Education:

State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, Ph.D., Hispanic Languages and Literature, 1997

University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, M.A., Spanish Literature, 1979

University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, B.A., Spanish, 1976 

Background:

She has been a researcher at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte since 1992 where she is the Regional Director in Ciudad Juárez since 1995. At present she is the Dean for the North West Region of El Colegio de la Frontera Norte since 1999. She has been teaching at the University of Texas at El Paso as a Part-Time Lecturer in the Chicano Studies Program since 1992. She is a member of the National Researchers System (Sistema Nacional de Investigadores) since 1994. Tabuenca Córdoba is the author of Mujeres y fronteras. Una perspectiva de género (CONACULTA/ICHICULT, 1998), and co-author of Lo que el viento a Juarez. Testimonios de una ciudad que se obstina (with Ricardo Aguilar; U. Iberoamenricana/Ediciones Nimbus, 2000), and Border Women. Writing from la frontera (with Debra Castillo; University of Minnesota Press, 2002). She has published articles in national and international journals mainly on border Mexican women writers and borders’ theory such as: “Aproximaciones críticas sobre las literaturas de las fronteras” Frontera Norte (1997); “Viewing the Border: Perspectives from ‘the open Wound’” Discourse. Journal of Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture (1996); “Una lectura discursiva de ‘De infancia y adolescencia’ de Rosina Conde” revista de El Colegio de Sonora (1995); “Miguel Méndez, escritor de fronteras” Yubai (2000); “La autorrepresentación en Canícula de Norma Cantú” A quien corresponda (2000); “Callejón Sucre de Rosario Sanmiguel” Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea (1999). There are two book chapters: one on the stories of Rosario Sanmiguel in Ethnographies at the Border, Published by the University of Minnesota Press, edited by Pablo Vila; and another one on the discourses on the murdered women in Juarez, edited by Sylvia Spitta and Boris García Más allá de la ciudad letrada, in Darmouth College Press. She has also published chapters on other books in Mexico and in the USA. She has presented papers in Mexico, the United States, Spain, France, the Nederlands, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. She has been visiting professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, the New Mexico State University, and the University of Texas at El Paso were she teaches two courses at the Chicano Studies Program: “The Border Image in Mexican Film” and “La Chicana”. She has received different research grants from The Hewlett Foundation, Cornell University, El Colegio de México, The National Council for Science and Technology in Mexico, the University of Arizona and el Fideicomiso para la Cultura México Estados Unidos. She has also received scholarships from the Instituto de Cultura Iberoamericana in Madrid and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. At present she is one of the members of the Editorial Board of El Colegio de la Frontera Norte and she is part of the International Advising Committee of the Immigration Museum in El Paso and the Advising Committee for the Rio Bravo/Rio Grande Program from the Smithsonian Institute.