CURRICULUM VITAE
Anita M. Hart
PERSONAL DATA
Date of Birth: June 2, 1948
Place of Birth: Laurens, South Carolina
Address and telephone:
(Office) Department of Modern Languages
University of Nebraska at Kearney
Kearney, NE 68849-1310
(308) 865-8536
(Home) 4615 Linden Dr.
Kearney, NE 68847
(308) 237-4853
EDUCATION
Ph.D. 1986, The Florida State University (Spanish)
Dissertation: “José Angel Valente’s Search for Poetic
Expression.” Director: Judith Nantell
M.A.T. 1971, The University of Florida (Spanish)
B.A., summa cum laude 1970, Furman University, Greenville, S.C. (Spanish)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Present Position
Professor of Spanish, Department of Modern Languages, University of Nebraska at Kearney, 1998-present. Associate Professor, 1996-1998. Department Chair, 1996-2001. Designated Graduate College Faculty Fellow of the University of Nebraska, 1997.
Former Position
Associate Professor of Spanish, Department of Foreign Languages, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 1993-1996; Assistant Professor, 1987-1993. Designated Graduate Faculty, 1991.
Main Fields of Teaching and Research
Twentieth Century Spanish Literature
Spanish and Latin American Women Writers
Contemporary Spanish Poetry
Spanish Language
PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH
Journal articles and book chapters published (asterisks indicate invited)
*“Old Photographs, New Views: Interpretation and Creation in Atencia’s A orillasdel
Ems.” Contemporary Spanish Poetry: The Word and the World. Eds. Cecile West-
Settle and Sylvia Sherno. Madison and Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University
Press, 2005. 123-42. (invited and refereed)
*“Julia Uceda y su proceso de transformación: un diálogo con la psique.” Julia Uceda,
conversación entre la memoria y el sueno. Eds. Luisa Mulet, Sara Paco y Sara Pujol
Russell. Ferrol, Spain: La barca de loto, 2004. 119-32.
*“La locura y la creatividad: Clara Janés recrea la experiencia de Leonora Carrington.”
Salina 18 (November 2004): 243-47.
“El deseo de posibilidades ilimitadas en la poesía reciente de Clara Janés.” Alaluz:
Revista de poesía, narración y ensayo 33.1-2 (Spring-Fall 2001): 26-35.
“Multiplicidad de diálogos en Al dios del lugar de Valente.” Trans. Francisco Palazón
Guillamón and Anita M. Hart. MOENIA: Revista Lucense de Lingüística & Literatura 6
(2000): 127-42.
“Discovering Self and Other in Pallarés’s Caravanserai.” RevistaHispánica Moderna
51.2 (December 1998): 441-54.
“Conciencia, conexión, creación: la poesía de María Sanz.” Modalidades de
representación del sujeto femenino auto/bio/gráfico. Eds. Magdalena Maiz and Luis
H. Peña. San Nicolás de la Garza, México: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León,
1997. 143-55.
“The Process of a Solitary Self in Julia Uceda’s Poetry.” Explicación de Textos
Literarios 24.1-2 (1995-96): 65-80.
*“Amparo Amorós’s Creative Vision.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 29.2 (May
1995): 313-33. (invited and refereed)
“The Relational Self in Almudena Guzmán’s Dialogic Poetry.” Rocky Mountain Review
of Language and Literature 48.2 (1994): 143-60.
“Poetry and Language: Intertextuality in the Works of José Angel Valente.”
Intertextuality in Literature and Film: Selected Papers from the 13thFloridaState
University Conference on Literature and Film. Eds. Elaine D. Cancalon
and Antoine Spacagna. Gainesville: U of Florida P, 1994. 75-91.
“Poetry and Philosophy: Amparo Amorós and María Zambrano.” Anales de la Literatura
Española Contemporánea 18.1-2 (1993): 211-23.
“Multiple Dialogues in Valente’s Al dios del lugar.” The Journal of Interdisciplinary
Literary Studies / Cuadernos Interdisciplinarios de Estudios Literarios 4.1 (1992):
117-38.
“A Space of One’s Own: Mexican Poets Kyra Galván and Perla Schwartz.”
Confluencia: Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura8.1 (Fall 1992): 79-89.
(co-authored with Bruce S. Gartner)
“Dialogic Discourse in José Angel Valente’s El fulgor.” Letras Peninsulares 5.2 (Fall
1992): 273-89.
“José Angel Valente: Poetry of Illumination and Unification.” Hispanófila 105 (May
(1992): 13-31.
“Amparo Amorós: Challenging and Reaffirming Time.” Monographic Review / Revista
Monográfica 6 (1990): 170-82.
“The Poet in José Angel Valente’s Metapoetic Texts.” Hispanic Journal 11.2 (Fall
1990): 119-36.
Article accepted for publication
“Self as Process.” Invited essay for a collection of essays by women Hispanists, edited
by Brenda Cappuccio.
Review articles
Review of Las palabras de la tribu (1994 edition), by José Angel Valente. Letras
Peninsulares 11.2 (Fall 1998): 697-700.
Review of The Poetry of Francisco Brines: The Deconstructive Effects of Language, by
Judith Nantell. Studies in Twentieth Century Literature 21.2 (1997): 522-24.
“When Night Is Luminous.” Review of Poetry and Contemplation inSt. Johnof the
Cross, by George H. Tavard. Cross Currents 38.4 (Winter 1988-89): 493-96.
Other work accepted for publication
Two syllabi from my course “Hispanic Women Writers - Twentieth Century” and commentary on the course will appear in Approaches to and Resources for Teaching Hispanic Women’s Studies, edited by Linda Fox. A Curriculum and Instructional Development Grant from UNC Charlotte provided funding for the research required to develop the course.
PARTICIPATION IN PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
Papers Presented
“Transdisciplinary Vision: Traces of Science and Mysticism in Janés’s Recent Poetry.”
Philological Association of the Carolinas. Rock Hill, South Carolina. March 2006.
“Attention and Consciousness in Ana María Fagundo’s Trasterrado marzo.” Philological
Association of the Carolinas. Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. March 2005.
“Julia Uceda: Poetry of Dreams and Voices.” Philological Association of the Carolinas.
Charlotte, North Carolina. March 2004.
“The Poetry of Clara Janés: Exploring Interconnectedness.” Mountain Interstate
Foreign Language Conference. Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina.
October 2002.
“Vision and Connection: Clara Janés’s Poetry, 1998-2002.” Mid-America
Conference on Hispanic Literature. Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis,
Missouri. September 2002.
“Madness and Creativity: Clara Janés’s Poem for Leonora Carrington.” Blue
Ridge International Conference on the Humanities and the Arts, Appalachian State
University, Boone, North Carolina. April 2002.
“Transitions: Visions of the Self in Atencia’s Recent Poetry.” Mountain Interstate
Foreign Language Conference. University of North Carolina at Wilmington,
Wilmington, NC. October 2001.
“Interacting with Past Reality: Atencia’s A orillasdelEms.” Blue Ridge International
Conference on the Humanities and the Arts.” Appalachian State University, Boone,
NC. April 2001.
“Atencia’s A orillasdelEms: Linking Poetry and Photography, Past and Present, Other
and Self.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Santa Fe, New Mexico,
October 1999.
“El deseo de posibilidades ilimitadas en Ver el fuego de Clara Janés.” Asociación de
Literatura Femenina Hispánica, Querétaro, México, September 1999.
“The Play of the Visible and the Invisible in Clara Janés’s Recent Poetry.” Kentucky
Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April 1998.
“Between ‘fruta’ and ‘olvido’: Writing the Process of the Self in Atencia’s Poetry.”
International Conference of the Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica, Emory
University, Atlanta, Georgia, October 1997.
“Poetic Knowledge: Connections Between Atencia's Poetry and Zambrano's Philosophy.”
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico,
October 1996.
“Nature, Music, and Self in Amparo Amorós's Arboles en la música.” Mid-America
Conference on Hispanic Literature, Lincoln, Nebraska, September 1996.
“The Feminine Self in Kyra Galván's Poetry.” Conference on Ibero-American Culture
and Society: Latin American Women Writers, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February
1996.
“Through a Woman's Eyes: Clara Janés's Vision of Connection and Wholeness.” The
Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film, Tallahassee, Florida,
January 1996.
“Clara Janés's Lapidario: Powerful Beauty in Stones and Words.” The Wichita State
University International Conference on Foreign Literature: Continental, Latin
American, and Francophone Women Writers, Wichita, Kansas, April 1995.
“Consciousness, Connection, Creation: Woman and Nature in María Sanz's Poetry.”
International Conference of the Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica,
Davidson College, North Carolina, October 1994.
“Encounter with Otherness in Pallarés's Caravanserai.” Mid-America Conference on
Hispanic Literature (An International Symposium), Lawrence, Kansas, September
1994.
“Writing and Seeing Anew: Poems by María del Carmen Pallarés.” Philological
Association of the Pacific Coast, Seattle, Washington, November 1993.
“Quantum Physics, the Observer, and Spanish Women Poets.” Rocky Mountain Modern
Language Association, Denver, Colorado, October 1993.
“Amorós, Iglesias, and Rubio: Poems Dedicated to María Zambrano.” The Wichita State
University International Conference on Foreign Literature: Continental, Latin
American, and Francophone Women Writers, Wichita, Kansas, April 1993.
“Observation and Transformation in the Poetry of Amparo Amorós: Connections with
Quantum Physics.” Philological Association of the Carolinas, Elon College, North
Carolina, March 1993.
“Poetry as Revelation: Recent Poems by Amparo Amorós.” Rocky Mountain Modern
Language Association, Ogden, Utah, October 1992.
“Dialogue and Memory in Almudena Guzmán's El libro de Tamar.” The Wichita State
University International Conference on Foreign Literature: Continental, Latin
American, and Francophone Women Writers, Wichita, Kansas, April 1992.
“Multiple Visions of the Self in the Poetry of Kyra Galván.” The Florida State University
Conference on Literature and Film, Tallahassee, Florida, February 1992.
“Dialogic Discourse in the Poetry of Amalia Iglesias and Almudena Guzmán.” Rocky
Mountain Modern Language Association, Tempe, Arizona, October 1991.
“Spanish Women Poets: Naming Self and World.” The Wichita State University
Conference on Foreign Literature: Continental, Latin American, and Francophone
Women Writers, Wichita, Kansas, April 1991.
“Solitude and Words: Two Spanish Women Poets.” Kentucky Foreign Language
Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April 1991.
“Multiple Dialogues in Valente's Al dios del lugar.” Modern Language Association,
Chicago, Illinois, December 1990.
“Spanish Women Poets: Naming Their Worlds.” Philological Association of the
Carolinas, Charlotte, North Carolina, March 1991.
“Poetry and Philosophy: Amparo Amorós and María Zambrano.” The Wichita State
University Conference on Foreign Literature: Continental, Latin American, and
Francophone Women Writers, Wichita, Kansas, April 1990.
“Dialogic Discourse in José Angel Valente's El fulgor.” Kentucky Foreign Language
Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April 1990.
“Poetry and Destiny in the Works of Amparo Amorós.” Philological Association of the
Carolinas, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, March 1990.
“The Poet in José Angel Valente's Metapoetic Texts.” Kentucky Foreign Language
Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April 1989.
“José Angel Valente: The Poet as Outsider.” International Conference on the Outsider,
Atlanta, Georgia, October 1988.
“José Angel Valente's Poetry of Exile.” The Florida State University Conference on
Literature and Film, Tallahassee, Florida, January 1989.
“José Angel Valente: Poetry of Illumination and Unification.” Mountain Interstate
Foreign Language Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee, October 1988.
“Poetry and Language: Intertextuality in the Works of José Angel Valente.” The Florida
State University Conference on Literature and Film, Tallahassee, Florida, January
1988.
Organization of conference sessions
“Spanish Poetry: Interactions and Creative Responses.” Philological Association of the
Carolinas. Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina. March 2006.
“Awareness and Creativity: The Poetry of Ana María Fagundo.” Philological
Association of the Carolinas. Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. March 2005.
“Spanish Women Writers: Vision, Voice, Cognition.” Blue Ridge International
Conference on the Humanities and the Arts, Appalachian State University, Boone,
North Carolina, April 2002.
“Three Spanish Women Poets of the Twentieth Century: Images, Viewpoints, Identities.”
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Santa Fe, New Mexico, October
1999.
“New Directions in Contemporary Spanish Poetry.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language
Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 1996.
“Three Contemporary Spanish Women Poets.” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic
Literature, Lawrence, Kansas, September 1994.
“Twentieth Century Hispanic Poetry: Special Session in Honor of Andrew P. Debicki”
(double session organized and moderated with Martha L. Miller). Philological
Association of the Carolinas, March 1993.
“Spanish Peninsular Literature.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association,
Denver, Colorado, October 1993.
“Twentieth Century Hispanic Poetry: Intertextuality / Intratextuality.” Philological
Association of the Carolinas, March 1992.
“Spanish Women Poets of the Twentieth Century.” Philological Association of the
Carolinas, March 1991.
“Contemporary Hispanic Women's Poetry.” Philological Association of the Carolinas,
March 1990.
Organization of conference
Philological Association of the Carolinas- Co-director of local arrangements, Charlotte,
North Carolina, March 1991.
Conferences attended
The Discovery of Poetry: A Symposium in Honor of Andrew P. Debicki. University of
Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, April 2002.
Association of Departments of Foreign Languages and Workshop for New Department
Chairs, Colorado Springs, Colorado, June 1997.
Association of Departments of Foreign Languages and Workshop for New Department
Chairs, Columbus, Ohio, June 1996.
AWARDS, GRANTS, HONORS
Honorary Member of the UNK Chapter of Phi Eta Sigma, National Honor Society.
Selected by students, 2005. Inducted, 2006.
UNK University Research and Creative Activity Grant. “Vision, Connection, Creation:
Contemporary Spanish Women Poets,” 2002-2003. $2,748.
Program for Cultural Cooperation, Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and
Sports and United States Universities. “Vision, Connection, Creation:
Contemporary Spanish Women Poets,” 2003. $1,496.
UNK Profiles of Excellence, 1998 (one of 32 faculty chosen for recognition).
UNK University Research and Creative Activity Grant. “The Recent Poetry of María
Victoria Atencia: Writing Self and Other,” 1998-1999. $2,000.
UNCC Faculty Research Grant. “Connections: Atencia's Poetry and the Philosophy of
María Zambrano,” 1996. $4,100. (Funds returned to UNCC when I accepted a
position at UNK.)
UNCC Reassignment of Duties. Semester Research Leave. “New Directions: Spanish
Women Poets of the 1980s and 1990s,” 1994.
UNCC Curriculum and Instructional Development Grant. “Twentieth Century Hispanic
Women Writers in Translation,” 1993. $3,000.
UNCC Faculty Research Grant. “Contemporary Spanish Poets María del Carmen
Pallarés and María Sanz,” 1993. $3,000.
UNCC Faculty Research Grant. “Poetry by Spanish and Mexican Women Writers: The
Late 1980s,” 1992. $3,000.
UNCC Faculty Research Grant. “Women Poets: New Voices in Spain and Mexico,”
1991. $3,000.
UNCC Faculty Research Grant. “Al dios del lugar: José Angel Valente's Dialogic
Poetry,” 1990. $3,000.
National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar, “Critical Approaches to Twentieth
Century Hispanic Poetry,” Director Andrew P. Debicki, The University of Kansas.
Project: “Dialogic Discourse in José Angel Valente's El fulgor,” 1989. $2,750.
UNCC Faculty Research Grant. “José Angel Valente's El fulgor,” 1989. $3,120.
UNCC Faculty Research Grant. “The Recent Poetry of José Angel Valente: 1980-1984,”
1988. $3,114.
Sigma Delta Pi award to outstanding graduate student, Florida State University, 1983.
Dorothy L. Hoffman Spanish Scholarship, Florida State University, 1983.
Phi Kappa Phi, Florida State University, 1983.
Spanish Award, Furman University, 1970.
Hand and Torch, Honorary, Furman University, 1970.
Academic Scholarship, Furman University, 1966-1970.
TEACHING
Courses Taught at the University of Nebraska at Kearney
SPAN 102 Practical Spanish (Spanish for Law Enforcement)
SPAN 200 Intermediate Spanish I
SPAN 201 Intermediate Spanish II
SPAN 204 Culture, Conversation, and Writing
SPAN 306 Survey of Spanish Literature I
SPAN 307 Survey of Spanish Literature II
SPAN 357 Seminar on Women in Hispanic Literature
SPAN 425/825P Modern Hispanic Poetry
SPAN 470/870P Seminar in Spanish Literature: Twentieth Century
FORL 472/872P Foreign Language Pedagogy
Courses Taught at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
SPAN 1201 Elementary Spanish
SPAN 1202 Elementary Spanish
SPAN 2201 Intermediate Spanish
SPAN 2202 Intermediate Spanish
SPAN 3201 Advanced Grammar and Composition (Semester-in-Spain)
SPAN 3203 Introduction to Spanish Literature
SPAN 3212 Introduction to Spanish American Literature
SPAN 3019 Hispanic Women Writers in English Translation
SPAN 4050 Selected Readings: Hispanic Women Writers - Twentieth Century
SPAN 4050 Selected Readings: Spanish Literature 1940-1990 (with Dr. Martha L.
Miller)
SPAN 4050 Selected Readings: Spanish Post-War Literature and Society (with Dr.
Martha L. Miller)
Courses Developed at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
SPAN 3019 Hispanic Women Writers in English Translation
SPAN 4050 Selected Readings: Hispanic Women Writers - Twentieth Century
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION
Florida Teacher Certification in Spanish and German (Secondary 7-12 and Junior
College), 1976-1991.
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Berlitz Schools of Languages, Special Project, Tallahassee, Florida, Instructor of
English, 1987.
Florida State University, Teaching Assistant and Adjunct Instructor of Spanish,
1981-1985.
The University of Miami, Intensive English Program, Instructor of English, 1975-1976.
Francisco Baldor School, Miami, Florida, Teacher of English and Social Studies,
1974-1975.
Rolling Green Academy, Alachua, Florida, Teacher of Spanish, English, and German,
1971-1973.
University of Florida, Teaching Assistant, Spanish, 1970-1971.
SERVICE
University of Nebraska
Selection Committee, Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Awards, 1999-2000
(Chair), 1998-1999, 1997-1998.
Committee for Review of Degree Programs in German, 1998-1999.
University of Nebraska at Kearney
Graduate Council and Academic Programs Committee, 2006-2007, 2005-2006, 2004-
2005, 1998-1999, 1997-1998.
Senior Vice Chancellor’s Advisory Committee, 1998-1999, 1997-1998.
Graduate Faculty Representative for Program Review, Department of Biology, 1999.
Search Committee, Dean of Fine Arts and Humanities, 1997-1998.
Charter member, Phi Kappa Phi, 2002.
College of Fine Arts and Humanities
FAH Advisory Committee, 2004-2005, 2003-2004, Fall 2002.
Tenure and Promotion Committee, Department of Communications, Fall 2000.
Tenure and Promotion Committee, Philosophy Program, Fall 1997.
Tenure and Promotion Committee, Department of Journalism and Mass
Communications, Fall 1996.
Department of Modern Languages
Graduate Program Committee, 2006-2007, 2005-2006, 2004-2005, 2003-2004, 2002-
2003, 2001-2002, 2000-2001, 1999-2000, 1998-1999, 1997-1998, 1996-1997.
Curriculum Committee, 2001-2002.
Committee on Guidelines for Faculty Evaluation, 1998-1999, 1997-1998, 1996-1997.
Committee on Assessment of Student Achievement, 1998-1999, 1997-1998, 1996-1997.
Language Laboratory / Language Learning Center (Renovation), 1996-1997.
Curriculum committee, 2002-2003, 2001-2002.
Alpha Mu Gamma, Co-sponsor, 2006-2007, 2005-2006, 2004-2005
Chair, Promotion Committee, 2002.
Member, Promotion Committee, 2002.
Chair, Tenure and Promotion Committee, 2005.
Member, Tenure Committee, 2006.
Chair, Search Committee, 2006-2007 (sharing duties with Dr. Herbert Craig)
Profession
Outside reviewer for two promotion cases (to the rank of Professor), 2003, 2002.
Nebraska Department of Education, Foreign Language Frameworks Articulation
Committee (communication between universities and public schools), 1997-1998,
1996-1997.
Community
Planting and maintenance of a garden for a non-profit organization (with Barton Willis,
May - October, 2003-2006)
Assistant instructor for a class of T’ai Chi for Movement Improvement, Healthy
Lifestyles, Good Samaritan Hospital, 2006.
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
University
Faculty Council, 1994-1995, 1992-1993, 1991-1992.
Phi Kappa Phi Nominating Committee, 1995.
College of Arts and Sciences Council, Alternate, 1995-1996.
International Studies Curriculum Study Group, 1991.
Sigma Delta Pi, National Spanish Honor Society. Established Rho Sigma Chapter at
UNC Charlotte, 1989.
Department
Employment Status Review Committee, 1995-1996, 1994-1995, 1993-1994, 1991-1992,
1989-1990, 1988-1989.
Self-Study Committee for the Department of Foreign Languages, 1995-1996.
M.A. Committee, 1994-1995.
Sigma Delta Pi, National Spanish Honor Society, Faculty Sponsor 1989-1993. Rho
Sigma was designated an Honor Chapter for 1990-1991.
Search Committee for Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages, 1992-1993.
Search Committee for Lectureship in Spanish, 1991.
Search Committee for five tenure-track positions, 1989-1990.
Search Committee for two tenure-track positions, 1988-1989.
Coordinator of Spanish, 1990-1991.
Semester-in-Spain, Santander, Spain, in association with Universidad de Cantabria,
Co-director, Fall 1989.
Committee on Evaluation of Teaching, Professional Activities and Service, 1988-1989,
1987-1988.
Profession
Referee, Letras Peninsulares, 1993-1994, 1992-1993.
Co-director of Local Arrangements, Philological Association of the Carolinas, Charlotte,
North Carolina, 1991.
Phi Beta Delta, Honorary for International Scholars, Charter member at UNCC,
Treasurer, 1988-1989.
Content Validation of National Teacher Exam (Spanish) in connection with the North
Carolina State Board of Education, 1988.
Community
Instruction in Spanish language and culture for Mrs. Gail Fries' first-grade class at
Mallard Creek Elementary School, Charlotte, N.C., monthly, September 1995 –
May 1996.
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
University of Nebraska at Kearney
Chair, Department of Modern Languages (.5 FTE), 1996-2001.
Accomplishments (selected):
Collaboration with UNO to offer German courses through new IP connection, 2000-
2001.
Initiation of course in Medical Spanish under SPAN 103, Spanish for Special Purposes,
2000.
Implementation of plan for Exceptional Performance Pay, 1999-2000.
Implementation of plan to improve advising in department, 1999-2000.
Implementation of peer review procedures, 1999-2000.
Review of German programs with chairs from UNL and UNO, 1999.
Report for accreditation of teacher education programs (NCATE and state agency),
1998-1999.
Collaboration with chairs at University of Nebraska-Lincoln and University of
Nebraska-Omaha on programs, course equivalencies, communication with public
school teachers, 1996-1999.
Report for Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education, 1997.
Revision of plan for assessment of student achievement, 1996-1998.
Service on Nebraska Department of Education Foreign Language Frameworks
Articulation Committee, 1996-1998.
Development and implementation of faculty annual evaluation, 1996-1997.
Revision of majors, minors, teaching subject endorsements, 1996-1998.
Creation of department committee structure, 1996-1997.
Renovation of language laboratory, 1996-1997.
Department planning retreat, 1996.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Phi Kappa Phi
Modern Language Association
Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
Twentieth Century Spanish Association of America
Phi Beta Delta, Honorary for International Scholars
Sigma Delta Pi, National Spanish Honor Society
Phi Sigma Iota, International Foreign Language Honor Society
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
English: native.
Spanish: near native fluency and accuracy.
German: reading knowledge, basic speaking and listening skills.
French: reading knowledge.
Latin: language studied briefly.