C. Andrea O’Reilly Herrera
Department of
English/Ethnic Studies Program
e-mail:
aherrera@uccs.edu
1001 Columbine Hall,
1420
Tel: 719.262.4001/Fax: 719.262.4557
Ph. D. May
1993 (GPA 4.0):
Dissertation: Nuns and Lovers: Tracing the Development of
Idyllic Conventual Writing
M.A., December 1988 (cum laude, GPA 3.9):
Thesis:
Eliot, and Other Observations: A Jungian
Analysis of the poetry of T.S. Eliot
B.A. May 1980 (cum laude,GPA 3.5):
Major: English Literature
Minor: Drama and Secondary Education (PA Teaching Certificate, Instructional 1)
** Foreign Languages: Fluent in Spanish; basic reading knowledge of French.
Development, 2002-03; Full Professor, fall 2002--; Department of English/Director of
Ethnic Studies Program, Associate Professor Fall 1999—spring 2002)
Courses Taught (2/2 work load):
Introduction to Ethnic/Women’s Studies; Contemporary Novel: The Ethnic Minority Experience;
Race, Writing and Difference; The Brontës; Autobiography and the Creation of the Self; Ethnic
Studies Capstone Seminar; Race, Modernity, & Culture (interdisciplinary, team taught course); The
Visual, Verbal, and the Audible (cross-listed with Visual & Performing Arts); Creative Writing
(fiction);
Introduction to Literary Studies; Postcolonial Theory & History;
Service & Learning; Women of Color: Image and Voice; Introduction to Race & Gender.
Associate Professor fall 1998-spring 1999; Co-Director Women’s Studies 1994-96; Director
Ethnic Studies 1997-98).
Courses Taught (4/3 work load):
Multiethnic Literature: World Poetry; Novels & Tales: A Multicultural Sampler;
Tales Of the Sea; Women’s Autobiography; Caribbean Literature (*taught
for the Departments of English and Foreign Languages).
English Education: The Adolescent in Literature.
British Literature: The Victorian Age; The Brontës; Major British Writers.
Graduate M. A. Courses: Major British Writers: Retelling the Cinderella Story; The Brontës;
Colloquia/Graduate Course: The Relationship Between the Visual, the Audible, and the Verbal.
Senior Seminar: ‘ Memory, History, and Autobiography’
English Composition.
Women’s Studies: Introduction to Women’s Studies (undergraduate independent study).
Courses Taught:
The English Romantics; Modern American Novel; Victorian Literature; Senior Seminar:
Twentieth-Century Writers; Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature; English
Composition & Research.
Courses Taught:
Multicultural Studies; Women in the House of Fiction; Research on Women Seminar (*all
three courses were cross-listed between the Department of English and Women’s Studies);
Approaches to Literature; Freshman Summer Reading Program.
Courses
Taught:
English Composition; English Tutoring Program; Freshman English Composition Placement
Committee.
Subject Taught:
Art Goes to School (Grades 2-3).
Student Teaching:
The Short Story (in both a regular, mainstreamed classroom and in the Alternative Program);
Drama (Grades 9-12).
Teacher’s Aid (Grades 1-2).
Southwest Volunteer Organization, Navajo Reservation,
Subjects Taught:
BIA, Saint Katherine’s
Subjects Taught:
Scholarly Criticism
Published Works:
Book Chapters;
Introductions; & Edited Collections:
“Sandra Benítez and the Nomadic Text,” PostModern Approaches to the Short Story. Ed. Farhat
Iftekharrudin,
Joseph Boyden, Joseph Longo, and Mary H. Rohrberger.
Publishers, 2003.
“Cristina García’s Dreaming
in Cuban.”
Ed. Alvina Quintana. Palgrave Macmillan Press: 2003.
‘
(February 2003).
ReMembering
O’Reilly
Herrera.
“Cuban(d) Diasporic Consciousness and the Myth of
Authenticity,” Challenging Cultural
Practices in
Contemporary Postcolonial Studies.
Eds. Belén Martín Lucas and Ana Bringas, Vigo, Spain: Feminario
Teorias de Diferencia, 2001.
“Imagining A Self Between A Husband or
a Wall: Charlotte Brontë’s Villette,” Foreign Women in
British Literature: Exotics, Aliens and
Outsiders. Ed. Marilyn D.
Button.
Press, 1999: 67-78.
“Introduction,” A Secret Weavers Anthology. Ed. Andrea O’Reilly Herrera.
Press, 1998: 17-34.
A Secret Weavers
Anthology. Ed. Andrea O’Reilly
Herrera.
“Introduction,” Family Matters in the British and American Novel. Eds. Andrea O’Reilly Herrera, Sheila
Foor, and
Elizabeth Nollen.
Marriage, Motherhood, and Oppression in Brontë’s Villette and Jacobs’ Incidents in
the Life of a Slave Girl,” Family Matters in the British and American Novel. Eds. Andrea O’Reilly
Herrera, Sheila
Foor, and Elizabeth Nollen.
“Joseph Krumgold,” Writers of Multicultural Fiction for Young Adults: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook. Ed.
Daphne
Kutzer.
“ ‘Chambers of Consciousness’: Sandra Cisneros and the Development of the Self in the BIG House on
Harriet
Pollack.
Refereed Journal Articles:
“The Consciousness of Exile”: Memory and the Vicarious Imagination in Cuban American Literature,”
Journal of West Indian Literature 8:1 (October 1998): 82-98.
“Introduction to (His)tory (Her)story,” Modern Language Studies. 27.3, 4 (Fall-Winter 1997): 67-68.
“Women and the Revolution in Cristina García’s Dreaming in Cuban,” Modern Language Studies. 27.3,
4 (Fall-Winter 1997): 69-91.
“Ron Arias’ The Road
to Tamazunchale and the Idea of Death,”
The
`(Fall-Winter 1994): 114-24.
“Liberating Duras: ‘The Staircase that Never Stops’,” Women & Language. XII 2 (Fall 1990): 21-26.
Magazine Articles,
etc:
“Sidelights” (biographical article). Contemporary
Authors. v 193 (2002),
190-92.
“Re-Membering
“The ‘Consciousness of Exile.’ ” Brochure/text for Silence and Darkness, a special exhibit of the work of
artist Alberto
Rey.
Book Chapters:
“Teaching Inclusivity: Diversity and Faculty Development,”
(co-authored with Abby Ferber), Teaching
Inclusivity: Integrating the Individual, Departmental, and University Levels. Ed. Matthew Ouellett (in
Progress, New
Forums Press,
“From the Pulpit to the Podium: Marginality and the Discourses of Race.” (co-authored with Paul Harvey)
Color, Hair & Bone. Ed. Linden Lewis (forthcoming anthology, Bucknell University Press, 2004)
Refereed Journal Articles:
“‘Sliding into the
Beyond: On Testimonio in the Cuban
Diaspora,” Callaloo (forthcoming fall
2004).
Rethinking the Cuban Diaspora: The ‘Idea of a Nation’ Displaced. Ed. Andrea O’Reilly Herrera (a
collection of critical essays in progress).
Published Works:
“The Homecoming,” Little
and Delia
Poey.
“The Dispossessed,” Part One, Caesura 10 (Spring 1990): 49-60.
Part Two, Caesura 11 (Spring 1991): 65-78.
Published Works:
The
Poetry
Published Works:
“Upstate
“hymn to an iris,” Latino Stuff Review. 31 (July 2002).
‘in praise of passion,” Latino Stuff Review. 31 (July 2002)
(“in praise of passion” will concurrently appear in Sugar Mule, forthcoming 2003)
“Cantabrian Pilgrimage,” Sugar Mule. 9 (December 2001)
“Inhabited Woman,” Masthead, Literary Arts Magazine. 3 (Spring 1999): 13
“Untitled,” The Seed. (Spring 1998): 8.
“on the road to
Forthcoming
Works/Works in Progress:
“The Song of the Nightingale.” (accepted for an anthology of Cuban American Writers tentatively entitled
Why We Left
Plays
The
Exploited Theatre
Company,
Art Work
Frontispiece for The Pearl of the Antilles (watercolor); Bilingual/Review Press, 2001.
Curatorial Work
Contemporary Art, fall 2003.
Café II: The Journeys of Cuban Artists. (in collaboration with curator Leandro Soto)
The Arpilleristas
of
2000, and the
Gallery of Art,
Organization of Symposiums/Colloquiums
Race, Gender, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade: A
Comparative, Cross-Cultural Dialogue.
Café II: The Journeys of Cuban Artists.
Fiction Reading/Lecture.
Con
Reading/Lecture. Le
Maison L’Amerique Latine,
Fiction
Reading & Panel Discussion, “History, Conflict, Memory
& Identity,”
Reading/Workshop.
“Writing in Exile,”
2004.
Reading/Lecture.
Reading/Lecture.
Reading/Lecture. The
Fiction Reading/Book Presentation.
Fiction Reading/Book Presentation.
Fiction Reading/Book Presentation. D’Youville College,
Fiction Reading/Book Presentation. SUNY, Fredonia,
Guest Lecture/Presentation.
Fiction Reading/Presentation at
Fiction Reading/Presentation at
Panel Presentation/Fiction Reading with author Ana Menendez, at Cuba Cuba, Denver, Colorado and
Chinook
Bookstore,
“ReMembering
Forum Presentation for the Race Awareness and Cultural Empowerment Series (R.A.C.E.) sponsored
by the
Multicultural Center,
Panel Presentation/Fiction
Fiction Reading/Book Presentation at The Virginia Festival
of the Book,
Keynote Address (with author Laura Glen Louis). Second Annual Women’s Leadership Symposium and
Luncheon,
Panel Presentation/Fiction Reading with authors Erika Krouse and Dana Spiotta, the Boulder Bookstore,
“The Road Not Taken: Cultural Identity in Cuban-American Writing.” Fiction Reading/Book Presentation
sponsored by the
Fiction Reading/Book Presentation at The
Fiction Reading/Book Presentation at Books & Books,
Fiction Reading/Panel Presentation at The Rocky Mountain Book Festival, Denver, CO: March 2001.
Fiction Reading at The American Women Writers of Color
Conference;
1999.
Fiction
“An Afternoon of Cuban-American Literature & Art.” Reading for the ‘Just
September 1997.
Art Exhibits
Standing in the Storm:
Women’s Art Exhibition 2003,
Metropolitan
March 2003. (group show/juried)
Café II; Journeys of
Cuban Artists, Gallery of Contemporary Art,
Springs, CO, October-November 2002. (group show/by invitation)
Immaculata Stone Sculptors’ Exhibit,
“La idea de una nacion desplazada,” Con Cuba en la
distancia,
“Helping Women & Faculty of Color to Succeed,” Women Succeeding: Faculty Development Symposium;
“Inscribing the Silence: Rhetoric, Race, and the Lost Generation in the Cuban Diaspora,” The Fourth
Cuban Research
Institute Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies;
University,
“Retracing the Cuban Diaspora: The ‘Idea of a Nation’ Displaced” (roundtable discussion), The Fourth
Cuban Research
Institute Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies;
University,
Invitational Roundtable Discussion of ReMembering
Association,
“Finding Mentors: Building Supportive Relationships,” Women Succeeding: Faculty Development
Symposium;
“From the Pulpit to the Podium: Marginality and the Discourses of Race” (co-authored and presented with
Dr. Paul Harvey, History). Color, Hair, and Bone: The Persistence of Race Into the 21st Century,
Invitational Roundtable Discussion of ReMembering
Research
Institute Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies;
Miami, FL, March 2002.
“Díaspora y nación: hacia una disarticulación
del discurso cubano,” Encuentro
internacional sobre
creación y exilio: “Con Cuba en la distancia,”
Cadíz, Spain, November 2001 (cancelled).
“The Cuban Diaspora at the Millennium.” Special Session, Modern Language Association,
D.C., December 2000.
“Ajiaco con platano, ajiaco con carne y res,”
Caribbean Research Institute International Conference,
“Re-assessing Woolf
and Women’s Studies for the 21st Century” (roundtable panel
discussion).
Woolf Conference;
“Cuban(d) Diasporic Consciousness and the Myth of Authenticity.” The Second Cuban Research Institute
Conference on
Cuban and Cuban-American Studies;
March 1999.
“The Legacy of the Cuban Revolution” (invitational address). International Conference of Post-Colonial
Studies;
Universidad de Vigo,
“Sandra Benítez and the Nomadic Text.” Fifth International Conference of the Short Story in English;
“The ‘Consciousness of Exile’.” The First Cuban Research Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American
Studies;
“The Artist and the Un(re)membered Memory in Caribbean Literature and Art.” The International
Conference of the
“ ‘Bridges’ Back to
The National
Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies Conference;
“ ‘And the Lady T’Is a Whore’: Women and the Economy in
Association; Washington, D. C.: December 1996.
“Identity, Memory and the Vicarious Imagination in Contemporary Cuban-American Literature and Art.”
‘What is An American?’: Changing Faces of Identity in American Life, Fall Festival and National
Conference;
“ ‘A Prophetic Vision of the Past’: Sandra Benítez’s A Place Where the Sea Remembers.” American
Women Writers of
Color Conference;
“Contemporary
Association; Montréal, Québec: April 1996.
“Contemporary Caribbean-American Female Authors Expanding the Esthetic.” International Conference
of
“From Here to There and Back Again: The Children of the Revolution Write Back.” Modern Language
Association;
“ ‘Herself Beheld’: Slavery and Motherhood in the Works of Harriet Jacobs and Charlotte Brontë.” Other
Voices: American
Women Writers of Color Conference;
“Communal Parenting in Barbara Kingsolver’s The Bean Trees.” Popular Culture Association National
Conference;
“Ron Arias’ The Road to Tamazunchale and the Idea of Death.” North East Modern Language
Association;
“Among Themselves: Women in History in the Works of Cristina García and Laura Esquivel.” Modern
Language
Association;
“The Form of History in Carmen Laforet’s Nada and Cristina García’s Dreaming in Cuban.” South
Atlantic Modern
Language Association;
“Blurring the Lines Between the Private and the Political in
Contemporary
Voices: American
Women Writers of Color Conference;
“Scheherazade’s daughters: Women Writing the Short Story.” Third International Conference on the
Short Story;
“The ‘Disappeared’ in the Women’s Movement.” Conference in Celebration of Women’s Studies;
“Female Writers and Victorian Religion.” North East Modern Language Association;
April 1994.
“Vision and Revision in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights.” Popular Culture Association National
Conference;
“Women in Love in the Work of Federico García Lorca and Laura Esquivel.” North East Popular Culture
Association;
“Maxine Hong Kingston: ‘On Linguistic Discovery’.” National Women’s Studies Association
Conference; Washington, D. C.: June 1993.
“The ‘Complete World’ of Leslie Marmon Silko and R. C. Gorman.” American Women Writers of Color
Conference;
“Parables of
Survival: Gabriel García Márquez, Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and the
Shipwrecked
Sailor.” North East Modern Language Association;
“Unveiling the Nun: The Search for Selfhood in Brontë’s Villette.” Popular Culture Association National
Conference;
“Sandra Cisneros and the BIG House on
“Mario Vargas Llosa and Joseph Conrad: ‘Heart of Darkness’ Heart of Light.” North East Modern
Language Association;
“Mad Women Across the Border: Madness and Consciousness in the Work of Maria Luisa Bombal,
Federico García Lorca, and Clarice Lispecter.” Research on Women Conference; University
of
“A (Woman’s) Space for Madness.” Eighth Annual Graduate Women’s Studies Conference; University
of
“Emily Brontë’s Androgynous Vision.” Research on Women Conference;
“Tennyson’s Taj Majal: Filling the Void Through the Screen of the M(other).” Seventh Annual Graduate
Women’s Studies
Conference;
“ ‘The Short Season Between Two Silences’: Virginia Woolf and the Issue of Meaning.” Research on
Women Conference;
“Mother as Creator—Mother as Destroyer: Representations of Motherhood in the Work of Virginia Woolf
and D. H.
Lawrence.” Grace Cochran Research on
Women Conference;
Campus/Community
Addresses/Lectures (Invitational), etc.
“Cultural Competency,” Address to the Daniel’s Scholars Organization, Colorado Springs, CO: June 2004.
Keynote Address, American Association of University Women Annual Luncheon: May 2004.
The
Last Lecture Series,
Presentation
at the
November 2003.
Presentation/Discussion:
The Latino Youth Leadership Conference,
November 2003.
“Celebrating Frida,” The Pikes Peak Watercolor Association, Colorado Springs, CO: September 2003.
“Revisiting
the Cuban Revolution,” Palmer High School,
“Celebrating Cultural Diversity,” Pine Creek High School, Colorado Springs, CO: January 2003.
“Valuing
Cultural Diversity: From Soup to Nuts,” The Provost’s Lecture Series,
University.
Keynote Address for National Hispanic Heritage Month, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO:
September 2002.
Discussion/Presentation with the Fireside Reading Club, Colorado Springs, CO: April 2002.
Keynote Address for the Second Annual Women’s Leadership Luncheon with author Laura Glen Louis,
Address for National Hispanic Heritage Month.
Springs, CO: October 2001.
“Women and the Cuban Revolution,” The History Club Lecture
Series,
Springs: April 2001.
Keynote Address at the Hispanic National Honor Society
Induction Ceremony,
Keynote Address at the Women Dean’s Breakfast, The Annual Meeting of the Council of Colleges of Arts
and Sciences,
Guest Lecturer (Ethnic Studies Program) at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO: March 2000.
“The Incongruence of Memory,” an address at the
Faculty/Student Panel for the College Fair Day.
1999.
‘Remembering our Histories’, an address to the Latino Student Union as part of Unity Week, University of
Invitational Address to the Diversity Coalition at the Department of Human Services, in celebration of
National Hispanic History Month, Colorado Springs, CO: September 1999.
“The Legacy of the Cuban Revolution, A Joint Arts and Humanities Colloquium,” SUNY, Fredonia,
“Keynote Address.” Students of Color Concerns Conference: Cultural Exploration, Return to the Source.
(sponsored by the
Black Student Union); SUNY, Fredonia,
“Tapestries of Hope: The Arpillera
Movement in
“Marjorie Agosín and the Arpillera
Movement in
March 1998.
“The Cuban Community in Exile.” Address to The American Association of University Women;
The
1998.
“The Relationship Between the Visual, the Audible and the Verbal.” Chautauqua Institution;
“The State of
“ ‘Hispanic Women and Feminism’: The Current Picture.” Address to the Women’s Student Union;
SUNY, Fredonia,
“Life’s Balancing Acts: Managing Career and Family.” Address to the residents of McGinnies Hall;
SUNY, Fredonia;
“Loading the Canon.”
Address to the Torch Club;
“Café au lait, cappuccino, café con leche and multiculturalism.” Engaging the Public: Lecture Series on
Community and the
Public Sphere; The Gallery Café,
“The Need to Include the Minority Experience in Education.” (sponsored by Latinos Unidos); SUNY,
Fredonia,
Coordinated/Facilitated
Workshops, Consulting Work, etc.
Consultation/Program
Review. SUNY, Fredonia,
Consultation/Program
Review.
Workshop Facilitator.
2002.
“Integrating Race and Gender in the Classroom,” Freshman
Seminar Workshop,
Partners Program, ‘Valuing Diversity’ Workshop/Presentation,
February 2001.
Facilitated ‘Diversity and Multiculturalism Workshop’ at the
SVHE New Teachers Workshop at
College, Colorado Springs, CO, July 2000.
Coordinated/Facilitated the Ethnic Studies/Women’s Studies Curriculum Transformation Workshop,
The President’s Emerging Leaders Institute, June 2004.
The Chancellor’s Award for Research, Scholarship and Service, spring 2004.
The
The Ethnic Minority Affairs Committee’s System-wide Diversity Award, spring 2003.
The President’s Fund Mini-Grant, fall 2002.
The Teaching and Learning Center Faculty Partnership Grant, spring 2002.
The Center for the Study of the Individual and Government Grant, spring 2002.
The Presidents Fund for the Recruitment and Retention of Women and Minority Faculty, 2002.
The President’s Fund for the Humanities, fall 2002.
The Wye Institute Fellowship/Faculty Seminar, summer 2001.
The Center for the Study of the Individual and Government Grant, spring 2001.
The Presidents Fund for the Recruitment and Retention of Women and Minority Faculty, fall 2001.
The President’s Fund for the Humanities, fall 2000.
The President’s Diversity Fund, fall 2000.
The President’s Fund for the Humanities, spring 2000.
The Presidents Fund for the Recruitment and Retention of Women and Minority Faculty, 2000.
The 1998-99 AY Recipient of the Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Affirmative Action Leave
The 1998 State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.
The NEH World History Workshop: June 1998.
United University Professions PDQWL (Professional development) Grant: spring 1998.
The Carnahan Jackson Humanities Fund: spring 1998.
The Amy Everett Award: spring 1997.
The Scholarly Incentive Award: spring 1997.
African-American Studies Workshop (conducted by Abdul Alkalimat): May 1997.
The Carnahan Jackson Humanities Fund: spring 1997.
The Scholarly Incentive Award and Research Grant to attend the Caribbean Writers Seminar and
Workshop at the
United University Professions PDQWL Research Grant: 1994-95.
The Scholarly Incentive Award: June 1994.
The
Commission of the Status of Women Travel Award: spring 1992.
The Thomas W. Molyneaux Fiction Award (selected by Fred Chappell): spring 1991.
The
Dissertation Fellowship: spring 1991.
The Thomas W. Molyneaux Fiction Award (selected by Alicia Ostriker): spring 1990.
Graduated cum laude;
The Grace Cochran Research on Women Award: Spring 1988.
University Tuition Scholarship/Graduate Assistantship.
Graduated cum laude;
Dean’s List.
Fredonia Central School Board of Education (elected to a 5 year term: 1998-2003).
Advisory Board for White Pine Press; and The Center for the Study of Government and the Individual.
Listed in “Who’s Who Among Hispanic American and University Teachers” and Contemporary Authors.
Modern Language Association; Latin American Studies Association; National Women’s Studies Association; Latin American Studies Association; British Popular Culture Association; Society of the Study of the Short Story; Immaculata Sculptors Association.
Panels Chaired:
“Crossing the Diasporic Divide: Discourse, Margins, and Borders,” Díaspora y nación: hacia una
disarticulación del discurso cubano,” Encuentro internacional sobre creación y
exilio: “Con Cuba en la
distancia,”
“The Cuban Diaspora at the Millennium.” Special Session, Modern Language Association,
D.C., December 2000.
Moths & Stars:
Determination and Spirituality in Helena María Viramontes’ “The Moths” and
Under the
Feet of Jesus. American Women Writers
of Color Conference;
October 1996.
Reconfiguring the
Conference of
Chicana Theory: The
New Chicana. American Women Writers of Color Conference;
October 1995.
Contemporary Latin
American Fiction. North East Modern
Language Association;
1995.
History Herstory:
Blurring the Lines between the Private and the Political in Contemporary
Women’s
Writing. Modern Language Association;
Mario Vargas Llosa.
North East Modern Language Association;
Beyond English Borders: Influences Abroad. Popular Culture Association National Conference; New
Defining and
Disrupting the Boundaries of Self in Contemporary African-American and
Fiction. American Women Writers of
Color Conference;
Cross-Cultural Considerations: Hurston, Erdrich, Morrison and Momaday. American Women Writers of
Color Conference;
Additional Duties:
Coordinator and Judge for The Rosa Parks Scholarship
Competition,.
Springs: 2001—
Coordinator and Judge for the Annual Student Research on Women Conference. SUNY, Fredonia,
Judge for the Best Graduate Essay presented at the American Women Writers of Color Conference; Ocean
City, MD: 1994—.
Secretary of Contemporary Latin American Writers Panel. North East Modern Language Association;
Respondent to Prime Suspect Series—Novel and Film. Popular Culture Association National Conference;
External Reader: The University of Virginia Press, White Pine Press, The Popular Press, University of Delaware Press, University of Nebraska Press, Florida University Press, McGraw Hill, University of Texas Press, Latino Studies, and MELUS.
Faculty Governance at
SUNY, Fredonia:
Coordinator of the Multiethnic Studies Program: Spring 1998-99.
President’s Task Force on Minority Recruitment and Retention: spring 1998.
Faculty Advisor to The Writer’s Guild: 1997-99.
Personnel Search Committee to Select a Dean of Arts and Humanities: fall/spring 1997-98.
Chair Curriculum Development Committee: 1997-98.
Ad Hoc Committee for the Development of a Multiethnic Studies Program (outside consultant Aubrey
Bonnet): 1996-97.
Personnel Committee for the department of Education to
Select a Director of the
1996-97.
Co-Chair of the Coalition of Faculty and Staff of Color: 1995-98.
Co-Director of Women’s Studies Minor: 1994-96.
Academic Affairs Committee: 1994-97.
Rosa Parks Scholarship Committee: 1994-99.
Curriculum Development Committee, Department of English: 1994-99.
Faculty Advisor to Women’s Field Hockey Team-99.
Faculty Advisor to Latinos Unidos: 1993-99.
Women’s Studies Curriculum Advisory Committee: 1993-99.
Ad Hoc Committee for Affirmative Action and Faculty Retention: 1993-95.
*Ad Hoc Member of the Personnel Committee for the Departments of English, Foreign Languages and Philosophy.
Faculty Advisor for
College of education Diversity Committee, fall 2004—.
Faculty Advisor for AWARE (Women’s Student Organization): fall 2003—.
Minority Student Recruitment Ad Hoc Committee, spring 2003—.
Student/Faculty mentoring Program, fall 2003—.
CU System-Wide Diversity Task Force, fall 2002—.
Dean’s Review Committee, fall 2002—.
Advisory Board for the CU Trauma Center: fall 2002.
Faculty Advisor for the Student Diversity Counsel, fall 2002—.
Minority Faculty Review Committee: fall 2001—.
Advisory Board for the Center for the Study of Government and the Individual: fall 2001.
Ad hoc LAS Gen-Ed Core Curriculum Committee: spring 2001—.
Rosa Parks Student Scholarship Committee (Chair): spring 2001—.
UC-Opportunity Committee (ex-oficio) fall 2000—.
Ad hoc Salary Grievance Committee: spring 2000.
Ethnic Studies Advisory Committee (Chair): 1999—.
Faculty Minority Affairs Committee: 1999—. (Co-Chair) 2000—.
LAS Diversity Task Force: fall 1999-spring 2000.
Advisor to the Latino Student Union: 1999—.
Women’s Studies Advisory Committee: 1999—.
Women’s Faculty Council: 1999—.
Campus Activities Board: 1999-2000.
Ad hoc Committee (to establish an international exchange program): 1999-2000.
Languages & Cultures Search Committee, fall 2004—.
Assistant Vice Chancellor of Academic Diversity Search Committee: spring 2004—.
Ad Hoc Search Committee for Interim Associate Dean of LAS, fall 2001.
VCAA Search Committee, Co-Chair: summer 2001; fall/spring 2002.
Department of History Search Committee: fall 1999.
Search Committee for the Assistant Vice Chancellor of Multicultural Affairs: fall/spring 1999-2000.
Search Committee for the Department of Languages and Cultures: fall 1999-spring 2001.
Search Committee for the Department of English: fall/spring 1999-2000.