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Maricarmen Martínez, Ph.D.

Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities
Assistant Director of the Interdisciplinary  Program in Humanities (IPH)
Director Of Graduate Studies
Graduate Advisor

Email:mmartine@mailer.fsu.edu
Personal Web Page :www.maricarmenmartinez.com

TEACHING PROFILE

Ability to teach a wide array of courses in interdisciplinary humanities.

• Experience  teaching Ancient and Modern European, Peninsular, and
Latin American Literature and Culture, Modern Philosophy, Theories
of Education, Medieval Humanities, Renaissance and Baroque
Humanities, Modern Humanities, Spanish and English as Second
Languages, Latin-American Film, and Film from a Multicultural
Perspective.

• Teaching focused on the epistemology of the disciplines and on
applying interdisciplinary approaches.

• Emphasis on the creation of a community of inquiry as a teaching
strategy.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Humanities and Human Rights

• Interdisciplinary Humanities

• Spanish and Latin American Modern Literature

• Spanish and Latin American Modern Philosophy

• Spanish and Latin American Modern Philosophy as an Approach to
   Spanish and Latin American Modern Literature's

• Philosophical Dimensions of Literature

• European Philosophy

• Philosophy as Literature

• Multicultural Film

• Philosophy of Education

EDUCATION

•Ph.D. in Humanities
Major: Modern Philosophy and Literature
Florida State University, 1999.

 •M.A.T. in Education
Major: Teaching Philosophy and Literature, Montclair State
University NJ, 1990.

• M Litt Philosophy
Major: Early Twentieth Century Analytical Philosophy, University of
Bristol, England, 1979 ­ 1981.

• M.A. in Philosophy
Major: Modern Continental Philosophy, University of Puerto Rico,
1977.

EMPLOYMENT


Summer 2003 to the Present

Assistant Director, Interdisciplinary Program in the
Humanities, Professor of Multicultural Film. Cultural Imperialism
Humanities, Philosophy and History of Ideas, Culture and Media, Critical Theory,
Gender Studies

Spring 2003 to the Present

Professor of Humanities and Director of Graduate Studies
The Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities

• 1975- ­ 2003

Professor, Department of Humanities, College of General
and Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Puerto Rico, Río
Piedras, PR.

• Professor of Humanities, Philosophy, Modern Literature, Modern
Spanish Culture, Modern Latin American Culture, English, and Film.
• Taught over twenty different courses in the liberal arts to
undergraduate students.

• Taught Critical Thinking courses to faculty members at the request
of the Office of the President of the University of Puerto Rico.

• Organized faculty development seminars in order to develop a
community of professors who wished to resolve the "teaching versus
research" dichotomy.

• Wrote the theoretical essay to accompany the document "Mission
Goals and Objectives of the College of General and Interdisciplinary
Studies of the University of Puerto Rico."

• Fall 1992-1994, Fall 2000-01
Director, Department of Humanities, College of General and
Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras,
PR and representative for the Dean in all College level faculty
committees.

• 1999-2002
Associate Professor of Department of Humanities of
Humanities, College of General and Interdisciplinary Studies,
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, PR.

• 1994-1999
Spanish Language and Culture
Instructor, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.
• 1994- ­ 1999 Multicultural Film

Instructor, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.
• 1994 ­ -1999 Cultural Imperialism
Instructor, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.
•1992 ­ 1994

Director, Department of Humanities, College of General
and Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Puerto Rico, Río
Piedras, PR.

• 1979- ­ 1981
Instructor of Logic and Analytical Philosophy, University
of Bristol, England.

COURSES TAUGHT


• Cultural Imperialism

• Cultural Studies and the Critical Tradition

• Seminar in the Humanities: Principles of Criticism

• Approaches to Hispanic Literature

• Humanities: The Concept of Evil in Modern Culture (Two semester
course)

• Humanities: Transatlantic Utopias (Two-semester course)

• Humanities: Greek and Roman (Two-semester course)

• Humanities: Modern and Postmodern (Two semester course)

• Humanities: Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque (Two-semester
course)
• Humanities: The Concept of Education in Western Culture
(Two-semester course)

• Film from a Multicultural Perspective

• Spanish Culture and Civilization

• Introduction to Philosophy

• Critical Thinking (Faculty Seminar)

• Ancient Philosophy

• Modern Philosophy

• Modes of Inquiry in General and Interdisciplinary Education
(Faculty Seminar)

• Philosophy of Art

• Philosophy of Mind (Honors Seminar)

• Contemporary Philosophy

• Introduction to Critical Theory

• History of Philosophy (Two-semester course)

• Theories of Perception

• Philosophy for Art Students

• Philosophy for Children

• Philosophy of Feminism

• The Mind-Body Problem: Cybernetics, Neurology, Psychology, and
Philosophy (Honors Seminar)

• Theory of Knowledge

• Organization of Knowledge

• Principles of Knowledge

• Methods of Knowledge

• Sociology of Knowledge

• Elementary Spanish

• Intermediate Spanish

• Modern Peninsular Literature

• Modern Latin American Literature

• Modern Spanish Caribbean Literature

• Modern Spanish Philosophy

• Modern Latin American Philosophy

• Latin American Film

• Basic English

• Intermediate English

DIRECTED INDEPENDENT STUDIES

• Capitalism and Modern Culture

•  Representations of White Masculinity in American Film

• The Metaphysics of Capital

• Don Quixote as a Modern Novel

• Modern Critical Theory

PAPERS PRESENTED

• "A Neo-Stoic Reading of Quevedo's Desengaño de las Cosas"
Panel: Neo-Stoicism in the Seventeenth Century. MLA Annual
Convention, Philadelphia 2005

• "Fools Rush In": Cinematic Representations of the Southwest"
Film and Literature Conference, FSU

•"Hollywood Versions of Shakespeare's 'Taming of the Shrew.' "
(With Dr. Eugene Crook). SAMLA 2002 Convention, Baltimore,
MD, November 16, 2002.

•" Transdisciplinariedad y estudios culturales. "("Transdisciplinarity
in Cultural Studies.") Jornada sobre estudios
interdisciplinarios. (Conference on Interdisciplinary
Studies). College of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico, Fall
2001.

• "America's Last Colony and the Great Books: Puerto Rico's Search
For Freedom. "The Idea of 'The Great Books, 'Canon and Community, On
and Off Campus University of Illinois at Chicago, Institute for the
Humanities. (Sponsored by The Great Books Foundation and the English
Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago), April 26-27,
2001.

• "Estrategias de verdad." ("Strategies of Truth," or "Really
Strategies?"). School of Social Sciences, University of Puerto Rico,
March 2001.

• "Quevedo, Bocángel, Sor Juana, Bernini y Bach: Voces del
barroco." ("Quevedo, Bocángel, Sor Juana, Bernini and Bach: Voices of
the Baroque"). Ways of Inquiry: Faculty Seminar. Sponsored by the
Office of the Dean of Academic Affairs, College of General and
Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Puerto Rico, March 2001.

• "Modern Philosophy in Spanish Speaking Countries. "Department of
Humanities and Modern Languages,
Southeastern Oklahoma State University, February 2001.

• "Comunidad de inquirir y filosofía. "("Community of Inquiry and
Philosophy"). Proyecto para el desarrollo de destrezas de
pensamiento. (Project for the Development of Thinking Skills).
(Three four-hour workshops for public high school students, sponsored by
The College Board and The Office of the Dean of Academic Affairs of
the University of Puerto Rico, February 2001.

• "History of Cinema: Latin America and Hollywood." San
Juan: College of General Studies, University of Puerto Rico, 2000.

• "Film Language." San Juan: College of General Studies, University
of Puerto Rico, 2000.

• "Cartesian Films: The Purple Rose of Cairo, The Truman Show,
Pleasantville, and The Matrix." San Juan: College of General
Studies, University of Puerto Rico, 2000.

• "Réquiem para una musa muerta: María de Jorge Isaacs." ("Requiem
for a Dead Muse: Jorge Isaacs’s María"). San Juan: College
of General Studies, University of Puerto Rico, 1999.
• "Gender Construction in Latin American Film. "Global
Gathering. Tallahassee: Florida State University, 1999.

• "Philosophy as Literature: An Alternative for Philosophical
Writing by Women. "Genre and Gender in Film and
Literature. Tallahassee: Florida State University, 1996.

•" Ovidio: El arte de amar como manual de seducción del soldado
romano ."("Ovid: The Art of Love as a Manual on Seduction for the
Roman Soldier"). San Juan: Casa del Libro, 1994.

•" El impacto del falologocentrismo en la siquis femenina según la
novela latinoamericana del siglo diecinueve. "("The Impact of
Phalologocentrism on the Feminine Psyche According to the Nineteenth
Century Latin American Novel"). Segundo congreso latinoamericano de
filosofía. (The Second Latin American Conference of Philosophy). San
Juan: Universidad Interamericana, 1994.

•" Valle Inclán: La estética de un Don Juan, feo, católico y
sentimental." ("Valle Inclán: The Aesthetics of an Ugly, Catholic,
and Sentimental Don Juan"). Caguas, Puerto Rico: Colegio
Universitario del Turabo, 1993.View online version.

• "Método y contenido: Una falsa disyunción."("Method and Content: A
False Dichotomy"). San Juan: College of General Studies, University
of Puerto Rico, 1993.

•"El humanismo de Heidegger. "Humanismo y antihumanismo en la cultura actual.("The Humanism of Heidegger. "Humanism and Anti-humanism in Present Culture). San Juan, Puerto Rico. Televised colloquium. WIPR-TV
(PBS), 1992.

• "La estrategia de la pregunta en el aula universitaria."("The
Question as a Didactic Strategy in the University Classroom").
San Juan: College of General Studies, University of Puerto Rico, 1990.

• "El salón de clase como comunidad de cuestionamiento."
("The Classroom as a Community of Inquiry"). San Juan: College of General
Studies, University of Puerto Rico, 1990.

• "Aspectos lógicos, culturales, y epistemológicos de la enseñanza
de los idiomas desde una perspectiva interdisciplinaria."
("Logical, Cultural, and Epistemological Aspects of the Teaching of Languages
From an Interdisciplinary Perspective"). San Juan: College
of General Studies, University of Puerto Rico, 1990.

PUBLICATIONS

Cultural Imperialism: Essays, Pearson, 2005
( Collective of Cultural Imperialism Instructors of IPH)

Multicultural Film: An Anthology, Pearson, 2005

Multicultural Film Essays (with Eugene Crook) . Boston: Pearson, Fall 2004.
(Co-editor and author of introduction).

Cultural Imperialism: Essays ( with Susan Esposito)
Boston: Pearson, Spring 2004

• The Revolt against Time: A Philosophical Approach to the Prose and
Poetry of Quevedo and Bocángel. New York, 2002
250 pages.

Multicultural Film Essays. Boston: Pearson, Summer 2003.
(Co-editor and author of introduction).

• Multicultural Film: An Anthology. Boston: Pearson, Spring 2003.
(Co-editor, author of "The Multicultural Nation: An Introduction").

Multicultural Film: A Critical Reader. Boston: Prentice Hall, Fall
2002. (Co-editor, contributor of section on Latino / Hispanic
film, and author of introduction).

• "Dualismo metafísico e inmortalidad del alma en Providencia de
Dios de Francisco de Quevedo." ("Metaphysical Dualism and the
Immortality of the Soul in Francisco de Quevedo’s Providence of
God").Espéculo 16 (Nov., 2000). 25 pages.
Online Journal.Universidad Complutense de Madrid.Internet
.URL: www.ucm.es/info/especulo/numero16/dualismo.html

•" Réquiem para una musa muerta: María de Jorge Isaacs."("Requiem for
a Dead Muse: Jorge Isaacs’s María").Revista de Estudios Generales de
U.P.R..14 (Nov., 2000): 114-132.

• Multicultural Dimensions of Film: A Reader. New York: McGraw-Hill,
1999.(Co-editor and researcher.)

•" El encuentro entre la teoría angloamericana del conocimiento y la
inteligencia artificial." ("The Meeting of the Anglo-American Theory
of Knowledge and Artificial Intelligence").Reflexiones Generales.Río
Piedras: Editorial Universitaria, 1999.30-40.

• "Maricarmen’s Cultural Studies Web Page." (Web site containing 32
essays and summaries written by Dr. Martínez for students of
Cultural Studies and Humanities.Online since 1998).
Internet.URL: www.maricarmenmartinez.com

• Puente.(Bridges). Madrid: Editorial Santillana, 1994.(Writer and
researcher for a series of twelve books on Spanish Grammar and
Literature for elementary school children).

• "Areté de Cenicienta: cuento filosófico."("The Arête of
Cinderella: A Philosophical Short Story").Revista de Estudios
Generales de U.P.R..7 (1990).

•" La teoría causal de la educación."("The Causal Theory of
Education").Revista de Estudios Generales de U.P.R..4 (1989):
115-130.

•" Transmisión de destrezas lógicas en escuela elemental: ¿por qué? y
¿ cómo?"("Teaching Logic Skills in Elementary School: Why? And
How?").Plural.20 (1988): 185-207.

•" Recuerdos de una niña tejidos con poemas."("A Little Girl’s
Memories Weaved With Poems").Revista de Estudios Generales de
U.P.R..2 (1988): 121-134.

•" La filosofía y el niño de escuela primaria." ("Philosophy and the
Elementary School Child").Revista de Estudios Generales de U.P.R..1
(1988): 183-199.

• "Las Fotografías de Jack Delano: ¿Historia o arte?"("The
Photographs of Jack Delano: History or Art?").Plástica.10 (1983):
21-24.

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

• Surrogate Sweethearts: Latinas in Early Twentieth-Firsy Century Film

• “Quevedo's Prose" A Comprehensive Commentary

OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

• Professor and Supervisor of all teaching assistants for the Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities.

• Wrote syllabus for Supervised Teaching and Research Hours: Hum 5940

• Drafted new Syllabus of Graduate Seminar: Interdisciplinary Inquiry Research and Methodology

• Drafted new Vision of the Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities

• Fall 2004

"Diversity Dinner:  An Open Dialogue on Human Rights" in collaboration with the Florida Commission of Human Relations, Carlos Cuban Cafe, (Attended by undergraduate and graduate students of the Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities)

•2000- ­ 2001
Organizer, Coordinator, and Presenter, Conference on
Interdisciplinary Studies. College of Humanities, University
of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, PR.

SERVICE

• 1999-2001
Elected via referendum as Academic Senator for the College
of General and Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Puerto Rico,
Río Piedras, PR.

• Committee for the Reconceptualization of the Undergraduate Program
of the University of Puerto Rico

Committee of Academic Programs

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• Modern Languages Association
• Society for Utopian Studies
• Philosophy and Literature Society
• National Humanities Institute
• Human Rights for the 21rst Century
• American Asssociation of Critics and Literary Scholars
• North American Society of Social Philosophy
• Film and History Society


LAST UPDATED: 6 April 2005

   
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