MEETINGS ATTENDED

-- Conference President & Organizer : XXXV ALDEEU International Conference: Espacios de encuentro e identidad, Segovia, July 8-11, 2015.

-- Judaísmo hispano: "Tras las huellas de la tradición," IV. Segovia, July 7-9, 2009 &  III Curso de verano, Segovia, July 7-9, 2008. 

-- Hume Society Conference, University of Koblenz, Koblenz, August 7 -11, 2006.

--  "Questioning the Queen:  Isabel I of Castile, 500 Years Later, "University of Minnesota, April 30-May 1, 2004.

-- Hume Society Conference, Cork University College, Cork, Ireland, July 19-23, '99.

-- South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), Atlanta, Nov. 14-16, 1991.

-- Minnesota Philosophical Society, University of St. Thomas, St Paul, October, '90.

-- Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA), Minneapolis, November, 1989.

-- Modern Language Association (MLA), New Orleans, December, 1988.

-- El Escorial Courses in Philosophy, El Escorial, Madrid, July, 1988.

-- Spanish Romanticism Symposium. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, April, '86.

-- Immanuel Kant Colloquium, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, October, '84.

-- Contemporary Philosophy Colloquium, Oberlin College, April 1984.  

 

PAPERS READ AT CONFERENCES:

 

--Session Director/Designer: "Borges hoy, Borges siempre" and participant with "Borges en diálogo con la ilustración." 42nd ALDEEU International Conference. Oviedo, Spain, July 17-19, 2023. 

--"Borges enciclopédico, Borges...¿filósofo?" XXXII Congreso Internacional de Literatura y Estudios Hispánicos (CILH), Cartagena de Indicas, Colombia, March 9-12, 2023.

--“Borges’s Reading of Hume: Looking into a Lifetime Devotion to Metaphysics.” Text as Process in Some Twentieth-Century Argentine Manuscripts.” January 8. MLA Convention, Washington DC, January 6-9, 2022.

--“Borges’s notes on Hume from his Avon Notebook (Library).”  The Notebooks of Jorge Luis Borges. May 20. Society for Textual Scholarship, 2021 Virtual Conference, May 19-22, 2021.

-- "José Isaacson: Filósofo, poeta, ensayista.” XX Asociaión Internacional de Hispanistas  (AIH). Jerusalem, July 7-12 , 2019. Published in Actas del XX Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (AIH) in Jerusalem. Iberoamericana. Editors Ruth Fine & Yael Shrem. Ed. Vervuert: Frankfurt/Madrid. 2022.

--“El espacio de la ficción y su reino secreto en José María Merino". I Simposio sobre Literatura Leonesa. Congreso Internacional Sabino Ordás. León.19-21 de octubre, 2017.

--“La lente neoyorquina de Gerardo Piña Rosales en El secreto de Artemisia y otras historias”. Transatlantic New York, International Conference. New York. May 24-26, 2017.

--“Por los senderos de la extrañeza: Notas sobre la cuentística de José María Merino”. EL ARTE DE CONTAR. Congreso internacional en homenaje a Luis Mateo Díez y José María Merino. Saint Louis University-Madrid y Universidad de Alcalá, 20 y 21 de octubre de 2016.

--“Dos poetas porteños: José Isaacson en diálogo con Jorge Luis Borges.”  VIII Congreso de la Asociación Hispánica de Humanidades (AHH), Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, 24-26 de junio, 2016.

 

INVITED SCHOLAR

• Homenaje a José Isaacson en su 90 aniversario:

       Sponsored by the Asociación de Artistas Premiados Argentinos (APA): Casa Cultural del APA, Buenos Aires, 14 de agosto, 2012.

 

• Real Academia Española  (RAE) Colloquium: "El español y su literatura en los Estados Unidos." Meetings with Hispanists living in the USA, with José Manuel Blecua (RAE Director) and with RAE members. Madrid, February 17, 2012.

 

• Instituto Castellano Leonés Colloquium: "El español y su literatura en los Estados Unidos". Meetings with Hispanists -participants in El español y su literatura en los Estados Unidos.  Homenaje a La Real Academia de la Lengua.  Ed. Enrique Ruiz- Fornells-  to discuss the role of Spanish a dn Spanish literature in the USA.  Burgos, Spain, February 15-16, 2012.

 

• Centro Argentino del P.E.N. Club Internacional, Buenos Aires.  Interviewing, filming and working on José Isaacson's writings.  Buenos Aires, November 28 - December 2011. 

 

PAPERS READ AT CONFERENCES

Literature, Philosophy, Film, History

• "Coincidencias entre dos poetas porteños: Jorge Luis Borges y José Isaacson."  VIII Congreso de la Asociación Hispánica de Humanidades (AHH), Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, 24-26 de junio, 2016.
• "La ilusoria sustancia del tiempo: Reflexiones sobre El Pasajero de José  Isaacson. "XVII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica. (CILH),  Mérida, México, 10-11 de marzo, 2016.

 

•  "La sombra de Buñuel y de Borges en Carlos Saura." II Congreso de historia, literatura y arte en el cine hispano luso," Centro de Estudios Brasileños, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain, June 26-28, 2013.http://www.congresocinesalamanca.com/organizacion.htmlLinks to an external site.

 

• "Humor y parodia en Carlota Fainberg de Antonio Muñoz Molina." XXXIII Congreso Internacional, Asociación de Licenciados y Doctores Españoles en Estados Unidos (ALDEEU):Huellas de la Hispanidad en Estados Unidos (Spanish Professionals in America), St. Augustine, Florida, April 16-19, 2013. http://web.aldeeu.org/congreso2013.htmlLinks to an external site.

 

• Invited speaker: Discussion on Lorca in a Green Dress, a play by Cuba-American author, Nilo Cruz. Ritz Theater, Minneapolis, April 12-28, 2013.

 

• Homenaje a José Isaacson en su 90 aniversario. Celebration of Isaacson's 90^th anniversary (born August 14, 1922 in Buenos Aires). Martín presented Isaacson's most recent collection of poems, Poemas medidos por el tiempo (2012). She also presented her book José Isaacson y la poética del encuentro. Participants at this event were: Asociación de Artistas Premiados Argentinos (APA), P.E.N. Club Argentino, Centro Sefarad-Israel (Madrid, Spain),  Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, College of St. Benedict | St. John's University (MN,), Ediciones Corregidor and Ediciones Teseo (Buenos Aires). Casa Cultural, APA, Buenos Aires, August 14, 2012.

 

• "En torno a la lírica de José Isaacson," XXXIX Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI), Sponsored by Universidad de Cádiz, (UCA), Instituto Cervantes, Secretaría General Iberoamericana, FIT de Cádiz. July  3-6, Cádiz, 2012. http://www.iilicadiz2012.org/Links to an external site.

 

•  "José Isaacson: El Poeta en la sociedad de masas."  XXXII Asamblea y Congreso Internacional de Spanish Professionals in the USA (ALDEEU), July 2-4, Cádiz, 2012. http://www.aldeeu.com/cadiz2012/index.php/congreso/humanidadesLinks to an external site.

 

• "Celebrando a Saura y sus marginados," Asociación Hispánica de Humanidades (AHH), 18-20 June, Madrid, 2012.

 

• Invited speaker by Zorongo School of Flamenco to present Carlos Saura's film Flamenco, Flamenco." St. Paul, MN, November 14, 2010.
• "Fantasía y crítica social en la cuentística de Myriam Bustos Arratia"  NEMLA,  New Jersey,  April 7-8, 2011.

 

• "Los laberintos de la memoria: Buñuel y la mesa del rey Salomón", CINE-LIT Conference, Portland, Oregon, February 24-26, 2011.

 

• "Recordando a Ana María Fagundo," paper read in absence.  Homenaje a Enrique Ruiz Fornells, SAMLA, November 4-6, Atlanta, Georgia, 2011.

 

• Carlos Saura's "Buñuel y la mesa del Rey Salomón," Memory in World Cinema, Conference on Film Studies, University of Texas, San Antonio, Sept. 24-26, 2010.

 

• Participant-Commentator: Jornada de Presentación del capítulo de Salamanca de la Asociación Americana de Profesores de Español y Portugués, July 1, Centro de Estudios Brasileños, Salamanca, 2010.

 

• "Narrativa y exilio en Myriam Bustos Arratia," Memorias y Fronteras XIX Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica, AILCFH, Quito, Ecuador, October 1-3. 2009.

 

• "Olvido y marginación en Carlos Saura," Asociación de Licenciados Españoles en Estados Unidos (ALDEEU) XXIX Asamblea de la ALDEEU, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, June 29-July 1, 2009.

 

• "En diálogo con el tiempo: Notas sobre la reciente lírica hispana,"  V Congreso, Asociación Internacional de Humanidades (AHH), Sevilla, Spain, June 24-27, 2009.

 

• "Myriam Bustos Arratia."  Entrevista.  San José, Costa Rica, March 14, 2009.

 

• José Isaacson, poeta y ensayista," VIII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica (CILH), Puntarenas, Costa Rica, March 9-12, 2009.

 

•  "A propos of Juan Goytisolo's Idea of Casticismo, Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA), Minneapolis, November 12-15, 2008.

 

• "Fantasía y cotidianidad en la cuentística de José María Merino," Asociación de Licenciados Españoles en Estados Unidos (ALDEEU), Córdoba, Spain, July 2-5, 2008.

 

• "Marginados en Carlos Saura," España XX/XX:  Diálogos en el hispanismo peninsular, sponsored by the Spanish Embassy and the Dept. of Modern Languages & Literatures, University of Ottawa, March 27-29, 2008.

 

• "La medida del suspense en Abre los ojos y Nueve reinas".  Diálogos transatlánticos e interamericanos en el cine hispano.  SAMLA, Nov. 9-11, 2007.

 

• "El espacio paródico en Borges, Magritte y Escher" Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (AIH), Université Paris Sorbonne, Paris, July 9-13, 2007.

 

• "El espacio subjetivo en la pintura urbana de Antonio López", Asociación de Licenciados Españoles en Estados Unidos (ALDEEU), Ávila, Spain, July 3-7, 2007.

 

• "Los laberintos del tiempo y del arte en Borges,"Arts, The Place of Letters, The World in Borges, Inaugural Conference, Borges Center, The University of Iowa, April 11-14, 2007.

 

• "Ecos de Borges en la filmografía hispana," Session 4: Borges y la Cinematografía," CINE-LIT, 6th International Conference on Hispanic Film and Literature, Portland State University, Portland. Oregon, Feb 21-24, 2007. 

 

• "Imagen y literatura en Carlos Saura," Session IV: Art and Ethics, in Contemporary Spain, 3^rdRomance Language Film Symposium. Wake Forest University, Oct. 13-14, 2006. 

 

• "Juan Goytisolo's Count Julian: A Vindication of Muslim Spain" The 4th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Tunis, July 3-6, 2006.

 

• "Morada y poesía en la obra de Ana María Fagundo."  IV Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Hispánica de Humanidades (AHH), Madrid, June 24-27, 2006.  Spanish poet Ana María Fagundo was present at the session and read a selection of her writings. 

 

• "Ficción, imagen y música en la filmografía de Carlos Saura," Música, Imagen y literatura: Nuevas perspectivas en estudios hispánicos, XLII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas (ACH), York University, Toronto, May 27-30, 2006.

 

• "Versiones paródicas del humor en Borges en la representación espacial," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (KFLC), University of Kentucky Lexington, April 20-22, 2006. 

 

• "Entrevista con Carlos Saura," Instituto Cervantes, New York City, NY, February 23, 2006. 

 

• "Mundos imposibles: La realidad como enigma en Borges." V Coloquio Internacional de Literatura Fantástica.  Lo fantástico en la literatura hispana actual.  Texas A & M International University.  Dept. of Languages & Literature, Laredo, Texas October 6-8, 2005. 

 

• "Poesía y transparencia: La voz de Ana María Fagundo." Asamblea General de la ALDEEU, Junta de Castilla y León - Instituto de la lengua castellano y leonés, Burgos, Spain, July 5-9, 2005.

 

• "Conceptual Representations of Space, Parody and Duplicity in Borges, Magritte and Escher."  Borges Center, University of Aarhus, Denmark, October 20, 2004.

 

• "Visiones de Madrid en el pincel de Antonio López," III Congreso Internacional: Madrid en la literatura y en las artes,  Asociación Hispánica de Humanidades (AHH) & The Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Alabama, Madrid,  June  10-13, 2004.

 

• "Ficción, realidad y mitos transgresores borgesianos en Tango de Carlos Saura," 24th Annual Cincinnati Conference Romance Languages & Literatures, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 13-15, 2004.

 

• "Versiones narrativas y fílmicas de la mujer en Tango: Luisa Valenzuela y Carlos Saura," South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), Atlanta, Nov. 14-16, 2003.

 

• "Mitos de la narrativa latinoamericana en la filmografía de Alejandro Amenábar" The Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA). 34th  Annual Convention. Boston, Massachusetts 6 - 9 March, 2003.

 

• "El espacio en la producción fílmica de Alejandro Amenábar." CINE-LIT V. An International Conference on Hispanic Film and Fiction. February 26 - March 1. Organized by Portland State University, Oregon State University, and Northwest Film Center / Portland International Film Festival. Portland, Oregon, 2003.

 

• "Reflexiones sobre la poética de Ana María Fagundo," XXII Simposio Internacional: Mujer y Sociedad en América (ICHL), Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, Recinto de San Germán, Puerto Rico, October 23-25, 2002.

 

• "Representations of Time and Space in Alejandro Amenábar's Open Your Eyes," XXXIV Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI) in Iowa City, July 2-6, 2002.

 

• "Sueño y realidad. Borges y la producción fílmica de A. Amenábar en Abre los ojos," Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica (CILH), Lima, Perú, February 27- March 1, 2002.

 

• Invited Speaker. "Suspense y narración en la producción fílmica de A. Amenábar: Tesis, Abre los ojos and The Others", ENFOREX, Madrid, June 19, 2002.

 

• "Comala, Talpa, Luvina: metáforas del México rulfiano." Popular  Culture Association & American Culture Association (PCA/ACA), Universidad de las Américas, Puebla-Cholula, Mexico, October 18-20, 2001.

 

• "Versiones y diversiones metafísicas del humor y la parodia en Borges," 5Th Conference of the International Society for Luso-Hispanic Humor Studies. Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, September 27-29, 2001.

 

• "El humor paródico de Borges en la frontera de lo ficticio y lo real," Monstruosidad y transgresión en la cultura hispánica, Universitas Castellae, (Valladolid ) Spain, July 3-5, 2001.

 

• "Time's Paradoxes in Borges's Labyrinths," Time, Memory & Text Conference, University of Binghamton, SUNY, March 23-25, 2001.

 

• "Jorge Luis Borges y los escritores argentinos." Invited speaker, Dept. of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Virginia, February 22, 2001.                                

Talks at Summer Courses

Visiting Professor:

• (a) STUDY ABROAD: Current and Possible Structures  "La enseñanza del español en el extranjero: Programas en las universidades norteamericanas." Curso de Formación y especialización del profesorado de E.L.E (Español Lengua Extranjera). Cursos internacionales, Universidad de Salamanca - Academia de la Lengua Mester, Salamanca (Spain) June 9, 2001.
• (b) FILM STUDIES: The Young Spanish Cinema: From Almodóvar to the New Century:  This summer course took place at the University of Wyoming.  M. Martín was invited to join a group of scholars specialized in film studies. This summer course was sponsored by the University of Wyoming in Cooperation with The Consulate General of Spain in San Francisco & The Cultural Office of Spain's Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores -Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, Laramie, July 9- 13, 2001.

 

• Participated at EL CHACO 2000 SUMMER INSTITUTE: Literatura, Crítica y Creación en Argentina.  Summer course sponsored by the University of Virginia and the Centros de Altos Estudios Literarios y Sociales Chaco, Resistencia (Argentina), July 17- August 4, 2000. Authors that participated at the Institute: Mempo Giardinelli, Guillermo Martínez, Luisa Valenzuela, Reina Roffé, Marcos Aguinis, Ana María Shua and Angélica Gorodischer. Dr. Martín taped interviews with several authors. Course funded by SJU Faculty Development, 2000.

 

• "Ficción y parodia en Carlota Fainberg de Antonio Muñoz Molina," Spain in the Twenty-First Century: Literature, the Arts, and Culture. An International Symposium, sponsored by the University of Columbus (OH), the Instituto Cervantes and the Spanish Embassy in the US, Columbus, Ohio, November 1-4, 2000.

 

• "Espacio utópico y metáfora en Juan Rulfo," XXXIII Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, (IILI) Universidad de Salamanca (Spain), June 26-30, 2000.

 

• "Espacio y metáfora en Juan Rulfo," XXI Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, March 2-4, 2000.

 

• "El arte, espejo crítico y utópico en Borges," International Conference on Utopia & Dystopia in Literature and the Visual Arts, State University of West Georgia, November 5-7, Atlanta, 1999.

 

• "Borges, The Apologist of Idealism," 20th World Congress of Philosophy. Paideia: Philosophy Educating Humanity, Boston University, Boston, August 10-16, 1998.

 

• "El arte: espejo y laberinto de la conciencia en Borges," Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature (MACHL), University of Missouri-Columbia, October 7-9, 1999.

 

• "Espacio urbano y espacio psíquico en Juan Rulfo," Ciudades vivas/ ciudades muertas: Espacios urbanos en la literatura y folklore hispánicos Conference, Fundación Centro Etnográfico Joaquín Díaz, McGill University & Universitas Castellae, Valladolid (Spain), June 23-26, 1998.
• "La mujer y la familia al borde del tiempo: Montserrat Roig y Rosa Montero," I Congreso Internacional, Asociación Hispánica de Humanidades (AHH). Congreso sobre "La mujer española y latinoamericana en el mundo," Madrid, July 31-August 6, 1995.

 

• "The Poet, The Prophet, The Vision: Latin American Conceptions of Ars Poetica," International Association for Philosophy & Literature (IAPL), University of Alberta, May 4-7, 1994.

 

• "Utopian Fiction and Satire in Borges's Writings," Society for Utopian Studies Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, November 4-7, 1993.

 

• "Juan Goytisolo's Count Julian: A Vindication of Muslim Spain." Paper presented in "The Poetics and Politics of World Literature." Midwest Modern Language Association (M/MLA), St Louis, Missouri, November 5-7, 1992.

 

• "The Slave of the Passions: A Reading on Hume and Foucault," Passions, Persons, Power Conference, International Association for Philosophy & Literature (IAPL), University of California, Berkeley, April 30- May 3, 1992.

 

• "Entre el síndrome de Penélope y la liberación: La hora violeta de Montserrat Roig," Wichita State University International Conference on Foreign Literature. Continental, Latin American, and Francophone Women Writers., April 9-11, 1992.

 

• Organizer/participant of the session "J. L. Borges, A Re-evaluation". 44th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (KFLC), April, 1991.

 

• Participant at the session "The New Europe: East Meets West," Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (MCTFL), Minneapolis, April, 1991.

 

• "Hume y la filosofía del sentido común: fuentes de inspiración en Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (KFLC), April, 1990.

 

• "Bodies in Space: Constructions and Representations of Space, Place and Time," Seminar commentator. The International Association for Philosophy and Literature," (IAPL) Irvine, California, April, 1990.

 

• "Space and the External World in Borges's Fiction," The International Association for Philosophy and Literature," (IAPL) Irvine, California, April, 1990.

 

• "Borges via 'the Dialectics of Berkeley and Hume.'" Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature (MACHL), Lawrence, Kansas, November, 1989.

 

• "Borges, lector de un problemático Hume," 9th Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages & Literatures, May, 1989.

 

• "Arte poética: poema borgiano en busca de su autor y de su tiempo," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (KFLC), April, 1989.

 

• "Pedro Prado y el Modernismo: Alsino, The Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference, Duquesne University, September, 1988.

 

• "Visión escéptica en Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages and Literatures, Rollins College, Florida, February, 1987.

 

TECHNOLOGY |  LANG. WORKSHOPS & MEETINGS:

CSB|SJU Invited Speaker:   Moodle Courses

 "Design & Content of Moodle Courses." ITS Workshop, CSB campus, February, 2013 -         

"Uses of Moodle in Language Courses." ITS Workshop, SJU campus, May, 2008.

Vista Higher Learning Workshop Participant: 

Online Teaching and Hybrid Courses  Language & Technology Workshop. Edina, St. Paul, MN. May 22, 2010.

CSB|SJU Collaboratorium:

CSB|SJU Collaboratorium: Information & Technology Services Workshops, May: 2012
CSB|SJU Collaboratorium: Information & Technology Services Workshops, May 2011
CSB|SJU Collaboratorium: Information & Technology Services Workshops, May 2010
CSB|SJU Collaboratorium: Information & Technology Services Workshops, May 2009
CSB|SJU Collaboratorium: Information & Technology Services Workshops, May 2003

"Language Labs on the Leading Edge," International Association of Learning Laboratories, Notre Dame University, May 22-27, 1995.

Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (MCTFL), Oct17, Bloomington, 1991.