMBIO desde la LETRA, eds. A. Horno –Delgado, J. N. Gold , Santo Domingo,  Dominican Republic.  October, 2005
  • “Los aspectos literarios y filológicos del poema De Cortés valeroso, y Mexicana de Gabriel Lobo Lasso de la Vega,” Actas del XIV Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas. 4 vols.  [Nueva York, 16-21 de julio, 2001].  Eds. Isaías Lerner, Robert Nival and Alejandro Alonso.  Newark, Del.: Juan de la Cuesta – Hispanic Monographs, c. 2004
  • “Conexiones culturales: el mundo clásico y la conquista de México”, in La Literatura Iberoamericana en el 2000: Balances, Perspectivas y Prospectivas, University of Salamanca, Spain (2000).  Published in CD Rom form by Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.  First Edition.  March 2003, pp. 778-785
  • “Nueva España en el siglo XVII,” Historia de la literatura mexicana, Siglo XVII, La cultura letrada en la Nueva España del siglo XVI. Vol. 2. Siglo XXI: México. Spring 2002, pp. 693-714
  • “La simbología de las diosas en dos cuentos de Lydia Cabrera” Enlaces: Transnacionalidad-El Caribe y su Diáspora-Lengua, Literatura y Cultura en los Albores del Siglo XXI.  Latin American Writers Institute, The Latino Press,  2000
  • “Clandina, Tádara, Gualca: Heroínas indígenas de De Cortés valeroso, y Mexicana, de Gabriel Lobo Lasso de la Vega,”  De la Catedral al RascacielosActas de la XVII Asamblea General de ALDEEU.  New York: The Peconic Company, 1998, pp. 21-30. Nominated Best Book of Essays of 1999 by the International Writers and Artists Association

Book Review:

  •   A Stitch in Air by Lori Marie Carlson. Review Literature and Arts of the             Americas. Issue 89, Vol. 47, No. 2. November 2014

 

 

Honors, Awards and Affiliations

 

  • Women in Film.  New York University, Faculty Resource Network Seminar Awardee, June 8-12, 2009
  • Better than Fiction: The Urban Chronicle and the New Latin American Novel.  New York University, Faculty Resource Network Seminar Awardee. June 9-13, 2008
  • BMCC Latino Honor Society Recognition Award, May 2, 2008
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, Summer Institute, Inquisitions and Persecutions in Early Modern Europe and the Americas.  Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies, University of Maryland, June-July, 2005
  • Salute to Scholars Faculty Honoree: 2004-2005 for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)/ Summer Seminars and Institutes ProgramInquisitions and Persecutions in Early Modern Europe and the Americas,  University of Maryland, 2005
  • Title V Grant, Activity Director  “Fostering Student Success by Strengthening Academic Advisement and Developing an Integrated Systems for Management of Student Data,” January 2005-June 2009
  • Certificate of Recognition by the Office of the Chancellor and the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs for Major Institutional Grants for Education and Public Service during 2005-2006.  United States Department of Education / Title V Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program, Fostering Student Success by Strengthening Academic Advisement and Developing an Integrated System for Management of Student Data Grant.  May 18, 2006
  • Salzburg Seminar Grant (Austria): Community College International Study Program,  Community Colleges As Sites Of Global Citizenship, July 17- 24, 2004
  • Co-Director of BMCC’s Teaching Learning Center (now CETLS), 2003-2005
  • Faculty Development Grant, 2001-2002

Additional Information

Scholarly Presentations:

  • “La difusión de la literatura colonial en Review: De la Americas Society a The City College of New York”, Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 2017,  Lima, Perú  
  • Utopía y conquista en “Canto titulado Mercurio” de Arias de Villalobos, The Graduate Center of CUNY, Department of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures, November 14, 2014, at 6pm
  • “El Caribe múltiple y el bicentenario de las independencias hispanoamericanas continentales”, Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina / Universidad de Cartagena / Universidad de Texas-Pan American, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, March 15-19, 2010
  • Colonialism and Modernity in the Literature of Spanish America”, The Americas Society, April 17, 2007
  • “Patriotism, Antiquity, and the Enlightenment in Francisco Xavier Clavijero’s Historia antigua de México,Science and Letters in the Colonial Americas II: Creole Patriotism and the Enlightenment in Spanish America, Third Biennial Meeting of the Society of Early Americanists. Providence, RhodeIsland. April 10-12, 2003
  • “Perfil de la mujer: Marina / Malinche en las crónicas de la conquista” in La importancia de la mujer en el Nuevo Mundo.  The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.  July 31-August 5, 2003.
  • Beyond Books and Borders: Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and the Florida Frontier.  An Interdisciplinary Symposium.  Session:  La Florida del Inca: Its Publication and Editions.  City College/The Graduate Center (CUNY). November 13-14, 2003.  Panel Moderator
  • “La destrucción del pasado en La reivindicación del conde don Julián de J. Goytisolo,” Construction and Destruction of the Spanish Past.  Binghamton University’s (SUNY) 12 Annual Conference: Time, Memory, Text.  March 23-24, 2001

Course Development:

  • Developed: Spanish 400-Latin American Women Writers, 1999
  • Teacher, mentor and co-coordinator of the BMCC Summer 2001 Study Abroad Program, Spanish 476 Hispanic Heritage course, at the University of Oviedo, in Asturias, Spain from July 18 –August 21, 2001
  • Co-developed:  Spanish 410-Latin American Theatre, 2003