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
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 |
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:
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.
"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.
"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.
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.
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.
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