Dr Yolanda Martinez BA, PhD, PGCE
Spanish Language Tutor
Contact details
Department of Modern Languages
Ashley Building, room 106
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK
About
Scholarly interests include the teaching and learning of Spanish as a foreign language, the design of Enquiry Based Learning activities, Blended Learning, the use of technology to promote teaching and learning, and the promotion of autonomous learning.
I have also published articles on Hispanic women writers in academic journals including Wadabagei, New Mango Season and Letras Femeninas on the topic of the global translatability of racial, sexual and socio-cultural representations of the Hispanic female body/identity.
Qualifications
Biography
I have been teaching in the Department of Modern Languages since 2001. I teach Spanish language courses at undergraduate and I am the Module Convenor for all Y2 compulsory and optional language modules at Undergraduate level.
Teaching
Undergraduate modules taught
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09 08 854/5 Spanish Language 1A/B (M101)
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09 11 962/3 Post-A Level Spanish Language 2A/B (M201)
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09 13 792/93 Spanish Language (Commerce II) (M285)
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09 15 027/28 Advanced Spanish Language 4A/B (Translation and Language skills) (M403)
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09 22 733 Spanish Language Project II (M286); (4,000 word dissertation)
Other activities
Facilitator for PASS (Peer Assisted Study Sessions).
Publications
Articles
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“Contesting the Meaning of Latina/Chicana Motherhood in Dreaming in Cuban by Cuban American Cristina García”, Latina/Chicana Mothering 2011
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“Curriculum as Prescription versus Curriculum as Experience: A case for EBL in Modern Languages” 2010 http://www.llas.ac.uk/projects/3179 (£1,000 funded teaching project by Llas)
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“The Diasporic translatability of smell: a Latina socio-cultural and gender phenomenon” New Mango Season 2:1 (2008): 71-81
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"The search for home, identity, and national belonging in US / Cuban Cristina García's Monkey Hunting", Wadabagei. A Journal of the Caribbean and its Diasporas (Lexington Books), 9:1 (2006): 81-97.
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"El cuerpo inscrito: de cómo Sandra García perdió su identidad", Reflexiones: Ensayos sobre Escritoras Hispanoamericanas Contemporáneas, Volume III, Colección Academia, 9 pp (2005)", , Volume III, Colección Academia, 9 pp (2005)
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"Mutilation, Poetics and Aesthetics: Writing the Female Body in Cristina García's Dreaming in Cuban and The Agüero Sisters”, Letras Femeninas, 30:1 (2004), 51-63.
Creative writing
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“Pan de manteca” (short story). Letras Femeninas 35: 1 (2009): 353-356
Contributions to collaborative works
Reader of Language textbooks
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Colloquial Spanish: The Complete Course for Beginners. Routledge (Untza Otaola Alday). 2007
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¡Exacto!: A Practical Guide to Spanish Grammar. Hodder Arnold, 2002.
Book reviews
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Geoffrey Philp. Who is your Daddy and Other Stories, Society for Caribbean Studies Newsletter, 2009. , Society for Caribbean Studies Newsletter, 2009.
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Harry Goulbourne, Caribbean Transnational Experience,Black and Asian Studies Association Newsletter, 2004.
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Holger Henke and Fred Reno (eds.) Modern Political Culture in the Caribbean, Society for Caribbean Studies Newsletter, 2004.
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