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Herlinda Charpentier Saitz Ph.D. Professor, Spanish Language and Literatures
Department of Cultural Studies, College of Arts and Sciences
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
EDUCATION
1987 Boston University. Doctor of Philosophy in Spanish Language and Literatures.
1961 Universidad de Panamá. Licenciatura en filosofía, letras y educación.
1961-62 Post graduate studies. Diploma in Descriptive Linguistics, Instituto Caro y
Cuervo, Seminario Andrés Bello, Bogotá, Colombia.
Theses
1961 Licenciatura: ‗Panamá como escenario de la literatura de la conquista.
Cartas y relaciones‘ (February).
1987 Ph.D.: ‗Las novelle de Ramón Gómez de la Serna.‘
Academic Experience
1992-10 Professor, Spanish Languages and Literatures, Department of Languages,
University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
1987-92 Associate Professor, Spanish Language and Literatures, Department of
Languages, University of Lowell.
1974-87 Assistant Professor, Spanish Language and Literatures, Department of
Languages, University of Lowell.
1970-74 Instructor, Lowell State College.
1969-70 ESL Instructor, Instituto de idiomas, University of Seville, Spain.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Scholarships
1961 Asociación Interamericana de Mujeres Profesionales de Panamá.
1961 ICETEX (Instituto colombiano de estudios técnicos).
1962 Organization of American States Scholarship.
Honors
2010 Nominated for the 2010 Teacher Awards sponsored by the Student Government
Association by students at UMass Lowell for going above and beyond and
exceeding excellence in teaching.
2010 Recognition Reception for Pearson/Longman Author‘s: TESOL Conference,
Boston Conference Center, Boston.
2005 Role model to the community as Player/Scholar at Reading
Symphony Orchestra (Spring Concert).
2004 Chosen official English translator of the Alejandro Casona Award Winning
Play by Roberto Lumbreras, Hasta que la boda nos separe, Madrid, Spain.
2000 Included with advisor and reader in the Acknowledgments of the Ph.D.
dissertation: La representación literaria del fetichismo y de la
perversion en cuatro novelas de Ramón Gómez de la Serna by Rafael
Cabañas Alamán (Boston University).
1998 Featured as role model for the Merrimack Valley Hispanic Community in
the Back to School Spanish section Fiesta of the Eagle Tribune, 8/98.
1997 Tabula gratulatoria: Instituto Literario y Cultural Hispánico.
1998 Tabula gratulatoria: Instituto Literario y Cultural Hispánico in Protestas,
Interrogantes y Agonías en la obra de Rima de Valbona. Vol. III, Col. La
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Mujer en la Literatura Hispánica.
1997-98 Member of Repertorio de Hispanistas de Nueva Inglaterra/
Distinguished New England Hispanistas. Spanish General Consul.
1995 Recognized as a leading Spanish scholar of XXth Century Literature by
inclusion in the prestigious eight volume encyclopedia Historia crítica de la
literatura española, Mondadori: Barcelona, establishing me as the authority
on Ramón Gómez de la Serna‘s novella writing. The editors chose me as one
of the four best Ramón‘s scholars of the last 10 years writings on this
Spanish Avant-Garde precursor.
1994-98 My article on „Sara Sotillo, educadora, líder magisterial y gran dama
Panameña‟/Sara Sotillo, Panamanian leader educator‘ has been distributed
every year to the educators that attend the Teaching Seminars held yearly by
Panama‘s Rotary Club foundation in Panamá.
1992 Mention. Proyecto Hispanistas. Department of Culture, Spain.
1991 Recipient. Original correspondence regarding transferal of Ramón Gómez de
la Serna‘s personal library and unedited documents to the University of
Pittsburgh Special Collection.
1988 Faculty Research Status, University of Lowell.
1988 Diploma de constancia. Congreso de Literatura Modernista, Universidad
Veracruzana, México, 7-20-23.
1987 Honorary Member, Círculo Linüístico Ricardo J. Alfaro, Universidad de
Panamá.
1983& Graduate Student representative on the departmental Tenure Committee of
1985 the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Boston University.
1979 Phi Sigma Iota, Phi Omega Chapter, International Foreign language Honor
society.
1961 Sigma lambda, (University of Panama Honor Society).
Honorary Diplomas
2003 Certificate In recognition of successful completion of the seminar Introduction
to Online Teaching Strategies. Online Teaching Institute, Continuing Studies,
Corporate &Distance Education, 7/29.
2001 Award in appreciation for work as Session Chair, and respondent at the Annual
Meeting of the AATSP in San Francisco, 7/5-9.
2000 Award in appreciation for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the AATSP in
San Juan Puerto Rico, 8/2-9.
2000 Award in appreciation for work as Session Chairperson at the Annual Meeting
in San Juan Puerto Rico, 8 2/9.
1995 Instituto Literario y Cultural Hispánico. Ca., USA, 11/8.
1988 Círculo Lingüístico Ricardo J. Alfaro, Universidad de Panamá, 1-10.
1988 Diploma de constancia. Congreso de Literatura Modernista, Universidad
Veracruzana, Xalapa, México.
1992 Instituto Literario y Cultural Hispánico, USA 11-12.
1992 Congreso América en la Cultura Universal. University of Panamá, 1-6-12.
1992 Instituto Cultural Hispánico, España.
Awards
2010 Recipient: Professional development award PMYR, Provost Ahmed Abdelal,
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UMass Lowell.
2007 Teaching Excellence Award. Department of Cultural Studies, UMass
Lowell.
2004 Professional Development Research Grant Program, Provost Office, UMass
Lowell.
2001 Teaching Excellence Award. Department of Modern languages, UMass
Lowell.
1989 By the Five College Foreign Language Resource Center. To participate in the
Interactive Video Colloquia ―Worth a Thousand words‖, Smith College, 6/1, 2,
3/89.
1990 By the Five College Foreign Language Resource Center. To participate in the
Interactive Video Colloquia ―Learning to See/Seeing to learn‖, University of
Mass., Amherst, 6/6-10/90.
1991 By Discretionary Fund of Boston University Liberal Arts Provost and Acting
Dean Dennis Berkey, and UMass Lowell Former Arts and Sciences Dean
Hamnid Shirvani for Eight Novellas by Ramón, translation project.
1991 Recipient. Original correspondence between Prof. Rodolfo Cardona and
Mrs. Gómez de la Serna, regarding transferal of Ramón‘s personal Library
and unedited documents to the University of Pittsburgh special Collection.
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS (selected)
Books
2007 Word by Word BASIC Picture Dictionary, 2 ed. Steven J. Molinsky, Bill Bliss;
Translated by Herlinda Charpentier Saitz, 2007. Pearson Education, Inc., White
Plains, NY.
2007 Word by Word Picture Dictionary, International English/Spanish, 2 ed. Steven
J. Molinsky, Bill Bliss; Translated by Herlinda Charpentier Saitz, 2007.
Pearson Education, Inc., White Plains, NY.
2005 Eight Novellas by Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Transl. Ed. With Robert L. Saitz.
New York: Peter Lang 2005.
2003 Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Reimp. El hombre de alambre (novela realmente
inédita). Obras Completas XIV. Galaxia Gutenberg: Barcelona, 557-97.
1997 Word by Word Basic English-Spanish Diccionario ilustrado. New Jersey:
Prentice Hall Regents.
1995 Word by Word English/Spanish Diccionario ilustrado. New Jersey: Prentice Hall
Regents.
1994 El hombre de alambre (novela para armar) Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Edición
crítica, introducción y notas. London: Tamesis.
1993 Telerrevista/ordenadores domésticos. Interactive video manual and videodisc
guide. The Project for International Communication Studies, the University of
Iowa. An Annanberg/CPB Project.
1992 Telerrevista/ordenadores domésticos. Interactive video manual and videoguide.
The Project for International Communication Studies, the University of Iowa.
An Annanberg/CPB Project.
1992 Telerrevista. Guía didáctica. Interactive video manual and videoguide. The
Project for International Communication Studies, the University of Iowa. An
Annanberg/CPB Project.
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1993 El castillo encantado. Tapestry Emerging Literacy Program, San Diego,
California: Jostens Learning Corp.
1993 No saltes en los charcos. Tapestry Emerging Literacy Program, San Diego,
California: Jostens Learning Corp.
1993 Cuando me da miedo. Tapestry Emerging Literacy Program, San Diego,
California: Jostens Learning Corp.
1993 ¡Vamos a cazar osos!. Tapestry Emerging Pre-Literacy Program, San Diego,
California: Jostens Learning Corp.
1993 La gallinita roja. Tapestry Emerging Pre-Literacy Program, San Diego,
California: Jostens learning Corp.
1993 Manolín el travieso. Tapestry Emerging Pre-Literacy Program, San Diego,
California: Jostens Learning Corp.
1993 ¿Qué podemos hacer? Tapestry Emerging Pre-Literacy Program, San Diego,
California: Jostens Learning Corp.
1993 A golpes también se aprende. Tapestry Emerging Pre-Literacy Program, San
Diego, California: Jostens Learning Corp.
1991 El teatro de las sábanas blancas. Tapestry Emerging Literacy Program, San
Diego, California: Jostens Learning Corp.
1991 The Magic Tent. Tapestry Emerging Literacy Program, San Diego, California:
Jostens Learning Corp.
1991 Elenita va al mercado. Tapestry Emerging Literacy Program, San Diego,
California: Jostens Learning Corp.
1991 Elenita goes to the Market. Tapestry Emerging Literacy Program, San Diego,
California: Jostens Learning Corp.
1991 La mamá pulpo. Tapestry Emerging Literacy Program, San Diego, California:
Jostens Learning Corp.
1991 Los tres deseos. Tapestry Emerging Literacy Program, San Diego, California:
Jostens Learning Corp. All Jostens publications are comprised of texts, interactive software and teacher‘s
manuals.
1990 Las novelle de Ramón Gómez de la Serna. London:Tamesis.
1989 Novella. “ „El hombre de alambre.‟ Novela realmente inédita de Ramón Gómez
de la Serna.” Boletín #5, Fundación Federico García Lorca. Madrid‘s Cultural
Council and Granada‘s Municipality, Madrid, Spain.(transcription, edition and
reconstruction of hundreds of handwritten and randomly numbered notes into a novella form).
1974 Los prisioneros. Bilingual Reader, Mass: Newbury House.
1974 El rey Enrique. Bilingual Reader, Mass: Newbury House.
1974 Algunas aventuras de don Quijote. Bilingual Reader, Ma: Newbury House.
1974 En la carretera. Bilingual Reader, Mass: Newbury House.
1974 El cerebroprodigioso. Bilingual Reader, Mass: Newbury House.
1969 Co-author, editor. La Banda Republicana. Orígenes y trayectoria. 2nd
ed. Panamá:
Department of Education.
1966 Co-author, editor. La Banda Republicana. Orígenes y trayectoria. 1st ed.
Imprenta Nacional: Panamá.
Monographs
1961 ‗Estudio comparativo de las vocales del inglés y el español.‘ Énfasis en los
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problemas de la enseñanza del inglés o del español como lengua secundaria.
1963 ‗La pronunciación de la C y la Z en los siglos XVI-XVII.
El seseo, Linguistic and Historical Problems Seminar.
1962 Vocabulario relacionado con la vivienda en Suba (Colombia).
Articles
2006 “Ramón Gómez de la Serna y las editoriales de habla inglesa.‖ Boletín Ramón
#12, 32-39, Madrid, Spain.
2001 ―Diverse Facets of Puertorican Film Today.‖ Cinema and Culturalism.
Selected Proceedings. Ed.Hernández and Postman. UMassLowell, Canada:Legas.
2000 ―Los caprichos (1925) de Ramón. Presencia de la estructura novellística de
Ramón en su obra no propiamente narrativa.‖ Alba de América. Instituto
Literario de Cultura Hispánica, Vol. 19. California, USA No 35-36, 373-82.
1999 ―Piso bajo o la verdad de la vida.‖ La Chispa´99. Selected Proceedings. Eds.
Gilbert and Claire Paolini. Tulane University, 323-333.
1997 ―Cuentos de Colombine. Aproximación a la narrativa breve de Carmen de
Burgos-Seguí.‖ Continental, Latin American and Francophone Women Writers.
III: Selected Papers from the Wichita State University Conference on Foreign
Literature. E. Myers, G. Adamson. Lanham, MD: University Press of America,
65-73.
1997 ―Introducción; Estrategias Didácticas‖ Word by Word Basic English-Spanish
Diccionario ilustrado. New Jersey: Prentice Hall Regents, vii-x.
1996 ―Una visión de Hispanoamérica a través de los discursos Nobeles de Neruda,
Márquez y Paz‖ Análisis Humanista. Órgano Informativo, Post graduate Division,
College of Arts and Sciences, University of Panamá, Año II, #2.
1995 ―Las novelle de Gómez de la Serna.‖ Historia y Crítica de la Literatura Española.
Época Contemporánea: 1914-1939. Barcelona: Mondadori, 154-56.
1995 ―Introducción. Estrategias didácticas‖ on Word by Word English/Spanish
Diccionario ilustrado. New Jersey: Prentice Hall Regents, v-vi.
1990 ―Carmen de Burgos-Seguí, escritora hispánica olvidada.‖ Proceedings of the XIII
Indiana Conference on la escritora Hispánica. Editorial Universal: Spain.
1989 ―Al fondo de un mundo azul‖ Interview. Revista de la facultad de letras.
Universidad Veracruzana. Veracruz, México, Junio-diciembre.
1988 ―El inclasificable Ramón. En honor de Ramón con motivo del centenario de su
nacimiento.‖ Texto Crítico. Universidad Veracruzana, Año XIV, 38, México,
enero-junio.
1966 ―Apuntes para el léxico de la vivienda en Suba.‖ Thesaurus, XXI, Bogotá:
Instituto Caro y Cuervo.
1962 ―Estudiantes panameños colaboran en encuestas para el Atlas.‖ Noticias
culturales, 23, Bogotá: Instituto Caro y Cuervo.
Reviews
2003 Rafael Cabañas Alamán. El Fetichismo y la perversión en la novela de Ramón
Gómez de la Serna. Madrid: Ediciones laberinto, 2001, Iberoromania,
Switzerland: Université de Lausanne, No. 56.
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1988 Puerta Abierta. La nueva escritora latinoamericana by Caridad L. Silva-
Velázquez y Nora Erro-Orthman. Alba de América. Instituto Literario y Cultural
Hispánico, editorial Universitaria Centroamericana, Costa Rica, p. 341-42.
Abstracts
1996 ―Una visión de América Latina a través de los textos de los Nobeles Neruda,
Márquez, Menchú y Paz.‖ Universidad de Panamá.
1988 ―Madness and Truth in Ramón Gómez de la Serna‘s Novelle.” The 14th
Annual
Mid-Hudson MLA Conference. Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York.
Accepted for Publication:
----- ‗Sobre novela y cuento. Teorías de Ramón Gómez de la Serna.‘ Boletín Ramón.
Madrid, Spain.
Under consideration:
‗Hasta que la boda nos separe/Until the wedding does us part‘ New Plays from
Spain‘ Estreno, Rutgesrs, State University of new Jersey.
In preparation: Book: ‗Diccionario personal de Ramón, unfinished unedited work by Ramón.
Contstruction of ‗Nueva Novela América‘, unfinished, unedited work by
Ramón.
Reviews and Citations
Numerous references on Ramón‘s web page: www.ramongomezdelaserna.net
Reviews
On Eight Novellas ….
2005 NJMcCracken, Bostonia, 85.
On Las novelle . . . and El hombre de alambre (novela para armar)
1995 C.B. Morris, ―Ramón y la vanguardia‖ Enciclopedia ´Historia y crítica de la
literatura Española contemporánea, Barcelona: Mondadori, Vol 7, 135, 137,
138, 141,154, 152, 592. The books are characterized as: ―high caliber, and
systematic studies . . . that prove the organization and unity of Ramón‘s
works.‖
On El hombre de alambre (novela para armar)
2003 Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Obras Completas XIV. Galaxia Gutenberg:
Barcelona, 40-43, 1055-57, 1060-61.
1994 Rafael Conte, ―El hombre de alambre, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Edic. de
H. Charpentier Saitz‖, ABC Cultural Literario, 7/22. 7.
----- Featured review on El hombre de alambre (novela para armar) of Ramón
Gómez de la Serna by ABC Cultural-Literario, Madrid, Volume 142, 7-22.
Comparable to the New York Times Book Review. It describes the
reconstruction of the incomplete last novel by Ramón as ―an excellent edition,
a splendid effort and realization by Tamesis, the most important English
publishing house of Hispanic Literature‖ and as ―a faithful, convincing
contribution that sounds like Ramón‖ praising the care and discipline that it
took to assemble the innumerable and disorganized pieces in which the work
was left.
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----- ABC, Madrid, 6/27, p. 59 (Two articles).
----- ABC, Madrid, 6/28, p, 43.
----- Ya, Madrid, 6/28.
----- Boletín Cultural, #90, Office of diplomatic Information, Cultural relations and
Institute of Iberoamerican Cooperation, Madrid, June, p. 32.
----- Ya, Madrid, 7-1.
----- ABC Internacional, 7/5-11, p.17.
----- ABC Internacional, 7/5-11, p. 18.
1990 La Nación, San José, Costa Rica, 2/26, p. 11.
On Las novelle . . .
1994 Hispania, (Vol. 76) May, 243-44. Review of Las novelle de Ramón Gómez de la
Serna, (London: Tamesis, 1990). Characterizes the study as a detailed, well
organized study, a conscientious contribution, extensive and a most useful and
needed study on Ramón Gómez de la Serna.
1992 Hispanic review, Winter, 102-04. Points out that the study ―introduces [the
novella] concept and pertinent criticism into the study of Hispanic letters in
general and early twentieth-century Peninsular fiction in particular.‖ Finds it ―a
useful contribution . . . that demonstrates there is unity in the author‘s work
something that was not previously apparent to critics‖ and as most useful ―the
invitation to read his short fiction with a fresh perspective.‖
1991 World Literature Today, Summer, 462. Characterizes the study as lucid,
consistent and thorough.‖
Citations
On Eight Novellas …
2009 Timothy Donovan, ‗Defining the Novella: Evident Qualities and Thematic
Elements in the work of Ramón Gómez de la Serna‘. UMass Lowell Twelfth
Annual Student Research Symposium 4/28/09.
2007 Laurie- Anne Laget, « La revue Prometeo et son traducteur Ricardo Baeza,
deux média(teur)s culturels entre fin de siècle et poétique d‘avant-garde »,
présenté dans le cadre du Centre de Recherche sur l‘Espagne Contemporaine
(Université de Paris III, 20 octobre 2006), à paraître en ligne : Collection « Les
travaux du CREC en ligne », nº3 (ISSN 1773-0023), http://crec.univ-paris3.fr/
Cita la introduction de las Eight novellas como referencia para una
presentación de Ramón y de su situación en el panorama de las letras europeas
de principios del siglo XX.
‗La genèse des Greguerías de Ramón Gómez de la Serna, première épreuve
d‘une ―nouvelle conception de la littérature‖ (1910-1930)‘ Université de la
Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Paris III). Ponencia. Congreso: Primavera de Ramón en
Madrid. Exposición y jornadas Ramonianas: Madrid 23 mayo.
On Las novelle . . .
2006 Rafael Cabañas Alamán: ―La mujer ‗infiel‘ y ‗malvada‘ en la novela
corta de Ramón Gómez de la Serna: un caso de omnisciencia delectiva.‖ Da
Costa Toscano, Ana María Org. Mulheres Más. Percepção e
Representações da Mulher transgressora no Mundo Luso-Hispậnico. Ediçoes
Universidad Fernando Pessoa, Oporto,351, 353.
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2003 Rodolfo Cardona, ―Gómez de la Serna desde el siglo XXI.‖ Quimera 235,
Revista de literatura, Madrid: Spain 10/03
2002 María José Flores. ―Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Humor, incongruencia y
ludus: Las novelas de la nebulosa‖. Boletín Ramón no.5, otoño, p. 11. Pre-
textos:Valencia.
2000 María José Flores.―Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Humor, incongruencia y ludus:
Las novelas de la nebulosa‖. LUDUS, Cine, arte y deporte en la literatura
Española de vanguardia. Pre-textos:Valencia.
2001 Imboden, Rita, Catarina. Carmen de Burgos “Colombine” y la novela corta. Peter
Lang: Bern p. 39, 266.
2001 Cabañas Alamán, Rafael. Fetichismo y perversión en la novela de Ramón Gómez
de la Serna. 7, 155, 167, 178.
2000 Cabañas Alamán, Rafael. La representación Literaria del fetichismo y de la
perversión en cuatro novelas de Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Ph.D. Diss. Boston
University, Ediciones El laberinto: Madrid, 228, 241, 252, 258.
1999 Hoddie, James H. El contraste en la obra de Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Editorial
Pliegos: Madird, p. 266.
1998 Cabañas Alamán, Rafael. ―Estados Unidos y el cine en la ficción de Ramón
Gómez de la Serna.‖ ANNUAL of Foreign Films and Literature. Vol IV, Vilanova
University: Philadelphia, 35,32.
1997 Slotescu, Ioana. “Preámbulo.‖ Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Obras completas IX.
Espacio literario novelismo. 1st. ed., Barcelona, 13-14.
1997 Cabañas Alamán, Rafael. ―Ramón al otro lado del mundo.‖ La Chispa. Tulane
University: New Orleans, 4, 10.
1996 Carmen Herrero Vecino. La Utopía y el teatro: La obra dramática de Ramón.
Society of Spanish and Spanish American Studies: Colorado, 208, 209, 239. 265.
1995 Caneiro-Livingston, Graciela. ―La novelística de Ramón Gómez de la Serna en el
discurso de la modernidad literaria.‖ PHD. Diss. 38, 52, 211.
1994 Roof, Gayle. ―Gómez de la Serna as Literary Mentor: Ramonian Aesthetics in the
Early Works of Luis Buñuel.‖ Revista Hispánica Moderna XLVII, 365-66.
Comments on the observations in the book on ―the disquieting implications of the
blurring of human and objects‖ in Ramón‘s novella.
1994 Flores Resquejo, María José. ―Ramón Gómez de la Serna. La scritura ludica:
Rebeca.!‖ Ludus gioco por, Cinema Nell‟avanguardia espagnola 57- 69 (note 13
(60); quotation, 32, (66).
1992 J. E. Serrano Asenjo. Ramón y el arte de matar. Biblioteca de ensayo: Granada,
216.
1991 Ed. César Nicolás. Greguerías. Selección 1910-1960, Espasa Calpe: Madrid 41.
On El hombre de alambre (novela para armar)
2007 Rodolfo Cardona, Mi contacto con Ramón‖ Boletín Ramón Primavera. N o
14,
p.11.
2003 Slotescu, Ioana. ―Preámbulo.‖ Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Obras completas XIV.
Espacio literario novelismo. VI, Galaxia Gutenberg: Barcelona, 40-43.
2003 Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Obras completas XIV. Espacio literario
novelismo. VI, Galaxia Gutenberg: Barcelona, 1055-57;1058; 1061.
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2002 María José Flores. ―Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Humor, incongruencia y ludus:
Las novelas de la nebulosa‖. Boletín Ramón 5o, otoño, p. 24. Pre-textos:Valencia.
2000 María José Flores. ―Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Humor, incongruencia y ludus:
Las novelas de la nebulosa‖. LUDUS, Cine, arte y deporte en la literatura
Española de vanguardia. Pre-textos:Valencia.
1997 Slotescu, Ioana. “Preámbulo.‖ Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Obras completas IX.
Espacio literario novelismo. 1st. ed., Galaxia Gutenberg: Barcelona, 14-15.
1989 Cardona, Rodolfo. ―Del Archivo, . . . ‖. Bolerín #5 de la Fundación Federico
García Lorca, Madrid, p. 17, footnote 3.
On “El hombre de alambre. Novela realmente inédita” . . .
2003 Boletín Ramón # 7 Otoño 2003, p. 62.
2003 Slotescu, Ioana. ―Preámbulo.‖ Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Obras completas XIV.
Espacio literario novelismo. VI, Galaxia Gutenberg: Barcelona, 40-43.
Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Obras completas XIV. Espacio literario novelismo.
VI, Galaxia Gutenberg: Barcelona, 1055-57;1058; 1060.
1989 Cardona, Rodolfo. ―Del Archivo de Ramón en Pittsburgh: El hombre de
alambre‖. Bolerín #5 de la Fundación Federico García Lorca, Madrid, footnote,
p. 16.
On Ph.D. Dissertation
2003 Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Obras completas XIV. Espacio literario
novelismo. VI, Galaxia Gutenberg: Barcelona, 1056.
1988 Studies on Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Ed. Nigel Dennis, Ottawa Hispanic Studies
2, 216.
1988 Cardona, Rodolfo ed. La viuda blanca y negra. Ediciones Cátedra S.A: Madrid 16
& 73.
1989 Cardona, Rodolfo. ―El hombre de alambre‖. Bolerín #5 de la Fundación
Federico García Lorca, Madrid, 16, footnote, 2.
On “Carmen De Burgos-Seguí (Colombine), escritora española…”
2006 Rafael Cabañas Alamán: Aspectos recurrentes de la novela picaresca en
vida y milagros del pícaro Andresillo Pérez, de Carmen de Burgos‖ Angela
Encinar, Eva Löfquist, Carmen Valcácer Eds. Género y Géneros. Escritura
y escritoras Iberoamericanas, Vol. I, Madrid, 193, 200.
2004 Corianna Gaterman,
www.4gvsu.edu/pozzig/escritorasespañolas/bibs/carmendeburgos.htm
2001 Imboden, Rita Catrina. Carmen de Burgos „Colombine‟ y la novela corta.
Peter Lang , Bern, 39, 266.
1999 Imboden, Rita Catrina. Carmen de Burgos „Colombine‟ y la novela corta.
Phd. Dis. Zurich University.
2001 Cabañas Alamán, Rafael. Fetichismo y perversión en la novela de Ramón Gómez
de la Serna. Ediciones El laberinto: Madrid, 167.
2000 Cabañas Alamán, Rafael. La representación Literaria del fetichismo y de
la perversión en cuatro novelas de Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Ph.D. Diss.
Boston University, 252.
On “Carmen De Burgos-Seguí (Colombine), “Los cuentos de Colombine … 2006 Rafael Cabañas Alamán: Aspectos recurrentes de la novela picaresca en
vida y milagros del pícaro Andresillo Pérez, de Carmen de Burgos‖ Angela
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Encinar, Eva Löfquist, Carmen Valcácer Eds. Género y Géneros. Escritura
y escritoras Iberoamericanas, Vol. I, Madrid, 193, 200.
2006 Rafael Cabañas Alamán: ―La mujer ‗infiel‘ y ‗malvada‘ en la novela corta de
Ramón Gómez de la Serna: un caso de omnisciencia delectiva.‖ Da Costa
Toscano, Ana María Org. Mulheres Más. Percepção e Representações da
Mulher transgressora no Mundo Luso-Hispậnico. Ediçoes Universidad
Fernando Pessoa, Oporto, 353.
On “Carmen De Burgos-Seguí (Colombine), escritora española…” and “Los
cuentos de Colombine …
2001 Cabañas Alamán, Rafael. Fetichismo y perversión en la novela de Ramón
Gómez de la Serna. Ediciones El laberinto: Madrid, 167.
2000 Cabañas Alamán, Rafael. La representación Literaria del fetichismo y de la
perversión en cuatro novelas de Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Ph.D. Diss.
Boston University, 252.
On Licenciatura Thesis „Panamá como escenario de la conquista‟
1987 Cepeda de Rodríguez, Mirna. ‗Introducción al estudio de Oviedo como
lexicógrafo‘ Tesis. Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad de Panamá 252.
On La Banda Republicana. . .
2004 Buckley, Francisco. La música salsa en Panamá y algo más. Editorial
Universitaria: Panamá. 23-25
1992 ―La pluma invitada.‖ La prensa, Panamá, República de Panamá.
TRANSLATIONS
2007 “To the teacher: Spanish Teaching Strategies.‖ Word by Word Picture
Dictionay, International English/Spanish, 2nd
ed. Steven Molinski, Bill Bliss;
Translated by Herlinda Charpentier Saitz, viii-x.
2006 Word by Word Bilingual Illustrated Dictionary. “To the teacher Spanish
Teaching Strategies.‖ For USA Bilingual publicaion.
2005 Eight Novellas by Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Transl. Ed. With Robert L. Saitz.
New York: Peter Lang 2005. (English).
1999 Word by Word Bilingual Illustrated Dictionary, interpreter, translator for the
peer teaching tutorial guide. This guide provides guidance to make older
minority children and family members tutors of siblings and children in the
family in a fun way. (Bilingual)
1995 In the Middle: Newcommer, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall/Regent. Resource
material for teachers of bilingual education. (Spanish).
1991-93 Spanish of all Jostens Publications (Cf. Research and publications).
1977 ―Centro para programas de orientacion y enseñanza del inglés, Boston
University.‖ Guía de información sobre la educación en los Estados Unidos.
Eds. Robert Friedman, James A. Nolan, James B. Johnston, Educational
Advisory Services International: Philadelphia.
1974 ―A page for parents.‖ Rowland Pleasant and Olivia Cole. Beginning Readiness.
Shape books 1,2,3. Boston: Mational Educational Research Co. Inc. (Spanish)
1974 Spanish for all Newbury House publications. (Cf. Research and publications).
PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
2005 Organizer, Presenter: Ramón Gómez de la Serna in the classroom. AATSP
(American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese) MA Chapter
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Session. MAFLA Annual Conference. (Mass. Foreign Language Association)
Sturbridge, 10/21, 22.
2004 Presenter. ―Ramón y las editoriales estadounidenses.‖ AATSP Biennial
Conference. Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 9/12.
2004 Organizer, presenter. Proyectos culturales y literarios. MAFLA. Sturbridge,
Organizer, Presenter: Ramón Gómez de la Serna in the classroom. AATSP
(American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese) MA Chapter
Session. MAFLA Annual Conference. (Mass. Foreign Language Association)
Sturbridge, 10/21, 22.
2004 Presenter. ―Ramón y las editoriales estadounidenses.‖ AATSP Biennial
Conference. Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 9/12.
2004 Organizer, presenter. Proyectos culturales y literarios. MAFLA. Sturbridge,
Ma, 10/30.
2003 Organizer, presenter. “Alicia Borinski, Argentine writer.” AATSP Mass Chapter.
Framingham State College. 6/4
2003 ―Current trends in Teaching Spanish with Gusto! Teaching techniques that
work. MAFLA, Sturbridge, Ma, 11/1.
2002 ―Orientation for Academic Success”. Presentation for the Massachusetts
Council for International Education,. 11/22.
2001 Discussant. Translation and Interpretation: Alicia Borinski, ―La pareja
desmontable/The Collapsible Couple and La mujer de mi marido.” At The Annual
International Conference of the AATSP (American Association of Teachers of
Spanish and Portuguese). San Francisco, 7/5-9.
2000 ―El reto y la recompensa en la traducción de Ramón Gómez de la Serna.‖ At 82nd
Annual International Conference of the AATSP (American Association of
Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese). San Juan, Puerto Rico 8/2-9.
----- ―Gender Stereotypes in the Spanish Language‖ Council for Diversity and
Pluralism, UML.
----- ―Panamá, Puente del mundo, corazón del universo‖ Lectures on Spanish Culture.
Regis College, (4/00).
1999 ―Piso bajo o la verdad de la vida.‖ At The Louisiana Conference on Hispanic
Languages and Literatures “La Chispa”, Tulane University 2/25-29.
1998 ―Woman in Mexican Literature and Cultural History.‖ Art History Symmposium.
UML 4/24.
1998 ―Diverse Facets of Puerto Rican Film Today.‖ Cinema and Multicultural
Conference. UML 3/13-14.
1996 ―Los discursos Nobeles como textos literarios: tema y estructura.‖ Post graduate
and graduate seminar, University of Panama, 1/9.
1995 A vision of Latin America Through Neruda, Márquez and Paz Nobel Speeches‖
Latin America today, UML. Hispanic Heritage Month, 10/5.
1995 ―Los caprichos de Ramón.‖ At The Louisiana Conference on Hispanic
Languages and Literatures “La Chispa,” Tulane University, 3/2-4. .
1992 ―Las notas inéditas de Ramón Gómez de la Serna sobre novela y cuento.‖
At the Fifth Biennial Northeast Regional Meeting, AATSP, New Hampshire.
1992 ―Interdependenica entre España y América. ‗El hombre de alambre‘ de Ramón.‖
Congreso América en la Cultura Universal. University of Panamá, 1/6.
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1991 ―Women‘s Issues in Latin America.‖ Altrusa, Greater Lowell.
1991 ―Through the Looking Glass; reading and writing with computers.‖
Demonstration of Computer Software in ESL and Bilingual Settings. MATSOL
(Massachusetts Association of Teachers of English as a Second Language), 5/3-4.
1990 ―Similarities and differences between Costa Rica and Panamá.‖ MFLA, Regis
College, 7/8-12.
1990 ―El hombre de alambre, obra realmente inédita de Ramón Gómez de la Serna.‖ At
The Fourth Biennial Northeast Regional Meeting of the AATSP. Brown
University, Rhode Island, 9/8-12.
1988 Carmen de Burgos, ‗Colombine.‘ Escritora española al balcón.‘ Cuarto Congreso
de Lingüística y Literatura, Universidad de Panamá,1/4-10.
1988 Los cuentos de Colombine (novelas cortas).‖ At The Fifth Annual Conference on
Foreign literature; Continental, Latin American and Francophone Women
Writers. Wichita State University, 4/4-10.
1988 ―Piso bajo, the last published novel by Ramón Gómez de la Serna.‖ Hispanic
Seminar, Boston University, 4/25.
1988 ―El inclasificable Ramón.‖ At the Instituto de Investigaciones Humanísticas
Conference, Universidad Veracruzana, México, 7/20-22.
1988 ―Ramón‘s short narrative and the Modern Novella.‖ At the Third biennial
Northeast Regional Meeting of the AATSP, Fordham University, Lincoln Center,
New York, 9/23-24.
1988 Madness and Truth in Ramón‘s Novelle”. At The Fourteenth Annual Meeting of
the Mid-Hudson MLA Conference, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York,
11/28-29.
1987 The novella: A New Approach to Criticism of the Latin American Short
Narrative.‖ Congreso de Literatura. Universidad de Panamá, 1/8.
----- ―Carmen de Burgos ‗Colombine,‘ escritora española digna de ser recordada.‖ At
The XIIIth Annual Hispanic Literature Conference, Indiana University,
Pennsylvania, 10/2-3.
1973 ―Body Language and Cultural diversity,‖ Post graduate Educational Institute,
MTA, Worcester, Mass.
ORGANIZER, CHAIR, PRESENTER
2005 Organizer, Presenter: Ramón Gómez de la Serna in the classroom. AATSP
(American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese) MA Chapter
Session. MAFLA Annual Conference. Sturbridge, 10/21, 22.
2004 Organizer, presenter. AATSP MAFLA Annual Conference. ―Proyectos culturales
y literarios.‖ Sturbridge, MA, 10/30.
2003 Organizer, presenter. AATSP MA Chapter. Spring session at Framingham State
College. Alicia Borinski, Argentine Writer. 6/4
----- Organizer, presenter. Current Trends in Teaching Spanish with gusto. MAFLA
(Massachusetts Foreign Language Association) Sturbridge, MA, 10/31.
2001 Organizer. Translation and Interpretation: Alicia Borinski, La pareja
desmontable/The Collapsible Couple and La mujer de mi marido.” At The Annual
International Conference of the AATSP (North American Association of Teachers
of Spanish and Portugues). San Francisco, 7/5-9.
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2000 Chair Session Peninsular Literature I, Arts and Literature. AATSP, Annual
Meeting, Puerto Rico.
1999 Organizer, reader and chair, Fifth Session on ―Ramón Gómez de la Serna:‖ At
The Louisiana Conference on Hispanic languages and Literatures “La Chispa,”.
Tulane University, 2/26-3/1.
1997 Fourth Session on ―Ramón Gómez de la Serna.‖ At The Louisiana Conference
on Hispanic languages and Literatures “La Chispa,”. Tulane University, 2/27-
3/2.
1995 Third Session on ―Ramón Gómez de la Serna: ―Vida, caprichos y vuelta al cine.‖
At The Louisiana Conference on Hispanic languages and Literatures “La
Chispa,”. Tulane University, 3/2-4.
1993 Second Session on ―Ramón Gómez de la Serna: ―Los Ismos, el cine y la mujer
ideal.‖ At The Louisiana Conference on Hispanic languages and Literatures “La
Chispa.” Tulane University, 2/24-28.
1989 First Session on ―Ramón Gómez de la Serna: The only act in the USA honoring
Ramón Gómez de la Serna‘s Centenary. At The Louisiana Conference on
Hispanic languages and Literatures “La Chispa,”. Tulane University, 2/16-18.
These sessions at The Louisiana Conference on Hispanic languages and
Literatures “La Chispa,” Tulane University, constitute a significant and unique
contribution to the revival of interest in this precursor of the Avant Garde. Papers
from the sessions have been recognized by being selected in the most recent
bibliography on this writer in Spain and the USA.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Professional Association Membership
AATSP American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.
AATSP AATSP Mass Chapter
MAFLA Mass. Foreign Language Association
AIH International Association of Hispanistas.
MATSOL Mass. Association of teachers of English to Speakers of
other languages.
ALFEH Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica.
ILCH Instituto Literario y Cultural Hispánico.
NERALD New England Regional Association of Learning Lab Directors.
MCET Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Telecommunications.
NECLA New England Child Association (76-78).
Committee Work
2000-06 Board MASS Chapter AATSP steering committee.
2005-06 Board MASS Chapter AATSP (vocal).
2000-06 Board MASS Chapter AATSP (secretary and vocal).
2000-03 Newsletter editor, AATSP, MASS Chapter.
1996 Home page area coordinator. UMass Lowell.
1981 Hospitality Committee, NABE (National Association for Bilingual
Education), 5/26-27.
1980 Hospitality Committee, TESOL Conference, 3/28-29.
1975 Welcoming Committee, MATSOL Conference, 4/24-25.
1973 ACTFL Convention (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign
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Languages).
Consultancies
2009 Language consultant to Spanish translator, Smithsonian Research Institute,
Panamá 12/14-16.
Language consultant to Spanish, Audubon Society, Panama. 3-10.
------ Language consultant to Spanish interpreter/translator Dora la explor
dora/Dora the explorer, Educational TV Program.
2003 Evaluator, reviewer Ulloa & Ulloa, Graded Spanish Reader, Primera etapa,
World Languages, Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston.
2001 Language Consultant. Wiley, finding a balance between content and the role
of technology in the design of textbooks for the 21st Century. Wyley,
Publishers.
1994-98 Prentice Hall/Regents, Spanish Language consultant.
1994 Language consultant, New Bridge Communications 2/8 (children‘s books
Spanish onomatopoeia for musical instrument sounds).
1992 Lectorum Publications, New York. Spanish phonetic system consultant for
early reader didactic materials.
1990-91 Learningways, Cambridge, Mass. Material and software developer, Advisor,
Spanish editor and consultant.
1984 AAID. Educational consultant, Dracut, Mass.
1986-88 Real Academia de la Lengua, Panamá, Republic of Panamá
----- Círculo Lingüístico Ricardo J. Alfaro, Universidad de Panamá.
1983 GTE Silvania: update on cultural and present life in Panamá.
----- Office of the Mayor of Boston. Language consultant for the show ―Boston in
the 80‘s‖ aired in Latin America and Spain.
----- District 8 City Councilor, Boston. Language consultant to councilor on matter
re. Hispanic Community.
1980-81 Houghton Mifflin Co. Spanish, Latin American Literature and Spanish
Stylistics consultant.
1980 D.C. Heath Co. Mass. Language consultant.
1977 Scholastic Magazines, New York. Spanish contributor and consultant.
1972-82 Addison Wesley. Evaluator, editor, Spanish language consultant.
1972-74 Newbury House, Bilingual consultant.
1969-70 Advanced Instruments Inc., Cambridge, Mass.
Other Professionally Related Work
2009 Repository, guardian of sensitive letters by RGS‘s widow and BU Prof. Emeritus
Rodolfo Cardona in process to be donated to either Univ. of Pittsburgh or Bu
Library Spacial collection.
2000-07 Mentoring international young professionals doing research on Ramón Gómez
de la Serna. (Cabañas , Alvaro Ribagorda –(Universidad Complutense, Madrid);
Laurie Anne Laget (Sorbonne, /Yale).
2005 Collaborative cooperation: contributing to the updating of the bibliographical
references of the Ramón Gómez de la Serna web page.
Board member organizer of the spring and Fall 05 meetings of the AATSP
(American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese) Massachusetts
chapter.
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2003-04 AATSP Newsletter Mass Chapter editor/contributor with articles and
notes. “Reseña sobre sesión de Primavera”; “El Instituto Cervantes de
Nueva York.‖
1993 Outside evaluator of the scholarship of a member seeking tenure at the
Department of Romance Languages, College of Arts and Sciences, The
University of Vermont.
1987 Updated the secondary sources on Ramón Gómez de la Serna at the University
of Pittsburgh Library Special Collection.
1987 Prepared a bibliography and translations of passages on Max Jacobs by Ramón
Gómez de la Serna for Prof. Rosanna Warren and the Seminar on translation,
Boston University, University Professor‘s Program.
INSTRUCTION RELATED ACTIVITY
Courses Taught at UMass Lowell
1970-2010 Spanish I, II, III, IV.
1970-77 Intermediate Conversational Spanish for Law and Justice Majors; Intensive
Spanish, Advanced Conversational Spanish; Spanish Oral Expression; Spanish
Phonetics and Diction; Practicum; Spanish Through Light and Sound; Advanced
Spanish Composition, Spanish Grammar and Syntax, Survey of Latin American
Literature; Introduction to Latin American Literature; The XXth Century Latin
American Novel, Directed Studies in Spanish Literature: Spanish Thought and
Heritage, La leyenda del don Juan, the Poetics of Pablo Neruda.
1977-03 Intermediate Conversational Spanish for Law and Justice Majors; Advanced
Spanish Conversation; Advanced Spanish Composition; Introduction to Latin
American Literature; The Latin American Short Story; The Latin American
Novel; Directed Studies in Latin American Literature: Julio Cortázar (Spring
90), Márquez and Allende: One Hundred Years of Solitude, the House of the
Spirits and the magic of the Real (Spring of 91); The Boom and After (Spring of
1992). Literature of the XXI Century (2003).
1994-1996 Creator of interdisciplinary courses: Hispanic Perspectives, an
interdisciplinary course for the Global Relations Cluster and the Peace and
Conflict minor. The course addresses issues of global relations, multiculturalism
and diversity.
Women in Hispanic Literature for the Women‘s Studies Program. Hispanic
Literature and the Art of Film: a course created to address the need for
multicultural courses and enhance the learning of universal understanding
through literature by carefully selecting Spanish literary texts which have been
also used in films.
Given the lack proper textbooks for these type of courses and to provide balanced
and up to date materials that would include a representative diversity of Latin
American contemporary literature and culture I have designed
a packet for these courses.
1996-97 Special Topics in Spanish Literature, Advanced Composition.
1996-98 Hispanic Perspectives (restructured to include an honors track, approved by the
Honors Program).
1997-99 Spanish Literature and the Art of Film, (a new course designed with an honors
track, approved by the Honors Program).
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1998-10 Directed Studies on: 1) Modernism 2) Post Modernism.3) Latin American
Literature 4) avanteg-garde Literature and Culture.
2006 Creator, Spanish Short Takes course.
2001 Started inclusion of Syllabi and Class requirements in the University Web page.
2002 Incorporated Intralearn to teach language and literature courses.
2002-06 Have adopted CDRoms with web page links for Intermediate Spanish
Courses.
2002 Open House host for BLA program.
2003-06 Advising BLA program.
2007-09 Use WebTC/Blackboard aiming at a balance between content and the role
of technology in the design of language and literature courses.
2008 Take full advantage of a Smart Room, in my teaching.
All my courses have been designed to include teaching strategies that involve the
learning outcomes (critical thinking, collaborative learning, integration and
application of knowledge and creativity). To enhance the communicative and
cultural components of the elementary language courses, (Spanish 1-4)
and with the intention of creating a somewhat less cruel and threatening
environment for students in our beginning sections (enrollment was more than
40 up to 2002—the maximum should have been 25) and also to alleviate the
University‘s general problem of retention, in addition to videos and a carefully
selected number of songs, already integrated into my curriculum, guided tasks
with immediate feed back using CD Roms and web activities were incorporated
as optional learning tools for students inclined to do so. From 2002 on, these
practices have been incorporated as requirements with the aid of Blackboard. My
literature courses reflect the new approaches used to read the literature of the
Americas derived from the Seminar The Writing of the Americas I have attended
at Boston University from 1996-2003.
Other Activity and Accomplishments related to the Instructional Function:
Participation in Workshops, seminars, and Conferences for the acquisition,
improvement and development of skills, closely related to the courses I teach and the
new courses I create here at UML. (selected)
2009 Introduction to Web-Enhanced Teaching in blackboard Workshop. Faculty
Institute, UMass Lowell, 6/23-24.
2008 Smart Room orientation with Donna Mellen, Academic Technology, Faculty
Development Center, UMass Lowell, Fall 08.
2006 From Schönberg to Beethoven. Lectures and seminar, Goethe Institute and
Harvard, 2/1-3/3.
2005 Special Session Seminario de las Americas: Violence and the Sacred in Latin
American Popular Culture. Boston University. (Spring).
2004 Art Deco Seminar BU (Fall semester).
Music Moves Boston In Art Deco Times seminar (Fall 04).
2003 Introduction to Online Teaching Strategies. Online Teaching Institute, Continuing
Studies, Corporate and Distance Education. UMass Lowell.
----- Learning Centered Teaching With On-Line Communication Tools. Faculty
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Institute. Mass, Lowell, 6/11, 13, 16.
----- Fostering Appropriate Student Use of On-line Data Bases. Faculty
Institute 6/12, 17, 19.
----- Completed Online course Cuentos contemporáneos y Universales.
----- Advisor-Panel Co-organizer, LASA (Latin American Student Association)
Rompiendo Barreras, Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration. 9/15-12/15; Panel
moderator, discussant,10/1.
2002 ―Using film in the classroom; Frida, De eso no se habla, Nice Girls have curves‖
AATSP Workshop.12/15.
2002 “Developing and Designing an On-line Learning-Centered Syllabus.”Faculty
Institute. Faculty Teaching Center, UMassLowell, 6/4, 6, 11. Evaluation words of
my End product by the team: ―the most exemplary features of your syllabus are its
attention to detail, the warm tone of the ―Welcome‖ statement, and the clarity of
your instructions for specific assignments. We particularly liked your
―Bienvenidos/Welcome‖ Statement. This section clearly indicates the approach
you will use in the course, the engagement you expect from students, and the
rigor of the course- all in a warm and inviting tone. . . . Additionally, your
assignments are detailed and impressive. . . . this is the sort of information
that helps students to believe they can succeed in a course…‖
2002 “Collegiality and Professionalism: Intentionality in Teaching.” Faculty Institute.
Faculty Teaching Center, “Enhancing your Face-To-Face Classroom with Web-
Based learning”, “Assessing Student Progress: Early and Often” Faculty
Institute. Faculty Teaching Center,6/7,10, 12.
2001 “Integrating Educational Technologies Into Thinking, Planning, and Teaching”.
Evaluation words of my End product by the team: ―Both your Reflective
Statement and Instructional Plan were very comprehensive, . . . [and] among the
most detailed End products of all who attended the Workshop.‖ Seminar. The
Council on Teaching and Learning, Faculty Teaching Center, UMass Lowell..
5/30, 6/1-4.
2001 ―On Line Instruction: Issues, Initiatives, and Collegiality. The Council on
Teaching and Learning, Faculty Teaching Center, UMass Lowell, 1/8-10.
2000 “Critical Thinking Outcomes. A Methods Discussion” Seminar. Faculty Teaching
Center, UMass Lowell, Winter.1/10.
2000 Finding Balance in Classroom, Seminar. Faculty Teaching Center, UMass
Lowell, Winter 2000. 1/12.
2000 Computer training classes, Educational computing UMass Lowell. Applications
on Microsoft Word 2000.
2000 Computer training. Using Microsoft Front page 2000 to edit Web pages. CLASS.
2000 IPTV Digitized Pilot Project. School of Education. Careful selection of a series
of no more than 10 minutes segments of Spanish episodes to help learners of
Intermediate level courses contextualized language and culture concepts using
theWeb and the new language lab computer center.
1996 Writing in the Americas Seminar. Three hours a week in XXth Century Latin
-03 American Literature. Topics dealt with 1) a re-evaluation of Latin America
Literature through the personal reading and consultation with writers from
Chile, Argentina, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Jewish, and Latino writers. For
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topics and writers present see last page of Vita.
1999 National Forum. The Future of Spanish Departments on College and University
Campuses. Smith College, Northampton, Mass 9/17-18.
1999 Seminar on Translation, Boston University. Sessions with Rabassa, Tino
Villanueva and Alicia Borinski.
1999 Screenings of Avant-Garde films, Locos por Hollywood‖ film series. Feature
films, La verbena de Madrid and El orador by Ramón Gómez de la Serna,
Instituto Cervantes, New York 4-31..
1998 Electronic Information resources for Research and Teaching,Certificate of
completion. Faculty Teaching Center, Summer Institute Workshop, 6/98.
1998 MATSOL‘S Spring Conference. Focus on anticipating the future of teaching
second languages with the new brain studies and the arrival of computers and
technology in the classroom 2/27-28.
1998 TESOL International Conference, Seattle. An intensive week of sessions on the
latest research on teaching and learning second languages 3/16-22.
1993-98 New England Latin American Film Festival, Fine Arts Museum, Boston. A
screening of 13 to 15 Latin American films per year which had won international
recognition. Intention: increase the selection of quality videos on Latin America
with literary, cultural, historical and sociological content at UMass Lowell Media
Center for the benefit of the University –as resources for courses and the
community at large. Some topics per year: ―Women at the Forefront of Latin
American Cinema‖; ―The New Latin American Cinema‖.
1997 Beyond the Syllabus: Course Development, Certificate of Completion. Faculty
Teaching Center, Mass Lowell, Summer Institute Workshop, 11/97.
1997 Shattering the Silence. The Council on diversity and Pluralism, UMasss Lowell,
3-12.
1997 A professional Development Opportunity on Multimedia. MATSOL.
Boston University. Hands on workshop introducing multimedia language
lab and its applications for teaching with focus on what teachers can do rather that
what each application can do 5/14.
1997 The Course Syllabus as A Teaching Tool for today‟s Students Faculty teaching
Center, UMass, Lowell, Summer Institute Workshop Follow up,10/6.
1995-97 Email training, CLASS, UMass. Lowell, (Summer-Fall).
1996 The course Syllabus as A Teaching Tool for Today‟s Students, Certificate of
completion. Faculty Teaching Center UMass Lowell, Summer Institute
Workshop, 11/96.
1996 Electronic Information resources for research and Teaching, Certificate of
completion. Faculty Teaching Center, UMass Lowell, Summer Institute
Workshop, 11/96.
1996 Faculty teaching center, Summer Institute Workshop Electronic Information
resources for research and Teaching (June).
1996 World Wide Web Home page coordinator training, UML, 3/ 4-8
1996 ―Exile and transculturation.‖ A two days of films exploring transcultural realities
featuring Europe and the Americas with Argentinian writer and film director
Edgrado Cozarinski, BU, 4/8-10.
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1996 The Course Syllabus as A Teaching Tool for Today‟s Students, Faculty Teaching
Center, UMass Lowell, Summer Institute Workshop, 5/ 30, 6/4, 6.
1996 Electronic Information Resources for Research and Technology, Faculty
Teaching Center, UMass Lowell, Summer Institute Workshop, 5/3, 5, 6.
1996 Summer Seminar on Diversity and Pluralism, Council on diversity and Pluralism,
5/18.
1984-01 Lectures in Literary Criticism. BU. On Latin American Literature and language
teaching techniques, 4/2-11/84; On Latin American Literature, 2/13/87; On
Galdós, 3/6/89. On Inquisition‘s literary censorship, 10/00; On Avellaneda‘s
Quijote, 10/01.
1995 MATSOL Spring Conference, Brokering Culture: A Humanizing Pedagogy. 3/17-
18, Bunker Hill Comm. College.
1995 Caribbean Women Writers Fourth International Conference, Wellesley College,
4/20-23.
1994 TESOL Conference, Sharing our Stories, Baltimore Convention Center,
Maryland, 3/8-12.
1994 Another language: Visual Works from Instructors of Modern Foreign language
and Literatures‖ A different facet of Language teachers both within and outside of
the department. BU, 3/1
1993 Open House, Conversations on teaching and lectures sponsored by the council on
faculty Development, UMass Lowell, 5/10, 3/11. 11/17.
1993 Feminism and Anti-racism: From New Zealand to Massachusetts, Mahoney Hall,
UMass Lowell, 10/18.
1992 Translating Huidobro. University Professor‘s Program translation Seminar, BU
(Spring).
1992 The Millennium Project Symposium: Beginnings/Endings. BU, 3/28.
1992 Pre-Raphaelite Symposium. UMass Lowell, 4/23.
1991 Integrating Technology into the Foreign Language Curriculum: An update. Brown
University, 3/15-16.
1990 Spanish and Latin American Films. Museum of Fine Arts, 2/2-9.
1990 Interactive Video CD-Rom, and Computer demonstrations, MIT, 4/27.
1983-89 MATSOL Conferences on Computers and Language Learning: Babson College,
(1983); Northeastern University (1987); Bunker Hill Community College 3/25-26
1988; 4/1 1989.
1987-88 International Association for Learning Laboratories conference on language
learning through technology, 9/5-8.
1987-88 Lectures and exhibitions on the first Contemporary Latin American Art
Colloquium. The Women‘s Caucus for Art. Boston University Art Gallery, 9/87-
5/88.
1986-87 Biennial conference, AATSP, Amherst, Mass. 9/26-27; 10/12, 87.
1986-87 Symposium on Science and Imagination in the 20th
Century, Boston Colloquium
for the Philosophy of Science, BU.
1986-87 Sine Nomine: Support group for college language professors, for the discussion
and sharing of language teaching techniques, 2/21.
1986 ―Freedom versus Fidelity in Translation‖ Lectures, University professor‘s
Program seminar, Boston University..
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1985 The Fifteenth Annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, BU, 3/7-9.
1983 Humanity and Nature Conference. An Interdisciplinary Symposium and an
Exploration of Rights and Values. BU. 3/20.
1977 First Latin American Theater Festival in Boston. Mayor‘s Office of Cultural
Affairs, Boston, 3/2-5.
1976 The Eleventh Annual Fall Conference of the MFLA, Hyannis, Mass.
1976 College Round Table Workshop for Language Teachers, New England
Child language Association, Boylston Hall, Harvard University, 2/7.
1976 First Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development
and Applied Psycholinguistics, 10/1-2.
1976 Wider Horizons Project Workshop. To develop intercultural educational
resources. The Schools of Education, Harvard and BU, 10/23.
1975 Interamerican Program of Linguistics and Language Teaching, Lima, Perú, 1/14-
16. International Conference. The Association of Linguistics and Philology of
Latin America Conference, Lima, Perú, 1-9-10.
1973-74 Bilingual-Bicultural Education Workshop, Mass Department of Education and the
Center for International Education. At the Maritime Academy, Buzzards Bay
(Summer, 74).
1973-74 MATSOL Workshops on teaching: The Silent Way (74). On Romance Languages
at College Level (73).
1972-75 MFLA (Modern Foreign language Association) Annual Conference, Springfield
Massachusetts.
Achievements
1977-2009 My scholarly work is considered a serious contribution to Spanish letters because
it is leading to the understanding of a writer who, recognized as the most
influential writer to Hispano American modern literature, described by Octavio
Paz as ―the great Spanish writer: the writer or, better yet, Writing,‖ and
acknowledge by García Márquez as his major influence in his journalistic style,
has been almost impossible to be viewed coherently or comprehensively before
my analysis. I have been recognized as the leading expert on Ramón‘s novella and
credited with proving organization and unity in his work, something that has
offered accessibility and has encouraged a renewed interest in his work. Interest
in my edition of El hombre de alambre continues. The Spanish publishing
company Editorial Círculo de Lectores is the third one to publish it (2003). It is
important to note that this author is the only narrative writer included in the text
Spanish Cultural Studies, an Introduction eds. Helen Graham and Jo Labanyi,
(Oxford University Press, 1995) and acknowledged as the key artist of the Avant
Garde in Spain in Temps de crise et années folles (Les annés 20 en Espagne) eds
Carlos Serrano, Serge Salaün, Presses de l‘universit‘e de Paris-Sorbonne, 2002.
Professional Leadership
As demonstrated in this Vita, pioneering and leadership is present in issues
concerning diversity and pluralism (addressed back in the seventies); teaching
with technology (addressed back in the eighties) and cultural issues with the study
of none other than the key Spanish narrative writer for Cultural Studies
Programs. Proof of leadership in these fields are evidenced by the list of
publications: bilingual readers and picture dictionaries, creation of software and
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teaching guides to create environments that encourage critical thinking and
collaborative learning through interactive video techniques and computer
programs and my research and publications on Ramón Gómez de la Serna.
In addition, leadership in other areas have been as follow:
1970-76 In close cooperation with the then Chairman Dr. J. Garreau, I created the Spanish
major of the Department of Languages.
1972-75 Organizer of slide presentations by Frank De Fina from the University of Madrid
on: Holy week and Feria in Seville (1972, 73; Seville, Pamplona and Madrid,
(1974, 75).
1973-95 Spanish Club Founder, Advisor.
1974 Organizer of exhibitions held at Dugan Hall, on: San Blas Indian handicrafts,
2/25-3/22.
South American Woodcraft, 4/ first two weeks.
Seville‘s Ceramic 4/last two weeks
Coordinator of the Spanish Immersion program.
Originator of the Department of Foreign Languages Alumni Reunions. Back then
there was no office for Alumni affairs.
Organizer: Spanish Feria.
Planner and coordinator of classical Guitar workshop and Classical Guitar recital
by Spanish guitarist Segundo Pastor.
Originated an interchange program between Dracut High School students of
Spanish and Lowell Spanish majors.
1974-75 Arranged to have a Spanish column in the Advocate where students of
Spanish of all levels could write.
Creator and supervisor of the ―tutorial chain‖ using Latin American students of
Lowell Tech to interact with Spanish majors.
1974-76 Organized a once a week Tertulia at lunch hour at the cafeteria, for students who
wanted to practice Spanish in an informal setting.
1976 Coordinator of the presentation at the University of Lowell of Pablo Neruda‘s
―Fulgor y muerte de Joaquín Murieta‖ by the bilingual Bicultural theater arts in
education Program of the Mayor‘s Office of Cultural affairs of Boston and the
bilingual Department of Boston.
Creator and developer of the course Spanish for Spanish Speakers.
1988 Finalist. Letras de Oro Literary award contest.
1989 Active supporter of House Bills 1807 and 4978 to protect the cultural diversity
that has made this country strong.
Provided CLASS (Center for learning and Academic Support Services) with The
Random House Electronic Language Tutor and The Spanish Games for
Communicative Practice, software programs for all Spanish Language learners
who would like to use them.
Provided Media Services with the Random House Video Program for use by
Spanish Language learners at the University.
1990 Donated to the Media Services of the University of Lowell three authentic
Spanish videos acquired in exchange for creating Teacher‘s guides for PICS
(Project for International Communication Studies, the University of Iowa.
Annanberg/CPB Project).
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1989-91 MCET Scola consortium participant.
1991 Support of the airing of a cable Spanish TV station in the area, through letter to
the Editor, Stoneham, Independent.
1992 Provided CLASS with The McGraw Hill Electronic Language Tutor for
Beginning Spanish Students.
1998-01 Provided CLASS with the interactive software for the current Beginning Spanish
textbook, Mosaicos.
Created tasks for the WWW so students could engage in ―virtual travel‖ and
flavor Hispanic culture while learning Spanish.
2000 Participant of the IPTV Digitized Pilot Project for the creation of materials for
Students of Spanish.
2001-02 Participant in Intralearn, incorporating course material for Intermediate I, II and
Introduction to Latin American Literature.
Service to the Department
1970-72 Assisted Chairman in structuring the Spanish Program (Choice of courses,
description of programs, etc.)
Assisted Chairman in screening and evaluation prospective Spanish faculty.
1970-76 Recruiter of possible majors in Spanish. Interviewed and assessed incoming
freshmen and transfers.
Academic Advisor to Spanish majors.
Aided Chairman in designating advisors to incoming Spanish Majors.
Created and administered placement tests for all students entering Spanish as a
major or minor.
Created and administered placement tests proficiency tests to students
challenging the language requirement.
1971-76 Responsible for developing the library resources in Spanish Language and
Literatures and Bilingual Education materials.
Assisted Librarian in double checking the existing sources, and evaluating new
sources to buy books, magazines and periodicals.
1974 Responsible for the remodeling of the Language Laboratory.
1974-76 Responsible for developing the record resources in Spanish and Latin American
classical and popular music.
1975-76 Responsible for developing the audiovisual resources for the course Light and
Sound.
1987 Suggested the acquisition of the video Class Act to show at incoming freshman
Open Houses as a way to motivate students investigation career options to look
into foreign language teaching.
1987-88 Assisted in the drafts, prepared final versions, and created a new format for finals
in Beginning and Intermediate Spanish.
1988-91 In my effort to continue developing the library resources, without secretarial or
student aid help, I earned in the Acquisition Department of the O‘Leary Library
the reputation of being equal only to Prof. Liana Cheney in the number of book
requests submitted!
1991 Assisted Chairman in the running and supervision of the Language laboratory.
1991-93 Directed Study coordinator.
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1992 Contributor to interdepartmental Cluster programs (Global Relations and Cinema)
and the peace and Conflict minor.
1996-99 Creator of courses: Spanish and Latin American Women Writers, Hispanic
Perspectives, Latin American Literature and the Art of Film.
2002-03 Working on courses for the Cultural Studies Program: Modernism and Beyond,
Spanish and Latin American Avant Garde literature, recreating one online course.
2006 Creator of Spanish Film: Short Takes, course designed in response to the need to
adjust the formative levels of language learning to the mission of the department
of Cultural Studies.
2006-07 Appointed to be responsible for making changes in the Spanish program to better
relate the academic integrity of that program to the interdisciplinary and cultural
mission of the Cultural Studies Department. Also,
Assisting new hires and part time Language faculty in selection of curriculum and
materials that would help underscore the interdisciplinary and cultural mission of
the department.
----- Organizer of demo by Vista Higher Learning representative for the demonstration
of the possible use of an elementary level course text for on line as well as a
regular course.
SERVICE ACTIVITIES
Community Activities related to Professional Field
1962-82 Interpreter, translator and host for various foreign student programs: Boston
Seminar for International Students, Latin American Women‘s Leadership, Center
for English language and Orientation Program, all at Boston University.
1973 Volunteer. Community resources for career Education to enrich educational
programs at Stoneham High School.
1976 Evaluator, Spanish Program, Notre Dame, Tyngsboro, Mass.
1982 Voluntary advisor of engineering students from CELOP (Center for language
orientation Program of Boston University) who showed interest in applying to
Lowell University.
1985-87 Consultative cooperation to Prof. Alma Espinosa, University of Lowell
department of Music, on old Spanish manuscripts.
1989 Interviewed by Lowell‘s Cable TV 6 PM News on Panamá Liberation and
Operation Just Cause.
1989-91 Creator of teacher‘s videoguides for the development and reinforcement of
Spanish language skills at the high school and college level through authentic
video for PICS (The Project for International Communication Studies, the
University of Iowa. An Annanberg/CPB Project).
1990-91 Author, Spanish adapter of English stories and editor for Spanish components in
programs (software, books, songs, and teacher‘s video guides) designed to offer
cultural and language enrichment to pre-literacy and reading readiness bilingual
children. To be used at elementary schools in the Western part of the USA.
Learningways, Cambridge, Mass.
1990-91 Instrumental in re-establishing ownership of the unpublished papers of Ramón
Gómez de la Serna housed in the University of Pittsburgh Special Collection‘s
Library.
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1991 Speaker on ‗Women‟s Issues in Latin America.‘ At the Spring meeting of
ALTRUSA of Greater Lowell.
1993-95 Language interpreter, consultant, translator, Latino Clinic, Boston City Hospital.
1993-95 Language interpreter, consultant, translator to Children‘s Hospital.
1994 Speaker at the Stoneham Chapter of the Massachusetts Federation of Women‘s
Clubs on „Images of Nature Found in Pablo Neruda‟s Elementary Odes‘, 5/3.
1995-96 Director. Thesis to Bradford College Senior Miguel Mejía.
1995-96 Presener and reader. Stoneham Central High School Cultural Heritage and
national Book Week.
1995 Interpreter, translator, editor, In the Middle, Newcomer, Englewood Cliffs,
Prentice Hall/Regents. Resource material addressing issues of multiculturalism
and diversity for teachers of bilingual education.
1995 Member of the Central School Community readers. National Book of the Week,
Stoneham. A morning visit of readings and talk on Latin America‘s life and
culture to students and parents.
1996 Consultant to Prof. Andrés Vilagra, Merrimack College for course in translation.
1996-98 Language consultant, editor, Prentice Hall. For the preparation of a handbook
dictionary for immigrant latinos in both English and Spanish to make their
transition into the English language possible.
1997 Consultant to Lowell Hispanic Community for the creation of a Lowell Hispanic
Cultural Center.
1997-98 Language consultant translator editor. Research and Education Unit, Boston
Medical Center. Center for Substance Abuse prevention. For the design of a
questionnaire, in Spanish, to be used by Primary Care doctors in the USA (
project to improve prevention of alcohol problems in latinos in the USA).
99-05 Mentor former students and/or young professionals now in other countries,
universities or states, e.g. Elena Castellanos, Susan Tullis, Rafael Quiles, Perla
Roberts, Luz Carrion.
2000 Tutor Minority Program (Tewksbury based, providing name of possible student
tutors).
2005-6 Consultant to Pearson Publishers, in the preparation of a bilingual dictionary to
help the Spanish community learn English.
----- Translator of the abstracts of New Solutions, Journal of the Department of Work
Environment intended to increase the leadership of UMass Lowell in Latin
America.
Voice Overs for Educational Materials
1993 ―Gillette Employee Savings Plan,‖ Gillette Co., Mass (April).
1993 ―Improving the Resolution.‖ International Human Resources Development Video
Library for Exploration and Production Specialists 2/15-18.
1993 ―Muddlogging/Registro de módulos de perforación.‖ International Human
Resources Development video Library for Exploration and Production
Specialists 5/8-12
1993 ―Harvard Community health Plan/ El plan de seguros de salud Harvard,‖ Harvard
Communitty Health Co., 8/20-23.
1993 Timberland care Products. Timberland Co., 8/20-23.
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1992 Film. ―Testimonies of Victims of Violence in Chile‘s Political Oppression.‖
American Association for the advancement of Sciences, The Bunting Institute,
Cambridge, Mass. (August).
Professional Boards
1975-81 Member of the Bilingual Board of Examiners of Massachusetts.
1975-89 Member of the Board of the Academic Year in Spain Program with exchange
academic programs in Seville and Madrid.
1989-92 Member of the MCET (Massachusetts Corporation for Educational
Telecommunications) SCOLA Consortium.
COMMITTEE ACTIVITES
Departmental
1974 Member of the Personnel Committee.
1975 Chair, Personnel Committee.
1979 Alternate, Review and merit Committee.
Member, Promotion to Professor Committee.
1983-01 Member, Curriculum Committee. Active in selection and adoption of textbooks,
tapes, videos, CD Roms and ancillaries for the language courses.
Alternate, Library Committee.
Media Center Spanish Resources.
1992-99 Senator.
1998 Personnel Committee.
2002-10 Library Committee, Department of Cultural Studies.
2002-10 Head, Personnel Committee, Department of Cultural Studies.
2002-10 Curriculum Committee, Department of Cultural Studies.
College Level
2010 Welcome Day. 4/10.
2009-2010 UMass Lowell Center for Peace, Development, and Culture Committee.
2009 UMass Lowell Center for Women & Work, Art & Craft Fair, piccolo performance
of R. Vaughan Williams, “March Past of the Utensils,” from the Aristophanic
Suite “The Wasps” generating public participation, 10/3.
2009 Translator: UML String Project, Music Department
1) Letter to Lowell Music Teachers.
2) Announcement and registration form to 3rd
and 4th
grade parents from the City
of Lowell. 9/30.
2009 Director of Timothy Donovan paper nominated as 2009 Protz Scholar: “Defining
the Novella: Evident Qualities and Thematic Elements in the work of Ramón
Gómez de la Serna”presented in the session Creative Compositions: Authorship
and Identity, Critical approaches in Literature. UMass Lowell Honors program
Twelfth Annual Student Research Symposium, 4/28.
2008 Undergraduate Studies Committee / Undergraduate Policy Committee
2008 Member, Academic Resource Committee.
2008 Member, Curriculum Committee.
2006 Collaboration with English Department students doing papers on Spanish
2008 Chair Latin American Studies Program.
----- Consultative cooperation with the History Department on their process
leading to a new hire in Latin American History.
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2008 Coordinator, creator, administrator Spanish placement test.
2008 Undergraduate Studies Committee / Undergraduate Policy Committee
linguistics.
1984-2009 Commencement Marshal.
1997-2010 Mentoring of Spanish Tutors, Center for Learning.
1997-04 Member of the Task Force to improve tutoring (Provide guidance, texts and
software to students tutoring Spanish at CLASS).
1997-99 Member, University College CLASS tutoring Advisory Committee.
1977-98 Member of the Women‘s Studies Program.
1996-97 World Wide Web page coordinator.
1995-99 Member Peace and Conflict Minor program.
1994-95 Member of the Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Studies Committee.
Member of the Arts and Sciences Open House Sub Committee.
1986 Department of Languages representative at Spring Core Curriculum
meeting.
1976-00 Department of Languages representative Latin American Studies
Program.
University Level
2009-2010 UMass Lowell Center for Peace, Development, and Culture Committee.
2009 Moderator to: Creative Compositions: Authorship and Identity, Critical
approaches in Literature. UMass Lowell Twelfth Annual Student Research
Symposium, 4/28.
2009 UMass Lowell Center for Women & Work, Art & Craft Fair, “Cheerleader”
piccolo performance of R. Vaughan Williams, “March Past of the Utensils,” from
the Aristophanic Suite “The Wasps”, 10/3.
2009 Translator: UML String Project, Music Department
1) Letter to Lowell Music Teachers.
2) Announcement and registration form to 3rd
and 4th
grade parents from the City
of Lowell. 9/28.
1984-09 Marshal University graduation Ceremonies.
2000-03 Member of the Council on Teaching and Learning, Research and
Scholarship Enrichment Committee.
Member of the Council on Teaching and Learning, Research and Scholarship
Task force on Retention Committee.
1997-00 Member of the Council on Teaching, Learning and Research as Scholarship
Steering/Executive Committee.
1993-00 Tutoring Advisory Committee, University College.
1992-99 Department of Languages Faculty Senate Representative.
1992-99 Member, Academic Resources Committee of the Faculty Senate.
1997-00 Member of the task force to improve tutoring (Provide guidance, texts and
software to students tutoring Spanish at CLASS).
1997-99 Member of Council on Diversity and Pluralism. Task force, Campus Life.
1998-99 Academic Standard‘s Overseer (Senate Ad Hock Committee).
1992-05 Latin American Student Association Advisor.
2007 Member, Curriculum Committee of the Faculty Senate.
2008 Coordinator, creator, administrator Spanish placement test.
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2008 Undergraduate Studies Committee / Undergraduate Policy Committee
2008 Coordinator, creator, administrator Spanish placement test.
Other service to the University
1974 Volunteer in the Tutoring program under the direction of Dr. J. Zaitchik.
1975 Active participant in the University of Lowell‘s second On Campus Day.
----- Department of Languages representative, at Framingham State College.
1976 Spokesperson for the Spanish Immersion Program of the University of Lowell. At
the Annual Round Table Conference of Teachers Trainers in Language
Education, at Framingham State College.
----- Occasional interpreter for students of Nursing.
1976-77 Editorial board, New Lowell Offering.
1976-00 Advisor of unassigned students.
1985-87 Volunteer in the Resource Guide of NECCUM the Northeast Consortium of
Colleges and Universities in mass. Fields: XXth Century Spanish and Latin
American Literatures, Spanish and Latin American Culture and Slide lectures on
present Spain and Latin America.
1985 Liaison between PCAP students and the College of Liberal Arts.
1986 Liaison between Wang laboratories and Engineering Department for
the recruitment of Spanish Speaking personnel.
1987 Co-advisor, Latin American Club.
1989-94 Volunteer for the Incoming Freshman Open House organized by the
Admission‘s Office of the University of Lowell.
1989-91 Advisor, Latin American Association.
1988 Volunteer for the student orientation day ―Peers on Career Majors and the
System‖ McGauvern Student Center.
1989-91 Participant in MCET sessions to voice the point of view of the language teacher in
an effort to explore ways in meeting the telecommunications needs of higher
education.
1988-94 Volunteer ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL FAIR and Culture fest, University of
Lowell, Student Life Office.
1991 Advisor, Spanish Club.
1990 Video, photo presentation to the Living and learning Center, North Hall:
―Operation Just Cause. ¿Liberation or Invasion?
1990-91 Participant. The orientation panel of CLASS (Center for Learning and Academic
Support Services) UML.
1991 Faculty representative ROTC Graduation Ceremonies.
1992-05 Advisor, LASA (Latin American Student Association).
1992-04 Advisor and participant to the Hispanic Heritage Month Activities (Advisor on
Cultural show, movie presentation, folk dances, music and exhibitions, cultural
buffet and closing fiesta, moderator, panelist).
1996 Society of Hispanic professional Engineers Advisor.
1996 UMass Lowell representative to the Heritage Week at the Neshoba Valley
Regional High School.
1997-98 Contributor to the Center for Diversity and Pluralism by creating /adapting
courses to fit their mission.
1996-08 In response to the University‘s mission and student‘s needs, I have
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modified my elementary Spanish courses and created new courses
stressing teaching strategies to help students succeed with the learning
outcomes (critical thinking, collaborative learning, integration of
knowledge, etc.). Have also created bilingual and Honor‘s tracks for
several Literature courses e.g. Hispanic Perspectives, Women in
Hispanic Literature and Hispanic Literature and the Art of Film. Hispanic Film:
Short Takes.
1996 The syllabus for the course Women in Hispanic Literature is included in the
resource book of the Faculty Institute, on reserve at both O‘Leary and Lydon
libraries and at the Dean‘s Office of each college with 17 other learning-centered
Syllabi, to serve as planning resources available to all faculty.
2007 Assessment of Spanish Proficiency to University members seeking grants that
required a particular level of Spanish proficiency. eg. Vanessa Gray
Other Special Interests
Paleographic research on documents of the Conquest, Archivo de Indias, Seville.
Special interest in intercultural communication, particularly between Spanish and
English speakers. Have worked with Puerto Rican migrant workers. Interest in
Kinseics. First hand experience in the cultural and artistic world of the Caribbean,
and South America from its historical intercultural exchanges with Spain
(zarzuelas) to the present. Investigations on the origins of the Spanish/Sephardic
component in Caribbean and Latin American culture. Formal musical formation:
fifteen years Piano, violín, flute, solfege, harmony, music theory, in the Panamá
Conservatory. Have played flute and piccolo with the Orquesta Nacional de
Panamá, the Orquesta Filarmónica de Sevilla, the Melrose, the Merrimack Valley
Philarmonic, the Stoneham High School Community Orchestra, the Stoneham
Chorus, and the Stoneham Summer Theater Program. Member of the Reading
Symphony Orchestra since 1969. Member and secretary of the board of Directors
of the Reading Symphony Orchestra since 1999.
Travel: Colombia, Jamaica, Spain, Italy, Canada, England, Perú (Lima, Cuzco,
Macho Pichu), Switzerland, France, Germany, Austria, New England,
California, Florida, San Blas Islands, México City, Veracruz, Yucatán,
(Mérida, Teotihuacán, Tenochtitlán, Chichen Itzá, Cozumel) Costa Rica,
Puerto Rico, Hawaii, the Antilles, Chile, Buenos Aires, Río de Janeiro,
Barro Colorado, Honduras, Belize, The Caribbean --St. Thomas, St. Estaucia.
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Writing in the Americas Seminar.
1996-01
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Three hours a week in XXth Century Latin American Literature. A re-evaluation of
Latin America Literature through the personal reading and consultation with writers
from Chile, Argentina, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Jewish, and Latino writers.
Topics and writers present:
Universalism, Regionalism and Displacement in the Literature of the Americas.
1996-97: Writers present: Antonio Sármeta (discussion and showing of the low budget in exile
first version of the film based on his story Soñé que la nieve ardía, later recreated in Il Postino),
Ricardo Piglia and Augusto Monterroso.
1997-98: Latin American Literature of the Last Decades of the XXth Century:
Scholars present: Cynthia Tompkins, Maribel Tamargo scholar on Chiquismo (Dominican
Republic Women writer‘s movement), Esther Guimbernat-Gonzalez, Miriam Echeverría.
Writers present: María Shúa, Damiela Eltit, Luisa Futoranski.
Fall 97: The role of Translation in the dissemination of Literature. Writers and/or scholars: Cola
Franzen, Peter Bush, Mark Schafer, Dianna Niebylski, Rhonda Buchanan.
Spring 98: Prose and Poetry from Spanish Minorities in Latin America, the Caribbean and
Hispanics in the USA. Mexican, Puerto Rican, Peruvian, Chicano and Hispanic writers present:
Ilan Stavans, Pedro Granados, Isaac Goldenberg, Juan Gelman, Juan Bruce Novoa, Francis
Schwarts, Tino Villanueva, Martín Espada.
1998-99: Displacement, Humor, Passion and the integration of popular lore (music, film) in
Spanish Literature of the Americas.
Fall 98: Writers: Alberto Mangel, Margo Glantz, Germán García, Augusto Monteroso, José
Emilio Pacheco, Luis Rafael Sánchez, Tino Villanueva.
Spring 99: Politics, Literature and Society: reflections on Literary Genres and their Extraliterary
Impact. The role of Film and Documentaries as a Means of Literary and Cultural diffusion. Film
Creators/directors: Juan Mandelbaum, Edgardo Cozarinski.
Writers present: Sergio Ramírez, Tomás Eloy Martínez, Liliana Hecker, Ana María Shúa. 1999-
2000: Memory and displacement in literature. The Role of Memory in Literary Creation.
Fall 99: Writers present: Luisa Futoranski, Manuela Fingueret, Margo Glanz, Mark Shafer,
Mandelbaum, Ilán Stavans, Liliana Hecker.
Spring 00: Memory and displacement: Marco Aguinis, Gladys Anchieri, Julio Ortega, Saúl
Yurkievich, Pedro Cuperman, Ivonne Bordelois, Cola Franzen, Raymond Williams, Vezzeti
Plotkin, Andrés Avellaneda, Esther Guimbernat-Gonzalez.
2000-01 Fall 00: Emotions: Philosophical and psychological issues. Writers present: Raúl Courel,
Carmen Berenguer, Soledad Bianchi, Alberto Manguel, Jean Franco. Writers studied: Felisberto
Hernández, Silvina Ocampo, Clarice Lispector.
Spring 01: Emotions II. Memory, History, texts-documents. Writers: Michael Wood, José Emilio
Pacheco, Tomás Eloy Martínez, Manuela Fingueret, Colm Toibin, Carlos Bruck, marcelo Pichón
Riviere.
Fall 01: Latin American Literature beyond the XXth Century: An Exploration. The roloe of
publishing companies, cultural supplements. Shapers of leaders of taste. writers: Alberto Mangel,
Saúl Yurkievich, Guillermo Martínez. head editor of La nacióon, Buenos Aires, El Heraldo,
Chile.
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2001-02: Alicia Borinski Sabática.
2003-04: The literary voice. Fiction of Intimacy, humor, bad taste.
Spring 03: Criticism and poetry, talking with the reader: closeness and distance: Writers present:
Tamara Kamenszain, Luisa Futoranski, Eduardo Becerra Editor Alfaguara, Tomás Eloy
Martínez.
The role of books in contemporary culture. Writers TBA.
Other writers studied: Roberto Arlt, Macedonio Fernandez, Juan Carlos Onetti, Zoe Valdés,
Cristina Peri Rosi, José Donoso, José Vallejo, etc.
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As a leading scholar on my field, XXth Century Hispanic Literature, the all inclusive
Avant-Garde movement, and my first hand experience in the cultural and artistic world of the
Caribbean, and South America, from its historical intercultural exchanges with Spain
(zarzuelas) to the present, I can engage myself with the Cultural Studies
Program creating collaborative courses. I would continue my scholarly tasks, writing books,
doing research on my specialties. A book is ready to be published pending resolution of
secession of copyright holder‘s legal rights by Lang Publishing Co. Its title: A Bilingual Edition
of Eight novellas by Ramón Gómez de la Serna.
I will continue addressing issues concerning diversity and pluralism. I will also address
student‘s needs, modifying, re-structuring and creating new courses stressing teaching strategies
that help students succeed with the learning outcomes (critical thinking, creativity, collaborative
learning, integration of knowledge, etc.). At the same time I will continue to follow the ACFL
Proficiency guidelines to keep the standards necessary to provide students of language with the
before mentioned goals.
I will continue to take advantage of the resources available to keep up to date with my
field and the application of new technologies, attending and participating in professional
activities directed to literary criticism, cultural, historical and sociological content
pertinent to the Hispanic tradition, teaching methodology and technology.
I will continue to participate in national forums focusing in the future of Spanish Departments
on College and University Campuses.
I will continue my mission as mentor for the encouragement to the younger generation
through personal interaction and through the associations most dedicated to do so.
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