Cordelia Candelaria, Date of Birth

    

Cordelia Candelaria

American educator and writer

Date of Birth: 14-Sep-1943

Profession: writer, poet

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Cordelia Candelaria

  • Cordelia Chávez Candelaria (born September 14, 1943) is an American educator and writer of Hispanic descent. The daughter of Ray J.
  • Chávez and Eloida Trujillo, she was born in Deming, New Mexico and studied English and French at Fort Lewis College.
  • She next received an MA in English and a PhD in American literature and structural linguistics from the University of Notre Dame.
  • From 1975 to 1978, Candelaria was associate professor of English and Chicano literature at Idaho State University.
  • She was program officer for the Division of Research at the National Endowment for the Humanities from 1976 to 1977.
  • From 1978 to 1991, she was an associate professor of English and head of the Chicano Studies Program at the University of Colorado Boulder; she was also founding director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race in America there.
  • In 1991, she became an American literature professor and research associate at the Hispanic Research Center of Arizona State University.
  • From 2001 to 2005, she was chair of the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies.
  • In 2008, she was named dean of the Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences at Southern Methodist University; she resigned from the position of dean in May the following year "for personal reasons".In 1984, she published her first collection of poetry Ojo de la Cueva (Cave Springs).
  • She was executive editor for the Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture.
  • She has also published literary criticism in various literary journals.In 1961, she married José Fidel Candelaria.
  • She later married Ronald Beveridge.She received the Thomas Jefferson Award in 1983, the Colorado University Equity and Excellence Faculty Award in 1989 and a 15-year Higher Education Replication Study award in 1991 from the National Sponsoring Committee in Boulder.
  • In 2005, she received the Outstanding Latino/a Cultural Award in Literary Arts or Publications.Candelaria was script co-editor and consultant for the 1982 film The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez.
  • She was script consultant for The Milagro Beanfield War.

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