Kimberly Nance
Professor
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
Biography
PhD University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Spanish American Literature Secondary Areas: Folklore, Critical Theory, Educational Policy MA University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Spanish Literature BA University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Spanish Education, Summa cum laude
Current Courses
IDS 203.001 Nations And Narration AMALI: Latin America
IDS 203.002 Nations And Narration AMALI: Latin America
SPA 300.001 Research In Spanish
Teaching Interests & Areas
Offices: Modern Language Association of America, Division on Teaching as a Profession, Executive Committee, 2012-2017
Modern Language Association of America, Division on Teaching of Literature, Executive Committee, 2000-2005, Chair 2002-2004
Midwest Modern Language Association, Division on Multicultural Literature in the Classroom, Chair 2005, Secretary, 2004
Midwest Modern Language Association, Division on Peace Literature and Pedagogy, Chair, 1998, Secretary 1997
Award: College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Humanities Teacher
Courses taught:
Children on the Edge: Young Narrators in Novels of Dictatorship; Bildungsroman Across Borders; Mirame, Diversity and Visibility in Spain and Latin America; Nations & Narrations of Latin America; Latin American Popular Culture; Spanish for Health Care, The Boom: Latin American Literature Goes Global; Larger than Life: Latin American Icons; Spanish American Short Stories from 1996-Next Month: Proyecto Sherezade; Seminar on Form and Function in Spanish American Folklore; Latin American Novels of the 1960s; Sor Juana Seminar; Latin American Lifewriting; Literatures of Cultural Encounter; Violence and Responses to Violence in Latin American Narrative; Borges, Bombal and Cortázar; Chronicles and Travelers’ Tales; Latin American Folklore and Popular Culture; Casona, Sastre and Buero Vallejo; Images of the Indio in the Modern Spanish-American Novel; Fantastic and Magical Realism in Latin American Literature; Senior Seminar; Survey of Spanish-American Literature; Introduction to Hispanic Literature; Spanish American Civilization; Serving Spanish-Speaking Populations; Modern Spanish Novel; Academic Spanish for Spanish Speakers; Grammar; Composition; Conversation
Research Interests & Areas
American Library Association/Choice Academic Book Award for Can Literature Promote Justice? Trauma Narrative and Social Action in Latin American Testimonio (2007)
Interests:
theories of reading and reception, literature and social justice, psychology and neurobiology of narrative, narrating war and torture, Aristotelian rhetorical categories and persuasion, folklore and literature, second person narrative, innovations in narrative technique, theories of the fantastic and magical realism, teaching literature
Ph D Latin American Literature and Culture
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign
MA Spanish Literature
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign
BA Teaching of Spanish
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign
American Library Association Choice Academic Book for Can Literature Promote Justice?
American Library Association
2007
College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Humanities Teacher
1990
Book Review
Review of Ortiz-Vilarelle, Lisa. Americanas, Autocracy, and Autobiographical Innovation.
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(2022), a/b: Auto/Biography Studies
Review of Weldt-Basson, Helene. Masquerade and Social Justice in Contemporary Latin American Fiction.
Kimberly A Nance.
(2018), 2018, 208-210., Hispanófila
Review of Nava, Alex. Wonder and Exile in the New World.
Kimberly A Nance.
(2016), 93, 887-888, Bulletin of Spanish Studies
Review of Robinson, Lorna. <em>Gabriel García Márquez and Ovid. Magical and Monstrous Realities.
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(2014), Bulletin of Spanish Studies
Review of Amaya, Hector, <em>Screening Cuba: Film Criticism as Political Performance During the Cold War
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(2012), Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History
Review of Carroli, Piera, <em>Literature in Second Language Education
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(2010)
Book, Authored
Global Testimonial Narratives on the Ethics of Witness: Responding to the Pain of Others
Kimberly A Nance.
(2020), 158, Lexington/Rowman and Littlefield
Teaching Literature in the Languages
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(2010), 258, Prentice Hall
Can Literature Promote Justice?
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(2006)
Cervantine Satire and Folk Syncretism in Paulo de Carvalho-Neto’s Mi tío Atahualpa.
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(2004)
Book, Chapter
“Vertigo, Repens, and Repositio: Introducing Students to Borges’s Literary Games”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(2024), 144-151, Approaches to Teaching Jorge Luis Borges., Modern Language Association
“Empirical Ethics, Theoretical Mechanics: Toward a Prosaics of Teaching Human Rights Literature.”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(2015), Teaching Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies.
“Hispanic literatures and cultures throughout the curriculum.”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(2014), The Routledge Handbook of Hispanic Applied Linguistics.
“’Something that might resemble a call’: Testimonial Theory and Practice in the Twenty-First Century.”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(2012), Pushing the Boundaries of Latin American Testimony: Metamorphoses and Migrations.
“Borges and Georgie: Childhood Reading, Adult Writing, and the Shape of the Latin American Fantastic.”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(2005), Twice-told Children’s Tales: The Influence of Childhood Reading on Writers for Adults.
“‘Let us say that there is a human being before me who is suffering’: Empathy, Exotopy and Ethics in the Reception of Latin American Collaborative Testimonio.”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(2004), Bakhtin: Ethics and Mechanics.
“Apropiación de propaganda religiosa de la Reconquista y la Conquista españolas: proceso de resignificación en dos novelas de protesta social latinoamericanas.”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(1994), Más de 500 años de cultura mexicana
Encyclopedia
“Barnet, Miguel.
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(2016)
“Justice and Injustice”
Kimberly Ann Nance, Jane Garry.
(2009)
“Seduction.”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(2009)
Journal Article
“Recursive Witness: Narrative Critique of Testimonial Criticism in Alicia Partnoy’s ‘Rosa, I Disowned You’ and ‘Disclaimer Intraducible: My Life / Is Based / On a Real Story’”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 37 (1), 113-128, (2023)
“Considering Social Efficacy in Peter Dickinson’s <em>AK.</em>”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(2010)
“Reading Human Rights Literature in Undergraduate Literature Classes: Professorial Desire, Disciplinary Culture, and the Chances of Cultivating Compassion.”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(2010)
“Mountains beyond Mountains: Role Models and the ‘Problem of Goodness’ in Socially Engaged Teaching.”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(2006)
“Newer Than Nuevas Novelas: Rhetorical Challenges and Ethical Import of Fetal Narrators in Ariel Dorfman’s <em>La última canción de Manuel Sendero</em> and Carlos Fuentes’ <em>Cristóbal Nonato</em>.”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(2006)
“Only Connect? Empathy and Exotopy in Teaching Social Justice Literature.”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(2006)
“If English is Spanish then Spanish is….: Literary Challenges of Representing Bilingual Speech Production and Reception in Esmeralda Santiago’s <em>América’s Dream.</em>”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(2003)
“Quotidian Magic: Murilo Rubião’s ‘O Ex Mágico da Taberna Minhota’ and Todorov’s ‘New Fantastic.’”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(2003)
“’Authentic and Surprising News of Themselves’: Engaging Students’ Pre-existing Competencies in the Introductory Literature Course.”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(2002)
“Contradictory Instructions: Folklore, Precepts, and Ideologies of Reading in the Latin American Fantastic.”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(2001)
“Disarming Testimony: Speakers’ Resistance to Writers’, Critics’, and Readers’ Appropriations in Latin American Testimonio.”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(2001)
From <em>Quarto de Despejo</em> to a Little House: Domesticity as Personal and Political Testimony in the Diaries of Carolina Maria de Jesus.”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(2001)
“Contained in Criticism, Lost in Translation: Representation of Sexuality and the Fantastic in María Luisa Bombal’s <em>La última niebla</em> and <em>The House of Mist.</em>”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(2000)
“The Dynamic of Folklore in Lorca’s Early Poetics: Opening <em>Libro de poemas</em> and Unfolding ‘Pajarita de papel’.”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(2000)
“Blancos as Indígenas: Inverting the Indigenista Novel.”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(1999)
“Developing Students’ Sense of Literature in the Introductory Foreign Language Literature Course.”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(1994)
“Self-Consuming Second-Person Fiction: José Emilio Pacheco’s ‘Tarde de agosto’.”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(1994)
“The Riddle Contest as Folk Deconstruction of an Indigenista in Paulo de Carvalho-Neto’s <em>Mi tío Atahualpa.</em>
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(1994)
“Things Fall Apart: Images of Disintegration in Mercè Rodoreda’s <em>La Plaça del Diamant.</em>”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(1991)
“Pied Beauty: Juxtaposition and Irony in Teresa de la Parra’s <em>Las memorias de Mamá Blanca.</em>”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(1990)
“Intimate Resistance: Susana San Juan in <em>Pedro Páramo</em>
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(1988)
Other
“Identifying, Sequencing, and Managing Intellectual Risks to Students”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(1992)
“Recognizing our Students’ Cultural Diversity: How and Why.”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
(1991)
Textbook, New
Aprendizaje: técnicas de composición.
Kimberly Ann Nance, Isidro J Rivera.
(1998)
Textbook, Revised
Aprendizaje: Strategies for Writing
Kimberly Ann Nance, Isidro J Rivera.
(2003)
Presentations
"Testimonies across Time and Place: Traces of Filipina Comfort Women in the Work of Alicia Partnoy"
Kimberly Ann Nance.
Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Toronto, Canada, January 8, 2026
“Critique of Testimonial Criticism in Alicia Partnoy’s 'Rosa, I Disowned You’ and ‘Disclaimer Intraducible’”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
Modern Language Association, Chicago IL, January, 2019
“Implications and Applications of Repens and Repositio for Language Curricula”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Chicago IL, January, 2019
"The Work of Empathy in Global Testimonial Narrative"
Kimberly A Nance.
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, March 30, 2018
“Clea Koff’s The Bone Woman: From Memoir and Documentary to Social Intervention”
Kimberly A Nance.
Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Cincinnati OH, November 8, 2017
“Teaching as a Profession: Nice Work, Good Work, Better Work”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Vancouver, Canada, January, 2015
"'An infection with the other's suffering, nothing more'? Pathological versus Productive Empathy and Narrative Strategy"
Kimberly Ann Nance.
Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, January, 2014
“Hundreds of bodies on two continents, telling a single story” Assembling Narratives of Genocide in Clea Koff’s The Bone Woman.
Kimberly Ann Nance.
Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, January, 2014
“Use beginning, middle, and end”: Testimonial Narrative as Reintegrative Strategy in Delia Jarrett-Macauley’s Moses, Citizen & Me”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Boston MA, December, 2013
“’There are some things so serious that you have to laugh at them’: Humor in the Concentration Camp Narratives of Alicia Partnoy and Hernán Valdés”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Boston MA, January, 2013
“Careers for Humanists: Roles of Graduate Programs”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools Annual Meeting, Chicago IL, October, 2012
“What language is that?” Socioliterary Reading from Uwem Akpan’s <em>Say You’re One of Them</em> ”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
Conference on Literature & Culture since 1900, Louisville KY., February, 2012
“Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces in Testimonial Theory and Practice”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Seattle WA, January, 2012
“From Caillois to Video Game Theory: Learning in Language, Composition, and Literature as ‘Serious Play.’”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis MO, November, 2011
“University Leaders Respond to the American Council of Graduate Schools’ Path Forward Report,”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
Illinois Association of Graduate Schools Annual Meeting, Charleston, IL, October, 2010
“From Poetics to Prosaics: Literary Texts and the Chances of Social Action,”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
Symposium On Comparative Human Rights: Literature, Art, Politics, Urbana IL, April, 2009
“Late 20th Century Men’s Testimonios: Memory and Masculinity in a Transgendered Genre.”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
Midwest Modern Language Association, Minneapolis MN, November, 2008
“Considering Social Efficacy in Peter Dickinson’s <em>AK</em> .”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
Children’s Literature Association Annual Conference,, Normal IL, June, 2008
“Changing Places: Graduate School Responses to Contextual Challenges.”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools, St. Louis MO, April, 2008
“Narrative and the Possibilities of Justice for Boy Soldiers and Lost Boys”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
Modern Language Association,, Chicago IL, December, 2007
“The Art of Realism, or Why Readers Can’t Handle Reality,”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
Midwest Modern Language Association, Cleveland OH, November, 2007
“Stepping Back from the Borderlands: Multilingualism Suavizado”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C., December, 2005
“Spanish as a Domesticated Language: Transparency and Difference in Post-testimonial Latina Writing.”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
American Reception Study: Reconsiderations and New Directions, Newark DE, October, 2005
“What Counts as Testimonio, and Why Does it Matter?”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
Twentieth Century Literature Conference, Louisville, Kentucky., February, 2005
“Reading Paul Farmer ‘Narrating Haiti’: Lessons for Teachers.”
Kimberly Ann Nance.
Modern Language Association, Philadelphia PA, December, 2004