Articles

Transnational Borderlands
in Women's Global Networks

Two faculty members in Modern Languages at Kenyon College – Clara Roman-Odio and Marta Sierra, have edited a newly published volume entitled Transnational Borderlands in Women’s Global Networks (Comparative Feminist Series, Palgrave Macmillan 2011).   The book emerged from a series of Conferences on Transnational Feminisms organized at Kenyon in 2008.

The Transnational Feminisms project offers a telling example of faculty leadership in attracting the interest of colleagues from a wide range of academic disciplines – beginning on a single college campus, and ultimately extending to other institutions as well.  Following a first conference arranged for Kenyon College faculty members, Roman-Odio and Sierra worked with colleagues of other GLCA member colleges to convene a consortial conference on the subject with support from the GLCA and other sources.  The Transnational Feminist Conference attracted the participation of faculty from across GLCA member colleges and beyond.

Follow the links below to see the book flier with Chicana artist Consuelo Jiménez Underwood's beautiful image on the cover and excellent blurbs from Chela Sandoval and other experts in the field.

The following url is for GLCA colleagues interested in ordering  a copy for the library or a personal copy:

http://us.macmillan.com/TransnationalBorderlandsinWomensGlobalNetworks

or visit Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Transnational-Borderlands-Womens-Global-Networks/dp/0230109810/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1307026432&sr=8-1

Clara Román-Odio is a Professor of Spanish, Modern Languages, and Literatures at Kenyon College. She is the author of Octavio Paz en los debates críticos y estéticos del siglo XX, the co-editor of Global and Local Geographies: The (Dis)locations of Contemporary Feminisms, and her research encompasses theoretical and artistic models in feminist movements of women of color in the U.S.

Marta Sierra is an Associate Professor of Spanish, Modern Languages, and Literatures at Kenyon College. She is the co-editor of Global and Local Geographies: The (Dis)locations of Contemporary Feminisms and her publications have appeared in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Revista Iberoamericana, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, and Latin American Literary Review, as well as in book editions published in Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay.