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INDEX:

 
CONTENTS:

Education

Honors and awards

Teaching experience

Administrative experience

Professional activities

Research: Articles

Research: Reviews

Research: Papers read

Current courses

EDUCATION:

1968 B.S. in Spanish, cum laude, Columbia University
1969 M.A. in Spanish, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1972 M.A. in Portuguese, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1975 Ph.D. in Spanish, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Thesis topic: Estudio histórico-crítico del cuento cubano revolucionario.

HONORS AND AWARDS:

1966-68 Columbia University Scholarships
1968 Phi Betta Kappa
1969 Spanish Honor Society
1968-71 NDEA Title IV Fellowship
1971-72 Ford Foundation Fellowship
1989 NEH Summer Institute, Arizona State University: Don Quixote.
2002- William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Spanish

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

1968-72 Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1972-75 Instructor, Middlebury College
1975-80 Assistant Professor, Middlebury College
1980-85 Associate Professor, Middlebury College
1985- Professor of Spanish, Middlebury College

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:

1975-80, 1984-85, 1993-4, 1997-8, 2000-2 Chair, Dept. of Spanish and Italian
1975-6, 1979 Coordinator, Undergraduate Program, Spanish School
1976-7, 1979-81, 1985-7 Educational Council (President 1980-1)
1978-79, Fall 1991 Director, Middlebury College Program in Madrid
1980-84, 1986-88, 1991-2, 1993-4 Dean, The Spanish School
1986-7, 1989-90 Spanish Section Head, Department of Spanish and Italian
1986-7, 2002 Acting Director and Dean, The Spanish School
1989-90, 1994-95 Chair, Foreign Language Division
1994 Dean of the Language Schools
1994-96 Director and Dean of the Language Schools
1995-97 Acting Vice-President for Languages

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

1981 Item Writer, Admission Testing Program, Spanish Achievement Test,
1983-85 Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ
1983 Evaluator, Dept. of Romance Languages, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME.
1985 Member, Applications Review Panel, Central Disciplines in Undergraduate Education, Division of Education Program, National Endowment for the Humanities, May 20-21 and Dec.
1986- Reader, Spanish Advanced Placement Test, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ
1992-94 Table Leader, Spanish Advanced Placement Test, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ
1987-88 Interviewer of Candidates in Colombia for Fulbright Scholarships in the US
1989 Evaluator, Department of Hispanic Studies, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY.
1990 Evaluator, Department of Hispanic Studies, Connecticut College, New London, CT.
1990-91 Distinguished Visiting Professor of Spanish, U. S. Military Academy, West Point, NY
1994 Evaluator, Spanish Depts., Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges, PA
1995 Evaluator, Dept. of Spanish, University of the South, Sewanee, TN.
1996 Evaluator, Department of Spanish, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA

RESEARCH:

Articles:

1979 "Condenados de Condado: El ciclo de cuentos y su proyección ideológica," in The Contemporary Latin American Short Story, Rose S. Minc, editor. New York: Senda Nueva de Ediciones, Inc., 1979.
"La malquerida y el complejo de Edipo." Segismundo, XIII, 1-2, Fall 1979, pp. 257-271.
1990 "Teaching Listening Comprehension through Video in First-Year College Spanish." IALL Journal of Language Learning Technologies 23, 1 (Winter 1990): 37-49. With Judith Liskin-Gasparro)
1995 "Pedagogy for the Oppressor: The Role of the Grave Ecclessiastic in the Ducal Episodes of Don Quixote, Part II." Indiana Journal of Hispanic Literature, Fall 1994, 309-321.
2000 "Fiesta en noviembre, de Eduardo Mallea, novela precursora y profética." Revista Hispánica Moderna 53 (diciembre 2000): 425-438.
"Pedro Blanco el negrero, de Lino Novás Calvo: ¿novela o biografía novelada?" Symposium.54, 1 (Spring 2000): 43-56.
2001 "'Un millón de avemarías': El rosario en Don Quijote." Cervantes 21, 2 (Fall 2001): 87-109.

Reviews:

1978 Menton, Seymour. Prose Fiction of the Cuban Revolution, in Latin American Literary Review, Vol. VII, Fall-Winter 1978, no. 13, pp. 101-103.
Souza, Raymond D. Major Cuban Novelists: Innovation and Tradition, in Latin American Literary Review, Vol. VII, Fall-Winter 1978, no. 13, pp. 101-103.
---- Textbook reviews for Holt, Rinehart and other publishers.
1988 The Annenberg/CPB Project's Spanish program.
1990 Advisor on draft and final manuscript of André Hurtgen's Dictionary of Spanish Grammar and Idioms , published by Longman Pub. Group (1991).

Papers Read:

1978 "Norberto Fuentes: Hacia una revolución tolerante." First Annual Conference on Latin American Literature, Montclair State College, March 10. A revised, English language version of this paper was read at the Third Annual Brandeis Conference on Latin America, Waltham, MA, April 1.
"La técnica cinematográfica en un cuento de Lino Novás Calvo." Cuban Literature Section, Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Albany, New York, March 23.
1984 "The Oral Proficiency Interview and the Junior Year Abroad: Some Unexpected Results." Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, New York, NY, April 14. A revised version of the paper was read at the Conference On Foreign Language Learning: Proficiency versus Achievement, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, September 21.
1989 "The Body of the Text and Bodily Fluids: Don Quixote and its Critics." Abernethey Lecture, Middlebury College, October 4.
1990 "Teaching Listening Comprehension Through Video in First-Year College Spanish." Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, New York, NY, April 21.
"Pedagogy for the Oppressor: The Role of the Grave Ecclesiastic in the Ducal Episodes of Don Quixote, Part II." Purdue University Conference on Romance Languages, Literatures and Film, West Lafayette, IN, October 12.
1992 "The Spaniards, their Books and the Invention of America." Quincentenary Institute: The Encounter of Two Worlds, Castleton State College, Castleton, VT. August 11.
1993 "Columbus and Don Quixote: The Perils of Reading." Quincentenary Seminar. Stonehill College, Easton, Mass. 15 April.
1997 "Una Argentina desapasionada: Fiesta en noviembre, de Eduardo Mallea." AATSP Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN. 22 November.

 

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