Brief Curriculum Vitae

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Last updated August 19, 2007

Education
Ph. D. University of Colorado at Boulder, 1996. Contemporary Literature of Spain and Latin America.

M.A. Hispanic Literature, University of Arkansas, 1991.
M.A. Documentation, Instituto de Ciencias de la Documentación,
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1989.

M.A. (Licenciatura) Journalism, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1988.

Academic Experience
Western Kentucky University
---2004 to present Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages

Courses Taught:
Beginning, and Intermediate Spanish (Undergraduate)
Spanish Composition and Conversation (Undergraduate)
Spanish Business (Undergraduate)
Film Adaptation of Literarty Spanish texts (Undergraduate and Graduate)
Survey of Spanish Literature (Undergraduate)

Middlebury College
---Summer 2004  Graduate Spanish Faculty for the Summer Spanish Program

Courses Taught:
Reading movies: Film adaptation of literary works (Graduate)
Introduction to Literary Analysis (Graduate)

University of Kentucky
---2002 to 2004 Associate Professor, Department of Hispanic Studies
---1996-2002 Assistant Professor, Department of Hispanic Studies

Courses Taught:
Beginning, Intermediate Spanish (Undergraduate)
Spanish Composition and Conversation (Undergraduate)
Hispanic Theater (Undergraduate)
Business and Technical Spanish (Undergraduate)
Short Stories by Spanish Women Writers (Undergraduate)
Hispanic Literature Through Film (Undergraduate)

Kentucky Institute for International Studies
---2001-to 2004 State Director of the Fall KIIS Study Abroad Program in Toledo and Segovia, Spain.
---Spring 2001 Resident Director of the Spring KIIS Study Abroad Program in Segovia, Spain.
---1998-present Professor at the Kentucky Institute for International Studies (KIIS) Study
---Abroad Program in Spain (summer 1998, summer 2000, spring 2001, summer 2001, summer ---2002, and summer 2004).

Courses Taught:
Advanced Spanish Conversation and Composition (Undergraduate)
Twenty-century Spanish Literature: Short Stories by Spanish Women Writers
Business Spanish (Undergraduate)
Spanish Literature and Space (Undergraduate)
Survey of Spanish Literature (Undergraduate)

University of Colorado at Boulder
---1990-96 Graduate Part Time Instructor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Courses Taught:
Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Spanish (Undergraduate)

University of Arkansas
---1989-1990 Teaching Assistant, Foreign Language Department.

Courses Taught:
Beginning and Intermediate Spanish (Undergraduate)

Universidad Complutense de Madrid
---1985-1988 Photography Instructor, Colegio Mayor Universitario Santa Teresa de Jesús

Academic Awards/Honors
2003 Provost's Award for Outstanding Teaching, UK
2000 Finalist for the Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Teaching, UK
1999 Finalist for the Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Teaching, UK
1995 Graduate Teaching Certification, University of Colorado
1995 Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Award, University of Colorado
1991 Sigma Delta Phi Spanish Honorary Society
1990 Finalist Teaching Award for Foreign Instructors, University of Arkansas

Administrative Experience
2004-to present Webmaster for the Department of Modern Studies's web site, Western Kentucky University
1997-to present ACTFL Certified Oral Profienciency Tester
2002-to 2003 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Hispanic Studies
2001-to 2004 State Director of the Fall KIIS Study Abroad Program in Toledo and Segovia, Spain
1999-2001 Director of Basic Language Program at the Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Kentucky
Spring 2001 Resident Director of the Spring KIIS Study Abroad Program in Segovia, Spain.
1995-96 Assistant to the Coordinator for the Advanced Level of Grammar and Conversational Spanish, University of Colorado.
1992-1994 Lead Graduate Part-Time Instructor, University of Colorado.
1996-2004 Webmater for the Department of Hispanic Studies's web site, University of Kentucky.

Workshops Delivered
Video Editing with Movie Maker 2.1
Introduction to Dreamweaver
Spanish WebClass: On-line Homework System
Advanced Power Point for Language Instruction
Instructional Technologies for Language Instruction
Introductin Web Page creation for Graduate Students
Teaching Portfolio workshop for Graduate Students
Atajo: Spanish Writing Assistant Software workshop
Gradekeeper: A grading Software workshop for Graduate Students

Professional Memberships
Asociación Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispánica (AILFH)
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO)
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese

Books and Journals
La salida del armario: Lecturas desde la otra acera. Sylvia Molloy, Cristina Peri Rossi y Esther Tusquets. Llibros del Pexe: Spain, Gijon, 2005

Co-Editor Confluencia 19.1 Fall 03. Selected Proceedings of the 12th International Conference of the Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica, “The Cannon Unplugged: Rethinking the Writer, Reader, and Critic in Hispanic Women's Literature”.  University of Kentucky, September 13-15, 2001

Tortilleras: Hispanic and U.S Latina Lesbian Expression. Co-editor. Temple University Press, 2003.

Selected Articles
“Gains to Language Learners from Viewing Target Language Closed-Captioned Films.” Co-author.  Foreign Language Annals 37.3 (Fall 2004): 438-447.

“Sherry Velasco’s The Lieutenant Nun: Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire, and Catalina de Erauso”  South Central Review 21.3 (Fall 2004):188-193. 

“Studying Spanish Abroad: Does It Really Make a Difference?” Co-author. MIFLC Review 2000 (Published in 2003): 124-135.

“Carme Riera: (Un)covering the Lesbian Subject or Simulation of a Coming Out” in Tortilleras: Hispanic and U.S Latina Lesbian Expression. Ed. Lourdes Torres and Inmaculada Pertusa. Temple University Press, 2003.

“Virtual Study Abroad 101: Expanding the Horizons of the Spanish Curriculum.” co-author. Foreign Language Annals 33-4 (2000): 438-441.

“El mismo mar de todos los veranos y el poder subversivo de la confesión” in Studies Gay and Lesbian Writing in the Hispanic World a special number of Antipodas: Journal of Hispanic and Galician, edited by Alfredo Martinez Expósito. 10-11 (1999-2000): 125-143.

“Las realidades mágicas en el teatro de Elena Garro," Explicacion de Textos Literarios XXV-1 (1996-97): 109-115.

“Reflejos” (a short story), Tinta y Sombra, March 1996.

“Temblor, de Rosa Montero: Anti-utopía y desfamiliarización," Mester 23.1 (1994).

“Revolución e identidad en los poemas lesbianos de Cristina Peri Rossi," Monographic Review/Revista Monográfica 3 (1992): 89-105.

“El culteralismo particular de María Victoria Atencia," Ariel 8 (1992): 33-49.

Selected Papers Delivered
“Markin 3.1: Annotations, Comments, and Feedback on a Spanish Composition course” CALICO Annual Symposium “Call and the Year of Languages: Critical Needs”, Michigan State University, May 17-21, 2005.

“Lights, Camera, Action: Bringing Authentic Language, Culture and Art to the Classroom through Video” Co-presenter. 7th Annual Digital Stream “Emerging Tchnologies in Teaching Languages and Culture”, California State University, Monterrey Bay, March 24-26.

“Bringing Audio and Video to the E-Learning Environment” Co-presenter. Connected Learning in Kentucky (CLiK) and State Assisted Academic Library Council of Kentucky (SAALCK) Post-secondary Education Technology Conference. Northern Kentucky University, November 30 - October 1, 2004

“Shanghai a tres voces: Juan Marsé, David Trueba y Victor Erice” 17th Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference. Duquesne University, 17-19 September, 2004

“La sexualidad como vehículo trasgresor y liberador en la narrativa de Marina Mayoral” 53rd Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, College of Charleston. October, 2003.

“Development and Implementation of WebClass: An On-line Homework System”. Co-presenter. 2003 Kentucky Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Engaging the Learner, May, 2003.

“El embrujo de la “femme fatale”: proyecciones de la mujer mala en la España de la posguerra.”   I Congreso Internacional Mujeres malas, Universidad de Fernando Pessoa, Oporto, Portugal, Junio 24-27, 2003

“Development and Implementation of a Spanish Portal Homework System” Co-presented. 2003 Stop Surfing, Start Teaching National Conference. Continuing Education Programs University of South Carolina. Las Vegas, February 17-19, 2003.

“Ver lo que somos: mas allá de lo evidente en Ana María Moix y Carme Riera” XII International Conference of the Asociación Femenina de Literatura Hispánica. Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana. October, 2002.

“Gains in Vocabulary Recognition with Same Language Closed Captioned Films” University of California, at Irvine, March, 2002

“Learning Spanish: Should you Study Abroad or Should you Stay at Home?” co-presenter. Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Radford University, October, 2000.

“Pasaporte a España: A Journey before you go to Spain,” co-presenter. CALICO 2000 Annual Conference. Arizona State University, Arizona, June 2-5, 2000.

“Virtual Study Abroad Programs: Going Beyond the Classroom Limits,” co-presenter. CALICO 1999 Annual Conference. Miami University, Ohio, June 2-5 1999.

“Incorporating a Virtual Study Abroad Program into the Curriculum,” co-presenter. The Future of Spanish Departments on College and University Campuses: National Forum. Smith College, Northampton, Mass, September 17-19, 1999.

“Prácticas interactivas en la red,” SIGSA Faculty Lecture Series, University of Kentucky, October 1999.

“Gradekeeper: An Electronic Grade Assistant,” SIGSA Faculty Lecture Series, University of Kentucky, October 1999.

“The Classroom goes to the Movies: Pedagogical Uses of Film in the Spanish Curriculum”, 1999 SAMLA Annual Convention. Atlanta, November 1999.

“La evolución del personaje lesbiano a través de la obra de Esther Tusquets,” IX International Conference of the Asociación Femenina de Literatura Hispánica, Arizona University, 1998.

“So, You Want a Web Page for Your Course... Got 5 Minutes?” Sigma Delta Pi UK Faculty Lectures Series, University of Kentucky, March 4th, 1998.

“What Multimedia is all About (or at least, What you should Know About it),” Sigma Delta Pi UK Faculty Lectures Series, University of Kentucky, February 18th, 1998.

“Using the WWW Efficiently,” 17th Annual Lilly Conference on College Teaching, November 20-23, 1997.

“Getting the Most out of your Video Presentations: Creating Communicative Activities with the Authorizing Software LIBRA and your Favorite Video Materials,” 17th Annual Lilly Conference on College Teaching, November 20-23, 1997.

“La narrativa de la sexualidad lesbiana en En breve cárcel, de Sylvia Molloy,” VIII International Conference of the Asociación Femenina de Literatura Hispánica, Emory University, 1997.

“Enrichment of Current Learning Processes: Using the WWW in Spanish Classes,” Colorado Central Foreign Language Teaching (CCFLT) Spring Conference, February 27-March 1, 1997.

“Escribiendo entre corrientes: En breve cárcel, de Sylvia Molloy,” VII International Conference of the Asociación Femenina de Literatura Hispánica, University of Colorado, October 3-5, 1996.

“A Stroll Down Memory Lane or Every Method Helps Somebody Sometime,” co-presenter. Colorado Central Foreign Language Teaching (CCFLT) Spring Conference, February 22-24, 1996.

“El mar como símbolo del erotismo y la identidad lesbiana en Esther Tusquets, Carmen Riera y Cristina Peri Rossi,.” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature. University of Colorado, October 12-14, 1995.

“Las realidades mágicas en el teatro de Elena Garro,” International Symposium A Stage of One's Own. University of Cincinnati, October 5-10, 1994.

“Temblor, de Rosa Montero: Anti-utopía y desfamiliarización,” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature. University of St. Louis, October 3-5, 1993.

Scholarly Interests
Instructional technologies
Distance Learning Education
Study Abroad Education
Hispanic Literature, particularly women writers
Cultural and Gender Studies
Hispanic Queer Studies

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