LAWRENCE RICH

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Washington, DC *0010

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EDUCATION

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UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, College Park, MD

Coursework in Literary Theory, Medieval Literature and Historiography, 19th and 20th Century Spanish Novel, 20th Century Latin American Novel, 20th Century Spanish and Latin American Poetry.

Dissertation: “Between Memory and Imagination: Antonio Muñoz Molina's Self-Conscious Realism and ‘El Desencanto’.”

Director: José-María Naharro-Calderón.

1988 M.A. in Hispanic Civilization

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, Madrid, Spain.

Coursework in Medieval and Golden Age Literatures, 20th Century Spanish Novel, 20th Century Spanish Poetry, Spanish Cinema, Translation.

1987 Graduate Certificate in TESOL

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, Washington, DC.

Coursework in Phonetics, Historical Linguistics, Language Teaching Methodology.

1985 Translator's Certificate

UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE, Madrid, Spain.

1981 M.M. in Performance

1978 B.M. in Performance

PEABODY INSTITUTE OF THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, Baltimore, MD.

Coursework in Music Theory and Music History.

TEACHING CERTIFICATION

1989-1999 Standard Professional Certificate in Spanish (Grades 7-12), Maryland State

Dept. of Education.

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2022-present Substitute Teacher. Holton-Arms School, Bethesda, Maryland.

2022-present Substitute Teacher. Barrie School, Silver Spring, Maryland.

2009-2012 Professor of Spanish. NORTHERN VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE. Taught three 5-credit courses per semester, including Beginning Spanish I and II (SPA 101, 102).

2001-2009 Associate Professor of Spanish. NORTHERN VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE. Taught three 5-credit courses per semester, including Beginning Spanish I and II (SPA 101, 102).

1995-2001 Assistant Professor of Spanish. ST. MARY’S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND. Taught three 4-credit courses per semester, including Elementary Spanish I and II, Accelerated Spanish, Introduction to Literature, Advanced Grammar and Translation, Literature of the Golden Age, Literature of Social Change, Women’s Literature, Peninsular Civilization and Culture I, Literature and Postmodern Culture, and Special Topics: Modernity and Postmodernity in Hispanic Texts. (101, 102, 110, 206, 354, 360, 362, 363, 365, 367, 440).

1989-1994 Teaching Assistant II. UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK. Taught two 3 or 4-credit courses per semester, including Elementary and Intermediate Spanish, Conversation, and Survey of Spanish Literature from the 18th to 20th Century (102, 103, 201, 202, 211, 322).

1994, 1993, 1991 Instructor, summer session. UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE

PARK. Taught Introduction to Hispanic Literature (221) and Elementary Spanish (101, 102).

1990 Instructor, summer session. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, COLLEGE PARK. Taught Intermediate Spanish (201).

ENGLISH AS A SECOND/FOREIGN LANGUAGE

1989 Instructor. MONTGOMERY COLLEGE, Rockville, MD. Taught a 5-credit intermediate ESL course including grammar review and principles of writing.

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE (contd.)

1988 Teacher, summer session. BRITISH COUNCIL SCHOOL, Madrid, Spain. Taught a one-month intensive intermediate EFL course to Spanish junior high-school students.

1987 Teacher, summer session. ELS INTERNATIONAL TAIWAN LANGUAGE SCHOOL, Taipei, Taiwan. Taught conversation, grammar and writing classes for three months.

1987-1988, Teacher. THAMESIS, S.A., Madrid Spain. Taught EFL conversation classes

1981-1986 to Spanish civil servants and professionals in the private sector.

1986-1987 Teacher. ELS LANGUAGE SCHOOL, Washington, DC. Taught intensive classes in conversation, grammar, reading and writing.

MUSIC

1980-1981 Instructor. PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, State College, PA. Taught music theory and guitar performance full-time.

ADDITIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1994-95 * Substitute Spanish/ESL teacher, Montgomery County School System, MD.

1994 * Substitute Spanish teacher (3 weeks) at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School,

Bethesda, Maryland.

1992 * Substitute teacher (2 weeks) for Survey of Spanish Civilization (SPAN 325),

University of Maryland, College Park.

1992 * Lectured on Don Quijote (one day) for students at Colegio Español,

Washington, DC.

1990 * Substitute teacher (one day) for a senior seminar on El libro de buen amor

(SPAN 408), University of Maryland, College Park.

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PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

1999 The Narrative of Antonio Muñoz Molina: Self-Conscious Realism and “El Desencanto”. Vol. 78 in Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and

Literatures. New York: Peter Lang, 1999.

ARTICLES

2001 “Fear and Loathing in Vetusta: Coding Class and Gender in La Regenta.”

Revista canadiense de estudios hispánicos, Vol. 25.3 : 505-518.

1997 “Kings and Counts: Pragmatics and the Poema de Fernán González in the Primera Crónica General.” La Corónica, Vol. 25.2: 103-113.

1996 “The Narrative of Antonio Muñoz Molina: Identifying (With) One's Public.”

Selected Proceedings of the 1996 Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures. (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge): 76-84.

1995 “Tres tristes tigres: El lenguaje como anti-comunicación.” Dactylus (Austin), Vol. 14: 84-92.

1994 “Antonio Muñoz Molina's Beatus ille and Beltenebros: Conventions of Reading in the Postmodern Anti-Detective Novel.” Romance Languages Annual (Purdue), Vol. 6: 577-580.

1992 “Reyes, vasallos y moros: Ideología en el Poema de Mío Cid y la Primera Crónica General.” Ariel (Kentucky), Vol. 8: 5-16.

BOOK REVIEWS

2002 La novelística de Antonio Muñoz Molina: sociedad civil y literatura lúdica by

Salvador Oropesa. Jaén: Universidad de Jaén, 1999. Hispania, Vol. 85.1:

73-74.

TRANSLATIONS

1999 “Icosahedra: The English Letters.” In Guillermo Cabrera Infante. Assays, Essays, and Other Arts. Ed. Ardis Nelson. New York: Twayne, 1999.

1986 Translated and edited materials for Cómplice (Madrid, Spain).

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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2000 “Fear and Loathing in Vetusta: Coding Class and Gender in La Regenta.” Thirty-First Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, Buffalo, NY.

1999 “Historias del Kronen and Mensaka: Postmodern Realism in Spain at the End of the Millennium.” Second Biennial Conference on Iberian/Iberian-American Literatures, Florida International University, Miami, FL.

1998 “‘I am a stranger to myself:’ The Significance of the Narrator in José Angel Mañas's Historias del Kronen.” Nineteenth Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Baton Rouge, LA.

1997 “Materializing the Metaphor: Magic Realism in Laura Esquivel's Como agua para chocolate.” Eighteenth Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, New Orleans LA.

1996 “The Narrative of Antonio Muñoz Molina: Identifying (With) One's Public.” Seventeenth Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Baton Rouge, LA.

1995 “Allegories of Reading, Writing and Redemption in Ana María Matute's ‘El árbol de oro.’” Twelfth Annual Wichita State University International Conference on Foreign Literature, Wichita, KS.

1994 “Antonio Muñoz Molina's Beatus ille and Beltenebros: Conventions of Reading in the Postmodern Anti-Detective Novel.” Sixth Annual Purdue University Conference on Romance Languages, Literatures and Film, West Lafayette, IN.

1994 “Dobles y espejos: La función poética de los nombres en dos novelas de Antonio Muñoz Molina. ” Sixth Biennial Northeast Regional Meeting of the AATSP, New Haven, CT.

1993 “Beatus ille: Metaficción historiográfica y homenaje al lector.” AATSP annual convention, Phoenix, AZ.

1993 “Tormento: Agustín y Amparo en el teatro de la vida.” Second Missouri Romance Languages and Literature Conference, Columbia, MO.

1993 “Tres tristes tigres: perdidos en el lenguaje.” First Annual Graduate Student Conference on Romance Studies, Boston, MA.

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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (contd.)

1992 “Fernán González en la Primera Crónica General y la función pragmática del texto.” Fifth Biennial Northeast Regional Meeting of the AATSP, Bedford, NH.

GRANTS

2002 * NEH Summer Institute Grant: “The Americas of José Martí/Las Américas de

José Martí.” at the University of South Florida, Tampa, and La Habana, Cuba.

2000 * Faculty development grant from St. Mary’s College of Maryland for research

in Madrid, Spain during summer, 2000.

1999 * NEH Summer Institute Grant: “Authority, Text and Context in Spanish

Realism” at Duke University.

1999 * Faculty development grant from St. Mary’s College of Maryland to present

two papers at conferences during 1999-2000.

1998 * Faculty development grant from St. Mary’s College of Maryland for research

in Madrid, Spain during summer, 1999.

1997 * Faculty development grant from St. Mary’s College of Maryland to attend a 6-

day teaching workshop “Reaching Our Students” given by the Great Lakes

College Association at Hope College, Michigan.

1996 * Faculty development grant from St. Mary’s College of Maryland for research

in Madrid, Spain, during summer 1997.

1996 * Faculty curriculum grant from St. Mary’s College of Maryland to attend

ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview Workshop.

1994 * Dissertation research grant from Program for Cultural Cooperation Between

Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States’ Universities.

1994 * Conference grant from Graduate School, University of Maryland College Park.

1983 * “Música en Compostela”. Full scholarship for summer course in Santiago de

Compostela, Spain.

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SERVICE TO DEPARTMENT, DIVISION, AND COLLEGE

2001-2002 * Member of Division Awards Committee (Northern Virginia Community

College).

2000 * Arranged trip to GALA Hispanic Theater in Washington DC for students and

faculty to see performance of Así que pasen cinco años by García Lorca.

2000 * Organized and coordinated for lecture “Blood and Secrets: Behind the

Mexican Elections” by visiting speaker Philip Wheaton at St. Mary’s College

of Maryland.

2000 * Member, Spanish Search Committee, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

2000 * Maryland State College Supervisor of student teacher, Ryken High School,

Lexington Park, MD.

2000 * Member of Academic Policy Committee for one year at St. Mary’s College of

Maryland.

2000 * Associate Faculty Advisor for St. Mary’s College Summer Study Tour to The

Gambia, West Africa.

2000 * Participant in panel discussion for Women Studies Group, Blackistone Room,

St. Mary's College of Maryland.

2000 * Organized and coordinated for lecture “School of Assassins” by Rev. Roy

Bourgeois in Cinema One, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

2000 * Arranged trip to GALA Hispanic Theater in Washington DC for students and

faculty to see performance of El Burlador de Sevilla.

1999-2000, * Faculty Advisor, Spanish Living-Learning Center. Advised and evaluated

Spring 1997 residents, planned and directed events, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

1996-2000 * Student advisor, St. Mary's College of Maryland.

1999 * Mentor for new Faculty, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

1999 * Arranged trip to GALA Hispanic Theater in Washington DC for students and

faculty to see performance of Neruda, 2000.

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SERVICE TO DEPARTMENT, DIVISION, AND COLLEGE (contd.)

1999 * Organized and coordinated class visit and lecture “Testimonies, War and

Survival” by Nilda Villalta, Smithsonian Institute scholar, Blackistone Room,

St. Mary's College of Maryland.

1999, 1997, * Team-teacher for Introduction to Women Studies course at St. Mary’s College

1996 of Maryland.

1999, 1998, * Supervised college students teaching Spanish in afterschool programs at area

1997, 1996 elementary schools (L.E.A.P.), St. Mary’s County, MD.

1998 * Organized and coordinated theater performance of Latinhood by performance

artist Enrique Avilés in Bruce Davis Theater, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

1997 * Organized and coordinated exhibit and slide presentation “Portraits of

Resistance” by photographer Celia Escudero in Library, St. Mary’s College of

Maryland.

1996 * Co-Faculty Advisor, Spanish Living-Learning Center. Advised and evaluated

residents, planned and directed events, St. Mary's College of Maryland.

1996 * Organized and coordinated for a lecture on Chiapas, Mexico by visiting

speaker Philip Wheaton at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

1996 * Panelist in public discussion following performance of Buero Vallejo's play In

the Burning Darkness, St. Mary's College of Maryland.

1995 * Gave language and culture orientation session for study group preparing to

travel to Guatemala, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

1990 * Assisted Peruvian poet Javier Sologuren in bilingual reading of his works at

the University of Maryland, College Park.

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

2001-2002 * Attended workshops at Northern Virginia Community College to learn Power

Point and basic web design with Netscape Composer and Dreamweaver.

2001, 1998, 1996 * Worked during summer as Faculty Consultant and Reader for the Educational

Testing Service’s Advanced Placement Examinations in Spanish.

2000 * Attended symposium “España en el siglo XXI: Literatura, Arte y Cultura.”

Ohio State University, Columbus OH.

2000 * Took summer course in Women Studies “Mujeres, Arte, y Literatura” at the

Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain.

2000 * Took 2-day Workshop “Effective Pedagogy and Assessment” at St. Mary's

College of Maryland.

1999-2000 * Attended meetings and discussions with professors and feminist groups in La

Paz, Bolivia.

1999 * Took 2-day Advising Workshop at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

1998 * Read and made recommendations for grant proposals for the U. S. Department

of Education (FIPSE).

1998 * Took 2-day workshop “Effective Foreign Language Teaching and Learning

Strategies in the Classroom” given by the NCLRC in Washington, DC.

1998 * Took curriculum development workshop on Women's Studies given by Dr.

Claire Moses.

1997 * Took 6-day teaching workshop “Reaching Our Students” given by the Great

Lakes College Association at Hope College, Michigan.

1997 * Took workshop “Creating Internet-Based Lessons” at University of Maryland,

Baltimore County.

1996 * Took workshop “Computers in the Language Classroom” at University of

Maryland, Baltimore County.

1996 * Participated in Teaching Fellow Program at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (contd.)

1996 * Took ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview Workshop in Washington, DC.

1996 * Observed the “Primer Encuentro Intercontinental por la Humanidad y contra el

Neoliberalismo” in Chiapas, México.

1995 * Took 2-day CAI workshop at St. Mary's College of Maryland.

1994 * Trained for and appointed Chief Reader for Spanish by the GED Testing

Service, American Council on Education, Washington, DC.

1980 * Proofreader for Johns Hopkins University Press.

SPECIAL SKILLS

* Experience in language-teaching technology, including use of the

TANDBERG IS 10, TANDBERG PRISMA, and BLACKBOARD.

* Strong background in linguistics and language pedagogy.

HONORS AND AWARDS

2001 * Who's Who in America.

1995 * Nominated for Phi Kappa Phi.

1987-1994 * 4.00 G.P.A.

1993 * Doctoral comprehensive examinations passed with distinction.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

2001-2012 * American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.

and 1995-1996

1998-2012 * Instituto Cervantes.

1994-2001 * Twentieth Century Spanish Association of America.

1990-2012 * Modern Language Association.

1988-2012 * American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.

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PERSONAL

* Lived and traveled in Asia, Europe, México, Central America, South America

and Africa.

* Studied Indian music in Bangladesh, gave classical guitar recitals in Spain and

the United States.

* Languages: Native speaker of English, near-native fluency in Spanish, reading

and some speaking ability in French.

REFERENCES

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