EDUCATION:
Ph.D. Romance Languages
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 1981
Doctoral Dissertation: "El mundo crítico de Federico
García
Lorca"
Period of Specialization: Twentieth Century Spanish Literature
Gender of Specialization: Poetry
M.A. Romance Languages
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, May, 1975.
Major: Spanish and Spanish American Literature
Minor: French and Linguistics
M.A. Thesis: "La dignidad humana en el teatro de Oswaldo Díaz"
M.A. Guidance and Counseling
Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee, June 1969
Major: Guidance and Counseling
Minor: Education
M.A. Thesis: "Self Concept of Military Children During the Vietnam
Conflict"
B.A. Philology and Languages (Licenciatura en Filología e
idiomas)
Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia,
November,
1964
Major: English, French, and Spanish
Minor: Latin, and Education
POST-DOCTORAL STUDIES:
NEH Seminar on "Ortega y Gasset and Contemporary Literary Criticism,"
Cornell University, Summer, 1985.
Seminar on "Spanish Literature of the Eighties." Universidad de
Salamanca, Summer, 1992.
HONORS:
Selected as The
Spanish Professor of the Year 2003 by the Georgia Chapter of the
American
Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.
Appointed “Miembro
Correspondiente
de la Academia Boyacense de Historia,” Tunja, Boyacá,
Colombia, Mayo 26, 2000. Acceptance Speech: “El sueño de la
Razón
y la pesadilla de la
Historia: de Goya a Joyce en Yo, Goya de Carlos Rojas.”
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1992-present
Professor of Spanish at the State University of West Georgia,
Carrollton,
Georgia.
I am the Coordinator of Spanish Studies, and I teach graduate and
undergraduate
Spanish Language, Literature, Civilization, and Linguistics courses. I
also teach Latin
American Literature.
1988-1992
Associate Professor of Spanish and French at the State
University
of West Georgia,
Carrollton, Georgia. I taught graduate and undergraduate courses
in Spanish Language,
Literature, and Civilization. Director of Foreign Language Education
K-12
and
developed methodology courses for the teaching of Foreign Languages in
Elementary
Schools. (FLES Certification courses for high school teachers)
1983-1988
Assistant Professor of Spanish and French at West Georgia
College
and Director of
Foreign Language Education. I taught French and Spanish courses,
Literature,
Linguistics,
and Methods of Foreign Language Teaching.
1981-1983
Foreign Language Instructor at South Georgia College, Douglas,
Georgia.
I taught
Spanish, French, and English as a Second Language. I organized and
revitalized
the
language program at the college. I also directed the English as a
Second
Language
Program for International students.
Summer 1978 Language
Instructor at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá,
Colombia.
I was an
instructor of English as a Second Language.
1978-81
Language Teacher at Colegio Nueva Granada, Bogotá,
Colombia
(A bilingual,
multicultural international school accredited by the Southern
Association
of Colleges
and Universities). I taught Peninsular, Latin American, and Colombian
literature,
culture, and civilization courses and was an instructor of Spanish as a
Second
Language and Colombian Culture for International Students.
1970-78
Language Instructor at Georgia State University, Atlanta,
Georgia.
I taught English
as a Second Language, Spanish Language and Literature, and
Spanish
and Latin-
American Civilization with undergraduate and graduate students.
1969-70
Guidance Counselor with the Colombian National Ministry of
Education,
Bogotá,
Colombia. Worked with a team of educators in the writing of a
manual
to implement
the Guidance and Counseling services in the Colombian public schools.
1966-69
Language Teacher at New Providence Junior High School,
Clarksville,
Tennessee.
I served as an exchange teacher sponsored by the Cordell Hull
Foundation.
I taught
Spanish and French
1965-66
Language Teacher at the Liceo Nacional Femenino,
Bogotá,
Colombia. I taught
English and French as a second language.
Director of Studies Abroad Programs:
-Summer, 1992:
Universidad
de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.
-Summer, 1986:
Universidad
de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico.
-Summer, 1984: "Cursos
internacionales," Segovia, Spain.
Special courses developed and taught at the State University
of
West Georgia:
-Conversion Courses: FLES
for high school language teachers (Certification)
-Language Acquisition:
Theory
and Practice
-Honors Course on “The World
of Don Quixote”
-WAC, Writing Across the
Curriculum courses
-Learning Communities:
“Latino
Literature in the United States”
-XIDS: “Latin American
Popular
Culture” in cooperation with Dr. Marjorie Snipes of
the Anthropology Department
-Voices and Images of
Latin-American
Women
-Film and Literature of
Spain and Latin America
-Spanish and Latin American
Poetry
-Seminars on Federico
García
Lorca / Miguel de Cervantes / Carlos Rojas / Latin
American Women Writers / Modern and Postmodern Literature
-The Literature of
Democratic
Spain
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
En torno al hombre y a sus monstruos. Colección de estudios
críticos sobre la
obra de Carlos Rojas. (Co-editor with Chris Soufas) Potomac,
Maryland: Scripta
Humanistica, 1987. (Grant from ALDEEU)
The Literature of Democratic Spain: 1975-1992. The Literary
Review.
Fairleigh
Dickinson University Press. Madison, New Jersey, 36, 3, (Spring 1993).
An
anthology of contemporary Spanish literature translated into English.
(I compiled and
edited the book, translated some prose and poetry selections, and wrote
the
introduction.) (Grant from the Spanish Ministry of Cultural Affairs)
Literatura, arte, historia y mito en la obra de Carlos Rojas.
Bogotá: Fundación
Universidad Central, 1998. It contains an introductory essay,
twenty essays, a
complete bibliography on Carlos Rojas, a listing of his writings, and
an interview
with the writer.
Book Translation:
The Garden of Janus. Cranbury, New Jersey: Associated University
Presses, 1996.
(A novel by Carlos Rojas, original title in Spanish: El
jardín
de Atocha, Madrid:
Editorial Debate, 1990, 218 pages)
Book Reviews:
Manuel Mantero, Ya quiere amanecer. Celestinesca. Madrid, 1,
2, (Fall 1977): 10-12.
Carlos Rojas, La Barcelona de Picasso, El café literario.
Bogotá, 26. V (Marzo-
Abril 1982): 51-54.
Cristina de la Torre, The Narrative Art of Alvaro Cunqueiro.
South
AtlanticReview.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, (August 1989): 161-163.
Carlos Rojas, El jardín de las Hespérides,
España
Contemporánea. Columbus,
Ohio, (1990):149-151.
Carlos Rojas, El jardín de Atocha, Cuadernos de ALDEU.
Erie, Pennsylvania,
(1991): 129-131.
Marcy E. Schwartz, Writing Paris: Urban Topographies in
Contemporary
Latin American Fiction. New York: State University of New York
Press,
1991.xiii+144 pp.
Textbook Reviews:
Aventuras literarias (A Literary Reader) National Textbook
Company
Nuestra herencia (Spanish for Native Speakers of Spanish)
Books Forthcoming:
En torno a la violencia en Colombia: una propuesta
interdisciplinaria.
A collection of twenty essays by Colombian and Colombianist scholars
on
the theme of violence. (LRC Grant)
Locura y éxtasis en las literaturas hispanas.
Co-editor,
Gerardo Piña
Rosales. Cuadernos de ALDEEU.
Book in progress:
El sueño de la Razón y la pesadilla de la historia
en la narrativa de Carlos
Rojas. (A critical study on the novels by Carlos Rojas (fall
2001- Sabbatical
semester) (LRC Grant)
Book Translation in progress:
Yo, Goya. A novel by Carlos Rojas, Barcelona: Planeta,
(Work in progress)
ARTICLES PUBLISHED:
"Un cuarto de siglo de interés en La Celestina
1949-75:
Documento bibliográfico."
(In cooperation with Dr. Jane Schneider and Dr. Joseph Snow), Hispania,
Ann Arbor, Michigan, (October1976): 610-660.
"El niño en la poesía negra.” Boletín
cultural
y bibliográfico de la biblioteca Luis
Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia, XVI, 5, (Mayo1979):
57-77.
"La influencia inconfesada de Ortega en Julio Cortázar."El
café literario, Bogotá,
Colombia, XIII, (Abril1980): 28-33.
"Ernesto Sábato: estudio sobre el tiempo en El túnel.
"Boletín cultural y
bibliográfico de la Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango,
Bogotá,
Colombia,
XVIII, 1, (Enero1981): 217- 227.
"El Cante Jondo: teoría y praxis." El café
literario,
Bogotá, VI, 36,
(Abril 1981): 21-25.
"Génesis y destrucción del poder en Cien
años
de soledad y El otoño del
patriarca. "Boletín cultural y bibliográfico
de la Biblioteca Luis Angel
Arango, Bogotá, Colombia,. XIX, 1, (1982): 87-99.
"El dualismo en la poesía de Blas de Otero." Journal of
Basque
Studies, Vol. 1,
No. 5, Fresno, California, (Fall1984): 35-42.
"Gabriel García Márquez y Carlos Rojas en dos novelas
del poder: El otoño del
patriarca y Mein Führer, Mein Führer." Monografías
de ALDEEU. Interpretaciones
a la obra de García Márquez. Madrid: Ediciones
Beramar, (1986): 101-110.
"La 'Oda a Salvador Dalí': significación y
trascendencia
en la obra y vida de Lorca
y Dalí." Anales de la literatura española
contemporánea.
Boulder, Colorado,
(1986): 61-78.
"Cortázar's 'Blow-up': An Encounter with Reality." Dieciocho,
Hispanic Enlightenment,
Aesthetics, and Literary Theory. Rutgerts University,
8, 2, (Fall 1986): 181-187.
"El tiempo y el espacio en El sueño de Sarajevo." El
café literario, Bogotá, IX, 46-47,
(Junio-Diciembre 1986): 36-40.
"Federico García Lorca en los infiernos a cincuenta
años
de su muerte." Cuadernos
de ALDEEU, Erie, Pennsylvania, (Abril 1990): 19-27.
"La caída del hombre, un mito invertido en El
sueño
de Sarajevo. " Hojas universitarias.
Universidad Central, IV, 33, Bogotá, Colombia, (1989): 153-160.
"El jardín de Atocha: montaje de sueños y
enigmas."
West Georgia College International
Conference on Surrealism, Selected Proceedings, Carrollton, Georgia,
October, (1990):
106-116.
"Mito, estructura y cosmovisión en El valle de los
caídos
de Carlos Rojas." Impacto y
futuro de la civilización española en El Nuevo Mundo.
Actas del encuentro internacional
Quinto Centenario. ALDEEU. Instituto de cooperación
iberoamericana.
Madrid;
Universidad Complutense, (1991): 311-316.
"Proceso a Godoy de Carlos Rojas: Capricho y retrato del fin
de un titán y de su siglo."
Alba de América. Buenos Aires: Instituto Literario y
Cultural Hispano, 12, 22-23,
(Julio 1994): 327-337.
"Entrevista a Carlos Rojas." Anales de la Literatura
española
contemporánea.
Boulder Colorado. 18, (1993): 365-374.
"Lo existencial femenino: eros y poesía en la obra de Anabel
Torres." en
Literatura y diferencia: Escritoras colombianas del Siglo XX.
A collection
of essays edited by M. Jaramillo, B. Negret, and A. Robledo.
Bogotá:
Ediciones
Uniandes, (1995): 48-70.
"Relevancia de lo pequeño en un barroquismo resignificado."
Entrevista
a la
escritora uruguaya, Teresa Porzekanski". Confluencia: Revista de
Estudios
Hispánicos. University Press of Colorado, Niwot, Colorado
11, 1, (Fall
1995): 175-181.
(The interview with the author in Montevideo was partially financed
by a Learning
Resources Grant from The State University of West Georgia.)
"Ekfrasis y encantamiento en las trilogías de Carlos
Rojas."
Anales de la
literatura española contemporánea, Boulder,
Colorado.
22, 1-2, (1997): 53-74.
"Sombras, desesperanzas y amarguras infinitas en la poesía de
José Asunción Silva."
Revista de estudios colombianos, Georgetown University,
(Noviembre
1998): 35-40.
“Una poética y una erótica para Juan Gustavo Cobo
Borda.”
Golpe de Dados,
Bogotá, l, (1998): 12-17.
Prólogo al libro de poemas, Tercer Laberinto. Carlos
Vásquez-Zawadzki,
Cali:
Editorial Dada, 2000.
“Homenajes y variaciones: Los Collages de Carlos Rojas.” Confabulaciones.
editors: Rafael Corbalán, Gerardo Piña-Rosales,
Nicolás
Toscano. New Yok:
Monografías de ALDEEU (Abril 2001): 103-112.
“El Buildungsroman o la novela de formación femenina
en
la narrativa colombiana.”
La novela colombiana. Editoras: María Mercedes Jaramillo,
Betty Osorio, Angela
Robledo. Bogotá: Ministerio de Cultura. 3 (2000): 325-338.
“Eros y poesía: el cuerpo y las palabras en la poesía
de Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda
y Carlos Vásquez Zawadzki.” Revista de estudios colombianos.
The University of
Illinois.22 (2001): 16-25.
“Blondinette en el teatro poético y universalista de
Oswaldo
Díaz Díaz.” Teatro
latinoamericano para niños. María Mercedes
Jaramillo,
editora. Medellín:
Editorial Universidad de Antioquia, (Agosto 2002): 85-125.
LECTURES:
"Lorca como crítico de arte." XIII Congreso nacional de
profesores
de literatura
y lingüística, Bucaramanga, Colombia, Octubre, 1980.
"Lorca como crítico de teatro. " Casa de la Moneda,
Biblioteca
Luis Angel Arango,
Bogotá, Colombia, Mayo, 1981.
"Lorca como crítico de poesía. " 32nd Mountain
Interstate
Foreign Language Conference.
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, October, 1982.
"Teoría estética en la 'Oda a Salvador Dalí'." SAMLA, Atlanta, Georgia, November, 1983.
"El poder, fuerza motriz en Cien años de soledad y El
otoño
del patriarca." Philological
Association of the Carolinas, Charleston, South Carolina, March, 1983.
"La música en el mundo crítico de Federico
García
Lorca." 33rd Mountain Interstate
Conference, Virginia Institute of Technology, Blacksburg, Virginia,
October, 1983.
"Gabriel García Márquez y Carlos Rojas en dos novelas
del poder: El otoño del patriarca
y Mein Führer, Mein Führer." International Symposium
on Gabriel García Márquez,
Mississippi State University, Starksville, Mississippi, April, 1984.
"El dualismo en la poesía de Blas de Otero." 34th Mountain
Interstate
Conference, East
Tennessee University, Johnson City, Tennessee, October, 1984.
"Federico García Lorca's Encounters with Technology through
Art
and Reality. " Interface
'84. Humanities and Technology Association, Atlanta, Georgia, October,
1984.
"Móviles existenciales en 'Lugar llamado Kindberg'." La
CHISPA,
Tulane University,
February, 1985.
"El impulso creador entre lo real y lo maravilloso en dos narradores
colombianos." XI
Annual Hispanic Literatures Conference, Indiana University of
Pennsylvania,
October, 1985.
"El tiempo y el espacio a la luz de la razón y de la
esperanza
en El sueño de Sarajevo."
SAMLA, Atlanta, Georgia, November, 1985.
"Fábula, intertexto y metaficción en El
sueño
de Sarajevo de Carlos Rojas." NEMLA,
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, April, 1986.
"Lorca en los infiernos a medio siglo de su muerte." AATSP, Madrid, Spain, August, 1986.
"Lorca y Dalí: entre el cubismo y el surrealismo." Academia
de
Historia y Arte de San
Quirce, Segovia, Spain, June, 1984.
"El destino cómico y trágico de Don Perlimplín
y de Don Friolera" Conference on Wit and
Humor in Western Literature, West Georgia College, Atlanta, Georgia,
November, 1986.
"El ser y no ser del monstruo en El jardín de las
Hespérides
de Carlos Rojas." West Georgia
College Conference on The Outsider, Atlanta, Georgia, October, 1987.
"La danza de la muerte en El valle de los caídos."
Special
session on the novel of Carlos Rojas
organized by Phyllis Zatlin. Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages
and Literatures,
Rollins College, FL. February, 1987.
"The Literary Experience: The Forgotten Chapter in Foreign Language
Teaching." SCOLT,
Charleston, South Carolina, April, 1988.
"Ode to Salvador Dalí: Significance in the Lives and Works of
Dalí and Lorca." Guest speaker
at The Salvador Dalí Museum, Saint Petersburg, Florida,
February,
1990.
"El surrealismo y el barroco en El jardín de las
Hespérides."
Conference on " Spain Towards
the Twenty-first Century," Ohio State University, Colombus, Ohio,
April,
1990.
Mito, estructura y cosmovisión en El valle de los
caídos.
" General Assembly of ALDEEU,
Puerto Rico, 1990.
"Perdido en el Amazonas y Relato de un náufrago:
Literatura
y periodismo. " Congreso de
colombianistas. lbagué, Colombia, Agosto, 1991.
"Carlos Rojas as Gardener and Other Dreams," Delkab College Fine
Arts
Festival, Clarkston,
Georgia, May, 1991.
"Lorca en El ingenioso hidalgo: Mito y profecía. "
West
Georgia College International
Conference on Myth and Fantasy. Colony Square, Atlanta, Georgia, 1991.
"Yo Goya: descubrimiento de la vida en la muerte. " West
Georgia
College International
Conference on the Word and the World of Discovery, Atlanta, Georgia,
October, 1992.
"Yo, Goya: mito, arte y biografía". LA CHISPA Conference, New Orleans, LA, 1993.
"Proceso a Godoy de Carlos Rojas: capricho y retrato del fin
de un titán y de su siglo."
XI Congreso Literario Interamericano, Montevideo, Uruguay, August
11-16,
1993.
"Del amor y el odio al incesto: El testimonio femenino en Proceso
a Godoy de Carlos
Rojas." International Conference on Representations of Love and Hate,
Colony Square,
Atlanta, GA, October 22-24,1993.
Guest-speaker at a session of the American Association of Literary
Translators,
ALTA.
"On translating The Garden of Janus: A Theory of Literary
Translation".
Atlanta, GA.
November 5, 1993.
“Cervantes y Avellaneda o los dos rostros de Jano en El
jardín
de Atocha." XX Congreso
de Literaturas Hispánicas, Indiana University of Pennsylvania,
Indiana, Penn. Noviembre
5-7, 1994.
"Epifanía y redención en las trilogías de
Carlos
Rojas. " West Georgia College International
Conference on The Hideous and the Sublime, Atlanta, GA, November, 11-
13, 1994.
"Burla y tragedia del 'cornudo' en tres hitos de la literatura
española:
Valle-Inclán, Lorca y
Carlos Rojas." First International Conference on Hispanic Humor,
University
of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, 1995.
"Alfonso de Borbón habla con el demonio o la
pesadumbre
de la vida consciente. " West
Georgia College International Conference on The Sacred and The Profane.
Renaissance
Hotel, Atlanta, GA, October, 1995.
"Sombras, desesperanzas y amarguras infinitas en la poesía de
José Asunción Silva." State
University of West Georgia International Conference on Desire and
Despair,
Renaissance
Hotel, Atlanta, GA, November, 1996.
Guest-Speaker for the AATSP session. Title of lecture: "Don Quijote
y Sancho Panza, dos
personajes en busca de su creador en El Jardín de Atocha
de Carlos Rojas. SAMLA.
Savannah, GA, November 8, 1996.
"La búsqueda de la autenticidad en tres cuentos de Julio
Cortázar."
Universidad Javeriana
de Colombia, Bogotá, Abril, 1997.
"Arte, escritura y liberación en las trilogías de
Carlos
Rojas." Universidad Pedagógica
Nacional, Bogotá, Abril, 1997.
“Una poética y una erótica para Cobo Borda”
Conferencia
internacional de colombanistas.
Penn State University, August, 1997.
"Texto y contratexto, verdad y contraverdad en Luis III, El
Minotauro
de Carlos Rojas y
El rapto del Santo Grial de Paloma
Díaz-Más".
State University of West Georgia
International Conference on Borders and Foundations. Renaissance Hotel,
October 23, 1997.
“El sueño de la razón y la pesadilla de la historia en
la obra de Carlos Rojas”
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Mayo, 1999.
“Los Collages de Carlos Rojas: Homenajes y variaciones” SAMLA.
Atlanta,
GA.
Nov. 1999.
“Cervantes on the Edge of Time in The Garden of Janus by
Carlos
Rojas.” XXV
Conference on Literature and Film. Tallahassee, FL. Jan. 26, 2000.
“The Artist’s Representation of Self in Yo, Goya by Carlos
Rojas.
SEASECCS,
Savannah, GA, March 4, 2000
“La historia del arte en los Collages de Carlos Rojas. ALDEEU , San
Antonio,
Texas, March 18, 2000.
Presentation of Tercer Laberinto, a poetry book by
Carlos
Vásquez-Zawadzki,
Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia, Mayo, 2000.
“Eros y poesía: el cuerpo y las palabras en dos poetas
colombianos
de hoy.” AATSP
Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, August ,2000.
“La ciudad enajenada en Sin Remedio de Antonio Caballero.
International
Conference
on Madness and Bliss, Atlanta,GA, November, 2000.
“Death, Grief, and the Poet: Manrique, Lorca, and Silva." XXVI
Conference
on
Literature and Film, Tallahassee, Fl. February, 2001.
“Carlos Rojas: el banquete paterno en Freud y Valle-Inclán. BRICHA, April 26, 2001
Guest Speaker at three universities in Poland. “Cervantes al filo
del
tiempo en El
jardín de Atocha de Carlos Rojas” Universidad de
Czestochowa,
octubre, 2001.
“El jardín, el tapiz y el río: espacios
poéticos
y estructurales en El jardín de Atocha
de Carlos Rojas.” Universidad de Polonia en Katowice, octubre, 2001
“Locura y redención en El sueño de Sarajevo de
Carlos Rojas.” Universidad
Jaguellonica de Cracovia, octubre 2001.
“El poeta y la muerte: Lorca en la obra de Carlos Rojas”
International
Conference
on Parody and Imitation. Atlanta, Ga 2001
"Carlos Rojas y Paloma Díaz-Más: Arquetipos y
parodias.”
SAMLA. Atlanta,
GA. November 5, 2001.
"Ritos de paso: iniciación al caos en Sangre ajena de Arturo
Alape." International
Conference on Chaos and Order. Atlanta, GA. November 8, 2002.
"Fenomenología, liminalidad y el lenguaje de las quimeras en
Conversaciones con
Manuel María de Carlos Rojas." SAMLA, Baltimore, November 15,
2002.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Organizer of Special Sessions in Literary Conferences:
-Organized and chaired a
session on Carlos Rojas in MIFLC at East Tennessee
State University, Tennessee,
1983. Participants: Chris Soufas, Hugh Seay, Pedro
Campa, and Gregorio
Cervantes
Martin.
-Organized and chaired a
session on Carlos Rojas at AATSP in Madrid, Spain,
1986. Participants
María
Jesús Mayans Natal, Rafael Rodríguez Méndez,
Cecilia
C. Lee.
-Organized and chaired a
session with my graduate students on justification, methodology,
and evaluation of FLES
programs.
FLAG. Savannah, GA. 1988.
-Organized and chaired a
session for the international conference on Love and Hate: "Love
and its Labyrinths in the
Contemporary Spanish Novel." Participants: Diane Glad, Dorothy
Marbán, Pamela De
Weese, and C. Lee. October, 1993.
-Organized and chaired a
session on Carlos Rojas at SAMLA, Atlanta GA. 1995.
Participants: Pedro Campa,
Rose Marie Marcone, Joseph Tyler, Juan Cruz Mendizábal,
and Cecilia C. Lee.
-Organized and chaired a
special session in homage to José Asunción Silva in the
one
hundred anniversary of his
death. "José Asunción Silva: El deseo, el decoro y la
desesperanza."
Participants: Eduardo
Jaramillo,
Alfredo Villanueva, and Cecilia C. Lee. International
Conference on Desire and
Despair, Renaissance Hotel, Atlanta, GA, 1996.
-Organized and chaired
two
session on Colombian literature: “Madness and Bliss in Colombian
Literature (part I,
II).”
International Conference on Madness and Bliss, Renaissance Hotel,
Atlanta, GA. 2001
-Organized and chaired a session on Colombian Literature: Chaos
Writer’s encounters: Round Table Organizer and
Moderator:
“Humor y Tragedia en las
literaturas hispánicas.” Conference on Wit and Humor.
Participants:
Carlos Rojas, Manuel
Mantero, and Pedro Campa. Atlanta, Georgia, November, 1986.
"Surrealism and The
Oneiric
Experience: A Writers Encounter." West Georgia College
Conference on
Surrealism
and the Oneiric Process. Participans: William Doxey, Lorena
Santos Silva, and
Carlos Rojas. Atlanta, GA, November, 1990.
"Del amor al odio en la
creación
literaria: Un encuentro de escritores. " West Georgia College
International Conference
on Love and Hate. Participants: Carlos Rojas, Robert Lima, Marjorie
Agosín, and Joseph
Tyler. Atlanta, Georgia, October, 1993.
"De las tinieblas a la
luz
en la creación literaria: Un encuentro de escritores hispanos."
West
Georgia College
International
Conference on The Hideous and the Sublime. Participants: Carlos
Rojas, Nicasio Urbina, and
Patricia Bilches, Atlanta, GA, November, 1994
"A Writer’s Encounter:
Madness
and Bliss in a Writer Soul.” International Conference on
Madness and Bliss.Atlanta,
GA, November, 2000. Participants: Gerardo Piña Rosales(Spain),
Carlos
Vásquez-Zawadzki
(Colombia), Medardo Arias (Colombia).
Pedagogical Workshops:
As a member of the Georgia
Task-Force on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in the
Elementary School, I
participated
in the series of workshops sponsored by the State Department
of Education under the
direction
of Greg Duncan. Summers of l988,1989, and 1990.
"Literature and
Children:
Authentic Texts for FLES." Consultant for the NEH program: "FLES
with substance," sponsored
by Dr. Lynn Bryan, Macon College, Macon, GA June, 1991. I held
a three-day workshop for
teachers of Spanish in Georgia on teaching literature in the foreign
language
classroom. (Teachers earned
credits) I contributed an in-house publication for the FLES Resource
Center in Macon entitled,
"Rondas, poemas y leyendas infantiles de Colombia: una antología
de textos
auténticos."
I conducted a two- week
workshop
for twenty-six elementary school teachers in Douglas County
on Spanish Language and
Methodology for FLES. (Teachers earned credit), June, 1993.
“Experiencing the Culture
in the Classroom” Academic Alliances Workshop. Participants:
International
students, foreign language
teachers, and college professors. West Georgia College, January, 1994.
(Director of Conference
Dr. Diane Sharp)
"The Literary Experience:
The Forgotten chapter in Foreign Language Teaching." Academic Alliances
Workshop, West Georgia
College,
Carrollton, GA., January, 1995. (Dir. of Conference Dr. Diane Sharp)
Professional Activities in the Community:
Participant in the film:
“Colombia: Life and Culture,” sponsored by the Colombian Consulate in
Atlanta, GA. November 1971.
Wrote scripts and
recorded
tapes for the Spanish audio program for the teaching of Spanish in
Georgia Public Schools. Sponsored by the State Department of
Education.1971-1972.
Advisor for the
television
program "La Barcelona de Picasso," Directed by Yvonne de Wright
with a Grant by the Georgia Endowment for the Humanities based on
Carlos
Rojas' book, La
Barcelona de Picasso. Channel 5, Atlanta, Georgia, 1982.
Guest in the television
program,
“Latin Atlanta,” directed by Yvonne de Wright. Channel 5,
Atlanta, Georgia, 1983.
Guest-Speaker for the
Spanish
Honor Society initiation at Berry College: “El legado de don
Quijote,” Rome, GA. 1988.
Presentations on
different
aspects of foreign languages and cultures to Rotary Club, Lions Club,
Women's Club, Honorary Societies, High school language teachers,
Spanish
clubs, and in
Spanish classes at local high schools and elementary schools.
Radio Interview, Georgia
Public Radio, “Latin Beat,”on Cien años de Soledad por Gabriel
García Márquez. 2000.
Editor for SALSA, PeachStar Education Services, PBS: a Spanish television series for children.
Guest Speaker for the
Carrollton
League of Women Voters: “Colombia and the Drug Traffic”,
Carrollton, GA. February 18, 2001.
Organized a March in support of Peace for Colombia. Carrollton 1999.
SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY:
Committee membership:
Faculty Senator 1998,1999,
2000
Chair of Senate Committee
on Learning Resources, 1999, 2000.
Promotion and tenure
committee
(three times)
Arts and sciences Executive
committee
College of Arts and Sciences
advisory committee
Departmental tenure and
Post-Tenure Review committee
Department Search committee
for Chair, German, Spanish, and French candidates.
Graduate School Advisory
committee
Committee for Master Degree
candidates comprehensive exams
Advisor, Freshman
Orientation
Advisor, Visiting Day
Assistant Editor for JAISA,
in house publication
SERVICE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES:
Director of Foreign Language Education 1983-1993:
Liaison with the School
of Education 1983-1993
Initiator of the FLES
program
at West Georgia College
Development of FLES courses
for certification.
Student teacher supervisor
Participated in the
validation
of TCT and Praxis
Participated in workshops
on teacher certification policies
Coordination of Spanish Studies 1989-present:
Five-year course projection,
scheduling of courses, and textbook selection
Coordination of activities:
Hispanic Day, Tertulia, and social and cultural events
Tutor training, student
placement and advisement
Assistance to new and
part-time
faculty
OTHER ACTIVITIES:
Served as Judge in the West
Georgia College Declamation Contest for High School
Students, 1976,1994,1996. 1997.
Sponsored a Concert, “The
World of Don Quixote,” by the New York opera singer
John Cimino with the financial support of the Colleges of Business and
Arts and Sciences.
April, 1999.
Sponsored a lecture by
Professor
Carlos Rojas “Cervantes: the Silent Years,” April, 1999
Sponsored the AATSP high
school Spanish exam (1987-1989)
Co-sponsor of the Foreign
Language Chapter of Phi Sigma Iota (1993-present)
Sponsored the Latin American
Film Festival
Sponsored the International
Film Series (2002-2003)
Sponsored the AATSP Spanish
Composition Contest (2001-2002)
MEMBERSHIPS:
AATSP, AAUP, ALDEEU, ALTA,
SAMLA
Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Sigma
Iota
International Association
of Colombianists.
GRANTS:
National Endowment for the
Humanities Seminar Summer 1985
ALDEEU
Publication 1978
Spanish Office of Cultural
Affairs in New York
Publication
1992
Learning Resources $
1,400
June 1993
Learning Resources $
1,000
June 1996
Learning Resources $
990
June 2001
Internal Grant from Arts
and Sciences $ 900
SABBATICAL:
Sabbatical
Fall 2001