ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS

English:

The March/April 2007 issue of Américas (which is published in both Spanish and English editions) has an article by Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez titled Julia Álvarez: Progenitor of a Movement.

Several interviews have appeared around the publication of Saving the World. Here are the links:
    in Identity Theory
    on Powell's Books website
    on Nancy Pearl's Book Lust program for Seattle Channel

Latina Magazine, April 2004, featured an interview on my new book of poems, The Woman I Kept To Myself. One of my editors has called it a "memoir in verse." I think of it as a record, not simply of my own life, but of the rich inner life where we are most ourselves and where differences fall away and we become each other.

"Beyond Words" in bookWOMEN, Oct-Nov. 2002, Vol. 7, No. 1, published by the BookWomen Center for Feminist Reading, Minnesota Women's Press, St. Paul, MN. <www.womenspress.com>

"Julia Alvarez: Stories of Two Worlds," Américas, February 2001.

"Two Homes: One Heart: Fiction Form the Bridge Between Home and Heart," by Kim Asch, Middlebury Magazine, Fall 2000, Volume 74, Number 4, pp. 46-51

"The Truth According to Your Characters: An Interview with Julia Alvarez"  by García Tabor, María and Sirias, Silvio, in Prairie Schooner, Summer 2000, pp. 151-154.

Interview with Atlantic Unbound, July 19, 2000

"Writing Her Book Of High Grace: Novelist/Poet Julia Alvarez Has Forged A Career Doing The Unexpected," y Vanessa E. Jones, Boston Globe, Wednesday, June 28, 2000.

Latina Self Portraits: Interviews With Contemporary Women Writers, edited by Juanita Heredia and Bridget A. Kevane (University of New Mexico Press, April 2000).

"Historiographic Metafiction in In the Time of the Butterflies," Dr. Isabel Zakrzewski Brown, in South Atlantic Review, Volume 64, Number 2, Spring 1999.

"Daughter of Invention: The Poetry of Julia Alvarez," Dr. Richard Vela, University of North Carolina, Pembroke, in Postscript: Publication of the Philogical Association of the Carolinas, No. 16-1999.

"Interview with Julia Alvarez," by Mark Chasar and Constance Pierce in Glimmer Train, Winter 1998, Issue 25.

"Singing Makes Everything Else Possible," an Interview with Julia Alvarez, River Styx, Number  53, Fall 1998.

Interview with Salon.com, September 25, 1998

"This Sheerest Gap Between the World and the Word: Bilingualism and Identity in 'Bilingual Sestina'  by Julia Alvarez," Dr. Catharine Wall, University of Texas at Austin.  A paper presented at Hijas del Quinto Sol III, Studies in Latina Literature and Identity Conference, July 25, 1998.

"The Politics of Identity and Language in Julia Alvarez's How The García Girls Lost Their Accents, Angélica Lozano-Alonso, Cornell University.  Paper presented at Hijas del Qinto Sol III: Studies in Latina Literature and Identity Conference, July 25, 1998.

"Latina Construction of Masculinity: Analysis of Cristina García's Dreaming in Cuban and Julia Alvarez's How The García Girls Lost Their Accents,"  Rosa Campos Brito, University of New Mexico.  A paper presented at Hijas del Quinto Sol III: Studies in Latina Literature and Identity Conference, July 25, 1998.

"Ordering Yo/Yo: Julia Alvarez' Structuring of Text and Character," Dr. Karen Navarte, St. Mary's University.   A paper presented at Hijas del Quinto Sol III: Studies in Latina Literature and Identity Conference, July 25, 1998.

"The Writer, the Daughter in Julia Alvarez's ¡YO!," Patricia Portales, San Antonio College.  A paper presented at Hijas del Quinto Sol III: Studies in Latina Literature and Identity Conference, July 24, 1998.

"Daughter of Invention: The Poetry of Julia Alvarez," Richard Vela, the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.  A paper presented at The Philological Association of the Carolinas, March 20, 1998.

"A Clean Windshield: An Interview With Julia Alvarez," Bonnie Lyons and Bill Oliver, in Passion and Craft: Conversations with Notable Writers  ( Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1998).

 "The Medium, the Motherland, and the Emigrant in Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies," Cat Brigham, Texas Tech U., paper presented at First International Melus Conference: Multi-Ethnic Literatures Across the Americas and the Pacific: Exchanges, Contestations, and Alliances, April 19, 1997.

"A Search for Identity in Julia Alvarez's How The García Girls Lost Their Accents," William Luis, in Dance Between Two Cultures: Latino Caribbean Literature Written in the United States (Nashville & London: Vanderbilt University Press, 1997).

"Anxiety, Repression, and Return: The Language of Julia Alvarez," Heather Rosario-Sievert, Hostos Community College/City University of New York, in Readerly/Writerly Texts: Essays on Literature, Literary/Textual Criticism, and Pedagogy, Spring/Summer 1997. Volume 4, Number 2.

"Julia Alvarez" in The Hand of the Poet: Poems and Papers in Manuscript, ed. Rodney Phillips et al., with essays by Dana Goia (New York: Rizzoli, 1997).

"The Integration of History in Caribbean-American Women's Narratives," Kimberle López, University of New Mexico. A paper presented at The Seventh International Conference of the Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica, October 3-5, 1996.

"Bridges, Masks, and Other Stratagems in How The García Girls Lost Their Accents," Cristina de la Torre, Emory University.  A paper presented at The Seventh International Conference of the Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica, October 3-5, 1996.

"Romancing History: The Story of the Mirabal Sisters as re-told by Julia Alvarez," Isabel Zakrzewski Brown, University of Southern Alabama.  A paper presented at The Seventh International Conference of the Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica, October 3-5, 1996.

"Women's time, Women's Language in In the Time of the Butterflies, by Julia Alvarez," Elizabeth Mastrapa, University of Colorado at Boulder.  A paper presented at The Seventh International Conference of the Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica, October 3-5, 1996.

"When Literature and History Meet: Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies," Lori Hopkins, Reed College.  A paper presented at Reed College, March, 1996.

 "Snow," read in "Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story," Symphony Space, Broadway, New York, January 18, 1995.

"Life in Vermont," Charles Morrissey, WDEV, FM.  A broadcast devoted to In the Time of the Butterflies, November 25, 1994.

"De Como Las Chicas Garcia Perdieron Su Acento: Dialogo Sobre Literatura E Identidad," Andrés Mateo.  An essay presented at the Dominican Literature Meeting, the Americas Society, November 4, 1994.

"Ordering the Family Confusion," David Huddle.  An essay on Julia Alvarez's "The Kiss," About These Stories (New York: McGraw Hill, Inc., 1994).

"Julia Alvarez: Dominican-American novelist and poet,"  Latino Biographies (Paramus: Globe Fearon, 1994).

"Rebulient Quiescence in the Works of Julia Alvarez," Silvio Torres-Saillant, Director, Dominican Studies Institute, and Professor, City University of New York.  A paper presented at Columbia University, September 22, 1994.

"Memory Is Already The Story You Made Up About The Past: An Interview with Julia Alvarez," by Catherine Wiley, The Bloomsbury Review, March 1992.

"Language and Self-Representation in the Work of Julia Alvarez," Miriam DeCosta-Willis, Commonwealth Professor of Spanish, George Mason University.  A paper presented at the 12th Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean Studies, July 31, 1990.

"In The Belly of the Monster: Dominican Poetry in New York," Dr. Daisy Cocco de Filippis, Associate Professor, York College, New York University.   A paper presented at CUNY Association of Caribbean Studies, 3rd Annual Conference, Brooklyn College, NY, March, 7, l987.

"Traditional Form and the Living, Breathing American Poet," Fred Muratori.  An essay on contemporary sonnets including my sonnet sequence, "33," in New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly,  pp. 231-232, winter 1986.

Spanish:

Julia Álvarez visita LISTÍN DIARIO -- febrero 2007

"La mesa está servida para todos cuando escribo un libro," in Ellas hablan de la Isla, edited by Vitalina Alfonoso (Habana: Ediciones UNIÓN, 2002)

"En el tiempo de las mariposas, de Julia Alvarez: escribiendo el espacio de lo femenino, "Daniuska González, Osamayor, University of Pittsburgh, Año VI, Número 13, 2000.

"En el tiempo de las mariposas de Julia Alvarez: una reinterpretación de la historia." Fernando Valerio Holguín, Chasqui: revista de literaturealatinoamericana, volumen xxvii, numero 1, mayo 1998.

"Memorias de Mariposas," (Dis)locaciones: Narrativas híbridas del Caribe hispano (Valencia: Estudios Iberoamericanos,  Universitat de Valencia, 1998) by María Julia Daroqui.  A chapter about In the Time of the Butterflies in a book about narratives of the Spanish Caribbean. 

"Entrevista a Julia Alvarez" por Sophie Maríñez en Vetas, Número 28, Marzo 1997.

"El desplazamiento de los orígenes en la narrative caribeña de Reinaldo Arenas, Luis Rafael Sánchez y Julia Alvarez," William Luis, La Torre, Año II, Número 3.

 "La mujer en la novela y En el tiempo de las mariposas," Ida Hernández Caamaño.  A paper presented at Presentación del Libro, Santiago, Dominican Republic, January 20, 1996.

"Realidad y ficcion en los personages de Julia Alvarez," José Alcántara Almánzar.  A paper presented at Casa de Bastidas, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, January 18, 1996.

"La edición dominicana de la novela de Julia Alvarez,"  José Alcántara Almánzar, Isla Abierta, January 6, 1996

"La narrativa de Julia Alvarez," Irma Llorens, Queens College.  A paper presented at CUNY, October 1, 1994.

"Homecoming, Julia Alvarez y la búsqueda de una definición del ser hispana y mujer," Daisy Cocco de Filippis, Associate Professor, York College, New York University.  A paper published in Emen-Ya: Revista de Cultura (1990): 27-36.

"La literatura dominicana en los Estados Unidos y la periferia del margen," Silvio Torres-Saillant, Director, Dominican Studies Institute, and Professor, City University of New York.  A paper presented at University of Sacred Heart, Santurce, Puerto Rico, May 2, 1990.

"Entre dominicanos: Una lectura de 'Las Cuatro Niñas,'" Daisy Cocco de Filippis, Associate Professor, York College, New York University.  A paper on "The Four Girls," published in Centro, winter 1989-1990.

"Carta a una poeta en New York," Bruno Rosario Candelier, Dominican critic and Professor, Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santiago, Dominican Republic.  A paper published in Coloquio, July 1, 1989.

"Sexualidad y Metapoesia: Cuatro Poemas de Julia Alvarez," Dr. Luz Maria Umpierre, Professor, Western Kentucky University.  A paper published in Cuadernos De Poetica,V, No. 15, August, l988.

If you'd like to schedule an interview, please contact my agent, Susan Bergholz.