CHALENE HELMUTH. Senior Lecturer Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Faculty Head of Sutherland House The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons

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1 CHALENE HELMUTH Senior Lecturer Department of Spanish and Portuguese Faculty Head of Sutherland House The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons Peabody # Appleton Place EDUCATION Ph.D., Spanish American Literature, University of Kentucky, 1991 M.A., Spanish, University of Kentucky, 1988 B.A., Spanish, Asbury College, 1986 Elementary and Secondary Education, San José, Costa Rica TEACHING Senior Lecturer (Fall 2003, Fall 2004-present) Spanish 199 Eco-Conscious Travel; Strategies for Successful Study Abroad Spanish 1100 Spanish for True Beginners (designed and coordinate course) Spanish 1101/1102 Elementary Spanish I and II Spanish 1101G Spanish for Reading (designed graduate reading course) Spanish 1103 Intensive Elementary Spanish (designed and coordinated course) Spanish 1111 Eco-critical Perspectives in Latin American Literature Spanish 299B Honors Thesis Spanish 3301W Intermediate Spanish Writing Spanish 3202 Spanish for Oral Communication Spanish 4425 Spanish American Literature 1900 to the Present Spanish 236 Contemporary Spanish American Literature Spanish 3893 Reading Green: Costa Rica s Literary Legacy INDS 270 Seminar in Global Citizenship, Service, and Research: Ecotourism, Civic Engagement, and Corporate Social Responsibility (yearlong sequence) Faculty Director, Vanderbilt Initiative in Scholarship and Global Engagement (VISAGE) Costa Rica, 2008-present Faculty Director, Vanderbilt/Tulane in Costa Rica,

2 Helmuth 2 Middlebury College Undergraduate Faculty, Spanish Language School (Summer 2007) SPAN 3151 Communicating in Spanish Graduate Faculty, Spanish Language School (Summer 2003) SPAN 6560 Literary Analysis SPAN 674 El ojo como eje: The Centrality of Narratorial Perspective in Contemporary Latin American Literature Centre College Associate Professor ( ) Assistant Professor ( ) Beginning and Intermediate Spanish Accelerated Beginning Spanish Advanced Grammar and Composition Advanced Conversation Spanish American Culture Spanish American Literature Special Topics Seminars: U.S. Latina/o Literature; Notions of the Self in 20 th Century Hispanic Texts Independent Studies: Mexico Through Its Literature; Documentation of Los desaparecidos Furman University Assistant Professor ( ) Taught all levels of Spanish language (conversation, reading, writing) and developed new courses in Latin American literature and culture. University of Kentucky Teaching Assistant ( ) Taught beginning and intermediate Spanish language courses. PUBLICATIONS El género sexual en la obra de Carlos Fuentes: una excepción a lo posmoderno, in Me gustas cuando callas Los escritores del Boom y el género sexual. Edited by Ana Luisa Sierra. San Juan: University of Puerto Rico Press, 2002 (pp ). The Culture and Customs of Costa Rica. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, "Desenmascarando a las mujeres del teatro español del Siglo diecisiete," translated by Chalene Helmuth and written by Mary B. Daniels. El texto puesto en escena: Estudios sobre la comedia del Siglo de Oro en honor a Everett Hesse. Eds. Barbara Mujica and Anita K. Stoll. London: Tamesis, 2000 (pp14-22).

3 Helmuth 3 The Postmodern Fuentes. Bucknell, PA: Bucknell University Press, "Entrevista con Carmen Naranjo" (Hispamérica, August 1996). Works in progress: "Dichos Ticos: Learning the Pura Vida Lifestyle from Costa Rica. Folk Sayings and Popular Wisdom." Teaching the Context: The Radical Educational Transformations of a Residential College System RESEARCH INTERESTS Tourism and sustainability; developing cross-cultural competencies; U.S. Latina/o cultural production; contemporary Latin American prose fiction; Costa Rican literature (sustainability, climate fiction, and feminisms); the residential college system s effect on higher education. ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE Faculty Head of Sutherland House, The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons (2007-present) Course Coordinator, Spanish 100/101, and 2013-present Course Coordinator, Spanish 103, Faculty Director of study abroad programs in Costa Rica (2008-present) Centre College Chair, Spanish Program, Faculty Director, Centre-in-Mexico, Spring 2001 Supervisor, Service-Learning Program (student volunteers in healthcare, education, youth program, and recreational settings), Director, Apprenticeships Abroad ( ) Furman University Director, first Foreign Study program in Costa Rica, 1994 Director, Language Laboratory University of Kentucky Coordinator, Spanish Language Instruction,

4 Helmuth 4 REPRESENTATIVE SERVICE ACTIVITIES DIVE Curriculum Committee (2016-present) Mellon Assistant Professor Search Committee ( ) Admissions Committee, Center for Latin American Studies (2016) Provost s Task Force on Sexual Assault ( ) Greek Life Task Force Member ( ) Project Safe Program Coordinator Search Committee (2013) Faculty Head of House Search Committee ( ) Vanderbilt Visions ( ) Interim Chair, VISAGE Advisory Committee ( ) Board Member, Center for Teaching ( ) RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE ACTFL Oral Proficiency Workshop, Nashville, TN, November 2007 Faculty Consultant, Educational Testing Service, AP Spanish Exam, Translator, Federal Public Defender, Nashville, Tennessee, Medical interpreter, Kentucky and Tennessee, INVITED PRESENTATIONS Living the Context: Innovation and Transformation in the Residential College System. Keynote address, Residential College Symposium, Southern Methodist University. October 15-17, Working Effectively with Faculty. Residential Education Training for Resident Advisors,. August 18, Facilitating Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Team-Teaching. Workshop presented with Avery Dickins de Girón. Making the Global Local: Interdisciplinary Programs and Area Studies in a Small College Setting. April 5-6, 2013 at Centre College in Danville KY REPRESENTATIVE PRESENTATIONS In Search of Ambiguity, Interdisciplinary Conference on Global Research and Study Abroad, February Global Education Office,. Second-Language Acquisition Theories and Foreign Language Teaching: (Dis)Connections, Tennessee Foreign Language Teachers, January 2008 and

5 Helmuth 5 October Co-presented with Prof. Virginia Scott, Department of French and Italian, Promoting Global Citizenship: The Case of World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, FL June 29-July 2, 2008 Internationalizing Higher Education, Southwest Conference on Language Teaching, Salt Lake City, Utah, Feburary 2008 Making the Leap to Required Home-stays, Association of American Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean, Merida, Mexico, February 2002 Laughing from los lados: The Humor of Latina Comedians, Hijas del Quinto Sol: Studies in Latina Identity and Literature, Saint Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas, July 1998 Intersections of Identity in Alicia Gaspar de Alba: A Scholar Finds Herself Writing, Hijas del Quinto Sol: Studies in Latina Identity and Literature, Saint Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas, July 1997 The Postmodernism of Carlos Fuentes, Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies, San José, Costa Rica, February 1997 La polifonía feminista de Carmen Naranjo, American Conference on Culture and Society, University of New Mexico-Albuquerque, February 1996 Una familia lejana: An Intertextual Reading Guide to Fuentes' Postmodern Fiction, Philological Association of the Carolinas, University of North Carolina- Asheville, March 1995 Double Agents: Spies as Narrators in Cabeza de la hidra, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 1994 GRANTS AWARDED Cumberland Project (2011) Venture Fund Grant (2010) Center for the Americas (2006) Centre College Faculty Development Grants ( ) Service Learning Projects ( ) Apprenticeships Abroad (2000) John C. Young Scholar (1998) Furman University

6 Helmuth 6 Furman Advantage Research Fellow (1992, 1995) Furman Advantage Teaching Fellow HONORS (1994) Knight Foundation Stipend (1993) Kirk Award for Teaching Excellence (Centre College), 1996 Governor's Scholars Program Faculty (State of Kentucky), 1996 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar (Cornell University), 1992 REFERENCES Dr. Cathy Jrade, Professor Department of Spanish and Portuguese cathy.l.jrade@vanderbilt.edu Dr. Vanessa Beasley, Dean The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons Associate Professor, Department of Communications vanessa.b.beasley@vanderbilt.edu Dr. Frank Wcislo Associate Professor, Department of History francis.s.wcislo@vanderbilt.edu Dr. Ted Fischer, Director Center for Latin American Studies Professor, Department of Anthropology edward.f.fischer@vanderbilt.edu Alice Randall, Writer in Residence Department of English, African American & Diaspora Studies alice.randall@vanderbilt.edu Dr. Victoria Burrus, Vice-Chair Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese victoria.a.burrus@vanderbilt.edu Dr. James D. Huck, Jr., Assistant Director Stone Center for Latin American Studies Tulane University jhuck@tulane.edu Dr. Kyla Terhune, Program Director General Surgery Residency Associate Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery Medical Center kyla.terhune@vanderbilt.edu

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