Louise O. VASVÁRI

Education

Ph.D., 1969 Romance Philology, University of California, Berkeley

M.A., l966 Spanish, University of California, Berkeley

B.A., 1963 Spanish/German, Montclair State, New Jersey

Professional Experience

2001, 2002 Summer Professor, Gender Studies Program, Central European University, Budapest

2001, , 2002 Spring Visiting Professor, Linguistics, New York University

1984-present Professor, Comparative Literature/Linguistics, S.U.N.Y., Stony Brook

1996 Visiting Professor, Spanish Dept., University of California., Berkeley

l995 Fulbright Professor, English Linguistics, Oetvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary.

1982-84 Associate Provost, S.U.N.Y., Stony Brook

1981 Visiting Associate Professor, University of California., Davis

1979-83 Chair, Comp. Lit., Classics, Judaic Studies, Humanities, S.U.N.Y., Stony Brook

1977-84 Associate Professor, Spanish, S.U.N.Y., Stony Brook

1973-77 Assistant Professor, Spanish, S.U.N.Y., Stony Brook

1963-64 German/Spanish Teacher, Hackensack High School, N.J.

Awards, Grants, Honors

Fulbright Senior Scholar Award (Hungary), 1995

John K. Walsh Prize for Best Article, M.L.A., 1994.

N.E.H. Senior Fellowship, 1988-89

N.E.H. Summer Grant, 1985

S.U.N.Y., Chancellor's Statewide Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1976

S.U.N.Y., Faculty Research Fellow, 1976

National Defense Education Act Fellow, 1966-67

Professional Service (Since 1990)

Editorial Board, Papers of the Medieval Research Seminar, Queen-Mary Westfield College, 2000-

Editorial Board, Edilán, Sociedad Española para la Reproduccion de Manuscritos Medievales, 2000-

Member, Executive Committee, MLA Division, Medieval Hispanic Literature, 1999-2004.

Member, National Endowment for Humanities Panel, Aug., 1998.

Member, Executive Committee, Div. Anthropological Approaches to Literature, M.L.A., 1991-96

Member, M.L.A. Organizing Committee, 1990-93; Chair, 1992-3.

External Evaluator, Queens College, Fall 1992

Member, M.L.A. Ad Hoc Ethics Committee, 1991-92.

Member, M.L.A. Delegate Assembly, 1987-93.

University Service (Selected)

Chair, Search Committee for Professor Appiointment, CLT, 1998-99

Ad Hoc Committee for PhD in Second Language Acquisition, 1997

Graduate Studies Committee, Comp. Lit., 1996-

Board Member, Humanities Institute, 1993-1995

Provost's Council on Academic Standards, 1993-1994

East Asian Program Committee, 1993-1995

Chair, Korean Studies Advisory Committee, 1987-

Dean's Budget Priorities Committee, 1991-92.

Director, Graduate Studies, Comparative Literature, 1989-92.

American Studies Committee, 1987-88.

Comparative Literature Graduate Committee, 1986-88.

Chair, Committee to Review International Programs, 1982

Chair, Committee to Select Dean of Humanities, 1982

Chair, Committee on Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1979, 1980; member, 1978, 1986-88

Arts & Sciences Personnel Policy Committee, 1981-82

S.U.N.Y. Statewide Senate, 1977-79

S.U.N.Y. Statewide Undergraduate Committee, 1976-77

Vice-Chair, Arts & Sciences Senate, 1977-78

Secretary, Arts & Sciences Senate, 1976-77

Interdisciplinary Program in Humanities, 1976-77

Bilingual Studies Coordinator, Hispanic, 1975-78

Director, Graduate Studies, Hispanic, 1976-77

Courses Taught (Comparative Literature, Linguistics, Spanish, German)

All levels of Spanish Language

Elementary & Intermediate German

English as a Second Language

Graduate Teaching Practicum for T.A.s in Spanish (Language Teaching)

Graduate Teaching Practicum in Comp. Lit. (Literature and Theory)

Historical Romance Phonology

Historical Romance Morpho-Syntax

Contrastive Spanish-English Morpho-syntax

Contrastive Spanish-English Phonology

Language, Gender, and Culture

Theory of Bilingualism

Contrastive Analysis & Language Universals

El Libro de Buen Amor & La Celestina

El Romancero

Spanish Medieval and Renaissance Literature

European Medieval and Renaissance Literature

Orality & Textuality in Medieval Literature

Translation Theory

Sin and Sexuality in Literature

Humanities Core Course

Continuing Education Project Seminar (Thesis Writing Practicum)

Medieval Narrativity

American Dialects

Sociolinguistics

Prehistory of the Novel

Historical Romance Sociolinguistics

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Tratado sobre el título de duque. London: Tamesis. 1976

El laberinto de Fortuna: edición crítica. Madrid: Alhambra.,1976, second ed., 1982.

The Heterotextual Body of the "morilla d'un bel catar." Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar, nu. 10. London: University of London, Queen Mary-Westfield College, 1999.

Articles and Essay Reviews

"El habla y la cultura de Oseja de Sajambre," Romance Philology 26(1970): 189-200 (with L. Lefkowitz).

"The Vida de Santa Oria in Light of New Berceo Scholarship." Romance Philology 28(1975): 403-12

"Some New Aspects of El Libro de los Estados," Romance Philology 31(1977): 403-ll.

"On La lingua di Berceo." Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica 27(1978): 136-41.

"On Tradition and Technique in 'El Libro del Cavallero Zifar'." Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica 28(1979): 168-75.

"Recent English Translations of the Libro de Buen Amor." Romance Philology 34(1981): 536-44.

"Análisis contrastivo del sufjijo -ación/-ation en español y en inglés." In Humberto López Morales & María Vazquez, eds. Actas del primer congreso internacional sobre el español de América. San Juan: Academia Puertoriqueña de la Lengua, l982: 865-76.

"The Relevance of Word Formation Rules of Languages in Contact: The Case of English and Spanish." In P.H. Nelde, ed., Gegenwärtige Tendenzen der Kontaktlinguistik. Bonn: Dümmler, l983: 327-39 [English version of previous item].

"Towards a Course in Contrastive Analysis." Innovations in Linguistic Education 3(1983): 33-57; reprinted in Grazer Linguistische Studien 22(1984): 101-26.

"Los alcances sintácticos de los verbos exhortativos en español: un enfoque contrastivo." Grazer Linguistische Studien 19 (1983): 36-50.

"Quoniam 'Pudenda': An Example of Parodia Sacra in the Libro de Buen Amor. La Corónica 12(1984): 195-203.

"La semiología de la connotación: lectura polisémica de 'Cruz cruzada panadera'," Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica 33(1983) [appeared l985]: 300-24.

"Erotic Polysemy in the Libro de Buen Amor." La Corónica l4(1986): 127-34.

"La digresión sobre los pecados mortales y la estructura del Libro de Buen Amor." Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica 34(1985-6): 156-80.

"Vegetal-Genital Onomastics in the Libro de Buen Amor." Romance Philology 42(1988): 1-29.

"The Two Lazy Suitors in the Libro de Buen Amor: Popular Tradition and Literary Game of Love." Anuario medieval 1 (1989): 181-205.

"A Tale of 'Taillying': Aesop Topsy-Turvy in the Libro del Arcipreste." Journal of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies/

Cuadernos Interdisciplinarios de Estudios Literarios 2(1990): 13-41.

"Chica cosa es dos nuezes': Lost Sexual Humor in the Libro del Arcipreste. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 24.2(1990):1-22.

"The Geography of Escape & Topsy-Turvy Literary Genres." In Scott D. Westrom, ed. Discovering New Worlds: Essays on Medieval Exploration and Imagination. NY: Garland, 1991:179-193.

"Gastro-Genital Rites of Reversal: The Battle of Flesh and Lent in the "Libro del Arcipreste." La Corónica 20(1) (1991):1-15.

"Why is Doña Endrina a Widow? Traditional Culture and Textuality in the Libro de Buen Amor." In Louise Mirrer, ed. "Upon My Husband's Death. Widows in the Literature and Histories of Medieval Europe and History. U of Michigan P, 1992: 259-87.

"Pitas Pajas: Carnivalesque Phonosymbolism." Revista de estudios hispánicos 26(1992): 135-62.

"Festive Phallic Discourse in the Libro del Arcipreste." La Corónica 22.2 (l994): 89-117.

"The usignuolo in gabbia in the Decameron: Popular Tradition and Pornographic Parody." Forum Italicum 28.2(1994):224-251.

"Joseph on the Margin in the Mérode Mousetrap." In Martin Stevens & Milla C. Riggio, eds. Medieval & Early Renaissance Drama: Reconsiderations.Mediaevalia 18 (1995): 163-189.

"Don Hurón Trickster: Un arquetipo psico-folklórico." In Toro Pascua, María., ed. Actas del Tercer Congreso, Asociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval.II. Salamanca: Biblioteca Española del Siglo XV. 1995: 1121-6.

"Múltiple Transparencia Semántica de los Nombres de la Alcahueta en el "Libro del Arcipreste." in Juan Paredes, ed. Medioevo y Literatura: Actas del V Congreso de la Asociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval. Granada: Universidad de Granada,1995:453-63.

"El hijo del molinero: para la polisemia popular del Libro del arcipreste. In Luce López Baralt & Francisco Márquez Villanueva, eds. Erotismo en las letras hispánicas: Aspectos, Modos, Fronteras. México, D.F.: Colegio de México, 1995: 461-77.

"Nouns and Countability: Towards A Contrastive Teaching Grammar of English and Spanish." In Karl Sornig, et als. eds. Linguistics With A Human Face. Festschrift für Norman Denison. Graz: Penzinger/G. Ambrosch, 1995:405-12.

"Peregrinaciones por Topografías Pornográficas en el LBA" In José Manuel Lucía Megías, ed. Actas del VI Congreso de la Asociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval. Alcalá: Universidad de Alcalá, 1997: 1563-72.

"'Las Trescientas preñadas' de Juan de Mena: la política de la traducción y pedantería latinizantes." In Françoise Maurizi, ed. Lectures d'une oeuvre: 'Laberinto de Fortuna' de Juan de Mena. Paris: Editions du Temps, 1998: 27-40.

"Fowl Play in My Lady's Chamber: Textual Harassment of a Middle English Pornithological Riddle and Visual Pun." In Jan Ziolkowski, ed. Obscenity: Social Control & Artistic Creation in the European Middle Ages. Leiden: Brill, 1998: 108-35.

"The Semiotics of Phallic Aggression & Anal Penetration as Male Agonistic Ritual in the Libro de Buen Amor. In Josiah Blackmore & Gregory S. Hutcheson, eds. Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Duke UP, 1999: 130-56.

"Pornografía, política sexual y performance anxiety: el enxiemplo de la fierecilla domada (Conde Lucanor XXXV)." Concepción Company et al. eds. Discursos y representaciones en la Edad Media. México: UNAM: El Colegio de México, 1999: 451-469.

"La madeira certeira...a midida d'España de Alfonso X: un gap carnavalesco."Actas del VII Congreso Internacional de la A.H.L.M: 459-69.

"A Comparative Approach to European Folk Poetry and the Erotic Wedding Motif." CLC Web: Comparative Literature and Culture, http//www.clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu [Dec. 1999].

"De todos instrumentos yo, libro, só pariente (LBA 70): el texto liminal como cuerpo sexual." Actas del VIII Congreso de la Asociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval. Santander, 1999 [2001]: 1769-1779.

Intimate Violence: Shrew Taming as Wedding Ritual in the Conde Lucanor. In Eukene Lacarra, ed. Marriage and Sexuality in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia. NY: Garland [forthcoming].

"Retrieving the Power of Women's Voices in the Frauenlied."In The Pleasures and Power of Women. Budapest: Central European University [forthcoming]

"El proverbio pervertido en el Libro de buen amor." Universidad de Alcalá de Henares [forthcoming]

"Escolios para el vocaburlario de la Celestina: La seducción de Pármeno."In Ottavio Di Camillo, ed. Celestina en CUNY. [forthcoming].

"Obscene Naming Conventions in Trickster Tales." In E. Wallace McMullen, ed. Names New and Old: Papers of the Names Institute. Madison, NJ: Penny Press [in press].

"Sexual Pantomine in 'Von dem Ritter mit den Nüzzen'". Mediaevistik [forthcoming]

Reviews and Miscellaneous

Manual for Instructors and Teaching Assistants to Accompany "Contemporary Spanish". N.Y.: MCGraw-Hill, 1966.

Amadis of Gaul (trans. E. Place). Romance Philology 30(1977): 674-76.

Translation of Le seminaire de Jacques Lacan, Livre XX, II. Gradiva 1(1976): 152-60.

Diego de San Pedro (K. Whinnom), Modern Language Notes 63(1977): 357-61.

Poema de Mio Cid (trans. Floridor Pérez). Revista Chilena de Literatura 11(1978): 160-64; repr. in Texto crítico 4(1978): 174-76.

El poema de "Santa Oria" (ed. Isabel Uria Maqua). Modern Language Notes 95(1980): 472-74.

El dezir y las siete virtudes y otros poemas de Micer Francisco Imperial (ed. C. I. Nepaulsingh). Hispanic Review 48(1980): 361-64.

The Perilous Hunt: Symbols in Hispanic and European Balladry. (E.R. Rogers). Rocky Mountain Review (1981): 172-74.

El Laberinto de Fortuna (ed. J.G. Cummins). Hispanic Review 50 (1982): 93-95.

Introducción a la traductología (G. Vásquez-Ayora). Romance Philology 35(1981): 423-5.

The True Interpreter (Louis Kelly). Romance Philology 35(1981): 420-22.

The Book of the Archpriest of Hita (trans. Mack Singleton). Romance Philology 34.4(1981): 536-44.

A Concordance to Juan Ruiz (ed. R. Mignani et al.) Romance Philology 35(1982): 557-8.

El vocabulario político de algunos periódicos de México D.F. desde 1930 hasta 1940. (F. Franco Arias). Romance Philology 36(1983): 463-65.

Cuadernos de traducción (Barcelona). Romance Philology 38(1985): 555-60.

Imagery of the "Libro de buen amor" (G. Phillips). Journal of Hispanic Philology 9(1984): 79-82.

Libro de Cavallero Zifar (eds. M. Olsen, C. González). Hispania 68(1985): 510-ll.

Kontrastive Linguistik und Übersetzungwissenschaft (W. Kühlwein et al.) Romance Philology 41(1987): 51-53.

El lenguaje erótico medieval a través del Arcipreste de Hita (Vicente Reynal). Hispanic Review 58(1990):515-17.

"Juan de Mena." Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula. G. Bleiberg, et al., eds. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992: 1063-1068.

El amor en los tiempos medievales...y hoy (Vicente Reynal), Mediaevistik 9(1996): 437-8.

Proverbs in Occitan Literature (Wendy Pfeffer). Literary Research/Recherche Litteraire 29 (1998): 77-78.

Colori e lessico: Studi sulla struttura semantica degli aggettivi di colore in catalano, castigliano, italiano, romena, l atino et ungherese (Maria Grossman). Romance Philology 54 (2001): 228-31.

Work Completed/ Submitted/In Progress

"Women Raping Men: The Textual Violence of the Anti-pastourelle." [submitted]

"The Song of Songs 'Unframed': The Hidden Language of Love in Folk Poetry" [Manuscript]

The "Arcipreste de Hita" and Carnivalesque Onomastics

A Carnival of Genres: the Book of the "Arcipreste de Hita'.

"Eroticized Folk Motifs in Marie's Laüstic"

Nouns and Countability: A Contrastive Study of English and Spanish [Monograph]

Invited Lectures

Congress of Hungarian Studies, Jyvaskyla, Finland, August 2001

MLA, Washington D.C. Dec. 2000

Ethnographic Museum, Budapest, May 2000

M.L.A., Chicago, Dec. 1999

"Transforming Cultures of Death and Dying," Humanities Center, SUNY,SB, Nov. 1999

"La Celestina," CUNY Graduate Center, Nov. 1999

Universita degli Stuidi di Roma La Sapienza, Oct. 1999

AHLM, Santander, Sept., 1999

"Pleasure & Power", Central European Univ., Budapest, May 1999

Hungarian-American Educators Assoc., Cleveland, April, 1999

"Feminisms," Faculté des Sciences Humaines, Tunis, March, 1999

T.S.A.S.East-West Conference, Carthage, March 1999

I. B. L. V., Tunis, March 1999

Queen Mary-Westfield College, University of London, Jan. 1999

Universidad de Alcala de Henares, Oct., 1998

AHLM, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, July 1998

University of Caen, Jan. 1998

M.L.A., Toronto, Dec., 1997

VIII. Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica, Atlanta, 1997.

VIIe Congreso Internacional de la Asociacion Hispanica de Literatura Medieval, Castellón, Spain, Sept. 1997

Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas, Newfoundland, May 1997.

Central European University, Budapest, May 1997

Queen Mary-Westfield College, London, Oct. 1996

U.N.A.M., Mexico City, Sept. 1996

Dept. of Spanish & Portugues, U.C., Berkeley, April 1996

Medieval Studies Group, U.C., Berkeley, Feb. 1996

"Obscenity in the Middle Ages," Harvard U., May 1995.

"Violence in the Middle Ages," Fordham U., May 1994.

Division of Medieval Spanish, MLA, Toronto, 1993

Division of German Literature to 1700, MLA, 1993

V. Congreso de la A.H.L.M., Universidad de Granada, 1993

Comparative Literature Association, Bloomington, April 1993.

University of Kentucky, April 1993.

Southeast Medieval Association/Virginia Medieval Symposium, 1992.

University of Sofia, Japan, 1992.

Chiba University, Japan, 1992.

E.H.W.A. Women's University, Korea, 1992.

Hankuk University of Foreign Languages, Korea, 1992.

Chonnan National University, Korea, 1992.

Seoul National University, Korea, 1992.

Medieval Graduate Program, Fordham University, 1992.

Medieval Spanish, M.L.A., New York, 1991.

Medieval Club of New York, CCNY Graduate Center, 1991.

Anthropology & Literature, M.L.A., 1990.

Romance Philology Convocation XI, U.C., Irvine, 1990.

Boccaccio Society, M.L.A., Washington, D.C., 1989.

Medieval Spanish, M.L.A., Dec. 1989, Washington, D.C.

III. Congreso, AHLM, Universidad de Salamanca, 1989.

X. Congreso Internacional de Hispanistas, Barcelona, 1989.

"Cursillo," Universidad de Salamanca, 1989.

"Imagining New Worlds," Lehmann College, 1989.

Universidad de Puerto Rico (Arecibo), 1989.

C.E.M.E.R.S., S.U.N.Y., Binghampton, 1988.

Brooklyn College, C.U.N.Y., 1987.

Spanish Dept., U.C., Berkeley, 1987.

N.E.M.L.A., 1987

Medieval Spanish Session, M.L.A., N.Y., 1986

Augustinian Society, Villanova, 1986.

IX. Congreso Internacional de Hispanistas, Berlin, 1986.

A.A.T.S.P., Madrid, 1986.

Spanish Dept., C.U.N.Y., Graduate Center, 1986.

M.L.A., Chicago, 1985.

N.Y. State Council of Linguistics, Queens College, 1983.

VIII. Congreso Internacional de Hispanistas, Brown, 1983.

Congreso Internacional, Semiótica e Hispanismo, Madrid, 1983.

Centre de Plurilinguisme, Brussels, 1982.

N.E.M.L.A., New York, 1982.

XI. Conference, N.Y. State Council of Linguistics, SUNY, 1981.

VI. Congreso A.L.F.A.L., Phoenix, 1981.

Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel, 1981.

U.C., Berkeley, 1982.

Romance Philology Convocation, U.C. Irvine, 1980

U.C., Davis, 1980.

Professional Affiliations

Modern Language Association

American Comparative Literature Association

Linguistic Society of America

Boccaccio Society

International Linguistics Association

Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas

Asociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval

Medieval Academy

Hungarian-American Educators Association