ANDREA L.

BELL
Curriculum Vitae
Ham line University, Box 251
1536 Hewitt Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55104-1284

(651)
523-2198
abell@hamline.edu

EDUCATION
1985-1991: Ph.D. in Spanish, Stanford University
Major area of study: Latin American Literature
Doctoral Dissertation: "The cuento breve in Modern Latin American
Literature."
Co-directors: Dr. Mary Louise Pratt and Dr. Jorge Ruffinelli
1983-1985: M.A., Latin American Studies, Stanford University.
Thesis title: "Methods of Biasing in Chilean Journalism"
1978-1982: B.A., Foreign Languages & Literatures: Spanish and German
Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA. Honors in major; graduated cum
laude.

PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Molina-Gaviln, Yolanda and Andrea L. Bell. The Time Ship: A Chrononautical Journey.
[Translation of the Spanish novel El anacronpete, by Enrique Gaspar, 1887.]
Middletown (CT): Wesleyan UP, 2012.
Andrea Bell and Yolanda Molina-Gaviln, editors and principal translators. Cosmos
Latinos: Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain. Middletown: Wesleyan UP,
2003.

Other publications:
The Critique of Chilean Industrialization in Hugo Correas Avatar Stories. Accepted
for publication in 2013 by Science Fiction Studies.
Entries on the following subjects for the third ed. of The Encyclopedia of Science
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Fiction, eds. John Clute et al, (http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/): as author, Chile,

Antonio Montero, Hugo Correa, Elena Aldunate, Jorge Baradit, and Jos B.
Adolph. As translator, Colombia and Peru.
Reflections. Spanish-English translation of the science fiction story, Reflejos, by
Pablo A. Castro. Words Without Borders: The Online Magazine for International
Literature (www.wordswithoutborders.com), December, 2009.
Science Fiction. Entry included in the Encyclopedia of Latin America History and
Culture, 2nd ed. Cengage Gale, 2008.
Yolanda Molina-Gaviln, Andrea Bell, Miguel ngel Fernndez-Delgado, M. Elizabeth
Ginway, Luis Pestarini, and Juan Carlos Toledano Redondo. A Chronology of LatinAmerican Science Fiction, 1775-2005. Science Fiction Studies 34 (Nov. 2007): 369431.
Critical entries on: lvaro Menn Desleal, Pepe Rojo, Bernardo Fernndez,
Ricardo Guzmn Wolffer, Irving Roff, Enrique Araya, Julio Assman, Jorge
Cubra, David Perry, and Michel Doezis. In Darrell B. Lockhart, ed. Latin American
Science Fiction Writers: An A-to-Z Guide. Westport (CT): Greenwood Press, 2004.
Finding SF in Latin America. International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
Newsletter, September/October 2002: 11-12.
Yolanda Molina-Gaviln, Andrea Bell, Luis Pestarini, and Miguel Angel Fernndez-Delgado.
Cronologa de CF latinoamericana 1775-1999. Chasqui: revista de literatura
latinoamericana 29.2 (2000): 43-72.
Science Fiction in Latin America: Reawakenings. Science Fiction Studies 26 (1999):
441-6.
Andrea Bell and Moiss Hassn. Prelude to the Golden Age: Chilean Science Fiction,
1900-1959. Science Fiction Studies 25 (1998): 285-99.
"Desde Jpiter: Chile's Earliest Science Fiction Novel." Science Fiction Studies 66
(1995): 187-197.
"El cuento breve venezolano contemporneo." Revista Interamericana de Bibliografa
46 (1996): 123-45.
"Creating Space in the Margins: Power and Identity in the cuentos breves of Pa Barros
and Cristina Peri Rossi." Studies in Short Fiction 33 (1996):345-53.
"An Engaging Enterprise: Collaboration, Manipulation and Reader Response in Borges' El
hacedor." Cincinnati Romance Review 13 (1994).
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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

A Critique of Industrialization in Hugo Correas Avatar Stories. Presented at the
2011 Eaton Science Fiction Conference, University of California, Riverside. Feb. 12,
2011.
In Which it is Proved that FORWARD is not the Byword of Progress: Chapter One of
El anacronpete [The Chrononauticus]. Original Spanish-English translation read at
annual meeting of the American Literary Translators Association. Oct. 15-18, 2008.
Minneapolis, MN.
The Twilight Zone: Translation in the Age of Globalization. Hamline University
International Round Table lecture, Dec. 7, 2007.
Retroactive Effects: Chapter Eight of El anacronpete [The Chrononauticus].
Original Spanish-English translation (Yolanda Molina-Gaviln, principal translator) read at
annual meeting of the American Literary Translators Association. Oct. 18-21, 2006.
Bellevue, WA.
Cosmos Latinos: La ciencia ficcin latinoamericana. Invited lecture. March 21, 2006.
Reed College, Portland, OR.
Panelist, The Frontier of Fantasy: Locating the Boundaries of Fantasy in Visual and
Auditory Arts. March 17, 2006. 27th International Conference on the Fantastic in the
Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
La literatura fantstica de Dana Chaviano. Presented in session El presente y futuro
de la ciencia ficcin en Amrica Latina at the Latin America Writes Back: Science
Fiction in the Global Era symposium, University of Florida, Gainesville. Oct. 27-29,
2005.
International Division Chair, International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts,
2000-2004. This is the largest annual professional meeting in North America devoted
to scholarship on fantastic literature and the arts. Responsible for soliciting and
reviewing paper submissions, organizing paper and panel sessions, and for all aspects of
scheduling and communications for the division.
Editorial consultant, Science Fiction Studies, 1999-present. Review manuscripts of
articles on Spanish language fantastic literature and film.
Sex and Subversion in the Fiction of Dana Chaviano. 25th International Conference
on the Fantastic in the Arts. Ft. Lauderdale, March 26, 2004.

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Co-moderator, Cultural and National Identities in the Scholarship on the Fantastic.

25th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Ft. Lauderdale, March 27,
2004.
Panelist, Latinos as Immigrants. 8th Annual Hispanic Marketing Conference. St. Paul,
April 14, 2004.
Panel chair: Race, Sex and the State. 24th International Conference on the Fantastic
in the Arts. Ft. Lauderdale, March 20, 2003.
Panelist: Sounds Great! But Has it Been Translated? 24th International Conference on
the Fantastic in the Arts. Ft. Lauderdale, March 20, 2003.
Latin American Popular Culture. Lecture; International Roundtable Series, Hamline
University. December 6, 2002.
Gendered Worlds: Gains and Challenges: The 8th International Interdisciplinary Congress
on Women, University of Markerere, Kampala, Uganda, 21-26 July 2002.
Panel chair: Issues of Transmission and Reception in the Fantastic. 23rd International
Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Ft. Lauderdale, March 23, 2002.
Panelist: Cuban Speculative Fiction Under Castro. 22nd International Conference on
the Fantastic in the Arts. Ft. Lauderdale, March 2001.
Panelist on a publishing roundtable at Cubaficcin 2000, a science fiction conference
in Havana, Cuba; August 30, 2000.
Special guest at the Third Annual Festival of Fiction and Fantasy in Tlaxcala, Mexico,
March 9-15, 1999. Gave talk on opportunities for publishing genre fiction outside of
Mexico.
Prelude to the Golden Age: Chilean Science Fiction from 1900-1959. 18th
International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Ft. Lauderdale, March 1997.
Organizer and chair of session on Latin American science fiction at the 17th
International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Ft. Lauderdale, March 1996.
"Some Notes on 120 Years of Latin American Science Fiction." Science Fiction
Research Association meeting, June 22-25, 1995. In addition to presenting my
research, I was a panelist during the session on "The State of International SF."
"Creando espacio en los mrgenes: Poder e identidad en los cuentos de Pa Barros y
Cristina Peri Rossi." XVIII LASA International Congress, Atlanta, March, 1994.
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"Violando fronteras: Los cuentos breves de Gabriel Jimnez Emn." Annual meeting of
the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Phoenix, August,
1993.
"Reconfiguring the Familiar in Peri Rossi's El museo de los esfuerzos intiles." 21st
Annual Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February,
1993.

SPECIAL RESEARCH/TRAVEL
October-November 2011: Traveled to Peru to deliver a paper at an international
conference, thence to Chile to research science fiction and interview authors.
Delivered keynote address on literary translation for the Translators Day
events at INACAP-Santiago.
March-April 2008: Fulbright Senior Specialist, Universidad Austral de Chile (Valdivia,
Chile. My proposal, titled Science Fiction/Science Fact, used science-fictional
themes from literature and real life as topics for cross-cultural study and to
develop advanced speaking and writing skills in students learning English as a
foreign language.
May-June 2007: Participant, CIEE International Professional Development Seminar, The
Changing Social Face of Brazil. So Paulo and Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.
June 2007: Madrid and Barcelona, for interviews and archival research on the
nineteenth-century Spanish science fiction novel, El anacronpete.
March, 2005: Visiting Professor, Department of Pedagogy in English, Universidad
Austral de Chile (Valdivia, Chile).
January, 2003: Designed and taught Language and Life in Chile & Argentina, a
Hamline University study abroad course. Course content focused on Chilean and
Argentine history, culture, and current political and economic issues, with
activities that sent students out into the community to conduct field inquiries in
Spanish. Language review included pronunciation, vocabulary building, select
grammar points, idiomatic expressions, and sociolinguistics.
July-August, 2000: Travel to Argentina, Chile, Peru and Cuba to do archival and field
research on popular culture in general and regional fantastic literatures in
particular.

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May-June, 1996: Completed week-long seminar in Santiago (Chile) on "Economic

Reform, Free Trade and Democratization in Chile," organized by CIEE and by
FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales). Course lectures and
site visits covered a wide range of issues concerning, among other topics,
regional trade alliances, military-civilian relations, economic development,
environmental protection, and social equity in Chile. This seminar supports my
teaching in the Latin American Studies program, and was the basis of a case
study I wrote in collaboration with David Peterson, a CLA Spanish major.
Dec. 1993-Jan. 1994: Research trip to Argentina and Chile to initiate scholarly work
on Latin American science fiction. Interviewed dozens of writers, publishers,
fans, etc., did archival research and was interviewed by the Chilean press.
1992: Research on the quincentenary of the voyages of Columbus; developed course
inquiring into the cultural, political, economic and environmental consequences
of colonization and the concept of self and other.
March 1992: Trained in Oral Proficiency Interviewing at ACTFL workshop. Became
certified OPI Tester in August, 1992.
Jan. 1988 - May 1988: Dissertation research conducted in Venezuela, Peru, Argentina
and Chile, involving library research and interviews with writers, editors, critics
and professors.
Sept. 1985 - June 1986: Exchange Scholar at the Univ. of Chicago, for special studies
in classical
Peninsular literature.
July 1984 - Sept. 1984: Conducted Masters degree research in Chile on the strategies
and
effects of journalistic biasing.

ACADEMIC GRANTS AND HONORS

Fulbright Senior Specialist Grant (2008)
Hamline University Hanna Grant (2006)
Hamline University Deans Faculty Development Grant (1992-94, 1996, 1999,
2002)
Bush Collaborative Research Grant (1996)
Dorothy Danforth Compton Fellowship (1989)
CRIS Dissertation Research Grant (1988)
LAS Pre-Dissertation Research Grant (1984)
Stanford Fellowship (1982-1986)
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Phi Beta Kappa (1982)

Sigma Delta Pi (National Spanish Honor Society; 1982)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1991 - Present: Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies, Dept. of
Modern Languages and Literatures, Hamline University, St. Paul, MN.
Courses include:
SPAN 5810/5610: advanced undergraduate courses on the literatures
of contemporary Latin America and on Spain's Generation of 1898.
SPAN 5980: Latin American fantastic arts (science fiction, horror,
fantasy and the fantastic).
LSTD 5100: advanced undergraduate course on Latin American
history, politics, economics and society.
SPAN 5300: advanced undergraduate course on Latin American
popular culture.
SPAN 3210/3220: Beginning and advanced intermediate Spanish.
Various independent studies, collaborative research and honors
projects (2010-11: Corbin Collings, Latin American Hip Hop. 200607: Anika Eide, The Reproductive Rights Movement in Chile. 2000:
Heidi Kracht, On Butterflies Wings: The Mirabal Sisters Resistance,
Rebellion and Martyrdom under the Trujillo Dictatorship.)
1990 - 1991: Spanish language instructor, Normandale Community College,
Bloomington, MN.
1984 - 1988: Teaching Fellow, Stanford University.

SERVICE AT HAMLINE UNIVERSITY (partial list)

2005- present:
Chair, Modern Languages and Literatures Dept. Responsible
for staffing, managing budget, course scheduling, program
development, assessment and general administration.
2005-06:
Chair, Spanish Search Committee.
2000-04:
International Students and Study Abroad Committee
2000-03 :
Membership chair, Hamline chapter of Phi Beta Kappa
2000:
Member of team coordinating exchange program with the
Universidad Austral de Chile (part of the certificate program in
International Journalism)
1999-01:
University Council
1996-99:
Chair, Bush Library Committee
1996-97:
Library Task Force--Technology Subcommittee
1995-96:
Co-advisor, Presidential Scholars (first-year students)
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1994-97:
1993-95:
1992-93:
1993-05:
1992 - :
1991-92:

Member of editorial board, Venezuelan Literature and Arts Journal

Faculty Institutional Relations Committee
Admissions and Financial Aid Committee
Faculty advisor to the Spanish House (undergraduate residence)
Faculty supervisor for Spanish language Amity Scholar
Faculty mentor, Hamline University Mentorship Program

LANGUAGES: Spanish (fluent); French, Portuguese and German (reading and some
speaking ability).

REFERENCES
Hamline University:
Dr. John Matachek, Dean, College of Liberal Arts
Dr. Russ Christensen, Professor, Dept. of Modern Languages & Literatures
Dr. Barbara Younoszai, Professor, Dept. of Modern Languages & Literatures

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