Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

HONORS AND AWARDS

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Member of Academic Standards Committee Reviewed students’ records, petitions, and academic policies.	2005-present
Member of Pierce Lecture for the Arts Committee Met and brainstormed ideas for next guest presenter	2005-present
Freshman Advisor Offered Freshmen direction in the choice of classes, and insight into the nature and importance of a University education.	2000-present
Member of Latin American Studies Advisory Committee Helped create curriculum, design courses, and promote the minor throughout the campus. More recently team taught LAS 100 with program coordinator	2000-present
Member of multiple FL Search Committees Participated in selection of candidates, MLA and campus interviews, planned and attended teaching demos and scholarly talks, and other activities associated with the hiring of fourteen positions in Spanish	2000-present
Participant in Spanish House Program Helped select students, met with members of the House to plan and organize activities, attended conversation hours and other events, such as movie night and progressive dinner.	1999-present
Faculty member to the Honor Court and the Integrity Code Board Provided a setting to hear and establish the facts in case of a violation of the Code, determined responsibility for alleged violations, and recommended sanctions to the Associate Dean for Student Services.	2004-2006
Participant on Site Visit for Study Abroad Program Traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico and met with PLU and UPS faculty members to tour the Instituto Cultural Oaxaca and examine its suitability as site of study.	August 2004
Faculty Sponsor for Student Internship Sponsored Demetra Panagakos’ initiative to do a cooperative education placement with the Centro Latino, discussing the experience and evaluating student’s learning.	Spring 2004
Honor Thesis Reader Read and provided suggestions to Demetra Panagakos ’04 on her thesis titled “Empowering the Latino Immigrant Community through Education”.	2003- 2004
Honor Thesis Director Provided guidance and critical help to Kathy Heimann ‘03 on the writing of her thesis titled “Three generations: The Changing Roles of Women in The Back Room by Carmen Martín Gaite”.	2002-2003
Prelude Program Instructor Helped to initiate new students into the academic community at UPS, by critically engaging college-level materials drawn from a variety of disciplines.	2000- 2003
Faculty Member of the Union Board Met every week with members of the board to decide on all issues pertaining to the Wheelock student center.	Spring 2003
Member of Faculty Planning Group Met with president Pierce, dean Cooney and group of faculty to discuss initiatives and strategies geared to achieve goals proposed in the document “Strategic Priorities: Goals for this Decade”	Summer 2002
Presenter at Summer Culpeper Grant Showed selection of personal web development and discussed advantages and shortcomings of instructional technology approach with group of UPS faculty members.	June 2002
Advisor to the Honor Court and Member of the Integrity Code Board Provided a setting to hear and establish the facts in case of a violation of the Code, determined responsibility for alleged violations, and recommended sanctions to the Associate Dean for Student Services.	2000-2002
Textbook reviewer for McGraw-Hill Higher Education Examined and wrote a critical review of Imágenes de España. Panorama de la formación de España y de las culturas hispánicas, a textbook on Spanish culture and civilization being considered by McGraw-Hill to be distributed in the U.S.	Spring 2002
Presenter at Fall Campus Day Presented mini-lecture and explain distinguishing features of FLL Department to prospective students and their parents.	Fall 2001
Participant in New UPS Faculty Orientation Program Helped provide the perspective of a third-year faculty member on what it is like to teach and work at UPS.	Fall 2001
Panelist at John Wiley's Focus Group at AATSP Conference Discussed current issues and concerns in the field of introductory/Intermediate Spanish	July 2001
Culpeper Grant Presentation Showed web-based multimedia projects to provide technology-related ideas for faculty to pursue in the future under the Culpeper initiative.	Spring 2001
Member of the Library, Media and Academic Computing Committee Provided recommendations and advice on the role of computing in support of the academic program; helped the library and academic computing plan the development and integration of their services.	Spring 2001
Session Chair at ALFH Conference Introduced speakers and led group discussion on "Representation, Fantasy and Cultural Identity in Ferre and Ocampo's works"	Fall 2000
Student Teacher University Supervisor (Univeristy of Nebraska) Observed student teachers in school activities and provided evaluation information to the coordinator of Student Teaching in the College of Education	1996-1998
Member of the Foreign Languages Department Language Lab Committee (Univeristy of Nebraska) Held monthly meetings, decided on the purchase of hardware and software and allocated the lab maintenance budget	1996-1998
Proctor for Spanish 202 (Univeristy of Nebraska) Supervised the formatting of all course materials, planned weekly meetings and coordinated the preparation of exams and quizzes	1995-1996
Research Assistant to the Coordinator for Spanish 202 (Univeristy of Nebraska) Participated in workshops, visited classes, held weekly meetings, coordinated practicums and wrote examinations	Spring 1995
Editorial Assistant for the Journal of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (Univeristy of Nebraska) Revised and corrected articles for publication in JILS	1995-97

PUBLICATIONS

Book

Transnational Identities: Physical Displacement and National Identity in Hispanic Caribbean Women Writers.
(in progress)

Articles

"La poesía de Eulalia Bernard : identidad afro-caribeña en la Costa Rica de hoy".
Diez voces de la poesía femenina costarricense.
San José : U of Nebraska P-Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2006.

"Technology-Based Learning in the Liberal Arts".
International Journal of Learning. Volume 12 (2006).

"Nombrar(se) o no nombrar(se) : Martha Rivera y la narrativa dominicana actual".
De márgenes y adiciones: novelistas latinoamericanas de los 90.
San José: Ediciones Perro Azul, 2004. 161-180.

"Entre la muerte y el mito : imágenes de la bella durmiente en la narrativa dominicana femenina contemporánea".
La Torre : Revista de la Universidad de Puerto Rico IX-34 (2004): 555-568.

"Transgresión de poder: entre el imperialismo cultural y la identidad autóctona en "El collar de camándulas" de Rosario Ferré".
Rebeldía, denuncia y justicia social: Voces enérgicas de autoras hispanoamericanas y españolas.
Miami: Ediciones Universal, 2002.

"Después de Hilma Contreras : las narradoras dominicanas del siglo XXI ".
SECOLAS Annals (2002).

"Despertar de un sueño: Exilio, hogar y familia en Soñar en cubano".
MaComère, 4 (2001): 165-172.

"El Caribe, identidad y nación en "Encancaranublado" de Ana Lydia Vega".
Diáspora, 11 (2001): 52-58.

Book reviews

Fey, Ingrid E., and Karen Racine (eds.). Strange Pilgrimages. Exile, Travel, and National Identity in Latin America, 1800-1990s.
South Eastern Latin Americanist XLVI 1-2 (2002): 106-109.

Tamames, Ramón and Sebastián Quesada. Imágenes de España. Panorama de la formación de España y de las culturas hispánicas.
For McGraw-Hill Higher Education (2002).

Arribas, Inés. La literatura de humor en la España democrática. Hispania 83:2 (2000): 159-160.

Glusker, Susannah Joel. Anita Brenner: A Mind of Her Own. For Letras Femeninas XXV (1999): 222-223.

Textbooks

Blake, Robert J. and Javier Blasco. Tesoros. A Multimedia-Based Course. Series of online exercises for the Atlas Cultural section
on the Tesoros Website

CONFERENCE PAPERS

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor of Spanish	University of Puget Sound	2002-present
LAS 100		Introduction to Latin American Studies
Spanish 480		Magical Realism: Narrating the Myth in Latin American Literature
Spanish 411		Twentieth Century Latin American Literature Masterpieces
Spanish 260		Advanced Oral Expression
Spanish 250		Culture and Civilization of Latin America
Spanish 201-202		Intermediate Spanish
Assistant Professor of Spanish	University of Puget Sound	1999-2002
FL 380		An Archaeology of the Boom: Modern Latin American Fiction
Spanish 411		Twentieth Century Latin American Literature Masterpieces
Spanish 410		Latin American Literature of the Colony and Independence
Spanish 321		Hispanic Short Story
Spanish 311		Literature of the Americas
Spanish 250		Hispanic Cultural Studies
Spanish 201-202		Intermediate Spanish

Visiting Instructor of Foreign Languages	University of Nebraska-Omaha	1996-99
Spanish 4990		20th c Spanish American Short Story
Spanish 4960		Post-War Spanish Novel
Spanish 3040		Composition and Grammar
Spanish 3030		Conversation and Pronunciation
Spanish 2120		Intermediate Spanish II
Spanish 1110 & 1120		Elementary Spanish I & II

Director of Intensive Lge House Program	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	Summer 1996
Spanish 210H		Spanish Language House (Intermediate Intensive Summer Course)

Graduate Teaching Assistant	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	1992-1996
Spanish 204		Intensive Writing
Spanish 202		Second Year Spanish
Spanish 210H		Spanish Language House
Spanish 201		Second Year Spanish
Spanish 101 & 102		First Year Spanish

WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS

Macromedia Flash MX Workshop Learned how to design and deliver cross-platform, low-bandwidth animations, presentations and web applications using Flash	May 2002
Culpeper Summer Workshop Learned about and tested tools for website hosting, digital photography and video, and graphics software.	June 2001
Murdock Technology Initiative Participated in the planning the contents of the Developing Workshop to be held in July.	May 2001
Mellon Foundation Faculty Fellowship-Intensive Work Week at Middlebury College Provided technical resources for development of on-line project for classes.	June 2000
NorthWest Language Consortium Technology Summer Conference Provided information on multimedia software and other materials available to language professors which will help enhance the quality of foreign language teaching.	August 2000
Mellon Foundation Faculty Mentoring Program at Middlebury College Provided technical support for Faculty home pages and for special on-line projects for classes	June 1999
Learn How To Spin Your Own Web Pages Provided hands-on training on the basics of Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) and taught how to add Graphics, Tables and Links to Web Pages, and how to move these to a Web Server using File Transfer Protocol (FTP)	May 1997
Technology: The Foreign Language Connection Provided the tools to incorporate multimedia technology into the Foreign Language classroom in order to facilitate a more diverse learning environment	October 1996
Teaching for Proficiency Provided techniques to teach the four skills with a Communicative approach to emphasize Proficiency over Achievement	August 1995
ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) Provided training in administering the oral examination for the global assessment of a student's functional speaking ability	May 1995

MEMBERSHIPS

American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese

Asociación de Escritoras de España y las Américas

Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica

Asociation of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars

Modern Language Association

South Eastern Council on Latin American Studies