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: Fico cientfica brasileira: mitos culturais e nacionalidade no pas do futuro.  Translated by Roberto de Sousa Causo.  So 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:

Anurio brasileiro de literature fantstica 2004: So Paulo, Edies Hiperespao.Review by Marcello Simo 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 ps-moderna.  Trans. Ramiro Giroldo. Em Volta do Mundo em Nove Artigos e um Conto. Ed. Edgar Czar Nolasco, Rodolfo Londero. Corumb: Ed. UFMS, 2007. 113-34.

 

Chronology of Latin American Science Fiction.  Co-authored with Yolanda Molina-Gaviln, Miguel ngel Fernndez Delgado, Lus 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 fico cientfica 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 Anis. Anurio Brasileiro de Literatura Fantstica 2005. Cesar Silva e Marcello Simo Branco, eds. Sao Bernardo do Campo-SP: Edies Hiperespao, 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 tica internacional. Co-authored with Charles Perrone and Atade

Tartari. In Chico Buarque do Brasil: textos sobre as canes, o teatro e a fico 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.

 

Iai Garcia: romance de transio na obra machadiana. Hispania 78.1 (1995): 33-42.

 

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

 

Traos do discurso pico em Iracema de Jos de Alencar. Homenagem a Alexandrino Serverino. Ed. Margo Milleret and Marshall C. Eakin. Austin, TX: Host Press, 1993.

135-47.

 

 Surrealist Benjamin Pret and Brazilian Modernism. Hispania 74.3 (1992): 543-53.

 

Online article:

 Finisia Fideli, encontrando a voz na fico 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

Composio no Segundo Ano: Algumas Observaes e Opes. 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: Viso aliengena: ensaios sobre fico cientfica 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, So 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 Csar Freitas, HQ & Cia So Paulo, June 23, 2007.

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

 

Locus Reviews Ian McDonald, Gary K. Wolfes 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 Literrios 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 arquelogo do futuro: a fico cientfica brasileira e seus futuros possveis Sept. 1, 2005. 

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

 

Interview:  Fico aliengena.  Rascunho, O jornal de literatura do Brasil. Curitiba (Paran, Brasil). 5 de  agosto, 2005, pp. 22-23.   www.rascunho.com.br

 

Interview article: Irino Netto, Outra odissia no espao, Gazeta do Povo, Caderno G,  Curitiba (Paran - 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, Viso aliengena: ensaios sobre fico cientfica 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, So 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-Gaviln.  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. Fico cientfica, 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 Sculo Fim das Utopias? Izarra, Laura P.  Zuntini de. Ed.  So Paulo: University of So Paulo 2001. Utopian Studies 13.2 (2002): 152-54.

 

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

 

O Crtico-F: Resenhas de Fico Cientfica, Fantasia, Horror e Outras Formas Invisveis de Literatura.  Ed. Roberto de Sousa Causo. Braspolis, Minas Gerais Edgard Guimares, 1999.  Biblioteca Essencial da Fico Cientfica, Vol. 4.  Science Fiction Studies 28 (2001): 310-311.

 

Prmio Nova de Fico Cientfica: Os Primeiros Dez Anos. Ed. Marcelo Simo Branco.  Braspolis Minas Gerais Edgard Guimares, 1998.  Biblioteca Essencial da Fico Cientfica, 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.

 

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

 

Opsculo Humanitrio, by Nsia Floresta.  Introduction and notes by Peggy Sharpe-Valadares. Braslia: 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 Mara Snchez. Between Utopia and Inferno (Julio Cortzars Version). Julio Cortzar, 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 Arajo 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

                        20th 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 So 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 fantstica, Mesa redonda: Elizabeth Ginway, Helena Gomes e Finisia Fideli, Fantasticon, So 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 violncia dentro corpo social na fico cientfica latinoamericana contempornea. 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, Andr 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 Kupstass O demnio do computador.  International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts,Ft. Lauderdale, March 2003

Ecological Dystopias and Ecofeminism in Plinio Cabral and Igncio de Loyola Brado.  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 fico cientfica 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 Alusio Azevedos O cortio.  AATSP, San Diego, California, August, 1995.

Transformations of Myth in Caminhas Bom-Crioulo.  AATSP, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August, 1994.

Uma leitura mtica de Luzia-Homem.  Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference,

Clemson, South Carolina, October, 1993.

Ea e o Naturalismo no Brasil.  AATSP, Phoenix, Arizona, August 1993.

Censorship and Identity the Quest Myth in Adaptao do Funcionrio 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 Bureaucrats Adaptation and Zamyatins We.  The Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, March 1991.

Benjamin Pret 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 1970s.  Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, February, 1990.

A Mechanical World Erotic Force in Rubem Fonsecas O Caso Morel.  Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April, 1989.

The Metaphor of Engineering in J. Veiga and Murilo Rubio.  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 Pret 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: Serto 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/Coordenao de Aperfeioamento de Pessoal de Nvel 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, 20th 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 fico cientfica, 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 Jos 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, Cancn, 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; Natrcia Prncipe, 1999; Ariadne Ferro, 1998

 

University of Georgia

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

M. A. Committees, Thesis Director

Stephen Walden. A evoluo da modernizao autoritria e a funo da msica em pera do Malandro de Chico Buarque, 1990.

Carolina Alvarez. Anlise de Quem matou Pacfico de Maria Alice Barroso, 1991.

 

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Committee

University of Georgia

Paul H. Matthews. La visin crtica de Anglica Gorodischer: Kalpa imperial I: La casa del poder y Kalpa imperial II: El imperio ms vasto, 1991.