University Assistant
Resume:
Colleen M. Ebacher, Ph.D.
Towson, MD 21252
abpolx@r.postjobfree.com
Education
Ph.D. in Spanish - University of Michigan, 1992
M.A. Studies in Spanish - Universidad de Concepci n, Chile, 1985 and 1987
M.A. in Spanish - Marquette University, 1986
B.A. in Spanish, English, Philosophy - Marquette University, 1983
Honors College, Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude
Includes course work at the Universidad Complutense, Spain, 1982
Professional Experience
2004 - Present Director of Interdisciplinary Studies, College of Liberal Arts, Towson University
Leadership responsibility for curricula development, assessment, faculty and staff
recruitment, staff supervision, management and evaluation, special programs, budgeting,
scheduling of courses, enrollment management issues, strategic planning, marketing,
representation of IDS to Dean s Advisory Council, CLA Technology Committee and CLA
Curriculum Committee, policy development and implementation for 9 major programs, 12
minor programs, and 3 graduate programs.
Responsibilities in specific programs include:
Director, Social Sciences Program.
Director, Individually Designed Thematic Option.
Director, Masters in Liberal and Professional Studies.
Director, Graduate Certificate in Management and Leadership Development
(2004-5).
Acting Director, Masters in Human Resource Development (2004 2005).
2002 - Present Associate Professor, Department of Modem Languages, Towson University
1996 - 2002 Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages, Towson University
1995 - 1996 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages, Towson University
Courses taught as Assistant and Associate:
First Year Spanish - Spanish 101 and 102
Composition and Conversation I - Spanish 301
Composition and Conversation II - Spanish 302
Latin American Culture and Civilization - Spanish 312
Survey Latin American Literature - Spanish 322
Business Spanish - Spanish 331
Women Writers of the Twentieth Century: Poetry and Prose - Spanish 491
Latin American Lit.: Colonial Period - Spanish 473
Latin American Film and Ideology - Spanish 474
Latin American Short Story - Spanish 471
Translation Spanish 409
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1996 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies, The Johns
Hopkins University. Latin American Studies Program.
Introduction to Latin American Literature: The Formative Years -
Spanish 350.329
1995 Assistant Professor and Director, Cuernavaca Program, University of Utah
Mexican Literature - Spanish 479
Business Spanish - Spanish 591
1992 - 1995 Assistant Professor, Department of Languages and Literature, University of Utah
Undergraduate Program
Conversation and Discussion - Spanish 302
Culture and Civilization of Spanish America - Spanish 402
Latin American Literature: Pre-1492 to 1880 - Spanish 464
Latin American Literature: 1880 to the Present - Spanish 465
Graduate Program
Genre and Colonial Discourse - Spanish 568
Colonialism - Spanish 682
Professional Development
2005- 2006 HERS, New England Management Institute for Women in Higher Education. Wellesley
College. Boston, Massachusetts.
October 2005 Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences. Seminar for Department Chairs. Towson
University. Towson, Maryland.
June 2003 Spanish Faculty Development in International Business. Moore School of Business Daniel
Management Center, University of South Carolina.
2003 - 2004 Post-Tenure Faculty Learning Community. Towson University. Invited participation and
representation of the College of Liberal Arts.
2001 Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Culture and Civilization of Latin America.
Duke-University of North Carolina Consortium on Latin American Studies. University of
North Carolina.
Publications
2009 Pasaporte al espa ol. With Isabel Moreno-L pez. First year Spanish text with full online
digital materials contracted with John Wiley and Sons, Inc. Pasaporte combines an
innovative integration of technology into the Spanish language program with a cultural
competency approach in order to maximize individual learning outcomes and to facilitate
teaching.
2005 What Role Does Technology Play in Creating a Community of Inquiry?
An Integration of Experiential Learning and Learning Styles Theory. With Filiz Tabak.
Proceedings of the 2005 Association on Employment Practices and Principles Conference.
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2003 Into the Community: Collaboration Produces Learning. With Gloria Holland. Academic
Exchange Quarterly. (Fall): 293-297.
2003 Dibujando el cristianismo entre culturas: los grabados en madera de la Nueva Espa a. La
literatura iberoamericana en el 2000. Balances, perspectivas y prospectivas. Eds. Carmen
Ruiz Barrionuevo, Francisca Noguerol Jim nez, Maria Angeles P rez L pez, Eva Guerrero
Guerrero, Angela Romero P rez. Colecci n Aquilafuente 45. Salamanca, Spain: Ediciones
Universidad de Salamanca. 687-702.
2000 No me veo en su discurso: El confesionario colonial y la construcci n de la sexualidad
feminina. Madness, Illness and Bodies. Ed. Gladys Ilarregui. Alexandria, Virginia:
Fundaci n Cultural Iberoamericana. 21-42.
2000 El confesionario colonial y la sexualidad indIgena: asimilaci n o resistencia? Crisis
apocalipsis y utopias: fines de siglo en la literatura latinoamericana. Eds. Rodrigo C novas y
Roberto Hozven. Chile: Instituto Internacional de la Literatura Iberoamericana: Instituto de
Letras, Pontificia Universidad Cat lica de Chile. 459-464.
1998 Vuelve el oto o: posibilidad de lectura. Ada Literaria, no. 23 (8 1-88). Universidad de
Concepci n, Chile. 81-8.
1994 Alfabetizaci n y literatura: los huehuetlatolli como ejemplo de semiosis colonial. With
Walter Mignolo. Conquista y Contraconquista. Eds. Jos Amor V squez y Julio Ortega.
Mexico: El Colegio de Mexico.
1993 The Colonial Missionary Text and Communicating Across Cultures. Cincinnati Romance
Review XII (May): 1-15.
1991 The Old and the New World: Incorporating American Indian Forms of Discourse and
Modes of Communication into Colonial Missionary Texts. Anthropological Linguistics 33.
No.2. 135-65. (Issue backdated from 1993.)
Editorial Work
1995 Nahua Literature. With Frances Karttunen. Latin American Indian Literatures Journal. Vol.
11. No. 1 (Spring).
Papers Presented/Interviews (1992-2005)
2005 What Role Does Technology Play in Creating a Community of Inquiry?
An Integration of Experiential Learning and Learning Styles Theory. With Filiz Tabak.
2005 Association on Employment Practices and Principles Conference. Baltimore,
Maryland.
Los ni os entre culturas. IV Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hisp nica. Dominican
Republic.
2004 Images Across Cultures: Woodcuts of Sixteenth Century Mexico. Invited Presentation.
Loyola College. Baltimore, Maryland.
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Retratando a los ni os en las obras doctrinales. XXXV Congreso Internacional del
Instituto de Literatura Iberoamericana. Poitiers, France.
Are They Learning?: Technology, Learning Styles and University
Teaching. With Filiz Tabak. Lilly East Conference on University and College Teaching.
Towson University.
Video Interview. Teaching with Technology 2004. Center for Instructional Advancement.
Towson University.
2004, 2003, 2002 Do I Know You? Thinking and Writing about the Other. Maryland Writing Project
Summer Teacher Institute 2002. Towson University.
2003, 2002 Top Ten List for Success at Towson. New Faculty Seminar Series: Building a Faculty
Learning Community. Towson University.
2002 Students Learning Together: Peer Revision and Technology. CIAT Summer Workshops
2002. Towson University.
All Students are Distance Students. With Gloria Holland and Mary Volland. Maryland
Library Association 2002. Ocean City, Maryland.
Student Voices in the Classroom: Technology and Tradition. 6th Annual Lilly Conference
on College Teaching-East. Towson University.
2001 Do I Know You? Thinking and Writing about the Other. Change, Collaboration and
Information Technology. Fall Forum Joint Meeting MAEUC & MASCD 2001. Solomons,
Maryland.
Web Technologies Enhance Foreign Language Learning. With Katia Sainson. 5th Annual
Lilly Conference on College Teaching-Atlantic. Towson University.
Father Are You There?: Women and the Church in Bemberg s Yo la peor de todas and
Camila. 2001-Truth in the Lens: International Symposium/Festival on Latin American
Film. University of Richmond. Richmond, Virginia.
2000 Imaging Christianity Across Cultures: Woodcuts of Sixteenth Century Mexico. The
Modern Languages Colloquia. Department of Modem Languages. Towson University.
Dibujando el cristianismo entre culturas: los grabados en madera de Ia Nueva Espa a.
XXXIII Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. Salamanca,
Spain.
1998 Im genes de la mujer en el confesionario colonial. Fundaci n Cultural Iberoamericana
Conferencia Intemacional. George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
El confesionario colonial y la sexualidad indIgena: asimilaci n o resistencia? Congreso
del Instituto Intemacional de Literatura Iberoaniericana. Santiago, Chile.
The Internet and Spanish for Business. The January Conference. Towson University.
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1997 Using the Internet for a Content Specific Course. MAUEC Fall Forum. Maryland.
Effective Foreign Language Teaching. In-class presentation for Methods of Teaching a
Modern Foreign Language in the Secondary School (SCED 353). Towson University.
Sexuality in Colonial Mexico. The Institute for Teaching and Research on Women.
Towson University.
Images of Christianity Across Cultures: Woodcuts of Sixteenth Century Mexico. Invited
Presentation. The Catholic University of America. Washington, D.C.
1996 Sexuality and Gender: The Indigenous Subject and the Confessionary Writer. Modern
Language Association Convention.
Las tramas de la fe: los grabados doctrinales del siglo XVI. Congreso del Instituto
Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. Caracas.
1995 The Self and the Other on the Road to Heaven: Sixteenth Century Doctrinal Writings.
Latin American Studies Association. XIX International Congress. Washington, D.C.
Indigenous Voices in Ambivalent Spaces?: Bernardino de Sahag n s Coloquios. Invited
Presentation. The John Carter Brown Library. Providence, Rhode Island.
Dialogue Across Cultures: The Nahua Dialogic Tradition and Sahag n s Coloquios. Latin
American Indian Literatures Association. Twelfth International Symposium. Mexico City.
Writing Christianity Across Cultures: The Voice, the Letter, the Image and the Body.
Invited Presentation. The University of Pennsylvania.
Renaissance Notions of Genre: Theory or Precept. The Annual Meeting of the
Renaissance Society of America, New York.
Creating the Other Through Difference: Colonial Missionary Writings. Louisiana
Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures. La Chispa. Tulane University.
.
1994 Indigenous Voices in Ambivalent Spaces: Colonial Doctrinal Writings. The 11th
International Symposium on Latin American Indian Literatures, The Pennsylvania State
University, McKeesport, Pennsylvania.
Creating the Other Across Cultures. The Fourteenth Cincinnati Conference on Romance
Languages and Literatures, The University of Cincinnati.
Re-presentation and Resistance in Colonial Doctrinas. The 1994 Kentucky Foreign
Language Conference, University of Kentucky.
The Renaissance Across Cultures: Colonial Mesoamerican Doctrinal Writings. The
Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, University of North Texas.
1993 Communication as Conquest: Representing the Native Other in the Colonial Text. The
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Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Indiana University.
Sahag n s Coloquios: Writing and Conversing Across Cultures. The Thirteenth Annual
Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, The University of Cincinnati.
Two Old Worlds and the New: Sahag n s Coloquios as Generic Hybrid. The Kentucky
Foreign Language Conference, The University of Kentucky..
1992 The Old and the New World: Incorporating Nahua Forms of Discourse and Modes of
Communication in the Sixteenth Century Evangelical Text. The 1992 Annual Meeting of
the American Society for Ethnohistory, Salt Lake City, Utah.
The Colonial Missionary Text and Communicating Across Cultures. The Twelfth Annual
Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, The University of Cincinnati.
Sessions Organized
2000 Im genes entre culturas. XXXIII Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura
Iberoamericana. Salamanca, Spain.
1998 La mujer en Ia colonia. Fundaci n Cultural Iberoamericana Conferencia Internacional.
George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
1996 El espacio de la inscripci n colonial: cuerpo e imagen. Congreso del Instituto
Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. Caracas, Venezuela.
1995 Knowing, Naming and Interpreting the Other and Oneself: The Case of Spaniards and
Indigenous Peoples in the New World. Latin American Studies Association. XIX
International Congress. Washington, D.C.
1995 Christianization as Creation of the Other: (Re)presenting Colonial Missionary Writings.
Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures La Chispa. Tulane University.
1994 With Bias Puente Baldoceda El sustrato del otro en los textos coloniales. The Fourteenth
Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures. The University of Cincinnati.
1993 Crossing Boundaries: New Frontiers in Colonial Literary Studies. The Annual Meeting of
the American Society for Ethnohistory, Indiana University.
Conference Attendances
April 2005 Pedagogies of Engagement: Deepening Learning In and Across the Disciplines. Association
of American Colleges and Universities. Washington, D.C.
January 2005 Liberal Education and the New Academy. 2005 Annual Meeting of the Association of
American Colleges and Universities. San Francisco, California.
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Reviews
2004 Acci n! (Elements text) for John Wiley and Sons, Inc..
2003 Expr se (Conversation text) for Prentice Hall.
2003 Zayas-Baz n, Eduardo, Susan M. Bacon and Jos B. Fern ndez. Arriba
Comunicaci n y Cultura. 4th ed. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
2001 Blood, Water, Popes and Blowguns: Nahuatl Responses to Missionary
Conversion Strategies. PMLA. Modern Language Association.
2001 Galloway, Vicki and Angela Labarca. Visi n y Voz. 3rd ed.
New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2001 for John Wiley & Sons.
2000 Ben tez, Ruben and Paul C. Smith. Hablando seriamente. 2nd ed. New Jersey:
Prentice Hall.
1997 Zayas-Baz n, Eduardo, Susan M. Bacon and Jos B. Fern ndez. Arriba
Comunicaci ny Cultura. 2nd ed. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
1994 Past, Present, and Future: Selected Papers on Latin American Indian
Literatures. Edited by Mary H. Preuss. California: Labyrinthos, 1991.
For Anthropological Linguistics.
Service
Department
Director, Minimester Study Abroad, Cuernavaca, Mexico, 2000-2004.
Member, Comprehensive Review Committee (Post-Tenure review), 2003-4.
Facilitated the donation of $3800. in scholarship monies ( The Angela Harold Gerwig Memorial
Scholarship ) for students participating in the Minimester Program in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Organizer, Faculty Resource Sharing Seminar. 2001 and 2002.
Member, Media Language Center Committee, 2000-2004.
Member, Curriculum Committee, 2000-2001.
Member, Department Assessment Program Committee, 2000-2004.
Coordinator, Spanish Language Program, 2000-2004.
Member, Spanish Honors Society Committee, 1995-2004.
Coordinator, Spanish Elements, 1995-2000, 2003-4.
Member, Modern Language Program Review, 1999.
Member, Search Committee for Assistant Professor Spanish, 1998-9, 2003-4.
Member, Grant Proposal Committee - The Language Mission Project, 1996.
College
Member, Dean s Advisory Council, 2004-present.
Member, Technology Committee, 2004-present.
Member, Curriculum Committee, 2004-present.
Member, Taskforce on Teaching and Learning, 2005-present.
Member, Political Science Honors Thesis Committee, 2002.
Member, Latin American Studies Committee, 1996-present.
Member, Fulbright Committee, 1999-present.
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University
Member, University Technology Committee, 2004.
Member, Educational Leadership Advisory Committee, 2004-2005.
Advisor, 2004-5 First Year Experience Program.
Advisor, 2003-4 Trans Am Advising Program.
Member, Presidential Task Force for Service Learning, 2003-2004.
Member, Senate Ad Hoc Family and Medical Leave Committee, 2003-4
Member, Senate Faculty Hearing Committee, 2003-present.
Arranged visit of Guest Speaker, Dr. Robert Healy, Professor of Resource and Environmental Policy of Duke
University who spoke on Latin America and the Environment, April 2002.
Member, Doctoral Dissertation Committee, Rodolfo Guzm n. Department of Romance Languages. Johns
Hopkins University. Spring 2002.
Member, Faculty Research and Development Committee, 1998-2004.
Member, New Faculty Orientation Committee, 1999.
Member, Search Committee for Director of Residence Life, 1996-7.
Member, Faculty Leadership Program, 1998-9.
Funded Grants
2005 Partners in Education: Maryland s K-12 and University Educators Enhance Latin American
Studies Fulbright-Hays Group Study Abroad. $64,000. Towson University s Latin American
Studies Program, Interdisciplinary Studies Program, Colleges of Liberal Arts and Education, and
Departments of History and Sociology/Anthropology join with K-12 pre-service and in-service
teachers and the Maryland State Department of Education to prepare a Latin American Studies
curriculum and to enhance foreign language teaching in primary and secondary schools. The goal of
this ongoing project is to prepare a group of teachers with the knowledge and experience to develop a
Latin American Studies curriculum and learning modules for Maryland s K-12 school.
2004-5 Redesign of Spanish 101 . The Roadmap to Redesign. Center for Academic Transformation.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
2004 Assessment Fellow. $1000. Granted by University Assessment Council. Towson University.
2003-4 Post-Tenure Faculty Learning Community. Invited participation. CLA Representative.
2003 Faculty Research and Development Committee Teaching Grant for participation in Spanish Faculty
Development in International Business. Moore School of Business Daniel Management Center.
University of South Carolina.
2003 CIBER Scholarship for participation in Spanish Faculty Development in International Business.
Moore School of Business Daniel Management Center. University of South Carolina.
2002-4 Mentoring to Master Technology Integration Project. Mentor Fellowship.
2002 Technology Integration Project. $1200. Software Grant Recipient to fund purchase of Escribi n
software for Modern Languages Computer Laboratory.
2001-2 Experiencing Latin America in Baltimore. Technology Fellowship. Center for Instructional
Advancement and Technology. Towson University.
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2001 Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Culture and Civilization of Latin America. Duke-
University of North Carolina Consortium on Latin American Studies.
2000 Center for Instructional Advancement and Technology/Comcast Summer Institute Fellowship.
Towson University.
1996-2005. Travel and Research Grants. Towson University.
1995 Research Fellowship. The John Carter Brown Library. Providence, Rhode Island..
1995 Faculty Fellowship. The University of Utah.
1994 Career Development Grant. The University of Utah.
1993 Career Development Research Award. The University of Utah.
Workshops
Spanish Faculty Development in International Business, Moore School of Business, Daniel Management
Center, University of South Carolina, June 2003.
Maryland Writing Project Summer Teacher Institute, 2001.
Participant, Office of University Research Services, Grantsmanship Workshop, 2001.
Participant, Discipline-based Writing, Center for Instructional Advancement and Technology, Towson
University, 1998.
Participant. Nahuatl Language Summer Institute. The University of Texas. Austin, Texas. 1994.
Participant, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Oral Proficiency Training.
1993.
Founding Member, Nahuatl Seminar. The University of Utah. 1992-1995.
Professional Memberships
2005 - American Conference of Academic Deans
1993 - Latin American Studies Association
1992 - Modern Language Association
1992 - Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana
1983- Phi Beta Kappa
Languages
English: native
Spanish: near-native proficiency
Nahuatl: advanced reading knowledge, writing proficiency
French: advanced reading knowledge
Latin: advanced reading knowledge
Portuguese: advanced reading knowledge
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