Academic History:

• BA, German, West Virginia University. 1970.
• MA, German, West Virginia University. 1972.
• MA, Spanish, Ohio University. 1976.
• Ph.D., Spanish, Penn State University. 1982.

• Assistant Professor, University of Scranton, 1979-1983.
• Associate Professor, University of Scranton, 1984-1991.
• Professor, University of Scranton, 1991 to present.

• Chair, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Scranton, 1988-Aug 2003.

Articles published (in journals and proceedings):

"Reversals of Illocutionary Logic in Griselda Gambaro's Las paredes", in Things Done With Words: Speech Acts in Hispanic Drama (Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs, 1986): 101-114.

"The Allegorical Dimension of Carlos Fuentes' Terra nostra." Hispanic Journal 7.2 (Spring 1986): 90-97.

"An Interdisciplinary Approach to Politics and Literature: The Latin American Case." Teaching Political Science: Politics in Perspective 13.4 (Spring 1986): 148-153. Co-authored by Leonard Champney.

"The Vision of Horror or Opposing Self. The Double in Three Novels by Carlos Fuentes." Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 8.1-2 (March 1987): 105-114.

"Mirror Symbolism in Carlos Fuentes' Terra nostra." College Language Association Journal 31.1 (Sept. 1987): 77-86.

"Carlos Rangel's Del buen salvaje al buen revolucionario: A Maverick's View of U.S. Imperialism." Inter-American Review of Bibliography 3 8.3 (Nov. 1988): 354- 362.

"Parody and Self-Parody in Lo demas es silencio: (La vida y la obra de Eduardo Torres) by Augusto Monterroso." Hispania 72.4 (Dec. 1989): 938-945.

"Mempo Giardinelli's Qué solos se quedan los muertos: An Investigation of Argentina in Mexico." Selected Proceedings of the Philological Association of Louisiana (1990): 21-32.

"Watches without Owners: Variations on a Spanish American Satirical Theme." Confluencia: Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura 7.1 (Fal l 1991): 55-61.

"The International Language/Business Major at a Small Private University: Successes and Nagging Concerns." RIE (Resources in Education) document#ED348873 of ERIC Microfiche Collection 28.1 (Jan. 1993): 3-15. Publishedin ERIC in Proceedings of the Eastern Michigan University Conference on Languages and Communication for World Business and the Professions, Ypsilanti, MI, March 26, 1992.

"Progress in Reverse: Some Spanish American Satirical Views of Development." Abstracts and Selected Papers from the Second Biennial Conference on Culture, Society and Change in the Americas. (Tampa, FL: University of South Florida and VENUSA, 1993): 295-303.

"Parodia y autoparodia en Lo demás es silencio de Augusto Monterroso", in Refracción: Augusto Monterroso ante la crítica (Ediciones Era: México, D.F., 1995): 109-122 (translation of "Parody and Self-Parody in Lo demás es silencio de Augusto Monterroso")

"Sátira anticlerical en algunos cuentos de Jorge Kattán Zablah." Alba de América16, Nos. 30-31(June, 1998), 269-285.
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Courses taught at the University of Scranton:

Upper-division courses taught include:

• Spanish 313, Spanish Culture and C ivilization
• Spanish 314, Latin American Culture and Civilization
• Spanish 319, Business Spanish
• Spanish 320, Introduction to Literature
• Spanish 331, Survey of Spanish American Literature
• Spanish 421, Twentieth Century Spanish Drama
• Spanish 422, Spanish American Drama
• Spanish 431, Spanish American Short Story
• Spanish 433, Hispanic Lyric Poetry
• Spanish 335, Service and the Hispanic Community
• Spanish 436, The Hispanic Satirical Tradition
• Spanish 484, Hispanic Literature and Film

Courses in Fall 2007:

Spanish 211, Intermediate Spanish I (Sections 2 & 3)

Spanish 313, Spanish Culture and Civilization

INTD 100, Freshmen Seminar, languages

Courses in Spring 2008:

Spanish 212, Intermediate Spanish II (Sections 2 & 3)

Spanish 321, Advanced Stylistics

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