MARTHA PALEY FRANCESCATO 
Professor of Spanish and  
Latin American Studies 
George Mason University 
Fairfax, Virginia 22030 
Office: (703) 993-1220/1221 
Direct: (703) 993-1238  
E-MAIL: mfrances@gmu.edu 
Home: (301) 299-7037


I. Personal Data

Date of Birth: 10 September 1934
Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina. Citizenship: U.S.A. (1978)



II. Educational History

1970  Ph.D. (Major: Spanish, Minor: English) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

    Doctoral Dissertation: "El Bestiario de Julio Cortázar: enriquecimiento de un género literario."
    Director: Luis Leal

1959  M.A. (Major: English, Minor: Spanish) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
1956  Profesora, Instituto Superior del Profesorado, Buenos Aires, Argentina 
1951  Elementary School Teacher, Lenguas Vivas, Buenos Aires, Argentina 


III. Professional History

    A. Positions
1988- George Mason University, Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies 
1991 The Johns Hopkins University, Visiting Professor, Fall Semester (one course) 
1980-88 George Mason University, Professor of Spanish and Department Chair, Foreign Languages and Literatures 
1978-80 University of Massachusetts, Professor of Spanish and Department Chair, Spanish and Portuguese 
1975-78 University of Illinois, Associate Professor of Spanish 
1970-75 University of Illinois, Assistant Professor of Spanish 
1968-70 University of Illinois, Instructor, Spanish 
1965-68  University of Illinois, Teaching Assistant, Spanish 
1964-65  University of Illinois, Research Assistant 
1962-64 Central Bank, Buenos Aires, English Instructor 
1960-61 Instituto Superior del Profesorado, Buenos Aires, Instructor English Literature 
1960-61  Buenos Aires Herald, Art and Drama Critic 
1957-59 University of Illinois, Teaching Assistant, Spanish 
1956-57 High School, Buenos Aires, English Instructor 
1952-56 Day School, Buenos Aires, English Instructor 

    B. Professional Organizations:

Modern Language Association of America 
Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana 
Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas
Latin American Studies Association
Latin American Jewish Studies Association 

    C. Editorial Boards, Professional Committees, Seminars

Senior Fulbright Awards, CIES, Area Advisory Committee for Latin America, August 1989-1992.

Latin American Book Fair, Washington, D.C., April 1986, President.

Discurso Literario, Editorial Board member, 1984-1989.

Chasqui, Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana, Contributing Editor, 1983-1996

Latin American Studies Association, Nominating Committee (appointed), 1982.

American Council in Education, Office of Women in Higher Education, Focus on Minority Women's Advancement Advisory Committee, Washington, D.C., member, 1981-83.

Modern Language Association Executive Committee, Division of Latin American XXth Century Literature (elected), 1980-85.

School of Humanities, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Criticism Seminar (invited member), 1977-78



IV. Awards, Grants and Recognitions:

1995  Study Leave, Spring semester, George Mason University. 
1987  Study Leave, Spring semester, George Mason University. 
1986  Seed Grant, International Programs, GMU: Research and videotape on Carlos Fuentes (with Joel Foreman). 
1984  Seed Grant, International Programs, GMU: Research in Argentina. 
1983  Seed Grant, International Programs, GMU: Research in Argentina. 
1977  Nominated for National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, Graduate College, University of Illinois. 
1976 Nominated for the Urbana-Champaign Campus Award for Excellence in Teaching, Dept. of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Illinois. 
1974/6 Travel Grants from Center for Latin American Studies to Paris, France, and Buenos Aires, Argentina (research on Julio Cortázar). 
1974  Sabbatical (one semester), University of Illinois. 
1970/  Several travel and research grants from the Research Board of the Graduate College, U of I. 
1971/2 Summer Faculty Fellowships, University of Illinois. 
1970  Phi Kappa Phi. 
1966 Sigma Delta Pi, Spanish Honorary Society. President, Lambda Chapter, 1966-1969. 


V. Service

    A. Selected University, College, and Departmental Committees:

Member,  CAS Promotion and Tenure Committee, GMU, 1995-96 
Member, Committee on Effective Teaching, GMU, 1993-94 
Member, Executive Committee, Study of the Americas Program, GMU, 1991- 
Member, Executive Committee, Plan for Alternative General Education, GMU, 1990- 
Member, Governance Review Committee (appointed) GMU, 1985-86 
Chair,  Ad Hoc Committee on the restructuring of the Classics Program, GMU, 1981-83 
Member, Affirmative Action Committee, GMU, 1981-1983 (Appointed) 
Member, Committee on International Programs, GMU, 1980-84 
Member, Sub-committee on Seed Grants, International Programs, GMU, 1981-83 
Member, Doctor of Arts in Humanities Committee, GMU, 1980-81 
Member, Chancellor's Commission on Civility in Human Relations, UMass, 1980-81 (Appointed) 
Member, Senate Equal Opportunity Committee, University of Illinois, 1975-76 
Senator, University of Illinois 1975-76 
Member,  Executive Committee, Graduate College, U ofI, 1975-76 (Appointed) 
Member, Courses and Programs, School of Humanities, U of I, 1975-77 
Member,  Year Abroad Program in Spain, 1974-76, U of I; Chair 1975-76 
Member,  Advisory Committee, U of I, 1971-74 (Appointed). 
Member, Capricious Grading Committee, 1970-73, U of I; Chair, 1971-73. 
Chair, Lecture Series Committee, U of I, 1970-73.
    B. Administrative Duties:

Chair, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, GMU, 1980-88.
Chair, Latin American Studies, George Mason University, 1987-89.
Co-Chair, Latin American Studies Faculty, GMU, Spring 1981.
Chair, Five-College Latin American Studies Council, Amherst, Mass., 1979-80.
Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, U Mass Amherst, 1978-80.
Affirmative Action Officer, Dept. of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, U of I, 1977-78.
Director, CIC Summer Program in Mexico, June 13 - August 5, 1977.
Coordinator of Undergraduate Programs and Spanish majors' advisor, U of I, 1976-77.



VI. Publications:

    A. Books

Bestiarios y otras jaulas, con Introducción histórica y bibliografía. Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana. Mayo 1977.

Reviewed in: La Nación (Buenos Aires, Argentina), June 19, 1977, p. 5; Diario de México (México, D.F.), July 22, 1977, p. 4; El Día (Montevideo, Uruguay), July 23, 1977, p. 4; Novedades (México, D.F.), August 11, 1977; Excelsior Diorama (México, D.F.), September 18, 1977, p. 11; La Opinión (Buenos Aires, Argentina), December 7, 1977, p. 18; La Prensa (Buenos Aires, Argentina), December 24, 1977, p. 4; Uno más Uno (México, D.F.), January 21, 1978, p. 19; Revista Iberoamericana 108-109 (1979): 696-99 (by Prof. Graciela Coulson); Hispamérica 22 (1979): 100 (by Professor Francine Masiello); Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana 10 (1979): 155-57(by Prof. Grinor Rojo).

    B. Contributions to Books:

Prologue to Y la rama llena de frutos, a collection of all the short stories of Argentine writer Marcos Aguinis, Buenos Aires: Sudamericana/Planeta, 1986, 9-16.

"El éxito de los fracasos: El proceso de cambio social mexicano propuesto por las escritoras." Cambio Social en México visto por autores contemporáneos. University of Notre Dame/Sociedad de Escritores de México, 1984, 61-70.

"La Saga de Felipe Montero en Busca de la Verdad." Literatures in Transition: The Many Voices of the Caribbean Area. Ediciones Hispamérica, 1983, 69-75.

"Transgresión y aperturas en los cuentos de Rosario Castellanos." Homenaje a Rosario Castellanos. Estudios de Hispanófila, Ediciones Albatros, 1980, 115-20.

"The New Man (But Not the New Woman)." The Final Island. The Fiction of Julio Cortázar. University of Oklahoma Press, 1978, 134-39. Originally published in Books Abroad 50:3 (Summer 1976): 589-95.

"El viaje: función, estructura y mito en los cuentos de Julio Cortázar." Estudios sobre los cuentos de Julio Cortázar, ed. David Lagmanovich, Hispam, 1975, 125-37.

"Julio Cortázar y un modelo para armar ya armado." Homenaje a Julio Cortázar, Helmy Giacoman, ed. Las Américas, 1972, 365-73. Originally published in Cuadernos Americanos XVIII (May-June, 1969): 235-41.

    C. Articles, Review Articles, and Encyclopedia Entries:

"Cuarta versión de La aventura de un fotógrafo en La Plata de Adolfo Bioy Casares." Studies in Honor of Myron Lichtblau. Edited by Fernando Burgos, The University of Memphis. Juan de la Cuesta (April 2000): 265-273.

"De Maimónides a marranos: la gesta de Marcos Aguinis," Reflejos 5 (Diciembre de 1996): 25-30.

"Carlos Fuentes, Mexican Writer," Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, Charles Scribner's Sons, January 1996.

"Un cuento de hadas contemporáneo (envenenado) de Rosario Ferré." Revista de crítica Literaria Latinoamericana 39 (1er. semestre de 1994):177-81.

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel. Review: Latin American Literature and Arts 48 (Spring 1994): 102-4.

"Elena Poniatowska: Convergencias en La `Flor de Lis'," Hispamérica 62 (Agosto 1992): 125-32.

"Re/creación y des/construcción de la historia en Terra Nostra." Revista Hispanoamericana 151 (Abril- Junio 1990): 563-68.

"Marcos Aguinis: A Controversial Argentine Jewish Writer." Folio 17 (September 1987): 57-63.

"Una familia lejana: crónica de varias lecturas cercanas." Discurso Literario 2 (Spring 1986): 317-27.

"Acción y reflexión en cuentos de Fuentes, Garro y Pacheco." Romance Quarterly 1 (February 1986): 99-112.

"Cola de lagartija: látigo de la palabra y la triple P." Revista Iberoamericana 132-133 (Julio-Diciembre 1985): 875-82.

"Distant Relations: Chronicle of Various Close Readings." World Literature Today (Autumn 1983): 590-94.

"Un desafío a la crítica literaria: Tiene los cabellos rojizos y se llama Sabina de Julieta Campos." Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana 13 (1981): 121-25.

"Lo prehispánico y el contexto socio-literario en algunos cuentos mexicanos." La semana de Bellas Artes, Dirección de Literatura (Mexico) 168 (18 de febrero de 1981): 6-11.

"El juego como metáfora de la búsqueda en la obra de Julio Cortázar." Actas del VI Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (1981): 273-75. Reprinted in Explicación de Textos Literarios 1-2 (1988-89): 241-50.

"Women in Latin America: Their Role as Writers and Their Image in Fiction." Occasional Papers Series 10, Program in Latin American Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1979.

"Tipología del personaje triste en los cuentos de Rubén Darío." Texto Crítico 12 (enero-marzo 1979): 244-52.

"La novela de la dictadura: nuevas estructuras narrativas." Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana 9 (1979): 99-104.  Reprinted in Actas del Congreso de AEPE, Budapest, Hungary, 1980.

"Onda y desonda: narradores jóvenes mexicanos." Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 3 (1978): 296-302.

"Juguemos a la crítica mientras Cortázar está." Texto Crítico 7 (mayo-agosto 1977): 116-22.

"Literatura y cine en Hispanoamérica: interacción e influencias." El Urogallo 35-36 (1975): 121-28.

"Borges y su concepción del universo en Otras inquisiciones." Kentucky Quarterly 4 (1973): 469-81.

"La circularidad en la poesía de Pablo Neruda." Revista Iberoamericana 82-83 (enero-julio 1973): 189-204.

"Teoría y realización del esperpento en Martes de Carnaval." Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos LXXIX (Aug. 1969): 483-95.

"Julio Cortázar y un modelo para armar ya armado." Cuadernos Americanos XVIII (Mayo-Junio 1969): 235-41.

    D. Bibliographies:

"Bibliography by and about Julio Cortázar." The Final Island: The Fiction of Julio Cortázar, edited by Jaime Alazraki and Ivar Ivask. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1978, 171-99.

"Bibliografía de y sobre Julio Cortázar." Revista Iberoamericana 84-85 (Julio-Diciembre 1973): 697-726.

    E. Interviews:

"Entrevista con Marcos Aguinis." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 1 (Enero 1985): 117-38.

"Entrevista con Jorge Asís." Discurso Literario 1 (Fall 1984): 99-120.

"Entrevista a José Agustín." (with L. Guerra and I. Minoves) Hispamérica 22 (1979): 23-40.

"Entrevista a Gustavo Sainz." Hispamérica 14 (1976): 63-81.

"Entrevista a Marta Lynch." Hispamérica 10 (1975): 33-44.

"Entrevista a Adolfo Bioy Casares." Hispamérica 9 (1975): 75-81.

    F. Reviews:

Happiness (a collection of short stories) by Marjorie Agosín. Ms. Magazine (March/April 1994): 78.

La penúltima version de la Colorada Villanueva de Marta Lynch. Hispamérica 28 (1981): 102-3.

Homage to Irving A. Leonard, Essays on Hispanic Art, History and Literature, ed. Raquel Chang-Rodríguez and Donald A. Yates. Hispamérica 19 (1978): 117-19.

Caballos por el fondo de los ojos de Gerardo Mario Goloboff. Hispamérica 16 (1977): 117-18. Julio Cortázar ante su sociedad de Joaquín Roy. Revista Iberoamericana 94 (1976): 143-44.

El principio del placer de José Emilio Pacheco. Revista Iberoamericana 86 (1974): 193-94. Reprinted in Anales de Literatura Hispanomericana 2-3 (1973-1974): 694-96.

Libro de Manuel de Julio Cortázar. Revista Iberoamericana 84-85 (1973): 689-91.

Los mundos de Julio Cortázar de Malva Filer. Revista Iberoamericana 78 (1972): 168-70.

"Casa tomada" por Julio Cortázar. Revista Iberoamericana 72 (1970): 670-71.

Ultimo round de Julio Cortázar.Revista Iberoamericana 71 (1970): 532-34.

El país de los gramajo de Enrique David Borthiry y Cómico de la lengua de Néstor Sánchez. Literature Section, Handbook of Latin American Studies 38 (1976): 434 and 438.

    G. Other:

Original poetry in A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now, edited by Aliki and Willis Barnstone, New York: Schocken, 1978, 289-90.



VII. Papers and Lectures:

"Como agua para chocolate: cuando la imagen ayuda a la palabra," Encuentro Internacional: ALDEEU- Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, XIVAsamblea General, Santiago de Compostela, 12-16 de julio de 1994.

"De Maimónides a marranos: la gesta de Marcos Aguinis." Lecture, Sociedad Hebraica Argentina, May 1993.

"Fantasía, humor y ciencia ficción en la literatura argentina." Lecture, Argentine Embassy, May 1991.

"Búsqueda de la identidad cultural en la obra de Elena Poniatowska." Congreso, Conflictos Culturales en la Literatura Contemporánea. Recinto Universitario Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, Feb. 3-9, 1991.

"El dulce veneno de la venganza: `El cuento envenenado' de Rosario Ferré." Panel: "Discursos del exorcismo," LASA XV International Congress, Miami, FL, December 4-6, 1989.

"Elena Poniatowska y `La Flor de lis'." Symposium on "Women Who Write," University of Florida, Gainesville, March 2-3, 1989.

"La (ciencia) ficción de Angélica Gorodischer." Mid-America conference on Hispanic Literature, Washington University in St. Louis, October 27-29, 1988.

"Early Literary Giants in the Southern Cone." Lecture, Foreign Service Institute, April 21, 1988.

"Amor y ausencia en Querido Diego te abraza Quiela," Session 211: Reading Elena Poniatowska with Elena Poniatowska, MLA, San Francisco, December 27-30, 1987.

"Three Argentine Writers in the USA: Constantini, Puig and Valenzuela." Lecture, Maison de l'Amérique Latine, Paris (France), May 22, 1987.

"Imaginario, amor y fotografía en La aventura de un fotógrafo en La Plata de Adolfo Bioy Casares." NEMLA, Rutgers University, April 2-5, 1986.

"Marcos Aguinis: escritor contra corriente." Session IX: The Jewish Image in Latin American Literature, NEMLA, Philadelphia, March 29-31, 1984.

"Cola de lagartija: látigo de la palabra y la Triple P," Conference on Latin American Literature: Escritoras de la América Latina, Montclair State College, March 15-17, 1984.

"Una familia lejana: Crónica de varias lecturas cercanas", Symposium on Carlos Fuentes, The Ninth Puterbaugh Conference on Writers of the French-speaking and Hispanic World, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, February 11-12, 1983.

"Chess and Other Games: Metaphors of Search in the Works of Julio Cortázar," Special Session, "The Realm of Games in Contemporary Latin American Literature," MLA, L. A., Dec. 1982.

"The Literature of the Southern Cone", Lecture, Foreign Service Institute of the Department of State, Washington, D.C. November 3, 1982.

"El éxito de los fracasos: el proceso del cambio social mexicano propuesto por las escritoras," Colloquium on "El cambio social en México a través de sus novelistas", University of Notre Dame, Indiana, October 17-19, 1982.

"La saga de Felipe Montero en busca de la Verdad," Symposium on Carlos Fuentes, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 29-30, 1982.

"Fiction as History or History as Fiction," NEMLA, Session on History as Fiction in Contemporary Latin American Literature, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada, April 9-12, 1981.

"Re/Creación y Des/Construcción de la Historia en Terra Nostra de Felipe Montero," XX Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, The University of Texas at Austin, March 24-28, 1981.

"Presentation of Una familia lejana by Carlos Fuentes," Dartmouth College Literary Seminar, March 6, 1981 (author present).

"El substrato prehispánico y el contexto socio-literario en algunos cuentos mexicanos," Lecture, "Issues in Contemporary Spanish-American Fiction." Series of lectures sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Maryland, April 29, 1980.

"Acción y reflexión en la narrativa mexicana." 33rd Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 24-26, 1980.

"Women in Latin America: Their Role as Writers and their Image in Fiction." Second Annual Symposium on Contemporary Latin American Culture, Five College Latin American Studies Council, UMass, March 12, 1979.

" ¿Work in Progress o novela?: Tiene los cabellos rojizos y se llama Sabina de Julieta Campos." Special Session 305, MLA, New York, December, 1978.

"Dictatorships and Solitude in the Spanish American Novel." NECLAS, Yale, November 4, 1978. Repeated for the Five College Latin American Council, December, 1978.

"La novela de la dictadura: nuevas estructuras narrativas." Congreso Internacional y V Asamblea General de la Asociación Europea de Profesores de Español. Budapest, July 31-August 4, 1978.

"René Avilés Fabila y Ulalume González de León: dos voces nuevas en las letras mexicanas." Special Session, MLA, Chicago, December, 1977.

"Problemas de la crítica ante la nueva narrativa hispanoamericana." TUCLAS Conference on Recent Latin American Literature, University of Kansas, September 15-16, 1977.

"El juego como metáfora de la búsqueda en la obra de Julio Cortázar." VI Congress of the Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, Toronto, Canada, August 22-26, 1977.

"El poder de la palabra: la narrativa de Julieta Campos." Symposium on New Criticism in Latin American Narrative, University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 28-29, 1977.

"Tipología del personaje triste en los cuentos de Rubén Darío." XVIII Congress of the Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, Gainesville, Florida, March 27-April 1, 1977.

"The Role of Women in Latin America through Literature." Latino Lecture Series, University of Illinois, November 11, 1976.

"Álbum de familia de Rosario Castellanos." Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies, 22nd Annual Meeting, October 21-22, 1976.

"Onda y desonda: narradores jóvenes mexicanos." 26th Annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Blacksburg, Virginia, October 15-16, 1976.

"Women: An Untapped Resource." Symposium on Latin America: A Quest for Identity, Oberlin College, October 8-10, 1976.

"La otra cara en el espejo: la narrativa de Marta Lynch." Congress of Inter-American Women Writers, San Jose, April 10-11, 1976.

"El hombre nuevo, y la mujer ¿...qué?." Symposium on Julio Cortázar sponsored by Books Abroad, Norman, Oklahoma, November, 1976.

"Vida, obra y milagros de un ilustre varón." Homenaje a Luis Leal, University of Illinois, October, 1975. Repeated at the Kentucky Language Conference, April 22-24, 1976.

"Literatura y cine en Hispanoamérica." Public lecture, Dept. of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, Univ. of Illinois, Summer Lecture Series, July 9, 1975.

"Literature and Film," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, 1973.

"Las figuras del calidoscopio de Julio Cortázar," MLA Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, 1969.



VIII. President, Organizer, Moderator, Panelist, Discussion Leader, Discussant:

Discussant, panel on "Representaciones de la masculinidad y femineidad en Argentina 1880-1950," LASA XIX International Congress, Washington, D.C., September 28-20, 1995.

Moderator, panel on "Technology and Pedagogy I," Symposium on "Text, Image and Technology" sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, GMU, November 12 and 13 1993.

Organizer and President, panel "Latin American Women Writers and the Canon," Division on Twentieth Century Latin American Literature. MLA, San Francisco, Dec.27-30, 1991

Moderator, Panel, Symposium "Sarmiento: Author of a Nation", University of California, Berkeley, October 7-8, 1988.

Organizer and Coordinator, Panel "The Post-Modernism Debate in Argentina," LASA XIV International Congress, New Orleans, March 17-19, 1988.

Discussant, "The Andean Oral Tradition: Peru and Ecuador," LASA XIII International Congress and NECLAS Annual Meeting, Boston, October 23-25, 1986.

President and Organizer, Panel "Escritoras y Escritura," Latin American Book Fair, Washington, D.C., April 27, 1986.

President, Session V, and Coordinator of the jury for the Discurso Literario Award, Coloquio Internacional sobre la obra de Julio Cortázar, Oklahoma State University, April 10-12, 1986.

President, "Nuevos acercamientos críticos de la literatura femenina," XXIV Congreso, Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, Stanford University, 8-12 July 1985.

President, "Las nuevas promociones literarias," Division on Twentieth Century Latin American Literature, MLA, Washington, D.C. 27-30 Dec. 1984.

Panelist, "Latin American Writers: Commitment and Creation," GMU Faculty Lecture Series, April 4, 1984. President, "Rescate de literaturas marginadas," Division on Twentieth Century Latin American Literature, MLA, New York, December 29, 1983.

President, "La nueva novela histórica," Division on Twentieth Century Latin American Literature, MLA, New York, December 28, 1983.

Organizer and Coordinator, Panel "The 'onda': Twenty Years Later," LASA Congress, Mexico City, Sept. 28-Oct.2, 1983.

Moderator, Panel on "The Literature of the Southern Cone," Sixth Annual Meeting, Conference on Latin American Literature, Montclair State College, March 18, 1983.

Discussion leader, Session: "The Essay as Fiction or Fiction as Essay", MLA, LA, Dec 29, 1982.

President, Session: Tradition and Change in Latin American Jewish Writing, MLA, LA, Dec 29 1982.

Discussant, Session on Research Methodologies in Latin American Literature, Thirty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain MLA, Salt Lake City, October 21-23, 1982.

Panelist, "Conversación con Carlos Fuentes," Symposium on Carlos Fuentes, University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 29-30, 1982.

Discussant, Session on "The Spanish American Novel Since 1945: Relationships to French Literary Theory," NEMLA, Hunter College (NY), April 3-5, 1982.

Moderator, Session V, Symposium on "Augusto Roa Bastos y la Producción Cultural Americana Ante la Historia", University of Maryland, College Park, March 25-27, 1982.

Discussion Leader, Session: "The Literature of the Latin American Avant-Garde and Recent Developments in French Critical Theory: Convergences and Reflections", MLA, New York, Dec 30, 1981.

Panelist, "The Hispanic Woman in Academia: Past, Present, and Future Challenges," MLA, New York, December 29, 1981.

President, "Vías de la Nueva Narrativa" Session, XX Congress, Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, The University of Texas at Austin, March 25, 1981.

Panelist, Round table discussion on the Baroque in Spanish America, LASA IX National Meeting, Bloomington, Ind. Oct. 17-20, 1980.

President, Session: "Cortázar's Short Stories and Essays in Their Social Context," Symposium: Cortázar at Barnard College, April 19, 1980.

Panelist, "Other Vanguard Writers," International Symposium on Vicente Huidobro y la Vanguardia, University of Chicago, April 5-8, 1978.

Discussion leader, Seminar on Latin American Women Writers, MLA, San Francisco, Dec. 1975. Panelist, "The Teaching of Culture and Civilization," Colloquium for Language Pedagogy, UI, 1973.



IX. Other:

Video Interview with Manuel Puig, October 30, 1985

Interviewed on TV in Buenos Aires in reference to my lecture on Marcos Aguinis and my professional and scholarly activities. 20 May 1993 (Video available).

Literary Consultant, Video "Carlos Fuentes: Man of Two Worlds", A Joel Foreman Documentary, 1988-89.



X. Ph.D. Dissertations and MA Theses:

Director, Julie James, MA thesis: "Rosario Ferré, Magali García Ramis and Esmeralda Santiago: A Search for Identity," GMU, Spring 1997

Director, Maria Riegger, MA Thesis: "Reading the Works of Griselda Gambaro From a Feminist Perspective: Reflections on What Not to Be", GMU, Fall 1993.

Reader and Defense Committee Member, Suzanne Hintz, Ph.D Dissertation: "The Search for Identity in the Narrative of Rosario Ferré: Toward a Definition of Latin American Feminist Literary Criticism", The Catholic University of America, Spring 1993.

Reader and Defense Committee Member, Marcy Schwartz, Ph.D Dissertation: "Writing Paris into Contemporary Latin American Narrative: The City as Intertext in Cortázar, Scorza, Bryce Echenique and Futoransky", The Johns Hopkins University, June 1992.

Reader and Defense Committee Member, Danielle L. Cahill, Ph.D. Dissertation: "Male Narrator/Female Characters: Juan Marsé's Treatment of Female Characters", The Catholic University of America, April 1992.

Reader and Defense Committee Member, Sylvia Apodaca, Ph.D. Dissertation: "Selected Chilean Women Novelists from 1977 to the Present: A Feminist Approach", The Catholic University of America, April 1992.

Reader and Defense Committee Member, Susana I. Elbirt, MA Thesis: "Ariel Dorfman: Literature in Exile or the Exile of Literature", GMU. Spring 1991.

Reader and Defense Committee Member, Gregory J. Shepherd, MA Thesis: "The Narrative of José Emilio Pacheco: A Translation and Critical Study", GMU, Spring 1991.

Director, Suzanne S. Hintz, MA Thesis: "A Comparison of the Short Stories of Rosario Ferré in Her Collection Papeles de Pandora and Her Children's Anthology Sonatinas", GMU, Fall 1990.

Director, David Wise, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Illinois, July 1978.

Director, Eileen Zeitz, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Illinois, December 1977. Director, Dagoberto Orrantia, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Illinois, 1976.