Judith Ortiz Cofer:
Books, Articles, Reviews
, Interviews, and
Dissertations about her Work
- Tanguay, Pablo. "All Yearning for the Same Thing: An
Interview with Judith Ortiz Cofer." Nashville Scene 11 Oct.
2007. Available at
Nashville
Scene
- Casebook: Judith Ortiz Cofer. Prentice Hall Literature Portfolio.
Eds. Christy Desmet, D. Alexis Hart, and Deborah Church Miller.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2007.
1284-86.
- "An Interview with Judith Ortiz Cofer" conducted by Prentice
Hall. Prentice Hall
Literature: World Masterpieces. Upper Saddle River,
NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2007. 1142-43.
- Jago, Carol. Judith
Ortiz Cofer in the Classroom: A Woman in Front of the Sun.
The NCTE High School Literature Series. Urbana, IL:
National Council of Teachers of English, 2006. (Introduction
available at http://www.english.uga.edu/~jcofer/JagoIntroduction)
- Norat, Gisella. Review of El
Año de nuestra Revolución. Críticas 15 May 2006.
- Jones, Sara Askew. "Living in Harmony." Southern Living Apr. 2006 (Georgia
Living section) : 42-47.
- "International diversity office initiates student advisory board
and book club spotlighting UGA faculty authors." Diversity at UGA 5.2 (Spring
2006): 2.
- Bolling, Annie. "Stories of Our World." Teaching Tolerance Spring
2006: 8-9.
- "Interview: Cofer." Seeing
& Writing 3. Eds. Donald McQuade and Christine
McQuade. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2006. 351.
- "Professor's poetry book bridges two worlds." Review of A Love Story Beginning in Spanish.
Columns 20 Feb. 2006.
- Deroshia, Elizabeth. Review of A Love Story Beginning in Spanish.
The Georgia Library Quarterly
Fall 2005.
- González, Rigoberto. "Many love stories emerge from
this poet's fine collection." Review of A Love Story Beginning in Spanish.
El Paso Times 19 Dec. 2005.
- Seagraves, Donny. "Writing in English, Dreaming in
Spanish." Features discussion of A Love Story Beginning in Spanish
and an interview with Judith Ortiz Cofer. Athens Magazine Aug. 2005:
80-81.
- Newton, Pauline T. Transcultural
Women of Late-Twentieth-Century U.S. American Literature.
Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2005. Features
discussion of Silent Dancing,
The Latin Deli, and Woman in Front of the Sun and an
interview with Judith Ortiz Cofer.
- Christian, B. Maria.
Belief in Dialogue: U. S. Latina Writers Confront Their Religious
Heritage. New York: Other Press, 2005.
Discusses several of Judith Ortiz Cofer's poems as well as The Line of the Sun and Silent Dancing.
- Lee, Michael George. An
Analysis of the Literature on Christian Practices and Popular
Religion: Implications for Latino/a Religious Education in the
United States. [Dissertation] 2005. Discusses "El
Olvido" from Silent Dancing.
- Welsch, Camille-Yvette. Review of A Love Story Beginning in Spanish.
ForeWord May/June 2005.
- Review of Call Me Maria.
School Library Journal 51
(Spring 2005 supplement): 46.
- Review of Riding Low on the
Streets of Gold. School
Library Journal 51 (Spring 2005 supplement): 66.
- Jago, Carol. "Call Me Ishmael, I Mean, Maria." Classroom Notes Plus: A Quarterly of
Teaching Ideas Apr. 2005: 1-2.
- Review of Call Me Maria.
Library Media Connection
23.6 (Mar. 2005): 66.
- Isaacs, Kathleen T. Review of The Meaning of Consuelo. School Library Journal 51 (Mar.
2005): 69.
- "Celebrate Poetry!" Announcement of Judith Ortiz Cofer's
receipt of the 2004 Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult
Literature. The Council
Chronicle Mar. 2005: 10.
- Rivera, Camen Haydee. "Judith Ortiz Cofer."
[Biographical Essay.] Latino
and Latina Writers, Vol. 2. The Scribner's Writers
Series. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004.
917-933.
- Adams, Lauren. Review of Call
Me Maria. Horn Book
Magazine 81 (Jan./Feb. 2005): 90.
- Mattson, Jennifer. Review of Call Me Maria. Booklist 101.7 (1 Dec. 2004):
647.
- Review of Call Me Maria.
Library Journal 50 (Nov.
2004): 138.
- Review of Call Me Maria.
Kirkus Reviews 72 (15 Oct.
2004): 1003.
- Powers, Jessica. Review of Riding Low on the Streets of Gold.
NewPages.com: Alternatives in Print & Media.
http://www.newpages.com/bookreviews/archive/riding_low_streets_of_gold.htm
- Jago, Carol. Discussion of The Meaning of Consuelo in
"Broadening Students' Point of V iew One First-Person Narrator at a
Time." Voices from the Middle
12.1 (Sept. 2004): 54-55.
- Mujica, Barbara. "Women Out of the Ordinary."
Features review of The Meaning of
Consuelo. Americas
56.4 (July/Aug. 2004): 59-60.
- Reyna, Bessy. Review of The
Meaning of Consuelo. Multicultural
Review Summer 2004: 97.
- Plevak, Linda L. Review of Riding Low on the Streets of Gold:
Latino Literature for Young Adults. School Library Journal
June 2004.
- Hoffman, Marvin. Review of Riding Low on the Streets of Gold:
Latino Literature for Young Adults. Houston Chronicle 9
May 2004: 21-22.
- Casanova-Marengo, Ilia. "Los Simbolos de la Abuela Que Son
Tambien Los Deseos del Corazon: En Torno A 'Mas Espacio'."
Contains discussion of Silent Dancing
and The Latin Deli. Dialogo Spring 2004, no. 8.
83-87.
- Review of The Meaning of
Consuelo. Islands Jan./Feb. 2004: 24-25.
- Review of Riding Low on the
Streets of Gold. Publishers Weekly 12 Jan. 2004.
- Spicer, Emily. Review of The Meaning of Consuelo. San Antonio Express-News 4 January
2004.
- Maldonado, Patricia.
Review of The Meaning of Consuelo.
Hispanic Magazine 16
(2003): 58.
- Watrous, Malena. Review of
The
Meaning of Consuelo. The San Francisco
Chronicle 21 December
2003: M5.
- Ford, Wayne. "For UGA
English Professor Judith Ortiz Cofer, Writing is Art." Interview
and Discussion of The Meaning of
Consuelo. The Athens
Banner-Herald 14 Dec. 2003.
- Fisher, Barbara. Review of
The Meaning of Consuelo.
The Boston Globe 30 Nov. 2003.
- Sandoval, Emiliana. Review
of The
Meaning of Consuelo. Detroit Free Press 9 Nov. 2003.
- Perez, Richard. Review of The Meaning of Consuelo. New York Post 12 Nov. 2003:
56.
- Weaver, Teresa. "A Talent
for Language: Deft Communication Skills Grow from a Bicultural
Life." Interview and Discussion of The Meaning of Consuelo. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 2
Nov. 2003: C2.
- Benson, Mary Margaret.
Review of The Meaning of Consuelo.
Library Journal 128 (1
Nov. 2003): 126.
- Seaman, Donna. Review of The Meaning of Consuelo. Booklist 100 (2003): 299.
- Review of The Meaning of Consuelo. Kirkus Reviews 14. Sept.
2003: 1141.
- Zaleski, Jeff. Review of The Meaning of Consuelo. Publishers Weekly 250 (11 Aug.
2003): 252.
- "Judith Ortiz Cofer."
Interview in A Poet's Truth:
Conversations with Latino/Latina Poets.. Ed. Bruce Allen
Dick. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003.
106-122.
- Review of The Year of Our Revolution: New and
Selected Stories and Poems. Multicultural Review 12 (June 2003).
- Davis, Rocio G.
"Metanarrative in Ethnic Autobiography for Children: Laurence
Yep's The Lost Garden and
Judith Ortiz Cofer's Silent Dancing."
MELUS 27 (Summer
2002): 139.
- Delgado, Teresa. "Prophesy
Freedom: Puerto Rican Women's Literature as a Source for Latina
Feminist Theology." In A
Reader in Latina Feminist Theology: Religion and Justice.
Eds. Maria Pilar Aquino, Daisy Machado, and Jeanette Rodriguez.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. 23-52.
- Webster, Joan Parker.
"Silent Dancing: A Storyteller's Memories." In Teaching Through Culture: Strategies
for Reading and Responding to Young Adult Literature.
Houston: Arte Publico Press, 2002. 12-39.
- Irizarry,
Ylce. Making
it Home: The Neo-Colonial Ethics of
Chicano and
Latino Literature After Arrival (Junot Diaz, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Denise
Chaven,
Elias Miguel Munoz, Demetria Martinez).
2002. [dissertation]
- Newton,
Pauline T. Transcultural
Women of Late Twentieth-Century
American Literature: First-Generation
Immigrants from Islands and Peninsulas
(Judith Ortiz Cofer, Julia Alvarez, Jamaica Kincaid, Antigua, Shirley
Geok-lin
Lim, Lan Cao). 2002. [dissertation]
- Torrey,
Maria Victoria. Puerto
Rican
Authors: Voicing Identity in Puerto
Rican Literature
(Piri Thomas, Nicholasa Mohr, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Esmeralda
Santiago).
2002. [dissertation]
- Sanchez-Gonzalez, Lisa. “'I Like to
be in
America (sic): Three Women’s Texts.” Boricua
Literature
New York: New York University
Press, 2001. 134-60.
- Lopez,
Iraida H. "Formas femeninas
de la biculturacion: Borderlands/La
Frontera y Silent Dancing." Letras Femeninas
27.2 (Fall 2001): 85-101.
- "Poet's Choice: Rita Dove." Washington
Post 8 July 2001: BW12.
- Faymonville, Carmen. “New
Transnational Identities in Judith Ortiz Cofer’s
Autobiographical Fiction.” MELUS 26 (Summer 2001):
129-59.
- Review
of Woman in Front of the Sun
in Virginia
Quarterly Review 77 (Summer 2001): 97.
- Concanon,
Kevin. “Writing Under the Gaze of the Witch:
Exile and Authorship in Judith Ortiz Cofer’s The Line of the Sun."
Confluencia 16
(Spring 2001): 71-82.
- "Three Books Published By UGA Press Win
Honors." Athens Banner-Herald
and Athens
Daily News 27 Mar. 2001.
- Pacheco, Teresa. Review of Woman in Front of the Sun: On
Becoming A Writer. The
Georgia Library Quarterly
Winter 2000: 29.
- Maldonado-DeOliveira, Debora. The
Flying Metaphor: Travel, Cultural Memory,
and Identity in Three Puerto Rican Texts. 2000.
[dissertation]
- Noguera, Nancy Soledad. Nocion,
desplazamiento y genero en la escritura
autobiografica de Esmerelda Santiago y Judith Ortiz Cofer.
2000. [dissertation]
- Viviana, Rangil. "Pro-Claiming a
Space: The Poetry of Sandra
Cisneros and Judith Ortiz Cofer." Multicultural Review 9.3
(2000): 48-51, 54-55.
- Review of Woman
in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer. Library Journal 1 Sept. 2000.
- Review of The Year of Our
Revolution: New and Selected Stories and Poems. Puffin
Books September-December 2000.
- "By and For Writers: Sleeping With One Eye
Open." [review] Chicago
Tribune. 16 Apr. 2000.
- "Judith Cofer Named Franklin
Professor." The
Franklin Chronicle 3 (Spring 2000) : 1, 6.
- Faymonville, Carmen. "Motherland
versus Daughterland in Judith Ortiz Cofer's The Line of the Sun." The
Immigrant Experience in North American Literature: Carving Out a
Niche. Eds. Katherine B. Payant and Toby
Rose.
1999.
- Review of Silent
Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a
Puerto-Rican Childhood. Small Press Distribution,
Books For Teens, 1999.
- Colley, Rae M. Carlton. Review of the career of Judith
Ortiz
Cofer. Contemporary Southern
Writers. Ed. Roger Matuz.
Detroit,
London: St. James Press, 1999. 78-81.
- Review of The Year of Our Revolution: New and
Selected Stories and Poems. Voya June 1999.
- Foster, Elaine Dunphy.
Review of The
Year of Our Revolution: New and Selected Stories and Poems. Multicultural
Review June 1999.
- Maldonado, Sheila. Review of
The Year of Our Revolution: New
and
Selected Stories and Poems. Latingirl Magazine Apr./May
1999.
- "Book Marker: Judith Ortiz Cofer" Latingirl Aug.-Sept.
1999: 82.
- Karr, Paul. "Quilting of Cultures." The University of
Georgia Research
Reporter 28.1 (Fall 1998): 15-18.
- Montgomery, Cindy. "Writer Judith Ortiz Cofer Engages
Students." English
Department Newsletter. Spring/Summer 1998.
Lynchburg
College,
Lynchburg, Virginia.
- "And May He Be Bilingual: Notes on Writing,
Teaching,
and Multiculturalism." Women/Writing/
Teaching. Albany, N.Y.:
State University of New York Press, 1998. 103-108.
- Davidson, Phebe. "Judith Ortiz Cofer: Drawn to the
Outsider." Conversations
with the World: American Women Poets and Their Work. Pasadena,
California:
Trilogy Books, 1998. 1-36.
- Bartkevicius, Jocelyn. "An Interview with Judith Ortiz
Cofer." Speaking
of the Short Story: Interviews with Comtemporary Writers.
Jackson,
Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1997. 57-74.
- Henneberg, Sylvia, University of Georgia. "The Convergence
of
Marginal
and Mainstream Discourses: Judith Ortiz Cofer's Terms of Survival."
Paper presented at the seventh annual American Women of Color
Conference,
October 31, 1997.
- Berg, Christine G. "`That ain't nothing but gin-talk':
Storytelling
in Judith Ortiz Cofer's Silent
Dancing and August Wilson's Fences."
Paper presented at the seventh annual American Women of Color
Conference,
November 1, 1997.
- Hernandez, Carmen Dolores. "Where is home? I want to go
there." Puerto Rican Voices:
Interviews with Writers. Westport, CT
and
London: Praeger Publishers, 1997: 95-105.
- Ocasio, Rafael. "From Nuyorican Barrio Literature to Issues
on
Puerto
Rican Literature Outside New York City: Nicholasa Mohr and Judith Ortiz
Cofer." Literature and Ethnic
Discrimination. Ed. Michael J. Meyer. Rodopi
Perspectives
on Modern Literature. 1997.
- Kanellos, Nicolas, editor. Article on life and work. The
Hispanic
Literary Companion. Detroit, New York, Toronto, London: Visible
Ink
Press, 1997. 229-236.
- Gibson, Lois Rauch. "From the Island to the
Barrio:
Biculturalism in the Books of Judith Ortiz Cofer." Paper presented at
Children's
Literature
Association Conference. Charlotte, S.C. 1996.
- Chick, Nancy L. "Judith Ortiz Cofer: Creating a
Space
for Puerto Rican Womanhood." Paper presented at Sixth National American
Women Writers of
Color
Conference. Salisbury State University, Ocean City, MD. October 11-13,
1996.
- "Maxine Hong Kingston and Judith Ortiz Cofer: Interrogating
the
Ethnocentrism
of the Archetypal Floral Symbol of Womanhood." Women's Studies Panel of
the 1996 SAMLA Convention. Savannah, GA. November 8-10, 1996.
- Cooley, Tom, editor. Selected interview for The Norton
Sampler. New York: W.W. Norton and Co. 1996.
- Ruiz, Sandra Gutierrez. "Race, Ethnicity, Gender and
Language as
Components
of U.S. Identity Revealed in Three U.S. Latina Novels." [Master's
Thesis] 1996.
- Chick, Nancy. Chapter in UGA dissertation, Department of
English, portions
of which have been accepted for publication in various journals.
- Works listed in 500 Great
Books by Women: A Reader's Guide,
an
annotated bibliography, forthcoming from Viking Penguin.
- Entry on The Line of the
Sun in Masterplots II:
Women's Literature.
Ed. Frank Magill. New York: Salem Press, 1995. 1309-1313.
- Grobman, Laurie. "The Cultural Past
and Artistic Creation in Sandra
Cisneros' The House on Mango Street
and Judith Ortiz Cofer's Silent
Dancing." Confluencia:
Revista Hispanica de Cultura y Literatura 11.1 (1995) : 42-29.
- Entry in Dictionary of
Hispanic Biography. Gale
Research, Inc.,
1995.
- Ocasio, Rafael. "An Interview with Judith Ortiz Cofer." The
Americas
Review 22.3-4 (1994): 84-90.
- Entry in Reference Guide
to American Literature, 3rd ed.
Ed.
Jim Kamp. Detroit: St. James Press, 1994. 203-205.
- "The Poetry of Judith Ortiz Cofer." Masterpieces of
Latino
Literature. Ed. Frank Magill. New York: Harper Collins, 1994.
452-456.
- Noras, Himlice. Entry in Everything You Need to Know About
Latino
History. New York: Plume, 1994. 295.
- Ocasio, Rafael. "The Infinite Variety of the Puerto Rican
Reality." Callaloo: A Journal
of
African
Arts and Letters 17.3 (Summer 1994): 730-42.
- Bellver, Pilar. Paper on Silent Dancing presented at Fifth
International
Conference of the Association of Hispanic Feminist Literature, Oct.
20-22,
1994, Davidson College, N.C.
- Stavans, Ilan. "Art and Anger." Essay/Review of The Latin
Deli in These Times
18.18 (25 Jul. 1994): 32-34.
- Shuman, R. Baird. Essay on body of work in Magill's Survey
of American
Literature 1994: 2330-2337.
- Shearron, Betsy. Profile in The Athens Observer: Woman 94,
Special
Issue, (31 Jul. 1994): 25.
- Lynch, Amy. Interview in Touchstone:
The Magazine of the
Tennessee
Humanities Council 25 (Winter 1994): 5-7.
- Sutton, Laura. Article in Flagpole
Magazine 7.45
(8 Dec.
1993): 11.
- Rose, Phyllis. "Writing Our Own Lives." Ms. 4.2
(Nov. 1993):
78.
- Listing in Contemporary
Authors, New revision series,
Vol. 32,
1993.
- Lumpkin, Lisa. Interview for The Habersham Review,
Piedmont College
2.2 (Autumn 1993): 132-147.
- Fabre, Genevieve. "Liminality,
In-Betweenness and Indeterminacy:
Notes toward an Anthropological Reading of Judith Ortiz Cofer's The
Line of the Sun." Annales
du Centre de Recherches sur l'Amerique Anglophone 18 (1993)
: 223-32.
- Gregory, Lucille H. "The Puerto Rican
'Rainbow': Distortion vs.
Complexities." Children's
Literature Association Quarterly 18.1 (1993 Spring) : 29-35.
- Fuentes, Carlos. "The Mirror of the Other." The Nation
30 Mar.
1992: 409.
- Ocasio, Rafael. "Judith Ortiz Cofer: Diglosia y Narrativa
Puertorriquena
en Los EEUU." "El Poder Hispano," the International Congress of
Hispanic
Cultures in the United States. Madrid, Spain. 10 July 1992. A scholarly
paper presented by Professor Ocasio of Agnes Scott College, Department
of Spanish.
- Bruce-Novoa, Juan. "Ritual in Judith Ortiz Cofer's The Line
of the
Sun." Confluencia 8.1
(1992): 61-69.
- Lawhn, Juanita Luna. San Antonio College, entry in the Oxford
Companion
to Women's Writing in the United States, forthcoming.
- Bruce-Novoa, Juan, University of California, Irvine. "Judith
Ortiz Cofer's
Rituals of Movement." The Americas
Review 19.34 (1991):
88-99.
- Piedra, Jose. "His and Her
Panics." Dispositio:
Revista Americana de Estudios
Comparados y Culturales/American Journal of Comparative and
Cultural
Studies 16.41 (1991) : 71-93.
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