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Mary Friedman Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Columbia University
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MARY LUSKY FRIEDMAN EDUCATION M.Phil., Columbia University, December 1976 M.A., Columbia University, December 1973 B.A., Wellesley College, 1971 TEACHING POSITIONS Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts Books The Self in the Narratives of José Donoso (Chile 1924-1996). Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2004. Una morfología de los cuentos de Borges. Editorial Fundamentos, Madrid, 1990. (Spanish translation of The Emperor's Kites). The Emperor's Kites: A Morphology of Borges' Tales. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1987. Editor, with E. Gascón-Vera, S. Gostautas and J. Ruiz-de-Conde, Homenaje a Jorge Guillén. Madrid: Insula, 1978. (478 pp.) "The Paradigm of the Outsider in the Work of Gabriel García Márquez" in Homenaje a Justina Ruiz-de-Conde. Erie, Penn.: ALDEEU, 1992. 141-52. "Jorge Luis Borges: The Writer and His Works" in Teacher's Guide to Advanced Placement Courses in Spanish Literature. Princeton, N.J.: The College Board, 1985. 24-29. Revised 1989 and again in 1996. "The Chilean Exile's Return" in Paradise Lost or Gained? The Literature of Hispanic Exile, ed. Fernando Alegría and Jorge Ruffinelli. Houston: Arte Público Press, 1990. 211-17. [Reprinted from The Americas Review 18.3-4 (fall-winter 1990).] Articles “José Donoso’s ‘Taratuta’: The Uses of Cultural Patrimony.” Romance Notes XLIV. 3 (2004): 327-35. "The Corpses in the Corpus: Dead Bodies in the Work of García Márquez." Romance Notes XL.6 (winter 2000): 135-44. "The Genesis of La desesperanza by José Donoso." Studies in Twentieth Century Literature. 23.2 (summer 1999): 255-74. "La presencia de Chiloé en La desesperanza de José Donoso." Anthropos 184-185 (mayo-agosto 1999): 133-38. "The Artistry of La desesperanza by José Donoso." Hispania 78.14 (March 1995): 13-24. Reprinted in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism 133, ed. Linda Pavloski. The Gale Group, 2003. “The Chilean Exile’s Return: Donoso Versus García Márquez.” The Americas Review 18.3-4 (fall-winter 1990): 211-17. "Notes on the Grading of the Advanced Placement Spanish Language Examination." Hispania 66.2 (May 1983): 239-41. "Some Doubts About the Cultural Approach to Teaching Spanish." Hispania 64.2 (May "The Function of Fantasy: Isolation and Creativity as Related Themes in the Work of "Père Menard, Autor." The Texas Quarterly XVIII.1 (spring 1975): 104-16. "Jorge Luis Borges y su lucha con el lenguaje." Cuadernos americanos XXXIII.5 (sept.-oct. 1973): 219-26. (with Louis Lusky), “Columbia 1968: The Wound Unhealed,” Political Science Quarterly LXXXIV.2 (June 1969): 169-288. [This article studies university governance at Columbia University in the period surrounding the student strike in 1968.] Review Articles “Isabel Allende’s Mi país inventado and Alma Guillermoprieto’s Dancing with Cuba.” Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana 34.1 (mayo de 2005): 161-64. “Seven Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges (by Fernando Sorrentino) and Borges at Eighty: Conversations (by Willis Barnstone).” Review: Latin American Literature and the Arts 31 (Jan.-April 1982): 71-73. Book Reviews Translations Sara Castro-Klarén, “The Word and the World in Arguedas.” Review: Latin American Literature and the Arts 25-26 (1980): 17-21. Juan Orbe and Enrico Mario Santí, “An Intellectual Biography of Octavio Paz: Conversation with Enrico Mario Santí.” The Centennial Review 36.3 (fall 1992): 541-55. [Unpublished translation into English, with four other colleagues, of a theatrical adaptation of Tomás Carrasquilla’s story “En la diestra de Dios Padre” for 2004 performance in Winston-Salem by the North Carolina Black Repertory Company.] OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Review of book manuscript El neopolicial latinoamericano y la crónica del Chile actual Review of grant proposal entitled “Jorge Luis Borges and the Philosophy of Language” submitted to the Israel Science Foundation, 2006. Review of article submitted to PMLA entitled “Structure and the Lie: Isabel Allende’s The Stories of Eva Luna,” 2003. Review of article submitted to PMLA entitled “Exile and Return in García Márquez’s Strange Pilgrims,” 2001. Review of article submitted to the Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos entitled “Saving the Gutres: Borges, Sarmiento and Mark,” 2000. Consultant to Educational Testing Service, Princeton, N.J., in the following capacities: Consultant to Middlesex County College, Middlesex, N.J. on the use of videotape in foreign language teaching, May 1986. CONFERENCE PAPERS “The Big Scam: Counterfeiting Authority in José Manuel Prieto’s Rex,” American “Characterization in a Post-Freudian Age: Livadia by José Manuel Prieto,” “The Function of Simile in José Manuel Prieto’s Livadia,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April 19-21, 2007. “The Multinational Latin American: Memoirs of Isabel Allende and Alma Guillermoprieto” Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Winston-Salem, NC, October “José Donoso’s ‘Taratuta’: The Uses of Cultural Patrimony,” Twentieth Century "The Metaphor of Twins in José Donoso's Donde van a morir los elefantes," South "The Corpses in the Corpus: Dead Bodies in the Work of Gabriel García "Barbaric Westerners: Cannibalism in Donoso's Casa de campo and Vargas Llosa's "The Chilean Exile's Return: Donoso Versus García Márquez," Latin American Studies Association, Miami, December 4-6, 1989. "Isabel Allende and the More-Than-Reliable Narrator," Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, St. Louis, October 1988. "Jorge Luis Borges' Mourning: A Catalyst of Genius?" Modern Language Association, San Francisco, December 1987. "El motivo del duelo en un cuento de Jorge Luis Borges," Mid-America Conference on "Textual Strategies in Isabel Allende's De amor y de sombra," Modern Language Association, New York, December 1986. (with Trish Jessen), “The Telenovela as Spanish Language Text,” Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Washington, D.C., April 1986. “Grading the Advanced Placement Essay,” American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, New York, November 1985. “Jorge Luis Borges’ Narrative Paradigm,” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, Lawrence, Kansas, October 1985. “Practical Strategies for Teaching Borges’Work,” Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, New ork, April 1984. “Eighteenth Century Echoes in the Work of Jorge Luis Borges,” Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, December 1982. “An Interpretation of Irreality in the Work of Jorge Luis Borges,” University of Chicago Symposium on Borges’ Beginnings, April 1982. “La mística de la parquedad: Irreality in Jorge Luis Borges’ Early Writings,” Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Lliteratures, Tulane University, February 1981. “The Intensive Approach to Language Learning,” Connecticut Council on Language Teaching, Windsor Locks, Conn., October 1979. “Avoiding Cultural Stereotypes in the Spanish Language Classroom,” Northeast Conference on Foreign Language Teachingm Washington, D.C., April 1978. INVITED LECTURES: “Mario Vargas Llosa’s novel Lituma en los Andes,” Reynolda House Museum, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, spring 1996. “Fallout from the Boom: the Latin American Novel in the 1970s,” Oberlin College, December 1980. “Narrative Structure in Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude,” Wesleyan University, April 22, 1978. Rebecca Bacharach Treves Fellowship, 1978-1979, renewed 1979-1980, to develop a two-semester Intensive Spanish Language curriculum at Wellesley College. Research Award from Wellesley College, 1980-1981 ($15,000) to carry out research for into aspects of Jorge Luis Borges's early writings. National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1981 ($2500) to support travel to Buenos Aires in search of Jorge Luis Borges' early journalistic writings. Chapter II of The Emperor’s Kites: A Morphology of Borges’ Tales is based on this research. American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Prize, 1981, for the best article in that year relating to the teaching of the Spanish language. Faculty Leave from Rutgers University, fall 1985 (80% of salary) to study the contemporary political fiction of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Archer M. Huntington Award ($2000), awarded by Wellesley College, February 1986, for the manuscript The Emperor's Kites: A morphology of Borges' Tales. Summer Fellowship, Rutgers University, 1986 ($1500) to support research into the literary response to contemporary political crises in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Grant, Program in International Studies, Rutgers University, 1986 ($2700) to support travel and research in Argentina and Uruguay. Reynolds Research Leave, Wake Forest University, Fall 1992 (salary replacement) to support research on José Donoso. RECREAC Grant, Wake Forest University, 1993 ($3000) to fund travel to libraries in RECREAC Grant, Wake Forest University, 1994 ($500) to fund the acquisition of Grant, Office of International Studies, Wake Forest University, summer 1995 ($3500) to Reynolds Research Leave, Wake Forest University, Fall 1999 (salary replacement) to support writing of culminating in The Self in the Narratives of José Donoso (Chile 1924-1996). Computer Enhanced Learning Initiative Grant, fall 1999 (release time) to apply the computer to teaching literature and civilization. Mellen Grant, Wake Forest University, summer 2006 ($3000) to develop a course titled “Chile Through Its Literature,” offered in spring 2007. Archie Grant, Wake Forest University, summer 2009 ($4000) to support research on contemporary Chilean writers. Reynolds Research Leave, Wake Forest University, spring 2011, to support research on contemporary Chilean writers. Archie Grant, Wake Forest University, spring 2011 ($3500) to support research on contemporary Chilean writers. PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Modern Language Association UNIVERSITY SERVICE University Senate, fall 2008- present Coordinator of Latin American Studies Program, 1997-2001; thereafter, participating member of Latin American Studies committee Fulbright Program Adviser, 1991- 2004; member of Campus Fulbright Committee, 2004- present First Year Seminar Committee, 2004-2007 Faculty Athletics Committee, fall 2002 – 2007 Nominating Committee, 1999-2001 Judicial Council, 1992-spring 1998 Space Committee for New Foreign Languages Building, fall 1996-1999 Ad Hoc Committee to Study Feasibility of a Wake Forest House in Washington, D.C., Taskforce on Instructional Effectiveness, 1993 Faculty Evaluation Committee for David Phillips 1994-1997 Committee for Teacher Education, 1990 – 1992 Library Acquisitions Committee, 1990 – 1991 Asian Studies Advisory Committee, spring 1990 – 1992 Language Placement Appeals Board, fall 1988 – 1992 Volunteer, Heritage and Promise Campaign, 1990 President, Wake Forest Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, 1990-91 Upper division adviser, 1987 - present DEPARTMENT SERVICE Administrator of Wake Forest’s Intensive Summer Language Institute in Quito, Ecuador (summers of 1998 and 1999) and later in Querétaro, Mexico (summers of 2000 – present) Associate Chair, Department of Romance Languages, 2006-present Acting Co-Chair, Department of Romance Languages, spring 2001 Language Representative for Spanish Section of Romance Languages Department Search Committees, 1992, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2007 Director, Wake Forest Salamanca Program, 1992
216 Introduction to Hispanic Literature 318 Literaryand Cultural Studies of Spanish America 316 SpanishConversation 368 SpanishAmerican Short Story 369 SpanishAmerican Novel 379 Special Topics: Spanish American Autobiography 379 Special Topics: Chile Through Its Literature FirstYear Seminar: Gabriel García Márquez 379: Special Topics: Mario Vargas Llosa 379 Special Topics: Jorge Luis Borges 367 TheSocial Canvas of Gabriel García Márquez and Pablo Neruda.
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