Cordelia Chavez Candelaria was born on September 14,1943 and is an American educator and writer of Hispanic descent.
12 Facts About Cordelia Candelaria
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Cordelia Candelaria received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Fort Lewis College, where she studied English and French.
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Cordelia Candelaria then earned a Master of Arts in English and a PhD in American literature and structural linguistics from the University of Notre Dame.
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From 1975 to 1978, Candelaria was an associate professor of English and Chicano literature at Idaho State University.
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Cordelia Candelaria was a program officer for the Division of Research at the National Endowment for the Humanities from 1976 to 1977.
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In 2008, Cordelia Candelaria was named dean of the Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences at Southern Methodist University, but she resigned from the position the following year for personal reasons.
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Cordelia Candelaria married Jose Fidel Cordelia Candelaria in 1961, and later Ronald Beveridge.
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Cordelia Candelaria published her first collection of poetry, Ojo de la Cueva, in 1984.
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Cordelia Candelaria served as the executive editor for the Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture and has published literary criticism in various literary journals.
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Cordelia Candelaria has received several awards and honors throughout her career, including the Thomas Jefferson Award in 1983, the Colorado University Equity and Excellence Faculty Award in 1989, and a 15-year Higher Education Replication Study award in 1991 from the National Sponsoring Committee in Boulder.
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Cordelia Candelaria worked on the script for the 1982 film The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez as a script co-editor and consultant.
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Cordelia Candelaria served as a script consultant for The Milagro Beanfield War.