Education
University of New Mexico (Portuguese and Latin)
University of South Florida (Spanish and Portuguese)
University of South Florida (Spanish)
Honors, Grants, and Professional Societies
Editorial Board Member of the Bulletin of Cantigueiros de Santa Maria, 1999
Cross of the Order of Alphonse X given by Juan Carlos I, King of Spain, 1998
Paul Harris Fellow (Rotary International), 1998
Rotary International Group Study Exchange Team Leader to the Philippines, 1998
Executive Council Member of the American Assoc. of Teachers of Spanish & Port., 1996-98
Editorial Board Member of The Journal of Language for International Business, 1997
Panhellenic Association Award for Guidance and Commitment to Higher Education for Academic Year 1993-94
Panelist for National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, D.C., 1993
NEH Faculty Development Award, Clemson, 1992-96
NEH Summer Institute Participant, U. of Kentucky, Lexington, 1990
Carolina Venture Fund Grant, U. South Carolina (Portugal), Summer 1986
Participant in Fulbright Summer Seminar II (Brazil, Uruguay, and Peru), 1985
“Teacher-Scholar Award,” College of Arts & Letters, Michigan State U., 1983
Fulbright Scholar to Portugal, 1979-1980
Gulbenkian Scholar, 1979-1980
Who’s Who among Hispanic Americans
Honorary Member of Sigma Delta Pi
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
Modern Language Association of America
Association for Business Language Education
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
American Portuguese Studies Association
Advisory Board of the Spanish for Business Certification Project
Books
Pontos Essenciais do Português Comercial (New Brunswick: SLUSA, 1987
The Carnival Stage: Vicentine Comedy within the Serio-Comic Mode (Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1993)
Gil Vicente’s The Play of Rubena, with Rene P. Garay (New York: National Hispanic Foundation for the Humanities, 1993)
Mário de Andrade: The Creative Works (accepted for publication by Bucknell University Press)
