MARÍA CARMEN VALENTÍN Associate Professor

MARÍA CARMEN VALENTÍN
Associate Professor of Spanish
Department of Spanish
Grinnell College
Grinnell, Iowa 50112
[email protected]
(641) 269-3112
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EDUCATION
University of Valladolid, Spain
Ph.D., Hispanic Philology, 2002
Dissertation: “Edición y estudio de coplas admonitivas sefardíes de rima zejelesca”
M.A., Hispanic Philology, 1996
Master’s Thesis: “Estudio y edición de coplas de castiguerio judeoespañolas en estrofas
de verso corto y rima zejelesca: Los extremos de la vida”
B.A., Hispanic Philology, 1993.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Grinnell College, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish, Grinnell, 2001-present.
Courses taught:
. Tutorial “Men Talk, Women Talk: Beyond Words”
. Tutorial “Children’s Literature”
. SPN 105 “Introduction to the Spanish Language I”
. SPN 106 “Introduction to the Spanish Language II”
. SPN 217 “Intermediate Spanish”
. SPN 285 “Reading and Discussion of Hispanic Texts”
. SPN 316 “Advanced Spanish Language”
. SPN 320 “Cultures of the Spanish Speaking World. Latin@s in the US: Issues
for Social Change
. SPN 343 “The Art of Language”
. SPN 384 “Spanish Dialectology”
Mentored Advanced Program (MAP):
. “Study of Sephardic Texts” (Spring ‘03, Spanish, main advisor)
. “Arabic Influence in Mozarabic Writings: A Study of the Mozarabic Jarchas ”
(Linguistics Senior Thesis, main advisor)
. “Sex Education: Gender socialization and Performance through the Discourse of
Homeschoolers.” (Linguistics Senior Thesis, second reader)
. “Quebec and Hong Kong: Language Choice in Multilingual Societies”
(Linguistics Senior Thesis, main advisor)
. “Language Use in an Explicitly Queer Friendly Environment: An Examination
of Topic Changes, Interruptions and the Use of 'Like'” (Linguistics Senior Thesis,
second reader)
. “A Tale of Two Psychologies: Problems Defining the Study of Mind”
(Linguistics Senior Thesis, second reader)
. “Yooks, Zooks, and Woozles: A Phonological Analysis of Nonsense Words in
Children’s Literature” (Linguistics Senior Thesis, second reader)
. “What Do We Do with Euphemism? A Linguistic Study of the Hebrew Bible
and Translation Theory” (Linguistics Senior Thesis, second reader)
Iowa State University, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Ames, 1997-2001
Instructor of advanced grammar and composition, and conversation; intermediateadvanced grammar and composition, and conversation; intermediate, and beginning
Spanish. Supervisor of internships.
University of Valladolid, Spain, 1993-1997
Teaching advanced grammar; intermediate-advanced, intermediate, and beginning
Spanish conversation; Spanish culture.
“Programa Lingua”: teaching grammar and culture classes for German teachers of
Spanish as a Second Language.
ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION
Grinnell College, 2006-present
Advisor for the following off-campus study programs:
Granada: Institute for the International Education of Students (IES)
2006-2011
Salamanca: Institute for the International Education of Students (IES)
2009-2010
Madrid: Institute for the International Education of Students (IES)
Madrid: Hamilton College
Grinnell College, March 2006
Familiarization trip to IES Salamanca and Granada, in Spain. Supported by IES and the
Center for International Studies of Grinnell College. Supervision of academics,
organization, administration, and residence life in order to assess the programs’ quality
and adopt them as approved off-campus study offerings.
Iowa State University, 1998-2001
Coordinator of the Intensive Spanish Program at UNINTER in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Advising; organization of the curriculum; supervision and evaluation of students;
proficiency testing; tuition, lodging, and housing arrangements; marketing.
University of EAFIT, Medellín, Colombia, Summer 1995
Development and design of Spanish Program for Second Language Acquisition.
Organization of the curriculum in different levels, assessment, activities guide,
bibliographic materials and sources, and methodology.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Romero, Elena: Seis coplas sefardíes de “castiguerio” de Hayim Yom-Tob Magula. Edición
crítica y estudio, with the collaboration of María Carmen Valentín, Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, 2003.
Ejercicios gramaticales para la enseñanza del español. Nivel intermedio, co-authored with
María Hernández García, Universitas Castellae, Valladolid, 1998.
Articles
“Ideología masculina en los textos de crítica a la mentalidad moderna de la mujer sefardí (19001930)”, (forthcoming)
“Comportamientos lingüísticos de la mujer moderna en el teatro costumbrista sefardí (19001930)”, eHumanista¸ Volumen 20, 2012, pp. 384-401.
“La copla sefardí Los pesares del alma,” in Estudios sefardíes dedicados a la memoria de Jacob
M. Hassan, Elena Romero (ed.), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, 2011,
pp. 621-632.
“La mujer moderna en el teatro costumbrista sefardí (1900-1930),” in Los sefardíes ante los
retos del mundo contemporáneo. Identidad y mentalidades, Paloma Díaz-Mas and María
Sánchez Pérez (eds.), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, 2010, pp. 293303.
“Judeo-Spanish Theater,” in European Judaism, Volume 43, Number 2, Autumn 2010, pp. 91101.
“El retrato femenino en el teatro sefardí costumbrista,” in Proceedings of the 14th British
Conference on Judeo-Spanish Studies, London, 2008, pgs. 253-264 (peer-reviewed by the editor)
“Los pecados del hombre: Edición crítica de una copla sefardí de admonición,” in Hispanic
Research Journal, 8, 4, 2007, pp. 291-316.
“Adiciones bibliográficas al corpus de poesía judeoespañola admonitiva,” in Sefarad, 67,1, 2007,
pp. 213-220.
“Poesía judeoespañola admonitiva: Notas para su caracterización,” in Sefarad, 66, 2, 2006, pp.
443-470.
“Las formas verbales en un corpus de trece coplas sefardíes,” in Proceedings of the Sexto
Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Lengua Española, III, Madrid, 2006, pp. 2585-2597.
“Poesía judeoespañola admonitiva: concordancias estilísticas y temáticas con la literatura moral
castellana medieval”, Revista de Filología Española, LXXXV, 2, Madrid, 2005, pp. 295-320.
“Fonética y fonología sefardí a través de una copla de admonición,” in Proceedings of the Quinto
Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Lengua Española; Valencia 2000, Mª Teresa
Echenique Elizondo and Juan Sánchez Méndez (Eds.), Gredos, Vol. 1, 2002, pp. 445-450.
“Los extremos de la vida y sus conexiones con el poema judío medieval Lamentación del alma
ante la muerte,” in Jewish Studies at the Turn of the 20th Century. Proceedings of the 6th EAJS
Congress, Toledo 1998, Targarona Borras and A. Saens-Badillos (Eds.), Leiden-BostonKölnBrill, Vol. 2, 1999, pp. 667-676.
“Arcaísmo e innovación en el léxico de una copla sefardí de admonición,” in Cuadernos del
Lazarillo, 11, 1996, pp. 53-57.
“Una aproximación a la coplística sefardí,” in Cuadernos del Lazarillo, 8, 1995, pp. 56-58.
Additional
2 Brief Cultural Essays in Revista de Hostelería Vallisoletana, 6, 1996, pp. 42-43, 80-82.
PRESENTATIONS
“«¡Cómo trocó la vida de nuestras mujeres!»: La mujer moderna en el teatro costumbrista
sefardí,” at Congreso Internacional Los sefardíes de Turquía y los Balcanes: Identidad y
mentalidades en textos de los siglos XIX y XX, Madrid, Spain, June 2009.
“El retrato femenino en el teatro sefardí costumbrista,” at 14th British Conference on JudeoSpanish Studies, London, UK, June 2006.
“Las formas verbales en un corpus de trece coplas sefardíes,” at Sexto Congreso Internacional de
Historia de la Lenguna Española, Madrid, Spain, September-October 2003 (peer-reviewed).
“Los pecados del hombre: Notas a la luz de la edición y estudio de una copla sefardí de
admonición,” at 56th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, April 2003.
“Algunas correspondencias no judías en una selección de coplas sefardíes de admonición,” at
55th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, April 2002.
“Una cala en la poesía sefardí de admonición,” at 17th Mid-America Conference on Hispanic
Literatures, Kansas City, October 2001.
“Music: An Active Component in Teaching and Learning of Spanish Language and Culture,” at
IWLA Fall Conference, Cedar Rapids, October 2001.
“Using Realia in the Spanish Classroom: An Activities Guide,” at Tri-State Foreign Language
Conference, Sioux City, October 2000.
“Tradiciones textuales de la copla sefardí Los extremos de la vida,” at 53rd Kentucky Foreign
Language Conference, Lexington, April 2000.
“Estudio analítico de las versiones textuales de la copla sefardí Los extremos de la vida,” at
Hispanic Languages and Literatures Conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, March 2000.
“Fonética y fonología sefardí a través de una copla de admonición,” at Quinto Congreso
Internacional de Historia de la Lenguna EspaZ ola, Valencia, Spain, February 2000.
“La posición del español en EE.UU. y su importancia en la clase,” at IFLA Conference, Ames,
October 1999.
“Communication through Hispanic Culture,” at IFLA Conference, Des Moines, October 1998.
“Algunos problemas de la edición de textos en aljamía hebraica,” at Coloquio Internacional VII
Jornadas Medievales, México D.F., September 1998.
“Los extremos de la vida y sus conexiones con el poema judío medieval Lamentación del alma
ante la muerte,” at 6th Congress of European Association for Jewish Studies, Toledo, Spain, July
1998.
Additional
“Judeo-Spanish: The History of a Language in Exile”, Grinnell College, November 2004. Talk
sponsored by the Students Organization for Latinos and Latinas (SOL) and the Jewish Student
Organization Chalutzim, as a complement to the concert performed on campus by Ladino singer
Sarah Aroeste.
GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
Instructional Support Committee. Grinnell College, Summer 2010. Support to hire a student
assistant who collaborates in the revision and update of the materials used in SPN343 “The Art
of Language” by locating Spanish on-line resources to be used as the basis for different
assignments.
Committee for Support of Faculty Scholarship. Grinnell College, Summer 2005. Research in the
Library of Sephardic Studies, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain.
Instructional Support Committee. Grinnell College, 2004-2005. Development of the Spanish
Department Off-Campus Electronic Newsletter (with Prof. Dennis Perri).
Committee for Support of Faculty Scholarship. Grinnell College, Summer 2003. Research in the
Library of Sephardic Studies, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain.
Instructional Support Committee. Grinnell College, Summer 2003. Addition of a technological
component in the Advanced Spanish Grammar Seminar, Spn 343 “The Art of Language”.
Instructional Support Committee. Grinnell College, 2001-2002. Creation of the advanced level
Spanish course “Spanish Conversation”, which integrates technology into teaching.
Committee for Support of Faculty Scholarship. Grinnell College, 2001-2002. Dissertation
Research and Production.
Vicerrectorado de Investigación. University of Valladolid, Spain, 1996-1997. Dissertation
Research.
Programa Intercampus. National University of Córdoba, Argentina, 1996. Research in Latin
American Dialectology.
Programa Intercampus. University of EAFIT, Colombia, 1995. Development and design of
Spanish Program as a Second Language.
Department of Education and Science, Spain, 1988-93. Support for undergraduate studies.
SERVICE EXPERIENCE
Instructional Support Committee
EKI Board
Chair of the EKI Linguistics Search
Linguistics Task Force to hire a Ph.D. in Linguistics
Review Committee of Cynthia Hansen, EKI hire in Linguistics
Linguistics Committee (serving as chair in 3 different years)
Off-Campus Study Board
Humanities Personnel Committee
Ad-Hoc EKI-Humanities Committee
Teacher Education Committee (serving as chair 1 year)
Cultural Film Committee (serving as chair 1 year)
CFFLS Committee
Supervisor and mentor of the Language Assistant
SPN 204 & SPN 2005 Teaching Mentor: assists and mentors Language Assistant’s teaching
Supervisor of the Department student worker
Organizer of an informative talk by Will Cummins ’10 about the Language Assistantship
Program in Spain
Coordinator for the Spanish Lab
Coordinator for the Spanish House
Coordinator for the Spanish Department Newsletter
Coordinator for the Spanish Department Off-Campus Electronic Newsletter
Coordinator for the Spanish Department Web Site
Contact person with the Latin-American duo Calle Sur to organize concerts for the department
Participation to weekly Spanish Table
Faculty Mentoring Program
Host Family Program for International Students
WORKSHOPS
Linguistics Workshop
Promoting Female Research
Integrating Technology in Intermediate and Advanced Language and Literature Courses
(presenter)
Book Publishing Workshop
Discussion Forum Workshop
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Spanish Club. Organizer and volunteer teacher, Grinnell Middle School, Grinnell
Volunteer Spanish teacher at Davis Elementary School, Grinnell
Volunteer Spanish teacher at Fairview Elementary School, Grinnell
Volunteer Spanish teacher at the Grinnell Community Day Care Center and Preschool, Grinnell
Spanish Club for children K-4. Organizer and volunteer teacher at the After-School Program,
Davis Elementary School, Grinnell
Volunteer translator at the Grinnell Regional Medical Center, Grinnell