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Magdalena L. Barrera |
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Magdalena L. Barrera's last year of graduate school has been exceptionally busy! Funding-wise, she has been the recipient of a dissertation fellowship from the Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity, as well as from the Institute for Research on Women &
Gender. She has also been a Scholar-in-Residence at El Centro Chicano,
and worked as the Mentor in the Major for Feminist Studies. She is very
happy to have enjoyed constant funding through seven years of graduate
school. She is in the midst of completing her dissertation, "Domestic
Drama: Visions of Mexican Families and American Identity, 1910-1941," and
looks forward to graduating in June, then filing her dissertation in August.
In November, Magdalena gave her deluxe PowerPoint presentation, "Picturing
Mexicans in the Midwest: A Region, and Archive and the Imagetext," at the
Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Conference, hosted at the
University of New Mexico. In April, she will return to her hometown of
Chicago to share her latest research on gender and immigration in
early-twentieth century Mexican American newspapers at the annual
conference of the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the
United States. However, she is most excited about going to Rome, Italy,
to share her work, "The Sound of a New Ethnic Identity: Mexican American
Music of the 1930s," at "Making Music, Making Meaning," the 13th biennial
conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular
Music. In preparation for the trip, she's attempting to become
quadra-lingual and gain some knowledge of Italian.
There is as much excitement in her personal life, too. Magdalena will be
featured in the April 2005 issue of SHAPE magazine, as one of two readers
selected nation-wide for a "fitness makeover." She won a week-long trip
to the exclusive Canyon Ranch Health Resort in Tucson, Arizona, to
participate in a five-day program called "Shape Your Life," which helps
women gain new insight into various aspects of nutrition, physical fitness
and stress-management. She will celebrate her thirtieth birthday on
August 26, a milestone that she gladly welcomes. As if she needed even
more distractions from dissertation-writing, Magdalena has been in
wedding-planning mode: She will marry the love of her life Raul Contreras
on November 11, 2005, at the Hotel De Anza in downtown San Jose. Finally,
Magdalena somehow found time this past year to learn how to knit!
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