Selected Publications
Book-lenght projects
Co-edited volumes:
Catherine Larson and Margarita Vargas. Latin
American Women Dramatists: Theater, Texts, and Theories. Indiana
University Press, 1998. 277 pp.
Translated works:
Plays
Collected Works. By Juan García Ponce. The Mercurian 2.3 (January,
2010): 85-177.
Teresa C. Salas and Margarita Vargas. Women
Writing Women: An Anthology of Spanish-American Theater of the 1980s.
Albany: SUNY Press, 1997. 468
pp. (Plays translated into English from Spanish.) Performances
of plays
Novels
Margarita Vargas and Juan Bruce-Novoa. The House on the Beach
by Juan García Ponce. Austin: U of Texas P, 1994. 201 pp. (Novel translated
into English from Spanish.)
Articles
David E. Johnson and and Margarita Vargas. "Miranda and the Salvation
of the Shipwreck." By Lisa Block de Behar. CR: The New Centennial
Review 3.1 (Spring 2003): 1-23.
Teresa C. Salas and Margarita Vargas. "Theater and Its Functions."
By Emilio Carballido. Philosophy and Literature in Latin America. Eds.
M. Camurati and Jorge J. Gracia. Albany: SUNY P, 1989. 140-43.
Short Stories
Margarita Vargas and David E. Johnson. Excerpts from stories and novels
by Juan García Ponce. Voices of Mexico 67 (April-June, 2004):
118, 128-129, 133-135.
Margarita Vargas and Juan Bruce Novoa. "The night." By Juan
García Ponce. Fiction 7.3 and 8.1 (1985): 63 91.
Margarita Vargas and Juan Bruce Novoa. "The Shunammite."
By Inés Arredondo. Mundus Artium (1985): 36 45.
Margarita Vargas and Juan Bruce Novoa. "Mariana." By Inés
Arredondo. Fiction (1981): 156 64.
Interviews
"Interview with Tino Villanueva." Bruce Novoa, Juan. Chicano
Authors. Austin: U Texas P, 1980. 255 64.
Poems
Five poems by Mexican poet Teodosio García Ruiz. Voices of Mexico
69 (October- December, 2004): 121-124.
Guest editor:
Beth Jorgensen and Margarita Vargas. Letras Femeninas 32.1 (summer
2006). 375 pp. A special issue entitled, Twenty Five Years of Feminist
Scholarship by Feministas Unidas: Positions on Gender, Writing, Ethnicity,
Identity, and Mother/Sisterhood.
Contributions to books
Book Chapters:
"Sexual and Political Disillusion in Y tu mamá también."
In Coming of Age on Film: Stories of Transformation in World Cinema Anne
Hardcastle, Roberta Morosini, and Kendall B. Tarte, Eds. New Castle Upon
Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.
"El espacio escénico en el mundo homosocial en . . . Y
a otra cosa mariposa de Susana Torres Molina." Espacios de representación.
Ed. Lola Proaño. Cádiz, Spain, 2006.
"La inmanencia y trascendencia de la escritura y del ser."
De márgenes y adiciones: novelistas latinoamericanas de los
90. Eds. Jorge Chen Sham and Isela Chiu-Olivares. San José,
Costa Rica. Ediciones Perro Azul. 2004: 181-205.
"Mexican Romanticism." Mexican Literature: A History.
Ed. David William Foster. Trans. David E. Johnson. Austin: University
of Texas Press 1994. 83-112.
Teresa C. Salas and Margarita Vargas. "An Overview of Contemporary
Latin American Theater." Philosophy and Literature in Latin America.
Eds. Mireya Camurati and Jorge J. Gracia. Albany: SUNY Press 1989. 132-39.
Book Introductions:
Catherine Larson and Margarita Vargas. "Introduction." Latin
American Women Dramatists: Theater, Texts, and Theories. Bloomington,
IN: Indiana University Press, January 1999. xi-xxv.
Margarita Vargas. "Introduction." Women Writing Women: An
Anthology of Spanish American Theater of the 1980s. Eds. Teresa C.
Salas and Margarita Vargas. Albany: SUNY Press, 1997: 1-17.
Bio-bibliographic entries:
The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. Eds. Gabrielle H. Cody
and Everet Sprinchorn. Columbia University Press. 2007. 1,640 pp. (Sabina
Berman, 149-150 and Mexican Theater, 895-898)
Dictionary of Mexican Literature. Ed. Eladio Cortés. Westport,
CT and London: Greenwood, 1992. (Thirteen entries, pp. 107-08, 141-42,
172-73, 276-77, 290, 298, 333-34, 345-46, 404-06, 429-30, 459-60, 572,
681-82)
Articles:
"El viaje de los cantores como la dramatización de "La
dialéctica de la soledad". Latin American Theatre Review.
43.2 (spring 2011): 1-11.
"Staging Identity through Art." CR:
The New Centennial Review 5.3 (winter 2005): 65-82.
"Dreaming the Nation: René Marqués's Los soles truncos."
Latin American Theatre
Review (Special
Issue) 36.2 (Spring 2004): 41-55.
"Relational Identity in Myrna Casas' El gran circo Eukraniano."
Latin American Theatre
Review 36.2 (Spring 2003): 5-19.
"Entre Villa y una mujer desnuda de Sabina Berman." Revista
de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea
2.4 (Oct. 1996-Jan. 1997): 76-81.
"Power and Resistance in De noche vienes by Elena Poniatowska,"
Hispanic Journal 16.2 (Fall,1995): 285-296.
"From Body to Voice: Self-Realization through Art in Siete veces
Eva by Beatriz Seibel." Romance Languages Annual 1991
3 (1992): 617-21.
"Voyeurism and Exhibitionism: Metaphors of Reading and Writing in
Crónica de la intervención by Juan GarcíaPonce." Paunch
65-66 (1991): 171-87.
"Estatismo temporal y movimiento espacial and la obra de Juan Vicente
Melo." La Palabra y el Hombre 79 (July-Sept., 1991): 304-08.
"Lo apolíneo y lo dionisiaco en The Day of the Swallows y
Sor Juana de Estela Portillo Trambley." Gestos:
Revista de teoría y práctica de teatro hispánico
5.9 (April 1990): 91-98.
"Las novelas de los Contemporáneos como 'textos de
goce'." Hispania
69 (1986): 40-44.
"Reality Versus Illusion: A Structural Analysis of Madame Bovary."
Chimères 17.2 (Spring
1984): 39-53.
Review Essays:
"The Origins of Identity," a review of Teresa Mckenna's Migrant
Song: Politics and process in Contemporary Chicano Literature and
Show and Tell: Identity as performance in US Latino/a Fiction by
Karen Chistian. The
Bilingual Review/La Revista Bilingüe. 25.2 (May-Aug. 2000): 211-219
Reprinted Essays:
"Staging Identity through Art." The Mercurian. 2010.
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