Recent Professional Activities, Honors and Publications 2007-2012

“Grandma’s House,” (story) in the journal Italian Americana December 2010.

“Drowned Edward Tug,” (story) published in 2010 in The Missouri Review’s on-line and print anthology of the best work to have appeared in their journal over the years.

Sweet Hope, a novel, to be published in 2011 by Guernica Editions, Toronto.

A Place of Light (collection of short stories) republished in paperback by Guernica Editions, Toronto, 2007.

Co-founder: Italian American Writers of Southern California.

Michael Calabrese

2007/08 Publications

Articles:

“Being a Man in Troulus and Criseyde and Piers Plowman. Masculinities in Troilus and Criseyde, ed. Tyson Pugh and Marcia Marzec. Also co-author of the “Introduction: The Myths of Masculinity in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde” with Tison Pugh and Marcia Smith Marzec. Boydell and Brewer. Forthcoming.

“From Troy to 95 Lincoln Place, Irvington, NJ: A Virgilian Reading of the Sopranos Underworld. Considering David Chase: Essays on The Sopranos, Northern Exposure, and The Rockford Files. Ed. Thomas Fahy (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland Press, 2007). Forthcoming, September 2007.

I have been credited with a “special contribution” in a number of volumes in the William Belan English Madrigal Choral Series: Gibbons, Orlando. The Silver Swan; Farmer, John. Fair Phyllis I saw; Dowland, John. Come again sweet love (Los Angeles: Gentry Publications, 2007).

I am also credited with a “special contribution” in William Belan. A Handbook for the Performance of English Madrigals. (Los Angeles: Gentry Publications, 2007). For this book I wrote critical analysis of the madrigals and provided an overview of English prosody and a guide for reading].

Book Reviews:

The Writings of Julian of Norwich. Edited by Nicholas Watson and Jacqueline Jenkins. The Medieval Review. Forthcoming.

The Legend of Good Women: Context and Reception. Edited by Carolyn P. Collette. JEGP. In Press.

Ovid’s Art and the Wife of Bath: The Ethics of Erotic Violence. Marilyn Desmond. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 2006. In Press.

Presentations:

“Will and Troilus.” Medieval Association of the Pacific Annual Meeting. UCLA, March 3, 2007.

“Sexual Stamina and Competition in Boccaccio and Chaucer.” 122nd Annual MLA Convention, Philadelphia PA, December, 2006.

Teaching Piers Plowman to a 21-st Century Student Body. Loyola Marymont University, October 15, 2007.

Contemporary Masculinity Studies and Alliterative Wombs. University of California at Riverside, 2007.

Roberto CantÃº

University and Community Projects

2010 Program Coordinator and Campus Liaison for the 2010 Latino Book and Family Festival, held at Cal State L.A. on October 9-10, 2010.

2010 Main organizer of the Conference on Octavio Paz, held at Cal State L.A. on May 14-15, funded by the Gigi Gaucher-Morales Memorial Lecture Series.

2009 Program coordinator and Campus Liaison for the 2009 Latino Book and Family Festival, held at Cal State L.A. on October 8-9, 2009.

2009 Main organizer of the Conference on Mesoamerica, held at Cal State L.A. on May 15-16, funded by the Gigi Gaucher-Morales Memorial Lecture Series.

2008 Organized and coordinated five stage readings of Rudolfo Anaya’s award-winning novel Bless Me, Ultima as part of the Big Read, two at Cal State L.A. (Music Hall, April 10 & 12), two at the Bilingual Foundation for the Arts (June 14-15), and one in Dallas, Texas (June 28), where our University cast members (14 students and five professional actors) were invited to close the City’s Big Read activities.

Awards and Certificates of Achievement

2010 President’s Distinguished Professor Award, Cal State L.A.

2008 Big Read Certificate of Achievement awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts for Outstanding Contribution to Education.

2007/08 Grant Proposals

“Workshops to Build Digital Humanities Programs at Hispanic Serving Colleges and Universities (HSCUs),” Proposal to the National Endowment for the Humanities (pending).

Editor of Journal and Editorial Assignments

General Editor, Campo Libre: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, to be launched in Spring 2008 with a special issue on the 1968 Chicano Student Walkouts, edited by Dr. Carlos PÃ©rez and Dr. Maria Aparecida S. Lopez (CSU Fresno). The journal’s editorial board includes CSU faculty in Depts. of Mexican American/Chicano Studies and Latin American Studies.

Member of the Editorial Board of the Mexican scholarly journal Relaciones (Colegio de MichoacÃ¡n), 1996-Present.

Articles:
2010 Article titled “Literary Tradition and Narrative Singularity in JosÃ© Antonio Villarreal’s Novel Pocho (1959),” forthcoming in a critical anthology on Chicano/a literature edited by Prof. Graciela Silva-RodrÃguez (New Mexico Highlands University).

2010 Article titled “Octavio Paz and India: Blanco, Modernity, and the Poetics of Simultaneism,” in One World Periphery Reads the Other: Knowing the “Oriental” in the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula, ed. Ignacio LÃ³pez-Calvo (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010): 56-81.

2009 Article titled “Love is Elemental: Legacies of Self-Destruction in ‘Why Women Burn,’ by Helena MarÃa Viramontes,” in Camino Real, ed. Francisco LomelÃ and Luis Leal (Spain, 2009): 79-95.

2007 “Octavio Paz and Blanco: Ancient Civilizations, Modernity, and the Poetics of Simultaneism.” Cien AÃ±os de Lealtad: Essays in Honor of Dr. Luis Leal, ed. Sara Poot-Herrera (Mexico City: Bellas Artes, 2007): 965-979.

2007 “Points of Convergence: Ancient China, Modernity, and Translation in the Poetry and Essays of Octavio Paz, 1956-1996.” Alternative Orientalisms in Latin America and Beyond, ed. Ignacio Lopez-Calvo (UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007): 2-28.

2005 “Images of War and Combat in Alfredo VÃ©a’s Narrative Trilogy, 1993-1999.” Violence and Transgression in World Ethnic Literatures, ed. Karin Ikas (Germany: University of Wurzburg, 2005): 151-174.

“Love is Elemental: Legacies of Self-Destruction in ‘Why Women Burn,’ by Helena MarÃa Viramontes,” in Revista de Estudios de NorteamÃ©rica (Spain), forthcoming in 2008.

“Octavio Paz and Blanco: Ancient Civilizations, Modernity, and the Poetics of Simultaneism.” Cien AÃ±os de Lealtad: Essays in Honor of Dr. Luis Leal, ed. Sara Poot-Herrera (Mexico City: Bellas Artes, 2007):
965-979.

“Points of Convergence: Ancient China, Modernity, and Translation in the Poetry and Essays of Octavio Paz, 1956-1996.” Alternative Orientalisms in Latin America and Beyond, ed. Ignacio Lopez-Calvo (UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007): 2-28.

“Images of War and Combat in Alfredo VÃ©a’s Narrative Trilogy, 1993-1999.” Violence and Transgression in World Ethnic Literatures, ed. Karin Ikas (Germany: University of Wurzburg, 2005): 151-174.

Headnotes:

Headnote on the narrative of Helena MarÃa Viramontes, to appear in The Thomson Anthology of American Fiction, ed. Henry Hart (forthcoming, 2008).

Introductions, dramaturgical notes, and prologues:
2010 Book review of “Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents: The Public Sculpture of El TajÃn,” by Rex Koontz (Austin: UTP, 2009). In The Bulletin of Latin American Research (Liverpool, UK). Forthcoming.

2010 My preface to Social Spatializations and Anxieties in Latino Los Angeles’s Cultural Production (The University of Arizona Press), a forthcoming book by Ignacio LÃ³pez Calvo.

Dramaturgical note titled “Goethe’s Faust: An Adaptation of a Literary Classic,” printed in the program for the play’s production at Cal State L.A. on July 25-28/August 1-4, 2007.

Prologue titled “Frumioso feminismo fronterizo en Alicia en la cÃ¡rcel de las maravillas” reprinted in a book of poetry by Estela Alicia Lopez Lomas, Alicia en la cÃ¡rcel de las maravillas, 2nd edition (Baja California: Consejo de Cultura Mexicana, 2006).

Introduction to a book on Mexican novelists Mariano Azuela and JosÃ© RubÃ©n Romero, edited by Alvaro Ochoa Serrano (MÃ©xico: El Colegio de MichoacÃ¡n, 2005): 11-18.

Film Interviews:
Interviewed at home by David Ellis (President of Ellis Productions, Inc.) on October 19, 2007 in relation to a film on Chicano novelist Rudolfo Anaya. This film will be a one-hour program to be televised on PBS and other national channels.

Reviewer of Film Proposals:
Edited and evaluated a film proposal titled “Special Agent” for Ellis Productions, Inc. Santa Fe, New Mexico), on October 22, 2007.

Other:
Reader and reviewer for Cambridge University Press.

Marilyn Elkins

Publications:

“Kay Boyle for the Twenty-First Century: New Essays.” MODERNISM/modernity. 17.2 (April 2010): 462-463. Print.

Co-edited with Cynthia Caywood and Carlton Floyd. “Special Issue,” College Literature 36.2 (Spring 2009), an edition dedicated to the work of August Wilson. Includes our introduction. Print.

“Teaching The Great Gatsby through Examining Gender Roles.” Approaches to Teaching Fitsgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Eds. Jackson Bryher and Nancy Van Arsdale. New York: Modern Language Association, 2009. 181-188. Print.

Invited guest editor of special volume of College Literature dedicated to the work of August Wilson. Forthcoming, 2008. Will include my introduction.

“Black Text/White Professor: Negotiating Racial Boundaries in the Work of August Wilson.” Approaches to Teaching August Wilson. Ed. Sandra Shannon. New York: Modern Language Association, forthcoming 2008.

“Willa Cather.” In The Student’s Encyclopedia of Great American Writers (1900-1945). Ed. Patricia Gantt. New York: Facts on File, forthcoming, 2008.

“Teaching The Great Gatsby through Examining Gender Roles.” New Approaches to Teaching The Great Gatsby. Eds. Jackson Bryher and Nancy Van Arsdale. New York: Modern Language Association, forthcoming, 2007.

Invited essay for Kay Boyle for the 21st Century. Ed. Thomas Austenfeld. Berlin, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, forthcoming, 2008.

Awards/Honors/Grants/Professional Appointments:

GE Honors Professor of the Year, 2008.

Test Committee for the CLEP English Composition Examination Test Development Committee, 2005-2010.

Joseph A. Bailey II, MD Fellow in the African American Experience. CSULA American Communities Fellowship, 2007-08.

Reader/reviewer for the following journals: African American Review, Calaloo, College Literature, and Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature.
Reader/reviewer for the following presses: Oxford University Press, Ohio State University Press, and University of Illinois Press.
Advisory Board for the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 2006-present.
Advisory Board for the August Wilson Society, 2007-present.
Advisory Board for the Kay Boyle Society, 2006-present.
Member of the CLEP Test Committee, 2006-present.

Table Leader, AP English Language and Composition Examination, ongoing.

Founder/Director of the Greater Los Angeles Advanced Placement Summer Institute, ongoing.

College Board Consultant, 2000-present.

Author and Principal Investigator for, the CSULA RIAP Grants from the CSULA Chancellor’s Office, 2002-present.

Academic Director for the CSULA EAP, 2003-present.

Presentations:

“Preparing Secondary Students to Enter Academic Discourse.” Anchorage School District, Anchorage, Alaska. September 7-8; October 26-27, 2007.

“Teaching Reading in the College Classroom.” English Department, Rio Honda Community College. October 5, 2007.

“Teaching AP English Language and Composition.” College Board National Conference, Las Vegas, 2007.

“Kay Boyle: Dialogues of Ethics.” Kay Boyle Society Panel. American Literature Association, Boston, May 2007.

“Improving Student Writing.” Alhambra School District. Alhambra, September, 2006.

“Resurrecting the Literary Career of Kay Boyle.” Kay Boyle Society. American Literature Association, San Francisco, May, 2006.

“Helping Students Move beyond Unearned Confidence.” College Board/AVID Collaborative, Chicago, IL, March, 2006.

“Resurrecting the Literary Career of Kay Boyle.” Kay Boyle Society. American Literature Association, San Francisco, CA, May 2006.

“Helping Students Move beyond Unearned Confidence.” College Board/AVID Collaborative, Chicago, IL, March 2006.

Reader/Reviewer for the following journals: African American Review, Calaloo, College Literature, and Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature.

Reader/Reviewer for the following presses: Oxford University Press, Ohio State University Press, University of South Carolina Press, and University of Illinois Press.

Advisory Board for the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.

Advisory Board for the August Wilson Society.

Advisory Board for the Kay Boyle Society.

Jim Garrett

Awards/Honors

2009 Encyclopedia Britannica Web’s Best Sites Award for the Wordsworth Variorum Archive; 2010 Schmoop’s Best of the Web Award for the Wordsworth Variorum Archive.

Wordsworth and the Writing of the Nation. London: Ashgate Publishing, 2008 (ISBN 0 7546 5783 3).

Linda Margarita Greenberg

“Learning from the Dead: Wounds, Women and Activism in CherrÃe Moraga’s Heroes and Saints,” MELUS 34.1 (2009): 163-184.

Presentations

“From Guatemalan Death Squads to the 1992 Los Angeles Riots: Remapping the Terrains of War in HÃ©ctor Tobar’s The Tattooed Soldier.” Will present and serve as panel presider at the Modern Language Association 2011 conference to be held in Los Angeles in Winter 2011. This paper will presented as part of a special session that I co-organized on “American Military Intervention Abroad and Literary Re-Intervention.”

“Intimacy against Death: Love, Justice and Detective Fiction in Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s Desert Blood.” Will present at the American Studies Association 2010 conference to be held in San Antonio, Texas in Fall 2010.

“Racial Traces in John Okada’s Seattle.” Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) Conference held in Scranton, PA, Spring 2010.

“Transgressing the Bounds of Genre, Justice and Ethnic Cultural Production: Strategic Crossings in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Border Novel, Tropic of Orange.” National Association for Ethnic Studies Conference held in San Diego, Spring 2009.

Chaired the Undergraduate Studies Committee for the English Department. California State University, Los Angeles, Fall 2010 (ongoing).

Moderated the “Viva Cartoons!: Latino Cartoonists and Authors” Panel for the Latino Book and Family Festival. California State University, Los Angeles, Fall 2010.

Served on the Activities and Scholarship Committee for the English Department. California State University, Los Angeles, 2009-2010.

Moderated the “Octavio Paz: Asia, Poetry, and Translation” Panel for the Conference on Octavio Paz. California State University, Los Angeles, Spring 2010.

Moderated the “New Directions in the Latino/a Novel” Panel for the Latino Book and Family Festival. California State University, Los Angeles, Fall 2009.

Maria Karafilis

American Literature Association Conference, May 2010, San Fransisco, CA:

"The Jewish Ghetto and the Americanization of Space in Mary Antin and Her Contemporaries." American Literary Realism Volume 42, Number 2, Winter 2010: 129-150.

Presentations

Session Chair, Power and Politics in Antebellum Literature

Session Chair, Reading Antebellum American Culture

D. Robert DeChaine
(Joint Appointment Department of Communication Studies)

Awards:

See the American Communities Program website (www.calstatela.edu/academic/al/acp) for a list of events I have organized on campus.

Atef Laouyene

Publications

“The SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Canadian Gothic and the Work of Ghosting in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Your Knee,” in Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic. Ed. Cynthia Sugars and Gerry Turcotte. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2009.

“Andalusian Poetics: Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh and the Limits of Hybridity.” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 38.4 (2008): 143-65.

“‘I am no Othello. I am a lie’: Shakespeare’s Moor and the Post-Exotic in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North,” in Native Shakespeares: Indigenous Appropriations on a Global Stage. Ed. Craig Dionne and Parmita Kapadia. London: Ashgate Press, 2008. 213-32.

Presentations

“Ethics of Witnessing: Life Writing and the Spectacle of Arab Violence,” presented for CACLALS at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, May 28-June 4, 2010.

“Hauntropologies: Arab Canadians and the Specter of Marginality,” presented for CACLALS at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Carleton University, Canada, May 23-26, 2009.

“Arabs, 9/11, and the New Face of the Exotic” presented for ACCUTE at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Carleton University, Canada, May 23-26, 2009.

“Pathologies of Moorishness in Arab Diasporic Writing,” to be presented at the MLA Conference, Los Angeles, January 6-9, 2011.

Jun Liu (a.k.a Toming Jun Liu)

Honors

Qiantang Scholar Endowed Professorship, conferred by Hangzhou Normal University, China, 2010. Note: This is an honorary title conferred by Hangzhou Normal University and authorized by the City of Hangzhou for a few distinguished scholars in various disciplines.

Jianfeng Scholar Lecture-series Professorship, conferred by Zhejiang Normal University, China, 2008-2009. Note: This is a special distinction conferred by the University to a few distinguished scholars in several disciplines.

Publications

Book-length studies in print

Modernity in Fugue: Revelations from 19^th Century European Literature. Beijing: Guangxi Normal University Press, 2008. 211 pages.

A History of American Literature. Revised and expanded edition. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2008. 467 pages.

Co-authored with He, Qixin. English Through Culture: A Comprehensive Course Book for English Majors. Book Five and Six. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2009-2010.

Books of translation (Chinese-English) forthcoming 2011

An Empty Room and Mu Xin Stories. By Mu Xin. New York: New Directions, 2011.

Cao Cao and Yang Xiu: A Beijing Opera. Translation, Introduction and Annotations by Toming Jun Liu. China: Time Publishing Company, 2011.

Essays in print

“Butterfly Dream-Correspondence-Transformation: Alienation vs. The Aesthetic Experience” Foreign Literature 5 (2010).

“History in Fiction: The Case of “Rip Van Winkle.” Studies of English and American Literature. Forthcoming in May 2009.

“Nature Machine, Human Nature and Utopia: Revisiting the Debate Between Dostoevsky and Chernyshevsky.” Reprinted by the prestigious Information Center for Social Sciences, RUC in its journal Foreign Literature Studies 5 (2009).

“Nature Machine, Human Nature and Utopia: Revisiting the Debate Between Dostoevsky and Chernyshevsky.” Foreign Literature 1 (2009). Beijing: 2009. 43-52.

“Inter-National Aesthetics and the Revival of Chinese-language Literature: Mu Xin and His Style.” Reading Mu Xin. Beijing: Guangxi Normal University Press, 2008. 21-45.

“The Nietzschean Turn (Part II): Don’t Forget Music, Socrates.” Foreign Literature 2 (2008). 116-124.

“The Nietzschean Turn (Part I): The Strength of Tragedy.” Foreign Literature No. 1 (2008). 117-124.

Translations in print (Chinese-English)

“Weimar in Early Spring” by Mu Xin. St. Petersburg Review 3 (2009). 184-188.

Conference Presentations and Invited Lectures

2010. Presentation, “Lichtung in Correspondence with ‘Lu Zhai’: Reading Octavio Paz’s Translation of Wang Wei in Contexts,” on May 14, 2010, at Session 4 of the International Conference on Octavio Paz, held at California State University, Los Angeles.

2009. Invited speaker on two topics—“Butterfly Dream-Correspondence-Transformation: Alienation vs. The Aesthetic Experience” AND “Cross-cultural Contexts and Discourse Training”—at the Training Program on Foreign Literature and English Education, held on October 17, at Northwest Financial University, Chengdu, China.

2009. Keynote speaker, “Monolingual Translation and the Question of Home: On Diasporic and Postcolonial Literature,” at the academic conference titled “Home, Racial Politics and Trends in Contemporary Anglophone Literature,” on October 18, 2009, at Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, China.

2009. Keynote speaker, “Monolingual Translation,” at the opening session of the academic conference titled “The Teaching and Studies of Translation in the Context of Globalization,” held October 24-26, 2009, at Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, China.

2009. Invited lecture, “Butterfly Dream-Correspondence-Transformation: Alienation vs. The Aesthetic Experience” and “Translatability and Untranslatability: On the Art of Translation,” on November, 2009, at Hangzhou Normal University, China.

2008. Keynote speaker at the opening session of the Conference “Nature and Culture” titled “Nature-machine, Human Nature, Utopia: Revisiting the Debate Between Dostoevsky and Chernyshevsky” held at Jimei University, Xiamen, China, on November 15, 2008.

2008. Keynote speaker, titled “A Psychoanalytical Approach to Teaching Conrad’s The Secret Sharer” at the opening session of China’s British Literature Association annual conference held at Hangzhou Electronics Technology University, Hangzhou, China, on October 30^th, 2008.

2008. Invited lecture, titled “Butterfly Dream-Correspondence-Transformation: The Experience of Alienation versus the Aesthetic Experience” at Changsha Normal University, Changsha, China, November 23, 2008.

Ruben Quintero

Publications

Paperback publication forthcoming in January 2011 of A Companion to Satire: Ancient and Modern, edited by Ruben Quintero (Malden, MA; Oxford, UK; and Carlton, Victoria, AU: Blackwell Publishing, 2007). Includes chapter essays by four, present or former, CSULA English professors

(Drs. P. Brier, C. Herr, R. Quintero, and T. Steele); and “... likely to be the standard work on the subject for a decade or two..." (Reference Reviews, Issue 4 2008).

Lauri Ramey

2009-2010

Lauri Ramey's book Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry (Palgrave Macmillan, April 2010)--which Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Director of American Studies at Stanford University, called "an invaluable resource for the American literature classroom"--has been nominated for the Southern Historical Association's Frances B. Simkins Prize and the American Book Award. She contributed a chapter titled "Diaspora and the Avant-Garde in Contemporary Black British Poetry" to Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement, ed. Carrie Noland and Barrett Watten (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp. 189-206), which J. Michael Dash of New York University called "a superb collection of essays that imaginatively merges the experimental and the theoretical." Her essay, "Performing Poetics: The Art of Patience Agbabi and SuAndi," was published in Women: A Cultural Review (Routledge: Winter 2009, Volume 20, Number 3, pp. 310-322), in a special issue on Contemporary Black British Women's Writing guest edited by Deirdre Osborne. She delivered an invited hybrid creative/critical presentation called "The Choice of Voice" at the Poetry and Voice Conference sponsored by the Creative Writing Department at the University of Chichester (UK) in June 2010. She was elected to membership in the British Higher Education Academy (2009). She received a Visiting Fellowship from the Drama Department at Goldsmiths College, University of London, for 2010-11. She was Principal Investigator for The British Council's "Darwin Now" exhibition, sponsored by the College of Natural and Social Sciences, on display until December 2011 in the lobby of the Annenberg Integrated Sciences Center La Kretz Hall.

2008-2009

Professor of Creative Writing & English and Director of the Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, Lauri Ramey will be a Visiting Fellow in the Drama Department at Goldsmiths College, University of London, June 29-July 8.

Awards/Honors

Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry named CHOICE Recommended Book (American Library Association), and nominated for The Lincoln Prize (Gettysburg College), The Christian Gauss Award (Phi Beta Kappa Society), NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Work of Nonfiction, Frances B. Simkins Prize (Southern Historical Association), and American Book Award.

The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962-1975: A Research Compendium named CHOICE Outstanding Book and Editors’ Pick (American Library Association), and nominated for PEN-Oakland Josephine Miles Award and William Sanders Scarborough Prize (Modern Language Association).

Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry by African Americans, Ed. Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey, named Significant University Press Title for Undergraduates (Journal of Scholarly Publishing, University of Toronto Press), Book for Understanding Race Relations in the U.S. (American Association of University Presses), and nominated for PEN-Oakland Josephine Miles Award.

Faculty Adviser to Statement Magazine awarded 2008 National Program Directors’ Prize in Content from Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP).

Grants/Fellowships

CSULA Sabbatical Leave, 2010-11.

Visiting Fellow, Goldsmiths College University of London, Spring 2011.

Principal Investigator, British Council Darwin Now Exhibit, 2010-11.

Visiting Fellow, Goldsmiths College University of London, Summer 2009.

Principal Investigator, British Council Writer in Residence Program, 2008-09.

Principal Investigator, National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 2008-09.

CSULA Department of English Katherine Carter Research Fund Grant, 2008.

Publications

“Recent Collections by Black British Women Poets: Bloodshot Monochrome by Patience Agbabi (Canongate, 2008), Ship Shape by Dorothea Smartt (Peepal Tree, 2008) and Salt-Sweat and Tears by Louisa Adjoa Parker (Cinnamon Press, 2008).” Wasafiri, Special Black British Writing issue, Guest Eds. Bernardine Evaristo and Karen McCarthy. London: Routledge, Spring 2011, pp. 90-92.

“Performing Contemporary Poetics: The Art of SuAndi and Patience Agbabi.” In Women: A Cultural Review, Ed. Isobel Armstrong et al. Vol. 20. No. 3. London: Routledge, Winter 2010, pp. 310-322.

Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 (hardbound first edition), 2010 (paperback revised edition).

Black British Writing, Ed. R. Victoria Arana and Lauri Ramey. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

R. Victoria Arana and Lauri Ramey. “Preface.” In Black British Writing, Ed. R. Victoria Arana and Lauri Ramey. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp. ix-x.

“Contemporary Black British Poetry as a Diasporic Avant-Garde.” In Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement, Ed. Carrie Noland and Barrett Watten. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp. 189-206.

“Patience Agbabi.” In Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twenty-First Century “Black” British Writers, Vol. 347, Ed. R. Victoria Arana. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2009, pp. 29-36.

“Anthony Joseph.” In Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twenty-First Century “Black” British Writers, Vol. 347, Ed. R. Victoria Arana. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2009, pp. 152-160.

“SuAndi.” In Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twenty-First Century “Black” British Writers, Vol. 347, Ed. R. Victoria Arana. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2009, pp. 291-298.

"Contemporary Black British Poetry.” In Black British Writing, Ed. R. Victoria Arana and Lauri Ramey. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 (paperback edition), pp. 109-136.

The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962-1975: A Research Compendium, Ed. Lauri Ramey, in consultation with Paul Breman. Hampshire and Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2008.

“The Heritage Series: An Introduction.” In The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962-1975: A Research Compendium, Ed. Lauri Ramey. Hampshire, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Pub. Ltd., 2008, pp. 1-17.

Clarence Major and Lauri Ramey. “Paul Breman’s Heritage Series of Black Poetry” by Clarence Major based on Interview with Lauri Ramey. In The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962-1975: A Research Compendium, Ed. Lauri Ramey. Hampshire and Burlington: Ashgate Pub. Ltd., 2008, pp. 169-170.

Lauri Ramey and Sonia Sanchez. “Poetry and the Heritage Series” by Sonia Sanchez based on an Interview with Lauri Ramey. In The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962-1975: A Research Compendium, Ed. Lauri Ramey. Hampshire and Burlington: Ashgate Pub. Ltd., 2008, pp. 171-172.

“Ray Durem: Take No Prisoners.” In The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962-1975: A Research Compendium, Ed. Lauri Ramey. Hampshire, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Pub. Ltd., 2008, pp. 107-111.

“Calvin C. Hernton: Portrait of a Poet.” In The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962-1975: A Research Compendium, Ed. Lauri Ramey. Hampshire, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Pub. Ltd., 2008, pp. 117-122.

“Bibliography of Heritage Series Poets.” In The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962-1975: A Research Compendium, Ed. Lauri Ramey. Hampshire, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Pub. Ltd., 2008, pp. 295-305.

“The Heritage Press Archives.” In The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962-1975: A Research Compendium, Ed. Lauri Ramey. Hampshire, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Pub. Ltd., 2008, pp. 307-314.

“Calvin C. Hernton.” In Encyclopedia of African-American Literature, Ed. Wilfred D. Samuels. New York: Facts on File, 2008, pp. 245-247.

“The Heritage Series of Black Poetry.” In Encyclopedia of African-American Literature, Ed. Wilfred D. Samuels. New York: Facts on File, 2008, pp. 244-245.

“Insiders and Outsiders in Blackwatch.” Contemporary Theatre Review 18.2, May 2008. London: Routledge, pp. 276-277.

Presentations:

Conference Director and Panelist, British Council International Videoconference on “The Great Game: Afghanistan,” co-sponsored by The Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Royal Holloway- University of London, California State University-East Bay, and American University in Kabul, November 2010

Invited Presentation: “The Choice of Voice: Hybrid Creative/Critical Presentation.” Poetry and Voice Conference. Creative Writing Department, University of Chichester, UK, June 2010.

Invited Panelist: “The Future of the Humanities.”Academic Diversity Forum. California State University, San Marcos, April 2009.

Invited Featured Presentation: “African American Poetry: From Slave Songs to Neo Hoodoo.” California State University at Los Angeles, Pan African Studies Department and Cross Cultural Centers, February 2009.

Videoconference Panel Organizer, Moderator, and Presenter: “Busman’s Blues: Critical Negotiations of Black British Writing and Culture by American Students.” In Whose Name: Critical and Creative Intersections of Black British Writing and Culture Conference. Goldsmiths College, University of London, March 2008.

Television Interview: “Poetic Craft” on “Literary Speak” with C. Debra Thomas. Pasadena, California Channel 66, April 2008.

“Dramas and Trauma: Literary Representations of War.” International Videoconference on “Black Watch” sponsored by the British Council, Cal State LA, University of Glasgow and Royal Holloway, University of London. Conference co-organizer and Cal State LA respondent, 2007.

Other Professional Activities

Editorial advisory board member and reviewer of manuscripts for (among others) Routledge, Cambridge University Press, Blackwell, Palgrave Macmillan, The Society for the Study of Ethnic Literatures of the United States (MELUS), Pearson/Longman, University Press of Florida, Thomson/Wadsworth, Scientific Journals International, and Bedford/St. Martin’s.

Founding Director, Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (2004-09).

Creative writing mentor to Schurr High School Spartans Poetry CafÃ©, Chester W. Nimitz Middle School, and Miguel Contreras Learning Complex.

Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program Fellowship Mentor to Tyler Reeb, Claremont Graduate University.

Aaron Huey Sonnenschein

Awards/Honors

Awarded a Munitz Fund course release for Spring 2009 for preparation for conferences and publications.

Grants/Fellowships

Submitted a proposal for a three year grant to the Documenting Endangered Languages Program at the National Science Foundation to work on an exciting new interdisciplinary project with an archaeologist at UCLA (Danny Zborover) and a linguist at the Instituto Nacional de AntropologÃa e Historia (Rosa MarÃa Rojas Torres). This project, ‘A Study of Highland Chontal as Spoken in Santa Maria Zapotitlan’, is currently under consideration. If granted it would allow for the three of us, two Mexican graduate students, and a CSULA student to conduct field work the summers of 2010, 2011, and 2012. It would also allow me to take one course off per quarter to fulfill the research requirements of the grant. This community based and controlled project would result in a high quality, digital audio-visual archive of this highly endangered language, literacy workshops and language revitalization workshops in the community, training of native speakers in basic documentary linguistics, a dialect survey of all dialects of Highland Chontal, and both practical and academic dictionaries and grammars of Highland Chontal as spoken in Santa Maria Zapotitlan intended for use in language revitalization efforts and by academics.

Publications

(Submitted) ‘Un testamento zapoteco del Valle de Oaxaca, 1616’, co-authored with Pamela Munro, Kevin Terraciano, Xochitl Flores, Michael Galant, and Diana Schwartz, to ACERVOS (Oaxaca, Mexico). This paper, a collaboration between historians and linguists, examines an important document from the valley of Oaxaca, 1616. This paper emphasizes the historical and linguistic significance of this important paper, and is the result of years of work of an interdisciplinary group at UCLA. We plan to publish a volume of such papers.

Presentations

Presented ‘The Gradient Nature of Categorial Change: Lexicalization and Grammaticalization of Zapotec Relational Nouns and Prepositions’ at the Linguistic Association of the Southwest. This paper investigates the means by which body part nouns become prepositions in Zapotecan and other languages. October 2008.

Presented ‘The Evolution of Pronominal Systems in Zapotecan within the Context of Eastern Otomanguean’: at the X Encuentro Internacional de LingÃ¼Ãstica en el Noroeste. November 2008. This paper explores the possibility that there was a null third person pronoun in Proto-Zapotecan based on evidence from Eastern Otomanguean. November 2008.

Presented ‘Working with community based organizations in literacy and linguistics courses: success and failure in student's experiences in the field’ at the 12^th CSU Regional Symposium on University Teaching. (With Jennifer McCormick). May 2^nd 2009.

Presented ‘Number Systems in Colonial and Modern Sierra Zapotec’ at WAIL 2009. May 8^th 2009. This paper describes number systems in Colonial and Modern Sierra Zapotec based on my fieldwork and on a hitherto unanalyzed Colonial Sierra Zapotec phrase book. This work emphasizes potential use of historical documents in the description of currently spoken languages.

Presented ‘Body Part Terms and their Use in Colonial Valley Zapotec with attention to Mesoamerican Cosmovision’ at 2009 Conference on Mesoamerica on May 16^th. This paper explores the linguistic and cultural significance of body parts in Colonial Zapotec.

Gave an invited lecture on ‘Mesoamerica as a Linguistic Area: Examples from Modern and Colonial Zapotec’ at CSU, Bakersfield. May 20^th, 2009.

Gave an invited talk on the use of Colonial era documents in the description and revitalization of endangered Oaxacan languages at the Biblioteca Burgoa in Oaxaca City. November 2009.

Presented a paper at the inauguration of the community museum in Santa MarÃa ZapotitlÃ¡n on a proposed language revitalization and documentation project entitled ‘Programa de documentaciÃ³n y rescate de la lengua chontal de la sierra’. November 2009.

Presented a paper entitled ‘Dizha Xhon: A Language Grouping in Crisis in Oaxaca and California’ at the ‘Latin America: Crises and Opportunities conference hosted by the Latin American Studies Department at UC Riverside.

Presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest entitled ‘Body-part Terms in Colonial Sierra Zapotec’ in October, 2010.

Other Professional Activities

Chaired a session at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest. 2008.

Co-organizer for the 2009 Conference on Mesoamerica with Roberto CantÃº, Manuel Aguilar, and Enrique Ochoa. We planned the first conference on Mesoamerica to be held at CSULA.

Organized and moderated a session on a 17^th century Colonial Valley Zapotec document for the 2009 Conference on Mesoamerica.

Timothy Steele

Publications

New Poems

Two Poems: “Opening the Camp,” “Flying Colors.” The Hopkins Review 1 (Spring 2008): 210-12.

Translation: “Demain, dÃ¨s l’aube . . .” (Victor Hugo). The Raintown Review 7 (May 2008): 109.

Poem: “Caesar for a Day.” First Things 193 (May 2009): 28.

Poem: “For Kashmir.” First Things 194 (June/July 2009): 20.

Poem: “In Montmartre Cemetery.” Able Muse (Winter 2009): http://www.ablemuse.com/v8/poetry/timothy-steele/montmartre-cemetery.

Poem: “At a Swimming Pool.” Clearing the Sill of the World: Program of the 28^th Annual Key West Literary Seminar (January 7 – 14, 2010): 38.

Two Poems: “Arrangement for One Voice,” “Pastoral at Rock Point.” Sewanee Review 118 (Spring 2010): 197-98.

Poems Recently Reprinted in Anthologies

Poem: “Mockingbird,” The Poets Guide to the Birds, edited by Judith Kitchen and Ted Kooser. Tallahassee, FL: Anhinga Press, 2009: 188.

Five Poems: “Practice,” “Beatitudes, While Setting Out the Trash,” “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Child,” “Advice to a Student,” “Joseph.” In Dramatic Monologues: A Contemporary Anthology, edited by Samuel Maio. Evansville, IN: University of Evansville Press, 2009: 198-204.

Poem: “A Couple, A Domestic Interior.” Don’t Leave Hungry: Fifty Years of Southern Poetry Review, edited by James Smith. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2009: 94.

Poem: “Black Phoebe.” Bright Wings, edited by Billy Collins, with Paintings by David Allen Sibley. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009: 127-28.

Poem: “Caesar for a Day.” Grace Notes: Poetry from the Pages of First Things, edited by Paul Lake and Losana Boyd. New York: First Things, 2010: 96-98.

Poem: "In Montmartre Cemetery." Able Muse Anthology, edited by Alex Pepple. San Jose: Able Muse Press, 2010: 158-59.

Prose

Interview. “Timothy Steele Interviewed by David Kosub,” in Speaking of Poems, December 18, 2009. (http://speakingofpoems.blogspot.com/search?q=Timothy+Steele)

"Introduction" to Able Muse Anthology, edited by Alex Pepple. San Jose: Able Muse Press, 2011: xiii-iv.

Recent Presentations

"’Tis Only for a Poet to Translate a Poet”: Dick Davis’s Translations from Persian Poetry." Paper delivered at a panel, "Sharing Culture and Preserving Poetry," at the 2009 MLA Convention. December 28, 2009.

“Metrical Pleasures: All the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing.” Paper delivered at the 28th annual Key West Literary Seminar. January 8, 2010.

"On Richard Wilbur." Paper delivered at a panel on Wilbur's work at the 2010 American Literature Association. May 29, 2010.

LIBERAL STUDIES

American Communities Program Fellowship, CSULA, 2006-2007.

Dionne Espinoza, an Associate Professor of Chicano Studies and Liberal Studies, was featured in a LA Times artixle (Eastside High Schoolers Get a Lesson in Oral History, Mary 29, 2009) for her work with the students of Roosevelt High School in producing an oral history video project, "Las Grandes de East Los Angeles and Boyle Heights: Women as Community Builders." The video debuted at the Southwest Oral History Association Conference at USC in March.

Book Chapter: “Imagined Immunities: Border Rhetorics and the Ethos of Sans FrontiÃ¨risme. Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice: Revisioning Academic Accountability. Ed. Ranu Samantrai, Joe Parker, and Mary Romero. New York: SUNY Press, 2007. [Forthcoming]
Journal Review Article: “Michael BÃ©rubÃ©’s Rhetorical Occasions and Provocations.” Cultural Studies (2007). [Forthcoming]

Presentations:

“Unframing Experience: Limit, Liminality, and the Ludic Imagination,” presented at the Western States Communication Association annual convention, Seattle, February 2007.
“Bodies and Selves in Action: Refiguring Communitas in Everyday Life,” presented at the Western States Communication Association annual convention, Seattle, February 2007.

Dionne Espinoza

Awards:

Josephine Miles Literary Award, PEN Oakland—Essays, 2007.
International Latino Book Award, Best Book in History—English Language, 2007 Sabbatical Leave Award, CSU Los Angeles, 2007.

Grants:

“Las Grandes de East Los Angeles: Women as Community Builders,” California Stories Fund, California Council for the Humanities, $9,603, (Project Director and Lead Grant Writer), 2008.

Alejandra Marchevsky

Grants and Awards:

"Rethinking La Familia and Cultural Nationalism Through Women’s Communities: Enriqueta Vasquezand Chicana Feminist Thought.” Enriqueta Vasquez and the Chicano Movement: Writings from El GritoDel Norte. Eds. Lorena Oropeza and Dionne Espinoza. Hispanic Civil Rights Series. Houston: ArtePublico Press. 205-231. 2006.
Review of Carlos MuÃ±oz, Jr. Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement, Revised and Expanded Edition. Latino Studies Journal 6, 241-2, 2008.
“Brown Berets.” Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society. Volume I. Sage Reference Publications. Ed. Richard Schaefer. Sage Press. 208-210, 2008 .
“Chicana Movement.” Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender. Ed. Malti-Douglas, Fedwa. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007.

Presentations:

“Chicana Feminisms and Women’s Movements in the 1960s & 1970s.” East Los Angeles Community College. Chicano Studies 8. May 24, 2008 (invited).
“Soldadas Por La Causa: An Oral History of Chicana Participation in the Brown Berets.” Oral History Association Conference. Oakland, California, October 25-28, 2007 (refereed).
“Notes on Gender, Leadership, and Discursive Strategies in The Chicano Movement of the 60s/70s and the Immigrant Rights Movement of the 90s/00s.” Panel on “Negotiating Latinidades.” National Endowment for the Humanities Workshop, California State University, Los Angeles, June 20-22, 2007 (invited).
“Marcha Por La Mujer Migrante: Chicanas/Latinas in the Immigrant Rights Movement and Popular Feminism.” Panel, “Social Movements and Organizing.” Immigration, Globalization, and Labor Conference. Southern California Human Rights Network. Riverside, California, May 12, 2007 (refereed).
“Marcha Por La Mujer Migrante: Chicanas/Latinas in the Immigrant Rights Movement and Popular Feminism. Panel, “(Im)migrant Subjects in the Politics and Policies of Representation.” National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS). San Jose, California, April 4-7, 2007 (refereed).
“’Out of the Movement Kitchen’: Chicana Feminisms and Women’s Movements in the Southwest, 1968-1978.” Women’s Studies Department. San Francisco State University, March 2, 2007 (invited).
“’Out of the Movement Kitchen’: Cultural Nationalism and the Rise of Chicana Feminisms in the Southwest.” Department of Chicana/o Studies, California State University, Northridge, February 14, 2007 (invited).
“’Mixed’ Emotions and the Emergence of Women of Color Feminisms in the 60s & 70s.” PAS 369, “Race, Activism and Emotions.” Guest Lecture, February 5, 2007 (invited).

Steven Jones

Screen Credits:

"Jack Hunter and the Lost Treasure of Ugarit," 2008, American Cinema International, Story and Writing Credit.
"Jack Hunter and the Tomb of Akhenaton," 2008, American Cinema International, Story and Writing Credit.
"Jack Hunter and the Star of Heaven," 2008, American Cinema International, Story and Writing Credit.

2008 Distinguished Women’s Award, Cal State L.A.
Joseph A. Bailey II Fellow on the African American Experience of the American Communities Program, CSULA, 2006-07.
Selected in January 2008 by the UCLA Civil Rights Project as one of ten scholars nationwide to contribute to an ongoing research and public policy project entitled, "The Future Rests on Single Moms."

Gaston Alzate
Articles:
"Dramaturgy, Citizenship, and Queerness: Contemporary Mexican Political Cabaret". Latin American Perspectives [UC Riverside] 37.1 (2010): 62-76.

“I Wanted to Go to College, But They Sent Me to Work:” Welfare Reform’s Impact on Post-Secondary Education for Latinas in Los Angeles,” co-authored with Jeanne Theoharis. This research was commissioned by the UCLA Civil Rights Project (CPR), and presented in symposium entitled, “The Future Rests on Working Moms” in May 2008. The article will published in a policy volume by the CRP in fall 2008.
“Dropped from the Welfare Rolls: Mexican Immigrants, Race, and Rights in the Era of Welfare Reform,” co-authored with Jeanne Theoharis. Invited submission to the Journal of Sociology and Social Work, special issue on welfare reform, edited by Luisa Deprez and Mary Gatta (Summer 2008).
Chapters from Dr. Marchevsky’s co-authored book have been reprinted in: Experiencing Poverty: Voices from the Bottom, edited by Eitzen and Smith (Allyn & Bacon, 2008); and Reconstructing Gender: An Edited Anthology, 5th Edition, edited by E Disch (McGraw-Hill, 2009).

Patrick Sharp

Publications:
A Brief and Practical Guide for Writing Critical Analysis Papers in Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Contexts. Matthews, NC: Kona. In press.

Practicing Science Fiction: Critical Essays on Writing, Reading and Teaching the Genre. Co-edited with Karen Hellekson, Craig Jacobsen, and Lisa Yaszek. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2010. http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-4793-0

Darwin in Atlantic Cultures: Evolutionary Visions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality. Co-edited with Jeannette Eileen Jones. New York and London: Routledge, 2009.
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415872348/

"Starbuck as 'American Amazon': Captivity Narrative and the Colonial Imagination in Battlestar Galactica." Science Fiction Film and Television 3.1 (2010): 57-78.

"Darwin's Soldiers: Gender, Evolution, and Warfare in Them! and Forbidden Planet." Science Fiction Film and Television 1:2 (2008): 237-250.

"Science Studies 101." SFRA Review 283 (2008): 4-7.

Presentations:
"Feminism and 'Racial Progress': The Amazons Conquer Sexual Selection." American Communities Program Symposium. California State University, Los Angeles: April 19, 2010.

"Genre and Evolution in Early Science Fiction." American Communities Program Works In Progress Series. California State University, Los Angeles: February 9, 2010.

"Amazonian Flowers: Gender, Science, and Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century." American Studies Association Conference. San Antonio: November 19, 2010.

"Racial Hygiene, Sexual Selection, and Science Fiction before the Golden Age." Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference. Indianapolis: October 30, 2010.

"Gender and the Alien in V." Science Fiction Research Association Conference. Carefree, AZ: June 26, 2010.

"Racial Nationalism and SB 1070." Science Fiction Research Association Conference. Carefree, AZ: June 26, 2010.

"The Amazon's Conquer Sexual Selection: Gillmore's Angel Island." Science Fiction Research Association Conference. Carefree, AZ: June 24, 2010.

Panelist, "Black and/or Brown Planets: Politics and Race in Science Fiction (a roundtable)." International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Orlando: March 17-21, 2010.

"The 'Indispensable Woman': Early Twentieth-Century Representations of Gender, Technology, and Evolution." Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference. Atlanta: November 5, 2009.

Panelist, "Science Fiction Television: The Year in Review." Science Fiction Research Association Conference. Atlanta: June 13, 2009.

Session Organizer and Chair, "Evolution, Race, and Hybridity in SF Film and Television." Science Fiction Research Association Conference. Atlanta: June 13, 2009.

Session Chair and Commentator, "Mirroring Community: Reflections on Racism, Environmentalism, and Transformations of Civic Identity in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Cleveland." California American Studies Association Conference. University of California, Santa Barbara: April 10, 2009.

Michael Willard

Grants:

Grant-Writer, Local History Digital Resources Project on the Compton Communicative Arts Academy Archive, California Digital Library of the University of California, California State Library Local Digital History Resources Project, July 2007 - June 2008.
Co-Principal Investigator, National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty-Humanities-Initiative Grant on “Cultures of Engagement in an Era of Displacement,” California State University Los Angeles, March, 2007-May, 2008.

Presentations:

“Barrio Mediascapes and L.A. Neighborhoods,” Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, October 2008.
“Digital Color Lines: Youth Independent Media and Cyber Social Movement in Los Angeles,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, October 2007.
“Performing Politics, Improvising Coalition: Jazz Collaborations in 1940s and 1950s Los Angeles,” National Endowment for the Humanities, California State University Los Angeles Faculty-Humanities-Initiative Symposium on “Cultures of Engagement in an Era of Displacement,” Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, June 2007.
“Los Angeles Cultural Production in a Transnational Era,” Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, Brown Bag Series in US/Western/Borderlands History, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, March, 2007 (panel commentator.
“Documenting the Black Arts Movement in Los Angeles: The Visual and Digital History of the Compton Communicative Arts Academy,” History Department Colloquium, California State University Los Angeles, February 2007 (invited lecture).

MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

"Capocomicato y cannovaccio: el cabaret de Tito Vasconcelos". Current Trends in Latino and Latin American Performing Arts. Beatriz Rizk editor. Miami: Ediciones Universal, 1-20, 2010.

"Masculinidades hÃbridas: Francis y el teatro de revista mexicano." Logos: Facultad de FilosofÃa y Humanidades, Universidad de La Salle, BogotÃ¡ 17 enero-junio (2010): 13-47.

"Hacia una imaginerÃa legÃtima: una visiÃ³n del cine colombiano a partir de la obra de Luis Ospina". Edited by Maria Mercedes Jaramillo, . Universidade Fernando Pessoa. Nuestra America. Portugal, (forthcoming).

"El fin de la simulaciÃ³n: comentarios al cabaret masivo de Jesusa RodrÃguez y Liliana Felipe. Las mujeres y la escena mexicana. Edited by Claudia Gidi . Universidad Veracruzana/El Milagro MÃ©xico, (forthcoming).

Co-Editor:
KARPA Journal (Dissident Theatricalities, visual arts, and culture). Indexed by the MLA International Bibliography.

-Karpa 3.1, Winter 2010: joint issue with papel de colgadura journal (ICESI University, Colombia) dedicated to visual culture in the City of Cali.

-Karpa3.2, Summer 2010: texts by Latina performance artists Violeta Luna and Elia Arce, essays by Vivian MartÃnez-Tabares (Conjunto Magazine, Cuba), Monica Ribeiro (Federal University of Minas Gerais), and storyteller Nicolas Buenaventura (France-Colombia), among other contributors.

Research Fellowship:
Research fellow for the year 2011 by the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” at the Freie UniversitÃ¤t in Berlin, Germany.

Editorial Board:
Moringa: teatro e danÃ§a. journal of the Department of Performing Arts at the University of ParaÃba, Brazil. During 2010 included as member of the editorial board.

Pablo Baler

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:

In Spring 2010 published a Book review of Sigilosos v(u)elos epistemolÃ³gicos en Sor Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz. Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2008.
A Contracorriente: Vol. 7, No. 3.

Creator and editor of the online news outlet QueOndas, run by CSULA students of Spanish Journalism courses.

Translated and did the voice over of “Copa Grande”, a documentary produced by Jon Beaupre on the effects of climate change in PerÃº.

Translated Eduardo D’anna poetry, in collaboration with Dr. Matt Losada. Golden Handcuffs #12 (Fall-Winter, 2009; Vol. 1, No. 12).

Organized the events "The Thought of Poetry" with poets Marcelo Pellegrini and Nestor DÃaz de Villegas (noviembre 18, 2009) and "Transparencia y Densidad" with poet JosÃ© Kozer (april 15, 2010).

Together with Dr. Matt Losada, Baler also produced and directed and interview with JosÃ© Kozer that can be viewed online at <www.queondas.org>.

in 2010 he received an Honorable Mention in fiction from New Millenium Writing for his story "SilverLake", part of a collection of short stories in progress entitled Sujetos a la Nada.

Currently editing an anthology of essays entitled The Next Thing: Art in the 21st century. This is a collection of perspectives about the aesthetic sensibility that will define the 21st century. Project to be sponsored by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.

Published excerpt from Luisa Valenzuela’s novel La travesia Golden Handcuffs Review, Winter/Spring 2009, Vol. 1 No. 11 (in collaboration with Dr. Matt Losada).

Published translation of poems by Adriana Borga, Luisa Futoransky and ConcepciÃ³n Bertone Golden Handcuffs Review Summer/Fall 2008, Vol. 1, No. 10 (in collaboration with Dr. Matt Losada).

April, 2009, RAMURI magazine (Rumanian cultural and literary magazine founded in 1905) published a selection of short stories chosen from Sujetos a la Nada a book in progress. The stories, “La increÃble historia de Jane Stokes”, “Toque Maestro”, “El equilibrista”, “La grulla”, and “Hormiga soluble”, were translated by Spanish-Rumanian translator Tudora ?andru-Mehedin?i.

January, 2009, Baler’s book Los sentidos de la distorsion: fantasÃas epistemologicas del neobarroco latinomamericano was published by Editorial Corregidor’s Nueva CrÃtica Hispanoamericana collection (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

January, 2009, Baler’s article “Del perro andaluz al fantasma de la libertad: la evoluciÃ³n del surrealismo en Luis BuÃ±uel” was published by online magazine KARPA. Journal of Theatrical and Visual Culture Criticism. (2.1. January, 2009).

February, 2009, Baler gave a presentation at the Huntington Library in Pasadena. The lecture, entitled “The bionic man, the blind poet, and the utopia of absolute representation” was part of the Powerful Vision Series organized by Cal State L.A.’s College of Arts and Letters. Professors JosÃ© Cruz GonzÃ¡lez, Suzanne Regan, and Hae-Kyung Lee participated as well.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

October 2008, Baler invited veteran broadcast journalist Pascual Menutti to a two day, highly successful event on campus. Menutti, one of Argentina’s most recognizable radio voices discussed his career and the secrets of his trade during a presentation entitled “Periodismo en EspaÃ±ol”. The following day, Menutti offered a workshop on radio journalism skills.

As part of the Spanish 417 class “Latin American Short Story” (offered Spring, 2009), Prof. Baler, in cooperation with students Alicia Joya, Luis Vargas and Laura Escarcega, edited a collection of short stories written by students and published through Blurb.com. The book entitled CUATROCIENTOSDIECISIETE can be acquired through that same website. A presentation of the book is scheduled for Fall 2009.

Domnita Dumitrescu

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:

Book:
Aspects of Spanish Pragmatics, Peter Lang, New York (manuscript delivered on August 30, 2010, expected publication date; 2011).

Chapters in books, (peer-reviewed) proceedings volumes, and scholarly journal:

“El espaÃ±ol (y el rumano) en los Estados Unidos: metamorphosis, controversia y ‘pedigrÃ’”, en Actas del Simposio TID (TraducciÃ³n e identidad diaspÃ³ric: El (meta)discurso de la (a)culturaciÃ³n, Alicante, 4-6 de noviembre de 2010 (invited contribution).

“El espaÃ±ol en los Estados Unidos: Metamorfosis y controversia” invited contribution for the BoletÃn de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua EspaÃ±ola (ANLE).

“Rum.Cic? vs. esp.Dizque: PolifonÃa e intertextualidad”, Oralia, Anejo 6, PolifonÃa e intertextualidad en el diÃ¡logo, ed. by Clara Ubaldina Lorda (2010).

“CortesÃa ritual en espaÃ±ol y rumano: el caso de los deseos” invited contribution for a special issue of EspaÃ±ol Actual, ed. by Catalina Fuentes (Vol. 94, 2010).

“Spanglish: An ongoing controversy,” Building Communities and Making Connections, ed. by Susana Rivera-Mills and Juan Antonio Trujillo, Cambridge UP, 2010, pp. 136-167 (invited contribution).

“Sobre la atenuaciÃ³n cortÃ©s en espaÃ±ol y rumano: unas estrategias comunes.” Actes du XXV-e CongrÃ¨s International de Linguistique et Philologie Romanes, publiÃ©s par Maria Iliescu, Heidi Siller-Runggaldier et Paul Danler, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2010, vol. IV, pp. 371-388.

“Estrategias de cortesÃa y gestiÃ³n de imagen en entrevistas con jÃ³venes caribeÃ±os”. Estudios sobre lengua, sociedad y cultura: homenaje a Diana Bravo, ed. by Nieves HernÃ¡ndez-Flores and Maria Bernal, Stockholm University: Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, 2009, pp.78-106 (available at http://su.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:235240).

“Interrogative allo-repetitions in Mexican Spanish: Discourse functions and (im)politeness strategies.” Special issue (The Discourse of Politeness in Spanish) of Pragmatics, vol 18, No.4 (2008): 659-680.

“El espaÃ±ol en los Estados Unidos: La controversia sobre el Spanglish dentro (y mÃ¡s allÃ¡ ) del mundo acadÃ©mico.” Estudios hispÃ¡nicos, vol I: LingÃ¼Ãstica y didÃ¡ctica, ed. by Sanda Reinheimer Ripeanu & Mihai Iacob, Bucuresti: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti, 2008, 137-164.

“Imagen y (des) cortesÃa en la comunicaciÃ³n acadÃ©mica por ordenador: un caso concreto.” CortesÃa y conversaciÃ³n: de lo escrito a lo oral, ed. by Antonio Briz, Antonio Hidalgo, Marta Albelda, Josefa Contreras & Nieves. Valencia, Estocolmo: Universidad de Valencia, Programa EDICE. 2008, 437-467. (CD-ROM). Also available at: http://www.edice.org/programa/wp-content/files/3coloquioEDICE.pdf

“Usos discursivos del adverbio sÃ en el espaÃ±ol mexicano.” El espaÃ±ol de AmÃ©rica: Actas del VI Congreso Internacional “El espaÃ±ol de AmÃ©rica,” Tordesillas, Valladolid, 25-29 de octubre 2005), ed. by CÃ©sar HernÃ¡ndez Alonso & Leticia CastaÃ±eda San Cirilo. Valladolid: DiputaciÃ³n Provincial de Valladolid, 2007, 857-872 (available also in CD-ROM). Reprinted in: “Studii de lingvistica si filologie romanica: Hommages offerts Ã Sanda Reinheimer RÃ®peanu, ed. by Alexandra Cunita, Coman Lupu & Liliane Tasmowski. Bucuresti, Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti, 2007, 233-244.

“A los 35 aÃ±os de Renga: Octavio Paz y la universalidad del lenguaje poÃ©tico.” Actas del XV Congreso de la AsociaciÃ³n Internacional de Hispanista ‘Las dos orillas’, Monterrey, MÃ©xico, del 19 al 24 de julio de 2004, vol. IV, ed. by Beatriz Mariscal, and MarÃa Teresa Miaja, Fondo de Cultura EconÃ³mica/AIH/ TecnolÃ³gico de Monterrey/El Colegio de MÃ©xico: MÃ©xico, 2007, pp. 135-144.

Book reviews:
G. PiÃ±a Rosales et al. (eds.) “Hablando bien se entiende la gente”, Hispania 94, 2011 (in press).

Enciclopedia del espaÃ±ol en los Estados Unidos. Hispania 93.1 (2010): 158-159.

Kathleen Wheatly, Sintaxis y morfologÃa de la lengua espaÃ±ola. Hispania 90.4 (2007): 717-718.

Diana Bravo (ed.), Estudios de la (des)cortesÃa en espaÃ±ol. Hispania 90.3 (2007): 514-515.

Rosina MÃ¡rquez Reiter and Maria Elena Placencia, Spanish Pragmatics. Hispania 90.1 (2007): 87-88.

Papers presented (or accepted for presentation) at international, national and regional professional meetings:

(Accepted for presentation) “?QuÃ© se entiende exactamente por Spanglish?” Annual Meeting of the AATSP, Washington DC, July 2011.

(Accepted for presentation) “La representaciÃ³n del habla espaÃ±ola regional en los diÃ¡logos literarios” Dialogue and Representation: 13^th Conference on the International Association for Dialogue Analysis, April 26-30, University of MontrÃ©al, QuÃ©bec, Canada.

“Spanglish: What’s in a name?” MLA Annual Convention, Los Angeles, January 2011.

“Sobre el llamado ‘leÃsmo de cortesÃa’ en HispanoamÃ©rica” (in collaboration with Mircea-Doru BrÃ¢nza), 5th colloquium of EDICE, Universidad del AtlÃ¡ntico, Baranquillas, Colombia, December 6-10, 2010.

”Cortesia codificada vs. CortesÃa interpretada en espaÃ±ol” Fall 2010 meeting of the AATSP Southern California chapter, Occidental College, CA, October 30, 2010.

“El espaÃ±ol (y el rumano) en los EEUU: metamorfosis, controversia y pedigrÃ.” Invited lecture at the University of Alicante, Spain, September 14, 2010.

“CortesÃa ritual en espaÃ±ol y rumano: el caso de los deseos”, 26th Congreso Internacional de LingÃ¼Ãstica y FilologÃa Romanicas”, Valencia, Spain, September 6-11, 2010.

Dizque en el espaÃ±ol americano,” 92nd Annual conference of the AATSP, Guadalajara, Mexico, July 10-13, 2010. To be presented also at the LASSO annual conference, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, October 7-10, 2010

“La bÃºsqueda de la poesÃa plural y plurilingÃ¼e en Octavio Paz,” at the International Congress on Octavio Paz, organizad at California State University, Los Angeles, May 14-15, 2010.

“Rum, cica vs. Esp. Dizque: marcadores epistÃ©micos de disconformidad intertextual.” The XII Conference on Dialogue Analysis, September 15-18, 2009, Barcelona, Spain.

“From English influence to English epidemic: Reflections on the Romanian language before and after 1989.” MLA Annual Convention, San Francisco, California, December 27-30, 2008.

“QuÃ© piensan los profesores de espaÃ±ol del Sur de California sobre el Spanglish:Una encuesta piloto.”37th Annual Meeting of LASSO, Corvallis, Oregon, October 17-19, 2008.

“Cuando el entrevistador y el entrevistado intercambian sus papeles: gestiÃ³n de imagen y cortesÃa valorizante en encuestas con jÃ³venes caribeÃ±os,” IV Coloquio Internacional de EDICE, Rome, September 23-26, 2008.

“El crecimiento del espaÃ±ol en los Estados Unidos: DesafÃos pedagÃ³gicos para el siglo XXI.” 90th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, San JosÃ©, Costa Rica, July 7-11, 2008.

“El espaÃ±ol en los Estados Unidos y la controversia sobre la legitimidad del Spanglish,.” Invited lecture at the University of San JosÃ©, Costa Rica, July 4, 2008.

“Spanish in the United States: Lessons from the past and challenges for the future.” President’s Distinguished Professor Talk before the CSULA Senate, on May 6, 2008.

“On Teaching an Upper-Division Spanish Language Courses in WebCT,” poster presentation at the 11th CSU Regional Symposium on University Teaching, Cal Poly, Pomona, April 12, 2008.

“Estrategias de cortesÃa en un curso de espaÃ±ol por computadora.” Fall meeting of the AATSP- Southern California chapter, Cal State San Bernardino, October 20, 2007.

“Estrategias de cortesÃa y gestiÃ³n de imagen en entrevistas con jÃ³venes caribeÃ±os.” 36th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, Denver, Colorado, September 21-23, 2007.

“Estrategias de atenuaciÃ³n en la interacciÃ³n oral en espaÃ±ol y rumano." 25th International Congress of Romance Linguistics and Philology, InnsbrÃ¼ck, Austria, September 2-7, 2007.

“Spanglish in California: to teach or not to teach?” at the annual meeting of the American Association of Spanish and Portuguese, San Diego, August 2-5, 2007.

“Estrategias de cortesÃa y gestiÃ³n de imagen en entrevistas con jÃ³venes caribeÃ±os." XVI Triennial Congress of the International Association of Hispanists, Paris, France, July 9-13 2007.

“La controversia sobre el Spanglish en los Estados Unidos.” Colloquium on “Los estudios hispÃ¡nicos en RumanÃa: 50 aÃ±os de vida universitaria,” Bucharest, Romania, April 26-28, 2007.

Service to the Profession:
Appointed Book/Media review Editor for Hispania, the journal of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, for a three-year term (January 2011-December 2013).

External reviewer for promotion to full professors of a candidate from the University of Oregon and a candidate from the College of Charleston (May and September 2010).

Manuscript evaluator for Analelel Universitatii din Brasov (4 articles, June 2010).

Manuscript reviewer for the EDICE program (May 2008, May 2009, May 2010).

Manuscript reviewer for Journal of Pragmatics (July 2008. June 2010).

Manuscript reviewer for Hispania (4 articles in 2009).

Member of the Scientific Committee of the international conference on professional communication, entitled “Workplace across languages and cultures” held in Brasov, Romania, May 21-23, 2010.

Member of the organizing committee of the International Conference on Octavio Paz, held at CSULA May 14-15, 2010.

Editorial Board of the Programa EDICE, in charge of the section “PragmÃ¡tica aplicada a la enseÃ±anza”(2008-present).

Revision of the 3rd edition of Introduccion a la lingÃ¼Ãstica espaÃ±ola, by M. Azevedo, for Prentice Hall, January 2008.

External reviewer of the Spanish and Portuguese Department at San Diego State University, November 2007.

Member of the Selection Committee for the candidates to the Sigma Delta Pi Order of Don Quijote (2007-2008).

Judge for the Sigma Delta Pi Frida Kahlo Prize to the best chapter website (evaluated and ranked 6 websites) (January 2007).

Sigma Delta Pi National Vice-President for the Western Region until August 2007 (when she withdrew her candidacy for a 5th turn).

Awards and Recognition:
Elected “colaboradora” of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE) (July 2010).

Elected Honorary President of the national Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society Sigma Delta Pi (2010- 2020).

Elected to the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Executive Council, for the 2009-2011 term (college/university representative).

2007-2008 CSULA President’s Distinguished Professor Award.

Sabbatical leave: Fall 2007.

2007 CSULA Nominee for the Wang Family Excellence Award (in the category of Visual and Performing Arts and Letters).

Included in the most recent editions of in Who’s Who in the World; Who’s Who in America; Who’s Who of American Women; Who’s Who in the West; and Who’s Who in America Education.

Her bibliography and the full text of some of her publications have been included in the website of the International Association of Hispanists.

Interviews granted:
For the Romanian Radio, “Romanii in lume”, June 13, 2010 (a 40 minutes interview, in Romanian).

“Domnita Dumitrescu intervievata de Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru,” Cultura romÃ¢neasc? Ã®n perspectiv? transatlantic?: Interviuri, ed. by Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru & Teodora ?erban-Oprescu, Bucuresti, editura Universitatii din Bucuresti, 2009, pp. 51-59.

For Chanel 52 (Telemundo), an interview in connection with the Latino Book and Family Festival, on October 8, 2009.

For Realitatea TV, a national Romanian Television Network, October 30, 2008 (available at: http://www.realitatea.net/video_519536_domnita-dumitrescu-este-profesor-de-spaniola-la-universitatea-de-stat-california_381581.html

Kylie Hsu

Awards and Grants:

Instructional technology grant from MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching), 2010-11.

Instructional technology grant from MERLOT, 2009-2010.

Travel grant, The 3rd Annual Sloan Consortium Symposium: Emerging Technologies for Online Learning, San Jose, July 20-23, 2010.

Mini-grant to present at the Sixth International Conference on Technology and

Chinese Language Teaching, Columbus, Ohio, June 2010.

Difference-in-pay sabbatical leave, Fall 2009.

Received lifetime complimentary subscription to the journal Language and Linguistics from the Academia Sinica, Taiwan, for the University Library, Fall 2009.

CSU discipline research grant, “Assessing Critical Classroom Issues Related to Chinese Language Teaching and Learning,” 2008-10.

Visiting scholar, “A Corpus-based Analysis of Chinese Discourse,” Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Summer 2009.

Travel grant from the CSU Institute for Teaching and Learning to participate in a discipline research workshop, LAX, March 27-28, 2009.

Editorial grant, “Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT),” 2000-09.

CSULA Outstanding Professor Award, September 15, 2008.

Conference sponsorship, Tai Ji Men Qigong Academy and the Federation of World Peace and Love, “Using Eastern Wisdom to Nurture the Body and Mind,” April 14, 2008.

Travel grant from MERLOT to present at the Seventh International Conference on Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching, New Orleans, LA, August 7-10, 2007.

U.S. delegation leadership grant, Shanghai Overseas Returned Scholars Association, China, July 2007.

Publications:
Hsu, K. Review of Xiao, R., et al. “A Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese: Core Vocabulary for Learners”. Invited publication in The Modern Language Journal, 2011.

Hsu, K. “A syntactic and discourse pragmatic analysis of the connective function of shuo in Taiwan Mandarin spontaneous speech”. Invited publication in the Proceedings of the 12^th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics, June 2010.

Hsu, K. “To “say” or to “talk”: A database study of natural speech”. Invited publication in the Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference and Workshops on Technology and Chinese Language Teaching, June 2010.

Hsu, K. Review of Xu, J., et al. (Eds.) Jia You! Chinese for the Global Community, Vols. 1 and 2, and complementary workbooks, instructor’s resource manuals, audio CDs, and video DVD. Invited publication in The Modern Language Journal, Vol. 94, Issue 2, Summer 2010.

Hsu, K. Statement on domestic violence. Invited publication in Proceedings of the 2010 World Summit on Human Rights for World Citizens, April 2010.

Hsu, K. Review of “Chinese Characters FAQ” by Rich Harbaugh, http://zhongwen.
com/faq.htm, February 2010.

Hsu, K. Review of “Chinese Poems” by chinese-poems.com, http://www.chinese-poems.com, January 2010.

Hsu, K. Review of “Practical Chinese Reader: Self-Tests” by Tim Xie, http://www.
csulb.edu/~txie/PCRopen/selftest.htm, December 2009.

Hsu, K. A corpus-based analysis of shuo in Mandarin spontaneous speech. Invited publication in Academic Perspective, Vol. 5, No. 2, December 2009.

Hsu, K. Translation of “Ode to Water” by Xiangdong Ye, Academic Perspective, Vol. 5, No. 2, December 2009.

Hsu, K. Review of “Pyngo” by Peter Liang, http://www.pyngo.com/, November 2009.
Hsu, K. Review of “Chinese Idioms and History” by the University of Southern California Chinese Program, http://www.usc.edu/dept/ealc/chinese/Reading/
chengyu.htm, April 2009.

Hsu, K. Review of “Teaching Languages with the Web” by Anderson Language Technology Center, http://altec.colorado.edu/online_modules/Teaching_web/
index.html, April 2009.

Hsu, K. Review of “Language Learning Library” by U.S. Institute of Languages, http://www.languagelearninglibrary.org/chinese/index.html, April 2009.

Hsu, K. Review of “Global Chinese Web Education Center” by Global Chinese Education Limited, http://www.huayuworld.org/, April 2009.

Practical Chinese Exercises: Vol. One (Fourth Edition). Learn Perfect Publishing, Los Angeles, CA, April 2008.

Practical Chinese Exercises: Vol. Two (Second Edition). Learn Perfect Publishing, Los Angeles, CA, July 2008.

Practical Chinese Exercises: Vol. Three (First Edition). Learn Perfect Publishing, Los Angeles, CA, February 2008.

A review of Sound Systems of Mandarin Chinese and English: A Comparison by Tsung Chin. Invited publication in Academic Perspective, Vol. 4, Fall 2008.

Preparing American college students to become future teachers of Chinese. Invited publication in Academic Perspective, Vol. 3, Fall 2007.

Report on the U.S. delegation’s visit to Shanghai, China. Invited publication in The Chinese American Professors & Professionals Net, Vol. 19, July 2007.

Reviews of Online Teaching-Learning Materials:

“Young and Restless in China” by Sue Williams for PBS’s FRONTLINE, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/youngchina, November 2008.

“ChinaByte” by Chinabyte.com, http://www.chinabyte.com, November, 2008.

“Basic Business Vocabulary” by the Chinese Program, University of Southern California, http://www.usc.edu/dept/ealc/chinese/bsnsword.htm, November 2008.

“Super Chinese Website” by J. Becker, http://www.uni.edu/becker/chinese2.html, April 2008.

“Chinese Business Letters” by the Chinese Program, University of Southern California, http://www.usc.edu/dept/ealc/chinese/Business/let1.htm, April 2008.

“Chinese Character Learning System” by California State University, Humboldt, http://www.humboldt.edu/~cllc/ccls/ccls.htm, November 2007.

“Cultural Interviews with Chinese-Speaking Professionals” by O. Kelm, et al., http://www.laits.utexas.edu/orkelm/chinese/index.html, November 2007.

“Multimedia Chinese Teaching System” by Rutgers Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, http://chinese.rutgers.edu/content_cs.htm, October 2007.

Presentations:

Hsu, K. “Using and sharing peer-reviewed online learning objects”. Chinese Language Teachers Association of California, Spring Conference, Palo Alto, CA, March 5, 2011.

Hsu, K. Pragmatics of “speaking” in Chinese conversations. The 18th International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning, Kobe, Japan, July 16-19, 2010.

Hsu, K. A syntactic and discourse pragmatic analysis of the connective function of shuo in Taiwan Mandarin spontaneous speech. The 12th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics, Taipei, Taiwan, June 19-21, 2010.

Hsu, K. “Speaking” in real-life situations abroad. The 4th CIEE Conference on Chinese Language Learning and Teaching, Taipei, Taiwan, June 19, 2010.

Hsu, K. To “say” or to “talk”: A database study of natural speech. Invited presentation at The Sixth International Conference and Workshops on Technology and Chinese Language Teaching in the 21st Century, Columbus, OH, June 12-14, 2010.

Hsu, K., et al. Cross-campus collaboration on Chinese language teaching and learning. The 13th CSU Symposium on University Teaching, San Bernardino, CA, April 24, 2010.

Hsu, K. A discourse analysis of two verba dicendi in spoken Mandarin. Chinese Language Teachers Association of California Spring Conference, Palo Alto, CA, March 6, 2010.

Hsu, K. A corpus-based analysis of shuo in Mandarin spontaneous speech. Invited presentation at the Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, August 31, 2009.

MERLOT 101: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching. Invited presentation at the Faculty Development Workshop on MERLOT and Peer Reviews of Online Materials, May 7, 2009.

Early tenure and promotion experiences. Invited presentation at the Faculty Development Workshop on Early Tenure and Promotion, November 14, 2008.

Peer tutoring and practical training in teaching Chinese for business purposes. International Conference on Translation Studies, Cross-Cultural Communication and Chinese Pedagogy, Portland, OR, October 24-25, 2008.

Asian Pacific American leaders in higher education. Invited speaker at the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Celebration Roundtable, Los Angeles, CA, May 15, 2008.

Preparing future teachers of Chinese in American schools. Chinese Language Teachers Association International Meeting, San Antonio, TX, November 16-18, 2007.

Multidisciplinary online teaching and learning resources. Invited presentation at the Chinese Scholars Association Academic Convention, Los Angeles, CA, November 10, 2007.

Computer-assisted non-roman character learning. The Seventh International Conference on Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching, New Orleans, LA, August 7-10, 2007.

Conference Organizing and Chairing:

Organizing Committee, Chinese Scholars Association Academic Convention and Spring Gathering, Los Angeles, CA, February 1, 2009.

Organizer and Chair, The International Symposium on Wisdom and Life Treasure: Using Eastern Wisdom to Nurture the Body and Mind in the 21st Century, Los Angeles, CA, April 14, 2008.

Organizing Committee Chair and Program Chair, Chinese Scholars Association Spring Gathering, Rosemead, CA, February 23, 2008.

Plenary and Session Chairing:

Session Chair, “Students in the Community: An Approach to Learning,” the 13^th CSU Symposium on University Teaching, San Bernardino, CA, April 24, 2010.

Session Chair, “Social Sciences and Humanities,” Chinese Scholars Association Academic Convention and Spring Gathering, Los Angeles, CA, February 1, 2009.

Session Chair, “Teaching/Education,” Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research, Pomona, CA, November 22, 2008.

Panel Chair, “Translation in Language Teaching,” International Conference on Translation Studies, Cross-Cultural Communication and Chinese Pedagogy, Portland, OR, October 24-25, 2008.

Keynote Chair, “Rank-Promotions of Professors in American Universities,” Chinese Scholars Association Spring Gathering, Rosemead, CA, February 23, 2008.

Session Chair, “Analysis of Discourse and Interaction,” American Association for Applied Linguistics International Conference, Costa Mesa, CA, April 21-24, 2007.

Professional Positions:

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) Classics Award Selection Committee, January, 2011.

Reviewer for The Modern Language Journal, 2009-2010.

Editor-in-Chief of Social Sciences and Humanities, Academic Perspective, 2009.

Secretary of the Board of Directors, Chinese Scholars Association, 2008-09.

Reviewer for The Modern Language Journal, 2008-09.

Associate Editor of World Languages, Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching, 2003-09.

Head of the U.S. Delegation to China for scholarly exchanges, summer 2007.

Professional Activities and Outreach:

Chinese Scholars Association donation drive for China’s earthquake relief, May 2008.

Meeting with the President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, San Gabriel, April 15, 2008.

Outstanding Overseas Chinese Language Teachers award ceremony at the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in Los Angeles, February 27, 2008.

Chinese Scholars Association charitable contributions to China’s snow storm relief, Los Angeles, February 7, 2008.

New Year gathering at the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in Los Angeles, January 19, 2008.

Oral Proficiency Interview Workshop, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, San Antonio, TX, November 15, 2007.

In the News:

“Thoughts on Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language,” People’s Daily, July 29, 2010.

“Poetry Recitation Contest at CSULA: Chinese Performances by Students of Diverse Ethnicities,” Sing Tao Daily, May 5, 2010.

“Fantastic Performances at the CSULA Poetry Recitation Contest,” Sing Tao Daily, May 6, 2009.

“CSULA Holds Its Seventeenth Annual Chinese Poetry Recitation Contest,” People’s Daily, May 6, 2009.

Interviewed by the People’s Daily for a special news report on Chinese programs and textbooks used in American universities, April 28, 2009.

“Kylie Hsu Receives CSULA Outstanding Professor Award,” Chinese Daily News and Sing Tao Daily, September 17, 2008.

“Tragedy in China Strikes Here at Home,” University Times, June 5, 2008.

“Changing the World in One Minute,” Dahua Evening News, Taiwan, May 12, 2008.

“Cal State L.A. Symposium: The Eastern Philosophy of Nurturing the Body and Mind,” Sing Tao Daily, April 16, 2008.

“Super Tuesday: Clinton and Obama in Dead Heat,” Sing Tao Daily, March 5, 2008.

“The Seventh Annual Report on the Shanghai Overseas Returned Scholars Association (SORSA) by Its Board of Directors,” Shanghai Overseas Chinese News [Qiaobao], January 2, 2008.

“Chinese Faculty and Scholars Annual Convention,” Chinese Today, November 11, 2007.

“Shanghai Overseas Returned Scholars Association (SORSA) Receives Taiwanese American Faculty Delegation,” Obridge and SORSA headline news, July 10, 2007.

“U.S. Delegation Led by Professor Kylie Hsu to Visit Shanghai,” The Chinese American Professors & Professionals Net, April 24, 2007.

Christophe Lagier

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:

Wrote an article in a pedagogical series for French High School teachers, AP French Literature / Le thÃ©Ã¢tre: mÃ©thodes d’enseignement et d’analyse; Special Focus series (New York: College Board, 2008), a volume he also edited.

Presented From Linguistic Deviation to Cultural Re-Identification: the ‘Verlan’ phenomenon in Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine,” at Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities in January 2009.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Middlebury College French Language School Associate Director for the Summer 2009.

Chair of the AP Language and Literature Exams in French Committee (College Board/ETS).

Vice-President of Alliance FranÃ§aise de Pasadena since 2002.

Namhee Lee

PUBLICATIONS:

Book: Lee, N., Joaquin, A., Mikesell, L, Mates, A., and Schumann, J. (2009). The interactional instinct: The evolution and acquisition of language. New York: Oxford University Press.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

2010 February 26. Presented "Emergence of Symbolic Representation and Symbolosphere” as a part of the College of Arts and Letters “Powerful Visions Lecture Series” at the Huntington Library.

Lee, N. (2008, April). FOX P2 gene, Language Development, and Pedagogical Implications. Paper presented at AAAL (American Association of Applied Linguistics), Washington, DC.

Lee, N. (2007, April). Evolution of Language as Complex Adaptive System. Paper presented at AAAL (American Association of Applied Linguistics), Costa Mesa, California.

CERTIFICATION:

Acquire license to perform ACTFL Korean OPI (2009).

Paola Marin

Co-Editor:
KARPA Journal (Dissident Theatricalities, visual arts, and culture). Indexed by the MLA International Bibliography.

-Winter 2010: joint issue with papel de colgadura journal (ICESI University, Colombia) dedicated to visual culture in the City of Cali.

-Summer 2010: texts by Latina performance artists Violeta Luna and Elia Arce, essays by Vivian MartÃnez-Tabares (Conjunto Magazine, Cuba), Monica Ribeiro (Federal University of Minas Gerais), and storyteller Nicolas Buenaventura (France-Colombia), among other contributors.

Articles:
“FOSA de Alvaro Villalobos.” Current Trends in Latino and Latin American Performing Arts. Ed. By Beatriz J. Rizk. Miami: Knight Foundation/Ediciones Universal, 2010. 111-122.

“CartografÃas de la descolonizaciÃ³n.” Paso de Gato (Mexico). Forthcoming.

“La Negra Grande de Colombia y TotÃ³ la Momposina: mujer y mÃºsica afrocolombiana.” Mujeres afrolatinoamericanas. Eds. MarÃa Mercedes Jaramillo & LucÃa Ortiz. Forthcoming. BogotÃ¡: Editorial Panamericana.

Reviews:
“Heretical Mixtures: Feminine and Poetic Opposition to Matter-Spirit Dualism in Spain by Dana Bultman (HispanÃ³fila Siglo XXI, 2007).” Cincinnati Romance Review 28 (2009): 142-145.

“Cervantes y el mundo del teatro. Ed. by HÃ©ctor Brioso (Reichenberg Ediciones, 2007).” GESTOS 47 (2009): 182-183. Journal published by UC Irvine.

“Deambulancias del teatro La MÃ¡scara.” E-misfÃ©rica 6.2 (2010). Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics (NYU). http://hemi.nyu.edu/hemi/en/e-misferica-62/marin.

“Performance e hibridez en NK:603 de Violeta Luna.” GESTOS 50 (2010): 24-28.

Baroque New Worlds. Ed. by Lois Parkinson-Zamora & Monika Kaup (Duke UP, 2010).

“Requested by Hispanic Review. University of Pennsylvania. Forthcoming.

Alejandro Solomianski

Individual Presentation: “Necesidad y agudeza del anÃ¡lisis literario” at Fremont High School (Los Angeles) May 22, 2009.

Publication of Torture and Nation: a diachronic Map of Argentine Violence, Human Rights and Latin American Cultural Studies, Hispanic Issues On Line 4.1 (2009).

I guided and supported the following students in order to publish academic articles, or get in a Ph. D Program, most of these goals have been achieved: Christine Fernandez, Ana Cecilia Iraheta, Norma and Estela Sanchez. (2009-2010).

My article “Gabino Ezeiza y su recuperaciÃ³n del imaginario de la identidad social argentina” is forthcoming in an special volume on afro-hispanoamericanidad in preparation by the University of Cincinnati (2010).

I have co-edited with the students Wolhein and MontaÃ±o the book Otras voces: configuraciÃ³n de nuevas identidades en la frontera sur de California. The hyperlink version of the book can be read in MLL online site.

Hard copy version of the book is forth coming in an edition of the highly prestigious publisher A contracorriente. That means, as a consequence, that the intellectual work of fourteen (14) graduate and undergraduate CSULA students will be published in a top academic space.

Coordination of the group presentation: Otras voces: nuevas identidades en la frontera sur de California. May 20, 2010 (CSULA).

Besides evaluating several articles for academic journals such as Hispania or La revista de estudios hispÃ¡nicos canadienses, I have corrected, edited or evaluated dozens of articles for the journal A contracorriente as its official Book Review Editor (Literature and Culture).

Qingyun Wu

PUBLICATIONS:
Books:

A Dream of Glory (Fanhua meng): A Chinese Play By Wang Yun, the Chinese University Press (Hong Kong), 2008. (The press has recently nominated the book for the "Lois Rith Award" organized by Modern Language Association (MLA) under Translation Books category.) This is a Chinese-English bilingual version with a long critical introduction to Chinese women’s drama, Wang Yun and her plays, as well as a comparative analysis of women playwrights in the East and the West. It contains detailed annotation, original prefaces and postfaces, and a foreword by the internationally renowned comparatist A. Owen Aldridge, with comments from prominent Chinese scholars Robert E. Hegel and Paul S. Ropp.

Two Eves in the Garden of Eden & A Male Mother (A Screenplay and a play), Denver: Outskirts Press, 2006.

Recent Discovery. Qingyun Wu’s novel, Clouds and Rain: A China to America Memoir (1994, under the pen name of Edna Wu) has been collected by over 70 major US libraries, including UCLA, UCR, Stanford, Harvard, Harvard (Yeching), Cornell, and Wesleyan. It has been also collected by several major libraries in other countries.

Essays and others:

Two essays on “Chen Duansheng” and “Wang Yun”, published in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, edited by Bonnie G. Smith, The Oxford University Press, 2008.

“Qian Ma. Feminist Utopian Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Chinese and English Fiction: A Cross Cultural Comparison. Burlington.(Book review) published in Utopian Studies Vol. 18. Issue 1 (January 1, 2007): 78-81.

Chinese Essay, “Valentine’s Day and American Woman Poet Emily Dickinson,” published in Xin Dalu (New World Poetry Journal) No. 111 (April 2009), p. 24.

Four Chinese poems by Qingyun Wu (under the pen name of Yi Yun), published in Xin Dalu (New World Poetry Journal) No.111 (April 2009), p. 6.

Chinese Translation of Emily Dickinson’s “Wild Night” and “My Life Is a Loaded Gun,” published in Xin Dalu (New World Poetry Journal) No. 111 (April 2009) p. 23.

Bilingual poem “Deaths,” published on the prestigious online journal Poetry Sky, Issue 18, (May 2009).

PRESENTATIONS:

“Where Is the Voice of Resistance: NÃ¼shu and Lao Tong in Lisa See’s Snow Flower and Secret Fan,” presented at the ASPAC annual Conference in Hawaii on June 15, 2007.

“Huang Chao and Chrysanthemum: Curse of the Golden Flower” presented at the Conference, “Crossing Boundaries in the Asian Pacific,” University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, June 12, 2008.

“Issues of Cross-dressing and Cross-gender on the Chinese Stage,” at the 33rd Comparative Drama Conference, “Text and presentation,” Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, March 26, 2009.

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION:

Referee for the journal Utopia Studies.

External Assessor, peer reviewing a Canadian National Grant for a doctoral program in the Chinese research area, invited by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), December 2007.

Toshiko Yokota

Publication:

“Japanese Literature for Japanese Language Learners: A Report on Activities To Enhance Critical Thinking and Cultural Literacy.” (in Japanese). Proceedings of International Conference on Japanese Language Education, Taiwan, July, 2010.

“Created Images of Author Yosa Buson.” The International Journal of the Humanities, Vol.7, Issue 6. NSW, Australia: Common Ground. Summer, 2009.

“Created Images of Author Buson.” The International Journal of Humanities. (Submitted, May, 2009).

“What Does It Mean to Read Haikai Linked Verse? A Study of the Susuki Mitsu Sequence in Kono hotori ichiya shi-kasen.” Simply Haiku. Vol. 5, No. 1. Spring, 2007.

Conference Presentation:

“Japanese Literature for Japanese Language Learners: A Report on Activities To Enhance Critical Thinking and Cultural Literacy.” (in Japanese). International Conference on Japanese Language Education, Taiwan, August 1, 2010.

“Japanese Literature for Japanese Language Learners.” Bridging Japanese Language and Japanese Studies in Higher Education: Forum on Integrative Curriculum and Program Development organized by the Japan Foundation, Los Angeles and DePaul University Japanese Studies Program, and endorsed by Association of Teachers of Japanese at DePaul Center in Chicago, March 26, 2009.

“Major Works of Buson and Bunjin Characteristics: A Case Study of His Hokku, The Yodo River and In the Snowy Night” The 12th International Conference of European Association of Japanese Studies at Lecce, Italy, September 20-23, 2008.

“What Could Instructors of Advanced Japanese and Japanese Literature Mutually Learn?” The Annual Meeting of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, Boston, March 22, 2007.

“Created Images of Author Buson.” The Fifth International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, January 13, 2007.

”Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Teaching Peace in Japanese Literature Course.” The Fifth International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, January 12, 2007.

Teaching:

Summer Intensive Japanese course at International Christian University in Tokyo, July and August 2008.

MUSIC, THEATRE & DANCE

Theatre Arts and Dance –students, faculty and staff collaborate for successes at 2009 Kennedy Center, American College Theatre Festival

CSULA undergraduate student (double major Music/TAD) Benjamin Caron's short play "10 Minutes" was invited to perform in an evening of new works at the Festival.

Actors Paul Diem, Lexis LaRue, Whitney LaBarge and Kolleen Richards along with technicians Paul Coutinho and Matthew Tsang, stage manager Leticia Gonzalez and A+L Production and Technical Staff Phil VanHest, Jim McFail and Tim Jones, traveled to CSU Fullerton, mounted the show in under two hours, and ran 3 flawless performances for sold-out crowds of over 250 people.

Professors Shiz Herrera and Theresa Larkin each received an Excellence in Education Award at a special dinner at the Festival.

Professor Larkin won the award for her work as an Irene Ryan adjudicator for circuit 2 of our region.

Professor Herrera received the award from the Region's Technical and Design area.

Other faculty participating were Stephen Rothman, as the CSULA Irene Ryan acting coach and Meredith Greenburg, who coordinated the Next Step auditions for the region as well as hosting the STAGE MANAGERS ROUNDTABLE workshop and sitting on the panel for the workshop HOW TO GET A JOB IN THE INDUSTRY.

Shiz Herrera also coordinated the 40 stage managers nominated for the KCACTF National Festival Stage Manager Fellowship as they worked the events at the festival.

Caroline Mercier, visiting professor in the Art Department, is the Region's Vice Chair for Design.

David Connors

Presentations

“Sing a Song of Six Pence a Pocketful of Ostinati” for the Greater Cincinnati Orff Schulwerk Association, March 2011.

“Making Music: A Journey through Springs and Fountains” for the American Orff Schulwerk Association’s National Conference, Spokane, WA, November 2010.

“From Folk Song to Folk Dance” for the International Society for Music Education Conference, Beijing, China, August 2010.

“From Movement to Mallets: Playful Process”, published by the American Orff Schulwerk Association, Cleveland, OH, 2008.

“Silver Burdett, Making Music” published by Scott Foresman/Pearson Education, Glenview, IL, 2008.

Awards/Honors

CSULA Outstanding Professor Award, 2009-2010.

Paul De Castro

May 2007 Master Classes at the Liszt Academy in Budapest, Hungary.

July 2009, CD, Bueno PÃ¡ Gozar, on Kipu Records, reached the Top 20 lists in seven major cities including New York, Denver, Tampa, Los Angeles, San Juan P.R.. It was selected as CD OF THE MONTH for September 09 by Latin Beat Magazine.

October 09, gave a lecture on -Omara Portundo and the “Filin” movement- for UCLA Live.

Pamela Dunne

2007:
Presented workshop at the Drama Therapy Institute Abroad Program. Kristiansand, Norway. (June 2007) “Myth, Mask and Meaning: Affirming Future Paths”.

Presented workshop for the International Narrative and Community Work Conference, Kristiansand, Norway. (June 2007) “Narradrama with Children”.

Presented workshop at the Di Teatro Sociale E Di Comunita and Laura Lucchini International Programs, Avigliana, Italy. (July 2007). “Narradrama Techniques with Adults and Children”.

Presented workshop for the NADT (National Association for Drama Therapy) International Conference, Montréal, Canada. (August 2007) “Narradrama, Media and Photography in Psychotherapy”.

Presented workshop for the Participators Conference, Malibu, CA. (Spring 2007), “Drama and Creative Arts in Therapy”.

José Cruz González

Productions:
Sunsets and Margaritas at TheatreWorks, Palo Alto, CA, 2010.
Invierno opens at PCPA, Santa Maria, CA, 2010.
Manzi opens at Teatro Bravo, Phoenix, AZ, 2010.
Harvest Moon at Spotlight Theatre, Bakersfield, CA, 2010.
Tomás and the Library Lady at First Stage Children's Theater, Milwaukee, WI, 2010.
Tomás and the Library Lady atTheatre Arts Department, CS Fresno, CA, 2010.
Tomás and the Library Lady at WEST Performing Arts Academy, Watsonville, CA, 2010.
Two Donuts at Theatre Arts Department, Campbell University, North Carolina, 2010.
La Posada at Write Act Repertory Company, Los Angeles, CA, 2010.
Salt & Pepper at Bourne High School, Bourne, Massachusetts, 2010.
Tomás and the Library at Seattle Children’s Theatre, 2009.
Sunsets and Margaritas premieres at the Denver Theatre Center, 2009.
The Heart’s Desire at The Western Stage, 2009.

Play Readings & Workshops:
The Sun Serpent, Childsplay, Tempe, AZ, 2010.
Super Cow Girl and Mighty Miracle, Provincetown Playhouse, NYU and The American Arts Experience-St. Louis, 2010.
Invierno at PCPA, Santa Maria, CA, 2010.
Mariachi Quijote in Spanish in collaboration with Modern Languages, Music and TAD departments, CSULA, 2009.
Super Cow Girl and Mighty Miracle, Metro Theater, St. Louis, MO, 2009.

Publications:
Odysseus Cruz, Playscripts, Inc., 2010.
Sunsets and Margaritas, Denver Theatre Center, 2010.

Presentations:
International Performing Arts for Youth, Keynote Speaker, Tampa, FL, 2011.

“Powerful Visions,” CSULA (February 27), “Studies in Critical Aesthetics: Four Examinations of Beauty and Imagery as Intellectual Endeavor and Cultural Work,” 2009.

Honors:
Investiture Ceremony, College of Fellows of the American Theatre, Washington, DC, 2009.

Awards:

Awarded 2010 Kennedy Center National Teaching Artist Grant.

Selected as AATE Distinguished Book Award for Nine Plays by José Cruz González: Magical Realism and Mature Themes in Theatre for Young Audiences, Edited by Coleman Jennings, 2009.

Sunsets and Margaritas, Henry Award, Outstanding New Play, Denver Center Theatre Company, 2008-2009.

Artist-In-Residence/Guest Artist/Evaluator/Participant
Theatre Communications Group, Field Conversations. Los Angeles, CA, 2010.

National Judge of the KCACTF Latino Playwriting Award, Kennedy Center, 2010.

Earth Matters On Stage, Guest Artist/Dramaturg, University of Oregon, 2009.

Sunsets and Margaritas had its west coast premiere at TheatreWorks, Palo Alto, CA.

Invierno had its world premiere at PCPA in Santa Maria, CA.

California Scenarios: A Collection of Short Plays about the History of Latinos in California was by published by Playscripts, Inc.

Super Cow Girl and Mighty Miracle wasworkshopped at NYU Provincetown Playhouse and Metro Theater (St. Louis, MO).

The Sun Serpent was workshopped at Childsplay (Tempe, AZ).

Served as a National Judge for Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Latino Playwriting Award.

Manzi: The Adventures of Young César Chávez will open this fall at Teatro Bravo, (Phoenix, AZ).

2007:
My play adaptation of Tomás and the Library Lady national tour by Childsplay AZ. It reached between 75,000 – 100,000 audience members.

2008:
A separate production of Tomás and the Library Lady presented by Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Theatre of Youth, January 8 –April 11.

Awarded “Excellence in Professional Artistry in Theatre for Young Audiences” from CSU San Diego. February.

My play The Cloud Gatherer selected as regional finalist for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region VIII, February.

Directed world premiere of Teaching Disco Square Dancing to our Elders for Native Voices at the Autry Museum. February 8 – March 2.

My new play North Country opened at CSU San Marcos from March 27 – 30.

My new play The Blue House premiered at the Adventure Stage Theatre/Chicago Humanities Festival, April 5 – May 3.

The Cloud Gatherer performed at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum, June 14 15, 22, 28, 29. Directed by Dr. Susan Mason and performed by CSULA students.

My play The Heart’s Desire premiered at PCPA (Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts) at Santa Maria, June 12 – 28.

My new play anthology, Nine Plays by José Cruz González: Magical Realism and Mature Themes in Theatre for Children will be published by University of Texas Press, available October, 2008.

Meredith Greenburg

Productions:

Worked as a sub for the Stage Manager for Leslie Uggams' one-woman show Uptown/Downtown at the Pasadena Playhouse in November 2010.

Produced and Directed the annual Committment to a Cure Gala for the Southern California chapter of the Arthritis Foundation.

Production Stage Manager for La Nozze di Figaro at the Los Angeles Opera in the Fall of 2010.

Production Stage Manager for RENT at the Hollywood Bowl, working with recent graduates Benjamin Caron (as a union Assistant Stage Manager), Susana Castillo (as a Production Assistant) and undergraduate Christian Patlan (as a Production Assistant).

Produced and Directed the 2010 Cabaret for the Music Academy of the West's Vocal Program, working with Marilyn Horne and Gerald Sternbach in August 2010.

Stage Manager for the Cantata Criolla Concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall for the Los Angeles Philharmonic as part of the Americas and Americans Festival in April 2010.

Presentations:

Served as a member of the Stage Management Mentor Project at the United States Institute for Theatre Technology's Annual Conference and Stage Expo in March of 2010. Presented and sat on 2 panels for the Management Commission.

Invited to adjudicate the Clear-Com Stage Management Award for the Young Design and Technician Awards at the United States Institute for Theatre Technology's 2011 Conference.

Attending the 2011 Regional Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival in February. Presenting a workshop on "Stage Managing: from student to professional" as well as sitting on a panel with other Los Angeles based union stage managers for the Acors' Equity Association's Outreach and Career Development workshop.

Served as a member of the Stage Management Mentor Project at the United States Institute for Theatre Technology in March of 2010. Invited to present and sit on 2 panels at the Conference.

Produced and Directed the 2010 Gala for the Music Academy of the West's Vocal Program, working with Marilyn Horne and Gerald Sternbach.

Was the Production Stage Manager for RENT at the Hollywood Bowl, working with recent graduates Benjamin Caron (as a union Assistant Stage Manager), Susana Castillo (as a Production Assistant) and undergraduate Christian Patlan (as a Production Assistant).

Currently the Production Stage Manager for La Nozze di Figaro at the Los Angeles Opera.

2007:
Stage Manager ……………. La Boheme - Los Angeles Opera
Stage Manager ……………. Fidelio - Los Angeles Opera
Producer …………………… Equality California Palm Springs Gala 2007
Stage Manager ……………. Broadway Unplugged at the Ford Amphitheatre
Production Stage Manager ... South Pacific - Hollywood Bowl
Stage Manager …………… Palm Springs Film Festival Gala 2007

2008:
Stage Manager …………… Palm Springs Film Festival Gala 2008
Professional Stage Management Mentor for the Stage Management Mentoring Project, USITT (United States Institute for Theatre Technology) Conference, Houston, TX
Producer ………………..… Equality California Palm Springs Gala 2008
Stage Manager …………… The Fly (American Premier) - Los Angeles Opera

G. Shizuko Herrera

2008:
“Japanese Costumes” (paper presentation). Japan Studies Association Conference (Honolulu, 2008).

Planning Committee Chair, Festival Host for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region VIII, Festival 40 held at California State University, Los Angeles, February 11 – 15, 2008

Regional Festival comprised of Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, and Utah with over 1500 participants (students/faculty/staff) from over 60 colleges/universities.

Tanya Kane-Parry

September 2012
Assistant Director to Joan Font of El Comediants, on his production of The Barber of Seville at L’Opera National de Bordeaux (France):
http://www.opera-bordeaux.com/detail-spectacle/opera-1/le-barbier-de-seville-590.html

Oct/Nov 2012
Assistant Director to Joan Font on his production of The Italian Girl in Algers at Houston Grand Opera:
https://www.houstongrandopera.org/Site/tickets/calendar/view.aspx?PerfId=1932

Upcoming:

Jan. 16 – Mar 3, 2013
Director/Choreographer for Opera del Espacio’s newest production
Space: The Final Frontier a new devised movement-theatre event that looks at how space and architecture make us feel and behave in very strange ways:
www.operadelespacio.org

Mar/April 2013
Assistant Director to Joan Font on his production of Cinderella at Los Angeles Opera:
http://www.laopera.com/season/Season-at-a-Glance/Cinderella/

John Kennedy

Conferences:

March 20, 2010 Presented "Modernist Compositional Gesture in Wayne Shorter's 'Nefertiti'" at The College Music Society Pacific Southern Chapter Regional Meeting, CSU DH

March 27-28, 2010 Presented "Modernist Compositional Gesture in Wayne Shorter's 'Nefertiti'" at The College Music Society Great Plains Chapter Regional Meeting, Emporia State University, Emporia,

Susan W. Kane

Has been invited to give her paper "Bridging the Gap Between the University and the Stage" at the International Congress of Voice Teachers in Paris, France, in July 2009. When she returns, she has been invited to teach in an opera program offered by CSU Summer Arts in Fresno.

Nancy Kupka

Her textbook “Dancing Core Curriculum in the Elementary Classroom”, has been adopted by Cal State Dominquez Hills, Glendale Community College and is in the final process of adoption at Santa Monica City College.

San San Kwan

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Dance, UC Riverside, fall 2008-spring 2010.

Publications:
“Performing a Geography of Asian America: The Chop Suey Circuit.” TDR T209 (Spring 2011).

“Jagged Presence in the Liquid City: Choreographing Hong Kong’s Handover.” Planes of Composition: Dance, Theory, and the Global. Eds. André Lepecki and Jenn Joy. Seagull Books, 2010.

Fraleigh, Sondra and Tamah Nakamura. Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo and Hahn, Tomie. Sensational Knowledge: Embodying Culture through Japanese Dance. Book review. Dance Research Journal 41.2 (Winter 2009).

Presentations:
“Jagged Presence in the Liquid City: Choreographing Hong Kong’s Handover.” Invited Lecture. Corporeal Nationalisms: Dance and the State in East Asia. UC Berkeley. Sept 2010.

“LA Dreaming in Taipei.” California Dreaming symposium. UC Irvine. June 2010.

“Performing a Geography of Asian America: The Chop Suey Circuit.” Invited lecture. SUNY Binghamton. Binghamton, NY. April 2010.

“A Survey of Contemporary Critical Theory.” Invited discussant. Beijing Language and Culture University. Beijing, China. May 2009.

“Walking in Chinatown.” S12 Performance Exchange Project. Shanghai, China. May 2009.

“On Performativity and Being Chinese American: Research as Me-search.” Invited lecture. Xi’an International Studies University. Xi’an, China. April 2009.

“Feminist Ethnography and Dance Ethnography as Mutual Analytics.” Congress on Research in Dance annual conference. Roanoke, VA, November 2008.

Theresa Larkin

2007:
Playwright, Director, Producer, Visualist
Miné: A Name For Herself (Co-writer w/Mary H. Curtin) multi-media original historical narrative profiling WWII Japanese American Internment activist and artist Miné Okubo, toured to the Smithsonian Institution as part of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program Day of Remembrance commemorating Japanese and Japanese-Americans interned during WWII. (February 2007)

Adaptor, Director, Visualist
Faust (Co-produced with The Artists’ Collective) multi-media dance theatre adaptation of Goethe’s Faust (Parts One and Two) at Cal State LA. (July/August 2007)

2008:
Adaptor, Director
Bless Me, Ultima (Theatrical Reading, adapted from Rudolfo Anaya’s novel as part of the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read) performed on campus at Cal State LA with guest actress Alejandra Flores, numerous other professionals, and CSLA students. (April)

Bless Me, Ultima (Theatrical Reading) toured to The Bilingual Foundation for the Arts (BFA) as one of four new plays invited to perform in the New Works Annual Festival 2008. (June)

Bless Me, Ultima (Theatrical Reading) toured to Dallas, Texas as the final performance of the NEA Big Read for the City of Dallas Cultural Affairs Department and the Latino Cultural Center. (June)

2009:
Bless Me, Ultima invited to tour to Big Read forthcoming Ventura 2009.

Other related professional activities:
The Artists’ Collective (1991-2008) Producing Artistic Director.

American College Theatre Festival - Regional Adjudicator, Regional Judge 2007, 2008.

Susan V. Mason

2009 Fulbright Scholar, Japan, Spring-Summer.

2007:
Presentation: “Ma and the Physics of Noh” (paper). Japan Studies Association Conference (San Diego, 2007).

2008 :
Presentation: “Aware and Mujo in Four Films of Hirakozu Kore-eda” (paper). Japan Studies Association Conference (Honolulu, 2008).

Director: The Cloud Gatherer by José Cruz González. Selected as regional finalist for Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region VIII (CSULA, February, 2008).

Collaboration: panel and workshop with José Cruz González, Michelle Zamora, and Tony Fitzgerald. American College Theatre Festival (CSULA, 2008).

Director: The Cloud Gatherer by José Cruz González. LA Natural History Museum (June 2008).

Publication: “The Playwriting of José Cruz González,” essay in Nine Plays by José Cruz González: Magical Realism and Mature Themes in Theatre for Children, ed. Coleman Jennings. University Texas Press, forthcoming Fall 2008.

2009:
“Ma and the Metaphysics of Noh,” Japan Studies Journal, forthcoming. Jan 2009.

“Verfremdungseffekt in A Doll’s House.” International Ibsen Conference (Shanghai, 2009): In submission.

“Double Nora: Mitsuya Mori’s Noh Adaptation of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House.” Japan Studies Association Conference (New Orleans, 2009): In submission.

Fulbright lecturer: Kyoritsu University and Tsuda College (Tokyo) March–August.

Steve Rothman

In May/June 2010 served as an external evaluator for Cal Poly Pomona’s Department of Theatre Arts.

Currently serving as an external evaluator for the School of Theatre at Louisiana State University (LSU) for the tenure and promotion of an Associate Professor.

On September 2, 2010 I was in Tallahassee, Florida at Florida State University (FSU) and taught three classes and was the invited guest speaker for their fall student/faculty/staff Convocation.

This summer was named as a Trustee of The National Theatre Conference, the honorary by invitation only organization of 125 leaders of Professional and Academic Theatre in the United States.

In September attended the meeting of the Trustees of the Society of Directors and Choreographers Pension and Health Fund. This is the National Labor Union that represents all professional directors and choreographers who work in the United States. This marks his eleventh consecutive year as an appointed Trustee of the Unions Pension and Health fund.

2007:

Directed the World Premiere of UNDER MIDWESTERN STARS for Kansas City Repertory Theatre.

Directed the Pulitzer Prize winning play DOUBT for Kansas City Repertory Theatre.

As a Trustee of the Society/League Pension and Health Fund ( the 30 million dollar pension and 5 million dollar health funds that serve the membership of the Society of Stage Director's and Choreographers) attended the New York City spring and winter meetings of the Trustees.

2008:

Directed Harold Pinter's BETRAYAL in Florence, Italy for the Florence International Theatre Company.

Directed THE ELEPHANT MAN for Actor's Co-op in Los Angeles, California.

Received a sabbatical award from CSULA to direct BETRAYAL in Italy.

Continued my service as a Society/League Pension and Health Fund Trustee and attended both the spring and upcoming winter meetings of the Trustees.

Continued my service as one of the 125 elected members of the honorary organization, The National Theatre Conference and will be attending their annual national session in October in New York City.

Made a presentation to the Friend's of the Florence Theatre on "Creating English Speaking Theatre in Italy".

Made a presentation to the Membership of the Actor's Co-op on "Creating Professional Theatre in a 99 Seat Theatre Environment".

PHILOSOPHY

Mohammed Abed

1. Forthcoming (2010). "Genocide as a Broad Deflationary Concept." Journal of Genocide Research, Special Issue on Philosophy and Genocide.

2. 2009. "Review of John K. Roth's Genocide and Human Rights: A Philosophical Guide." Journal of Genocide Research.
3. 2007. "In Defense of Academic Boycotts: A Response to Martha Nussbaum." Dissent (Fall) pp. 83-87.
4. 2007. "Clarifying the Concept of Genocide." Reprinted in Card, Claudia and Marsoobian, Armen T. (Editors). Genocide's Aftermath: Responsibility and Repair (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing) pp. 27-49.
5. 2006. "Clarifying the Concept of Genocide." Metaphilosophy. Vol. 37, Issue 3-4, pp. 308-330.

Selected Scholarly Presentations

1. 2010. "Terrorism, Representation, and the Limits of Philosophical Analysis." Powerful Visions Lecture Series, California State University, Los Angeles.
2. 2010. "Double Effect, Practical Reason, and the Perils of Abstraction." Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquium, Law School, University of California, Los Angeles (with Professor Henry Mendell, CSULA Department of Philosophy).
3. 2010. "Dialogue and the Possibility of Peace in Israel-Palestine." Main Program, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting.
4. 2010. "Genocide as a Broad Deflationary Concept." Conference on Value Inquiry, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Illinois.
5. 2010. "What is Genocide and Why is it So Bad?" Invited Lecture, Occidental College, Los Angeles, California.

Mark Balaguer