Dept. of Modern & Classical Languages & Cultures 830 Bay Road

Curriculum Vitae Dona M. Kercher

Dept. of Modern & Classical Languages & Cultures 830 Bay Road Assumption College Amherst, MA 01002 500 Salisbury Street (413) 256-0598 Worcester, MA 01609 (508) 767-7305 80 Salisbury St., Unit 404 [email protected] Worcester, MA 01609 (508) 799-9380

Education: The Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D., Spanish, 1980. The Johns Hopkins University, M.A., Spanish, 1975. University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, B.A., magna cum laude, High Honors in German, Honors in Spanish, 1972.

Professional Positions: Assumption College Director, Women’s Studies Program 2012- Chair, Dept. of Foreign Languages, 2002-4; 2005- 2008 Name changed to Dept. of Modern & Classical Languages & Cultures, 2005 Professor of Spanish 2006 - Title changed to Professor of Spanish and Film 2010 - Associate Professor 1992-2006 (tenure, 1993) Chair, Communications Program1997-99 Assistant Professor 1990-2 Williams College Visiting Assistant Professor 1988-90 Columbia University Associate I 1986-7 University of Maine - Orono Assistant Professor 1978-85 Western Maryland College Instructor 1976-7 The Johns Hopkins University Teaching Assistant 1972-6

Areas of Competence: World Film and Media Studies, especially Spanish and Latin American Cinema Spanish Golden Age Prose and Poetry Modern Peninsular Literature Modern Latin American Literature

New Courses Developed and Taught at Assumption College: Business Spanish I SPA 151 Business Spanish II SPA 152

Introduction to Film Studies – World Cinema Focus CLT 217 Honors Global Perspectives HON 101 Topics in Spanish Cinema: Rethinking Spanish History through Cinema [Fall 2011] SPA 366 Almodóvar [Fall 2007] Obsessions: Passion, Intrigue, and Melodrama [Fall 2003] 2 Between City and Country: Spanish Film History Through the Decades [Fall 2000] Spanish Cinema & the Visual Arts Tradition [Fall 1997] Madrid in the Movies [Fall 1993] SP 127 Latin American Cinema SPA 386 Women and Film CLT 295; CLT 276 Cinematic Cities CLT 285 Humor in International Cinema CL 190 Carmen and the Gypsies FRE 401/SPA 401 The Picaresque SPA 336 Spanish Mysticism SPA 333 Intensive Spanish, Spanish IV/V SPA 110 (SP 22/31)

Other Courses Taught at Assumption C.: Spanish Culture and Civilization I SPA 310 Main Currents of Spanish Literature I SPA 251 Communications Practicum COM 400 Women's Studies: Images ENG/HIS/PYS/SOC 285; now CLT 285 Medieval Spanish Literature SPA 302

Twentieth-Century Spanish Fiction SP 162 Cervantes II: Novelas ejemplares SP 142 Main Currents of Latin American Literature II SPA 254 Spanish Culture and Civilization II SP 113 Advanced Spanish Composition SP 102 Introduction to Literature: Spanish Language SPA 140 (SP 32) Introduction to Literature: Comp. Lit. CL 14 Conversational Spanish/ Spanish V SPA 120 (SP 31) Spanish IV Honors SPA 104 Honors Spanish I, II, III, & IV SP 11, 12, SPA 103 & 104

Courses Taught at Williams College: Senior Seminar: "Spanish Women Novelists" Senior Seminar: "The Latin American Novella" Spanish Literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: "Simulation and Obsessions" Spanish Theater of the Middle Ages and Renaissance Major Latin American Authors Spanish Civilization Spanish American Civilization

Contemporary Women Novelists of Spain and Latin America: "Out of the House" Advanced Conversation and Composition Intermediate and Elementary Spanish

Director, Senior Honor Thesis: "Lo grave, lo distinto y lo importante de ser mujer," on Esther Tusquets’ Novelistic Trilogy Independent Studies: "Mayan and Aztec Ruins in Mexico"

Courses Taught at Columbia University: Spanish Conversation 3 Intermediate Spanish Courses Taught at the University of Maine at Orono: Golden Age (Prose and Poetry) Cervantes Comedia Topics in Literature and Politics: The Spanish Civil War Junior Honors: Comparative Journalism: Spain and the U.S. Sophomore Honors: "New York City: Capital of the 20th Century" Introduction to Spanish Literature Spanish Readings Spanish Composition Intermediate Spanish

Independent Studies: "Personal Correspondence with the Poet V. Alexaindre During the Spanish Civil War” "Literature & Politics: The Spanish Civil War"

Dissertation: 'Strategies of Censorship: Critical Readings of Four of Quevedo's "Sueños"' Co-directed by Profs. Elias L. Rivers & Harry Sieber

Work in Progress: Book, “Latin Hitchcock: How Almodóvar, Amenábar, De la Iglesia, Del Toro and Campanella Became Notorious” under contract for Wallflower Press in association with Columbia UP, London & NY, forthcoming 2015.

Publications: “Almodóvar and Hitchcock: A Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” A Companion to Pedro Almodóvar, Eds. Marvin D’Lugo and Kathleen M. Vernon. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, 59-87.

“Teaching Spanish Mysticism at a Catholic Undergraduate College: Issues of Relevance, Accessibility, and Self-Censorship,” Approaches to Teaching Teresa of Avila and the Spanish Mystics. Ed. Allison Weber. NY: MLA, 2009, 181-189.

“Violence, Timing, and the Comedy Team in Muertos de risa,” Alternative Europe: Eurotrash and Exploitation Cinema since 1945. Eds. Xavier Mendik and Ernst Mathjis. London: Wallflower P. 53-63. (revised version of Post Script article)

“Countering Basque Terrorism: Asesinato en febrero (Spain, 2001),” Cine-Lit V: Essays on Hispanic Film and Fiction (Corvaillis, OR: Cine-Lit Publications, 2004), 44-55.

“Looking for Don Quijote’s Own Shadow: An Interview with Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón about His Film El caballero Don Quijote (2002),” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Vol. 6, 2002, 129- 140.

“Hitting the Mark from Television to Film: Violence, Timing and the Comedy Team in Alex de la Iglesia’s Muertos de risa (1999), Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities, Special Issue on Spanish Cinema, vol. 21, n.2 (Winter/Spring 2002), 50-63.

"Children of the European Union, Crossing Gendered Channels: Javier Marías's Novel, Todas las 4 almas, and Gracia Querejeta's Film, El último viaje de Robert Rylands," Cine-Lit III: Essays on Hispanic Film and Fiction (Portland, OR: Portland S.U., 1998), 100-112.

"Marketing Cervantine Magic for a New Global Image of Spain," Refiguring Spain: Cinema/ Media/ Representation. Ed. by Marsha Kinder, Chapel Hill, NC: Duke U.P., 1997, 98-132.

'The "Magical Episodes" of the Quijote on Film: Gutiérrez Aragón's Maravillas," Cine-Lit II: Essays on Hispanic Film and Fiction (Portland, OR: Portland S. U., Oregon S. U. & Reed C., 1995), 86-95.

Review, Thomas G. Deveny, Cain on Screen: Contemporary Spanish Cinema. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (Washington U.- St. Louis) XXIX, n.3 (Oct. 1995), 577-8.

"Rosa Chacel," Dictionary of Literary Bibliography, Vol. 134: Twentieth-Century Spanish Poets: Second Series, Bruccoli Clarke Layman, 1994, 57-72.

Reviews, Ellen D. Lokos, The Solitary Journey: Cervantes's Voyage to Parnassus & Miguel de Cervantes, Viage del Parnaso. Poesías varias. Critical edition by Elias L. Rivers, Cervantes XIII, no. 1 (Spring 1993), 131-4.

"Cervantes on Film: Exemplary Tales and La noche más hermosa," Cine-Lit: Essays on Peninsular Film and Fiction, (Portland, OR: Portland State U., Oregon State U., & Reed C., 1992) 25-30.

'Censorship and Revisions: Quevedo's Prologues to the "Sueños,"' Revista de estudios hispánicos (Puerto Rico) 1987-8, 67-77.

"García Márquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold: Notes on Parody and the Artist," Latin American Literary Review, XIII (Jan.- June 1985), 90-103.

Review, Karlis Racevskis, Michel Foucault and the Subversion of the Intellect, Philosophy and Literature, IX (Oct. 1985), 260-1.

Exhibition Entries for 17th C. Spanish and Latin American Colonial Literature, "Censorship: 500 Years of Conflict," New York Public Library, May- Nov. 1984.

Review, International Assoc. of Philosophy & Literature Conference at the Univ. of Maine - Orono, American Society for Aesthetics Newsletter, Fall 1980.

"The Economy of Misogyny in Quevedo's Mundo por de dentro," Women in the Literature of Medieval and Golden Age Spain: Selected Papers from the Conversations in the Disciplines Program. Syracuse: SUNY- Onondaga, 1978, 64-73.

Interviews: With Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, film director & President of the Sociedad General de Autores de España, Madrid, May 1994, June 2001, May 2007, Sept. 2009. With Rosa Chacel, author, Madrid, August 1988.

Conference Papers & Invited Lectures: “The Women’s Studies Film Series,” Workshop on Women and Gender, SCMS, Seattle, WA, March 2014. 5 “Los Vértigos del cine hispánico transnacional: Mujer sin cabeza y La piel que habito,” Conferencia internacional “Nuevas perspectivas sobre la transnacionalidad del cine hispánico,” KU Leuven and Univerisité libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, October 2012. “La circulación migratoria colombiana y el culebrón diaspórico en Paraíso Travel y Chance: Los trapos sucios se lavan en casa,” Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, “Construyendo Diálogos en las Américas,” Vienna, Austria, July 2012. “Can Latin Women Thrill?: The Transnational Reinventions of Martel and Bollaín,” LASA 2012, San Francisco, May 2012. ‘Mysticism in Motion: El Greco’s “Repentant Magdalen and Bill Viola’s “Union”,’ Invited Lecture for the Docent Training Program, Worcester Art Museum, Feb. 2012. “Alex de la Iglesia y los desplazamientos al centro,” Cine vasco y el exilio International Conference, U Deusto – San Sebastián, Spain, Nov. 2011. “¿Un Hitchcock feminino?: Los arcos genéricos de Bollain y Coixet,” Gynocine Conference: Mujeres, dones y cine, U MA- Amherst, Oct. 2011. “Caught in the Elevator with Hitchcock and Campanella,” Cine-Lit VII, Portland SU, Feb. 2011. ‘Mysticism in Motion: El Greco’s “Repentant Magdalene” and Bill Viola’s “Union,’” Worcester Art Museum, Profs. Night, November 2010. Invited Discussant, “Cine latino en la diáspora II: Dinámicas de género y generación,” LASA 2010, Toronto, Canada, October 2010. “Hitchcock and Spanish Film,” Plenary Lecture, European Film Conference, U. of Texas-San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, Sept. 2008. ‘A New “Cine de Transición”?: Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón’s Spanish/Cuban Films,’ LASA 2009, Rio de Janiero, Brazil, June 2009. “El humor cortante: Cuestiones de humor y terror en El laberinto del fauno (2006) de Guillermo de Toro,” Congreso de la Sociedad Internacional de Humor Luso-hispano, U. of Santiago, Santiago, Chile, Nov. 2007. “Fabián Bielinsky’s Debt to Late Hitchcock,” 2007 Annual Conference of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, IL, March 2007. “The Aura of Hitchcock in Fabián Bielinsky’s Films,” Cine-Lit VI, Portland State U., Portland, OR, Feb. 2007. “Teaching Spanish Mysticism at an Undergraduate Catholic College: Issues of Relevance, Accessibility and Self-Censorship,” Conference of the Asociación de Escritoras de España y de las Américas, AEEA/AHT, Georgetown U., Washington, DC, Oct. 2006. “With Hitch as His Model: Guillermo del Toro,” 2006 Annual Conference for Cinema and Media Studies, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, March 2006. “Latin Hitchcock: Guillermo del Toro,” XXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association Conference, “Decentering Latin American Studies,”San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 2006. “El banco de imagenes resistentes: El humor pronunciado por El Pinguino y otros animales políticos, y visto en los cartones y las fotos de Nik,” IX Annual Conference of the International Luso- Hispanic Humor Studies Society, Jacó, Costa Rica, Sept. 2005. “Felices perdedores: Los lunes al sol, The Full Monty, y 800 balas,” VIII Annual Conference of the International Luso-Hispanic Humor Studies Society, UNAM [Autonomous National University of Mexico], Mexico City, Mexico, Oct. 2004. “Hispanic Hitchcock: The Direct Takes of Amenábar and De la Iglesia,” Hispanic Cinemas: The Local and the Global, The Institute for Romance Studies, University of London, Nov. 2003.

“Teaching Hispanic Film as Film,” Plenary Presenter at Teaching Workshop, Cine-Lit V, Portland, OR, March 2003. “Countering Basque Terrorism: Asesinato en febrero (Spain, 2001),” Hispanic Cultural Studies: 6 The State of the Art, an Interdisciplinary Conference” of the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Tucson, AZ, Sept. 2002. “Critiquing ETA through a Cinematic Politics of Silence: Ortega Santillana’s Documentary Asesinato en febrero [Assasination in February] (Spain, 2001), Visible Evidence IX Conference, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia “Federico Luppi: Counterfeiting Manhood in Transnational Spanish Language Cinema,” Session on “Transnational Stars,” Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Washington, DC, May 2001. “Hitting the Mark from Television to Film: Violence, Timing, and the Comedy Team in Alex de la Iglesia’s Muertos de risa (1999), International Luso-Hispanic Humor Studies Conference, sponsored by McGill U., Montréal, Canada, Sept. 2000. “Federico Luppi, Tortured But Unshaven: Tough Guy Stardom through Two Decades of Spanish Language Cinema,” Point Blank Conference, U. of Arizona-Tucson, May 2000. “A ‘Welcome’ Façade: Racism and Economic Necessity from Berlanga’s Bienvenido, Mr. Marshall to Bollaín’s Flores de otro mundo,” Cine-Lit 2000, Portland, OR, Feb. 2000. “Dance Move-Ease: After-images of the New Global Body,” Session on “Media Industries and the Global Popular: Marketing the Transnational City,” Society for Cinema Studies Conference, sponsored by Florida Atlantic U., West Palm Beach, FL, April 1999. “Massive Fear Between Horror and Humor: Tracing a Goyesque Tradition of Violence in Alex de la Iglesia’s Film Día de la Bestia,” “Fear: Discourses of the Unknown,” First Annual Conference on Hispanic Literatures and the Visual Arts, U. of CT- Storrs, March 1999. “On the Ellipse of Satanic Comedy: Tracing a Goyesque Tradition of Violence in Alex de la Iglesia'’ Film Día de la Bestia (1995), Conference of La Sociedad Internacional de Estudios sobre el Humor Luso-Hispano, sponsored by Laurentian U., Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, Oct. 1998. "Film History/ Art History/ Nationalism: Domesticating Cityspace in Victor Erice's Dream of Light and Antonio López's Paintings," Session on "Screening Space," Society for Cinema Studies Conference, sponsored by Carleton U., Ottawa, Canada, May 1997. "Children of the European Union, Crossing Gendered Channels: Javier Marías's Novel Todas las almas and Gracia Querejeta's Film, El último viaje de Robert Rylands," Cine-Lit III, Portland, OR, Feb. 1997. "Film History/ Art History/ Nationalism: Performing Dalí in Bigas Luna's Los huevos de oro," Film Culture History Conference, Univ. of Aberdeen, Scotland, August 1996. Panelist, "Painted Ladies and Cross-cultural Karaoke: Performing Dalí in Bigas Luna's Los huevos de oro," Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Session on "Visual Cultures in the 90's," Dallas, TX, March 1996. "The Realm of Farce in Recent Spanish Cinema," First International Conference on Hispanic Humor, West Chester University, West Chester, PA, Sept. 1995. Panelist & Session Chair of "Spanish Cinema: The Representation of the Nation," "Film History/ Art History/ Nationalism: The Case of Trueba's Belle Epoque," Society for Cinema Studies Conference, "One Hundred Years of Cinema: Writing the Histories," New York City, March 1995. "Dressed in the Past for National Success: Marketing Costume Comedy in Recent Spanish Cinema," Twentieth Annual Conference on Literature and Film, Florida State U., Jan. 1995. Panelist & Special Session Organizer of "Madrid in the Movies: The City Past and Present," "The Hegemonic Discourse of Decoration: Mirrors, Erotic Paintings and the Revival of the Imperial Vision in Uribe's El rey pasmado," MLA, San Diego, CA, Dec. 1994. 'The "Magical Episodes" of the Quijote on Film: Gutiérrez Aragón's Maravillas," Cine-Lit II, Portland & Corvallis, OR, Feb. 1994. "From La hojarasca to El general en su laberinto: García Márquez's Rewriting of Sophocles' Theban Plays, Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, May 1992. '"Where are the Bodies?" in a Latin American Context: Two Antigone Texts by García Márquez, The Short Story "Tuesday Siesta: and the Novella Leafstorm,' NEH Humanities Faculty Development 7 Colloquia: "Antigone and the Politics of Gender: Reclaiming the Body," Assumption College, March 1992. "Cervantes on Film: Exemplary Tales and La noche más hermosa," Cine-Lit: An International Conference on Spain's Literatures and Cinematographies, Portand, OR, Feb. 1991. "Montero and the Bolero: A Feminist Discourse?," Confluencia: The Conference, Univ. of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO, April 1988. Chair, Golden Age Session, Topic: "Anachronism," NEMLA, Hartford, CT, March 1985. Special Session Organizer & Chair, "Thought for Food: The Intellectualization of Appetite in the Renaissance," MLA, New York, Dec. 1984. Secretary, Golden Age Session, NEMLA, Philadelphia, PA, April 1984. "Marriage in the Diana," Special Session, "Desire in Formal Dress in Renaissance Art & Literature," MLA, New York, Dec. 1983. "Quevedo versus Artillery: The Politics of Golden Age Poetry," Golden Age Session, NEMLA, Erie, PA, April 1983. "The Tango in Latin American Culture," International Festival, Univ. of Maine- Orono, April 1983. "Avoiding the Censors: Quevedo's Prologues to the "Sueños,"' Special Session, "Censorship and Subversion in Golden Age Prose," MLA, Los Angeles, Dec. 1982. "La reacción de Quevedo al Descubrimiento: Discurso útopico," Univ. of CT- Storrs, March 1981. "Quevedo's Reaction to the Discovery: Utopian Discourse," CHISPA, Tulane Univ., New Orleans, Feb. 1981. Chair, "Interpretation and the Critic," International Assoc. of Philosophy and Literature Conference, University of Maine at Orono, May 1980. "The Economy of Misogyny in Quevedo's Mundo por de dentro," Conversations in the Disciplines Conference: Women in the Literature of Medieval and Golden Age Spain, Syracuse, SUNY - Onondaga, 1978.

Other Conferences, Seminars & Workshops Attended: ACTFL, Orlando, FL, November 2013. Spanish Faculty Development Seminar in International Business, Darla Moore School of Business Executive Education, U of South Carolina, Columbia, June 2011. Jornada de formación de profesores en la competencia oral, Sección, Prof. Kim Potowski: “Fundamentos de la enseñanza del español a hispanohablantes en los EEUU,” Instituto Cervantes, Brown U, March 2011. Jornada de formación de profesores en la evaluación, Instituto Cervantes, Brown U, Oct. 2010. Cultural Representative (with press credentials), 57th San Sebastián International Film Festival, San Sebastián, Spain, Sept. 2009. Cultural Representative (with press credentials), 52nd San Sebastián International Film Festival, San Sebastián, Spain, Sept. 2004. ADFL East Seminar, Yale University, June 2003. ADFL East Seminar, U. of Maryland-College Park, June 2002. "Celebrating Our Centrality," National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, Nov. 1997. "Multimedia Authoring Seminar," led by Prof. Robert Frye, Assumption C., August 1996. "Writing Emphasis Workshop," Assumption C., Feb. 1995. "Spain on Screen" Session, "Spain Today: Literature, Culture, Society"Conference, Dartmouth C., Nov. 1994. "Renaissance Displacements: The Enduring Marginality of the Picaresque," Indiana U., March 1992. "Language and Content: Foreign Languages Across the Disciplines," Center for Language Studies, Brown U., Oct.1991. 8 NEH Humanities Faculty Development Program, led by Prof. Hamlin of Yale U., Assumption C., July 1991. "Language Acquisition Workshop II," Assumption C., May 1991. "Women Into the Curriculum Colloquium," led by Profs. Schuster & Van Dyne of Smith C., Assumption C., Sept. 1990. "Language Acquisition Workshop," led by Prof. George Aubin, Assumption C., May 1990. "Spanish Film Since Franco: A Conference on Recent Developments and Trends," Clark U., April 1990. Williams College Representative, "Thirteenth Annual LittleThree Faculty Colloquium: The Migration of Ideas," Williams C., Jan. 1990. "Nationalisms and Sexualities Conference," Harvard U., May 1989 "Stylometrics" Seminar, led by Prof. Anthony Kenny of Oxford, Williams C., 1989. "Writing Workshops," led by Prof. Raab, Williams C., 1989. Williams College Representative, "Twelfth Annual Little Three Faculty Colloquium: History and the Practice of the Disciplines," Amherst C., Jan. 1989. Member, Faculty Discussion Seminar, "Body Image: Identity and Representation," Center for the Humanities, Williams C., Fall 1989. Cultural Studies Faculty Seminar, "Simulation," led by Prof. Huyssens of Columbia U., Hampshire C., May 1988. Columbia University Renaissance Seminar, regular attendance, 1985-7.

Fellowships, Grants & Honors: Faculty Development Grant, “Business Spanish,” for curriculum development, Summer 2011. Faculty Development Grant, “Latin Hitchcock,” for research in Spain, Fall 2009. Faculty Development Grant, “Latin Hitchcock,” for research in Spain, Summer 2007. Assumption Assessment Grant, for Assessing Foreign Language Placements, Summer 2006. Faculty Development Grant, “Hispanic Hitchcock,” for sabbatical research in Spain, Fall 2004. Faculty Development Grant, “Federico Luppi: Masculinity and Transnational Star Discourse,” for research in Spain, May 2002. Faculty Development Grant, “Women and Film,” for course development, Assumption College, May 2000. Faculty Development Grant, “Latin American Cinema,” for course development, Assumption College, May 1998. Grant from the Program for Cultural Co-operation Between Spain and U.S. Universities, "Pictorial Spain," for research in Spain, 1996-7. Faculty Development Grant, "Pictorial Spain," for sabbatical research in Spain, Assumption C., 1996-7. Faculty Development Grant, "The Spanish Gaze," for research on film and painting in the Prado and in the Spanish Film Archives in Madrid," Assumption C., May 1994. Faculty Development Grant, "Cervantes on Film," for research in Madrid, Assumption C., Jan. 1993. Member, The Spanish Film Institute: Teaching Spanish Film as Film, Clark U., June 1992. NEH Fellowship, Humanities Faculty Development Program, Assumption C., July 1991 & June 1992. Member, Faculty Development Seminar of the Center for the Humanities, Williams C., "Body Image: Ideal and Representation", Fall 1989. Faculty Research Grant to interview Rosa Chacel in Madrid, Williams C., Summer 1988. Fellow, Institute for Research in History, New York City, 1983-88 NEH Seminar Fellowship, "Images of Love in Renaissance Art & Literature," co-directed by Profs. Hanning & Rosand, Columbia U., Summer 1982. 9 Johns Hopkins Gilman Fellowship, 1972-76. Johns Hopkins Teaching Assistantship, 1972-76. Internship Scholarship, U. of Michigan - Ann Arbor, to serve in the Office of the Resident Commissioner to the U.S. Congress from Puerto Rico, the Hon. Jorge Córdoba, Washington, D.C., Summer 1972. Westinghouse Scholarship, 1968-69. American Field Service Scholarship, 1967-8.

Professional Organizations: Member, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Member, Latin American Studies Association Member, Modern Language Association

University Service at Assumption C.: Director, Women’s Studies Program, 2012- Member, Curriculum C of the Senate, 2012- Chapter Faculty Advisor to Sigma Delta Pi, 2004, (sabbatical 04-05), 2005- Chair, Dept. of Foreign Languages, 2002-4 (sabbatical ‘04-’05); 2005-8 Chair, Search Committee for Asst. Prof. of Spanish, 2007-8 Member, Curriculum C. of the Senate, 2005-8 Chair, Curriculum Committee of the Senate, 2002-4 Chair, Search Committee for Asst. Prof. of Spanish (hired Juan Carlos Grijalva), 2003-4. Founded Assumption C.’s Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi (Spanish Collegiate Honors Society), 2004 Member, Provost’s Taskforce on Women, 2003-4 Foreign Language Dept. Representative to Faculty Senate, 2002-4 Member, Women's Studies Committee, 1995- Advisor, Living & Learning Student Group, “The Nature of Life” project, 2001-2 Member, Curriculum Committee, 2000-2001 Chair, Communications Program Advisory Committee, 1997-1999 Member, Search Committee for Spanish Position, 1998-9 Foreign Languages Dept. Representative to Communications Major Advisory C., 1995-96. Member, Ad Hoc Committee to Draft the Communications Major, 1993-5 Member, Search Committee for the French/Italian Position, Spring 1995 Member, Academic Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees, 1994-5 Member, Senate Faculty Development Committee, 1990-5 Member, Internship Screening Committe, 1993-5 Member, Honorary Degrees Committee of the Board of Trustees, 1994-5 Foreign Language Dept. Representative to Faculty Senate, 1991-1994 Secretary of Faculty Senate, 1992-3; co-author of the Faculty Policy Document, approved Spring 1993. Vice-President of Faculty Senate, 1991-2 Faculty Senate Representative on the Committee on Integrating the Study of Women Into the Curriculum, 1991-3. Member, Foreign Language Dept. Committee on NEH grant proposal, "Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum," 1991-3 Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Honors Program, 1991-3 Member, Ad Hoc Committee on "Europe 1992-3," 1991-3 Member, Dept. Committee on Foreign Language Proficiency Evaluation, 1992-3 Member, Search Committee for Position in Spanish, 1990-1 Member, Search Committee for (tentative) Position in German, 1990-1 10

University Service at Williams C. - Lectures Organized: "Founding Texts: The Erotics of Politics in Latin American National Trends," by Prof. Doris Sommer, Spanish of Amherst C., at Williams C., March 1990. "Inside Out: The Gynecological Scene," by Prof. Mary Russo, Comparative Lit. of Hampshire C., Williams C., Oct. 1989.

University Service - Community Grants: Organizer, “Crisis Fall-out,” Spanish Film Series, Fall 2012. Organizer, “Frivolous Women and Other Sinners,” Poetry Reading of Alicia Borinsky, Feb. 8, 2012. Organizer, Spanish Film Series: “Risk Takers,” Fall 2011. Co-Organizer and Member, Executive Board, Worcester Latino Film Festival, Spring 2011, Spring 2012. Organizer, “Cine Elemental/Elemental Cinema,” Latin American Film Series, Spring 2011. Organizer, Hispanic Film Series, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2010. Co-Organizer, “3 Iranian Films,” Spring 2011. Co-Organizer, “3 African Films,” Spring 2009. Co-Organizer, “3 Asian Films,” Spring 2008. Co-Organizer, “3 Indian Films,” Spring 2007. Co-Organizer, “Envisioning a World of Women: Middle East Film Festival,” Spring 2006. Organizer, “Journeys,” Foreign Film Series, Assumption C., Fall 2005. Test Scorer, MA Teachers’ Tests in Spanish, June 2005. Co-organizer with Centro las Américas, Clark U., Worcester State, & WPI, 9th Annual Worcester Latino Film Festival, Spring 2004: “Voces Caribeñas/ Caribbean Voices”: Assumption C. lead college sponsor. Co-organizer, “French Film Series, A Centennial Celebration of Assumption C.,” Bijou Theater, Worcester, MA, Feb. 2004. Organizer, “New Docs,” Foreign Film Series, Assumption C., Fall 2003. Co-organizer with Centro las Américas, Clark U., Worcester State, 8th Annual Worcester Latino Film Festival, March 2003: “Parejas/Couples” Organizer, “Más,” Foreign Film Series, Assumption C., Fall 2002. Co-organizer with Centro las Américas, Clark U., & Worcester State, 7th Annual Worcester Latino Film Festival (April 2002): “Retratos Latinos/Latin Portraits” Co-organizer with Centro las Américas, Latin American Council of the Worcester Colleges Consortium, & Clark U., 6th Annual Worcester Latino Film Festival: “Flights of Fancy” (March 2001), invited director: Sonia Fritz & invited author: Stella Soto. Assumption C. lead college sponsor. Organizer, Assumption C. Foreign Film Series: “Dance Movies” (Fall 1998), "In Love?" (Spring 1998), "Latin American Film" (Fall 1997), "Kieslowski's Tricolor Triology" (Spring 1996), "Foreign Films" (Fall 1995) Co-organizer & Presenter, Assumption C. International Film Series: "Great Directors" (Spring 1995), "Coming of Age" (Spring 1994) & Spring 1993. Project Director & Discussion Leader, Foreign Film Festival, U. of Maine - Orono: "Twisters" (1985); "Art Goes Political" (1982); "Obsessions" (1981) Grant: Maine Humanities Council (1985)

Community Service: Member, Executive Council, Worcester Consortium Latin American Council, Film Series Committee, 2000-2002. Member, Board of Directors, Amherst Ballet Theatre Co., 1994-1997 11

Study Abroad: Buenos Aires, Argentina - Graduate Seminars, Fall 1974. Freiburg, Germany - U. of Michigan/ U. of Wisc. Junior Year Abroad Program, 1970-1. Bilbao, Spain - American Field Service Scholarship Program, Colegio de la Vera Cruz, 1967-68.

Language Proficiency: English - native speaker Spanish - near-native proficiency French - very good oral & written comprehension German – satisfactory oral & written comprehension