Link to Curriculum Vitae - UCLA Academic Senate

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
UNIVERSITY SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE DEPARTMENT EVALUATOR
1. External Review Committee for the Academic Program Review of Department of
Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, February 4-6, 1992.
2. External Review committee for the Academic Program Review of the Department of
Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona February 7-9, 2001.
SERVICE AS REVIEWER OF MANUSCRIPTS/ REFEREE OF PROPOSALS:
Manuscript Evaluator for University of Pennsylvania Press,
University of California Press, Prentice Hall Press in l986.
Evaluator for two books of University of Arizona Press, Summer, 1990.
University of Arizona Press - Books ms: (1 in 1991; 1 in 1994; 1 book in 1994)
University of New Mexico Press - Books: (1 in 1993)
University of California Press - Books: (1 in 1993) (1 in 1994)
PMLA (2 articles ms. 1994; 1 article 1995; 1 articles in 1996)
American Ethnologist (1 in 1992)
The Americas Review (1 in 1993)
Explorations in Ethnic Studies (1 in 1993; 1 in 1996)
Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos (1 ms. article in 1994)
Indiana University Press, (1 book ms. 1994).
Duke University Press (1995)
University of New Mexico Press (1995)
Frontiers Journal (1 ms. article, 1996)
Reviewed several manuscripts for the University of Arizona Press, Univ. of
Oklahoma, and University of New Mexico during the 1998-01 period.
1. Book Reviewer for Revista Chicano-Riqueña.
2. Film Reviewer for Journal of American Folklore 1981-1983.
PANELS ORGANIZED FOR CONFERENCES:
1. Organized Panel: "La Mujer en el Folklore," II Simposio Mujer y Sociedad en America.
March 30, 31, and April 1, 1979, Ensenada, Baja California.
2. Organized Panel: "La Mujer Chicana: Nuevas Perspectivas," Pacific Coast Council of
Latin American Studies, California State University, Chico. October 19-20, 1979.
3. Organized Panel: "Folklore of the Southwest," Pacific Coast Council of Latin American
Studies, UC Irvine, October 10, 11, 12, 1980.
4. "Presiding Officer at Latin American Literature Session at PAPC Conference, UC
Berkeley, 1980 and at Stanford University November 8, 1981.
5. Organized a Chicano Literature Panel. Primer Simposio Internacional de Poesía y
Narrativa de Hispanoamerica Siglo XX. Chapman College, Orange, California. October
7,8,9, 1982.
JUDGE IN POETRY CONTESTS:
1. Judge for Chicano Literature Contest held at the U. of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, l986.
2. Judge for Poetry Constest: Houston City, Texas, Fall 1990.
3. Judge for Poetry Contest: Universidad Autónoma de Cd. Juárez, May 1994.
4. Judge for José Fuentes Mares Prize (Chicano Literature Section) Universidad
Autónoma de Cd. Juárez, Mexico. May 14-19, 1996.
ART EXHIBITS ORGANIZED:
1. First Annual Chicano/a Exhibition: Featured artist-Santa Barraza
2. Second Annual Chicano/a Exhibition: Featured artist-Rosa M.
3. Third Annual Chicano/a Exhibition: Featured artist-Yolanda M. López
4. Fourth Annual Chicano/a Exhibiton: Featured artist-Patssi Valdez
CO-ORGANIZER OF CONFERENCE SEMINARS:1. La Página Roja/The Crime
Page: The Chicano/a Detective Novel. The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque,
March 31-April 1, 2000.
2. Chicana Literary and Artistic Expressions. University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
February -June, 2001.
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