Office: Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 43210
Chapters or articles in edited books, appeared or accepted.
"El complejo fenómeno de la memoria en las cartas privadas de emigrantes a Indias (Siglo XVI)." Article invited by Gerardo Meil and Cristóbal Torres, editors. Homenaje a Miguel Beltrán Villalva. Madrid: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, projected 2008. MS. 12 pp. Forthcoming.
"Spanish Literature: An Overview." Encyclopedia of Maritime History. Invited by Robert Foulke, subject area editor for maritime literature entries. 4 vols. Oxford University Press, 2007. Vol. 4, pp. 22-31.
"Travesías peligrosas: escritos marítimos en España durante la época imperial, 1492-1650." Keynote address. Edad de Oro Cantabrigense: Actas del VII Congreso de la Asociación Internacional del Siglo de Oro (AISO). Anthony Close, editor. Madrid: Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert, 2006, 31-41.
"Épica y configuración del canon en la poesía española del Siglo de Oro." Book chapter in En torno al canon: Aproximaciones y estrategias. Begoña López Bueno, editor. Universidad de Sevilla, 2005, 317-32.
"Conciencia trasatlántica y tradición épica: Mares y ríos en la Historia de la Nueva México de Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá (1610)." Épica y Colonia. Paul Firbas, editor. Forthcoming. MS. 26 pp.
"La Promesa del Náufrago: el Motivo Marinero del Ex-voto, de Garcilaso a Quevedo." Homenaje a James O. Crosby. Invited by Lía Schwartz, editor. Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs. 2004, 111-25.
"La épica novohispana y la ideología imperial." Historia de la literatura mexicana, siglo XVII. Invited by Raquel Chang-Rodríguez, coordinator. Mexico: Siglo XXI, 2002, 129-52.
Review: Hispanic Review 73.1 (2005), 113-16.
Chapter 4. "Medieval and Golden Age Literature: On Teaching the Older Literatures." Invited by Librada Hernández, Editor and Chair of Test Development Committee. Teacher’s Guide to the Advanced Placement Course in Spanish Literature. Princeton, N.J.: Educational Testing Service, 2001, pp. 21-43.
"Ercilla y Zúñiga, Alonso." Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. Invited by Timothy DeWerff, editor. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1999. Vol. 2, p. 291.
"Quevedo and the Rending of the Rocks," in Studies in Honor of Gustavo Correa (Potomac: Scripta Humanistica, 1986), pp. 58-72.
Articles appeared or accepted.
"On teaching early modern Hispanic poetry: Reflections and Remembrances." Caliope 11.2 (2005), 45-57. Invited article.
"¿Marte o Venus? Incorporación de elementos líricos en El Bernardo de Balbuena (1624)." Actas del XIV Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, ed. Isaías Lerner (New York, AIH, 2001), MS 11 pp.
"Iglesia, Mar, y Casa Real: Imaginario de la Odisea en la Épica del Siglo de Oro," in Literatura de Viajes: El Viejo Mundo y el Nuevo. Ed. Salvador García Castañeda. Madrid: Castalia, 1999, 75-82.
"Escribir después de Ercilla: La codicia en La Austriada de Juan Rufo," Actas del XII Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, ed. Jules Whicker (Birmingham, AIH,1998), Vol. 2, 162-68.
"Rape and Repentance: Virués’ El Monserrate and Reading Golden Age Foundational Myths," Calíope 2 (1996), 32-53.
"The Politics of Effacement: Diego de Hojeda’s Humble Poetics," Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 71 (1994), 339-57.
"El destino de Ismenia (Jerusalén conquistada de Lope de Vega)," Actas del XI Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (Irvine, AIH,1994), Vol. 2, 66-73.
"The Power of Paradox in the ‘Cántico espiritual,’" Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 27 (1993), 203-23.
"Woman, Why Weepest Thou? Re-Visioning the Golden Age Magdalen," Hispania 76 (1993), 38-48.
"La naturaleza del narrador en La Christiada," in Actas del X Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (Barcelona: Promociones y Publicaciones Universitarias, 1992), Vol. 1, 885-92.
"De nuevo, sobre la ‘literariedad’ de Teresa de Jesús," Anuario de letras 28 (1990),159-80.
"Hagiographic Jest in Quevedo: Tradition and Departure," Modern Language Notes 104 (1989), 315-29.
"‘Conquistas de las Indias de Dios:’ Early Poetic Appropriations of the Indies by the Spanish Renaissance," Hispanic Journal 11 (1989), 45-54.
"Un soneto de Quevedo al nacimiento de Cristo: ¿ortodoxo o astrológico?," Journal of Hispanic Philology 10 (1986), 161-70.
Reviews.
Lisa Sousa, Stafford Poole, C.M., and James Lockhart, The Story of Guadalupe: Luis Laso de la Vega’s Huei tlamahuiçoltica of 1649, in Colonial Latin American Review (2000).
Daniel L. Heiple, Garcilaso de la Vega and the Italian Renaissance, in Renaissance Quarterly (Summer, 1997).
Julián Olivares and Elizabeth S. Boyce, eds. Tras el espejo la musa escribe. Lírica femenina de los Siglos de Oro, in Calíope (1996).
Mary E. Giles, The Book of Prayer of Sor María de Santo Domingo, in Studia Mystica (Spring, 1992)
Margit Frenk’s critical edition of González de Eslava, Fernán, Villancicos, romances, ensaladas y otras canciones devotas, in Journal of Hispanic Philology (Spring 1992)
Barbara E. Kurtz, The Play of Allegory in the Autos Sacramentales of Pedro Calderón de la Barca, in Theological Studies (December 1991)
Paper, Special Session, "Sea of Words, Insularity of the Senses," Renaissance Society of America, Newberry Library, Chicago 3-5 April 2008
Paper, "Las caras del pecador: Hacia una retórica del arrepentimiento en la poesía sacra del Barroco," Eighth Biennial Conference of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, Córdoba, Spain, October 18-20, 2007
Paper, "Texto y tempestad: El riesgo del naufragio en la épica y en la novela de los siglos áureos," Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, Paris, France, July, 2007
Paper, "Navigating the Court: Antonio de Guevara’s Arte de marear (1539) and Golden Age Artes de navegar," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, April 2007
Paper, "When the Ships Come In: The Indies Fleets in Letters from Spanish Immigrants to the Indies (Sixteenth Century)," Session on "The Poetics of Recollection: Lives, Letters and Other Narratives of Experience in the Long Sixteenth Century," organized by the Division on Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Spanish Prose and Poetry, Modern Language Association of America, Philadelphia, December 2006
"Transatlantic flows: Daily life in the accounts of three passengers on the Indies fleets," III Conference of the Transatlantic Project ("La Geotextualidad Atlántica," Providence, April 2006
"Perilous Crossings: Spanish Poetry in Relationship to the Transatlantic Crossing (1500-1650)," Invited by the Ancient, Medieval & Renaissance Studies Program and the Department of Modern Foreign Languages of Ohio Wesleyan University, November 2005
"Perilous Crossings: Spanish Maritime Writing (1500-1650)," Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies Faculty Colloquium, The Ohio State University, March 2006
Paper, "Piloto hoy la Cudicia: History vs. poetry in the conquest of Chile," Session on "Poetry in Motion: The Poetics of Travel and Displacement," organized by the Division on Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Spanish Prose and Poetry, Modern Language Association of America, Washington, D. C., December 2005
Respondent, Special Session, "Is All Poetics Global? Debates on Spanish Writing Practices in Light of Ultramarine Imperialism," organized by Enrique García Santo-Tomás (University of Michigan), Modern Language Association of America, Washington, D. C., December 2005
Keynote Lecture, "Travesías peligrosas: Escrituras del mar en España durante la época imperial, 1492-1650," VII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Internacional Siglo de Oro, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, July 2005
Invited lecture: "Épica y configuración del canon en la poesía española del Siglo de Oro," VII Encuentro Internacional sobre Poesía del Siglo de Oro on the topic of "Conformación del corpus y configuración del canon en la poesía española del Siglo de Oro," Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, November 2003
Invited lecture: "A Problem of Ontological Purity? Oceans versus Rivers in Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá’s Historia de la Nueva México (1610)," Colloquium on the topic of "Epic Texts and the Colonial World," Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. November 2003
Invited lecture, "Transatlantic Consciousness: The Bothersome Nautical Similes of Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá’s Historia de la Nueva México (1610)," Sixth Biennial Conference of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, Boston University, Boston, October 2003
Paper, "Golden Age seafaring, real and imagined: Horatian odes in Espinosa’s Flores de poetas ilustres (1605) in the light of letters of commerce with the Indies," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, April 2003
Paper, "Lovers, Merchants, Generals and Sailors: Varieties of Golden Age Sea Writing," Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference, Arizona State University, Tempe, February 2003
Paper, "El motivo marinero del ex-voto, de Garcilaso a Quevedo," Fifth Biennial Conference of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, October 2001
Paper, "¿Marte o Venus? Incorporación de elementos líricos en El Bernardo de Balbuena (1624)," XIV Congreso, Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, City University of New York, New York City, July 2001
Conference Organizer, Fifth Biennial Conference of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, October 2001
Organizer (by invitation): Special session on Golden Age epic poetry. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, April 2000
Paper, "Epic and Lyric: Bernardo de Balbuena’s Unobtrusive Petrarchism," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, April 2000
Paper, "Golden Age Epic and the Promotion of Imperial Monarchy," Special session dedicated to Frank Pierce, Fourth Biannual Conference of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, Davis, Calif., October 1999
Paper, "Sibling Rivalry: Alonso de Ercilla and Juan Rufo Write Lepanto," Third Biannual Conference of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, Rochester, October 1997
Paper, "The Old World in the Poet’s Gaze: Power Issues in Diego de Hojeda’s La Cristiada," Special Session entitled "Nuevas aproximaciones a la epopeya del Siglo de Oro y de las Letras Coloniales: La Araucana, Os Lusíadas, La Cristiada, y Oriental Planeta Evangélico," Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, New Orleans, February 1997
Paper, "Iglesia, Mar, y Casa Real: Imaginario de la Odisea en la Epica del Siglo de Oro," International Symposium on Travel Literature, Toledo, Spain, September 1996 (repeated at OSU, October 1996)
Paper, "Dulzura y utilidad: Defining Heroism in El Monserrate," Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, Houston, November, 1995
Paper, "Escribir después de Ercilla: La codicia en La Austriada de Juan Rufo," Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, Birmingham, England, August, 1995
Paper, "Outwriting Ercilla: Juan Rufo’s Battle of Lepanto," Special Session entitled "La Araucana and other poems: New Critical Approaches to Spanish Epic Poetry," Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, New Orleans, March 1995
Paper, "La Araucana: Epic of the Defeated?" Modern Language Association of America, Session entitled "Heroic Attempts: Reading the Colonial Latin American Epic," sponsored by the Division on Literature of Colonial Spanish America, San Diego, December 1994
Organizer, Continuing Session on Golden Age Literature, American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Philadelphia, August 1994
Paper, "Separation and the Desire for Death: From Cancionero to Golden Age Epic," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, April 1994
Paper, "Unredeemable Enemies: The ‘Hermosa Hebrea’ in Lope’s Jerusalén conquistada," Modern Language Association of America, Division on Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Spanish Prose and Poetry, Toronto, December 1993
Paper, "Golden Age Epic and the Promotion of Imperial Monarchy," Modern Language Association of America, Toronto, December 1993
Organizer, Special Session, "Canonical Heresy: Toward New Representations of Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Spain," Modern Language Association of America, New York City, 1992
Paper, "Where Have all the Heroes Gone? The Separation of Epic from the Canon," Modern Language Association of America, New York City, December 1992
Paper, "El destino de Ismenia (Jerusalén conquistada de Lope de Vega)", XI Congreso, Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, Irvine, California, August 1992
Paper, "Golden Age Epic and the Modern Reader: Problems of De-Centering Empire in Virués’s El Monserrate," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 1992
Presider: "Woman the Subject, Woman the Author," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 1992
Paper: "Paradox and Discursive Insufficiency in the Spiritual Canticle," American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Chicago, August 1991
Organizer and Presider, Session on "The Discourse of Silence: Spanish Mysticism," sponsored by Studia Mystica, 26th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1991
Organizer and Presider, Session on "Representations of the Other," Second Conference on Hispanic Cultures of the Pacific Coast of the Americas, Eugene, May 1991
Paper, "The Politics of Prophecy in Lope de Vega’s Jerusalén conquistada," 44th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 1991
Paper, "‘Woman, Why Weepest Thou?’ Re-Visioning the Golden Age Magdalen," Modern Language Association of America, Division on Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Spanish Prose and Poetry, Chicago, December 1990
Paper, "The Eloquent Stammer: Discursive Paradox in the ‘Cántico espiritual’," 25th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 1990
Paper, "La naturaleza del narrador en ‘La Christiada’ de Hojeda," X Congreso, Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, Barcelona, August 1989
Paper, "Secondary Narrative Voices in ‘La Christiada’," Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference, Victoria, British Columbia, March 1989
Paper, "Narrative Structure in Las moradas," Special session on The Four Hundredth Anniversary of Santa Teresa’s Moradas, Modern Language Association of America, New Orleans, December 1988
Paper, "The Return to the Garden: Reminiscences of Eden in Santa Teresa’s Vida," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 1988
Chair, Session on Cervantes and the Lazarillo, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference Golden Age Prose, April 1988
Paper, "‘Conquistas de las Indias de Dios:’ Some Early Poetic Appropriations of the Indies by the Spanish Renaissance," Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference, Eugene, April 1988
1993-99: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University.
Courses taught or developed:
Spanish H450 Honors Introduction to Hispanic Literature and Culture (SP 1998)
Spanish 752 Golden Age Lyric Poetry (WI 1998)
Spanish 852 Early Modern Women Writers (AU 1998)
Spanish 320 Don Quijote in Translation (I developed this course AU 1995 and taught it AU 1996)
Spanish 752 Hero and Anti-hero in Golden Age Literature: Epic and Picaresque (SU 1996)
Spanish 863 Don Quijote (SP 1996)
Spanish 852 Lírica de Lope de Vega y Francisco de Quevedo (SP 1994)
Spanish 752 Introduction to Golden Age Literature (WI 1995)
Spanish 613 Advanced Spanish Composition for Native Speakers of Spanish (I developed this course and taught it WI 1995)
Spanish 603 Advanced Composition and Translation (WI 1994, WI 1999)
Spanish 551 Introduction to Golden Age Literature (AU 1993, SP 1994)
Spanish 450 Introduction to Hispanic Literatures (WI 1994, WI 1995, SU 1996, SP 1999x2, AU 1998, WI 1998)
Summer 1994: Summer faculty, The Spanish School, Middlebury College Foreign Language Schools. Course taught: Spanish 560, Introduction to Literary Analysis and Theory (x2)
1987-93: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Romance Languages, The University of Oregon.
Courses taught:
Spanish 607 Teoría de la crítica literaria: la tradición hispánica (WI 1991)
Spanish 507 La Celestina (SP 1990)
Spanish 507 Prose Works of Teresa de Jesús (AU 1988)
Spanish 507 Poetry of Francisco de Quevedo (AU 1987)
Spanish 411G, 412G, 413G Advanced Spanish Composition and Conversation (1987-88, 1988-89, WI 1991)
Spanish 451G Spanish Prose of the Golden Age (SP 1988, AU 1989)
Spanish 452G Spanish Poetry of the Renaissance and Baroque (AU 1990)
Spanish 453G Introduction to Golden Age Drama (WI 1989, SP 1992)
Spanish 410G Spanish Pilgrim-Poets (SU 1990)
Spanish 407G Love in the Golden Age (WI 1989)
Spanish 407 Early Spanish Realism: La Celestina, Lazarillo de Tormes (AU1991)
Spanish 407/507, Cervantes (WI 1989, SP 1991)
Spanish 323 The Golden Age (WI 1988, SP and AU 1989, SP 1990, SP and AU 1991, SP 1992)
Spanish 321 Introduction to Literature (WI 1988-89, AU 1990, WI 1992)
Spanish 199 The Spanish Civil War in History and Literature (Freshman Seminar, AU 1990)
1985-87: Adjunct Assistant Professor and Instructor, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, The University of Arizona
Courses taught:
Spanish 330 Oral and Written Skills (AU and SP 1985-86; SP 1987)
Spanish 320 Introduction to Literary Genres (SP 1986)
Spanish 310 Spanish Phonetics (AU 1986, and as Assistant to Professor Richard P. Kinkade, AU 1985)
Spanish 301ax and Spanish 301bx, Comprehensive Skills in Spanish (AU and SP 1985-86; AU and SP 1986-87)
Spanish 201b Fourth Semester Spanish (Fall 1985)
SU 1986; SP 1985: Instructor of English as a Second Language, Pima County Adult Education (Tucson, AZ).
1982-83: Instructor of Spanish, Cathedral High School; Instructor of English as a Second Language, Roxbury Community College (Boston, MA).
Courses taught:
Beginning and Intermediate Spanish
Spanish for the Spanish Speaking
High School English as a Second Language
College level English as a Second Language (Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced)
1978-81: Instructor of Spanish, Harvard University Extension.
Courses taught:
A House with Two Windows, Intermediate Spanish (Grammar review and readings from Spain and Latin America)
1978-82: Language teacher, Cardinal Cushing Center for the Spanish Speaking (Boston, MA).
Courses taught:
English as a Second Language
High School Equivalency in Spanish
English Remedial Reading
1973-77: Assistant Professor (1976-77) and Instructor, Dartmouth College.
Courses taught:
Spanish Prose before 1700
The Drama of the Golden Age
Modern Spanish Prose
Introduction to Modern Spanish Literature and to Methods of Literary Study
Assassination of a Dream: The Spanish Civil War in History and Literature (Freshman Writing Seminar)
The Spanish Language: Advanced Training through Contemporary Culture
Introductory Spanish
1972-73: Teaching Fellow at Yale University.
Courses taught:
Intensive Elementary Spanish
Spanish Composition and Conversation
1969-70: Teaching Assistant at The University of Arizona
Course taught:
Second Semester Spanish
2005-06: Advisor, Ph.D. program: Jason Busic, Carmen Grace. Member, dissertation committees Christine Cloud, Tracy Manning-Muñoz, Laurie Urraro. Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University. Junta Directiva, Asociación Internacional Siglo de Oro (elected office).
Current nominee: Division on Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Spanish Prose and Poetry of the Modern Language Association of America. Research Committee, Department of Spanish & Portuguese. COH Interdisciplinary Committee. Board of Advisors, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Board of Advisors, Program on Mediterranean Religions and Cultures. Reader, Stanley Kahrl Prize (CMRS). Volunteer, Peninsular web page, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University.
2004-05: (on FPL). Member, dissertation committees Cloud, Manning-Muñoz. Member, Advisor, Ph.D. program: Carmen Grace. Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University.
2003-04: Member, dissertation committees Cloud, Manning-Muñoz, Machín-Lucas, Porras. Member, Ph.D. examination committee Cloud. Advisor, Ph.D. program: Grace. Director, M.A. examination committee: Grace. Coordinator for Honors Advising. Member, Chair Search Committee, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University. Member, College of Humanities Research Committee (2003-06). Advisory Committee, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; CMRS Event Planning Committee. Board of Advisors, Program on Mediterranean Religions and Cultures. College of Humanities representative to Registrar’s Faculty Advisory Council, The Ohio State University.
2002-03: Dissertation advisor: Warshawsky. Member, dissertation committees Matorras, Inestrillas, Cloud, Manning-Muñoz, Machín-Lucas, Porras. Member, Ph.D. examination committees Inestrillas, Machín Lucas. Advisor, M.A. program: Grace. Honors Advisor, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University.
2001-02: Member of the Board and Local organizer of Fifth Biennial Conference of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry. Dissertation advisor, Warshawsky. Member, dissertation committee Matorras. Member, Ph.D. examination committees Manning, Cloud. Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee; Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University.
2000-01: Member of the Board and Local organizer of Fifth Biennial Conference of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry (held at OSU October 18-20, 2001). Chair, Lecture & Events Committee; Member, Latin American Search Committee; Member, Graduate Studies Committee (Au); Research Committee; Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University.
1999-00: Member, Graduate Studies Committee; Research Committee; Teaching Evaluations Committee, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University; COH Research Committee; CMRS Advisory Committee; Latino Studies Coordinating Committee; CMRS Planning Committee.
1997-98: Graduate Studies Committee; Presenter, Graduate Studies Committee Workshop on the Job Search, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University; CMRS Advisory Committee; Evaluator, Donald J. Brandt & Elizabeth Kiss Amstutz Scholarships in the Humanities; CMRS Small Grants Committee; Graduate School representative, candidacy examination in Dept. of Education
1996-97: Guest Lecture on Spanish Literature of the late Fifteenth Century, by invitation of Prof. Anne Morganstern (Department of Art History); Director, Doctoral Dissertation; Committee member, Doctoral Dissertation; Member, two Ph.D. examination committees; Member, three M.A. examination committees; Member, Graduate Studies Committee; Presenter, Graduate Committee Workshop on the Graduate Program; Member, Committee on Special Events; Undergraduate Advising Center; CMRS Small Grants Committee; Search Committee for Senior Instructors; Member, Undergraduate Honor’s thesis committee; Graduate School representative for Ph. D. examination in Department of French and Italian, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University.
1995-96: Division Delegate to MLA Assembly, MLA Annual Meeting, Chicago; Graduate Committee; Undergraduate Advising Center; Lecture Committee, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University.
1994-95: Head of Committee, Ph.D. examinations; Spanish Minor Advisor; Lecture Committee, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University; Essay evaluator, Presidential-Medalist Competition, Honors Office, The Ohio State University
1993-94: Undergraduate Studies Committee; Spanish Minor Advisor, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese; Small Grants Committee, CMRS, The Ohio State University
1992-93: Graduate Committee; Co-director, Doctoral Dissertation; Reader, Doctoral Dissertation; Member, Doctoral Examination Committee; Member, three Masters Examination Committees, Dept. of Romance Languages, Univ. of Oregon
1991-92: Graduate Committee; Guest Speakers Committee; Member, two Masters Examination Committees; Reader, two Doctoral Dissertations, Dept. of Romance Languages, Univ. of Oregon
1990-91: Graduate Committee; Member, two Masters Examination Committees; Head, Masters Examination Committee; Reader, two Doctoral Dissertations, Dept. of Romance Languages, Univ. of Oregon
1989-90: University-wide Premajor Advising; Undergraduate Committee; three Masters Examination Committees; Dept. of Romance Languages, Univ. of Oregon
1988-89: University-wide Premajor Advising; Advisory Committee; Summer Session Committee; Search Committee (Assistant Professor in Spanish Applied Linguistics); Reader, Doctoral Dissertation; Member, three Masters Examination Committees, Dept. of Romance Languages, Univ. of Oregon
1987-88: Semester Conversion Committee; Library Acquisitions; Search Committee (Visiting Assistant Professor in Spanish); Director, Senior Honors Thesis, Dept. of Romance Languages, Univ. of Oregon
Organizer of guest lectures:
May, 1998: Organized visit of Anne J. Cruz to The Ohio State University. Topic of lecture: "Female Subjectivity in Early Modern Spain: The Case of Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza."
November, 1994: Organized visit of Eliana Rivero to The Ohio State University. Topic of lecture: "Flores ocultas de poesía cubana: imágenes fundacionales de una cultura."
June, 1994: Organized visit of Robert ter Horst to the Ohio State University. Topic of lecture: "The Sexual Economy of Miguel de Cervantes."
1976-77: Dartmouth College Committee on Graduate Fellowships
Community Service:
1978-81: Chair, New England Chile Solidarity Committee
FOREIGN TRAVEL, RESEARCH AND RESIDENCE:
2004-2005, 1996, 1989, 1982, 1979, 1977, 1975, 1971, 1967: travel, research and residence in Spain
2005, 1981: travel in Chile
1973: travel in Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina
1966-67: junior year at Universidad Complutense, Madrid, "Cursos para extranjeros"
1966: summer study at Université de Poitiers, Tours, France
Dossier available upon request from:
Yale University
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