CURRICULUM VITAE RUBÉN RODRÍGUEZ-JIMÉNEZ

Rodríguez-Jiménez 1 CURRICULUM VITAE RUBÉN RODRÍGUEZ-JIMÉNEZ 555 Del Mar Boulevard Corpus Christi, TX. 78404 Cell: (806) 773-5462 E-mail: rrodriguezjimenez@twu.edu rr3383@hotmail.com EDUCATION May, 2006. Ph.D. Spanish: Texas Tech University Major: 19 th /20 th Century Peninsular Literature Minor: Women s Studies Dissertation Title: La presencia de Emilia Pardo Bazán en los personajes femeninos de Miguel de Unamuno. Director: Dr. Janet Pérez May, 1999. M. A. Romance Languages: Texas Tech University Concentration: Spanish Minor: Linguistics August, 1997. Bachelor of Arts: Austin Peay State University. Major: Foreign Languages Minor: Psychology Primary and Secondary Education at: Manuel Méndez Liciaga San Sebastián, Puerto Rico ACADEMIC APPOIMENTS Adjunct Spanish Faculty: Alamo Colleges (NVC) Humanities Department. July, 2011- Preset. Under the Humanities Department at Northwest Vista College (NVC) I teach an online Spanish course using MySpanishLab and Wimba Pronto as instructional platforms. Duties include plan and instrument development to measure students online academic achievement. Adjunct Spanish Faculty: Texas Woman s University. English, Speech, and Foreign Languages (ESFL) Department: Texas Woman s University, August, 2011-Present. Under the ESFL Department I teach all levels of online undergraduate Spanish courses. I also have taught online undergraduate courses in English. In all these online courses I use blackboard as the instructional platform. Course duties include plan and instrument development to measure students' online academic achievement. Adjunct Women s Studies Faculty: Texas Woman s University. Women s Studies (WS) Department: Texas Woman s University, August-May, 2011. Under the WS Department I have taught undergraduate cross-listed courses (SPAN/WS), and online WS Graduate Course using Blackboard as instructional platform. Duties include plan and

instrument development to measure students' online academic achievement. Rodríguez-Jiménez 2 Assistant Professor of Spanish, Coordinator of Foreign Languages, Spanish Advisor, and Woman s Studies Affiliate Faculty: Texas Woman s University. English, Speech, and Foreign Language Dept.: Sept. 2007-August 31, 2011. Woman s Studies Dept. (WS): Dec. 2008-August 31, 2011. Under the ESFL Department I teach all levels of undergraduate Spanish courses. Duties include plan and instrument development to measure students' academic achievement, coordination of instructional plan between the Spanish Faculty, and Undergraduate Student Advisor. As an Affiliate Faculty at the Woman s Studies Department, I teach cross-listed (SPAN/WS) courses at the undergraduate level. Duties include plan and instrument development to measure students' academic achievement. Assistant Professor: Texas A&M University-Kingsville. Language and Literature Dept.: Dec., 2006-Summer, 2007. Taught all levels of undergraduate and graduate Spanish courses including Spanish for Heritage and Native Speakers. Also taught 19 th Century Spanish Novel, 19 th Century Short Story and History of the Spanish Language. Duties included plan and instrument development to measure students academic achievement. Visiting Assistant Professor: Texas A&M University-Kingsville. Language and Literature Dept.: Sept., 2005-Dec., 2006. Taught all levels of undergraduate Spanish courses. Duties included plan and instrument development to measure students' achievement. Teaching Abroad: Texas Tech University Center in Seville, Spain; TTU, Fall, 2004. Taught basic and upper-level Spanish courses based on cultural immersion. Graduate Part-Time Instructor. Texas Tech University, Women s Studies Dept. 2002-2003. Taught a college-level introductory course on Women s Studies: Women s Studies 2300. Graduate Part-Time Instructor. Texas Tech University, Classical and Modern Languages Dept: (August, 1997 to May, 1999) and (January 2001-May, 2005). Taught all levels of Spanish courses including Hispanic Life and Culture, Introduction to Literature and Intermediate Spanish Grammar. Duties include plan and instruments development to measure students' achievement. Adjunct Faculty, Austin Peay State University, Languages and Literature Dept., Fall, 1999. Taught a first year Freshman-level Spanish course at their Fort Campbell Center as well as two other Freshman-level courses on Main Campus. Duties included plan and instrument development to measure students' achievement as well as providing technical support for the computer-based learning of foreign languages.

Rodríguez-Jiménez 3 TEACHING AREAS Elementary and Intermediate Spanish (Non-heritage, Heritage and Native Spanish Speakers) Advanced Spanish Grammar and Composition (Face-to-Face, and Online) Advanced Conversation (Face-to-Face) Spanish Culture and Civilization (Online Course) 19 th Century Spanish Novel 19 th Century Spanish Short Story (Face-to-Face) Generation of 98 History of the Spanish Language Introduction to Women Studies Gender Issues in Hispanic Literature Feminist Theory Gender Issues in Hispanic Cinema Masculinity Studies (Online Course) Queer Theory (Online Course) Ethnic Literature (English Online Course) REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS La ficción hard-boiled y la metafísica detectivesca en Joc de miralls y La mitad del alma de Carme Riera. Carme Riera: moderna feminista, imaginativa detectivesca. Ed. Osvaldo Parilla. Miami: Alexandra Library, 2011. Writting beyond the ending: La subversión de la autoridad político-cultural a través del sistema sexo/género en Valor, agravio y mujer y Fuenteovejuna. Letras Hispanas 3.2 (2007): (Electronic Journal). (http://www.modlang.txstate.edu/letrashispanas/previousvolumes/vol3-2/contentparagraph/0/content_files/file9/writing.pdf) Escritura transexual y borrón de identidad en Sirena Selena vestida de pena. CiberLetras 9 (2003): (Electronic Journal). (http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/v09/rodriguezjimenez.html) Catholic Discourses and Homosexuality. Céfiro 3.2 (2003): 68-80. Silence in Literature: A Selected Bibliography. Monographic Review/Revista Monográfica 16 (2001): 31-37. El silencio como tema en la literatura de exilio en La nave de los locos y Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela. Monographic Review/Revista Monográfica 16 (2001): 294-305. La vigencia de La carreta: René Marqués y el sub-texto feminista. TEXTOS: Revista trimestral de SUNTUAS ACADÉMICOS. (abril-junio 2001): 66-77. A Selected Bibliography of Afro-Hispanic Literature. Monographic Review/Revista Monográfica 15 (1999): 27-33. With Genaro Pérez and Abel Villanueva. Hispanic Millennial and Apocalyptic Literature: A Working Bibliography. Monographic Review/Revista Monográfica 14 (1998): 21-29. TRANSLATRIONS/INTERPREATIONS Translation: SANE Discharge Instructions. City of Denton, Texas. June 23, 2008. Translation: Ortego y Gasca, Felipe. Reflexiones milenarias sobre el renacimiento chicano. Trans.: Rubén Rodríguez-Jiménez. Puentes Revista méxico-chicana de literatura, cultura y arte 5 (2007): 1-9 Interpretation: Texas public hearing for the Department of Transportation, TTC-35 project, Falfurrias, Texas. August 7, 2006. Translation: Proposed Charter Amendments for the City of Kingsville, Texas. March, 2006. Translation: LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE. August, 1999.

Rodríguez-Jiménez 4 PROFESSIONAL PAPERS/PRESENTATIONS La ficción hard-boiled y la metafísica detectivesca en Joc de miralls y La mitad del alma de Carme Riera 62 nd Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 16-18, 2009. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. La (re)deconstrucción genérico-sexual a través de las cajas chinas en La Tribuna de Pardo Bazán 17th Romance Languages and Literature Conference. Women, Home & Nation: Public and Private Spaces. Binghamton University (SUNY). March 14-15, 2008. Notes on Pedagogy and Technology. Brown Bag Lecture: Texas A&M University-Kingsville. October 16, 2006. Writting beyond the ending: La subversión de la autoridad político-cultural a través del sistema sexo/género en Valor, agravio y mujer y Fuenteovejuna. 5 th Annual Céfiro Conference. Texas Tech University. April 22-23, 2003. Catholic Discourse and Homosexuality 3 rd Annual Céfiro Conference, Texas Tech University. April, 2002. La vigencia de La carreta: René Marqués y el sub-texto feminista. 34 th Comparative Literature Symposium, Texas Tech University. March, 2001. El silencio como tema en la literatura de exilio en La nave de los locos y Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela. 1 st Annual Céfiro Conference, Texas Tech University. April, 2000. BOOK REVIEWS Santos-Febres, Mayra. Sirena Selena vestida de pena. Hispania 85.4 (2002): 868-869. Krauel, Ricardo. Voces desde el silencio. Heterologías genérico-sexuales en la narrativa española moderna (1875-1975). Hispania 86.3 (2003): 510-511. Olson, Paul R. The Great Chiasmus. Word and Flesh in the Novels of Unamuno. Hispania 87.1 (2004): 71-72. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Member of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) Member of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Member of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) MILITARY Radiological Control Worker. US Navy, 1990-93. Responsibilities include, among other things, ship repair and disposal of chemicals and radioactive materials. SERVICE Member of Student Code of Conduct Committee. Texas Woman s University, 2008-2010. Member of Spanish Search Committee. Texas Woman s University, 2008-2009. Member of ESFL Chair Search Committee. Texas Woman s University, 2008-2009. Member of Spanish Search Committee. Texas Woman s University, 2007-2008.

Rodríguez-Jiménez 5 Session 14 Chair. 17 th Romance Languages and Literature Conference. Women, Home & Nation: Public and Private Spaces. Binghamton University (SUNY). March 14-15, 2008. Notes on Pedagogy and Technology. Brown Bag Lecture: Texas A&M University- Kingsville. October 16, 2006. Editorial Advisory Board. Céfiro, Texas Tech University, 2007-Present. As member of the Editorial Advisory Board, I review and edit articles submitted by professionals in my fields of study 19 th /20 th Century Spanish Literature, Women s Studies, and Queer Theory for publication. Master Thesis Committee. I partook as member of the committee for Mrs. Courtney Schoufeld Masters Thesis. November 9, 2007. Director of Master s Research Project, Cecilia Solís, Department of Language and Literature, Texas A&M-Kingsville. November 9, 2007. Advisor, SIGMA DELTA PI: Spanish Honor Society. Gamma Lambda Chapter Texas A&M University-Kingsville, 2005-2007. This society is committed to the promotion of Hispanic culture, literature, and Spanish language. Master Thesis Committee. I partook as member of the committee for in Ms. Cynthia Farias Masters Thesis. April 4, 2007. Conference Co-Organizer. 1 st Hispanic Interdisciplinary Conference: On Marginalization and Other encounters. Texas A&M University-Kingsville. March 22-24, 2007. Hispanic Heritage Month University Committee. Texas A&M University-Kingsville (Fall 2006). Served as voting member for the organization of various student and faculty events. Student Recruitment. Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Fall 2005-May 2007. Through the Gear-Up program, I make weekly visits to area High School to enhanced Spanish high school teachers with their daily plans, and helped with their Honor courses. Committee for 19 th Century Peninsular Literature; Fall 2003. Served as non-voting member, student representative on said commission. Editor's Assistant. Hispania: The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. 2000-2004. Hispania is a journal dedicated to the teaching of Spanish and Portuguese languages and the analysis of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian literatures and linguistics. Its quarterly publications include articles from universities worldwide as well as book reviews, which include works of New Fiction. Duties include formatting and editing book reviews under and maintenance of the journal's website and article formatting under the supervision of Dr. Janet Pérez.

Rodríguez-Jiménez 6 Research Assistant. Monographic Review/Revista Mongráfica. 2001-2004. Monographic Review/Revista Monográfica is a professional journal of criticism in the Hispanic Literatures. Its yearly publication focuses on a single theme, major writer or specific literary phenomenon. Duties include maintain the journal's website under the supervision of Dr. Genaro J. Pérez. Spanish Writing Laboratory, 2000-2001: Co-Founder and Administrator. The Spanish Writing Laboratory at the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures helps native and non-native Spanish students in correcting and editing assigned compositions and essays. The purpose of the Writing Laboratory is to enhance students experience with Spanish writing. AWARDS Faculty Development Scholarship. Recipient of the 2006 Teaching Effectiveness Scholarship. The Scholarship s money is to be used for conferences. Summer, 2006. Research Sponsorship. Women Studies, CMLL, and Dr. Janet Pérez endorsed a trip to do dissertation research in Salamanca. Texas Tech University, 2002. The José Martí Award: Given yearly to a graduating senior majoring in Spanish Literature; APSU, 1997. Outstanding Foreign Language Student of the Year (Spanish): Given to a selection of students representing a language for their academic efforts, APSU, 1996.

Rodríguez-Jiménez 7 REFERENCES Claire Sahlin, Ph.D. Professor and Chair Texas Woman's University Department Of Woman's Studies P.O. Box P.O. Box 425557 Human Development Building Suite 307 Denton, Texas 76204-5557 940.898.2119 csahlin@mail.twu.edu Genevieve West, Ph.D. Professor and Chair Texas Woman's University Department of English, Speech and Foreign Languages P.O. Box 425829 Denton, TX 76204-5829 Phone: (940) 898.2324 Fax: 940.898.2297 MWest2@mail.twu.edu María Pilar Damron, Ph D. Assistant Professor of Spanish. World Languages Coordinator. Live Oak Hall (LOH), 206D. Northwest Vista College. 3535 N. Ellison Drive, San Antonio, TX 78251. (210) 486-4848 mdamron@alamo.edu