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WENDY B. FARIS
English Department
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, Texas 76019
817: 272-2692 or 272-2389
Education
1967 B.A. Stanford University
Field: Spanish Literature
1970 M.A. Harvard University
Field: Comparative Literature
1975 Ph.D. Harvard University
Field: Comparative Literature
Fellowships and Awards
1965 Stanford Junior Year Honors Grant, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1967 Phi Beta Kappa, Stanford University
1967-68 Fulbright Fellowship, University of Toulouse, France
1969-71 NDEA Title IV Fellowship, Harvard University
1971-72 Fulbright Advanced Teaching Fellowship, University of Paris-X,
Nanterre, France
1978-79 Organized Research Grant, University of Texas at Dallas
1979 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend;
Project: "A Literary Odyssey: The Influence of Joyce's Ulysses on
Recent Latin American Fiction"
1981 NEH Summer Seminar: "Literary Townscape: Images of the City in
19th and 20th Century English Literature"; Johns Hopkins University
1982-83 Crawshaw Chair of Literature, Colgate University
1984 NEH Summer Seminar: "The Relations between Literature and Painting";
University of Pennsylvania
1985 American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant to the International
Comparative Literature Association in Paris
1986-87 NEH Fellowship
1988 Summer Research Grant, University of Texas at Arlington
1991 Faculty Development Leave (Spring semester), University of Texas at Arlington
1994-95 Robert O. Schulz Chair for Interdisciplinary Studies,
University of Northern Colorado
2002 Faculty Development Leave, University of Texas at Arlington
Principal Publications
Books:
Carlos Fuentes. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1983.
Labyrinths of Language: Symbolic Landscape and Narrative
Design in Modern Fiction. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1988.
Ordinary Enchantments: Magical Realism and the Remystification of Narrative.
Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2004.
Edited, with Lois Parkinson Zamora, Magical Realism: Theory,
History, Community. Durham: Duke University Press,
1995.
Articles:
"'Laberintos, retruecanos, emblemas': Borges' Dissatisfaction
with Labyrinths." Studies in Short Fiction, 12 (1975),
351-60.
"Butor and Barth in the Labyrinth." The French-American
Review, 3 (1978-79), 23-39.
"Alejo Carpentier a la recherche du temps perdu." Comparative
Literature Studies, 17 (1980), 133-54.
"The Poetics of Marriage: Language of Flowers and Gutter
Speech in Joyce's Letters to Nora." CEA Critic, 43, i
(1980), 9-14.
"El arpa y la sombra by Alejo Carpentier: Prima della
rivoluzione." Revista/Review Interamericana, 10, ii
(1981), 200-204.
"'Desyoizacion': Joyce/Cixous/Fuentes and the Multi-Vocal
Text." Latin American Literary Review, 19 (1981), 31-39.
"The Labyrinth: A Symbolic Structure in Modern Fiction." In
Evolution of the Modern Novel: Proceedings of the IX
Congress of the International Comparative Literature
Association, Vol. IV. Eva Kushner and Bela Kopeczi, eds.
1982. 249-253.
"1001 Words: Fiction Against Death" (On The Thousand and One
Nights, Proust, Borges, Barth, and Nabokov). Georgia
Review, 36, iv (1982), 811-30.
"Ulysses in Mexico: Carlos Fuentes." Comparative Literature
Studies, 19, ii (1982), 236-53. (James Joyce Centennial
Issue, ed. Bernard Benstock.)
"Pasos Perdidos, Temps Perdu: Carpentier and Proust." Journal
of Romance Literary Relations, (1982), 20-31.
"The Poetics of Pleasure: Expansive Images in Swann's Way."
Kentucky Romance Quarterly, 30, iv (1983), 359-72.
"The Return of the Past: Chiasmus in the Texts of Carlos
Fuentes." World Literature Today, 57, iv (1983), 578-84
(Special Carlos Fuentes Issue).
"The Squirrel's Heart Beat and the Death of a Moth." In
Virginia Woolf: Centennial Essays. Ed. Elaine Ginsberg
and Laura Gottlieb. Troy, NY: Whitston Publishing Co.,
1983. 81-91.
"Magic and Violence in Macondo and San Lorenzo." Latin
American Literary Review, 13 (1985) (Special Issue on
Gabriel Garcia Marquez).
"Cities and Towns: The Development of a Collective Voice."
Proceedings of the X Congress of the International
Comparative Literature Association, Vol. III: Inter-
American Literary Relations, ed. Mario J. Valdes. New
York: Garland Publishing Company, 1985, 3-13.
"' Proustitucion'?: Una familia lejana de Carlos Fuentes."
In De la cronica a la nueva narrativa mexicana: Coloquio
sobre literatura mexicana. Eds. Merlin H. Forster and
Julio Ortega. Mexico City: Editorial Oasis, 1986.
369-82.
"'Without Sin and With Pleasure': The Erotic Dimensions of
Fuentes' Fiction." Novel, 20, i (1986), 62-77.
"Desire and Power, Love and Revolution: Fuentes and Kundera."
The Review of Contemporary Fiction. 8, ii (1988), 273-
84.
"Labyrinth" in the Dictionary of Literary Themes and Motifs,
ed. Jean-Charles Seigneuret. New York: Greenwood
Press, 1988. Vol. 2, 691-97.
"The 'Dehumanization' of the Arts: J. M. W. Turner, Joseph
Conrad, and the Advent of Modernism." Comparative
Literature, 41, iv (1989), 305-326.
"Marking Space, Charting Time: Text and Territory in
Faulkner's "The Bear" and Carpentier's The Lost Steps."
Do the Americas Have a Common Literature? Ed. Gustavo
Perez Firmat. Durham: Duke University Press, 1990.
243-265.
"Writing in/of/on the New World: Metafictional Dimensions of
Land Use in North and South American Fiction."
Proceedings of the XII Congress of the International
Comparative Literature Association, Roger Bauer, Douwe
Fokkema, eds. Volume 2: Space and Boundaries. Iudicum,
1990. 151-58.
"The Labyrinth: Sign of City, Text, and Thought." City
Images: Perspectives from Literature, Philosophy, and
Film, ed. Mary Ann Caws. Gordon and Breach, 1991.
33-41.
"Devastation and Replenishment: New World Narratives of Love
and Nature." Studies in the Humanities, 19, ii (1992),
171-182.
"Love in the Times of Proust and Garcia Marquez." (Special
volume on Love, Sex, and Eroticism in Contemporary Latin
American Literature, ed. Alun Kenwood. Madrid and
Melbourne: Voz Hispanica, 1992, 129-42.
"Life Lines: Ribbons On and Off the Page." Confluencia:
Revista Hispanica de Cultura y Literatura, 10, ii (1995),
3-10.
"Scheherazade's Children: Magical Realism and Postmodern
Fiction." In Zamora and Faris, eds. Magical Realism:
Theory, History, Community. Durham: Duke University
Press, 1995.
"Daiquiri Birds and Flaubertian Parrot(ie)s" (introduction to
above collection, with Lois Zamora).
"Gold and Citron: The Exotic Primitivisms of Baudelaire and
Gauguin, Gide and Matisse." Proceedings of the XIII
Congress of the International Comparative Literature
Association, Ziva Ben-Porat and Hana Wirth-Nesher, eds.
The Force of Vision, Volume 1: Dramas of Desire.
Roseann Runte and Hans R. Runte, eds., 420-25. Tokyo,
Japan, n.d. (very late publication of 1991 congress).
"Andre Gide's Theseus," in Short Story Criticism, ed. (New
York: Gale Research Inc, 1994), 111-14 (rptd. from chapter
6 of my Labyrinths of Language).
"Imaginary Visual Memories: Francoise Sagan Prewrites Fernando
Botero." In Manfred Schmeling and Monika Schmitz-Emans, eds.,
Das visuelle Gedachtnis der Literatur. Wurzburg:
Konigshausen & Neumann, 1999, 178-87.
"The Primitivist Construction of Identity in the Works of Frida Kahlo."
In Primitivist Constructions of Identity in Latin America.
Ed. Erik Camayd-Freixas and Jose Eduardo Gonzalez. Tucson:
University of Arizona Press, 2000, 221-40.
"Larger than Life: The Hyperbolic Realities of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
and Fernando Botero." Word & Image, 17, iv (2001), 339-59.
"The Question of the Other: Cultural Critiques of Magical Realism."
Janus Head, 5, ii (2002), 101-119.
"Southern Economies of Excess: Narrative Expenditure in Faulkner and Fuentes."
In Look Away, eds. Deborah Cohen and Jonathan Smith. Duke University Press,
2004, 333-54.
"Portia as Primavera: Cultural Memory in The Death of the Heart"
Poligrafias, 4 (2003), 179-94.
Translations:
"Magical Realism: Postexpressionism. by Franz Roh. In Faris
and Zamora, eds. Magical Realism: Theory, History,
Community. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.
"Magical Realism in Spanish American Fiction" by Luis Leal.
Ibid.
Bibliography
Bibliography on magical realism, to accompany the above
volume.
Reviews and Notes
"Alejo Carpentier, Reasons of State" (review). Translation
Review, No. 1 (1978), 31-35.
"The Poetics of Pleasure: Expansive Images in Swann's Way"
(abstract of paper given at the 1977 MLA Convention).
Proust Research Association Newsletter, 19 (1978), 20-22.
"Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Sand" (review). Translation
Review, No. 3 (1979), 26-33.
"Painted Waves" (note). Virginia Woolf Miscellany, No. 12
(1979), 5-6.
"Margaret Mein, A Foretaste of Proust: A Study of Proust and
His Predecessors" (review). Comparative Literature, 31
(1979), 316-18.
"Joint Meeting of the American Comparative Literature
Association and the Canadian Comparative Literature
Association, Montreal, 1978" (conference report).
Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, 28
(1979), 89-90.
"Carlos Fuentes, Burnt Water" (review essay). Review: Latin
American Literature and Arts, No. 29 (1981), 80-82.
"Ana Maria Hernandez del Castillo, Keats, Poe, and the Shaping
of Cortazar's Mythopoesis" (review). Comparative
Literature, 36, iii (1984), 285-87.
"Yulan M. Washburn, Juan Jose Arreola" (review). World
Literature Today (Winter 1985).
"Emil Volek, Cuatro claves para la modernidad: Analisis
semiotico de textos hispanicos" (Aleixandre, Borges,
Carpentier, Cabrera Infante) (review). World Literature
Today (Spring, 1985).
"Sergio Galindo. Los dos angeles" (review). _World
Literature Today (Autumn 1985).
"Alfredo Bryce Echenique. El hombre que hablaba de Octavia de
Cadiz" (review). World Literature Today. (Winter 1987).
"Demetrio Aguilera Malta. Babelandia" (review) Review, No. 37
(1987), 71-73.
"Adolfo Bioy Casares. Historias desaforadas" (review). World
Literature Today. (Spring 1987).
"Carlos Fuentes. The Old Gringo" (review). Southern
Humanities Review. 21, ii (1987), 193-95.
"El mito en la obra narrativa de Carlos Fuentes. By Francisco
Javier Ordiz." Hispanic Review, 57 (1989), 407-409.
"Carlos Fuentes. Christopher Unborn." Review, 42 (1990), 68-
70.
"Mario Vargas Llosa. The Storyteller." Review, No. 43
(1990), 76-78.
"Bruce Chatwin. What am I Doing Here." Textual Practice, 5,
i (1991), 140-42.
"James Clifford. The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth
Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art." Comparative
Literature,44, ii (1992). 221-222.
"Herbert Lindenberger. The History in Literature. The
Comparatist, 16 (1992), 140-141.
"Marianna Torgovnik. Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects,
Modern Lives." Comparative Literature, 46, ii (1994),
85-88.
"Robert Wallace. Melville and Turner: Spheres of Love and
Fright." Comparative Literature 49 , ii (1997): 220-22.
Review of the Journal Poligrafias. The Comparatist, 22 (1998), 213-14.
"Carlos Fuentes, Crystal Frontier" (review). Review, 58 (1999), 82-3.
"Deborah Cohn. History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent
Southern and Spanish American Fiction. Comparative Literature
Studies. Forthcoming.
"Carlos Fuentes, The Years with Laura Diaz." Review.
63 (Fall, 2001), 86-9.
Review of Text and Visuality, eds. Martin Heusser, Michele Hannoosh, Leo Hoek,
Charlotte Schoell-Glass and David Scott. The Comparatist, 26 (2002), 154-6.
Participation in Professional Conferences, Lectures
1977 MLA: Conference of the Modern Language Association,
Chicago. Delivered paper: "The Poetics of
Pleasure: Expansive Images in Swann's Way."
1978 ACLA/CCLA: Joint Meeting of the American and
Canadian Comparative Literature Associations,
Montreal. Delivered paper: "Ariadne's
Disappearance, or Labyrinths are not for Lovers: A
Comparative Analysis of Michel Butor's L'Emploi du
temps and John Barth's 'Lost in the Funhouse.'"
1979 Conference on Twentieth Century Literature,
Lexington, Kentucky. Chaired session on Modern
British Fiction.
Conference of the Instituto Internacional de
Literatura Iberoamericana, Pittsburgh. Delivered
paper: "Paisaje simbolico y diseno narrativo: Los
Carduos laberintos de Cortazar y Donoso."
ICLA: Triennial Congress of the International
Comparative Literature Association, Innsbruck,
Austria. Delivered paper: "The Labyrinth: A
Symbolic Structure in Modern Fiction."
SCMLA: Convention of the South Central MLA, New
Orleans. Delivered paper: "The Squirrel's Heart
Beat and the Death of a Moth."
MLA, San Francisco. Delivered paper: "Pasos
perdidos, Temps perdu: Carpentier and Proust."
MLA, San Francisco. Organized and chaired session
on "Transatlantic Intertextuality: The Presence of
European Texts in Recent Latin American Fiction."
1980 ACLA: Conference of the American Comparative
Literature Association, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Delivered paper: "Desyoizacion:
Joyce/Cixous/Fuentes and the Multi-Vocal Text."
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico
City. Seminar presentation for graduate students in
Comparative Literature on James Joyce and Latin
American Literature.
Conference on "Modern Literature in the United
States and Hispanic America: Comparative
Explorations," S.U.N.Y., Purchase, New York.
Delivered paper: "Icy Solitude: Magic and Violence
in Macondo and San Lorenzo."
PAPC: Meeting of the Philological Association of
the Pacific Coast, Berkeley. Delivered paper:
"1001 Words: Fiction Against Death."
1981 SCMLA: Convention of the South Central MLA, Austin.
Organized and chaired the Comparative Literature
Division.
New Mexico James Joyce Symposium, Albuquerque.
Delivered invited paper: "Ulysses in Mexico:
Carlos Fuentes."
Congress of the Instituto Internacional de
Literatura Iberoamericana, Austin. Delivered paper:
" Proustitucion? Una familia lejana de Carlos
Fuentes."
MLA, New York. Delivered paper: "Chiastic Design
in the Works of Carlos Fuentes."
MLA, New York. Organized and chaired session on
"The Art of the Essay: Non-Fictional Worlds of
Contemporary Latin American Novelists."
1982 Virginia Woolf Centenary Conference, West Virginia
University, Morgantown. Delivered paper: "The
Squirrel's Heart Beat and the Death of a Moth."
ICLA: Triennial Congress of the International
Comparative Literature Association, New York.
Delivered paper: "Cities and Towns: The
Development of a Collective Voice" (on North
American and Latin American fiction).
PAPC: Meeting of the Philological Association of
the Pacific Coast, Eugene, Oregon. Organized and
chaired session of the Comparative Literature
Division.
Rutgers University, New Jersey. Delivered guest
lecture: "1001 Words: Fiction Against Death."
MLA, Los Angeles. Scheduled to deliver two papers:
"The City of Memory: Carlos Fuentes' Where the Air
Is Clear" and "The Labyrinth Motif as Narrative
Structure." Unable to attend convention because of
illness.
1983 9th Puterbaugh Conference [on Carlos Fuentes], the
University of Oklahoma, Norman. Delivered invited
paper: "The Return of the Past: Chiasmus in the
Works of Carlos Fuentes."
ACLA: Conference of the American Comparative
Literature Association, Santa Barbara. Delivered
paper: "Minotaurs and Mazes: The Labyrinth Myth
and Modern Literature."
MLA, New York. Organized and chaired session on
"The Mimetic Quotient of Magical Realism."
1984 Austin College, Sherman, Texas. Delivered invited
lecture: "The Labyrinth Myth and Modern
Literature."
University of Houston. Delivered invited Lecture:
"Joseph Conrad and Impressionism."
MLA, Washington, D.C. Delivered paper: "The
Shattered Mirror and the Guillotine: Alejo
Carpentier and French Literature."
1985 University of California at San Diego. Delivered
invited lecture: "Without Sin and with Pleasure:
The Erotic Dimensions of Fuentes' Fiction."
IAPL: International Association of Philosophy and
Literature, New York. Delivered paper on "The
Labyrinth: Sign of City, Text, and Thought."
ICLA: Triennial Congress of the International
Comparative Literature Association, Paris.
Delivered paper: "Magical Realism and Emergent
Literatures."
MLA, Chicago. Delivered paper: "The Dehumanization
of the Arts: J. M. W. Turner, Joseph Conrad, and
the Advent of Modernism."
20th Century Literature Conference, University of
Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. Delivered paper:
"The Arts of Abstraction: J. M. W. Turner and
Joseph Conrad."
ACLA: Conference of the American Comparative
Literature Association, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Delivered paper: "Cultural Contexts: Georges
Bataille and Carlos Fuentes."
SCMLA, New Orleans. Delivered paper on "Desire and
Power, Love and Revolution: Carlos Fuentes and
Milan Kundera."
1986 Conference on Alienation, University of San
Francisco:
Invited response to paper on Robbe-Grillet.
1987 ACLA: Conference of the American Comparative
Literature association, Atlanta, Georgia. Delivered
paper: "Marking Space, Surveying Time: The
Territorial Imperative in Faulkner's 'The Bear' and
Carpentier's The Lost Steps."
MLA, San Francisco. Delivered paper on "Landed
Literary Relations: Text and Territory in the New
World."
1988 ICLA: International Comparative Literature
Association, Munich. Delivered paper on "Writing
in/of/on the New World: Metafictional Dimensions of
Land Use in North and South American Fiction."
SCMLA: Delivered paper "About Borderlands" on The
Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes
MLA, New Orleans: Delivered paper on "Larger than
Life: The Inflated Realities of Fernando Botero and
Gabriel Garcia Marquez."
1990 Conference on Hispanic Culture on the Pacific Coast
of the Americas after World War II: From Chilenos to
Chicanos, at California State University Long Beach:
Delivered paper on "Pacifica/Utopia: Carlos
Fuentes's Western American Dream."
Invited leader of Faculty Development Seminar for
Tarrant County Junior Colleges on Magical Realism
and Minority Literature.
1991 Invited lecture on the festival of St. Efisio,
Cagliari, Sardinia. Marymount College, Tarrytown,
New York.
ICLA: International Comparative Literature
Association, Tokyo. Delivered paper on "Gold and
Citron: The Exotic Primitivisms of Baudelaire and
Gauguin, Gide and Matisse."
Invited lecture on Carlos Fuentes; visiting scholar.
Willamette University, Salem, Oregon.
MLA, San Francisco: Delivered two papers:
"Postmodern Primitivists: Postcolonial and
Contemporary Narrative," and "A Ruthless Streak in
European Modernism: The Immoralist, Nietzsche and
Matisse as Fauves."
1992 International Society for the Study of Narrative:
Delivered paper on "Postmodern Primitivists:
Magical Realism as Shamanistic Narrative."
ACLA: Conference of the American Comparative
Literature Association, New York. Chaired session
on painting and literature.
1993 ACLA: Conference of the American Comparative
Literature Association, Bloomington, Indiana.
Presented paper on Ecstatic Flights: Magical
Realism as Shamanistic Narrative" and chaired a
session on literature and the visual arts.
La Chispa: Louisiana Conference on Hispanic
Languages and Literatures: chaired session on the
recent work of Carlos Fuentes.
Invited leader of faculty development seminar on the
labyrinth in modern literature, Tarrant County
Junior College, Northwest Campus.
1994 ACLA: Conference of the American Comparative
Literature Association, Claremont, California.
Presented paper on "The Politics of Pseudoshamanism:
Magical Realism and the Postcolonial Dynamics of
Alterity."
Lecture to inaugurate the Robert O. Schulze Chair of
Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of
Northern Colorado. "Magical Realism in One Hundred
Years of Solitude and the Paintings of Fernando
Botero."
The New Novel and its Extensions, Literary and
Visual. Conference in Elmira, New York. Presented
paper on "Larger than Life: The Hyperbolic
Realities of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Fernando
Botero." Chaired session on visual and verbal
texts. Invited participant on panel concerning the
interrelations of the novel and painting. Attended
meetings of the editorial board for New Novel
Review.
1995 Lecture to close the Robert O. Schulze Chair of
Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of
Northern Colorado. "Magical Realism: The
Remystification of Narrative in the West."
MLA, Chicago: Delivered two papers, on "Magical
Realism and Postmodernism," and "Magical Realism and
Primitivism."
1996 ACLA, Notre Dame, Indiana. Delivered paper on
"Theories of Magical Realism: Between Philosophy
and Cultural Studies."
1997 ACLA, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Delivered paper on
"Giverny Tea: Proust's Containment of Monet's
Waterlilies."
Latin American Studies Ass'n, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Delivered paper on "Teaching Primitivism."
1998 Washington Univeristy, St. Louis. Invited Lectures (on
Proust and Monet and interarts comparisons) to inaugurate the
William H. Mattheson Seminar in Comparative Arts.
1999 Delivered joint lecture on "Latent Icons: The Compensatory
Presence of the Sacred in Modernist Literature and Painting." Lancaster
University, Lancaster, England.
MLA, Chicago. Delivered paper on "Energetic Economies: Narrative
Expenditure in Faulkner and Fuentes."
Dallas Museum of Art. Talk on "Carlos Fuentes, Post-Revolutionary"
in conjunction with exhibit of Post-Revolutionary Art in Mexico.
2000 Modernist Studies Association, Philadelphia. Delivered paper
on "Ecstatic Flights: From Modernism to Magical Realism."
2001 American Comparative Literature Association, Boulder.
Presented paper on "The Labyrinth: Topos and Chronos."
2002 American Comparative Literature Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Presented paper on "Magical Realism: A Discourse for the Diaspora ... Or Not??"
and chaired all sessions for the Latin American Literature section.
2004 Modernist Studies Association, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Presented another version of paper on "Southern Economies of Excess:
Narrative Expenditure in Faulkner and Fuentes."
Memberships in Professional Organizations/Elected
Offices/Service
ACLA: American Comparative Literature Association
Member, National Advisory Board (1986-88)
ICLA: International Comparative Literature Association
MLA: Modern Language Association
Executive Committee, Division of European Literary
Relations (1986-91)
PAPC: Philological Association of the Pacific Coast
Secretary (1981) and President (1982) of the
Comparative Literature Division
SCMLA: South Central MLA
Secretary (1980) and President (1982) of the
Comparative Literature Division
Contributor to the Bibliography on Literature and the Other
Arts, published in the Yearbook of Comparative and
General Literature, Indiana University (1985-present)
Member, editorial board, New Novel Review and The Comparatist
Exhibitions
1971 Serigraphs. Boylston Hall, Harvard University
1975 Batik Quilts and Wall Hangings. Hilles Library,
Harvard University
1976 Batiks. McDermott Library, University of Texas at
Dallas
1976 Set Design. Production of Paul Claudel's Break of
Noon, University of Texas at Dallas
1993 Spirit Houses and Other Ribbonpaintings. Bishop
Arts Cafe. Dallas, Texas.
1994 Spirit House Ribbonpaintings in exhibition The New
Novel and its Extensions, Literary and Visual.
Arnot Art Museum. Elmira, New York.
1995 Ribbonpaintings. Madison and Main Gallery.
Greeley, Colorado.
Teaching Experience
1989- University of Texas at Arlington: Professor of
English; British, American, World, and Comparative
Literature
1985-89 University of Texas at Arlington: Associate
Professor of English; British, American, World, and
Comparative Literature
1984-85 UT Arlington: Visiting Assistant Professor and
Lecturer, World Literature
1982-84 Colgate University: Assistant Professor of Romance
Languages; Spanish Language, Latin American
Literature
1975-82 University of Texas at Dallas: Assistant Professor
of Comparative Literature; English, French,
American, Latin American and Comparative Literature
1972-75 Harvard University: Teaching Fellow in History and
Literature; English, French, and Latin American
Literature
1971-72 University of Paris-X, Nanterre, France: Advanced
Teaching Fellow; American Literature
1970-71 Harvard University: Teaching Fellow in Latin
American Culture
Courses Taught
At UT Arlington
Undergraduate Courses
Introduction to World Literature
Coming of Age in America: Novels of Youthful Education
The Modern Period (European Literature)
Literature Now: Magical Realism
London Theater (in London for Semester Abroad Program)
Difficult Loves: Love in 20th Century Fiction
Modern British Literature
The Bloomsbury Group
Vision Quest
Primitivism in Modern Culture
Graduate Courses
Introduction to Comparative Literature
20th Century Narrative: From Conrad to Garcia Marquez
Myth and Modern Literature: Minotaurs and Mazes
The American Experience in Literature: North and South
The Bloomsbury Group
Literature Now: Magical Realism
Conceptual Bases of the Humanities
Primitivism in 20th Century Art and Literature
Literature and Painting
The Modern Period in Europe
Le Desir de l'autre: L'Exotisme et le primitivisme dans
la culture francaise moderne
At Colgate University
Undergraduate Courses (No graduate program)
Intermediate Spanish Language
Introduccion a la literatura hispanoamericana
La literatura hispanoamericana: 1492-1920
At UT Dallas
Undergraduate Courses
Literary Analysis
The American Experience in Literature: North and South
American Authors
The Modern Period
20th Century British Literature
Modern American Literature
James Joyce
Virginia Woolf
The American Family: Image and Reality
The Dehumanization of Art: 20th Century Painting and
Literature
Graduate Courses
Studies in Prose Narrative: 20th Century
The Bloomsbury Group and Modern English Culture
The American Experience in Literature: The United States
and Latin America
Proseminar in Comparative Literature
Advanced Workshop in French
The Persistence of Myth in Western Culture
Advisory and Administrative Positions, Service
2004- Chair, English Department, UT Arlington
1985- UT Arlington (selected examples): Faculty Senate,
English Department Advisory Committee (Chairman),
Katherine Anne Porter Lecture Series Committee
(Chairman), CCTE Local Arrangements Committee,
Comparative Literature Division Chairman, English
Department Committee on Graduate Studies Chairman,
Committee on Graduate Studies in the Humanities, Ad
Hoc Committee on Graduate Studies in the Humanities;
Committee for the Evaluation of the Center for
Research in Contemporary Art; organizer of
Humanities Colloquium; University Committee on
Admission to the Graduate Faculty; chair, Ad Hoc
Curriculum Committee for Comparative Literature;
Search Committee for the Vice Provost for Academic
Affairs and Dean of the Graduate School; chair,
Departmental Research Committee; College Research
Committee.
1996- Graduate Advisor, Humanities Program.
1975-82 UT Dallas: College of Arts and Humanities Steering
Committee. Brought Carlos Fuentes to Dallas for a
lecture. Organized artistic and cultural
activities, including a panel on career
opportunities for arts and humanities graduates.
Coordinator of Community College Liaison.
1972-75 Harvard University: Non-resident Tutor, Dunster
House. Head Resident and Assistant Senior Tutor,
South House.
1965-67 Stanford University: President, Art Board.