Tina Escaja
{{short description|American poet}}
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Tina Escaja (born 1965 in Zamora, Spain), also known as Alm@ Pérez,{{cite web|url=http://www.badosa.com/?l=es;a=Alma|title=Badosa.com – Literary Publisher on the Internet since 1995|website=Badosa.com|access-date=2 November 2018}} is a Spanish-American writer, activist, feminist scholar and digital artist based in Burlington, Vermont. She is a Distinguished Professor of Romance Languages and Gender & Women's Studies, and the Director of the Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies Program at the University of Vermont.{{cite web|url=https://www.uvm.edu/cas/rll/profiles/tina_escaja|title=Tina Escaja, Professor of Spanish.|website=Uvm.edu|access-date=10 December 2018}} She is the winner of the International Poetry Prize Dulce María Loynaz,{{cite web|url=http://www.eldia.es/2003-12-10/cultura/6-profesora-Tina-Escaja-alza-II-Premio-Poesia-Dulce-Maria-Loynaz.htm|title=La profesora Tina Escaja se alza con el II Premio de Poesía Dulce María Loynaz|date=10 December 2003|website=Eldia.es|access-date=2 November 2018}} and the National Latino Poetry Award for Young Adults, Isabel Campoy-Alma Flor Ada.{{cite web|url=https://www.uvm.edu/cas/news/tina-escaja-wins-award-childrens-and-young-peoples-literature|title=Tina Escaja Wins Award for Children's and Young People's Literature|website=Uvm.edu|access-date=2 November 2018}} She is considered a pioneer in the field of electronic literature in Spanish.{{cite web|url=http://collection.eliterature.org/3/work.html?work=velocity|title=VeloCity Editorial Statement|website=collection.eliterature.com|access-date=17 December 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322295006|title=In search of a female technological identity in electronic literature: Dancing with the Spanish Domestic Cyborg|website=researchgate.net|access-date=17 December 2018}} She is a full member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE), and Corresponding member of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE).
Life
She has earned degrees from the University of Barcelona and the University of Pennsylvania. She served as President of Feministas Unidas, Inc., President of ALDEEU (Spanish Professionals in America), and President of AEGS (Association of Gender and Sexuality Studies).
Critical reception
Her creative work has been defined as a crossover between literary writing, digital art, video and multimedia projects.{{cite web|url=http://www.eliteraturecollection.eu/artists/tina-escaja/|title=Tina Escaja European eLiterature Collection|website=eliteraturecollection.eu|access-date=18 December 2018}}
In the year 2000 she published the hypertextual poem VeloCity, considered a pioneer in the field of digital poetry in Spanish, and one of "the first hypertextual works written by women."
According to scholars and media critics María Goicoechea and Laura Sánchez, "Hypertext is, for Tina Escaja, the insignia of this new cyberfeminism that proposes a ‘non-essential modern subject’." The same critics note a change in this perception in Escaja's project Código de barras, a project based on barcode technology: “now technology is used to compel us to think about a perturbing reality of control and dominion.”
Media critic Maya Zalbidea sees in her interactive hypertextual novel Pinzas de metal an example of electronic Cut-up technique,{{cite web|url=https://prezi.com/bysc9k2rgltq/la-tecnica-de-recortes-en-la-literatura-electronica/|title=La técnica de los recortes en la literatura electrónica|website=prezi.com|access-date=18 December 2018}} and also states that "the multilinearity of the story provides the reader a feeling of intrigue and bewilderment."{{cite web|url=https://elmcip.net/node/3901//|title=Pinzas de metal|website=prezi.com|access-date=18 December 2018}}
Regarding her award-winning poetry collection Caída libre, the writer and critic Sabas Martín finds connections with the innovating poetry of César Vallejo, and the images created by Federico García Lorca and Gabriela Mistral.Sabas Martín (2007). Sobre el volcán: A propósito de Canarias. Ed. Idea, Tenerife. p. 168. {{ISBN|9788483821275}}.
Her work has been featured at Ciberfeminismos, tecnotextualidades y transgéneros. Literatura digital en español escrita por mujeres. Isabel Navas Ocaña and Dolores Romero Eds. Universidad Complutense, 2023{{Cite web |title=Voces encendidas. Mujeres, arte y tecnología {{!}} GRUPO DE INVESTIGACIÓN L.E.E.T.HI. (LITERATURAS ESPAÑOLAS Y EUROPEAS DEL TEXTO AL HIPERMEDIA) |url=https://www.ucm.es/leethi/reading-wide |access-date=2023-07-13 |website=www.ucm.es}} and Voces encendidas. Mujeres, arte y tecnología. María Goicoechea y Laura Sánchez (ed.) Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2023{{Cite web |title=Ciberfeminismos, tecnotextualidades y transgéneros. Literatura digital en español escrita por mujeres {{!}} Ediciones Complutense |url=https://www.ucm.es/ediciones-complutense/ciberfeminismos,-tecnotextualidades-y-transgeneros |access-date=2023-07-13 |website=www.ucm.es}}
Selected exhibitions and anthologies
Escaja's poetry and digital works have been exhibited in museums and galleries such as the Museum Wolf Vostell Malpartida de Cáceres (Spain);{{cite web|url=http://www.hoy.es/pg060622/prensa/noticias/Cultura/200606/22/HOY-CUL-215.html|title=El Museo Vostell Malpartida estrena mañana exposición|date=22 June 2006|website=Hoy.es|access-date=20 December 2018}} Centro Cultural Okendo (San Sebastian, Spain);{{cite news|url=https://elpais.com/diario/2007/02/18/paisvasco/1171831213_850215.html|title=Siete creadoras meditan sobre el rol de las mujeres en la sociedad actual|date=18 February 2007|access-date=2 November 2018|website=El País|last1=Montero |first1=Yolanda }}the BCA Center,{{cite web|url=https://www.burlingtoncityarts.org/Exhibition/alm-pérez-robopoems-quadrupeds|access-date=2 November 2019 | title = Alm@ Pérez Robopoems: Quadruped@s}} the Flynndog Gallery,{{cite web|url=http://flynndog.net/2015-exhibitions/|title=Works Both Ways Exhibition|website=Flynndog.net|date=26 May 2015 |access-date=2 November 2018}} and the Art Hop{{cite web|url=http://vermontartzine.blogspot.com/2010/11/video-sign-of-times-time-of-signs-part_19.html|title=Vermont Art Zine: VIDEO: Sign of the Times, Time of the Signs, Part 1|date=19 November 2010|website=Vermontartzine.blogspot.com|access-date=2 November 2018}} in Burlington, Vermont; the Galerie du Centre de Design (Université du Québec à Montréal);{{cite web|url=http://sites.grenadine.uqam.ca/sites/nt2/en/elo2018/participants/58/bf21a9e8fbc5a3846fb05b4fa0859e0917b2202f/Tina+Escaja|title=Exhibition Attention à la marche! / Mind the Gap!|website=uqam.ca|access-date=20 December 2018}}Matadero Madrid, Madrid, Spain;{{cite web|url=http://www.mataderomadrid.org/ficha/9421/exposicion-lorem-bitsum.html|title=LOREM BITsum Electronic literature collective|website=Mataderomadrid.org|access-date=2 November 2018}} Museo Provincial de Lugo, (Spain){{cite web|url=http://redemuseisticalugo.org/documentos.asp?mat=27&id=2709|title=EXPOSICION: 16 ou 20 contidos desbordados / Rede Museística provincial de LUGO|website=Redemuseisticalugo.org|access-date=2 November 2018}} the Lewis Glucksman Gallery,{{cite web|url=http://www.glucksman.org/content/exhibitions/EX19_Peripheries/Peripheries-Electronic-Literature-and-new-media-art-University-College-Cork-2019.pdf|title=Peripheries|website=glucksman.org/exhibitions/peripheries|access-date=2 November 2019}} and the Mission District Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco.{{Cite web |url=https://www.nataliaanciso.com/single-post/2014/03/12/27th-Annual-Solo-Mujeres-Show-HOMEinside-out# |title=Natalia Anciso |access-date=2018-06-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180815131437/https://www.nataliaanciso.com/single-post/2014/03/12/27th-Annual-Solo-Mujeres-Show-HOMEinside-out# |archive-date=2018-08-15 |url-status=dead }}
Her work has been translated into six languages, and has been included in anthologies such as the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3;{{cite web|url=http://collection.eliterature.org/3/work.html?work=velocity|title=Electronic Literature Collection Volume 3|website=eliterature.org|access-date=24 November 2018}}Escenario de crisis: dramaturgas españolas del nuevo milenio;{{cite web|url=http://ovejasmuertas.wordpress.com/2018/11/10/escenarios-en-crisis-dramaturgas-espanolas-en-el-nuevo-milenio-editado-por-ana-maria-diaz-marcos/|title=Escenario de crisis: dramaturgas españolas del nuevo milenio|website=ovejasmuertas.wordpress.com|date=10 November 2018 |access-date=20 December 2018}}{{cite book| title= Escenario de crisis: dramaturgas españolas del nuevo milenio | editor=Ana María Díaz Marcos | publisher=Benilde Teatro| year=2018| isbn=978-84-16390-77-9}}Tasting Asia: An Anthology of Poems of the 2016 Taipei Poetry Festival;{{cite book| title= Tasting Asia: An Anthology of Poems of the 2016 Taipei Poetry Festival| editor=鴻鴻主編 | publisher=Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government| year=2016| isbn=9789860498080}}Dos Poemas y un Café: Mujeres poetas visuales II;{{cite journal| title= Dos Poemas y un Café: Mujeres poetas visuales II |journal=Dos Poemas y Un Café |editor1=J. Seafree |editor2=R. Bullón Acebes | year=2014| issn=2340-5015}}{{cite web|url=http://issuu.com/raquelbullon/docs/julio__1__89bbee9991a552/22?e=2527297/8465777|title=Dos Poemas y un Café: Mujeres poetas visuales II|via=Issuu|access-date=20 December 2018}}L'altra Penelope: Antologia di scrittrici di lingua spagnola;{{cite book| title= L'altra Penelope: Antologia di scrittrici di lingua spagnola' | editor=Brigidina Gentile | publisher=Oedipus| year=2008| isbn=978-8873411253}}Escritores españoles en Estados Unidos;{{cite book| title=Escritores españoles en Estados Unidos | editor=Gerardo Piña-Rosales | publisher=Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española| year=2007| isbn=978-0865150348}}The Americas Poetry Festival of New York 2015;{{cite book| title=The Americas Poetry Festival of New York 2015 | editor=Carlos Aguasaco & Yrene Santos | publisher=Artepoética Press| year=2015| isbn=978-1940075372}}Pegasos de dos siglos: Poesía en Kentucky 1977-2007;{{cite journal| title=Pegasos de dos siglos: Poesía en Kentucky 1977-2007 | editor=Richard K. Curry & Eduardo Espina | journal=Hispanic Poetry Review| year=2007| issn=1531-0167}}Que no cesen rumores. Antología poética;{{cite book| title=Que no cesen rumores. Antología poética | editor=Rei Berroa | publisher=Libros dela Luna| year=2010| isbn=978-9945003260}}Trilogía Poética de las mujeres en Hispanoamérica (Pícaras, místicas y rebeldes);{{cite book| title= Trilogía Poética de las mujeres en Hispanoamérica (Pícaras, místicas y rebeldes)' | editor=Leticia Luna | publisher=La Cuadrilla de la Langosta| year=2008| isbn=978-8873411253}} and The WRUV Reader. A Vermont Writers’Anthology;{{cite book| title=The WRUV Reader. A Vermont Writers'Anthology| editor=Chris Evans | publisher=CreateSpace| year=2012| isbn=978-1461176688}}
Poetry collections
- La odisea marina de María Traviesa (2017) Isabel Campoy-Alma Flor Ada Award 2017. {{ISBN|9780997942361}}
- Manual destructivista/Destructivist Manual (2016){{cite web|url=https://www.latinobookreview.com/10-bilingual-poetry-books-to-read-during-national-poetry-month.html|title=10 bilingual poetry books to read during national poetry month|website=latinobookreview.com|access-date=24 November 2018}} {{ISBN|9781940075433}} Translations by Kristin Dykstra.
- Caída libre/Free Fall (2015) Translations by Mark Eisner. Prologues by María Victoria Atencia & Li Kuei-Hsien {{ISBN|9781937677831}}
- Respiración mecánica / Respiració mecànica / Hats hartze mekanikoa & VeloCity (2014) Translations by María Cinta Montagut (Catalan), Mariña Pérez Rei (Galician) and Itxaro Borda (Basque). Prologue by Marta Segarra {{ISBN|9788498885736}}
- 13 Lunas 13 (2011) Prologue by Jill Robbins. {{ISBN|9788478394845}}
- Código de barras (2007) Prologue by Concha García & Sharon Keefe-Ugalde. {{ISBN|9788496482418}}
- Caída libre (Second edition, 2007) Prologue by María Victoria Atencia. {{ISBN|9789709894257}}
- Caída Libre (2004) Dulce María Loynaz Award 2004. {{ISBN|8479473665}}
- Respiración mecánica (Badosa EP, 2001){{cite web|url=http://www.badosa.com/ebooks/m005/|title=Badosa.com – Ebook: Respiración mecánica, por Alma Pérez|website=Badosa.com|access-date=2 November 2018}}
Electronic works
- {{cite web |title=CAPTCHA Poem@|url=https://thenewriver.us/captcha-escaja/|year=2021|website=thenewriver.us}}
- “Mar y Virus / Virus and the Sea.” Messages from the Anthropocene. Flynndog Gallery, Burlington, VT. November 2020-June 2021.{{Cite web |date=2020-11-06 |title=Messages From The Anthropocene 11.13.20 - 1.31.21 - |url=http://flynndog.net/messages-from-the-anthropocene-11-13-20-1-31-21/ |access-date=2023-03-18 |language=en-US}}
- Pinzas de metal. “Afterflash: Showcasing Flash Fiction, Poetry, and Essays from The NEXT.” Collective digital exhibition curated by Dene Grigar. Electronic Literature Lab. January, 2021.{{Cite web |title=afterflash {{!}} Exhibit |url=https://the-next.eliterature.org/exhibition/afterflash/index.html |access-date=2023-03-18 |website=the-next.eliterature.org}}
- “According to your likeness / my Image.” University of Central Florida Art Gallery, Orlando, July 2020.{{Cite web |title=According to your likeness / my Image by Tina Escaja |url=https://projects.cah.ucf.edu/mediaartsexhibits/uncontinuity/Escaja/escaja.html |access-date=2023-03-18 |website=projects.cah.ucf.edu}}
- {{cite web |title=Emblem/as|url=https://collection.eliterature.org/4/emblemas|year=2017–2019|website=collection.eliterature.org/4}} Also shown in The Glucksman Museum. Cork, Ireland, July 11–17, 2019.{{Cite web |title=Peripheries {{!}} The Glucksman |url=https://www.glucksman.org/exhibitions/peripheries |access-date=2023-03-18 |website=www.glucksman.org |language=en}}
- {{cite web |title=Mora amor|url=http://elmcip.net/node/13376|year=2017|website=Elmcip.net}}
- {{cite web |title=Robopoem@s|url=https://thenewriver.us/robopoems/|year=2020|website=thenewriver.us}}
- {{cite web |title=Robopoem@s|url=https://elmcip.net/node/13377|year=2016|website=Elmcip.net}}
- {{cite web |title=Negro en ovejas (poema ovino)|url=https://proyecto.w3.uvm.edu/OvejaBaja2019-Updated/OvejaBaja2019.html|year=2011|website=proyecto.w3.uvm.edu}}
- {{cite web |title=Código de barras|url=https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Tina-Escaja-at-the-exhibition-The-Only-Bush-I-Trust-Is-My-Own-LL-Gallery-University_fig6_322295006|year=2006|website=researchgate.net}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ciberiaproject.com/?s=Escaja|title=Códigos sin barras: La poesía como encuentro y desgarro|website=ciberiaproject.com|access-date=17 December 2018}}
- {{cite web |title=Pinzas de metal|url=https://elmcip.net/node/3901|year=2003|website=Elmcip.net}}
- {{cite web |title=VeloCity|url=https://elmcip.net/node/3896|year=2000|website=Elmcip.net}}
Fiction
- Asesinato en el laboratorio de idiomas / Murder in the Language Lab (2016) English Translation by John W. Warren. {{ISBN|9780997942323}}
- "Bola luna" International Prize ‘Ana María Matute’ (finalist). (1995) {{ISBN|8478391622}}
Theater
- De tripas corazón. 2019.{{Cite web |date=2023-03-18 |title=De tripas corazón. |url=https://www.laestrella.com.pa/cafe-estrella/cultura/190314/tripas-corazon |access-date=2023-03-18 |website=La Estrella}}
- Madres, 2007. {{ISBN|9788496790360}}
Other works
- Por un lenguaje inclusivo: Estudios y reflexiones sobre estrategias no sexistas en la lengua española. Co-ed with Natalia Prunes. ANLE, 2021.
- Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution. Co-ed with Mark Eisner. Introduction by Julia Alvarez. Tin House, 2020. {{ISBN|978-1-951142-07-0}}
- Diáspora Española: Migración y exilios. Actas seleccionadas de la XXXVII Asamblea General y Congreso Internacional de ALDEEU. Co-ed with Marta Boris Tarré. Lakeville, MA: ALDEEU, 2020. ISBN Nueva York en español: Intersecciones hispánicas en EEUU. Actas seleccionadas del XXXVI
- Congreso Internacional de ALDEEU, Co-ed with Marta Boris Tarré. Lakeville, MA: ALDEEU, 2017. {{ISBN|978-0-692-87378-6}}
References
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External links
- Official Website: [https://proyecto.w3.uvm.edu/index.html Tina Escaja]
- [http://www.badosa.com/?l=en&m=010201 Biblioteca Alma Pérez]
- [https://www.uvm.edu/cas/rll/profiles/tina_escaja Professor of Spanish, University of Vermont]
- [https://www.uvm.edu/uvmnews/news/faculty-feature-tina-escaja Faculty Feature: Robopoem@s, by Tina Escaja.]
- [https://jacket2.org/commentary/prototypes “Proto/types”, by Kristin Dykstra.]
- [http://newbooksnetwork.com/tina-escaja-free-fallcaida-libre-fomite-press-2015/ “Free Fall/Caída libre” Interview and podcast with Mark Eisner, by Jen Fitzgerald.]
- [http://www.ucm.es/info/especulo/numero32/navegsim.html Luis Bravo, “La navegación simultánea: escritura / lectura.”]
- [http://www.uvm.edu/~tescaja/entrevistas/opinion_zamora.html Interview by Jesús Hernández]
- [http://blog.uvm.edu/compute-cas-media/2010/03/31/tina-escaja-optics-as-metaphor-the-printer-at-the-far-end-of-the-romance-languages-a-cyberartist-feminist-impostors-take-on-otherness/ “Optics as Metaphor; The Printer at the Far End of the Romance Languages: A CyberArtist / Feminist / Impostor’s Take on Otherness.”]
- [http://www.donesdigital.cat/noticia/545/tina-escaja-una-dona-inquieta/ “Tina Escaja: una dona inquieta.”]
- [http://www.acec-web.org/ACEC2k9/spa/oo.asp?art=671 “Presentación de ’13 lunas 13’, de Tina Escaja”]
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