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| Phyllis Mitchell |
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Associate Professor of Spanish
On faculty since 1993
Phone: (630)752-5798
E-mail: Phyllis.Mitchell@wheaton.edu
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| Education |
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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.
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Professional and Personal Interests
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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
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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
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Membership in Professional Societies |
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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
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Voices of Silence: Contemporary Spanish Women’s Fiction
Writing Spain: Literature’s Role in the Creation of a Nation
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"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.
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