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ADA ORTUZAR-YOUNG Drew University, Madison, New Jersey

Professor of Spanish, Emerita

[email protected]

(Updated August 2018)

ACADEMIC DEGREES & POSTDOCTORAL SEMINARS

University of Wisconsin, B.A.

New York University, M.A. (French); M.A. (Spanish); Ph.D. (Spanish) 1979.

N.E.H. Fellow at Yale University. Title of Seminar: "The Concept of Culture and the Idea of

Literature in Modern Latin America," (Director: Roberto Gonzalez Echevarría) Summer

1979.

N.E.H Fellow at Princeton University. Title of seminar: "Literary History in Conception and

Practice." (Director: Earl Miner, Professor of English and Comparative Literature)

Summer, 1994.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Drew University:

1990-Retired June 30, 2017 Professor of Spanish

1982-90 Associate Professor Spanish

1979-82 Assistant Professor of Spanish

1973-79 Instructor of Spanish

Grades 7 – 12:

1972-73 The Spence School, New York, New York

1970-72 The Baldwin School of New York City

Courses I Have Taught Recently in English for General Education and Humanities:

College Seminar (for first year students): Local and Global in Latin American Film

Latinos in the US: Images of Self and Family

Gender in Contemporary Hispanic Fiction and Film

From Magical Realism to Globalization in Latin American Literature and Film

Courses I Have Taught Recently in Spanish for Spanish Majors and Minors:

Beginning and Intermediate Spanish

Spanish Conversation

Spain, Latin America, the U.S.: An Odyssey of Cultures

Gender and Representation in Hispanic Literature and Film

Relationships, Marriage, and Romance in Hispanic Literatures and Film

Memories and Migrations: U.S. Latinos in Literature and Film

Hispanic Cultures in the U.S.: Colonial Spain, Ethnics, Post-Ethnics

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(Senior Seminar) Diaspora and Space in Hispanic Fiction and Film

Co-Leader of Recent Drew International Seminars (taking Drew students abroad):

City and Cinema: The Cultural and Urban Spaces of Barcelona and Madrid (January,

2005)

Identity and Ethnicity in Argentina (January, 2007)

Buenos Aires: The Local and the Global (January, 2009)

Havana: A Tale of Two Cities (in Havana, Cuba, and Little Havana, Miami, FL) (January,

2016, and May, 2017)

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

Drew University:

Jan-04-Jun-06:Chair, Spanish Department

2001-2003 Dean’s Council (member)

1991-95 Chair, Spanish Department

1992-95 Director, Latin American Studies

1987-Jan-89 Acting Chair, Spanish Department

1979-85 Chair, Spanish Department

ASSESSMENT AND PROGRAM ACCREDITATION/EVALUATION

Member of re-accreditation teams of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.

Participated in accreditation visits for the following universities: 1) Dickinson College,

March/April, 1992; 2) Albright College, November, 1994; 3) Manhattanville College,

March, 2002; 4) Universidad del Turabo, Puerto Rico, March, 2005; 5) American

University of Paris, March, 2010.

Program reviewer (outside evaluator) of Modern Language Departments for Stockton College of

New Jersey, Pomona, NJ, (March, 1998), The College of Staten Island of the City

University of New York (April, 2006), Saginaw Valley State University, Saginaw, MI (April

2014)

College Board/ETS: Assessment: Spanish AP Reader in “Speaking” and “Writing” since 1994.

“Table Leader” for “Writing” since 2001. (1994—present). (As “Table Leader” a) meet

with the leadership to finalize criteria for assessment prior to the Reading; b) train,

supervise, and evaluate performance of teachers assigned to me during the Reading.)

Program reviewer for NCATE (National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education) – as of

2013: CAEP (Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation). Evaluate

Undergraduate and Master programs in foreign language teaching education applying

ACTFL’s “National Standards” and leading towards program certification.

(Spring, 2007-present)

ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages); Assessment: Using the

AAPPL rubric (ACTFL Assessment of Performance toward Proficiency in Languages) to

assess oral and written proficiency in Spanish, according to National Standards.

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SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

External Reviewer for rank and tenure case at George Mason University, 2004.

External Reviewer for rank and tenure case at Texas Christian University, 2005.

External Reviewer for rank and tenure case at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the

C.U.N.Y., 2007. External Reviewer for full-professor rank case at Santa Clara University, CA, 2013.

AWARDS, APPOINTMENTS, ELECTIONS, HONORS

Elected President of FLENJ, the Foreign Language Educators of New Jersey, (The state-wide

organization of foreign language professionals K-16), 1992-94. Board member of FLENJ:

1989-2001.

Editor of “The FLENJ Notes,” the newsletter of the Foreign Language Educators of New Jersey,

1997- 2000.

Editor of “ENLACE,” the newsletter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and

Portuguese, 1998-2002.

Conference Chair of Eighth Biennial Conference of the Northeast Regional American Association

of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (Drew University, September, 1998), and member

of Steering Committee of Ninth Biennial (Yale University, September, 2003).

Certified as “Oral Proficiency Tester” in Spanish by ACTFL (American Council for the Teaching

of Foreign Languages) (May, 2009)

(By invitation) Member of the Editorial Board of “Transformations. The Journal of Inclusive

Scholarship and Pedagogy” (Fall, 2009-2014)

Elected to the Board of Directors of the AATSP (American Association of Teachers of Spanish

and Portuguese for a three-year term (2013-2015)

Certified as Tester of AAPPL (ACTFL’s Assessment of Performance toward Proficiency in

Languages) by ACTFL (American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (since

April, 2013)

SCHOLARLY RESEARCH

Current Research:

1) Diasporas and migrations in literature and film in the Hispanic world.

2) Latinas/os in the United States; Memories and Migrations.

3) Film in the contemporary Hispanic world (Spain, Latin America, Hispanics in the US).

Publications:

Tres representaciones literarias de la vida política cubana. NJ: Senda Nueva de

Ediciones, 1980.

Review of Antonio Fernández Vázquez's La novelística cubana de la revolución, Miami,

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Ediciones Universal (1980) in Círculo. Revista de Cultura, vol. XI, pages 128-129, fall

1982.

"La evolución del protagonista en la novelística de Carlos Loveira," Círculo. Revista de Cultura

vol. XII, fall 1983.

Review of Rafael Falcón's La emigración puertorriqueña a Nueva York en los cuentos de José

Luis Gonzáles, Pedro Juan Soto y José Vivas Maldonado, Senda Nueva de Ediciones

(1980) Círculo. Revista de Cultura, fall 1986.

Review of COMPress software course “English as a Second Language,” The Journal of

Educational Techniques and Technologies. Vol. 20, Number 3/4, 1987.

Review of Matías Montes Huidobro's Persona: vida y máscara en el el teatro puertorriqueño,

Puerto Rico (1984) Círculo. Revista de Cultura, fall 1988.

"Lydia Cabrera" in Diane Marting, Editor. Fifty Spanish American Women Writers. New York:

Greenwood Press, 1990, 105-116.

Review of Iraida Iturralde's Tropel de espejos, Madrid: Betania (1989), Linden Lane Magazine,

October/December, 1990.

Review of Frank Dominguez Spanish Microtutor. Version 2.0. Computer Software Harcourt

Brace Jovanovich, 1989 IBM-pc DOS 3.1, 256k,disk. Hispania, (May, 1991) 467-68.

"Lydia Cabrera," in Diane E. Marting, Editor. Escritoras de Hispanoamerica. Una guía bio-

bibliográfica. Colombia: Siglo XXI Editores, 1990, 109-120.

Review of Manuel Augusto Cabrera Ossers' “La expresividad en la cuentística de Juan Bosch.

Análisis estilístico”. Santo Domingo, República Dominicana: Editora Alfa y Romeo,

1989, Hispania. (December, 1991) 894-95.

Review of Kenneth E. Hall's Guillermo Cabrera Infante and the Cinema. Newark, Delaware

Juan de la Cuesta, 1989, Inter-American Review of Bibliography (Department of Cultural

Affairs of the Organization of American States), Vol.XL, 1990, No.3, 443-4.

"Escritura e individualidad en tres mujeres hispanas en los Estados Unidos," in New Voices in

Latin American Literature / Nuevas voces en la literatura latinoamericana. New York:

Ollantay Press, 1993, 55-69.

"Concha Alós" in Linda Gould Levine, et. al. eds., Spanish Women Writers. New York:

Greenwood Press, 1993, 23-31.

“Federico García Lorca” in Mary Parker (Editor) Modern Spanish Dramatists. New York:

Greenwood Press, 2002): 212-225.

“Revisión de la relación madre hija en Almudena Grandes,” in Clementina Adams (editor).

Rebeldía, denuncia y justicia social: Voces enérgicas de autoras hispanoamericanas y

españolas. Miami, FL: Ediciones Universal (2004) 157-166.

“Memoria y transculturación en el teatro de Dolores Prida en Nueva York” Hispania 88.4 (2005):

693-700.

Review of Araceli Tinajero’s El Lector: A History of the Cigar Factory Reader. Trans. Judith E.

Grasberg, Austin: U of Texas Press, 2010, in Hispania, 94 (3), September 2011, 547-48.

“El reverso de la conquista en Cosas que dejé en La Habana, Flores de otro mundo y Princesas,”

in Santiago Juan-Navarro and Joan Torres-Pou (Eds.). Nuevas aproximaciones al cine

hispánico. Migraciones temporales, textuales y étnicas en el bicentenario de las

independencias iberoamericanas (1810-2010). PPU (Promociones y Publicaciones

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Universitarias, S.A., Barcelona, 2011.

Review of Esmeralda Santiago’s Conquistadora. Trad. Diego Jesús Vega. Doral,

FL: Santillana, 2011. Hispania 95 September 2012 (567-568),

“Diáspora y mujer en la dramaturgia de Dolores Prida” Celebrando a Virgilio Piñera. Matías

Montes Huidobro y Yara González Montes. (Eds.) Plaza Editorial, 2013.

Guest Editor & Contributor. Transformations. The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and

Pedagogy. As Guest Editor I participated at every stage of the production of the “Teaching

Food” issue, from selecting the focus, editing submissions, and making final selections for

publication. As Contributor: (Guest Editor Introduction) “Foodways: Roots, Routes, and

What They Tell Us”; (Interview) “Culinary Magic: The Right Ingredients, Culture and The

Senses. An Interview with Chefs at Johnson & Wales University, North Miami, FL”.

Review of Junot Diaz This Is How You Lose Her. New York: Riverhead Books, 2012. Hispania

96 December 2013 (806-807)

“Espacio y género en Tula, La Magna” in Elena Martínez and Francisco Soto (Editors).

Identidad y diáspora: el teatro de Pedro Monge Rafuls. Cádiz, Spain: Editorial

Aduana Vieja, 2014.

“Cuban Geographies: The Roots/Routes of Ana Menéndez Narratives,” in Oliver Rotger, Maria

Antonia (editor) Migration, Diaspora and Return in American Literature (London, New

York: Routledge, 2014).

Review of García, Cristina. King of Cuba. New York: Scribner, 2013. Hispania 98 June 2015

(376-378)

Review of Fischer, Lucy and Patrice Petro, editors. Teaching Film. New York: The Modern

Language Association of America, 2012. Hispania 98 September 2015 (623-824).

Review of López, Iraida H. Impossible Returns. Narratives of the Cuban Diaspora. Gainesville:

University of Florida Press, 2015. Hispania 100 June 2017. (307-309).

“(Re)Membering the Pedro Pan Children’s Exodus in Documentary Film,” in Loustaunau,

Esteban L. and Lauren E. Shaw (Editors). Telling Migrant Stories. Latin American

Diaspora in Documentary Film (Gainesville, FL) University of Florida Press 2018,

(119-135).

“Las rutas diaspóricas de Lourdes Gil: poeta de/en Nueva York” in Elena Martínez and

Francisco Soto (Editors). Entre islas. La imaginarion poética de Magali Alabau, Alina

Galiano, Lourdes Gil, Maya Islas e Iraida Iturralde. Valencia, Spain: Editorial

Aduana Vieja 2018, (304-317).

"En busca del tiempo perdido en Memoria del silencio de Uva de Aragón," Voces del

Caribe 10 (Primavera 2018): 644-55.

(Forthcoming) Review of González-Allende, Iker (ed.). El exilio vasco. Estudios en homenaje al

profesor José Ángel Ascunce Arrieta. Bilbao: Universi.dad de Deusto. 2016. In Hispania.

(Forthcoming) Review of Blanco, José A. Revista. Conversación sin barreras. Instructor’s

Annotated Edition. 5th Edition. Boston: Vista Higher Learning. 2018. In Hispania.

Papers, Workshops and Conference Contributions:

Organized and chaired section on "Revolutionary Literature in Spanish America," Northeast

Modern Language Association, The University of Pittsburgh, April 1977.

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Organized and Chaired section on "Political Repression in Hispanic Literature," Northeast Modern

Language Association, The State University of New York-Albany, March 1978.

Organized and chaired section on "The Characterization of Women in Hispanic Literature,"

National Convention. Modern Language Association, New York, 1978.

"La cuestión de la honra en Cinco horas con Mario, Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico,

San Juan, PR, October 31- November, 1979.

"Cinco horas con Mario: el ser y el parecer," Northeastern Modern Language Association,

Southeastern Massachusetts University, March 1980.

Organized and chaired section on "The Concept of Cultural Identity in the Literature of Spanish

Speaking Groups in the United States," National Convention. Modern Language

Association, Los Angeles, December 1982

"La temática de la revolución en Maneras de Contar," National Convention. Modern Language

Association, Los Angeles, December 1982.

"El punto de vista en Nada y La isla de los demonios, Northeast Modern Language Association,

Annual Convention, Allegheny College, Erie, PA, April 1983.

"Primitivismo y violencia en Pedro Páramo, International Convention of the Asociación

Internacional de Hispanistas, Brown University, August 1983.

Organized and chaired section on "Spanish Narrative After Franco," Northeast Modern Language

Association, Philadelphia, PA, March 1984.

"Relectura de Doña Bárbara: fuerzas naturales y sobrenaturales," Northeast Modern Language

Association, Philadelphia, Pa, March 1984.

Chair and Panel Moderator, "De lo solidario a lo solitario: la poesía póstuma de Pablo Neruda,"

Symposium on Spanish American Nobel Laureate Writers, Jersey City State College,

March, 1984.

"The Negative Archetype in Rómulo Gallegos' Doña Bárbara," Northeast Modern Language

Association, Hartford, Ct., March 1985.

"Función social del discurso en una novela de Miguel Delibes." Northeast Modern Language

Association, New Brunswick, NJ, March 1986.

"Computer-Assisted Language Learning: Advantages and Limitations," Northern New Jersey

Foreign Language Academic Alliance, William Paterson College, Wayne, NJ, May 1986.

"The Microcomputer in Composition Instruction: A Report from the Field," C.A.L.I.C.O.

Symposium, Annapolis, MD, May 1986.

"Our Latin American Neighbors: Chronicle of a Death Foretold." Program of the New Jersey

Committee for the Humanities, Rossmoor Community Association, Jamesburg, N.J, June

1986.

Chair, Pedagogy Section, "Keeping the Teacher in the Background." Biennial Northeast Regional

Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, The

University of Massachusetts at Amherst, September 1986.

"The Microcomputer as a Learning Environment for Foreign Language Instruction," Biennial

Northeast Regional Meeting of the Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese,

The University of Massachusetts at Amherst, September 1986.

"Generating Ideas: Using the Word Processor in Spanish Composition Classes," Computers in

Liberal Arts Education, York College, City University of New York, March 1987.

"Culture in Conflict in Luz Maria Umpierre's . . . Y otras desgracias and Other Misfortunes . . ., 4th

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Annual Graduate Women's Studies Conference, Feminism and Its Translations, Princeton

University, March 1987.

"El desvelamiento del personaje en El beso de la mujer araña y Arturo, la estrella más brillante,

Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, April 1987.

"El tema de la soltería en "Los convidados de agosto' de Rosario Castellanos," XIII Annual

Hispanic Literature Conference, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, October 1987.

"Computer Assisted Language Learning: Some Pedagogical Considerations," Summer Institute

for Foreign Language Teachers Training at John Jay College of C.U.N.Y., New York City,

July 1988.

"Re-creando un discurso femenino: la mujer del Caribe en los Estados Unidos," Instituto

Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, Mexico City, August 1988.

"La desintegración del personaje en la cuentística de los sesenta de Lino Novás Calvo" Fuera de

Cuba/Outside Cuba Symposium, Rutgers University, October 1988.

"The Role of New Technologies in Advanced Language Instruction: Issues and Implications."

Modern Language Association, Washington, D. C., December 1989.

"Mujeres hispanas y su escritura: Cuza Malé, Iturralde y Umpierre," Ollantay Center for the Arts,

New York, March 1990.

"Mulata y sociedad en la cuentística de Lydia Cabrera," Northeast Modern Language Association,

Toronto, Canada, April 1990.

Chair, Section on Puerto Rican Area Studies Topic: Puerto Rican Narrative, Fourth Biennial

Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Association of Teacher of Spanish and

Portuguese, Providence, Rhode island, Sept. 1990.

"Tradición cultural y realización individual en la cuentística de Nicolasa Mohr." Fourth Biennial

Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and

Portuguese, Providence, Rhode Island, Sept. 1990.

"La mujer puertorriqueña en Nueva York en la narrativa de Nicholasa Mohr: cultura y conflicto,"

Conference on Cultural Conflict in Contemporary Literature, University of Puerto Rico at

Mayagüez,, February, 1991.

Chair, Session on on "La literatura del Caribe" (Topic: "Visiones del mestizaje"), Northeast

Modern Language Association, Hartford, Conn. April '91.

"The 1492 Encounter of Cultures: America As Seen By Its First Explorers" Annual Spring Meeting

of Foreign Language Educators of New Jersey, Rider College, March, 1992.

"History and Plausibility in the Film Version of García Márquez's Eréndira," Northeast Modern

Language Association, Buffalo, N.Y., April, 1992.

"Algunas consideraciones temáticas sobre el desarrollo de la literatura cubana en el exilio,"

Cuban Literature: The Writer in Exile Conference, Ollantay Center for the Arts/La Guardia

Community College, New York, May, 1992.

"Legado psicológico de la interacción afroiberoamericana en los personajes de Lydia Cabrera,"

XXIX Congreso. Instituto Internacionalde Literatura Iberoamericana, Barcelona, Spain,

June, 1992.

"Visual Representations of the Encounter, 14-17 Centuries,” in the Summer Seminar for

Secondary School Teachers on "Rediscovering the Encounter: The Worlds of 1492,"

sponsored by the New Committee for the Humanities, Brookdale Community College and

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Essex County College, July, 1992.

Lecture/film discussion: "God and Gold in the Context of the Spain of 1492," Jersey City State

College Humanities Media Series on the Columbus Quincentennial, in cooperation with

the N.J. Committee for the Humanities, Belleville Public Library, Nov., 1992.

"El hombre, la mujer y el paradigma de la conquista en Doña Bárbara”, Conference on

Creación femenina en el mundo hispánico, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez,

November, 1992.

“Integrating Latina Culture and Literature Into the Curriculum”, Hispanic Association for Higher

Education Annual Conference, Atlantic City, N.J., February, 1993.

"Cultura, hogar y mujer en la obra de Rosario Castellanos," Northeast Modern Language

Association, Philadelphia, Pa., March, 1993.

"The Maternal Subject in the Narrative of Concha Alós," National Conference of the American

Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Phoenix, Arizona, August, 1993.

"Using Computers in Foreign Language Instruction," Annual Teachers Conference of the New

Jersey Association of Independent Schools, October, 1993.

"Hypermedia Learning: The Computer and the Teaching of Grammar," Foreign Language

Educators of New Jersey, Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, N. J., Nov, 1993.

"Mothers, Daughters and Tradition in Mexican Society," Resource Center for Women, Summit,

N. J., November, 1993.

"Memoirs and Reflections in the Narrative About Growing Up Hispanic in the United States,"

Hispanic Association for Higher Education 16h Annual Conference, Atlantic City, N. J.,

February, 1994.

"The Personal and the Collective: Caribbean Women Writers in the U.S." American Association

of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Sixth Biennial Northeast Regional Meeting. Yale

University, Sept.-Oct., 1994.

"Issues of Self-Representation in Dreaming in Cuban and How the Garcia Girls Lost Their

Accent”. Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, April, 1995.

"History, Memory and Fiction in the Work of Judith Ortiz Cofer," American Association of

Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese National Convention, San Diego, Calif., Aug, 1995.

"Narrative Intimacies: The Return to the Maternal in Judith Ortiz Cofer," Conference on

Caribbean Literature at The New School for Social Research, New York City, April, 1996

"Cinematic and Literary Icons: María Luisa Bemberg's 'Yo, la peor de todas'," Seventeenth

Annual Meeting on Latin American Literature, Montclair State University, Montclair,

N. J., April, 1996.

"Engendrando la historia: Puerto Rico y los Estados Unidos en la obra de Judith Ortiz Cofer,"

XXXI Congreso Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, Caracas, Venezuela, June,

1996.

"Archetypal Patterns of the 'solterona' in Spanish Literature in the Twentieth Century," Seventh

Biennial North East Regional Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of

Spanish and Portuguese, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, September, 1996.

"History, Fiction, Film: María Luisa Bemberg's 'Camila'," Twenty-First Annual Colloquium on

Modern Literature and Film, at West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV October,1996.

"Re-construyendo la historia: Una perspectiva literaria étnica de la diáspora puertorriqueña,"

Modern Language Association National Convention, Washington, D.C., Dec. 1996.

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"Camila O'Gorman: Texto escrito, texto visual" CINE-LIT III. An International Conference on

Hispanic Literatures and Cinematographies." Portland, Oregon, February , 1997.

Conducted Professional Development Workshop: "Virtual Reality: Using the Internet to Build

Communities for Foreign Language Teaching/Learning". Northeast Conference on the

Teaching of Foreign Languages, New York City, April, 1997.

Chair, Session: Maria Luisa Bemberg: Cinema and the Female Life-Text", Northeast Modern

Language Association, Philadelphia, Pa. April, 1997.

"The Mother/Daughter Plot in Like Water for Chocolate", Northeast Modern Language

Association, Philadelphia, Pa. April, 1997.

"Forms of Communication in Cristina Garcia's novel Dreaming in Cuban, AATSP, Nashville, TN,

November, 1997.

“Mini Film Festival – “La última cena,” a Film by Cuban Director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea”

American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese,” San Juan, Puerto Rico,

August, 2000.

“Home, Nation, Performance. The Hispanic Theatre of Dolores Prida in New York,” Crucible of

Cultures Anglophone Drama of a New Milenium Conference, Brussels, Belgium, May,

2001.

“De madre a hija: poder y cultura en Almudena Grandes,” American Association of Teachers of

Spanish and Portuguese, San Francisco, CA, July 2001.

“Alegoría y nación en Carlos Loveira,” 4th Cuban Research Institute Conference, Miami, FL,

March, 2002.

“Carmen la coja: revisión mítica y cultural del personaje femenino,” III Congreso Internacional

de Literatura Chicana, May, 2002, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain.

“Memoria cultural en el teatro de Dolores Prida,” American Association of Teachers of Spanish

and Portuguese, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August, 2002.

Chair and Organizer of Session “Computers in Research and Teaching,” American Association of

Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 2002.

“Marketing Ethnicity: Cuban Culture and Literary Re-enactment in New York City at the End of

the Twentieth Century” Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Far West Popular Culture & Far

West American Culture Associations, Las Vegas, Nevada, February 2003.

“Voces cubano-americanas en Nueva York: identidad y comercialización.” Conference on

Caribbean Literature, Freeport, Grand Bahama, November, 2003

“Espacio doméstico, cocina y poder en cuatro autoras mexicanas: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz,

Rosario Castellanos, Angeles Mastretta y Laura Esquivel” American Association of

Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Acapulco, Mexico, July, 2004.

“Web-based Course Management Systems: Redefining the Roles of Teachers and Students”

Technology session. 10th AATSP Bienal Northeast Regional Meeting. Yale University,

September, 2004.

Session Chair and Organizer: “Filmic Strategies in the Cuban Cinema Since the 1990s” Modern

Language Association, Philadelphia, PA, December, 2004.

“Lo real maravilloso: Re-imaging Cuba From the Inside,” Modern Language Association,

Philadelphia, PA, December, 2004.

The Tropicalization of Manhattan: Re-living the Hispanic Caribbean in Literature and Culture

American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, New York, July, 2005.

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“Diáspora y transnacionalidad en las películas ‘Cosas que dejé en La Habana’ y ‘Flores de otro

mundo’” IV Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Hispánica de Humanidades,

Madrid, June, 2006.

“El discurso mudo en Suite Habana de Fernando Pérez” American Association of Teachers of

Spanish and Portuguese, Salamanca, Spain, July, 2006.

“Narrating/Visualizing Masculinity in Before Night Falls and Strawberry and Chocolate”

Northeast Modern Language Association, Baltimore, MD, March, 2007.

Chair and Organizer of Session “La Habana cotidiana en el cine y la literatura cubana actual,”

American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, San Diego, CA, August,

2007.

“Dar voz al pueblo: testimonio humano en la película Suite Habana de Fernando Pérez,” AATSP

(American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese), San Diego, CA, August,

2007.

“The Diasporic Experience in Cristina García’s A Handbook to Luck,” American Literature

Association, San Francisco, California, May, 2008.

Chair and Organizer of Session “Transculturación, identidad y nación en el cine argentino

Contemporáneo,” American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, San José,

Costa Rica, July, 2008.

“Inmigración, transculturación y ritos de pasaje en la trilogía fílmica de Daniel Burman,”

AATSP (American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese), San José,

Costa Rica, July, 2008.

“Antonio José Ponte: espacios expresivos ante el período especial,” NEMLA (Northeast

Modern Language Association), Boston, MA, February, 2009.

“La Habana del período especial en la obra de Antonio José Ponte,” AATSP (American

Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese), Albuquerque, New Mexico,

(forthcoming) July, 2009.

“Gender and Migration: Latin American Women Across the Atlantic,” AATSP 11th Biennial

Northeast Regional Meeting, Wellesley College, MA, October, 2009.

Chair and organizer of panel entitled: “Latinos in the US: The Self and The

Family”, AATSP (American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese),

Guadalajara, Mexico, July, 2010.

“From Ethnics to Post-Ethnics in US Latino Literature and Film”, AATSP (American

Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese). Guadalajara, Mexico, July, 2010.

“Identidad y memoria en poetas cubanas de la diáspora”, NEMLA (Northeast Modern Language

Association), Boston, MA, February, 2011.

“From Macondo to McOndo: Spanish American Literature in the XXI Century and

the Impact of Globalization”, AATSP (American Association of Teachers of Spanish and

Portuguese), Washington, DC., July 2011. “Identidades en proceso en cinco poetas cubanas de Nueva York”, Book Presentation of Indómitas

al sol, Baruch College, New York City, December 9, 2011.

“Diáspora y mujer en la dramaturgia de Dolores Prida”. Congreso de Dramaturgia y Artes

Escénicas. Celebrando a Virgilio. Miami, FL, January 12-15, 2012.

“La mujer como sujeto transatlántico en Inés del alma mía, de Isabel Allende, y Conquistadora,

de Esmeralda Santiago”, AATSP (American Association of Teachers of Spanish and

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Portuguese), San Juan, Puerto Rico, July 2012.

“Non-Cities and Global Geographies in Alberto Fuguet’s The Movies of My Life” NEMLA

(Northeast Modern Language Association), Boston, MA, March, 2013.

"La familia cubana de Aire Frío a Union City Thanksgiving“ In "Celebrating the Latino New York

Theater," Baruch College, NY. April, 2013.

Session Chair: “Online Spanish Teaching and Learning: The Role Of The Teacher”; Also

presented paper: “Online Foreign Language Teaching and Learning: An Opportunity

or a Threat”. AATSP Conference, San Antonio, TX, July 2013.

“Food, gender, sexuality and national identity in Latin American and Latino/a Literature and

Film”. AATSP Conference, San Antonio, TX, July 2013.

“Consuming Latinas: Cultural Gastronomy for the Self and the Other,” International PCA/ACA

(Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association) Conference, Warsaw,

Poland, July, 2013.

“Hispanic Caribbean Diasporic Discourse in New York City: From Exiles to Ethnics” Annual

Convention of NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association), Harrisburg, PA, April

2014.

“La subjetividad del niño en el cine sobre emigración hispánica,” AATSP (American

Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese), Panama City, Panama, July 2014.

“El cuerpo como palimpsesto en Soñar en cubano y Las hermanas Agüero de Cristina García”

III Congreso Internacional sobre el Caribe, YoSoyElOtro Asociación

Cultural y el Grupo Kóre de Estudios de Género, Universidad Carlos III Madrid,

November, 2014.

“La reinscripción de La Avellaneda en el imaginario del siglo XXI” III Congreso Internacional

sobre el Caribe, YoSoyElOtro Asociación Cultural y el Grupo Kóre de Estudios de Género,

Universidad Carlos III Madrid, November, 2014.

“Inscribing the Immigrant Body in Contemporary Spain: The Cinematic Gaze”. AATSP

(American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese), Denver, CO. July

2015.

“Pop Matters: From Life on the Hyphen: The Cuban-American Way to A Cuban in Mayberry:

Looking Back at America’s Hometown, by Gustavo Perez Firmat”. International Popular

Culture Association Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland. July 2015.

“Little Havana: A Real and an Imagined Community” One full-day workshop in Little Havana,

Miami, FL with on-site visits. AATSP (American Association of Teachers of Spanish and

Portuguese), Miami, FL, July, 2016.

“Mapping Home and Memories: Little Havana in Cuban-American Writers”, AATSP (American

Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese”) Miami, FL, July, 2016.

“Documenting Fractured Childhoods in The Lost Apple and Which Way Home”. Midwest

Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association. Chicago, Ill. October, 2016.

“Espacios afectivos e históricos en Memoria del silencio, de Uva de Aragón”. Reading Cuba. An

Interdisciplinary Conference on Cuban and Cuban American Literature, Florida

International University, Miami, FL, November, 2016.

“Havana for American Consumption in Images and Sounds” Eleventh Conference on Cuban and

Cuban-American Studies. Beyond Perpetual Antagonism: Reimagining U.S.-Cuban

Relations”, CRI (Cuban Research Institute, Miami, FL), Feb. 23-25, 2017.

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“La mujer española en el cine de Icíar Bollaín: Visión al futuro” AATSP (American Association

of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese), Salamanca, Spain. June 2018.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Grant from the Exxon Education Foundation to participate in the Workshop for Development of

Foreign Language and Literature Programs, (Director: Claire Gaudiani, University of

Pennsylvania) Los Angeles, December 1982.

Hispanic Leadership Fellow (1983-84). (Program of the New Jersey Department of Higher

Education in cooperation with the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and

the American Council of Education. Funded through a grant from FIPSE).

Grant from the New Jersey Department of Higher Education ($6,000) for Workshop on Computer

Assisted Language Learning, (Two full days, May 3-4, 1985.)

Participant in "Global Interdependence and New Jersey Education," Summer Institute, Woodrow

Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Princeton, NJ, July 1985.

Grant for tuition and expense stipend to attend Intensive Tester Workshop offered by ACTFL in

New York City, November 1985. Funded by the New Jersey Department of Higher

Education. Administered by Rider College, Lawrenceville, NJ.

Grant from the New Jersey Department of Higher Education ($26,850) for year-long project in

faculty development for foreign language educators in New Jersey: Building

Communicative Competence: Proficiency-Based Teaching and Testing. Workshops"

(December 10, 1986. Oral Proficiency Testing: Familiarization Workshop, conducted by

E.T.S.; 2) March 12-15, 1987. Intensive Oral Proficiency Testing Workshop, conducted

by ACTFL.; 3) April 6, 1987, Textbook Adaptation: Toward More Personalized

Interactions; 4) May 8, 1987. Developing an Implementing and Oral Proficiency Program.

Grant from the New Jersey Department of Higher Education ($9,900) for year-long project

entitled," Strengthening Foreign Language Instruction: A Collaborative Approach" to

organize a foreign language collaborative group with Raritan Valley Community College

and local secondary schools. (1987-88)

Fellow in Hispanic Women Leadership Institute. (Program of Rutgers University and the Center

for the American Woman and Politics of the Eagleton Institute of Politics, New

Brunswick, N.J.) (1989-90)

Member of Review Board of F.I.C.E. (Fund for the Improvement of Collegiate Education), Grant

Program of the New Jersey Department of Higher Education, 1984-1986.

Participated in project "Integrating Women's Studies into the Curriculum" at Drew University,

1985-86. Funded by a grant from the New Jersey Department of Higher Education.

(Directors: Joan Weimer and Wendy Kolmar).

Member of local New Jersey Review Panel for the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships for

Foreign Language Teachers in the High School. Academic Alliances Program, directed by

Claire Gaudiani, Connecticut College, 1985-90.

Drew University representative to the Global Studies Consortium, Woodrow Wilson National

Fellowship Foundation, Princeton, NJ spring 1986.

Participant in Northern New Jersey Foreign Language Collaborative, an academic alliance of

foreign language educators in New Jersey. Grant from New Jersey Department of Higher

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Education for lecture series "Enhancing Foreign Language Instruction--The Culture

Connection, 1986-1987, at four sites: William Paterson College, Jersey City State College,

Drew University and Plainfield Public Schools.

Participant in year-long project "New Jersey in the World, The World in New Jersey: Year Two,"

(1987-88) and in "Year Three (1988-89), funded by grant from the New Jersey Department

of Higher Education. (Director, Frank Tinari, Seton Hall University). Created teaching

modules: "Global Studies Resources in the Local Community: A Hispanic Model," in

1987-88, and "Hispanic Women in New Jersey: Impact and Cultural Change," in 1988-89.

Member of Faculty Development Advisory Committee, New Jersey Department of Higher

Education (a statewide planning committee) 1987-89.

Planned and Implemented Academic Alliance (with Dr. Ellen McArdle, Raritan Valley

Community College) "Northwestern New Jersey Foreign Language Collaborataive," as

part of the national chain launched in 1983 by Dr. Claire Gaudiani under the auspices of

the National Endowment for the Humanities (Spring 1988).

Member of Steering Committee for Academic Alliances for the purpose of establishing alliances

throughout the State of New Jersey, New Jersey, Department of Higher Education.

Conference Chair of the Fifth Annual Hispanic Women's Conference held at New Brunswick, N.

J. Conference Theme: "Women, Latinos and Public Policy: A National Priority for the

New World Order," March, 1992. Member of the Executive Board of the Hispanic

Women's Task Force N.J., 1990-94.

Grant to attend "Multimedia Workshop" at the National Foreign Language Resource Center, at the

University of Hawaii, Manoa, July, 1995.