Dr Estela Valverde
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Dr Estela Valverde email: estela.valverde@mq.edu.au |
Brief Biography
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, completed her tertiary studies in Australia. Her career has centred around the development and implementation of Spanish and Latin American programs and interpreting and translation courses in different universities. The promotion of languages other than English in Australia has been one of her passions, that prompted her to direct three important governmental research projects and inspired her to fund the Language for Export Research Centre. She has promoted international academic exchanges and have herself been a Visiting Fellow in the Instituto de Historia y Pensamiento Argentino (Universidad Nacional de Tucum·n, Argentina), the Escuela de TraducciÛn at Universidad de Granada (Spain) and the Centre for Lebanese Studies at Oxford University. Her language acquisition research has focused on the development of innovative teaching materials. Her multidisciplinary research has centre around the exploration of issues related to history, memory and politics, ethnic and gender identities and re-democratisation and human rights.
Research Interests
- computer assisted language acquisition
- desire and gender
- re-democratisation and human rights
Teaching Expertise
- Spanish language
- Spanish and Latin American Studies
- Interpreting and Translation (theory and practice)
Areas of Research Supervision
- Descriptive Translation Studies
- Latin American and Spanish literature and film
- Women studies
Awards of Grants
1989 Language for Export - Funding body: Office of Multicultural Affairs, Department of the Prime Minister and CabinetÝ - Value: $18,000.
1991-92 The Language for Export Research Centre - Funding body: University of Western Sydney, Macarthur (see section on Innovative Research Initiative) - Value: $60,000.
1992-93 LOTE Courses for the Australian Trading Sector - Funding body: Westpac - Value: $11,000.
1992 Development of the Arabic, Italian and Spanish Language Profiles for the National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia (Joint project: S. Campbell, B. Di Biase, E. Valverde) - Funding body: Department of Employment Education and Training - Value: $131,000.
1992-93 Development of Multimedia Materials for Comprehension-Driven and Intensive Second Language Learning Programs in Arabic, Italian and Spanish (Joint project with B. Di Biase and R. Sulliman) - Funding body: ILOTES Project, Department of Employment Education and Training - Value: $78,000.
2005-06 "The Expression of Erotic Desire in Latin American Women Writing" - Funding body: TheUniversity ofÝ UNSW. Value: $11,000.
Current Research Project(s)
"Expression of Desire in Latin American Women Writing"
"Language Comprehension and Cross-Cultural Education through Blackboard CE6"
Selected Publications
Books and reports
David Viñas: En busca de una síntesis de la historia argentina. Buenos Aires: Plus Ultra, 1989, 298 pp. ISBN 950-21-0986-6 (Pbk).
Language for Export. A Study of the Use of Language and Language Related Skills in Australian Export Companies. Canberra: Office of Multicultural Affairs, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, 1990, 59 pp.
Spanish Vol. 9 of Unlocking Australia's Language Potential, Profile of 9 Key Languages in Australia, Canberra: National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia for the Department of Employment, Education and Training, 1994, 198 pp. ISBN 1-875578-32-3 (Pbk).
Mis mujeres. Buenos Aires: Editorial Dunken, 2004, 88 pp. ISBN 987-02-0560-7 (Pbk).
Banquetes eróticos y perfumes letales: los mundos de Teresa Porzecanski. Montevideo: Linardi y Risso, 2005. ISBN 9974-559-67-7 (Pbk).
Refereed articles
"entrismo en la narrativa de Teresa Porzecanski", Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies (Melbourne), II (1) (July 1996), pp.64-75.
"Question of 'Argentinidad': The Self-Image of Arab and Jewish Ancestry in Recent Argentine Literature", Immigrants and Minorities (London), XVI, 1&2 (March/July, 1997), pp. 189-203.
" y Tanatos: dos expresiones de un mismo deseo", Hispamérica (Maryland), XXVII, 79 (April 1998), pp. 113-124.
"l]mira: La representación del hombre en la poesía de Agustini", in Tina Escaja (ed.), Delmira Agustini y el Modernismo. Nuevas propuestas de género, Rosario: Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2000, pp. 205-223.
"experience of Exilio and Insilio in Reshaping Uruguayan Identity", Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies (Amman), III, 2 (Autumn/Winter 2001), pp.177-195.
"res de mucha monta: Women expressing their erotic desires", Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies (Melbourne), X, 2 (July 2004), pp. 23-42.
Valverde, E. and D. Singh "Argentina: Peronism at Crossroads", Unisa Latin American Report, XXI, 1 (in press).
"a de América: génesis de una aclamada bigamia", Crónica General de América Latina (Buenos Aires), II, 2 (in press).
"do las raíces hablan. Los duendes de Teresa Porzecanski y Amir Hamed", Cap 14 in I. Klich (ed.), Arabes y judíos en América Latina. Historia y desafíos, Buenos Aires: (in press) 2005, ABC.