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