Ariel Zatarain Tumbaga

atumbaga@ucla.edu

Education:

Ph.D. Hispanic Languages and Literatures

Dissertation: “The Yaqui Warrior Myth: Literary Representation of Yaquis in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Mexican and Chicana/o Literatures and Cultural Production”

University of California, Los Angeles [dir. Héctor Calderón, Adriana Bergero, John Skirius]

Awarded September 2009

M.A. in Spanish Literature

Thesis: “Construcciones estéticas: el cuerpo y el espacio en Los de abajo y El águila y la serpiente”

University of California, San Diego [dir. Max Parra]

Awarded June 2005

Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and French Literature

University of California, San Diego

Awarded June 2002

Awards:

Faculty Fellow, UCLA 2009-2010

Alumni Foundation Fellowship, UCLA 2007-2008

Graduate Research Summer Mentorship, UCLA 2006

Shirley Arora Fellowship, UCLA 2005-2006

Rae Hepps Fellowship, UCSD 2003

Students for Economic Justice Internship, UCSD 2002

Conference

Presentations:

“Tambor y Sierra: In Search of an Indigenous Revolution in Mexican Literature,” The Mexican Revolution at 100: Simposio sobre la Revolución Mexicana, UCLA Center for Mexican Studies. 16 November 2009.

“El ciclo yaqui: Intellectual Authority in Mexican and Chicana/o Representations of Yaquis” Modus Sodalis presentation. UC Los Angeles. 8 May 2009.

“Anthropological Authority and literary depictions of lo yaqui,” XV UCI Mexican Conference Imagine Mexico/Imagine México. UC Irvine. 30 Apr.–2 May 2009.

“El ciclo yaqui: Intellectual Authority in Mexican and Chicana/o Representations of Yaquis,” Modus Sodalis presentation. UC Los Angeles. 8 May 2009.

“De regreso al Yaqui”: Representations of Yaquis in Recent Chican/o theatre,” VI International Chicano

Literature Conference New Challenges for the New Milenio, Alicante, Spain. May 22nd - 24th, 2008

“Re-territorializing Sonora: Indigenous Topographies in Cajeme: novela de indios,” 14^th Annual

Mexican Conference The Other Mexicos / Los otros Méxicos, UC Irvine, April 10, 2008

“Brown Pride: The History of U.S. Colorism Ideologies,” UCLA Graduate Student

Conference on Migration and Race Waves, Flows, Streams, and Floods: Migrations Past and Present, UCLA, April 27, 2007

“Brown Pride: The Rise of Mexican Colorism,” 9^th Annual Conference on Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics, UC Santa Barbara, April 20-21, 2007.

“Chicano Struggle and Yaqui Resistance: Chicano Literature’s Acquisition of the Yaqui

Military Legend.” Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies (PCCLAS) Cambia, todo cambia...Change in Latin America, CSU Dominguez Hills, Nov. 4^th 2006.

Teaching/Experience:

Faculty Fellow

UCLA Department of Spanish and Literature, 2009-2010

(Winter) SP M145B Introduction to Chicana/o Literature

(Spring) SP 191 A : Literatura Indigenista Mexicana

(Spring –CSU Los Angeles) CHS 201 Twentieth Century Mexican Literature in Translation

Teaching Associate

Spanish 120C Hispanic Literature Since 1898: UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Spanish M44 Civilization of Spanish America and Brazil: UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Sociology B114 Culture and Ethnicity: UCSD Department of Sociology

Language Instruction

UCLA Department of Spanish and Literature, 2006-2007, 2008:

Spanish Instructor (Beginning/ Intermediate)

SP28A Medical Spanish

SP25 Advanced Composition

UCSD Department of Linguistics, 2005: Spanish Language and Conversation Instructor (first year)

UCSD Department of Literature, 2002-2004: Spanish Literature and Language Instructor (second year)

TRIO Outreach Programs, Summer Residential 2004: Spanish Language Instructor

Languages:

Spanish (native fluency)

English (native fluency)

French (reading and speaking proficient)

Portuguese (reading proficient)

Other Interests:

CECI (Centro de Estudios Coloniales Iberoamericanos): contributor to online publication, “Relación de Chimalhuacán o pueblo de San Andrés Apóstol (1579)” – 2007

Modern Language Association - member

Chicano Studies Interest Group (informal)