Ellen Mayock
            Professor,  Spanish              Department of Romance Languages
Washington and Lee University

Tucker 403A
Tel:  (540) 458-8816 
mayocke@wlu.edu http://home.wlu.edu/~mayocke

(Courtesy of the Spanish Embassy website)


 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

        TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Washington and Lee University, May, 2008-present:  Professor of Romance Languages; Core Faculty in the Women's Studies Program and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program; May, 2002-2008, Associate Professor, Romance Languages; Core Faculty in the Women's Studies Program / July 1997-May, 2002, Assistant Professor, Romance Languages

Romance Languages:

·         First and Second-Year Spanish; Coordinator of Intermediate Spanish program

·         Introduction to Literary Analysis

·         Spanish Culture and Civilization

·         Survey of Spanish Literature

·         Survey of Spanish-American Literature

·         Intermediate Spanish Conversation / Intermediate Spanish Conversation with Service Learning component

·         Advanced Conversation (Special Topics):  Hispanic Cinema

·         Study Abroad Course (Madrid and El Puerto, Spain)

·         19th- and 20th-century Spanish Prose Fiction

·         Peninsular Seminar:  Development of the Female Protagonist in 20th-century Spanish Literature

·         Peninsular Seminar:  Images of the Other in Catalan Narrative, 1966-1970

·         Spanish-American Seminar:  Mexican and Mexican-American Women Writers

·         Independent Study:  "Retratos familiares en la narrativa española de la pre- y postguerra"

·         Independent Study:  "Despertares:  Diario fotográfico y literario sobre la España que se despierta"

·         Independent Study:  "La mujer mexicana en la literatura, el cine y la cultura mexicanos actuales"

·         Independent Study:  "Isabel Allende, su literatura y los estudios sobre la mujer"

Latin American and Caribbean Studies:

·         Special Topics:  Hispanic Feminisms

Summer Research with Student Scholars:

·         Supervised summer research of Robert E. Lee Scholars, Summers, 2000 and 2002

University Scholars:

·         University Scholars 1-credit reading course:  selected readings in 20th-century Spanish drama

·         Absurdity in World Literature (team taught for University Scholars program)

Women's Studies:

·         Introduction to Women's Studies and Feminist Theory / with service-learning component

·         Women's Studies thesis/capstone adviser, 2007-2008

Saint Joseph’s University, August 1995-May, 1997

·         First- and Second-Year Spanish

·         Spanish for Faculty

·         Spanish Culture and Civilization (team taught) / Study Abroad (Madrid and Barcelona)

Pennsylvania State University, Delaware County, Summer, 1996:  First-Year Spanish

University of Texas at Austin, 1992-1995:  First and Second-Year Spanish, teaching section group leader

Carmen Pérez, Private Institute, Madrid, Spain, 1991-1992:  Business English, all levels

Germantown Academy, 1987-1991:  French and Spanish

 

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        ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

Washington and Lee University, 2004-2006, Associate Dean of the College, Faculty and Program Support.

·         Celebrating Women at Washington and Lee, 2005-2006:  Oversaw a year-long celebration of the accomplishments of past and present W&L women.  Included over 80 different events, including performances, art exhibits, public readings, panels, alumnae talks, and receptions.

·         Human Resources:  Interviewing of part- and full-time visitors; oversight of New Faculty Orientation Program; review of Performance Planning documents in the College

·         Curricular Development:  Courses and Degrees' Capital Projects; Independent Work Major

·         Budget Oversight:  Capital Budget; Conference Travel Budget; Speakers Funds

·         Space Planning:  Liaison between departments and Physical Plant for routine and non-routine maintenance; oversight of space allocation in the College

·         University Computing:  liaison between departments and University Computing

·         Head Designated Officer:  Oversaw reporting structure for complaints of violation of University policy

·         Strategic Planning:  especially in areas of academics and space planning

·         Student Advising; Independent Work Major advising

EDUCATION

·         1996, PhD , Hispanic Literature, University of Texas at Austin.  Major field of concentration:  20th-century Spanish novel

·         1992, MA, Spanish, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont and Madrid, Spain

·         1989, Two graduate courses in French phonetics, Temple University in Paris, France

·         1987, BA, Spanish and French, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia


GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS

·         ESOL Program:  Verizon Community Service Grant (co-authored with Susan Mahoney, '09 and James Madden, '08), March, 2008

·         Associated Colleges of the South Diversity Mini-Grant for ESOL Program, (co-authored with Tal McIver, '08), December, 2006

·         Anece F. McCloud Excellence in Diversity Award, May 10, 2006

·         Global Stewardship Course Development Grant, 2005:  Support for translation of La voz dormida

·         Hewlett-Mellon Sabbatical Grant, 2002-2003

·         Instructional Technology Microgrant, 2003

·         Participant in Global Stewardship Faculty Development Seminar, "Contemporary Cuba," 2002-2003 (Lexington, VA and Havana, Cuba)

·         Robert E. Lee Summer Scholar Grant for collaboration with P. Ervin, K. Gibson, H. Knorr, and J. Stoehr, 2002

·         Mellon Fellow in Teaching and Technology, Summer and Fall, 2001.

·         Research Fellow, The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Summer, 2000

·         Robert E. Lee Summer Scholar Grant for collaboration with G. Phillips, 2000

·         Glenn Grant, Washington and Lee University, Summers, 1998-2003, 2005-08

·         Mednick Fellow, Virginia Foundation of Independent Colleges, Summer, 1999

·         Mellon, Project 2001:  Technology Workshop at Middlebury College, August, 1998

·         The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (University of Texas, 1995)

·         Kast Grant for Faculty Development, Germantown Academy, Summer, 1989

·         Outstanding Teacher Award, Germantown Academy, 1989

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PUBLICATIONS

        Book:

·         The "Strange Girl"  in Twentieth-Century Spanish Novels Written by Women.  New Orleans:  UP of the South, 2004.  ISBN: 1-931948-22-4.

        Leyburn call number:  PQ6055 .M39 2004    

Textbook Supplement:

·         Ellen Mayock and Barbara Sawhill.  ¡Ven conmigo! Holt Spanish Level 3 Practice and Activity Book. Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1996.

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Publications:

·         “Nostalgia de sí mismo’ en De mi vida real nada sé de Ana María Moix.” Anales de la literatura española contemporánea 34:1 (2009):  135-55. 

·         "Variations on the 'Back Room' in Two Short Stories by Carmen Martín Gaite."  Cuaderno Internacional de Estudios Humanísticos y Literatura 8 (Otoño 2007).  91-103.

·         "Alienation and Anarchy in Juan Goytisolo’s Reivindicación del Conde don Julián."  Dissidences.  Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism.  2:1 (Fall 2006).

·         "El acordeón y la ballena:  el naturalismo en Madera de boj."  Anuario 2006 de estudios celianos.  La obra del literato y sus alrededores: Estudios críticos en torno a Camilo José Cela.   Eds. Eloy E. Merino y Carlos X. Ardavín Trabanco.  Iria Flavia, Spain:  Universidad Camilo José Cela y la Fundación Camilo José Cela, 2006.  133-49.

·         "Madrid como cárcel:  espacios interiores y exteriores en La voz dormida de Dulce Chacón." Madrid en la literatura y las artes.  Eds. Jorge Valdivieso and L.Teresa Valdivieso.  Phoenix:  Orbis, 2006.  153-63.

·         "Naturalist Twists and Turns in Carmen Gómez Ojea's Cantiga de agüero.”  Excavatio 19:1-2 (November, 2004):  309-18.

·         "Los paisajes reales y metafóricos del año 1945:  Rosa Chacel y Carmen Laforet."  La presencia de la mujer hispana en las letras, las ciencias y las artes.  Eds. Jorge Valdivieso, L. Teresa Valdivieso y Enrique Ruiz-Fornells.  Phoenix:  Orbis, 2004.  109-27.

·         "La maternidad transgresora en La voz dormida de Dulce Chacón."  IXQUIC.  Revista Hispánica Internacional de Análisis y Creación 5 (Febrero de 2004):  22-36.  Special issue on the Spanish novel since 1985.

·         "Family Systems Theory and Almudena Grandes’ Las edades de Lulú." Anales de la literatura española contemporánea 29:1 (2004):  235-56.

·         "Enajenación y retórica exílica en Julia de Ana María Moix." CiberLetras 10 (December, 2003).

·         "La sexualidad en la construcción de la protagonista en Tusquets y Mayoral." Espéculo.  Revista de Estudios Literarios (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) 8:22 (noviembre 2002-febrero 2003).

·         "Naturalism and Feminism in Dolores Medio's Nosotros, los Rivero." Excavatio 16 (June 2002):  343-52.

·         "Black and Blue:  Silence and Voice in Rodoreda's La Plaça del Diamant."  Monographic Review / Revista Monográfica 16 (2000):  120-34.

·         "Naturalist Ambience in Zola’s L’Assomoir and Gamboa’s Santa." Excavatio13 (Sept 2000):  292-98.

·         "Tusquets y Martín Gaite:  la protagonista de mediana edad." La mujer hispana en el mundo:  sus triunfos y sus retos. Eds. Jorge H. Valdivieso, L. Teresa Valdivieso, and Enrique Ruiz-Fornells.   Phoenix:  Orbis Press, 2000. 262-68.

·         "The Bicultural Construction of Self in Cisneros, Alvarez, and Santiago." The Bilingual Review/La Revista Bilingüe 23:3 (Fall 1998):  223-39.

       Articles in Collections of Essays:     

·         “Naturalism and the Self in Rosa Montero’s La hija del Caníbal.”  Women in the Spanish Novel Today: Reflections of Self in the Works of Three Generations of Writers.  Jefferson, NC:  McFarland, 2009.  69-91.  (Forthcoming)

·         “Los retratos generacionales en El cascabel al gato de Lourdes Ortiz.”  Homenaje a la profesora L. Teresa Valdivieso.  Eds. Mary Ann Dellinger and Beatriz Trigo.  Newark, DE:  Juan de la Cuesta, 2008.  71-82.  ISBN 978-1-58871-139-7.

·         Clorinda Matto de Turner.  Latin American Writers.  An Encyclopedia.  Eds. María Claudia André and Eva Paulino Bueno.  New York: Routledge, 2007.  ISBN13:  978-0-415-97971-9.

·         "Shifting Families and Incest in Rosa Chacel and Ana María Moix." The Ties That Bind:  Questioning Family Dynamics and Family Discourse in Hispanic Literature and Film.  Ed. Sara E. Cooper.  Lanham, MD:  University Press of America, 2004.  43-61.

·         "Sueños y palabras en la obra de Esmeralda Santiago." Reflexiones.  Ensayos sobre escritoras hispanoamericanas contemporáneas.  Volume II.  Ed. Priscilla Gac-Artigas.  New Jersey:   Nuevo Espacio, 2002.  251-58.

·         "Las aplicaciones de Usos amorosos de la postguerra española en Nada." Literatura, historia e identidad:  los discursos de la cultura hoy.   Ed. Lilia Granillo Vázquez. México:  UNAM, Centro de Cultura Casa Lamm and University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1996.  31-35.

·         "Laforet y Martín Gaite:  Hacia una lectura intrahistórica de Nada."  Navegante (Mexico City) (1994):  47-58.

       Reviews:

·         Lynn Ann McGovern's Contando historias:  Las primeras novelas de Lourdes Ortiz.  Feministas Unidas 25:2 (Fall 2005):  37-38.

·         Patricia Rosas Lopátegui's Testimonios sobre Elena Garro.  Letras Femeninas 30:1 (Mayo 2004):  201-03.

·         Las mujeres toman la palabra.  Escritura femenina del siglo XIX.  Tomos I y II.  Eds. María Cristina Arambel-Guiñazú y Claire Emilie Martin. Letras Femeninas 29:1 (Mayo 2003):  222-25.

·         Lucile C. Charlebois' Understanding Camilo José Cela.  Letras Peninsulares 15:3 (Winter 2002-2003):  697-699.

·         Janet Pérez' Camilo José Cela Revisited.  Letras Peninsulares 15:3 (Winter 2002-2003):  699-701.

·         María Pilar Rodríguez' Vidas im/propias.  Transformaciones del sujeto femenino en la narrativa española contemporánea in Letras femeninas 27:1 (Mayo 2001):  237-39.

·         María Elena de Valdés’ The Shattered Mirror.  Representations of Women in Mexican Literature in Letras femeninas  25:1-2 (Primavera-Otoño 1999):  225-27.

·         Julia Alvarez’ Something to Declare in Shenandoah 48:4 (Spring 1999):  141-42.

      Collaboration on creative work:

 

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PAPERS, TALKS, WORKSHOPS PRESENTED

·         "Ideology and Utopia in Belén Gopegui's El lado frío de la almohada."  Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica, Seville, Spain, October 24-26, 2007.

·         "Naturalismo y el ser en La hija del Caníbal de Rosa Montero."  XVI Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, Paris, France, July 9-13, 2007.

·         "Retratos generacionales en El cascabel al gato de Lourdes Ortiz." Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica, Riviera Maya, México, March 6-10, 2007.

·         "'Mothering' Language:  Undoing Tendencies Towards Stereotyping in the Academic Workplace."  Presented for the MLA Commission on the Status of Women at the Modern Languages Association Convention, Philadelphia, PA, December 27-30, 2006.

·         “El naturalismo lírico e irónico en Madera de boj de Camilo José Cela.”  Presented at the IV International Congress of the Asociación Hispánica de Humanidades.  Madrid, Spain, June 24-27, 2006. 

·         "Masculine Angst in Four Short Stories by Ana María Moix."  Women's Studies Symposium, Washington and Lee University, November, 2005.

·         "'Nostalgia de sí mismo' en cuatro cuentos de Ana María Moix."  Asociación Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispánica, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, October, 2005.

·         "Ethnicity, Language Skills, and Economic Success." Presented a lecture on a panel with Art Goldsmith to W&L Alumni during Homecoming Weekend.  My segment focused on language skills in English and Spanish, ESOL, and Spanish 204 (with service learning component).  October, 2004

·         "Madrid como cárcel:  espacios interiores y exteriores de La voz dormida de Dulce Chacón."  III Congreso de la Asociación Hispánica de Humanidades (con la Universidad de Alabama-Birmingham), Madrid, Spain, July, 2004

·         "'The Back Room' in Two Short Stories by Carmen Martín Gaite."  International Conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Short Story Theory and Criticism, Salamanca, Spain, March, 2004

·         "¡Escúchame!  A Listening Comprehension Manual."  Presentation about technology integration in the production of a listening comprehension manual at an Institutional Technology Forum on Microgrants, Washington and Lee, December, 2003

·         “Naturalist Twists and Turns in Carmen Gómez Ojea’s Cantiga de agüero,”  (read in my absence), AIZEN, San Antonio, TX, October, 2003

·         "La maternidad transgresora en La voz dormida de Dulce Chacón," Congreso Mujeres Malas, Oporto, Portugal, June, 2003

·         "Constructing Nationalist Identity:  Bilingual Friends and Foes in Juan Marsé's El amante bilingüe," Cultural Studies Colloquium, Washington and Lee University, April, 2003

·         "Enajenación y retórica exílica en Julia de Ana María Moix," Asociación Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispánica, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, October, 2002

·         Workshop conducted with J. Overholtzer for W&L's Faculty Academy on Technology:  "Use of Web Fora with Blackboard," August, 2002

·         "Alienation, Anarchy, and Masculinity in Juan Goytisolo's Count Julian," International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Aberystwyth, Wales, July, 2002 (invited to participate on panel on contemporary culture and politics)

·         Invited participant in Liberty Fund Colloquium, "Liberty, Commerce, Virtue, and Sentiment."  Victoria, British Columbia, July 11-14, 2002.

·         Andrew W. Mellon Grant Presentation (group presentation) for Teaching and Technology Portfolios (Spanish 314, Fall, 2001), Washington and Lee University, March, 2002

·         Guest speaker:  "Spain in 1945:  Women's Literature and Popular Culture," Women's Studies Colloquium, Washington and Lee University, December, 2001

·         "Naturalism and Feminism in Dolores Medio's Nosotros, los Rivero," AIZEN, Philadelphia, October, 2001.

·         "'Obra en obras,' or the Modern Day 'Buildings'roman:  Cultural Architecture in Esther Tusquets' El mismo mar de todos los veranos," Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica, Lexington, KY, September, 2001 (invited to participate on panel in honor of Margaret Jones)