IAN DAVIES

1406 Lynchburg Trail

Madison WI 53718

(608-223-9408)

 

EDUCATION/ DEGREES

 

1994

 

1987

 

1984

 

 

 

 

Ph.D.: Spanish, University of Wisconsin - Madison.

 

M.A: Spanish, University of Wisconsin - Madison.

 

B.A: Combined Honors Spanish and French. King's College, University of London.

 

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

 

1995-present

 

1989-1995

 

 

1984-1989

 

 

1982-1983

 

 

 

 

Professor of Spanish, Edgewood College, Madison.

 

Lecturer in Spanish, University of Wisconsin - Madison. Advanced courses in language and literature.

 

Teaching Assistant, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UW - Madison.

Tutor, French and Spanish - Athletic Department, UW - Madison.

 

English Instructor, CESA (Centro de Estudios Secretariales Audiovisuales), c/Imagen 6-5D, Seville, Spain.

 

TEACHING INTEREST

 

19th and 20th Century Hispanic literature and culture, specializing in Peninsular; Spanish history and politics; literary theory; contemporary film.

 

Latin American culture and politics.

 

All levels of grammar, language instruction, conversation and composition, advanced translation, phonetics, legal language. 

 

Bachelor's degree and PhD Minor in French to teach French language.

 

STUDENT RELATED ACTIVITIES

 

Advisor for Majors and Minors in Spanish

 

Freshman advisor

 

Human Issues Seminar Instructor (1999-present)

 

Human Issues independent project supervisor

 

 

COLLEGE GOVERNANCE

 

 

 

Chair Foreign Language Department (2001-present). Responsible for all aspects of department governance, including program evaluation.

 

Council of Chairs (2001-present)

 

Academic Rank Committee (2007-present)

 

Budget and Planning Committee (2000-2005)

 

Global Perspectives Subcommittee (2002-present)

 

Study Abroad Committee (1997-present)

 

Academic Planning Subcommittee (2001-2004)

 

Human Issues Committee (2004-2007)

 

Faculty Affairs Committee (1998-2002)

 

Honors Committee (1996-2000)

 

REFEREED

PUBLICATIONS

Forthcoming chapter on “Manlio Argueta: lenguaje y memoria cultural” in a critical anthology co-edited by Dr. Linda Craft (Northpark University), Dr. Ana Patricia Rodriguez (University of Maryland), and Dr. Astvaldur Astvaldsson (University of Liverpool) on the work and life of Salvadoran writer Manlio Argueta.

 

“Raza y etnicidad: desafíos de la inmigración en el cine español.”  Letras Hispanas.  Volume 3, Issue 1, Spring, 2006.

 

CONFERENCE PAPERS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Immigration Narratives in Spain.” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures, Madison, Wisconsin, October 2007.

 

“Caribbean Isolation: Cuba and the Travel Ban.”  International Conference on Caribbean Studies, South Padre Island, Texas, November, 2006.

 

“Football and National Identity in Britain.” Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference, Indianapolis, October 2006.

 

“Postcolonialism at S.W. 4:  Linton Kwesi Johnson’s Poetry of Race.”  Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference, St Louis, October 2005.

 

“Voices from the Straits: Testimonies of Immigration in Spain.” Annual Conference of Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland, Valencia, Spain, April, 2005.

 

“Manlio Argueta: lenguaje y memoria cultural.” XIII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Centroamericana, San Salvador, El Salvador, March, 2005.

 

“Human Issues Seminars on El Salvador and Cuba.” University of Wisconsin Institute for Global Studies Conference, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, October 2004.

 

“Popular Culture, Popular Education and Democracy in El Salvador.” Latin American Studies Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, October, 2004.

 

“Structures of Power in the Novels of Manlio Argueta.” Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literature, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 2004.

 

“Race, Ethnicity and the Challenges of Immigration in Spain.” Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 2003.

 

“Rethinking the Heroic in Recent Spanish Civil War Fiction.” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures, Boulder, Colorado, October 2003.

 

“The Geography of Race in Spain.” North East Modern Language Association, Cambridge, Massachussetts, March 2003.

 

“ ‘BBC America’, Popular Culture and the Representation of Britishness.”  Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference, Milwaukee, October 2002.

 

“Issues of Race and Ethnicity in Recent Spanish Film.”  American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Annual Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 2002.

 

“Juan Marsé and the ‘embrujo’ of language.”  Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April 2001.  Session Chair: Twentieth Century Spanish Literature.

 

“Popular Culture, Civil Society and Resistance in El Salvador.”  Mid-America Conference of Hispanic Literatures, Madison, Wisconsin, September 2000.

 

“The Spanish Civil War and Issues of Memory.”  Annual Conference of Association of Hispanists of Britain and Ireland, University of Canterbury, England, April 2000.

 

“The Debate Over Popular Education in El Salvador.”  Session Chair: “U.S./ El Salvador Sistering: The Goals of Solidarity.”  LASA, Miami, Florida, March 2000.

 

“The Spanish Civil War in Literature and Film: 60 Years On.”  Midwest Modern Language Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November, 1999.

 

“The Hispanic World in the Films of Ken Loach.” Biannual Conference on Hispanic Literatures and Film, Florida International University, Miami, October 1999.

 

“Ramón Gómez de la Serna: Modernism and the Conception of Social Space.”  Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April 1999.

 

“Autobiography in Spain: Between Politics and Aesthetics.” Midwest Modern Language Association, St Louis, Missouri, November 1998.

 

“México Fin de Siglo: A Cultural Unit.”  Central States Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 1998.

 

“Jorge Semprún: The Politics of Memory.” Louisville 20th Century Literature Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, February, 1998.

 

“Spain in Nineties’ Europe: Two Novels of Lourdes Ortiz."  Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 1997.

 

“Land and Freedom and the Locus of Ideology.”  Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April 1997.

 

“Cultural Criticism in Recent Works of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán.”  Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April 1996.

 

MEMBERSHIPS AND ACTIVITIES

 

MLA (Modern Language Association )

 

MMLA (Midwest Modern Language Association)

 

AATSP (American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese) 

 

LASA (Latin American Studies Association)

 

ACTFL (American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages)

 

MPCA  (Midwest Popular Culture Association) Section Chair: British Popular Culture

 

Annual Conference of Midwest Association of Learning Laboratories.  UW Madison, October 2000.

 

King Juan Carlos Scholarship for Study in Madrid, 1996.

 

Undergraduate Scholarship for Study in Madrid from Spain's Ministerio de Cultura, 1982.

 

COMMUNITY SERVICE

 

Experienced courtroom, medical and commercial interpreter and translator.

 

Colombia Support Network volunteer translator.  

 

Madison-Arcatao Sister City Project Steering Committee

 

Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua.