Carolina Rocha was born in Rosario, Argentina. She completed her BA
in History at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. She has a Master and PhD. from the
University of Texas in Austin. Her dissertation explored the social
construction of memory after the trauma of state-inflicted violence during the
most recent military dictatorship. Rocha's research interests also include film
studies and contemporary Southern Cone popular culture. Her articles have been
published in Revista de Estudios
Hispánicos, Nuestra
América, Studies in Latin American Popular
Culture and Ciberletras, among many
others.
Education
- Ph.D. Hispanic Literature
2001 University of Texas at Austin
- M.A. Hispanic Literature
1995-1997 The University of Texas
at Austin
- Licenciatura in Latin American
History
1994-1995 Argentine Catholic University (Argentina)
- B.A. in Latin American History
1987-1992 Argentine Catholic University (Argentina)
Honors,
Fellowships, Awards
2015
- Upper Midwest Initiative Grant granted by University of
Chicago to do field research in Argentina.
2014
·
Fulbright
Scholar to University Liverpool, UK (August-December 2014).
·
Anita
and Jack Hess Seminar at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, January
3-8, 2014.
2013
·
STEP,
Southern Illinois University “Transatlantic Ties” ($9,000)
·
Excellence
in Undergraduate Education (EUE) to develop a service Learning
class.
2012
·
Undergraduate
Research Creative Activities Best Mentor
2011
·
New
Directions Grant, Southern Illinois University ($11,000)
·
Research
Grant from the University of Florida, Gainesville
2010
·
STEP,
Southern Illinois University
2009
- Summer Research Fund, Southern Illinois University
2008
- University of Illinois Exchange in Catholic University
in Leuven (Belgium)
- Scholars Travel Fund, awarded by the Vice-Chancellor of
Research, UIUC to present a paper at the Popular Culture Association, San
Francisco.
2007
- Scholars Travel Fund, awarded by the Vice-Chancellor of
Research, UIUC to present a paper at LASA, Montreal.
- Scholars Travel Fund, awarded by the Vice-Chancellor of
Research, UIUC to present a paper at Kentucky, University of Louisville.
- NEH Summer Institute From
Baroque to Modernism: Brazilian Literature and Culture. (offered and
declined)
- NEH Summer Institute Jewish Buenos Aires. (offered and
accepted)
2006
- Scholars Travel Fund, awarded by the Vice-Chancellor of
Research, UIUC to present a paper at LASA, Puerto Rico.
- Scholars Travel Fund, awarded by the Vice-Chancellor of
Research, UIUC to present a paper at the International Conference of
Americanists, Seville, Spain.
2005
- Title VI grant, awarded by CLACS to conduct research in
Argentina during summer 05.
- Scholars Travel Fund, awarded by the Vice-Chancellor of
Research, UIUC to present two papers at the Society of Latin American
Society in Derby, England.
2004
- Travel grant from the Modern Languages and Cultural
Studies Department to present a paper in the Conference "Negotiating
Identities in Latin American Cultures", Calgary, Canada
2003
- Professional Travel Development Award to present a
paper in the "XIV Colloquium of German Hispanists",
awarded by the Vice-President of Academic Affairs, High Point University.
2001
- Professional Travel Development Award and Amelia
Paredes Fellowship from the Graduate School of the University of Texas at Austin
to present a paper in the "VI Congreso
Nacional de Hispanistas", San Juan,
Argentina.
- Summer Tuition Fellowship awarded by the Department of
Spanish and Portuguese of the University of Texas at Austin.
2000
- Bruton Fellowship, awarded by
the Graduate School, University of Texas at Austin.
- Outstanding Instructor, awarded by the Distance and
Continuing Education Center, University of Texas at Austin.