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Rebecca Garonzik

Rebecca Garonzik

Assistant Professor of Spanish

rgaronzik@wooster.edu

Phone: 330-263-2461

Office: Kauke 210

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Areas of Interest

  • Contemporary Latin American and Latinx Literatures
  • Modern and Contemporary Politics and Social Justice Movements
  • Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Translation and Translation Studies
Degrees
  • B.A., Spanish, Goucher College
  • M.A., Comparative Literature, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Ph.D., Comparative Literature, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Courses Taught
  • SPAN 101: Beginning Spanish, Level I
  • SPAN 102: Beginning Spanish, Level II
  • SPAN 201: Intermediate Spanish/Grammar, Conversation, and Composition I
  • SPAN 224: Readings in Latin American Cultures
  • SPAN 275: “The U.S. Origins of Latinx Immigration”
  • SPAN 31108: Gender and Sexuality in Latin American and Latinx Literatures
  • FYSM 101: “The Complexity of Home”
Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles

  • “The Privilege of ‘Not-Knowing’: Clarice Lispector’s A hora da estrela as Self-Critique.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 101.4 (2024): 371-85.
  • “‘Hasta tomar el cielo por asalto’: Competing Historical Moods in Patricio Pron’s El espíritu de mis padres sigue subiendo en la lluvia.” Latin American Literary Review 49.98 (2022): 32-39. Web. 17 October 2022.
  • “‘These loins aren’t on fire’: Neoliberalism and the Erotic in Paul Martínez Pompa’s My Kill Adore Him.” Latin American Literary Review 47.93 (2020): 12-19. Web. 18 September 2020.
  • “Beyond Marcuse: Guevara’s Influence on the Revolutionary Erotic in Julio Cortázar’s Libro de Manuel.” A Contracorriente 13.2 (Winter 2016): 1-24. Web. 8 March 2016.
  • “Deconstructing Psychiatric Discourse and Idealized Madness in Cristina Rivera Garza’s Nadie me verá llorar.” Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana 43.1 (May 2014): 3-14.
  • “‘To name that thing without a name’: Linking Poetry and the Child’s Voice in Sandra   Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street.” Letras Femeninas 37.2 (Winter 2011): 139-55.

Other Publications

  • Estrada, Oswaldo. “The Weight of Dreams.” Translated by Rebecca Garonzik, Spanglish Voces (2024): n. pag. Web. 16 Jan. 2025.
  • “Queering Feminism: Cristina Rivera Garza’s La cresta de Ilión and the Feminine Sublime.” Cuaderno Internacional de Estudios Humanísticos y Literatura 14 (Fall 2010): 45-56.
  • “Permanencias de Juan Rulfo en la crítica contemporánea.” Rev. of Ecos y murmullos en la obra de Rulfo, Ed. Julio Moguel and Enrique Sáinz. Confluencia 24.2 (Spring 2009): 151-53.
Just For Fun

When I’m not teaching my classes or editing my students’ IS manuscripts, I enjoy dancing, singing, birdwatching with my husband, or going to see whatever new movie is playing at the Lyric.