The University of Scranton
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Office: 316 O'Hara Hall
Phone: (570) 941-7447
Office Hours: MWF 11:00am -- 12:00pm
Tuesday 3:30pm -- 4:20pm
Or by appointment. I am often in my office in late afternoon hours.
| Academic History | Articles published |
| Courses taught | Links |
| Interests/Hobbies | Guadalajara Study Travel/Tour |
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.
"Language, Literature, and Curriculum Revision in the 1980's." Foreign Language Annals 18.3 (May 1985): 21 3-218."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.
A range of Spanish language courses, elementary (101- 102), intermediate (211-212), Advanced Conversation and Composition (311-312), and Advanced Stylistics (321).
Upper-division courses taught include:
Latin American Network Information Center http://lanic.utexas.edu/
Latin American Studies Concentration, University of Scranton http://matrix.scranton.edu/academics/ac_pgm_latiname rican_studies.shtml
Website for students in Spanish http://www.spanish.sbc.edu/
Spanish Resources http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/spanish.html
LaOlla Latinoamericana (Food and Recipes from Latin America) http://www2.planeta.com/mader/ecotravel/recipes/recipes.htm
Human Rights page.Option for viewing in either Spanish or English. http://www.derechos.org/index.html
El Mundo, an important Spanish newspaper http://www.elmundo.es/
Newspaper from Medellín, Colombia http://www.elcolombiano.com/Portada.asp?NM=inicio
Colombia's most important newspaper http://www.elespectador.com/
Web Page for Guadalajara, Mexico http://www.allaboutguadalajara.com/allaboutguadalajarasp an.htm
Caracol, a major chain of Colombian radio stations http://www.caracol.com.co/
A general and special interest magazine on Mexico. In English. http://www.mexconnect.com/
An excellent Mexican search engine http://www.yellow.com.mx/