ANNUAL REPORT 2000-2001

DATE OF PREPARATION: 17 MAY 2001.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

This has been another very good year for me. In fact, bringing the honour of the 3M STLHE / Excellence in Teaching Award to St. Thomas University probably makes this one of the most significant and academically rewarding years in my teaching career at St. Thomas.

Highlights of 2000-2001 include:

1 TEACHING

A COURSES TAUGHT (2000-2001):

Regular Course Load:

Spanish 1006C -- Beginning Spanish -- Enrollment 32.
Spanish 2013 – Intermediate Grammar 1 Enrollment 37.
Spanish 2023 – Intermediate Grammar 2 Enrollment 22.
Spanish 3413 – Golden Age Theatre 1 Enrollment 7.
Spanish 3423 – Golden Age Theatre 2 Enrollment 7.

Unpaid Overload:

Spanish 4936 – Independent Studies

Oaxaca (4 students)
Federico García Lorca (1 student)
St. John of the Cross (1 student)
Spanish Civil War (1 student)
Web Page Design (2 students)

Spanish 4986 – Honours Reading List (1 student).

B HONOURS THESES SUPERVISED.

Romance Languages: Bibliography and Methods of Research:
None this year.

Interdisciplinary Studies Honours Thesis
Chaired Committee and Directed Thesis: 1 student.


C OTHER TEACHING and/or INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES.

Outside Assessor / Judge Graduate Student Association 9th Annual Conference on Student Research, Wu Conference centre, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, 15-16 February 2001.

Outside Assessor: MA Thesis. Comparative Literature. Auckland University. New Zealand.

Outside Assessor: 3 grants: National Endowment for the Humanities and 2 other granting bodies. USA.

Peer Mentoring: In class mentoring and assessment with 3 faculty members at STU plus other mentoring duties with 4 other faculty members.

II SCHOLARSHIP.

A SCHOLARLY AND CREATIVE WORK IN PROGRESS.

Creative:

Being-towards-death (64 prose poems). To be published, summer 2001.
Decent People. 14 Short Stories. 240 pp. (9 published; no timetable for book publication).

Academic:


B. SCHOLARLY AND CREATIVE WORK PUBLISHED (2000-2001)

Being-towards-death. (To appear in 2001).

Francisco de Quevedo: An Ongoing Bibliography. A comprehensive working bibliography of Quevedo criticism. Currently contains over 2,500 titles. Available on the web. since August, 2000.

Though Lovers Be Lost. Halifax: Mount Saint Vincent University Press. 2000. 67.

Sun and Moon. Poems from Oaxaca, Mexico. Halifax: Mount Saint Vincent University Press. 2000. 72.

Proceedings / Actes of the 4th AAU Teaching Showcase held at St. Thomas University, 15-16 October, 1999. Editors Roger Moore and Denise Nevo. Halifax: Mount Saint Vincent University Press. 2000. 142.

Peer reviewed articles:

Other Publicly Available Scholarly Work

III ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES.

Chair of the Learning and Teaching Development Committee

Sub-committees include

Teaching Perspectives numbers 2 & 3
Peer Mentoring Proposal
Effective Teaching Institute (December, 2001)
Forums Committee
Joint APC / LTD Workshop Committee
Peer Mentoring Action Group (worked with 7 faculty members)
Course Assessment Committee

Senate Nominating Committee

Romance Languages Department Committees

Hirings in Romance Languages (French)
Promotion and Tenure Committee (French)

New Program in Spanish
Certification in Spanish
Hirings in Spanish section
Awards and Prizes Committee
Chair, Interdisciplinary Honours Thesis Committee

The Mexico Steering Group (joint UNB / STU)

The Oaxaca Project (joint chair with George Haley and Hayden Leaman)
International Hispanic Exchanges

Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Chair, STLHE Panel Teaching as Process.

3m / STLHE 2000 Group: Chair, St. John’s meeting.

Atlantic Association of Universities

Facilitator for the 2001 Award Winners Retreat
Joint Organizer of 2001 Award Winners Retreat

IV. PLANS FOR THE COMING YEAR:

I will be on sabbatical from January 1 to June 30, 2002. My plans for the sabbatical are to take a break and to allow my mind and body to recover; plans are also dependent upon the success and direction that the talks in Oaxaca take (9 -31 May, 2001). Plus, as I stated in my request for leave, I will try and advance one of the mss currently on my desk.

TEACHING:

This year I will be teaching the equivalent of three 3 credit hour courses (first term).
Spanish 1006 Beginning Spanish; 2 sections.
Spanish 3413 Introduction to Translation 1.

SCHOLARSHIP:

I will be attending conferences this summer and fall, as follows:

ADMINISTRATION AND OTHER DUTIES:

  1. Departmental Review: I am still responsible for preparing the next five year plan for the renewal of the Spanish Section at STU.
  2. Honorary Research Associate at UNB: This has been renewed and work will be carried into the next academic year.
  3. The Oaxaca Project: We continue looking for alternate sources of funding and remain committed to the project. In this context, I am to visit Oaxaca from 9-31 May 2001.
  4. Continuing Research: My three current research areas are Quevedo, Mexican Codices and Mexican Poetry, and Course and Curriculum Development which ties in with Learning and Teaching Development.
  5. Establishing Spanish Certification at St. Thomas University.

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