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Dr. Linda Margarita Greenberg

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Dr. Greenberg
College of Arts and Letters
Department of English
Email: linda.greenberg@calstatela.edu

Linda Margarita Greenberg is Associate Professor of English and English Department Chair at California State University, Los Angeles. She is currently finishing a book project on the Chicana author, Helena María Viramontes, that situates Viramontes’ fiction within the context of the Chicano/a movement, transnational feminism, ecocriticism, and cultural memory. Her teaching and research interests cover the spectrum of U.S. Ethnic Literatures, with particular focus on 20th and 21st century American literature, Latinx and Asian American literature, racial and gendered narratives about undocumented immigrants, feminist fantasy and speculative fiction, bridges between literary criticism and creative writing, and intersections between pedagogy and social justice. 


Michael Shim, Professor

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College of Arts and Letters
Department of Philosophy
Phone: 323-343-5942 Email: mshim@exchange.calstatela.edu

 

I've been at Cal State LA since 2007. My BA is from Vassar College (1995), and my PhD is from Stony Brook University (2003). I specialize in Phenomenology and Husserl Scholarship, with research interests in Modern Philosophy and Philosophy of Mind. I regularly teach PHIL 1510 Thought and Reality, PHIL 1520 Human Values, PHIL 4450 Existentialism, and PHIL 4460 Phenomenology; as well as related graduate-level courses. I am also the faculty advisor to Philosophy in Practice, our department's student-run journal. 

Representative publications:

Husserl’s Spatialization of Perceptual Consciousness,” Experiential Reason: Perception, Affectivity, and Volition in Husserl’s Phenomenology. Phaenomenologica, eds. R. Rubio, R. Walton, S. Taguchi (Springer, 2017)

“Monad and Consciousness in Husserl: A Quasi-representationalist Interpretation,” Discipline Filosofiche 23 (2) (2013), pp. 175-190

Representationalism and Husserlian Phenomenology,” Husserl Studies 27 (3) (Oct. 2011), pp. 197-215

Duality of Non-Conceptual Content in Husserl’s Phenomenology of Perception,” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 4 (2) (June 2005), pp. 209-229

Presence and Origin: On the Possibility of Static-Genetic Distinction,” Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 36 (2) (May 2005), pp. 129-147

What Kind of Idealist Was Leibniz?British Journal for the History of Philosophy 13 (1) (Feb. 2005), pp. 91-110

For more detailed information, including all publications, talks, etc., see my CV below:

Curriculum Vitae

Office Location: ET 422

Gastón Alzate, Ph.D ____________________________________________________________________ Department of Modern Languages & Literatures

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FICA, Buenos Aires, Mesa académica cabaretera, dic 2017
FICA (Festival Internacional de Cabaret- Buenos Aires, Mesa académica cabaretera, dic 2017.
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Phone: 323-343-2267 Email: galzate@exchange.calstatela.edu

Member of CAL STATE LA Golden Eagle Mariachi Band

3rd Interdisciplinary Conference, California State University-Sacramento. Proceedings. (Student publications)

Office Hours: King Hall A 3031 

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INTRODUCTION

Currently I am Full Professor of Spanish. I teach Latin American Theater, Performance Art and Literature. Representing the College of Arts and Letters, in 2018 I won The Cal State-L.A. Outstanding Mentroship Recognition, which distinguishes faculty who provide extraordinary academic mentoring to graduate studentsIn 2017 I was the Latin American Theater Review CátedraWoodyard recipient, University of KansasDuring 2011 I was Research Fellow of theVerflechtungen von Theater Kulturen (Interweaving Performance Cultures). Freie Universität, Berlin. Previously, I was Director of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies (LALACS) at Gustavus Adolphus College (1999-2006). I also served as advisor for the Independent Study group in Cuba, SPAN, University of Minnesota (1999-2000). I worked as Research Associate with David William Foster (1996-1997). Before living in the US I won the National Essay Award with my book Unaspectodesesperanzadodelaliteratura, a comparative study of the work of Sophocles, F. Hölderlin and Álvaro Mutis (Colombian Ministery of Culture). I also won the Alejo Carpentier National Short Story Award with "Luisa Fernanda" (Universidad Central, Bogotá). Since 2009 I am member of the CSULA Mariachi Band Aguila de Oro (Golden Eagle). 

 

Gas Mariachi 2017 Mariachi Homeless. Kairós. N. Buenaventura

           1) With Mariachi Aguila de Oro, Grand Park, Downtown Los Angeles, May 2017. 2) As a "homeless" Mariachi in the film Kairos: el momento oportuno directed by Nicolás Buenaventura, Cali, Colombia, July 2016.

TEACHING INTERESTS

For the last ten years, at California State University, Los Angeles, I have taught Theater Production in Spanish (Teatro en español), and developed several collaborative projects involving the Music and Theater Departments (see Mariachi Quixote). I have also taught undergraduate and MA courses on Contemporary Latin American Theater and Literature, graduate seminars on Latino and Latin American Performance Art, and on Mexican Popular Cultures from the point of view of theater and performance studies.  I am fortunate in that my academic life has given me the opportunity to balance both teaching and research in my field. At Cal State I love having the opportunity to work with a diverse student population. I try to create a comfortable and humorous atmosphere that promotes communication between cultures, while at the same time promoting a high level of learning. 

RESEARCH

My central line of research and publication has been Mexican and Colombian culture with a focus on literature, theater and performance art. With the collaboration of Dr. Paola Marín, I founded the academic electronicjournal KARPA in 2008, devoted to theatrical dissidences, visual arts, and culture. It publishes articles in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. It was indexed by the MLA International Bibliography. Previously a journal, it is now a peer-reviewed publication, which encompasses Latin American and Iberian performing and visual culture manifestations such as political cabaret, dance, performance art, theater, social theatricalities, graffiti, photography, and film.

During my Fellowship at the Verflechtungen von Theater Kulturen in Berlin (2011) I did research on Contemporary Mexican Political Cabaret focusing on the processes of interweaving diverse cultures. My experience at Berlin allowed me to better understand international perspectives on the Performance Studies field. These include the German scholarly tradition and the viewpoints of so-called Third World scholars who have questioned the intercultural component in the origins of the Performance Studies field in the U.S., principally the fact that performative manifestations from cultures beyond the Anglo-European context are often times stripped of their specific historical conditions.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

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Along with Paola Marín, editor of Cartografías críticas

Volumen I   Prácticas políticas y poéticas que piensan la pérdida y la desaparición forzada.

Volumen II Prácticas artísticas. Reflexiones en torno al cuerpo y la memoria. Compilación de textos de Ileana Dieguez. Ediciones KARPA.

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Along with Paola Marín, author of "Pathos y sacralidad: una lectura levinasiana de la obra de Doris Salcedo y Rosemberg Sandoval".  Cartografías críticasVolumen II. Karpa, 2018

 

Along with Paola Marín, editor of Terror y performance. Rustom Bharucha.  Traducción de Paola Marín.  Ediciones KARPA

 

"Una postmodernidad reaccionaria: el pensamiento de Álvaro Mutis". Revista Iberoamericana Vol. 83 No, 258, Enero-Marzo, 167-188.

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“La escritura queer de una subjetividad rabiosa: la obra literaria y performativa de Fernando Vallejo”. Revista de Estudios Colombianos Vol 49 enero-junio, 43-53.
 
"El cabaret en la plaza pública: Doce Dioses en pugna en la delegación Tlalpan". Investigación Teatral: Revista de Artes escénicas y performatividad [Universidad Veracruzana] Vol. 8 no 12 (2017): 49-72.

2017

Along with Paola Marín, General Editor of Revista Karpa 10 (2017): Teatralidades, disidencias y liminalidades II" Guest Editors: Eduardo Reinato, Roberto Abdala e Robson Camargo.  http://www.calstatela.edu/al/karpa/karpa-10

2017

Along with Paola Marín, General Editor of Revista Karpa 9 (2017):

Teatralidades, disidencias y liminalidades I" http://www.calstatela.edu/al/karpa/karpa-9

2017

COMPLETE LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

 


AWARDS:

Outstanding Mentorship and Commitment to Students Engaged in Research. Cal State University-L.A. (2018)

Cátedra George Woodyard recipient.  Latin American Theater Review, University of Kansas. (2017)

National Essay Award, Instituto Colombiano de Cultura (Ministerio de Cultura).

National Short Story Award. Fundación Alejo Carpentier. Universidad Central. Bogotá.

JURY:

Jury of theater competition "Premio innovación y juventud 2011". Universidad Autónoma de Baja California/Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, México. (2011)

Jury of the Open Arts Student Competition. 4th International Forum on Visual Arts. Museum Leopoldo Flores/Autonomous University of the State of Mexico, Mexico. (2007)

Jury for the George Woodyard’s 1st Latin American Theater Prize, sponsored by University of Connecticut/Latin American Theater Review. (2006)

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

Research Fellow, Interweaving Performance Cultures, Freie Universität, Berlín, Germany. (2010-2011)

Ph.D. Contemporary Mexican Theater, 1997. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

Masters Latin American Art Criticism, 1991 Universidad del Rosario. Bogotá, Colombia.

B.A. Contemporary Latin American Literature.  Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, Colombia.

Studies of piano, flute and composition. Real Conservatorio Superior de Música y Canto. Madrid, Spain

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Dionne Espinoza

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College of Arts and Letters
Department of Liberal Studies
Phone: 323-343-4100 Email: despino@calstatela.edu

Dionne Espinoza, Ph.D. is Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in the Department of Liberal Studies. Her research and teaching interests center the voices, archives, and critical theories of women of color from the sixties to present with an emphasis on Chicana feminist thought and activism. She is currently revising her book manuscript Bronze Womanhood: Chicana Activism in the Chicano Movement in the Southwest. She has co-edited two books: Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Women’s Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era (co-edited with María Cotera and Maylei Blackwell, University of Texas Press, 2018) and the award-winning Enriqueta Vasquez and the Chicano Movement: Writings from El Grito del Norte (with Lorena Oropeza, Arte Publico Press, 2006). 

Espinoza was raised in the San Gabriel Valley cities of Alhambra and El Monte. She received her B.A. at UC Berkeley and her M.A./Ph.D .at Cornell University in English. In these programs her studies focused on comparative race/ethnicity studies, postcolonial theory, and women of color feminisms. She  joined Cal State LA  as a faculty member in Chicano Studies  (2002-2007) and then held a joint appointment in Chicana (o) and Latina (o) Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (2007-2017). She was the founding Director of the Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (2014-2017) and has also served as Director of the Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities (2004-2008, 2018-2020).  As Director of CSGS she co-founded the Annual Student Research Conference, “Gender, Sexuality, and Power" in 2005.

Office Location: ET A 415

Domnita Dumitrescu

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College of Arts and Letters
Department of Modern Languages & Literatures
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Domnita Dumitrescu
Professor of Spanish Linguistics, Emerita
College of Arts and Letters
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
King Hall D -3086
ddumitr@exchange.calstatela.edu

Introduction
Educational background
Teaching experience and interests
Research interests, and projects
Publications
  Books
  Selected Chapters In Books and Proceedings Volumes
  Selected Journal Articles
  Some recent book reviews
  Some Translations From Spanish Into Romanian
  Interviews
 Television participation

Introduction:

Before coming to the United States in 1984, Domnita Dumitrescu taught Spanish language, linguistics and literature at the University of Bucharest  (Romania ), as an Assistant, then Associate, Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, founded by the great Romanian linguist Iorgu Iordan, of whom she was a close disciple. She also taught Spanish on public Romanian television, and she earned a reputation as one of the best translators and interpreters from Spanish into Romanian in her native country.

She came to California State University, Los Angeles, in the Fall of 1987, while still working on her doctoral dissertation at USC, which she completed in December 1989 with the help of a CSU Forgivable Loan/Doctoral Incentive Program for Minorities and Women. She was awarded early tenure and promotion in 1990, and became full professor in 1995. She entered the  Faculty Early Retirement program in September 2011, when she became an Emerita, and  retired completely in June 2016.

In addition to her teaching assignments and her numerous professional activities, between 1989 and 1999, she assumed leadership of the local chapter of the Hispanic Honor Society Sigma Delta Pi, and resumed this activity between fall 2003 and spring 2005 and later on utntil she retired.She coordinated the supervision and training of the Spanish Teaching Associates until 1994, and served, between 2000 and 2002, and then in 2004-2005, as coordinator of the Spanish section . Her committee service includes the most important personnel committees in the department and at the college level, and a number of university subcommittees of the academic senate, as well as service on the academic senate itself for several years, and on the OPA selection committee. She also served, for two years, as Director of Teatro Universitario en Español.  In 2004-2005, she served as Head of the Task Force for developing a new Subject Matter Preparation Program for prospective teachers of LOTE (Languages Other Than English), which was approved in 2008.

She is the recipient of a Fulbright Senior Scholar Lecturing Award in Argentina (1992), of the José Martel Prize for her activity as a Sigma Delta Pi adviser (1995), and of the Orden de los Descubridores, and Orden de Don Quijote, awarded by Sigma Delta Pi to outstanding Hispanists (in 1997 and 2003, respectively); she is listed in several Who's Who volumes, including Who’s Who in the World,Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Education, Who’s Who of Romanian-Americans, and the International Who's Who of Professional and Business Women. Inducted into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi in 1997, she won the Teacher of the Year Award from the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese in 2000, and was included in 2000 Outstanding Scholars of the  20th Century, published by the International Biographic Center, Cambridge, U.K. In 2002, she earned the California State University Los Angeles Distinguished Woman Award, and in 2007 she was the CSULA nominee for the  Wang Family Excellence Award (in the category of Visual and Performing Arts and Letters). In 2004,  CSULA bestowed upon her its Outstanding Professor Award for 2003-2004, and in 2008 she was the recipient of the CSULA President’s Distinguished Professor  Award. Her most recent honor is having been named a Lifetime Achiever by Marquis Who's Who: https://marquistopeducators.com/2018/07/20/domnita-dumitrescu/

Between 1996 and 2001, she served as associate editor of Hispania, the official journal of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP),  preparing -four times a year-the section entitled “The Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian World.” Since January 2011, she has served as Book/Media Review Editor for Hispania, the scholarly journal of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Her contract ends in 2019.She is currently serving on the Editorial Board of Language and Dialogue (published by John Benjamins), Journal of Spanish Language Teaching (published by Routledge), and Sociocultural Pragmatics/Pragmática Sociocultural (published by De Gruyter)

Between 2002 and 2005, she also served as associate editor of the Southwest Journal of Linguistics, the journal of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO), and she is a frequent manuscript evaluator for several peer reviewed journals (including Hispania  and Journal of Pragmatics, as well as the interdisciplinary program EDICE) and for several publishing houses. She has also served, on several occasions, as faculty consultant at the Spanish Advanced Placement Reading, in San Antonio, TX, and on the California Teacher Credentialing Advisory Panel. Finally, she served as an external evaluator for several universities in the US, including CUNY and San Diego State University, among others (tenure and promotion committees, and department reviews).

She served  on the Executive Council of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese as College/University Representative (term 2009-2011). She has been appointed Honorary President of the Hispanic Honor Society Sigma Delta Pi in July 2010, and she serves as permanent liaison between the AATSP and Sigma Delta Pi, as well as liaison between the AATSP and the MLA for the 2013, 2014 and 2015 MLA Conventions. In March 2011, she was elected  Corresponding Member of ANLE (North American Academy of the Spanish Language, affiliated with the Spanish Royal Academy in Madrid), and was appointed president of the Commission on the Study of Spanish in the United States. She was elected full ANLE member in February 2013 and she delivered  her acceptance speech, entitled "El cambio de código en la literatura hispanounidense: cómo, dónde y por qué" on March 29 of the same year, in New York, at the King Juan Carlos Center of CUNY.Shortly after, she was elected  Corresponding member for the US of the  Royal Spanish Academy in Madrid, Spain.

Educational background:

Ph.D. in Spanish (Linguistics concentration), May 1990, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. Dissertation title: "The Grammar of Echo Questions in Spanish and Romanian: Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics." Director: Professor Mario Saltarelli.

M.A. in Spanish (Linguistics concentration), December 1987, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.

Diploma (equivalent to Master of Arts degree) in Spanish Language and Literature (major) and Romanian Language and Literature (minor), June 1966, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania (graduated Summa Cum Laude, highest GPA in the country). Thesis: "La lengua y el estilo de Ramón del Valle-Inclán."Director: Professor Iorgu Iordan.

 

Teaching experience and interests:

Domnita Dumitrescu taught a wide variety of language and linguistics courses at both the graduate and undergraduate level, with special emphasis on the grammatical structures, the sociolinguistic variation, and the pragmatic use of contemporary Spanish. She has also taught courses in Peninsular literature and civilization, in comparative Romance linguistics and philology, and in French and Romanian language.

Among the courses that she has taught at CSLA since 1987 are: Spanish 100 A,B,C (Elementary Spanish); Spanish 105 (Spanish for Native Speakers); ML 140: Modern Languages and the Criminal Justice System; Spanish 200 A,B,C (Intermediate Spanish); Spanish 205 A,B (Intermediate Spanish for Native Speakers); Spanish 300 A,B (Composition and Grammar); ML 300 (Linguistic Diversity in Urban America- GE upper division course – taught online); Spanish 305 (Introduction to Spanish Linguistics); Spanish 310 (Civilization of Spain); Spanish 320 (Phonetics/Phonology); Spanish 380 (Commercial Spanish- taught on line); Spanish 400A (Spanish Morphology); Spanish 400B (Syntax); Spanish 402 (Spanish in the US); Spanish 403 (Grammatical Structures of Spanish and English); French 403 (Grammatical Structures of French and English); Spanish 428 (The Generation of 98); Spanish 459 (Hispanic Play Production); Spanish 461 (Special topic course in linguistics: Sociolinguistics Aspects of Verbal Politeness in the Hispanic World); Modern Languages 496 (Instructional Practicum); Spanish 500 (Academic Writing in Spanish); Spanish 501 (History of the Spanish language); Spanish 506 (Semantics and Pragmatics); Spanish 510 (Sociolinguistic Patterns in Spanish); Spanish 540 (Contemporary Spanish Poetry).

At the University of Southern California, she taught (between 1990and 2002, as an occasional  part-time lecturer): Spanish 266 (Spanish for Communication: Arts and Sciences); Spanish 280 (Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics); Spanish 311 (Advanced Oral Communication and Applied Phonetics; and, in a new format, Spanish language through contemporary issues: Oral emphasis); Spanish 312 (Advanced Composition and Grammar); Spanish 408 (Morphophonology of Spanish); Spanish 412 (Spanish Syntax and Semantics). At the University of California in Irvine, as a visiting professor, she taught Spanish 113A (Phonetics - undergraduate) in Spring 2000, and was again invited to teach Spanish 201 (History of the Spanish Language- graduate course) in Winter 2001. Occasionally, she also taught Intermediate Spanish classes at Pasadena City College.

During a sabbatical leave, in the fall of 1993, she taught in Argentina, as a Fulbright Scholar, courses in Discourse Analysis, Communicative Second Language Teaching, Contrastive Analysis of Spanish and English, and Second Language Acquisition, at the Instituto Nacional Superior del Profesorado en Lenguas Vivas "Juan Ramón Fernández" in Buenos Aires, and the Universities of Buenos Aires, San Juan, Tucumán, Córdoba, Salta, and Del Comahue. She also gave several workshops on competency-based foreign language teaching, including a two day workshop at the Asociación Rosarina de Intercambio Cultural Argentino-Norteamericano (ARICANA).

Professor Dumitrescu is interested in constantly updating, improving and expanding the Spanish linguistics course offerings at CSLA, and in keeping abreast with the newest methodologies in the field. She has designed a number of linguistics courses for the Spanish majors and/or graduate students, which have been introduced into the curriculum; their subjects include sociolinguistics of the Spanish speaking world, semantics and pragmatics, morphology, introduction to Hispanic linguistics, a seminar on special topics in linguistics, and an advanced writing course for academic purposes, as well as a language diversity course for the GE program.  She also developed online versions of Spanish 380 and ML 300, and a new upper-division course, on Spanish in the United States , which was offered for the first time in Spring 2009 and became part of the Spanish curriculum. She has made several program modifications of the BA and MA degrees in Spanish and she co-authored the linguistics part of the Spanish Assessment Exam, currently offered to graduating Spanish majors.

 

Research interests, and projects:

Domnita Dumitrescu's research interests include the areas of syntax, semantics and in particular pragmatics of the Romance languages--with special emphasis on Spanish and Romanian. She is also interested in researching linguistic aspects of literary texts, and language contact in either second language learning environments or situations of societal bilingualism. In the past, she has also extensively researched topics in translation theory and practice, foreign language pedagogy and contrastive grammar, comparative literature (especially the reception of Spanish authors in Romania , or the influence of Spanish authors on Romanian writers), and Peninsular literary history.
Recently, in addition to her interest in Spanish as a heritage language, she has been  studying the academic community’s attitudes toward  the Spanish spoken in the US , in particular the mixture of Spanish and English known as Spanglish. In parallel, she has also been studying  the linguistic variation in the expression of verbal politeness in the Hispanic world, and the acquisition of verbal politeness in Spanish by speakers of English. She is an active  member of  EDICE (Estudios sobre el Discurso de Cortesía en Español), an international research group hosted at Stockholm University. She also became interested in new linguistics and literature topics as diverse as conversation analysis in Spanish, the influence of English on the Romanian spoken in the US by first and second generation immigrants, the syntax and semantics of focused pronouns and clitic-doubled constructions in Spanish and Romanian, and images of exile in Argentinean women writers like Alina Diaconú (who is of Romanian descent).

At California State University, Los Angeles, she presented two Faculty Colloquia, one (1993) on the historical development of Romanian and its place among the other Romance languages, and another one (1996) on the cross-cultural pragmatics of conversational routines used for thanking, apologizing and complimenting in several languages of the world. She gave  her President’s  Distinguished Professor Address before the Academic Senate  in May 2008, with the title: “Spanish in the United States : Lessons from the past and challenges for the future.”
She has also sponsored the research of two students who became Mc Nair Scholars and earned several prizes at student competitions both at the local and the national level. She served on several MA Thesis Committees outside of her own department, and provided scholarly guidance to numerous CSULA graduates who pursued graduate careers in linguistics. She was the principal opponent at the doctoral dissertation defense of Susanne Henning at the University of Stockholm in September 2015 and a member of the dissertation committee of Emily Bernate, at the University of Houston, in spring 2016.

Domnita Dumitrescu is a frequent presenter at national and international meetings of the profession, in particular periodical meetings of the learned societies to which she belongs, such as Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Modern Language Association of America, International Pragmatics Association,  Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de la América Latina, Romanian Studies Association of America, Linguistic Association of the Southwest, and the International Programa EDICE (Estudios sobre el discurso de cortesía en español). She has organized and chaired many special sessions and panels at such scholarly meetings, and she has held several offices in the above-mentioned professional organizations. Among others, she was the president of the Southern California Chapter of the AATSP, and the President of the Romanian Studies Association of America. From 1995 to 2007 she served as the Sigma Delta Pi National Vice-President for the West. She also served on the Executive Committee of the MLA Division on Language Theory, on the MLA Delegate Assembly, and on the Executive Committee of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest.  She is currently the  delegate for  the US and Canada of  the Association  of Linguistcs and Philology of Latin America (ALFAL). She was the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO) 2005 president, and delivered her presidential address at Texas Tech University, in Lubbock, Texas, on October 7, 2005.At Cal State LA, she has been involved with the  Latino Book and Family Festival, held on campus in October 2009, and the co-organization of  the Octavio Paz International Conference, held on campus in May 2010.She organized the conference and poetry reading by Luis Alberto Ambroggio at CSULA, on November 28, 2012, in collaboration with the Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, and she organized the7th  international conference  of the Programa EDICE in March 2016 at CSULA, in collaboration with  USC, the University of Stockholm, the North American Academy of the Spanish Language and the Cervantes Institute in New York.

She has given more than160 scholarly presentations at congresses and conferences held in the US, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Panama, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Hungary, and Romania, and was invited as a guest of honor to deliver two plenary addresses at the I Congreso Internacional de Didáctica y Metodología del Español in Montevideo (Uruguay), August 1994. She was also invited to deliver a plenary address at the Jornadas de lingüística aplicada a la enseñanza de la lengua (San Carlos de Bariloche, November 1993), and to coordinate an Encuentro de Investigadores at the XI Congreso Internacional de la ALFAL (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, August 1996). In 1997, the Linguistic Society of America awarded her a National Science Foundation competitive travel grant to participate in the International Congress of Linguists, in Paris. Among other places, she gave invited lectures on Spanish in the US at the  University of Costa Rica, in San José, in July 2008, at at the University of Alicante, in September 2010, as well as at the Spanish bookfair (Leala) in Los Angeles, in 2012. She also gave a lecture  on the teaching of the heritage speakers of Spanish in the US at the University of Stockholm. Sweden, in October 2015.

As for Domnita Dumitrescu's publications, she is the author of a book on Spanish pragmatics (in English), the co-editor of  a book on Spanish in the US (in Spanish), three books on the structure of Spanish and on the theory and practice of translation from Romanian into Spanish (in Romanian), and the editor of a volume on cultural relations between Romania and the Hispanic world. She has recently edited two more academic bookson Spanish pragmatics,  for publishers in the UK and Argentina (see publications, below). She is also the author of more than 60 chapters in books and proceedings volumes, and more than 60 articles in scholarly journals published in Europe, Latin America and the United States. She has also translated into Romanian several major works of modern peninsular literature by Carmen Martín Gaite, Emilia de Pardo-Bazán, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Ignacio Aldecoa, Ramón del Valle-Inclán, etc, and she published more than 75 book reviews and book notices, as well as other miscellaneous materials of professional interest.

Her current collaborative projects include:

ANLE and Philippines delegate to the ASALE inter-academic commission  for the elaboration of the next edition of the Dictionary of the Spanish language (DLE 24)

ANLE collaborator to the Glosario de términos gramaticales elaborated by ASALE

USA and Canada delegate of the ALFAL (Asociacion de Linguistica y Filologia de la América Latina)

A selected list of representative publications follows.

Publications (in chronological order):

Books:

- Gramatica limbii spaniole prin exercitii structurale[Spanish Grammar through Structural Activities], Bucuresti, Editura Stiintifica si Enciclopedica, 1976, 390 pp.

Review in 

Anales de la Universidad de Murcia (Filosofía y Letras) 36 (1977-78): 465-467, by A. Juárez & M. Garrigós

- Indreptar pentru traducerea din limba romana in limba spaniola[Guide to the translation from Romanian into Spanish], Bucuresti, Editura Stiintifica si Enciclopedica, 1980, 334 pp.

Review  published in Revue Roumaine de Linguistique 26 (1981): 393-394  by Tudora Sandru-Olteanu

- Edition of: Din istoria relatiilor culturale hispano-romane [On the History of the Hispano-Romanian Cultural Relations], Tipografia Universitatii din Bucuresti, 1981, 202 p. (Bibliography with comments and an extensive introductory study).

– (Vreti sa stiti daca stiti …..) Limba spaniola?  [(Do you want to know if you know…)The Spanish Language?] (co-authored with Dan Munteanu, from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain ), Bucuresti, Editura Niculescu., 2005, 372 pp. (launched at the Cervantes Institute in Bucharest, July 1, 2005)

- Aspects of Spanish Pragmatics, Peter Lang, New York, 2011, 390 pp.

http://www.peterlang.com/download/datasheet/53866/datasheet_310443.pdf

Reviews published by Frank Nuessel, from the University of Louisville, in Lingua 121.15 ( December 2011); Milton Azevedo, from UC Berkeley, in Journal of Pragmatics 44 (January 2012);Razvan Saftoiu, from the Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania, published in Language and Dialogue 2:2 (2012), 306-312.Other reviews were published in Boletin de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Espanola 14 (2011) by Antonio Pamies, from the University of Granada, Spain, in Revue Roumaine de Linguistique  57.3 (2012)   by Andra Vasilescu, from the University of Bucharest,  in Spanish in Context 11.1 (2014) by María Eugenia Vázquez Laslop, from El Colegio de México, and in Pragmática sociocultural/Sociocultural pragmatics 2.2 (2014) by Carmen García, from Arizona State University

-El español en Estados Unidos: E Pluribus Unum? Enfoques multidisciplinarios (co-edition  with Gerado Piña Rosales). Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española, New York, 2013 (403 pp.)

This book was reviewed in Revista Literaria Baquiana, año XV,  nr. 85-86 (Angel López García)- edición digital; Español Actual 99, 2014 (Angel López-García);Confluenze: Rivista di studi iberoamericani, vol. 5, num. 2, 2013 (Elena Errico); Analecta Malacitana: Universida de Málaga, vol. 36, 1-2 (2013) (Francisco Carriscondo Esquivel);LynX, 11, 2014 (Rogelio Rodríguez Pellicer);International Journal of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, vol. 31, num. 2 (2012) (Michael Woods); RANLE 5 (2014) (M.E. Pelly);Boletin ANLE  2014 (Manel Lacorte); Miriada Hispánica (Mª Dolores García Planelles); Journal of Spanish Language Teaching 1.2 (2014) (Juan Antonio Sempere Martínez); Transfer X: 1-2 (may 2015) (Oscar Santos-Sopena); Spanish in Context 12.2 (2015) (Georganne Weller)

Hablando bien se entiende la gente  II  (edited in collaboration with Gerardo Piña-Rosales, and Jorge Ignacio Covarrubias). Santillana, USA, 2014. 200 pp.

Moreno-Fernández, Francisco & Domnita Dumitrescu (dirs.). Bibliografía lingüística del español en los Estados Unidos / Linguistic Bibliography of Spanish in the United States. With the col. of A. Enrique-Arias and F. J. Pueyo Mena. Cambridge, MA: Instituto Cervantes at Harvard University – ANLE, 2016. DOI: 10.15427/LiBSUS2016, available at: http://observatoriocervantes.org/bsus/bsus.php

Roles situacionales, interculturalidad y multiculturalidad en encuentros en español (co-edition with  Diana Brava, from Stockholm University) published  by ANLE and the EDICE Program at Dunken Publishers,Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2016, 211 pp.

L2 Spanish Pragmatics: From Research to Teachin(co-edition with Patricia Andueza, from Evansville University, IN): Routledge, UK, 2018, 377 pp.

Review in Journal of Spanish Language Teaching, June 2018 (Frank Nuessel) DOI: 10.1080/23247797.2018.1472439

See also:https://www.routledge.com/posts/13383?utm_source=shared_link&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=180314044

 Selected Chapters In Books and Proceedings Volumes :

- "El español en la obra lingüística y filológica de B.P. Hasdeu", Actas del III Congreso Internacional de Hispanistas, México, 1970, pp. 305-314.

-"Procedimientos gramaticales para 'hermetizar' el mensaje poético (en Mallarmé, Valéry, Guillén, y Barbu)", Actele celui de-al XII-lea Congres International de Lingvistica si Filologie Romanica, vol. II, Bucuresti, 1971, pp. 831-837.

- Invatarea limbii [Language Acquisition], T.Slama-Cazacu (editor) - Bucuresti, Centrul De Multiplicare Al Universitatii Din Bucuresti, 1973. Chapter title: "Interferente in invatarea limbii spaniole de catre romani" [Interferences in the learning of Spanish by Romanians], pp. 211-229.

- Manual de limba spaniola. I. Categoriile gramaticale [Spanish Manual I. Grammatical Categories], M. Manoliu-Manea (editor), Bucuresti, Tipografia Universitatii din Bucuresti, 1975 (II ed. revised, 1976). Chapter title: "Persoana si deixisul" [Person and deixis], pp. 54-76.

-"Sobre la terminología cromática en la poesía de la generación del '27", Actas del V Congreso Internacional de Hispanistas, Bordeaux, 1977, pp. 345-354.

- "La metáfora ultraísta y la generación del 27", Actas del Simposio Internacional de Estudios Hispánicos (18 -19 de agosto, 1976), Budapest, Akademiai Kiado, 1978, pp. 171-176.

- Studii de sintaxa a limbii spaniole [Studies in Spanish Syntax], Bucuresti, Tipografia Universitatii din Bucuresti, l979. Chapter title: "Interogatia si negatia" [Interrogation and Negation], pp. 5-69.

- "Situación actual del estudio y de la enseñanza del español en Rumania", Actas del Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Europea de Profesores de Español, Budapest, 1980, pp. 355-364.

- "Federico García Lorca en la visión de Miron Radu-Paraschivescu", Actas del VII Congreso Internacional de Hispanistas, Roma, 1981, pp. 391-398.

- "Estructura léxica del Diván del Tamarit", Actas del IV Congreso Internacional de Hispanistas, Salamanca, l982, p. 409-424 [Also published in Revue Roumaine de Linguistique & Cahiers De Linguistique Théorique Et Appliquée l/l983, pp. 2l-34].

- "Los primeros ecos del descubrimiento de América en la cultura rumana,"Actas del Congreso Internacional sobre Literatura Hispánica en la Epoca de los Reyes Católicos y el Descubrimiento, Dirección: Manuel Criado de Val, Barcelona, Publicaciones y Promociones Universitarias, 1989, pp.592-595.

-"Sintaxis y pragmática de las preguntas cuasi eco en español,"Actas del X Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (Barcelona, 21-26 de agosto, 1989), publicadas por Antonio Vilanova. Tomo IV, pp. 1323-1338, Barcelona, 1992.

-"Función pragmadiscursiva de la interrogación ecoica usada como respuesta en español,"Aproximaciones pragmalingüísticas al español, ed. by Henk Haverkate, Kees Hengeveld, and Gijs Mulder, Editorial Rodopi, Amsterdam-Atlanta, GA, 1993, pp.51-85 (Diálogos Hispánicos 12) [invited contribution].

-"Estructura y función de las preguntas retóricas repetitivas en español,"De historia, lingüísticas, retóricas y poéticas: Actas Irvine-92, Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, Editor: Juan Villegas, Vol. I, pp.139-147, 1994.

- "El español en los Estados Unidos: Fenómenos de contacto lingüístico y problemas de política educativa,"Estados Unidos y América Latina: Relaciones Interculturales.(Actas de las XXVI Jornadas de la Asociación Argentina de Estudios Americanos), ed. por Rolando Costa Picazo. Buenos Aires, 1994, pp. 136-167.

-"On The Syntactic Structure And Discourse Function Of The Multiple Constituent Repetitive And No repetitive Questions In Romanian," in: Studi rumeni e romanzi. Ommaggio a Florica Dimitrescu & Alexandru Niculescu, ed. by Lorenzo Renzi and Coman Lupu, Padova ( Italy ), Unipress, 3 vols., 1995. Vol I, pp. 86-114.

-"Tendencias actuales en la medición y evaluación de las destrezas lingüísticas y de la competencia comunicativa implícita", Actas del Congreso Internacional de Didáctica y Metodología para el Desarrollo de la Lengua Materna (18, 19, 20 de agosto de 1994, Montevideo). Sociedad de Profesores de Español del Uruguay, Montevideo, 1995, pp. 30-48.

-"Implicaciones pedagógicas de la enseñanza del español a los hablantes nativos de los Estados Unidos, o el reto del biloquialismo en las clases de SNS (Spanish for Native Speakers)", Actas del Congreso Internacional de Didáctica y Metodología para el Desarrollo de la Lengua Materna (18, 19, 20 de agosto de 1994, Montevideo). Sociedad de Profesores de Español del Uruguay, Montevideo, 1995, pp. 70-80.

- "Sobre la función discursiva de las preguntas que repiten otras preguntas en el español coloquial actual,"Actas del X Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de la América Latina (ALFAL), edición: Marina Arjona Iglesias, Juan López Chávez, Araceli Enríquez Ovando, Gilda C. López Lara, Miguel Angel Novella Gómez. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, 1966, pp. 409-418.

-"Romanian and the Non-Nominative Subject Parameter" (in collaboration with Professor Pascual José Masullo, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina), in: Aspects of Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XXIV, March 10-13, 1994, ed. by Claudia Parodi, Carlos Quicoli, Mario Saltarelli, and María Luisa Zubizarreta, Washington D.C., Georgetown University Press, 1996, pp. 213-226.

-"Un modelo de análisis sintáctico de las preguntas eco en español y rumano": Actas Do XIX Congreso Internacional de Lingüística e Filoloxía Románicas/ Actes du XIX-e Congrès International de Linguistique et Philologie Romanes, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, publicadas por Ramón Lorenzo, Fundación Pedro Barrie de la Maza (Spain), Vol. I: Lingüística Teórica e Lingüística Sincrónica, 1997.

-"Fenómenos paralelos de contacto con el inglés en el español y el rumano de Estados Unidos."Atti del XXI Congresso Internazionale di Linguistica e Filologia Romanza, Centro di Studi Filologici e Linguistici Siciliani, Università di Palermo, 18-24 settembre 1995, a cura di Giovanni Ruffino. Vol. V: Dialettologia, geolinguistica, sociolinguistica. Max Niemer Verlag, Tübingen 1998, pp. 275-283.

-"'A' personal, duplicación clítica y marcadez: Español porteño vs. español madrileño ", Actas del XII Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, 21- 26 de agosto, 1995, Birmingham. Tomo I: Medieval y lingüística. Ed. by Aengus M. Ward. Birmingham, the University of Birmingham, 1998, pp. 140-152.

-"Two types of predicate modification: Evidence from the articulated adjectives of Romanian" (in collaboration with Mario Saltarelli). Theoretical Analyses on Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 26th Linguistic Symposium on Romance languages (LSRL XXVI, Mexico City, 28-30 March, 1996). Ed. by José Lema and Esthela Treviño, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 1998, pp. 175-192.

- "Subordinación y recursividad en la conversación: Las secuencias integradas por intercambios ecoicos,"La pragmática lingüística del español: Recientes desarrollos, ed. by Henk Haverkate, Gijs Mulder and Carolina Fraile Maldonado, Ed. Rodopi, Amsterdam-Atlanta, GA, 1998, pp. 277-314 (Diálogos Hispánicos Número 22) [invited contribution].

- "Attributive Adjectives in Romance: Toward a Unified Theory of Modification" (in collaboration with Mario Saltarelli, USC). Actes du 16-ème Congrès International des Linguistes (Paris, 20-25 juillet, 1997). Ed. by Bernard Caron. Oxford/Elsevier Sciences, 1998.[CD-ROM version]

-“Language Contact among Heritage Speakers of Romanian in the United States .” Heritage Languages in America : Preserving a National Resource. Ed.by Peyton, J.K. & S.McGinnis. McHenry, Il & Washington, DC: Delta Systems and Center for Applied Linguistics, 2001.

-  “Romanian in Contact with English in the United States : In the footsteps of Cuban-American Spanish?”  Romance Studies Today: In Honor of Beatriz Varela, ed. by Elaine S. Brooks, Eliza M. Ghil and S. George Wolf. Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta ( Hispanic Monographs), 2004, pp. 165-183.

-“La expresión de buenos deseos hacia nuestro prójimo: ¿Un acto de habla cortés automático?” Pragmática sociocultural:  Estudios sobre el discurso de cortesía en español, ed. by Diana Bravo and Antonio Briz. Barcelona: Ariel, 2004, pp.  265-283.

- “Agradecer en una interlengua: una comparación entre la competencia pragmática de los estudiantes nativos y no nativos de español en California.” Actos de habla y cortesía en distintas variedades de español:  Perspectivas teóricas y metodológicas. Actas del Segundo Coloquio Internacional del Programa EDICE, San Jose de Costa Rica, ed. by Jorge Murillo (CD-Rom edition), 2005. Available also at http://books.google.com/books?id=KUxw9_7Nd7UC&pg=PA5&ots=lgJbehipQB&dq=programa+edice&hl=es&sig=wGtSZl3V-TXwxyzvrwFiU4Kqrsw#PPP1,M1

-  “ A los 35 años de Renga: Octavio Paz y la universalidad del lenguaje poético”.Actas del XV Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas:‘Las dos orillas’, Monterrey, México, del 19 al 24 de julio de 2004,  vol. IV, ed. by Beatriz Mariscal, and María Teresa Miaja,  Fondo de Cultura Económica/AIH/ Tecnológico de Monterrey/El Colegio de México: México, 2007, pp. 135-144.

-“Usos discursivos del adverbio en el español mexicano.” Studii de lingvistică şi filologie romanică: Hommages offerts à Sanda Reinheimer Rîpeanu, ed. By Alexandra Cuniţă, Coman Lupu & Liliane Tasmowski. Bucureşti, Editura Universităţii din  Bucureşti, 233-244  (expanded version  of the item below)

- “Usos discursivos del adverbio en el español mexicano.” El español de América: Actas del VICongreso Internacional “El español de América,” Tordesillas, Valladolid, 25-29 de octubre 2005), ed. by César Hernández Alonso & Leticia Castañeda San Cirilo. Valladolid: Diputación Provincial de Valladolid, 2007, 857-872 (available also in CD-ROM).

-  “El español en los Estados Unidos: La controversia sobre el Spanglish dentro (y más allá ) del mundo académico.” Estudios hispánicos, vol I: Lingüística y didáctica, ed. by Sanda Reinheimer Ripeanu & Mihai Iacob, Bucuresti: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti, 2008, 137-164

.- “Imagen y (des)cortesía en la comunicación académica por ordenador: un caso concreto.” Cortesía yconversación: de lo escrito a lo oral, ed. by Antonio Briz , Antonio Hidalgo, Marta Albelda, Josefa Contreras & Nieves. Valencia, Estocolmo: Universidad de Valencia, Programa EDICE. 2008, 437-467. (online publication, available also on CD-ROM).Available  at: http://www.edice.org/programa/wp-content/files/3coloquioEDICE.pdf)

 - “Estrategias de cortesía y gestión de imagen en entrevistas con jóvenes caribeños”. Estudiossobre lengua, sociedad y cultura:  homenaje a Diana Bravo, ed. by Nieves Hernández-Flores and Maria Bernal, Stockholm University:  Department of  Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, 2009, pp.78-106 (available at http://su.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:235240 and in print- 2010 edition)

- “Sobre la atenuación cortés en español y rumano: unas estrategias comunes.” Actes du XXV-e Congrès International  de Linguistique et Philologie Romanes, publiés par  Maria Iliescu, Heidi Siller-Runggaldier et Paul Danler, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2010, vol. IV, pp. 371-388.

- “Spanglish: An ongoing controversy,” Building Communities and Making Connections, ed. by Susana Rivera-Mills and Juan Antonio Trujillo, Cambridge Scholars, 2010, pp. 136-167 (invited contribution)

-  “Rum. Cică vs. esp.Dizque: Polifonía e intertextualidad”,  Oralia,  Anejo 6, Polifonía e intertextualidad en el diálogo, ed. by Clara Ubaldina Lorda Mur. Madrid: Arco Libros, 2012. Pp. 317-337.

-“El español  y el rumano en  los Estados Unidos: metamorfosis, controversia y ‘pedigrí.’” Traducción y (a)culturación en la era global/Translation and  (Ac)culturation in the Global Era. Ed. Catalina Iliescu Gheorghiu. Alicante: Ed. Aguaclara, 2012. 85-104.

 -“The Representation of Regional Spanish Speech in Literary Dialogues from the Past Century.”   Representations in Dialogue/ Dialogue in Representations: Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the   International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA). Ed. Alain Létourneau, François Cooren y    Nicholas Bencherki. Montreal: John Benjamins. 221-233.Online publication.http://iada-web.org/download/representationsindialogue.pdf

- (co-authored with Mircea-Doru Brânza). “Sobre el llamado ‘leísmo de cortesía’ en Hispanoamérica.”Miradas multidisciplinarias a los fenómenos de cortesía y descortesía en el mundo hispano. Ed. Julio Escamilla Morales y Grandfield Henri Vega. Barranquilla y Estocolmo: Universidad del Atlántico y Universidad de Estocolmo: EDICE, 2012. 669-692. Online publication. http://edice.org/blog/2012/11/12/miradas/

-Introducción. El español en Estados Unidos: E Pluribus Unum? Enfoques multidisciplinarios (co-edition  with Gerado Piña Rosales). Academia Norteamerican de la Lengua Española, New York, 2013, pp. 13-27.

- “La búsqueda de la poesía plural y plurilingüe en Octavio Paz”. The Willow and the Spiral: Essays on Octavio Paz and the Poetic Imagination, ed. by Roberto Cantú. Newcastle upon Tyne:Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, pp. 233-243.

“Dude was figureando hard: El cambio y la fusión de códigos en la obra de Junot Díaz.” Perspectives in the study of Spanish language variation: Papers in honor of  Carmen Silva-Corvalán . Special issue of Verba 72. Eds. Andrés Enrique-Arias, Manuel Gutiérrez, Alazne Landa and Francisco Ocampo. Servizo de Publicacións e Intercambio Cientifico:Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 2014. Pp.397-432 (invited contribution).

 “A manera de prólogo.” Introduction to: Ángel López García-Molins, El español de EE UU y el problema de la norma lingüística.New York: ANLE, 2014 (Invited contribution), pp. 11-31.

“Spanglish, estadounidismos y bilingüismo vestigial:¿Qué es qué?” in Visiones europeas del Spanglish, ed. by Silvia Betti and Daniel Jorques Jiménez. Valencia: Ediciones Uno y Cero, 2015  pp.26-40 (electronic publication)

 

“On the Translations of Carlos Fuentes into Romanian”. The Reptant Eagle. Essays on Carlos Fuentes and the Art of Novel, ed. by Roberto Cantú. Newcastle upon Tyne:Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, pp. 306-312.

“Oraciones interrogativas directas”  and “Oraciones interrogativas indirectas y otras estructuras”.Enciclopedia de lingüística hispánica. Ed. Javier Gutiérrez Rexach. London: Routledge, 2016. Pp. 760-772.(invited contribution)

“Español y rumano en contacto con inglés en los Estados Unidos, o  Spanglish versus Romglish.” En Nuevas voces sobre el Spanglish: Una investigación polifónica. Ed. Silvia Betti and  Enrique Serra Alegre. Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua / Universitat de Valencia, 2016. Pp.43-64.

“Acerca de LIBSUS: Bibliografía lingüística del español en los Estados Unidos” (en colab. with Francisco Moreno Fernández). In Nueva York en español: Intersecciones hispánicas en EE.UU, Ed.Marta Boris Tarre y Tina Escaja, ALDEEU: New York, 2017, pp. 219-225.

“Hacia un modelo integrado de la enseñanza del español a los hispanounidenses a nivel universitario: El caso de Los Ángeles”, La presencia hispana y el español de los Estados Unidos. Unidad en la diversidad.  . Ed. Rosa Tezanos-  Pinto. New York: Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española, 2017, pp. 301-311.

.(Forthcoming): “La literatura en Spanglish como espacio de encuentro e identidad: El caso de Junot Díaz.” Actas del 35 Congreso Internacional de la  ALDEEU, Segovia 2015. Ed. Marina Martín.

Selected Journal Articles :

- "Modalitati stilistice in opera lui Ramón del Valle-Inclán" [Stylistic Modalities in Ramón del Valle-Inclán's works], Studii de Literatura Universala, XII, 1968, pp. 113-130.

- "Opera lui Antonio Machado in Romania " [Antonio Machado's work in Rumania ], Analele Universitatii Din Bucuresti, 2/1969, pp. 103-109.

- "Proiectie bovarica si instrainare unamuniana in romanul La Regenta de Leopoldo Alas Clarín" [Bovary-style projection and Unamuno-style alienation in La Regenta by Leopoldo Alas Clarín], Analele Universitatii Din Bucuresti, 2/1970, pp. 97-109.

- "El infinitivo en español y en rumano. Estudio comparativo", Bulletin De La Société Roumaine De Linguistique Romane VII (1970), pp. 41-61.

- "Despre perifrazele verbale in spaniola si romana" [About Verbal Periphrases in Spanish and Romanian], Studii si Cercetari Lingvistice 5/1971, pp. 47l-489.

- "Tangente lirice intre Bécquer si Eminescu" [Poetic Affinities between Bécquer and Eminescu], Analele Universitatii Din Bucuresti 1/1971, pp. 73-83.

- "Sursele estetice ale generatiei de la 1927" [Aesthetic Sources of the "Generación del 27"], Analele Universitatii Din Bucuresti 1/1973, pp. 153-169.

- "Apuntes sobre el uso enfático de sí (adv.) en el español contemporáneo", Revue Roumaine de Linguistique 5/1973, pp. 407-413.

- "Jorge Guillén si Ion Barbu - poeti afini" [Jorge Guillén and Ion Barbu- poetic affinities], Analele Universitatii Din Bucuresti 2/1973, pp. 17-23.

- "Análisis léxico-sintáctico de un poema de Miguel Hernández: 'Eterna sombra',"Boletín De La Asociación Europea De Profesores De Español 9 (1973), pp. 57-66.

- "Procedee morfo-lexicale de negare a adjectivului in spaniola contemporana (in comparatie cu romana)" [Morpho-lexical devices to form negative adjectives in Spanish, as compared to Romanian], Studii si Cercetari Lingvistice 1/1974, pp. 37-44.

-"Propuestas en torno a la terminología del análisis sintáctico en castellano", Boletín De La Asociación Europea De Profesores De Español 11 (1974), pp. 21-29.

- "Notas comparativas sobre el tratamiento en español y rumano", in Etudes Romanes I (1976), pp.81-86.

- "Acerca del orden de las palabras en las interrogativas españolas", Part I in Revue Roumaine de Linguistique 2/1977, pp. l47-l52; Part II in Revue Roumaine de Linguistique 4/l977, pp. 445-45l.

- "Viajeros rumanos por España e Hispanoamérica", Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos 322-323/1977, pp. 183-197.

- "El sistema de las respuestas minimales en castellano", Revue Roumaine de Linguistique XXIV, 1/1979, pp. 45-54.

- "Ecos catalanes en la cultura rumana", Cahiers Roumains D'Etudes Litteraires 1/1979, pp. 21-29.

- "Adán Buenosayres: metáfora y novela", Texto Crítico 16-17 (1980), pp. 169-181.

- "Propozitia impersonala cu SE in spaniola si romana" [SE impersonal sentences in Spanish and Romanian], Studii si Cercetari Lingvistice 5/1983, pp. 413-418.

- "Escollos en la enseñanza de la pasiva española a los rumanos", Revue Roumaine de Linguistique 3/1983, pp. 271-275.

- "Hacia una clasificación más completa de las oraciones compuestas en español,"Boletín De La Asociación Europea De Profesores De Español 34-35, 1986, pp. 217-224.

- "Contribución a la semántica de los verbos modales en español (con ejemplos del habla de Madrid),"Hispania 71, 1988, pp.139-147.

- "Un tipo de imagen-clave en la poesía de la generación del 27: la imagen cromática,"Explicación de Textos Literarios 18 (Spring 1990), pp.15-30

.- "El dativo posesivo en español y en rumano,"Revista Española de Lingüística 20 (Julio-Diciembre 1990), pp. 403-429.

- "The Spanish Poetry of Aron Cotrus,"American-Romanian Academy Journal 15 (1991), 91-104

.- "General Consideration about Echo Questions in Spanish and Romanian: Towards Defining the Concept,"Revue Roumaine de Linguistique 36 (1991), vol. 3-4: 141-167 (Part I); vol. 5-6: 279-315 (Part II).

- "On the Syntactic Properties of Recapitulatory Wh-Echo Questions in Spanish and Romanian: A Parallel": Analele Universitatii din Bucuresti, Limbi si Literaturi Straine, 1991, [Proceedings of the 16th ARA Annual Congress, Bucharest (Romania), June-July 1991], 30-51.

-"Spanish Echo Questions and Their Relevance to the Current Syntactic Theory,"Southwest Journal of Linguistics 10:2 (1991), pp. 42-65.

- "Preguntas con multiconstituyentes interrogativos en español,"Hispania 75 (1992), vol.1: 164 - 170.

- "A Preliminary Approach To The Contact Phenomena Found In The Romanian Spoken By Romanian-Americans Of The First Generation,"ARA Journal 18 (1993), pp. 161-186.

- "Traducción y heteroglosia en la obra de Octavio Paz,"Hispania 78, May 1995, pp. 240-251.

-"El flojo matinal: Contribución al análisis del discurso oral en español de un grupo de mexico-americanos bilingües, Anuario de Letras, UNAM, XXIII(1995):155-185.

- "Los adjetivos en el sintagma nominal: Posición y predicación" (invited contribution, in collaboration with Mario Saltarelli, USC), Signo y Seña 5,February 1996, pp. 23-60 (monographic issue on Estructura, significado y categoría, ed. by Nora Múgica).

- "Rhetorical vs. Non Rhetorical Allo-repetition: The Case of Romanian Interrogatives,"Journal of Pragmatics 26.3 (1996), pp. 321-354.

- "Realidad y metáfora del exilio en la obra de Alina Diaconú."Alba de América vol. 15 (1997), Nrs. 28-29, pp. 236-245.

- "El parámetro discursivo en la expresión del objeto directo lexical: español madrileño vs. español porteño,"Signo y Seña 7 (1997): 303-354 - monographic issue on La gramática: desarrollos actuales, ed. by Ofelia Kovacci (invited contribution)

- 2005 Presidential address: “Noroc!; Merci; ¡Qué lindo!; Sorry: Some Polite Speech Acts Across Cultures.” Southwest Journal of Linguistics 25. 2 (2006):  1-37.

- “Interrogative allo-repetitions in Mexican Spanish: Discourse functions and (im)politeness strategies.” Special issue on The Discourse of Politeness in Spanish, of Pragmatics, vol 18 (2008)  No.4, pp. 659-680.

-“Cortesía ritual en español y rumano: el caso de los deseos” (invited contribution). Español Actual, ed. by Catalina Fuentes.Vol.94, 2010. Pp. 91-122.

- “El español en los Estados Unidos: Metamorfosis y controversia” (invited contribution ). Boletín de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (ANLE), nr.14 (2011), pp. 261-302.

--“Cortesía codificada versus cortesía interpretada en español: Consideraciones generales.” Glosas vol. 17, Núm. 8 (noviembre de 2011): 2-12.

-“Reflexiones sobre la Ortografía Básica de la Lengua Española.Glosas Vol. 7. Núm. 10 (septiembre de 2012): 2-8.

- Guest editorial: “Spanglish: What’s in a Name?” Hispania  95.3 (2012): ix-xii.

-“Lo que es y lo que no es: Un nota sobre el Spanglish.” Revista de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española, vol.2, núm.4 (2013), pp. 353-361.

“Two tongues that come together” o el español en contacto con el inglés en los Estados Unidos.”Ventana Abierta 34 (Spring 2013): 12-14.

“El español en los Estados Unidos a la luz del censo de 2010: Los retos de las próximas décadas.” Hispania 96.3 (2013): 525-541.

Spanglish and Identity inside and outside the Classroom” (MLA Convention Feature). Hispania 96.3 (2013):436-437.

“Alina Diaconú: La profundidad de una vocación más allá del idioma”. Revista de la Academia Nortemaricana de la Lengua Española 6 (2014), pp. 369-375.

“Sobre Hablando bien se entiende la gente 2 y la necesidad del buen uso del español en los Estados Unidos”, Glosas  vol. 8, nr.6 (2014), pp. 5-17.

“English-Spanish Code-switching in Literary Texts: Is It Still Spanglish as We Know It?” (MLA Convention Feature). Hispania  97.3 (2014), pp. 357-359.

“La alternancia de lenguas como actividad de imagen en el discurso hispanoundense/Code-switching as face-work in the discourse of US Hispanics.” Pragmática sociocultural/ Sociocultural Pragmatics (ed. by De Gruyter)  2. 1 (2014), pp. 1-34 (online publication)

“Aspectos pragmáticos y discursivos del español  estadounidense/ Pragmatic and discursive aspects of Spanish in the United States “.Informes del observatorio/Observatory reports 015-11-2015 (Instituto Cervantes at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University) – online publication, 26 pp. http://cervantesobservatorio.fas.harvard.edu/es/informes/informes-del-observatorio-observatorio-reports-015-112015sp-aspectos-pragm%C3%A1ticos-y

 “Homenaje a Luis Alberto Ambroggio:  Perfil del poeta.”Alba de América 35 (2015):221- 223.

“Tradicion e innovación en el diccionario académico”. Glosas vol.8. 8 (2015), pp.15-20

“Innovative Approaches toTeaching Spanish and Portuguese in the Twenty First Century, and More . . .” (2015 MLA Convention Feature), Hispania  98.2 (2015), pp. 191-93.

“A particular kind of ‘action-reaction’: Questions answering questions (in Spanish and Romanian dialogues”, Language and Dialogue 6.2 (2016).pp.207-222

“The depth of a vocation beyond the language. Interview with Alina Diaconu.”  RSAA Journal 1 (1), March 2017, http://thersaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Domnita-Dumitrescu.-Interview-with-Argentine-Writer-Alina-Diaconu.2017.pdf

 “Un tipo especial de Spanglish en la literature estadounidense: la fusion de códigos y el translenguar” (Response to:  “Lengua, cultura y sensibilidades en los Estados Unidos. Español y spanglish en un mundo inglés”). Hispania 100.5  centenary issue (December 2017), pp. 43-44

 “Las reseñas de Hispania, al correr  del tiempo: Siempre al tanto de las últimas   novedades académicas” Hispania 101.4 (december 2018), pp. 497-500.

 “Proyectos colaborativos  actuales de la ANLE.” Glosas  vol. 9, núm.5 (september 2018), pp. 28-33.

Forthcoming (in collaboration with Francisco Moreno-Fernández): “Dialect variation as reflected in the Diccionario de la lengua española (DLE): Ideological and pedagogical considerations.” Journal of Spanish Language Teaching

 

Some recent book reviews:

- Magdalena García Pinto & Mario Rojas (eds.): Aproximaciones a la sintaxis del español: Estudios sintácticos del español y el progreso de la teoría lingüística. Lingüística 1, 1989, 190-204

.- Antonio Machado: El poeta y su doble. Explicación de Textos Literarios XIX.2 (1990-1991),p.90-91.

- Marius Sala (ed.). Enciclopedia Limbilor Romanice. Lingüística 2, 1990, pp. 263-265.

- Elba Torres de Peralta: La poética de Olga Orozco. Nuevo Texto Crítico 7 (1991), 220-222.

- Ignacio Bosque (ed.) Indicativo y subjuntivo. Lingüística 3, 1991, 180-201

- Maria Manoliu-Manea: Gramatica, pragmasemantica si discurs, ARA Journal 19 (1994), 279-282.

- "Si algo puedo asegurar es que el realismo no es mi veta" (review of Ester Gimbernat González and Cyntia Tompkins, eds. Utopías, ojos azules, bocas suicidas: La narrativa de Alina Diaconú). Confluencia (published by the University Press of Colorado) 11.1 (1995), pp. 206-210.

- Jorge Narváez: La invención de la memoria. Revista Literaria Iberoamericana. 1.1 (1995), 34-36.

- Guy Mercadier: L'autoportrait en Espagne: Littérature et peinture. Revista Literaria Iberoamericana. 1.1 (1995), 37-40.

- Dan Munteanu: El papiamento, lengua criolla hispánica. Revista de Filología Española LXXVII (1997), 375-378.

- Dan Munteanu Colán & Rafael Rodríguez Marín:  Bibliografia básica y selectiva de lingüística románica. Southwest Journal of Linguistics 22. 2 (2003), pp. 151-153.

-  Marius Sala, Del latín al rumano. Southwest Journal of Linguistics 23. 1 (2004), pp. 121-123.

 –Dale Koike & Carol Klee. Lingüística aplicada: Adquisición del español como segunda lengua. Hispania 87. 1 (2004), pp. 91-94.

 – Marcial Prado: Diccionario de falsos amigos: Inglés –Español. Hispania 87. 2 (2004), pp.  295-296.

-   José Ignacio Hualde, Antxon  Olarrea y Anna María Escobar, Introducción  a la lingüística hispánica, Hispania 88.1 (2005), pp. 147-149.

-   Larry King and Margarita Suñer,  Gramática española: Análisis y práctica, 2nd ed.,Hispania 88.2  (2005), pp.  319-321.

-  Milton M. Azevedo, Introducción a la lingüística española, 2nd. ed  and  González Flores, Francisca, Workbook (to accompany this second edition), Southwest Journal of Linguistics 24. 1 (2005), pp. 199-206.

-  Josse de Kock and Carmen Gómez Molina, Lingüística aplicada. La lengua: meta, materia y referencia  en investigación, enseñanza y estilística, Hispania 89.1 (2006), pp. 76-78.

-   Rafael Areiza Londoño, Mireya Cisneros  Estupiñán, Luis Enrique Tabares Idárraga, Hacia una nueva visión sociolingüística, Hispania 89.3 (2006), pp. 539-540.

-  Dan Muntenanu Colan, Breve historia de la lingüística románica, Hispania 89.4 (2006), pp. 903-904.

- Rosina Márquez  Reiter and Maria Elena Placencia, Spanish Pragmatics. Hispania 90.1 (2007): 87-88.

- Diana Bravo (ed.), Estudios de la (des)cortesía en español. Hispania 90.3 (2007): 514-515

-  Kathleen Wheatly, Sintaxis y morfología de la lengua española. Hispania 90 (2007): 717-718

-  HumbertoLopez Morales (coord.).Enciclopedia del español en los Estados Unidos. Hispania 93.1 (2010): 158-159

- G. Piña Rosales et al. (eds.) Hablando bien se entiende la gente, Hispania 94 (2011)

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“Derrin Pinto and Carlos de Pablos-Ortega, Seamos pragmáticos: Introducción a la pragmática española”,  Journal of Spanish Languager Teaching (vol 3, num.2- December 2016)  DOI: 10.1080/23247797.2016.1222670

Some Translations From Spanish Into Romanian:

- C.Martín Gaite, Logodna Gertrudei [Entre visillos], Bucuresti, Editura Univers, 1972.

- I.Aldecoa, Gran Sol, Bucuresti, Editura Univers, 1976.

- G.A.Bécquer, Raza de luna- legende [El rayo de luna - leyendas], Bucuresti, Editura Univers, l978.

- Emilia Pardo Bazán, Conacul din Ulloa [Los pazos de Ulloa], Bucuresti, Editura Univers, 1982.

- Emilia Pardo Bazán, Insolatie. Dor. [Insolación. Morriña], Bucuresti, Editura Eminescu, 1983.

Each translation is accompanied by a comprehensive study of the author's contribution to the Spanish literature, and by critical footnotes, both authored by the translator.

  Among the Interviews she gave are:

“Confesiones transatlánticas.” Plural 2.22 (2004):  290-293 (Special issue: La confesión- forma de diálogo), a periodical publication of the Romanian Cultural Institute.

 “Domnita Dumitrescu intervievata de Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru,” Cultura românească în perspectivă transatlantică: Interviuri,  ed. by Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru & Teodora Şerban-Oprescu,  Bucuresti, Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti, 2009, pp. 51-59.

A 40 minute interview in Romanian for Romanian Radio, “Romanii in lume”, June 13, 2010.

Interview for Hola Cultura (based in Washington DC), on July 18, 2014, regarding teaching Spanish to heritage students. Available at http://www.holacultura.com/2014/07/18/entrevistas-ocasionales-de-verano-domnita-dumitrescu/

Interview with Mirela Roznoveanu for the Romanian Television of New York  (November 4, 2018):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0eHumWD6A8&feature=youtu.be

 

Television and web participation:

Between August 2012 and September 2013, she presented  short linguistic advice  for heritage speakers of Spanish in the US during the evening news of Mundo Fox (a Spanish channel  located in Los Angeles) under the heading: Se habla español.

Between October 2013 and  October 2015, occasional contributor to Yahoo en español ("La palabra del día" and "La lengua viva", a blog project sponsored by ANLE).

                                                                Last updated in December  2018

Office Location: KH D-3086

Meredith Greenburg

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College of Arts and Letters
Department of Theatre and Dance
Phone: 323-343-5124 Email: mgreenb@exchange.calstatela.edu

Meredith J.Greenburg is a Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance, teaching Stage Management, Theatre Immersion, Stage Operations, Production Support and Analysis of Drama & Theatre.  Meredith has been the Production Manager for the Department since she arrived at CSULA in 2001.  Meredith’s stage management students can be found all over the country working professionally in Theatre, Dance and Opera.  In 2016, she was the recipient of Cal State LA's Outstanding Professor Award.

A professional Stage Manager for 30 years, Meredith works extensively in both Theatre and Opera.  She is a member of both Actors’ Equity Association (since 1993) and the American Guild of Musical Artists (since 1999), and has sat on committees and negotiating teams for both unions for over 10 years. 

Since 1999, Meredith has been a regular on the staff at the opera, working on over 20 productions including the US premiere of David Cronenberg’s The Fly, Eugene Onegin, Don Carlo, Achim Freyer’s Damnation of Faust, and Peter Grimes.  She has had the opportunity to work with many wonderful and gifted directors and artists, including Placido Domingo, James Conlon, Ian Judge, Stephen Wadsworth, Achim Freyer, Gary Marshall, Kent Nagano and Francesca Zambello.

Meredith has been the Production Stage Manager for the Hollywood Bowl’s fully staged Broadway Musicals held every summer since 2006.  For the LA Phil at the Bowl, she has managed Sunset Blvd. (a staged reading of the film), The Sound of Music, South Pacific, Bernstein’s Mass, Guys and Dolls, Rent (directed by Neil Patrick Harris), Jerry Mitchell’s production of Hairspray, The Producers (directed by Susan Strohman), Chicago, Hair (directed by Adam Shankman), Spamalot (with Christian Slater) A Chorus Line (directed by original cast member Baayork Lee), Mamma Mia (with Jennifer Nettles, directed by Kathleen Marshall) and 2018's Annie (Michael Arden, director).  Other favorite theatre credits include: Baz Lurmahnn’s La Boheme on Broadway at the Ahmanson, Deaf West/Mark Taper Forum’s Big River, the 1st National tour of Caroline or Change at the Ahmanson (sub), When Pigs Fly, The Last Night of Ballyhoo (with Rhea Perlman and Harriet Harris), Always, Patsy Cline, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Masada, The Musical, and for two years – from the Tiffany Theatre in Hollywood, to the Canon in Beverly Hills to the Promenade in New York - Bermuda Avenue Triangle (with Bea Arthur, Nanette Fabray, Renee Taylor and Joe Bologna)As the Stage Manager for Deaf West Theatre, Meredith worked on over 10 productions including the critically acclaimed One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Of Mice and Men, Medea and Mark Medoff's newest play, Road to a Revolution.  Meredith served as a producer  on the CSULA/DWT production of American Buffalo in winter of 2015.

Meredith has also managed productions for the LA Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Center Theatre Group at all of their venues, and BalletNow and the Spotlight Awards for the Music Center of Los Angeles County. 

For five years, Meredith had the honor of directing the Vocal Fellows in Marilyn Horne’s program at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara for their Gala Cabaret production.  She also produced the event surrounding the Cabaret show along with Tim Jones and in collaboration with Ms. Horne, Jerry Sternbach, Carol Burnett, and the staff of the Academy.

Meredith produces and manages special events for clients that have included:  The Rick Weiss Humanitarian Awards, Paramount Pictures, S.T.A.G.E., Desert AIDS Project, BCEFA, The Actors’ Fund, The Spa Resort Hotel and Casino, The Palm Springs Film Festival, and the American Heart Association. 

In 2011, Meredith was invited to be a member of the National Theatre Conference, “a theatrical ‘think-tank’ that meets annually to review and confer on matters pertaining to the welfare and development of the theatre.” Meredith has been the coordinator for the Next Step Auditions for the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival’s Region 8 Festival.  She is a Professional Mentor through the Stage Management Mentoring Project for the United States Institute for Theatre Technology on and off since 1993 and maintains membership in USITT and the Production Managers’ Forum.

Meredith lives in Northridge with her family – including twin boys Hunter and Ryan.

Office Location: TA 110

Andrew Lyndon Knighton

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College of Arts and Letters
Department of English
Phone: 323-343-4164 Email: aknight@exchange.calstatela.edu

   

Andrew Lyndon Knighton
 
Andrew Lyndon Knighton (Ph.D., 2004, University of Minnesota) is Professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles.  During his time at Cal State LA, he has served as Chair and Associate Chair of English, directed the Cal State LA/NEH American Communities Program, and been appointed to the Joseph A. Bailey II, M.D., Endowed Chair in American Communities.  He teaches  literary and cultural theory, as well as a variety of courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature. His first book, Idle Threats: Men and the Limits of Productivity in Nineteenth-Century America, appeared on New York University Press in 2012, while his research on Nathaniel Parker Willis, Herman Melville, and Nathanael West has been published in journals including ESQ, ATQ, and Literature Interpretation Theory.  Currently he is working on a study of the radical poet Thomas McGrath (see his recent Los Angeles Review of Books essay for a preview)
 

 

 

 

 


CURRENT COURSES

 

Dr. Knighton is on leave until Fall 2020.  Please contact the English Department (323-343-4140) if you seek further information.

 

 


PUBLICATIONS

•  Idle Threats: Men and the Limits of Productivity in Nineteenth-Century America                          New York University Press, America and the Long Nineteenth Century series, 2012. Idle Threats: Men and the LImits of Productivity in Nineteenth-Century America

 

  Book: 

 Idle Threats: Men and the Limits of Productivity in Nineteenth-Century America, New York University Press, America and the Long Nineteenth Century series, 2012.

  Other Publications:

  "Elizabeth Anker and Rita Felski – Critique and Postcritique,"American Literary History Online (2017).

•  "The Liquidity Preference:  Money and Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century American Literature,"49th Parallel: An Interdisciplinary Journal of North American Studies, Issue 39 (2017).

•  "Holy City Adrift:  Thomas McGrath's Los Angeles" (co-authored with Salvador Ayala, Amanda Kong, and Gabriela Valenzuela), North Dakota Quarterly 83:4 (Fall 2016).

•  “Committed Art,” in German Aesthetics:  Fundamental Concepts from Baumgarten to Adorno, ed. J.D. Mininger and Jason Peck (New York and London: Bloomsbury Press, 2016).

  "The Life of a Dangerous Time:  Thomas McGrath and the Potential of Poetry,"Journal for the Study of Radicalism 9:3 (Fall 2015).

•  “The Wreck of The Corsair:  Nineteenth-Century Publishing and Piratical Enterprise,” in Pirates and Mutineers in Nineteenth-Century Literature, ed. Grace Moore (Ashgate, 2011), pp. 79-94.

•  “Hollywood Panoramatics:  Nathanael West’s Baroque Modernity,"Literature Interpretation Theory 21:3 (July- September 2010), pp. 145-162.

  “Money, Mobility, and the Idle Speculation of Nathaniel Parker Willis,"ATQ 22:4 (December 2008), pp. 559-575.

  “The Bartleby Industry and Bartleby’s Idleness," ESQ 53.2 (2007), pp. 184-21

  “Transmission, Temporality, Autonomy:  What Praxis Means in the Novels of Kenneth Fearing,” (co-written with Dr. David Jenemann, Univ. of Vermont) in The Novel and the American Left, ed. Janet G. Casey (University Of Iowa Press, 2004), pp. 172-194.

Book Reviews, Exhibition Catalogs, Etc.

     • Adam Cvijanovic: New Paintings, Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis (2008).

     • McKnight Foundation-Minneapolis College of Arts and Design Fellows Exhibition, Minneapolis (2004).

     • “Robert Seguin – Around Quitting Time: Work and Middle-Class Fantasy in American Fiction,"Cultural Critique 56 (Winter 2004), pp. 212-218.

     • “Michel Foucault – Fearless Speech," Auslegung:  A Journal of Philosophy 26.1 (Winter-Spring 2003), pp. 77-80.

     • Twins, Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis (2002).

     • “Theodor Adorno – Critical Models," Auslegung:  A Journal of Philosophy 24.2 (Spring-Summer 2001), pp. 215-218.

 


COURSES

Past Courses taught at Cal State LA:

           • Graduate and Senior Seminars: 

                  Theoretical Foundations of Literary Studies 

                  Bodies of Work:  Whitman and Dickinson

                  Melville's Selves

                  The New Critics and Us

                  The American Renaissance and Beyond 

       The Literary Institution and Sites of Reading in American Culture

       Poe and Print Culture

       Money and Meaning:  Studies in Economic Criticism

       Poe, Poetics, Property

       The Marxist Tradition in Literary Analysis

• Undergraduate Courses in English and General Education

:      English Tutorial: "Bartleby" 

       The American Novel Before 1900 

       The American Novel 1945-Present

       Readings in American Literature

       American Literature, Beginnings to 1860

       Reading Culture

       Women and Literature

       Portfolio:  English Capstone

       Understanding Literature

 


 

EDUCATION

Ph.D.     2004                 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Program in Comparative Studies in Discourse in Society 

(Minor field:  Comparative Literature)

M.A.      1997                  University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Program in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society

B.A.       1991                 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Majors in Middle Eastern Studies, Political Science

 

           

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Dr Seonagh Kummer

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College of Arts and Letters
Department of Theatre and Dance
Phone: 6267868394 Email: sodhiam@calstatela.edu

Seónagh Kummer, Ph.D.  Associate Professor of Dance

Seónagh is a dance artist and somatic movement specialist rich with wisdom of international experiences in healing and performance.  Now based in Los Angeles as a professor of Dance, Seónagh is originally from Canada where she achieved her MA at UBC in dance/theatre education. In Canada she assisted indigenous healers and watched individuals grow through effects of trauma, seeing firsthand how somatic processes re-educate the neuromuscular system. Amazed by the effects of working with sound, breath, movement, and visualization, she further explored crossovers between dance/ceremony while training and performing in Vancouver, then dancing with US-based artists on the East Coast.

Ultimately, Seónagh returned to integrating arts of choreography and healing, earning her PhD in Dance at Temple University. Seónagh has had opportunities to work internationally, including living in Africa where she researched ceremonial dance. She believes dance provides a powerful lens to engage the mindset, aspirations and agency of individuals seeking social justice, and she understands dance as capable of communicating unlimited aspects of history and culture. Her research, writing and workshops are interdisciplinary, exploring the intersections of critical pedagogy and dance somatics, and assisting embodied critiques of oppression. An upcoming publication in the book, Spiritual Herstories: Call of the Soul in Dance Research offers a critical re-examination of how we look at African women’s dance history.

Seónagh has developed numerous choreography projects as an award recipient or guest artist, presenting at venues throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. Now training with EastWest Somatics, Seónagh is an active member of the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association. She is a member of the International Dance Council at UNESCO, and she co-founded the non-profit dance organization, Dharma in Motion, which produces dance and raises funds for women in dire need.

Seónagh is excited to work with both professional and community artists, and she often generates movement through community engagement about topics, collaborating with artists to create works for the stage. Her work is project based and she enjoys dancing and choreographing with an array of different people. While her work is visual and physical, she also mirrors her values and uses dance as a form of activism. She has created and presented dance works, and has delivered workshops or dance talks, at venues such as Casa de Las Artes (Seville, Spain), Barcelona International Dance Exchange (B.I.D.E., Barcelona), The Scotiabank Dance Centre (Vancouver), The Roundhouse (Vancouver), Emily Carr University (Vancouver), Roehampton University (London), University of Edinburgh (Scotland), the University of Capetown (South Africa), York University (Toronto), The Luckman Theatre (Los Angeles), A Room to Create A.R.C. (Pasadena, CA), and presents her research at global and national organizations like World Dance Alliance, the Dance Studies Association, and the National Dance Education Organization. Seónagh headlined “The Fisher Center Series” as a Fellow and Artist-in-Residence (Geneva, NY).

Curriculum Vitae

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Temple University, Dance (2009).

Honours: Fisher Center Fellow in Gender, Arts and Activism

Dissertation: A Conversation with Dance History: Movement and Meaning in the Cultural Body

M.A., University of British Columbia, Curriculum and Instruction (2000).

Honours: University Graduate Fellow

Master’s Thesis: Legacy of Influence: African Canadian Stories in a Multicultural Landscape

B.A., University of British Columbia (1995).

Honours Thesis: Indigenous Canadian Histories and the Oral Tradition: Women speaking, dancing, singing.

AWARDS AND HONOURS (Selected International) 

Japan Studies Institute Fellowship (2015)

Seed Grant for Research (2015)

Creative Leave (2013)

Residencia Artistica Internacional, Alanis, Seville. (2013)

Mentoring Grant, (2012)

Mini-Grant, (2011-2012)

Art of Engagement Network, Artist-in-Residence. (2011-12)

Canada Council for the Arts, National Award in Dance (2009-10)

CID—UNESCO, Conseil Internationale de la Danse, Member (2009-)

Fisher Center Pre-doctoral Fellowship (2006-07)

The Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation Grant (2006-07)

University Graduate Fellow (1999-2000)

 

FELLOWSHIPS

Japan Studies Institute Fellowship (2015)

Month long residency at UCSD. A select group of educators were selected for a summer residency in order to research about increasing Japanese culture in the curricula.

Residencia Artistica Internacional (2013)

Concejal de Cultura, Ayuntamiento de Alanis, Seville.

Brought international dancers and musicians together from several European countries, created a dance performance to live music with internationally renowned composer Bennie Maupin.

Artist-in-Residence (2011-12), Art of Engagement Network

Based on Galiano Island, BC, the Art of Engagement network provided a year-long artist residencies. 

Fisher Center Pre-doctoral Fellow (2006-2007)

Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva NY.

Year-long artist residency. Developed and taught two classes, created a dance performance, developed a lecture/performance series in cooperation with a committee, and hosted artists from around the world. 

 

TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATION

Associate Professor of Dance (2009-)

Department of Theatre and Dance, California State University, Los Angeles, CA.

Dance Theory and Somatics, Choreography, Technique, Dance History, World Dance 

Co-Coordinator AA Program, Curriculum (2008)

Transpacific Hawaii College, Honolulu, HI.

Coordinated curriculum review, worked with college president in WASC accreditation 

Assistant Professor (2007-2008)

Transpacific Hawaii College, Honolulu, HI.

Theatre Arts, Women’s Studies, Intercultural Communication (Multidisciplinary Appointment).

Lead Teaching Assistant, Adjunct Professor of Dance (2004-2006)

Dance Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

World Dance, Dance and Pluralism, Dance as Art, Dance and Human Society 

Lead Instructor, Adjunct Professor in Dance and Communication (2001-04)

Fine Arts Department, Communications in Technology Bay Path College, Longmeadow, MA.

Dance Composition, Dance History, Intercultural Communication, Digital Video

 

INVITED LECTURES, RESIDENCIES, PERFORMANCES, PUBLICATIONS

Odhiambo, Seónagh (2016). “Barefoot Dancers of the Early Twentieth Century: African Women and Dance History” in College of Arts and Letters Symposium at the Huntington Library. San Marino, CA.

(2014). Movement, Contact, Social Justice: A Dialogue in the Service of Expressive Arts Therapies. The Southern California Chapter of the North American Drama Therapy Association (NADTA).

Venice, CA.

(2012—Opening Event) Bodies of WaterDownstream: Reimagining Water. Emily Carr University: Vancouver, Canada (Choreographer, Opening Event).

(2011) “Fragments and Possibilities: Choreographing an Intervention in Dance History,” in Studies of Embodiment and Transformation Through Dance, Literature, Music, and Philosophy.” Powerful Visions Lecture Series. The Huntington, CA.

(2008) “Modern Dance, Negro Dance.” Book review in Dance Chronicle.

(April, 2007—Artist in Residence). “Sand and Bone: ‘World Dance,’ Choreography, and Pedagogy,” Art, Gender, and Activism. Fisher Center Lecture Series. Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY.

(May, 1999— Keynote) "Shanks" Domain Seminar for Social Justice, Ottawa, Canada (Performance and Lecture).

PUBLICATIONS (PEER REVIEWED)

Kummer, Seónagh (2019). Digging the Presence of African Women in Nyanza province, 1900-1940. Spiritual Herstories: Call of the Soul in Dance Research London, U.K.: Intellect Press
 
Odhiambo, Seónagh (2017). “Bodies of Water,” Chapter in Anthology. Downstream: Reimagining Water. Waterloo, Canada: Wilfred Laurier Press.
 
Odhiambo, Seónagh (2014). “Body of Theory: Choreographing an Approach to Dance History” in Writing/DancingSociety of Dance History Scholars Proceedings, Iowa City, Iowa.
 
Odhiambo, Seónagh (2010). “Choreography and Liberation Theatre in Critical Dialogue,” in Hybrid Lives of Professional Teaching Artists in Dance and Theatre: Questions of Power in Performance, Teaching & Community Work. Congress of Research in Dance/American Society for Theatre Research. November 2010, Seattle, WA.
 
Odhiambo, Seónagh (2010). “Dancing in Time: Choreographic Process as a Genealogy of History.” World Dance Alliance—Global Dance Event Proceedings, New York, NY.
 
Odhiambo, Seónagh (2009). “Choreography as Engaged Pedagogy: The Embodiment of Fractured Coalitions.” Topographies: Sites, Bodies, Technologies. Society of Dance History Scholars.
 
Odhiambo, Seónagh (2008). “Modern Dance, Negro Dance.” Book review in Dance Chronicle.
 
Odhiambo, Seónagh (2008). A Conversation with Dance History: Beyond Disarticulated Bodies. Looking Back/Looking Forward Proceedings, Society of Dance History Scholars.
 
Odhiambo, Seónagh (2007). “Une Idée Fixe?: Culture and Choreographic Practice.” Continuing Dance Culture Dialogues: Southwest Borders and Beyond Proceedings, Congress of Research in Dance.
 
Odhiambo, Seónagh (2007). “Educating the Student Body: Somatic Processes in Cultural Studies.” Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii.
 
Odhiambo, Seónagh (2006). “Dancing Embrace: A Transnational Choreography.” International Conference on the Arts in Society. Edinburgh, U.K.: University of Edinburgh.
 
Odhiambo, Seónagh (2006). “Dances in the Stories I tell: A Transnational Approach to Dance Studies” World Dance Assembly Proceedings.
 
Odhiambo, Seónagh (November, 2005). “Dances Embrace and Theories Talk: A Conversation Between two Aesthetics, Doris Humphrey and Kenya Luo Dance,” Dance and Human Rights, Proceedings Congress of Research in Dance.

PUBLICATIONS WITH MULTIPLE AUTHORS (PEER-REVIEWED, SELECTED)

Meglin, Joellen, Greenbaum, Matthew, Kim, Sue-In, Jae, Hwan-Jung, Jeong, Ok-Hee, and Odhiambo, Seónagh (November, 2005). “Music of the Body: Modern Minuets and Passepieds Far from Passé,” pp. 125-141 in Sound Moves: An International Confrerence on Music and Dance Proceedings. http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/soundmoves London, U.K.: Roehampton University.

PAPER PRESENTATIONS (PEER-REVIEWED)

Kummer, Seónagh and Nelson, Vaneska (2018). "Embodied Research Voices: A Model for Teaching Somatic Dance Research" in Connections, Knowledge, and Leadership: A New Era in Dance Education. National Dance Education Organization. (poster)

Odhiambo, Seónagh (2016). “Digging the Presence of African Women” in Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines. University of Capetown, South Africa. 

Odhiambo, Seónagh (2016). “Choreography of Memory: Postwar Avant-Garde Japanese Dance in Intercultural Dialogue.” Honolulu, Hawaii: Japanese Studies Association.

Odhiambo, Seónagh (2015). “Engaging Pedagogy: Choreography as an Approach to World Performance” 2015 Hawaii University International Conferences on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Education. (Declined)

Odhiambo, Seónagh (2014). “Body of Theory: Choreographing an Approach to Dance History” in Writing/Dancing, Society of Dance History Scholars, Iowa City, Iowa.

Odhiambo, Seónagh (2013). “Playing the Blues: Resonance and Connection through Critical Dance Pedagogy,” in World Dance Alliance Festival—Evolve and Involve: Dance as a Moving Question. The Scotiabank Dance Centre: Vancouver, Canada.

Odhiambo, Seónagh (2012). “Bodies of Water,” Opening Lecture in Downstream: Reimagining WaterEmily Carr University: Vancouver, Canada.

Odhiambo, Seónagh (2011). “Dancing Water: Healing the LA River through Dance,” Society of Dance History Scholars. Toronto, ON.

Odhiambo, Seónagh (2011). “Fragments and Possibilities: Choreographing an Intervention in Dance History,” in Studies of Embodiment and Transformation Through Dance, Literature, Music, and Philosophy.” Powerful Visions Lecture SeriesThe Huntington, Pasadena, CA.

Odhiambo, Seónagh (2010). “Choreography and Liberation Theatre in Critical Dialogue,” in Hybrid Lives of Professional Teaching Artists in Dance and Theatre: Questions of Power in Performance, Teaching & Community Work. Congress of Research in Dance/American Society for Theatre Research. November 2010, Seattle, WA.

Odhiambo, Seónagh (2010). “Dancing in Time: Choreographic Process as a Genealogy of History.” World Dance Alliance—Global Dance Event, New York, NY.

Odhiambo, Seónagh (2009). “Choreography as Engaged Pedagogy: The Embodiment of Fractured Coalitions.” Topographies: Sites, Bodies, Technologies. Society of Dance History Scholars. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University.

Odhiambo, Seónagh (2008). “Modern Dance, Negro Dance.” Book review in Dance Chronicle.

Odhiambo, Seónagh (2008). “African Women’s Dance History in the 1930s: Cultural Memory in Conversation.” Society of Dance History Scholars. Syracuse, NY: Syra U.

Odhiambo, Seónagh (2007). “Educating the Student Body: Somatic Processes in Cultural Studies.” Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii.

Odhiambo, Seónagh (2006). “Une Idée Fixe?: Culture and Choreographic Practice.” Continuing Dance Culture Dialogues: Southwest Borders and Beyond. Annual Conference, Congress of Research in Dance, Arizona State University: Tempe, Arizona.

Odhiambo, Seónagh (2006). “Dancing Embrace: A Transnational Choreography.” International Conference on the Arts in Society. Edinburgh, U.K.: University of Edinburgh.

Odhiambo, Seónagh (2006). “Dances in the Stories I tell: A Transnational Approach to Dance Studies” World Dance Assembly. Toronto, Canada: York University.

Odhiambo, Seónagh (2005). “Dances Embrace and Theories Talk: A Conversation Between two Aesthetics, Doris Humphrey and Kenya Luo Dance,” Dance and Human Rights. Annual Conference, Congress of Research in Dance. Montréal, Canada: UQAM.

CHOREOGRAPHY AND PERFORMANCES (PEER-REVIEWED, SELECTED)

Odhiambo, Seónagh (2013). “Canto,” Residencia Artistica, Alanis de Sevilla, Spain. (Choreographer and Artistic Director; International Peer Reviewed Competition)

Odhiambo, Seónagh (2013). Exit from the Blue Room. Mainstage in World Dance Alliance Festival— Evolve and Involve: Dance as a Moving Question. The Scotiabank Dance Centre: Vancouver. (Choreographer, International Peer Reviewed Festival).

Odhiambo, Seónagh (2012). “Bodies of Water,” in Downstream: Reimagining Water. Emily Carr University: Vancouver, Canada. (Choreographer)

Odhiambo, Seónagh (2011-2012). Artist-in-Residence, The Art of Engagement Network. (Choreographer)

Odhiambo, Seónagh (2011). “Chiarascuro,” Society of Dance History Scholars. Toronto, ON. (Choreographer, International Peer Reviewed Conference).

Odhiambo, Seónagh (2010). “Healing Water,” Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada. June 20, 2010. (Choreographer and Artistic Director, Peer-Reviewed Grant).

Odhiambo, Seónagh (2009). “Bitten.” in Topographies: Sites, Bodies, Technologies. Society of Dance History Scholars. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University (Choreographer, International Peer Reviewed Conference).

Odhiambo, Seónagh (2007). “Sand and Bone” Faculty Dance Concert. Geneva, NY: Hobart and William Smith Colleges (Choreographer in Residence, International Fellowship).

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

Editorial and Board Membership

(2015-). International Advisory and Editorial Board, Dance, Movement, and Spiritualities (Academic Journal). London: Intellect.

(2014-2015) TEAL Dance Expert. Member of a task group that will develop arts education modules for K-6 teacher education.

(2013) World Dance Alliance, Peer Reviewer of both creative and scholarly submissions for international festival and conference.

 

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS

Seónagh presents her research at global and national organizations like World Dance Alliance, the Dance Studies Association, and the National Dance Education Organization.

SERVICE TO UNIVERSITY

University Service Positions

Educational Policy Committee (Winter 2014-June 2015) Institutional Review Board (Fall 2013-Win 2015) University Student Union Board (Spring 2012-June 2015)

University Student Union Board, Personnel Committee (Win 2014-Fall 2014) Faculty Advisor, Engaged Buddhist Club (Fall 2013-)

Fall Faculty Day, Workshop Leader (Fall 2011)

College Service Positions

ISAC College Curriculum Committee Chair (Fall 2009-Fall 2013)

Department Service Positions

Primary Graduate Advisor (Fall 2012-Fall 2017)

Faculty Advisor, Dance Clubs (Fall 2009-present) 

IRA Grant Writer for Dance Area (2012-present)

Committee Service in Music Theatre and Dance, Theatre Arts and Dance:

Department Curriculum Committees

Quarter to Semester Conversion—Course Proposals and Modifications for Dance Graduate MA in Theatre Arts, Committee Chair (Fall 2009-Present, Committee Chair) ISAC-Theatre and Dance Curriculum Committee Chair (Fall 2009-present

ISAC-Music, Theatre and Dance Curriculum Committee (Fall 2013-present)

MFA in Television, Theatre, and Film Acting Applicant Review Committee Chair (Fall 2012- 2015)

Department Committees

Adjunct Review Committee (Fall 2012-Present)

Policy and Procedures (Fall 2013-Present, Committee Chair) Scholarship Review (Fall 2009-Fall 2013)

Working Group Committees for Music, Theatre and Dance Merger

Office Location: KH Additional Website: 5106

Dr. Linda Margarita Greenberg

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Dr. Greenberg
College of Arts and Letters
Department of English
Email: linda.greenberg@calstatela.edu

Linda Margarita Greenberg is Associate Professor of English and English Department Chair at California State University, Los Angeles. She is currently finishing a book project on the Chicana author, Helena María Viramontes, that situates Viramontes’ fiction within the context of the Chicano/a movement, transnational feminism, ecocriticism, and cultural memory. Her teaching and research interests cover the spectrum of U.S. Ethnic Literatures, with particular focus on 20th and 21st century American literature, Latinx and Asian American literature, racial and gendered narratives about undocumented immigrants, feminist fantasy and speculative fiction, bridges between literary criticism and creative writing, and intersections between pedagogy and social justice. 

Jimmy Moss

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College of Arts and Letters
Department of Art
Phone: (323) 343-4010 Email: jimmy.moss@calstatela.edu

Jimmy Moss is a design educator, strategist, and consultant, who splits his time between Los Angeles, USA and Quezon City, Philippines. He is currently a Professor of Graphic Design/Visual Communication at California State University, Los Angeles.

He has been a guest critic, curator, juror or lecturer at universities and design schools across America and in Asia.

He directed strategic design services, advertising creative groups, and interactive product marketing for 17 years on behalf of both public and private companies for both the in-house and agency sides, before he chose a career in design education in 2005. He has done work for clients & brands including AAGT, Adobe, Alcatel-Lucent, Apple, AT&T, Corbis, Clorox, CSU-Long Beach, CSU-LA, D&B, Dockers, Disney, EFI, Epson, Hitachi, Janus Funds, KRON-TV (SFO) Levi’s, MTV, Novell, RISD, Shell, Taco Bell, Toyota, URS, Wells Fargo and Yale. He earned a BFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale.

Professor Moss served as president of AIGA Los Angeles from 2010-12, where he was the first full-time educator in over 25 years to lead the L.A. chapter of the professional association for design. Jimmy is a passionate advocate for the transformative role designers can play in socially responsible change.

Specialties; Organizational and Program Development, Strategic Visioning, Design Management, Education Administration.

Supporter; AIGA Professional Standards of Teaching and Standards of Professional Practice. Member; Design Management Institute, Type Directors Club, Society of Environmental Graphic Designers, McKinsey Online Executive Panel, Interaction Design Association. 

Office Location: FA 324

Jenevive Nykolak

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College of Arts and Letters
Email: jnykola@calstatela.edu

Adam Snow

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Assistant Professor of Music - Percussion
College of Arts and Letters
Music
Phone: 803-517-4994 Email: asnow5@calstatela.edu

 

 

Percussionist and Educator Dr. Adam Snow is the Director of Percussion Studies at California State University, Los Angeles and formerly oversaw the percussion programs at Winthrop University and Davidson College. His diverse musical background has greatly shaped his voice as an artist and as an educator. 

Over the years, Adam has had the opportunity to perform with jazz masters such as Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, Cyrus Chestnut, and Russell Malone, New Orleans funk legend George Porter Jr. of The Meters, celebrated tenor Andrea Bocelli, Tony and Emmy Award-winning Broadway star Kristen Chenoweth, Grammy-winning Syrian clarinetist Kinan Azmeh, Trinidadian steel pan phenom Liam Teague, Celtic fiddler Jamie Laval, South African kora master Pops Mohamed, Guinean Djembefolas Bolokada Conde and Mohamed Da Costa, Shona mbira visionary Chartwell Dutiro, Afro-Cuban percussion virtuosos Jesus Diaz and Michael Spiro, and the late, great Clarence "Big Man" Clemons of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band.

From 2002 to 2008, Snow toured the United States with the modern jazz trio called Green Light. The band’s four albums were met with critical acclaim and during his tenure with Green Light, Snow shared the stage with artists such as John Scofield, Charlie Hunter, Oteil Burbridge, Kofi Burbridge, Wayne Krantz, Jimmy Herring, Keith Carlock, and Melvin Seals, among others. Green Light's albums are available via iTunes.

In 2013, Adam began touring with the New York City-based band Matuto. The self-proclaimed “Pioneers of Brazilian Bluegrass” blend elements of Forró from the Northeast of Brazil with Americana, Old Time, and Bluegrass. The Chicago Sun-Times puts them at “the heights of world music sophistication" and Jazz Times magazine calls them “weird, wonderful, unorthodox, and delightful.” Through the U.S. State Department’s American Musicians Abroad (AMA) program, Matuto has traveled the globe as ambassadors for American culture and Adam has had the opportunity to travel and perform with Matuto in Europe, South America, Canada, and from coast to coast in the United States.

Snow has performed with many organizations such as the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Opera Carolina, Carolinas Wind Orchestra, Davidson Symphony Orchestra, Charlotte Jazz Orchestra, Jazz Arts Initiative, Children's Theater of Charlotte, Blumenthal Performing Arts, Greenville (SC) Jazz Collective, and Carolina Voices.

Adam received a Bachelor of Music Education and Master of Music degree from Winthrop University. He received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Dr. Snow is a member of Percussive Arts Society, Jazz Educators Network, The Society for Ethnomusicology, and Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society. He is a contributor to the Percussive Arts Society's journal Percussive Notes, serves on the PAS World Percussion Committee, and is an artist endorser for Innovative Percussion.

Office Location: MUS Additional Website:

Heather Fipps

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College of Arts and Letters
Television, Film and Media Studies
Email: hfipps2@calstatela.edu
Heather Fipps
Assistant Professor
Community Impact Media Director
 
About
Heather Fipps is a filmmaker, designer, and video editor. She earned her MFA from California State University, Los Angeles in Television, Film and Theater Production, where she is now an assistant professor in the Department of Television, Film, and Media. She works in a variety of genres including narrative and documentary films, commercials, and television shows. As an independent filmmaker, she has developed projects for clients such as the Los Angeles Children’s Court, California Air Emissions Board, and the New Jersey State Department of Health. Her design work has been seen on BBC, CBS, PBS, SyFy, and Netflix. She also works as a video designer for multi-media theatrical productions in New York and Los Angeles.Most recently, she directed the documentary: “Rio Terà De Pensieri: Process Collettivo.” The film follows Mark Bradford at the United States at the 2017 Venice Biennale, and his collaboration with Rio Terà dei Pensieri, an Italian nonprofit that creates opportunities for skill-based training and reintegration for inmates in Venice prisons.It was an official selection in the Venice Human Rights Cultural Festival.
At Cal State LA, she serves as the Project Director of Community Impact Media, a community engagement initiative. Through the Community Impact Media program, student filmmakers are partnered with local nonprofits in order to be able to share important community initiatives with a wider audience, as well as provide a high-quality media product that the nonprofits can use to further their work.The initiative is made possible by a grant from Hauser & Wirth, of which Heather is the Principal Investigator. Together they redefine the role of filmmakers as neighbors and community partners committed to meaningful social service.
 
Professional Certifications:
AVID Media Composer Certified Instructor
DaVinci Resolve Certified Trainer
RED Digital Cinema Certified Professional 
Certified MōVI Operator
 
Specialization:
Film Production & Post Production, Community Engagement Media, Theatrical Video Design

Courses Taught:
Community Impact Media
AVID Media Composer Certification
MFA Editing, Graphics, and Effects
MFA Video Design for Theater
Intro to Television Studio Production
Intro to Digital Media
Selected Topics in the Entertainment Industry: Post Production
Selected Topics in the Entertainment Industry: Adobe Creative Suite
MFA Project II
Advanced Problems in Multiple Camera Television Production
Intro to Single Camera Production and Editing
 
Community Impact Media & The Student Production Unit
The Student Production Unit is comprised of 3-4 student assistants who are hired for one semester to direct documentary film and media projects intended to empower the voices of our neighbors and their communities. Students engage and collaborate directly with community partners, non-profits and change-makers. The project is co-sponsored by the international art gallery Hauser & Wirth and the final films are screened publicly at the end of the semester. In order to be considered as a Director for the documentary projects, students must have completed the course TVF 4000 Community Impact Media.

 

Community Partners Served:

Learning Rights Law Center

Girls Today Women Tomorrow

Piece By Piece

My Friend's Place

Cal State LA Prison Graduation Initiative

Project Rebound

Youth Justice Coalition

Grades of Green

Green Technology

Communities for a Better Environment

Everybody Dance

Music Mends Minds

Painted Brain

Boyle Heights Arts Conservatory

 
Community Impact Media Films:
Office Location: MUS 245

Manuel Aguilar-Moreno

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College of Arts and Letters
Department of Art
Phone: (323) 343-4054 Email: maguila2@calstatela.edu


CURRICULUM VITAE


TEACHING INTERESTS

One of the main goals of my life is to be a "Maestro" (a Professor with the ability to be an inspiring force in my students and to give them part of my heart and soul), through sharing with them relevant knowledge that will help them to be better human beings and discover the meaning of life. As tools for my goal, I have traveled in four continents doing interdisciplinary studies of Art, History, Anthropology and Philosophy. Also I have taught many different subjects that combine diverse disciplines with the intention to know and understand the reality in an integral way. 

My main teaching area at present is the Art and Culture of Latin America, with specialties in Pre-Columbian, Colonial and Modern Mexico.


RESEARCH INTERESTS

I have been conducting research in diverse topics of Pre-Columbian and Colonial History and Art of Latin America, comparative studies of art, history and mythology of diverse ancient cultures of the world such as India, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, Greece, and Rome. At present, as a professor of California State University, Los Angeles, I am conducting research in diverse areas of the Art and History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin America with emphasis in Mexico, and specifically Aztec Art and ULAMA (survival of the Mesoamerican Ballgame).


EDUCATION

Ph.D.  Latin American Studies: Art, History and Anthropology. Dissertation: "The Tequitqui Art of Sixteenth Century Mexico: An Expression of Transculturation. 1999 

            University of Texas at Austin 

M.A.  Art History of Latin America. 1997 

            University of Texas at Austin 

DIPLOMA in History of Mexico. 1995 
            Colegio de Jalisco 
            Guadalajara, Mex. 

Certificate in Education. 1994 
            ITESO, Jesuit University 
            Guadalajara, Mex.

B.S.  Electrical and Electronic Engineering. 1983 

            ITESO, Jesuit University 
            Guadalajara, Mex. 


SYLLABUS

Art 1012

World Art (Byzantine, Islamic, Romanesque, Gothic, Indian, and Cambodian) 

Powerpoint Slides
Art 1013

World Art (Renaissance to Neoclassic)

Powerpoint Slides

Art 421Baroque Art of Europe

Powerpoint Slides

Art 436Renaissance Art

Powerpoint Slides

Art 476 Early Christian and Byzantine Art

Powerpoint Slides

Art 4460Art of Latin America

Powerpoint Slides

Art 4470Art of Mesoamerica and the Southwest

Powerpoint Slides

Art 4500Colonial Art of Mexico: Tequitui, Baroque and Churrigueresque

Powerpoint Slides

Art 4570Mexican Muralists and Frida Kahlo

Powerpoint Slides

Art 4560Art of the Andes

Powerpoint Slides

Art 4541Art of Latin American Cinema

Powerpoint Slides

Art 4530Aztec Art and Culture

Powerpoint Slides

Art 5012Graduate Seminar: Colonial Art of Latin America (Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay) 

Powerpoint Slides

 


Fall 2019 Schedule 

CourseSect. No.

Title

UnitsDay & TimeRoom
Art 1012 01

World Art

3

Mon/Wed

3:05pm-4:20pm

KH LH2

Art 450001Colonial Art of Mexico and Guatemala3

Mon/Wed

4:30pm-5:45pm

FA 321
Art 447001

Art of Mesoamerica and the Southwest

3

Tues

4:30pm-7:15pm

FA 347

 


Office Hours

DayTime
Monday  

6:00pm- 7:30pm

 


BOOK & ARTICLES

DateBooks & Articles 
2019

Ulama: The Survival of a Pre-Columbian Ballgame.  Manuscript in progress; edited with the participation of 8 Cal State Students (expected for publication in 2019).

2019

“Fernando González: El Arte de Saber Ver.”  Foreword for the Photography Book of Jalisco by Fernando González.  Expected on 2019.

2018

“Ulama: La Supervivencia del Juego de Pelota Mesoamericano.”  Proceedings of the International Conference: Cuerpo y Espíritu: Deporte y Cristianismo en la Historia.  Murcia: Universidad Católica de Murcia, 2018.

2018

 La Perfección del Silencio: El Panteón de Belén y el Culto a los Muertos en México / The Perfection of Silence: The Cemetery of Belén and the Cult of the Dead in México. Guadalajara: Secretaría de Cultura del Estado de Jalisco.  Expanded 2nd Bilingual Edition (expected for publication in 2018).

2017The Books of Mesoamerica and Colonial Mexico. Highlights from the Ruwet, Glass, and Nicholson Collections of Cal State LA.  Manuel Aguilar-Moreno, Azalea Camacho, and Angelene Campuzano.  Los Angeles: John F. Kennedy Memorial Library Special Collections, 2017.
2017

“Ulama: El juego de pelota que ha sobrevivido hasta nuestros días”  Arqueología Mexicana, Expected on 2017.

2017

El Coateocalli, los dioses extranjeros y la apropiación de espacios sagrados entre los mexica-aztecas.”  In Del saber ha hecho su razón de ser. Homenaje a Alfredo López Austin.  Edited by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma and Angela Ochoa.  Mexico City: INAH, 2017.

2017

“Emblemas GEA.”  In Hospital GEA 70 Años. Edited by Dr. Mucio Moreno, Mexico City: Hospital GEA, 2017

2016
Antagonistic Tolerance: A Comparative Analysis of Competitive Sharing of Religious Sites.  Robert Hayden, Aykan Erdemir, Tuğba Tanyeri-Erdemir, Timothy D. Walker, Devika Rangachari, Manuel Aguilar-Moreno, Enrique López-Hurtado and Milica Bakić-Hayden. New York: Routledge, 2016.
2016

“Evangelization and Indigenous Religious Reactions to Conquest and Colonization.”  In Cambridge Encyclopedia of Religion in Latin America.  Edited by Virginia Burnett, Paul Freston and Stephen Dove.  Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2016.  

2016

“Malinalco: El Lugar de la Guerra Sagrada.”  Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium of Military History of Mexico (2011).  Dr. Iván Valdez-Bubnov and Gral. Clever Chávez Marín (Eds.).  Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and Asociación Internacional de Historia Militar, 2016.

2016

“Ulama: The Pre-Columbian ballgame survives today.” American Indian, Vol. 17, No. 2, Summer 2016, Smithsonian Institution.

2015
“Ulama: Pasado, Presente y Futuro del juego de pelota mesoamericano.” Anales de Antropología, Vol. 49, Número 1, 2015, UNAM.
2013

“Transculturation in Art: The Case of the Monastery of Calpan, Mexico.”  Colonial Latin American Historical ReviewVol.22, No. 1, 39-66, 2013.

2013

“Six Entries related to Art Sites of Mexico: Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno (Atotonilco, Gto.), Franciscan Mission of Landa de Matamoros (Sierra Gorda, Qro.), Temple of the Feathered Serpent (Xochicalco, Mor.), Church of Santo Domingo (Puebla City), Sculptures of Los Danzantes (Monte Albán, Oax.), andthe Murals of Bonampak (Sierra Lacandona, Chis.)In Phaidon Atlas of Site Specific Art of the Americas.  London: Phaidon, 2013.

2012

Reflexiones sobre la Invasión de Estados Unidos a México (1846-48). Guadalajara: Secretaría de Cultura de Jalisco, 2012.

2011

Azteki. Entsiklopedicheski Spravochnik. Translation to Russian of my Book Handbook to Life in the Aztec World.  Moscow: Beche, 2011.

2011
Diego Rivera: A Biography. Co-authored with Erika Cabrera.  Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2011.
2011

“The Vision Serpent in the Art of Luis Bermudez.”  In the Catalog of the Exhibit Luis Bermudez: Myth, Place and Identity. Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, Ojai, Calif.,  2011.

2011

“La Guerra entre Estados Unidos y Mexico (1846-1848).”  Proceedings of the Third International Simposium of Military History of Mexico (2005).  Dr. Martín González de la Vara and Gral. Clever A. Chávez Marín (Eds.).  Guadalajara: Asociación Internacional de Historia Militar, 2011. (See 2007 Praesidium article) 

2010

El Rostro Humano de Hidalgo.  Guadalajara: Secretaría de Cultura de Jalisco, 2010 (edition for the Bicentennial of the Independence of Mexico).

2009Walls of Passion: The Murals of Los Angeles. Catalog of a Photo-Documentary Exhibition held at California State University, Los Angeles. Edited by Manuel Aguilar-Moreno. January 2009. 
2009Malinalco: A Place Between Heaven and Ear​th. In Landscapes of Origin in the Americas: Creation Narratives Linking Ancient Places and Present Communities.  Edited by Jessica Joyce Christie. The University of Alabama Press: Tuscaloosa, 2009.
2009 "Colonial Art in Jalisco."Ventana Interior. Interdisciplinary Journal of the University of San Diego. Vol. V, 2009. 
2008

Élet az Aztékok Foldjén. Translation to Hungarian of my Book Handbook to Life in the Aztec World.  Budapest: Thomas Kerekes, 2008.

2007 Markets of Latin America. 2008 Calendar for MASECA Corporation. It presents a selection of picturesque folk markets of Latin America and their traditional foods and merchandise. I was invited to write the text for this calendar and work in the desgin committee. May-December 2007. 
2007

Handbook to Life in the Aztec World. New York: Oxford University Press.  Foreword by Dr. John M.D. Pohl, Curator of the Pre-Columbian collection of the Princeton University Museum. Paperback Edition, 2007. 

2007

Reflexiones sobre la invasíon de Estados Unidos a Mexico (1846-1848).Praesidium.  Interdisciplinary Journal of the University of San Diego.  Vol. IV, 2007.

2006

Traditional Toys and Games of Latin America. 2007 Calendar for MASECA Corporation. It presents a selection of diverse traditional toys like balero and trompo, and folkoristic group games of Latin America. It also features traditional foods associated to the regions where those games are played. I was invited to write the text for this calendar and work in the design committee. June-November 2006. 

2006

The Concepts of Life and Death in Aztec ArtPraesidium.  Interdisciplinary Journal of the University of San Diego.  Vol. III, 2006.

2006

The Good and Evil of Cacao in Colonial Mexico. In Chocolate in Mesoamerica.  Edited by Cameron McNeil.  Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

2006

El Concepto de la Guerra en la Cultura Maya. Proceedings of the Second International Symposium of Military History of Mexico (2003).  Gral. Clever A. Chavez Maron (Ed.).  Guadalajara: Asociacion Internacional de Historia Militar.

2006

Handbook to Life in the Ancient Aztec WorldNew York: Facts on File.  Foreword by Dr. John M.D. Pohl, Curator of the Pre-Columbian collection of the Princeton University Museum.

2006

Magical Towns of Latin America. 2006 Calendar for MASECA Corporation.  It presents a selection of picturesque and historical towns of Latin America and their traditional foods.  I was invited to write the text for this calendar and work in the design committee.

2005

We have come only to dream: Aztec Poetry and Let’s Play Ball: Ullamaliztli.  Calliope. Exploring World History. Volume 16, No. 4, December 2005.

2005

Utopía de Piedra: El Arte Tequitqui de México (Stone Utopia: The Tequitqui Art of Mexico). Guadalajara: Conexión Gráfica.  The book was presented at ITESO-Jesuit University of Guadalajara, Mexico by Dr. Salvador de Alba, vice-minister of Culture of the State of Jalisco and Professor Ignacio Castiello. November 2005.

2005
Philip Mackowiak, Vera Tiesler Blos, Manuel Aguilar, Jane Buikstra.  On the Origin of American Tuberculosis. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2005, 41:515-8.
2005

Tepeyolotl in the Cave of Chalcatzingo.Proceedings of the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies Conference: 2002-2003, Vol. 20, pp.:21-34.  Edited by Irene Vasquez and Doreen O’Connor-Gomez. Los Angeles: Xlibris Corp., 2005.

2005

Manuel Aguilar, Miguel Medina Jaen, Tim Tucker and James Brady Origin Caves and Cosmology: A Man-MadeChicomoztoc Complex at Acatzingo Viejo. In In the Maw of the Earth Monster: Studies in Mesoamerican Ritual Cave Use.  Edited by Jim Brady and Keith Prufer.  Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005.

2004-2005

The Temple of Kinich Kak Mo in Izamal.  Praesidium.  Interdisciplinary Journal of the University of San Diego.  Vol. II, 2004-2005, pp.: 59-71.

2004

Ulama (The Survival of the Ancient Mesoamerican Ballgame). Edited by Manuel Aguilar and James E. Brady.  Estudios Jaliscienses No. 56.  Guadalajara: Colegio de Jalisco, May 2004.

2004

Filosofía y Simbolismo del Juego de Pelota Mesoamericano.  In Ulama.  Estudios Jaliscienses No. 56.  Manuel Aguilar and James E. Brady (Eds.). Guadalajara: Colegio de Jalisco. May 2004.

2003

El Venerable Juan de Palafox y Mendoza: Santo o Villano?  Praesidium.  Interdisciplinary Journal of the University of San Diego.  Vol. I, December 2003. 

2003

La Perfección del Silencio: El Panteón de Belén y el Culto a la Muerte en Mexico (The Perfection of Silence. The Cemetery of Belen and the Cult of Death in Mexico). Guadalajara: Secretaría de Cultura de Jalisco, 2003.  Bilingual Edition. The book was released with a ceremony in the cemetery, words by the historian Enrique Florescano, the archaeologist Otto Schöndube, the anthropologist Guillermo de la Peña, the Director of Cultural Patrimony of Guadalajara Salvador de Alba, and a lecture by the author.  March 17, 2003.

2003

Notebook for the Mixtec Pictographic Writing Workshop at Texas.  Codex Nuttall: The Zapotec Dynasty of Zaachila together with an English Translation of Alfonso Caso's 1949 Study of the Mapa de Teozacoalco. Co-authored with John M.D. Pohl.  Austin: Texas Mesoamerican Meetings Editions.

2003

El Sentido de la Biblia (The Meaning of the Bible) (2nd Edition).  Mexico: Buena Prensa, 2003.  A book on interpretation of Biblical Literary Genres and History. Foreword by Dr.Luis Alonso Schoekel.

2003

The Indio Ladino as a Cultural Mediator in the Mexican Colonial SocietyEstudios de Cultura Nahuatl.  Vol 33, May 2003.  Mexico: UNAM.

2003

Etnomedicina en Mesoamérica.  Arqueología Mexicana. Vol. X, No. 59, January-February 2003 (Bilingual edition).

2002-2003

The Mesoamerican Ballgame as a portal to the Underworld.  Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute (PARI) Journal. San Francisco. Vol. III, Nos. 2 and 3, 2002-2003.

2002

The Stelae of Xochicalco and Quetzalcoatl.  Mexicon.  Vol. XXIV, No. 6, December 2002.

2002

Cultural Encounters in Mexico: Identity and Religion. Praesidium. Interdisciplinary Journal of the University of San Diego. Introductory Vol., November 2002.

2002

Semblanza del Ejército Azteca. Proceedings of the First International Symposium of Military History of Mexico (2001).  Gral. Clever A. Chavez Marín (Ed.).  Guadalajara: Asociación Internacional de Historia Militar.

2001

The Tequitqui Baroque of the State of Jalisco, Mexico Ventana Interior, Year 3, V. III, 13, September-October 2001. Mexico: National Council for Culture and Art of Mexico (CONACULTA).

2001

Documentos Coloniales Mexicanos resguardados en La Universidad de Texas en Austin. Memorias de la Benemérita Sociedad de Geografía y Estadística del Estado de Jalisco. Guadalajara.

2001

The Skeleton that Eats Maize: The Day of the Dead among the Ancient and Classic MayaPre-Columbian Art Research Institute (PARI) Journal. San Francisco. Vol.II, No.3, Summer 2001

1999

Tequitqui Art of Sixteenth Century Mexico: An Expression of Transculturation. (Doctoral Dissertation). Supervised by Dr. Karl Butzer, University of Texas at Austin. (December, 1999).

1999

El Misterio de Kinich Kak Mo en Izamal.  Guadalajara: Sociedad de Geografia y Estadistica. (See same article in 2004-2005)

1999

El Venerable Juan de Palafox y Mendoza: Santo o Villano?. Guadalajara: Sociedad de Geografia y Estadistica. (See same article in 2003)

1998
Tequitqui Art in Mexico. Guadalajara: Sociedad de Geografia y Estadistica. (See 1999 Dissertation)
1998

Translation from Spanish to English of the book El Mapa de Teozacoalco by Alfonso Caso.  Austin: Texas Mesoamerican Meetings Editions. (See Notebook for the Mixtec Pictograph Writing article in 2003)

1998

The Cult of the Dead in Mexico: Continuity of a Millenial Tradition. Austin: Mexic-Arte Museum Publications. Presentation and Book Signing in Mexic-ArteMuseum, Austin, Tex. October 31, 1998.

1997

The Olmec Humboldt Axe and the Aztec symbol Atl-Tlachinolli. In U Mut Maya, Vol.VI. Tom and Carolyn Jones (Eds.). Arcata, CA.

1997

Nahualism and Ethnomedicine in Latin America. In U Mut Maya, Vol. VI. Tom and Carolyn Jones (Eds.). Arcata, CA.

1997

El Panteón de Belén y el Culto a los Muertos en México: Una Búsqueda de lo Sobrenatural.  Architecture and History of funerary art in Guadalajara and in several regions of Mexico. Edition sponsored by the Government of the City of Guadalajara. Foreword by Lic. Efraín González Morfín, Minister of Education of the State of Jalisco.

1997

Architecture and Ideology in Sixteenth-Century MexicoReligious Power and Tequitqui Art (Master Thesis). Supervised by Dr.Linda Schele and Dr.KarlButzer, University of Texas at Austin. (See 1999 Dissertation)

1995
1994

El Sentido de la Biblia (The Meaning of the Bible) A Study of the Historiography and Literary Genres. Foreword by Dr.Luis Alonso Schoekel. Guadalajara: ITESO University Press.

1993

The Cemetery of Belén. The Sacred Land of Silence.  Guadalajara: Unidad Editorial del Estado de Jalisco.  An architectural and historical study about one of the finest buildings in Guadalajara. The book was released with a ceremony in the cemetery, words by the former Mayor of Guadalajara Don Gabriel Covarrubias, a lecture by the author and a contemporary dance show.

 


MAGAZINES

2006Appearance inMuy Interesante Magazine from Spain, September 2006. I am quoted there by my work in the Ulama Project about the study of the survival of the pre-Columbian Ballgame in Mexico. 
2006Participation in a T.V. program for the History Channel with the themes: "Engineering an Empire: The Aztecs." The program was produced by Jim Gaffey of KPITV of New York, and the interviews were filmed in the Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City. May 27, 2006
2006Appearance in Smithsonian Magazine, April 2006. I am quoted there by my work in the Ulama Project about the study of the survival of the pre-Colmbian Ballgame in Mexico. 
2004Appearance in The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 10, 2004, in the article "Saving a Mayan Game of Sacrifice" by Marion Lloyd in the section Notes from Academe. Quoted there by my work in the Ulama Project about the study of survival of the pre-Columbian Ballgame in Mexico. December 10, 2004 
2004Appearance in the newspaper Houston ChronicleNovember 14, 2004, in the article "Mexico's original sport faces threat of extinction" by Jo Tuckman. Quoted there by our work in the Ulama project about the study of the survival of the pre-Columbian Ballgame in Mexico. November 14, 2004. 
2004Appearance in Abenteuer Archaeologie Magazine, May 24th-30th 2004, in the article "Take me out to the Ballgame" in the section Science and Technology. I am quoted there by my work in the Ulama Project about the study of the survival of the Pre-Columbian Ballgame in Mexico. May 2004, Germany.
2004Appearance in The Economist Magazine, April 24th-30th 2004, in the article "Take me out to the Ballgame" in the section Science and Technology. I am quoted there by my work in the Ulama Project about the study of the survival of the pre-Columbian Ballgame in Mexico. April 2004. 
2004Participation in a T.V. program for the History Channel with the theme "Deep Sea Detectives: Secret Underwater" The program was produced by Rocky Collins of Lone Wolf Documentary Group, and the interviews were filmed in Cal State LA. March 12, 2004. 
2003Appearance in Archaeology Magazine, September-October 2003, in the article "Extreme Sport. Mexico's Ancient Ballgame" by Colleen Popson. I am quoted there by my work in the Ulama Project about the study of the survival of the pre-Columbian Ballgame in Mexico. Sept-Oct, 2003. 
2002Participation in a T.V. program about "The Encounter of Two Worlds: Spaniards and Indians in the American Continent", with the noted Mexican historian José María Muriá. Channel 4, Guadalajara, Mexico. October 14, 2002. 
2002I was quoted in the book The Science of Harry Potter: How Magic Really Works, by Roger Highfield, Viking Press, October 2002, pgs. 33-34 and 37-38. The author quotes me regarding the relationship of the Mesoamerican ballgame with the consumption of hallucinogenic substances and the links with Shamanism since 1500 B.C. This theorizes that Harry Potter's Quidditch sport was probably inspired by the Mesoamerican ballgame that had magic-religious connotations. 
2002Appearance in Science News, V. 161, No. 20, in the article "Openings to the Underworld" by Bruce Bower. I am quoted there by my work on the findings of a man-made Chicomoztoc, the seven caves of the origin of the Nahua people. May 18, 2002. 
2001

Participation in a T.V. program for the History Channel with the theme: “A Day in the Life of a Conquistador”.  The program was produced by Dr. John Pohl of the Fowler Museum of Cultural History at UCLA.  December 13, 2001

1995Participation in a T.V. program about "The Painting of Clemente Orozco", discussing the book "Orozco el Mito" with famous Mexican scholars like Augusto Orea Mariín (author of the book), Guillermo García Oropeza and Magdalena Gonzaález Casilla. Channel 6, Guadalajara, Mexico, 1995
1995Participation in culture and history oriented T.V. programs about "The Shroud of Christ" and "The Monster of Loch Ness". Channel 6, Guadalajara, Mexico, 1995

 


LECTURES AND COURSES

Conferences and courses on Art History, Social and Political History, Anthropology, Education, Quality Control and Biblical Interpretation. A selection of the main conferences and courses are listed below:

+ “Ulama: La supervivencia del juego de pelota mesoamericano.”  Lecture for the International Conference: Body and Spirit: Sports and Christianity throughout History. Universidad Católica de Murcia (UCAM), Spain.  October 19, 2016.

+ “El misterio de las pelotas de hule del tributo de Tochtepec en el Códice Mendoza.”  Lecture for the Sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadística (Mexican Society of Geography and History).  Guadalajara, Mexico. June 28, 2016.

+ “La Pintura Mural de Desiderio Hernández Xochitiotzin.  Su significación en el panorama cultural de México.”  Lecture for the 1st Colloquium Desiderio Hernández Xochitiotzin.  Tlaxcala, Mexico.  February 12, 2016.

+ “The mystery of the Rubber Balls of Tochtepec in the Codex Mendoza.”  Lecture for the Symposium: Ancient Mexican Books in United Kingdom Collections.  Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland.  October 28, 2015.

+ “The Magic of Chocolate.”  Ontario Museum of History and Art.  Ontario, California.  August 27, 2015.

+ “The Aztec Human Sacrifice: A Medical and Cultural Approach.”  El Carmen Hospital.  Guadalajara, Mexico. August 3, 2015.

+ “El Camino del Espíritu: 40 Años de Viaje por el Mundo.”  Lecture for the Sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadística (Mexican Society of Geography and History).  Guadalajara, Mexico. June 30, 2015.

 + “Alebrijes: Tradición, Imaginación y Color.”  Lecture for UNAM-Los Angeles Cultural Center.  Los Angeles, April 30, 2015.

+ “From Texas to California: A Journey with Linda Schele.”  Lecture for the Symposium in Honor to Linda Schele at California State University, Los Angeles. April 9-11, 2015.

+ “Cacahuatl: The Origins and Global Impact of Chocolate.”  Lecture organized by the Latin American Institue of UCLA at Ave 50 Studio, Highland Park, Los Angeles.  March 29, 2015.

+ “Frida Kahlo: El Pincel de la Angustia.”  Lecture for the Sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadística (Mexican Society of Geography and History).  Guadalajara, Mexico. August 21, 2014.

+ “Aztec Human Sacrifice: Ritual and Politics”.  Lecture for the Latin American Institute of University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).  June 16, 2014.

+ “Ulama: A Survival of a Mesoamerican Game.”  Lecture for the 2013 South Central Conference on Mesoamerica.  University of Houston, Houston, TX.  November 2, 2013.

+ “The Millenialist Utopia of the Indian Jerusalem: Indian-Christian Art and Transculturation in 16th Century Mexico.”  Lecture for the Symposium in Honor to Michael Coe at California State University, Los Angeles.  April 12, 2013.

+ “Orozco y el Muralismo Mexicano.”  Lecture for the Mexican Consulate.  Los Angeles, CA.  February 14, 2013.

+ “The Survival of the Mesoamerican Ballgame and the Ulama Project 2003-2013.”  Lecture in the Anthropology Department of University of California, Riverside. November 6, 2012.

+ “The Colonial Origin of the Day of the Dead.”  Lecture for the Day of the Dead Celebration at the PLAZA ART CENTER.  Los Angeles, CA.  November 1, 2012.

+ “Diego Rivera: From the Mexican Revolution to Detroit.”  Lecture for the Detroit Institute of Arts.  Detroit, MI.  September 27, 2012.

+ “Ulama: the Survival of a Mesoamerican Ballgame.”  Lecture in the context of the exhibition The Legacy of the Plumed Serpent in Ancient Mexico.  Dallas Museum of Art, Horchow Auditorium.  Dallas, TX.  September 20, 2012.

+ “Reflexiones sobre la Invasión de Estados Unidos a México.”  Lecture for presentation of the book of the same name.  Organized by the Ministry of Culture of the State of Jalisco at the Museo de Arqueología de Occidente (Museum of Archaeology of Western Mexico) with the attendance of 350 persons.  September 13, 2012.

+ “Antagonistic Tolerance in Cholula, Mexico.”  Lecture for the Antagonistic Tolerance Research Workshop.  Ataturk Florya Palace, Istanbul, Turkey.  July 27-31, 2012.

+ “Portraits of Crowned Nuns and Architecture of Convents as Visual Symbols of Power in Colonial Mexico.” Lecture at the 54 International Congress of Americanists (ICA), University of Vienna, Austria.  July 15-20, 2012.

+ “The Magic of the Mexican Muralism.”  Lecture for the Spanish Department of the University of Virginia.  Charlottesville, VA.  April 14, 2012.

+ “Tequitqui: The Indian-Christian Art of Mexico.” Lecture for the Department of Latin American Studies of the University of Virginia.  Charlottesville, VA.  April 13, 2012.

+ “The Ulama Project: 2003-2012.”  Lecture for the Anthropology Department of University of California, Merced.  March 9, 2012.

+ “Ulama, a Survival of the Mesoamerican Ballgame.”  Lecture for the International Mesoamerican Symposium in Honor of Alfredo López-Austin: From Teotihuacan to Tenochtitlan: Cultural Continuity in Central Mexico.  California State University, Los Angeles.  February 11, 2012.

+ “Muralism and Society.”  Lecture in the Panel Los Angeles Murals Ordinance Update.  Event organized at Cal State L.A. by the American Communities Program and Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles.  January 31, 2012.

+ “Malinalco y la Guerra.”  Lecture for the Eighth Symposium of Military History at National University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City.  November 17, 2011.

+ “Portraits of Crowned Nuns and the Conventual Life in Colonial Mexico.”  Lecture for the Department of Modern Languages and Literature of California State University, Fullerton.  November 10, 2011.

+ “The Rubber Ball in Ulama.”  Lecture for the American Society of Ethnohistory.  Pasadena, CA.  October 222, 2011

 + “Mexica-Aztec: Foreign Gods and Sacred Spaces.”  Presentation of a Research Paper for the Antagonistic Tolerance Project.  Belgrade, Serbia.  June 24, 2011.

+ “Power and Urban Design in Beijing.”  Lecture to the students and faculty (640 persons) of the program Semester at Sea Fall 2010.  Ship MV Explorer.  November 24, 2010.

+ “The Art and Culture of India.”  Lecture to the students and faculty (640 persons) of the program Semester at Sea Fall 2010.  Ship MV Explorer.  October 19, 2010.

+ “The Art of Morocco.”  Lecture to the students and faculty (640 persons) of the program Semester at Sea Fall 2010.  Ship MV Explorer.  September 9, 2010.

+ “El Rostro Humano de Hidalgo.”  Lecture of presentation for the book of the same name.  Organized by the minister of culture of the State of Jalisco at the Government Palace of Guadalajara with the attendance of 400 persons. Event of the celebrations of the Bicentennial of Mexican Independence.  July 14, 2010.

+ “La Excomunión de Hidalgo.”  Lecture for the Seventh Symposium of Military History at Museo Nacional de Historia in Chapultepec Castle, Mexico City. Event of the celebrations of the Bicentennial of Mexican Independence.  March 25, 2010.

+ “The Aztec Human Sacrifice: A Cultural and Medical Approach”.  Lecture for the Spring 2010  Meeting of the Mesoamerican Network.  California State University, Los Angeles.  Los Angeles, CA.  March 14, 2010.

+ “The Cemetery of Belén and the Cult of the Dead in Mexico.”  Lecture-Tour for the Guadalajara Chapter  of theYoung Professionals Organization (YPO).  Cemetery of Belén in Guadalajara, Mexico.  Night of November 19, 2009.

+ “The History of the Day of the Dead”.  Lecture for the Museum of Latin American Art.  Long Beach, CA.  November 1, 2009.

+ “Tequitqui Art and Transculturation: The Posa Chapels of the Monastery of Calpan, Mexico”.  Lecture at the 53 International Congress of Americanists (ICA), Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City.  July 19-24, 2009.

+ Courses: “Art in Public Spaces” and “Civilization of Latin America” for the Summer Program of University of San Diego at the Fundación Ortega y Gasset, Madrid, Spain. June 8-July 19, 2009.

+ Lecture-Tour on European Art at the Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. July 1-6, 2009.

+ Lecture-Tour on Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art of Latin America at the Museo de América, Madrid, Spain.  June 17-23, 2009.

+ “The Cuauhcalli of Malinalco”.  Lecture for the 1st Mesoamerican Conference in Homage to Tatiana Proskouriakoff at Cal State LA.  Los Angeles, CA.  May 16, 2009.

+ “The Critical Existence of the Ulama Rubber Ball”.  Lecture for the 1st Mesoamerican Conference in Homage to Tatiana Proskouriakoff at Cal State LA.  Los Angeles, CA.  May 15, 2009.

+ “Walls of Passion: The Murals of Los Angeles”. Lecture at the Symposium of the American Communities Program of Cal State LA.  Los Angeles, CA.  May 14, 2009.

+ “Stones of Blood: The Aztec Art.”  Lecture for the Department of Art and Art History.  University of Nebraska at Lincoln.  April 16, 2009.

+ “The Magic of Mexican Muralism.”  Lecture at Sheldon Museum. University of Nebraska at Lincoln.  April 16, 2009.

+ “Transculturation in Art: The Case of Calpan Mexico” in the seminar on Beliefs, Myths, Superstitions and Rituals: Global Languages and Local Adaptations.  Lecture presented at the Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA).  Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.  March 26-29, 2009.

+ “The Influence of Pre-Columbian Art in the Ceramics of artist Luis Bermúdez” in the context of the exhibitionCeramicas de la Tierra.  Lecture presented at the American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA).  Pomona, CA.  March 21, 2009.

+ “Walls of Passion: A Community-Based Art History Photo-Documentary Exhibit.”

Lecture and guided tour at the Symposium Building Communities: Community-Based learning and Public Scholarship Across the Disciplines. California State University, Los Angeles.  February 13, 2009.

+ “Candomble: The Afro Brazilian Religion,” “Art and Architecture of Brazil,”  “The Maya Hieroglyphic Writing” and “Art and Architecture of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.”  Four lectures given for Enrichment Voyages, a cultural program on board of a ship that traveled to the Amazon Basin and the Caribbean Sea.  December 18, 2008-January 8, 2009.

+ “Malinalco: A Place between Heaven and Earth.”  Lecture for the Fall 2008 Meeting of the Mesoamerican Network.  Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).  Los Angeles, CA.  November 16, 2008.

+ “Day of the Dead and Mexican Funerary Art Traditions.” Lecture for the Symposium Death and the Idea of Mexico.  Organized by Chicano Studies Department of East L.A. College.  October 29, 2008.

+ “Walls of Passion: The Murals of Los Angeles.” Lecture in the panel: “Mystical Urban Landscapes: Barrio Murals, Public Art Policy and Service Learning in Los Angeles.”  Presented at the Conference: Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life.  University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.  October 2-4, 2008.

+ “Ulama: The Survival of the Mesoamerican Ballgame – Rules and Scoring.”  Lecture presented at the Panel 37: Ethnohistory of the Americas.  Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the CaribbeanConference (ERIP Conference).  University of California, San Diego.  May 22, 2008.  

+ “History of Mariachi Music.”  Lecture for the History Teachers Association of the San Diego Unified School District.  San Diego, Calif.  May 8, 2008. 

+ “Maya Culture and Apocalypto.”  Lecture at the Westfield Residence for UCLA students, Westwood-Los Angeles.  February 20, 2008.

+ “Bridge to the Americas: The MoLAA Permanent Colecction.”  Keynote Lecture at the Museum of Latin American Art of Long Beach, California.  January 27, 2008.

+ “The Maya Hieroglyphic Writing,” “The Art and Architecture of the main Maya Cities” and “History of Mariachi Music.”  Three lectures given for Seminar at Sea, a cultural cruise that travels in Central America, and the Caribbean Sea.  December 27, 2007-January 5, 2008.

+ “Los Aztecas: Arte e Imperio.”  Lecture at the Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles.  December 6, 2007. 

+ “Malinalco: The Indian-Christian Paradise of Fertility.”  Lecture at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in Washington, D.C. November 28, 2007.

+ Undergraduate Research and the Ulama Project.” Keynote Lecture at the Southern California Undergraduate Research conference held in California State University, Los Angeles.  November 17, 2007.

+ “Myths of Stone: Aztec Art and Architecture.”  Lecture sponsored by the Spanish and Anthropology Departments of the University of San Diego. November 15, 2007.

+ “Portrait of Mexico Today  by David Alfaro Siqueiros.”  Lecture at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.  Santa Barbara, California.  November 11, 2007.

+ “The Prometheus of Clemente Orozco”.  Lecture at Frary Hall of Pomona College, Claremont, Calif. November 4, 2007.

+ “ Tequitqui Art: A Case of Antagonistic Tolerance in Mexico.”  Lecture at the Workshop Antagonistic Tolerance: A Comparative Analysis of Competitive Sharing of Religious Sites. Middle Eastern Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey.  October 3-9, 2007.

+ “Handbook to Life in the Aztec World.”  Lecture and Book Signing.  New York Public Library, New York.  December 12, 2006.

+ “The Cult of Death in Mexico.”  Lecture for the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM).  Los Angeles, CA.  November 30, 2006.

+ “Tequitqui Art: Syncretism of the Christian and Indigenous Cosmologies and Religions in Mexico.”  Lecture for the International Education Week of the University of San Diego.  San Diego, CA. November 13, 2006.

+ “Portrait of Mexico Today  by David Alfaro Siqueiros.”  Lecture at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.  Santa Barbara, California.  November 5, 2006.

 + “Indian Baroque of the State of Jalisco, Mexico.”  Lecture at the 52 International Congress of Americanists (ICA).  University of Sevilla, Spain.  July 19, 2006.

+ “Utopía de Piedra: El Arte Tequitqui de Mexico.”  Lecture and Book Signing at the Mexican Society of Geography and History, Guadalajara, Mexico.  June 20, 2006.

+ “Handbook to Life in the Aztec World.”  Lecture and Book Signing.  California State University, Los Angeles.  May 17, 2006.

 + “Ulama: The Survival of the Pre-Columbian Ballgame in Northern Mexico.”  Lecture at the Huntington Colloquium: Powerful Visions. Studies of Cultural Diversions.  Coordinated by Dr. Bryant Alexander.  Huntington Library, San Marino, California.  February 17, 2006.

+ “The Maya Hieroglyphic Writing,” “The Art of Antigua, Guatemala” and “History of Mariachi Music.”  Three lectures given for Seminar at Sea, a cultural cruise that travels in Central America, the Panama Canal and the Caribbean Sea.  December 27, 2005-January 4, 2006.

 + “Tequitqui Art of Colonial Mexico: A Stone Utopia.”  Lecture at the Art Department of the College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico.  Invited by Dr. Khristaan Villela.  December 8, 2005.

+ “Death in Aztec Art.”  Lecture for CEDART Institute of Art of the National Institute of Fine Arts at Guadalajara, Mexico.  November 8, 2005.

+ “The Murals of Orozco in Guadalajara.”  Lecture for the American Community of Ajijic-Lake Chapala, Mexico.  October 13, 2005.

+ “Folk Baroque in Jalisco.”  Lecture at the Government Palace of Guadalajara, Mexico.  It was an event of the Internationally known October Festival.  October 7, 2005.

+ “History of Mariachi Music.”  Lecture at the International Festival of Mariachi, Guadalajara, Mexico.  September 2, 2005.

+ “A View into the History of Mexico.”  Lecture for the Association of Tourist Guides of the State of Jalisco.  Event sponsored by the Ministry of Tourism of the State of Jalisco and held in its auditorium in Guadalajara, Mexico.  August 25, 2005.  

+ Course: “A Vision of the Art of Mexico: From Mesoamerica to Frida Kahlo” sponsored by the advertising agencyVértice Comunicación. Guadalajara, Mexico.  September-November, 2005.

+ Course: “The Art of Mexico from the Olmecs to the Muralism” taught at Colegio de Michoacán, Zamora, Mexico.  July-August, 2005.

+ “The Mesoamerican Ballgame and the Ulama.”  Lecture at the Art History Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara.  Invited by Dr. Jeanette Peterson.  May 5, 2005.

+ “Ulama, the Survival of the Mesoamerican Game.” Lecture at the International Conference on Latin America, organized by the Latin American Studies Program of California State University, San Bernardino.  April 14-15, 2005.

+ “The Ulama Project 2003-2007, a model of interdisciplinary research.” Lecture at the Mesoamerican Research Center of the University of California, Santa Barbara.  Invited by Dr. Anabel Ford.  February 22, 2005.

+ “The Skeleton that Eats Maize: Funerary Customs of the Ancient and Modern Maya.” Lecture at the Museum of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Calif.  October 29, 2004.

+ “History of the Decipherment of the Maya Writing.”  Lecture sponsored by the Spanish and History Departments of University of San Diego.  October 14, 2004.

+ “The Indigenous Art of 16th Century Mexico and the Formation of the Mexican Identity.”  Lecture sponsored by the Transborder Institute, the Economics Department and the Guadalajara Summer Program of the University of San Diego.  October 14, 2004.

+ “The Terracotta Soldiers of the Tomb of Emperor Shi Huangdi in X’ian, China.”  Lecture at the Mexican Society of Geography and History, Guadalajara, Mexico.  July 27, 2004.

+ “Orozco and the Drama of American Civilization.”  Lecture at the Art History Department of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.  Invited by Dr. Jane Dini.  May 13, 2004.

+ “The Good and Evil of Cacao in Colonial Mexico.”  Lecture for the Mesoamerican Network meeting at the University of California, Riverside.  May 2, 2004.

+ “Philosophy and Symbolism of the Mesoamerican Ball Game.”  Lecture for the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) at Montreal, Canada.  April 3, 2004.

+ “Tequitqui Art of Mexico: An Indian-Christian Transculturation.”  Lecture sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies and History of Art and Architecture Department of the University of Pittsburgh, Penn.  April 1, 2004.

+ “Indian Baroque Art in Jalisco.”  Lecture and Field Trip for the Association of Tourist Guides of the State of Jalisco.  Event sponsored by the Ministry of Tourism of the State of Jalisco. Guadalajara, Cajititlan, Santa Cruz de las Flores, Mexico.  December 12, 2003.

+ “The Art of Japan, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, India, Tanzania, South Africa, Brazil and Cuba.”  Series of 11 lectures for the Global Studies class at the Program Semester at Sea of the University of Pittsburgh.  Voyage around the World.  August 23-December 5, 2003.

+ “The Santería in Cuba,” “The Candomblé in Brazil,” and “Liberation Theology in Latinoamerica.”  Series of 3 lectures for the Global Studies class at the Program Semester at Sea of the University of Pittsburgh.  Voyage around the World.  August 23-December 5, 2003.

+ “Arte Tequitqui en Michoacán.”  Lecture for the International Interior Design Association (IIDA).  Industrialists Club, Guadalajara, Mexico.  August 6, 2003.

+ “The Meaning of the Bible.  An Introduction to its Literary Genres.”  Lecture and book signing at ITESO University, Auditorium of Graduate Studies. Guadalajara, Mexico.  July 15, 2003.

+ “Dr. Atl: A Passion for Landscape.”  Lecture at ITESO University, Clavigero Center, Guadalajara, Mexico.  July 15, 2003.

+ Course: “A Vision of the Art of Mexico: From Mesoamerica to the Muralism (Pre-Columbian, Colonial and Modern Periods)” taught at ITESO Jesuit University (Clavijero House), Guadalajara, Mexico.  June 30-July 28, 2003.

+ “The Historicity of the Map of Cuauhtinchan #2 and a Man-made Chicomoztoc Complex at Acatzingo Viejo.”  Lecture at the Fifth World Archaeological Congress (WAC5) as part of the Session: Written History and Geography in Central Mexico—Codices, Lienzos, and Mapas linked to the ground.  Session coordinated by John Pohl and Soeren Wichmann.  Washington, D.C.  June 22, 2003.

+ “El Juego de Pelota Mesoamericano: Un Portal al Inframundo”.  Lecture at the Primer Congreso Internacional Sobre Juego de Hule Mesoamericano (First International Conference on the Mesoamerican Ballgame) sponsored by the Historical Society of Mazatlan.  Mazatlan, Mexico.  March 28-29, 2003.

+ “El Concepto de la Guerra en la Cultura Maya”.  Lecture for the Second International Symposium of Military History of Mexico.  University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico.  March 19, 2003.

+ “The Chicomoztoc of Acatzingo”.  Lecture at the Art Department of the University of California, Irvine by invitation of Dr. John Pohl.  March 10, 2003.

+ “Art and Culture in Mexico”.  Lecture at the Marshall School of Business of the University of Southern California.  March 8, 2003.

+ “Mexican Muralism: A Political and Ideological Art.”  Lecture for the Department of Political Science at the Kroc Center of the University of San Diego.  November 20, 2002.

+ “The Tequitqui Art: Indian-Christian Art of Sixteenth Century Mexico.”  Lecture at the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California.  November 14, 2002.

+ “Tepeyolotl in the Cave of Chalcatzingo.”  Lecture for the Pacific Coast Council of Latin American Studies Conference (PCCLAS) at East L.A. College. Los Angeles, California.  November 8-9, 2002.

+ “The Engraver José Guadalupe Posada.  His Work and its Significance.”  Lecture at the Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California.  November 3, 2002.

 + “Perspectives of Mexico through its History”.  Lecture sponsored by The Cultural Foundation of Zacatecas and held at Auditorium of the National Institute of Youth. City of Zacatecas, Mexico.  September 19, 2002.

+ “The Spanish Conquest of Mexico and the Man of Fire”.  On site lecture of the Orozco murals at Hospicio Cabañas in Guadalajara, Mexico.  Activity organized by the Museum of the City of Guadalajara.  September 7, 2002.

+ “The Image of Miguel Hidalgo in the Mexican Muralism”.  Lecture as part of the events of the Independence Festival organized by the Government of the State of Aguascalientes.  Main Hall of the Government Palace.  City of Aguascalientes, Mexico.  September 5, 2002.

+ “The Maize God and the Cross: Tequitqui Art of Mexico”.  Lecture at ITESO University, Clavigero Center, Guadalajara, Mexico.  September 3, 2002.

+ “History of the Decipherment of Maya Hieroglyphic Writing”.  Lecture for the Association of Tourist Guides of the State of Jalisco.  Event sponsored by the Ministry of Tourism of the State of Jalisco and held in its auditorium in Guadalajara, Mexico.  August 27, 2002.

+ Course: “Mexican Art of the 20th Century: J.G. Posada, S. Herrán, Dr. Atl, M. Izquierdo, F. Kahlo and the Muralists”, taught at the Museum of the City of Guadalajara.  August 17-24, 2002.

+ Course: “A Vision of the Art of Mexico: From the Olmecs to Frida Kahlo (Pre-Columbian, Colonial and Modern Periods)” taught at the Mexican Society of Geography and History, Guadalajara, Mexico.  June 17-July 22, 2002.

+ “Returning to the Beginning of Time: Exploring the Seven Caves of the Origin of the Nahuas”.  Lecture at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology of the University of California, Los Angeles.  June 7, 2002.

+ “Hieroglyphs and Mysticism of the Maya”.  Lecture sponsored by the Latin American Society, MECHA and the Cross Cultural Centers as part as the Conference “The Maya in History and Philosophy of Liberation”.  Maxwell Theater of California State University, Los Angeles.  May 17, 2002.

+ “Art and Culture in  Mexico”.  Lecture at the Marshall School of Business of the University of Southern California.  March 1, 2002.

+ “Mexican Muralists in the United States”.  Lecture at the Art Department of West Chester University, Pennsylvania.  April 9, 2002.

+ “Origin Caves and Cosmology: a Man-Made Chicomoztoc Complex at Acatzingo Viejo”.  Lecture for the 67thAnnual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) at Denver, Co.  March 21, 2002.

+ “The Art of Dr. Atl”.  Lecture at the Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles.  March 4, 2002.

+ “Mysteries of the Maya Hieroglyphic Writing”.  Lecture sponsored by the Cross Cultural Centers at California State University, Los Angeles.  February 20, 2002.

+ “Biography of Mexican Painting: A mural of Raúl Anguiano”.  Lecture presented with Maestro Raúl Anguiano at East Los Angeles College.  February 19, 2002.

+ “The Discovery of a Chicomoztoc (Seven Caves) in Mexico”. Lecture presented with Dr. Jim Brady at the Maxwell Theater of California State University, Los Angeles.  February 12, 2002.

+ “The Murals of Clemente Orozco in the United States”.  Lecture for the Museum of the City of Guadalajara.  December 11, 2001.

+ “Dr. Atl: The Landscape of Passion”.  Lecture at Long Beach Museum of Art.  November 18, 2001.

+ “The Mesoamerican Ballgame”.  Lecture for the Art Department of the University of California, Los Angeles by invitation of Dr. John Pohl.  November 13, 2001.

+ “Tequitqui Art: Indian Christian Art of Sixteenth-Century Mexico”.  Lecture at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).  November 7, 2001.

+ “The Ballgame as a Portal to the Underworld”.  Lecture for the Eighth Maya Weekend Conference at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). October 13-14, 2001.

+ “Concepts of Life and Death in Aztec Art”.  Lecture sponsored by the College of Arts and Letters and the Center for Student Development of California State University, Los Angeles.  October 10, 2001.

+ “Lienzo of Tlaxcala: A pictorial manuscript of Sixteenth-Century Mexico”.  Lecture for the Meeting of the Societies of Geography and History of Jalisco and Tlaxcala.  Guadalajara, Mexico.  September 14, 2001.

+ “Mexican Colonial Documents kept in the University of Texas”.  Lecture at “El Refugio” Cultural Center by invitation of the Municipal Historical Archive and the Department of culture of the town of Tlaquepaque, Mexico.  September 6, 2001.

+ “Mysteries of the Maya Culture and Writing”.  Lecture at ITESO University, Clavigero Center, Guadalajara, Mexico.  September 5, 2001.

+ “A View of the Aztec Army”.  Lecture for the First International Simposium of Military History of Mexico at El Colegio de Jalisco, Guadalajara, Mexico.  I was co-organizer of the event in which participated prominent specialists of diverse countries.  August 31, 2001.

+ “Mexican Colonial Documents kept in the University of Texas”.  Lecture for the Mexican Society of Geography and History, Guadalajara, Mexico.  August 21, 2001.

+ “Modern Mexican Political Reality and Future Challenges”.  Lecture for the Political Science seminar of the summer course of the University of San Diego. July 2001.

+ “Tequitqui Art and the Transculturation Process in Mexico”.  Lecture for the University of San Diego. April 24, 2001.

+ “Cultural Encounters in Mexico: Identity and Religion”.  Lecture for the Pacific Coast Conference of Latin American Studies (PCCLAS) at El Colegio de la Frontera (COLEF), Tijuana, Mexico. April 5-7, 2001.

+ “Identity and Transculturation in Mexico”.  Lecture at Universidad Iberoamericana (Iberoamerican University), Tijuana, México.  April 6, 2001.

+ “The Cultural Syncretism in Mexico”. Lecture for the Sigma Delta Pi Honors Society of Spanish Studies, Chapter California State University, Los Angeles. March 2001.

+ “The History of the Decipherment of Maya Hieroglyphic Writing”. Keynote Lecture for the commemoration of the 95th anniversary of the re-foundation of the Jesuit High School Instituto de Ciencias of Guadalajara, Mexico. December 2000.

+ “Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and the Murals of Chicano Park”. Lecture for the Docents Council of the Los Angeles County Museum, as part of the exhibition Made in California. November 10, 2000.

+ “The Skeleton that eats Maize: Day of the Dead among the Ancient and Modern Maya”.  Lecture for theMesoamerican Network at the Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum. November 5, 2000.

+ “The Day of the Dead in Mexico”.  Lecture for the Social Sciences Department of East L.A. College. October 30, 2000.

+ “The Skeleton that eats Maize: Cult of the Dead among the Ancient and Modern Maya”.  Lecture for the SeventhMaya Weekend Conference at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). October 11-13, 2000.

+ "The Tequitqui Art of Mexico: Acolman and Culhuacan" - Lecture for the Alarife Association of Architects of Guadalajara, Mexico, September 2000.  

"The Tequitqui Art of Mexico and the monastery of Culhuacan" - Lecture for the Seminar of Mexican Culture in the Museum of the City of Guadalajara, Mexico, July 2000.

+ “The Tequitqui Art of Mexico: 1521-1600” - Lecture in the Seminar of Studio Mexico by invitation of Profr. Juan Miró, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, January 31, 2000.

+ “Olmec Culture” and “Maya Culture” - Lectures for the Seminar of Mesoamerican Studies in the University Club of Guadalajara, Mexico, December 1999.

“Don Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, Bishop of Puebla”. Lecture for the cycle: “Controversial Personages of the History of Mexico”, in the City-Hall of the town of Zapopan, Mexico, during its Annual Cultural Festival. November 26, 1999.

+ ”Art and History of the City of Taxco”. Lecture in the Chapter Hall of the Church of Santa Prisca of Taxco, one of the most beautiful Baroque churches of Mexico. November 13, 1999.

“Hispanoamerican Art of the Sixteenth-Century”.  Lecture in the Conference: 2000 Years of Christian Art.  Autonomous University of Guadalajara (UAG), November 9, 1999.

“Mexican Political Reality: Candidatos y Alianzas”. Lecture for the TransBorder Institute of Political Science of the University of San Diego, CA.  October, 1999.

+ “Tequitqui, the Indian-Christian Art of Sixteenth-Century Mexico” and “The Convents of Nuns in Colonial Mexico” (Lecture and Video) - Lectures given by invitation of Dr. Kellen McIntyre at the Department of Visual Arts, University of Texas at San Antonio, March 9th, 1999.

+ “Cultural Encounters in Mexico. Identity and Religion” - Annual Institute of Latin American Studies Students Association (ILASSA) Conference.  University of Texas at Austin, February 26th,1999.

+ “The Indian-Christian Art of Mexico”. Lecture for the Latin American Studies Department of the University of San Diego, CA.  February 16, 1999.

+ “Pre-Columbian Art of West Mexico” and “Tequitqui Art of Sixteenth-Century Mexico” - Lectures given by invitation of Dr. Marilyn Buccellati at the Art History Department, California State University, Los Angeles, CA. February 15, 1999.

+ “The Colonial Art of Mexico: 1521-1821” - Lecture in the Seminar of Studio Mexico by invitation of Profr. Juan Miró, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, February 5, 1999.

+ “The Mexican Muralism” - Lecture given for students of Beaver College, Colorado in a field trip in Guadalajara, Mexico.  January 12th, 1999.

+ “The Cult of the Dead in Mexico” - Lecture given as part of the presentation of the book of the same name in Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, Texas. November 1998.

+ “The Art of Death in Mexico” - Lecture given in the Art History Department of the University of Texas at Austin by invitation of Dr. Jacqueline Barnitz. October 1998

+ “The Sacred Landscape of Izamal” - Fourth International Meeting of Maya Studies, organized by the National University of Mexico and the Ministry of Culture of Guatemala.  Antigua, Guatemala. August 1998.

+ “The Colonial Art of Guadalajara” - Lecture given in the City Hall and organized by the Ministry of Culture of the City of Guadalajara.  June 1998.

+ “Tequitqui Art and its expression in Michoacan” - Museum of Colonial Art of Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico.  June 1998.

+ “Maya Art” and “Aztec Art” - Museum of the City of Guadalajara, Mexico. May 1998.

+ “The Persistence of Sixteenth-Century Tequitqui style in the Baroque Architectural Decoration in the Church of Santa Cruz de las Flores(Jalisco), Mexico” - Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Los Angeles, April 1998.

+ “The Concept of Tollan in the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca”

A lecture given in the Symposium of the Texas Mesoamerican Meetings by special invitation of the late Dr.Linda Schele, leading Mayanist and president of the Texas Meetings of Maya and Mesoamerican Cultures. University of Texas at Austin, March 1998.

+ “Indian Baroque of Nueva Galicia (Jalisco), Mexico” - Annual Institute of Latin American Studies Students Association (ILASSA) Conference.  University of Texas at Austin, March 1998.

+ “Tequitqui Art of Mexico. The Indian-Christian Art of the XVI Century” - Center for Archaeological Research of the University of Texas at San Antonio, March 1998.

+ “History and Meaning of the Day of the Dead” - Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, Texas, November 1997.

+ “Art and Ideology in Sixteenth Century Mexico” - South Eastern College Art Conference, Virginia Commonwealth University. Richmond, Virginia, October 1997.

+ Lectures: “Form and Meaning of Aztec Art” and “Tequitqui Art of Mexico” in the Department of Art History by invitation of Profr. Victor Zamudio-Taylor, University of Texas at Austin, September 1997.

+ “The Temple of Kinich Kak Mo in Izamal” - Second Round Table of Palenque organized by INAH, Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico. June 1997.

+ “Form and meaning of the Mexican Toy” - Lecture about the exhibit of Mexican toys of nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX, April 1997.

+ “Nahuatl Art and Poetry” - Conference: “Identidad de las Américas”, University of San Diego, April 1997.

+ “Concepts of Life and Death in the Aztec Art” - Conference of Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Guadalajara, Mexico, April 1997.

+ Lectures: “Aztec Art” and “Tequitqui Art” - History Department of University of San Diego by invitation of Dr. Iris Engstrand, April 1997.

+ “Symbolism in Aztec Art” - University of Texas at Austin Anthropological Society, March 1997.

+ “Tequitqui Art of Mexico” - Lecture in the Seminar of Historical Geography of Colonial Mexico by invitation of Dr. Karl Butzer, Geography Department, University of Texas at Austin, March 1997.

+ “El Culto a los Muertos” - Bilingual Lecture for the Inauguration of the Project of the Museum of Death with the participation of the Architecture Departments of University of Texas and ITESO University.  Guadalajara, Mexico. February 1997.

+ “Mexican Funerary Architecture” - Lecture in the Seminar Studio Mexico by invitation of Dr.Logan Wagner and Profr. Sinclair Black, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin, February 1997.

+ Lecture and Video about the Culture of India: "The Ganges,the River God". Cabañas Cultural Institute, Guadalajara, México, 1994.

+ "Funerary Architecture and Art in Mexico and the World" Cabañas Cultural Institute, Guadalajara, México1993.

+ "Greek Art" and "Egyptian Art" in a cycle of conferences on countries of the World - Cabañas Cultural Institute, Guadalajara, México, 1992.

+ "Latin American Identity" - Instituto de Ciencias, Guadalajara, México, 1992.

+ "Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art in Mexico" - University of Guadalajara, México, 1992.  

+ "Mayan Art and Civilization" - University of Messina, Messina, Sicily, 1991.

+ "Mayan Art" -CIESAS de Occidente (Western Anthropological Research Center), Guadalajara, México, 1991.

+ "The Fall of the Berlin Wall" - Banamex (National Bank of Mexico), Guadalajara, México, 1990.

+ "Mexican Political Reality" - Colegio San Ignacio del Bosque, Santiago, Chile, 1990.

+ "Art and Architecture of Southern Mexico" - ITESO University, Guadalajara, México, 1990.

+ "History of the Second World War" - Instituto de Ciencias, Guadalajara, México, 1989.

+ "The Fall of the Berlin Wall" - Coparmex (Mexican Entrepreneurs Center)Guadalajara, México,1990.

+ "Art and Architecture of Southern Mexico"

    - Roseville, California, 1988.

    - Boise, Idaho, U.S.A., 1988.

    - Boeblingen, Germany, 1988.

    - University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, 1989.

    - Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1989.

    - Boston College High School, Boston, Massachusetts, 1989.

    - St. Peter's Prep, Jersey City, New Jersey, 1989 and 1991.

+ "Turkey", "The Soviet Union", "Austria"; sessions during a cycle of conferences on countries of the World at the Cabañas Cultural Institute, Guadalajara, México, 1988.

+ "Art and Architecture of Southern Mexico” - Alliance Francaise,  Guadalajara, México, 1988.

+ "Russian Art" - group "Kesher" of the Jewish community in Guadalajara, México, 1986.

+ "German Art and History" (3 sessions) - Instituto de Ciencias, Guadalajara, México, 1986.

+ "The Resurrection of Christ" (A historical and anthropological view) - Instituto de Ciencias, Guadalajara, México, 1985.

+ "ITESO, a Mexican University"– Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 1981.

 

Office Location: FA 228

Aaron Huey Sonnenschein

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College of Natural and Social Sciences
Department of Anthropology
Email: asonnen@exchange.calstatela.edu

 

INTRODUCTION

Aaron Huey Sonnenschein has been at CSULA since 2005 and is currently Professor of linguistics in the Anthropology department and affiilate faculty in Latin American Studies. An ardent believer in the possibilities of international education, he supports the work of organizations like the Institute for Field Research(http://ifrglobal.org/) in providing accessible international educational experiences for CSULA students and others. His work primarily revolves around community-driven language revitalization and documentation projects of endangered Oaxacan indigenous languages both in Oaxaca and in Los Angeles. He works with organizations such as the FIOB (Frente Indígena de Organizaciones Binacionales: http://fiob.org/) and CEDELIO (Centro de Estudios y Desarrollo de las Lenguas Indígenas de Oaxaca: http://cedelio.ieepo.oaxaca.gob.mx/) in such efforts. Dr. Sonnenschein employs an interdisciplinary approach to the study of language and linguistics which synthesizes approaches from linguistics, anthropology, cognitive science, and other fields to provide comprehensive documentation of this core part of our humanity from both scientific and humanistic perspectives.

In the spring semester of 2018, I, along with students in the Anthropology department at California State University, Los Angeles created LADORES (LAnguage DOcumentation and REvitalization Space) to serve as a virtual space to assist communities with language documentation and revitalization efforts. LADORES creates audiovisual materials for these languages and publishes these materials on various social media. We also plan to release the methodology of the creation of these materials to enable other communities to create similar materials on their own. The first two languages covered by LADORES are Tsome (Highland Chontal) and Mixteco de San Juan Mixtepec. The Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages for LADORES can be found at https://www.facebook.com/csula.ladores/https://twitter.com/CsulaLadores, and https://www.instagram.com/csulaladores/ respectively.

Below is an example of an ongoing language revitalization project being worked on with Odilia Romero and the Zoogocho community in Los Angeles.


TEACHING INTERESTS

Having taught everything from Introduction to Higher Education courses to graduate seminars on Literate Mesoamerican Societies, Dr. Sonnenschein enjoys teaching introductory survey courses, courses that provide students with opportunities and training to work in the field and gain research experience, courses which allow students to apply theories and concepts to benefit communities, and courses which investigate the nature of language and its role in shaping our humanity. Nora Torres, a graduate student in the English department, said that a graduate seminar on literacy that she took with Dr. Sonnenschein provided her with “an enriching experience to be able to interact with the community and see our theoretical class discussions come to life."


RESEARCH INTERESTS

Language Documentation. Language Revitalization. Community-directed Language Auto-documentation. Indigenous Languages of the Americas. Mesoamerican Languages. Languages of Oaxaca. Zapotecan Languages. Highland Chontal. Language and Cognition. Language and Culture. Language Variation and Change. Linguistic Typology. Language Contact and Lexical Acculturation. Descriptive Linguistics. Community Literacy. Academic Literacy. Critical Literacy. Metaphor Theory. The Language of Food. Ethnohistory. Colonial Grammars and Lexicons. Transnational  and Diasporic Language Communities.


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

TitleDate
"The Chontal Language Family"  In Mesoamerican Languages Handbook (Tentative title). S. Wichmann (ed). Mouton DeGruyter. (Invited chapter)
Pending
THE ZAPOTEC LANGUAGE TESTAMENT OF SEBASTIANA DE MENDOZA, C. 1675. EL TESTAMENTO DE SEBASTIANA DE MENDOZA, EN LENGUA ZAPOTECA, C. 1675. (Co-authored with Pamela Munro, Kevin Terraciano, Xóchitl Flores-Marcial, Michael Galant, Brook Danielle Lillehaugen, Maria Ornelas, and Lisa Sousa). Tlalocan. Mexico City:UNAM
Spring 2018
Co-edited with Natalie Operstein. Valence Changes in Zapotec: Synchrony, Diachrony, Typology. Typological Studies in Language 110. Amsterdam/Philadelphia. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
2015
Co-edited with Brook Danielle Lillehaugen. Expressing Location in Zapotec. LINCOM Studies in Native American Linguistics 61.  Munich: Lincom Europa.
2012
A Grammar of Zoogocho Zapotec.​ LINCOM Languages of the World 451. Munich: Lincom Europa.
2005

 


 

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

 

2004                                 Ph.D., Linguistics, USC

1996                                 M. A., Linguistics, USC

1993                                 B. A. Hons., Linguistics, UC Berkeley

 

Office Location: KH C 4036

Alan Bloom

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College of Arts and Letters
Department of TV, Film and Media Studies
Email: abloom@calstatela.edu

INTRODUCTION

I am a professor specializing in film and video production in the Department of Television, Film and Media Studies. I have been a university professor for the last 43 years. I have been on the faculty here since 1981, with two years leave (82-84) to work as Program Director in charge of the Video Center at The American Film Institute. Prior to joining the faculty at CSLA I taught at Temple University in Philadelphia, West Virginia State College and California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. As a director, producer and/or writer I have made more than 300 films and video tapes in the last 52 years.



TEACHING INTERESTS

During my career I have taught a wide range of film and video production and studies classes at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. I enjoy teaching film and video production in a variety of creative environments.

I seek out unique learning situations at every opportunity and from 1986-2005 I was involved with the CSU Summer Arts program , first at Cal Poly SLO (86-87), then at Humboldt State (88-95), Cal State Long Beach (96-98) and Fresno State (2005). At Summer Arts we were able to create a one-of-a-kind high intensity hands-on workshop for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in professional 35mm motion picture production techniques. This groundbreaking program attracted the sponsorship of major entertainment industry companies like Kodak, Fuji, Panavision, Sony, Warner Bros., Avid, Mole Richardson, Canon, Kino Flo, Chapman and Fotokem. 

I integrate my production with my teaching. My crews are almost always made up of at least 80% students and former students. In this way I provide my advanced students with real world opportunities while at the same time giving them an opportunity to begin networking with professionals and former students already working in the field. 



PROFESSIONAL/CREATIVE ACTIVITIES

Film is the most collaborative art form and requires the coordinated efforts of writers, cinematographers, directors, performers and others. My film and video works include substantial collaborative work with artists from theater, music and dance. I have created music video and dance works with artists like Bobby McFerrin and choreographer Peter Pucci. I have been fortunate to have worked with some wonderful artists including Edward James Olmos, John Wesley Harding, Kristin Hersh, LaVar Burton and Vilmos Zsigmond.

During the last five decades a significant portion of my work has been documentaries and music videos.  The music videos allow me to set aesthetic challenges for myself while engaging in interesting collaborations. I love to use color and visual texture as a lens on the quality of performance and a use of dreamlike spaces.

Through the documentaries I can explore things of interest to me (usually socio-political issues, education, human rights, healthcare, the arts or developments in film and video production),  In addition to my other projects I have created public service campaigns promoting education, human rights and health

 

A Representative Selection of Recent Production Activities

(1987-2016)


 

  
 
DateProductions
2014-PresentFaculty Award Documentary Profiles, Thirty Six documentary shorts created for the presentations of the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2019 Cal State L.A. Outstanding Professor, Outstanding Lecturer and President's Distinguished Professor Award winners All eighteen can be seen on this linked YouTube Playlist (Two from 2014 are included below)

1-OPA-Choi Chatterjee from Alan Bloom on Vimeo.

6-PDP-James Brady from Alan Bloom on Vimeo.

2011I Built It Green! (documentary & spots) State of California, Office of the Governor
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2008I Built It! (documentary & spots) California Department of Industrial Relations& Office of the Governor
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2007Disaster Assistance (spot campaign) FEMA, Homeland Security & The Governor's Office of Emergency Services
2006Tradition, Place, Promise and Purpose (PSA campaign) The Division of Extended Education at California State University, Los Angeles
2002Living a Legacy of Excellence: The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at California State University, Los Angeles (documentary)
2001Award Reel, created for a ceremony honoring my academic and creative career, held at the statewide CSU Media Arts Festival. Clips include (in order): Computer Illusions (documentary) The Learning Channel and more than 20 international broadcast networks (1998); Starring…The Actors: Roy Scheider Episode (Syndicated Television Series) (1983); Apprenticeships: California's Best Kept Secret(documentary) California Department of Industrial Relations, narrated by Edward James Olmos (1999); Residential Roofing Safety (documentary) CalOSHA, California Department of Industrial Relations, narrated by Edward James Olmos (2001); Let the Bells Ring(PSA Campaign) with LaVar Burton, American Association of State Colleges and Universities (1989); Teaching: Imagine It (PSA Campaign) Jaime Escalante Spot (1990); Teaching: Imagine It (PSA Campaign) Mary Laycock Spot (1990); Opportunity (music video) Bobby McFerrin, Capitol/EMI (1987); Cupid and Pycho (music video) John Wesley Harding, Rhino Records (1996): Good Things (music video) BoDeans, Warner Bros.(1995); Let The Bells Ring (music video) 7A3, Geffen Records (1992); Kill The Messenger (music video) John Wesley Harding, Warner Bros.(1992); One (music video) BiGod20, Warner Bros. (1994); Sing (Dance Video) Peter Pucci, Choreographer, Dance in America, PBS (1993); Beestung (music video) Kristin Hersch, Warner Bros. (1994); Summer Single (music video) John Wesley Harding, Warner Bros. (1993).
 
2001Commercial and Residential Roofing Safety (two documentaries) CalOSHA, California Department of Industrial Relations. Narrated by Edward James Olmos.
2000CalOSHA Consultation (documentary) California Department of Industrial Relations. Narrated by Edward James Olmos.
2000Digital Hollywood (documentary). PBS/KCET.
1999Apprenticeships: California's Best Kept Secret (documentary) California Department of Industrial Relations. Narrated by Edward James Olmos.
1998TIPP (documentary) California Department of Industrial Relations. Narrated by Edward James Olmos.
1997Computer Illusions (documentary) The Learning Channel and more than 20 international broadcast networks
1997Tomorrow's Education Today (documentary) Video Cassette, CSU Institute/CEU
1996Cupid and Pycho (music video) John Wesley Harding, Rhino Records
1995Good Things (music video) BoDeans , Warner Bros.
1994Beestung (music video) Kristin Hersch, Warner Bros.
1994One (music video) BiGod20, Warner Bros.
1994G.O.T.V. (documentary) The California Democratic Party
1993Summer Single (music video) John Wesley Harding, Warner Bros.
1993The Truth (music video) John Wesley Harding, Warner Bros.
1993Sing (Dance Video) Peter Pucci, Choreographer
1992Computer Visions (documentary) PBS, Laser Disc, Video Cassette
1992Kill The Messenger (music video) John Wesley Harding, Warner Bros.
1991The World (music video) John Wesley Harding, Warner Bros.
1990Scared of Guns (music video) John Wesley Harding, Warner Bros.
1989Let The Bells Ring (music video) 7A3, Geffen Records.
1988Computer Dreams (documentary) PBS, Laser Disc, Video Cassette
1987Opportunity (music video) Bobby McFerrin, Capitol/EMI

 


Educational Background

M.F.A. Television 1975, California College of Arts and Crafts (renamed California College of the Arts) , Oakland;
B.A.with Honors and Distinction in Art Studio/Filmmaking 1973, Sonoma State, Rohnert Park, CA;

 


Fall 2019 Schedule

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CourseSect. No.TitleUnitsDay & TimeRoom
TVF 499
TVFT 5990
VariousDirected Study and Thesis0-3By ArrangementBy Arrangement
TVF 5200

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Graduate Seminar:

Documentary Film and Television

3.0Tuesday Lecture 6:00-8:45 PMTVFMC 210
TVF 4300

 

01,02,03

Documentary Field Production3.0Thursday Lecture 9:00-10:40 AM,
Thursday Lab 11:00-12:40 PM,
 
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Domnita Dumitrescu
Professor of Spanish Linguistics, Emerita
College of Arts and Letters
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
King Hall D -3086
ddumitr@exchange.calstatela.edu

Introduction
Educational background
Teaching experience and interests
Research interests, and projects
Publications
  Books
  Selected Chapters In Books and Proceedings Volumes
  Selected Journal Articles
  Some recent book reviews
  Some Translations From Spanish Into Romanian
  Interviews
 Television participation

Introduction:

Before coming to the United States in 1984, Domnita Dumitrescu taught Spanish language, linguistics and literature at the University of Bucharest  (Romania ), as an Assistant, then Associate, Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, founded by the great Romanian linguist Iorgu Iordan, of whom she was a close disciple. She also taught Spanish on public Romanian television, and she earned a reputation as one of the best translators and interpreters from Spanish into Romanian in her native country.

She came to California State University, Los Angeles, in the Fall of 1987, while still working on her doctoral dissertation at USC, which she completed in December 1989 with the help of a CSU Forgivable Loan/Doctoral Incentive Program for Minorities and Women. She was awarded early tenure and promotion in 1990, and became full professor in 1995. She entered the  Faculty Early Retirement program in September 2011, when she became an Emerita, and  retired completely in June 2016.

In addition to her teaching assignments and her numerous professional activities, between 1989 and 1999, she assumed leadership of the local chapter of the Hispanic Honor Society Sigma Delta Pi, and resumed this activity between fall 2003 and spring 2005 and later on utntil she retired.She coordinated the supervision and training of the Spanish Teaching Associates until 1994, and served, between 2000 and 2002, and then in 2004-2005, as coordinator of the Spanish section . Her committee service includes the most important personnel committees in the department and at the college level, and a number of university subcommittees of the academic senate, as well as service on the academic senate itself for several years, and on the OPA selection committee. She also served, for two years, as Director of Teatro Universitario en Español.  In 2004-2005, she served as Head of the Task Force for developing a new Subject Matter Preparation Program for prospective teachers of LOTE (Languages Other Than English), which was approved in 2008.

She is the recipient of a Fulbright Senior Scholar Lecturing Award in Argentina (1992), of the José Martel Prize for her activity as a Sigma Delta Pi adviser (1995), and of the Orden de los Descubridores, and Orden de Don Quijote, awarded by Sigma Delta Pi to outstanding Hispanists (in 1997 and 2003, respectively); she is listed in several Who's Who volumes, including Who’s Who in the World,Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Education, Who’s Who of Romanian-Americans, and the International Who's Who of Professional and Business Women. Inducted into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi in 1997, she won the Teacher of the Year Award from the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese in 2000, and was included in 2000 Outstanding Scholars of the  20th Century, published by the International Biographic Center, Cambridge, U.K. In 2002, she earned the California State University Los Angeles Distinguished Woman Award, and in 2007 she was the CSULA nominee for the  Wang Family Excellence Award (in the category of Visual and Performing Arts and Letters). In 2004,  CSULA bestowed upon her its Outstanding Professor Award for 2003-2004, and in 2008 she was the recipient of the CSULA President’s Distinguished Professor  Award. Her most recent honor is having been named a Lifetime Achiever by Marquis Who's Who: https://marquistopeducators.com/2018/07/20/domnita-dumitrescu/ and receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of teachers of Spanish and Portuguese at the 101 Annual meeting of the organization in San Diego, CA, July 10, 2019.

Between 1996 and 2001, she served as associate editor of Hispania, the official journal of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP),  preparing -four times a year-the section entitled “The Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian World.” Since January 2011, she has served as Book/Media Review Editor for Hispania, the scholarly journal of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Her contract ends in 2019.She is currently serving on the Editorial Board of Language and Dialogue (published by John Benjamins), Journal of Spanish Language Teaching (published by Routledge), and Sociocultural Pragmatics/Pragmática Sociocultural (published by De Gruyter)

Between 2002 and 2005, she also served as associate editor of the Southwest Journal of Linguistics, the journal of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO), and she is a frequent manuscript evaluator for several peer reviewed journals (including Hispania  and Journal of Pragmatics, as well as the interdisciplinary program EDICE) and for several publishing houses. She has also served, on several occasions, as faculty consultant at the Spanish Advanced Placement Reading, in San Antonio, TX, and on the California Teacher Credentialing Advisory Panel. Finally, she served as an external evaluator for several universities in the US, including CUNY and San Diego State University, among others (tenure and promotion committees, and department reviews).

She served  on the Executive Council of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese as College/University Representative (term 2009-2011). She has been appointed Honorary President of the Hispanic Honor Society Sigma Delta Pi in July 2010, and she serves as permanent liaison between the AATSP and Sigma Delta Pi, as well as liaison between the AATSP and the MLA for the 2013, 2014 and 2015 MLA Conventions. In March 2011, she was elected  Corresponding Member of ANLE (North American Academy of the Spanish Language, affiliated with the Spanish Royal Academy in Madrid), and was appointed president of the Commission on the Study of Spanish in the United States. She was elected full ANLE member in February 2013 and she delivered  her acceptance speech, entitled "El cambio de código en la literatura hispanounidense: cómo, dónde y por qué" on March 29 of the same year, in New York, at the King Juan Carlos Center of CUNY.Shortly after, she was elected  Corresponding member for the US of the  Royal Spanish Academy in Madrid, Spain.

Educational background:

Ph.D. in Spanish (Linguistics concentration), May 1990, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. Dissertation title: "The Grammar of Echo Questions in Spanish and Romanian: Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics." Director: Professor Mario Saltarelli.

M.A. in Spanish (Linguistics concentration), December 1987, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.

Diploma (equivalent to Master of Arts degree) in Spanish Language and Literature (major) and Romanian Language and Literature (minor), June 1966, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania (graduated Summa Cum Laude, highest GPA in the country). Thesis: "La lengua y el estilo de Ramón del Valle-Inclán."Director: Professor Iorgu Iordan.

 

Teaching experience and interests:

Domnita Dumitrescu taught a wide variety of language and linguistics courses at both the graduate and undergraduate level, with special emphasis on the grammatical structures, the sociolinguistic variation, and the pragmatic use of contemporary Spanish. She has also taught courses in Peninsular literature and civilization, in comparative Romance linguistics and philology, and in French and Romanian language.

Among the courses that she has taught at CSLA since 1987 are: Spanish 100 A,B,C (Elementary Spanish); Spanish 105 (Spanish for Native Speakers); ML 140: Modern Languages and the Criminal Justice System; Spanish 200 A,B,C (Intermediate Spanish); Spanish 205 A,B (Intermediate Spanish for Native Speakers); Spanish 300 A,B (Composition and Grammar); ML 300 (Linguistic Diversity in Urban America- GE upper division course – taught online); Spanish 305 (Introduction to Spanish Linguistics); Spanish 310 (Civilization of Spain); Spanish 320 (Phonetics/Phonology); Spanish 380 (Commercial Spanish- taught on line); Spanish 400A (Spanish Morphology); Spanish 400B (Syntax); Spanish 402 (Spanish in the US); Spanish 403 (Grammatical Structures of Spanish and English); French 403 (Grammatical Structures of French and English); Spanish 428 (The Generation of 98); Spanish 459 (Hispanic Play Production); Spanish 461 (Special topic course in linguistics: Sociolinguistics Aspects of Verbal Politeness in the Hispanic World); Modern Languages 496 (Instructional Practicum); Spanish 500 (Academic Writing in Spanish); Spanish 501 (History of the Spanish language); Spanish 506 (Semantics and Pragmatics); Spanish 510 (Sociolinguistic Patterns in Spanish); Spanish 540 (Contemporary Spanish Poetry).

At the University of Southern California, she taught (between 1990and 2002, as an occasional  part-time lecturer): Spanish 266 (Spanish for Communication: Arts and Sciences); Spanish 280 (Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics); Spanish 311 (Advanced Oral Communication and Applied Phonetics; and, in a new format, Spanish language through contemporary issues: Oral emphasis); Spanish 312 (Advanced Composition and Grammar); Spanish 408 (Morphophonology of Spanish); Spanish 412 (Spanish Syntax and Semantics). At the University of California in Irvine, as a visiting professor, she taught Spanish 113A (Phonetics - undergraduate) in Spring 2000, and was again invited to teach Spanish 201 (History of the Spanish Language- graduate course) in Winter 2001. Occasionally, she also taught Intermediate Spanish classes at Pasadena City College.

During a sabbatical leave, in the fall of 1993, she taught in Argentina, as a Fulbright Scholar, courses in Discourse Analysis, Communicative Second Language Teaching, Contrastive Analysis of Spanish and English, and Second Language Acquisition, at the Instituto Nacional Superior del Profesorado en Lenguas Vivas "Juan Ramón Fernández" in Buenos Aires, and the Universities of Buenos Aires, San Juan, Tucumán, Córdoba, Salta, and Del Comahue. She also gave several workshops on competency-based foreign language teaching, including a two day workshop at the Asociación Rosarina de Intercambio Cultural Argentino-Norteamericano (ARICANA).

Professor Dumitrescu is interested in constantly updating, improving and expanding the Spanish linguistics course offerings at CSLA, and in keeping abreast with the newest methodologies in the field. She has designed a number of linguistics courses for the Spanish majors and/or graduate students, which have been introduced into the curriculum; their subjects include sociolinguistics of the Spanish speaking world, semantics and pragmatics, morphology, introduction to Hispanic linguistics, a seminar on special topics in linguistics, and an advanced writing course for academic purposes, as well as a language diversity course for the GE program.  She also developed online versions of Spanish 380 and ML 300, and a new upper-division course, on Spanish in the United States , which was offered for the first time in Spring 2009 and became part of the Spanish curriculum. She has made several program modifications of the BA and MA degrees in Spanish and she co-authored the linguistics part of the Spanish Assessment Exam, currently offered to graduating Spanish majors.

 

Research interests, and projects:

Domnita Dumitrescu's research interests include the areas of syntax, semantics and in particular pragmatics of the Romance languages--with special emphasis on Spanish and Romanian. She is also interested in researching linguistic aspects of literary texts, and language contact in either second language learning environments or situations of societal bilingualism. In the past, she has also extensively researched topics in translation theory and practice, foreign language pedagogy and contrastive grammar, comparative literature (especially the reception of Spanish authors in Romania , or the influence of Spanish authors on Romanian writers), and Peninsular literary history.
Recently, in addition to her interest in Spanish as a heritage language, she has been  studying the academic community’s attitudes toward  the Spanish spoken in the US , in particular the mixture of Spanish and English known as Spanglish. In parallel, she has also been studying  the linguistic variation in the expression of verbal politeness in the Hispanic world, and the acquisition of verbal politeness in Spanish by speakers of English. She is an active  member of  EDICE (Estudios sobre el Discurso de Cortesía en Español), an international research group hosted at Stockholm University. She also became interested in new linguistics and literature topics as diverse as conversation analysis in Spanish, the influence of English on the Romanian spoken in the US by first and second generation immigrants, the syntax and semantics of focused pronouns and clitic-doubled constructions in Spanish and Romanian, and images of exile in Argentinean women writers like Alina Diaconú (who is of Romanian descent).

At California State University, Los Angeles, she presented two Faculty Colloquia, one (1993) on the historical development of Romanian and its place among the other Romance languages, and another one (1996) on the cross-cultural pragmatics of conversational routines used for thanking, apologizing and complimenting in several languages of the world. She gave  her President’s  Distinguished Professor Address before the Academic Senate  in May 2008, with the title: “Spanish in the United States : Lessons from the past and challenges for the future.”
She has also sponsored the research of two students who became Mc Nair Scholars and earned several prizes at student competitions both at the local and the national level. She served on several MA Thesis Committees outside of her own department, and provided scholarly guidance to numerous CSULA graduates who pursued graduate careers in linguistics. She was the principal opponent at the doctoral dissertation defense of Susanne Henning at the University of Stockholm in September 2015 and a member of the dissertation committee of Emily Bernate, at the University of Houston, in spring 2016.

Domnita Dumitrescu is a frequent presenter at national and international meetings of the profession, in particular periodical meetings of the learned societies to which she belongs, such as Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Modern Language Association of America, International Pragmatics Association,  Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de la América Latina, Romanian Studies Association of America, Linguistic Association of the Southwest, and the International Programa EDICE (Estudios sobre el discurso de cortesía en español). She has organized and chaired many special sessions and panels at such scholarly meetings, and she has held several offices in the above-mentioned professional organizations. Among others, she was the president of the Southern California Chapter of the AATSP, and the President of the Romanian Studies Association of America. From 1995 to 2007 she served as the Sigma Delta Pi National Vice-President for the West. She also served on the Executive Committee of the MLA Division on Language Theory, on the MLA Delegate Assembly, and on the Executive Committee of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest.  She is currently the  delegate for  the US and Canada of  the Association  of Linguistcs and Philology of Latin America (ALFAL). She was the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO) 2005 president, and delivered her presidential address at Texas Tech University, in Lubbock, Texas, on October 7, 2005.At Cal State LA, she has been involved with the  Latino Book and Family Festival, held on campus in October 2009, and the co-organization of  the Octavio Paz International Conference, held on campus in May 2010.She organized the conference and poetry reading by Luis Alberto Ambroggio at CSULA, on November 28, 2012, in collaboration with the Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, and she organized the7th  international conference  of the Programa EDICE in March 2016 at CSULA, in collaboration with  USC, the University of Stockholm, the North American Academy of the Spanish Language and the Cervantes Institute in New York.

She has given more than160 scholarly presentations at congresses and conferences held in the US, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Panama, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Hungary, and Romania, and was invited as a guest of honor to deliver two plenary addresses at the I Congreso Internacional de Didáctica y Metodología del Español in Montevideo (Uruguay), August 1994. She was also invited to deliver a plenary address at the Jornadas de lingüística aplicada a la enseñanza de la lengua (San Carlos de Bariloche, November 1993), and to coordinate an Encuentro de Investigadores at the XI Congreso Internacional de la ALFAL (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, August 1996). In 1997, the Linguistic Society of America awarded her a National Science Foundation competitive travel grant to participate in the International Congress of Linguists, in Paris. Among other places, she gave invited lectures on Spanish in the US at the  University of Costa Rica, in San José, in July 2008, at at the University of Alicante, in September 2010, as well as at the Spanish bookfair (Leala) in Los Angeles, in 2012. She also gave a lecture  on the teaching of the heritage speakers of Spanish in the US at the University of Stockholm. Sweden, in October 2015.

As for Domnita Dumitrescu's publications, she is the author of a book on Spanish pragmatics (in English), the co-editor of  a book on Spanish in the US (in Spanish), three books on the structure of Spanish and on the theory and practice of translation from Romanian into Spanish (in Romanian), and the editor of a volume on cultural relations between Romania and the Hispanic world. She has recently edited two more academic bookson Spanish pragmatics,  for publishers in the UK and Argentina (see publications, below). She is also the author of more than 60 chapters in books and proceedings volumes, and more than 60 articles in scholarly journals published in Europe, Latin America and the United States. She has also translated into Romanian several major works of modern peninsular literature by Carmen Martín Gaite, Emilia de Pardo-Bazán, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Ignacio Aldecoa, Ramón del Valle-Inclán, etc, and she published more than 75 book reviews and book notices, as well as other miscellaneous materials of professional interest.

Her current collaborative projects include:

ANLE and Philippines delegate to the ASALE inter-academic commission  for the elaboration of the next edition of the Dictionary of the Spanish language (DLE 24)

ANLE collaborator to the Glosario de términos gramaticales elaborated by ASALE

USA and Canada delegate of the ALFAL (Asociacion de Linguistica y Filologia de la América Latina)

A selected list of representative publications follows.

Publications (in chronological order):

Books:

- Gramatica limbii spaniole prin exercitii structurale[Spanish Grammar through Structural Activities], Bucuresti, Editura Stiintifica si Enciclopedica, 1976, 390 pp.

Review in 

Anales de la Universidad de Murcia (Filosofía y Letras) 36 (1977-78): 465-467, by A. Juárez & M. Garrigós

- Indreptar pentru traducerea din limba romana in limba spaniola[Guide to the translation from Romanian into Spanish], Bucuresti, Editura Stiintifica si Enciclopedica, 1980, 334 pp.

Review  published in Revue Roumaine de Linguistique 26 (1981): 393-394  by Tudora Sandru-Olteanu

- Edition of: Din istoria relatiilor culturale hispano-romane [On the History of the Hispano-Romanian Cultural Relations], Tipografia Universitatii din Bucuresti, 1981, 202 p. (Bibliography with comments and an extensive introductory study).

– (Vreti sa stiti daca stiti …..) Limba spaniola?  [(Do you want to know if you know…)The Spanish Language?] (co-authored with Dan Munteanu, from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain ), Bucuresti, Editura Niculescu., 2005, 372 pp. (launched at the Cervantes Institute in Bucharest, July 1, 2005)

- Aspects of Spanish Pragmatics, Peter Lang, New York, 2011, 390 pp.

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Reviews published by Frank Nuessel, from the University of Louisville, in Lingua 121.15 ( December 2011); Milton Azevedo, from UC Berkeley, in Journal of Pragmatics 44 (January 2012);Razvan Saftoiu, from the Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania, published in Language and Dialogue 2:2 (2012), 306-312.Other reviews were published in Boletin de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Espanola 14 (2011) by Antonio Pamies, from the University of Granada, Spain, in Revue Roumaine de Linguistique  57.3 (2012)   by Andra Vasilescu, from the University of Bucharest,  in Spanish in Context 11.1 (2014) by María Eugenia Vázquez Laslop, from El Colegio de México, and in Pragmática sociocultural/Sociocultural pragmatics 2.2 (2014) by Carmen García, from Arizona State University

-El español en Estados Unidos: E Pluribus Unum? Enfoques multidisciplinarios (co-edition  with Gerado Piña Rosales). Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española, New York, 2013 (403 pp.)

This book was reviewed in Revista Literaria Baquiana, año XV,  nr. 85-86 (Angel López García)- edición digital; Español Actual 99, 2014 (Angel López-García);Confluenze: Rivista di studi iberoamericani, vol. 5, num. 2, 2013 (Elena Errico); Analecta Malacitana: Universida de Málaga, vol. 36, 1-2 (2013) (Francisco Carriscondo Esquivel);LynX, 11, 2014 (Rogelio Rodríguez Pellicer);International Journal of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, vol. 31, num. 2 (2012) (Michael Woods); RANLE 5 (2014) (M.E. Pelly);Boletin ANLE  2014 (Manel Lacorte); Miriada Hispánica (Mª Dolores García Planelles); Journal of Spanish Language Teaching 1.2 (2014) (Juan Antonio Sempere Martínez); Transfer X: 1-2 (may 2015) (Oscar Santos-Sopena); Spanish in Context 12.2 (2015) (Georganne Weller)

Hablando bien se entiende la gente  II  (edited in collaboration with Gerardo Piña-Rosales, and Jorge Ignacio Covarrubias). Santillana, USA, 2014. 200 pp.

Moreno-Fernández, Francisco & Domnita Dumitrescu (dirs.). Bibliografía lingüística del español en los Estados Unidos / Linguistic Bibliography of Spanish in the United States. With the col. of A. Enrique-Arias and F. J. Pueyo Mena. Cambridge, MA: Instituto Cervantes at Harvard University – ANLE, 2016. DOI: 10.15427/LiBSUS2016, available at: http://observatoriocervantes.org/bsus/bsus.php

Roles situacionales, interculturalidad y multiculturalidad en encuentros en español (co-edition with  Diana Brava, from Stockholm University) published  by ANLE and the EDICE Program at Dunken Publishers,Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2016, 211 pp.

L2 Spanish Pragmatics: From Research to Teachin(co-edition with Patricia Andueza, from Evansville University, IN): Routledge, UK, 2018, 377 pp.

Review in Journal of Spanish Language Teaching, June 2018 (Frank Nuessel) DOI: 10.1080/23247797.2018.1472439;Language and Dialogue (Marjana Šifrar Kalan);Infoling<http://infoling.org/informacion/Review392.html (Georgina Lacanna);

See also:https://www.routledge.com/posts/13383?utm_source=shared_link&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=180314044

 Selected Chapters In Books and Proceedings Volumes :

- "El español en la obra lingüística y filológica de B.P. Hasdeu", Actas del III Congreso Internacional de Hispanistas, México, 1970, pp. 305-314.

-"Procedimientos gramaticales para 'hermetizar' el mensaje poético (en Mallarmé, Valéry, Guillén, y Barbu)", Actele celui de-al XII-lea Congres International de Lingvistica si Filologie Romanica, vol. II, Bucuresti, 1971, pp. 831-837.

- Invatarea limbii [Language Acquisition], T.Slama-Cazacu (editor) - Bucuresti, Centrul De Multiplicare Al Universitatii Din Bucuresti, 1973. Chapter title: "Interferente in invatarea limbii spaniole de catre romani" [Interferences in the learning of Spanish by Romanians], pp. 211-229.

- Manual de limba spaniola. I. Categoriile gramaticale [Spanish Manual I. Grammatical Categories], M. Manoliu-Manea (editor), Bucuresti, Tipografia Universitatii din Bucuresti, 1975 (II ed. revised, 1976). Chapter title: "Persoana si deixisul" [Person and deixis], pp. 54-76.

-"Sobre la terminología cromática en la poesía de la generación del '27", Actas del V Congreso Internacional de Hispanistas, Bordeaux, 1977, pp. 345-354.

- "La metáfora ultraísta y la generación del 27", Actas del Simposio Internacional de Estudios Hispánicos (18 -19 de agosto, 1976), Budapest, Akademiai Kiado, 1978, pp. 171-176.

- Studii de sintaxa a limbii spaniole [Studies in Spanish Syntax], Bucuresti, Tipografia Universitatii din Bucuresti, l979. Chapter title: "Interogatia si negatia" [Interrogation and Negation], pp. 5-69.

- "Situación actual del estudio y de la enseñanza del español en Rumania", Actas del Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Europea de Profesores de Español, Budapest, 1980, pp. 355-364.

- "Federico García Lorca en la visión de Miron Radu-Paraschivescu", Actas del VII Congreso Internacional de Hispanistas, Roma, 1981, pp. 391-398.

- "Estructura léxica del Diván del Tamarit", Actas del IV Congreso Internacional de Hispanistas, Salamanca, l982, p. 409-424 [Also published in Revue Roumaine de Linguistique & Cahiers De Linguistique Théorique Et Appliquée l/l983, pp. 2l-34].

- "Los primeros ecos del descubrimiento de América en la cultura rumana,"Actas del Congreso Internacional sobre Literatura Hispánica en la Epoca de los Reyes Católicos y el Descubrimiento, Dirección: Manuel Criado de Val, Barcelona, Publicaciones y Promociones Universitarias, 1989, pp.592-595.

-"Sintaxis y pragmática de las preguntas cuasi eco en español,"Actas del X Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (Barcelona, 21-26 de agosto, 1989), publicadas por Antonio Vilanova. Tomo IV, pp. 1323-1338, Barcelona, 1992.

-"Función pragmadiscursiva de la interrogación ecoica usada como respuesta en español,"Aproximaciones pragmalingüísticas al español, ed. by Henk Haverkate, Kees Hengeveld, and Gijs Mulder, Editorial Rodopi, Amsterdam-Atlanta, GA, 1993, pp.51-85 (Diálogos Hispánicos 12) [invited contribution].

-"Estructura y función de las preguntas retóricas repetitivas en español,"De historia, lingüísticas, retóricas y poéticas: Actas Irvine-92, Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, Editor: Juan Villegas, Vol. I, pp.139-147, 1994.

- "El español en los Estados Unidos: Fenómenos de contacto lingüístico y problemas de política educativa,"Estados Unidos y América Latina: Relaciones Interculturales.(Actas de las XXVI Jornadas de la Asociación Argentina de Estudios Americanos), ed. por Rolando Costa Picazo. Buenos Aires, 1994, pp. 136-167.

-"On The Syntactic Structure And Discourse Function Of The Multiple Constituent Repetitive And No repetitive Questions In Romanian," in: Studi rumeni e romanzi. Ommaggio a Florica Dimitrescu & Alexandru Niculescu, ed. by Lorenzo Renzi and Coman Lupu, Padova ( Italy ), Unipress, 3 vols., 1995. Vol I, pp. 86-114.

-"Tendencias actuales en la medición y evaluación de las destrezas lingüísticas y de la competencia comunicativa implícita", Actas del Congreso Internacional de Didáctica y Metodología para el Desarrollo de la Lengua Materna (18, 19, 20 de agosto de 1994, Montevideo). Sociedad de Profesores de Español del Uruguay, Montevideo, 1995, pp. 30-48.

-"Implicaciones pedagógicas de la enseñanza del español a los hablantes nativos de los Estados Unidos, o el reto del biloquialismo en las clases de SNS (Spanish for Native Speakers)", Actas del Congreso Internacional de Didáctica y Metodología para el Desarrollo de la Lengua Materna (18, 19, 20 de agosto de 1994, Montevideo). Sociedad de Profesores de Español del Uruguay, Montevideo, 1995, pp. 70-80.

- "Sobre la función discursiva de las preguntas que repiten otras preguntas en el español coloquial actual,"Actas del X Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de la América Latina (ALFAL), edición: Marina Arjona Iglesias, Juan López Chávez, Araceli Enríquez Ovando, Gilda C. López Lara, Miguel Angel Novella Gómez. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, 1966, pp. 409-418.

-"Romanian and the Non-Nominative Subject Parameter" (in collaboration with Professor Pascual José Masullo, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina), in: Aspects of Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XXIV, March 10-13, 1994, ed. by Claudia Parodi, Carlos Quicoli, Mario Saltarelli, and María Luisa Zubizarreta, Washington D.C., Georgetown University Press, 1996, pp. 213-226.

-"Un modelo de análisis sintáctico de las preguntas eco en español y rumano": Actas Do XIX Congreso Internacional de Lingüística e Filoloxía Románicas/ Actes du XIX-e Congrès International de Linguistique et Philologie Romanes, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, publicadas por Ramón Lorenzo, Fundación Pedro Barrie de la Maza (Spain), Vol. I: Lingüística Teórica e Lingüística Sincrónica, 1997.

-"Fenómenos paralelos de contacto con el inglés en el español y el rumano de Estados Unidos."Atti del XXI Congresso Internazionale di Linguistica e Filologia Romanza, Centro di Studi Filologici e Linguistici Siciliani, Università di Palermo, 18-24 settembre 1995, a cura di Giovanni Ruffino. Vol. V: Dialettologia, geolinguistica, sociolinguistica. Max Niemer Verlag, Tübingen 1998, pp. 275-283.

-"'A' personal, duplicación clítica y marcadez: Español porteño vs. español madrileño ", Actas del XII Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, 21- 26 de agosto, 1995, Birmingham. Tomo I: Medieval y lingüística. Ed. by Aengus M. Ward. Birmingham, the University of Birmingham, 1998, pp. 140-152.

-"Two types of predicate modification: Evidence from the articulated adjectives of Romanian" (in collaboration with Mario Saltarelli). Theoretical Analyses on Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 26th Linguistic Symposium on Romance languages (LSRL XXVI, Mexico City, 28-30 March, 1996). Ed. by José Lema and Esthela Treviño, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 1998, pp. 175-192.

- "Subordinación y recursividad en la conversación: Las secuencias integradas por intercambios ecoicos,"La pragmática lingüística del español: Recientes desarrollos, ed. by Henk Haverkate, Gijs Mulder and Carolina Fraile Maldonado, Ed. Rodopi, Amsterdam-Atlanta, GA, 1998, pp. 277-314 (Diálogos Hispánicos Número 22) [invited contribution].

- "Attributive Adjectives in Romance: Toward a Unified Theory of Modification" (in collaboration with Mario Saltarelli, USC). Actes du 16-ème Congrès International des Linguistes (Paris, 20-25 juillet, 1997). Ed. by Bernard Caron. Oxford/Elsevier Sciences, 1998.[CD-ROM version]

-“Language Contact among Heritage Speakers of Romanian in the United States .” Heritage Languages in America : Preserving a National Resource. Ed.by Peyton, J.K. & S.McGinnis. McHenry, Il & Washington, DC: Delta Systems and Center for Applied Linguistics, 2001.

-  “Romanian in Contact with English in the United States : In the footsteps of Cuban-American Spanish?”  Romance Studies Today: In Honor of Beatriz Varela, ed. by Elaine S. Brooks, Eliza M. Ghil and S. George Wolf. Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta ( Hispanic Monographs), 2004, pp. 165-183.

-“La expresión de buenos deseos hacia nuestro prójimo: ¿Un acto de habla cortés automático?” Pragmática sociocultural:  Estudios sobre el discurso de cortesía en español, ed. by Diana Bravo and Antonio Briz. Barcelona: Ariel, 2004, pp.  265-283.

- “Agradecer en una interlengua: una comparación entre la competencia pragmática de los estudiantes nativos y no nativos de español en California.” Actos de habla y cortesía en distintas variedades de español:  Perspectivas teóricas y metodológicas. Actas del Segundo Coloquio Internacional del Programa EDICE, San Jose de Costa Rica, ed. by Jorge Murillo (CD-Rom edition), 2005. Available also at http://books.google.com/books?id=KUxw9_7Nd7UC&pg=PA5&ots=lgJbehipQB&dq=programa+edice&hl=es&sig=wGtSZl3V-TXwxyzvrwFiU4Kqrsw#PPP1,M1

-  “ A los 35 años de Renga: Octavio Paz y la universalidad del lenguaje poético”.Actas del XV Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas:‘Las dos orillas’, Monterrey, México, del 19 al 24 de julio de 2004,  vol. IV, ed. by Beatriz Mariscal, and María Teresa Miaja,  Fondo de Cultura Económica/AIH/ Tecnológico de Monterrey/El Colegio de México: México, 2007, pp. 135-144.

-“Usos discursivos del adverbio en el español mexicano.” Studii de lingvistică şi filologie romanică: Hommages offerts à Sanda Reinheimer Rîpeanu, ed. By Alexandra Cuniţă, Coman Lupu & Liliane Tasmowski. Bucureşti, Editura Universităţii din  Bucureşti, 233-244  (expanded version  of the item below)

- “Usos discursivos del adverbio en el español mexicano.” El español de América: Actas del VICongreso Internacional “El español de América,” Tordesillas, Valladolid, 25-29 de octubre 2005), ed. by César Hernández Alonso & Leticia Castañeda San Cirilo. Valladolid: Diputación Provincial de Valladolid, 2007, 857-872 (available also in CD-ROM).

-  “El español en los Estados Unidos: La controversia sobre el Spanglish dentro (y más allá ) del mundo académico.” Estudios hispánicos, vol I: Lingüística y didáctica, ed. by Sanda Reinheimer Ripeanu & Mihai Iacob, Bucuresti: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti, 2008, 137-164

.- “Imagen y (des)cortesía en la comunicación académica por ordenador: un caso concreto.” Cortesía yconversación: de lo escrito a lo oral, ed. by Antonio Briz , Antonio Hidalgo, Marta Albelda, Josefa Contreras & Nieves. Valencia, Estocolmo: Universidad de Valencia, Programa EDICE. 2008, 437-467. (online publication, available also on CD-ROM).Available  at: http://www.edice.org/programa/wp-content/files/3coloquioEDICE.pdf)

 - “Estrategias de cortesía y gestión de imagen en entrevistas con jóvenes caribeños”. Estudiossobre lengua, sociedad y cultura:  homenaje a Diana Bravo, ed. by Nieves Hernández-Flores and Maria Bernal, Stockholm University:  Department of  Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, 2009, pp.78-106 (available at http://su.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:235240 and in print- 2010 edition)

- “Sobre la atenuación cortés en español y rumano: unas estrategias comunes.” Actes du XXV-e Congrès International  de Linguistique et Philologie Romanes, publiés par  Maria Iliescu, Heidi Siller-Runggaldier et Paul Danler, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2010, vol. IV, pp. 371-388.

- “Spanglish: An ongoing controversy,” Building Communities and Making Connections, ed. by Susana Rivera-Mills and Juan Antonio Trujillo, Cambridge Scholars, 2010, pp. 136-167 (invited contribution)

-  “Rum. Cică vs. esp.Dizque: Polifonía e intertextualidad”,  Oralia,  Anejo 6, Polifonía e intertextualidad en el diálogo, ed. by Clara Ubaldina Lorda Mur. Madrid: Arco Libros, 2012. Pp. 317-337.

-“El español  y el rumano en  los Estados Unidos: metamorfosis, controversia y ‘pedigrí.’” Traducción y (a)culturación en la era global/Translation and  (Ac)culturation in the Global Era. Ed. Catalina Iliescu Gheorghiu. Alicante: Ed. Aguaclara, 2012. 85-104.

 -“The Representation of Regional Spanish Speech in Literary Dialogues from the Past Century.”   Representations in Dialogue/ Dialogue in Representations: Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the   International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA). Ed. Alain Létourneau, François Cooren y    Nicholas Bencherki. Montreal: John Benjamins. 221-233.Online publication.http://iada-web.org/download/representationsindialogue.pdf

- (co-authored with Mircea-Doru Brânza). “Sobre el llamado ‘leísmo de cortesía’ en Hispanoamérica.”Miradas multidisciplinarias a los fenómenos de cortesía y descortesía en el mundo hispano. Ed. Julio Escamilla Morales y Grandfield Henri Vega. Barranquilla y Estocolmo: Universidad del Atlántico y Universidad de Estocolmo: EDICE, 2012. 669-692. Online publication. http://edice.org/blog/2012/11/12/miradas/

-Introducción. El español en Estados Unidos: E Pluribus Unum? Enfoques multidisciplinarios (co-edition  with Gerado Piña Rosales). Academia Norteamerican de la Lengua Española, New York, 2013, pp. 13-27.

- “La búsqueda de la poesía plural y plurilingüe en Octavio Paz”. The Willow and the Spiral: Essays on Octavio Paz and the Poetic Imagination, ed. by Roberto Cantú. Newcastle upon Tyne:Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, pp. 233-243.

“Dude was figureando hard: El cambio y la fusión de códigos en la obra de Junot Díaz.” Perspectives in the study of Spanish language variation: Papers in honor of  Carmen Silva-Corvalán . Special issue of Verba 72. Eds. Andrés Enrique-Arias, Manuel Gutiérrez, Alazne Landa and Francisco Ocampo. Servizo de Publicacións e Intercambio Cientifico:Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 2014. Pp.397-432 (invited contribution).

 “A manera de prólogo.” Introduction to: Ángel López García-Molins, El español de EE UU y el problema de la norma lingüística.New York: ANLE, 2014 (Invited contribution), pp. 11-31.

“Spanglish, estadounidismos y bilingüismo vestigial:¿Qué es qué?” in Visiones europeas del Spanglish, ed. by Silvia Betti and Daniel Jorques Jiménez. Valencia: Ediciones Uno y Cero, 2015  pp.26-40 (electronic publication)

 

“On the Translations of Carlos Fuentes into Romanian”. The Reptant Eagle. Essays on Carlos Fuentes and the Art of Novel, ed. by Roberto Cantú. Newcastle upon Tyne:Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, pp. 306-312.

“Oraciones interrogativas directas”  and “Oraciones interrogativas indirectas y otras estructuras”.Enciclopedia de lingüística hispánica. Ed. Javier Gutiérrez Rexach. London: Routledge, 2016. Pp. 760-772.(invited contribution)

“Español y rumano en contacto con inglés en los Estados Unidos, o  Spanglish versus Romglish.” En Nuevas voces sobre el Spanglish: Una investigación polifónica. Ed. Silvia Betti and  Enrique Serra Alegre. Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua / Universitat de Valencia, 2016. Pp.43-64.

“Acerca de LIBSUS: Bibliografía lingüística del español en los Estados Unidos” (en colab. with Francisco Moreno Fernández). In Nueva York en español: Intersecciones hispánicas en EE.UU, Ed.Marta Boris Tarre y Tina Escaja, ALDEEU: New York, 2017, pp. 219-225.

“Hacia un modelo integrado de la enseñanza del español a los hispanounidenses a nivel universitario: El caso de Los Ángeles”, La presencia hispana y el español de los Estados Unidos. Unidad en la diversidad.  . Ed. Rosa Tezanos-  Pinto. New York: Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española, 2017, pp. 301-311.

.(Forthcoming): “La literatura en Spanglish como espacio de encuentro e identidad: El caso de Junot Díaz.” Actas del 35 Congreso Internacional de la  A

(Forthcoming) “A manera de prólogo,” in El inglés y el español en contacto en los Estados Unidos

Reflexiones acerca de los retos, dilemas y complejidad de la situación sociolingüística estadounidense.

Ed. Silvia Betti and Renata Enghels, Aracne Editrice, 2019, pp. 7-9.

LDEEU, Segovia 2015. Ed. Marina Martín, ALDEEU 2019.

 

Selected Journal Articles :

- "Modalitati stilistice in opera lui Ramón del Valle-Inclán" [Stylistic Modalities in Ramón del Valle-Inclán's works], Studii de Literatura Universala, XII, 1968, pp. 113-130.

- "Opera lui Antonio Machado in Romania " [Antonio Machado's work in Rumania ], Analele Universitatii Din Bucuresti, 2/1969, pp. 103-109.

- "Proiectie bovarica si instrainare unamuniana in romanul La Regenta de Leopoldo Alas Clarín" [Bovary-style projection and Unamuno-style alienation in La Regenta by Leopoldo Alas Clarín], Analele Universitatii Din Bucuresti, 2/1970, pp. 97-109.

- "El infinitivo en español y en rumano. Estudio comparativo", Bulletin De La Société Roumaine De Linguistique Romane VII (1970), pp. 41-61.

- "Despre perifrazele verbale in spaniola si romana" [About Verbal Periphrases in Spanish and Romanian], Studii si Cercetari Lingvistice 5/1971, pp. 47l-489.

- "Tangente lirice intre Bécquer si Eminescu" [Poetic Affinities between Bécquer and Eminescu], Analele Universitatii Din Bucuresti 1/1971, pp. 73-83.

- "Sursele estetice ale generatiei de la 1927" [Aesthetic Sources of the "Generación del 27"], Analele Universitatii Din Bucuresti 1/1973, pp. 153-169.

- "Apuntes sobre el uso enfático de sí (adv.) en el español contemporáneo", Revue Roumaine de Linguistique 5/1973, pp. 407-413.

- "Jorge Guillén si Ion Barbu - poeti afini" [Jorge Guillén and Ion Barbu- poetic affinities], Analele Universitatii Din Bucuresti 2/1973, pp. 17-23.

- "Análisis léxico-sintáctico de un poema de Miguel Hernández: 'Eterna sombra',"Boletín De La Asociación Europea De Profesores De Español 9 (1973), pp. 57-66.

- "Procedee morfo-lexicale de negare a adjectivului in spaniola contemporana (in comparatie cu romana)" [Morpho-lexical devices to form negative adjectives in Spanish, as compared to Romanian], Studii si Cercetari Lingvistice 1/1974, pp. 37-44.

-"Propuestas en torno a la terminología del análisis sintáctico en castellano", Boletín De La Asociación Europea De Profesores De Español 11 (1974), pp. 21-29.

- "Notas comparativas sobre el tratamiento en español y rumano", in Etudes Romanes I (1976), pp.81-86.

- "Acerca del orden de las palabras en las interrogativas españolas", Part I in Revue Roumaine de Linguistique 2/1977, pp. l47-l52; Part II in Revue Roumaine de Linguistique 4/l977, pp. 445-45l.

- "Viajeros rumanos por España e Hispanoamérica", Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos 322-323/1977, pp. 183-197.

- "El sistema de las respuestas minimales en castellano", Revue Roumaine de Linguistique XXIV, 1/1979, pp. 45-54.

- "Ecos catalanes en la cultura rumana", Cahiers Roumains D'Etudes Litteraires 1/1979, pp. 21-29.

- "Adán Buenosayres: metáfora y novela", Texto Crítico 16-17 (1980), pp. 169-181.

- "Propozitia impersonala cu SE in spaniola si romana" [SE impersonal sentences in Spanish and Romanian], Studii si Cercetari Lingvistice 5/1983, pp. 413-418.

- "Escollos en la enseñanza de la pasiva española a los rumanos", Revue Roumaine de Linguistique 3/1983, pp. 271-275.

- "Hacia una clasificación más completa de las oraciones compuestas en español,"Boletín De La Asociación Europea De Profesores De Español 34-35, 1986, pp. 217-224.

- "Contribución a la semántica de los verbos modales en español (con ejemplos del habla de Madrid),"Hispania 71, 1988, pp.139-147.

- "Un tipo de imagen-clave en la poesía de la generación del 27: la imagen cromática,"Explicación de Textos Literarios 18 (Spring 1990), pp.15-30

.- "El dativo posesivo en español y en rumano,"Revista Española de Lingüística 20 (Julio-Diciembre 1990), pp. 403-429.

- "The Spanish Poetry of Aron Cotrus,"American-Romanian Academy Journal 15 (1991), 91-104

.- "General Consideration about Echo Questions in Spanish and Romanian: Towards Defining the Concept,"Revue Roumaine de Linguistique 36 (1991), vol. 3-4: 141-167 (Part I); vol. 5-6: 279-315 (Part II).

- "On the Syntactic Properties of Recapitulatory Wh-Echo Questions in Spanish and Romanian: A Parallel": Analele Universitatii din Bucuresti, Limbi si Literaturi Straine, 1991, [Proceedings of the 16th ARA Annual Congress, Bucharest (Romania), June-July 1991], 30-51.

-"Spanish Echo Questions and Their Relevance to the Current Syntactic Theory,"Southwest Journal of Linguistics 10:2 (1991), pp. 42-65.

- "Preguntas con multiconstituyentes interrogativos en español,"Hispania 75 (1992), vol.1: 164 - 170.

- "A Preliminary Approach To The Contact Phenomena Found In The Romanian Spoken By Romanian-Americans Of The First Generation,"ARA Journal 18 (1993), pp. 161-186.

- "Traducción y heteroglosia en la obra de Octavio Paz,"Hispania 78, May 1995, pp. 240-251.

-"El flojo matinal: Contribución al análisis del discurso oral en español de un grupo de mexico-americanos bilingües, Anuario de Letras, UNAM, XXIII(1995):155-185.

- "Los adjetivos en el sintagma nominal: Posición y predicación" (invited contribution, in collaboration with Mario Saltarelli, USC), Signo y Seña 5,February 1996, pp. 23-60 (monographic issue on Estructura, significado y categoría, ed. by Nora Múgica).

- "Rhetorical vs. Non Rhetorical Allo-repetition: The Case of Romanian Interrogatives,"Journal of Pragmatics 26.3 (1996), pp. 321-354.

- "Realidad y metáfora del exilio en la obra de Alina Diaconú."Alba de América vol. 15 (1997), Nrs. 28-29, pp. 236-245.

- "El parámetro discursivo en la expresión del objeto directo lexical: español madrileño vs. español porteño,"Signo y Seña 7 (1997): 303-354 - monographic issue on La gramática: desarrollos actuales, ed. by Ofelia Kovacci (invited contribution)

- 2005 Presidential address: “Noroc!; Merci; ¡Qué lindo!; Sorry: Some Polite Speech Acts Across Cultures.” Southwest Journal of Linguistics 25. 2 (2006):  1-37.

- “Interrogative allo-repetitions in Mexican Spanish: Discourse functions and (im)politeness strategies.” Special issue on The Discourse of Politeness in Spanish, of Pragmatics, vol 18 (2008)  No.4, pp. 659-680.

-“Cortesía ritual en español y rumano: el caso de los deseos” (invited contribution). Español Actual, ed. by Catalina Fuentes.Vol.94, 2010. Pp. 91-122.

- “El español en los Estados Unidos: Metamorfosis y controversia” (invited contribution ). Boletín de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (ANLE), nr.14 (2011), pp. 261-302.

--“Cortesía codificada versus cortesía interpretada en español: Consideraciones generales.” Glosas vol. 17, Núm. 8 (noviembre de 2011): 2-12.

-“Reflexiones sobre la Ortografía Básica de la Lengua Española.Glosas Vol. 7. Núm. 10 (septiembre de 2012): 2-8.

- Guest editorial: “Spanglish: What’s in a Name?” Hispania  95.3 (2012): ix-xii.

-“Lo que es y lo que no es: Un nota sobre el Spanglish.” Revista de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española, vol.2, núm.4 (2013), pp. 353-361.

“Two tongues that come together” o el español en contacto con el inglés en los Estados Unidos.”Ventana Abierta 34 (Spring 2013): 12-14.

“El español en los Estados Unidos a la luz del censo de 2010: Los retos de las próximas décadas.” Hispania 96.3 (2013): 525-541.

Spanglish and Identity inside and outside the Classroom” (MLA Convention Feature). Hispania 96.3 (2013):436-437.

“Alina Diaconú: La profundidad de una vocación más allá del idioma”. Revista de la Academia Nortemaricana de la Lengua Española 6 (2014), pp. 369-375.

“Sobre Hablando bien se entiende la gente 2 y la necesidad del buen uso del español en los Estados Unidos”, Glosas  vol. 8, nr.6 (2014), pp. 5-17.

“English-Spanish Code-switching in Literary Texts: Is It Still Spanglish as We Know It?” (MLA Convention Feature). Hispania  97.3 (2014), pp. 357-359.

“La alternancia de lenguas como actividad de imagen en el discurso hispanoundense/Code-switching as face-work in the discourse of US Hispanics.” Pragmática sociocultural/ Sociocultural Pragmatics (ed. by De Gruyter)  2. 1 (2014), pp. 1-34 (online publication)

“Aspectos pragmáticos y discursivos del español  estadounidense/ Pragmatic and discursive aspects of Spanish in the United States “.Informes del observatorio/Observatory reports 015-11-2015 (Instituto Cervantes at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University) – online publication, 26 pp. http://cervantesobservatorio.fas.harvard.edu/es/informes/informes-del-observatorio-observatorio-reports-015-112015sp-aspectos-pragm%C3%A1ticos-y

 “Homenaje a Luis Alberto Ambroggio:  Perfil del poeta.”Alba de América 35 (2015):221- 223.

“Tradicion e innovación en el diccionario académico”. Glosas vol.8. 8 (2015), pp.15-20

“Innovative Approaches toTeaching Spanish and Portuguese in the Twenty First Century, and More . . .” (2015 MLA Convention Feature), Hispania  98.2 (2015), pp. 191-93.

“A particular kind of ‘action-reaction’: Questions answering questions (in Spanish and Romanian dialogues”, Language and Dialogue 6.2 (2016).pp.207-222

“The depth of a vocation beyond the language. Interview with Alina Diaconu.”  RSAA Journal 1 (1), March 2017, http://thersaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Domnita-Dumitrescu.-Interview-with-Argentine-Writer-Alina-Diaconu.2017.pdf

 “Un tipo especial de Spanglish en la literature estadounidense: la fusion de códigos y el translenguar” (Response to:  “Lengua, cultura y sensibilidades en los Estados Unidos. Español y spanglish en un mundo inglés”). Hispania 100.5  centenary issue (December 2017), pp. 43-44

 “Las reseñas de Hispania, al correr  del tiempo: Siempre al tanto de las últimas   novedades académicas” Hispania 101.4 (december 2018), pp. 497-500

Proyectos colaborativos  actuales de la ANLE.” Glosas  vol. 9, núm.5 (september 2018), pp. 28-3300.

 Francisco Moreno-Fernández & Domnita Dumitrescu (2019) Dialect variation as reflected in the Diccionario de la lengua española: ideological and pedagogical implications, Journal of Spanish Language Teaching, DOI: 10.1080/23247797.2019.1668181

https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MBVXEW6TQXSM573PKHUT/full?target=10.1080/23247797.2019.1668181

.Some recent book reviews:

- Magdalena García Pinto & Mario Rojas (eds.): Aproximaciones a la sintaxis del español: Estudios sintácticos del español y el progreso de la teoría lingüística. Lingüística 1, 1989, 190-204

.- Antonio Machado: El poeta y su doble. Explicación de Textos Literarios XIX.2 (1990-1991),p.90-91.

- Marius Sala (ed.). Enciclopedia Limbilor Romanice. Lingüística 2, 1990, pp. 263-265.

- Elba Torres de Peralta: La poética de Olga Orozco. Nuevo Texto Crítico 7 (1991), 220-222.

- Ignacio Bosque (ed.) Indicativo y subjuntivo. Lingüística 3, 1991, 180-201

- Maria Manoliu-Manea: Gramatica, pragmasemantica si discurs, ARA Journal 19 (1994), 279-282.

- "Si algo puedo asegurar es que el realismo no es mi veta" (review of Ester Gimbernat González and Cyntia Tompkins, eds. Utopías, ojos azules, bocas suicidas: La narrativa de Alina Diaconú). Confluencia (published by the University Press of Colorado) 11.1 (1995), pp. 206-210.

- Jorge Narváez: La invención de la memoria. Revista Literaria Iberoamericana. 1.1 (1995), 34-36.

- Guy Mercadier: L'autoportrait en Espagne: Littérature et peinture. Revista Literaria Iberoamericana. 1.1 (1995), 37-40.

- Dan Munteanu: El papiamento, lengua criolla hispánica. Revista de Filología Española LXXVII (1997), 375-378.

- Dan Munteanu Colán & Rafael Rodríguez Marín:  Bibliografia básica y selectiva de lingüística románica. Southwest Journal of Linguistics 22. 2 (2003), pp. 151-153.

-  Marius Sala, Del latín al rumano. Southwest Journal of Linguistics 23. 1 (2004), pp. 121-123.

 –Dale Koike & Carol Klee. Lingüística aplicada: Adquisición del español como segunda lengua. Hispania 87. 1 (2004), pp. 91-94.

 – Marcial Prado: Diccionario de falsos amigos: Inglés –Español. Hispania 87. 2 (2004), pp.  295-296.

-   José Ignacio Hualde, Antxon  Olarrea y Anna María Escobar, Introducción  a la lingüística hispánica, Hispania 88.1 (2005), pp. 147-149.

-   Larry King and Margarita Suñer,  Gramática española: Análisis y práctica, 2nd ed.,Hispania 88.2  (2005), pp.  319-321.

-  Milton M. Azevedo, Introducción a la lingüística española, 2nd. ed  and  González Flores, Francisca, Workbook (to accompany this second edition), Southwest Journal of Linguistics 24. 1 (2005), pp. 199-206.

-  Josse de Kock and Carmen Gómez Molina, Lingüística aplicada. La lengua: meta, materia y referencia  en investigación, enseñanza y estilística, Hispania 89.1 (2006), pp. 76-78.

-   Rafael Areiza Londoño, Mireya Cisneros  Estupiñán, Luis Enrique Tabares Idárraga, Hacia una nueva visión sociolingüística, Hispania 89.3 (2006), pp. 539-540.

-  Dan Muntenanu Colan, Breve historia de la lingüística románica, Hispania 89.4 (2006), pp. 903-904.

- Rosina Márquez  Reiter and Maria Elena Placencia, Spanish Pragmatics. Hispania 90.1 (2007): 87-88.

- Diana Bravo (ed.), Estudios de la (des)cortesía en español. Hispania 90.3 (2007): 514-515

-  Kathleen Wheatly, Sintaxis y morfología de la lengua española. Hispania 90 (2007): 717-718

-  HumbertoLopez Morales (coord.).Enciclopedia del español en los Estados Unidos. Hispania 93.1 (2010): 158-159

- G. Piña Rosales et al. (eds.) Hablando bien se entiende la gente, Hispania 94 (2011)

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“Derrin Pinto and Carlos de Pablos-Ortega, Seamos pragmáticos: Introducción a la pragmática española”,  Journal of Spanish Languager Teaching (vol 3, num.2- December 2016)  DOI: 10.1080/23247797.2016.1222670

Some Translations From Spanish Into Romanian:

- C.Martín Gaite, Logodna Gertrudei [Entre visillos], Bucuresti, Editura Univers, 1972.

- I.Aldecoa, Gran Sol, Bucuresti, Editura Univers, 1976.

- G.A.Bécquer, Raza de luna- legende [El rayo de luna - leyendas], Bucuresti, Editura Univers, l978.

- Emilia Pardo Bazán, Conacul din Ulloa [Los pazos de Ulloa], Bucuresti, Editura Univers, 1982.

- Emilia Pardo Bazán, Insolatie. Dor. [Insolación. Morriña], Bucuresti, Editura Eminescu, 1983.

Each translation is accompanied by a comprehensive study of the author's contribution to the Spanish literature, and by critical footnotes, both authored by the translator.

  Among the Interviews she gave are:

“Confesiones transatlánticas.” Plural 2.22 (2004):  290-293 (Special issue: La confesión- forma de diálogo), a periodical publication of the Romanian Cultural Institute.

 “Domnita Dumitrescu intervievata de Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru,” Cultura românească în perspectivă transatlantică: Interviuri,  ed. by Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru & Teodora Şerban-Oprescu,  Bucuresti, Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti, 2009, pp. 51-59.

A 40 minute interview in Romanian for Romanian Radio, “Romanii in lume”, June 13, 2010.

Interview for Hola Cultura (based in Washington DC), on July 18, 2014, regarding teaching Spanish to heritage students. Available at http://www.holacultura.com/2014/07/18/entrevistas-ocasionales-de-verano-domnita-dumitrescu/

Interview with Mirela Roznoveanu for the Romanian Television of New York  (November 4, 2018):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0eHumWD6A8&feature=youtu.be

 

Television and web participation:

Between August 2012 and September 2013, she presented  short linguistic advice  for heritage speakers of Spanish in the US during the evening news of Mundo Fox (a Spanish channel  located in Los Angeles) under the heading: Se habla español.

Between October 2013 and  October 2015, occasional contributor to Yahoo en español ("La palabra del día" and "La lengua viva", a blog project sponsored by ANLE).

                                                                Last updated in November   2019

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Tanya Kane-Parry

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Tanya Kane-Parry - Professor/Director/Choreographer
College of Arts and Letters
Department of Theatre and Dance
Email: tkanepa@calstatela.edu

Background & Biography

BFA in Acting: Tisch School of the Arts/NYU (Circle-in-the-Square & the Experimental Theatre Wing); MFA in Directing: UMASS/Amherst

Professor: Acting, Voice for Actors & Dancers, Contemporary Dance, Viewpoints, Experimental Theatre & Performance. Joined the Department in 2001

Former Director of the MFA in Television, Film and Theatre (Fall 2017 - Spring 2019

Tanya directs and choreographs theatre, opera and dance and is the Artistic Director and co-founder of Opera del Espacio. Credits include Tosca Jumps!, a multimedia adaptation of Puccini’s opera (EdgeFest/LATC, Highways, Luckman Intimate); Supreme Being by Richard Foreman; Romeo and/y Juliet(a), a Spanglish Re-Mix with Quantum Theatre, and a touring production of Ubu Roi in Brazil. She has directed Carmen (Pacific Repertory Opera), The Coronation of Poppea (CSULA) and The Medium (CSULA), an extracted semi-staged productions of Don Giovanni and The Barber of Seville with the Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra, the avant-garde multimedia opera The Wall: A Musical Misdeed, (CSULA) a semi-staged production of Phillip Glass’s Civil Wars with the LA Phil, La Traviata  and Anya17 with Angels Vocal Art as well as Savitri and River of Light with Festival Opera. At Long Beach Opera she choreographed The Man from Atlantis, The Clever One and Moscow, Cherry Town. At Los Angeles Opera she was the Assistant Director on Madama ButterflyThe Barber of Seville, CarmenThe Broken JugThe Dwarf and The Merry Widow. With Barcelona director, Joan Font, she was the Associate Director on The Barber of Seville (Houston Grand Opera Theatre, L’Opera National de Bordeaux, Gran Teatro de Liceu, Canadian Opera Company), L’Italiana in Algers (Houston Grand Opera) and Cinderella (LA Opera, Opera Omaha, Washington National Opera). With Opera del Espacio she directed/choreographed I’ve Fallen/Clap Off! at Highways Performance Space; The Way Of Water by Caridad Svich at Cal State LA, Bootleg Theatre, Cal Poly Pomona, Hollywood Fringe and South Coast Rep’s SCRamble; Meet Me @ Metro II and III Space: The Final Frontier presented at SOSE as part of the Company Creation Festival; Private in Public for the SoCal Dance Invitational Concert and the World Dance Alliance-Americas in Honolulu; Triple [Inter]sect dance concert at Highways Performance Space; multiple site-specific performances at the desert ruins at Llano del Rio, Downtown Art Walk, Brewery Art Walk, Echo Park Art Walk, The Series at the Standard and more. Recently she directed Norma at Skagit Opera and then spent 5 weeks in Japan studying with Masters in Butoh Dance with the support of the Aurora Foundation Challenge Grant. She then directed The News by Jacob TV with Long Beach Opera in June, and then the SoCal premiere of Adam Gorb’s ANYA 17 with Angels Vocal Art in July 2016.

Since 2001, Tanya has been a professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Cal State LA. After her initial years of setting up a comprehensive undergraduate acting program, Tanya expanded her teaching to the dance program and in the MA in Theatre program. She created the Teacher Training program for the graduate students, was the Director of the MFA in TV, Film, Television program, initiated Strategies for Professionals: Acting and Improvisation at the PaGE progarm in DTLA, and developed several collaborative projects with colleagues in the Department of Music, Art, English, Her teaching includes: Acting, Voice, Viewpoints, Contemporary Dance, Experimental Performance and more.

During her Fall 2014 Sabbatical, Tanya travelled Europe visiting theatre and dance programs, seeing productions and meeting artists. She taught Viewpoints workshops at Atalaya-TNT in Sevilla, the Superior School of Dramatic Art of the Islas Baleares Viewpoints Workshop with students presented to the entire school (this link as well). And the University of Islas Baleares – Viewpoints Workshop and post-workshop Interview Posted Online

Recent Activities:

July 2018    directed Candide, Angel Vocal Arts, presented at A Noise Within

July 2016 - directed the Southern California premiere of composer Adam Gorb's work on survivors of sex trafficking, ANYA 17 presented by Angels Vocal Art.

 ANYA 17              Anya 17 - Natalia Aria

Reviews: http://peoplesworld.org/human-trafficking-and-sex-slavery-the-opera/ 

and http://www.pasadenanow.com/living/contemporary-opera-addresses-sex-trafficking/

Anya 17 - Viktor beating Anya         Anya 17 - Viktor vs. Gabriel

June 2016 - directed the multimedia opera The News by Dutch composer Jacob TV with Long Beach Opera, presented at the Broad Theatre. 

The News - Pom Poms        The News - McD's

The News - Exactly           

Reviews

THE ARGONAUT

BROADWAY WORLD

CLASSICALITE.COM 

THE DAILY NEWS/ LONG BEACH PRESS-TELEGRAM 

THE GUARDIAN  

THE JEWISH JOURNAL OF LOS ANGELES 

 

 

April/May 2016 - Butoh Dance study with Master Teachers in Japan funded by the Aurora Foundation Challenge Grant (2015/16 recipient)

 

March 2016 - directed Bellini's Norma at Pacific Northwest Opera (formerly Skagit Opera)

Norma Finale #1       Norma Finale #2

Norma Finale #3

Review

 

March 2016 - Coordinator for the American College Dance Association Baja Regional Conference, hosted at Cal State LA, that included over 30 area dance programs, 4 Adjudicated Concerts, 3 Informal Concerts and over 450 attendees.

Conference Website  -  Conference Facebook page

 

Oct/Nov 2015 - Directed 2 one-act operas for Festival Opera in the Bay Area, Savitri by Holst and River of Light by Jack Perla.

Upcoming

Oct 2015 - Opera del Espacio dance/performane event at Highways Performance Space

Triple Intersect

Triple [Inter]sect is an inter-generational feminist examination of the tangible and abstract forces that jostle, push and ply the female body. Three divergent female voices (di)(con)verge in an evening of dance and performance from Opera del Espacio, Gayle Fekete and Mechanism Dance Theatre.

    Highways Performance Space

 

SHREDDED    

 

 

La Traviata with singers in the Angels Vocal Arts Summer Opera Intensive Professional Program, July 2015.

LA TRAVIATA

 
Workshop for the Directors Lab West on May 2015: 
Cal State LA, Music Courtyard
Let the Space Tell the Story: Creating Exciting Theatre In Non-Traditional Spaces
with Opera del Espacio’s Tanya Kane-Parry (DLW ‘03)
This workshop engaged Lab participants in exploring the multiple ways to conceive, explore and present Site-Specific live performance. Utilizing some of the primary vocabulary of Viewpoints to investigate outdoor spaces, then discovering how to interact with the locale, architecture and environment in relationship to text and story (Waiting for Godot).
DIRECTOR'S LAB WEST
 

History Department Colloquium, May 2015 - Tanya Kane-Parry 
“The Politics Of Outdoor Performances: Who Gets Access And Who Gets Ignored" 

The Office of the Provost is proud to recognize four additional Cal State L.A. faculty for their research related to sabbatical work. 

Provost’s Scholarship Symposia, Tuesday, May 12, 3:15 to 4:30 p.m.

Madhu S. Mohanty (Economics): “Two Major Determinants of Happiness: A Case for Supplementing Traditional Schooling with Value Education”

Kate Sullivan (Anthropology): “Governing Ocean Space”

Joseph Prabhu (Philosophy): “Encounter of Religions in a Global Age: Beyond Fundamentalism and Relativism”

Tanya Kane Parry (Music, Theatre and Dance): “Bringing Performance to the People”

 

- Presentation of “Dare to Fail and Fail Big!”* at the CSU Symposium on University Teaching, "GRIT: Exploring perseverance, mindset and character in the classroom," at California State University, Los Angeles, March 2015.

- Video excerpts of prior productions

- Opera del Espacio and on Youtube

- recent publication: TCG online: Traveling & Working Abroad

Additionally, Tanya teaches Viewpoints workshops and presents at conferences nationally and internationally:

2014    Spain: University of Islas Balears, Palma, Mallorca - Viewpoints Workshop; Escuela Superior de Arte Dramatica de Ilas Balears - Viewpoints Workshop

                       Atalaya-TNT Sevilla - Viewpoints Workshop; University of Sevilla - Acting workshop.

2011    University Theatre Festival, Blumenau, Brazil: Viewpoints Workshop

            University of Uberlandia, Brazil: Viewpoints Workshop

            Ubu Roi, University of Blumenau, Brazil: co-directed and choreographed with Prof. Patricia de Borba

2010    University Theatre Festival, Blumenau, Brazil: Viewpoints Workshop

IX Congreso Ibero-Americana de Teatro Universitario (AIATU), Lima, Peru: Viewpoints Workshop & Panel Presenter

2009    ImprovFest, Los Angeles: Viewpoints Workshops for professional dancers and performers

2008    ImprovFest, Los Angeles: Viewpoints Workshops for professional dancers and performers

            Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, CSULA: Viewpoints workshop

2007    VI Congreso Ibero-Americana de Teatro Universitario (AIATU), Chihuahua, Mexico: Viewpoints Workshop for students from Spain, Argentina, Venezuela, Peru,

Costa Rica and Mexico.

Roosevelt University, Chicago: Intensive Viewpoints course for MA Directing students in the Fast-Track Program.

Israeli Opera, Tel Aviv, Israel: Acting Workshop for singers in the Young Artist Program.

2006    University of Massachusetts/Amherst, Guest Artist: Viewpoints workshops

2004    Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Logan, Utah (Region VIII): Viewpoints workshops

Theatre Department, University of Chihuahua, Mexico. Guest Lecture

Rosana Gamson/Worldwide Dance Theatre Company (RG/WW): workshops to strengthen ensemble, introduce basic acting technique and vocal training for   upcoming bilingual production with Contradanza (Mexico City) based on Carlos Fuentes’ book Aura.

2003    Directors Lab West: Viewpoints workshop for professional directors and choreographers, Pasadena Playhouse.

2002    National University of Tucuman and La Baulera Cultural Center, Argentina: Viewpoints Workshops
 

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA)
Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME)
Association of Ibero-American University Theatres (AIATU)

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

  • Aurora Foundation Challenge Grant 2015/16: studied Butoh with Master Teachers in Japan
  • ATHE Innovative Teaching Award/KCACTF Region VIII, 2014
  • GSE Rotary Program to Mexico, March/April 2004
  • Partner of the Americas: Sponsored trip to attend Experimenta 5 Theatre Festival/Conference in Rosario and to conduct workshops with students of the National University of Tucuman and professional performers at La Baulera Cultural Center (Argentina), December 2002.
  • NEA/TCG Theatre Director Finalist, 2001
  • Certificate of Excellence in Teaching, awarded by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2000
  • Federick Loewe Fellowship, Stage Directors & Choreographers Foundation, 1997 & 1998

RELATED EXPERIENCE

  • Opera Ára ("Opera Now"), Guest Speaker on New Opera, Teatre Lliure, Barcelona, Nov, 2014
  • Directors Lab West, Guest Panelist, "Working Internationally" 2014
  • ATHE/ATME Panel Participant, “Atomic Dancing”; paper, video and live performance presentation, Aug. 2013
  • Directors Lab West, Alumni Committee, 2009.
  • Viewpoints Workshop Facilitator: Guest Artist Mary Overlie at the Directors Lab West, May 2005
  • Co-coordinator of Viewpoints Intensive at CSU Summer Arts with guests Mary Overlie, Anne Bogart, SITI company members and Nina Martin, June/July 2004.

TRAINING

  • BFA Acting NYU, Tisch School of the Arts: Circle-in-the-Square and the Experimental Theatre Wing
  • MFA Directing UMass/Amherst
  • The Viewpoints: Mary Overlie and Wendall Beavers (Experimental Theatre Wing/NYU)                               
  • American Mime Theater Company directed by Paul Curtis (Company Member 1991-1993) 
  • Dance & Movement: Modern, Postmodern, Contact Improvisation, Stage Combat, Martial Arts
  • Directing: Joseph Chaikin and Jean-Claude Van Italie/ The Living Theater: Judith Malina  
  • Commedia del Arte and Mask: Guy Friexe & Erhardt Steifel of the Theatre du Soliel           
  • Roy Hart Theatre/Experimental Vocal Technique: Richard Armstrong          
  • Tight Rope Walking: Philipe Petit/ Clown: Dale Scott/ Circus: Hoovey Burgess                     
  • Linklater Vocal Technique: Andrea Haring (Circle-in-the-Square)     
  • Stanislavsky, Boleslavsky and Hagen Acting Methodology: Alan Langdon (Circle-in-the-Square)

LANGUAGES: Fluent Spanish and French: conversational Portuguese and Russian

Comments on works directed by Ms. Kane-Parry:

 Space: The Final Frontier: “The cumulative effect of all this is that of an academic treatise straining to be enhanced by the kinetic power of design and dance. That goal is frequently met, thanks to the evocative quality of Kane-Parry's choreography, and the way the bodies collide and seem to roll through each other.”  - Steven Leigh Morris, LA Weekly

The Way of Water by Caridad Svich, adapted by Opera del Espacio: “In L.A.'s site-specific production of Caridad Svich'sThe Way of Water, Opera del Espacio is making the disaster tangible -- and implicating the audience in the event.You might even find yourself pouring an oil-like liquid onto the actors or helping to load company members into body bags by the end of the performance.”– Sarah Taylor Ellis, LA Weekly

Tosca Jumps!In this striking distillation by Tanya Kane-Parry of Puccini's operatic masterpiece, the music is abridged, the lyrics are lip-synched, and the performers borrow fascinating movement that seems to range from Chinese opera through contemporary street dance. Supertitles- a new opera convention -add typographic humor to the work and allow modern obscenities to replace pages of libretto.”  - Dany Margolies, Critic's Pick, Backstage West

Supreme Being“Text and images wash over you…meaning emerges from the show’s recombinant associations and repetitions”– Philip Brandes, Los Angeles Times

Romeo and/y Juliet(a)Goes to extremes (with) undaunted vision” – Luis Reyes, LA Weekly

Romeo and/y Juliet(a)Director Tanya Kane-Parry abstracts the Bard’s scenario through diverse performance art tactics: gender-bending, outsized sound effects, anachronistic asides”  - David Nichols, Los Angeles Times

Romeo and/y Juliet(a)It is an exciting, individualistic approach… in the manner of a Cubist painting, with glimmering flashes of action and dialogue, with a bit of Dadaism thrown in. [Kane-Parry’s] tempos and rhythms are impeccable…The piece is full of insightful action and is fascinating from beginning to end.” – T.H. McCulloh, Back Stage West

Romeo and/y Juliet(a)Emphasizing dance and movement over dialogue, the piece — relayed in Spanglish — juxtaposes Shakespeare’s basic plot and fragments of his text with contemporary street speech and images. Performers cavort in and around trash cans while, now and then, someone appears in spiked, thigh-high patent leather boots/ erotic gambols/ recurrent slamming of bodies against walls.” – Deborah Klugman, LA Weekly

The CureJuxtaposes ordinary things in strange ways but invests them with a sense of utter familiarity” – Martin Washburn, The Village Voice

The CureUnderlying outrageousness beneath a surface of deliberate, restrained and controlled emotional truth and subtlety…mysterious…compelling” – Richard Foreman, Playwright/Director

Trojan WomenBallsy…you applaud the effrontery each time…can’t take your eyes off it for a minute…hardy souls are in for a treat” – Eric Grode, Backstage

Romeo and/y Juliet(a)Modern theatre seems old fashioned when compared to this production…To say this production is surreal is an understatement. It’s more of a fracprism, where the original is divided into dozens of pieces that seem to have been squeezed through a multi-layered prism, refracting a distant image of the original, but creating a whole new entity in the process… Here, director Tanya Kane-Parry is experimenting with a style that takes a lot of guts to even attempt, let alone pull it off. What emerges from her imagination is part dream, part nightmare, half–fantasy, half-wish, layered onto a tale that begins with hatred between two families and results in the ultimate end for the protagonists… [Kane-Parry] knocks your socks off with something wild and off-beat.”   – Jose Luis, ReviewPlays.com

Office Location: MUS Additional Website: 239

Kristina Ruiz-Mesa, Ph.D.

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Dr. Kristina Ruiz-Mesa
College of Arts and Letters
Department of Communication Studies
Phone: 323-343-4263 Email: kruizme@calstatela.edu

 

Dr. Kristina Ruiz-Mesa is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies and the Basic Course Director for COMM 1100: Oral Communication at California State University, Los Angeles.

At Cal State LA, Dr. Ruiz-Mesa directs one of the largest oral communication programs in the nation and teaches a variety of courses including graduate-level Instructional Communication, Qualitative and Rhetorical Research Methods, Humanities Theories, and undergraduate courses in Humanities Approaches to Race, Sex Roles in Communication, Feminism and Communication, Communication Capstone, and Oral Communication. Prior to joining the Cal State LA faculty, Dr. Ruiz-Mesa worked in diversity, equity, and inclusion research and assessment at Villanova University, and has worked around the nation as a communication and diversity consultant. Currently, Dr. Ruiz-Mesa is studying organizational and instructional communication practices to improve institutional diversity, equity, and inclusion. Her previous research on the academic impact of experiencing racial microaggressions in U.S. higher education has been used to create programming and improve support services for underrepresented students throughout the nation.

Dr. Ruiz-Mesa’s research has been presented at conferences throughout the United States and Europe, and has been published in the Journal of Communication Pedagogy, The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education, Basic Communication Course Annual, Management Communication Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, and in book chapters on a variety of issues related to public speaking, diversity leadership, trigger warnings in classrooms, best practices for communication engagement, and classroom transparency.

Ruiz-Mesa earned a B.A. in Communication and a concentration in Latin American Studies, and an M.A. in Strategic Communication from Villanova University. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication with a focus on organizational communication, identity, and higher education, from the University of Colorado at Boulder where she studied the applied communicative practices of Chief Diversity Officers working in U.S. colleges and universities.

 

Office Location: MUS 250

John M. Kennedy

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College of Arts and Letters
Department of Music
Phone: 323/343-4084 Email: jkenned@calstatela.edu

Recent Career Highlights

Beijing Performance

ASCAP Plus Award, 2019 (25th in career).
Premiere: "Chaconne-Part 1", TM+, Laurent Cuniot, conductor, Los Angeles, May 2019.
CD Release: "Yer-" for solo flute, on the CD "Inspired by Rita D'Arcangelo", Spring 2019.
Double Bass: Premiere of William Roper's "New-Opened Eyes-1965" for the Hear Now Festival of LA Composers,
Wende Museum, Culver City, February 2019.
Premiere: "Breath, Smoke, Crystals" for solo alto saxophone, Tong Yang, saxophone,
18th World Saxophone Congress, Zagreb, Croatia, July 2018.
Fulbright Scholar Award, University of Malta, Spring 2017.
CSULA Outstanding Professor Award, 2013.

 

The breadth of John M. Kennedy’s work reflects his early background as a rock and jazz bassist, an eclectic experience that led to his realization that all sound can be music, and all music is a manifestation of the sounds and experiences around us. This holistic view of music, along with travels to distant places with his wife and children, continues to provide a deepening understanding of the many voices that surrounds us all. Over the past year his work has been premiered and performed throughout the US, most significantly his “Chaconne-Part I” in Los Angeles by TM+ of France, and “Meditation” and “Fury” for solo ‘cellist Maksim Velichkin. Upcoming first performances include the complete set of six solo ‘cello pieces for Mr. Velichkin, the premiere of his solo bass piece “Syrinx: Requies I, D.M.” in March 2019, and an new work for solo guitar for Fabio Barbagallo of Italy. As a double bassist he premiered a graphic score of William Roper memorializing the 1965 Watts Riots in February 2019, and in June 2019 premiered Roper’s entire graphic score suite,  "Experience > Dream > Memory - Slivers of Time”. Kennedy has made significant contributions to the saxophone literature and two of these works were performed at the 2018 World Saxophone Congress in Zagreb, Croatia: the premiere of “Breath, Smoke, Crystals” for solo saxophone by Tong Yang of China, and “Lamentations: Hayasdan” for saxophones and piano by Dionisios Russos of Greece. As a 2017 Fulbright Scholar at the University of Malta, he was asked to write a work for brass and percussion commemorating the arrival of the SS Ohio to Malta, breaking a WW II blockade of the island nation. The work was premiered in Malta on August 14, 2017, the 75th anniversary of the arrival. Dr. Kennedy attended the University of Michigan where he earned the A.Mus.D. and M.M. in Music Composition, studying with Leslie Bassett and William Albright; the B.M. in Double Bass Performance from Baldwin-Wallace University, studying with Anthony F. Knight; and studies in Jazz Bass and Arranging at the Berklee College of Music.

Kennedy’s work with improvisation and world music styles has impacted both his teaching and work as a composer. In 2017, he and guitarist Satik Andriassian produced an online text for the teaching of world music to non-music majors. The work emphasizes cultural understanding through music, and promotes empathy for those around us.

Throughout his career Kennedy’s work has been featured in performances worldwide including his orchestral work “Portrait...” during the 1989 Salzburg Festival at the Mozarteum,  and more recently Interensemble of Padova, Italy (2017); the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble in Moscow (2013); the Malta International Music Festival and Competition in Valletta (2012-2015); the 2012 World Saxophone Congresses, St. Andrews, Scotland, and new music festivals in Bangkok, Thailand, Kwang-ju, Korea, and Daegu, Korea. His commissions include the Olympia Youth Orchestra, the Baldwin-Wallace College Wind Ensemble and the Northern Ohio Youth Orchestra. Early recognition for his work includes the Charles Ives Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and a Young Composer Award from ASCAP. His work has received continuing recognition with grants from Meet the Composer, Inc. (now New Music USA), ASCAP Plus Awards and Subito grants from the American Composers Forum, Los Angeles. Since 1994 he has taught at California State University, Los Angeles, where he was honored with an Outstanding Professor Award in 2013. For more information on his work, please visit www.johnmkennedy.net, or follow him on Twitter and Facebook.

Video of my good friend William Street performing my Smoke and Mirrors: Symbia II for solo alto saxophone at the World Saxophone Congress, St. Andrews, Scotland, July 2012. Bill is the ultimate expert on this piece and has performed the work on three continents. https://youtu.be/kuCmUPrqX10.
Office Location: MUS 236
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