Curriculum Vitae

REYNALDO L. JIMENEZ

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

170 Dauer Hall

University of Florida

Gainesville, FL 32611

Office: 366 Grinter Hall

(352)392-2463
 
 

Email: Jimenez@rll.ufl.edu
 
 
 
 

EDUCATION:
 
 
Ph. D 1974  University of Illinois Spanish-American literature
Spanish Linguistics
M.A. 1970  University of Illinois
B.A 1969 University of Illinois Spanish/Portuguese. 
Minor: French
EMPLOYMENT:
Fall 2000- 2001  The University of Florida Acting Chair Fall 2000-2001
1980-2000 The University of Florida  Associate Professor:1984
Associate Chair: 1990-92
& 2001-present
 1974-1980  The Ohio State University Assistant Professor
1972-74  University of Illinois Instructor
1969-72 University of Illinois Teaching Assistant

                                                                COURSES TAUGHT

GRADUATE:
Early Spanish-American Novel
XIX Century Spanish-American Poetry
Studies in Spanish-American Fiction (Short Story)
Contemporary Cuban Fiction
Seminar on Contemporary Cuban Novel
Seminar on Contemporary Spanish-American Novel
Seminar on Alejo Carpentier
The Novel of the Mexican Revolution
History and Methods of Literary Criticism
Seminar on Oral Proficiency
Foreign Language Teaching Methods
The Spanish-American Essay
Bildungsroman in Spanish-America

UNDERGRADUATE:
All levels of beginning, intermediate and advanced language
Spanish Phonetics
Spanish Syntax and Stylistics
Spanish Grammar for Native-Speakers
Advanced Composition for Native-Speakers
Spanish-American Culture and Civilization
Introduction to Spanish-American literature I and II
Spanish-American literature in Translation
The Latin-American Bildungsroman
U.S. Hispanic Literature
Hispanic Women Writers
 

                                                        ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:
Acting Chair: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures (Fall 2000-01)

RESPONSIBILITIES

Chief administrative officer in the Department: appointing of Administrative Officers of the Department; selection of members of standing non-elected Department Committees; presiding over Department meetings and preparation of agenda; supervision of day-to-day activities and of 5-member office staff; coordination of new faculty searches in conjunction with appropriate search committees; general spokesperson for the Department.

Chief financial officer: supervising of all receipts of money and expenditures; with the advice of the Advisory Committee, preparation of annual academic program review and budget proposal for the Dean

Academic officer: coordination of all aspects of the academic program, such as degree requirements, curricular offerings, catalog announcements, class scheduling and faculty assignments. Oversee tenure and promotion process in coordination with T&P Committee; write transmission letters.
 
 
 
 

Associate Chair, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, The University of Florida (1990-1992)and (Fall 2001- present)

RESPONSIBILITIES
In charge of articulating Department's teaching schedules in conjunction with the graduate and undergraduate advisors and the College schedule officer.

Maintenance of proper course rotations, request for adequate space and time slots, and development of faculty assignments.

Represent the interests of the Department, both fiscal and academic, before the Council of Chairs of the College in the absence of our Chair.

Ex-officio member of the Department's Advisory Council--charged with developing programmatic modifications and policies at the undergraduate as well graduate levels.

Director of Beginning and Intermediate Spanish Language Programs (1980-1990) (1993-1994)
 
 
RESPONSIBILITIES


In charge of coordination of teaching materials and methodology for some 50 sections in the Elementary Language Program/ 12 sections in the Intermediate per semester.

Supervision of approximately 27 instructors which involved classroom visitations and annual evaluations submitted to the Spanish Section of Department.

Textbook evaluation and supervision of testing instruments

Workshops on Proficiency, including training of G.T.A.'s and Lecturers on Oral Proficiency Interview.

                     Chair-Spanish Lecturers Search Committee
  Chief Faculty Consultant/ Spanish National Advanced Placement Exam. College Board (1997-2001)
 
RESPONSIBILITIES
Appointed college and high school readers of the national exam—460 faculty members in AY200-01

Attended all meetings of the Exam Development Committee, evaluate questions and participate in exams preparation

Organized and supervised annual national reading of the examination—over 70,000 examinations in language and literature in Reading 2000.

                     Evaluated new and existing readers

                    Developed annual rubrics for exam grading

Communicated with and supervised (presently 55) Question and Table Leaders prior to and during the annual Reading of the exam

Organized and coordinated all cultural activities which take place during the annual Reading of the Exam: invited writers, actors, musicians, dance groups

Participated in national and international conferences devoted to the discussion of the Spanish AP program

Determined cut-off points and interpret statistical information during the Grade Setting process

                     Produced annual Exam Content Report for publication Produce annual Operational Report for ETS and the College Board                                                             ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:

                    UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA (1981-present)

                                            Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

(Unless otherwise indicated, service in these committees was recurrent)

Spanish Undergraduate Coordinator/Advisor (1998-2000): in charge of articulating or refining curricular goals in the Spanish program; principal academic advisor for some 100 Spanish majors and 70 minors; academic advisor for Study Abroad programs.

FLAC (Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum)courses Language specialist and trainer

Chair/ Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

Graduate Coordinator/ M.A. Summer Program for high school teachers

Member/Tenure, Promotion and Faculty Evaluation Committee

                     Chair/ Tenure and Promotion Committee Member/ Lecturer and Visiting Scholars Committee                     Member/ Advisory Committee to the Chair

                    Member/Latin American Literature Committee

                    Chair/Search Commitee /Applied Linguistics

                    Chair/Search Committee/ Lecturers (Spanish)

                     Member/Search Committee/ Latin American Specialist

                     Member/Search Committee/ Spanish Golden Age Specialist

Member/Audio-visual Material Acquisitions Committee                     Member, Merit Pay Committee Chair, Language Courses Articulation Committee--charged with devising goals and objectives for undergraduate language courses         Director of the Spanish Program in Bogota. Summer Abroad Program (1985-90)

        Academic Advisor for the Spanish Program in Yucatan (1990-95)
 
                                        College of Liberal Arts and Sciences/ University

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences: Member of Search Committee for Dean of the College (2001-2001)

University Provost’s Task Force on Graduate and Professional Admissions (2000-2001)

Provosts’ Committee on UF Self-Study for SACS Accreditation: Charged with determining breadth and depth of internationalization on the UF campus as related to teaching, research and service (Present)

                     Member/ Faculty Senate Committee (1989-1991),(1994) Member/ Teaching Improvement Program--appointed by the President of the University and charged with articulating TIP protocols for all colleges and teaching units within the University (1994)

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences: Chair of the Foreign Language Committee (1993-1994)

Member/ Foreign Language Committee (charged with articulating new foreign language requirement for the College, assessing national and local placement/credit granting instruments--CLEP, AP, Achievement Test---, establishing liaison with high school teachers in the State.(1992)

                     University Council for Minority Recruitment and   Retention Committee member (1990) CLAS Language Learning Center Committee Member (1987-1989)

University Senate Member (1988-90)

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences: International Study Programs Committee Member(1986-88)

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences: International Study Programs Committee Member(1986-88)

Hispanic Student Association: Advisor (1986-89)

Foreign Languages in Florida Committee: Member (charged with setting foreign language proficiency standards and developing testing instruments for the State of Florida's public colleges and universities and their articulation with secondary schools) (1984-87)

                                                         Center for Latin American Studies

                    Acting Associate Director (Summer 1996)

                    Advisor for the Master of Arts in Latin American Studies (1991-1999)

                    Member/ Executive Committee (1989-91)

Member/ Culture and State Research Program Committee (1988-90)                     Member/ Tinker Foundation Fellowship Committee (1985-87) Director/ Spanish Language Program in Bogota/UF (1982-87)
The Ohio State University (1974-80)
                     Graduate Coordinator/ M.A. Program

                    Chair/Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

                    Member/Committee to Revise M.A. & Ph.D. Reading Lists

                    Departmental Representative/Library Committee

                    Fellowship Committee Member/ College of Humanities

Latin American Literature Committee Member/Program Revision RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Appointed Chief Faculty Reader for the National Spanish Advanced Placement Examination of the College Board (Fall 1997-2001)

Contributing Editor/ Chasqui: A Journal of Latin American Literature and Criticism (1988-1992)

                     Examiner/ Spanish language and Literature/International Baccalaureate  (1987-1990)

                    Grant Evaluator/ Title VII: U.S. Department of Education (1990-92)

Chairman/ National Spanish Advanced Placement Test Committe (College Board) (1987-1990)

Member/ National Spanish Advanced Placement Test Committee (1984-86)

Reader/ Spanish AP Exams/ Educational Testing Service (1985-1990)

                     ACTFL Certified OPI Tester and Rater (1985-1989) Oral Proficency Tester for the Alabama Comission on Higher Education (1986-1989)         Producer/Coordinator of Puerta Abierta: radio program dealing with   Spanish and Spanish-American literature and culture (1977-79)--The Ohio State University

AWARDS:

        University of Florida Workshop for Prospective Administrators Grant
        (1997)

Teaching Improvement Program Award-- 1993 recipient of this university-wide competition in recognition of teaching excellence which carried a $5000 base-salary increase

Research Development Award--Humanities and Fine Arts Category.$7500. (1995)

 PUBLICATIONS:

        Books:
    Guillermo Cabrera Infante y Tres tristes tigres. Miami: Ediciones    Universal,1977.

    (In preparation) La narrativa de aprendizaje en Hispanoamérica)/The Spanish-American Bildungsroman: From Tradition to Subversion

  ARTICLES:

Refereed:
    "Evas auténticas, hagiografías falsas: dos narradoras latinoamericanas contemporáneas" (Submitted for publication: Fall 2001)

    "Oral Proficiency Projects in Action." (Co-authored with C.Murphy) Teaching for Proficiency, The Organizing Principle. Theodore V. Higgs (Ed). The ACTFL Foreign Language Series, vol. XV. Lincolnwood, IL: National Textbook Co., 1984. 201-217

    "Don Segundo Sombra: Razón y signo de una forma narrativa." Cuadernos Americanos, CCLI,6(nov-dic, 1983). 211-227.
 
    "Realidad y mitificación: el narrador-niño en Los ríos profundos." Texto Crítico, Año V, no.14 (sept-dic,1979).pp.104-116.
 
    "Cuban Women Writers and the Revolution: Towards an Assessment of Their Literary Contributions." Folio
(Special Volume on 20th Century Women Writers) XI (August, 1978). pp.75-95. ( Translated by Stephen Summerhill)
 
    "Literatura mexicana." Diccionario Enciclopédico Universal. arcelona: Salvat Editores, 1977.
 
    "Marcha triunfal', de Rubén Darío". Antología Comentada del Modernismo. Porrata y Santana (Eds.) California State University Press, 1974. pp.309-318.

Non-refereed:
 
    The Free-Response Section of the AY 2001 Spanish Advanced Placement Exam: Student Performance and Areas of Difficulty." (to appear)

    The Free-Response Section of the AY 2000 Spanish Advanced Placement Exam:Student Performance and Areas of Difficulty" (Report of the Chief Faculty Consultant).CollegeBoard/ETS:Princeton, 2001.pp.30-38.
 
    "The Free-Response Section of the AY 1999 Spanish Advanced Placement Exam: Student Performance and Areas of Difficulty" (Report of the Chief Faculty Consultant)CollegeBoard/ETS:Princeton, 2000. Pp.25-32.
 
    "The Free-Response Section of the AY 1998 Spanish Advanced Placement Exam:Student Performance and Areas of Difficulty." (Report of the Chief Faculty Consultant) College Board/ETS: Princeton, 1999. Pp. 24-31

    "The Free-Response Section of the AY 1997 Spanish Advanced Placement Exam: Student Performance and Areas of Difficulty." (Report of the Chief Faculty Consultant). College Board/ETS: Princeton, 1998. Pp. 23-29

PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS:

    5th International Conference of the College Board."Innovative strategies for the teaching of Spanish-American literature". Workshop organizer and presenter. Guadalajara: Mexico, March 23, 2001.

    Chair. Special Session: "The Spanish Advanced Placement Examination". Presenter: "Grading of the Spanish AP Exam". AATSP Annual National Conference. San Juan: PR, August 2000.

    "La narrativa de Jesús Díaz: antes y después" Círculo de Cultura Panamericano. Décimo Congreso Annual. University of Miami, August 1998.

    "La lectura de la nación: historia y ficción en Las iniciales de la tierra, de Jesús Díaz". Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky. April, 1997.

    "La naturaleza metonímica de la narrativa de aprendizaje en Latinoamérica". Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Literatures. Tulane University, February, 1995.

    "El aprendizaje del lector en el Bildungsroman hispanoamericano". Kentucky Foreign Language Conference.University of Kentucky, April 1993.

    "Tradición y ruptura: Eva Luna y la narrativa iniciática femenina". Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky, April 1991.

    "La narrativa de aprendizaje y el exilio cubano: el caso de Hagiografía de Narcisa La Bella, de Mireya Robles". Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference . October 1990.

    "La competencia funcional en el contexto de la enseñanza de las lenguas extranjeras". Workshop on Foreign Language Methodology. Appalachian State University. March, 1990.

    Chair. Special Session: Reading for Proficiency. AATSP Annual National Conference. Miami, August 1990.

    Chair. Special Session: Language of Cuban Drama: José Triana and Other Exile Playwrights. Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages and Literatures. Rollins College, February 1990.

    "The Advanced Placement Examination: The Perspective of the Exam Development Committee". AATSP Annual National Conference . Denver, August 1988.

    Familiarization Workshop on the Oral Proficiency Interview and Its Pedagogical Implications. Appalachian State University, April 1988.

    "Spanish language proficiency-based tests". ETS Regional Conference on Foreign Language Proficiency. Tampa, February 1988.

    "Realidad y fantasía: el punto de vista en la obra de Senel Paz". La Chispa Conference. Tulane University, February 1987.

    Discussant. El ensayo hispanoamericano actual. Latin American Studies Association National Conference. Boston, October 1986.

    ACTFL OPI Trainers Workshop. The American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages. Pittsburgh, March 1985.

    Consultant-Department Evaluator. Diagnostic Conference on Foreign Languages. Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. University of Colorado. Boulder, May 1985

    "El Bildungsroman hispanoamericano: una respuesta a la realidad social del continente". Latin American Studies National Conference. Albuquerque, April 1985.

    "The Oral Proficiency Interview: Its Pedagogical and Curricular Implications". 33rd Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference. Virginia Polytechnic and SU. October 1983.

    ACTFL Proficiency Workshop. Trained members of the faculty of Romance Languages and Literatures-Florida International University, February 1983; September 1983.

    "La narrativa de aprendizaje en Hispanoamérica". Latin American Studies Association National Conference. Mexico City, April 1983.

    "El protagonista adolescente en la narrativa de Antonio Skármeta: búsqueda, descubrimiento, integración". 20th Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville, February 1981.

    Chair. "Spanish American Novel The Deadly Games".20th Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville, February 1979.

    "Literatura y militarismo en el Cono Sur desde 1960".Latin American Studies Association National Conference. Pittsburgh, October 1978.

    "Realidad y mitificación en José María Arguedas". Annual Conference on Hispanic Literatures. Indiana University of Pennsylvania, April 1978.

    "La escritora cubana ante la Revolución". Modern Language Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, December 1975.

 
 
 
 

 
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