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Department of Modern Languages
Updated June 16, 2004
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PAPERS PRESENTED
By special invitation
“The ‘Pyramus and Thisbe’ Myth from Ovid to Shakespeare,” at Drake University, November 30, 1988.
As plenary speaker at a conference
“Translating Antonio Machado: Four versions of ‘En el entierro de un amigo,” International Symposium on Antonio Machado, College of Wooster (Wooster, Ohio), May, 1990.
As chairer of a conference session
Organized and chaired the session on “José Bergamín and the Generation of 1927” at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, April, 1991. Paper title: “A Bilingual Reading of the Poetry of José Bergamín.”
Organized and chaired the session on “Translating from Spanish” at the American Literary Translators Convention, Indiana University, 1981. Paper title: “Translating Vicente Aleixandre.”
As a conference participant
“The Spanish Immersion Program at Wright State University,” Ohio Foreign Language Association Conference, Columbus, Ohio, April 2002.
“Tres ‘Sonetos de repente’: Diego de Mendoza de Barros, Lope de Vega, José Bergamín” Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry (October 14, 2001).
“The Rhetorical Structure of Seguro azar by Pedro Salinas” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures, University of Kansas (October 5, 2001).
“Metas y actividades para el primer día del primer año,” Cuarto Congreso de Didáctica del Español, Indiana University/Purdue University Indianapolis, 1999.
“Practicalities of Business and Legal Translating and Interpreting,” Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Orlando, 1996.
“The Palinodes of Lope de Vega,” Conference of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, University of Houston, 1995.
“How to Organize and Teach a Course in Translation,” Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, San Diego, 1995.
“The ‘Mulata’ Episode in Góngora’s Fábula de Píramo y Tisbe,” Conference of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, Texas Tech University, 1993.
“English Translations of Lope de Vega’s ‘Soneto de repente,’” Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Phoenix, Arizona, 1993.
“‘Pyramus and Thisbe’ Parodied in Góngora and Shakespeare,” International Conference on Myth and Fantasy, West Georgia College, 1991.
“Pyramus and Thisbe in Ovid and Góngora,” Mid America Conference on Hispanic Literatures, University of Kansas, 1989.
“An Introduction to the Poetry of José Bergamín,” 20th Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, 1989.
“Góngora’s Parody of Ovide Moralisé in the Fábula de Píramo y Tisbe,” Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Tulane University, 1988.
“Tradition and the Individual Talent of José Bergamín: Esperando la mano de nieve,” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures, University of Kansas, 1985.
“‘Vida’ en la poesía de Vicente Aleixandre,” Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati, 1984.
“The Self-Consciousness of Góngora’s Fábula de Píramo y Tisbe,” Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati, 1983.
“A Bilingual Reading of Poetry by Vicente Aleixandre,” Conference on 20th Century Literature, University of Louisville, February 1982.
“The Significance of the Ballad, ‘La Constancia,’ in Don Quixote,” Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati, May 1981.
“Priest as Ironic Hero in Three Modern European Novels,” Conference on 20th Century Literature, University of Louisville, 1981. (Co-authored with Suzanne Kelly-Garrison).
“Rhetorical Strategy in the Poetry of Vicente Aleixandre,” Illinois Wesleyan Colloquium on Spanish Poetry of the Generation of 1927, Illinois Wesleyan University, 1980.
“Ballad as Code in Don Quixote,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, 1980.
“A Suggestion for Teaching the Chivalric Background of Don Quixote,” Buckeye Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Ohio Wesleyan University, 1979.