Teaching and Research Interests | Education | Publications
University Teaching Positions | Grants and Awards | Invited Lectures
Conferences and Lecture Series  | Administrative Experience
Courses Taught | Languages

Teaching and Research Interests

Latin American Literature, Comparative Literature, literature and society. Modernisms, intellectual history, literary theory.  Critical race theory, cultural studies, critiques of colonial discourse.

Education

Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1987. Fields: Spanish, French, English, Literary Theory.
M.A. Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1980. Fields: Spanish, English.
B.A. Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1978. Fields: Spanish, French, Danish. High honors.
University of São Paulo, Brazil, 1985-86. Graduate-level courses in Comparative Literature, Literary Theory, and  Brazilian Literature.
Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, February to July 1985. Graduate-level courses in Comparative Literature, Literary Theory, and Brazilian Literature.

University Teaching Positions

Assistant Professor, Spanish, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 1998-present. Responsibilities include teaching upper-level/graduate courses in Latin American literature from the beginning to the present day, Latin American culture, modern Spanish literature, and a variety of language courses in Spanish.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Spanish/Portuguese, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2000. Responsibilities include teaching graduate seminar in Brazilian literature, upper-level course in Peruvian literature, and directing and coordinating graduate projects on Brazilian film.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Spanish, University of Oregon, 1996-98. Taught graduate and upper-level courses in Latin American literature and cultural theory, supervised graduate student projects in Spanish and Romance Languages, served on examination and thesis committees for graduate students in Spanish, and directed undergraduate honors theses in Comparative Literature and International Studies.
Assistant Professor, Spanish, Louisiana State University, 1989-96. Core Faculty, Program in Comparative Liteature.  Faculty member, Program in Women's and Gender Studies.
Taught graduate and upper-level courses in Latin American literature and culture, graduate courses in Comparative Literature, and senior seminar in Women's and Gender Studies. Directed dissertations in Comparative Literature, M.A. thesis in Spanish, and B.A. thesis in Honors College; served on dissertation committees in Comparative Literature, English, and French.
Instructor/Assistant Professor, Spanish, Pomona College, 1987-89. Taught upper-level courses in Latin American and Comparative Literature, and a variety of language courses in Spanish.
Teaching Assistant/Teaching Associate/Acting Instructor, Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1981-84. Taught middle-level seminar on women writers and introductory courses in world literature.
Teaching Assistant/Teaching Associate, Spanish, University of California at Berkeley, 1978-81. Taught first- and second-year Spanish (1978-81). Assistant Director of intensive summer language program (1980).

Publications

Articles

Forthcoming 2002.  "Nicolás Guillén en vanguardia."  Lo que teníamos que tener.  Raza y revolución en Nicolás Guillén, ed. Jerome Branche.  Pittsburgh:  Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (University of Pittsburgh).

1999. "Counterhegemonic Subjectivities in César Vallejo and Oswald de Andrade." Modernism and its Margins, ed. Anthony Geist, José Monleón, and Genaro Talens. New York: Garland (Series on Hispanic Issues). 253-65.

1995. "A Truck Named Rubén Darío: Modernismo as Chronotope and Cultural Resistance." Siglo XX/20th Century 13:1-2: 321-29.

1993. "The Search for Cultural Identity." Problems in Modern Latin American History , ed. John Chasteen and Joseph Tulchin. Scholarly Resources.

1992. "Politics, Aesthetics, and the Question of Meaning in Vallejo." Hispania 75:5: 1147-53.

1991. "The Tropical Modernist as Literary Cannibal: Cultural Identity in Oswald de Andrade." Chasqui XX:2: 10-19.

1991. "Civilization, Barbarism, Cannibalism: The Question of National  Culture in Oswald de Andrade." Towards Socio-Criticism: Luso-Brazilian Literatures . Ed. Roberto Reis. Arizona State University Center for Latin American Studies. 95-100.

1990. "Sign and Signification in Vallejo." Face: Revista de Semiótica e Comunicação (Universidade Católica de São Paulo) 3:1: 45-59.

1988. "El surrealismo en Hispanoamérica y el yo de Westphalen." Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana 27: 97-110.

Debate Intervention

1997. In forum on "Cultural Studies and the Literary." PMLA 112:2: 269-70.

Scholarly Translation

1991. "Oswald de Andrade's Cannibalist Manifesto." Annotated translation with introduction. Latin American Literary Review XIX:38: 35-47.

Literary Translations

Forthcoming.  "Opera Prima."  Translation of Mirta Yáñez, "Opera Prima."  Neither Strawberry nor Chocolate: 25 Years of Fiction by Mirta Yáñez. Ed. Sarah Cooper. San Francisco: Cleis Press.

2000. Translations to Spanish and English of recent Brazilian poetry (Cláudio Daniel, Donizete Galvão, Eustáquio Gorgone de Oliveira, Aricy Curvello, Antônio Adonias, Jorge Lúcio de Campos, César García Lima, Camilo Mota, Renata Pallottini). Helicóptero/Helicopter (Eugene, OR and Santiago de Chile) 4: 73-80.

1996. "Go Figure." Translation of Mirta Yáñez, "El diablo son las cosas." Out of the Mirrored Garden: New Fiction by Latin American Women. Ed. Delia Poey. New York: Anchor/ Doubleday. 201-10. Reprint forthcoming in Neither Strawberry nor Chocolate: 25 Years of Fiction by Mirta Yáñez. Ed. Sarah Cooper. San Francisco: Cleis Press.

Book Reviews

1993. Of José David Saldívar, The Dialectics of Our America: Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary History (Durham: Duke University Press, 1991). Criticism (Wayne State University) XXXV:4: 638-41.

1992. Of Gustavo Pérez Firmat, ed., Do the Americas Have a Common Literature? (Durham: Duke University Press, 1990). Criticism XXXIV:3: 458-60.

1991. Of Jeffrey Needell, A Tropical Belle Epoque: Elite culture and Society in Turn-of-the-Century Rio de Janeiro (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987). Latin American Anthropology Review 2:2: 75-76.

Editorial Experience

1996. Co-editor with Carmona et al., El escritor y su público. Selected papers from the 17^th Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Baton Rouge: Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, LSU.

1993. Co-editor with Gold et al., Rediscovering America 1492-1992: National, Cultural, and Disciplinary Boundaries Re-examined. Selected papers from the 13^th Louisiana conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Baton Rouge: Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, LSU.

I am also a regular referee for journals such as Luso-Brazilian Review, Public Culture, and Signs, and a translator/copyeditor for Latin American Perspectives.

Fiction

1998. "I Need Your Passport Number/Necesito tu número de pasaporte." Helicóptero/ Helicopter 2 (Eugene, OR and Santiago, Chile): 23-28.

1998. Co-authored with Amir Hamed. "The Mystery of the Vampire and the Mighty Little Girl." Outlet 2 (Berkeley, CA): 7-12.

Selected Essays Archived in Enciclopedia H (the largest cultural website in Spanish, based in Montevideo, Uruguay)

1999.  "'Síntomas criollos' e hibridez poscolonial."

1999.  "Utopías televisadas: Corazón salvaje entre el conformismo y la transgresión."

Major Work in Progress

A book exploring the interlocking notions of "race," nation and modernity in Spanish American and Luso-Brazilian literature.  This book focuses primarily on the historical avant-gardes (1915-40), but sets its discussion in the context of the debates on race, nation and modernity in Latin America as they have developed from Independence (1810) to the present day.

An edited book entitled Beyond Hybridity.  This collection of essays critiques from a Latin American point of view the concepts of hybridity, mestizaje, and liminality currently fashionable in the discourses of Cultural Studies and Ethnic Studies. Contributors include Leslie Bary, John Beverley (U of Pittsburgh), Amaryll Chanady (U of Montreal), Beatriz Jaguaribe (U Federal do Rio de Janeiro),  Niel Larsen (U of California-Davis),  Michael Horswell U of (Maryland-College Park),  Brooke Larson (SUNY-Stony Brook), Elizabeth Monasterios (SUNY-Stony Brook), Gregory Murphy (U of Oregon), Zulma Palermo (U Nacional de Salta),  Gustavo Remedi (Trinity College), Julie Taylor (NYU), and George Yúdice (NYU).  Introduction by Leslie Bary. Afterword by Gustavo Verdesio (U of Michigan-Ann Arbor).

"Irresistible Caetano."  Article on Brazilian singer-poet Caetano Veloso.  Contribution to volume on Brazilian culture edited by Lúcia Costigan (Associate Professor, Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Ohio State University).  Some questions my piece will address are, how exactly does Veloso articulate his avant-garde musical project with the projects of the historical (literary avant-gardes to which he so often refers?  How does he articulate national identity and "race"?  Is it helpful to consider Veloso's work in conjunction with postmodern theory?  What relationships are there between Veloso's work, "world music," and globalization?  Volume will be under editorial consideration in January, 2002.    

Competitive Funding and Scholarly Awards

External

2001.  NEH Institute of Literature "The Place of Brazil in (Latin) American Studies," Ohio State University.  July.

2000.  LEQSF Grant ENH-TR-88 (State of Louisiana), $75,000.  Project Title:  "Three Steps to Enhance the Modern Languages Media Library and Francophone Network."  Principal investigators: Leslie Bary, Robert Rhyne, Dominique Ryon.  Project Director:  Bénédicte Mauguière.  To create and maintain an up-to-date media library and multimedia room for Modern Languages, and a web databse for research in Francophone and Caribbean/Latin American Studies.

1992. Fulbright Visiting Lectureship in Comparative Literature and Modern Culture, University of Copenhagen (declined).

1990. NEH Institue of Literature, "Early Latin American Texts: Spanish and Indigenous Cultural Exchange," Brown University. June.

1988. NEH Seminar, "Dada and Surrealism Revisited," Hofstra University (declined).

1985. Rotary Graduate Scholarship to Brazil.

1984. Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship for Arabic.

1982. Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship for Portuguese.

1979. Phi Beta Kappa Scholarship for French.

1978. Phi Beta Kappa.

Internal

2001.  Three Lyceum Grants (Student Government Association, University of Louisiana at Lafayette) to fund speakers for Spanish and Latin American Studies.  Speakers were Teresa Basile, PhD, Professor of Literature, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina, Amir Hamed, PhD, writer, journalist, editor, and World Guide Project Director, Instituto del Tercer Mundo, Montevideo, Uruguay, and Robert Davis, PhD, Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Oregon.

2000.  UL Lafayette Instructional Improvement Minigrant for continued development of Latin American and Francophone film collection. Co-authored with Dominique Ryon.

2000.  UL Lafayette Faculty Development Grant to fund speaker (Paul Bary, M.A., M.L.S., Reference Librarian, Latin American Library, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University) for Spanish and Latin American Studies.  Co-authored with Oscar Barrau and Julia Frederick. 

1999.  Two Lyceum Grants (Student Government Association, University of Louisiana at Lafayette) to fund speakers for Spanish and Latin American Studies.  Co-authored with Oscar Barrau.  Speakers were Gustavo Verdesio, PhD, Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and Charles Perrone , PhD, Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian studies, University of Florida-Gainesville.

1998. UL Lafayette Instructional Improvement Minigrant for development of French and Spanish/Latin American film collection. Co-authored with Dominique Ryon.

1995. LSU Women's and Gender Studies Faculty Development Grant (declined).

1993. LSU one-semester full-time research appointment for writing on cultural identity and Latin American modernisms.

1992. LSU Women's and Gender Studies Faculty Development Grant.

1990. LSU Summer Faculty Stipend for research on cultural nationalism in the Latin American avant-gardes.

1989. Pew Foundation faculty development grant for seminar on European culture in the context of decolonization, Pomona College.

1988. Pomona College Faculty Travel Grant to Brazil for research on Oswald de Andrade.

1981. UC-Berkeley Latin American Studies Travel Grant to Peru for research on Emilio Adolfo Westphalen and the Peruvian avant-gardes.

Other

2001. LASA (Latin American Studies Association) Traveling Fellowship for Dr. Amir Hamed, novelist and senior researcher, Instituto del Tercer Mundo, Montevideo, Uruguay.  To present at 23d Congress of LASA (Washington, DC) and to lecture at the University of Michigan, New York University, and UL Lafayette.

2000.  LASA (Latin American Studies Association) Traveling Fellowship for Dr. Ricardo Silva-Santisteban, poet and Professor of Literature, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru.  To present at 22d Congress of LASA (Miami).

Invited Lectures

1999. "Caetano Veloso, Tropicalismo, and the Latin-Tinged World Beat." Featured presentation at the annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Louisiana secton, Loyola University, New Orleans. November.

1996. "El laberinto del color: la 'hibridez' y lo 'latino' como etnia." Public lecture presented as part of the symposium "Etnoliteratura," National University of Nariño, San Juan de Pasto, Colombia. May.

1992. "'Imagining' Cultural Identity in Latin American Literature." Public lecture sponsored by the Program in Comparative Literature at LSU and the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Baton Rouge. June.

1989. "Oswald de Andrade's Cultural 'Cannibalism:' Constructing National Identity in Postcolonial Society." Public lecture sponsored by the Departments of Latin American Studies, Comparative Literature, and Spanish and Portuguese, University of California-Riverside. May.

Conferences and Lecture Series

Selected papers read/to be read

2001.  "The Mesh Outside the Wire ."  Presentation in the "Culture and Human Rights" panels organized by the LASA section "Culture, Politics, and Power."  23d congress of LASA (Latin American Studies Association), Washington, DC.  September.

2000. "'Raça e modernidade no discurso do modernismo brasileiro." 4th congress of BRASA (Brazilian studies Association), Recife, Brazil. June.

2000. "César Vallejo y lo posmoderno." 22d congress of LASA (Latin American Studies Association), Miami. March.

1999. "Indigenismo y crítica de ideologías en César Vallejo." JALLA (Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana), Cusco, Peru. August.

1998. "Vallejo's Ideology Critique and Mariátegui's Aesthetic Thought." MLA (Modern Language Association) convention, San Francisco. December.

1998. "Tropicalismo and Postmodernity." Panels "30 Years of Tropicalismo." 21st congress of LASA, Chicago. September.

1997. "Travelling Races, Postcolonial Theories." Division on 20^th Century Latin American Literature, MLA convention, Toronto. December.

1997. "El corrido de la migra: semiosis colonial en el suroeste norteamericano." 49^th International Congress of Americanists (ICA), Quito, Ecuador. July.

1997. "'Síntomas criollos' e hibridez poscolonial." Panel "Beyond Hybridity II." 20th congress of LASA, Guadalajara, Mexico. April.

1997. "'Race' and Modernity in the discourse of Latin American Letters." Work in Progress Series, University of Oregon Humanities Center, Eugene. April.

1996. "'Racing' for Modernity." MLA convention, Washington, DC. December.

1996. "O Tropicalismo: obverso da ditadura?" Conference "the Powers of Poetry," University of Oregon, Eugene. October.

1996. "Hispanismo, 'raça, e diferença." 5^th congress of the Brazilian Association for Comparative Literature (ABRALIC), Rio de Janeiro. August.

1996. "La patria: ¿cadáver de mujer? Tres telenovelas ejemplares y un prólogo." 17th Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures. LSU-Baton Rouge. February.

1995. "Suturing Patriarchy on Mexican Prime Time." Program organized by Popular Culture Association, MLA convention, Chicago. December.

1995. "Utopías televisadas: Corazón salvaje entre el conformismo y la transgresión." 19^th congress of LASA, Washington, DC. September.

1994. "The Discourse of Hispanism and the Elision of Difference." Discussion Group on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature and Society, MLA convention, San Diego. December.

1994. "Teoría literaria y estudios culturales en Estados Unidos." 14^th Festival of Caribbean Culture, Santiago, Cuba. Program arranged by ACEC (Asociación Cubana de Estudios del Caribe). July.

1994. "Carnival as Mask for Power in Brazilian Critical Discourse." 18^th congress of LASA, Atlanta. March.

1993. "Liminality, Intersticiality, and Mestizaje as Theoretical Utopias." MLA convention, Toronto. December.

1992. "Historicity and the Discourse of Cultural Identity in the Latin American Avant-Garde." 13th Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, LSU-Baton Rouge. February.

1991. "Mestizaje and the Liminal Subject in Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands." Co-authored with Lisa Walker. 47^th congress of ICA. Tulane University, New Orleans. July.

1990. "Structures of Identity in César Vallejo and Oswald de Andrade." MLA convention, Chicago. December.

1990. "Gendered Mirrors and Racial Difference in María." 11th Louisiana conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, LSU-Baton Rouge. February.

1988. "Oswald de Andrade, Cultural Diversity and National Identity." Division on Luso-Brazilian Languages and Literatures, MLA convention, New Orleans. December.

1982. "The Poetry of Emilio Adolfo Westphalen and the Architecture of the Self in the Latin American Avant-Garde." Conference "Modernismo and vanguardia in Iberian and Ibero-American Literatures," University of California, Santa Barbara. April.

Selected panels organized, chaired, or on which I have been a discussant

2001.  Organizer and chair, "Narrativas de Amir Hamed."  23d congress of LASA, Washington, DC.  September.

2000. Organizer and chair, "Cultura, política, y poder en el Perú (pos)moderno."  22d congress of LASA, Miami. March.

1999. Chair and discussant, "The Americas' Literary and Ethnic Diversity." 46^th annual meeting of SECOLAS (Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies), Lafayette. March.

1998. Organizer and chair, "The Cultural Worlds of José Carlos Mariátegui," MLA convention, San Francisco. December.

1997. Co-organizer and co-chair (with Bruno Mazzoldi, National University of Nariño, Colombia) of "Violencia, otredad, traducción e intraducción," 49^th International Congress of Americanists, Quito, Ecuador. July.

1997. Discussant for "Más allá de lo híbrido I," 20th congress of LASA, Guadalajara, Mexico. April.

1997. Organizer and chair of "Más allá de lo híbrido II," 20th congress of LASA, Guadalajara, Mexico. April.

1996. Co-organizer (with Juan Velasco, Latin American Studies, University of Kansas-Lawrence) of "'Race' and the Ibero-American Cultural Self," MLA convention, Washington DC. December.

1996. Organizer and chair of "Cherchez la femme." Panel on Hispanic film and TV organized for 17th Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, LSU-Baton Rouge. February.

1995. Chair of "Theorizing Soap Opera." Session arranged by the Popular Culture Association, MLA convention, Chicago. December.

1994. Co-organizer (with John Burdick, Anthropology, Syracuse University) and chair of "Narratives of Healing: Struggling for Hegemony in Mexican and Brazilian Popular Culture." 19th congress of LASA, Washington, DC. September.

1990. Organizer and chair of "Cultural Identity and Cultural Nationalism in the Latin American Avant-Gardes." MLA convention, Chicago. December.

1990. Chair of "The Poetry of Antonio Cisneros." Conference "Hispanic Culture on the Pacific Coast of the Americas," California State University, Long Beach. April.

1990. Organizer and chair of three panels on "Race and Gender formation in Latin American Literature." 11th Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, LSU-Baton Rouge. February.

1989. Organizer and chair of interdisciplinary panel on "Discourses of 'Race,' Ethnicity and Cultural Identity." 15th congress of LASA, Miami. December.

1983. Organizer and chair of "Latin American Literature and the Recuperation of History." Spring Colloquium, Students of Latin America at Berkeley and Stanford. May.

Conference organized

1992 (Spring). "Rediscovering America 1492-1992: National, Linguistic, and Disciplinary Boundaries Re-examined." Special interdisciplinary version of Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, LSU-Baton Rouge. February. 173 papers. Plenary speakers were Juan Bruce-Novoa (Spanish and Portuguese, University of California-Irvine), Patricia Galloway (Mississippi Department of Archives and History), and Howard Winant (Sociology, Temple University).

Presentations for the UL Lafayette Community

2001 (Spring).  "The Death Penalty, the Prison Industrial Complex, and Human Rights." Presentation for the Philosophy Club. 

2001 (Spring).  "'The Couple in the Cage:'  Ethnography, Representation, and the Idea of 'America.'"  Presentation for the Anthropology Club.

1999 (Fall).  Reverse Culture Shock: Am I Really Home?" Presentation for Phi Beta Delta (Honor Society for International Scholars) on the intellectual and personal changes brought about through study abroad.

1998 (Fall). "Postcoloniality, Postmodernity, and Latin American Literature."  Presentation for the Department of Modern Languages Graduate Colloquium on literary and cultural theory in Latin America.

1998 (Fall). "Border Conflict! Guerras fronterizas en los Estados Unidos." Presentation for the Spanish Club on Chicano/Tejano culture and the porous U.S.-Mexico border.

Administrative Experience

In the Profession:

Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Task Force on Human Rights and Academic Freedom. 1994-97.

Within Universities:

UL Lafayette.  Faculty Senator for Modern Languages, 2000-.  Senate Nominations Committee, Spring 2001.  Ad hoc committee on Faculty Equity Week, Fall 2001.
College of Liberal Arts, UL Lafayette.  Graduate Faculty.  Ad Hoc Committee on Latin American Studies (Acting Coordinator), 1998-. Web liaison for Latin American Studies, 2000-.
Department of Modern Languages, UL Lafayette.   Major Advisor.  Committees on Video and Software Acquisition, Spanish Syllabi/Textbooks, Spanish Speakers (Head), Rally (French II, 1998-99), Cineclub (Co-Head), Travel, Library, Spanish Scholarships and Exchanges (Head), Spanish Club (Co-Head), Undergraduate Instruction, Marketing/Internet, and Recruiting, 1998-.
Web liaison for Spanish, 2000-.
College of Arts and Sciences, LSU.  Faculty Senator, 1990-93, 1993-96. Committee on Research and Academic Freedom, 1990-92, 1994-96, Committee on Faculty Welfare, 1992-94.
Department of Foreign Languages, LSU.  Program Committee, 17^th Lousiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, 1994-96.  Graduate Studies Committee, Spanish, 1989-92, 1993-94. Curriculum Committee (Chair), 1993-94.  Search Committees in Spanish (Colonial Latin American Literature, Modern Latin American Literature, Modern Spanish Literature, Linguistics), 1994-95, 1991-92, 1990-91, 1989-90.  Travel Committee, 1991-92.  Executive Committee in Spanish, 1990-91.  Graduate Student Mentor, 1989-91.
Program in Comparative Literature, LSU.  Executive Committee, 1994-96, Admissions Committee, 1994-95, Student Evaluation Committee, 1993-94.
Program in Women's and Gender Studies, LSU.  Strategic Planning Committee, 1993-96. Sub-committee on Economic Environment, Spring 1994.
Pomona College.  Black Student Mentor, 1988-89. Committee on Writing Across the Curriculumum, 1988-89. Major Advisor, Comparative Literature and French, 1988-89.

Courses Taught  

Comparative Literature

Graduate Level
Colonial and Postcolonial Discourse (LSU)
"Third World" Literature and Theory (LSU)

Upper Division (Junior/Senior)
Twentieth Century Novel in the Americas (Pomona College)

Lower Division
Race and Nation in "Third World" Women Writers (UC-Berkeley)
Introduction to World Literature (UC-Berkeley)

Portuguese

Graduate Level
Brazilian Literary and Cultural Systems: Modernity and the "Primitive" from Alencar to Tropicália (UIUC)
Roots and Legacy of Cinema Novo (Project of graduate research group - UIUC)

Spanish

Graduate Level
Colonial Spanish American Literature (LSU)
César Vallejo (University of Oregon)
Spanish American Cultural Theory (University of Oregon)
Spanish American Avant-Gardes (LSU)
Twentieth Century Spanish American Poetry (LSU)
Twentieth Century Spanish American Literature (LSU)

Senior/Graduate Level
Peruvian Literature (LSU, University of Oregon, UL Lafayette, UIUC)
Race and Modernity in Spanish American Literature (University of Oregon, UL Lafayette)
Spanish Avant-Gardes in an International Frame:  Literature and Film (UL Lafayette)
Spanish American Essay (University of Oregon, LSU)
Theory and Practice of Translation (UL Lafayette)

Upper Division (Junior/Senior)
Colonial Spanish American Literature (Pomona College, LSU, UL Lafayette)
Cuban Literature (LSU)
Latin American Culture (LSU, UL Lafayette)
Latin American Film (UL Lafayette)
Nineteenth Century Spanish American Novel (LSU)
Nineteenth Century Spanish American Literature (Pomona College, LSU, University of Oregon, UL Lafayette)
Spanish American Novel in English Translation (Pomona College, LSU)
Spanish American Short Story (Pomona College)
Twentieth Century Spanish American Literature (UC-Berkeley, Pomona College, LSU, University of Oregon, UL Lafayette)
Twentieth Century Spanish American Novel (University of Oregon, LSU)
Undergraduate Research Team in Popular Culture and Contemporary Society (UL Lafayette)
Practicum in the Teaching of Spanish (UL Lafayette)

Lower Division (Freshman/Sophomore)
First and second year Spanish (UC Berkeley, Pomona College, LSU, UL Lafayette)

Women's and Gender Studies

Upper division
Race and Gender in the Americas (Senior seminar - LSU)

Languages

Spanish:  near-native.  Lived, studied, and traveled in Spain (1964-65, 1974, 1976-77, 1979); research and travel in Peru (1980-81, 1986, 1999); travel in Argentina (1985), Bolivia (1986), Colombia (1996), Cuba (1994), Ecuador (1980, 1997), and Mexico (1966, 1978, 1981, 1983, 1990, 1995, 1997, 1999).

Portuguese:  near-native.  Lived, studied, conducted research, and traveled in Brazil (1985-86, 1987, 1988, 1996, 2000); travel in Portugal (1965, 1977).

French:  fluent.  Lived in Paris and worked at Librairie Gallimard (1979); travel in France (1964, 1965, 1971, 1976, 1977, 1979).

Italian:  excellent reading knowledge.  Upper-division courses at Berkeley; travel in Italy (1971, 1977).

Catalan:  excellent reading knowledge.  Upper-division courses at U of Barcelona; lived studied, and traveled in Catalonia (1976-77, 1979).

Latin:  good reading knowledge.  Upper-division courses at Berkeley (Catullus, Ovid, Horace, Augustine).

Scandinavian Languages:  fluent Danish.  Lived, studied, and traveled in Denmark (1973-74, 1976, 1977, 1979); undergraduate minor in Danish at Berkeley.  Excellent reading knowledge of Swedish and Norwegian (bokmål).