MICHAEL UGARTE
Department of Romance Languages
University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, MO 6521l
Tel 573-882-3578; Fax 573-884-8171
Home: 1505 Windsor St.
Columbia, MO 65201
Tel. 573-449-0511
email: [email protected]
Education:
Ph.D 1978 Cornell University (Dissertation directed by Prof. John Kronik)
M.A. 1973 University of Washington
B.A. 1971 University of New Hampshire
Academic Appointments:
Catherine Middlebush Professor, 2006-2009
Catherine Middlebush Professor, 1996-1999
Director of Peace Studies (half-time), Univ. of Missouri, 1992-95
Full Professor, Univ. of Missouri 1990-present
Associate Professor (with tenure), University of Missouri, 1985-90
Visiting Professor, Amherst College, 1982-83
Assistant Professor, University of Missouri, 1979-85
Assistant Professor, Augustana College, 1978-79
Areas of Scholarly Interest:
18th, 19th, and 20th Century Peninsular Literature, Cultural Studies, Hispanic Film,
Literary Theory, Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture, Women's
Literature, Literature and Human Rights, Spain and Africa
Publications (books):
1)Africans in Europe: The Culture of Exile and Emigration from Equatorial Guinea to
Spain, Champaign, IL: Univ. of IL Press. Studies in World Migrations (2010)
Reviews of Africans in Europe:
J.M. Rich, Choice, Dec. 2010, 676-77
Benita Sampedro, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 46.1 (March 2012), 166-68
Guia, Aitana, Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Vol. 36: No. 1
(2011), 200-02
James G. Cantres, Afro-Hispanic Review, Vol. 3: No. 1 (2011), 207-08
Adam, Anthony J. Multicultural Review, Vol 19: No. 3 (2010), 56-57
2) Madrid 1900: The Capital as Cradle of Culture, Penn State University Press, 1996,
Received Choice award for one of "Best Academic Books"
Reviews of Madrid 1900:
John Gabriele, Hispania 80 (1997), 796-97
Susan Larson, Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies1 (1997), 216-17
Roberta Johnson, International Review of Modernism, 1, no. 2 (Spring/Summer, 1998)
Graciela Caneiro-Livingston, Anales de Literatura Española Contemporánea 23, 1-2
(1998) 700-03
Nil Santiáñez-Tío, Hispanic Review, 66 (1998) 487-89
Felipe Fernández Armesto, Times Literary Supplement, Aug. 22, 1997, 29
Edward Baker, South Atlantic Review 64 (1999) 102-05
Juan Ramón Resina, MLN 114 (1999) 423-25
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Virginia Quarterly Review 73:3 (Summer 1997) 84
María Teresa Zubiaurre, Revista Hispánica Moderna, LIII (2000) 279-83
3) Shifting Ground: Spanish Civil War Exile Literature, Durham: Duke U Press, 1989
(completed with support of a Guggenheim Fellowship)
Translation and update of this book: Literatura española del exilio, Madrid: Siglo XXI,
1999
Reviews of Shifting Ground:
Kathleen Glenn, Hispania 73 (1990)
Salvador Jiménez Fajardo, Siglo XX/20th Century 8, no, 1-2 (1990)
Paul Ilie, Romance Quarterly 37, no. 3 (1990) 379-81
Murray Sperber, Modern Fiction Studies 36 (1990) 638-39
Stephen Summerhill, Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea 15 (1990) 34550
P.G.B., Hispanic Journal 108 (1990)
Abigail Lee Six, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 63 (1991) 532
Derek Gagen, Modern Language Review 87 (1992) 782-84
Ignacio Soldevila Durante, Revista Hispánica Moderna 46 (1992), 151-54
Christopher Soufas, Hispanic Review 62 (1994), 126-28
4) Trilogy of Treason: An Intertextual Study of Juan Goytisolo, Columbia: U of MO
Press, 1982 (U of MO Press Curators Award)
Reviews of Trilogy of Treason:
Phyllis Zatlin, Hispania 66 (1983) 298
James Mandrell, Modern Language Notes 100 (1985) 443-47
Bernardo González, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos IX, no. 2 (1985)
Lucille Braun, Kentucky Romance Quarterly 32 (1985) 222-23
W.W. Ritter, The Hollins Critic 19, no. 3 (1982) 16
Luis González-del-Valle, Rocky Mountain Review 37, nos. 1-2 (1983) 118-20
Francis Wyers, Modern Fiction Studies 29 (1983) 807-08
David Herzberger, Modern Language Studies 83 (1983) 137-38
Robert Spires, Anales de la Literatura Eespañola Contemporánea 7 (1982) 174-76
Jo Labanyi, Modern Language Review (1986) 766-67
5) España y su civilización, New York: Random House, 1983 (an edition of a textbook
by Francisco Ugarte, my father); 4th ed. (New York: McGraw Hill, 1992) updated and
revised in collaboration with Prof. Kathleen McNerney; 5th ed., 1998; 6th ed. 2008
6) Shadows of Your Dark Memory. A translation of Donato Ndongo’s Tinieblas de tu
memoria negra, Swan Isle Press, Chicago, 2007
Review of trans. of Shadows:
Brad Epps, “Learning from the Beginning,” Transition 103 (2010), 144-67.
Publications (articles and essays in collections):
• “Spanish Orientalism in Africa: Galdós, the Moroccan Wars, and the End of an
Empire” submitted to a collection titled The End of Empire. Akiko Tsuchiya and Billy
Acree.
• “Hispanism’s Critics and the Compitello Generation” in Capital Inscriptions: Essays
on Hispanic on Literature, Film, and Urban Space in Honor of Malcolm Compitello
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Ed. Benjamin Fraser, Sanchez Cuesta, 65-78.
• "Empires Waxing and Waning: 'Spain is Different' and American Exceptionalism" in
A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula, Fernando Cabo
Aseguinolaza, Anxo Abuín González, César Domíngues eds. Amsterdam: John
Benjamins, 2010, 211-221.
• “Exile, Dissemination, and Homoginization: The Case of Equatorial Guinea as the
Space of a Minority Literature” in Writers in Between LanguaguagesL Minority
Literatures in the Global Scene, ed. Mari Jose Olaziregi, Reno, NV: Center for
Basque Studies, 2009, 255-66.
• “The Question of Race in the Spanish Civil War” in Approaches to Teaching the
Spanish Civil War, ed. Noel Valis, New York: MLA Press, 2007, 108-16
• "Spain's Heart of Darkness: the Narrative of Equatorial Guinea," Journal of Spanish
Cultural Studies 7.3 (2006), 271-87
• "'Soy tú. Soy él': African Immigration and Otherness in the Collective Conscience of
Spain," Studies on Twentieth Century Literature, 30.1 (2006), 170-89
• “Max Aub y la mirada del negro” Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea
30.1-2 (2005), 513-24, also in on-line journal ed. Juan Maróa Calles, Biblioteca
Valenciana
• “Literary Culture in Franco’s Spain” in Cambridge History of Spanish Literature,
David Geis ed., Cambridge University Press (2005), 611-19
• Special Issue of Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies Vol. 8 (2004), coedited with Mbaré Ngom
• "An Introduction to Spanish Post-Colonial Exile: the narrative of Donato Ndongo,"
Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Vol. 8 (2004), 177-84
"La historia y el espacio postmodernos: el Madrid trémulo de Pedro Almodóvar" in
Madrid: de Fortunata a la M-40, ed. Edward Baker and Malcolm Compitello. Madrid:
Alianza, 2003, 353-71
• "Mercè the Great: La Plaça del Diamant on the Canon," Association of Departments
of Foreign Languages Bulletin, Fall 2001, vol 33, No. 1, 41-44
• "From ‘Años del hambre’ to Years of Desire" in Iberian Cities. Joan Ramon Resina
ed., Routledge, 2001, 93-121
• "Working at a Discount: Class Consciousness in Mercè Rodoreda’s La plaça del
Diamant," MLN 114 (1999) 297-314
• "Women and Exile: The Civil War Autobiographies of Constancia de la Mora and
María Teresa León," Letras Peninsulares 11. 1 (1998) 207-22
• "Azorín and the Politics of Modernist Identity," Anales de la Literatura Española
Contemporánea 23, 1-2 (1998), 717-30
• "A Woman Representing Fascism in the Spanish Civil War: the Case of Concha
Espina," Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 1 (1997): 97-114
• "Women War, and Exile: Anna Murià’s Aquest serà el principi," Catalan Review No.
11, vols 1, 2 (1997): 125-34
• "Carmen de Burgos: Feminist Avant La Lettre," in Spanish Women Writers and the
Essay. K. Glenn and Mercedes Rodríguez eds., U of MO Press, 1998, 55-74
• "The Generational Fallacy and Spanish Women Writing in Madrid at the Turn of the
Century." Siglo XX/Twentieth Century 12 (1994), 235-50
• "New Historicism and the Story of Madrid." Anales Galdosianos 25 (1990), 45-52
• "New Historicism and Galdós's Fortunata," Romance Languages Annual 2 (1990),
569-74
• "Testimonios de exilio: desde el campo de concentración a América" in El exilio de
las Españas de 1939, José María Naharro, ed. Editorial Anthropos: Barcelona, 1991, pp.
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43-62
• "Textual Limits: José Cadalso's Noches Lúgubres, Dieciocho, 12, No. 1 (1989), 3-19
• "Luis Cernuda's Poetics of Exile," MLN, 101 (1986), 325-41
• "Max Aub's Labyrinth of Exile" Hispania, 68, No. 4 (1984), 733-39
• "Tiempo de silencio and the Language of Displacement," MLN, 96 (1981), 340-57
• "Juan Goytisolo's Mirrors," Modern Fiction Studies, 26 (1980), 612-23
• "Juan Goytisolo: Unruly Disciple of Américo Castro," Journal of Spanish Studies:
Twentieth Century, 7 (1979), 353-64
Publications (short translations):
• "El sueño," Iowa Review, 36/2 Fall 2006, 75-79
• First chapter of Las tinieblas de tu memoria negra by Donato Ndongo, Raritan Vol.
24 (summer 2004), 1-11 (also contains my commentary); translation of entire novel under
contract, Swan Isle Press)
• “Los hijos de la tribu” (Chapter One) by Donato Ndongo, Transitions, 103 (2010),
132-43.
Publications (critical review articles):
• "Response to Saint Ignatius of Laval," Revista Hispánica Moderna 44 (1993), 198201
• "North of the Border," The Nation, Oct.16, 2000, 40-42
• On Artemio Precioso y la novela corta, Manuel Martínez Arnaldos, ed. Revista
Hispánica Moderna, 52 (1999), 265-68
• On Defying Male Civilization, Mary Nash, Letras Peninsulares 9 (1996-97), 467-72
• "El planeta de Verdú" El País, Sept. 4, 1996, 10
• "Still Seriously Dead," Review of Franco: A Biography, The Nation, Jan. 2, 1995,
24-26
• "Robert Spires's Transparent Simulacra," Siglo XX 8 (1990-91) 171-77
• "Dorfman's Children," (on My House is Burning) The Nation, Feb. 19, 1990, 245-47
• "Cela Vie," (on Cela's winning the Nobel Prize) The Nation, Nov. 27, 1989, 646-50
Miscellaneous cultural/political commentary in local commercial media:
“Illegal Immigration Answer Lies in Mexico,” Columbia Daily Tribune, Aug. 15,
2010
• "Art of Censorship Alive-Well," "Beyond the Soundbite" column for Columbia Daily
Tribune: Sept, 2, 2007.
• Robbie Lieberman's Prairie Power: Voices of 1960s Midwestern Student Protest,"
Peace Perspectives, vol. 2 (2006), 129-33
• "Guinea Ecuatorial y el 'otro' español," www.asodegue.org, Sept. 11, 2006
• "New Middle East is Dead on Arrival," "Beyond the Soundbite" column for
Columbia Daily Tribune: Aug. 27, 2006
• "UM Should Denounce Illegal Detentions" (co-authored) "Beyond the Soundbite"
column for Columbia Daily Tribune: Nov. 27, 2005
• “Bush's Hypocrisy y Merits Regime change At Home," "Beyond the Soundbite"
column for Columbia Daily Tribune: Jan. 2004
• "Imperios" (about the invasion and occupation of Iraq from a Hispanic perspective)
presentation for Hispanic Faculty Staff Association, Univ. of Missouri, 2003
• Translation and Commentary on “Explico algunas cosas” by Pablo Neruda” in the
light of Sept 11, Adelante (bilingual monthly new magazine), supplement to Columbia
Missourian, Sept., 2002
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• "Mexico's Real Test," on Mexican elections, Columbia Tribune, Aug. 6, 2000
• "Issues Swept Under the Platform," Vox Magazine, Nov. 2, 2000
• "Let Universities Work Out Language Problems," Op-ed for St. Louis Post Dispatch,
March 28, 2000
• "March Against Tyranny," Vox Magazine, supplement to the Columbia Missourian,
on School of the Americas in Ft. Benning Georgia, March 16, 2000
• "Economic Setbacks Amid the Culture Wars” Saint Louis Post Dispatch, Feb. 13,
1996
• "Botched Execution” Columbia Missourian, June 1995
• "Lani Guiniere is Coming" Columbia Missourian, March 1995
• "A Generation of Destruction--A Generation of Introspection” Columbia Missourian,
Dec. 19, 1993
• "Noam Chomsky's Political Reality," Columbia Missourian April 5, 1991
Interviews:
“Interview With Donato Ndongo,” Special Issue of Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural
Studies Vol. 8 (2004), 217-34.
“Encuentro con Inongo-Vi-Makomé,” Afro-Hispanic Review, Vol. 30, no. 1 (2011), 16578.
Reviews of scholarly publications:
• Carme Riera's A Matter of Self Esteem and Other Stories, English translation from
the Catalan by Roser Caminals and Holly Cashman, Catalan Review.
• Angel Louriero's The Ethics of Autobiography: Replacing the Subject in Modern
Spain (Vanderbilt U Press) for Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea, 26,
no.2 (2001), 230-32
• Carmen Urioste, Narrativa andaluza: erotismo, feminismo y regionalismo for España
Contemporánea.
• Julie Jones, A Common Place: The Representation of Paris in Spanish American
Fiction, in Revista Hispánica Moderna, 52 (1999), 548-50.
• Epps, Bradley. Significant Violence, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos.
• Susan L. Fischer (ed.). Self Conscious Art in España Contemporánea 11.2 (1998)
102-04.
• Antonio Sánchez Barbudo, Sueños de grandeza Revista de Estudios Hispánicos in
Revista de Estudios Hispáncos 20 (1996):518-19.
• Herzberger, David. Narrating the Past: Fiction and Historiography in Postwar Spain
in South Atlantic Review 61 (1996), 171-73.
• Kaplan, Temma. Red City, Blue Period: Social Movements in Picasso’s Barcelona in
Letras Peninsulares (Spring, 1994), 371-73.
• Pérez, Janet and Aycock, Wendell eds., The Spanish Civil War in Literature in
Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea, 16 (1991), 431-433.
• Abigail Lee Six, Juan Goytisolo: The Case for Chaos in Anales de la Literatura
Española Contemporánea, 16 (1991), 438-440.
• John Sinnigen, Narrativa e ideología in Anales de la Literatura Española
Contemporánea, 8 (1983), 244-50.
• Jorge Luis González, La galería (short stories), in Hispania, 56 (1973), 1127-28.
Conference Papers:
• “Where do We Fit: The Place of Afro-Hispanic Studies in Spanish Curricula,”
Third International Conference on Afro-Hispanic Studies, Accra, University of Ghana,
Aug. 2011
• “Spanish Orientalism in Africa: Alarcón, Galdós, The Moroccan Wars, and the End
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of an Empire,” Conference on Empire’s End, Washington University, Feb. 2012.
• “Exile, Immigration, Emigration, and Globalization,” Plenary Presentation for Conf
on Diaspora in the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian World, Miami University (Ohio),
Nov. 12, 2010. Versions of this paper were presented at invited lectures at University of
Illinois, Champaign Sept. 2010, University of Virginia-Charlottesville, and University of
Wisconsin, Roberto Sánchez Distinguished Lecture, April 2009.
• Exilio, emigración, inmigración: Los ensayos de Inongo Vi Makomé, Congreso
Internacional de Estudios Literarios Afro-Hispánicos, Madrid-Univ. de Alcalá de
Henares, Oct. 6, 2010.
• “Translating Mercè Rodoreda,” Conference on Translation, University of Vic
(Catalonia), March, 2010.
• "Translating Donato Ndongo," 1st International Conference on Afro-Hispanic
Studies Across the Disciplines, Accra, Ghana, Aug. 2007
• "El sincretismo en Ekomo de María Nsue," Conference on Spanish in Africa,
Cooperación Española, Malabo Equatorial Guinea, July 2006
• "Materia reservada: Guinea Ecuatorial," MLA convention, Dec. 2005
• "Exile or Immigration?: Spain in the Age of Globalization," Invited paper, Brown
University, 2005
• "La mirada del 'otro' africano" MMLA Conf. St. Louis, 2004
• "Inmigración en Madrid: Cómo ser negro y no morir en Aravaca de Francisco
Zamora" Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Conf. Madrid 2003
• "Exilio en Blanco y Negro" invited presentation for Department of Hisp. Studies
Brown University, Oct. 17, 2002
• “The Case of Donato Ndongo” invited presentation at University of Miami, Sept. 9,
2002
• “Moslem Spain in the Wake of Sept. 11” invited lecture Hamilton College, March
2002
• "El borroso nacionalismo de Donato Ndongo," Conference on Globalization and
Nationalism, Vigo Spain, Oct. 2001
• Panelist in an MLA convention Dec. 2000 special session on "Teaching Texts in
Translation." I discussed Merçe Rodoreda's La plaça del diamant in translation in our
Honors Humanities course
• "Exilio y compromiso de Donato Ndongo." Conference paper at Ohio State on
Contemporary Spain, Nov. 2000
• "Exilio y compromiso" invited keynote presentation. Conference on The State of
Iberoamerican Studies Univ. of Minnesota, April, 2000
• "Langston Hughes and the Spanish Civil War," Univ. of Missouri onference on AfroHispanic Lit., May 1999
• "Mercè Rodoreda y la clase social," Bayamón, Puerto Rico, November 15, 1998
• "Unamuno y la ciudad," Asociación International de Hispanistas, Madrid, July 6,
1998
• "Azorín: Portrait of a ‘Paleto’ as a Young Man," Wooster College, April 15, 1998
• "Azorín: Modernist In Spite of Himself,” MMLA Convention, November 1997
• "Concha Espina’s Fascist Narratives," Michigan State Univ., Conference, Oct. 1997
• "¡Ay, Carmela!: Film and Play" West Virginia Univ. Colloquium, October 1996
• "Discurso político de Concha Espina," Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas,
Birmingham, UK, Aug. 1995
• "Ensayos de Carmen de Burgos," Asociación de Hispanistas, Madrid, July 1995
• "Post-Preliminaries for an Exploration of Madrid Writing at the Turn of the Century,”
Univ. of Kansas, Mid-American Hispanic Literature Conference, Sept. 1994 (I delivered
this paper also at the MLA Convention, San Diego, 1994)
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• "The Generational Fallacy and Spanish Women's Writing at the Turn of the Century"
Univ. Colorado, November 1993
• "The film adaptation of Los santos inocentes" Portland Cine-Lit Film Conference,
February, 1993
• "Galdós Representing Madrid," Mid-America Hispanic Literature Conference, Oct.
1992
• "Feminist Narratives of Madrid at the Turn of the Century," American Association of
Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Aug. 1992
• "The City as Esperpento," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, March 1992
• "New Historicism and the Story of Madrid," MMLA, Kansas City, Nov. 1990
• "New Historicism and Galdós's Fortunata," Purdue Univ. Oct. 1990
• "Exile as Memory," MLA Convention, Dec. 1989
• Keynote Presentation: "Del campo de concentración a América: testimonios del exilio
español de 1939," University of Maryland, Oct. 1989
• "El Largo viaje de exilio de Jorge Semprún," American Association of Teachers of
Spanish and Portuguese Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, July 1989
• "Two readings of Madrid's History: Galdós and Martín Santos," Kentucky Foreign
Language Conference, May 1989
• "La insorportable levedad del ser: el exilio mexicano de intelectuales españoles
republicanos," Mid-America Hispanic Conference, Washington Univ., Oct. 1988
• "An Exile Returns Playing the Blind Chicken: Max Aub's La gallina ciega," Mich.
State Univ. Conf. on Lit. of Spanish Civil War, Nov. 87
• "Language and Exile in Luis Cernuda," MLA Convention, Dec. 1985 "Reflections on
a Theory of Exile Writing," MLA Convention, Dec. 1986
• "Social Realism in Post-Civil War Spanish Theater," MLA Convention, Dec. 1984
• "Spanish Exile Narrative: Theory and Practice," University of Michigan, Nov. 1983
• "The Politics of Self-Reflection in Makbara," Mountain Interstate Foreign Language
Conference, Wake Forest Univ., Oct. 1982
• "Tiempo de silencio and Ironic Discourse," LA CHISPA, New Orleans, Feb., 1982
• "Uncritical Social Criticism of Luis Martín Santos," University of Georgia, April
1981
• "Max Aub's Aesthetic of Exile," MLA Convention, Dec. 1981
• "Carmen Martín Gaite's Open Enclosures," MLA 20th century peninsular meeting,
Dec. 1981
• "Problems of the Writer-Critic: Directions in Contemporary Hispanic Writing,"
Romance Languages Lecture Series, Univ. of Feb. 1981
• "Intertextuality in the Hispanic World," Conference on
Structuralism/Poststructuralism, Univ. of Missouri, April, 1980
• "La crítica literaria de Juan Goytisolo," Congreso de la Novela de Posguerra, San
Juan, Puerto Rico, Nov. 1979
To Appear:
• “Cortes fronterizos:Circunsiciones en Las tinieblas de tu memoria negra de
Donato Ndongo y Une vie de Boy de Ferdinand Oyono” forthcoming in Revista
Iberoamericana
• “Hispanism’s Crisis and the Compitello Generation” forthcoming in a homage
collection for Malcolm Compitello”
Awards and Grants:
• 2010 Kemper Teaching Award, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia
• 2006-07 Research Leave, Research Council
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• 2006-2009 Catherine Middlebush Chair in Romance Languages
• 2006 Martin Luther King for Outstanding Work and Making a Difference in Our
Community, Martin Luther King Award Association, Columbia, MO
• 2006 International Travel Grant, Research Council
• 2003 Peace Studies Award for Lifetime Achievement
• 2001 Peace Award from Mid-Missouri Peaceworks
• 2001 Recipient of UMC Diversity Award for Human Rights from Vice Provost ($400
prize which I donated to KOPN radio)
• Catherine Paine Middlebush Chair in Romance Languages 1996-99
• Univ. of Missouri Research Board Grant for subvention of translation of Shifting
Ground, 1997
• Univ. of Missouri Research Council Leave, fall 1995
• Univ. of Missouri Research Council Grant on Madrid, 1992
• Univ. of Missouri Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Research in Arts and
Humanities, 1991
• Univ. of Missouri Research Council Leave for book on the literature of Madrid,
1989-1990
• Weldon Spring Humanities Grant, Summer 1988
• Univ. of Missouri Research Council Grant to supplement Guggenheim Fellowship,
1985-1986
• Guggenheim Fellowship, 1985-1986 for book on exile literature of the Spanish Civil
War, full salary
• Univ. of Missouri Fellowship, 1984, "Poetry of Luis Cernuda"
• Univ. of Missouri Curators Award for Trilogy of Treason, 1982 (given by UM Press
for best book published by Assistant Prof.)
• Univ. of Missouri Summer Fellowship, 1980, "Spanish Exile Literature"
Consulting (tenure and promotion):
Wichita State Univ., Cornell Univ., CUNY-Lehman College (2); Duke Univ., Hamilton
College (2); University of Maryland; Virginia Tech.University; University of New York
(Binghamton) (2); University of Virginia, University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa);
University of Texas (El Paso); Purdue Univ.; Harvard Univ.; Wayne State Univ.; Smith
College; SUNY-Buffalo; SUNY-Albany; SUNY-Stony Brook; Brown University; Univ.
of Washington; Arizona State Univ.; University of Florida (2); George Washington
University; Wesleyan University, University of New Hampshire; Univ. of Pittsburgh
(Bradford); Louisiana State University; Notre Dame Univ., Miami Univ. (FL), University
of Oregon-Eugene; University of Toronto, Michigan State University, University of PAAltoona, Washington University (St. Louis)
Consulting (book manuscript evaluation):
Cambridge Univ. Press; Duke Univ. Press (four book manuscripts); University of Texas
Press; University of Missouri (two book manuscripts); Vanderbuilt Univ Press; many
evaluations for journals
Teaching/undergraduate:
All levels of Spanish language and literature; TA supervision for 3rd semester course;
Intro. to literature; upper level courses: 18th and 19th century poetry; 20th century
Spanish novel (special emphasis on works by women); 20th century Spanish drama, 20th
century Spanish poetry, History and Literature of the Spanish Civil War, Spanish film
adaptations; Spanish Civilization, a writing intensive course in which I guided and
supervised the instruction of graduate students; Peace Studies: Introduction to Peace
Studies (4 times), Images of War and Peace, Peace Internships;
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7 Writing Intensive courses
Graduate teaching:
Seminars:
Age of Sensibility in Spain 18th/19th century
Spain in Africa/Africa in Spain
20th Century Spanish Novel
Modern Critical Theory and the Spanish Novel: 19th and 20th centuries (taught twice)
Poetry of Displacement (Exile poetry of Spain and Latin America)
The Poetic Group of 1927
19th Century Spanish Realist Novel (taught twice)
Spain in the "Age of Sensibility" (late 18th and early 19th century)
Post-Civil-War Spanish Narrative
Spanish Detective Fiction
Twentieth-Century Spanish Poetry
19th Centiry Spanish Novel and the Construction of the Spanish Nation
Spain in Africa/Africa in Spain
Directed 9 Dissertations
Donald Kuderer, Robert Baum, Cynthia Parker, Kelley Hargrave, Maite Núñez Betelu,
Ana Carballal, Juan Antonio de Urda, Kathleen Fueger (with Ana Rueda), Chad
Montuari (Presently chairing committees of 3 graduate students; I serve on
11 doctoral committees
Service and Administration (UMC):
2010:
Acting Director of Gradiuate Studies
Chair, Search Committee
Chair Peace Studies Programming Committee
2009:
Chair Peace Studies Progeamming Committee
Afro-Romance Institute
2008:
Afro-Romance Institute
Organized several lectures by outside scholars and/or writers
Graduate Studies Committee
2006-07:
On Research Leave
2005:
Graduate Studies
Lectures Committee
2004:
Lectures Committee
Search Committee
Afro-Romance Institute
2003:
Search Committee (Dept.)
Tenure, Promotion Evaluation (Dept.)
Arts and Science Tenure and Promotion Committee
UMC Faculty Students and Staff Concerned About Democracy and Public Knowledge
2002-2003:
Associate Chair of Romance Languages
Campus Writing Board
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Arts and Science Tenure and Promotion Committee
Board of Directors Centro Latino
Board of Directors (Vice President) Adelante (bilingual newspaper)
2001-2002:
Associate Chair of Romance Languages (Winter semester)
Campus Writing Board
Board of Directors Centro Latino
Board of Directors (Vice President) Adelante
2000-2001:
Service Learning Facilitator
Undergraduate Studies Committee
Facilitated Films on Moslem Women
1999-2000:
Recruitment Comm.
Advisory Comm.
Film Series
Advisor of Amnesty International
Hispanic Heritage Month
Board of Directors Adelante (bilingual newspaper)
1998-1999:
Department Advisory Committee
Film Series
Undergraduate Studies Committee
Peace Studies Committee
1997-1998:
Undergraduate Studies Committee
Evaluation of Guadalajara Program, Mexico
Madrid Summer Program (implemented budgetary and curricular changes)
Departmental Advisory Committee
Search Committee for Portuguese position
Peace Studies Committee
1996-1997:
Departmental Advisory Committee
Graduate Studies Committee
Research Council
With International Center established foreign study in Alicante and Almería, Spain
Search Comm. for Vice Provost for Research (cont.)
1995-1996: On Research Leave
Initiated exchange program with University of Alicante
Search Committee, Vice-Provost for Research
Research Board
1994-1995:
Director of Peace Studies (Planned Curriculum, managed budget, staff and TA’s,
organized lecture by Lani Guinier)
Advisory (or personnel) Committee
Devised departmental policy on Writing Intensive Requirement
1993-1994:
Director of Peace Studies (Offered new courses, increased office budget for equipment
and staff, organized series of presentations on Cuba, fund raising)
Campus Writing Board
Graduate Studies Committee
Advisory (or personnel) Committee
1992-1993:
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Director of Peace Studies (Planned Curriculum, managed budget, managed a staff of four
TAs and one instructor, fund raising, public relations, consultation with Council of Chairs
and Dean of Arts and Science)
Campus Writing Board
Graduate Studies Committee
Journal Evaluation Committee
1991-1992:
Chair Peace Studies Committee (Fall semester, directed search committee for new
interim director, directed writing of short-range planning document, planned curriculum,
supervised teaching of Intro. course, reported to Dean on future of Program)
Campus Writing Board (reported to director on viability of Foreign Language courses
offered as Writing Intensive)
Research Council (Campus: reviewed over 150 proposals for Univ. funded research, was
primary reviewer for over 20 proposals in the Humanities)
1990-1991:
Co-chair Peace Studies Committee (prepared self-study of program, organized faculty
forum on Persian Gulf War, coordinated visit and lecture of Noam Chomsky [over 600
people attended], published article for local newspaper, "Noam Chomsky's Political
Reality")
Departmental Advisory Committee
Graduate Studies Committee
Departmental. Awards Committee
1989-1990: On Research Leave
1988-1989:
Lectures Committee
Chair, Peace Studies Committee
Course Director, Spanish III (3rd Semester Spanish Course)
1987-1988:
Dept. Advisory Committee/salary and personnel
Graduate Studies Committee
Chair of Peace Studies Committee (Campus)
Assessment Task Force
1986-1987:
Founded and Directed First Univ. of Missouri Study in Madrid
Graduate Studies Committee
Campus Task Force on TA Training
Peace Studies Committee (Campus)
1985-1986
During Guggenheim Fellowship year recruited doctoral students study and initiated plans
for study Abroad Program
1984-1985
Departmental Lectures Committee
Latin American Studies Committee
Peace Studies Committee (Campus)
1983-1984:
Visiting Prof., Amherst College
1982-1983:
Departmental Lectures Committee
Moderator, panel on "Latin American Theater Under Dictatorships"
Participant and Reader for Homage to Pablo Neruda
Course Coordinator, Spanish III
Peace Studies Committee
Search Committee
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1981-1982:
Dept. Lectures Committee, Chair Organized International Symposium on Literature of
Hispanic Exile, participants included writers from Argentina, Spain, Mexico
Dept. Search Committee
Peace Studies Committee (Campus)
1980-1981:
Dept. Lectures Committee, Chair Ad-hoc Committee on Revision of By-laws
Peace Studies Committee (Campus)
1979-1980:
"The New Spanish Democracy," informal presentation, Sigma Delta Pi
Lectures Committee
Service and Administration (outside UMC)
• Board of Directors for Bilingual Newspaper, Adelante
• Board of Directors Community Radio, KOPN (volunteer-several years)
• Board of Directors Centro Latino (Columbia, MO)
• Mid-Missouri Peaceworks
• Election Observer in Mexico July, 2000
• Organized and Moderated Special Session on Spanish Crime Fiction forthcoming
MLA Convention, Chicago, Dec. 1999
• Organized and Moderated Special Session on Carmen de Burgos, MLA Convention,
San Diego, Dec. 1994
• NEH Panel Participant to Evaluate Proposals for Translations, Washington DC, Oct.
1994
• Discussant for panel on "Galdós and Precursorship," MMLA, Nov. 1990
• Contributing Editor, Siglo XX
• Organized seminar for local community on Latin American Boom Novel through the
Columbia Public Discussant for panel on "New Literary Theory and the Canon of
Peninsular Lit. After 1700," MMLA, 1988
• Organized visit of Spanish feminist, Lidia Falcón, Amherst College, 1983
• "Bridging the Gap: Cultural Relations Between Spain and Latin America" informal
paper Amherst College, 1983
• "Contemporary Spanish Politics," Interviewed for radio program, July 1982
• Co-editor Annual Bibliography of Year's Work in 20th-century Peninsular Spanish,
Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea, 1982
• Translation of Juan Goytisolo's "La literatura como delincuencia" for 20-cent. lit.
symposium, Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
• Letter to Hispania, "On Menton's Manifesto," 63 (1980), 70.