Administration & Staff

Danny J. Anderson

Education

1985	Ph.D., Spanish, Honors University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
1982	M.A., Spanish University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
1980	B.A., Liberal Arts, Honors in Spanish Robinson Valedictory Medal Austin College, Sherman, Texas

Administrative Appointments

2008	Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, University of Kansas
2006	Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Programs and Area Studies Centers, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Kansas
2000-05	Chair, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, University of Kansas
1998-99	Interim Director, Center of Latin American Studies, University of Kansas
1989-94	Associate Chair, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, University of Kansas

Academic Appointments

2003	Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, University of Kansas
1991-2003	Associate Professor with Tenure, Spanish & Portuguese, University of Kansas
1988-91	Assistant Professor, Spanish & Portuguese, University of Kansas
1985-88	Assistant Professor, Spanish & Portuguese, University of Texas—Austin

Fellowships

Spring 2000	University of Kansas Sabbatical Leave
Fall 1999	Hall Center for the Humanities Fellowship
1995-96	National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers ($30,000).
1989, 1992	University of Kansas General Research Fund Summer Award
1984-85	University Dissertation Fellowship, University of Kansas
1982-83	ITT International Fellowship for study at the Centro de Investigaciones Lingüístico-Literarias, Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.

Awards

2008	ING Award for Excellence in Teaching ($1,000)
2005	Golden Key International Honour Society, selected by students for honorary induction for “outstanding achievements in teaching,” inducted September 2, 2005
2004	University of Kansas W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence ($5,000)
2001	Center for Teaching Excellence Recognition for Graduate Education, selected by graduate students
1999	Cramer Award for Teaching and Research, Department of Spanish & Portuguese ($5,000)
1992	Cramer Award for Teaching and Research, Department of Spanish & Portuguese ($1,000)

Books

• Cultural Studies in the Curriculum: Teaching Latin America. Co-edited with Jill S. Kuhnheim. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2003.
• Vicente Leñero: The Novelist as Critic. University of Texas Studies in Contemporary Spanish American Fiction. New York: Peter Lang, 1989. [Reviewed in Modern Fiction Studies 37.2 (1991):280-83; Nuevo Texto Crítico 7 (1991):211-13; Siglo XX/20th Century 11 (1993):211-16; Romance Quarterly 40.2 (1993):117-18.]

Articles, Essays, and Chapters in Books

• “Misguided Idealism on a Mission of Mercy: Eleanore Wharton, U.S. Do-Gooder.” Reading the United States from Mexico. Eds. Mary K. Long and Linda Egan. Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, forthcoming 2009.
• “El futuro neoliberal y la utopía perdida en Lejos del Paraíso de Sandro Cohen.” Symposium 61.1 (2007): 27-42.
• “From Culture into Cultural Studies.” Co-authored with Jill S. Kuhnheim. Introduction to Danny J. Anderson and Jill S. Kuhnheim, eds., Cultural Studies in the Curriculum: Teaching Latin America. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2003. 1-16.
• “Teaching Business Spanish: The Critique of Imperialism.” In Danny J. Anderson and Jill S. Kuhnheim, eds., Cultural Studies in the Curriculum: Teaching Latin America. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2003. 123-41.
• “The Ghosts of Comala: Haunted Meaning in Pedro Páramo.” University of Texas Press. Published online in 2002 at http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/rulped-intro.html.
• “Aesthetic Criteria and the Literary Market in Mexico: The Changing Shape of Quality, 1982-1994.” The Effects of the Nation: Mexican Art in an Age of Globalization. Eds. Carl Good and John Waldron. Temple: Temple UP, 2001. 114-37.
• “The Novels of Jorge Volpi and the Possibility of Knowledge.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 33.1 (2000):1-20.
• “Cultural Studies and Hispanisms.” Siglo XX/20th Century 14 (1996): 5-13.
• “La frontera norte y el discurso de la identidad en la narrativa mexicana del siglo XX.” In Nuevas ideas/viejas creencias: La cultura mexicana hacia el siglo XXI. Ed. Margarita Alegría de la Colina et al. Mexico City: UAM, 1996. 127-50.
• “Creating Cultural Prestige: The Case of Editorial Joaquín Mortiz, 1962-1992.” Latin American Research Review 31.2 (1996):3-41.
• “Cultural Studies and Reading Culture in Twentieth-Century Mexico.” Indiana Journal of Hispanic Literatures 6-7 (1995):207-35.
• “Difficult Relations, Compromising Positions: Telling Involvement in Recent Mexican Narrative.” Chasqui 24.1 (1995):16-29.
• “Reading, Social Control, and the Mexican Soul in Al filo del agua.” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 11.1 (1995):45-73.
• “Profession and Position: Histories of the Spanish American Novel and the Academy in the United States.” Siglo XX/20th Century 12 (1994):47-68.
• “Retórica de la legitimidad: Las exigencias de la crónica en las ‘novelas sin ficción’ de Vicente Leñero.” La Palabra y el Hombre 84 (1992):63-80.
• “Subjetividad y lectura: Ideología de la técnica en El luto humano y el cambio narrativo a medio siglo.” Perfiles: Ensayos sobre literatura mexicana reciente. Ed. Federico Patán. Boulder, Colorado: Society for Spanish and Spanish American Studies, 1992. 113-25.
• “Cultural Conversation and Constructions of Reality: Mexican Narrative and Literary Theories after 1968.” Siglo XX/20th Century 8 (1990-1991):11-30.
• “Deconstruction: Critical Strategy/Strategic Criticism.” Contemporary Literary Theory. Eds. G. Douglas Atkins and Laura Morrow. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1988. 137-57.
• “Displacement: Strategies of Transformation in Arráncame la vida, by Angeles Mastretta,” The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 21.1 (1988):15-27.
  Reprinted in The Other Mirror: Women’s Narrative in Mexico, 1980-1995. Edited by Kristine Ibsen. Westport: Greenwood P, 1997. 13-27.
• “Creativity and Convention: The Antagonism of Los verdes de mayo hasta el mar,” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 21.1 (1987): 101-116.
• “La experiencia estética en Conversación en la Catedral: la persistencia de la memoria y de la conciencia histórica.” Revista Kórima 2 (1987):42-49.
• “Una aproximación a la metaficción: Tres casos distintos en la novela mexicana contemporánea,” Semiosis 7-8 (1981-82):123-140.

Contributions to Encyclopedias

• Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures. Eds. Daniel Balderston, Ana López, and Mike González. New York: Routledge, 2000. Entries for: Fondo de Cultura Económica, Joaquín Mortiz, la Onda, Vicente Leñero, Siglo XXI Editores, Julio Scherer García.
• Encyclopedia of Latin American History. Ed. Barbara A. Tenenbaum. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1995. Entries for: Ignacio Altamirano, Juan José Arreola, José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, Sergio Galindo, Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera, Mauricio Magdalena, Amado Nervo, Sergio Pitol, María Luisa Puga, José Rubén Romero, Rodolfo Usigli

Translations

• Mary Louise Pratt, “Estrategias interpretativas/interpretaciones estratégicas: Sobre la crítica del lector anglo-americana,” Semiosis 17 (1986):3-41.
• Teun A. van Dijk, “La descripción de la acción,” Semiosis 11 (1983):39-55.

Book Reviews

• Review of Race, Nation, and Market: Economic Culture in Porfirian Mexico, by Richard Weiner. Hispanic Review 74.1 (2006): 107-10.
• Review of Urban Leviathan: Mexico City in the Twentieth Century, by Diane E. Davis. Sociological Inquiry 66 (1996):232-35.
• “Toward a History of Postcolonial Reading.” Review Essay. College English 56 (1994):82-92.
• Review of Plotting Women: Gender and Representation in Mexico, by Jean Franco. Latin American Literary Review 36 (1990): 107-09.
• Review of Fundamentos y técnica del análisis literario, by Carlos Reis. Semiosis 10 (1983):173-74.

Radio Program

• “Trauma, Memory, and Healing in Latin American Literature,” show #145. What’s the Word, a weekly radio program sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America, produced by Sally Placksin. Released for satellite broadcast on NPR stations in Fall 2003. Available online at www.mla.org

Lectures, Keynote Addresses, and Invited Presentations

• “Tlatelolco: Cultural Memory and the Mexican Student Movement of 1968.” Guest lecture, Missouri Southern State University (30 August 2005).
• “Reading, Revolution, and Modernity in Mexico: The Meanings of Literacy.” Guest lecture, Missouri Southern State University (30 August 2005).
• “La narrativa mexicana y la globalización: el mercado y la nostalgia.” Guest lecture, Rice University, (19 April 2005).
• “Novela, neoliberalismo, y mercado: globalización y nostalgia en México.” Guest lecture, Texas State University, San Marcos. (24 February 2005).
• “Literary Reading and the Nation: Publics in Post-Revolutionary Mexico.” Interdisciplinary Faculty Workshop “Representing the Nation.” SUNY—Binghamton, New York (21 February 2003).
• “Reading and Modernity: Literate Imaginings during the Porfiriato, 1876-1911.” Guest lecture. Symposium on National Subjects and Discourses in Latin America’s Nineteenth Century. Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (20 April 1996)
• “From Literature and Society to the Social Critique of ‘Literature.’“ Keynote Address. Carolinas Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (24 February 1996)
• “Literary Prestige and Cultural Capital: Public and Private Histories of Editorial Joaquín Mortiz.” Lecture for Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas at Austin (12 September 1995)
• “La frontera norte y el discurso de la identidad en la narrativa mexicana del siglo XX.” Keynote Address. Congreso Internacional “Viejas Creencias, Nuevas Ideas.” Sponsored by the Universidad Autónoma de México, México, D.F. (13 July 1995)
• “La frontera norte en la narrativa mexicana del siglo veinte.” Encuentro: Cultura de la frontera México-Estados Unidos, co-sponsored by New Mexico State University, University of Texas--El Paso, Colegio de la Frontera Norte, and Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Las Cruces, New Mexico (3 March 1995)
• “Profession and Position: Histories of the Spanish American Novel and the Academy in the United States.” Twentieth Century Spanish and Spanish-American Literatures International Symposium, University of Colorado (19 November 1993)
• “Creating Cultural Prestige: Editorial Joaquín Mortiz and the Mexican Novel after 1962.” Guest Lecture. Michigan State University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (24 October 1993)
• “Difficult Positions, Compromising Positions: Telling Involvement in Recent Mexican Narrative.” The Novel of the Americas Symposium, University of Colorado (24 September 1992)
• “Retórica de la legitimidad: Las exigencias de la crónica en las ‘novelas sin ficción’ de Vicente Leñero.” Third Annual Congress of Mexicanists, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City (3 April 1991)
• “Avant-Garde Mexican Literature.” Panel Discussion with José Agustín, Juan Bruce-Novoa, Carlos Monsiváis, Elena Poniatowska, and Margarita Vargas, The Americas Society, New York (8 November 1990)
• “Cultural Conversation and Constructions of Reality in Recent Mexican Narrative.” Text and Context in Mexican Literature, Film and Theatre, Arizona State University (16 November 1989)

Conference Papers

• “El Universal Ilustrado y el campo cultural en México.” American Comparative Literature Association. Puebla, Mexico (20 April 2007).
• “A Mission of Mercy: Misguided Idealism in Enrique Serna’s “El desvalido Roger.” Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico (March 2006).
• “El final del neoliberalismo: la utopía perdida en Lejos del Paraíso de Sandro Cohen.” Latin American Studies Association, Las Vegas, Nevada (7 October 2004).
• “Comunidad y crisis en la narrativa mexicana de los 90: Volpi, Solares, y Toscana.” Special Session, Modern Language Association, San Diego, California, (28 December 2003).
• “El Universal Ilustrado and El Libro y el Pueblo: Literary Reading in Mexico, Cultural Legitimacy, and the Art of Living, 1917-1935.” Latin American Studies Association, Dallas, Texas (28 March 2003).
• “Del neoliberalismo a la novela del “crack”: el mercado de ficción en México, 1988-2000.” Latin American Studies Association, Washington, D.C. (4 September 2001)
• “Mexican Literary Studies in the Context of Border Studies.” Prepared response for a Special Session, Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C. (28 December 2000)
• “An Arithmetic of the Soul, the Sociology of Evil: Jorge Volpi’s En busca de Klingsor.” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison (23 September 2000)
• “The Rural School Teacher: Instruction, Indigenous Ethnicity, and the Nation in Post-Revolutionary Mexico.” Convergencias Hispánicas. SUNY-Buffalo, New York. (10 April 1999)
• “The Practice and Representation of Reading in Spain.” Prepared response for a Division Session, Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, Illinois (7 November 1997)
• “Reading and Gender Disturbance: Cultural History and the Mexican Revolution.” Special Session, Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C. (30 December 1996)
• “Disturbing Gender, Restoring Order: Sexuality and National Identity in Post-Revolutionary Mexico.” Division on Hispanic Literature and Literary Theory, Midwest Modern Language Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota (7 November 1996)
• “Antonieta Rivas Mercado (1900-1931): Reading and the Woman Intellectual in Mexico.” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, University of Nebraska, Lincoln (20 September 1996). Presented in Spanish to Latin American Studies Association, Guadalajara, Mexico (April 1997)
• “Cultural Studies, Reading, and the Academic Subject.” Division on Literary Theory and Hispanic Criticism, Midwestern Modern Language Association, St. Louis, Missouri (3 November 1995)
• “Imagining the Literate Nation: La negra Angustias and Education after the Mexican Revolution.” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures, University of Colorado, Boulder (13-14 October 1995)
• “Aesthetic Criteria and the Literary Market: From literatura light to literatura difícil, The Changing Shape of Quality, 1982-1994.” Closure and Disclosure: A Conference on Criticism and Aesthetics in Mexico. University of California, Irvine (15 April 1995)
• “La política de la representación en la literatura mexicana del siglo veinte.” Prepared response for a Special Session, Modern Language Association, San Diego (29 December 1994)
• “Cultural Studies and Reading Culture in Twentieth-Century Mexico.” Division on Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature, Modern Language Association, Toronto (28 December 1993)
• “Cultural Capital, Cultural Prestige: Editorial Joaquín Mortiz and the Contemporary Mexican Novel.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (24 April 1993)
• “Inventing Institutions, Creating Categories: Los de abajo, Critical Communities, and the ‘Novel of the Mexican Revolution.’“ Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, University of Colorado (5 October 1990)
• “Pedro Páramo and the Subject of Reading.” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, Washington University of St. Louis (28 October 1988)
• “At the Edge of Narrative Change: Reading (in) Al filo del agua.” University of Texas Colloquium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Romance Linguistics (10 October 1987)
• “Vicente Leñero: La novela como estrategia crítica.” Special Session, Modern Language Association, New York (28 December 1986)
• “Displacement: Strategies of Transformation in Arráncame la vida.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Denver (17 October 1986)
• “Risk and Responsibility: Detective, Readers, and the Postmodern in Vicente Leñero’s Los albañiles.” Departmental Lecture, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas (13 November 1985)
• “Martín Adán’s La casa de cartón: Meaning as Process and Risk.” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, University of Kansas (25 October 1985)
• “Thematic Coherence: The Magical Reality of João Guimarães Rosa’s ‘A Terceira Margem do Rio.’“ Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (26 April 1985)

Courses Taught by Topic

• Graduate courses and seminars: (1) Contemporary Spanish American Novel: Boom, Postboom, Postmodern, Globalization; (2) Literatures and the Contact Zones in Latin America (colonial to present); (3) The Novel of the Spanish American “Boom”; (4) Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel; (5) Spanish American Short Story; (6) Mexican Novel; (7) Mexican Literature and Cultural Studies; (8) Literary Theory
• Undergraduate classes: (1) Spanish through Service Learning—Representing Latino/a Experiences; (2) Ghosts, Mysteries, and National History in Latin American Literature since Independence; (3) Contemporary Short Story in Spanish America and Spain; (4) Negotiating Culture in Spanish America: Language and Culture for Business; (5) Contemporary Spanish American Novel; (6) Spanish American Literature: Colonial to Nineteenth Century; (7) Spanish American Literature: Modernism to Present; (8) Mexican Culture; (9) Advanced Grammar and Composition; (10) Intermediate Grammar and Composition; (11) Introduction to the Analysis of Hispanic Literatures/Textual Analysis and Close Reading; (12) Interdisciplinary Study of the Concept of Identity; (13) Mexican Literature; (14) Spanish language classes (all levels of basic language sequence)
• Supervision of multiple-section courses: (1) Introduction to the Analysis of Hispanic Literatures; (2) Intermediate Grammar and Composition; (3) Third-Semester Spanish Language

Dissertations Directed

• Fonseca, Alberto. “Cuando llovió dinero en Macondo: Literatura y narcontrÁfico en Columbia y Mexico,” University of Kansas, defended May 11, 2009
• Kanost, Laura. “Political Asylums: Locating Mental Illness in Latin American Literature (1980-2000).” University of Kansas, defended 17 April 2007.
• Fallon, Paul, “Borderline Tactics: Negotiations of Community, Subjectivity, Nation, and Agency in Temporal Representations in North Mexican Border Narratives.” University of Kansas, defended 14 May 2004.
• Bermúdez, Nayibe, “Sujetos (trans)nacionales: la negociación de la etnia, el género sexual y la clase social en cine y literatura de fines de siglo XX,” University of Kansas, 13 May 2004.
• Akrabova, Maria, “Scherezada en el espejo: Una aproximación pragmática a lo fantástico femenino,” University of Kansas, defended 26 February 2004
• Avellanet, Sheila, “The Discourse of Desire during Times of Crisis: A Study of Recent Mexican Novels,” co-directed with Michael Doudoroff, University of Kansas, defended 19 May 2003
• Rico, Alicia, “El elemento fantástico en la novela de hoy en México y en España,” co-directed with Robert C. Spires, University of Kansas, defended 24 February 2000
• Vásquez Mendoza, Jesús, “Entre la palabra y la imagen: Relaciones narrativas entre prosa y cine mexicanos,” University of Kansas, defended 3 September 1999
• Boyer, Charles G., “Romance and Revolution: Social Change and Desire in the Mexican Novel, 1955-1989,” University of Kansas, defended 24 May 1999
• Femenías, Claudia, “La novela chilena contemporánea: Un participante activo de la conversación cultural de la época (1986-1991).” University of Kansas, defended 24 November 1998
• Link, Scott A., “Other Voices: Argentine Narrative during the Military Process (1976-1983).” University of Kansas, defended 14 August 1998
• Rogers, Dan, “Cosmopolitanism Designs and Twentieth-Century Literary Culture: ‘Colección Los presentes’ and the Emergence of the Professional Writer.” University of Kansas, defended 5 September 1997
• González Abellás, Miguel Angel, “Jugando con estereotipos: los extranjeros y la identidad nacional en México y el área del Caribe hispano, 1978-1993.” University of Kansas, defended 2 May 1997
• Galindo, Jorge, “El mito del cine mexicano en la novela mexicana contemporánea, 1962-1992,” University of Kansas, defended 31 March 1997
• Winkler, Julie, “Light into Shadow: Marginalization and Alienation in the Works of Elena Garro,” University of Kansas, defended 19 December 1995
• Burdell, Linda, “The Ideology of Cultural Identity: Narrative Technique and Subjectivity in Contemporary Mexican Narrative (Rosario Castellanos, Elena Poniatowska, and María Luisa Puga),” University of Kansas, defended 17 October 1994
• López, Irma, “Historia, identidad y escritura: La novelística de María Luisa Puga,” University of Kansas, defended 15 April 1994
• Hanks, Jeffrey L., “Voices from the Edge: Marginalization in the Narrative Fiction of Isabel Allende,” University of Kansas, defended 2 November 1992

Dissertations Currently Directing

• Jenkins, David. “Mexico, Masculinity, and Moral Ambiguity: How Narratives of the Porfiriato Represent Maleness.”
• Moreno, José Antonio. “Escenas culturales del personaje intersticial en la novela y el cine en México”

Second or Third Reader on Dissertations Defended

• Cardone, Resha, ““Acting up and Carrying on: Women Writers of Chile, 1945-2006” (2006)
• Bayers, Leslie, “Voice, Visuality and Performance: Alternative Expression in Contemporary Peruvian Poetry” (2006)
• Michael L. Brown. “Dams, Doors, and Divans: Staging a National Narrative Therapy in Chile, Argentina, and Spain.” (2005)
• Adlung-Kellog, Kirsten. “A Question of Character: Narrative and Theatrical Subjects in the Works of Sabina Berman and Marco Antonio de la Parra.” (2005)
• Harpring, Mark. “The Bachelor at the Crossroads of Gender and Class in the Late Nineteenth-Century Spanish Novel.” (2004)
• Leone, Maryanne, “Borderland Identities and Contemporary Spanish Fiction.” (2003)
• Freire, María del Mar, “Viaje con nosotros: De la euforia cultural al desencanto político” (2002)
• Senio, Laura, “The Return Home: Experiences of Deterritorialization in Post-Pinochet Chilean Literature” (2002)
• Stevens, Camilla, “From the House to the Stage: Family and Identity in Contemporary Cuban and Puerto Rican Drama” (2000)
• Pereiro, Peregrina, “Alternativas éticas a la posmodernidad en la ficción española de los noventa” (1999)
• Carney, Terri M., “The Transitional Novels of Luis Goytisolo: Moving Beyond the Dictatorship through Literary Creation” (1998)
• Richardson, Nathan, “Postmodern Paletos: The City and the Country in the Narrative and Cinema of International Spain” (1998)
• Pujol, Salvador Anton, “Sexual Ambiguity in the Late Nineteenth-Century Spanish Novel” (1998)
• Hernández, Mark A., “Rewriting New World Historiography in Recent Mexican and Southern Cone Fiction” (1996)
• Chouciño Fernández, Ana, “Radicalizar e interrogar los límites: poesía mexicana 1970-1990” (1994)
• Medina, Manuel F., “El pasado en el present: La historia en la novela mexicana (1980-1993)” (1994)
• Richards, Judith C. (University of Kansas), “Revolting Developments: The Female Bildungsroman in Mexico,” (1994)
• Highfill, Juli, “The Allusive/Elusive Character in Three Modern Spanish Novels” (1993)
• García, José Manuel, “El humor en la novela mexicana, 1964-1989” (1991)

Theses and Honors Projects Supervised

• Drickey, Kirsten, “Agencia e identidad en la construcción de la comunidad mexicana en El informe secreto de Carlos Montemayor,” Senior Honors Project, University of Kansas, December 2000
• Martz, Adam. “La muerte de Artemio Cruz: Propaganda para una revolución cultural y literaria,” Senior Honors Project, University of Kansas, December 2000
• Melton, Paul. “Gender and Sexual Difference in the Selected Short Stories of Enrique Serna,” Senior Honors Project, University of Kansas, December 1997
• Jones, Lindsay, “Representations of Childhood in Selected Short Stories of Julio Cortázar,” Senior Honors Project, University of Kansas, May 1993
• Alan Hynds, “Testimonial Narrative in Three Mexican Novels of Tlatelolco,” M.A. Project, University of Texas at Austin, 1991
• Anderson, Jodee, “Time and Narrative Technique in Selected Short Stories by Elena Garro,” Senior Honors Project, University of Kansas, May 1989

University Service
University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas:
Department of Spanish and Portuguese

• Graduate Admissions in Spanish and Portuguese: 1989-94 (chair); 1994-95, 2000-01 (member)
• Graduate Studies in Spanish and Portuguese: 1991-92, 1996-97, 2001-02 (member)
• Undergraduate Studies in Spanish and Portuguese: 1996-97 (chair)
• Awards Committee: 2000-01 (member); 2004-05 (chair)
• Study Abroad Committee: 2005-06 (chair)
• Budget Committee: 2005-07 (member)
• Brazilian Portuguese Program Committee: 1996-98, 2000-05 (member)
• Faculty Advisor for GRASP (Graduate Association of Spanish and Portuguese): 1993-95
• Departmental Sabbatical Committee: 1991-92 (chair); 2000-05 (chair)
• Faculty Merit Review Committee: 1990, 1997, 1998 (member); 2001-2005 (chair)
• Undergraduate Major Assessment Committee: 1989-90 (member); 2001-02 (chair)
• Coordinator of Departmental Honors: 1988-89

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

• Hall Center Humanities Fellowship Selection Committee: December 2005
• Mentor for University Scholars Program
• Mentor for Dean’s Scholars Program
• Judicial Board on Academic Misconduct: 1994-96
• Hall Center Humanities Lecture Series Selection Committee: 1996-99
• Executive Committee of Center for Latin American Studies: 1994-95, 2000-02
• College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Budget Committee: Spring 1995; 2003-05

University of Kansas

• Chancellor’s Graduation Awards Selection Committee: 2003-05
• Faculty Council, University Governance: elected 1996-99
• Faculty Senate Committee on International Affairs: 1996-97 member; 1997-98 member and co-chair
• Graduate School Marshal for Doctoral Hooding Ceremony: 1991; 1994; 1997; 2002-2005
• Advisory Board to the University of Kansas Center for International Business and Research (CIBER), School of Business: 1999-2006
• Executive Committee, CIBER Advisory Board: 2001-2006

Professional Service

• Editor
  • Editor of the book series “Pan-American Literature in Translation” for the University of Texas Press, 2000-2006
  • Spanish American Editor for journal, Siglo XX/20th Century (University of Colorado--Boulder), 1992-1997
  • Editorial Board for book series “Teaching Languages, Literatures, and Cultures” for the Modern Language Association of America, 2005-2006
  • Editorial Board for book series “In Extenso,” published by the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, 2001-present
• Editorial Board or Publication Referee
  • Editorial Board or Contributing Editor: Siglo XX/20th Century, 1990-1992; Chasqui, 1991-present; Latin American Theatre Review, 1992-present; Journal of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies; Semiosis (Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico); Signos (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitano—Iztapalapa, Mexico City), 1999-present;
  • Referee for journals: Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos; Mosaicos; Latin American Research Review;; PMLA; Romance Languages Annual; Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies; Hispanic Review
  • Referee of book manuscripts for publishers: University of Texas Press; University of California Press; Bucknell University Press; Farleigh Dickinson University Press; University of Kansas Humanistic Studies
• Award Selection Panels and Advisory Committees
  • Co-chair of the Literature Track, Contemporary Period, Program Committee for the 2007 Convention of the Latin American Studies Association, held in Montreal, Canada.
  • Advisory Committee Member, Center for Southwest and Mexican Studies, Austin College, Sherman, Texas; joined Fall 2003.
  • U.S. Member for Literature Division, Binational Selection Committee, U.S./ Mexico Fund for Culture--Fideicomiso para la Cultura México/Estados Unidos. Monterrey, Mexico in July 1998; New York in July 1999
• Local Outreach Presentations and Activities
  • “Spanish Studies in the Twenty-First Century.” Osher Life Long Learning Institute, KU Continuing Education, March 3, 2005
  • “Passport to International Business: Establishing Relationships in Mexico,” Center for International Business Education and Research, Executive Training Program, University of Kansas—Edwards Campus, March 11, 2004.
  • Kansas City Latin American Film Festival, sponsored by Sociedad Hidalgo. Annual collaboration with organization, preparation of program notes, and leader for audience discussion. 1992-2007.
  • Country orientation for Lieutenant Governor’s Trade Mission to Mexico, Kansas Department of Commerce, Topeka, Kansas, May 7, 2001
  • Book-discussion leader for Kansas Humanities Council with visits to regional public libraries. 1996, 200
• Conferences and Events
  • Co-coordinator for the Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, hosted by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Kansas, October 4-6, 2001
  • Coordinator of outreach workshop teachers at regional secondary and post-secondary institutions, “The Environment: World Perspectives”; collaborative effort of four area studies centers at KU—African Studies Resource Center, Center for East Asian Studies, Center of Latin American Studies, and Center for Russian and East European Studies; February 18-19, 1999
  • Latin American Studies Job Search Workshop, co-coordinator of one-day workshop for B.A. and M.A. graduates in Latin American Studies at the University of Kansas, April 17, 1999
  • Presenter and co-organizer for Hall Center Faculty Development Seminar on “Analyzing Popular Culture,” February 1997
  • Co-coordinator for the Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, hosted by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Kansas, November 9-11, 1989
• Leadership Roles in National Professional Organizations
  • Modern Language Association, founding Executive Committee of Group for Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies, founded December 2003; elected to first Executive Committee for one-year term in 2004
  • Modern Language Association, Executive Committee of Division for Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature, elected for term 1992-1996
  • Modern Language Association, Representative to Delegate Assembly, selected by Executive Committee of the Division for Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature, term 2000-2002
  • Midwest Modern Language Association, Executive Committee of Division for Hispanic Literatures and Literary Theory, elected for term 1996-1999