Dr. María Dolores Bolívar

Dr. María Dolores Bolívar set off on an interdisciplinary journey as a writing instructor, freelance journalist, and lexicographer. Her teaching career has been about stories, concerns, and issues of the Global South Transborder communities.Bolívar earned her BA in Political Science from San Diego State University, and her MA and PhD from the University of California, San Diego, where she taught Literature at the Global South Studies Department (formerly Third World Studies) as a doctoral Teaching Assistant. At SDSU Bolivar has contributed to the development of the Certificates in Translation Studies and in Spanish for the Professions. Bolivar grew up bilingual of French and Spanish and she learned English, Italian and Portuguese subsequently. Bolívar’s past academic assignments include Arizona State University, El Colegio de México’s Women’s Interdisciplinary Program, PIEM-, and the San Diego County Offices of Education where she taught for the Bilingual Cross-cultural Language and Academic Development Program, BCLAD. Bolívar is a book artist, and fiction writer, her book La palabra (H)era, was first-place winner of the Chicano/Latino Literary Awards in 1989 at the University of California, Irvine.