Department Affiliations

• Spanish & Portuguese

Specialties

• 18th-20th century peninsular literature
• 20th century Latin American literature
• Hispanic cultural studies
• shantytown cultural manifestation
• US Latino theatre
• women's studies
• contemporary Latin American theater
• Latin American popular music
• Human rights

Educational Background

• Ph.D.: Spanish and Portuguese: Literature and Theater, University of Texas, Austin, TX, 1984

Publications

• Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Spanish Poetry: Circa 1970-1990. The Edwin Mellen Press, 1997.
• A South American Trilogy: Osman Lins, Felisberto Hernandez and Luis Fernando Vidal. Studia Hispanica Editors, 1982.
• Washing the Cow's Skull: Contemporary Texas Poetry in Translation. Prickly Pear Press, 1981.
• The Newest Peruvian Poetry in Translation. Studia Hispanica Editors, 1979.
• Problemas del SIDA en el teatro latino de los EEUU. Textos Teatrales, 1997.
• VOCES DEL INTERIOR; NUEVA DRAMATURGIA PERUANA. Instituto Nacional de Cultura; Teatro Nacional del Peru, 2001.
• The State of Latino Theater in the United States: Hibridity, Transculturation, and Identity. Routledge, 2002.
• Obra teatrales de Maria Teresa Zúñiga. Instituto Nacional de Cultura: Teatro Nacional del Peru, 2004.
• NOTAS SOBRE TEATRO. Miguel Rubio, Yuyachkani Theatrical group, 2002.
• La Nave de la memoria: Cuatrotablas, 30 años de teatro peruano. Mario Delgado, Asociacion Cuatro Tablas, 2003.

Research Activities

• Digitalization of The Hugo Salazar del Alcazar Video Theater Collection, which gathers more than 350 performances by several theatrical groups in Peru:
• Jewish playwrights in Peru and the Jewish question: collecting, cataloging, and analyzing plays written by the relatively small Peruvian Jewish community writers, June 2004 - December 2005
• Political Prison Theater in Peru: rescuing, cataloging, and analyzing plays and political discourse written by Shining Path authors, December 2003 - December 2005
• U.S Latino Theater Political writing and producing: I will continue with this project which requires a search for U.S. Latino theatrical pieces and its influence in an emergent U.S. Hispanic population,

Creative Activities

• Theater Producer: Since 1995 I have produced a number of U.S. Latino and Latin American plays within the umbrella of THE STATE OF IBEROAMERICAN STUDIES SERIES, January 1995 - January 2006
• Ideologies and Literature: Scanning process of all Ideologies & Literature publications (an international journal in Spanish, Portuguese, English) in order to create a website, January 2002 - January 2008
• Human Rights and Theater: Organize symposia / theater festivals around Latino / Latin American issues, January 2002 - January 2010
• Editor, Publisher: Design book covers for, edit, and publish Latin American theater books,

Professional Activities

• Director of THE STATE OF IBEROAMERICAN STUDIES SERIES: this is an on-going symposium (eleven versions since 1995) which features top scholars from outstanding universities and international theater practicioners, 1995 - 2006
• Editorial Board Member of Hispanic Issues: Consultant, May 2005 - May 2006
• Co-Director of Ideologies and Literature: Promotes the publication of scholarly studies in the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian literatures and theater, May 2004 - May 2010
• Chair: Search Committee, Spanish and Portuguese Department Studies: Searching for tenure-track/tenured professor, September 2005 - April 2006

Outreach Activities

• Working with MOTIN-PERU: an international exchange program with an organization that represents 300 theatrical groups in Peru, 1995 - 2010
• Service Learning: working with the Teatro del Pueblo, a US Latino theater organization in Minneapolis-St. Paul, 2001 - 2006
• Organizer of the V Latino / Latin American Political Theater: Festival and Symposium around Latino / Latin American Women in Theater, February 2006 - March 2006

Awards

• President's Multicultural Research Award, University of Minnesota
• Peruvian National Poetry Award for Young Writers, 1968
• City of Austin Distinguished Citizen Award for establishing cultural links between Hispanic and anglo populations, 1978

Courses Taught

• Span 3653 - U.S. Latino Theater
• Span 3920 - Topics in Spanish-American Literature
• Span 3920H - Honors: Topics in Spanish-American Literature
• Span 3972V - Honors: Graduation Seminar
• Span 3972W - Graduation Seminar
• Span 5920 - Topics in Spanish-American Drama
• Span 5532 - Literature and National Disintegration
• Span 5529 - National Affirmation and Transnationalization
• Span 5528 - Popular Literary Conciousness: 1990-1950
• Span 5920 - Topics in Spanish-American Literature
• Span 5990 - Directed Research
• Spanish 8100 - Research in Sociohistorical Approaches to Spanish Literature