Faculty Profiles

Dr. Susana Villanueva-Eguia-Lis

Assoc Professor of Instruction — Dept of World Languages & Literatures

CENT 214

phone: (512) 245-2360

s_v209@txstate.edu

Biography and Education

Dr. Susana Villanueva Eguia Lis, Ph.D. (Texas Tech University), currently works as Spanish Lecturer at Texas State University in San Marcos, TX. Before, she worked as Spanish Editor and E-Learning Consultant for MTS Technologies, Inc. in Austin, TX and Albuquerque, NM. Apart from the years she spent as Spanish Instructor at Texas Tech University and West Virginia University, Villanueva has also been instructor at Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Centro Universitario del Mayab and Spanish Coordinator at University of Mary Washington. She is also the current Faculty Advisor of the Texas State Chess Club.

Teaching Interests

Latin American Culture and Civilization, Advance Grammar and Composition, Medical Spanish, Spanish Language Classes, Intro to Hispanic American Literature, Into to Afro-Hispanic literature.

Research Interests

Latin American women writers, Ethnic-minority writers in Latin America, Mexican and Indigenous women writers, Chicano poets, Mexican Literature, Spanish Modernismo, Spanish poetry, Archival research, Afro-panamanian women poets of the 20th century.

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

Villanueva-Eguia-Lis, S. (2022). Ensayo Critico: La poética de Melvin Brown: nuevos sonetos verso libristas de la diáspora afrodescendiente con raíces antillanas de Panamá en el siglo XXI”. Unas gotas de mi. Melvin Brown. Mexico City, Mexico: Ediciones Morgana de Mexico. Retrieved from https://www.amazon.com/Unas-gotas-Spanish-Melvin-Brown/dp/B0B1WBSQMG/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1PFA4MNUMJCR0&keywords=unas+gotas+de+mi&qid=1675098644&sprefix=unas+gotas+de+mi%2Caps%2C144&sr=8-2
Villanueva-Eguia-Lis, S. (2022). “Cambio de Poder: El flamingo covidiario.” In El poema que le gustaría habitar: Antología poética (p. 28). Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, MEXICO: Ediciones Morgana.
Villanueva-Eguia-Lis, S. (2022). "Mujer de nubes exiliada y otros poemas: Premio Victoria Urbano de Creación 2021”. Journal of Gender and Sexuality Studies / Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades REGS, 48, 193–196. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.14321/jgendsexustud.48.1.0193
Villanueva-Eguia-Lis, S. (2021). “El Sarcófago de la Vampiresa.” In Donde caen las máscaras humanas: Antología poética (p. 22). Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico: Ediciones Morgana.
Villanueva-Eguia-Lis, S. (2020, April). “Arst Poetica.” Latino Book Review Journal. USA: Latino Book Review. Retrieved from https://www.latinobookreview.com/magazine-2020.html

Selected Awards

Award / Honor Recipient: 2023 Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activity:, Assistant Professor, Senior Lecturer, & Lecturer, University. March 2023 - March 7, 2023
Award / Honor Recipient: 2021 Cultural Ambassador Award / Curator of Public Digital Humanities Award, International Virtual Book Fairs Association. December 1, 2021
Award / Honor Recipient: PVU 2021 International Poetry Award - Premio Victoria Urbano, Asociación de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades (AEGS). November 19, 2021
Award / Honor Recipient: Teaching Award of Honor ( Recognition of Exemplary Service during the Covid-19 Crisis in Spring 2020), Texas State Alumni Association. 2020
Award / Honor Recipient: Faculty Latina Star, Hispanic Policy Network. May 14, 2018

Selected Grants

Villanueva-Eguia-Lis, Susana. funding for Intercambios Spanish Language Mixers, Texas State University International Office, Texas State University, $600. (Funded: February 2018 - November 2019). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Graduate Advisor

Chess Club at Texas State University

2023-Present

Organizer

Intercambios: Spanish Language Mixer

2021-Present

Editorial Review Board Member

Revista Eucalíptica: International Poetry, Creative Writing & Literature in Spanish Magazine

August 2019-Present

Coordinator / Organizer

FIP (Festival Internacional de Poesía), International Spanish Poetry & Music Festival

May 2019-Present