Roberta Fernández

Roberta Fernández
Occupation novelist
Nationality US
Period 1990–
Genre composite novel, short story cycle
Notable works Intaglio: A Novel in Six Stories
Notable awards Multicultural Publisher's Exchange, Best Fiction (1991)
Texas Institute of Letters

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Roberta Fernández is a Tejana novelist, scholar, critic and arts advocate. She is known for her novel Intaglio and for her work editing several award-winning women writers. She was a professor in Romance Languages & Literatures and Women's Studies at the University of Georgia.[1]

Biography

Early life and education

Fernández is a fifth-generation tejana from Laredo, Texas. She received her B.A. and an M.A. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, and her Ph.D. in Romance Languages & Literatures from the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation, "Towards a Contextualization of José Carlos Mariátegui’s Concept of Literary and Cultural Nationalism,"[1] examined the role of José Carlos Mariátegui in the early 20th century Peruvian cultural wars.

Fernandez held a post-doctoral fellowship at the Center for Mexican American Studies at UT, Austin; she received a Rockefeller Fellowship from the Womanist Consortium of the Institute of African American Studies at UGA to study Chicana literary feminism and nationalism.[1] She received a second Rockefeller Fellowship from the CRIM [Centro Regional de Investigacion Multidisciplinarias], a research center in Cuernavaca associated with the National University of Mexico. The seminar topic for 2005 was "The Empowerment of Women." Her own topic dealt with "The Role Played by Community-Based Organizations in the Transculturation Process & Empowerment of Mexican Women Recently Arrived in Georgia."

Art advocacy

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Editorial and curatorial work

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Published works

Literary criticism on Intaglio: A Novel in Six Stories

Awards for creative writing

Scholarly awards

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See also

References

Notes/Further reading

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