Brian Thomas Chandler - University of North Carolina Wilmington

Brian Thomas Chandler
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
(910) 962-2299 (office)
University of North Carolina Wilmington
(910) 962-7712 (fax)
601 South College Road chandlerb@uncw.edu
Wilmington, NC 28403-5954
http://people.uncw.edu/chandlerb/
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Spanish and Spanish American Literatures and Language, May 2007
The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Dissertation: The Past is Present: Mexican Historiographic Metaliterature
Advisor: Stuart A. Day
M. A., Spanish Language and Literature, May 2003
The University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Thesis: Poder, historia e identidad en la narrativa de Sergio Ramírez
B. A., Spanish with K-12 Foreign Language Teaching Certification
Magna cum laude, May 1997
Lenoir-Rhyne University, Hickory, NC
Study Abroad: Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador, Spring 1996
Universidad del Azuay, Cuenca, Ecuador, Summer 1995
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor
UNC Wilmington Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
August 2007 – present
• Spanish 201 – Intermediate Spanish I
• Spanish 202 – Intermediate Spanish II
• Spanish 306 – Advanced Grammar
• Spanish 322 – Spanish American Literature
• Spanish 495 – Seminar: México: De la Revolución al TLC
• Spanish 498 – Internship in Spanish
• Spanish 500 – Advanced Writing Techniques
• Spanish 595 – Seminar: México: De la Revolución al TLC
• Intensive Spanish Conversation & Culture (taught in Santander, Spain)
Resident Faculty Director, North Carolina Consortium Semester in Santander, Spain.
August 2010-May 2011.

Teaching Fellow
UNC-CH Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
August 2006 – May 2007, August 2003 - May 2005
• Spanish 203 – Intermediate Spanish
• Spanish 260 - Introduction to Hispanic Literature
• Spanish 300 – Advanced Spanish Composition and Grammar
• Spanish 344 – Contemporary Mexico, Central America, and Andean Region
Visiting Graduate Lecturer
Universidad de Sevilla, August 2005 - July 2006
• Fuentes culturales de la literatura inglesa y norteamericana 102
• Inglés para la informática.
Teaching Assistant
University of South Carolina, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
August 2000 – May 2003
• Spanish 121, Intermediate Spanish
• Spanish 122, Intermediate Spanish
• Spanish 109, Elementary Spanish (Summer 2002)
• International MBA Graduate Language Instructor
Spanish Teacher
Lexington Middle School, Lexington, SC
July 1998 – June 2000

PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Articles:
"Writing the Space Between: Sabina Berman's Entre Villa y una mujer
desnuda." Confluencia: Revista hispánica de cultura y literatura 28.2 (Spring
2013).
“La repolitización del autor en Margarita, está linda la mar de Sergio Ramírez.”
The Coastal Review 6 (2012): n.p. Web.
“Signs from the Present: Víctor Hugo Rascón Banda’s La Malinche.” Chasqui:
Revista de literatura latinoamericana 39.2 (2010): 3-16.
“The Gap between Historiography and Fiction in Ignacio Solares’s Madero, el
otro.” Latin American Literary Review 38.75 (June/July 2010): 5-23.
“Archive and Origins in Los perros del paraíso.” Postscript 23 (Spring 2006):
127-37.
Submitted refereed articles:
“Carlota’s Eternal Present: Noticias del imperio.” Under review.
“La repolitización del autor en Margarita, está linda la mar de Sergio Ramírez.”
Under review.
Book Reviews:
Review of Hacia una poética teatral de Jesús González Dávila, Antonio Escobar
Delgado. Latin American Theatre Review 45.1 (Fall 2011): 210-11.
Review of Las razones del caos: Antología del teatro del absurdo y la vanguardia
hispanoamericanos, Quackenbush, L. Howard. Latin American Theatre Review 41.2
(Spring 2008): 175-77.
Review of Games and Play in the Theater of Spanish American Women, Catherine
Larson. Hispanófila 147 (May 2006): 103-05.

CONFERENCES
Papers presented:
“Temporality and History in Fernando del Paso’s Noticias del Imperio,” paper
delivered at the Philological Association of the Carolinas Conference in Myrtle
Beach, South Carolina, March 24, 2012.
“La repolitización del autor en Margarita, está linda la mar de Sergio Ramírez,”
paper delivered at the Southeast Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures at
Held at Georgia Southern University, April 1, 2010.
“Writing Wrongs: History, Time, and Metatheater in Juan Tovar’s La
Madrugada,” paper delivered at Celebración binacional de teatro mexicano
contemporáneo at the University of Texas – El Paso, November 13, 2008
“Transcending Perception and Knowledge: Ignacio Solares’ Madero, el otro,”
paper delivered at the Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference at the
University of North Carolina Wilmington, October 10, 2008.
“Temporal and Historical Distance in Sabina Berman’s Entre Villa y una mujer
desnuda,” paper delivered Latin American Theatre Today Conference at Virginia
Tech, March 28, 2008.
“Writing the Spaces Between in Sabina Berman’s Theater,” paper delivered at
Southeast Coastal Conference on Languages and Literatures at Georgia Southern
University, March 29, 2007.
“Binaries in Flux: Víctor Hugo Rascón Banda’s La Malinche,” paper delivered at
Latin American Theatre Today Conference at the University of Connecticut, April 8,
2005.
“Archive and Origins in Los perros del paraíso,” paper delivered at the Philological
Association of the Carolinas Conference in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, March 11,
2005.
“La desmitificación de la hegemonía cultural estadounidense en Charles Atlas
también muere de Sergio Ramírez,” paper delivered at the Spanish, Italian, and
Portuguese Graduate Student Symposium at the University of South Carolina, April
19, 2002.
“In Search of Identity: The Evolving Interpretation of Malinche in Mexican
Historiography,” paper delivered at the South Carolina Women’s Studies
Conference at the University of South Carolina, March 1, 2002.

Organizing and/or presiding conference sessions:
Utopian Imagination and History, chair of panel at the Philological Association of
the Carolinas Conference in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, March 24, 2012
U.S.-Mexican Border, chair of panel at the Mountain Interstate Foreign Language
Conference at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, October 10, 2008.
Argentina and Beyond, chair of panel at the Mountain Interstate Foreign Language
Conference at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, October 11, 2008.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Distinguished Teaching Award. UNC-CH Department of Romance Languages and
Literatures, 2007.
Teaching Fellowship. UNC-CH Department of Romance Languages and
Literatures, 2003-2007.
Conference Travel Grant to Southeast Coastal Conference on Languages and
Literatures at Georgia Southern University, March 29, 2007. UNC-CH Department
of Romance Languages and Literatures, April 2005.
Visiting Graduate Lecturer Fellowship. Departamento de Filología Inglesa –
Literatura Inglesa y Norteamericana, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, 2005-2006.
Conference Travel Grant to Latin American Theatre Today Conference in Storrs,
Connecticut. UNC-CH Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, April
2005.
Most Outstanding Graduate Student, University of South Carolina Department of
Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, 2002.
Spanish Medal for Most Outstanding Student of Spanish. Lenoir-Rhyne College,
1997.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
University:
Member of International Programs Advisory Committee, 2012-present
Chair of Faculty Senate Bookstore Committee, 2008-2010
Member of Student Organizations Committee, 2008-2010

Department:
Coordinator, Graduate Program, 2012-present
FLL Executive Committee, 2011-present
Chair of Scholarship Committee, 2011-present
German Lecturer Search Committee, 2011
Member of Spanish M.A. Admissions and Advisory Committee, 2008-present
FLL Library Representative, 2009-2010
Member of FLL Curriculum Committee, 2008-2010
FLL International Programs Liaison, 2008-2010
Member of Ad-hoc FLL Student Assessment Committee, 2008-2009
Member of Ad-hoc Spanish Major Review/Revision Committee, 2007-2008
Member of Ad-hoc Universidad de San Francisco de Quito Committee, 2007-2008
Community:
Volunteer with Winter Park Elementary Spanish Culture Club, 2007-2008
Students:
Supervisor of Internship in Spanish for Brittany Gaulden, 2009
Supervisor of Internship in Spanish for Rachel Bowden, 2009
Member of Honors Thesis Committee for Katherine Thomas, 2008-2009
Member of Honors Project Committee for Kathleen Redmond, 2008-2009
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
Cape Fear Foreign Language Collaborative
Modern Language Association
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Spanish: near-native fluency
Portuguese: intermediate speaking, reading, and writing skills
French: basic reading and conversation skills
Italian: basic reading knowledge