Ángela Morales
Associate Professor
Modern Languages Department

 

Education

1996 State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Ph. D. in Spanish Literature.

1992 State University of New York at Stony Brook

M.A. in Spanish Literature.

1986 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.  

        Pedagogical Certification as High School Teacher.

1986 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.

B.A. in Linguistics and Spanish Literature(Filología Hispánica).

 

Professional Work Experience

1998-           Central Connecticut State University.

                                   Associate Professor of Spanish.

1997-98       St. John’s University, Minnesota.

                            Assistant Professor of Spanish.

1994-95       California State University, Long Beach.

                             Full-time Lecturer in Spanish Golden Age Literature.

          1991-94       United Nations.

Instructor of Spanish. Language Program at the U.N in New York.           

1989-94       State University of New York at Stony                                 Brook.                       

                             Teaching Assistant of Spanish.

I. Area of Teaching Experience

Undergraduate:  Honors (Western Civilization II, from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment); Drama and Poetry of the Spanish Golden Age Period; Literary Masterpieces in Spanish from the Middle Ages to 1700; Literary Analysis; Spanish Civilization; course on Spanish Cinematography; Advanced Conversation and Composition; Business Spanish; Intermediate and Advanced Composition and Grammar courses; Elementary Spanish Language courses. 

Graduate: Cervantes (Quijote, Exemplary Novels); Spanish Drama of the Golden Age Period; Renaissance and Baroque Spanish Poetry; Contemporary Issues in Spain; Summer Institute for Teachers of Spanish; Research in Spanish Literature.

 

II.  Creative Activity    

II.i.Publications: Books

a)       Co-author of a Comparative Literature Textbook: Literatura española y universal (World and Spanish Literature) & Didactic guide companion to Literatura española y universal. McGraw-Hill, 1999.

b)       Edition of La Gitanilla and Rinconete  y Cortadillo, by Miguel de     Cervantes.  McGraw-Hill, 1996.

 

II.ii. Publications: Articles

a)       “A Sociolinguistic reading of Don Quijote.” Volver a Cervantes. Separata. Actas del IV Congreso Internacional de Cervantistas. University of Islas Baleares, 2001.

b)         “Images of Un perro andaluz, by Luis Buñuel, on the poetry of García   Lorca  and Rafael Alberti” (“Imágenes de Un perro andaluz, de Buñuel, en la poesía de García Lorca y Rafael Alberti”).  Annual of Foreign Films and Literatures. Volume V,1999.

 c)       “María de Zayas y el género de la novela corta” (Maria de Zayas and the genre ‘short novel’). Actas XI Conferencia Internacional Lingüístico Literaria. Santiago de Cuba, 2002.

 II.iii Contributor in Interdisciplinary Bibliography

 a)  Contributor to Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1720: An Interdisciplinary Bibliographical Dictionary. Edited by Christopher Baker (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002). Entries on the following topics: Boileau-Despréaux (French critic and poet, 1637-1711); Escobar y Mendoza (Spanish Jesuit preacher and moral theologian, 1589-1669);  Jerónimo Lobo (1593-1678, Portuguese  missionary, renowned for his travels accounts);  Giambattista Marino (Italian poet, 1569-1625); Miguel de Molinos (Spanish mystic, condemned as heretical by the Roman Catholic Church, 1628-1696).

                

II.iv. Literary Reviews   

a)       "La voz diseminada: hacia una teoría del sujeto en la poesía española", by      Laura  Scarano. Revista Chilena de Literatura 47(1995): 165-66.

b)       “Trece por docena”, by  Valentín de Céspedes, s.j. Eds. Francis Cerdán and Enrique Laplana Gil (Presses Universitaires du  Mirail, 1998). Hispanic Review, 2002.             

         

II.v. Papers given at Professional Conferences:

 

a)  Participation on a collaborative discussion panel on Women’s Literature in the Early Modern Spanish World. XI Conferencia Internacional Lingüístico Literaria. Santiago de Cuba, February 5-10, 2002.

 b) Presentation at the International Association of Spanish Studies Conference    entitled “The Tradition of the Narrative Frame in the Short Novel and the validation of the Fiction during the Renaissance” (“La tradición del marco de la novela corta y la justificación de la ficción en el Renacimiento”). Conference of the Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas.  New York, (July 16-20, 2001).

c) Presented a paper entitled Censorship and Ideological Control in the Novel. (Northeast Modern language Association, NEMLA; Hartford, March 30-31, 2001).

d) Presented A Sociolinguistic Reading of Don Quijote and participated in the discussion sessions at the International Conference of Cervantes Scholars that was held in Greece (October, 2000).

e) Delivered a paper on The Spanish Censorship on the Short Novel of the Seventeenth Century at the Modern Language Association Annual Conference in Chicago (December, 1999).

f)  I gave an introductory presentation and conducted a debate on the film Open  Your Eyes at the Latin American and Spanish Film Festival (Trinity College,    November, 1999).

g) Presentation on  “The Oral Tradition in La Celestina” in the panel on Five Hundred Years of La Celestina at the Second Florida International University Conference on Iberian and Iberian-American Literature (October, 1999).

h)     Presentation on the topic of “The King as Public and Creator. Scientific and Philosophic Bases of the Golden Age Court Theater” at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (April, 1999).

i) Delivered a paper on the “Images of Un perro andaluz, by Luis Buñuel, on the Poetry of García Lorca and Rafael Alberti” at the Conference on Foreign Films and Literatures; Villanova University, November, 1998).

 

II.vi.  Panels Organized and Chaired

a)  I proposed and chaired a panel on The Censorship in the Spanish Letters of the Golden Age Period (Northeast Modern language Association, NEMLA;  Hartford, March 30-31, 2001).

b)     Chaired the panel on Five Hundred Years of La Celestina at the Second Florida International University Conference on Iberian and Iberian-American Literature (October, 1999).

II.vii. Forthcoming Conference and Chaired Panel

Northeast MLA Conference (Boston, 2003). I will chair a panel on the Creation and Re-creation of Literary Genres during the Renaissance. I will present a paper on the topic of the transformation of the idealistic fiction in the Spanish Letters.

 

II.viii. Research Grants

a) Connecticut State University Research Grant, 2002. Project titled “The Polemics Regarding the Morality of the Theater and the Literary Censorship in the Spanish Letters of the Seventeenth Century.”

b) Connecticut State University Research Grant, 2001. Awarded for my proposal entitled: the Spanish Censorship of Books during the Counter-Reformation Period: A Cultural-Historical Critique of the Inquisition’s Influence on the Novel.

c) Connecticut State University Research Grant 1999. Awarded to the project: The Spanish Short Novel and the Transformations of the Prose Genres during the Seventeenth Century.

d) University Autónoma of Madrid (Spain). Graduate Research Grant 1988-1989. Awarded to my work on Juan Pérez de Montalbán, a Spanish novelist of the XVII century.

II    III. SERVICE TO DEPARTMENT AND UNIVERSITY

III.i.  U    University Committees and Services
1.     Faculty Senator, 2000-2001.

2.    Interim Chair, West European Studies Committee.

3.    Secretary, Latin American Association at Central, 1999 to present.

4.           Faculty Liaison between the University of León (Spain) and CCSU (2001 to present).

5.    Faculty Advisor, Latin American Studies Program.

6.    Member, Latin American Studies Committee, 2000 to present

7.       Member, Executive Committee Latin American Studies, 1999-2000.

8.    Student Teacher Supervisor. Worked with the Teacher Education Program as supervisor of three students, Spring, 2001.

9.           Member Women Studies Program. 

10.       Member Honors Program.

11.   Faculty Liaison between the University of León (Spain) and CCSU.

11.  Faculty Advisor Latin American Student Organization, 1999 to present.

 

III.ii. Services to the Departmet

1.   Library Liaison, 2001 to present.

1.       Member, Graduate Studies Committee, 1999 to present.

2.       Member, Professional Studies Committee, 2000 to present.

3.       Sabbatical Leave Committee, 1999-2000.

4.       Member Recruitment Committee, 2001.

5.       Faculty Advisor Spanish Club at CCSU, 1999 to present.

6.       Coordinator of all sections of Spanish 112  (Spring, 2001).

7.       Coordinator of all sections of Spanish 111 (Spring, 2002).

8.       Faculty Advisor for M.A. students of Spanish M.A. Comprehensive Exam Director for Ms. Jessica Santos (student). Spring, 2001.

9.       Study Abroad interviewer in cooperation with Study Abroad Coordinator, Colleen Larson.

10.   Visited Universidad Interamericana de San German, Puerto Rico, a CCSU partner institution, to evaluate sites for student exchange/study abroad program (Spring, 2000).

11.   MLD representative at the meeting with members of the University of Valladolid, Spain, to activate student exchange/study abroad program  (Spring, 2001).

12.    Participation in the Presidential Reception for International Students  (September 19, 2001 and September 27, 2000).

13.   Speaker at the, 24th, 25th and 26th MLD Student Recognition Annual    Ceremony.

14.   Represented the MLD at the Family Day Homecoming on Saturday (October 14, 2000).

15.  Represented the MLD at the Open House (October, 1999).

16.  In charge of administering the Modern Language Placement Text with MLD faculty E. Force (Spring, 1999).

17.  Co-Director of the CCSU Summer Program Abroad in Puerto Rico, Summer 1999.

18.  Presentation of a proposal for a NAFSA Country/Culture Workshop on Spain (Spring, 1999).

 

IV. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

IV.i.  Lectures and Presentations    

1.  Lectured in Paloma Lapuerta 20th Century Spanish Literature class on the topic of “The influence of Buñuel’s film The Andalou Dog on the Surrealist Movement in Spain” (February 13, 2002).

2.  Lectured in Professor L. Auld’s graduate class Research in Modern       Languages on the topic of “Don Quijote and Sancho Panza: A Social Dialogue” (Fall, 2001).

3.  Lectured in Professor L. Auld’s graduate class Research in Modern Languages

     on the topic of “Bajtin and Don Quijote: A Sociolinguistic Approach.” (Fall,   

     2000).

4.  Introductory Presention and mediator of a debate on The Andalou Dog at the

     Film Festival dedicated to Luis Buñuel (CCSU, November 14, 2000).

5.     Forthcoming Lecture at the Passport to Global Citizenship Program sponsored by the Capital Region Education Council and the CCSU Center for International Education. Focus on Western Europe (April  20, 2002).

6.     Lecturer at the Passport to Global Citizenship Program sponsored by the

     Capital Region Education Council and the CCSU Center for International

     Education. Focus on Latin America (April 29, 2000).

7.  Lecturer at the Passport to Global Citizenship Program. Focus on Western

      Europe (June, 2000).

 

    IV.ii.  Workshops Given

1. Workshop at the Connecticut Council of Language Teachers Conference to present the Summer Institute for Teachers of Spanish (October 26, 2001).

2. Conducted along with L. Uribe a workshop for the part-time instructors as part of the coordination of the first semester of Spanish Language (March, 2002).

3. Conducted a workshop along with members of the Spanish Section for the part-time instructors to present the revised First Year of Spanish Language Program (CCSU, June, 1999).

IV.iii.  Events Organization

1.     Organization and introduction for the presentation by Dr. Adolfo Roitman, Curator and Director of the Israel Museum that holds the Dead Sea Scrolls (March 13, Founders Hall). The History Department, the Honors Program and Middle East Studies sponsored the event.

2. Co-organizer of the Western European International Festival (April 9, 2002; Davidson Hall 123). The event was intended to promote the West European Studies Program to students of French, German, Italian and Spanish.

3.  Co-organizer of the Film Festival in Homage to the Spanish Filmmaker Luis Buñuel (CCSU, November,  2000).

4. Organization of a Colloquium on the Tendencies of Contemporary Spanish-American Poetry (April 18, 2000).

5. Brought in Health Program Supervisor at UCONN Medical Center, Ms. Victoria Barrera, to discuss Latino Community Health issues (Spring, 1999).

6. Organization of a presentation by Professor Marco Cupolo on “The Economy and Politics in Latin America: The Petroleum Crisis”  (Spring, 1999).

7. Organization of the Spanish Club cultural activities since 1999 to the present.

 

IV.iv.  Workshops and Professional Meetings Attended

  1. Attended the ACTFL 2001 Annual Meeting (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign     Languages; Washington, November 16-18, 2001).

  2. Participation in a 3-hour workshop on improving writing assignments organized by the English Department (April 5, 2002)

  3. Attended workshop on Diversity (Sept. 12, 2001).

  4. Attended Roy Temple’s workshop on the use of the multimedia equipment in the Language Lab (Oct. 5, 2001).

  5.  Attended the 2001 President’s Symposium on Teaching Excellence, on the topic of “Evaluations of College Teaching: New Lessons Learned” (May 11, 2001).

  6. Attended the Fourth Annual President’s Symposium on the topic of Creativity (May, 2000).

  7. Attended the Third Annual President’s Symposium on the topic of Technology (May, 1999). 

  8. I attended presentation on the Technology Revolution (September, 2000).

  9.  Participation in the Conversation in the Disciplines lunch and discussion with members of the Modern Language Departments of the CSU system, organized by MLD faculty M. Wallach (Spring, 2001).

  10. Attended the workshops on PowerPoint and Discussion Groups, organized by the Media Center (December, 1999).

  11. Attended the workshops on Web Page, PowerPoint and Online Research organized by Prof.           Paul Altieri (Summer, 1999).

 

IV.v. Service to the Community

1. Served on the Peer Review Committee in New Britain for the 2000-2001 Fullbright Teacher Exchange Program.

2. Judge for the Spanish competition at the IMPACT-Connecticut State  University Literary Awards for Young Writers Trust (Spring 2001).

3.     Judge for the Connecticut Council of Language Teachers Annual Poetry Recitation Contest for middle and high school students (April 30, 2001).

4.     Moderator of a poetry reading and Latin music evening at Central Café (April, 1999).

5.      Liaison between the Spanish Club at CCSU and the Hispanic Club in   New Britain. Liaison between the Spanish Club and local businesses who sponsored some of the club’s activities.

 

IV.vi. Membership in Professional Organizations

1.       Member Modern Language Association (MLA).

2.       Member Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA).

3.       Member International Association of Cervantes’ Scholars.

4.                 Member Cervantes American Society.

5.                 Member International Association of Scholars in Hispanic Studies.

6.                 Member Feminist Scholars in Hispanic Studies (Feministas Unidas).

7.                 Member of the Connecticut Council of Language Teachers.