Professional Announcements

9/7/2004

° Jorge Porras, Modern Languages and Litersature, delivered a paper, "Rasgos linguisticos afro-hispanicos en los Villancicos de Sor Juana," at the annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese in Acapulco, Mexico this summer. Porras also chaired a session at the same conference.

° Elizabeth C. Martínez, Modern Languages and Literatures, has a chapter in "Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America," a book just published by Purdue University Press. She compares novels of the English-language Modernism era with novels in Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Argentina in the same time period. The title of her chapter is, "The Latin American Innovative Novel of the 1920s: A Comparative Reassessment."

° "Almost Home," an essay by Gerald Haslam (Emeritius English) is included in "My California"which was edited by Donna Ware for the California Arts Council and Angel City Books. He lectured on autobiographical writing at U.C. Davis on March 3. On March 23, he gave a reading of his work at Long Beach City College. On April 4, he presented the annual invitational address at the general meeting of the Native Daughters of the Golden West in San Francisco. He also appeared on a panel (with Walter Goldschmidt and Rick Wartzman) on April 21 at the annual meeting of the California Studies Association at Loyola-Marymount University in Los Angeles. May 13 he was back at UC Davis as keynote speaker at the annual gathering of personnel from regional Agricultural Health and Safety Centers from across the nation. On July 7, he lectured at the Ontario Museum, then read from his work the next night at the San Joaquin Parkway near Fresno.