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Sheryl Lynn PostmanLanguages/College of Arts & SciencesSheryl_Postman@uml.edu |
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1974: B.A. in Spanish; Rider College
1976: M.A. in Spanish; State University of New York at Albany
1986: Ph.D. in XIX and XX century Spanish (Peninsular) literature;
State University of New York at Albany
Professional Experience:
2004-
Professor of Spanish and Italian at the University of
Massachusetts-Lowell
2001-2004
Associate Professor, with tenure, of Spanish and Italian at the
University of Massachusetts-Lowell
1997-2001
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Italian at the University of
Massachusetts-Lowell
1995-1997
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of
Wisconsin-River Falls
1989-1994
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Italian at Susquehanna University
(Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania)
1974-
Translator and interpreter. Translations
for the public and private sectors.
Court
interpreter of Spanish and Italian for New York State Worker’s Compensation Board
(Albany, New York)
Areas of Specialization: Contemporary Spanish literature (XIX and XX century); Contemporary Italian Novel (XIX and XX century); Comparative Spanish and Italian Novel (XIX and XX century); Spanish and Italian language courses.
Honors:
1976: Sigma Delta Pi
1990: Phi Sigma Iota
2001: Language Department Teaching Award
Grants:
American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI): Corso di Aggiornamento
Culturale: Scuola di Lingua e Cultura Italiana per Stranieri (Siena, Italy).
Summer, 1990. Course
dealt with contemporary Italian culture.
National Endowment for the Humanities: Boccaccio and
Medieval/Renaissance Narrative: Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut).
Summer Institute,
1991. Director: Giuseppe Mazzotta.
National Endowment for the Humanities: Columbus: The Face of the Earth
in the Age of Discovery. University
of California, Los Angeles. Summer
Institute, 1991. (I turned down award)
Instructional Grant from Susquehanna University for Workshop on Foreign
Languages for Business and the Professions, Eastern Michigan University.
April 4-7, 1991.
Publishing Grant from Susquehanna University for The
1891 New Orleans Lynching and U.S.-Italian Relations: A Look Back
(New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1992).
National Endowment for the Humanities: Spanish Autobiography in its
European Context. Washington
University in St. Louis. Summer
Seminar, 1993. Director:
Randolph Pope.
National Endowment for the Humanities: Comic Theory and the Art of
Comedy. Haverford College,
Haverford, Pennsylvania. Summer
Seminar, 1993. (I turned down award)
Published Books:
Film and Multiculturalism.
Co-editor and contributor, with J. Helí Hernández.
(New York: Legas, Publishing), 2001.
Crossing the Acheron: A Study of Nine Novels by Giose Rimanelli
(New York: Legas, Publishing), 2000.
The 1891 New Orleans Lynchings and United States-Italian Relations: A
Look Back. Co-editor and
contributor, with Marco Rimanelli. (New
York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.) Spring, 1992.
Published Articles:
El camino de lo universal a través de lo típico: el viaje de Lorenzo
en los Diarios de Miguel Delibes (Crítica
Hispánica: Duquesne University, PA.), XXVI, No. 1 &2, 2004, 153-172.
2 + 2 x 2 / 2 = 3: Medieval Hieroglyphics in Giose Rimanelli’s Molise
Molise, (Cuadernos de literatura inglesa y norteamericana: Catholic University of Buenos Aires, Argentina), Vol. 7, No. 1-2 (Mayo-Noviembre
2004), pp.71-96.
El convidado del pasado o la voz inesperada en Cartas de amor de un
sexagenario voluptuoso de Miguel Delibes (Quaderni ibero-americani:
Torino), No. 93, Giugno 2003, pp. 54-74.
Is It Real or Is It Fiction?: The Dimorphous World of Giose Rimanelli
in Familia,
(Italian Culture: The
American Association for Italian Studies), XIX, 2, 2001, pp. 103-123.
En la encrucijada del camino: el viaje anímico en La
partida de Miguel Delibes (Analecta
Malacitana: Universidad de Málaga), XXVI,1, 2003, pp. 131-145.
El primer paso: la memoria como puente hacia el futuro en Señora
de rojo sobre fondo gris de Miguel Delibes (Entretejiendo
saberes: Universidad de Sevilla), on CD-ROM, primavera 2003, 24 páginas.
Una odisea anímica: trascendiendo la historia contemporánea en Cinco
horas con Mario de Miguel Delibes, (Spagna
contemporanea: Torino), No. 21, XI, 2002, pp.179-194.
Red, White and (Detroit) Blues by Giose Rimanelli, in L’Italia nella lingua e nel pensiero, Tomo II (Istitituto
Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato: Roma, 2002), pp. 421-433.
Road Signs down a Path of Non Sequiturs in Giose Rimanelli’s Graffiti
(Rivista di Studi Italiani: University of Toronto), Anno XIX, No.1, Giugno
2001, pp. 246-262.
La donna angelicata en Diario de un cazador de Miguel Delibes (NEMLA Italian Studies: Rutgers
University), Volume XXIII-XXIV, 1999-2000, pp. 147-170.
Giose Rimanelli’s Il Mestiere del Furbo: A Literary Trek (Trick) through the Stars (Rivista
di Studi Italiani: University of Toronto), Anno XVI, No. 1, Giugno 1998,
pp. 316-330.
Reverberaciones literarias en La
hoja roja de Miguel Delibes (Analecta
Malacitana: Málaga), XX, 2
(1997), pp. 591-602.
A Bridge to America: Giose Rimanelli’s Tragica
America (Italian Culture: Lowell, MA.), XIV, 1996, pp. 337-349.
Un destello repentino en La sombra del ciprés es alargada de Miguel Delibes (Spagna
contemporanea: Torino), N. 10, 1996, pp. 55-63.
Un viaje del alma en la primera novela de Miguel Delibes (Castilla:
Estudios de literatura: Universidad de Valladolid), 20, 1995, pp. 159-166.
El imperfecto y el pretérito en El
camino de Miguel Delibes (Annali
Istituto Universitario Orientale,
sezione romanza: Napoli), XXXVIII, 1, 1996, pp. 163-171.
A voyage of the Mind as Diversivo through Giose Rimanelli’s Biglietto di terza (Rivista di
Studi Italiani: University of Toronto), Anno XIII, No. 2, Dicembre 1995,
pp. 29-41.
From Amorphous Nuances to Specific Visions: The Use of Memory in
Ferdinando Camon’s The Fifth Estate
(Rivista di Studi Italiani:
University of Toronto), Anno XII, No. 1, Giugno 1994, pp. 91-100.
To Hell and Back: Marco Laudato’s Journey in Rimanelli’s Tiro
al piccione (Forum Italicum:
SUNY at Stony Brook), Vol. 27, Nos. 1-2, Spring-Fall, 1993, pp. 251-261.
The Combinatorial Formula of the Fairy-Tale Game Pattern Strategy in
Italo Calvino’s The Path to the Nest
of Spiders (Misure Critiche: University of Salerno), Fall, 1992, pp.
113-122.
An Hypnogogic Journey Through Time in Giose Rimanelli’s Una
posizione sociale (Rivista di Studi Italiani: University of Toronto), Anno
Ixm No. 1-2, Giugno-Dicembre 1991, pp. 28-42.
El mundo sagrado de El camino de Miguel Delibes (Analecta
Malcitana: Málaga), XII, 2, 1989, pp. 65-74.
Parallels of Life Style: Southern Italians in the United States
South--New Orleans, 1891 (Periferia:
Cosenza), N. 41, Aprile-Agosto 1991, pp. 60-65.
Virgin or Virago: Women in the Fairy Tales of Molise (Periferia:
Cosenza), Vol. 39 a 13, Settembre-Dicembre 1990, pp. 12-17.
Political Ends that Justify Literary Means in Orazio De Attellis’ Riego
(Misure Critiche: University of
Salerno), Fall, 1990, pp. 79-88.
The Peripheral Edge in Giose Rimanelli’s Original
Sin, in Humanitas e Poesia: Studi in onore di Gioacchino Paparelli, ed. by
Luigi Reina (Salerno: Pietro Laveglia Editore, 1990), Vol. II, pp. 1089-1099.
Jane, la mujer providencial de Pedro en La
sombra del ciprés es alargada (Epos:
Revista de Filología: Madrid), V. 5, 1989, pp. 237-244.
Books accepted for Publication:
Italy and Greece: Ancient Roots and New Beginnings, Bordigera
Press, 2004. Proceedings of the
2001 Annual American Italian
Historical Association. Co-edited
with Mario Aste and Michael Pierson.
Articles Accepted for Publication:
New York, Mexico City, New Orleans: Quixotic Idealism of Orazio De
Attellis of Molise. (Acta, International Symposium: Il
Sud e l’America: Molise ed Emigrazione.)
The (C)overt World of Giose Rimanelli in Il
tempo nascosto tra le righe, forthcoming in Rivista
di Studi Italiani.
El dominio del orbe de Caína en la contemporaneidad de El disputado
voto del señor Cayo de Miguel Delibes, forthcoming in Castilla
(Valladolid, España), número 28-29 (2003-2004).
Las
reliquias de un pasado innoble en El tesoro de Miguel Delibes,
forthcoming in Letras de Deusto (Bilbao, España), marzo 2006.
Papers
presented:
Las reliquias de un pasado innoble en El
tesoro de Miguel Delibes. Mediterranean
Studies Association. May 25-29,
2004. Barcelona, Spain.
El dominio del orbe de Caína en la contemporaneidad de El disputado
voto del señor Cayo de Miguel Delibes.
American Association of Italian Studies.
April 29-May 2, 2004. Ottawa,
Canada.
2 + 2 x 2 / 2 = 3: Medieval Hieroglyphics in Giose Rimanelli’s Molise
Molise. American
Association of Italian Studies. April
13-17, 2003. Washington, D. C.
El primer paso: la memoria como puente hacia el futuro en Señora
de rojo sobre fondo gris de Miguel Delibes.
Mediterranean Studies Association.
May 28-June 1, 2002. Granada,
Spain.
En la encrucijada del camino: el viaje anímico en La
partida de Miguel Delibes. Northeast
Association of Modern Languages. April
10-13, 2002. Toronto, Canada.
Is it Real or Is It Fiction?: The Dimorphous World of Giose Rimanelli
in Familia.
American Association of Italian Studies.
April 19-22, 2001. Philadelphia,
PA.
Una odisea anímica transcendiendo la historia contemporánea en Cinco
horas con Mario de Miguel Delibes. Northeast
Association of Modern Languages. March
29-31, 2001. Hartford, CT.
El convidado del pasado o la voz inesperada en Cartas
de amor de un sexagenario voluptuoso de Miguel Delibes.
American Association of Italian Studies.
April 15-18, 2000. New
York, NY.
Road Signs Down a Path of Non Sequiturs in Giose Rimanelli’s Graffiti.
Northeast Association of Modern Languages.
April 9-12, 2000. Buffalo,
NY.
La donna angelicata o como esta mujer me pone negro en Diario
de un cazador de Miguel Delibes. Northeast
Association of Modern Languages. April
15-18, 1999. Pittsburgh, PA.
Red, White and (Detroit) Blues di Giose Rimanelli. American Association of Teachers of Italian.
December 15-20, 1998. Crotone,
Italy.
La historia de un alma resuscitado durante el viaje de conciencia de
Lorenzo en Diario de un emigrante
de Miguel Delibes. American
Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.
July 31-August 4, 1998. Madrid,
Spain.
The (C)overt World of Giose Rimanelli in Il
tempo nascosto tra le righe. American
Association of Italian Studies. April
2-5, 1998. Loyola University,
Chicago, Illinois.
El camino de lo universal a través de lo típico: el viaje de Lorenzo
en los Diarios de Miguel Delibes.
Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures (La
Chispa). February 27-March 2,
1997. Tulane University, New
Orleans.
Giose Rimanelli’s Il mestiere del furbo: A Literary Trek (Trick) through the Stars.
American Association of Italian Studies, February 20-23, 1997.
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
A Bridge to America: Giose Rimanelli’s Tragica
America. American
Association of Teachers of Italian. December
10-14, 1995. Chianciano, Italy.
A Voyage of the mind as Diversivo through Giose Rimanelli’s Biglietto di terza. American
Association of Italian Studies. April 7-10, 1994. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison,
Wisconsin.
El imperfecto y el pretérito en El
camino de Miguel Delibes. Southeast
Conference on Foreign Language and Literatures.
February 24-27, 1994. Rollins
College, Winter Park, Florida.
Una lumbrera en el mundo sombreado de La
hoja roja de Miguel Delibes. Mid-America
Hispanic Conference on Language and Literature.
October 14-16, 1993. Washington
University, St. Louis, Missouri.
From Amorphous Nuances to Specific Visions: The Use of Memory in
Ferdinanado Camon’s The Fifth Estate.
American Association of Italian Studies.
April 15-18, 1993. University
of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.
Antecedentes clásicos en La hoja roja de Miguel Delibes.
Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures (La
Chispa). February 25-27, 1993.
Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.
To Hell and Back: Marco Laudato’s Journey in Giose Rimanelli’s Tiro
al piccione. American
Association of Italian Studies. April
9-12, 1992. University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Un destello repentino en La sombra del ciprés es alargada de Miguel Delibes.
Southeast Conference of Foreign Language and Literatures.
February 26-29, 1992. Rollins
College, Winter Park, Florida.
An Hypnogogic Journey through Time in Giose Rimanelli’s Una
posizione sociale. American
Association of Teachers of Italian. November
23-25, 1991. Washington, D. C.
Un viaje del alma en la primera novela de Miguel Delibes.
XVI Annual Conference on Literature and Film: Social and
Political Change in Literature and Film.
January 31-February 2, 1991. Florida
State University, Tallahassee, Florida.
Parallels of Life Styles: Southern Italians in the United States
South--New Orleans, 1891. American
Italian Historical Association. November 1-3, 1990. Tulane
University, New Orleans, Louisiana.
El mundo sagrado de El camino de Miguel Delibes. Southeast
Conference on Foreign Language and Literatures.
February 21-24, 1990. Rollins
College, Winter Park, Florida.
The Dual Role of Women in the Fairy Tales of Molise.
American Italian Historical Association.
November 8-12, 1989. St.
Mary’s College, San Francisco, California.
The Combinatorial Formula of the Fairy-Tale Game Pattern Strategy in
Italo Calvino’s The Path to the Nest
of Spiders. American
Association of Italian Studies. April 13-16, 1989. University at Lowell, Lowell,
Massachusetts.
Political Ends that Justify Literary Means in Orazio De Attellis’ Riego.
American Italian Historical Association.
October 13-15, 1988. C.U.N.Y.
Graduate School and University Center. New
York, New York.
The Peripheral Edge in Giose Rimanelli’s Original
Sin. American Association of Italian Studies.
April 14-17, 1988. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
El camino hacia el paraíso: José Santos Chocano y Dante.
Southeast Conference of Language and Literatures.
Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida.
February 24-27, 1988.
New York, Mexico City, New Orleans: Cultural Endeavors of Orazio de
Attellis of Molise. International
Conference in Campobasso, Italy. Il
Sud e l’America: Molise ed Emigrazione.
June 1-7,
1987.
Jane, la mujer providencial de Pedro en La
sombra del ciprés es alargada de Miguel Delibes.
Southeast Conference of Language and Literatures.
February 26-March 1, 1987. Rollins
College, Winter Park, Florida.
Professional Organizations:
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
Twentieth Century Spanish Association
Sigma Delta Pi: The Spanish Honorary Society
Phi Sigma Iota: International Foreign Language Society
American Association of Italian Studies
American Association of Teachers of Italian
American Italian Historical Association
Mediterranean Studies Association
Northeast Modern Language Association
Modern Language Association
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