CURRICULUM VITA (02/04/01)

Sandra M. Boschetto-Sandoval

Associate Professor of Spanish Language

and Latin American Studies

Department of Humanities

1400 Townsend Drive Home: 1003 Spruce

Houghton, MI 49931, USA Houghton, MI 49931

Phone: (906) 487-3241 USA

E-mail: smbosche@mtu.edu

Personal

Born in Caracas, Venezuela

US citizen, naturalized June 1967

Education

Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1979 (Romance Languages: Spanish, Italian, French)

M.A., Middlebury College, 1973 (Spanish Language and Literature)

B.A., Oregon State University (with highest scholarship), 1972 (Spanish)

Academic Experience

Associate Professor of Spanish Language and Latin American Literary Studies, MTU.

Associate Professor of Spanish, Humanities, MTU, 1987-1999

Assistant Professor of Spanish, Humanities, MTU, 1981-1987

Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish and Italian, 1976-1981, Lewis and Clark College

(Portland, Oregon)

Teaching Assistant, Spanish, 1974-1976, University of Oregon

Instructor of Spanish, 1973-74, Oregon State University

Teaching Assistant of English, 1972-73, Briam Institute, Madrid, Spain

Publications

BOOKS (co-edited)

Ciro A. Sandoval and Sandra M. Boschetto-Sandoval, Eds. José María Arguedas: Reconsiderations for Latin American Cultural Studies. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1998.

Sandra M. Boschetto-Sandoval and Marcia Phillips McGowan, Eds. Claribel Alegría and Central American Literature: Critical Essays. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1994.

ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS AND PUBLICATIONS

“The Modern Language Curriculum in a Technological University: A Nondepartmentalized Case Study” (co-authored with Marc Deneire and Ciro A. Sandoval) The Canadian Modern Language Review/La Revue Canadienne des Langues Vivantes 54.2 (January 1998): 147-171.

“The Monsters of Her Mind: Reading[Wise] in Amanda Labarca Hubertson’s ‘Defenseless’” College Literature 22.1 (February 1995) [Special Issue on Third World Women’s Inscriptions]: 119-130.

“A Nondepartmentalized Model for Intercultural Studies of Foreign Literature and Film,” (co-authored with Dieter Adolphs and Diane Shoos) ADFL Bulletin (Association of Departments of Foreign Languages) 22.3 (Spring 1991): 20-27.

“Romancing the Stone in Elena Garro’s Los recuerdos del porvenir.” M/MLA Journal (Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association) 22.2 (Fall 1989): 1-11.

“Dialéctica metatextual y sexual en La casa de los espíritus de Isabel Allende” HISPANIA (Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese) 72.3 (September 1989): 526-532.

“Female Scripts and Intertextual Traces in Manuel Puig’s Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages” LA CHISPA’86: Selected Proceedings of the Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literature, Seventh Annual Conference (1987): 73-85.

“Metaliterature and the Representation of Writing in Mario Vargas Llosa’s La señorita de Tacna” Discurso Literario 3.2 (Spring 1986): 337-347.

“El texto matriarcal y la fatalidad del cronista en Crónica de una meurte anunciada” SELECTA: A Journal of the Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languges 5 (1984): 103-109.

“La inversión de la figura femenina en ‘El güero’ de José Donoso” Crítica Hispánica 6.1 (1984):1-10.

“El canto de las sirenas: aproximaciones al mundo femenino en algunos relatos de Juan Carlos Onetti” Explicación de textos literarios 7.2 (1983-1984):3-18.

“La inversión como aproximación al mundo femenino en algunos relatos de José Donoso” HISPANIA (Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese) 66.4 (December 1983): 532-541.

“Author-Character Dialogue Confrontation as Collusion Metaphor in Miguel de Unamuno’s Niebla” SELECTA: A Journal of the Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages 2 (1981): 107-111.

“Luigi Pirandello: ‘La tragedia di un personaggio’ and the Genesis of Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore” Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages. Selected Proceedings 30, Part I (1979): 87-90.

“Azorín and Author-Character Dialogue Confrontation: The Dialectics of Narcissism” Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages. Selected Proceedings 29, Part I (1978): 155-159.

BOOK CHAPTERS/ARTICLES

“(En)Gendering Cultural Formations: The Crossings of Amanda Labarca Hubertson between Chile and the United States.” In Strange Pilgrimages: Exile, Travel, and National Identity in Latin America, 1800-1990s. Ingrid E. Fey and Karen Racine, Eds. Wilmington, DE: A Scholarly Resources, Inc., 2000, pp. 113-128.

“José María Arguedas’s El Sexto: The Gestation of an Andean Paradigm of Cultural Revindication.” In José María Arguedas: Reconsiderations for Latin American Cultural Studies. Ciro A. Sandoval and Sandra M. Boschetto-Sandoval, eds. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1998, pp. 138-166.

“The Self-Constructing Heroine: Amanda Labarca’s Reflections at Dawn.” In Reinterpreting the Spanish American Essay: Women Writers of the 19^th and 20^th Centuries. Edited by Doris Meyer. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995, pp. 90-101; “Amanda Labarca Hubertson” in Rereading the Spanish American Essay: Translations of 19^th and 20^th Century Women’s Essays. Edited by Doris Meyer. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995, pp. 135-137 [companion volumes].

“Quasi-Testimonial Voices in Claribel Alegría’s Luisa in Realityland: A Feminist Reading Lesson.” In Claribel Alegría and Central American Literature: Critical Essays. Eds. Sandra M. Boschetto-Sandoval and Marcia Phillips McGowan. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1994, pp. 97-110.

“One Hundred Years of Solitude in Interdisciplinary Courses.” In Aporoaches to Teaching García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. Eds. Maria Elena de Valdés and Mario J. Valdés (New York: Modern Language Association, 1990), pp. 57-68.

“Threads, Connections and the Fairy Tale: Reading the Writing in Isabel Allende’s La casa de los espíritus.” In Continental, Latin-American and Francophone Women Writers, Volume II (Selected Papers from the Wichita State University Conference on Foreign Literature, 1986-1987). Eds. Ginette Adamson and Eunice Myers (New York: University Press of America, 1990, pp. 51-63.

“On the Margins of Self-Conscious Discourse: Reading and Writing as Conversation in Mario Vargas Llosa’s La señorita de Tacna.” In Things done With Words: Speech Acts in Hispanic Drama. Ed. Elias Rivers (Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 1986), pp. 127-145.

“The Demythification of Matriarchy and Image of Women in Chronicle of a Death Foretold.” In Critical Perspectives on Gabriel García Márquez. Eds. Bradley A. Shaw and Nora Vera-Godwin University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies, 1986, pp. 125-137.

BOOK REVIEWS

Hart, Patricia. Narrative Magic in the Fiction of Isabel Allende. London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1989. 196 pp. in HISPANIA 75 (May, 1992): 336-37.

Cypress, Sandra Messinger, David R. Kohut, and Rachelle Moore, editors. Women Authors of Modern Hispanic South Ameica: A Bibliography of Literary Criticism and Interpretation. Metuchen, New Jersey & London: The Scarecrow Press, 1989. 156 pp. in HISPANIA 74 (December 1991): 902-03.

“Smitizzazione e utopia in un romanzo di Giorgio Saviane” Quaderni d’Italianistica (Journal of the Canadian Society for Italian Studies) 3.1 (1982): 78-85.

“Silence as an Element of Dialogue in Claude Mauriac’s L’Agrandissement” International Fiction Review 7.1 (1980):35-38.

PUBLISHED TRANSLATIONS

Antonio Melis. “Foreword.” In José María Arguedas: Reconsiderations for Latin American Cultural Studies. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1998, ix-xvii [Translated by Ciro A. Sandoval and Sandra M. Boschetto-Sandoval].

“What is the Infinitesimal Innovator International.” In Qu’est-ce que L’internationale Novatrice Infinitesimale by Laura Aga-Rossi (Paris: Centre International Creation Kladologique, 1981): 9-11.

“A Letter,” translation of Roberto Reyes Tarazona’s “La Carta” in Between Fire and Love: Contemporary Peruvian Writing. Ed. Lynn A. Darroch. Portland, Oregon: Mississippi Mud, 1980, pp. 101-105.

REVIEW ABSTRACTS

“Claribel Alegría” and “Claude Mauriac” [separate entries] for Contemporary World Writers. Detroit: St. James Press [a division of Gale Research International Ltd., London], 1993, pps. 14-16 and 349-351.

“Foreign Students and the Tutoring Practicum: Intercultural Literacy for Students of Language and Culture Beyond the Classroom” Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), ED 248 686 (1983), 41 pages.

Professional Activities

NATIONAL PANEL

Reviewer/Panelist for the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Research and Education: “Teaching with Technology: A Special Opportunity,” Washington, D. C., May 28-29, 1996

CHAIRED PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCE SESSIONS

Chaired session on “Issues in Education and Religion” for the XXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, September 24-26, 1998 in Chicago, Illinois.

Developed and coordinated the first session on “Testimony and Crisis Writing: The ‘Fiction of Claribel Alegría” for the 31^st Annual Meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association in Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 2-4, 1989.

“Practical Models for Intercultural Literacy: The Classroom and Beyond,” at the Joint Conference of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and the National Council for the Social Studies, San Francisco, California, November 24-26, 1983.

PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES

“Amanda Labarca and the Self Conscious Fairy Tale: Literary Longings and the Unraveling of Women’s Essential Predicaments.” At the XXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Washington, D. C. September 6-8, 2001.

“A View from the Fringe: The Meditaciones of Amanda Labarca Hubertson (Chile 1886-1975),” at the Forty-First Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 4-6, 1999.

“The Pedagogical Reformism of Amanda Labarca Hubertson (Chile 1886-1975): Progressive Pragmatism Revisited” at the XXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, September 24-26, 1998 in Chicago, Illinois.

“(En)Gendering Cultural Formations: The ‘Foreign’ Example of Amanda Labarca Hubertson (Chile 1886-1975)” at the 38^th Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 7-9, 1996.

(with Ciro A. Sandoval) “Alternativas poético-ideológicas en El Sexto de José María Arguedas: paradigmas andinos de redención cultural” at the Second International Conference on andean Latin American Literature (Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana), National University of Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina, August 10-15, 1995.

“Amanda Labarca Hubertson’s Vision of a New Land (“In Foreign Lands”): (En)Gendering the National community” at the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies held in Toronto, Canada, October 12-16, 1994.

“The Monsters of Her Mind: Reading Other(Wise) in Amanda Labarca Hubertson’s ‘Indefensa’” at the XVIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia, March 9-12, 1994.

“Amanda Labarca’s Reflections at Dawn: To Thine Own Self Be True” at the XVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Los Angeles, California, September 24-27, 1992.

“Mujer y Poesía Prisionera(s): Resistencias Disonantes” at the Ninth annual Wichita State University Conference on Foreign Literature, Wichita, Kansas, April 9-11, 1992.

“Quasi Testimonial Voices in Claribel Alegría’s Luisa in Realityland: A Feminist Reading Lesson” for the Mid-American Conference on Hispanic Literature, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, October 3-5, 1991.

“Is There a Banana in This Class?: The Challenges of Teaching One Hundred Years of Solitude from an Interdisciplinary Perspective” for the session on Theory and Practice of Teaching One Hundred Years of Solitude at the Modern Language Association Annual Convention, December 27-30, 1990 in Chicago.

“The ransom of Isabel Moncada: ‘Apparent’ Liberation in Elena Garro’s Los recuerdos del porvenir” at the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis, Missouri, November 3-5, 1988.

“Entre ser y parecer: La mujer como texto en Los recuerdos del porvenir de Elena Garro” at the Ninth Annual Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge), February 11-13, 1988.

“Threads, Connections, and the Fairy Tale: Reading the Writing in Isabel Allende’s La casa de los espíritus,” at the Fourth Annual Wichita State University Conference on Foreign Literature, Wichita, Kansas, April 9-11, 1987.

“La figura de la página blanca en La casa de los espíritus de Isabel Allende,” at the Eighth Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 26-28, 1987.

“Female Scripts and Intertextual Traces in Manuel Puig’s Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages,” at the Seventh Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Louisiana State University and Tulane University, February 6-8, 1986.

“Dialogic Imagination and Colloquial Writing in Manuel Puig’s Eternal Curse on The Reader of These Pages,” at the 23^rd annual Twentieth-Century Conference in Modern Literature: the Politics of Experience, Michigan State University, October 3-5, 1985.

“On the Margins of Self-Conscious Discourse: Reading and Writing as Conversation in Mario Vargas Llosa’s La señorita de Tacna,” at the Thirteenth Annual Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, sponsored by the University of Louisville, Kentucky, February 20-22, 1985.

“Metaliterature and the Representation of Writing in Mario Vargas Llosa’s La señorita de Tacna,” at the Sixth Annual Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Tulane University and Louisiana State University, February 14-16, 1985.

“El texto matriarcal y la fatalidad del cronista en Crónica de una muerte anunciada,” at the 35^th Annual Conference of the Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, May 10-13, 1984.

“La desmitificación del matriarcado y la imagen de la mujer en Crónica de una muerte anunciada,” at the International Symposium on Gabriel García Márquez, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, april 12-14, 1984.

“El canto de la sirena: aproximación al mundo femenino en un relato de Juan Carlos Onetti,” at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, April 21-23, 1983.

“El canto de la sirena en dos relatos de Juan Carlos Onetti,” at the Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures (LA CHISPA), Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 10-12, 1983.

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“Poetic Writing as an Aid to Conceptual Learning in the Foreign Language Classroom,” at the First annual Intellectual Skills Development Conference, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, November 19-20, 1982.

“Dos relatos de José Donoso: Aproximación a su mundo femenino,” at the 32^nd annual Pacific Northwest Conference on Foreign Languages: Languages in the 80s: Facing the Challenges, University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), May 6-8, 1982.

“La inversión de la figura femenina en ‘El güero’ de José Donoso,” at the Contemporary Literature of the Americas Conference (The Writer’s World), Universidad Interamericana Recinto Metropolitano, San Juan, Puerto Rico, February 24-26, 1982.

“Luigi Pirandello: ‘La tragedia di un personaggio’ and the Genesis of Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore,” at the 30^th Annual Conference of the Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, April 19-21, 1979.

“Azorín and Author-Character Dialogue Confrontation: The Dialectics of Narcissism,” at the 29^th Annual Conference of the Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages, Portland, Oregon, April 20-22, 1978.

WORKSHOPS/INSTITUTES/COLLOQUIA ATTENDED

4^th Annual Colloquium on International Engineering Education: Educating Engineers in the Age of Globalization. Pre-Conference Workshop: Teaching Foreign Languages to Engineering Students. (University of Rhode Island), Providence, Rhode Island, October 31-November 4, 2001.

Foreign Language Literacies: New Perspectives on Reading. A Conference sponsored by the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (Yale University) and the Center for Language Studies, Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island), October 27-29, 2000.

Perspectives: A Workshop on Teaching Inquiry. John Trimbur (WPI), Guest Presenter. Michigan Technological University, February 24-25, 2000.

“Transformations: Technology, Foreign Languages, and Undergraduate Education.” The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (Yale University) and the Section on Foreign Languages and Literatures (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), October 23-25, 1998, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

III Working Session of the International OMETECA Institute (Science and Humanities). Held at the University of Costa Rica in San Ramón, Costa Rica, July 20-24, 1994.

Grants and Awards

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES

$226,968. NEH. Central Disciplines in Undergraduate Education, Promoting Excellence in a Field, in support of project “Strengthening Foreign Language and Intercultural Study at Michigan Technological University” (1987-1990). Author and Project Director.

$4,216. NEH. Central Disciplines in Undergraduate Education, Promoting Excellence in a Field, in support of project “Request for Consultant Assistance: Program Evaluation in

Foreign Language at Michigan Technological University” (1985-86). Author and Project Director.

$3,200. NEH. Research Stipend Award. Participant in Summer Seminar for College Teachers: “Hispanic Drama: Social Contracts and Speech Acts,” directed by Professor Elias Rivers, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York, June 18-august 9, 1984.

$2,500. NEH. Research Stipend Award. Participant in Summer Seminar for College Teachers: “The Spanish American Short Story in the Twentieth Century,” directed by Professor Enrique Pupo-Walker, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, June 15-August 7, 1981.

U.S. DEPT OF EDUCATION

U.S. Department of Education (Fulbright Commission) six-week study/travel grant to participate in “Seminar for Teachers of Italian” (Summer 1980).

MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

$2,500. MTU Faculty Scholarship Grant toward completion of book manuscript on Amanda Labarca Hubertson (copyediting expenses for “The Writings of Amanda Labarca”), January 2001.

$3,000. MTU Faculty Scholarship Grant toward completion of book manuscript on Amanda Labarca Hubertson (to cover expenses for travel to Chile), January 1998.

$1,500. MTU Faculty Development Grant. Creation of a computer-assisted writing-intensive wing for HU293: Second Year Spanish Language and Culture. With Magdalen Mayer (Teaching Assistant in RTC Program). November 1997 (for Spring 1998).

$1,650. MTU Committee for Campus Enrichment ($1,000) and Faculty Development ($650) to support visit by Central American poet and author, Claribel Alegría and Darwin Flakoll, “Ashes of Izalco: The Crisis Testimony of a Central American Writer,” October 16-17, 1989.

$1,000. MTU Committee for Campus Enrichment ($500) and Faculty Development ($500), to support visit by Dr. Rose Hayden, Executive Director of the National Council

on Foreign Language and International Studies, during Foreign Language Week, April 1986.

$1,000. MTU Committee for Campus Enrichment to support visit by then Representative Paul Simon (Democrat, Illinois) during Foreign Language Week, April 1983.

Courses Taught/Developed**

GRADUATE COURSES:

The Rhetoric of Difference/Alterity (Spring 2003)

Miniseminar: Third World Feminisms**

Seminar on Gender and Feminism

Seminar in Literary Studies

Advanced Intercultural Communication

Translation, Culture, and Discourse Theory**

Advanced Seminar on Foreign Language Literature and Film**

Literature in Translation

Contemporary Latin American Literature: Intercultural Perspectives

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES:

Beginning Spanish Language and Culture

Intermediate Spanish Language and Culture

Intermediate Spanish Language, Culture and Literature

Advanced Spanish Composition and Conversation

Topics in Hispanic Literature

Special Topics in Hispanic Literature (Cervantes’ Don Quixote)**

Latin American Literature in Translation

Literature in Translation (Third World)

Intercultural Communication

Advanced Seminars in Foreign Literature and Film** (“Technology in

Literature,” “Language and Power,” “The Individual and Society”)

Perspectives on Inquiry (General Education Requirement for First-Year Students)

GRADUATE STUDENTS ADVISED:

Rhetoric and Technical Communication Program, Department of Humanities:

Margarita Ford (Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Chair) “Technologies of the Self:

Autogynography in Context” [defended with distinction May 16, 1996]

Martine Danon (Ph.D. Dissertation Committee) “From Nationalism to

Globalization: France’s Challenges to Hollywood’s Hegemony” [defended

January 18, 1994]

Jeannie Patrick (M.S. Thesis Committee Chair) “Crossing the Border: Mexican

Women in Film” [defended May 14, 1996]

Saralinda Blanning (M.S. Thesis Committee Chair) “From a Multicultural

Perspective To Diacultural Perspectives: Reconceptualizing Multicultural

Pedagogies” [defendedwith distinction, Spring 1994]

Denise Heikinen (M.S. Thesis Committee Chair) “Of Milan Kundera’s

Rhetorically Constituted Reality: Bakhtin and a Rhetoric of Questions”

[defended with distinction, Spring 1993]

Jeani Marie Behr Bragg (M.S. Project Committee Chair) “Successful Negotiation

within the Contact Zone: Curriculum for Predeparture, Reentry, and

Acculturation at Michigan Technological University” [defended Fall

1992]

Lin Morgenstern (M.S. Project Committee Chair) “Video as Resistance Narrative:

Renegotiations of Hegemony in Lotty Rosenfeld’s ‘Una Milla de Cruces

Sobre el Pavimento’ [A Mile of Crosses on the Pavement]—1979-1990”

[defended Spring 1992]

Service

UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES

University Sabbatical Leave Committee (1999-to present)

Committee for Campus Enrichment (1984-87)

DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEES

Ad Hoc Modern Language Review Committee (2000-2001)

Grievance Committee (1997-98, Fall 1998)

French Search Committee (1999-2000)

Scientific and Technical Communication Search Committee (1994-95, 1996-97)

Director, Modern Languages and Literatures Program (1994-1995)

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Director, Foreign Language Program (1991-1993)

Humanities Steering Committee (1991-93, 1994-95, 1996-97)

Humanities Department Graduate Committee (1991-1994)

Departmental Promotion and Tenure Committee (elected), (1988-89, 1990-91, 1992-94,

1997-98, Fall 1998, 1999-2001)

Next-in-charge (Assistant to Department Head), June 27-July 7, 1988.

Coordinator, Foreign Language Section (1982-1987)

Departmental Executive Committee (1982-1987)

Chair, Foreign Language Search Committees (1986-87, 1987-88)

Current Professional Memberships

LASA (Latin American Studies Association)

MLA (Modern Language Association)

CALACS (Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies)

IILI (Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana)

M/MLA (Midwest Modern Language Association)

ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment)

SUS (Society for Utopian Studies)

AAUP (American Association of University Professors)