Spanish
Education
Ph. D., Spanish Literature, The Johns Hopkins University, 1971
M.A., Spanish Literature, The Johns Hopkins University, 1969
Universidad de Madrid, 1968-69 academic year
B.A., 1966, Romance Languages, University Of Oregon Honors College, 1966
Universidad Ibero Americana, Mexico City, summer 1965
Professional and Personal Interests
Books I recommend:
- Marie Arana, American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood
- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quijote
- Dulce Chacon, La voz dormida
- Carmen Laforet, Nada
- Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Terhan, A Memoir in Books
- Chris Stewart, Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Spain
Courses Taught
- Spanish 101/102 Elementary Spanish
- Spanish 201 Intermediate Spanish
- Spanish 336 Survey of Spanish Literature
- Spanish 332 Advanced Composition and Grammar
- Spanish 495 Spanish Senior Seminar
Membership in Professional Societies
- The Comediantes (1992-present)
- Christianity and Literature (1993-present)
- National Association of Christian Foreign Language and Literature Faculty NACFLA (1993-present)
- Sixteenth Century Studies Association (1997-present)
- Modern Language Association (2006-07)
- Midwest Modern Language Association
Research
- Voices of Silence: Contemporary Spanish Women’s Fiction
- Writing Spain: Literature’s Role in the Creation of a Nation
Papers Published and/or Presented
"Comer caliente: The meaning of food in Un calor tan cercano and La voz dormida." Monographic Review / Revista Monografica, Vol XXI (2005), 146-166. Co authored with Christine Kepner.
Preparing Students to Encounter the Other: Mario Vargas Llosas's Lituma en los Andes, Journal of Christianity and Foreign Languages, Spring 05.
Opciones para la vida: A Manual for Intermediate Spanish.
“When Sacred and Secular Intersect: Calderón’s El pintor de su deshonra, Comedia and Auto,” Bulletin of the Commediantes, Vol. 48 No. 2, (Winter 1996).
“Painting as Metaphor: Calderón’s El pintor de su deshonra, Comedia and Auto,” Purdue University Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, 1996; also accepted for publication in Romance Language Annual 1996, Vol. 8.
“The Reel Agianst the Real: Cinema in the Novels of Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Manuel Puig,” Latin American Literary Review, VI (1977): 22-29.