CURRICULUM VITAE

M. (Mary) Elizabeth Ginway

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

University of Florida

Gainesville, Florida 32611-7405

(352) 392-2017, ext. 232

eginway@rll.ufl.edu http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/eginway

Education

Ph. D. Spanish and Portuguese, 1989, Vanderbilt University

Dissertation: “The Brazilian Miracle: Technology and Fiction in Brazil, 1959-1979” Alexandrino Severino, director.

M. A. Spanish, 1986, Vanderbilt University.

B. A. Comparative Literature, magna cum laude, Smith College, 1981

Phi Beta Kappa, Smith College, 1980

Positions

2003-present Associate Professor, University of Florida

1997 -2003 Assistant Professor, University of Florida

1995-1997 Visiting assistant professor, University of Florida

1994-1995 Visiting Assistant Professor, Emory University

1989-1993 Assistant professor, University of Georgia

1988 Lecturer, New College

1981-1987 Teaching assistant, Vanderbilt University

Publications

Books

Sole author. Brazilian Science Fiction: Cultural Myths and Nationhood in the Land of the Future. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2004. 288 pp.

Translation: Ficção científica brasileira: mitos culturais e nacionalidade no país do futuro. Translated by Roberto de Sousa Causo. São Paulo: Devir, 2005. 296 pp.

*Brazilian Science Fiction: Recommended Reading List for Non-Fiction:

Locus: Magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy World, 529 Feb: 2005.

http://www.locusmag.com/2005/Issues/02RecommendedReading.html

Nominated for MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize by Bucknell University Press, 2005

Reviews of Brazilian Science Fiction:

Anuário brasileiro de literature fantástica 2004: São Paulo, Edições Hiperespaço.Review by Marcello Simão Branco, 65-72,

Midwest Book Review, Sept. 2005:--Recommended for academic library literary studies collections.

Chasqui 34.1 (May 2005): “Science Fiction in Brazil,” by Bruce Dean Willis. 164-67.

Science Fiction Studies 32.1 (March 2005): “The Unique Voice of Brazilian Science Fiction,” Jim Rambo, 205-206.

Extrapolation 46.1 (2005), Review by Gerson Lodi Ribeiro, 133-36.

Locus, Feb. 2005, “Year in Review” by Gary K. Wolfe, 35.

Choice, Oct. 2004: 298--Highly Recommended.

Review of translation: Antonio Luiz M. C. Costa, “O Planeta Brasil” Carta Capital, 9 Nov. 2005, 65.

Edited volume

with Carmen C. McClendon. Brazil in the Eighties Los Ensayistas Georgia Series on Hispanic Thought. Athens, Georgia Department of Romance Languages, 1990. 232 pp.

Articles on Literature

“The Body Politic in Brazilian Science Fiction: Implants and Cyborgs”

New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction, edited by Donald Hassler and Clyde Wilcox, University of South Carolina Press, 2008. 198-211.

“A cidade pós-moderna.” Trans. Ramiro Giroldo. Em Volta do Mundo em Nove Artigos e um Conto. Ed. Edgar Cézar Nolasco, Rodolfo Londero. Corumbá: Ed. UFMS, 2007. 113-34.

“Chronology of Latin American Science Fiction.” Co-authored with Yolanda Molina-Gavilán, Miguel Ángel Fernández Delgado, Luís Pestarini, Andrea Bell, and Juan Carlos Toledano. Science Fiction Studies 34.3 (2007): 369-431. (Brazil section).

“Do implantado ao ciborgue: o corpo social na ficção científica brasileira.” Revista Iberoamericana octubre-diciembre 221 (2007): 787-99.

“Recent Brazilian Science Fiction and Fantasy Written by Women.” Foundation 36 (99: Spring 2007) 49-62.

“Globalizando e abrasileirando O Senhor dos Anéis.” Anuário Brasileiro de Literatura Fantástica 2005. Cesar Silva e Marcello Simão Branco, eds. Sao Bernardo do Campo-SP: Edições Hiperespaço, 2006. 182-188.

“A Working Model for Analyzing Third World Science Fiction: The Case of Brazil.” Science Fiction Studies (32.3) (2005): 467-94.

“Chico Buarque sob a ótica internacional.” Co-authored with Charles Perrone and Ataíde

Tartari. In Chico Buarque do Brasil: textos sobre as canções, o teatro e a ficção de um artista brasileiro. Rinaldo Fernandes, org. Rio de Janeiro: Garamond-Biblioteca Nacional 2004. 211-216.

“Vampires, Werewolves, and Strong Women: Alternate Histories or the Re-writing of Race and Gender in Brazilian History.” Extrapolation 44.3 (2003): 283-95.

“Fictional Trends in Brazil Under Military Rule.” The Brazil Reader. Ed. Robert Levine and John J. Crocitti. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1999. 248-253.

“Nation Building and Heroic Undoing: Myth and Ideology in Bom-Crioulo.” Modern Language Studies 28.3, 4 (1998): 41-56.

“Iaiá Garcia: romance de transição na obra machadiana.” Hispania 78.1 (1995): 33-42.

“The Metaphor of Engineering in J. Veiga and Murilo Rubião.” Brasil/Brazil 9 (1993): 46-56.

“Traços do discurso épico em Iracema de José de Alencar.” Homenagem a Alexandrino Serverino. Ed. Margo Milleret and Marshall C. Eakin. Austin, TX: Host Press, 1993.

135-47.

“Surrealist Benjamin Péret and Brazilian Modernism.” Hispania 74.3 (1992): 543-53.

Online article:

“Finisia Fideli, encontrando a voz na ficção cientifica brasileira.” Guest article for columnist Roberto de Sousa Causo, Sat. Oct. 27, 2007

http://terramagazine.terra.com.br/interna/0,,OI2026142-EI6622,00.html

Articles on Pedagogy

“Composição no Segundo Ano: Algumas Observações e Opções.” The Portuguese Newsletter. 11.2 (2000): 8.

“Video Use for Portuguese Language and Conversation Classes.” Hispania 74.3 (1991): 775-76.

In Press

Interview accepted: Argentine Fantasy Author Liliana Bodoc: Interview, Introduction, and Translation from Spanish, Femspec. March 2008. 15 pp.

Article accepted: “Transgendering in Brazilian Speculative Fiction from Machado de Assis to the Present.” Luso-Brazilian Review, Feb. 2008. 22 pp.

Book of articles: Visão alienígena: ensaios sobre ficção científica e fantasia no Brasil. Introduction by Andrew Gordon. This is a collection of 13 of my articles on Brazilian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Six are reprints from Anglo-American journals, three have appeared in Brazilian venues, and four are new. Editora Devir, São Paulo, projected Nov. 2009.

Works in Progress:

“Scouring the Postmodern Scrapheap: The Post-human in Third Wave Brazilian Science

Fiction.” International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, March, 2009, Orlando, FL.

“Postcolonialism, Tropicalization and the Representations of Brazil in Anglo-American Science Fiction and Fantasy.” Submitted to Foundation. 22 pp. 3 pp. bibliography

“Discovering and Re-discovering Brazilian Science Fiction: An Overview.” Co-authored with Roberto de Sousa Causo. Submitted to Extrapolation. 30 pp. 8 pp. bibliography.

Book project: “Engendering Nation: Gender, Race and Eugenics in Brazilian Science Fiction, 1909-1949.”

Translation project: “Anthology of Brazilian Science Fiction and Fantasy 1884-2004.”

New course: “Latin American Science Fiction and Fantasy.” Spring 2009.

Interviews and Newspaper Articles

Internet Television Interview with César Freitas, “HQ & Cia” São Paulo, June 23, 2007.

http://www.hqcia.com/programa/elizabeth_ginway/

“Locus Reviews Ian McDonald,” Gary K. Wolfe’s Review of Brasyl, by Ian McDonald. http://www.locusmag.com/Features/2007/02/locus-reviews-ian-mcdonald.html

Feb. 22, 2007

“Brazilian Director Shares Lessons with UF Students” Erik Maza, Gainesville Sun CAMPUS, Feb. 21, 2007, 7.

“Astronautas Literários” Rachel Bertol, O Globo, “Prosa & Verso,” April 16, 2006, p. 1.

“Brazilian Films Featured in Hippodrome Series,” Brian Offenther, Gainesville Sun, January 23, 2006, 9A.

Interview article: “Latin American Science Fiction Symposium.” Colin McCandless, Gainesville Sun, Oct. 25, 2005. http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200551024060&source=email

“Ao arqueólogo do futuro: a ficção científica brasileira e seus futuros possíveis” Sept. 1, 2005.

http://agenciacartamaior.uol.com.br/agencia.asp?coluna=arqueologo

Interview: “Ficção alienígena.” Rascunho, O jornal de literatura do Brasil. Curitiba (Paraná, Brasil). 5 de agosto, 2005, pp. 22-23. www.rascunho.com.br

Interview article: Irinêo Netto, “Outra odisséia no espaço,” Gazeta do Povo, Caderno G, Curitiba (Paraná - Brasil) 24 de julho, 2005, p. 4.

"Libby Ginway." Entrevista/Interview com Carlos Neves, junho, 2003 http://www.alanmooresenhordocaos.hpg.ig.com.br/entrevistas27a.htm

In Press

Interview accepted: Argentine Fantasy Author Liliana Bodoc: Interview, Introduction, and Translation from Spanish, Femspec. March 2008. 15 pp.

Article accepted: “Transgendering in Brazilian Speculative Fiction from Machado de Assis to the Present.” Luso-Brazilian Review, Feb. 2008. 22 pp.

Book of articles, Visão alienígena: ensaios sobre ficção científica e fantasia. Introduction by Andrew Gordon. This is a collection of 12 of my articles. Half are reprints from Anglo-American journals and half are original articles. Editora Devir, São Paulo, projected November 2008.

Works in Progress:

Book project: “Engendering Nation: Gender, Race and Eugenics in Brazilian Science Fiction, 1909-1949.”

Translation project: “Anthology of Brazilian Science Fiction and Fantasy 1884-2004.”

Book Reviews

Cosmos Latinos: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain. Ed. Andrea Bell and Yolanda Molina-Gavilán. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 2003. 352 pp. Science Fiction Research Association Review 270 Oct./Nov./ Dec. 2004: 15-18.

“Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror in Brazil, 1875-1959.” Ficção científica, fantasia e horror no Brasil 1875-1950. Roberto de Sousa Causo.Belo Horizonte: UFMG, 2003. Extrapolation 44.3 (2003): 380-84.

“The Literature of the Turn of the Century: The End of Utopia?” A Literatura da Virada do Século Fim das Utopias? Izarra, Laura P. Zuntini de. Ed. São Paulo: University of São Paulo 2001. Utopian Studies 13.2 (2002): 152-54.

Terra Verde. Roberto de Sousa Causo. São Paulo: Cone Sul, 2000, and Amazon, Ataíde Tartari. San Jose, New York, Lincoln, Shanghai: Writers Club Press, 2001. Hispania, 85: 3 (2002): 563-64.

O Crítico-Fã: Resenhas de Fiçcão Científica, Fantasia, Horror e Outras Formas Invisíveis de Literatura. Ed. Roberto de Sousa Causo. Brasópolis, Minas Gerais Edgard Guimarães, 1999. Biblioteca Essencial da Ficção Científica, Vol. 4. Science Fiction Studies 28 (2001): 310-311.

Prêmio Nova de Ficção Científica: Os Primeiros Dez Anos. Ed. Marcelo Simão Branco. Brasópolis Minas Gerais Edgard Guimarães, 1998. Biblioteca Essencial da Ficção Científica, Vol. 3. Science Fiction Studies 28 (2001): 309-310.

Jewish Voices in Brazilian Literature A Prophetic Discourse of Alterity, by Nelson H. Vieira. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1995. South Atlantic Review 62.1 (1997):

147-49.

Carlos Lacerda, Brazilian Crusader. Vol. 1. The Years 1914-60, by John W. Foster Dulles. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1991. Hispania 75.3 (1992): 1192-93.

Antônio de Castro Alves: The Major Abolitionist Poems. Introduction and translation by Amy K. Peterson. New York: Garland, 1990. Hispania 75.2 (1992): 345-46.

Opúsculo Humanitário, by Nísia Floresta. Introduction and notes by Peggy Sharpe-Valadares. Brasília: INEP, 1989. Hispania 74.3 (1991) 680-81.

Retired Dreams: Dom Casmurro, Myth and Modernity, by Paul B. Dixon. West Lafayette, IN, Purdue UP, 1989. Hispania 74.3 (1991): 680-81.

Translation

Ana María Sánchez. “Between Utopia and Inferno (Julio Cortázar’s Version).” Julio Cortázar, New Readings. Ed. Carlos Alonso. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996. 19-35.

Grants

2008-09 Colonel Alan and Margaret Crow Term Professorship

2007 Course Development Grant for Science Fiction and Fantasy in Latin America

2007 University of Florida International Center Grant Travel Grant for the

Visit of Brazilian Filmmaker Joel Zito Araújo for Black History Month

2006 Course Development for Brazilian Culture in Rio de Janeiro POR 3500

2005 HSBC Grant for Symposium: Latin America Writes Back, Oct. 27-29

Internal funding: Center for Latin American Studies, Department of Romance Languages, Global Studies, University of Florida International Center, ORTGE

2001 Romance Languages Research Award

2001 University of Florida International Center, Producer/writer for the Video CD-

ROM for the Program in Rio de Janeiro.

2001 University of Florida International Center, Planner/Host, Brazil Week and

20^th Anniversary of the Program in Rio de Janeiro

1999 Romance Languages Research Award

1998 Humanities Enhancement Award, University of Florida

1998 Romance Languages Research Award, University of Florida (declined)

1990-91 Lilly Teaching Fellowship, University of Georgia

1990 Sarah Moss Research Grant, University of Georgia

1983-86 Harold Stirling Vanderbilt Scholar, Vanderbilt University

1982-83 Fulbright Scholarship for research in São Paulo, Brazil

Conference papers and Roundtables

“Teaching About Postcolonialism: Representations of Brazil in Anglo-American SF.” SFRA 2008 Lawrence, Kansas, July, 2008.

“The Amazonian ‘Lost Race’ Novels of Brazil: A Virgin Territory of its Very Own.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April 2008.

“Transgendered Characters in Brazilian Speculative Fiction: from the Sublime to the Absurd”

International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL March 21, 2008

“As mulheres presentes na literatura fantástica,” Mesa redonda: Elizabeth Ginway, Helena Gomes e Finisia Fideli, Fantasticon, São Paulo, July 7, 2007.

“Finisia Fideli: Finding the Female Voice in Brazilian Science Fiction.” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, March 16, 2007.

“Literary Allusion in the Detective Fiction of Rubem Fonseca.” SAMLA, Charlotte, NC, Nov. 10-12. 2006

“Do implantado ao ciborgue: A violência dentro corpo social na ficção científica latinoamericana contemporânea.” 2nd Colloquium on Hispanic/Latin American Literatures, Linguistics and Cultures. University of Florida, Gainvesville, Oct. 18, 2006.

“The Brazilian Fantasy Genre 2001-2004: Globalizing and Brazilianizing The Lord of the Rings.” International Conference: Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, Mar. 2005.

“Transgenderings in Luso-Brazilian Speculative Fiction: Machado de Assis, André Carneiro and Sacha Ramos” MLA Conference, Philadelphia, Dec. 2004.

"Critical Approaches to Science Fiction in the Third World: the Case of Brazil." SAMLA, Roanoke VA, Nov. 2004.

“Recent Science Fiction Written by Women” for the panel: The Future is Now. The Emergence of Science Fiction in Spanish and Portuguese in the U.S.” LASA, Las Vegas, October 2004.

“College Portuguese Offerings in the Southeastern United States.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 2004.

“Hard Science Fiction: The Legacy of Dictatorship in Brazil.” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts.” Ft. Lauderdale, March 2004.

“Brazilian Science Fiction Written by Women 1960-2000.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference April, 2003

“Dark Fantasy in Brazilian Science Fiction: Marcia Kupstas’s O demônio do computador.” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts,Ft. Lauderdale, March 2003

“Ecological Dystopias and Ecofeminism in Plinio Cabral and Ignácio de Loyola Bradão. SAMLA, Baltimore, MD, November, 2002.

“Vampires and Strong Women, Alternative Histories or Re-writing Brazilian Colonization.” AATSP, Rio de Janeiro, August 2002.

“O passado, o presente e o futuro da ficção científica brasileira.” Organizer and Moderator,

AATSP, Rio de Janeiro, August 2002

“Tupinipunk or Brazilian Cyberpunk.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 2002.

“Cyborg as Racial Other Continuity and Change in Brazilian Science Fiction.” SAMLA, Atlanta, GA, November 2001.

“Alien-Nation The Alien as Other in Brazilian Society.” Narrative: An International Conference. Atlanta, Georgia. April 2000.

“Unrealized, Unreconciled and Unredeemed Miscegenation in O mulato.” LASA, Miami, FL. March 2000.

“Researching Brazilian Science Fiction.” Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials. Nashville, Tennessee. June 1999.

“Writing Against American Science Fiction Paradigms.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April 1999

“Rewriting the Masters and the Slaves: Brazilian Science Fiction 1960-1963.” Modern Language Association, San Francisco, December, 1999.

“The Eugenics Movement and Utopian Literature in Brazil 1909-1929.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, Georgia, Nov. 1997.

“Portuguese Language Consortium in Florida Recruitment.” Portuguese Language Development Group, AATSP, Orlando, Florida, August, 1996

“The Monstrous Tenement Aluísio Azevedo’s O cortiço.” AATSP, San Diego, California, August, 1995.

“Transformations of Myth in Caminha’s Bom-Crioulo.” AATSP, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August, 1994.

“Uma leitura mítica de Luzia-Homem.” Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference,

Clemson, South Carolina, October, 1993.

“Eça e o Naturalismo no Brasil.” AATSP, Phoenix, Arizona, August 1993.

“Censorship and Identity the Quest Myth in Adaptação do Funcionário Ruam.” SAMLA, Knoxville, Tennessee, November, 1992.

“An Overview of Technology in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction.” Northeast Regional Meeting, AATSP Manchester, New Hampshire, September, 1992.

“Continuity and Change in Brazilian Science Fiction: the Case of Jorge Luiz Calife.” The Fantastic and the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, March 1992.

“Brazilian Dystopias.” AATSP, Chicago, Illinois, August, 1991.

“Brazilian Science Fiction The Bureaucrat’s Adaptation and Zamyatin’s We.” The Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, March 1991.

“Benjamin Péret in Brazil Cultural Criticism or Cultural Exoticism?” Modern Language Association, Chicago, Illinois, December, 1990.

“Technological Fiction and Two Women Writers Maria Alice Barroso and Ruth Bueno.” AATSP, Miami, Florida, March 1990.

“Two Brazilian Dystopias of the 1970’s.” Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, February, 1990.

“A Mechanical World Erotic Force in Rubem Fonseca’s O Caso Morel.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April, 1989.

“The Metaphor of Engineering in J. Veiga and Murilo Rubião.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April, 1988.

“Universe in Crisis The Role of Technology in J. Veiga.” Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, October, 1985.

“Benjamin Péret and Brazilian Modernism.” Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, 1984.

Invited Talks

“The Body Politic in Latin American Science Fiction: Implants and Cyborgs.” Luso-Brazilian Keynote Luncheon Speaker, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April, 21, 2007.

Entre nous series, Romance Languages: “Detective Fiction in Brazil.” Panel Discussion with Natalia Jacovkis, Deborah Amberson, moderator Nov. 28, 2006, University of Florida.

“Eugenics and Literary Utopias in Brazil 1909-1929.” History of Science Colloquium Series, Oct. 12, 2006, University of Florida.

“Literature under Military Dictatorship in Brazil.” Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia. May 1998.

Teaching

University of Florida, 1995-present

Elementary, Accelerated, and Intermediate Portuguese

Introduction to Twentieth-Century Brazilian Literature, 1900-2000

The Culture of Dictatorship and Development in Brazil

Brazilian Science Fiction 1960-1985

Brazilian Science Fiction 1985-present

Brazilian Drama

Machado de Assis

Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Literature

Brazilian Cinema: Under Dictatorship

Brazilian Popular Music (Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum)

Brazilian Cinema: Sertão and Favela

Crime and Detective Fiction in Brazil

Emory University 1994-95

Elementary and Intermediate Spanish, Spanish Conversation

University of Georgia, 1989-1993

Elementary, Accelerated and Intermediate Portuguese

Brazilian Literature 1500-1900

Twentieth-Century Brazilian Literature

Machado de Assis

Brazilian Theatre

Dystopian Fiction in Brazil

Naturalism in Brazil

New College, Fall 1988

Intermediate Spanish

Latin American Civilization

Vanderbilt University, 1981-87

Elementary Spanish, Intermediate Portuguese

Service

University of Florida 1995-present

Service to the University or the Gainesville Community

Brazilian Film Series planner and presenter, Hippodrome State Theater, Spring 2006 (4 films).

Introduction for Brazilian Film Central Station, Oct. 1, 2005 as part of celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month for the Latina Women's League and the Alachua County Library District.

Introduction for Brazilian Film Central Station, Jan 13, 2005, Latin American Film Series

International Center Scholarship Evaluator 2002-2005

President, UF Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa 2003-04

Vice-president, UF Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa 2002-03

Foreign Language Area Study (FLAS) Award Committee 2004, 2006

Language Contact for US-Brazil Higher Education Consortium Program, US Department of Education/Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior CAPES

Proposal “Provost Teaching Fellows” in conjunction with the Carnegie Mellon Initiative in Undergraduate Teaching Seminar, organized by UCET, May 2000.

Faculty reader of Overseas Studies Scholarship Applications Spring 2000, 2001, 2002

Board Member of the University Center for Excellence in Teaching 1998-present

Membership Committee of Phi Beta Kappa, 1997-2000

Affiliate to the Center for Latin American Studies, 1995-present

Latin American Studies Colloquium Speaker, January 1998

Consecutive translation for speaker Leonardo Boff, Spring 1996

Fulbright Interviewer for Spanish and Portuguese language, Fall 1995, 1996

Service to the department

Chair, Spanish Sociolinguistics Search, Fall Spring 2005-06

Organizer, Latin American Symposium. Oct. 27-29 2005, “Latin America Writes Back: Science Fiction and the Global Era.” Sponsored by HSBC of Miami

Masks in Brazilian Carnaval, Panelists for "Carnevale" Jan. 31, 2006 Univ. of Florida

Chair for “Parisian Spaces,” 20^th and 21st Century International Conference, April 2005

Italian Search Committee Member, 2004-05

Tenure and Promotion Committee Member 2003-05

Speaker for the “Entre nous” series, March 2002

Adjunct Faculty Evaluation Committee, 2001-2002

Discussant for Carnival Carnevale Symposium, February 2001

Chair, Undergraduate Awards Committee, 1997-2000

Advisory Committee, 1998-2001

First-Year Advisor for Portuguese, 1996-present

Teaching Manual for Teaching Assistants in Portuguese, Summer 2000

Spanish-American Colonial Search Committee Member, 1997-98

Ad-hoc Bonus-Pay Committee, 1997

Multicultural Recognition Program, Faculty Sponsor, 1997

“Readers, Writers, Registers” Conference, Spring 1997, planned meals, food budget

Library Representative for Portuguese, 1995-96; 1998-99

Wrote new copy for the Portuguese Major for the Undergraduate Catalogue, 1995

Adjunct Faculty Evaluation Committee, Fall 1995

Service to the Portuguese section

Developed new courses, Brazilian Cinema, Detective Fiction, Brazilian Culture in Rio

Faculty sponsor for Phi Lambda Beta Awards Ceremony 1996--

First-year Language Coordinator for Portuguese 1130-31, POR 3010, 1996--

Co-host to Brazilian Guests from IBEU on the UF campus, March 2001

Coordinator of UF-sponsored program in Rio de Janeiro, 1997-2000; 2002-04

Program Director and Instructor for Brazilian Culture in Rio de Janeiro,

Summer B 2006, 2007

Created website for UF-sponsored program in Rio de Janeiro

Grant from Development Funds used from the Rio program to bring IBEU personnel to campus Grant to make a CD rom of the Rio program ($2400)

Faculty Sponsor of the Portuguese Brazilian Club 1997-98; participant, 1995-present

Organized Mini-Brazilian Film Festival, three films in October 1998 and April 1999

Acting Portuguese Undergraduate Coordinator, 1998-99

Visits to Spanish classes to promote Portuguese, 1995-1998

Chartered Phi Lambda Beta, Portuguese Honor Society, Spring 1997

Developed new courses on Brazilian Culture, Dictatorship and Development, Dictatorship and Film, Machado de Assis, Brazilian Drama, Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Literature, Brazilian Science Fiction, Brazilian Cinema

Service to the profession

Member of the Executive Committee of SAMLA, 2004-2006

Organizer of Special Session, SAMLA, 2005: “Science Fiction and Fantasy in Latin America: Comparative Perspectives.”

Chair, Portuguese-Brazilian I, SAMLA, 2006

Chair, Portuguese-Brazilian I, SAMLA, 2004

Chair, Portuguese-Brazilian I, SAMLA 2002

Organizer and Moderator for Roundtable “O passado, presente e futuro da ficção científica,” speakers: Roberto de Sousa Causo, Jorge Luiz Calife e Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro.” AATSP, Rio de Janeiro, August 2002.

Chair of Phi Lambda Beta session for AATSP, Denver, CO 1999

Chair of Session on José Saramago, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 1999.

Chair, Portuguese Language Development Group, AATSP, Nashville, Tennesee Nov. 1997

Secretary, Portuguese Language Development Group, AATSP 1996

University of Georgia, 1989-93

Service to the department

Organized initiation for Phi Lambda Beta, Portuguese Honor Society

Simulated Oral Proficiency Test or SOPI Certification for Portuguese, Ypsilanti, Michigan

Member of Travel and Special Events committees

Proposed and taught a new course on Machado de Assis

Publication Reprint and Headship Search committees

Service to the profession

Chair, Portuguese and Portuguese African Literature, AATSP, Cancún, Mexico, August 1992

Chair and Organizer, Portuguese-Brazilian Sections, SAMLA, 1991; successfully petitioned for a second permanent section in Luso-Brazilian Literatures

Graduate Committees

University of Florida

PhD. Committees: Natalia Jacovkis, Latin American Literature, completed, 2007; Marta Almeida, Linguistics, completed 1998

Sharon Barkley, Linguistics--

Lacy Hodges, English--

M. A. Director: Andrea Ferreira --

M. A. Co-director: Mary Risner, 2001

M.A. Committees (thesis): MALAS: Juliana Azoubel, 2007 (Brazilian Dance); Edward Johnson, 2006 (Brazilian Business) ; Natalie Arsenault, 2002 (Brazilian Literature); Deborah Hooker (Brazilian Sociology) 1999

M.A. Committees (non-thesis): Christine Lizarraga, 1999; Natércia Príncipe, 1999; Ariadne Ferro, 1998

University of Georgia

M.A Committees (thesis): Tânia Herring, 1990; Ana Carvalho, 1991

M. A. Committees, Thesis Director

Stephen Walden. “A evolução da modernização autoritária e a função da música em Ópera do Malandro de Chico Buarque,” 1990.

Carolina Alvarez. “Análise de Quem matou Pacífico de Maria Alice Barroso,” 1991.

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Committee

University of Georgia

Paul H. Matthews. “La visión crítica de Angélica Gorodischer: Kalpa imperial I: La casa del poder y Kalpa imperial II: El imperio más vasto,” 1991.