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Juanamaria Cordones-Cook: Honors & Awards
HONORS AND AWARDS:
*
Member of Academy of Curators’ Professors, University of
Missouri (2018)
*
Mackandal Award granted by the
Cimarrón
Theater at the Orality Biennial of BarrioCuento to the relevant
literary and artistic lifetime
research devoted to study the work and culture of women and people of
African descent. (2018)
*
Named University of Missouri
Curators’ Distinguished Research Professor
(2017).
*
Named Catherine Paine Middlebush Professor of Romance Languages
(2017)
*
The
Centro Provincial del Libro y la
Literatura y el Centro de Promoción literaria "José Soler Puig,”
award (Santiago de Cuba) for film
Lescay: Alma y tierra / Earth and Soul (2017).
*
The Universidad de Oriente, Facultad
de Educación en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades
award
(Santiago de Cuba) for
documentary Rogelio Martínez Furé, a Cuban Griot / Un griot cubano
(2017).
* FIRST PLACE
Award in the category of BEST POETRY BOOK - ONE AUTHOR - BILINGUAL for
The 2016 International Latino Book Awards, for the
Latino Literacy Now’s International Latino Book contest for my
Always Rebellious, Selected Poems by Georgina Herrera
/ Cimarroneando, poemas escogidos de
Georgina Herrera. (September 2016)
*
Emmy Award nomination
for Batlle:
Change from within, September 2014.
*
Del palenque a las tablas: Antología crítica de teatro
afro-latinoamericano (Bogotá: Universidad Nacional Press, 2012).
780 page critical
anthology of Afro-Latin American theater had 3 editions. It was selected
by the Minister of Culture of Colombia to be distributed in all the
schools, public libraries, and municipalities in the nation (Sept. 2013).
*
Selected as a Distinguished
Faculty by MU Office of Development for Distinguished Dialogues to
discuss research with “Cabinet of Donors” (2014).
*
Named Catherine Paine Middlebush Professor of Romance Languages (2014)
*
FIRST
PLACE Award for Best Heartland
Feature Documentary at the KC
Film Fest, for documentary
Batlle: Change from within
(2013).
*
Telly Award, for documentary Batlle:
Change from within (2013).
*
FIRST PLACE for “Theater of the
World Award”, from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, for work as
editor of Mujeres en las tablas:
Antología crítica de teatro biográfico
hispanoamericano (Buenos Aires: Editorial Nueva Generación, 2005)
* Press
bestseller: Looking Within/Mirar adentro 1954/2000. Edition, introduction by J
Cordones-Cook. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003.
*
Honors College Professor of
the Year Award. (1999)
* Elected
Member (Miembro de Número)
by the "Academia de Letras Uruguayas" (Academy of Uruguayan Letters),
September 6, 1993.
REFEREED BOOKS:
* Poesía completa,
de Georgina Herrera. Co-edition by J. Cordones-Cook and G. Abudu,
Selection, introduction and notes, by J. Cordones-Cook.
La Habana: Letras Cubanas, 2017.
Presented by Roberto Zurbano in
Vedado, Havana (September).
*
Oriki
para Georgina,
by Georgina Herrera, edition
with intoduction and notes by J.Cordones-Cook. Translators: M. Rodriguez
Alcalá,
J. Cordones-Cook, and A. Cook.
La Habana:
Ediciones Sur/Sur Editores, Unión de Escritores y Artistas Cubanos, 2017.
Presented
by Nancy Morejón
at Centro Dulce María
Loynaz (November).
*
Second edition of Always Rebellious/Cimarroneando.
Chico, California: Cubana Books, 2016.
FIRST PLACE
Award in the category of BEST POETRY BOOK - ONE AUTHOR
- BILINGUAL for The 2016 International Latino Book Awards (September
2016).
Presented by Sara Cooper.
*
La silla dorada.
Poems by Nancy Morejón.
Edition, selection, introduction and notes, by J. Cordones-Cook.
Accompanied
by La silla dorada,
audiovisual anthology directed and produced by Cordones-Cook.
La Habana: Letras
Cubanas
(2014).
Presented and reviewed at:
Fortaleza de la Cabaña,
Sala Nicolás Guillén,
by Leandro Camargo, and at Hotel
Inglaterra, in Parque Central,
Havana, Cuba.
* Always Rebellious/Cimarroneando.
Edition, selection, introduction, and notes by Cordones-Cook; translation
by M. Rodríguez-Alcalá,
Cordones-Cook, and Alexander Cook. Chico, California: Cubana Books, 2014.
Book includes documentary, Cimarroneando con GH, directed
and produced by Cordones-Cook.
Presented at:
Fortaleza de la Cabaña, Sala Alejo
Carpentier, by Sara Cooper (2014).
Reviewed by: Maria del Mar López-Cabrales.
Letras Femeninas.
Vol. 41, No 2 (2015): 193-194.
* NM-RB:
Dos mujeres, una isla/NM-RB:
Two Women, One Island.
Bilingual anthology of poetry. Selection, edition, and introduction by J.
Cordones-Cook. Designed by Rolando Estévez Jordán.
Matanzas, Cuba: El Fortín (2014).
* Third edition:
Del palenque a la escena.
Co-edition. Bogotá, Colombia:
Universidad Nacional Press, 2014.
*
Revised second edition:
Soltando amarras y memorias: Mundo y poesía de Nancy Morejón. Havana,
Ediciones Sur, Instituto
Cubano del Libro, 2014.
(first edition 244 pages, revised edition 380 pages)
Presented
by: Margarita Mateo Palmer, Alex Pausides, and Luis Carbonell, at the
International Book Fair in Havana, February 2014.
Reviewed by: Ana Luz García
Calzada in Guantánamo, May 2014;
Fernando Rodríguez Sosa,
Trabajadores, Organo de la Central de Trabajadores de Cuba, July
2014;
Margarita Mateo. Unión de Artistas y Escritores Cubanos, UNEAC, July 2014.
* Second
edition:
Del palenque a la escena: Antología crítica de teatro afro-latinoamericano.
Co-
edition.
Bogotá, Colombia: Universidad Nacional de Colombia Press, 2013.
* Second edition: Mujeres en las tablas:
Antología crítica de teatro biográfico hispanoamericano.
Published by the Biblioteca Digital de Estudios Feministas y de Género Ofelia Uribe de Acosta, at the
Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2014).
* Del palenque
a la escena. Bogotá:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia Press, 2012.
780 pages.
Critical anthology of Afro-Latin American theater (15 plays). Selected by
the Minister of Culture of Colombia to be distributed in all the schools,
public libraries, and municipalities in the nation. A fourth edition
forthcoming in Cuba.
Reviewed by: * Azucena Ester Joffe
and María
de los
Ángeles
Sanz
http://lunateatral.blogspot.com/2013/02/resena-del-palenque-la-escena-antologia_20.htmlmiércoles,
February
20, 2013;
KARPA: TEATRALIDADES DISIDENTES,
ARTES VISUALES Y CULTURA. 6 Summer Issue 2013.
http://www.calstatela.edu/misc/karpa/Karpa6.2/Site%20Folder/mamercedes.html; *CONJUNTO: Revista de
Teatro Latinoamericano. (Casa de las Américas) 167
(abril-junio 2013): 107.
*Maddox, John.
“J. Cordones-Cook, edr.
Del Palenque a la
escena”.
Afro-Hispanic Review. 33.2 (2014): 181-
185.
* La Habana expuesta/Havana on
Display. Edition,
selection, introduction, and notes, by J. Cordones-Cook.
Designer
Rolando Estévez. Matanzas: Ediciones Vigía, 2012.
* Soltando amarras y memorias: Mundo
y poesía de Nancy Morejón.
Santiago Chile: Cuarto Propio,
2010. (240 p)
Reviewed by: * Celia
Medina: “Convergencias para escuchar el silencio.”
La Jiribilla: Revista de Cultura
cubana. Año VIII.
La Habana del 11 al 21 de febrero de 2010.http://www.lajiribilla.cu/2010/n458_02/458_134.html;
·
Georgina Herrera: “Las amarras de
la memoria.”
AfroCubaWeb.
20/2/10
https://afrocubaweb.com/herrera.htm;
* Ineke
Phaf-Rheinberger. “J. Cordones-Cook:
Soltando amarras y memorias: mundo y poesía
de Nancy Morejón.”
Iberoamericana. América Latina-España-Portugal, Ensayos
sobre letras, historia y sociedad. Notas. Reseñas iberoamericanas. Año X, 40 (Diciembre 2010). 259-261;
*
Claudette Williams, Afro-Hispanic
Review. Vol. 30. Number 2. (Fall 2011) 221-223; * Flora González Mandrí.
Revista de Estudios Hispánicos.
XLV, 2 (2011) 495-497.
teatral. Año V. Diciembre 2009. 10.
Rocío Galicia.
Latin American Theater Review
(Spring 2007): 182-84.
*
Looking
Within /Mirar adentro, 1954 / 2000.
Poetry by Nancy Morejón. Edition,
Notes, and Introduction by Juanamaría Cordones-Cook.
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003.
BEST SELLER.
Reviewed by: Mary Berg,
Hispania, 87 (March 2004): 88-89.
Barbara Mujica. Americas.
63; Carol Meir, African American Review. Volume 39, Numbers 1-2 (2005):
252-245.
González
Mandri, Flora. The Black Scholar
Press: Journal of Black Studies and Research. Black
International Issues:
2006. 36, 23. 2-3 65-66.
* ¿Teatro negro uruguayo? Texto y
contexto del teatro afro-uruguayo de Andrés Castillo.
Montevideo:
Editorial Graffiti, 1996.
Reviewed by: Profr.
Juan Carlos Legido at “Feria Nacional del Libro y el Grabado,” Montevideo,
December 23, 1996;
Myriam Caprile, La Mañana [Montevideo],
January 11, 1997;
Eduardo Paz, “Amo las voces marginadas,”
El Observador [Montevideo],
Tuesday, January 14, 1997;
Carlos Reyes, “Así en el teatro como
en el carnaval,” Búsqueda [Montevideo], February 6 to 12, 1997;
Daniel Briquet, “Cuando los negros hacían
teatro,” Paula,”
Alberto Britos Serrat, Mundo
Afro [Montevideo], April, 1997;
Jorge Piñataro Calero, “Teatro,”
Relaciones: Revista al Tema del Hombre [Montevideo], March,1997.
Nora Glickman, Latin American
Theatre Review, Fall 1997.
* Poética de transgresión en la novelística de Luisa Valenzuela.
New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1991.
Reviewed
by: Steven Hart: Cordones-Cook, Poética de la transgresión
en la novelística de Luuisa
Valenzuela, in BHS,
LXXII
(1995), 145-46.
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