Juan Carlos Ureña ______Box 13042 SFA Station (936) 468-2300 Nacogdoches, Texas 75962 [email protected]

Juan Carlos Ureña ______Box 13042 SFA Station (936) 468-2300 Nacogdoches, Texas 75962 Urenajuan@Sfasu.Edu

Education:

• Ph.D in Hispanic Studies Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

• MA in Music Composition Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas

• Texas Teacher Certification (24 credit hours) Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas Elementary Self-Contained (Grades 1-6) Bilingual / ESL All Level Spanish Secondary TOPT Certification

• Licenciatura Egresado in Music Universidad Nacional Autónoma Heredia, Costa Rica

• BA in Music Education Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica Teacher Certification: All level Music

Administrative Experience:

• 2014 – 2019: Hispanic Studies Graduate Coordinator. Department of Languages, Cultures, and Communication

• Spring 2014 – 2016: Executive Director of SCOLAS (Southwest Council of Latin American Studies

• 1987 – 1991: Director of Music for the City of San José, San José, Costa Rica • Directed and organized music workshops in choral and guitar, arranged and often performed public concerts for community events, as well as international tours representing the country of Costa Rica. Also organized theatrical productions for adults and for children. Worked with different community organizations to involve the community in cultural events.

Teaching Experience at the University level:

• 2017 – Present: Professor of Spanish

• 2013 – 2017: Associate Professor of Spanish

• 2008 – 2013: Assistant Professor of Spanish Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX

• 2007 – 2008: Spanish Instructor Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX

• 2004 – 2007: Adjunct Instructor of Spanish Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX • University classes in Beginning Spanish

• 1995: Professor of Music, Culture, and Folklore Associated Colleges of The Midwest in Costa Rica, San Pedro, Costa Rica • University classes in Latin American Music and Folklore

• 1993 – 1995: Professor of Music Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica • Music History and Guitar Workshop

Teaching Experience in the Public Schools:

2003 - 2004 Spanish Teacher, High School Nacogdoches High School, Nacogdoches, Texas

2001 - 2003 Bilingual Teacher, Second Grade Fredonia Elementary, Nacogdoches, Texas

1997 - 2001: Bilingual Teacher, Second Grade SOL Dual Language and Two Way Immersion Program Joe Wright Elementary, Jacksonville, Texas

1996 - 1997 Bilingual Teacher, Kindergarten T. J. Austin Elementary, Tyler, Texas

1991 - 1995 Music Teacher Liceo San Miguel, Desamparados, Costa Rica

1984 – 1986 Music Teacher Escuela América Central, Guadalupe, Costa Rica

1983 Music Teacher Escuela José María Zeledón, Desamaparados, Costa Rica

1982 Music Teacher Colegio María Inmaculada, Grecia, Costa Rica

Publications

Books:

Qué tiene la música. Luis Enrique Mejía Godoy. Artistic Design: Charles Jones. Editor: Juan Carlos Ureña. Translations: Jeana Paul-Ureña. LaNana Creek Press. 2018

Trovar: Mermoria poética de la canción hispanoamericana. (500 pages), San José, Costa Rica: Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica. 2013

Latin American Community: Tradition, Transition, and Identity. Eds. Jeana Paul-Ureña and Juan Carlos Ureña. Nacogdoches: SFA Press. 2013

Chapters in Books:

Voces de la diferencia: Poesía hispanoamericana en el siglo XXI. In Vapor Transatlántico, Transatlantic Steamer. Spanish and Spanish American Poetry: Twentieth Century and Beyond. Ed. Miguel Ángel Zapata. México D. F.: Fondo de Cultura Económica and Universidad de San Marcos, Perú, 2008.

The Mockingbird Still Calls for Arlen: Central American Songs of Rebellion 1970 – 2010. Song and Social Change in Latin America, Ed. Lauren Shaw In Press. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013.

Articles:

Mario Ulloa. Intersecciones musicales entre Jorge Amado y Dorival Caymmi. Confluencia, Spring 2017, Volume 32, Number 2.

Tardes de Alajuela. La guitarra de Mario Ulloa a través de la historia de Costa Rica. Claves. Fundación costarricense para el studio de la historia y la cultura local de Costa Rica, 2015.

Transmusicalidad poética: Lecturas musicales del poema. Hispanic Poetry Review. Vol. 10, No 2 (2015)

Canción popular y religión: Perspectivas y desafíos ante la autoridad y el dogma (Popular Song and Religion: Perspectives and Challenges to Religion and Dogma) Latin American Community: Tradition, Transition, and Identity, SFA Press.

Libro de las transformaciones: La imaginación y lo sagrado. Isaac Goldemberg, Libro de las transformaciones. Lima: Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2008.

“Esta ciudad” in 100 años de literatura hispanoamericana. Ed. by: Gilbert Carazo. Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica (University of Costa Rica Press): San José, 1998.

“El día de siempre” in Cantores que reflexionan: Las nuevas trovas en América Latina. Guillermo Barzuna. Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica: San José, 1996.

“Principito” In Comunicándonos, serie de español y literatura 2nd ed. by María Lourdes Cortés Pacheco and Ronald Solano Jiménez. Farben Grupo Editorial Norma Educativa: San José, 1995.

Works in Progress:

Book: Siempre al final, ceniza y agua (Poetry; In Press) Article: Trovar clus, trovar leu: De las trovas medievales al siglo XXI

Workshops, Papers, and Music Presentations:

La detective Bruna Husky y la emboscada de la memoria. CILDE 9th International Hispanic Crime Fiction Conference, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, September 20 – 21, 219.

La oscuridad luminosa: el trobar clus y el trobar leu en la canción latinoamericana. SCOLAS Conference, San Miguel Allende, Mexico, March 2019, 21 – 23

Trovadores: de Arnaut Daniel al Siglo XXI. RMMLA (Rocky Mountains Modern Languages Assiation). 2016 Conference, October 6 – 9. Salt Lake City, Utah

Influencias literarias en la canción centroamericana. SCOLAS (Southwest Council of Latin American Studies) 2016 Conference. New Orleans, Lousiana. February 25 – 27.

Intersecciones musicales entre Jorge Amado y Dorival Caymmi. RMMLA (Rocky Mountains Modern Languages Assiation). 2015 Conference, October 8 – 10. Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Salvador de Bahía en la guitarra de Mario Ulloa. SCOLAS (Southwest Council of Latin American Studies) 2015 Conference. San Diego, California. March 12 – 14.

El lenguaje decantado en “Biromes y servilletas” de Leo Masliah. SCOLAS (Southwest Council of Latin American Studies) 2014 Conference. San Diego, California. March 27 – 29.

Traveling Songs. TEDxSFA, Stephen F. Austin State University. February 28, 2014.

Trans/musicalidad poética. Lecturas musicales del poema. SCOLAS (Southwest Council of Latin American Studies) 2013 Conference. Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala. March 14 – 16.

Poéticas de la creación contemporánea. Symposium Poetry versus Philosophy: Life, Artifact, and Theory, at Texas A&M University. April 12, 2013.

Gloria Anzaldúa y Joaquín Sabina: De cómo Magdalena conoció a Guadalupe, Malinche y la Llorona. SCOLAS (Southwest Council of Latin American Studies) 2012 Conference in Miami, Florida, March 2012.

La canción popular frente a CAFTA: Un desafío artístico al neocolonialismo. SCOLAS (Southwest Council of Latin American Studies) 2011 Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 2011.

Central American Songs of Rebellion: 1970-2010. Latin American Studies Speaker Series. Stephen F. Austin State University, LAN 102, March 30, 2011.

The Nueva Trova in Latin America. Invited Lecture. Texas Tech University, Classical and Modern Languages and Literature, and Latina American and Iberian Studies, Lubbock, Texas, April 28, 2011.

El bolero femenino, poética femenina: Revalorando la historia de un amor. SCOLAS (Southwest Council of Latin American Studies) 2010 Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 23-27.

Canción popular y religión: Perspectivas y desafíos ante la autoridad y el dogma. Latin American Studies Conference, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX, April 2 – 4.

Canción popular y religión: Perspectivas y desafíos ante la autoridad y el dogma. SCOLAS Conference, March 11 – 14, 2009 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Los signos de la poesía musicalizada: Revisitando a Paco Ibáñez. AATSP conference, San José, Costa Rica, July 9, 2008.

Baby boom en el Paraíso y Hombres en escabeche: La palabra desvestida en la dramaturgia de Ana Istarú. SCOLAS conference, El Paso, Texas, February 22, 2008.

Rompiendo los hilos de la marioneta: La voz de Latinoamérica en la poética de Margarita Cota-Cárdenas.” SCOLAS conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 3, 2006.

“La evolución de la canción y la poesía musicalizada en Centroamérica: después de la revolución. SCOLAS conference, Veracruz, Mexico, March 10, 2005.

Latin American Folk Music: Creating Traditions and Meaning in the Twenty-First Century. Invited presentation at Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, Ohio, October 21, 2004.

Inversion of the Hero Myth: The Common Man as Hero in Latin American Folklore. The Image of the Hero conference, Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, March 19, 2004, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Costa Rican Poets. Invited presentation at the Focus on Costa Rica series, for the Virginia Deardorf Foundation, Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, Iowa, April 6, 2003.

Ella se mira. Editus y sus complices. Costa Rica’s artists perform together for a documentary on Costa Rican music. March, 2003

La poesía musicalizada. University of South Carolina, Colombia, SC, March, 2002.

Pacífico. Himene Patitifa. Represented Costa Rica and Central America in the International Festival of the Pacific Rim, in Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia. February 22, 2002.

The Power of Music in Central American Poetry. SCOLAS, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 2001.

Central American Music. Stephen F. Austin State University, for the Latin American Area Studies Program, December, 2000.

The Magic of Music: Crossing the Curriculum with Music. Texas Foreign Language Association, Austin, Texas, November, 2000.

Using Music to Teach Language and Culture. Invited presentation at the TFLA Conference, Nacogdoches, TX, March 2000.

Using Music and Art in the Bilingual Classroom. National Association of Bilingual Educators Conference, San Antonio, TX, February, 2000.

Música de Costa Rica. Mount Vernon ISD, National Endowment of the Arts: Eat Art Program, April, 1999.

Teaching Language and Culture Using Music. Texas Foreign Language Association, Galveston, TX, March, 1999.

Music Publications:

“Barrio” Cantautores. La música de nuestra nación. La Nación, Costa Rica, 2012.

Espacio de luz 2010, © BMI, ACAM, Costa Rica: Talamanca Music. • Nominated for two Latin American Music Awards by ACAM in 2010.

“Este son” 2005, © ACAM, PUP Productions, Licensed to Sony / BMG Custom Marketing Group / Macmillan McGraw-Hill: Spotlight on Music Grade 6.

“De Costa Rica” and “Corazón libre” in Aromi e Armonie, Musiche dai caffé del mondo, 2004, © ACAM, PUP Productions, IGloves srl, Rome, Italy.

“Imaginación”. January, 2004. Music video directed by Joaquín Gil. Produced by KiNO Digital Productions, Los Angeles, CA.

De Costa Rica, 2003, © ACAM, PUP Productions, Audio Arte, San José Costa Rica and Rockwood Studios, USA. With the cooperation of Editorial Costa Rica.

“De Costa Rica” and “Imaginación” Costa Rica, Tierra de Contrastes (video soundtrack) EB Productions, Miami Florida, October 2002.

Creo. 2000, ©PUP Productions, SMG, Nashville, TN, The Mix, and Sony Music Studios, San José, Costa Rica. • Nominated for two Latin American Music Awards by ACAM in 2000.

Amigos verdaderos. 1999, ©PUP Productions, and The Mix, Costa Rica. • Winner of The José María Zeledón ACAM Music Award for Best Songwriter of the Year, 2000.

“Qué voy a hacer contigo”, 1993. Music video. Directed by José Chacón, Produced by The Mix, San José, Costa Rica.

Musicals Written, Produced and Performed:

Colorín Colorado. 1994, (Production for Children) Presented Saturdays from 1994 - 1996 at the Children’s Museum, San José, Costa Rica. Bilingual adaptation presented for the Children’s Performing Arts Series at SFASU, 2004.

Miss Misil. 1991, Presented in the Teatro de la Aduana, San José, Costa Rica.

¡Pin pum paz!. 1990, Presented in the Teatro Arlequín, San José, Costa Rica.

La Patria Grande. 1989, Co-written and produced with Rubén Pagura. Presented in the Teatro de la Aduana, San José, Costa Rica

La Cantata Centroamericana. 1988, Co-written and produced with Rubén Pagura. Presented in the National Theater of Costa Rica; Teatro del Notariado, Montevideo, Uruguay; Alma Mater, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Festival de Cadiz, Cadiz and Madrid, Spain; Amsterdam and Utrecht, Holland; Toronto, Ottawa, Regina, Vancouver, Victoria and other cities of British Columbia; Managua, Nicaragua, and Havana, Cuba.

Anónimo. 1988, Co-written and produced with Rubén Pagura. Presented in the National Theater of Costa Rica.

Amor tigüémonos. 1987, Co-written and produced with Rubén Pagura. Presented in the National Theater of Costa Rica.

El Cristo de las Indias. 1986, Co-written and produced with Rubén Pagura. Presented in the Festival de Teatro de Cádiz, Cádiz and Madrid, Spain; Amsterdam and Utrech, Holland.

Trapitos de dominguear. 1985, Co-written and produced with Rubén Pagura. Presented in Teatro Melico Salazar, San José, Costa Rica and in Moscow, Russia.