LESLIE SUSAN NORD
Lecturer, Spanish
California State University Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840-2406
office: (562) 985-2200
Fax: (562) 985-2406

EDUCATION

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut:
Ph.D. awarded December 1989
Concentration in Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century
Dissertation Director: Manuel Durán

Examination with Honors
Dissertation: Irony and Salvation in Federico García Lorca's
Romancero Gitano and Poeta en Nueva York: An Exercise in
Intertextuality

University Of California Los Angeles
Master's Degree in Spanish, Passed with Distinction. March 1979
Bachelor's of Arts, Spanish Cum laude, June, 1973

OTHER EDUCATION

Universidad Carlos III, Colmenarejo, Spain
Business Spanish Certificate, Summer 2001

Cámara De Comercio De Madrid
Certificado Básico del Español de los Negocios, Summer 2000

Daniel School Of Management, University Of South Carolina
Faculty Development Workshop in Business Spanish, Summer 1997

Dale Carnegie Course
How to Make Friends and Influence People, 1995

University Of California Los Angeles
Certificate Teaching English as a Second Language, June 1982

Monterey Institute Of Foreign Studies (Now International Studies)
Translation and Interpretation, Spanish, English, French, 1974-75, Certificate Program

Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
Junior Year Abroad, 1971-72

AWARDS

Most Valuable Professor - College of Liberal Arts, for work with
Outstanding Graduate of the College, 2001, Sandra Basabe

Commendation for Distinguished Faculty Contributions to Department of
Romance, German and Russian Languages and Literatures as Graduate
Student Advisor, CSULB, Fall 1998

Eli Lilly Liberal Arts Workshop for Faculty Development, Colorado College
Colorado Springs, Colorado, June 11-25, 1994

Mary Wig Johnson Award for Distinguished Service, Scripps College, 1993

Certificate for Excellence in Teaching, Scripps Students, 1993

Mención de honor: Awarded by refereed panel for "'Como si'- Metonimia

o incesto en Pedro Páramo" at International Symposium on Juan Rulfo and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater,
Oklahoma, 1987

Yale University Fellowship, 1984, 1985, 1986

James R. Goodrich Memorial Fellowship, Yale University, 1987

Community Service Award, Volunteer Interpreter, UCLA Hospital, 1973

GRANTS

Travel funds from Office of Provost for attendance of Business Spanish
Workshop in Madrid, offered through CIBER of Florida International
University, Summer, 2001

Ad hoc travel funds from College Budget Office for attendance of Business
Spanish workshop, Summer 2001

Travel funds from RGRLL for attendance of above workshop

Intellectual Activities Grant to sponsor presentation of Roberta Johnson,
Visiting Professor of Claremont McKenna College, to speak to Department
CSULB, Fall 2000

Intellectual Activities Grant to sponsor presentation of Spanish poet Ana
María Fagundo to speak to Department, CSULB, Spring 2000

Faculty Development in International Business, CIBER workshop at Daniel
School of Management, University of South Carolina, July-Aug., 1997

Irvine Grant for research at Archivo Histórico de la Guerra Civil in Salamanca, Spain. Scripps College, 1996

Irvine Grant for research at Centre d'estudis d'historia contemporania, Barcelona, Spain, and private collection, Carles Fontseré, Gerona, Spain.
Scripps College, 1994

Faculty Curriculum Development Grant, Scripps College, 1993

Irvine Grant for research at Centro Cultural de la Generación de '27, Málaga, Spain. Scripps College, 1993

Athwin Grant for research at UCLA library on José Bergamín's journal Cruz y raya. Scripps College, 1992

Frank Johnson Faculty Grant, History Tour in Argentina with faculty from Universidad Provincial de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Connecticut College, 1990.

Frank Johnson Faculty Grant for research at the Fundación Federico García Lorca, Madrid, Spain. Scripps College, 1989

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, California

Lecturer in Spanish; Romance, German and Russian Languages and Literatures, Spring 1997 to present.
Graduate Advisor, Spanish - Fall 1998, Spring 2000, Fall 2003
Undergraduate Advisor, Spanish - Spring 2004
Undergraduate Program Director, Spanish - Spring 2004

Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California

Creation of syllabi for Spanish Certificate Program - Summer 1999

Riverside Community College, Riverside, California

Adjunct Lecturer, Spanish, Spring 1997

Scripps College, Claremont, California

Assistant Professor, Hispanic Studies, 1991-1997

Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut

Assistant Professor, Hispanic Studies, 1990-1991
Lecturer, Hispanic Studies, 1988-1990

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Teaching Fellow, Spanish, 1984-1988
Teaching Fellow, Spanish, Yale Summer Language Institute, 1985, 1987,
1988

Chelsea House Publishers, New Haven, Connecticut

Researcher, 1988

University Of California Los Angeles

Academic Counselor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 1980-1984
For UCLA's 150 majors in Spanish and Portuguese, I did academic advising in coordination with the faculty, career counseling in coordination with the Placement Center, high school recruiting with area high schools, and helped organize the department's first undergraduate association. I referred students to other appropriate university offices and kept records
for all departmental students. I provided information about UCLA's Education Abroad Program and about other semester and summer programs abroad. I was a consultant for the curricula of the Spanish and Portuguese majors.

California Lutheran College, Thousand Oaks, California

Instructor, Spanish, 1981

University of California, Los Angeles

Teaching Assistant, Spanish, 1976-1979

PUBLICATIONS

Nord, Leslie. "The Keeper of the Keys: Rewriting El beso de la mujer araña," Monographic Review/Revista Monográfica, Vol. XI, Texas Tech University, refereed journal, 1996.

Nord, Leslie. "When Words are not Enough: The Spanish Civil War, Committed Poetry and the Graphic Arts," La Chispa '93, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, December 1993.

Nord, Leslie. "Ironic Tension in the 'Romance de la guardia civil española'," in "Cuando yo me muera…"; Essays in Memory of Federico García Lorca. ed. C. Brian Morris, Lanham: University Press of America, 1988.

PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

"Business Spanish in the Curriculum," American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Scripps College, Claremont, April 2002

"Notes on Cataluña," American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, October 2000

"The Keeper of the Keys: Rewriting El beso de la mujer araña," Mid- America Conference on Hispanic Literature, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, September 1994

"When Words are not Enough: The Spanish Civil War, Committed Poetry and the Graphic Arts," La Chispa International Symposium, New Orleans, Louisiana, Tulane University, February 1993

"The Ambition to be Brief," Invited paper, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, April 1991

"Heaven and Hell in Poeta en Nueva York,: Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, November 1989

"'Como si' - Metonimia o incesto en Pedro Páramo," International Symposium on Juan Rulfo and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, 1987

"Ironic Tension in the 'Romance de la guardia civil española'," Invited paper, International Symposium on Federico García Lorca, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, 1986

"Ironic Tension in the 'Romance de la guardia civil española'," Invited paper, Lecture Series, School of Spanish and Latin American Studies, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 1986

COURSES TAUGHT

California State University Long Beach

Nobel Poets and Others (graduate and undergraduate)
Spanish Culture (graduate and undergraduate, "The Invention of Spain")
Nineteenth Century Spanish Narrative (graduate and undergraduate)
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Spanish Poetry (graduate and undergraduate)
Masterpieces of Spanish Literature
Literary Analysis
Introduction to Translation
Literary Translation
Medical Translation
Business/Legal Translation
Business Spanish (two-course series)
Advanced Grammar and Composition
Spanish Conversation
Spanish Language

Riiverside Community College

Spanish Language

Scripps College

Twentieth Century Spanish Novel (Renamed "Literature and Graphic Arts of the Spanish Civil War")
Rooted and Rootless Poetry
The Real and the Fantastic: Contemporary Spanish Short Story
Spanish Civilization and Literature, 1700 - present
Literary Analysis
First Year Humanities: Engaging the Issues: Freedom
Elementary and Advanced Spanish Language

Connecticut College

Nineteenth Century Spanish Literature
Twentieth Century Spanish Literature
Medieval Spanish Literature
Literary Analysis through Spanish Texts
Spanish Language
Women's Literature in Translation

Yale University

Spanish Language

California Lutheran College

Spanish Language

University Of California At Los Angeles

Spanish Language

RESEARCH

WORK IN PROGRESS
Ongoing research into the status of Catalonia within Spain - history, art, and language

Course and program creation - Business Spanish program, coordinating with SDSU CIBER program to administer EXIGE exam to Business Spanish students, who can be awarded a certificate from the World Trade Center upon successful completion. Coordinating to write grant proposal for Business Language programs, with French, Italian and Spanish faculty, as well as with two members of the College of Business Administration.

SERVICE

California State University Long Beach

Member of departmental curriculum committee, 2002-2003, 2003-2004
Observation and evaluation of part-time Spanish faculty, Spring 2004
Creation and evaluation of Master's exams in Spanish
Single subject interviews for credential students
Interview students for International Studies Programs, Spring 2002- Spring 2004
Chair of Curriculum Committee for RGRLL, Spring 2000
Graduate Advisor - Spanish, Fall 1998, Spring 2000, Fall 2003
Undergraduate Advisor and Program Director, Spanish, Spring 2004
Moderator for Conference on Comparative Literature, 1998
Outreach to schools - presentation about translation and interpretation to Spanish classes at Millikan High School, Long Beach, 1998

Scripps College

Advisor to First Year Students
Advisor to Hispanic Studies majors and minors
Advisor for Study Abroad Programs
Reader of theses, Hispanic Studies
Chair, Hispanic Studies Department, 1992-1993
Head, Search Committee, Hispanic/Chicano Studies, 1992-1993
Consultant to Scripps Humanities Institute Post-Colonial Speakers Series, 1992
Consultant to Scripps First Year Humanities Speakers Series, 1993
Hosted visit by "Las madres de la Plaza de Mayo," February 1994
Faculty resident, Mary Routt Hall, 1992-1994
Advisor to Spanish Academic Corridor - 1992-1994
Advisor to Voice, Scripps Newspaper

Connecticut College

Freshman advisor
Advisor to Spanish majors and minors
Advisor for Study Abroad Programs
Reader of theses
Faculty Advisor to Connecticut College Film Society
Member of Affirmative Action Committee

University Of California At Los Angeles

Academic advisor to 150 Spanish and Portuguese majors
Advisor for Education Abroad Programs and other Study Abroad programs
Career counselor for Spanish and Portuguese majors
Consultant for department's high school visitation program
Consultant for undergraduate Spanish and Portuguese Association
Consultant for curricula of Spanish and Portuguese majors

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
Southern California Association of Peninsularists

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

Award as Volunteer interpreter, UCLA Hospital, 1973
Coordinator of Interpreters for Boxing Event, 1984 Los Angeles Olympics