Yvette Sánchez

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Yvette Sánchez (born September 28, 1957 in Maracaibo ) is a Swiss Hispanist . Sánchez has been associate professor for culture and society in Latin America and Spain since October 2004 and full professor since August 2007 and director of the Centro Latinoamericano-Suizo at the University of St. Gallen since 2007 .

Career

From 1976 to 1982 Sánchez studied Ibero-Romance Philology as a major at the University of Basel, ethnology as the first minor and modern English literature as a second minor. This was followed by several months of study in Latin America ( Ecuador , Peru , Venezuela and the Dominican Republic ). During her entire study time, she worked at various schools as a teacher for Spanish and English, as a translator and as an assistant.

From 1983 to 1992 Sánchez was assistant and lecturer at the Romance Department of the University of Basel, from 1992 lecturer for Spanish and Latin American literature and film. In 1987 she completed her doctorate with a thesis on Religiosidad cotidiana en la narrativa reciente hispano-caribeña .

Ten years later, he completed his habilitation at the University of Basel. She then received positions as a substitute for the chair, and from 2004 she was Associate Professor for Spanish Language and Literature at the University of St.Gallen. She was appointed to this chair in 2007, as well as director of the Centro Latinoamericano-Suizo de la Universidad de San Gallen (CLS-HSG) and as the rector's delegate for the "Public Program" at the University of St.Gallen. She has also been President of the HSG Art Commission since 2012.

Research projects

  • Head of the HSG Research NODES Transcultural Workspaces
  • Head of the PhD program ProDoc The Dynamics of Transcultural Governance and Management in Latin America, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) until 2015
  • Head of the research cooperation project with the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Water & Light: Managing Strategies to Scale Up Sustainable Social and Environmental Projects in Colombia, supported by the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI and the cooperation project with Prof. Livia Barbosa (PUC , Rio), Eating Healthily in Brazil and Switzerland
  • Profile area KIM (SHSS-HSG): Head of research network "Interculturality" (until December 2015)

Research priorities

  • Cultural and literary studies of Latin America and Spain
  • Transculturality (using the example of the BRICS and the US Latinos)
  • Fictionality and Management, Literature / Art and Law

Publications

Monographs

  • Coleccionismo y literatura. Madrid: Cátedra, 1999. 338.
  • Religiosidad cotidiana en la narrativa reciente hispanocaribeña. Prólogo de Maria Kodama de Borges. Lausanne: HISPANICA HELVETICA 3 (1992). 202.

Editorships / Editions

  • Social Entrepreneurship for Water & Energy Solutions. (Associate editor Roberto Gutiérrez). [in preparation].
  • Cruzar las Americas. Perspectivas hemisféricas en lenguajes, literaturas y culturas visuales. Iberoamericana, IILI, University of Pittsburgh, 2016 (together with Valeria Wagner).
  • Business fictions. Peter Lang / Series Literature - Culture - Economy, 2017 [in press].
  • LebensLang - LebensLust (co-editor Ottmar Ette). Berlin: POINTE / Verlag Walter Frey, 2015.
  • Transculturalism and Business in the BRIC States. A handbook. (Co-editor Claudia Franziska Brühwiler). London: Ashgate, 2015.
  • Fronteras nebulosas. El potencial de los espacios ambiguos (together with Júlia González de Canales Carcereny, «Presentación» by the editors and contributions by Fernando Aínsa, Mª Jesús Buxó Rey, Sergio Chejfec, Ottmar Ette and Enrique Vila-Matas). Iberoamericana. Dossier. 2014, No. 54, 79–151.
  • Food. (Co-editors Ottmar Ette / Veronika Sellier). Zurich: diaphanes, 2013. 224.
  • Poéticas del fracaso. Frankfurt Studies on Iberoromania and Francophonie, Volume 1 (co-editor Roland Spiller). Tübingen: Gunter Narr / A. Francke, 2009. 272.
  • Gustav Siebenmann. From my bodega. Features from seven decades. Tübingen: Gunter Narr / A. Francke, 2008. 278.
  • Error in the system. Error, deficit and catastrophe as factors of cultural productivity (co-editor Felix Philipp Ingold). Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2008. 381.
  • Switzerland is sound (co-editors Joseph Jurt / Ottmar Ette). Basel: Schwabe & Co., 2007. 156.
  • La poética de la mirada (co-editor Roland Spiller). Madrid: Visor, 2004. 232.
  • Cuentos de humo. Madrid: Siruela, 2001. 252.
  • Por orden alfabético. ARBA (Acta Romanica Basiliensia) 12. Basel: Romanisches Seminar, 1999. 151.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yvette Sánchez on the website of the University of St. Gallen .
  2. ↑ Patricia Islas Züttel : La de San Gallen, "una universidad de élite". Swissinfo , March 17, 2007. (Spanish)
  3. ↑ a b c d CV on the website of the University of St. Gallen. Retrieved November 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Sánchez, Yvette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Hispanist
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Maracaibo