Faculty Index
Alberto Blasi
Laura Callahan
Raquel Chang-Rodríguez
William Childers
Marithelma Costa
José del Valle
Ottavio Di Camillo
Ana Diz
Eva Fernández
Malva Filer
Nora Glickman
Marlene Gottlieb
Isaías Lerner
Irma Llorens
José Luis Madrigal
Elena Martínez
J.M. Martínez Torrejón
Juan Carlos Mercado
Louise Mirrer
Óscar Montero
José Muñoz Millanes
Ricardo Otheguy
Magdalena Perkowska
Gerardo Piña
Gregory Rabassa
Susana Reisz
Lidia Santos
Lía Schwartz
William Sherzer
Francisco Soto
Araceli Tinajero
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Ana Diz
Professor
Medieval Literature, Classical
and Medieval Rhetoric
The Literature of Marginalized
Groups
email: m.diz@att.net
phone: Lehman College -
718-960-8179
Graduate Center - 212-817-8421
- Education
- Licenciatura en Letras. University of Buenos Aires
(interrupted by coup d'etat in 1966; completed in 1971)
- M.A. in Spanish, University of Maryland, 1969
- Ph.D. in Spanish, University of Maryland, 1976.
Dissertation: "Estructura, género y
lección moral en el Libro del Cavallero Zifar."
- Teaching Experience
- University Of Maryland, Instructor, 1969-75;
- Trinitv College, Lecturer, 1972-74;
- University of Wisconsin (Oshkosh), Assistant Professor,
1976-78;
- Sweet Briar College, Assistant Professor, 1978-80;
- University of Maryland, Assistant Professor, 1980-85;
- University of Maryland, Assoc. Professor (with tenure),
1985-87;
- Lehman College, CUNY, Assoc. Professor (with tenure),
1987-;
- New York University, Visiting Professor (Fall), 1994;
- Lehman College, CUNY, Professor, 1996-present.
- Grants, Honors and Awards
- 1960: José Marti Award
- 1977: University of Wisconsin. Faculty
Research Grant
- 1978: National Endowment for the Humanities,
Summer Stipend
- 1979: Sweet Briar College. Faculty Research
Grant
- 1979: Mednick Fund Award for Virginia
College Teachers
- 1981: University of Maryland, Summer
Research Grant
- 1984: University of Maryland. General
Research Board
- 1986: Academy of Literary Studies. invited
membership
- 1988-: Member. Editorial Board. Filologia
- 1990: Grant. PSC-CUNY Research Foundation
- 1991: Grant, PSC-CUNY Research Foundation
- 1991: Shuster Research Fellowship, Lehman
College
- 1993: Shuster Research Fellowship, Lehman
College
- Publications
- Books
- Patronio y Lucanor: la lectura inteligente "en
el tiempo gue es turbio." Washington, D.C., Scripta Humanistica,
1984. 183 pp.
- Historias de certidumbres: los "Milagros" de
Berceo, in press.
- Lives of Saints (with Billy Bussell Thompson).
A critical edition of inedited XIVth c. ms., with preliminary study.
In progress.
- Articles and Reviews
- "El sentido revolucionario en la vida y la obra de
Jasé Martí." Casa de las Américas. 1961,
17-31.
- 'El mundo de las armas en el Libro del Caballero
cifar." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 56 (1979), 189-199.
- 'La construcción del Cifar,' Nueva
Revista de Filología Hispánica 28
(1979), 105-117.
- El discurso de Nobleza y la carta de Dido," Thesarus
47 (1980), 1-12.
- "El motivo de la partida del caballero en el Cifar"
Kentucky Romance Quarterly
28 (1980), 3-12.
"Relato, fabulación, semiosis: la producción de
significado en el Conde Lucanor." MLN 96 (1981), 403-413.
- "Cambio, especulación e impostura en los
relates de Patronio," in Homenaje a Ana María Barrenechea,
eds. I. And L. S. de Lerner, Madrid, Castalia, 1984, pp. 229-234.
- "El mago de Toledo: Borges y Don Juan Manuel," MLN
100 (1985), 281-297.
- "Cristina González. El cavallero Zifar y el
reino lejano. Madrid, Gredos,1984". Journal of Hispanic Philology
9 (1985), 76-79 (review).
- "Manuel Alvar et al. La poesía medieval.
Madrid, Castalia, 1983." Hispania 68
(1985), 63-64 (review).
- "Las areas de arena o el art del desterrado", Romance
Quarterly 35, 4 (1988), 449-455.
- "Berceo: la ordalía del niño
judío", Filología 23 (1988), 1-15.
- "Berceo y Alfonso: la historia de la abadesa
encinta," Bulletin of Cantiqueiros 5 (1993), 85-96.
- "Charles Fraker, La Celestina: Genre and Rhetoric.
Tamesis, London; 1990." Speculum 68 (1993), 776-779 (review).
- "Los notarios de Berceo," Filología
26, 1-2 (1993), 37-50.
"Berceo: sobre falsificaciones, literatura y propaganda," in Homenaje a
David Lagmanovich, ed. C. Paldao, forthcoming.
- "La metáfora obediente: reflexiones
sobre la tipología,' to he published in Homenaja a Aida
Barbagelata. Buenos Aires, forthcoming.
- Gerda Lerner, The Creation of Feminist
Consciousness. From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy. Oxford
University press, 1993, to appear in La Educación 38,
n. 118, ii (1994), (review) forthcoming.
- Papers and Lectures
- "La crisis de la baja Edad Media en el Conde
Lucanor." 14th International Congress of Medieval Studies,
Michigan, 1979.
- Chair and moderator, Session on 'New Critical
Approaches in
Medieval Spanish Narrative," 15th Int. Congress of Medieval Studies,
Michigan,.1980.
- "El binomio Patronio/Lucanor: exegesis e
interpretación del texto." South Atlantic Modern Language
Association, Atlanta, 1980.
- "Exempla 26 and 43: Metatextual Axis in the Conde
Lucanor.' Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington,
1981.
- "Los narradores en el Conde Lucanor o la
entonación de la escritura." Modern Language Association.
New York. 1981.
- "El receptor exigido por el libro de Patronio." Modern
Language Association, Los Angeles. 1982.
- "Escrituras, reescrituras: el cuento de las
perdices." Tennessee Foreign Language Conference, Johnson
City, 1984.
- "Magias parciales de ia reescritura: Borges y Don
Juan Manuel." lecture. Fordham University, New York City. 1985.
- "Raquel y Vidas." Mid-Atlantic Hispanic Conference,
Lawrence. Kansas, 1985.
- "Nuevas lecturas del Libro de Buen Amor" (paper and
round table). Graduate Center, CUNY. New York City, 1986.
- "Sacred Violence in Berceo," MIFLC. University of
Richmond, 1987.
- "Reflexiones sobre la tipología y Berceo," Mid-Atlantic
Hispanic Conference, Washington University, St Louis, 1988.
- "Literatura y propaganda: el caso de Berceo" Kentucky
Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, April, 1990.
- "La abadesa encinta: Berceo y Alfonso," 25th
International Conference of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan,
May 1990.
- "Berceo: el topos de la autoridad de lo escrito," Romance
Philology Convocation XI, University of California, Irvine,
October 25-26, 1990.
- "Medieval Marian Miracles: The Promise of Life as a
Happy Dream," lecture, Miami University, Ohio, November 28th, 1990.
- Graduate Seminar (two hours) on mester de clerecia,
Miami University, Ohio. November 29th, 1990.
- Invited speaker at the Colloquium on Theory
for Graduate
Students of Spanish and Comparative Literature (two hour session),
New
York University, March 4th, 1991.
- "La buena y la mala fe en 'El mercader de
Bizancio,' Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature.
University of Nebraska,
October 4th, 1991.
- "Violencias colectivas en Berceo", MLA,
San Francisco, December 1991.
- "Hispanic Women's Health: Historical Roots of
Common Cultural Practices" United Nations, March 16, 1994.
- "Oh Bearded Virgin Mary!: Gender-Crossing in
Medieval
Religious Culture" lecture, The George Washington University,
Department of Romance Languages, Washington D.C., April 7, 1994.
- "Performing the Word: Medieval Marian Miracles,"
lecture, The
George Washington University, PhD Program in the Human Sciences,
Washington D.C., April 8. 1994.
- "Berceo: el cuerpo del amor y del amor an los
Milaqros," Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference, Lexington,
April 23, 1994.
- "Women and the Marian Cult," lecture, Harvard
University, May 5, 1994.
- "Sexualidad y resurrección en los Milagros
de Berceo," Knoxville, University of Tennessee, MIFLC, October 1994.
- "Contra la falsa certidumbre de los binarismos: las
mujeres y
el culto mariano," Graduate Center, The City University of New York,.
November, 1994.
- Session on Medieval Literature for doctoral
students of Spanish, New York University, Fall 1994.
- Other Professional Activities
- University of Wisconsin 1976-1978
- Coordinator of the Spanish Division; Director of
the International
House; Chair of Merit Committee; Committee on Graduate Level Courses.
- Sweet Briar College 1978-1980
- College Freshman Advisor; Honor Student Advisor;
Member of Public Forums
and Judiciary Committees.
- University of Maryland 1980-1987
- Member of the following committees of the Division
of Arts and Humanities:
Program, Curriculum and Changes (1980-1982); Review of Department of
Spanish
and Portuguese (1982-83); Leadership (1983-55); Divisional Requirements
(1984-
85); Foreign Language Instruction (1984-86); Graduate Council
(1982-1985);
University Senate (1985-1986).
- Member of the following committees of the
Department of Spanish and
Portuguese: Public Affairs (1980-1983); Program, Curriculum and Changes
(chair, 1980-85); Graduate Admissions, (1981-86); Search, for positions
in
Golden Age Literature (1980-1983), Literary Theory (1981-82); 20th
Century
(1985-86); Language Instruction (chair, 1985-86); Linguistics and
Spanish,
joint appointment (co-chair, 1985-86); Department Representative.
Speakers
Bureau (lectures, 1980).
- Assistant to the Chairman, Symposium, Latin America
in the Eighties, 1981.
- Designed seven new courses on Translation (1983).
- Director of Undergraduate Studies (1984-86).
- Consultant, Technical Translations from Spanish and
English for the
Department of Energy of the U.S. Government, 1983.
- Secretary, Commission for the Celebration of the
Half-Milennium of the
Discovery of America, Embassy of Spain, 1983-84.
- Secretary, ARGUS (Argentina-U.S. Intellectuals
Exchange), 1984-85.
- Secretary, Fundación Amigos de
Filología, U. of Buenos Aires, 1985-1990.
- Panelist, NEH (1986 Competition).
- Lehman College. CUNY (1987- )
- Coordinator, Spanish 101-102 (1987-88)
- Taught Humanities CORE 100 (1989)
- Alternate, University Faculty Senate (1992)
- University Faculty Senate (1993-94)
- TEP Graduate Program Director (1992-)
- Member of the following commitees: P & B
(spring 1988);
Honors (1987); Undergraduate Curriculum (1987); Graduate Curriculum
(1988); symposium "Imagining New Worlds" (the Middle Ages) (1987-88);
Commission on Teaching (1988); Governance Commitee (1991); Graduate
Studies (1992-); Teachers Education Program (TEP) (1989-present);
Senate Subcommitee on Student Affairs (1992-); Senate Subcommitee on
Research (1992-94);
Focus Group on Women's Issues (1993).
- Grant Evaluator, Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Científicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina (1988).
- Liaison for French, German, Italian, Slavic,
Spanish and Comparative Literatures, CUNY Research Foundation
(1991-1994)
- Interpreter, Program for Catalonian Women organized
by Women In Community Service (WICS) (1992).
- Member, Executive Committee, CUNY Research
Foundation (1991-1992).
- Chair, Arts and Humanities Division, Research
Foundation, 1992.
- Grant Screener, American Council of Learned
Societies (1991, 1993).
- Member of the Advisory Council, International
Professional Exchange (1994-).
- Director. Women Studies Program (1994-1997).
- Panelist, NEH (1994 competition).
- Chair, Spanish Panel, CUNY Research Foundation
(1994-95).
- Professional Associations
- Modern Language Association; Asociación
Internacional de
Hispanistas; International Society for the History of Rhetoric; Academy
of Literary Studies (invited membership only).
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