Education

A.B.  Spanish.  University of California, Berkeley, 1969

M.A. Spanish.  University of California, Berkeley, 1970

Ph.D. Comparative Literature.  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1975

Honors and Grants

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Spring 2005         

University of Virginia Sesquicentennial Associateship, Fall 2004

Rome-University of Virginia Summer Fellowship 2002

Research Associate in Women’s Studies in Religion, Harvard Divinity School 1998-99

Member, Virginia Society of Fellows 1999-present

Committee for Cultural Cooperation between Spain and United States Universities 1997

University of Virginia Sesquicentennial Associateship, Spring 1995

University of Virginia summer research grant, 1993

University of Virginia summer research grant, 1989

College of Arts and Science Grant, University of Virginia, Spring 1987

University of Illinois Fellow, 1971-72

Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1969-70

Phi Beta Kappa, 1969

Academic Appointments

1989-present  Associate Professor, Univ. of Virginia; Chair of Department 1995-98

1986-89  Assistant Professor, Univ. of Virginia

1983-86  Lecturer, Univ. of Virginia

1977-83  Part-time Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish,  Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

1976-77  Visiting Assistant Professor, Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

1975-76  Visiting Lecturer of Spanish, Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

1974-75  Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish,  Randolph Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, VA