CATHY L. JRADE
Address
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Box 35-1617-B
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee 37235-1617
Home Address 115 Savoy Circle
Nashville, Tennessee 37205
Telephone
(615) 298-2528 (Home)
(615) 322-6919 (Office)
(615) 322-6930 (Department)
Departmental FAX
E-mail
(615) 343-7260
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Education
Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies, 1974
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912
A.M. in Hispanic Studies, 1971
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912
B.A. in Spanish, 1969, Summa cum laude
Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, New York 11367
Teaching Experience
Chancellor’s Professor of Spanish
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, 2007Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
Vanderbilt, University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, 1998-2007
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, 1987-1998
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, 1982-1987
Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, 1976-1982
Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,
Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, 1975-1976
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Honors and Awards
Elected to the Executive Committee of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, a
subdivision of the MLA, December 2008
Awarded a CLAIS Faculty Curriculum Development Grant, March 2007
Named Joseph G. Astman Distinguished Scholar by Hofstra University, 2006Appointed to
Advisory Board of Penn State Romance Studies, 2005
Awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for research on Delmira
Agustini: A Modernist on her own Terms, 2004-2005.
Elected to the editorial board of the Revista Iberoamericana in the field of nineteenth-century
Spanish American literature, 2002-2006, re-elected to second term, 2006-2010
Scholar-in-residence, Brigham Young University, March 10-16, 2002.
Named to a three-year term on the Editorial Board of the South Atlantic Review, Winter 2001
Spence Wilson Fellow and Co-Director of the Fellows Program of the Robert Penn Warren
Center for the Humanities entitled “Rediscovering the New World: Exploring Lines of Contact
among the Americas and Within the United States,” Vanderbilt University, 2000-2001
Modernismo, Modernity, and the Development of Spanish American Literature, published by
University of Texas Press, named a Choice Magazine 1999 Outstanding Academic Title
University Research Council Direct Research Support Grant, Vanderbilt University, 1997
Election to the Executive Committee of the MLA Division "Latin American Literature from
Independence to 1900," December 1996 (term from 1997 to 2000)
Fellow of the Robert Penn Warren Humanities Center Program on "Science and Society,"
Vanderbilt University, 1994-1995
University Research Council Summer Faculty Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, 1993
University Research Council Summer Faculty Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, 1989
Kenan-Venture Fund Grant, Vanderbilt University, 1988
Grant-in-Aid of Research, Indiana University, 1987
West European Summer Faculty Research Grant, Indiana University, 1986
Woodrow Wilson Faculty Development Grant, 1984-1985
Election to the Executive Committee of the MLA Division "Latin American Literature to 1900,"
1982
Hispania award for best article on Latin American literature during 1979-1980, 1981
President's Council on the Humanities, Indiana University, 1981
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Honors and Awards (continued)
President's Council on International Programs, Indiana University, 1980
Indiana University Summer Faculty Fellowship, 1979
Indiana University International Travel Grant, 1977
Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship, 1972-1973
Brown University Fellowship, 1969-1970, 1971-1972
Kenyon Fellowship, 1970-1971
Sigma Delta Pi (Spanish Honors Society),
Honors in Spanish, B.A.
Phi Beta Kappa
Books
Delmira Agustini: Sexual Seduction and Vampiric Conquest, under contract with Yale University
Press
Modernismo, Modernity, and the Development of Spanish American Literature, Boulder,
Colorado: NetLibrary, 2000 (www.NetLibrary.com).
Modernismo, Modernity, and the Development of Spanish American Literature, Austin: University
of Texas Press, 1998.
(Reviews: Arrington, Melvin S., Jr.; World Literature Today, Norman; Autumn 1999; Vol. 73, Iss.
4; p. 707; Anonymous; The Virginia Quarterly Review, Charlottesville; Summer 1999; Vol. 75,
Iss. 3; p. 82; Gomez, G; Choice, Middletown; May 1999; Vol. 36, Iss. 9; pp. 1624-1625;
Swanson, Philip; TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, London; Jan 22, 1999, Iss. 4999; p. 33;
Oxford, Jeffrey, South Central Review, Texas A&M University; Winter 1999-Spring 2000, Vols.
16-17, Numbers 4 and 1; pp. 114-155; Lewis, Bart; Hispania, University of Mississippi; March
2000; Vol. 83, Number 1; pp. 72-73; Martínez, José María; Revista Iberoamericana, Pittsburgh;
enero-marzo 2000; núm. 190; pp. 200-202; Aldama, Frederick Luis; Latin American Research
Review, Albuquerque; 2002; Vol. 37, Iss. 3, pp. 201-218.)
Rubén Darío y la búsqueda romántica de la unidad: El recurso modernista de la tradición
esotérica, an augmented version of the earlier work, translation with the assistance of the author,
Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1986.
(Review: Rodríguez Hernández,Sixto; Texto Crítico, Xalapa, Veracruz; January- June 1988; Vol.
14, Iss. 38. pp. 147-151.)
Rubén Darío and the Romantic Search for Unity: The Modernist Recourse to Esoteric Tradition,
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983.
(Reviews: Woodbridge, Hensely C. ; Revista Interamericana de Bibliografía/ Inter-American
Review of Bibliography; 1983; Vol. 33, Iss. 4; p. 591; Irving, E. U.; World Literature Today,
Norman; Spring 1984; Vol. 58; p. 248; Gerdes, Dick; Hispanic American Historical Review;
August 1984; Vol 64; pp. 598-599; Anonymous; Review, 1984; Vol 32; p. 67; Shaw, D.L.; Modern
Language Review, 1985; Vol 80; pp. 482-483; Farakos, Mary; Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos,
1985; Iss. 415; pp. 168-173;
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Edited Volume
Rethinking the Americas: Crossing Borders and Disciplines, collected essays from the Robert
Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Symposium of the same name, Vanderbilt University,
April 4-6, 2002, 2004.
Chapters in Books
“Spanish American Modernismo,” Modernism: Comparative History of Literatures in European
Languages. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007, 817-830.
"Modernist Poetry," The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature, ed. Roberto González
Echevarría and Enrique Pupo-Walker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, 2: 7-68.
"Annotated Bibliography on Modernist Poetry," The Cambridge History of Latin American
Literature, ed. Roberto González Echevarría and Enrique Pupo Walker. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1996, 3: 595-613.
Articles
“Dead Lovers and Other Frightening Visions: How Agustini Re-Writes Darío,” The Hofstra
Hispanic Review, in press.
“Rubén Darío como el ‘otro’ fantasmal en Los cálices vacíos de Delmira Agustini,” “Dossier:
Rubén Darío,” Cuadernos del CILHA (Centro Interdisciplinario de Literatura Hispanoamericana
de la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo), año 10, no. 11, 2009, 55-73.
“Assessing the Present Foreign Language Major and Offering Strategies to Improve It,” ADFL
Bulletin, vol. 41, no. 2, 2009, 83-87 (www.adfl.org/bulletin).
“El erotismo literario de Agustini: Apoderándose de Darío,” Memoria del XIX Coloquio de
literatura mexicana e hispanoamericana. Hermosillo, Sonora: Universidad de Sonora, 2005, 1734.
“La respuesta dariana a la hegemonía científica,” (Monográfico especial sobre Rubén Darío)
Crítica Hispánica. Vol. 27, núm. 2 (2005), 169-186.
“Rubén Darío y su contexto: El mundo modernista,” Miradas críticas sobre Rubén Darío. Ed.
Nicasio Urbina. Fundación Internacional Rubén Darío, 2005, 49-67.
“Modernization, Feminism, and Delmira Agustini,” Rethinking the Americas: Crossing Borders
and Disciplines, ed. Cathy L. Jrade, collected essays from the Robert Penn Warren Center for the
Humanities Symposium of the same name. Nashville: Vanderbilt University, 2004, 86-95.
“Agustini y Darío: Una lucha entre deseos poéticos,” La literatura iberoamericana en el 2000:
Balances, Perspectivas y prospectivas. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2003,
619-625.
"Modernism on Both Sides of the Atlantic," Anales de la literatura española contemporánea
(Special issue devoted to modernity), 23 (1998), 181-196.
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Articles (continued)
"César Vallejo's España, aparta de mí este cáliz: The Struggle Between Two Modes of
Discourse," Hispanic Journal, 18 (Spring 1997), 125-134.
"De sobremesa: novela modernista, novela moderna," Revista Casa Silva: Silva, su obra y su
época, ed. J. Eduardo Jaramillo. (Bogota: Casa de Poesía Silva, 1997) 203-213.
"Martí Confronts Modernity," Imagining a Free Cuba: Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and José
Martí, ed. José Amor y Vázquez, Providence, R.I.: Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International
Studies, 1996, 59-75. Also published in Re-Reading Martí: One Hundred Years Later, ed. Julio
Rodríguez Luis (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999) 1-15. Spanish version
published as “Poesía y compromiso político: Martí ante la modernidad,” La Torre núms. 1-2
(1996): 55-69.
"Latin America's Search for a Modern Mode of Discourse: Rubén Darío Courts Eulalia,"
Recreaciones: Ensayos sobre la obra de Rubén Darío, ed. Iván A. Schulman (Hanover, N.H.:
Ediciones del Norte, 1992) 147-163.
"Socio-Political Concerns in the Poetry of Rubén Darío," Latin American Literary Review 36
(1990): 36-49. Reprinted in Vol. 3, From Romanticism to Modernismo in Latin America, of
Spanish American Literature: A Collection of Essays. ed. David William Foster and Daniel
Altamiranda. Hamden, Ct.: Garland Publishing, 1998.
"El Modernismo y la Generación del '98: Ideas afines, creencias divergentes," Texto Crítico, 38
(1988): 15-29 [appeared Spring 1990].
"César Vallejo y el barroco," Insula 508 (1989): 22-23.
"La poesía de César Vallejo y su perspectiva política," Actas del VIII Congreso de la Asociación
Internacional de Hispanistas, ed. A. David Kossoff et al. (Madrid: Ediciones Istmo, 1986), II, 6168.
"La prosa de Darío: El combate entre los viejos misterios y la ciencia moderna," epilogue to
Rubén Darío y la búsqueda romántica de la unidad, 1986, 183-194.
"El significado de un vínculo textual inesperado: Rayuela y 'Tuércele el cuello al cisne,'" Revista
Iberoamericana, 47 (Jul.-Dec. 1981): 145-154.
"Rubén Darío and the Oneness of the Universe," Hispania, 63 (1980): 691-698.
"Tópicos románticos como contexto del modernismo," Cuadernos Americanos, Año 39, Vol. 233,
No. 6 (Nov.-Dec. 1980): 114-122. An earlier version of this article was published in
Texto/Contexto en la literatura iberoamericana, ed. Keith McDuffie and Alfredo Roggiano (Madrid:
Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 1980), 173-180.
"Las creencias ocultistas y el sincretismo filosófico de Rubén Darío," Texto Crítico, 5, no. 12 (Jan.
1979): 225-233.
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Notes
“Shifts in Teaching Philosophy during the Past One Hundred Years,” PMLA: Special Millenium
Issue, 115, no. 7 (December 2000): 2007-2008.
“Introduction” to Border Crossings: Boundaries of Cultural Interpretation, the Proceedings of the
2008 Graduate Student Conference held at Vanderbilt University in October 2008.
Encyclopedia Entries
th
“Modernismo,” Princeton Encyclopedia de Poetry and Poetics, 4 edition, forthcoming, April
2011.
Reviews
Verses Against the Darkness: Pablo Neruda's Poetry and Politics by Greg Dawes, Hispania, 91
(March 2008): 200-2001.
The Routes of Modernity: Spanish American Poetry from the Early Eighteenth to the MidNineteenth Century by Andrew Bush, Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, 7 (2003
[appeared in 2005]): 269-270.
Selected Prose and Prose-Poems by Gabriela Mistral, edited and translated by Stephen
Tapscott, Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, 7 (2003 [appeared in 2005]): 281-282.
Orientalismo en el modernismo hispanoamericano by Araceli Tinajero, Hispania, 87.4 (December
2004): 737-738.
La mujer en Martí: En su pensamiento, obra y vida by Onilda A. Jiménez, Hispania, 85.1 (March
2002): 81-82.
Fuerza invisible: Lo divino en la poesía de Rubén Darío by Louis Bourne, Hispania, 84.2 (May
2001): 244-245.
In the Presence of Mystery: Modernist Fiction and the Occult by Howard M. Fraser, South Atlantic
Review, 58 (1993): 139-141.
Poesías inéditas by Rubén Darío, edited by Ricardo Llopesa, Insula 530 (1991): 8-9.
An Art Alienated from Itself: Studies in Spanish American Modernism by Priscilla Pearsall,
Hispania, 68 (1985): 525-526.
Poetry of Discovery: The Spanish Generation of 1956-71 by Andrew P. Debicki, The Bulletin of
the Midwest Modern Language Association, 16 (Fall 1983): 61-63.
La poesía hermética de Octavio Paz by Carlos H. Magis, Hispania, 63 (1980): 160-161.
Celebración del modernismo by Saúl Yurkievich, Latin American Literary Review, 7, No. 13
(1978): 105-108.
Rubén Darío and the Pythagorean Tradition by Raymond Skyrme, Nueva Revista de Filología
Hispánica, 26 (1977): 180-183.
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Reviews (continued)
José Santos Chocano by Phyllis White Rodríguez-Peralta, Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica,
25 (1976): 436-438.
Papers
“Pre-Convention Workshop Job Counseling,” MLA, Los Angeles, January 6, 2011.
“New Chairs Workshop,” ”Advocating for the Department,” “Dealing with Difficult Faculty,” ADFL
Summer Seminar, Colorado Springs, June 16-20, 2010
“Pre-Convention Workshop Job Counseling: Applying to Different Types of Institution and Visa
Applications,” MLA, Philadelphia, December 27, 2009.
“The Academic Workforce.” MLA, Philadelphia, December 29, 2009
“Assessing the Present Foreign Language Major and Bold Strategies to Improve It,” MLA, San
Francisco, December 28, 2008.
“A Language of Her Own: Agustini Re-Writes Modernista Literary Paternity,” Northern Illinois
University, Dekalb, September 2007.
“To Tumble or To Soar: Agustini Confronts Modernista Literary Paternity,” Keynote speaker at
Indiana University’s Fourth Annual Graduate Student Conference on Luso-Brazilian and Hispanic
Literature, Linguistics and Culture, Bloomington, February 24, 2007.
“Dead Lovers and Other Frightening Visions: How Agustini Re-Writes Darío,” Keynote speaker at
“Rubén Darío: 90 Years Later,” Hofstra University, October 27-28, 2006.
“Dead Lovers and Other Frightening Visions: How Agustini Re-Writes Darío,” Yale University,
October 24, 2006.
“Modernista Discourse from a Woman’s Point of View: The Case of Agustini’s Erotic Verse,”
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, April 20-23, 2006.
“The Struggles of Reason and Faith in Spanish American Modernismo,” MLA, Philadelphia,
December 27-30, 2004.
“Agustini’s Sexual Conquest of Modernista Verse,” Brown University, March 10, 2004.
“El erotismo literario de Agustini: Apoderándose de Darío,” Keynote speaker at XIX Coloquio
Internacional de Literatura Mexicana e Hispanoamericana sponsored by el Departamento de
Letras y Lingüística de la Universidad de Sonora and the Department de Languages and
Literatures of the University of Arizona, Tempe, in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, November 12-14,
2003.
“Modernismo’s Female Voice: The Poetic Journey of Delmira Agustini,” Texas Tech University,
April 25, 2003.
“Modernization, Feminism, and Delmira Agustini,” Symposium on “Rethinking the Americas:
Crossing Borders and Disciplines,” Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt
University, April 4-6, 2002.
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Papers (continued)
“Delmira Agustini: Uruguay’s New Woman,” Brigham Young University, March 14, 2002.
“Agustini y Darío: Una lucha entre valores finiseculares,” XXXIII Congreso del Instituto
Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, Salamanca, June 26-30, 2000.
“Turn of the Century Spanish American Poetry,” 2000 Annual Convention of Latin American
Studies Association, Miami, March 16-18, 2000.
Introductory speaker and organizer of session on “Fines de Siglo,” 1999 Annual Convention of
the MLA, Chicago, December 27-30, 1999.
Introductory speaker and organizer of session on “Spanish American Modernism: Before and
After,” 1998 Annual Convention of the MLA, San Francisco, December 27-30, 1998.
“Ties that Bind: Modernism and Modernity,” Modernism and Modernity in Spain and Spanish
America, Brown University, Providence, R.I., September 17-19, 1998.
Introductory speaker and organizer of session on "Modernismo y la Generación del 98," 1997
Annual Convention of the MLA, Toronto, December 27-30, 1997.
"Prosas profanas: What is Old is New," 1996 Annual Convention of the MLA, Washington, D.C.,
December 27-30, 1996.
"De sobremesa: novela modernista, novela moderna," invited lecture, Silva, Su Obra y Su Epoca,
Casa de Poesía Silva, Bogotá, Colombia, May 24-29, 1996.
"Martí Confronts Modernity," invited lecture, Imagining a Free Cuba: Carlos Manuel de Céspedes
and José Martí, Brown University, October 19-20, 1995.
Introductory speaker and organizer of Special Session on "The Relationship between Modernity
and Postmodernity in Spanish American Literature," 1994 Annual Convention of the MLA, San
Diego, December 27-30, 1994.
"Modernismo, Modernity, and Postmodernity: Ways of Knowing, Ways of Writing," 1994 Annual
Convention of the MLA, San Diego, December 27-30, 1994.
"Ideology and the Poetry of Julián del Casal," 1993 Annual Convention of the MLA, Toronto,
December 27-30, 1993.
"Cien años de soledad as a Postmodern Novel," Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities,
Vanderbilt University, April 9 and April 16, 1993.
"North-South Textual Relations in Spanish American Modernism," 1992 Annual Convention of the
MLA, New York, December 27-30, 1992.
"The Future of Hispanic Studies," invited presentation at Round-Table Discussion, Brown
University, Providence, September 28, 1991.
"Sexual Politics in Revolutionary Cuba," Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center, Vanderbilt
University, March 19, 1991.
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Papers (continued)
"Modernist Literary Criticism Reconsidered," 1990 Annual Convention of the MLA, Chicago,
December 27-30, 1990.
"Presencia y ausencia de la cultura colonial en la poesía modernista," XXVIII Congreso del
Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, Providence, June 18-21, 1990.
"Rubén Darío's Political Poetry," International Conference of the Latin American Studies
Association of America, Miami, December 3-6, 1989.
"Latin American Modernism and its European Context," Annual Meeting of the American
Comparative Literature Association, Brandeis University, March 8-11, 1989.
"Modernism: A One-Hundred-Year Retrospective," 1988 Annual Convention of the MLA, New
Orleans, December 27-30, 1988.
"Modernismo and the Generation of '98: Similar Ideas, Different Beliefs," invited lecture,
University of Texas, November 4-6, 1988.
"Latin America's Search for a Modern Mode of Discourse: Rubén Darío Courts Eulalia," invited
lecture, A State-of-the-Art Conference on Rubén Darío: Cultural Tradition and the Process of
Modernization, University of Illinois, May 5-7, 1988.
"César Vallejo: Transcending Literary Categories," 1988 Kentucky Foreign Language
Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April 1988.
Introductory speaker to the session "Modernismo, Modernity, and the Postmodern," 1987 Annual
Convention of the MLA, San Francisco, December 27-30, 1987.
Introductory speaker and organizer of the Division Meeting of Latin American Literature to 1900
on "El modernismo," 1986 Annual Convention of the MLA, New York, December 27-30, 1986.
"César Vallejo's España, aparta de mí este cáliz: The Struggle Between Two Modes of
Discourse," Special Session on "Hispanic Poetry and the Spanish Civil War: A Fifty-Year
Retrospective Study of the Poet's Role in the People's Struggle," 1986 Annual Convention of the
MLA, New York, December 27-30, 1986.
"Woman is the Answer: The First Three Poems of Prosas profanas," 1986 Annual Convention of
the MMLA, Chicago, November 6-8, 1986.
“Modernism and the Generation of '98: Similar Ideas, Different Beliefs," invited lectures at
Vanderbilt University, November 6, 1984, and at SUNY-Binghamton, November 14, 1984.
"Modernism and the Generation of '98: Two Poets, Two Visions," 1984 Annual Convention of the
MMLA, Bloomington, Indiana, November 1-3, 1984.
"Cosmic Order and Disorder in Darío's cuentos fantásticos," 1983 Annual Convention of the MLA,
New York, December 27-30, 1983.
"La poesía de César Vallejo y su perspectiva política," VIII Congreso de la Asociación
Internacional de Hispanistas, Providence, August 22-27, 1983.
"Rubén Darío's 'Coloquio de los centauros,'" invited lecture, Brown University, March 10, 1983.
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Papers (continued)
Introductory speaker and organizer of the Division Meeting of Latin American Literature to 1900
on "José Martí: Centennial of Ismaelillo," 1982 Annual Convention of the MLA, Los Angeles,
December 27-30, 1982.
"Darío's Quest for Language and Transcendence," Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature
Division Meeting, 1981 Annual Convention of the MLA, New York, December 27-30, 1981.
"Amado Nervo y Antonio Machado: Una convergencia poética," XX Congreso del Instituto
Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, Austin, March 24-28, 1981.
"The Modernist as Demiurge," 1980 Annual Meeting of LASA-MALAS, Bloomington, October 1719, 1980.
"The Significance of an Improbable Textual Link: Rayuela and 'Tuércele el cuello al cisne,'" La
Novela en Español, Hoy, Bloomington, September 18-20, 1980.
"Tópicos románticos como contexto del modernismo," XIX Congreso del Instituto Internacional de
Literatura Iberoamericana, Pittsburgh, May 27-June 1, 1979.
"The Hollow Sign: Woman and Myth in the Poetry of Rubén Darío," English Department Series
on Women and the Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington, October 1978.
Introductory speaker and organizer of Special Session on "Doctrinas esotéricas en la literatura
hispánica," 1977 Annual Convention of the MLA, Chicago, December 27-30, 1977.
"Rubén Darío y el ocultismo: La unidad del cosmos," Fifty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the AATSP,
Madrid, August 13-17, 1977.
"Las creencias ocultistas y el sincretismo filosófico de Rubén Darío," XVIII Congreso del Instituto
Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, Gainesville, April 1977.
Coordinator of the Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference and Chairperson of
Session on Spanish American Literature, Blacksburg, October 1976.
"Rubén Darío and Modernism: The Emergence of Latin America's Cultural Autonomy," Annual
Meeting of the Virginia Chapter of the AATSP, Williamsburg, April 1976.
"The Occult in Rubén Darío: 'Helios,'" Brown University, December 1972.
Dissertations Directed
Martínez Diente, El modernismo, in progress
Miseres, Vanesa, Trazos de la nación: discursos de viajeras en el siglo XIX latinoamericano. Vanderbilt
University, 2010.
Sánchez-Samblas, Victoria, Hispanidades transatlánticas: Vicente Blasco Ibánez en las
Américas. Vanderbilt University, 2009.
Nogueira (Peredo), Fatima, Direcciones de la representación del tiempo en el contexto de la
modernidad latinoamericana. Vanderbilt University, 2007
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Dissertations Directed (continued)
Cañete, Carmen,El papel del exilio español en la construcción de identidades culturales
hispanocaribeñas (1934-1956). Vanderbilt University, 2006
Latínez, Alejandro. Narrativas de aprendizaje, narrativas de crecimiento: El personaje adolescente y los
límites del discurso del desarrollo en Latinoamérica entre 1950 y 1971. Vanderbilt University,
2006
Lehnen, Leila. Unimagined Identities: The Questioning of National Identities in Contemporary Latin
American Literature. Vanderbilt University, 2003
Beatson, Jennifer. Self-translation and Re-writing : Rosario Ferré's Maldito amor and Sweet
Diamond Dust. Vanderbilt University, 1998
Petit, Anne. Tiempo y mito en tres obras posmodernas de Carlos Fuentes : Gringo viejo, La
campaña, y El naranjo. Vanderbilt University, 1998
Fenderson, Gail K. Readers and Neophytes : Discourses of Initiation and the Search for Unity
Selected Stories by José Emilio Pacheco. Vanderbilt University, 1998
in
Rivera Villegas, Carmen M. Mujer, nación y modernidad en la obra de Julia De Burgos. Vanderbilt
University, 1997
Sloan, Cynthia Ann Najmulski. Clarice Lispector: Alternate Feminist Readings. Vanderbilt University,
1995
Eire, Ana. La Experiencia de la Escritura: El discurso literario en la lectura de Severo Sarduy. Vanderbilt
University, 1992
Crispin, Ruth Katz. Poetic Individuation: Reading Coleridge and Salinas through Lacan. Vanderbilt
University (Comparative Literature), 1991
Danner, Catherine C. Language and Identity in the Novels of Teresa De La Parra. Indiana University,
1983
Van Meter, Dan. The poetics of Vicente Aleixandre: The Interplay of Nature, History, and
Language. Indiana University, 1980
Ph.D. Exam and Thesis Committees
Gretchen Selcke, Antón García Fernández, Francisco Flores-Cuautle, 2010*, Carolina
Castellanos, 2010*, Scott Infanger, 2009*; David Richter, 2008*; Jacqueline Alvarez, 2006*;
Laura Redruello, 2005*; Martha García, 2005*; Amarilis Ortiz, 2003*; Robert Nasatir, 2002*,
Tracy Hudgins, 2002; Mauricio Almonte, 2002; Jorge Sagastume, 2001*; Anne Connor, 2000*;
Paz Pintané, 1999*; Alvaro González, 1998; Lourdes Bueno, 1997*; Begoña Toral, 1997*; Soraya
Nogueira, 1997*; David García, 1996*, Hossiri Godo-Solo, 1995*; Edgardo Cora, 1991; Christine
Bridges, 1991*; Nuria Novella, 1991*; Gigi Ann Posejpal, 1989; Pablo Garzón, 1987-1989; Libby
Ginway, 1988* (*=dissertations complete and defended)
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Academic Service
Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 1998Grievance Committee Fall 2010 (Martina Urban)
External Reviewer of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Washington,
University, St. Louis, April 2010
Member of the Executive Committee of the ADFL, 2008-2011
Tenure and/or Promotion Evaluator for University of Memphis (Nogueira) 2010, Arizona State
University (Acereda) 2010, University of Miami (Grau-Llevería) 2008, Rutgers University
(Giaudrone) 2008, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (Crispin) 2007, Rider University
(Daria Cohen) 2007,Texas Tech (Alberto ) 2007, Boston University (Adela Pineda) 2006,
Northern Illinois University (Solares Larrave) 2005, Arizona State University (Acereda) 2005,
Brigham Young University (Laraway) 2003.
Reviewer of European Aestheticism and Latin American Modernismo : Art for Art's Sake vs. Art
for Capital's Sake by Kelly Comfort for Ashgate Publishing Company, November 2009
Co-organizer of Colloquium on Poetry: “The Poetics of Hispanism/Poéticas del hispanismo,”
February 2009 and February 2010
Member of the Task Force on Graduate Education, Spring 2009
Outside evaluator for The Research Council of Norway, the project on “Latin-American SelfTranslation: A Historical Perspective and Readings of María Luisa Bombal, Rosario Ferré, and
Jorge Luis Borges,” January 2009
Outside reviewer for McGill-Queens University Press (Catherine Vallejo, Blue Roses:
modernista poets in Cuba, 1880-1910), Summer 2008
Women
Mentor in the Program for Career Development, 2007Member of the Advisory Committee to the Board of Trust Search for a new chancellor, 2007Extra-departmental member of tenure review committee for Jeffrey Ullom, Theatre, 2007-2008
Workshop for Faculty on Graduate Pedagogy, “When Undergraduate Pedagogy Won’t Do,”
March 24, 2008, Vanderbilt University
Member of Committee on Honors Scholarship, 2007Member of the Steering Committee of the Program in Jewish Studies, 2006-2007
Mentor, College Program in Career Advancement and Professional Development (CAPD), 2006Chair of the Promotions and Tenure Review Committee, 2003-2004, 2005-2006
On the Editorial Board of Revista Iberoamericana, Decimonónica, Sirena, and Pórtico.
Reviewed articles for Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies and PMLA.
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External Member of Deborah Lynn Barnard’s Ph.D. Committee; disseration, Marginality and
Mixed Marriage in the Fiction of Albert Memmi, successfully defended October 31, 2003.
Member of the Promotions and Tenure Review Committee, 2002-2003
Spring 2005; Texas Tech, Fall 2003; Brigham Young University, Summer 2003; Vassar
University, January 2002; University of Virginia, University of Kansas, Providence College,
Summer 2001;
M.A. Exams: Fatima Peredo, September 2003
M.A. Exams: Kara Becker, September 2002
Review of The Indigenous Presence in Rubén Darío and Ernesto Cardenal by John Andrew
Morrow for McGill-Queen’s University Press, January 2002
Hillel Board of Directors, 2003-2004 . Vice President and Chair of Program Committee, 20012003
On-Campus lecture: “The Short-Stories of Juan Rulfo,” Fine Arts 234, “Mexico in the Twentieth
Century: History, Literature, Cinema, and Painting,” March 2, 2001
Member of the Strategic Academic Planning Committees for the University and the College of
Arts and Science, June 2000-June 2001
M.A. Exams: Tyler Jones, Robert Turner, Vanessa Valdés, Wang Jing, September 2001
Second Reader of M.A. Thesis, Catherine DeLong, June 2001
M.A. Exams: Lori Lammert, Alejandro Latínez, September 2000
Reader for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Cambridge
University Press; Vanderbilt University Press; Holt, Rinehart and Winston, University of Texas
press, Decimonónica, Discurso Literario, Hispania, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos,
Mosaic, and others, 1986-present
Participant in year-long Service-Learning Seminar, 2000-2001
Panelist on “Teaching Graduate Students,” May Faculty Teaching Conference, Vanderbilt
University, May 9, 2000
Chair of Search Committee for Colonial Literature, 2000-2001; for Golden Age, 1999-2000; for
lecturers in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 1989
Member of Search Committee for Professor of Portuguese, 1992-1994, 1996-1997, 1999-2000;
for Assistant Professor of Second Language Acquisition, 1999-2000; for Outside Chair of the
Department, 1995-1996; for Assistant Professor of Portuguese, 1991-1992; for Chair of the
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 1989-1990;
Director of Graduate Studies, 1991-1998
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Member of the Committee on Educational Programs, 1998-2001
Member of the Humanities and Comparative Literature Committee, 1996-2001
Member of Campus Committee on Jewish Affairs, 1996-2001
Member of College Program Committee, 1995-1997
Member of the Subcommittee on Humanities, 1994-1997
Member of Arts and Science Venture Fund Committee, 1993-1995, 1996-1999, 2000-2001
Second Reader of M.A. Thesis, Joshua Shanholtzer, 1998
Member of Membership Committee of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of Tennessee, 1992-1994, 19971999
Director of Honors Thesis, Blanca Baldoceda, 1995-1996
On-Campus Lecture: "Modernism, Modernity, and the Development of Spanish American
Literature," in Spanish 371, September 20, 1995.
Member of International Studies Advisory Committee, 1993-1995
Election to Faculty Senate and Member of the Senate Committee on Professional Ethics and
Academic Freedom, 1991-1994Member of the College of Arts and Science Committee on
Standards and Procedures, 1989-1991, 1992-1993
Faculty Marshal for Commencement 1992
Outreach Seminar: "European Encounters with the New World," Vanderbilt University March
1992
Member of Humanities Review Committee of the University Research Council, 1992
On-Campus Lectures: "Spanish American Modernism and Antonio Machado" in Spanish 371,
January 24, 1991; "Spanish American Modernism and Darío's 'Sonatina'" in Latin American
Studies 201, February 21, 1991, February 20, 1992, and February 16, 1996
Pre-Major Advisor, 1989-1992
Chair of Departmental Committee on Graduate Studies, 1990-1991
Member of the Student Affairs Committee of the Graduate Faculty Council, 1990-1991
Member of the Graduate Faculty Council and Graduate Faculty Executive Committee, 1989-91
Member of the International Studies Advisory Committee, 1990-1991
Director of M.A. Thesis, Jane Burnham, 1989
Acting Director of the Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies, 1989
Director of Undergraduate Studies, 1988-1989
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Academic Service (continued)
Member of the College of Arts and Science Committee on Educational Programs, 1987-1988
Member of the College of Arts and Sciences Tenure Committee, Indiana University, 1985-1987
Chair of the Department Lecture Committee, Indiana University, 1985-1987
Director of Graduate Studies, Indiana University, 1981-1983
Director of the Mexico City Program, Indiana University, 1982-1983
Departmental Honors Advisor, Indiana University, 1980-1981
On-campus director of the Indiana University Study Abroad Program in Lima, Peru, Indiana
University, 1977-1982
Member of the Latin American Studies Executive Committee, Indiana University, 1979-1980
Academic advisor to the Spanish House, Indiana University, 1976-1980