MATTHEW DAVID STROUD

Department of Modern Languages
Trinity University
San Antonio, TX 78212
(210) 999-7549
Fax: (210) 999-8370
E-mail: mstroud@trinity.edu
Web: http://www.trinity.edu/mstroud/

EDUCATION

1977

Ph.D., University of Southern California
Major: Spanish (Golden Age Drama)
Minor: Latin

Dissertation: “A Phenomenological Study of Anagnorisis in Selected Theatrical Works of Lope de Vega”

Director: James A. Parr

1974

A.M., University of Southern California
Major: Spanish 

1971

B.A. with High Honors, University of Texas, Austin
Major: Spanish
Minors: French, Computer Science

EXPERIENCE

1977-present

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures,
Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas


1989-present         Professor
1983-89                 Associate Professor
1977-83                 Assistant Professor

2002-2006             Director, Self-Instructional Language Program
2002-2005             Coordinator, Spanish Section
1984-1987             Department Chair

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Modern Language Association
Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
Association for Hispanic Classical Theater
South Central Modern Language Association
Cervantes Society of America


COURSES TAUGHT

Spanish Language: Spanish I, II, III, IV, Advanced Spanish Conversation, Advanced Spanish Conversation and Composition, Advanced Spanish Grammar, Advanced Spanish II, Advanced Translation, Spanish Play Production, Spanish for Medical Personnel, Spanish for Teachers

Spanish Literature: Introduction to Spanish Literature, Introduction to Spanish Literature before 1700, Introduction to Hispanic Literature, The Golden Age, Golden Age Literature, Golden Age Prose, Golden Age Poetry and Drama, Golden Age Drama, Don Quijote, The Don Juan Tradition, Seminar in Spanish Poetry, Senior Seminar, Spanish Literature in Translation

Spanish Culture: Spanish Civilization, Spain and the Western Tradition

Directed Studies in Spanish: Internship, Medieval Spanish, Spanish Opera Production, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Unamuno and the Generation of ’98, Creative Writing, Honors Readings, Honors Thesis, Graduate Teaching Practicum, Senior Experience

French: French I, II, Intensive French I, II

Latin: Latin I, II

First Year Seminar: Freedom and Responsibility; AIDS; The Human Condition

Women’s and Gender Studies: Introduction to Queer Studies

HONORS

Awards and Distinctions

Dr. and Mrs. Z. T. Scott Faculty Fellowship for Outstanding Teaching and Advising, Trinity University (1999)

Honorary Fellow, Hispanic Society of America (2003-present)

Listing in Who’s Who in American Education, 3d. ed.

Listing in Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, 21st, 23d and 25th eds.

Computer Science Creativity Award, University of Texas at Austin

Distinguished Advising Award Nominee (2003, 2005)

Distinguished Scholarship Award Nominee (2008)

 

Memberships

Phi Beta Kappa
Sigma Delta Pi
Pi Delta Phi
Phi Kappa Phi
Hispanic Society of America
Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, Board of Directors (Life member)


LANGUAGES

English: native
Spanish: near-native fluency
French: very good

Latin: good

Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, German, and Greek: reading and research knowledge

 

PUBLICATIONS:

MONOGRAPHS

1.      Fatal Union: A Pluralistic Approach to the Spanish Wife-Murder Comedias. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1990.

2.      The Play in the Mirror: Lacanian Perspectives on Spanish Baroque Theater. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1996.

3.      Plot Twists and Critical Turns: Queer Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Theater. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2007.

CRITICAL EDITION AND TRANSLATION

Celos aun del aire matan. By Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Edition, translation, text, and notes by Matthew D. Stroud. Foreword by Jack Sage. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 1981.

EDITIONS

1.      After Its Kind: Approaches to the Comedia. By James A. Parr. Edited by Matthew D. Stroud, Anne Pasero and Amy Williamsen. Introduction by Matthew D. Stroud. Kassel, Germany: Ediciones Reichenberger, 1991.

2.      Looking at the Comedia in the Year of the Quincentennial: Proceedings of the 1992 Symposium on Golden Age Drama. Ed. Barbara Mujica and Sharon Voros. Assistant Editor Matthew D. Stroud. Lanham, MD: University Presses of America, 1993.

ONLINE EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS

1.      La traición en la amistad. By María de Zayas Sotomayor. Pedagogical edition under the direction of Matthew D. Stroud. Trinity University, 1997. Part of the collection of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater. Online: http://www.trinity.edu/org/comedia/zayas/traicion.pdf

2.      The Phantom Lady. By Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Translation by Matthew D. Stroud. San Antonio: Trinity University, 2000. Online: http://www.trinity.edu/mstroud/comedia/phantom.html

3.      The Characters and Plots of Tirso’s Comedias. By Jean S. Chittenden. Edited and adapted for the web by Matthew D. Stroud. Trinity University, 2002. Online: http://www.trinity.edu/mstroud/tirso

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

1.      “Social-Comic Anagnorisis in La dama duende.” Bulletin of the Comediantes 29 (1977): 96-102.

2.      La Numancia como auto secular.” Cervantes, su obra y su mundo: Actas del Congreso Internacional sobre Cervantes. Ed. Manuel Criado de Val. Madrid: EDI-6, 1981. 144-48.

3.      Los comendadores de Córdoba: realidad, manierismo y el barroco.” Lope de Vega y los orígenes del teatro español. Actas del I Congreso Internacional sobre Lope de Vega. Ed. Manuel Criado de Val. Madrid: EDI-6, 1981. 425-29.

4.      “Stylistic Considerations of Calderón’s Opera Librettos.” Crítica Hispánica 4 (1982), 75-82.

5.      “Tirso’s Wife-Murder Play, La vida y muerte de Herodes.” Proceedings of the Third Annual Golden Age Spanish Drama Symposium. El Paso: U of Texas, El Paso, 1983. 88-106.

6.      “The Resocialization of the Mujer Varonil in Three Plays by Vélez de Guevara.” Antigüedad y actualidad de Luis Vélez de Guevara: Estudios críticos. Ed. C. George Peale. Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, No. 10. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1983. 111-26.

7.      “The Comedia as Potboiler: Juan de Cabeza’s Matar por zelos su dama.” Hispania 64 (1984): 545-53.

8.      “Some Practical Thoughts on Producing Calderón’s Court Plays.” Bulletin of the Comediantes 36 (l984): 33-41.

9.      “Love, Friendship, and Deceit in La traición en la amistad by María de Zayas.” Neophilologus 69 (1985): 539-47. Reprinted in Literature Criticism, volume 102, ed. Tom Schoenberg. Detroit: Gale Research Co. 2004.

10.  “La literatura y la mujer en el barroco: Valor, agravio y mujer, de Ana Caro.” Actas del VIII Congreso Internacional de Hispanistas. Ed. A. David Kossoff, José Amor y Vázquez, Ruth H. Kossoff, and Georffrey W. Ribbans. Vol. II. Madrid: Istmo, 1986. 605-12.

11.  “Martyrs, Martyrdom, and the Comedia.” Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Golden Age Spanish Drama Symposium. El Paso: U of Texas, El Paso, 1986. 67-81.

12.  “Further Considerations of History and Law in the Wife-Murder Comedias.” Hispanic Journal 8 (1987): 21-38.

13.  “The Comedia as Playscript.” Approaches to Teaching Spanish Golden Age Drama. Ed. Everett W. Hesse and Catherine Larson. York, SC: Spanish Literature Publishing Co., 1989. 27-42.

14.  “Symbols, Referents, and Theatrical Semantics: The Use of Hands in the Comedia.” Texto y Espectáculo: Selected Proceedings of the Symposium on Spanish Golden Age Theater. March 11, 12, 13, 1987. Ed. Barbara Mujica. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1989. 25-34.

15.   “Clotaldo’s Daughter.” Texto y espectáculo: Nuevas dimensiones críticas de la Comedia. Ed. Arturo Pérez-Pisonero. El Paso: U of Texas at El Paso, 1991. 95-104.

16.  “‘¿Y sois hombre o sois mujer?’: Sex and Gender in Tirso’s Don Gil de las calzas verdes.” The Perception of Women in the Spanish Theater of the Golden Age. Ed. Anita K. Stoll and Dawn L. Smith. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 1991. 67-82.

17.  “The Desiring Subject and the Promise of Salvation: A Lacanian Study of Sor Juana’s El divino Narciso.” Hispania 76 (1993): 204-12.

18.  “Genre and Lack in the Comedia.” Looking at the Comedia in the Year of the Quincentennial: Proceedings of the 1992 Symposium on Golden Age Drama. Ed. Barbara Mujica and Sharon Voros. Lanham, MD: University Presses of America, 1993. 159-67.

19.  “The Electronic Comedia.” Bulletin of the Comediantes, 45 (1993): 145-48.

20.  “Rivalry and Violence in El castigo sin venganza.” The Golden Age Comedia: Text, Theory, and Performance. Ed. Charles Ganelin and Howard Mancing. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue UP, 1994. 37-47.

21.  “The Demand for Love and the Mediation of Desire in La traición en la amistad.” María de Zayas: Dynamics of Discourse. Ed. Judith Whitenack and Amy Williamsen. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1995. 155-69.

22.  “Sainthood and Psychoanalysis.” Tirso de Molina: His Theatre Then and Now, ed. Henry W. Sullivan and José Ruano de la Haza. Ottawa: Dovehouse, 1996. 144-161

23.  “The Lessons of Calderón’s La cisma de Inglaterra.” Hispanic Essays in Honor of Frank P. Casa, ed. A. Robert Lauer and Henry W. Sullivan. New York: Peter Lang, 1997. 253-263.

24.  “The Comedia in Amsterdam, 1609-1621: Rodenburgh’s Translation of Aguilar’s La venganza honrosa.” Laberinto, volume 1 (1997). Online: http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/laberinto/.

25.  “Pedro Calderón de la Barca.” Spanish Dramatists of the Golden Age: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook. Ed. Mary Parker. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998. 39-50.

26.  “Performativity and Sexual Identity in Calderón’s Las manos blancas no ofenden.” Gender, Identity, and Representation in Spain’s Golden Age. Ed. Anita K. Stoll and Dawn L. Smith. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2000. 109-23.

27.  “Comedy, Foppery, Camp: Moreto’s El lindo don Diego.” Lesbianism and Homosexuality in Early Modern Spain. Ed. María José Delgado and Alain Saint-Saëns, New Orleans: U Press of the South, 2000. 177-97.

28.  “Homo/Hetero/Social/Sexual: Gila in Vélez’s La serrana de la Vera.” “Con triste canto”: Golden Age Studies in Memory of Daniel L. Heiple. Ed. Julián Olivares. Special issue of Calíope 6.1-2 (2000 [actually published in 2001]): 53-69.

29.  “Baroque Artistry and Artistic Distance in María de Zayas’s ‘La inocencia castigada.’” Zayas and Her Sisters, 2: Essays on Novelas by 17th-Century Spanish Women. Ed. Gwyn E. Campbell and Judith A. Whitenack. Studies on Spanish Classical Literature 1. Binghamton: Global ICGS, 2001. 79-96.

30.  “Uxoricidas.” Diccionario de la comedia del Siglo de Oro. Ed. Frank Casa, Luciano García Lorenzo and Germán Vega García-Luengos. Madrid: Castalia, 2002. 313-14.

31.  “Authenticity, Authoriality, and the Nature of Electronic Texts: Don Quijote in the Age of Digital Reproduction.” Neophilologus 87 (2003): 563-73.

32.  “The Director’s Cut: Baroque Aesthetics and Modern Stagings of the Comedia.” Comedia Performance. 1 (2004): 77-94.

33.  “Gender and the Gaze: Sor Juana, Lacan, and Spanish Baroque Poetry.” Calíope, Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Poetry of Spain, 9.2 (2003 [2004]): 61-74.

34.  “Infallible Texts and Righteous Interpretations: Don Quijote and Religious Fundamentalism.” Cervantes y su mundo, III. Ed. A. Robert Lauer and Kurt Reichenberger. Kassel: Ediciones Reichenberger, 2005. 543-58.

35.  “The Closest Reading: Creating Annotated Editions.” Approaches to Teaching Early Modern Spanish Drama. Ed. Laura R. Bass and Margaret Rich Greer. New York: Modern Language Association, 2006. 214-19.

36.  “Another Look at Calderón’s El príncipe constante as Tragedy.” Critical Reflections: Essays on Golden Age Spanish Literature in Honor of James A. Parr. Ed. Amy Williamsen and Barbara Simerka. Asst. Ed. Shannon Polchow. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2006. 17-30.

37.  “Defining the Comedia: On Generalizations Once Widely Accepted That Are No Longer Accepted So Widely.” Bulletin of the Comediantes 58.2: (2006 [published in 2007]): 285-305.

38.  Los celos hasta los cielos y desdichada Estefanía: Honor, amor, ideal y falla en la obra de Luis Vélez de Guevara.” Introduction to Los celos hasta los celos y desdichada Estefanía. By Luis Vélez de Guevara. Teatro completo. Ed. William R. Manson and C. George Peale. Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta Press, 2007. 13-42, 53-57.

39.   “The Play of Means and Ends: Justice in Lope’s Fuenteovejuna.” Neophilologus 92.2 (2008): 247-62.

Forthcoming: Accepted for publication

40.   “Artistic Distance and the Comedia: Lessons from Don Quijote.” Accepted for publication in an homage volume for Robert Fiore, edited by Malcolm Compitello, Richard Kinkade and Amy Williamsen, published by Juan de la Cuesta Press (Newark, Delaware).

41.  “Supersession, the Comedia nueva, and Tirso’s La mejor espigadera.” Accepted for publication in Bulletin of the Comediantes.

Forthcoming: Submitted

42.   “Multiple Subjects and Missing Objects: Lacanian Psychoanalysis as Pedagogical Approach to Don Quixote.” Submitted for publication in the second edition of Approaches to Teaching Don Quixote. Ed. James A. Parr and Lisa Vollendorf. New York: Modern Language Association.

REVIEWS

1.      Avalle-Arce, Juan Bautista. Dintorno de una época dorada. Madrid: Porrúa-Turanzas, 1978. Reviewed in Modern Language Journal 64 (1980), 268-69.

2.      Ruano, J. M., and J. E. Varey, ed. Peribáñez y el Comendador de Ocaña. By Lope de Vega. London: Tamesis, 1980. Reviewed in Hispania 65 (1982): 142-43.

3.      Muir, Kenneth, ed. and trans. Four Comedies by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Lexington: Univ. of Kentucky Press, 1980. Reviewed in the Bulletin of the Comediantes 34 (1982): 225-27.

4.      Fitz, Earl, and Marianne Mantell. The Colonial Period. Sor Juana and Baroque Poetry. Comedy and Satire. Filmstrips and cassettes. Princeton: Films for the Humanities. Reviewed in Hispania 67 (1984): 163-64.

5.      Hall, J. B. Fuenteovejuna. London: Grant and Cutler, 1985. Reviewed in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 21, No. 2 (1987): 116-17.

6.      McCrary, Susan Niehoff. El último godo and the Dynamics of Urdrama. Reviewed in South Central Review 5, No. 2 (1988): 124-25.

7.      McGaha, Michael, trans. The Devil’s Slave. By Antonio Mira de Amescua. Ottawa: Dovehouse, 1989. Reviewed in the Bulletin of the Comediantes, 42 (1990): 220-22.

8.      Greer, Margaret Rich. The Play of Power. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1991. Reviewed in Hispania 76 (1993): 73-74

9.      Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. The Painter of His Dishonour. Edition and translation by A. K. G. Paterson. Warminster, England: Aris & Phillips, 1991. Reviewed in Bulletin of the Comediantes 45 (1993): 317-18.

10.  Stoll, Anita K., ed. Vidas paralelas: El teatro español y el teatro isabelino: 1580-1680. London: Tamesis, 1993. Reviewed in International Journal of Hispanic Literature.

11.  Texto e imagen en Calderón. Undécimo Coloquio Anglogermano sobre Calderón. St. Andrews, Escocia, 17-20 de julio de 1996. Ed. Manfred Tietz. Archivum Calderonianum, Tomo 8. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998. Reviewed in the Bulletin of the Comediantes 54 (2002): 218-21.

12.  Finn, Thomas P. Molière’s Spanish Connection: Seventeenth-Century Spanish Theatrical Influence on Imaginary Identity in Molière. Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures, vol. 81. New York: Peter Lang, 2001. Reviewed in the Bulletin of Spanish Studies (Glasgow) 80.6 (2003): 759-60.

13.  O’Connor, Thomas A. El amor más desgraciado, Céfalo y Pocris. By Agustín de Salazar y Torres. Kassel: Edition Reichenberger, 2003. Reviewed in Bulletin of Spanish Studies (Glasgow) 82 (2005): 270-71.

14.  Donnell, Sidney. Feminizing the Enemy: Imperial Spain, Transvestite Drama, and the Crisis of Masculinity. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2003. Reviewed in 2004. Reviewed in the Bulletin of the Comediantes 57 (2005): 209-11.

PAPERS

1.      “Tragedy, Comedy, and the Quality of Perception.” University of Missouri at Saint Louis, February 1977.

2.      “The Punishment of Infidelity in Lope de Vega: Vengeance versus Discretion.” Division 71 of the Modern Language Association Convention. Chicago, December 28, 1977.

3.      La Numancia como auto secular.” First International Congress on Cervantes. Madrid, July 1978.

4.      “Woman as Victim: The Murder of Innocent Wives.” American Association of Teacher of Spanish and Portuguese Convention. Toronto, August 1979.

5.      “Poetry and Drama: Lope’s Duquesa de Amalfi.” Division 71 of the Modern Language Association convention. San Francisco, December 1979.

6.      Celos aun del aire matan: The Production of Golden Age Drama.” Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Baton Rouge, March 1980.

7.      Los comendadores de Córdoba: realidad, manierismo y el barroco.” I Congreso Internacional sobre Lope de Vega. Madrid 1980.

8.      “The Failure of the Individual and the Collapse of Order in La cisma de Ingalaterra.” Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures. New Orleans, February 27, 1981.

9.      “Producing Spanish Golden Age Drama.” Special Session of the annual Modern Language Association Convention, Los Angeles, 1982.

10.  “Music and the Comedia.” Special Session of the Modern Language Association convention. Los Angeles, 1982.

11.  “Tirso’s Wife-Murder Play, La vida y muerte de Herodes.” Third Annual Golden Age Spanish Drama Symposium. El Paso, March 1983.

12.  “El ‘feminismo’ de Ana Caro: Valor, agravio y mujer.” VIII International Congress of Hispanists. Providence, August 1983.

13.  “The Origins of Uxoricide in the Comedia.” South Central Modern Language Association Convention. Fort Worth, October 1983.

14.  “Rivalry, Violence, and the Double Bind: Lope de Vega’s El castigo sin venganza.” Symposium in Honor of Everett W. Hesse. San Diego, April 1984.

15.  “Martyrs, Martydom, and the Comedia.” Fifth Annual Golden Age Drama Symposium. El Paso, Texas, March 1985.

16.  “Personal Responsibility, Fortune, and Calderón’s Dramas de honor.” Sixth Annual Golden Age Spanish Drama Symposium. El Paso, Texas, March 1986.

17.  “Los celos y la epistemología neo-estoica en los drama de honor.” Annual Convention of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Madrid, August 1986.

18.  “Symbols, Referents, and Theatrical Semantics: The Use of Hands in the Comedia.” Seventh Annual Golden Age Spanish Drama Symposium. El Paso, Texas, March 1987.

19.  “The Comedia as (Inter)text: Moreto’s La fuerza de la ley.” Modern Language Association convention, San Francisco, December, 1987.

20.  “The Civilizing Metaphor of Life is a Dream.” Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Literature, Baton Rouge. February, 1988.

21.  “Grotowski and the Challenge to Comedia Criticism.” Eighth Annual Golden Age Drama Symposium. El Paso, Texas, March 1988.

22.  “Artaud and the Question of the Comedia Text.” Special Session of the Modern Language Association convention, New Orleans, December 1988.

23.  “Clotaldo’s Daughter.” Ninth Annual Golden Age Drama Symposium. El Paso, Texas, March 1989.

24.  “‘¿Y sois hombre o sois mujer?’: Sex and Gender in Tirso’s Don Gil de las calzas verdes.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, Kentucky, April 1989.

25.  “Truth and Desire in La vida es sueño.” American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese convention. San Antonio, Texas, August 1989.

26.  “Hysteria, Sainthood, and Sexuality: Tirso’s Santa Juana.” Tirso de Molina: His Originality Then and Now. Columbia, Missouri, April 1990.

27.  “Rosaura’s Search for Her Father in Calderón’s Life Is a Dream.” Conference on Lacan, Culture, and Sexuality. Kent, Ohio, May 1990.

28.  “Narcissism, Otherness, Desire, Divinity: Sor Juana’s El divino Narciso.” Eleventh Golden Age Drama Symposium. El Paso, Texas, March 1991.

29.  “Genre and Lack in the Comedia.” Twelfth Golden Age Drama Symposium. El Paso, Texas, March 1992.

30.  “Women Writers of the Spanish Comedia: A la recherche de ‘l'écriture féminine.’” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, Kentucky, April 1992.

31.  “Honor, Otherness, and Ethics in the Comedia.” Modern Language Association convention. New York, December 1992.

32.  Sit comoedia speculum vitae: Perception and Comedia Criticism.” Fourteenth Golden Age Drama Symposium. El Paso, Texas, March 1994.

33.  “Formats, Platforms, and Distribution Systems: Accessing the Comedia by Computer.” Fourteenth Golden Age Drama Symposium. El Paso, Texas, March 1994.

34.  La mirada: Women and the Gaze in Spanish Baroque Poetry.” Society for Spanish Renaissance Poetry. Houston, November 1995.

35.  “The Fictions of Sex and Gender in Calderón’s Las manos blancas no ofenden.” Modern Language Association Convention. Chicago, December 1995.

36.  “The Director’s Cut: Baroque Aesthetics and Modern Stagings of the Comedia.” Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Golden Age Theater Symposium. El Paso, March 1996.

37.  “Sexuality and Otherness: Women as Monsters.” Modern Language Association Convention. Washington, DC, December 1996.

38.  “The Spanish Comedia in Amsterdam, 1609-1621.” Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Golden Age Theater Symposium. El Paso, March 1997.

39.  Los pastores and Popular Culture: Which People? Whose Culture?” Popular Culture Association convention. San Antonio, March 1997.

40.  “La comedia en línea: La nueva tecnología y la enseñanza de la comedia del Siglo de Oro.” Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Golden Age Theater Symposium. El Paso, March 1998.

41.  “Camp, Comedy, and the Comedia.” Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Golden Age Theater Symposium. El Paso, March 1999.

42.  “Homosociality, Heterosexuality, and the Mujer Esquiva in the Comedia.” Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Golden Age Theater Symposium. El Paso. March 2000.

43.  “The Obstacles to Love: Gender, Sex, and Society in Calderón’s Comedias.” Featured presentation at a conference on Calderón at the University of Texas. Austin. October 2000.

44.  “¿Pedir peras al olmo?: Approaching the Comedia from a Queer Perspective.” South Central Modern Languages Association. San Antonio, November 2000.

45.  “Convention and Subversion in the Comedia: Another Look at Marriage in the Final Scene.” Golden Age Theater Symposium. El Paso. March 2001.

46.   Don Quijote in the Age of Digital Reproduction.” Southern California Cervantes Symposium. Los Angeles. April 2001.

47.  “Another Look at Men in the Comedia: Masculinity, Honor, and the Masculine Fear of Penetration.” Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Golden Age Theater Symposium. El Paso. March 2002.

48.  “Gender, Genre, Sex, and Class in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Theater.” Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Golden Age Theater Symposium. El Paso. March 2003.

49.  “Christianity and Islam in Cervantes’s Algerian Plays: Religion, Sex, Identity and the Body.” Modern Language Association convention. San Diego. December 2003.

50.  “Rendering Comedias as Zeros and Ones: The Challenges and Benefits of Electronic Texts.” Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Golden Age Theater Symposium. El Paso. March 2004

51.  El comercio rosa: Images of Gays in Advertising in Latin America.” Southwest Conference on Latin American Studies. San Antonio. March 2004.

52.   “Aspects of Theatricality in Don Quijote.” Commemorative conference on Cervantes’s Don Quixote. University of Texas at San Antonio. November 2005.

53.  “Text, History, Theory, Interpretation, Performance: On the Nature of Comedia Criticism.” Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Golden Age Theater Symposium. El Paso. March 2006.

54.   “Martyrdom and Pornography.” Association for Hispanic Classical Theater Symposium. El Paso. March 2007.

55.   “Theology and Allegory of Supersession in Lope’s La hermosa Ester.” Plenary President’s Session presentation. Annual conference of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater. El Paso. March 2008.

56.  Crossing Borders: Oceans, Continents, Genders, Genres, and Cultures.” South Central Modern Language Association Convention, San Antonio. November, 2008.

Upcoming

57.   “Israel in the Theater of Imperial Spain: Supersession and Mira de Amescua’s El clavo de Jael.” To be presented at the First International Conference on Literature, Culture and Religion in the Hispanic World. San Antonio. February 2009.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

“Spanish Golden Age Wife-Murder Plays.” Organizer and moderator of a Special Session of the Modern Language Association convention. San Francisco, December 1979.

Celos aun del aire matan (1660). By Pedro Calderón de la Barca and Juan Hidalgo. February 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, and March 13, 1981. Trinity University. This was the first presentation in 250 years of Calderón’s only fully sung three-act play for which the music is still available. Responsibilities: writing the budget and grant proposals; hiring the director, costumer, and other personnel; editing the libretto from manuscript; coaching the singers in Spanish (in most cases this involved teaching the text phonetically); overseeing the building of the sets and doing much of the work personally; writing the program notes and much of the publicity; producing the videotape and audiotape versions. In the summer of 1981 the costumes were on exhibit at the Museo del Barrio, New York.

“Calderón and the Vehicles of Communication.” Translation, presentation of a paper by José Ruibal at a symposium, "El Mundo de Calderón,” sponsored by the University of Texas at San Antonio. San Antonio Museum of Art, March 1981.

“Calderón de la Barca at the Tercentenary: Comparative Views.” Session panelist. Texas Tech University, Lubbock, January 1981.

“Women Writers and Spanish Mysticism.” Discussion leader and organizer of a Special Session of the Modern Language Association convention. December 1982.

“Neo-Stoic Epistemology and the Comedia.” Presentation at a Trinity University Division of Humanities and the Arts Faculty Forum, 1986.

“Receiving, Writing, and Rewriting: The Comedia and Its Audience.” Moderator of a Special Session of the Modern Language Association convention. San Francisco, December 1987.

“Literary Translation and the Theater.” Organizer and moderator of a symposium at Trinity University, November 1987.

“Theater Performance Theory and the Comedia.” Organizer and discussion leader of a Special Session of the Modern Language Association convention. New Orleans, December, 1988.

Founder and director, Trinity Lacan Study Group, 1988-93.

The First Lacan Seminar in English. Participant. Paris, June 1989.

“Lacan and Psychoanalysis: Language, Desire, Sexuality.” Organizer and moderator of a symposium at Trinity University. February, 1990.

“The Seventeenth Annual International Siglo de Oro Theater Festival, Chamizal National Memorial, El Paso, Texas, March 11-21, 1992.” Report on the Festival published in the Mentidero section of the Bulletin of the Comediantes.

The Electronic Comedia Project: Organizer of a colloquium held at Princeton University to discuss the future of comedia texts available in machine-readable format, 1993. Consultant for the writing of a grant to the National Endowment for the Humanities; named a member of the International Advisory Board for the project, 1994.

Member, doctoral dissertation committee, Spanish literature. Kathleen Regan. University of Chicago. Defended April 17, 1995.

Participation in the Second International Conference on Study Abroad. Presentation at a session on preparing students to study abroad. Institute for European Studies/Institute for Asian Studies. Chicago, March, 1995.

Participant at the conference, “Ingenious Methodologies Through Technology.” Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, October, 1996.

“Dutch Translations of Spanish Plays, 1609-1621.” Presentation at a Trinity University Division of Humanities and the Arts Faculty Forum, 1996.

Discussant, Theater Workshop, Golden Age Drama Symposium, El Paso, March 1997.

Session Chair, “Teaching the Comedia in the Twenty-First Century,” a session of the seventeenth-century Spanish drama division of the Modern Language Association. San Francisco, December 1998.

Organizer, moderator, and presenter, “The Trinity University Virtual Foreign Language Laboratory.” Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges Conference. San Antonio, June 1998.

Creation of a website devoted to teaching Spanish using computer technology (in conjunction with the ACS grant listed below, 1998): http://www.trinity.edu/mstroud/technology/index.html

Organizer and moderator of a special session devoted to uses of computer technology in teaching and studying the Spanish Golden Age comedia, to take place at the Golden Age Drama Symposium, El Paso, March 1998.

Creation of online editions of medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque texts for Introduction to Spanish Literature (see below under website construction), 1999.

Organizer and moderator of a special session on queer studies and the comedia. Chamizal Golden Age Drama Symposium. El Paso, March 1999.

Translator of Calderón’s La dama duende, and consultant for the performance of the play by the Trinity University Department of Speech and Drama. October 2000.

Guest lecturer in Drama 1304, Introduction to Theater, and in Drama 1100, Trinity University Players, on Calderón de la Barca and The Phantom Lady. September 2000

Organizer of three sessions sponsored by the Division on Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Spanish Drama of the Modern Language Association, and moderator of the session, “Queer Approaches to the Spanish Comedia.” Washington, DC, December 2000.

Session chair: “Pedagogy,” a session of the Division on Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Spanish Drama of the Modern Language Association. New Orleans, December 2001.

Consultant for and participant in an undergraduate project to produce a video on the Chamizal Siglo de Oro Festival, University of Rhode Island, March 2002.

Reformatting of over 2500 files located in the website of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, Inc. 2002.

Consultant and on-screen participant in a student senior project at the University of Rhode Island to create an information video about the Chamizal Golden Age Spanish Theater festival and symposium. 2002

Consultant for Southern Living magazine, for an article on the Chamizal Golden Age Spanish Theater festival and symposium, 2002.

Organizer of a Trinity queer studies symposium and author of the first draft of a grant proposal, 2002-2003.

Organizer and moderator of a special session, “Crossing Borders, Crossing Boundaries: The Literature and Film of Spain,” at the annual meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association, 2008.


WEBSITE CREATION AND MAINTENANCE

Personal, professional site
http://www.trinity.edu/mstroud/index.html (1996-present)

Trinity University Program in Spanish
http://www.trinity.edu/mstroud/spanish/index.html (1997-present)

Trinity University Self-Instructional Language Program (2002-2006)
http://www.trinity.edu/mstroud/silp
http://www.trinity.edu/mstroud/arabic

Association for Hispanic Classical Theater
http://www.comedias.org (2002-2006)

The Characters and Plots of Tirso de Molina
http://www.trinity.edu/mstroud/tirso/index.html (2002)

Trinity University Department of Modern Languages and Literatures (1996-2001)
http://www.trinity.edu/departments/modern_languages/index.html

 

GRANTS

Trinity University
Faculty Research and Development Commission travel grant, 1978

Faculty Development Commission Summer Stipend, 1980, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009 (approved)

Faculty Development Commission Academic Leave, 1988, 1993, 1998, 2003, 2008

Faculty Summer Seminar, 1992

Dr. and Mrs. Z. T. Scott Faculty Fellowship Grant, 1999

Course development grant, Seminar in Queer Studies, 2003

Planning Seminar: Difficult Dialogues: Compulsory Heterosexuality, 2006

Associated Colleges of the South
Grant for participation in a colloquium on using computer technology in the classroom, 1997
Grant to study technology applications in foreign language education, 1998

Culpeper Foundation
Co-Director of a departmental technology project involving four workshops and additional individual assistance to faculty in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, 1997-99

Institute of European Studies/Institute of Asian Studies
For participation in the Second Conference on Study Abroad, 1995

Program for Cooperation Between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States’ Universities
To organize a colloquium on the Electronic Comedia, 1993

Ewing Halsell Foundation, San Antonio
For production of Spanish opera, Celos aun del aire matan, and for translation and publication of the libretto, 1980

University of Southern California Center for the Humanities
Grant for participation in a symposium on second language acquisition, 1976

Del Amo Foundation, Los Angeles
For study in Spain, 1973

 


SERVICE

To the department:

Academic advisor to majors, 1978-present
Director of Self-Instructional Language Programs, 1984-87, 2002-2006
Departmental representative to meet with international program advisors, 2006
Section leader for Spanish, 2003-2005
Producer/director, “Escenas de la comedia española,” student production, 1992, 1994, 2004
Liaison with Study Abroad for students of Spanish, 2001-2002
Departmental Liaison to Spanish Language/Hispanic Language residence floor, 2001-2002
Author of proposal to reinstate a Self-Instructional Language Program at Trinity, 2001
Creation and maintenance of departmental web page, 1996-2001
Convention interviewer for new faculty, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003
Director of search for new faculty, 1984-85, 1986, 1986-87
Departmental Instructional Technology Committee, Chair, 2000
Co-Director of departmental technology project, 1997-99
Director of technology workshop and creation of workshop materials, 1997-99
Creator of pilot multimedia Spanish course, 1996
Member, Department Visiting Lecturers Committee, 1992-94
Ad Hoc Committee on Academic Leaves, 1994
Sigma Delta Pi Faculty Advisor, 1977-84
Speaker, Department of Foreign Languages Faculty Seminar, 1984
Spanish Book Acquisition Committee, 1982-83
Founder and editor of Francophile, a French language newspaper for students, 1981-83
Liaison to Trinco Computing Center, 1977-82
Innovator of Introduction to Spanish Literature, and creator of student guide, 1981, 1982
Organizer of several Student Sandwich Seminars, 1981-82
Department Faculty Secretary, 1980-81
Producer of instructional material for Spanish IV as part of the Calderón tercentenary, 1981
Creator of 22 computer-assisted instruction programs in French, Spanish, and Latin, 1977-78

To the university:

Commission on Promotion and Tenure, 2006-present

Trinity University Press Editorial Board, 2008-present

Open Access Directive Working Group, 2008-present

Arabic Language Forum, Member, 2006-present

Phi Beta Kappa, Epsilon of Texas Chapter:
Member, 1977-present; President 1983-85, 1988-89; Acting President, 2008; Vice-President 1979-81; Secretary-Treasurer 1981-83, 2002-2004; Chapter delegate to Triennial Councils 1979, 1982, 1985, 1988

Academic advisor to first and second-year students, 1978-present

Participation in Admissions recruitment events, 1984-present

MAS Initiative: Co-convenor, capital campaign focus on re-envisioning trinity: Mexico, the Americas, and Spain, 2004-2008; presentations: Board of Visitors, 2007; National Alumni Board, 2007

Committee on Traffic and Parking, 2005-2008

The Rhea Fern Malsbury / Helen Heare McKinley Employee Awards Selection Committee, 2004-2007

“Difficult Dialogues” Initiative, Planning Seminar Participant, 2006

Trinity Day Without Art/World AIDS Day Committee, 2006

New Student Orientation, Diversity Session, Discussion leader, 2006

Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (health plan):
Committee member, 1995-2006; Translator of employee benefits information to Spanish, 1996; Editor of To Your Health!, the VEBA newsletter, 1995-2003

Graduation speaker, Winter Commencement, 2004

American Association of University Professors:
Member, 1977-2004; President 1986-87, 1994-95, 2003-2004; Vice-President 1984-85; Secretary-Treasurer 1983-84; Newsletter Editor, 1993-1995

Dr. and Mrs. Z. T. Scott Faculty Fellowship selection committee, 2000-2003

Creation of a new course, “Introduction to Queer Studies,” for the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, 2003

University Curriculum Council Commission on Curricular Review, 2000-2001
Subcommittee on Commonalities, 2001

Consultant, Speech and Drama Department production of The House of Bernarda Alba, by Federico García Lorca, 2001

Ad Hoc Task Force on Room Utilization, 1999-2000

Task Force on Skills (sponsored by the University Curriculum Council), Chair, 1999-2000

Faculty Senate:
Member, 1993-95, 1996-98; Budget Committee, 1993-95, 1996-98; Ad Hoc Committee on Academic Leaves, 1994; Faculty Senate Liaison to the Association of Student Representatives, 1994

Assistance in creating the Campus AIDS Network, 1997

Participation in the First Year Seminar Program, 1986-87, 1987, 1996

Employee Benefits Committee, 1991-1996

Department of Classical Studies, Tenure and Promotion Review Committee Member, 1992

Wellness Program Newsletter, Assistant Editor, 1992

Faculty Advisor to the Student Association, 1990-1991

Academic Integrity Committee, 1987-91

Guest lecturer, Department of Education, 1990, 1991

Committee on Standards, 1987-90

Department of Engineering Science review committee 1989-90

University Curriculum Council, 1984-87
Courses and Requirements Committee, 1984-87 (Chair 86-87); General Education Committee Task Force on Mathematics

Academic Standing Committee, 1981-87

Trinity University Press Board of Editors, 1979-87
Secretary, 1982-85; Internal manuscripts reviewer, 1982-87; Review Committee, 1981-82

Self study committee on other educational activities, 1986

Computer Activities Committee, Secretary, 1983-84

Honors Program Committee, 1981-83

Faculty Club:
Executive Committee Member, 1980-83; Vice-Chair, 1981-82; Chair, 1982-83

Department representative on 1983 Dean’s Review Committee

Ad Hoc Microprocessor Committee, 1982

Area Courses Committee, General Education Committee, 1979-81

Graduate committees for the degree of M.F.A. to evaluate language proficiency, 1979, 1981

General coordinator of International Days, 1978-80

Ad Hoc Computer Committee, 1978

Ad Hoc Senate Committee on Constitutional Revision, 1978

New faculty orientation panel member, 1978

 

To the profession:

 

Editorial Advisory Board, Bulletin of the Comediantes, 1998-present

Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, Inc.:
Board of Directors, 1984–present (life member); Convention Program Review Committee, 2008; Treasurer, 1984–1990; Webmaster, 2002-2006; Electronic Media Committee, 1993–present; Bylaws Revision Committee, 2001; Banquet master of ceremonies, 1997, 1998, 2001; Camera operator, 1986–1988

Outside evaluator for tenure and promotion of faculty at other universities, 1986, 1990, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2006

Reviewer of articles for publication, Gestos, 2006; Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, 2001, 2005; Bulletin of Spanish Studies (Edinburgh, Scotland), 2008

Phi Beta Kappa Society, South Central District Nominating Committee, 2000, 2005

National Association of Self-Instructional Language Programs:
Member, Board of Directors, 2002-2004

Specialist reviewer of manuscripts and proposals for publication: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., 2001; University of Toronto Press, 2002, 2004; Bucknell University Press, 2003; Yale University Press, 2003

Modern Language Association:
Executive Committee, Division on 16th and 17th-Century Spanish Theater, Modern Language Association, 1997–2001; Secretary, 1999; Chair, 2000; organizer of the Comediantes banquet as part of the annual Modern Language Association convention. Chicago, December 1999.

Member, International Advisory Committee, Electronic Comedia Project, Princeton University, 1994–97

Educational Testing Service
Grader of Advanced Placement Exams for the Education Testing Service, Princeton, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1993

Judge, Sixteenth Siglo de Oro Drama Festival, Chamizal National Memorial, El Paso, 1992

Reviewer of articles for publication in Hispania and the Bulletin of the Comediantes, 1987–1992

Editorial Advisory Board for the publication of selected papers from the El Paso Spanish Golden Age Drama Symposia, 1987–1989

Reader of exams for the Junior Classical League contest, 1984, 1985

Host, Sigma Delta Pi Spanish Breakfast, South Central MLA convention, 1982

Guest of Honor and official representative of Sigma Delta Pi at the installation of a new chapter of Sigma Delta Mu at St. Philip’s College, San Antonio, 1979.

Judge, Fifth Annual Hispanic Poetry and Prose Recitation Contest, 1978

 

To the community:

Madison Square Presbyterian Church

Elder-elect, 2008

Stewardship Committee, Member, 2008-present

Anniversary Committee, Member, 2005-2007

City of Castle Hills

Board of Adjustment, Member, 2003-2004

Drainage Committee, Member, 2003

Zoning Review Committee, Member, 2003

Campaign coordinator, 3 races for Mayor and City Council, 2003; City Council race, 2004

Castle Hills Homeowners Association

Member, 2001-2005

Member, Nominating Committee, 2002

Volunteer: Halloween Carnival, 2001, 2002; Spring Picnic, 2002, 2003

Project Inform, San Francisco
HTML programming and Spanish translation for its international web-based AIDS information site, 1998-2001

Sponsor, Alamo City Men’s Chorale, 1999

Faculty Liaison, Providence Home and Trinity Volunteer Action Council, 1997-1998

Faculty Liaison, Campus AIDS Network and Alamo Area Resource Center, 1997-1998

San Antonio Phi Beta Kappa Association:
Member, 1983-2006; Board of Directors, 1985–1997; President, 1987–88; Vice-President, 1987; Secretary, 1989–1997; Delegate to Triennial Council, 1994, 1997

WEBB AIDS fundraiser, Sponsor, 1996

Warm Springs Rehabilitation Hospital, Volunteer, 1993-94

Guest lecturer, University Presbyterian Church, 1993

San Antonio Free Clinic (Community Clinic):
Member, Board of Directors, 1983–85; Telephone counseling, 4 hours per week, 1981-83; coordinator, 1983

University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio:
Instructor of “Spanish for Physical Therapists,” including creation of instructional materials, 1981–85

Festival Calderón, Inc.:
President and Chairman of the Board, 1983–84; Humanities advisor and creator of background instructional materials, 1981–84; Coordinating committee, Hispanic drama festival, 1982–83

Brooks Air Force Base “Los Amigos” club, guest speaker, 1983

JM/Jeunesses Musicales of USA, Inc., Member of the Board of Directors, 1981

San Antonio Symphony Opera Guild, guest speaker for discussion of Don Giovanni, 1982

American Association of University Women, San Antonio chapter, guest speaker, 1982

Trinity University Continuing Education courses in French and Spanish, 1978-82