Department of Literature and Languages
Greg Utley - Curriculum Vitae
GREGORY JAMES UTLEY
2930 Rockbridge Road
Tyler, Texas 75701
903.565.4729
The University of Texas at Tyler
Department of Literature and Languages
3900 Univeristy Boulevard
Tyler, Texas 75799
Phone 903.566.7464
Fax: 903.565.5700
gggutley@uttyler.edu
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, Spanish (Romance Languages)
The University of New Mexico, 1997.
Major Concentration in 20th Century Spanish American Literature
Minor Concentration in Spanish Peninsular Literature
Dissertation: Critical Aspects of Irony, Parody, and Satire in Recent
Narrative Works of R.H. Moreno-Durán.
Dissertation Committee Chair: Dr. Dick Gerdes
Master of Arts, Spanish
Fresno State University, Fresno, California, 1992.
Experience
2002-Present
Associate Professor of Spanish
The University of Texas at Tyler
1997-2002
Assistant Professor of Spanish
The University of Texas at Tyler
1996-97
Lecturer in Spanish
The University of Texas at Tyler
Summer 1996
Acting Lower-Division Coordinator of Spanish
University of New Mexico
1993-96
Teaching Assistant in Spanish
The University of New Mexico
1992
Teaching Assistant in Spanish
Fresno State University
Fresno, California
Courses Taught
SPAN 2311 Intermediate Spanish I
SPAN 2312 Intermediate Spanish II
SPAN 3301 Grammar, Conversation, and Composition: I
SPAN 3302 Grammar, Conversation, and Composition: II
SPAN 3335 Writing Proficiency in Spanish
SPAN 3345 Introduction to Hispanic Literature
SPAN 3350 Survey of Spanish Literature to 1700
SPAN 3335 Survey of Spanish Literature Since 1700
SPAN 4310 Advanced Grammar
SPAN 4331 Hispanic Culture and Civilization
SPAN 4360 Special Studies in Spanish Literature and Language
SPAN 4364 Colonial Latin-American Literature
SPAN 4365 Modern Latin-American Literature
SPAN 4668 Field Study in Spanish
SPAN 4370 Spanish American Short Story
SPAN 4385 Spanish for Oral Proficiency
SPAN 4390 Contemporary Spanish American Novel
SPAN 4397 Senior Seminar
Travel Study
I have led a travel/study course (SPAN 4668) to México in the summers of 2000, 2002, 2005, and 2007 thus providing my students with the invaluable (and I would say indispensable) experience of living and studying in a Spanish-speaking country. The students stayed with a host Mexican family and studied at a language institute. As part of the academic requirement, they maintained a journal in Spanish of their daily activities and prepared a term paper on a figure or event of Mexican cultural history.
Refereed Publications
Under Review: “Madness and Exorcism in Gabriel García Márquez’s Del amor y otros
demonios”
Forthcoming: “Metaphor and Repetition in Fernando Vallejo’s La virgen
de los sicarios” accepted for publication in Crítica
Hispánica. (2008)
“The Development of Subjectivity in Fanny Buitrago’s Señora de la
miel.” Hispanic Journal 25 (2004): 131-43.
“R.H. Moreno-Durán y la narrativa colombiana actual” en
Litertura y Cultura. Narrativa colmbiana del siglo XX.
Eds. Jaramillo, María Mercedes, et al. Vol. 2. Bogotá: Ministerio
de Cultura de Colombia, 2000. 116-36.
“Irony, Reality, and Satire: R. H. Moreno-Durán’s Metropolitanas.”
Confluencia 15.1 (1999): 80-89.
“Novelística y Sociedad: El Cristo de espaldas de Eduardo Caballero
Caldeón.” Proceeding of the Laura Jackson Conference: The Politics of the Written Word in the Americas. Baylor University. Waco, Texas: 1999. 155-59.
Rodríguez, Alfred, Stephen Tisinger, Gregory Utley. “ La Creatividad de
Cervantes en ‘El cuento de Leandra.’” Cervantes 15 (1995):
84-89.
Non-Refereed Publications:
Rev. of Asedios a Julio Ramón Ribeyro. by César Ferreira and
Ismael P. Márquez. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 32 (1998):
442-43.
Conferences
2008 The 61st Kentucky Foreign Language Conference
The University of Kentucky
“Happiness and the Second-Self in the Narrative of
María Luisa Bombal and Isabel Allende.”
2006 The 59th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference
The University of Kentucky
“Metaphor as Violence in La virgen de los sicarios.”
2005 The 25th Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and
Literatures
The University of Cincinnati
“Violence and Repetition in Fernando Vallejo’s La virgen de los sicarios.”
2002 The 22nd Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and
Literatures
The Univesity of Cincinnati
“The Crisis of the Self in Fanny Buitrago’s Señora de la mile.”
2001 The 54Th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference
The University of Kentucky
“El mal con ojos de Criollo: El Carnero de Juan Rodríguez Freile”
2000 One Thousand Years of Iberian Literature.
The Universityof New Mexico
“La plaza del diamante de Mercè Rodoreda: una historia
de triunfo personal.”
1999 The Laura Jackson Conference: The Politics of the Written
Word in the Americas. Baylor University, Waco, Texas.
“Novelística y sociedad: El Cristo de espaldas de Eduardo
Caballero Calderón.”
1998 19th Louisana Conference on Hispanic Language and Literatues
Louisana State University, Baton Rouge.
“La literatura postmoderna en Colombia.”
1997 South Central Modern Language Association Annual
Conference. Dallas, Texas. “La obra de R. H. Moreno-Durán.”
1996 Andean Summit. University of Colorado, Boulder.
“R. H. Moreno-Durán’s Metropolitanas.”
1995 Latin American Women Writers. Texas Tech Univesity,
Lubbock, Texas. “Cartucho de Nellie Campobello.”
1994 Rocky Mountain Medieval and Reninsance Association Annual
Confernce, Jackson Hole, Wyoming. “El mensaje político en La
cárcel de amor de Diego de San Pedro.”
Editorial Review
2006 Reviewed the article “ “ for Revista Canadiense de Estudios
Hispánicos
Service to the University
Committee Service
2006-2007 Member, University Academic Affairs Committee
2005-2006 Member, Women and Minorities Committee
2004-2005 Chair, Women and Minorities Committee
2003- Present Chair, Department of Literature and Languages
Third-Year Review Committee
2003 - Present Chair, Department of Literature and Languages Tenure
and Promotion Committee
2003-2004 Member, College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and
Promotion Committee
2001-2002 Member, Callendar Committee
2000-2001 Member, College of Liberal Arts Curriculum Committee
Chair: Dr. Ken Wink
The committee considered various course and program additions, changes, and deletions. Also several travel/study courses were considered and approved.
1999-2000 Chair, Library Committee
As chair, I led the committee in considering Vice-
President Dr. Bill Baker’s charge of the
implementation of a digital library.
Member, School of Liberal Arts Curriculum Committee
Chair: Dr. Marcus Stadelmann
The committee considered various course and program additions, changes, and deletions. Also several travel/study courses were considered and approved.
1998-99 Member, of SACS Preparation Committee-Library
Chair: Dr. Mark Kroll
I prepared the section of the report pertaining to
student and faculty opinion of library services and
holdings.
1997-98 Member of the Student Services Committee
Chair: Dr. Ken Casstevens
Among other issues, the committee considered
matters relating to the Campus Café.
Member Liberal Arts School Curriculum Committee
Chair: Dr. Walin McArdel
Member, School of Liberal Arts Adviser’s Committee
Chair: Dr. Vincent Falzone
University Speaker
I arranged (with the support of Dr. Roger Anderson and Dean Donna Dickerson) for the visit of nationally renowned literary critic Latin American literature and professor of Spanish, Dr. René Prieto (now Professor of Spanish at Vanderbilt University). Dr. Prieto spoke on the Chilean novel La última niebla by María Luisa Bombal as part of a university-wide event during February 2001.
Community/University Presentations and Lectures
Fall 2000 Faculty “Brown Bag” Presentation
Junior Faculty Summer Research Stipend
“The Didactic Message of Cárcel de amor.”
Fall 2000 Guest Lecturer for Dr. Marcus Stadelmann
Political Science Program, UT Tyler
“Colombia Today”
Fall 1999 Guest Lecturer, ESL Program UT Tyler
Dr. Marianthi Coroneou, Coordinatior
“Colombia and the Literature of Gabriel García Márquez.”
August 1998 Symposium
Tyler Independent School District Special Meeting
“Aspects of Spanish Grammar”
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April 1997 Tyler Junior College
“The Boom Novel is Spanish American Fiction.”
April 1997 UT Tyler “Brown Bag Lunch” Presentation
“Recent Trends in Spanish American Fiction.”
Consulting
1999: Tyler Independent School District, Tyler, Texas
Translated several documents from Spanish to English for Bilingual
Director, Janet Trump.
1999: The Caldwell Foundation, Tyler, Texas
Edited a Spanish version of the Employee Handbook.
Professional Organizations
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
Modern Language Association
Languages
Spanish (Fluent)
Portuguese (Reading Knowledge)
References:
Available Upon Request