GEMA ROSA GUEVARA portrait
  • Associate Professor, World Languages and Cultures
  • Associate Professor, World Languages and Cultures
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Professional Service

  • The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (JLACA). Role: Peer Reviewer. Peer review a scholarly article. 06/30/2021 - 02/22/2022
  • Latino Studies Journal. Role: Blind Peer Reviewer. Article peer review. 03/10/2021 - 02/20/2022
  • Latino Studies Journal. Blind peer reviewer. 12/31/2019 - present
  • Latin American Research Review (LARR). Role: Peer article reviewer. Blind peer reviewer . 01/2017 - 12/2017
  • Latin American Research Review (LARR). Peer Review Articles. 01/2016 - 12/2016
  • Latin American Research Review (LARR). Peer Reviewed Articles. 01/2015 - 12/2015
  • Latin American Research Review. Role: Peer Reviewer. Reviewed an article for publication . 12/2014 - present
  • Cuban Research Institute. Panel Organizer. Titled "Being Cuban While Being Black: Negotiating Blackness between Cuban and the United States," Florida International University, Miami, Florida, February 26-28, 2015. 06/2014 - present
  • American Comparative Literature Association. Role: Co-organizer. Co-organized a seminar with Professor Karin Baumgardner titled, (Un)Positioning Identity in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing for ACLA held at the University of Toronto. 04/05/2013 - 04/07/2013

Internal Service

  • Spanish Section Graduate Applicant Evaluations . Member, 02/2022 - 02/2022. Department service.
  • College of Humanities Faculty Awards Committee. Member, 01/2022 - 12/2022. College service.
  • University Research Committee. Member, 01/2022 - 12/2022. College service.
  • Classroom observer. RPT Peer Reviewer, 08/23/2021 - 04/27/2022. Department service.
  • Member 2nd Year Internal Tenure Review Committee . Present File, 08/2021 - 12/2021. Department service.
  • Career Development Committee. Reviewer, 08/2021 - 12/2021. College service.
  • Student Fee Study Abroad Scholarship Committee. Reviewer, 01/2021 - 12/2021. University service.
  • Tanner Humanities Faculty Advisory Board. Member, 01/2021 - 12/2021. University service.
  • University Research Committee. Reviewer, 01/2021 - 12/2021. University service.
  • Student Fee Study Abroad Scholarship Committee. Member, 08/2020 - 12/2020. University service.
  • University Research Committee. Member, 08/2020 - 12/2020. University service.
  • Retention, Promotion and Tenure Committee. Chair , 03/2020 - 10/2020. Department service.
  • Tanner Humanities Faculty Advisory Board. Member, 01/2020 - 12/2020. College service.
  • Academic Senate. Member, 01/2020 - 05/2020. College service.
  • Visiting Spanish Search Committee. Member, 05/2019 - present. Department service.
  • Tenure Review Committee. Chair, 03/2019 - 10/2019. Department service.
  • Academic Senate. Member, 01/2019 - 12/2019. University service.
  • Tanner Humanities Faculty Advisory Board. Member, 01/2019 - 12/2019. College service.
  • Academic Senate. Member, 01/2018 - 12/2018. University service.
  • Tanner Humanities Faculty Advisory Board. member, 01/2018 - 12/2018. College service.
  • Academic Senate. Member, 08/28/2017 - 12/04/2017. University service.
  • Teaching Advisory Committee. member, 08/2017 - 05/2018. Department service.
  • Teaching Advisory Committee. Member, 08/2017 - 12/2017. Department service.
  • Tenure Review Committee. Chair, 03/2017 - 10/2017. Department service.
  • Annie Clark Tanner Fellowship Committee. Member, 03/2017 - 04/2017. College service.
  • Tanner Humanities Faculty Advisory Board. Member, 01/2017 - 12/2017. College service.
  • Department of World Languages and Culture, Peer Reviewer, Spring 2017. member, 01/2017 - 05/2017. Department service.
  • Merit Committee. member, 08/2016 - 05/2017. Department service.
  • Tanner Humanities Faculty Advisory Board. Faculty Advisor, 01/2016 - 12/2016. College service.
  • Tanner Humanities Faculty Advisory Board. Faculty Advisor, 01/2015 - 12/2015. University service.
  • Graduate Adviser for Spanish Section: Advise students on class selection, graduate examinations, committee selection, professional choices. Faculty Advisor, 01/2015 - 12/2015. Department service.
  • Tanner Humanities Faculty Advisory Board. Board Member, 10/2014 - 06/2015. University service.
  • Graduate Adviser for Spanish Section: Advise students on class selection, graduate examinations, committee selection, professional choices. 08/2014 - 05/2015. Department service.
  • Department of Languages and Literature Merit Committee . Member, 03/2014 - present. Department service.
  • Ad Hoc Committee Member for Al Duncan Third Year Formal Review . Member, 03/2014 - 10/2014. Department service.
  • Post Tenure Ad Hoc Committee for Karin Baumgartner. Member, 02/2014 - 03/2014. Department service.
  • Undergraduate Committee. member, 10/2012 - 05/2013. Department service.
  • 5th Year Formal Tenure Review Committee for Professor Angela Espinosa for spring 2013. member, 08/24/2012 - 05/05/2013. Department service.
  • Department of Lang and Lit Executive Committee. Elected member, 08/2012 - 05/2013. Department service.
  • Spanish Section Representative. Preparing course schedule for upper division and grad seminars, transfer credits, organizing section meetings, addressing individual faculty concerns. 08/2012 - 05/2013. Department service.
  • 7th Year Formal Review Ad Hoc Tenure Committee for Professor Elena GarcĂ­a-Martin. member, 05/2012 - 10/2012. Department service.
  • Dean Robert Newman assigned the "Task Force on Teaching and Service Committee" to produce a report analyzing current practices and procedures in all of the departments in the college in relationship to teaching and service. The goal is to identify and reward excellence in these two areas not currently rewarded. Member, 10/2011 - 03/2012. College service.
  • As the Spanish Graduate Representative I met with students to discuss course selection, qualifying examinations and assisted the DGS in addressing concerns addressing the Spanish MA and PhD. I also met with prospective students to discuss the graduate programs and actively recruited for both programs. I oversee the scheduling and administration of the qualifying examinations. 09/2011 - 05/2012. Department service.
  • I was elected for a three year term to the Teaching Advisory Committee. I chaired TAC for two consecutive years. The committee is responsible for writing teaching reports, based on student evaluations and faculty peer reports, for all faculty members undergoing formal tenure review. As TAC chair I also coordinate the yearly teaching reports conducted for (15) adjunct faculty undergoing contract renewals yearly. Chair, 09/2011 - 05/2012. Department service.
  • Teaching Advisory Committee (chair) Preparing teaching evaluation reports for tenure track and adjunct faculty. 08/2011 - 05/2012. Department service.
  • As the chair for the Teaching Advisory Committee I coordinate an elected committee to write reports based on student evaluations for all faculty members undergoing tenure review, and for (15) adjunct faculty undergoing contract renewals. Chair, 09/2010 - 05/2011. Department service.

Honors & Awards

  • International Travel Grant. College of Humanities , 04/2019
  • International Travel Grant. University of Utah, 11/2018
  • International Travel Grant . University of Utah, 11/2017
  • Grant for a Digital Humanities project titled, "Teaching the Digital Humanities in the Language and Literature Classroom," in conjunction with Professor Karin Baumgardner. University Teaching Committee, 03/2016
  • Obert C. & Grace A. Tanner Fellowship for Fall 2013. Tanner Humanities Center, 11/2012