- Phone: 619-388-5858
- Office: G-234
- Mailbox: G-248
- Email: mbolivar@sdccd.edu
- Website: http://classroom.sdmesa.edu/mbolivar
- Department: Spanish
- Education:
- B.A., San Diego State University
- M.A., University of California, San Diego
- Ph.D, University of California, San Diego
Dr. María Dolores Bolivar earned her doctorate from the University of California, San Diego, specializing in ethnicities and gendered identities and Mexican Popular Culture. She authored the dissertation Topographies, typographies and subjectivities (Topografías, tipografías y subjetividades), based on a study of the fictional in historic novel. Her past assignments include adjunct instructor, at Mesa, since 2003, and at Southwestern College and SDSU-College of Extended Studies, since 2004. Dr. Bolivar was Assistant Professor of Spanish Literature at Arizona State University from 1994 until 1999, where she was active in the creation of a specialization in Mexican Studies, and coordinator of the Mexican Popular Cultures Symposium. At ASU, she served in the Distance/Online Education Projects Committee, and as community ambassador, graduate thesis advisor, and recruiter.
Dr. Bolivar was a Visiting Professor in the Interdisciplinary Women’s Studies Program at the Colegio de México in Mexico City in 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1998. She served as visiting scholar at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico, where she designed a writing program for Mathematics 2000, 2001.
Among Dr. Bolivar’s scholarly articles are Nellie, centaura del Norte, Huérfanas, abandonadas y bastardas, and Terra Incógnita, published with El Colegio de México and Casa de las Américas. She is the author of the books Ciudad que se me escapa and Zacatecas, polvo y luz (poetry, chronicle and essay). Her poetry collection La palabra (H)era was awarded the Chicano-Latino Literary Prize from the University of California, Irvine, in 1989. She has been editor, reporter, and columnist for online journals Geografías Errantes, Si me ahogo en tus julios, and La Ruda, and print journals, La Llovizna and Mi Pueblo. Dr. Bolivar anchored the radio show La carreta alegórica and Letras que cuentan, and edited the sections Cultura and Opinión in Zacatecas' daily Imagen.