Gabriela Falconi-Piedra, Ph.D.

Visiting assistant professor of Spanish & Hispanic studies

Phone:765-983-1277
Email:[email protected]
Pronouns:she/her/hers

About me

I am Ecuadorian with interdisciplinary professional training. I worked for many years developing literary, academic, and cultural projects in Andean countries, particularly in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. I am passionate about critical thinking, literature, and art. I am an artist as well as a scholar, and in my classes I use creative tools to enrich and extend learning. My wire and paper sculptures were exhibited in the Flight Without Borders installation (2022-2023) at the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati.

Why do you teach at Earlham?

Earlham College allows me to offer its students a variety of culture and language courses that I am passionate about teaching in a supportive, creative, and positive environment, one in which I can collaborate with students and colleagues alike.

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
  • M.A., Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima
  • B.A., Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito

Professional memberships

  • Latin America Studies Association (LASA)
  • The Américas, Latinx, and Indigenous People’s Research Center Member. University of Cincinnati

Research projects

My research projects have an interdisciplinary and decolonial approach that traces how national narratives and notions of identity, be it class, ethnicity, gender or sexuality, have been configured in South American literary and cultural discourses.

Scholarly interest

  • Latin American literature and culture
  • Colonial Spanish American literature
  • Andean indigenous representations in literary and cultural discourses
  • The legacy of colonialism in Latin American contemporary literature and culture
  • Gender, race and ethnicity in colonial and contemporary texts

Published works

Articles in Periodicals

“La frontera de Gloria Anzaldúa o el encuentro de múltiples de caminos”. Poetika 1. Pittsburgh, 2022.

“Las mariposas y el fuego: la mirada de Ricardo Palma sobre cuatro mujeres ecuatorianas”. Aula Palma – XIV. Perú, 2015.

Articles in Books

“La ciudad y sus múltiples rostros”. Ensayos sobre Carlos Eduardo Zavaleta. ICPNA. Perú, 2008.

“El umbral poético entre la locura y la cordura”.  Quijoteando. Memorias del Primer Encuentro Internacional: Defensa del Lenguaje como Patrimonio Cultural. Perú 2006.

“El juego, el azar y el destino. Vínculos entre la novela El Jugador de Fedor Dostoyevski y el cuento Cera de César Vallejo”.  La prosa de César Vallejo. Perú, 2006.

Creative Writing

Vimos, Manuela & Falconi, Gabriela. “Max y sus amigos. Los colores”, “Max y los números”, “La casa de Max”. Printed by the Department of Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures at the University of Cincinnati, as part of the Spanish teaching initiative at the Clifton Area Neighborhood School, CANS, 2020.

“La luna y el cajón”. El tren de Matapalo. Matapalo Cartonera Ed. Ecuador, 2011.

Pipo, el dragón. Matapalo Cartonera Ed. Ecuador, 2010.

Prologues

Antologías Binacionales de Cuento y Poesía. Ecuador Perú. 1998 – 2008. Editing, selection and prologue Gabriela Falconi & Carlos Yushimito, Carlos. Editorial Sic – Embajada del Ecuador en Perú, 2009.

Book Review

“Yo soy el monstruo que os habla. Informe para una academia de psicoanalistas”.. Cincinnati Romance Review. vol. 50, 2021, pp. 158-159.

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

“El cuerpo religioso y el cuerpo nacional: una relectura sobre dos representaciones de santa Rosa de Lima en el siglo XVII”. Querencias 2023: Culturas entrelazadas at the University of New Mexico, April 22, 2023.

“Santa Rosa de Lima como Modelo Ejemplar en dos representaciones del siglo XVII”. Co-organizer of the panel: “El Cristianismo y lo Femenino en Representaciones Coloniales Hispanoamericanas”, 43th Cincinnati Conference on Romance & Arabic Languages & Literatures (CCRALL). April 7, 2023.

“Santa Rosa de Lima: lectura interseccional sobre las apropiaciones políticas propuestas por el Grupo Chaclacayo en “Rosa Cordis” (1986)”. Track: Culture, Power and Political Subjectivities. LASA 2022 Hybrid Congress: Polarización socioambiental y rivalidad entre grandes potencias. May 6, 2022.

”La escritura como un acto de identidad y resistencia: una lectura de Gloria Anzaldúa a través de Patricia de Souza”. Virtual panel: “Voces femeninas latinoamericanas: viaje poético, flujo de la conciencia, exclusiones canónicas, violencia sexual”. Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference. April, Lexington. April 21, 2022.

“Soberanía política y representaciones discursivas en disputa: dos versiones sobre santa Rosa de Lima”. 42th Cincinnati Conference on Romance & Arabic Languages & Literatures (CCRALL), April 9, 2022.

“Representaciones femeninas en dos textos coloniales: el Manifiesto de los Agravios (1732) de Vicente Mora Chimo y la Representación verdadera… (1748) de Calixto Túpak Inka”. Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference. Virtual, 2021.

“La excritura del cuerpo: representaciones contemporáneas de santa Rosa de Lima desde la obra de Natalia Iguiñiz”. 41th Cincinnati Conference on Romance & Arabic Languages & Literatures (CCRALL), April, 2021

“Códigos en conflicto y las propuestas de reforma en la Reivindicación verdadera… (1750) de fray Calixto Tupak Inka”. 40th Cincinnati Conference on Romance & Arabic Languages & Literatures (CCRALL), April, 2020. “State of the Nation: literary and visual nationalism, then and now”, Stony Brook University. October, 24, 25 and 26, 2019.

EARLHAM ALERT:
We continue to monitor the effects of an industrial fire 1.1 miles from campus.
EARLHAM ALERT:
We continue to monitor the effects of an industrial fire 1.1 miles from campus.