CURRICULUM VITAE
Susan Paun de García
Department of Modern Languages 2371 Cambridge
Blvd.
(614)
486-8388
(740) 587-6325
Education:
(Thesis: "Love and Deceit in the Works of Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor";
Director: Charles Fraker)
M.A.
University of Michigan, 1970
B.A.
University of Michigan, 1968 (with distinction)
Honors, Grants, and Scholarships:
Program for
Cultural Cooperation between
Program for
Cultural Cooperation between
Program for
Cultural Cooperation between
Program for
Cultural Cooperation between
Program for
Cultural Cooperation between
Robert
C. Good Grant, 2001
Program for Cultural Cooperation between
Program for Cultural Cooperation
between
Program for Cultural Cooperation
between
Program for Cultural Cooperation
between
Denison
University Course Development Grant, 1996
Joyce
Foundation Junior Fellowship, 1992
Denison
University Research Foundation Grant, l989
Denison
University Professional Development Grant, 1989
Ford
Foundation Scholarship, 1970-71
Regents'
Alumni Scholarship, University of Michigan, 1965-68
Teaching Experience:
1993-
Denison University, Associate Professor of Spanish
1987-93
Denison University, Assistant Professor of Spanish
1986-87
The Wellington School, Teacher of Spanish and French
1984-86
Ohio State University, Lecturer in Spanish
1983
Pontifical College Josephinum, Instructor in Spanish (Fall)
1975-84
Ohio Wesleyan University, Instructor in ESL
1976-78
Pontifical College Josephinum, Instructor in Spanish
1973-74
Bishop Ready High School, Chair, Languages, Teacher of Spanish
1968-71
University of Michigan, Teaching Fellow in Spanish
Professional
Affiliations:
American Association of University Professors
American Society of Eighteenth Century Studies
Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT)
(Second Vice President, Member of the
Board of Directors, Chair of Production
in Translation Committee)
Cervantes
Society of
Modern Language Association
(Executive Committee, Division on Sixteenth-
and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Drama. 2005-2010)
Publications
Books:
Manual de investigación literaria. Editorial Castalia:
In
contract:: The Comedia in English. Performance and Translation. To be
published by Tamesis (
In
progress: Ventriloquizing
women in the plays of José de Cañizares.
Critical edition:
Don Juan de Espina en su patria and Don Juan de Espina en Milán by José de Cañizares. Prologue, edition and notes
by Susan Paun de García. Editorial Castalia: Madrid, 1997.
Articles:
“Cuando Paco quiere, quiere.” Forthcoming in
Homenaje a Francisco Portes, ed.
“A Censor on
Stage: Cañizares and Magic Plays.” Dieciocho, 29.1 (Spring 2006). pp.
55-68.
“Prompters'
Copies as Performance History.” Comedia Performance. Vol. 1, Number 1 (Spring 2004), pp. 46-76.
“La representación problemática de la identidad en Juana La Rabicortona.” In Actas del Simposio de la AITENSO, (Buenos Aires, 2004).
"Zayas's
Ideal of the Masculine: Clothes Make the
"La
burlada Aminta: From object of desire to subject of vengeance." In Zayas and Her Sisters, 2. Essays on novelas
by Seventeenth-Century Spanish Women. Eds. Judith A. Whitenack and Gwyn E.
Campbell. Studies on Spanish Classical Literature 1. Binghamton: Global, ICGS, 2000, pp. 3-20.
"From pícaro to figurón: Don Marcos in El castigo de la miseria." Texto y espectáculo. Selected Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Golden Age
Spanish Theater Symposium at The
"Zayas as
Writer: Hell Hath No Fury." María de
Zayas. The Dynamics of Discourse, Eds. Amy Williamsen and Judith Whitenack.
"Fragmentation
and Integration in Retahilas." España
Contemporánea. Revista de Literatura y Cultura, tomo vii, Núm. 2, Otoño 1994, pp. 97-106.
"Magia y poder en María de Zayas." Cuadernos de ALDEEU, vol. VIII, no. 1
abril, 1992, pp. 43-54.
"Los santos inocentes: Novel to Film. A Sharper Image of Evil." Cine-Lit. Essays on Peninsular Film and Fiction, G. Cabello Castellet, J. Martí-Olivella and G. Wood, eds. Portland and Corvallis: Portland State University, Reed College, and Oregon State University, 1992, pp. 68-74.
"Traición
en la amistad: Una comedia de Maria de Zayas y
Sotomayor." Anales de literatura,
no. 6, 1988, pp. 377-390.
Interview:
Sin telón:
Montando El gran teatro del mundo. Entrevista
con Alejandro González Puche. Comedia Performance. Vol. 3, No. 1 (2006).
Book Reviews:
The Fortunes of the Novel. A Study in the Transposition of a
Genre,
by Robert ter Horst. Cervantes. Volume XXIV, Number 1 (Spring 2004), pp.
265-272.
Perfect Wives, Other Women, by
Guillén de Castro, El curioso impertinente. Critical edition by Christiane
Faliu-Lacourt and Maria Luisa Lobato. (Teatro del Siglo de Oro, Ediciones críticas 31. Kassel: Edition
Reichenberger, 1991). Boletín de la
Biblioteca Menéndez Pelayo, Primavera 1993, pp. 289-291.
The Dramatic
Works of Feliciana Enríquez de Guzmán by Louis C. Pérez (Spain: Albatros ediciones Hispanófila, 1988). Hispanófila Vol 56, No. 1, pp. 124-125.
La mística ciudad de Dios, 1670: Sor María de Jesús de Agreda: Study and Edition, by Augustine M. Esposito. Vol 62. (Maryland: Scripta Humanistica, 1990). Hispanófila. Vol 54, No. 3, pp. 234-235.
The Poetry of Francisco de Aldana by D. Gareth Walter. Romance Quarterly. Vol 38, No. 1, 1991, pp. 114-115.
Hado y
fortuna en la España del Siglo XIV by Felipe Díaz Jimeno. Revista
de Estudios Hispánicos, XXIII, 3, Oct. 1989, pp. 130-132.
Conferences on Literature:
Staging
Spanish Golden Age Plays in English at the Turn of the Millenium. With Donald R. Larson (The
Cuando Paco
quiere, quiere. Reflections on a performance of El castigo sin venganza.
AEEA/AHCT Symposium.
Dance as Structural Metaphor: L'Aimable Vainqueur in Cañizares’s Juana la Rabicortona (1741) With
A Censor on
Stage: Cañizares and Magic Plays.
Roundtable: Report from
Performing the comedia In
England. AHCT Symposium.
Lost in Translation: The comedia in English. AHCT
Symposium
Problematic
Performance of Identity in Juana la
Rabicortona. XI Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Teatro
Español y Novohispano de los Siglos de
Oro (AITENSO). Buenos Aires,
Argentina, Sept. 15-19, 2003.
Woman as Ventriloquist/Ventriloquized. A case study: Marta la Romarantina. Association
for Hispanic Classical Theater Symposium.
Total
experience: Theater Magic in Eighteenth-Century Spain. 26th
International Comparative Drama Conference. The
Workshop: The Comedia in Translation. A Web-based Resource. In conjunction with the Renaissance Society
of America.
(Post) Baroque
Theater as Total Experience: A Case Study (La
más amada de Cristo, Santa Gertrudis la Magna). Association for
Hispanic Classical Theater Symposium.
Clothes Make
the
From Object to
Subject: Identity and Power in Zayas’ La burlada Aminta.” North East Modern
Language Association.
From Ruiz de
Alarcón’s Don Illán to Cañizares’ Don Juan de Espina: Evolution of a comedia de magia. Association for
Hispanic Classical Theater Symposium.
Representaciones actuales de la comedia aúrea en
España y en el nuevo mundo: estado de la cuestión.
Beyond 2000:
New Directions in Comedia Studies. Almagro (
Gender and
Subject/ion in María de Zayas's "La burlada Aminta." Symposium on
Spanish and Latin American Women Writers. Co-sponsored by Title VI Grant, Latin
American and
Posibilidades tecnológicas de acceso y archivo de
las aucas. Simposio: Literatura popular.
Valladolid (Spain).
It's All in
the Play: Staging Zayas's Traición en la
amistad. Golden Age Theater
Symposium,
Cracking the
Prompters' Code: Staging Two Magic Plays.
Golden Age Theater Symposium,
Warring women:
Gender, Identity and Representation at the end of the Golden Age in
Moderator and
discussant for session "María de Zayas" at Conference of Golden Age
Women Writers.
The Bride on
the Battlefield: Cañizares' Antona García.
Golden Age Theater Symposium,
Cañizares'
Warring Women. SAMLA Conference,
Matos
Fragoso's El Job de las Mujeres. NEMLA Conference,
Magic in the
Margins. American Society of Eighteenth
Century Studies Annual Meeting,
Chaired and
organizer of session "The Authoring of Feminine Identity in Golden Age
Spain", NEMLA Conference,
From pícaro
to figurón: Don Marcos in El castigo de la miseria. Golden Age
Theater Symposium,
Risking it
All. Rosario de Acuña's El Padre Juan. A Stage of Their Own: Women and Theater in
Secretary of
session "The Authoring of Feminine Identity in Golden Age Spain",
NEMLA Conference,
Up/Staging the
Magic: Cañizares' Don Juan de Espina Plays.
Golden Age Theater Symposium,
Transgressing
the Boundaries Between Novela and Comedia in María de Zayas. NEMLA
Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 23-26, 1993.
Tradición y feminismo en la obra dramática de
Rosario de Acuña. Pennsylvania Foreign
Language Conference, Duquesne University, September 25-27, 1992.
La obra dramática de Rosario de Acuña. International Convention of the
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese,
El Don Juan de
Espina de José de Cañizares.
Magic and
Power in Maria de Zayas.
Delibes from
Fiction to Film: Los
Fragmentation and Integration in Carmen Martín Gaite's Retahilas, Spain Toward the 21st Century, Ohio State University, April 4-7, 1990.
Tribagia: El viaje de Jerusalén de Juan del
Encina. IV Conference on Academic
Programs Abroad and International Studies, American Association of Teachers of
Spanish and Portuguese,
Zayas as
Writer: Hell Hath No Fury.
From Pícaro to Figurón: Don Marcos in El castigo de la miseria. XIV Congreso de Literaturas Hispánicas,
Indiana University of Pennsylvania,
Chaired
Section on Medieval and Renaissance literature, Pennsylvania Foreign Language
Conference,
Traición en la
amistad: Zayas's Advice to Women or How Not to Win Friends and Influence
People.
Desengaños
literarios: María de Zayas and the Academias.
The
Conferences on Language and Technology:
Panelist,
Technology in the Service of the Liberal Arts: A Symposium. GLCA. Hosted
by
Panelist,
"Skill Retention of Second Generation Speakers," Northeast Language
Conference,
Conferences Attended:
Modern
Language Association Annual Convention,
Modern
Language Association Annual Convention,
Modern
Language Association Annual Convention,
Modern
Language Association Annual Convention,
ACLS Discussion about Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Liberal Arts Colleges, New York, NY, Dec. 9-10, 2002.
Modern
Language Association Annual Convention,
Modern
Language Association Annual Convention,
Modern
Language Association Annual Convention,
Modern
Language Association Annual Convention,
National
Forum: Academic Governance in the 1990's and Beyond.
Modern
Language Association Annual Convention,
Cultural
Diversity and Liberal Education: Negotiating Difference in the Academy,
Courses Taught
at
Beginning
Spanish 111, 112
Intermediate
Spanish 211 (regular and Honors)
Intermediate
Conversation 213
Introduction
to Literature 220
Civilization
and Culture of
Advanced
Conversation 313
Advanced
Grammar 314, 315
Survey
of Spanish Literature 320
Advanced
Composition and Stylistics 413, 415
Seminars
in Spanish Literature 420
Don Quijote
Galdós
Modern Novel
Women in Spanish Literature
Spanish Theater
Seminar
in Translation 415
Seminar in Culture 430
Fiestas y ritos de España
First
Year Studies 101
Honors
Spanish 211
Pilgrimage to
Don Quijote
The Myth of Don Juan
Administration and Service:
Search Committee, Provost
2006-07
Search Committee, Director
of Human Resources 2006
President’s
Advisory Board 2002-2005
Expanded
University Council:
Task
Force on Appeals Process 2000-01
On-campus
Interviewer, Fulbright Scholarships 2000, 2001
Coordinating
Committee: Global Partners: New Models in International
Collaboration Grant from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to the Associated Colleges
of the
University
Council 1998-2000
Personnel
Committee 1998-2000
GLCA Planning
Committee: Mellon Grant to Recast Study Away 1998-99
Presidential
Search Committee 1998
Faculty
Steering Committee 1997
Honors Program
Committee 1997-2001
Honorary
Degree Committee 1997-99
International
Studies Committee 1996-2000
Chair,
Department of Modern Languages 1996-99
President's
Advisory Board 1996-7
Chair of the
Faculty 1995-96
Vice-Chair of
the Faculty 1994-95
Internal
Review Committee, Dept. of Theater & Cinema, 1992
Adviser, Sigma
Delta Pi, 1992-2001
Pilot Study on
Advising At-Risk Students, 1992
Search
Committee for VP Finance and Management, 1992
Finance
Committee, 1991-93 (Chair, 1992, 1993)
Adviser,
Women's
Inside
Reader,
Faculty Achievement Scholarships, 1990, 91
Interviewer,
Battelle Scholarship, 1990, 1991
International
Programs Advisory Committee, 1990
Governance
Review Committee, 1990-1991
Interviewer,
Heritage Scholarships, 1989, 90
Admissions and
Financial Aid Council, 1988-90
June
Orientation, 1989-99, 2006
Computer
Evaluation Committee, 1987-89
Other
Contributions to the profession:
Presenter and
discussant, XXIX Chamizal Siglo de Oro Drama Festival (Feb. 26-29 &
Author and
maintainer of website devoted to the Spanish comedia in English translation (Webmaster = Cheryl Johnson) (http://www.denison.edu/comedia)
Doctoral
Dissertation Reader,
Manuscript
Reviewer for publications
Bárbara Mujica, Milenio: Mil años de literatura
española
Georgetown University Press, 2002.
Bárbara
Mujica, Sophia's
Daughters: Women Writers of Early Modern
Translation of Calderón’s La vida es sueño. (Michael Kidd,
Editorial
Advisory Board, Comedia Performance
Officer (Second Vice President) of the Association for Hispanic CLassical Theater
Member of the Executive Committee, Division on
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Drama. 2005-2010