Thesis Advising: Graduate Level
2012 Catherine Sangueza. "Scenes from Copacabana: Reflections on Religion in the Lake Titicaca Region"
Committee Chair and Reader
2008/09: Christine Whittington: “Santa Muerte: Origin and Contemporary Significance of a Mexican Folk Saint”
2006: William H. Longyard. "Amazon John. A Novel for Young Adults" (Reader and Examination Committee)
2006: Gina Glenn: “Arthurian Legend and the Quest for the Holy Grail: A Study in Original Fiction”
2002: Patti Patridge. “A Bio-Psycho-Social-Spiritual Model for Treating Eating Disorders in the Twenty-First Century”
2002: Aimee Neely. “The Mexican in Hollywood Cinema”
2001: Jenny Buelin. “A Dramaturge’s Protocol for Noel Coward’s A Design for Living, A Comedy in Three Acts (1933)”
Thesis Advising: Undergraduate Level
2007: Sarah Davidson-Palmer. Undergraduate Honors Thesis. Committee member.
2002 Hope Walters. “The Action Heroine of Hollywood Cinema and Social Violence”
Graduate Level Classes:
MLS 778: Body Talk/Talking Body: The Body in Culture and History (F2002)
MLS 769: Contemporary Spanish Theatre (F2001)
MLS 706: The (Mis)Representation of Science and Technology in Film (S2000)
MIN 590: Multicultural Contexts for Ministry: Cuba (Spring 2002 and Spring 2004)
MLS 735: Theatre as Political, Cultural, and Religious Protest (S2005)
Undergraduate Upper Level:
COM 313: Film History Since 1945
COM 312: Film History from its Beginnings to 1945
ENG 433: Senior theses: (1) original play based on Greek tragedy
(2) "Eroticism as a Political Metaphor in One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez
EDUC 473: Student Teaching Advisor
ENG 440/540: Modern Drama
ENG 341W/ JMC310W: Art of the Film
SPA 470: Trade Internship for Spanish majors with major or minor in Business
SPA 401: Medieval Spanish Literature
SPA 403: 19th-Century Spanish Literature
SPA 406: Special Topics: Contemporary Hispanic Theatre
SPA 321: Directed Teaching Experience
SPA 310: Selected Readings (Spanish)
SPA 301: Composition and Conversation
SPA 217: Literary and Cultural Studies of Spain
Undergraduate Lower Level
Beginning and Intermediate Spanish at: Indiana University (Bloomington), the University of Louisiville, and Samford University (B'ham, AL), 1982-1996.
Professor-in-Residence, Madrid, Spain. Samford University Study Abroad Program. Summers 1993, 1994, 1995
Other
COM 246: Intro to Film and Media Aesthetics
HMN 217: European Drama in Translation
HMN 396: Theories of the Theatre
FYS 100 (Film): Spring 2011: Film Studies
Spring 2009: Film Studies: Directors, Genres, Methods: "Mythmaking and [Super]Heroes"
Spring 2008: Film Studies: Directors, Genres, Methods: "Conflicts: Public and Private"
Spring 2007: Film Studies: Directors, Genres, Methods: "Character and Society"
Spring 2005: Film Studies: Directors, Genres, Methods: "Gender Construction and Identity"
Spring 2004: Film Studies: Directors, Genres, Methods: "Political Ambition and the Auteur Theory"
Spring 2003: Film Studies: Directors, Genres, Methods: "Censorship and Good/Evil"
Spring 2002: Film Studies: Directors, Genres, Methods: "Persuading the Spectator"
Spring 2001: Film Studies: Directors, Genres, Methods: "Directors and Genres"
Spring 2000: Constructing Societies: Science and Technology in Film
Fall 1999: The Representation of Science and Technology in Film
Fall 1998: The Reel World: Globalization and Ideology in Film
Spring 1998: Constructing Societies: Science and Technology in Film
Fall 1997: Social Change and Representation in Film: Perspective and Relativity