Irby 207E 450-5644 joelp@uca.edu
Dr. Joel Bollinger Pouwels, Associate Professor of Spanish, holds the Master's(1970) and the Doctorate(1972) degrees from Michigan State University, in Spanish with emphasis in twentieth-century Spanish-American literature. Dr. Pouwels researches the intertextuality of journalistic and literary discourse in Mexico. She has published articles on the political fiction of journalists Luis Spota and Elena Poniatowska. Dr. Pouwels received a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend in 1995 to study political discourse of the 1968 Mexican Student Movement. She is currently preparing a book on pioneering Mexican women journalists of the revolutionary period (1874-1940), with the purpose of elucidating the roots of that country's feminist movement and of the recent feminization of Mexican journalism.
Dr. Pouwels has created intertextual and multimedia courses on the Mexican revolution and on Argentina's gaucho class, taught at the graduate and undergraduate levels. These courses feature factual accounts, literary texts, popular art forms, video documentaries, feature films, audio recordings, and the Internet to bring the cultures to life.
Dr. Pouwels served as Spanish Graduate Coordinator from 1986-2000. She has directed and taught in the Mexico Study Seminar in Guadalajara. Dr. Pouwels has secured funding for and directed five Arkansas Department of Education summer programs on foreign languages and cultures for gifted junior-high students.