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CURRICULUM VITAE
MALCOLM ALAN COMPITELLO
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
545 Modern Languages Building
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 857221
520-621-7347 (office)
520-621-6104 (fax)
520-296-1473 (home)
E-mail: compitel@email.arizona.edu
1970-1979: Ph.D. Indiana University, Bloomington
Major: Hispanic Literature
Minor: Comparative Literature
1968- 1970: MA St. John's University
Jamaica, New York
Major: Hispanic Literature
1964-1968 BA St. John's University,
Jamaica, New York
Major: Spanish
1995-- Head, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona
1996-- Steering Committee Program in Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies, University of Arizona
1992 -- 1995: Associate Chair, Department of Romance and Classical Languages, Michigan State University
1992: Interim Associate Chair, Department of Romance and Classical Languages, Michigan State University. (January - June)
1992--1995 Steering Committee, Program in Comparative Literature, Michigan State University
1982-1986;
1988-1992: Spanish Graduate Advisor, Department of Romance and Classical Language, Michigan State University.1985-1988: Coordinator of Spanish Language Instruction, Department of Romance and Classical Languages, Michigan State University.
1980-1981: Supervisor of Teaching Assistants in pilot program for first-year Spanish, Michigan State University.
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
1968-1970: Language Laboratory and Research Assistant, Department of Foreign Languages, St. John's University.
1970-1976: Associate Instructor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University.
1971-1972: Visiting Instructor of English, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
1975-1976: Preceptor (Assistant Supervisor) Second-Year Spanish II, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University.
1976-1977: Associate Faculty (part-time), Department of Foreign Languages, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis.
1975-1977: Assistant Editor, The American Hispanist, Inc.
1977-1981: Assistant Professor, Department of Romance and Classical Languages, Michigan State University.
1980: Visiting Professor, the Spanish Summer School, Middlebury College.
1981: Associate Professor (with tenure) Department of Romance and Classical Languages, Michigan State University.
1986-- Professor, Department of Romance and Classical Languages, Michigan State University.
1995-- Professor and Head, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona.
DIRECTORSHIPS OVERSEAS PROGRAMS
1978: Grand Valley State College's summer program in Granada, Spain.
1979, 1982: Michigan State University's summer program in Valencia, Spain.
1986, 1987,1989, 1990, 1992: Michigan State University summer program in Denia, Spain.
1997 University of Arizona Spring Semester in Alcalá de Henares
2002 Grant for Program for Cultural Coooperation bettween Spain's Ministry of Culture and American Universities for funding "Hispanic Cultural Studies: The State of the Art" Conference. ($3,000)
2002 Grant from Vice President for Research, University of Arizona for funding "Hispanic Cultural Studies: The State of the Art" Conference ($10,000).
1997-1998 Principal Investigator NEH Focus Grant to Study K-16 articulation of foreign language study ($24,000)
1998-1999 Co-Principal Investigator MLA High School to College Articulation Project
1997 Training and Equipment grant from the Office of the Vice President for Undergraduate Education for making new general education classes. ($2,500)
1996 Grant from Office of the Vice President for Undergraduate Education to work of integrating Latin American content into new general education curriculum at the University of Arizona, especially the coordination of efforts between courses in Traditions and Cultures and Individuals and Society. $(10,000)
1991-1994: Travel Grants from Dean's Special Travel Fund to read papers at MLA Conventions and Kentucky Foreign Language Conference.
1993-1994: All-University Research Grant (AURG), College of Arts and Letters, Michigan State University, for research in Madrid on the politics of Spanish Postmodernism.
1995: Travel grant from Western European Studies to read paper at Kentucky Foreign Language Conference.
1994: Travel grant form Western European Studies to read paper at CINE-LIT II Portland, Oregon.
1993: Travel grant from Western European Studies to read paper at Kentucky Foreign Language Conference.
1991: Travel Grant from CIBER to read paper on Spanish film at CINE/LIT Conference, February 1991.
1990: All-University Research Initiation Grant (AURIG), Michigan State University, for work on biography of Luis Martín-Santos.
1988: Grant form Special Foreign Travel Fund, Office of the Dean of International Studies and Programs, Michigan State University, read paper at Mediterranean XI Conference Budapest, Hungary.
1987-1988: All-University Research Grant (AURG), College of Arts and Letters, Michigan State University for research in Madrid on Martín-Santos.
1985: Travel Grant: Center for Advance Study in International Development (CASID), Michigan State University to read paper at Conference on Hispanic Avant-garde prose.
1983-1984: Post-Doctoral Research Grant US-Spain Joint Commission for Educational and Cultural Affairs, topic: "From Silence to Destruction the Evolution of Luis Martín-Santos, " Grant tenure September 1983-June 1984. Extension granted for period July-August 1984.
1983: All-University Research Initiation Grant (AURIG), Michigan State University. Topic: "Ordering the Evidence: Volverás a Región and Civil War Fiction." Award was granted to help with publication costs for book Ordering the Evidence: Volverás a Región and Civil War Fiction. Barcelona: Puvill, 1983.
1982: Grant from Spanish-American Cultural Exchange, Inc. to help with publication costs of manuscript listed above.
1982: Curriculum Development Grant, Center for Advance Study in International Development (CASID), Michigan State University. Topic: "Redesign of Second Year Curriculum in Spanish Language to Include More Material Related to Social Sciences."
1980: Assignment to Humanities Research, College of Arts and Letters, Michigan State University, for summer quarter. Award declined to accept position as Visiting Professor in the Spanish School, Middlebury College.
1978-1987: All-University Research Grants, Michigan State University.
1974: Doctoral Student Grant-in-aid for Dissertation Research, Indiana University, Bloomington.
1971-1972: Fulbright grant for Study and Teaching in Spain.
1970: Summer Teaching Intern Fellowship, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University, Bloomington.
1979-1981: Nominated by Department of Romance and Classical Languages for college-level competition for Michigan State University Teacher-Scholar Award.
1979: Nominated by College of Arts and Letters for university-level competition for Michigan State University Teacher-Scholar Award.
1968: Award for Academic Excellence in Foreign Languages, College of Arts and Sciences, St. John's University.
1968: President's award, St. John's University (awarded to varsity athlete with highest academic average).
1967-1968: Dean's List, College of Arts and Sciences, St. John's University.
Spanish language; modern Spanish literature; modern Latin American literature; Hispanic prose fiction; literary theory; language methodology; Spanish dramatic production; modern Spanish History, culture and society; comparative literature; Cultural Studies; Hispanic film.
Executive Editor, Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 1996 --
Assistant Editor/Contributing Editor, The American Hispanist (1975-1981).
Editor, An Annual Bibliography of Post-Civil War Spanish Fiction (1977-1981).
North American Editorial Advisor, Editorial Urbión, Madrid (1978-1980).
PUBLICATIONS
Ordering the Evidence: Volverás a Región and Civil War Fiction. Barcelona: Puvill, 1983.
Critical Approaches to the Writings of Juan Benet. Ed. Roberto Manteiga, David Herzberger, and Malcolm Compitello. Hanover, New Hampshire: The University Press of New England, 1984.
Rewriting the "Good Fight." Critical Essays on the Literature of the Spanish Civil War. Ed. Frieda S. Brown, Malcolm Alan Compitello et. al. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 1989.
De Fortunata a la M:40: Un siglo de cultura de Madrid. Edited with Edward Baker. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2003
"Juan Benet and His Critics." Anales de la Novela de Posguerra 3 (1978): 123-141.
"Franco's Children: Childhood, The Spanish Civil War and Ana María Matutue's Primera memoria." El Niño en las Literaturas Hispánicas. Proceedings 4th Annual Hispanic Literatures Conference Indiana, PA: Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1978: 283-310.
"The Novel, the critics, and the Civil War: A Bibliographical Essay." Anales de la Narrative Española Contemporánea 4 (1979): 117-38.
"Región's Brazilian Backlands: The Link Between Volverás a Región and Euclides da Cunha's Os Sertões. Hispanic Journal 1 (1980): 25-45.
"Volverás a Región, the Critics and the Spanish Civil War a Socio-Poetic Reappraisal." The American Hispanist 36 (1979): 11-20. (Issue appeared January, 1982).
Drama and the Spanish language Classroom: A Personal Chronicle." The Ram's Horn: Journal of the Rassias Foundation 1 (1980-1981 [1982]): 127-37.
"Language, Structure and Ideology in Volverás a Región by Juan Benet." El Language y lo Vulgar en la Literatura Peninsular de la Ultima Década. Proceedings of the Fifth Hispanic Literature Conference. Indiana, PA.: Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1982. 305-26.
"The Paradoxes of Praxis: Juan Benet and Modern Poetics." Critical Approaches to the Writings of Juan Benet. Ed. Manteiga, Herzberger and Compitello. Hanover, New Hampshire: The University Press of New England, 1984. 8-17, 137-39.
"Bibliography." Critical Approaches to the Writings of Juan Benet. Ed. Manteiga, Herzberger and Compitello. Hanover, New Hampshire: The University Press of New England, 1984. 153-65.
Squaring the Circle: Critical Methodology and the 1970's 'New' Spanish Novel." Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea 9 (1984): 59-69.
"Juan Benet." World Authors 1975-1980. New York: The H.M. Wilson Company, 1985. 73-75.
"De la metanovela a la novela: Manual Vázquez Montalbán y los límites de la vanguardia española contemporánea." Prosa hispánica de vanguardia. Ed. Fernando Burgos. Madrid: Orígenes, 1986. 191-99.
"Exile and the Structure of Narrative Transmission: The Case of Sender's Réquiem por un campesino español." Revista Monográfica 2 (1986): 166-73.
"Réquiem por un campesino español and the Problematics of Exile." Homage to Ramón Sender: Critical Perspectives on His Work. Ed. Mary S. Vázquez. Newark, Delaware: Juan del la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs, 1987. 89-99.
"The Contemporary Spanish Detective Novel and the Question of Form." Revista Monográfica 3 (1987): 182-191.
"Juan Benet and the 'New' Spanish 'Novela Negra.' " Revista Monográfica 3 (1987): 212-220.
"Spanish Socialism on the Brink: 1954-1958." Iberia and the Mediterranean. Ed. Benjamin F. Taggie and Richard W. Clement. Central Missouri State University: Warrensburg, MO, 1989: 171-180.
"Luis Martín-Santos, a Bibliography." Letras Peninsulares, 2.2 (1990): 249-269.
"Benet and Spanish Postmodernism." Revista Hispánica Moderna, 44.2 (1991): 259-272.
"Making El Sur." Revista Hispánica Moderna, 46.1 (1993): 73-86.
"Reflexiones sobre el acto de narrar: Benet, Vargas Llosa y Euclides da Cunha." Insula 559-60 (1993): 19-22.
"Herrumbrosas plumas: En la penumbra and Hermeneutic Paralysis." Letras Peninsulares. 7.1 - 7.2 (1994): 417 - 434.
"The Care and Feeding of my 'Ten-thousand-Pound Gorilla'." ADFL Bulletin 28.3 (1997): 41-2.
With Susan Larson. "Todavía en la Luna: A Roundtable Discussion with Darío Alvarez Basso, Antonio Bueno, Pierluigi Cattermole Fioravanti, Ignacio Martínez Lacaci Fortuny, Javier Timmermans de Palma and José Tono Martínez." Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 1(1997): 153-168.
"Juan Benet: camino al final de la modernidad." La Página 30 (1998): 57-68.
With Susan Larson "El diseño es cuestión de adjetivos . Los sustantivos están todos en El Corte Inglés. A Round Table Discussion on the state of Spanish Design with Pierluigi Cattermole, José María Cruz Novillo, Enrique Gil Cerracín, Frank Memelsdorff and Jesús San Vicente. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 2(1998): 233-252.
"Sender and the Novel of Memory." In Ramón J. Sender y sus coetáneos. Homenaje a Charles L. King. Ed. Marshall J. Schneider and Mary S. Vásquez. Huesca: Instituto de Estudios Aragoneses and Davidson, North Carolina, Davidson College, 1998: 185:192.
"From Planning to Design: The Culture of Flexible Accumulation in Post-Cambio Madrid. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 3(1999): 199 - 220.
"El estado actual de la fotografía artística. Mesa Redonda con Antonio Bueno, Pablo Genovés, María José Gómez Redondo and Tomás Zarza." Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. 3(1999): 229 - 241.
"Cities, culture ... capital? Recent cultural studies approaches to Spain's cities. (with Susan Larson) Review Article. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 2.2 (2001): 231-238.
“Recasting Urban Identities: The Case of Madrid 1977- 1997. Mapping Urban Spaces and Subjectivities.” Arachne. 2.1 (2002) http://arachne.rutgers.edu/vol2_1toc.htm
“Designing Madrid: 1979-1997. Cities . 20.6 (2003): 404-411.
“Dos Madrileños de Nueva York. Interview/Article with Pablo Herraiz. El mundo October 24, 2004 : 12.
“Prólogo” Madrid: De Fortunata a la M:40: Cien años de cultura urbana . with Edward Baker. Madrid: Alianza: 11-25.
DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS DIRECTED
Juan Orbe: "The Discourse of Caudillismo: Historical and Literary Readings." 1985.
Ronald Rapin: "The Narrative Structure of Lorca's Poeta en Nueva York." 1986.
Sandra Puvogel: "The Detective Fiction of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán." 1986.
Antonio Sobejano: "Sentido y Evolución de las Técnicas Literarias en 'Antagonía' de Luis Goytisolo." 1986. [New York: Mellen, 1993]
Carmen Sotomayor: "Una lectura orientalista de Juan Goytisolo." 1987. [Madrid: Espiral, 1990]
Eufemia Sánchez de la Calle: "La Narrative de Isaac Montero." 1990. [Madrid: Pliegos, 1997]
Francisco García-Moreno Barco: "La Narrativa de Antonio Muñoz Molina." 1992.
Susan Larson: "Imagining the Metropolis: Urban Culture in Madrid 1914 - 1936." 1999
Kalen Oswald. "Eduardo Mendoza's Barcelona." 2001
Jennifer Lynn Rathbun "The Dramatic Feminine Discourse of Cristina Escofet" (2002)
Julie Ann Lirot "La identidad posmoderna omo base structural y temática en la narrative de Reinaldo Arenas and Esther Tusquets." (2002)
Vania Barraza “Del folletín al reality: modelos de lectura y consume de la ficción y la realidad” 2004
Yosalida Rivero Moreno “El guión cinematográfico como pre-texto literario: :La obra de Rafael Azcona. 2006
Benjamin Fraser: The Difference Space Makes: Bergsonian Methodology andUndergraduate Honors Theses Directed
Carolyn Kreer: "Social Aspects of Miguel Delibes' Fiction," 1979.
Catherine Meiners: "Problems in Translation of the Poetry of Octavio Paz," 1985.
Kelly Dunn: "Recent Spanish Detective Fiction," 1991.
Julie Zasadny: "La prensa como institución nacional: Un análisis de la prensa bajo Franco." 1991.
James Scott Kanter: "Jorge Luis Borges: El Creador del Entendimiento." 1998.
Michael Daschbach " The Basque ETA in the time of Franco" (2001)