TEACHING/RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Wellesley College
Tenured (1984) Chair (89-93); Foreign Language Director, Mellon Instructional Technology (97-00);
Director, Mellon Minority Fellowships (92- ); Co-Founder/Instructor, Summer Enrichment Program (88-93); Supervisor of Practice Teachers of World Languages, for state certification for Wellesley and Harvard
MIT Visiting Scholar, Center for Educational Computing Initiatives (CECI)
Harvard University Extension School Visiting Lecturer in Spanish & ESL
PRIZES/ AWARDS/ FELLOWSHIPS
1997 Distinguished Teaching Award, Harvard University Extension School
1994 Teacher of the Year Award, American Association of Teachers of Spanish & Portuguese
1994 Co-Recipient, Grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Program for Peace and International Cooperation
1993 Distinguished Service Award, Massachusetts Foreign Language Association
1991 Hall of Fame Inductee, Holyoke MA High School
1983 Pinanski Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Wellesley College
1981 Massachusetts Spanish Teacher of the Year, Spanish Heritage Society/MaFLA
1976 Graduate Study/Travel Prize for Teaching, Harvard University
1972 Radcliffe Institute Grant
1972 Mary Chase Hazen Graduate Fellowship, Mount Holyoke College
1969 Juan Centeno Summer Graduate Fellowship, Middlebury College
79-98 Various research and teaching grants from Wellesley College
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
AMERICAN COUNCIL ON THE TEACHING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES (ACTFL)Board of Directors (88-90)
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE (AATSP)
Massachusetts Bay Chapter Board of Directors (90--)
ARMENIAN INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION (AIWA)Past President
MASSACHUSETTS FOREIGN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION (MaFLA)Past President
MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION (MLA)
NORTHEAST CONFERENCE ON THE TEACHING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES (NEC)Past Chair
SINE NOMINE (BOSTON)Charter member
SPANISH CULTURAL ASSOCIATION (ACE)President/Co-Founder
COURSES TAUGHT AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE
101 Elementary Spanish; Wintersession Intensive Elementary Spanish
201 Intermediate Spanish
241 Oral and Written Communication
242 Linguistic and Literary Skills
252 Christians, Jews, and Moors: The Spirit of Spain in Its Literature
255 Chicano Literature
269 Caribbean Literature and Culture
305 Hispanic Literature in the United States
310 Seminar on Cuban Literature and Culture
350 Various Independent Studies in Spanish and Latin American Literature
ED 350X Mellon Minority Fellowship Seminar on Race, Gender and Class
ED 308 Seminar Principles & Problems in World Languages Methodology U.S. Dept. of Education Grant
2 Ford Foundation Grants for Honors Seminars/Multicultural Grant
Writing: Summer Enrichment Program for First-year Students
Writing 125 "Love and Death in Latin American Women Writers" (ESL sections/regular)
EDUCATION
Harvard University: ABD in Romance Languages and Literatures
Harvard University: AM in Romance Languages and Literatures
Mount Holyoke College: AB in Spanish Language and Literatures
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS / CD ROM'S / VIDEOS
Co-Author, Caminos del Jaguar, video Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1999.
Co-Author, Caminos Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1999.
Co-Author, Juntos CD-ROM, with colleagues from MIT. Englewood Cliff, NJ: Prentice Hall/Regents, 1997.
Co-Editor, Gabriela Mistral, Santiago, Chile: Editorial Una, 1997.
Author, Activity Guide for Mosáico Cultural Video. Boston: Heinle & Heinle, 1994.
Co-Editor, Album: Cuentos del mundo hispánico. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1993.
Co-Editor, Homenaje a Justina Ruiz de Conde. Erie, PA: ALDEEU, University of Penn.,1992.
Co-Editor, Studies in Honor of Maria Luisa Bombal:Tempe,AZ: Bilingual Review Press, 1987.
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