RUBEN PELAYO Foreign Languages
Gabriel García Márquez: A Critical Companion.
Westport, CT.; London: Greenwood Press, 2001.
"Textual experimentation in the Narrative of Alberto Ruy Sánchez." Connecticut Review. New Britain, CT.21, 2 (1999): 125-133.
"Treinta años de
erotismo en la novelística de José Agustín." Texto crítico. México:
Universidad Veracruzana (1998): 69-81.
"Alberto
Ruy Sánchez: Los nombres del aire."
Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea.
El Paso, TX. (1997): 76-80.
"Censura,
Lenguaje y sexualidad en José Agustín." Monóculo, Los Ángeles,
CA. 1:3 (1991): 34-41.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
Immersion and Let's Talk Spanish Today. Penton's Dynamic
Conversational Foreign
Language Program, Penton Overseas, Inc. Carlsbad,
CA, 1994.
Aprenda en su auto.
Inglés nivel Dos, Serie Cintas de Idiomas, Penton Overseas, Inc., Carlsbad, CA,
1993.
Learn in Your Car. Spanish Level Three, Series Language Tapes, Penton
Overseas, Inc., Carlsbad, CA. 1992.
Aprenda
en su auto. Inglés
Nivel Uno, Serie Cintas de Idiomas, Penton Overseas, Inc., Carlsbad, CA.
1992.
BOOK REVIEWS:
Intercambios, 3rd edition.
Boston: Heinle & Heinle, 1997
Dicho y Hecho, Spanish-language textbook. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1997.
Dicho y Hecho, workbook/lab manual and tape script. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1997.
Aventura, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1996.
"Bringing Gabriel García Márquez to the American Classroom." An Interdisciplinary, University-wide Conference "On Responsibility." Southern Connecticut State University. September 23, 2000.
"The Life and Works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 17th
Century Feminist of Mexico." Women’s History Month, Southern Connecticut
State University. March
7, 2000.
"Sara
Sefchovich: La señora de los sueños."
2nd Gender Issues in Current Scholarship:
Works-In-Progress by CSU & Consortium Faculty.
Central Connecticut State University.
April 17, 1999.
"Sara
Sefchovich: cosmopolitismo, erotismo y feminismo en México."
Cuarto Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea.
University of Texas at El Paso.
March 5, 1999.
"Alberto
Ruy Sánchez y el cosmopolitismo literario" Tercer Congreso de Literatura
Mexicana Contemporánea. University
of Texas at El Paso, TX. March
7, 1998.
"La
experimentación, el lenguaje y el deseo en la narrativa de Ruy Sánchez."
Segundo Congreso de Literatura Contemporánea. University of Texas at El
Paso. March 7, 1997.
"La estructura y funciones del narrador en la novelística de José Agustín." University of Cincinnati. Cincinnati, OH. May 11, 1996.
"La estructura y
funciones del narratario en Bye Bye Tenochtitlan: Digo yo no más digo."
University of Texas at El Paso, TX.
March 8, 1996.
"Literatura
de la Onda: José Agustín y la Literatura Contestataria del Poder." New
Britain, CT. October
22, 1994.
"La Onda: literatura contestataria del poder." Fullerton, CA. October 19, 1991.
"El teatro de José Agustín, producción polifacética y realidad." San Francisco, CA. October 27, 1990.
"Censorship, Language and Sexuality in José Agustín." Long Beach, CA, April 26, 1990.
WORKSHOP LEADERSHIP:
"Lingüística histórica y general." Chair, Sixth Biennial Northeast Regional Meeting of the AATSP, Yale University, New Haven, CT. October 1, 1994.
RECENT GRANTS RECEIVED:
Sabbatical leave for the fall semester 2001. Granted for further research
toward writing a book tentatively entitled: Textual Experimentation in
Contemporary Mexican Literature.
The Daphne Seybolt Charles E. Culpepper Foundation. A grant to prepare students with Spanish and Communications as major or minor to function professionally in a global economy.
RESEARCH INTERESTS IN GENERAL:
Literary Criticism; The Merging of Genres in Today's Spanish American Literature; Eroticism in Literature; Pedagogy; Linguistics.
CURRENT/FUTURE SPECIFIC RESEARCH PROJECTS:
Presently working a book that encompasses Mexican writers, both male and female, who began publishing in the 1980s and 1990s.
"Art and Literature in the Contemporary Mexican Novel, Short Story, Poetry, and Essay."
Mentor for the Institute for Community Research, CT Commission on the Arts.
"The Natural Approach in the University Classroom" (teaching)
DISSERTATION TITLE:
José
Agustín y la novela contestataria del poder.
University of California, Riverside