CURRICULUM VITAE

JULÍAN OLIVARES, JR.

E-mail: jolivares@uh.edu

Courses | Professional Organizations| Fall 2003 Courses

 

For Collegium article, "Lost Voices," on prof. Olivares' research on women's poetry,

Goto www.uh.edu/collegium. Then click on "Past Issues", click on "Spring 2001",

and under "Articles" click on "Lost Voices."
 

Education:

• Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin, 1977

• M.A. The University of Texas at Austin, 1974

• B.A. California State College at Los Angeles, 1968

 

Appointments:

• Chairman, Modern & Classical Languages, University of Houston, 1994-98

• Professor of Spanish, Modern and Classical Languages, University of Houston, 1993-

• Faculty Administrative Intern, Senior Vice President and Provost/Associate Vice President for Faculty Affairs, University of Houston, 1993.

• Associate Professor, Hispanic & Classical Languages, University of Houston, 1986-93

• Visiting Scholar, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, The University of Texas at Austin, 1985- 86

• Assistant Professor, University of Houston, 1981-85

• Assistant Professor, Bridgewater State College, 1978-81

• Lecturer, University of Massachusetts at Boston, 1977-78

 

Grants, Prizes & Recognitions:

• National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Fellowship, 2000-01.

• National Endowment for the Humanities/National Archives Grant for Documentary Editing, University of Wisconsin, June-July, 1993.

• University of Houston President's Research and Scholarship Fund Grant, 1992-93.
  • For: Spanish Archival Research, Spanish Women Poets, 16th-18th centuries.

• Grant-to-Hispanists, Spanish Department of State, Ministry of Cultural Relations, July-August, 1992.
  • For: Spanish Archival Research, Spanish Women Poets, 16th-18th centuries.

• American Philosophical Society Grant, July-August, 1992.
  • For: Spanish Archival Research, Spanish Women Poets, 16th-18th centuries.

• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1989
  • For: Lírica femenina de los Siglos de Oro.

• Grant-to-Hispanists, Spanish Department of State, Ministry of Cultural Relations, May-August, 1988.
  • For: Archival Research, Anthology of Spanish Women Poets of 16th-17th Centuries.

• National Endowment for the Humanities, Travel Grant to Collections: University of California, Riverside, Tomás Rivera Archives, 1987.
  • For: Collected Works of Tomás Rivera.

• Citation of Achievement, Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines.
  • For: Editorial Excellence and Vision: Editor, The Americas Review.1987.

• Citation of Achievement, Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines.
  • For: Editorial Excellence and Vision: Editor, The Americas Review.1986.

• National Research Council/Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for Minorities, 1985-86.
  • For: Spanish Women Poets of the Golden Age.

• Listed in Contemporary Authors, Vol.118:358

• Listed in Contemporary Authors, New Revisions Series, Vol.42.

• Listed in Who's Who Among Hispanic Americans, 1991-92:275; 1992-93:483.

• University of Houston Advanced Research Program Award, 1985.
  • For: Research at Hispanic Society of America.

• National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend in Spanish Paleography, Newberry Library, Chicago, 1984.

• University of Houston Limited Grant-in-Aid: 1982, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1998.

• Distinguished Service Award, Teaching and Scholarship, Bridgewater State College, 1981. $1,000 award.

• Grant-in-Aid to Recent Recipients of the Ph.D.,American Council of Learned Societies,1979 For: The Love Poetry of Francisco de Quevedo

 

Scholarship:

.Books and Editions

• 'En desagravio de las damas':Studies on Women's Lyric Poetry of the Golden Age. Ed.Julián Olivares.Ashville NC:Pegasus Press/SUNY Binghamton(2004).

• 'En desagravio de las damas':Women's Lyric Poetry of the Golden Age. Eds. Julián Olivares & Elizabeth S. Boyce. Revised and expanded edition of Tras el espejo la musa escribe:Lírica femenina de los Siglos de Oro.Ashville NC:Pegasus Press(2003-04)

• "...con triste canto."Golden Age Studies in Memory of Daniel L.Heiple. Ed.Julián Olivares. Special issue of Calíope 6.2-1(2000).

• María de Zayas y Sotomayor, Novelas amorosas y ejemplares. Edición crítica de Julián Olivares. Madrid: Catedra, 2000."Introducción":11-147.

• La poesía amorosa de Francisco de Quevedo: Estudio estético y existencial. Madrid: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 1995.

• Tras el espejo la musa escribe: Lírica femenina de los Siglos de Oro. Edición con estudio crítico y notas de Julián Olivares y Elizabeth S. Boyce. Madrid: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 1993.
• Reviewed in:ABC Cultural88 (1993);Reseña244(1993):28;Forum for Modern Language Studies30.3(1994):285;Hispanic Review 63.3(1995):461-63.Hispania,Calíope.

• Cuentos hispanos de los Estados Unidos. Edición, introducción y notas de Julián Olivares. Houston: Arte Público, 1993; rpt. 1994; 2nd. ed. 1998.
• Reviewed in:Hispania78.1(1995):84-85.

• Decade II: An Anniversary Anthology. Eds. Julián Olivares and Evangelina Vigil-Piñón. Houston: Arte Público, 1992. Vol. 20.3-4 of The Americas Review.

• Tomás Rivera: The Complete Works. Edited, with a critical introduction and notes by Julián Olivares. Houston: Arte Público, 1991; 2nd. edition, 1995.
• Reviewed in:The Texas Observer(July 16, 1993):20-21;Hispania76.4(December,1993):741; Review of Texas Books7.3(Fall, 1992): 1.

• The Searchers: Collected Poetry, by Tomás Rivera. Edited, with a critical introduction and notes by Julián Olivares. Houston: Arte Público, 1990.
• Reviewed in:The Texas Observer, Review of Texas Books.

• The Harvest, Short Stories, by Tomás Rivera/La cosecha, cuentos de Tomás Rivera. Bilingual Edition, translated, edited and with a critical introduction by Julián Olivares. Houston: Arte Público, 1989.
• Reviewed in:Western American Literature 25.1(1990):74;Texas Books in Review9.4(1989):10; Confluencia5.1 (1989):147-48;Review of Texas Books(Winter 1990);Before Columbus Review 1.2-3(1989):18;Books of the Southwest 371 (Oct.1989):18;The Texas Observer(Oct.13, 1989):15;Mexico Journal2.43(Aug. 7,1989):27-28;The Hispanic Journal10.1(1989);The Bilingual Review 17 (1992):279-84.

• International Studies in Honor of Tomás Rivera. Ed. Julián Olivares. Houston: Arte Público, 1985.

• Reviewed in: Hispania 71.2 (1988): 309-10.

• The Love Poetry of Francisco de Quevedo: an Aesthetic and Existential Study. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1983.
• Reviewed in: London Times Literary Supplement4228(April 13,1984):399;London Times Higher Education Supplement(July 29,1983):Choice21.4(Dec.1983):579;Forum on Modern Language Studies 20.2(1984):190-91; Modern Language Notes102.2(1987):402-03;Vida Hispánica35.2(1985):40;Hispania67.2(1984):305-06; Hispanic Review53.2(1985):242-44;Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance47 (1985):205-06;Journal of Hispanic Philogy8.2(1984):168-70;Bulletin of Hispanic Studies62.4(1985):396-97;Modern Language Review81.2(1986):513-16.

 

.Articles

• "A Case for a Fourth State of Herrera's Anotaciones,and the Case of the Spurious License."Studies in Honor of James O. Crosby.Juan de la Cuesta,2003.
• "Vir melancholicus/Femina tristis: Towards a Poetics of Women's Loss.""...con triste canto."Golden Age Studies in Memory of Daniel L.Heiple.Ed.Julián Olivares. Special issue ofCalíope6.2-1(2000):263-94" Calíope 6.1-2 (2000): 263-94.
• "Sandra Cisneros: The House on Mango Street and the Poetics of Space." Charting New Frontiers in American Literature: Chicana Creativity and Criticism. U of New Mexico P, 1996. Rpt.
• "Entering The House on Mango Street." Teaching Ethnic American Literature. Eds. John Maitino and David Peck. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1996. 209-35.
• "In Her Image: Christ and the Female Body in Women's Religious Poetry of the Golden Age." Calíope 1.1-2 (1995): 111-33.
• "Sor Violante del Cielo (y de la Tierra) and the Subversion of Amorous Lyrical Discourse." Estudios en homenaje a Ricardo Gullón. Ed. Adelaida Martínez. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P 1995. 189-201.
• "'Soy un fue, y un será, y un es cansado': Text and Context. Hispanic Review 63.3 (1995): 387- 410.
• "The Theme of Death in Quevedo's Love Poetry." Excerpt from The Love Poetry of Francisco de Quevedo: an Aesthetic and Existential Study (Chap. 5), in "Quevedo,"Literature Criticism From 1400 to 1800, Vol. 23. Eds. James E. Person, Jr. & Zoran Miderovic. Detroit: Gale Research, 1994. 190-94.
• "El sueño en la poesía amorosa de Quevedo." Selected pages translated from The Love Poetry of Francisco de Quevedo, in: Historia y Crítica de la Literatura Española, Vol. 3, Siglos de Oro: Barroco (Suplemento). Ed. Aurora Egido (1992): 338-44.
• "Towards the Penitential Verse of Quevedo's Heráclito cristiano." Forum for Modern Language Studies (University of St. Andrews/Oxford University) 28.3 (July 1992): 251-67.
• "The Russell Lee Collection of 'Spanish-Speaking People in Texas Study'," a photo essay. The Americas Review 19.3-4 (1991): 17-18+.
• "Era muy llorón," de Tomás Rivera; posthumous publication of an autograph manuscript, transcribed and edited by Julián Olivares. The Americas Review 19.2 (1991): 36.
• "'La cosecha' y 'Zoo Island' de Tomás Rivera: Apuntes hacia la formación de . . . y no se lo tragó la tierra." Hispania 74.1 (March, 1991): 57-65.
• "Aldana, Quevedo and la paga del mundo." Hispanic Jourrnal 11.2 (1990): 57-70.
• "Los índices primitivos de . . . y no se lo tragó la tierra de Tomás Rivera y cuatro estampas inéditas." Crítica, a Jourrnal of Critical Essays 2.2 UCSD, 1990): 208-22.
• "The Streets of Gary Soto." Latin American Literary Review 18 (1990): 32-49.
• "The Expression of Community in Chicano Literature." Hispanorama (Universität Bamberg, Germany) 54 (1990): 16-21. [Denise Chávez, Tomás Rivera, Rolando Hinojosa]
• "Dos cuentos inéditos de Tomás Rivera." Culturas hispanas en los Estados Unidos de América, Tercer Congreso Internacional: Hacia la nueva síntesis. Ed. María Jesús Buxó Rey & Tomás Calvo Buezas. Madrid: ICI, 1990. 501-10.
• "Contrition and Attrition in the Penitential Verse of Quevedo's Heráclito cristiano."Ensayos de Literatura Europea e Hispanoamericana.Ed.Félix Menchacatorre. San Sebastián del País Vasco, 1990.359-66.
• "Tino Villanueva." Dictionary of Literary Biography:Chicano Writers. Detroit:Gale Research,1989.275-81.
• "Latinos en Alemania y Catalunya."The Americas Review17.2(1989):9-10(editorial).
• "Autobiographical Disclosures:Tino Villanueva Intervieews Anthony Quinn. U.S Hispanic Autobiography(The Americas Review 16.3-4,1988):108-35.Interview in collaboration with Tino Villanueva.
• "Two Chicano Verse Chronicles."U.S Hispanic Autobiography(The Americas Review 16.3-4,1988):206-23.
• Reviewed in:Hispania73.2(1990):428-29.
• "Five Poems by Miguel Piñero,"transcribed and edited by Julián Olivares. U.S Hispanic Autobiography(The Americas Review16.3-4,1988):31-37.
• "Sandra Cineros:The House on Mango Streetthe Poetics of Space." Charting New Frontiers in American Literature:Chicana Creativity and Criticism.Houston & Irvine:Arte Público/U of California, 1988.160-69
• "Latinos at PEN and Paris:The U.S Hispanic Esthetic."The Americas Review 14.3-4(1986):8-10(editorial).
• "A Decade Later: Self and Society in Tino Villanueva's Shaking Off The Dark." Confluencia,Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura 1.2 (1986):98-110.
• "Introduction," and "The Search for Being, Identity and Form in the Work of Tomás Rivera."International Studies in Honor of Tomás Rivera.Ed.Julián Olivares. Houston: Arte Público,1986. 7-14,66-80.
• "La búsqueda de la identidad, el ser y la forma en...y no se lo tragó la tierrade Tomás Rivera.La Chispa' 85, Selected Proceedings, The Sixth Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures,Tulane University:275-84.
• "Introduction,"Shaking Off The Dark by Tino Villanueva.Houston: Arte Público, 1984.i-ix.
• "Levity and Gravity: the Interpretation of the Ludic Element in Quevedo's 'Communación de amor invisible por los ojos' and Donne's 'The Extasie'.Neophilologus(Amsterdam),68.4(1984):534-45.
• "Seeing and Becoming: Evangelina Vigil,Thirty an' Seen a Lot.." The Chicago Struggle, Analyses of Past and Present Efforts. Binghampton,NY : Bilingual,1984.152-65
• "Love,Death and Wit in a Sonnet of Quevedo."Revista de estudios hispánicos 13.3(1979):419-28.
• "el pasadizo que hay de un cuerpo a otro':¿amor purus o amor mixtus en un poema de Quevedo?" Explicación de textos literarios7.2(1978):177-84.-

 

.Reviews

• Aguilar,Ricardo,ed.Cuento chicano del siglo XX,Breve antología. México: UNAM-Coyoacán/New Mexico State University,1993.304 pp.Hispania 78.1(1995):79-81.
• Lía Schwartz Lerner,Quevedo:Discurso y Representación. Pamplona: Universidad de Navarra,1986.Journal of Hispanic Philology12.2(1988):165-67.
• "Hispanic Art of the United States: Thirty Contemporary Painters and Sculptors."The America's Review15.2(1987):7-10.
• Ignacio Arellano Ayusa,Poesía satírico burlesca de Quevedo. Pamplona: Universidad de Navarra,1984.Hispanic Review54.3(1986):338-40.
• Daniel L.Heiple,Mechanical Imagery in Spanish Golden Age Poetry. Madrid: José Porrúa,1983.Modern Language Notes 101.2(1986):437-40.
• Fray Luis de León,Poesías. Estudio, texto crítico, bibliografía y comentario de Oreste Macrí.Barcelona: Crítica, 1978.Hispanic Review 53(1985):98-100.
• Maxime Chevalier,Folklore y literatura: el cuento oral en la literatura del Siglo de Oro. Barcelona:Crítica,1978Hispania63.3(1980):606.

 

.Creative Collaboration

• Toby Olson,The Woman Who Escaped From Shame(New York: Random,1986).
A good deal of the novel is set in Mexico, and I translated into Spanish various passages throughout the novel.In a number of cases, Olson gave me the guidelines(situation, mood, characters,etc.)around which he wanted a section in Spanish.Toby Olson is the winner of the PEN/Faulker Award for Best American Fiction,1982.

 

Scholarly Addresses:

.Invited Lectures

• "Hacia una poética del sentimiento femenino de pérdida." University of Sevilla (Jan.10,2001),University of Córdoba (Jan.11,2001).
• "Historia editorial de las Novelas amorosas y ejemplares,de María de Zayas y Sotomayor." Universidade de Santigo, junio de 1999.
• "In her image:Christ and the Female Body in Women's Religious Poetry of the Golden Age."Keynote address, Spanish and Italian Colloquium, University of Victoria, Oct.28-29,1994.
• "Recent Trends in U.S Hispanic Literature." Universität Mainz-Germersheim, June 3,1988.
• "The Establishment of Community in Chicano Literature." Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, June 1, 1988.
• "Zoo Island' by Tomás Rivera."Universität Nürnberg-Erlang,May 31, 1988 .
• "The Harvest' by Tomás Rivera." German-American Institute, Heidelberg, May 30,1988.
• "Social Protest in Two Unpublished Short Stories by Tomás Rivera." German-Association of American Studies Conference,Universität Regensberg, May 24-27,1988 .
• "Sandra Cisneros:The house on Mango Street and the Poetics of Space."Conference on Charting New Frontiers in American Literature: Chicana Creativity and Criticism, University of California-Irvine, April,1987.
• "The Expression of Community in Mexican American Literature."Second Annual Martín de León Symposium on the Humanities. University of Houston- Victoria, April,1988.
• "Bearing History: U.S. Hispanic Literature."Great Midwestern Book Fair, St.Paul-Minneapolis, October 24,1986.
• "Working Inside and Outside the Canon: The Politics of Culture." Institute of Latin American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, May 1, 1986.

.International Conferences

• "Los coloquios espirituales de María de la Antigua" Conference of the Asociación de Escritoras de España y de las Américas. Portland State University, October,2002.
• "Cecilia del Nacimiento and María de San Alberto:The problem of female mysticism." 4Th Biennial Conference of the Society for Renaissance & Baroque Hispanic Poetry.Ohio State University, October,2001.
• "Las Anotaciones de Herrera:Un cuarto estado y el caso de la licencia apócrifa." Congreso de la Asociación International de Hispanistas, New York,julio de 2001.
• "Hacia ua historia editorial de las Novelas amorosas y ejemplares,de María de Zayas y Sotomayor." Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, Madrid, julio de 1988.
• "Los salmos penitenciales del Heráclito cristiano de Quevedo." Conference on Basque, French and Spanish Literatures, June 22-25, 1988, San Sebastián, Spain
• "'La cosecha' y 'Zoo Island' de Tomás Rivera: Apuntes hacia la formación de...y no se lo tragó la tierra." Tercer Congresso Internacional de la Expresión Cultural de los Hispanos de Los Estados Unidos, Barcelona/Torredembarra, June 7-10,1988.
• "'Soy un fue, y un será, y un es cansado': Text and Context." American Association od Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Madris, August 9-12,1986.
• "The Streets of Gary Soto." Conference of Expressions Culturelles des Hispaniques aux EtatsUnis," The University of Paris, March 12-14,1986.

.National Conferences

• "Cecial del Nacimiento and Sor Maria de San Alberto:Problems of Female Mysticism(?)."5th Biennial Conference Conference of the Society for Renaissance & Baroque Hispanic Poetry. Ohio State University,October,2001.
• "La poesía intercalada en las Novelas amorosas y ejemplares,de María de Zayas y Sotomayor." 4th Biennial Conference of the Society for Renaissance & Baroque Hispanic Poetry.University of California,Davia,October 1999.
• "Prete Jacopín authorizes publication of the Obras de Garci Lasso de la Vega,con anotaciones de Fernando de Herrera: ¿bromas o veras? 3rd Biennial Conference of the Society for Renaissance & Baroque Hispanic Poetry.University of Rochester, Oct. 16-18, 1997
• "Towards an edition of the Novelas amorosas y ejemplares by María de Zayas y Sotomayor." Conference of Writing Women of the Golden Age and Colonial Periods.Texas Tech University, Oct.10-12, 1996
• "Vir melancholicus, Femina tristis':Towards a Poetics of Women's Loss." 2nd Biennal Conference of the Society of Renaissance & Baroque Hispanic Poetry. University of Houston, Nov.16-18,1995.
• "Mi alma en tu llaga": Christ and the Female Body." Conference of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic POetry,Texas Tech University,November,1993.
• "Sor Violante del Cielo(y de la Tierra) and the Subversion of Amorous Lyrical Discourse." Lousiana COnference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Tulane University,February 1993.
• "Behind the Mirror the Muse Writes:Notes on Spanish Female Love Lyrics of the Golden Age." Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Lousiana State University, February 1990.
• "Los índices primitivos de...y no se lo tragó la tierra." National Association of Chicano Studies, Los Angeles, April, 1989.
• "Aldana, Quevedo andla paga del mundo."Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Louisiana State University,February,1988.
• "Residencia en la tierra':Quevedo's Secularization of Moral and Religious Lyrics."University of Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures,May 15-17,1985.
• "Fiesta of the Living:The Recuperation of the Past and the Search for Identity in the Poetry of Tomás Rivera".National Association of Chicano Studies, Sacramento,March 21-23,1985.
• "La búsqueda del ser,la identidad y la forma en la obra de Tomás Rivera".Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Langauges and Literatures, Tulane University, February,1985
• "The Chicana in the Text." National Association of Chicano Studies, The University of Texas, April,1984.
• "A Decade Later:Self and Society in Tino Villanueva's Shaking Off The Dark.".American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese,Boston,August,1983
• "Seeing and Becoming:Evangelina Vigil,Thirty an' Seen a Lot."National Association of Chicano Studies, Eastern Michigan University, April,1983.
• "The peregrino de amor in the love Sonnets of Quevedo." Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Tulane University,February,1983.
• "Point of View and Reader Response to the Ludic Element in Quevedo's 'Communicación de amor invisible por ojos' and Donne's "The Extasie'." Comparative Literature Circle,Florida State University,January,1982.

.Regional Conferences

• "Texas Literature:Boom or Bust." Panelist, Houston Poetry Festival, October 17,1986
• "Contrition and Attrition in the Penitential Verse of Quevedo's Heráclito cristiano." South Central Modern Language Association, New Orleans, November 1,1986
• "The Aesthetics of Politics:The 'Conflictive Attitude' in Tino Villanueva's 'History I Must Wake To'." Southwest Council of Latin American Studies, Pan American University, March,1984.
• "United States and Mexican Relations as Seen Through Culture and Literature."Respondent, National Association of Chicano Studies, Regional Meeting, University of Houston, February,1982.
• "Two Centuries of Hispanic Theater in th Southwest." Panelist, Houston Public Library, February, 1982.

Editorships

• Editor,Calíope,The Journal of the Society for Renaissance & Baroque Hispanic Poetry.1995-.
• Senior Editor,The Americas Review, A Review of Hispanic Literature and Art of the USA(formerly Revista Chicano-Riqueñã)University of Houston,1983-93.
• Citations of Achievement, Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines.For:Editorial Excellence and Vision:Editor,The Americas Review1986.
• Citation of Achievement, Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines.For:Editorial Excellence and Vision:Editor,The Americas Review.1986.
• Senior Editor,Arte Público Press,University of Houston,1983-93.
I was the editor of numerous creative works,including books by Ana Castillo,Lorna Dee Cervantes,Denise Chávez,Judith Ortiz Cofer,Pat Mora, Alejandro Morales, Joe Rodríguez, Luis Omar Salina, Gary Soto, Tino Villanueva, Juan Bruce Novoa.
• Board of Editorial Advisors,Project for the Recovery of the U.S Hispanic Literary Heritage,1989-93.
• General Editor, U.S Hispanic Literary Heritage Series,1989-93.

Professional Service

• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Evaluation Commitee in Romance Languages & Literatures,2000.
• Chairman,Literature Panel,Texas Commission on the Arts,1989-90
• Judge,Houston Poetry Festival,1986,1990.
• Humanities Panel,Cultural Arts Council of Houston,1989-90.
• Consultant,...and the earth did not part ,a screenplay,KPBS TV, San Diego, CA,1989-93.To be telecast nationally on PBS,American Playhouse.
• Organizer and Judge,"Being Hispanic in Houston." Essay contest sponsored by The Friends of the Houston Public Library, Sears-Roebuck,The Asian American Bank,The Houston Post, 1988.
• Organizer and Judge,"Being Hispanic in Houston."Essay contest sponsored by the Friends of the Houston Public Library,Arte Público Press, The Houston Post,1987.
• Grants Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities,1988-.
• Board Member, Friends of the Houston Public Library,1986-1994.
• Consultant,Newberry Library,Workbook on Spanish Palepgraphy,1987.
• Consultant and Instructor, Houston Independent School District Bilingual Certification Endorsement,1984-85.
• Preparation of video instruction of techniqes of Intensive Language Instruction, Division IV Educational System,1984.
• Intensive Language Acquisition,U.S Army Special Forces School(Green Berets),Fort Devins,MA,1984.
• Member,Organizing Committe,Quadricentennial Celebration of the Birth of Francisco de Quevedo,1580-1980,an International Symposium,Boston University,October 16-18,1980.

Department(Modern & Classical Languages)

• Director,Summer Study Abroad-Salamanca,2001.
• Director,Summer Study Abroad-Salamanca,1999.
• Chairman,1994-98.
• Vice Chairman,1988-92.
• Chairman's Advisory Council,1988-92.
• Chairman,Travel Committee,1988-.
• Graduate Studies Committe,1986-.
• Undergraduate Advisor,1987-92.
• Personnel Committee(various times,including Committe Chair)
• Chair,Faculty Search Committe,1989-90;1993-94.

College

• College Personnel Committee,2000-002.
• Chair,College Personnel Committe,1999-2000
• College Faculty Council,1989-91.
• Faculty Development Leave Committe,1987,1991,1992.
• Undergraduate Studies Committe,1987-91.
  Graduate Studies Committe,1992.
• NEH Summer Stipend Committe,1988.

University

• Esther Farfel Award Committee, Chair,1996.
• Esther Farfel Award Committee, Chair,1995.
• Faculty Senate,1992-94.
Faculty Affairs Committe,1992-94
Committe on Committees,1993-94
• Limited Grants-in-Aid Committe,1989-91.
• Department of Modern & Classical Languages
  University of Houston
  Houston,TX 77204-3784
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