- Fax
- (940) 397 4832
- Title
- Professor of Spanish
- Department
- World Languages & Cultures
- Location
- Bea Wood Hall
- Room
- 100
- Bio
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Dr. Montoya did her Bachelor's degree in Linguistics and Hispanic Literature at the Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, in Mexico. Then she did her Ph.D. in Spanish at the University of Knoxville, Tennessee, graduating in 2002. Since then she has worked at Midwestern State University. In 2022, she celebrated her 20th. anniversary at MSUTexas; but her experience extends beyond those years. She started teaching high school in Mexico, she taught for 8 years at the American School of Puebla, and then for 6 years she taught Spanish as a graduate teaching assistant in Tennessee (Go Vols!).
She enjoys meeting new students every year and getting involved in different activities on campus. Currently she is the proud advisor of the Spanish Club and in the past she has been the advisor of the Sigma Lambda Alpha Sorority, Inc., and the National Society of Collegiate Scholars (NSCS).
When it comes to research Dr. Montoya enjoys studying literary works as cultural/historical products; hence, she brings to her research historical and sociological approaches. Some of her favorite topics are Women's Literature in Spain and Latin America, Contemporary Mexican and Spanish Novel, and Socio-cultural events.
In her personal time she enjoys traveling, some of her most memorable trips have been to Cuba, Spain, Turkey, Argentine, and Palestine. She also likes cooking, gardening, and spending time with her cats and friends.
| Institution | Degree | Graduation Date |
|---|---|---|
| Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla | Licenciatura en Linguistica y Literatura Hispanica | |
| University of Tennessee, Knoxville | Ph.D. Latin American and Spanish literature |
| Employer | Position | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| MSUTexas | Professor of Spanish | 05/11/2021 | |
| Midwestern State University | Associate Professor of Spanish | 05/11/2021 | 05/11/2021 |
| Midwestern State University | Assistant Professor of Spanish | 05/11/2021 | 05/11/2021 |
| University of Tennessee, Knoxville | Graduate Teaching Assistant | 08/01/1997 | 05/01/2002 |
| American School of Puebla | Spanish Teacher | 05/11/1990 | 05/11/1997 |
Research, publications and presentations
Publications
Text-Boooks
- Montoya, Claudia. et.al. ¡VÃvelo! 2nd. Edition Beginning Spanish. Wiley and Sons on January 2016. / ISBN: 978-1-119-04735-3 (First Year Spanish Book).
- Montoya, Claudia. et.al. ¡VÃvelo! 1st Edition Beginning Spanish. Wiley and Sons January 2010 / ISBN: 978-0-470-50954-8.
Book Chapters
-Montoya, Claudia. et.al. "La experiencia Chino-Cubana: una historia de migración, sacrificio, y adaptabilidad." Globalización, literatura y frontera: una visión a las travesÃas mundiales, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (June 2019).
-"El mundo Maya en la actualidad: cultura, tradiciones, y creencias que traspasan las fronteras; la herencia artÃstica de Pedro Ayuso." Ensayos sobre Literatura y Cultura, una visión desde el otro extremo. University of Colorado Springs (April 2017); 217 - 230.
-"Erotismo, muerte, y literatura en el proceso narrativo de David Toscana." La fiesta, el duelo y el horror: representaciones de la muerte en la literatura latinoamericana. Chiringa Press. Seguin, Texas (2017) 137 - 148.
-"Mano a mano, más que una novela de desdoblamientos." Virgilio Mora, complejidad polifónica y dialogismo. San José, Costa Rica, Interartes (2011), 111-129.
-"Bernal DÃaz del Castillo." Sixteenth-Century Spanish Writers. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc. Columbia SC. (September 2005) 56-61.
Peer reviewed Articles in Academic Journals
-"Enrique Serna y su mundo narrativo: entrevista." Confluencia. University of Northern Colorado, Greeley (Volume 25 No. 1 Fall 2009).
-"El luto humano, una visión mitificada del mexicano y de su historia." Hispanófila. University of North Carolina, Chapell Hill (Enero 2008); 67-85.
-"Espectros del pasado: la Madre Terrible, representación del Estado en Indicios pánicos de Cristina Peri Rossi." SECOLAS Annals (October 2003); 1-7.
-"Arráncame la vida: radiografÃa del poder y del hombre en la formación del México pos-revolucionario." SECOLAS Annals (October 2001); 53-60.
Conference Proceedings
-"El padre ‘castrado’ y su evolución, de Malcolm in the Middle a Breaking Bad." La figura del padre nella serialitá televisiva. Edizioni Santa Croce (2014); 263 – 272.
Online material
-Grammar Handbook for VÃvelo, Wiley and Sons, October 2010: http://bcs.wiley.com/he-bcs/Books?action=index&itemId=0471727768&bcsId=5298
Lectures Given at MSU
Faculty Forum
-"The Cuban-Chinese experience: a story of migration, sacrifice, and adaptability", April 2019.
-"Art, Culture, and the Women’s Legacy of the Mexican revolution", co-presented with Dr. Martin Camacho and Dr. Ann Marie Leimer, September 2018.
-"Two Brave Women’s Tales During the Mexican Revolution, Edith O’Shaughnessy and Rosa E. King", February 17, 2016.
Phi Alpha Theta History Lectures
-"Origins of the Day of the Dead Celebration", October 2017.
Celebration of Scholarship
-"The Two Fridas: Complementary Images in two Films About the life of Frida Kahlo", April 2017.
Celebration of Scholarship
-"The Castrated Father and His Evolution: from Malcolm in the Middle to Breaking Bad", April 2016.
International Education Week
-"Day of the Dead in Oaxaca México", November 12, 2015.
National and International Presentations
-"El Realismo Mágico y la Influenza de 1918, en El murmullo de las abejas, de Sofia Segovia"XXIX Congreso Internacional de Literatura yEstudios Hispánicos. -8 10 Marzo 2022. San Juan, Puerto Rico.
-Cuban-American Poets: a Visual Encounter with the Nostalgia at the American Studies Association of Texas (ASAT) conference November 11-13, 2021.
"Seis formas de morir en Texas o la novela que no querÃa leer". XXVIII Coloquio Internacional de Literatura Mexicana e Hispanoamericana, Virtual Conference March 5- 6, 2021.
-"Las recetas de la abuela latinoamericana: influencias de Como agua para Chocolate en Pan de limón con semillas de amapola". XXVI Congreso Internacional de Literatura y Estudios Hispánicos. Virtual Conference June 17 – 19, 2020.
-"Pan de limón con semillas de amapola como novela post-feminista" at the XXVII Coloquio Internacional de Literatura Mexicana e Hispanoamericana. Hermosillo Sonora, Mexico, November 6-8, 2019.
- "Temas tabú y personajes feministas en las obras de Catalina D'Erzell". XXI Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica, Quito, Ecuador, March 7 - 9, 2018.
- "Narrar desde el yo, desde el ella, y desde la locura: la biografÃa novelada en Rosa Montero y Elena Poniatowska" for the AFLH allied session of SCMLA, San Antonio, October 2018.
-"Inmigración China en Latinoamérica, una experiencia singular " - III LALISA Conference, Bridges and Walls/Puentes y Muros, Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, April 6 – 7, 2018.
-"Elena Poniatowska en la obra de Leonora Carrington y Tina Modotti." - 52nd SCOLAS, Southwest Council of Latin American Studies Conference, San Antonio, Texas, March 1 – 3, 2018.
- "Catalina D’Erzell, una reflexión socio-feminista a través del teatro en el México de 1925". XXV Jornadas Internacionales de Teatro. Puebla, Mexico, June 7 - 11, 2017.
- "Elena Poniatowska, testigo de las batallas entre Psique y Eros". XIX Congreso Internacional de Literatura y Estudios Hispánicos. Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 8 - 10, 2017.
- "Realidad y ficción en la Revolución Mexicana, entre Catalina Ascencio y Rose E. King", the XVII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica , Mérida, Mexico, March 9 - 11, 2016.
- "La muerte novelada de David Toscana". I Jornadas Literarias, Oaxaca, Mexico, November 2 - 3, 2015.
- "Frida Kahlo, Ãcono cinematógrafico y arquetipo cultural mexicano". III Congreso Internacional de Historia, arte y Literatura en el Cine en Español y Portugués, Salamanca, Spain, June 24 - 26, 2015.
- "El fantasma de Leona Vicario en La Insurgenta de Carlos Pascual". IX Coloquio Internacional Literatura Hispanoamericana y sus Valores, Bicentenario de la Independencia: representaciones literarias de la historia at the Université de Cergy-Pontoise, Paris, France, April 17 - 19, 2013.
- "El padre castrado y su evolución, de Malcolm in the Middle a Breaking Bad". Coloquio Poetica, Comunicazione & Cultura, Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Rome, Italy, April 22 - 23, 2013.
- "De la montaña y el amor, pobreza y devastación ambiental como trasfondo de novela". Fifth Annual Four Corners Conference: Globalization and the Environment, Grand Junction, Colorado, October 25 – 26, 2013.
- "La ausencia del cuerpo en la obra de David Toscan". SCMLA, Hot Springs, October 2011.
- "El último lector, decálogo del novelista". XVI Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea. El Paso, Texas, March 3 – 5, 2011.
- "Revolución, cien años después y diez visiones diferentes." Cine-Lit VII. Portland, Oregon, February 23 – 26, 2011.
- "Antagonismo femenino, la Revolución Mexicana en los escritos de Edith O`Shaughnessy y Rosa E. King." 67th. Annual Conference of the South Central Modern Language Association in Forth Worth, Texas, October 28-30, 2010.
- "Extranjeros en la Revolución Mexicana, cruzando la frontera interior." XIV Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea. El Paso, Texas, March 5 - 7, 2010.
- "DesafÃo cinematográfico: Ensayo sobre la ceguera de José Saramago." VIII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica, Puntarenas, Costa Rica, March 9 - 12, 2009.
- "De amores, desarraigos y ‘happy endings’: Ciudades Desiertas" at the Annual Conference of the South Central Modern Language Association in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, October 29 – 31, 2009.
- "Al filo del agua dentro del discurso del carácter nacional mexicano." South Central Modern Language Association: 65th. Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, November 6-8, 2008.
- "From the book to the screen: a poor cinematic interpretation of The Crime of Father Amaro by Eça de Queiroz." Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, January 12 - 15, 2007.
- "Los albañiles, novela del desarraigo." South Central Modern Language Association: 64th. Annual Meeting. Memphis, Tennessee, November 1-3, 2007.
- "El Miedo a los animales de Enrique Serna, una parodia satÃrica, reminiscencia de La ciudad letrada de Angel Rama." Second Annual Tierra Tinta Conference on Hispanic Literature.†The University of Oklahoma at Norman, October 12-13, 2006.
- "Aciertos y desatinos de una adaptación cinematográfica: El crimen del padre Amaro." 26th. Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, May 11 – 13, 2006.
- "Mujeres en tránsito, identidad femenina en el cine mexicanoâ€."14th. Annual University of New Mexico Conference on Ibero-American Culture and Society. Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 16-17, 2006.
- "La evolución del ser masculino en dos obras de Angeles Mastretta." X Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea. El Paso, Texas, Marzo 3-5, 2005.
- "El Luto humano, una visión mitificada de la historia." 58th. Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, Kentucky, April 21 - 23 2005.
- "Erotismo y literatura al rescate de la identidad en El libro de Juan GarcÃa Ponce" Noveno Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea." El Paso Texas, March 4 - 6 2004.
- "La Admiración de las obras de Dios, de Teresa de Cartagena,prototipo del ensayo feminista." 10th. Carolina Conference in Romance Literatures. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, March 18-20, 2004.
- "Espectros del pasado: la Madre Terrible, representación del Estado en Indicios pánicos de Cristina Peri Rossi." SECOLAS at 50: Imagining the past, Remembering the Future. Chapel Hill & Durham, March 6 - 8 2003.
- "Arráncame la vida: radiografÃa doméstica del poder y del hombre en la formación del México pos-revolucionario." 48th Annual SECOLAS Conference, Veracruz, Mexico, March 1-3, 2001.
- "El libro de Juan GarcÃa Ponce: diálogo entre la literatura y la vida." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April 27-29, 2000.
- "Doña Belarda de Francia: subversión y parodia de las novelas de caballerÃa." Sextas Jornadas Internacionales de Teatro Latinoamericano, Puebla, Mexico, July 6-10, 1998.
Workshops
- "¡Vamos al cine de Nuevo! El uso de cortometrajes en las clases de español." Texas Foreign Language Association. Corpus Crist, Texas, March 27 - 30, 2008.
- "¡Vamos al cine! El uso de cortometrajes en las clases intermedias y avanzadas de español." Texas Foreign Language Association, Plano, Texas, March 22 - 24, 2007.
- "¿Archivar, alterar o desechar? Evaluando las experiencias." At the XIII Encuentro de profesores de español a no hispanohablantes: compartiendo nuevas experiencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. San Antonio, Texas, September 23, 2006.
- "Preparing for the TOPT." At Region 9 Service Center, Wichita Falls, Tx., Nov. 29, 2005 - Mar. 9, 2006.
Fellowships and awards

2017 Golden Key International Honor Society
2009 – 2010 Advisor of the year, Midwestern State University
2007-2008 Advisor of the year, Midwestern State University
Yates Dissertation Fellowship, University of Tennessee
The Honor Society of Sigma Delta Pi
The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi