Curriculum Vitae

Carlos X. Ardavín

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Trinity University
715 Stadium Drive #46
San Antonio, TX 78212-7200
(210) 736-7537
E-mail: cardavin@trinity.edu

University of Massachusetts at Amherst: Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Ph.D. in Hispanic Literatures
Dissertation: "The Transition to Democracy in the Spanish Novel (1976-1996): The Powers of Memory."
Director: Professor Ángel G. Loureiro (Dec.1998)
Major field of concentration: Contemporary Spanish Peninsular Literature
Minor field: Spanish-American Literature from Modernismo to the Present

University of Massachusetts at Amherst: Department of Spanish and Portuguese
M.A. in Hispanic Literatures, Summa cum laude (Feb. 1997)

Florida International University (Miami): Modern Languages Department
B.A. in Spanish, Summa cum laude (April 1993)

Universidad Iberoamericana (Santo Domingo, Dom. Rep.): School of Law
Courses in Law (1989-90)

University of Salamanca (Spain): Faculty of Philology
Emphasis in Hispanic Philology (1986-88)

Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
Assistant Professor of Spanish Literature and Language (starting Fall 1998)
Intermediate Spanish, Spanish Civilization, Contemporary Spanish Literature, Spanish Women Writers,
Introduction to Spanish Literature, Spanish Cinema

University of Miami, Miami, FL
Lecturer, Intermediate Spanish (Fall 1997)

Miami Dade Community College (Kendall Campus), Miami, FL
Instructor, Elementary Spanish, Spanish for Native Speakers (Spring 1997-Spring 1998)

Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Instructor, Spanish Conversational Courses (Winter 1996-Fall 1996)

University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Teaching Associate in Spanish (Fall 1993-Fall 1996), Elementary and Intermediate Spanish, Spanish Literature (2nd year)

Continuing Education, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Instructor, Spanish, Winter 1995

Modern Languages Department, Florida International University
Student Assistant, Fall 1991-Spring 1993

"La novela española del desencanto político." Ojáncano. Revista de literatura española 15 (Oct. 1998): 47-59

"La casa encendida: el poema total de Luis Rosales." Crítica Hispánica 20 (1998): 5-15

"Los sonetos amorosos de Francisco de Aldana: crisis del neoplatonismo y poética del desasosiego." Confluencia. Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura 14.1 (1998): 35-46

"Magín o la teoría de la ética dorsiana." Círculo 27 (1998): 143-46

"La ambigüedad temática de la Comedieta de Ponza." Hispanófila 119 (Jan. 1997): 1-8

"Dialogía y heterobiografía en Cerbero son las sombras de Juan José Millás." Mester 26 (1997): 71-83

"El sueño es vida o el vanguardismo de Eugenio d'Ors." Lucero 7 (Spring 1996): 80-85

"'Hora absurda' de Fernando Pessoa: indagaciones sobre el paulismo." Hispanic Journal 17.2 (Fall 1996): 259-69

"Hacia una definición borgeana de la literatura: Dante y la Divina Comedia." Chasqui 25:2 (1996): 81-88

"El anarquista coronado de adelfas de Manuel Vicent: Retrato del progre desencantado."  Fifty-Second Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, April 22-24, 1999

"La novela española del desencanto político." LA CHISPA 99 Conference, Tulane University, New Orleans, Feb. 25-27, 1999

"La novela policiaca española durante la transición y el postfranquismo." San Antonio de Béjar AATSP, Trinity Univesity, San Antonio, Nov. 10, 1998

"La transición a la democracia en la novela española (1976-96): los poderes de la memoria." 1898-1998: Nation, Culture, and Identity. First Florida International University-University of Miami Conference on Iberian and Iberian-American Literatures, Florida International University, Miami, Oct. 23-25, 1997

"History and Memory in Contemporary Spanish Fiction and Film." Session Chair. 1898-1998: Nation, Culture, and Identity. First Florida International University-University of Miami Conference on Iberian and Iberian-American Literatures, Florida International University, Miami, Oct. 23-25, 1997

"Un poema total: La casa encendida de Luis Rosales." Third Annual Graduate Symposium on Contemporary Literature Written in French, Spanish and Portuguese, University of Miami, Nov. 7-8, 1997

"Cerbero son las sombras de J. J. Millás: dialogía, narrador autobiográfico y lector implícito."  Conference on "New Readings of Hispanic Literatures," Brown University, May 4, 1996

"Oceanografía del tedio de Eugenio d'Ors: la categoría de la anécdota." Fourth Annual Conference of the Romance Review, Boston College, March 16, 1996

"El hijo adoptivo de Álvaro Pombo: un relato sobre la falta de sustancia." Graduate Student Symposium on Latin American and Peninsular Contemporary Narrative, University of Miami, Nov. 9-11, 1995

John Rogers Fellow, Trinity University, San Antonio

Member, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, University of Massachusetts Chapter, May 1996

Minority Scholar Fellowship, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1993-1994

Member, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Florida International University Chapter, April 1993

Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement in Spanish, Florida International University, May 1993

Pablo Ruiz-Orozco Scholarship, Board of Directors of Municipality of Ciego de Ávila in Exile, Miami, June 1993

Diploma of Basic Studies in Spanish. The Ministry of Education and Sciences of Spain, Madrid, September 11, 1991

Diploma of Advanced Studies in Spanish. The Ministry of Education and Sciences of Spain, Madrid, January 30, 1992

Certificate of Merit. The National Dean's List, 1991-1992

Modern and Contemporary Spanish Peninsular Literature; Golden Age literature; Contemporary Latin American Literature; Contemporary Portuguese Poetry, and Spanish Cultural Studies and Film

Spanish: native.
English: near-native fluency.
Portuguese: very good reading knowledge

Modern Language Association of America (MLA); American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATPS); National Association of Cuban-American Educators (NACAE)