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Rosemary Feal (Executive Director, MLA): "Humanities at the Crossroads in US Higher Education: 101 Paths"

September 08, 2016
05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Hoyt Auditorium, River Campus

Sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, the Department of English, the Department of Art and Art History, and the Program in Visual and Cultural Studies.

This event is free and open to the public. ASL interpretation will be provided.

If you require special accommodations, please contact Joshua Boydstun (585-275-4252; joshua.boydstun@rochester.edu) by Tuesday, September 6.

About Rosemary Feal

Since 2002, Rosemary G. Feal has served as executive director of the Modern Language Association of America. She administers the business affairs, programs, and governance of the association; is general editor of the association's publishing and research programs and editor of two association publications; serves as an ex officio member of all committees and commissions of the association; chairs the committee that oversees the planning of the association's annual convention; and is a member of the MLA Executive Council's audit and advisory committees, working with the MLA's trustees in evaluating and implementing investments of the MLA's endowment funds and chairing the Finance Committee. She is on leave from her position as professor of Spanish at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, where she was chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. From 1987 to 1998 she was a member of the faculty at the University of Rochester.

Coeditor of the SUNY Series in Latin American Iberian Thought and Culture, Rosemary Feal is also an associate editor of the Afro-Hispanic Review and former senior consulting editor of the Latin American Literary Review. She has published on contemporary Latin American literature, Afro-Hispanic studies, Caribbean women writers, and feminist theory. Her book publications include Isabel Allende Today (coeditor; 2002); Painting on the Page: Interartistic Approaches to Modern Hispanic Texts (coauthor; 1995); and Novel Lives: The Fictional Autobiographies of Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Mario Vargas Llosa (author; 1986). Recently she has written on the majors in English and other languages and on liberal learning for Liberal Education (2009) as well as on the foreign language teaching community for Modern Language Journal (2008).

Rosemary Feal speaks frequently on the state of the humanities, the academic workforce, doctoral study and professional development for PhDs, world languages and literatures, and foreign language studies. Her talks often address projects that she has spearheaded at the MLA, including those that respond to the need to create a national agenda for foreign language learning, to strengthen college and university language programs nationwide, to prepare PhDs for a wide range of career options, and to establish protocols for evaluating scholarly publications for tenure and promotion.

She earned a PhD in Spanish from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, and a BA from Allegheny College. Rosemary Feal also completed the Bachillerato en Letras at the Instituto Belga Guatemalteco (Guatemala) and studied abroad in France and Spain.

Rosemary Feal has announced that she plans to step down as executive director at the end of her current term, in summer 2017.

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