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| HOME ADDRESS: PROFESSIONAL ADDRESS: | ||
| 7427 Hennings Way Division of Romance Languages | ||
| Anchorage, AK 99504 University of Alaska Anchorage | ||
| Anchorage, AK 99508 | ||
| Telephones : (907) 337-2519 (907) 786-4036 | ||
| E-mail: afar@uaa.alaska.edu Fax: (907) 786-4190 | ||
| ACADEMIC FORMATION DEGREES | ||
| Universität Wien. Austria. Zeugnis | ||
| Deutsche Sprachkurse 1979 | ||
| La Sorbonne. Paris. France. Diplôme | ||
| Centre d'études françaises modernes et contemporaines 1976 | ||
| New York University. New York. Ph.D. | ||
| Hispanic Language and Literatures 1974 | ||
Dissertation: Carácter ideológico-literario
del quietismo de Miguel de Molinos en su
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| TEACHING EXPERIENCE | ||
| University of Hawaii at Manoa. Honolulu. 1985 | ||
| Visiting Professor. Spanish/Latin American Literature | ||
| University of Alaska Anchorage | ||
| Professor 1990- | ||
| Associate Professor 1983-90 | ||
| Assistant Professor. Spanish language/literature (including Latin-American) | ||
| and French Literature. 1981-82 | ||
| State University of New York at Geneseo 1977-81 | ||
| Assistant Prof. Spanish. Language, undergraduate & graduate literature. | ||
| City University of New York 1972-77 | ||
| Adjunct Assistant Professor, Spanish. Language, civilization and literature. | ||
| New York University 1970-71 | ||
| Teaching Associate--Language courses | ||
| Independent School District of Houston, Texas 1967-68 | ||
| Teacher of Advanced French and Spanish. | ||
| ADMlNISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE | ||
| Pastor of St. Ann's Catholic Church and Superintendent of K-12 School, | ||
| Colorado City, Texas. 1965-67 | ||
| Chairman, Department of Foreign Languages, UAA 1981-88 | ||
| Vice Chairman, Alaska Humanities Forum, NEH 1984-85 | ||
| Coordinator of Spanish (11 Assistants). European Languages and Literatures. | ||
| University of Hawaii at Manoa 1985 | ||
| Director of the Language Laboratory, UAA 1981-88 | ||
| Director of the Spanish Program, UAA 1990- | ||
| Chairman, Division of Romance Languages, UAA 1997- | ||
| SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS | ||
| Nine scholarships and awards from intra and extramural sources to support various study projects | ||
| PUBLISHED RESEARCH: ARTICLES, REVIEWS, BOOKS (Selection): | ||
| *"Miguel de Molinos, crepúsculo de la mística." Arbor. Tom. XC, Núms. 355-356 (July-August 1975): 49-62. | ||
| *"Actualidad de la literatura española." Estafeta literaria 601 (December 1976): 34-36. | ||
| *World demography. Booklet transl. from Spanish. (60 pp) for the United Nations, New York, 1975. | ||
| *"Poesía y actualidad norteamericanas." Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos 314 -315 (August-September 1976): 24-32. | ||
| *"Aspectos tropológicos y estructurales de la Guía espiritual." Literatura y arte hispánicos. Madrid: Insula, 1977.: 281-90. | ||
| *"San Manuel Bueno no cree en la inmortalidad." Studia gratularia, Humberto Piñera. Madrid: Playor, (1978): 20-27. | ||
| *"Bilingual Boricua Theater in New York." Hispania 61 (September 1978): 521-22. | ||
| *Review: The Romantic Approach to Don Quijote by Anthony Close, Nueva Estafeta 125 (December 1978).:25-26 | ||
| *"Don Quijote: Paladín de la justicia militante." Cervantes su obra y su mundo. Madrid: Edi, 1980.: 175-80. | ||
| *"Onomastic perspectivism in Don Quijote." Literary Onomastic Studies Vol. Vll, Brockport, N.Y. 1981.: 257-67. | ||
| *Foreign Language Learning in Alaska. Co-editor, Fairbanks 1982, (70 pp). | ||
| *"New Cantabria -Alaska in the last Chronicles of the Spanish Empire." Univ. of Alaska Magazine 3 (June 1983): 30-38. | ||
| *"Teresa de Jesús y su carnet de ortodoxia según su epistolario." Santa Teresa y la literatura mística hispánica. Madrid: Edi 1983.: 167-74. | ||
| *Book review: The Kingdom of León-Castilla Under Queen Urraca 1109-1126 by Bernard F. Reilly. The Historian, XLVII 3 (1985): 414-15. | ||
| *"To be or not to be - Monolingual or Multilingual." Journal of State Humanities Councils VIII, 4 (July/Aug 1985): 6-10. | ||
| *Critical analyses on the life and works of Mariana Carvajal y Saavedra, Beatriz Galindo, Clara Janés, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Faustina Sáez de Melgar and Teresa de Jesús in Women Writers of Spain. Ed. Carolyn L. Galerstein Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1986. pp. xx, 68-69, 123, 151-53, 248-54, 285-86, 311-14. | ||
| *"Spanish legacy of Revillagigedo Island." Southeastern Log (Monthly Digest). Ketchikan, Alaska, February 1987. | ||
| *"Os processos da Inquisição Portuguesa contra os quietistas." Inquisição. São Paulo, June, 1987. | ||
| *"Spanish legacy of Prince of Wales Island." Southeastern Log. Ketchikan, Alaska, June 1987. | ||
| *Book review: "José Labrador Herraiz's Cervantes and the Pastoral." Revista Estudios Hispánicos 2 (May 1987): 112-14. | ||
| *"The Spanish exploration of Alaska, 1774-1796: Manuscript sources." Alaska History 3, No. 1 (Spring 1988): 44-61. | ||
| *"Una noche de aurora boreal...cuando pasa el tren". Short story ranked 13 among 200 entries in the Concurso de la Fundación de los Ferrocarriles Españoles. Madrid, June 1987. | ||
| *"El quietismo lusitano: procesos y condenación" Inquisição. Lisboa: Universitaria Editora,1989, Vol. 11: 880-893. | ||
| *Teachables-n-touchables Program-Spanish. New York: Gessler Publishing Co, 1989. Academic Consultant. ISBN: 0-88043-246-2. (New method to teach Spanish by Total Physical Response -TPR). | ||
| *"La estética española de la mística platónica. Homenaje a Enrique Ruiz-Fornells. Erie PA: Aldeeu, 1990. 526-529. | ||
| *"Raíces del quietismo y su desarrollo a través de varios escritores lusitanos: Reacción de la Inquisición." Editora Expressão e Cultura. São Paulo. (1990): 315-327 | ||
| *"In memoriam of Francesc Borja Moll, a Majorcan scholar", Hispania 74 (March 1991): 348-350. | ||
| *"Tomás Suría (1761-1840): Un ilustrado valenciano en la Expedición Malaspina." La Expedición Malaspina 1789-1794, Bicentenario de la salida de Cádiz. Cádiz: Academia Hispanoamericana, 1991. 216 (1989): 301-308 | ||
| *Alaska-Nutka: Colofón del Imperio Español. Madrid: Artes Gráficas Villena,1993. ISBN:84-604-8828-4 | ||
| *Annotated Edition of the 1674 manuscript of Miguel de Molinos' "Guía espiritual." (in press) at Clásicos Castellanos. Madrid, (275 pages). | ||
| *Tomas de Suria a l'expedicio Malaspina: Alaska 1791. Valencia: Generalitat Valenciana, 1995. ISBN:84-482-1181-2 | ||
| *"Spanish place names on the face of Alaska: Prince of Wales Island" Southeast Alaska’s Island News. Sept.-Nov. 1995.Thorne Bay, AK. Also in Internet: http://spanish.miningco.com | ||
| * " Behind Cinco de Mayo rests a story of struggle" Anchorage Daily News. Forum, May 5, 1998. | ||
| WORK IN PROGRESS: BOOKS | ||
| "La poética de Aristóteles y el teatro del Siglo de Oro". New modern translation from the Greek of Aristotle's Poetics with an analysis of how his theories were or were not integrated into the Spanish Golden Age theater. | ||
| Annotated edition with an introduction and an English translation of Francisco Mourelle's manuscript journals of 1775 and 1779 Spanish expeditions to Alaska. Funded by UAA and the Alaska Humanities Forum. Supported by the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States Universities. | ||
| LECTURES AND SEMINARS (Selection) | ||
| -"Miguel de Molinos, ¿heterodoxo?" Spanish Institute, New York, Nov. 11, 1974. | ||
| -"El quietismo: Filosofía y literatura, epílogo del iluminismo" -Bernardete's Tertulia. New York City, June 1, 1975. | ||
| -"El Laberinto de Fortuna, estilo y estructura" Bernardete's Tertulia. N. Y. City, Oct. 23, 1976. | ||
| -"Common roots of Quakerism and Quietism." Medieval House, University of Rochester, New York, Feb. 9, 1978. | ||
| -"Don Quijote: Paladín de la justicia militante." I International Congress on Cervantes, Madrid, July 4, 1978. | ||
| -"El Romanticismo de Agustín Durán." M L A., Annual convention, Discussant, San Francisco, Dec. 27, 1979. | ||
| -"The Spain of the 80's - culturally, economically, politically..." AK For. Lang. Asso. annual meeting, March 5, 1982. | ||
| -"Judaismo racial y literario de Teresa de Jesús." International Symposium, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, Nov. 6, 1983. (To be publ. in Proceedings) | ||
| -"Foreign Languages: A Key to the Future." Keynote speaker Southeastern Meeting of AFLA in Haines, March 25,1983. | ||
| -"Literatura satírica y humorística de la España franquista." Discussion leader and paper, Modern Language Association, New York, Dec. 29, 1983. | ||
| -"¡Ay, Jherusalem!, XIII Century Spanish Planctus on the Fall of Jerusalem." Language and Culture: East and West Conference, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, March 14, 1985. | ||
| -"Spanish Presence and Heritage in the Pacific Northwest." Friday Conversation series of the Hawaii Committee for the Humanities, American Association of University Women Ctr, Honolulu, May 17, 1985. | ||
| -"El quietismo de Miguel de Molinos en la literatura lusitana." Symposium on Portuguese Traditions, UCLA. April 20, 1986. | ||
| -"Elaboración barroca de El Aquiles en Calderón de la Barca", Sixth Annual Cincinnati Conference on Rom. Langs and Lits. May 15, 1986. | ||
| -"Crónicas de los descubrimientos españoles en el Noroeste Pacífico." I Cong. Int.: Reyes Cató1icos y Descubrimiento. Madrid, July 7, 1986. | ||
| -"Autobiografismo anónimo de Las Soledades: Nuevas pistas." Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Madrid. Aug. 12, 1986. | ||
| -"Viajes de Jovellanos por la España preromántica." Symposium on Hispanic Romanticism: Sesquicentennial of Larra, Brigham Young University, Utah. Feb. 17,1987. | ||
| -"El Monstruo de los jardines: sublimación del barroco." Pacific NW Council on For. Langs, Seattle, WA. May 9, 1987 | ||
| -"Grammatical techniques to increase word capacity." Workshop for Spanish teachers, PNCFL, Seattle. May 11, 1987. | ||
| -"The Spanish exploration of Prince William Sound by Salvador Fidalgo in 1790: the naming of Cordova and Valdez." Cordova Historical Society, May 9. 1988. | ||
| -M L A. Leader Special Session: 400th Anniversary of St. Theresa's Las Moradas, New Orleans, Dec. 29, 1988 | ||
| -"Cervantes, crítico literario: Viaje del Parnaso." Cervantes International Symposium on Persiles and Sigismunda: Whitman College,Walla Walla, Washington, Feb. 23, 1990. | ||
| -"Changing of the Flags: Bicentennial of Vancouver Island: Indians, Spaniards and British at Nootka." Western Science Association Leader and Panelist of a Special Session of Canadian Studies. Portland, OR,April 27, 1990. | ||
| -Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages. May 4, 1990. "Escritores místicos y ascéticos de estética platónica" May 5, Section Head: Spanish /Spanish American Culture. Annual Conference, Portland, OR. | ||
| -Luna de lobos by Julio Llamazares. "Cine al servicio de un ideal" CineLit. International Congress, Portland, OR. Guest speaker. Feb. 26, 1991 | ||
| -"La influencia hispánica en Alaska". V Seminario. Descubrimiento de América y presencia de España en EE. UU: Influencia española en el Pacífico. Fundación Hispánica. New Yok City. Guest Speaker: Nov. 30, 1991 | ||
| -"Spanish Alaska and the Controversy of Nootka - a Bicentennial", Seeds of Change: 500 Years of Encounter and Exchange. Loussac Public Library. Anchorage, AK. Jan. 8, 1992 | ||
| -"Darío's Cosmovision in 'La Salutación del optimista". 1st C. A. Literary Congress, Granada, Nicaragua. Feb. 22-27, 1993 | ||
| PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITES | ||
| Memberships | ||
| -National Association of Language Laboratories Directors, (NALLD) 1981-83 | ||
| -Modern Language Association, (MLA) 1970- | ||
| -American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, (AATSP) 1973- | ||
| -Alaska Foreign Language Association, (AFLA) 1981-90 | ||
| -Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages, (PNCFL) 1982- | ||
| -Association of Departments of ForeignLanguages, (ADFL) 1982-85 | ||
| -Asociación Internacional de Valleinclanistas, (AIVI) 1987-96 | ||
| Offices Held and Committees (Selection) | ||
| -Senator for the Deparment of Foreign Languages, SUNY, Geneseo. 1979-81 | ||
| -Academic Affairs Committee, SUNY, Geneseo 1980-81 | ||
| -Committee on Honorary Members and Fellows of the AATSP 1980-86 | ||
| -Vice President, Alaska Foreign Languages Association. 1981-85 | ||
| -Anchorage School District Foreign Language Curriculum Committee 1981-90 | ||
| -Member of a UAA delegation to Dohto University, Japan; Summer. 1982 | ||
| -Chairman, International Education and Exchange Programs, UAA. 1982-84 | ||
| -Chairman of Faculty Development Grants Committee UAA. 1982-83 | ||
| -CAS (College of Arts and Sciences) Nominating Committee, UAA. 1982-84 | ||
| -Ad Hoc Faculty Senate Committee for Revision and Change of UAA's Constitution. 1983 | ||
| -Editor of the AFLA Review 1983-84 | ||
| -CAS Committee on Positions and Programs, UAA 1983-84 | ||
| -CAS Peer Review Committee, UAA 1983-84 | ||
| -Dean's (CAS) Peer Review Committee, UAA 1983-84 | ||
| -Vice President of the Faculty Senate, UAA 1983-84 | ||
| -Citizens Advisory Committee, Educational Television, KAKM, Channel 7, Anchorage. 1983-88 | ||
| -Secretary, Board of Directors of the Alaska Humanities Forum. 1985-87 | ||
| -Assembly Delegate to Modern Language Association of America for Western U. S. & Canada (Elected) 1986-89 | ||
| -Foreign Language Consultant for the Anchorage Organizing Committee of the Winter Olympics 1986-88 | ||
| -Executive Board of the Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages. (Elected) 1986-89 | ||
| -Member of Committee on Rules and Agenda for the MLA.(Elected). 1986-89 | ||
| -Judge for the Rockefeller Foundation Grants for the promotion of foreign language | ||
| study among High School teachers. (Appointed) 1986-89 | ||
| -CAS Rep. (elected) to the Nominations' Committee, UAA 1987-88 | ||
| -Chairman of the Campus Wide Nominations' Committee. 1988-89 | ||
| -Nominee for First Vice President of the Faculty Senate 1991 | ||
| -CAS Peer Review Committee (Humanities) 1993 | ||
| -Council of Editors for Cuadernos de ALDEEU. 1997- | ||
| -Assembly Delegate to Mod. Lang. Association of America (MLA) for Western U. S. & Canada (Elected) 1999-2003 | ||
| Conferences and Professional Meetings (Selection) | ||
| -Modern Language Association Conv. Chicago, Session Leader and panelist: "Lit. and the Inquisition" Dec. 26-30, 1977 | ||
| -Modern Language Association Convention, San Francisco, Dec. 27-30. 1979 | ||
| -Alaska Foreign Language Association, Annual meetings, March 5-7. 1982-86 | ||
| -Convocator of 1st International Congress on Mystical Literature: IV Centenary, St Theresa, Madrid, Jul. 5-8. 1982 | ||
| NEH Workshop for Board Members State Humanities Councils, San Francisco, CA, Jan. 31- Feb. 3, 1984 | ||
| -Goethe Institut: Sprach Fortbildungkurse, Rothenburg ob der Tauber. Germany, July 1-August 1, 1984 | ||
| -East-West Conference: Language and Culture, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, March 13-20, 1985 | ||
| -National Conference of State Humanities Councils. Annual Meeting at Kansas City, MO, Nov. 21-24, 1985 | ||
| -Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages. Annual Meeting. Seattle, WA, May 10-14, 1989 | ||
| COMMUNITY ACTIVITlES | ||
| Lectures and Public Appearances (Selection) | ||
| -"Family Life and People of Today's Spain", Rotary Intl., Anch, AK, Feb. 25, 1982 | ||
| -Cross Culture Series, PBS, Anch., KAKM Channel 7, "Hispanics in Alaska"; March 6. 1982 | ||
| -"Gabriel García Márquez and his Works", Nobel Prize. KSKA, PBS. Nov. 15, 1982 | ||
| -Cross Culture, "Spain in Alaska 1774-1825", Half-hour presentation of the Spanish | ||
| Explorations of Alaska, PBS, Anchorage., KAKM, T.V. Ch. 7, April 25, 1983 | ||
| -"Nicaragua's Revolution", Panelist in KSKA, FM Radio Close-up Program discussing | ||
| Nicaragua's Cultural Revolution, Anchoage, AK. May 10, 1983 | ||
| -"Hispanics in Alaska's Past", Hispanic HeritageWeek celebrated at the Anchorage Federal Blg. Sept. 16,1983 | ||
| -"The State of Foreign Languages at UAA, half- hour radio Close-up, KENI, Anchorage, AK. Dec. 20,1984 | ||
| -"Octavio Paz, mi maestro: Su obra poética y su prosa" New Nobel Prize. KSKA, National Public | ||
| Radio. Anchorage, AK. October 14, 1990 | ||
| Public Service (Selection) | ||
| -Translator, Board of Elections of New York State. Escort Interpreter, Office A.I.D. and | ||
| Department of State, Washington, D.C. 1975 | ||
| -Producer of Vivencias, 30-minute weekly radio program in Spanish on WGSU-FM, Geneseo, NY. 1977-79 | ||
| -Member of the League of United Latin American Citizens, LULAC. Anchorage, AK. 1981-90 | ||
| -Member of the Hispanic Alaskans, (Vicepresident 82-83) 1981-92 | ||
| -Judge for the annual State Declamation Contest: Native/advanced Spanish speakers in High School. 1982-88 | ||
| -Organizer/Director of the Le Cercle Français, Parouski and Tavola italiana. Weekly | ||
| table talks for students and community. 1982-88 | ||
| -Organizer/Director of the Tertulia, Weekly table talks for students and community. 1982- | ||
| -Member of Citizens Advisory Committee on PBS-TV. 1983-88 | ||
| -Alaska Humanities Forum. Appointed by the Governor of Alaska to the Board of Directors. 1984-87 | ||
| -Producer of KSKA Radio's Sunday Program: Noticias y Comentarios for Alaska. 1986 -87 | ||
| -President of the Hispanic Alaskans (Elected) 1990-92 | ||
| -Chairman of Hispanic National Democrats for Alaska. 1991-97 | ||
| -Producer and Broadcaster of KSKA-FM’s Buenas Noches, Alaska, Sundays & Mondays. 1997- | ||
| Guest Editor for the Anchorage Daily News. April 5-11. 1998 | ||
| RECOGNITIONS | ||
| -Directory of American Scholars. Vol. 3, 7th Ed. New York, 1978. 8th, Ed. New York, 1983. | ||
| -Directory of International Biography. Cambridge, England, 1985. | ||
| -Who's Who in the West. (Educators). Chicago, IL, 1987-1988. | ||
| -Directory of Faculty involved in Canadian Studies: Pacific NW. 3rd Ed. Eugene, OR. 1989-97 | ||
| -Who's Who among Hispanic Americans. Detroit, MI.: Gale Research Inc., 1992, 93. | ||
| -International Directory of Distinguished Leadership. Raleigh NC, 1997 |
REFERENCES
Available upon request.