CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Susan Paun de García                                         Department of Modern Languages   2371 Cambridge Blvd.                                                Denison University
Columbus, Ohio 43221                                        Granville, Ohio 43023
(614) 486-8388                                                     (740) 587-6325

 

Education:
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1987
    (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 Spain's Ministry of Education and       Culture and United States' Universities, 2006 . (Written for AHCT)

Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Education and       Culture and United States' Universities, 2005 . (Written for AHCT)

Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Education and       Culture and United States' Universities, 2004 . (Written for AHCT)

Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Education and       Culture and United States' Universities, 2003 . (Written for AHCT)

Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Education and       Culture and United States' Universities, 2002 . (Written for AHCT)

Denison University Research Foundation Grant, 2001
Robert C. Good Grant, 2001

Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Education and Culture and United States' Universities, 2001 ((Written for AHCT)

Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Education and Culture and United States' Universities, 2000 (Written for AHCT)

Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Education and Culture and United States' Universities, 1999 (Written for AHCT)

Denison University Professional Development Grant, 1999
Denison University Professional Development Grant, 1998

Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Education and Culture and United States' Universities, 1997

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 America
Modern Language Association

(Executive Committee, Division on Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Drama. 2005-2010)

 

 


Publications

 

Books:

Manual de investigación literaria. Editorial Castalia: Madrid, 2004

 

In contract::  The Comedia in English. Performance and Translation. To be published by Tamesis (London) in 2007.

 

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. Ysla Campbell.  (Fall 2006)

“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 Man." In Into the Public Sphere: The Authoring of Feminine Identity in Spain's Golden Age Discourse. Ed. Joan Cammarata. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003, pp. 253-271.

"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 University of Texas, El Paso. Ed. José Luis Suárez García. York, SC: Spanish Literature Publications, 1996, pp. 95-103.

"Zayas as Writer: Hell Hath No Fury." María de Zayas. The Dynamics of Discourse, Eds. Amy Williamsen and Judith Whitenack. Farleigh Dickinson University Press & Associated University Presses: Madison, Teaneck, London, 1995, pp. 40-51.

"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 Georgina Dopico Black.  Cervantes. Volume XXII, Number 1 (Spring 2002), pp. 176-179.

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 Ohio State University) Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Symposium.  El Paso, Texas.  March 1-3, 2007.

Cuando Paco quiere, quiere. Reflections on a performance of El castigo sin venganza.  AEEA/AHCT Symposium. Washington D.C. Oct 4-6, 2006.

Dance as Structural Metaphor: L'Aimable Vainqueur in Cañizares’s Juana la Rabicortona (1741) With Nena Couch (The Ohio State University) Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Symposium.  El Paso, TexasMarch 3-5, 2005.

A Censor on Stage: Cañizares and Magic Plays.  Kentucky Foreign Language Conference April 22, 2005.

Roundtable: Report from Stratford-upon-Avon: The Royal Shakespeare Company Does Comedia., Organized, chaired, and moderated. Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Symposium.  El Paso, TexasMarch 3-5, 2005.

Performing the comedia In England. AHCT Symposium. Stratford-upon-Avon  July 10-13, 2004.  Organizer.  Chaired roundtable on “Staging Love.”

Lost in Translation: The comedia in English.  AHCT Symposium El Paso, Texas. March 4-6, 2004.

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.  El Paso, TexasMarch 6-8, 2003.

Total experience: Theater Magic in Eighteenth-Century Spain.   26th International Comparative Drama Conference.  The Ohio State University. April 25-27, 2002.

Workshop: The Comedia in Translation.  A Web-based Resource.  In conjunction with the Renaissance Society of America. Tempe, Arizona. April 3-4, 2002.

(Post) Baroque Theater as Total Experience: A Case Study (La más amada de Cristo, Santa Gertrudis la Magna).  Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Symposium.  El Paso, TexasMarch 7-9, 2002.

Clothes Make the Man. Zayas's Ideal of the Masculine.  South Atlantic Modern Language Association:  Atlanta, GeorgiaNovember 9-11, 2001.

From Object to Subject: Identity and Power in Zayas’ La burlada Aminta.” North East Modern Language Association.  Hartford, Connecticut. March 30-31, 2001.

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.  El Paso, Texas. March 8-10, 2001.

Representaciones actuales de la comedia aúrea en España y en el nuevo mundo: estado de la cuestión.  Spain in the Twenty-First Century: Literature, the Arts, and Culture. An International Symposium. Columbus, OhioNovember 1-4, 2000.

Beyond 2000: New Directions in Comedia Studies.  Almagro (Spain). August 17-20, 2000.  Co-organizer.

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 Caribbean Studies Program, and Women's Studies Program. Denison University.  March 1, 2000.

Posibilidades tecnológicas de acceso y archivo de las aucas.  Simposio: Literatura popular. Valladolid (Spain). June 27-29, 1999.

It's All in the Play: Staging Zayas's Traición en la amistad.  Golden Age Theater Symposium, El Paso, TX. March 3-7, 1999.

Cracking the Prompters' Code: Staging Two Magic Plays.  Golden Age Theater Symposium, El Paso, TX. March 4-8, 1998.

Warring women: Gender, Identity and Representation at the end of the Golden Age in Spain.  Global Studies Seminar. Denison University. December 8, 1997.

Moderator and discussant for session "María de Zayas" at Conference of Golden Age Women Writers. University of Virginia. October 29-Nov. 1, 1997.

The Bride on the Battlefield: Cañizares' Antona García. Golden Age Theater Symposium, El Paso, TX. March 4-8, 1997.

Cañizares' Warring Women.  SAMLA Conference, Savannah, GA, November 8-9, 1996.

Matos Fragoso's El Job de las Mujeres.  NEMLA Conference, Montreal, Quebec. April 11-13, 1996.

Magic in the Margins.  American Society of Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Meeting, Tucson, AZ, April 5-9, 1995.

Chaired and organizer of session "The Authoring of Feminine Identity in Golden Age Spain", NEMLA Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, March 31-April 1, 1995.

From pícaro to figurón: Don Marcos in El castigo de la miseria. Golden Age Theater Symposium, El Paso, TX. March 8-11, 1995.

Risking it All. Rosario de Acuña's El Padre Juan.  A Stage of Their Own: Women and Theater in Spain and Latin America. Cincinnati. October 5-8, 1995.

Secretary of session "The Authoring of Feminine Identity in Golden Age Spain", NEMLA Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, March 25-26, 1994.

Up/Staging the Magic: Cañizares' Don Juan de Espina Plays.  Golden Age Theater Symposium, El Paso, TX. March 9-11, 1994.

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, Cancún, Mexico, August 9-13, 1992.

El Don Juan de Espina de José de Cañizares.  Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, April 23-25, 1992.

Magic and Power in Maria de Zayas.  Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference, Sept. 20-22, 1991.

Delibes from Fiction to Film: Los santos inocentes.  International Symposium on Literature and Film, Portland, Oregon, February 27-March 3, 1991.

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, Lisbon, Portugal, July 13-15, 1989.

Zayas as Writer: Hell Hath No Fury.  Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, April 27-30, 1989.

From Pícaro to Figurón: Don Marcos in El castigo de la miseria.   XIV Congreso de Literaturas Hispánicas, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, October 14-16, 1988.

Chaired Section on Medieval and Renaissance literature, Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference, September 16-18, 1988.

Traición en la amistad: Zayas's Advice to Women or How Not to Win Friends and Influence People. Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference, Duquesne University, September 16-18, 1988.

Desengaños literarios: María de Zayas and the Academias.  The Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference, Duquesne University, September 17, 1987.

 

 

Conferences on Language and Technology:

Panelist, Technology in the Service of the Liberal Arts: A Symposium.  GLCA. Hosted by DePauw University. February 9-10, 2001.

Panelist, "Skill Retention of Second Generation Speakers," Northeast Language Conference, New York, April 6-9, 1989.

 

 

Conferences Attended:

Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia.  Dec. 27-30, 2006.

Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Washington, D.C.  Dec 27-30, 2005.

Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA.  Dec 27-30, 2004.

Modern Language Association Annual Convention, New York, NY. Dec. 27-30, 2002.

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, San Francisco, CA. Dec. 27-30, 1998.

Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Toronto, Ontario. Dec. 27-30, 1997.

Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 17-19, 1997.

Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., Dec. 27-30, 1996.

Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Chicago, Ill., Dec. 27-30, 1990.

National Forum: Academic Governance in the 1990's and Beyond. Boston, Sept. 27-28, 1990.

Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., December 27-30, 1989.

Cultural Diversity and Liberal Education: Negotiating Difference in the Academy, University of Chicago, November 5-8, 1989.

 

 

Courses Taught at Denison:

Beginning Spanish 111, 112

Intermediate Spanish 211 (regular and Honors)

Intermediate Conversation 213

Introduction to Literature 220

Civilization and Culture of Spain 224, 330

Advanced Conversation 313

Advanced Grammar 314, 315

Survey of Spanish Literature 320

Readings and Performance in Spanish Theater 355

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 Santiago de Compostela

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: Long Range Planning  2000-01

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 Midwest, the Associated Colleges of the South, and the Great Lakes Colleges Association 1999-2005

Ohio 5 Language and Technology Steering Committee 1999-2001

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

Alumni College, 1991, 93, 95, 96

Finance Committee, 1991-93 (Chair, 1992, 1993)

Adviser, Women's Rugby 1990-92

Inside Denison, Fall 1990

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 & March 3-7, 2004.  Chamizal National Memorial, El Paso, Texas.

Author and maintainer of website devoted to the Spanish comedia in English translation (Webmaster = Cheryl Johnson)   (http://www.denison.edu/comedia)

Doctoral Dissertation Reader, Georgetown University

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 Spain, Yale University Press, 2003.

Translation of Calderón’s La vida es sueño. (Michael Kidd, University of Oklahoma Press, 2004). 

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