LAWRENCE RICH

1502 Ogden St. NW

Washington, DC 20010

(202) 332-3490

lrich @ nvcc.edu

EDUCATION

1995 Ph.D. in Spanish Peninsular Literature

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, College Park, MD.

Coursework in Literary Theory, Medieval Literature and Historiography, 19th and 20th Century Spanish Novel, 20th Century Latin American Novel, 20th Century Spanish and Latin American Poetry.

Dissertation: “Between Memory and Imagination: Antonio Muñoz Molina's Self-Conscious Realism and ‘El Desencanto’.”

Director: José-María Naharro-Calderón.

1988 M.A. in Hispanic Civilization

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, Madrid, Spain.

Coursework in Medieval and Golden Age Literatures, 20th Century Spanish Novel, 20th Century Spanish Poetry, Spanish Cinema, Translation.

1987 Graduate Certificate in TESOL

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, Washington, DC.

Coursework in Phonetics, Historical Linguistics, Language Teaching Methodology.

1985 Translator's Certificate

UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE, Madrid, Spain.

1981 M.M. in Performance

1978 B.M. in Performance

PEABODY INSTITUTE OF THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, Baltimore, MD.

Classical guitar performance and coursework in Music Theory and Music History.

TEACHING CERTIFICATION

1989-1999 Standard Professional Certificate in Spanish (Grades 7-12), Maryland State

Dept. of Education.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

SPANISH

2001-present Associate Professor of Spanish. NORTHERN VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE. Three 5-credit courses per semester, including Beginning Spanish I and II (SPA 101, 102).

1995-2001 Assistant Professor of Spanish. ST. MARY’S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND. Three 4-credit courses per semester, including Elementary Spanish I and II, Accelerated Spanish, Introduction to Literature, Advanced Grammar and Translation, Literature of the Golden Age, Literature of Social Change, Women’s Literature, Peninsular Civilization and Culture I, Literature and Postmodern Culture, and Special Topics: Modernity and Postmodernity in Hispanic Texts. (101, 102, 110, 206, 354, 360, 362, 363, 365, 367, 440).

1989-1994 Teaching Assistant II. UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK. Two 3 or 4-credit courses per semester, including Elementary and Intermediate Spanish, Conversation, and Survey of Spanish Literature from the 18th to 20th Century (102, 103, 201, 202, 211, 322).

1994, 1993, 1991 Instructor, summer session. UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE

PARK. Introduction to Hispanic Literature (221) and Elementary Spanish (101, 102).

1990 Instructor, summer session. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, COLLEGE PARK. Intermediate Spanish (201).

ENGLISH AS A SECOND/FOREIGN LANGUAGE

1989 Instructor. MONTGOMERY COLLEGE, Rockville, MD. 5-credit intermediate ESL course including grammar review and principles of writing.

1988 Teacher, summer session. BRITISH COUNCIL SCHOOL, Madrid, Spain. One-month intensive intermediate EFL course for Spanish junior high-school students.

1987 Teacher, summer session. ELS INTERNATIONAL TAIWAN LANGUAGE SCHOOL, Taipei, Taiwan. Conversation, grammar and writing classes.

ENGLISH AS A SECOND/FOREIGN LANGUAGE

1987-1988, Teacher. THAMESIS, S.A., Madrid Spain. EFL conversation classes for

1981-1986 Spanish civil servants and professionals in the private sector.

1986-1987 Teacher. ELS LANGUAGE SCHOOL, Washington, DC. Intensive classes in conversation, grammar, reading and writing.

MUSIC

1980-1981 Instructor. PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, State College, PA. Music theory, solfège, and guitar performance (full-time).

ADDITIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1999, 1997, 1996 Team-teacher for Introduction to Women Studies course, St. Mary’s College

of Maryland.

1994-1995 Substitute Spanish/ESL teacher, Montgomery County School System, MD.

1994 Substitute Spanish teacher for 3 weeks at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School,

Bethesda, Maryland.

1992 Substitute teacher for 2 weeks, Survey of Spanish Civilization (SPAN 325),

University of Maryland, College Park.

1992 Gave lecture on Don Quijote for students at Colegio Español, Washington, DC.

1990 Substitute teacher for one day, senior seminar on El libro de buen amor

(SPAN 408), University of Maryland, College Park.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

1999 The Narrative of Antonio Muñoz Molina: Self-Conscious Realism and “El Desencanto”.

Vol. 78 in Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures. New York: Peter Lang, 1999.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

2001 “Fear and Loathing in Vetusta: Coding Class and Gender in La Regenta.”

Revista canadiense de estudios hispánicos, Vol. 25.3: 505-518.

1997 “Kings and Counts: Pragmatics and the Poema de Fernán González in the Primera Crónica General.”

La Corónica, Vol. 25.2: 103-113.

1996 “The Narrative of Antonio Muñoz Molina: Identifying (With) One's Public.”

Selected Proceedings of the 1996 Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures.

(Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge): 76-84.

1995 “Tres tristes tigres: El lenguaje como anti-comunicación.” Dactylus (Austin), Vol. 14: 84-92.

1994 “Antonio Muñoz Molina's Beatus ille and Beltenebros: Conventions of Reading in the Postmodern Anti-Detective Novel.” Romance Languages Annual (Purdue), Vol. 6: 577-580.

1992 “Reyes, vasallos y moros: Ideología en el Poema de Mío Cid y la Primera Crónica General.”

Ariel (Kentucky), Vol. 8: 5-16.

BOOK REVIEWS

2002 La novelística de Antonio Muñoz Molina: sociedad civil y literatura lúdica by Salvador Oropesa.

Jaén: Universidad de Jaén, 1999. Hispania, Vol. 85.1: 73-74.

2001 Querida Hija by Germán Gullón. Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, 1999. Letras Peninsulares, Vol. 14.2: 345-347.

TRANSLATIONS

1999 “Icosahedra: The English Letters.” In Guillermo Cabrera Infante. Assays, Essays, and Other Arts. Ed. Ardis Nelson. New York: Twayne, 1999.

1986 Translated and edited materials for Cómplice (Madrid, Spain).

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2000 “Fear and Loathing in Vetusta: Coding Class and Gender in La Regenta.”

Thirty-First Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, Buffalo, NY.

1999 “Historias del Kronen and Mensaka: Postmodern Realism in Spain at the End of the Millennium.”

Second Biennial Conference on Iberian/Iberian-American Literatures, Florida International University, Miami, FL.

1998 “‘I am a stranger to myself:’ The Significance of the Narrator in José Angel Mañas's Historias del Kronen.”

Nineteenth Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Baton Rouge, LA.

1997 “Materializing the Metaphor: Magic Realism in Laura Esquivel's Como agua para chocolate.”

Eighteenth Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, New Orleans, LA.

1996 “The Narrative of Antonio Muñoz Molina: Identifying (With) One's Public.”

Seventeenth Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Baton Rouge, LA.

1995 “Allegories of Reading, Writing and Redemption in Ana María Matute's ‘El árbol de oro.’”

Twelfth Annual Wichita State University International Conference on Foreign Literature, Wichita, KS.

1994 “Antonio Muñoz Molina's Beatus ille and Beltenebros: Conventions of Reading in the Postmodern Anti-Detective Novel.” Sixth Annual Purdue University Conference on Romance Languages, Literatures and Film, West Lafayette, IN.

1994 “Dobles y espejos: La función poética de los nombres en dos novelas de Antonio Muñoz Molina. ”

Sixth Biennial Northeast Regional Meeting of the AATSP, New Haven, CT.

1993 “Beatus ille: Metaficción historiográfica y homenaje al lector.”

AATSP annual convention, Phoenix, AZ.

1993 “Tormento: Agustín y Amparo en el teatro de la vida.”

Second Missouri Romance Languages and Literature Conference, Columbia, MO.

1993 “Tres tristes tigres: perdidos en el lenguaje.”

First Annual Graduate Student Conference on Romance Studies, Boston, MA.

1992 “Fernán González en la Primera Crónica General y la función pragmática del texto.”

Fifth Biennial Northeast Regional Meeting of the AATSP, Bedford, NH.

GRANTS

2004 AATSP Robert G. Mead Jr. Travel and Study Scholarship Award.

2002 NEH Summer Institute Grant: “The Americas of José Martí/Las Américas de

José Martí.” at the University of South Florida, Tampa, and La Habana, Cuba.

2000, 1998, 1996 Faculty development grants from St. Mary’s College of Maryland for summer research in Madrid, Spain.

1999 NEH Summer Institute Grant: “Authority, Text and Context in Spanish Realism”

at Duke University, NC.

1999 Faculty development grant from St. Mary’s College of Maryland to present two

papers at conferences during 1999-2000.

1997 Faculty development grant from St. Mary’s College of Maryland to attend a 6-

day teaching workshop “Reaching Our Students” given by the Great Lakes

College Association at Hope College, MI.

1996 Faculty curriculum grant from St. Mary’s College of Maryland to attend ACTFL

Oral Proficiency Interview Workshop.

1994 Dissertation research grant from Program for Cultural Cooperation Between

Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States’ Universities.

1994 Conference grant from Graduate School, University of Maryland College Park.

1983 “Música en Compostela”. Full scholarship for summer course in Santiago de

Compostela, Spain.

SERVICE TO DEPARTMENT, DIVISION, AND COLLEGE

2007 Chair, Alexandria Campus Arabic Search Committee, NVCC.

2007 Arranged keynote lecture by Amr Hamzawy from the Carnegie Endowment for

International Peace for mini-seminar on Egypt at Alexandria campus.

2006 Introduced and presented the film “Bread and Roses” by Ken Loach for Hispanic

Heritage Month at Alexandria Campus.

2006 Arranged lecture by Neta Freeman from the Institute for Policy Studies for mini-

seminar on Africa at Alexandria campus

2005 Arranged lecture by Arlington County Board member Walter Tejada for Hispanic Heritage Month at Alexandria Campus.

2005 Arranged visit by Fulbright Recruitment Officer to Alexandria campus.

2004 - 2007 Foreign Languages Cluster Chair, NVCC.

2004 Moderator for film presentation (“Afghan Massacre”) and discussion as part of mini-seminar on Afghanistan at Alexandria Campus.

2004 Arranged lecture by poet Naomi Ayala for Hispanic Heritage Month at

Alexandria Campus.

2003 Chair for panel discussion “¿Quién eres?/¿Quién soy? for Hispanic Heritage Month at Alexandria Campus.

2002-present Member, Alexandria Campus International Studies Committee, NVCC.

2002-2006 Member, Alexandria Campus Hispanic Heritage Committee, NVCC.

2002 Arranged visit by Father Roy Bourgeois to give lecture on “School of Assassins” for Faculty Lecture Series at the Alexandria Campus, NVCC.

2001-2003 Member of Divisional Awards Committee, Northern Virginia Community

College.

2000 Arranged trip to GALA Hispanic Theater in Washington DC for students and

faculty of St. Mary’s College of Maryland to see performance of Así que pasen cinco años by García Lorca.

2000 Organized and coordinated for lecture “Blood and Secrets: Behind the Mexican Elections” by visiting speaker Philip Wheaton, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

2000 Member, Spanish Search Committee, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

2000 Maryland State College Supervisor of student teacher, Ryken High School,

Lexington Park, MD.

2000 Member of Academic Policy Committee for one year, St. Mary’s College of

Maryland.

2000 Associate Faculty Advisor for St. Mary’s College Summer Study Tour to The

Gambia, West Africa.

2000 Participant in panel discussion for Women Studies Group, Blackistone Room,

St. Mary's College of Maryland.

2000 Organized and coordinated for lecture “School of Assassins” by Rev. Roy

Bourgeois in Cinema One, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

2000 Arranged trip to GALA Hispanic Theater in Washington DC for students and

faculty to see performance of El Burlador de Sevilla.

1999-2000, Faculty Advisor, Spanish Living-Learning Center. Advised and evaluated

Spring 1997 residents, planned and directed events, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

1996-2000 Student advisor, St. Mary's College of Maryland.

1999 Mentor for new Faculty, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

1999 Arranged trip to GALA Hispanic Theater in Washington DC for students and

faculty to see performance of Neruda, 2000.

1999 Organized and coordinated class visit and lecture “Testimonies, War and

Survival” by Nilda Villalta, Smithsonian Institute scholar, Blackistone Room,

St. Mary's College of Maryland.

1999, 1997, 1996 Team-teacher for Introduction to Women Studies course, St. Mary’s College

of Maryland.

1996-1999 Supervised college students teaching Spanish in afterschool programs at area

elementary schools (L.E.A.P.), St. Mary’s County, MD.

1998 Organized and coordinated theater performance of Latinhood by performance

artist Enrique Avilés in Bruce Davis Theater, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

1997 Organized and coordinated exhibit and slide presentation “Portraits of

Resistance” by photographer Celia Escudero in Library, St. Mary’s College of

Maryland.

1996 Co-Faculty Advisor, Spanish Living-Learning Center. Advised and evaluated

residents, planned and directed events, St. Mary's College of Maryland.

1996 Organized and coordinated for a lecture on Chiapas, Mexico by visiting

speaker Philip Wheaton, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

1996 Panelist in public discussion following performance of Buero Vallejo's play In

the Burning Darkness, St. Mary's College of Maryland.

1995 Gave language and culture orientation session for study group preparing to

travel to Guatemala, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

1990 Assisted Peruvian poet Javier Sologuren in bilingual reading of his works at

the University of Maryland, College Park.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

2007 Took intensive 4-week course in Colloquial and Modern Standard Arabic at

International Language Institute, Cairo, Egypt.

2006 Attended VCCS Professional Development Peer Group Conference, Roanaoke, VA.

2005 Attended GWATFL conference, Washington D.C.

2004 Took summer course “España y América Latina a través del cine y la televisión” at the

Centro de Lenguas Modernas of the Universidad de Granada, Spain.

2003 Attended GWATFL/NCLRC Immersion Symposium, Washington D.C.

2003 Attended NECTFL conference in Washington D.C.

2001 Attended ACTFL conference in Washington D.C.

2001-2002 Took workshops at Northern Virginia Community College to learn Power

Point and basic web design with Netscape Composer and Dreamweaver.

2001, 1998, 1996 Summer Faculty Consultant and Reader for the Educational Testing Service’s

Advanced Placement Examinations in Spanish.

2000 Attended symposium “España en el siglo XXI: Literatura, Arte y Cultura” at

Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

2000 Took summer course in Women Studies “Mujeres, Arte, y Literatura” at the

Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain.

2000 Took 2-day Workshop “Effective Pedagogy and Assessment” at St. Mary's College of Maryland.

1999-2000 Attended meetings and discussions with professors and feminist groups in La Paz, Bolivia.

1999 Took 2-day Advising Workshop at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

1998 Read and made recommendations for grant proposals for the U. S. Department

of Education (FIPSE).

1998 Took 2-day workshop “Effective Foreign Language Teaching and Learning

Strategies in the Classroom” given by the NCLRC in Washington, DC.

1998 Took curriculum development workshop on Women's Studies given by Dr. Claire Moses.

1997 Took 6-day teaching workshop “Reaching Our Students” given by the Great Lakes College

Association at Hope College, MI.

1997 Took workshop “Creating Internet-Based Lessons” at University of Maryland,

Baltimore County.

1996 Took workshop “Computers in the Language Classroom” at University of Maryland,

Baltimore County.