Molly Metherd  |  Interests  |  Scholarship  |  Service  

Education:

• Ph.D Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin, 2000
  Dissertation: Within Two Worlds: A Case for Intra-American Literature Dissertation directors: Professor Jos� Lim�n and Professor Janet Swaffar
• M.A. Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin, 1995
  M.A. Report: Visions and Revisions: The Americanization of Christopher Columbus in the works of Bartolom� de las Casas, William Carlos Williams and Alejo Carpentier Report supervisor: C�sar Salgado
• B.A. English, Spanish, University of California, Davis, 1991
• University of Valencia, Spain, 1990

Presentations:

Selected Presentations

• “Diplomat or Critic? James Weldon Johnson in Latin America.”. Metherd, Molly (paper)
  Society for Multi-Ethnic Literatures
  (April 2012)
• El Presidente, or “The Yellow Peril”. Metherd, Molly (paper)
  American Comparative Literature Associaton
  (March 30, 2012)
• Reading Ourselves, Reading Others: Transnational Reception in Rosario Ferr�s The House on the Lagoon and Julia Alvarez�s ��Yo!. Metherd, Molly (paper)
  Women's Studies Colloquium
  (November 2008)
• Creative Departures: James Weldon Johnson and the Comedic Opera. Metherd, Molly (paper)
  American Comparative Literature Association
  (April 26, 2008)
• Student Resistance to the Anti-American Text. Metherd, Molly (panel or forum member)
  American Studies Association
  (November 2007)
• Race and the Monroe Doctrine: The Latin American Influences of James Weldon Johnson and His Complex Critique of US Imperialism. Metherd, Molly (paper)
  American Comparative Literature Association
  (April 2007)
• Exploring McOndo: A New Wave of Transnational Literature. Metherd, Molly (paper)
  American Comparative Literature Association
  (April 2006)
• Metherd, Molly (panel or forum chair, moderator, or leader)
  Conference on College Composition and Communication
  (2005)
• Crossing Borders and Barnes and Noble: Transnational Publishing in the Americas. Metherd, Molly (paper)
  American Studies Association
  (November 2004)
• Globalization, Authorship and Agency. Metherd, Molly (paper)
  American Studies Association
  (April 2002)
• Carlos Fuentes as Transnational Intellectual. Metherd, Molly (paper)
  American Comparative Literature Associaiton
  (April 1998)
• Dreaming in Cuban and Gringo Viejo: Case Studies in Intra-American Interpolation.. Metherd, Molly (paper)
  Modern Language Association
  (December 1997)
• Re-colonizing Columbus in Two Works by William Carlos Williams and Alejo Carpentier. Metherd, Molly (paper)
  Florida International University-University of Miami Conference on Iberian/Iberian-American Literatures
  (October 1997)
• Writing America: Carlos Fuentes and Cormac McCarthy Explore Intra-American Spaces. Metherd, Molly (paper)
  American Comparative Literature Association
  (April 1997)

Publications:

• Metherd, Molly. "Chilean Americans."Latino Encyclopedia. Ed. Leonard, David Sharp, 2009.
• Metherd, Molly. "Cristina Garcia."Latino Encyclopedia. Ed. Leonard, David Sharp, 2009.
• Metherd, Molly. "Puerto Rican Literature."Latino Encyclopedia. Ed. Leonard, David Sharp, 2009.
• Metherd, Molly. "The Latin American Diaspora." A Cultural History of Reading. Ed. Watling, Gabrielle Greenwood, 2008
• Metherd, Molly. "Transnational Book Markets and Literary Reception in the Americas." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (10:3) 2008 (2007)
• Metherd, Molly. "Visions and Revisions: The Americanization of Christopher Columbus in the Works of William Carlos Williams and Alejo Carpentier." A Twice Told Tale: Re-inventing the Old World-New World Encounter. U of Delaware, 2001