[education]    [professional employment]    [publications]    [papers read]    [courses taught]  [service]  [awards]
 

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of Florida, December 1982 (English)
M.A., University of Florida, June 1976 (English)
B.A., Florida International University, June 1973 (English)
 

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

Associate Dean for College Relations, College of Arts and Sciences, Florida International University; November 1992-present.
Associate Professor, Department of English, Florida International University; August 1990-present.
Coordinator, Dade County Public Schools Teacher Education Center Summer Seminar; Summer, 1991, 1992.
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Florida International University; August 1982-August 1990.
Visiting Instructor, Department of English, Florida International University; August 1981-August 1982.
Research Assistant, Department of English, University of Florida; June 1978-August 1981.
Lecturer, Department of Speech and Drama, Mercy College's Miami Center for Bilingual Education; September 1976-December 1977.
Lecturer, New World Center and Medical Campus, Miami-Dade Community College, August 1976-April 1978.
Lecturer, Department of English, University of Miami; August 1976-December 1977.
Spanish Instructor, Bureau of Compensatory Education, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Summer 1976.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Florida; September 1974-June 1976.
Assistant Coordinator, Intensive Language Program, Florida International University; June 1973-June 1974.
Spanish Instructor, Intensive Language Program, Florida International University; September 1972-June 1973.
 

PUBLICATIONS

"Elements of the Gothic": Review of David Punter's The Literature of Terror, Science-Fiction Studies, 9(1982): 331-32.
"Pedro Calderón de la Barca." In Research Guide to Biography and Criticism: Drama. Washington, D.C.: Research Publishing, 1986. 76-79.
"Federico García Lorca." In Research Guide to Biography and Criticism: Drama. Washington, D. C.: Research Publishing, l986. 228-32.
"Tirso de Molina." In Research Guide to Biography and Criticism: Drama. Washington, D. C.: Research Publishing, l986. 626-29.
"Private Sins, Public Penance: Poetic Justice in Some Restoration Plays with Spanish Sources." South Atlantic Review 53.1 (1988): 27-39.
"The Concept of Poetic Justice in Spanish Golden Age Literary Theory." Hispanófila 32.1 (1989): 13-20.
"Guardians in Restoration Plays with Direct Spanish Dramatic Sources." Lamar Journal of the Humanities 14.1,2 (1989): 51-60.
"Greater Miami." In The Booklover's Guide to Florida. Sarasota: Pineapple Press, 1992.
"Miami Hosts HACU Conference." FIU Diversity Exchange Spring 2000: 28.
 

PAPERS READ

"'This World is All Madness and Mistake': Themes in Restoration Plays with Spanish Sources." Comparative Drama Conference, 17 March 1983.
"Guardians and Gallants in Restoration Plays with Spanish Sources." Modern Language Association, New York, 29 December 1983.
"Private Sins, Public Penance: Poetic Justice in Golden Age Spanish and Restoration English Cape and Sword Plays." Women's Studies Colloquia, Florida International University, 12 April 1984; Southern Comparative Literature Association, Pensacola, 16 February, 1985; and Le Moyne Forum on Religion and Literature, Syracuse, l9 October l985.
"The Theory of Poetic Justice in Golden Age Spain." South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, 8 November 1984.
"Guardians in Restoration Plays with Direct Spanish Dramatic Sources." Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Atlanta, 6 March l987.
Panelist, "Research Presentations of Junior Faculty." Third Annual Fellows Meeting of the Florida Endowment Fund, Tampa, 3 October 1987.
"Wards and Their Guardians in Restoration Plays with Direct Spanish Dramatic Sources." Comparative Drama Conference, Gainesville, 24 March 1988.
Greater Miami Writers." Miami Book Fair. Miami, 21 November 1992.
"Effective Strategies for Enrollment Management." Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, San Antonio, 4 October 1993.
"Cuban-American Writers: From an American Literary Perspective." National Association of Cuban-American Educators, Miami, 9 October 1993.
"Negotiating Otherness." Florida Women's Studies Conference, Tallahassee, 14 October 1994.
 

COURSES TAUGHT

Writing: Elements of Writing, Techniques of Interpretation, Technical Writing, Expository Writing, Business Letters and Reports, Grammatical Usage.

Literature: Approaches to Literature, Survey of British Literature I & II, Survey of American Literature I, Survey of World Literature I & II, The Quixotic Novel, The Early Novel, Masterpieces of the Novel, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature, Seventeenth-Century British Drama, Seventeenth-Century Drama, History of Literary Criticism, Forms of Satire, The Development of the Novel: The Eighteenth Century.
 

SERVICE

Departmental:
Committee to Study Technical Writing M.A., l981-l982.
Personnel Committee, l982-l984.
Head Advisor, l984-1993.

College:
Procedural Committee, l983-84, 1987-1988.

University:
Freshman Advisor, l983-l985, 1991-1992.
Representative to Board of Regents' meeting on the Test of Spoken English to SUS Faculty, 8 February 1984.
Faculty Senator, 1984-1986, 1988-1990.
Traffic Appeals Board, l984-l986.
Committee to Implement Policy to Prohibit Sexual Harassment, l985-87.
Panelist, Know How to Manage your Career. Career Development Seminar for Women, 22 March 1985.
Secretary-Treasurer, Hispanic Faculty Association, 1987-1989.
Bookstore Advisory Committee, 1989-1992.
Member, Editorial Board, Journal for the Art of Teaching, Special issue on "Diversity in Education," 6.1 (Summer 1999).

Community:
Alumni Advisory Committee, Florida International University, 1973-1974.
Grader, Essay Portion of Teacher Competency Exam, April l981.
Consultant to l984 edition of Almanaque Mundial.
Visiting Assistant Professor, St. John Vianney College Seminary, Fall l984, l987-1990.
Lecturer, F.I.U. Gifted Junior High School Students Program, Fall l985.
Lecturer, Florida Endowment for the Humanities, Critical Approaches to Literature at Florida Memorial College, Summer l986.
Grader, Essay portion of CLAST, March l987.
Lecturer, Playwrights at Seven Seminar Series, Coconut Grove Playhouse, 7 December 1987.
Guest, Playhouse Forum, WLRN, Channel 17. Discussion of Edward Machado's Broken Eggs, l9 December 1987.
Lecturer, Playwrights at Seven Seminar Series, Coconut Grove Playhouse, 25 January 1988.
Guest, Playhouse Forum, WLRN, Channel 17. Discussion of Eugene O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet, 13 February 1988.
Lecturer, "Calderón's La dama duende." 1988 Florida Shakespeare Festival Lecture Series, 30 April 1988.
Regional Coordinator, Florida Association of Women in Education. 1997-1999.

National:
Member, Committee on Reslutions. South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 1993-1996.
Moderator, Theatrical Display: The Work of Plays. The Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, 8 October 1999.
Moderator, Creating and Sustaining a Pipeline for Hispanic Students: The Sciences, Education, and Engineering. Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, 31 October 1999.

AWARDS
Teaching Assistantship, Department of English, University of Florida, l974-l976.
Research Assistantship, Department of English, University of Florida, l978-l981.
Minority Faculty Development Award, Florida International University, Spring l984, Fall l984, Spring l985.
Listed in Who's Who and Why of Successful Florida Women.
McKnight Minority Junior Faculty Development Program Fellowship, 1986-1987.
Listed in Who's Who in the Southeast. 1993 edition.
Listed in Who's Who of American Women. 1994 edition.