Roberta Fernández | |
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Occupation | Novelist |
Nationality | American |
Education |
University of Texas at Austin (
BA,
MA) University of California, Berkeley ( PhD) |
Period | 1990–present |
Genre | Composite novel, short story cycle |
Notable works | Intaglio: A Novel in Six Stories |
Notable awards | Multicultural Publisher's Exchange, Best Fiction (1991) Texas Institute of Letters |
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Roberta Fernández is a Tejana novelist, scholar, critic and arts advocate. She is known for her novel Intaglio and for her work editing several award-winning women writers. She was a professor in Romance languages & literatures and women's studies at the University of Georgia. [1]
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Fernández is a fifth-generation tejana from Laredo, Texas. She earned her B.A. and an M.A. degrees at the University of Texas at Austin and her PhD in Romance Languages & Literatures from the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation, "Towards a Contextualization of José Carlos Mariátegui's Concept of Literary and Cultural Nationalism," [1] examined the role of José Carlos Mariátegui in the early 20th century Peruvian cultural wars.
Fernandez held a post-doctoral fellowship at the Center for Mexican American Studies at UT Austin. She received a Rockefeller Fellowship from the Womanist Consortium of the Institute of African American Studies at University of Georgia to study Chicana literary feminism and nationalism. [1] She received a second Rockefeller Fellowship from the CRIM (Centro Regional de Investigacion Multidisciplinarias), a research center in Cuernavaca associated with the National University of Mexico.[ citation needed] The seminar topic for 2005 was "The Empowerment of Women." Her own topic dealt with "The Role Played by Community-Based Organizations in the Transculturation Process & Empowerment of Mexican Women Recently Arrived in Georgia."[ citation needed]
Roberta Fernández | |
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Occupation | Novelist |
Nationality | American |
Education |
University of Texas at Austin (
BA,
MA) University of California, Berkeley ( PhD) |
Period | 1990–present |
Genre | Composite novel, short story cycle |
Notable works | Intaglio: A Novel in Six Stories |
Notable awards | Multicultural Publisher's Exchange, Best Fiction (1991) Texas Institute of Letters |
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Roberta Fernández is a Tejana novelist, scholar, critic and arts advocate. She is known for her novel Intaglio and for her work editing several award-winning women writers. She was a professor in Romance languages & literatures and women's studies at the University of Georgia. [1]
![]() | This section needs expansion. You can help by
adding to it. (June 2008) |
Fernández is a fifth-generation tejana from Laredo, Texas. She earned her B.A. and an M.A. degrees at the University of Texas at Austin and her PhD in Romance Languages & Literatures from the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation, "Towards a Contextualization of José Carlos Mariátegui's Concept of Literary and Cultural Nationalism," [1] examined the role of José Carlos Mariátegui in the early 20th century Peruvian cultural wars.
Fernandez held a post-doctoral fellowship at the Center for Mexican American Studies at UT Austin. She received a Rockefeller Fellowship from the Womanist Consortium of the Institute of African American Studies at University of Georgia to study Chicana literary feminism and nationalism. [1] She received a second Rockefeller Fellowship from the CRIM (Centro Regional de Investigacion Multidisciplinarias), a research center in Cuernavaca associated with the National University of Mexico.[ citation needed] The seminar topic for 2005 was "The Empowerment of Women." Her own topic dealt with "The Role Played by Community-Based Organizations in the Transculturation Process & Empowerment of Mexican Women Recently Arrived in Georgia."[ citation needed]