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SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

LINDA S. ZEE

I. BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Address:

White Hall 226Department of Foreign LanguagesSchool of Arts and SciencesUtica CollegeUtica, NY [email protected]

Date of Employment:

August 1997

Date of Tenure:

June 2001

Education:

Ph.D. (1993) Latin American Literature, Indiana University at Bloomington.Major field of concentration: 20th Century Prose Fiction

Minor: Latin American Studies

University of Maryland, 1987-88

M.A. (1987) Spanish, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

Middlebury College Summer Spanish School, 1985

B.A. (1982) Colby College, Waterville, MaineMajor: Spanish; Minor: Psychology

Academic experience

Dissertation:

The Boundaries of the Fantastic: The Case of Three Spanish American WomenWriters. The dissertation examines the works of Rosario Ferr, LuisaValenzuela, and Elena Garro, as well as those of Amparo Dvila, GuadalupeDueas, Armona Somers, Juana Mara Gorriti, and in light of Spanish Americantheories of the Fantastic and Feminism, with a special emphasis on theirrelation to indigenous mythologies.

Director: Gordon Brotherston

Academic Honors:

Agapito Rey and Donald Sisters Summer Dissertation Fellowship, IndianaUniversity, 1993


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Agapito Rey and Donald Sisters Scholarship, Indiana University, 1991Indiana University Fellowship, 1988-89MA Exams passes with High Pass, Purdue University, 1987Middlebury College Summer School Scholarship, 1985New York Regents Scholarship, 1978

TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES AT UTICA COLLEGE

Courses Taught*denotes new course createdSpanish 101 (taught 2 sections every Fall semester 1997-2001)Spanish 102 (taught 2 sections every Spring semester 1998-2001; 2 sectionsevery semester 2001- present)*Spanish 102 for Business

Beginning Spanish II taught with an emphasis on business vocabularyand practices (taught 2 sections both semesters for 2 years)

Spanish 201 (taught 1 section every Fall and sometimes in the Spring, 1997-2006)

Spanish 202 (taught 1 section every Spring 1998-2001)*Spanish 215 (now 315) Business Spanish

Taught as both a 2 day a week class and an evening class. Studentscreate a business and learn/practice the vocabulary and writing stylesappropriate to said company, along with the business protocols andpractices in Spanish-speaking countries (offered every 4th semester)

Spanish 247 Introduction to Spanish and Latin American Culture (oldversion)

Spanish 337 Spanish Composition and Grammar Review (previously 237)*Spanish 348 Latin American Cultures and Civilizations

Traces historical and cultural developments from Pre-Columbian era tothe present (offered every 4th semester)

Spanish 388 Introduction to Literature in Spanish (previously 288)(offered every 4th semester)*Spanish 300/Literature 400 Topics: Magic Realism

Taught in English; covers 5 key novels of this major Latin Americanliterary movement. SPA 300 students do readings and papers inSpanish (offered every 4 or 5 semesters)

*Spanish 300 Topics: El BoomTaught once in Spanish, taught once in English cross-listed with Lit 400.Short stories of the 1950s-70s that put Latin American writers on theliterary map

*Spanish 311/Film 400: Latin American FilmLatin American film in general (taught as a film studies course with anIntro to Film textbook)Students in Spa 311 do discussions and written work in Spanish

*Spanish 311/Film 400: Cuban Film/Cuba in Film

Cuban film (in conjunction with The Cuban Reader; history and culturevia film) (offered 3 times to date)*Spanish 311/Film 400: Mexican Film/Mexico in Film

Mexican film (in conjunction with The Mexico Reader; history and culturevia film) offered once to date)

* Spanish 311/Film 400: Afro-Latin@ Film (in conjunction with the Afro-Latin@

Reader; history and culture of Latin Americans and US Latin@s ofAfrican descent) (Offered for the first time Fall 2011)


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*Spanish 378x Latin American Women Writers (now Spanish 300 Topics)traces literary women from the 16th century Lt. Nun to contemporarywriters (offered three times to date)

*UCC 380 Intensive Spanish in Cuernavaca, Mexicotraveled with students to the Universidad Internacional during WinterSession. Pre-trip meetings, daily meetings with students on campus,

after-school activities, weekend excursions (travelled with studentsonce; oversaw small groups via on-line activities twice)This trip will now be offered through the ECELA schools, in Peru,Chile or Argentina. A course in Cuzco, Peru, is planned forWinter Session 2012.

Other teaching activities

--Advising:Since the inception of the foreign language major I have averaged 10-15students as advisees

--Independent studies/tutorials: 150 credits to dateTen of these are Spanish 490 Senior Research projects (6 credits each)

Three are for a student limited to evening classesThree are for students re-doing a class that they failedSeveral are for requirements that would not be offered before theplanned student teaching experienceSeveral are for evening students not able to take day classes

--Independent Study on Modernism. Empire State College 2003.

--Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish. Dickinson College. 1993-97.Spanish 101, 104 and 116 (the language requirement sequence).Spanish 231/232 Conversation and Composition.Spanish 245 Masterpieces of Spanish-American Literature

Freshman Seminar: The Modern Olympics and Social Change (a courseoutside of the area of expertise of the professor, designed to helpincoming freshmen develop college-level skills in writing, discussion,analysis and research)

--Associate Instructor of Spanish. Indiana University. August 1988-May 1993Second year Spanish coursesS275 Introduction to Hispanic Literatures and CulturesS301 the Hispanic World I. Survey of Latin American Literature

--Teaching Assistant of Spanish. University of Maryland. August 1987-May1988

First and Second year courses, including one Honors section

--Teaching Assistant of Spanish. Purdue University. August 1985-May 1987First year courses, including one Honors section

--English Teacher. Instituto Practivox and private classes. Madrid, Spain.June

1982-March 1984.Taught grammar and conversational English as a Foreign Language

courses.


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II. SCHOLARLY ACOMPLISHMENTS:**indicates activities since being promoted to Associate Professor; aline divides UC and non UC activities.

Publications:

**Las Espaas de Csar Vallejo y Pablo Neruda. Crtica.cl: Revista Digital de

Historia de Arte y Ensayo. http://www.critica.cl

(refereed, competitive; went live 25 May, 2011)

**Biographies of Miriam Laurini and Bertha Recio Tenorio. Sourcebookof Latin American Detective Fiction. Greenwood P, 2004. (refereed)

**Al comps de la msica se hace el amor y se muere: el sexo y lamuerte en la obra de Alejo Carpentier. Crtica Hispnica 23.1-2 (2002).(refereed, very competitive)

**Ascent to the Past: Mexican Mythology and Traditional Societies in

Luisa Valenzuelas Donde viven las guilas. Hispanfila 150 (2000).(refereed, very competitive) (This material did not appear in mymaterials when considered for tenure and promotion, as they weresubmitted in August 2000 and this was submitted, accepted andpublished later in the year)

Rosario Ferrs La mueca menor and Caribbean Myth. Chasqui23.2 (1994). (refereed, very competitive)

Spanish American Womens Poetry: An (Almost) Hidden Tradition.Romance Languages Annual (1991) 3: 649-653. (conferenceproceedings, referred)

El campo, Los siameses, El Seor Galndez: A Theatrical Manual ofTorture. Romance Languages Annual (1990) 2: 604-08. (conferenceproceedings, refereed)

Under Consideration for Publication:

**Las Espaas de Csar Vallejo y Pablo Neruda. Submitted to Hispanfila on

4 January 2010. To date I have an acknowledgement of receipt but no other

news. This is not unusualresponses can take a year or more.

Having had no luck contacting them I re-submitted the paper to Crtica.cl, where

it was accepted.

Conference Papers:

**Hollywoods Great Experiment: The Multilingual Versions. PopularCulture Association/American Culture Association Conference. Boston,MA, 11-14 April, 2012.

**Hollywoods Spanish Language Film Industry; Popular CultureAssociation/American Culture Association Conference. San Antonio, TX.
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20 April 2011.

**What Does This Have to Do With My Major? Utica CollegesExperience with Spanish for the Professions at the Elementary Level.Modern Language Association. Chicago, IL. December, 2007 (refereed,extremely competitivethis is our national association) (not delivered

due to conflict with interview schedule)

**Ichi, Ni, Cha Cha Cha: Shall We Dance, Misters Clark andSugiyama? Literature & Film Association Annual Conference. Carlisle,PA. October 2005 (refereed, competitive)

**Puccini and Esquivel. Pennsylvania Conference of ForeignLanguages. Pittsburgh. September 2003. (refereed, very competitive)

The Heart of the Melody Can Never Be Put Down on Paper, So Listen

to the CD! The Law of Love and Puccini.@ Northeast ModernLanguage Association (NEMLA). Buffalo. April 2000 (referred, verycompetitive)

Al comps de la msica se hacen el amor y se mueren: el sexo y lamuerte en la obra de Alejo Carpentier. Northeast Modern LanguageAssociation (NEMLA). Pittsburgh. April, 1999 (refereed, verycompetitive)

Love and Death in Six Novels by Alejo Carpentier. First InternationalConference on Caribbean Literature (I.C.C.L). Nassau, Bahamas.November, 1998 (competitive; not delivered due to financial constraints)

Miriam Laurini and the Contemporary Mexican Detective Novel.American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP).Madison, NJ. October, 1998 (refereed, very competitive)

Autochthonous Mythology in Spanish American Womens Literature ofthe Fantastic. Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA).Baltimore. April 1998 (refereed, very competitive)

La novela policaca: Latin American Female Detectives. PopularCulture Association. San Antonio. March 1997 (Accepted, not delivereddue to family reasons)

The Spanish-American Female Sleuth. South Atlantic ModernLanguage Association (SAMLA). Savannah. November 1996.

Spanish American Detective Fiction Writers and Their Female

Protagonists.Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA). Montreal. April 1996.

Mythology and the Fantastic: Strategies of Spanish American Women

Writers. NEMLA. Boston. April 1995

Inherited Guilt and Geo-Temporal Stratification in Elena Garros Laculpa es de los tlaxcaltecas. La Chispa 1995. New Orleans, March1995


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Rosario Ferr and Caribbean Myth. Mid-America InternationalConference on Hispanic Literature. University of Kansas. September1994.

Ascent to the Past: The Mythic Qualities of Luisa Valenzuelas Donde

viven las guilas. Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages andLiteratures. University of Cincinnati. May 1994

Rosario Ferrs La mueca menor and Taino Mythology. University ofLouisville Twentieth Century Literature Conference. February 1994.

Spanish American Womens Poetry: An (Almost) HIdden Tradtion.Purdue University Conference on Romance Languages, Literatures andFilm. October 1991

Las rusas de Po Baroja y Ayn Rand. University of Louisville.Twentieth Century Literature Conference. February 1991

El campo, Los siameses, El seor Galndez: A Theatrical Manual ofTorture. Purdue University Conference on Romance Languages,Literatures and Film. October 1990

Under Consideration for Presentation:

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Sessions Chaired:

**Hollywoods Spanish Language Film Industry; Popular CultureAssociation/American Culture Association Conference. San Antonio, TX.20 April 2011.

Panel on Hispanic Detective Fiction. North Atlantic Modern LanguageAssociation. Philadelphia. April 1997

Conference Participation

(I am not sure how to list this, so Ive created a separate category owingto the circumstances of my participation.)**Conference on Teaching World Languages. Little Rock, AR. 31March-1 April, 2011At the bequest of both President Hutton and Dean Johnsen, the Foreign

Language Department submitted a proposal for this conference. Only30 proposals were accepted out of a large pool of applicants. (refereed,highly competitive).

Translation:

**Translation work for Hud-Sons listed below under Service to theCommunity


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**Web site for United Vacuum, Inc. http://www.unitedvacuum.comMay 2010

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Quechua Theater: History, Violence and Hope, by Rodrigo Montoya.

For Indiana Journal of Hispanic Literatures 1.2 (March 1993)

Book Reviews:

**Saldo a favor. Spanish Business textbook. Wiley. 2010

**In 2008-2011 I reviewed approximately 15 elementary andintermediate

textbooks for both Wiley and Thompson-Heinle. I have become one oftheir

regular reviewers and am now paid for my reviews (as opposed toreceiving gift

certificates or being entered into a drawing for an iPod).

**Unnamed Intermediate Spanish text. Thompson-Heinle. 2006

**Unnamed Elementary Spanish text. Thompson-Heinle. 2006

**Unnamed film text. Thompson-Heinle. 2005.

**Galeras. Thompson-Heinle. 2005

**Con bro. John Wiley & Sons. 2004

**Dmelo t. Harcourt. 2003

**Gentes. Heinle and Heinle. 2003

**Unnamed Intermediate Spanish text. Heinle and Heinle. 2003

Introduction to Spanish. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1999

On-line Publication:

**Data-base of Spanish language films based on Spanish languageliteratures.

Went live on the Utica College web page Spring 2008.http://www.utica.edu/academic/ssm/language/films/index.cfm

Articles Reviewed:

**Colonialism and Aristocracy in La mueca menor. For Letrasfemeninas. 2007 (invited)

Professional Organizations
http://www.unitedvacuum.com/http://www.utica.edu/academic/ssm/language/films/index.cfmhttp://www.unitedvacuum.com/http://www.utica.edu/academic/ssm/language/films/index.cfm


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American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)Modern Language Association (MLA)Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA)Popular Culture Association

III. SERVICE TO THE COLLEGE

Committee Service:

Elected service:

**Professional Development Committee. Fall 2011-

**Faculty Affairs Committee. Fall 2006-Spring 2010**Chair Fall 2009-2010

**Professional Development Committee. Fall 2002-Spring 2004

*AAUP Governing Board, Member at Large. Fall 2000-Spring 2002 (pre-and post promotion)

*Academic Standards Committee. Fall 1998-Spring 2002 (pre-and postpromotion)

Other Committee Service:

**Search Committee. Journalism. Spring 2012

**Search Committee. Athletic Director. Fall 2011 (Dave Fontaine)

**NCAA Faculty Athletic Representative. Fall 2011-

**Re-organization of Government and Politics and International Studies

Majors. Fall 2008- 2010.

**Search Committee. Director of International Programs. June 2008.(Dan

OToole)

**Chair, Search Committee. Tenure-track Spanish. Fall 2007-Spring2008

(Juan Thomas)

**Chair, Search Committee. One-year Spanish appointment. Summer2007

(Silvia Vilar Gonzlez)

**Search Committee member. Creative writing. Spring 2005(volunteered)

(Gary Leising)


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**Search Committee member. ECI. Spring 2005 (invited) (MichaelSmith)

**Co-chair of Search Committee for Academic Dean/Vice President. Fall2003-Spring 2004 (invited) (Judy Kirkpatrick)

**Search committee member: Math, Economics, Accounting andManagement searches. Fall 2002-Spring 2003. (invited) (Aaronsomething; Jim Heian, Hartwell Herring, Peter Olson--sorry)

**Search Committee for Dean of Admissions. Spring 2001 (invited) (PatQuinn)

**Chair, Department of Foreign Languages. 2005-

**Coordinator of Government and Politics, International Studies andForeign Languages. Fall 2001-2005 (appointed)

**Representative of the Division of Social Sciences and Management tothe Committee on the Expansion of Hubbard Hall. Fall 2001-Spring 2002(appointed)

Head of Search Committee for Spanish Position. Spring 2000 (LuzmilaCamacho-Platero)

Search Committee for Academic Dean/Vice President 1999 (elected)(Marylee Seibert)

Task Force on International Programs. Spring 1999 (invited)

Film @UC Fall 1998- (invited)

International Programs Committee. Fall 1997- (invited)

Community Service to the College

**Keynote speaker, Student Research Day. Where do you want to gotoday?

Traveling through time and space with zombies, hippos and JohnnyDepp. 25

April, 2012

**Participated in the Storyteller event organized by Melissa Febos (22

Feb. 2012)

**Directed application process for student applying for NCAA graduatescholarship. (Fall 2011-Jan. 2012)

**Asked by Dean Swann to mentor new faculty member. (Spring 2011-)

**Arranged for an 8th grade student very interested in the sciences tomeet with various colleagues and tour the labs. Im not sure how much


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they appreciated my efforts, but the student and his family did. (Spring2009).

**Helped find translators and interpreters for medical and legal groupsfor Vietnamese, Laotian, Portuguese, Mandarin, Albanian clients, toname only a few. On-going.

**Helped arrange student translators for Mayan Indian Textiles andIdentity

event. October 2008

**Helped organize Utica Colleges Faculty & Staff Art Exhibit. Fall 2008

**Faculty participant in Hockey teams Boilermaker relay race. 2007,2008

**Faculty advisor to Chi Upsilon Sigma (Organization of Women Lookingfor Sisterhood). Latina sorority. Fall 2007-

**Helped organize memorial service for Shirley Samuels. January, 2007

**Creation of Major in Foreign Languages. Approved by State Ed.December 2006.

**Faculty mentor to men and womens cross-country teams. Fall 2006-

**Consulted with Ken Kelley and Jim Spartano as to the feasibility ofcreating cross country and track and field teams at Utica College. 2005

**Edited the Spanish language version of the PowerPoint presentationused by Admissions for the recruitment of International Students. 2005

**Inspired, albeit unintentionally, the Dont Cut Class posters exhibitedaround campus. 2003-

**Edited Spanish version of The View Book for Admissions. Winter2003

**Translated 45 page student handbook from English to Spanish for theSummer Opportunities Program. Summer 2002

**Initiated contact with Refugee Center to offer classes in Bosnian(Serbo-Croatian) language and culture for public school teachers. Spring2002

**Faculty Marshall: Commencement 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007,

2008, 2009, 2010, 2011; Convocation 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011.

**Faculty Representative, editorial board, Pioneer Magazine 2000-01

**Coordinated Film @UC Film Series. Spring 2000, Spring 2003. Didpublicity, coordinated introductions of films, served as liaison tocommunity

*Interview potential adjuncts for Departmental and Continuing Education


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Foreign Language classes. 1998- (pre- and post promotion)

Faculty Advisor to International Students Club. 1998-?

Geotalk. The Reconciliation of the Past and the Present in Mexico.September 1998

*Foreign Language Placement. Examine the files of incoming freshmenand transfer students to determine appropriate language level orexemption. Determine placement level and enter appropriate codesinto Banner. Continues on a rolling basis throughout the year (I doapproximately 500 placements/year). 1998- (pre- and post promotion)

All-College Free Period: Education and the World Wide Web. April1998. Planned sessions, arranged for speakers, made introductions

UC Professor on Jeopardy!@ December 1997. Articles in the ObserverDispatch, Herkimer and Rome newspapers; interviewed on KROC andWRCK radio stations; interviewed for WKTV television news;

announcement on Harron Cable Community Bulletin; show aired 12December, 1997.

Other Service:

**Edited translations for Syracuse Say Yes to Education programpublications (Fall 2011)

**Interviewed by Observer-Dispatch reporter about the quinceaeratradition. 21

September, 2011

**Interviewed by Observer-Dispatch reporter about 5 de mayo. 3 May,

2010.

**Interviewed by Utica Phoenix reporter about 5 de mayo. 1 May 2009.

**Interviewed by WKTV about the need for foreign language study in the

global economy and the popularity of Arabic studies. 22 April, 2008.

**Regular contributor to Entertainment Weekly and Zagat pollingservices.

Because of my interest in film, I am contacted by both of these serviceson an

annual basis to complete a number of surveys related to films

(categories, popularity, marketing, web sites, publishing, and future plans.) 2008-

**Interviewed by WKTV about Foreign Language Major. 23 December,2007

**Front page article and photos, for Athletes With Asthma, Observer Dispatch, November 2007

**Interviewed by Observer Dispatch reporter about Foreign Languages


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taughtat the elementary school level. Spring 2007.

**Interviewed by Observer Dispatch reporter about Foreign Languagesand Arabic classes at Utica College. Fall 2006.

**Contacted by Brian Thomas,AICP - Director of Urban Planning in the City ofUtica to arbitrate in a licensing / obscenity decision for the restaurant El Carajo,now El Barajo.

**Interviewed by Observer Dispatch reporter Cassaundra Baber aboutthe Hispanic Community in Utica. September 2005.

**Selection Committee. Munson Williams Proctor Institute Film Series.Appointed position. 2004-

**Host house party for Jeff Millers Congressional Campaign. February2004

**Interpreter. Midstate Correctional Facility. On-going

**Maintenance of cross country ski and running trails. Holland Patentsystem. November 2003-

These trails are used by school teams and other organizations. We havehosted groups like Special Olympics and Tramp & Trails.

**Large, medium and small house parties that have united disparategroups of UC faculty, staff, administrators, and community people vianature walks/skiing and homebrewed beer. September 2003--

**Volunteer for Empire States Games road races. Summer 2001

Member of Sculpture Space. Help coordinate and organize scholasticgroups in conjunction with 25th Anniversary celebration and UticaMonday Night program. Summer 2000

Member of Munson Williams Proctor Institute. Introduced film All AboutMy Mother for Wednesday night film series. 2000

Heifer Project. Raised funds on campus for the purchase of 2 llamas inPeru.

Co-organizer of DePerno Hall first floor holiday party. 1999-

Advisor to Educational Committee, Multi-cultural Association of MedicalInterpreters (MAMI) 1999

Liaison between Zogby International and Spanish-speaking students, forrecruitment. 1998-

Visit to Donovan Middle School 8th grade Spanish class to discuss theimportance of foreign language study. 1998

Translator for legal, medical, scholastic and personal documents. 1997-T


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Organizer of Common Hour: all-campus forum which brought in JosephTropiano, co-screenwriter of the film Big Night. Dickinson College.Spring 1997

Co-creator of Spanish Department Web page. Dickinson College. Fall1996

Internship advisor. Coordinate and supervise student internships

(Hechts department store, battered womens shelter, Spanish-languagesatellite television channel). Dickinson College 1995-97

Organizing committee for Chicana/Latina Writers= Symposium (broughtin writers Ana Castillo, Helena Mara Viramontes, Roberta Fernndez).Dickinson College, April 1995

Freshman advisor. Dickinson College. 1995-97

Spanish Majors Advisor. Dickinson College. 1994-97

Faculty Advisor for Sigma Delta Pi, Spanish Honor Society. DickinsonCollege. 1994-97

Head of Acquisitions for Film Library for Spanish and Portuguese.Dickinson College. 1994-97

Admissions video: filmed while teaching and interviewed about the roleof foreign languages at Dickinson College. 1994

Editor. Chiric literary journal. Indiana University. 1991-93

Course Coordinator, Second Year Spanish. Exam preparation,supervision of other Teaching Assistants, syllabus and point scalepreparation. Indiana University, 1990

Library Acquisitions Committee. Spanish and Portuguese Department.Indiana University. 1989-90

Co-founder of undergraduate Spanish Club. Organized meetings andmembership drive, researched University funding, organized culturalexchanges, films and dinners. University of Maryland, 1987-88


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