Instituto de Literatura Inglesa y Norteamericana
ROSA E. M. D. PENNA
Personal Data
Full address of permanent Institution:
Facultad de Filosofia y Letras
Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina
Av. Alicia M de Justo 1500
BUENOS AIRES 1107
ARGENTINA
E-mail: rpenna@uca.edu.ar
Phone voice /Fax: 54-114-349 0444
Education (Higher Degrees)
Ph D Litt (Summa Cum Laude)1993/ Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina.
Licenciada en Letras. 1969/ same university.
Profesora en Letras. 1966/ same university.
Teacher of English Language. 1959/ Tertiary Studies National Institute.
Employment and Academic Responsibility
1) Professor of English and American Literature, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, Buenos Aires. (Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, Letters Department) (Tenured).
2) Assistant Professor, English Literature. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Filosofia y Letras (Tenured).
3) Coordinator of Foreign Language Courses. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (Tenured).
4) a) Director of Instituto de Literatura Inglesa y Norteamericana
(Research Institute), Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina.
b) Member (elected) of the Faculty Council, Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, Buenos Aires.
5) Professor of Seminar for the "Licenciatura en Letras" (when there are applicants) Universidad Católica Argentina.
6) Referee 1998-2000 Public Good Science Fund/ Foundation for Research Science and Technology, Wellington, New Zealand.
Other activities:
- Senior Field Bibliographer for the MLA International Bibliography
(Since 1998. Biblographer since 1982).
- Editor for CUADERNOS DE LITERATURA INGLESA Y NORTEAMERICANA, published since May 1996. Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina.
Recent Publications and Research
1999. Contributor to Perspectives: A Guide to Teaching Shadow and Light, edited by Darryl Tippens and Stephen Weathers. Abilene: ACU Press.
(Entry on Dylan Thomas).
1994 and 1992 Co-editor with M. A. Rosarossa: Studia Hispanica Medievalia III, II. Buenos Aires.
1993. Dissertation for the Doctorate._"El espacio y sus formas de expresión en dos novelas de Henry James 'The Ambassadors' y 'The Wings of the Dove.' "
Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina.
1991. Chapter in The Hospitable Canon..., ed. by V. Nemoianu and Robert Royal. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Articles in academic journals and/or for Conferences or similar academic venues in Argentina and abroad. On Seamus Heaney, Penelope Lively, V.S. Naipaul, Eudora Welty, Iris Murdoch, Italo Calvino and Coleridge, Henry James, C.S.Lewis, John Fowles, G.K.Chesterton, among others (details on request). Present research interests: Use of space/place/boundaries/ and related concepts in English language narratives of the 20th century.
Fellowships: Bursars from the British Council and the Universities of London and Oxford, 1971, 1975 and 1980. 2003. British Council Grant.
Academic Visits/ Participation in International Conferences
1997. Visiting Scholar. Dep. of English,New York University, NY City, USA.
1996. Visiting Scholar. English Dept. University of Toronto, Canada.
1995 and 1994 (September) Visiting Academic and Visiting Lecturer. English Dept. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
1994. Visiting Scholar. Dept of English, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
1994. (March) Visiting Scholar. Fordham University and New York University, NY City, USA.
1988. Visiting Scholar. Brown University. Providence, USA; and Catholic University of America, Washington DC, USA. In the last decade Prof. Penna has participated in Conferences and Academic meetings in Argentina and abroad. Special interest in the International Conferences on the Literature of Region and Nation, attended and participated in 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2000.
1997. Active participant in "Wordsworth Summer Conference" at Grasmere (August).
1998. SAVAL International Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa.
1999. AULLA Conference, Auckland, New Zealand (February).
2001. Aulla Conference, Adelaine, Australia (February)
2003. Aulla Conference. Wellington, New Zealand (February)
2003. July. 4 th Symbiosis Conference "Across the Great Divide" Univ. of Edimburgh, Scotland (with a British Council Grant).
Remark: This CV contains main details of the last ten years (prior details
have been omitted; they are available on request)