ANNUAL REPORT 2001-2002

Including Sabbatical Report (January 1 - June 30, 2002)

Date of Preparation: 17 May 2002.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

Highlights of 2001-2002 include:


1 Teaching

A Courses Taught ( Fall 2001):

Regular Course Load:

Spanish 1006b Beginning Spanish
Spanish 1006c Beginning Spanish
Spanish 3013 Introduction to Translation

B Honours Theses Supervised.

Romance Languages: None this Year.

Interdisciplinary Studies Honours Thesis:
None this Year.


C Other Teaching And/or Instructional Activities.

Outside Assessment and Peer Mentoring

Peer mentoring: individual faculty consultations through LTD.

II Scholarship.

A Scholarly and Creative Work in Progress

Decent People. 16 Short Stories. 240 pp. (9 published; 6 submitted to Atlantic Reviews; publication of ms. Currently under discussion; no timetable, but possible publication in the near future).

An Ongoing Quevedo Bibliography. (2,400 specialized titles. Currently available online. Updated regularly.).

Alternative Readings of Quevedo’s Buscón. (Academic manuscript in progress. Book: 10 chapters; 160 pp.. Under revision. No final timetable on publication.).

Iterative Thematic Imagery in Spanish Golden Age Literature. (Academic manuscript in progress. Book: 10 chapters, 200 pp., based on published articles dealing with theory of imagery and conceit in Spanish Golden Age poetry, prose, and theatre. Under revision. No timetable on publication.).

Quevedo’s Poetic Creativity. (Academic manuscript. In progress. Book. 6 Chapters. 300 pages. Based on published articles and unpublished studies dealing with poetic creativity in the autograph and manuscript tradition of selected works by Francisco de Quevedo. Under revision. No final timetable on publication).


B. Scholarly and Creative Work Published (2001-2002)

Fundy Lines. Halifax: Mount Saint Vincent University Press. April, 2002. 62 pp.

An Ongoing Quevedo Bibliography. Over 2,400 items. Published online at http://www.stthomasu.ca/~rgmoore/bibliog/bibframe.htm

Yagul now available online at
http://www.stthomasu.ca/~rgmoore/mexico/yagul_site/yagulhome.htm

“Report on the Institutional Award Winners’ Retreat.” To appear in Atlantic Association of Universities, 6th Teaching Showcase. Halifax: Mount Saint Vincent University Press. (To appear in May 2002).

“Texts and (Con)Texts: Various Ways of Teaching Quevedo’s Miré los muros de la patria mía.” Published online by the Advanced Placement College Board (New York) at http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/members/article/1,1282,151-165-0-9657,00.html

Institutional Award Winners Retreat Facilitated by Dr. Roger Moore. (Report circulated to AAU Presidents, AAU LTD Committee Members, and Retreat Participants). 6th Atlantic Association of Universities Teaching Showcase. Mount Allison University. October, 2001.

“Student Self-Assessment.” Teaching Voices: UNB Bulletin on University Teaching. September 2001. 4-8.

“Student Self-Assessment.” Proceedings: 5th Atlantic Universities’ Teaching Showcase, 2000 held at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Halifax: Mount Saint Vincent UP, 2001. 167-75.

----- and Elizabeth McKim. “Through a Distorting Mirror: Elizabeth Bishop’s Translations of Octavio Paz’s Poetry, ” in Divisions of the heart. Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Place and Memory. Eds. Barry, Davies, and Sanger. Wolfville, NS: Gaspereau Press. 2001. 267-77.

III Academic and Administrative Services.

National and Provincial Committees

Advisory Committee for Curriculum Development (Spanish)
New Brunswick Department of Education
(This committee has been meeting regularly since July 1, 2001).

Jury Member – New Brunswick Arts Board (November - December, 2001)

3M Committee – Planning for the Reorganization of 3M / STLHE

Romance Languages Department Committees

Hirings in Romance Languages (French)
I attended the interviews and wrote a report on the candidates

Diploma de Español Lengua Extranjera
Dr. Omar Basabé was the prime mover on this project

Reorganization of Spanish Curriculum
A major project that still remains unfinished


The Mexico Steering Group (joint UNB / STU)

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

International Hispanic Exchanges (UNB –TRI Nations Grant)


Atlantic Association of Universities

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

St. Thomas University Women’s Rugby

Sabbatical Leave, Study, Research, and Creative Work

My plans for the sabbatical were, and I quote from last year’s annual report (dated 17 May, 2001):

“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.”

Below is a quick recount of some of the highlights of my sabbatical leave. Note that although I received invitations to teach in Oaxaca, Mexico, and to research in the University of Navarre, Spain, there was no funding available and so I did not accept these invitations. Nor did I accept the invitation to be Keynote Speaker for Brock University Learning and Teaching Development. The summer courses at Vilanova, in which I was to be involved, were postponed for this year but are still a possibility for the summer of 2003.


Research:

Ongoing Online Bibliography of Quevedo

In January and February (2002) we were in contact with Ignacio Arellano and the researchers from GRISO – Grupo Investigación Siglo de Oro (Universidad de Navarra) who publish Perinola. We updated the online Quevedo bibliography with the assistance, support, and advice of this group.

Reading Perinola, we saw that there were several important items that had not reached us, we reviewed the difficulties inherent with our current research and started to move in a slightly different direction. New popular, but still scholarly, editions of the Buscón, of which we were unaware, were purchased and are being read. Their findings are being incorporated into our own work. This is a slow process.

Alternative Approaches to Quevedo’s Buscón

Research on this difficult topic continues. We have now planned a ten part sequence: Introduction, eight chapters, bibliography, which restructures our research on Quevedo’s picaresque novel. We are still some way from finishing the research, but we are making headway and now have a clear structure with about two thirds of the work in place. There is no final timetable for continued research or publication.

Assorted Quevedo articles

We have continued research into assorted Quevedo articles and have a half dozen ready for conferences or dissemination by other means. However, if adequate funding is not available, I will not be presenting my scholarly research at many conferences. Note that, in the absence of graduate students and a cutting edge academic review process on the St. Thomas University campus, I will not be publishing without the feedback from the academic review that is only available to me at top conferences in my field.

University of New Brunswick

English 3999 Digitalized video and film
(Half credit course, January to April, 2002)
Making of 3 videos and a 16mm film

NBFilm Co-op Workshops

Film 192 Directing (Tim Rayne)
Film 131 Producing (Daryl Gray)
Film 182 Issues for Actors (Wally Mackinnon)
Budget Applications (Cathy Leblanc)
Film 102 Screenwriting (Amy Whitmore)
Film 112 Adobe Premiere (Brigitte Noel)
Intro Photoshop for Video (Brigitte Noel)

Creative Writing

Fundy Lines: revised, rewritten and published.

Decent People: revised, expanded to 16 stories, and rewritten.
This ms is now ready for publication and I am actively looking for a publisher.

7 short stories submitted to Atlantic reviews.

The Fundy is the Fundy is the Fundy
Accepted for publication by Nature NB (April/May, 2002)

4 screen scripts (The Table, Art for Art’s Sake, The French Lesson, Voices in the
Wind). Voices in the Wind was the text selected for workshopping with Amy Whitmore in Film 102.

I have started a second volume of short stories.

IV. Plans for the Coming Year (2002-2003):

I will be returning from sabbatical on July 1, 2002.

TEACHING:

This year I will be teaching the equivalent of three 6 credit hour courses.

Spanish 1006C Beginning Spanish.
Spanish 2013 Intermediate Grammar 1.
Spanish 2023 Intermediate Grammar 2.
Spanish Mexico Online 1.
Spanish Mexico Online 2.

Given the huge number of students (55) already accepted into Intermediate Grammar 1 & 2, I will NOT be teaching any volunteer overload courses this year. Quite simply, Intermediate Grammar 1 & 2 are overcrowded. With 37 students in this course two years ago, overcrowding was a serious problem and it was impossible to give the necessary individual attention to the students. As a result, the course dropped in numbers to approximately 25 after Christmas. 25 is still a very large class at this level where detailed individual attention is absolutely necessary.

Clearly the mechanics of basic teaching in this overcrowded classroom will take up most of my time in 2002-2003. Equally clearly, because of the large numbers involved, I am worried about the quality of the teaching and learning experience that the students will receive. Given the heavy workload that teaching these high numbers will generate, I am seriously reconsidering my commitment to coach the STU Women’s Rugby Team.

ADMINISTRATION

Any administration that I do will be taken up within the Spanish Section. There are several urgent items that need to be taken care of.

Outside work to which I am still committed includes:

Institutional Award Winners’ Retreat (Facilitator) 7th Teaching Showcase. University of Prince Edward Island. Charlottetown. UPEI.

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