Gail A. Bulman

Overview:

Research and Teaching Interests

Professor Bulman teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on Latin American theater and narrative. She has conducted research on Latin American theater in Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. Her book, Staging Words, Performing Worlds: Intertextuality and Nation in Contemporary Latin American Theater (Bucknell UP 2007), was nominated for the 2009 Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Bryce Wood Award. Her articles have appeared in Latin American Theatre Review, Gestos, Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, Hispano´fila, Ollantay Theater Magazine, Letras femeninas, and Symposium as well as in chapters of several books.

Courses

• SPA 301 Approaches to Reading Texts in Spanish
• SPA 322 Introduction to Latin American Literature
• SPA 461 Nobel Prize Writers of the Spanish-speaking World
• SPA 463 Contemporary Latin American Theater
• SPA 465 Latin American Literature and Popular Culture
• SPA 475 Woman, Myth, and Nation in Latin America
• SPA 663 Latin American Theater
• SPA 665 Performance and Postmodernism in Latin America
• SPA 671 Latin American Literature and Feminist Theory

Education

• Ph.D. Spanish Language, Literature and Culture, Syracuse University
• M.A. Hispanic Literature, Boston College, Passed with Distinction
• B.A., Foreign Languages, Assumption College, Summa Cum Laude, Valedictorian
• Study abroad: La Universidad Nacional Auto´noma de Me´xico; Madrid, Spain - Saint Louis University; Paris, France - L'Institut Catholique

Career

• 2010-present: Chair, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Syracuse University
• 2009-present: Director, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean (PLACA), Moynihan Institute, Maxwell School of Government and Citizenship, Syracuse University
• 2004-present: Associate Professor of Spanish, Syracuse University
• 1998-2004: Assistant Professor of Spanish, Syracuse University
• 1995-1998: Spanish Language Coordinator, Syracuse University
• 1990-1995: Teaching Assistant/Adjunct Instructor of Spanish, Syracuse University
• Fall 1994: Adjunct Instructor of Spanish, LeMoyne College, Syracuse, NY
• 1979-1988: French/Spanish Teacher, Boston College High School, Boston, MA
• 1980-1983: Interpreter/Administrator, Por Cristo, Boston, MA
• 1984-85: Adjunct Instructor, Central New England College, Westboro, MA
• 1983-85: Outreach Consultant, UMass Medical Center, Worcester, MA