Linda L. Elman

Office:
L-11 East College
DePauw University
Greencastle, IN 46135
(765) 658-4815
e-mail: llelman@depauw.edu

EDUCATION

The University of Chicago
PhD, Romance Languages and Literatures, 1996
Dissertation: "Ruler, Rustic, Remedy, `Rock': Roles for
Women in the Spanish Comedia"
Primary Field: Golden Age Drama
Secondary Field: Modern Latin American Prose Fiction

M.A., Romance Languages and Literatures, 1970

Indiana University Bloomington
B.A. Spanish Literature, 1967

Goethe Institute - Munich
Certificate of Completion Level 2, Summer 1999

FELLOWSHIPS

Council for Basic Education/National Endowment for the Humanities
Project: A Study of Latin American Women Writers and Feminist Critical Theory

Merit fellowships for master's/doctoral studies from The University of Chicago

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

DePauw University (1998-present)
Elementary Spanish (131-132)
Review of Elementary Spanish (140)
Intermediate Spanish (231-232)
Introduction to Hispanic Literature (335) (wrote revised curriculum)
Latin American Women Writers (390) (designed new course)
Federico García Lorca (390)
Foreign Language Methodology (ML400)
Elementary German (111) (wrote new curriculum and syllabus)
Winter Term (1999) on campus; topic in Women's History
Winter Term in Service; Habitat in Immokalee, FL

Munster High School (1970-1998)
Spanish I, II
Spanish III Conversation
Spanish V Survey of Literature

Indiana University Northwest/Purdue University Calumet
(5 semesters)
Methodology for Secondary Teachers
Elementary Spanish
300-level Spanish Conversation course

TEACHING COMPETENCIES

CAI, Internet, Multimedia Technology
Interdisciplinary and Multicultural Curriculum
Problem-based, Peer/Partner Learning, and Communicative Competence

PUBLICATIONS

"Between a Rock and A Hard Place: Armesinda Sets Her Own Parameters in 'La firmeza en la ausencia'" by Leonor de la Cueva y Silva. Williamson, Amy and Valerie Hegstrom, eds.
Engendering the Early Modern Stage: Women Playwrights in the Spanish Empire. New Orleans: UP of the South, 1999.

"None Dare Call it Rape: The Case of Laurencia." Romance Languages Annual 8 (1996): 449-54.

"Linking Life and Lyric: The Federico García Lorca Course" Hispania (accepted for publication)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

MID-AMERICA CONFERENCE ON HISPANIC LITERATURES U of Kansas (October 2001)
"Mal de amores, pero bienaventurada: Una Mujer en la Revolución y la Rebelión en una Mujer"

CENTRAL STATES CONFERENCE Indianapolis (April 2001)
"Frida Kahlo: Her Life/Her Art" (A multimedia presentation in costume)

LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES Wabash College (November 1999)
"The Mexican Corrido: Where Language and History Meet Melody"

SIGLO DE ORO DRAMA FESTIVAL El Paso, TX (March 1999)
"Sacrifice/Sacrament: Body of Mencía/Body of Christ"

TODOS SOMOS POETAS 10TH ANNIVERSARY
Purdue Calumet (April 17, 1998)
Read original poem: "Rascacielos"

INDIANA FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION Indianapolis (October 1997)
Teaching Culture and Language Through Art, Video and Storybook

UN ESCENARIO PROPIO/A STAGE OF THEIR OWN University of Cincinnati (Fall 1994)
"Between a Rock and A Hard Place: Armesinda Sets Her Own Parameters in La firmeza en la ausencia by Leonor de la Cueva y Silva."

KENTUCKY FOREIGN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE University of Kentucky (Spring 1993)
"La Función Dramática de las Pinturas Negras en 'El Sueño de la Razón' de Antonio Buero Vallejo"

PURDUE UNIVERSITY CALUMET WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH (Spring 1992)
"Her Story in Latin America" - A Poetry Presentation

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

BSU CONFERENCE OF INDIANA METHODS INSTRUCTORS (October 2001)

MID-AMERICA CONFERENCE ON HISPANIC LITERATURES (October 2001)

SPAIN (Summer 2001)
Research at Fundación García Lorca-Madrid and Fuentevaqueros birthplace

CENTRAL STATES CONFERENCE (April 2001)

W - WORKSHOP (May 2000)

STIPEND (Summer 2000)
Course development for Topics 390 (Spring 2001): "Federico García Lorca" and planning for "Homenaje a Lorca" (Homage to Lorca) April 6, 2001

MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION CONVENTION Chicago (December 1999)

MODERN LANGUAGES/COMMUNITY TALK (Spring 1999, 2000)
"Holy Week in Seville" (a multimedia presentation)

GOETHE INSTITUTE (Summer 1999)
Intensive German Review Course (in Munich with travel to Vienna)

DEPAUW FACULTY FORUM
Attended: Enhancing Lectures/Test Preparation/Web Page Design/Web Resource

DEPAUW INVITATIONAL IMMERSION EXPERIENCE (Spring 1999)
"Frida Kahlo: Her Life/Her Art" (a multimedia presentation in costume)

AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES (Fall 1998)

INTELLECTUAL ENGAGEMENT IN THE COMMUNITY

Faculty Book Groups
Deborah Cameron "Language and Globalization"
Martha Nussbaum Cultivating Humanity
Mellon Group on Leadership
Jane Austen

Dramatic Performance Vagina Monologues (March 1999)
Raised $900 donation to the women's shelter in Putnam County

DePauw Faculty Forum
Presenter: Using Groups in the Classroom (Spring 1999)

Faculty Roundtables/Friday Colloquia
Meryl Altman/Srimati Basu/Eva Weisz/Glen Kuecker

Scholarly Outreach
Collaborating with Melissa Dinverno (Indiana University) and Milagros Sánchez of the Spanish Resource Center (IU/IUPUI) on García Lorca tribute

Performing Artists Series and Faculty/Student Recitals, Concerts, Plays, and Opera

Emison Exhibitions and Gallery Talks

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Faculty Coordinator-Latino Film Series (since 1998)
Liaison between the Committee for Latino Concerns and the International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago

Adviser (since Fall 1999)
Freshmen and Spanish majors

Departmental Personnel Committee (1998-2000 and continuing)
Spanish, French and German tenure-track and term searches

Peer Observation and Evaluation of Term Faculty
Member Teacher Education Committee Represent the Modern Languages Department as methods course instructor and adviser to prospective secondary foreign language teachers

Co-Sponsor of Sigma Delta Pi Spanish Honorary Society Relay for Life (Spring 2000)
Member of university team to raise money for cancer research

Member
Teacher Education Committee (TEC)

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT/SERVICE

Volunteerism
Bilingual Reader for children's story hour at Greenwood Public Library

Sing with the Greencastle Presbyterian Church choir

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Modern Language Association
Hispanic Classical Theater Association
American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
Indiana Foreign Language Teachers Association
Sigma Delta Pi Spanish Honorary Society

 

Last updated: 5/4/07