Abbreviated

CURRICULUM VITAE
(Revised: January 2002)

Jeffrey Benham Bruner
Dept. of Foreign Languages
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV 26506-6298

Tel.: (304) 293-5121
Fax: (304) 293-7655
E-mail: jbruner@wvu.edu

EDUCATION

PhD (1990), Spanish, Rutgers-The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Specialization: Contemporary Spanish Narrative and Theatre.
Minor: Contemporary Spanish-American Narrative and Theatre.
General Areas: 1) Spanish Literature--Neoclassicism through Generation of 1898; 2) Spanish American Literature--Colonial period through Modernism.
Dissertation: "The Role of Painting in Two Novels by Carlos Rojas: El Valle de los Caídos and El Jardín de las Hespérides" (directed by Phyllis Zatlin).

MA (1986), Spanish, Rutgers-The State Univ.

BA (1983), Spanish, Oklahoma Baptist Univ., Shawnee, Oklahoma.

EMPLOYMENT

2002-present: Chair (1996-present: Associate Professor; 1990-96: Assistant Professor), Dept. of Foreign Languages, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, West Virginia. Regular member of graduate faculty, 1992-present.

1988-90: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Modern Languages, Trenton State Coll., Trenton, New Jersey.

1988 (January-May): Adjunct Instructor, Humanities Dept., Raritan Valley Community Coll., Somerville, New Jersey.

1986-88: Adjunct Instructor (dual appointment with teaching assistantship), Dept.of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers Univ.

1984-88: Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers Univ.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

West Virginia Univ.:
Undergraduate courses: Spanish Literature in Translation, Intermediate Spanish I, Advanced Spanish I (Spanish Conversation), Advanced Spanish II (Reading and Composition), Commercial Spanish I, Commercial Spanish II, Advanced Spanish IV (Advanced Reading and Composition), Spanish Civilization and Culture, Early Literature of Spain (formerly "Spanish Literature to 1800"), Spanish Literature since 1800, Golden Age Literature, Introduction to Literature, Seminar: Contemporary Spanish American Theatre, Seminar: Generation of 1898.
Graduate courses: Methods of Research, Explicación de Textos, Modern Spanish Theatre, Seminar: 20th-century Spanish Theatre, Modern Spanish American Theatre, Seminar: García Lorca, Seminar: 20th-century Spanish Novel, Seminar: Modern Spanish Poetry, Seminar: Spanish History through Art; Seminar: Spanish Civilization.

Trenton State Coll.:
Undergraduate courses: Elementary Spanish I, Elementary Spanish II, Intermediate Spanish I, Intermediate Spanish II, Conversation and Composition I, Conversation and Composition II, Civilization of Spain, Civilization of Spanish America.

Raritan Valley Community Coll.:
Undergraduate courses: Elementary Spanish II.

Rutgers Univ.:
Undergraduate courses: Elementary Spanish I, Elementary Spanish II, Spanish for Review and Continuation, Intermediate Spanish I, Intermediate Spanish II, Introduction to Hispanic Literature I, Introduction to Hispanic Literature II.

PUBLICATIONS

Articles in refereed books or journals:
Forthcoming: "Figurative Fiction: Verbal and Visual Intertextuality in Paloma Díaz-Mas’s El sueño de Venecia." Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea 27.2 (2002): 63-79.

"La peste ¿borbónica?: representaciones de la monarquía española en la narrativa de Carlos Rojas". Letras Peninsulares 13 (2000-01): 667-75.

"Carlos Rojas's Los Borbones destronados: Toward a Theory and Praxis of Biography in Contemporary Spain." Ciberletras: Revista de Crítica Literaria y de Cultura 3 (2000). <http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/>.

"El Valle de los Caídos: La historia de España según Goya, Vasari y Rojas." La literatura, la historia, el mito y el arte en la obra de Carlos Rojas. Bogotá: Fundación Universidad Central de Bogotá, 1998. 191-208.

"Pre-Texts and Con-Texts: Poeta en Nueva York, Viaje a la luna and the Theatre of Federico García Lorca." MIFLC Review 4 (1994): 111-19.

"The Lie that Reveals Truth: Art as/and History in Carlos Rojas's El Valle de los Caídos." Hispanófila 110 (1994): 35-51.

"Glorias y miserias de la dramaturgia de María Manuela Reina." Estreno: Cuadernos del Teatro Español Contemporáneo 19.2 (1993): 48-50.

"Visual Art as Narrative Discourse: The Ekphrastic Dimension of Carmen Laforet's Nada." Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea 18 (1993): 289-304.

"La importancia de Ramón Gómez de la Serna en la novela española moderna: El caso de El novelista." Selected Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference, 1988-1990. Pittsburgh: Dept. of Modern Languages and Literature, Duquesne Univ., 1992. 60-67.

"Los sueños de la razón: el surrealismo en El Valle de los Caídos de Carlos Rojas." Selected Essays from the International Conference on Surrealism and the Oneiric Process, 1990. Carrollton: West Georgia College International Conference, 1992. 55-74.

"'Illustrated' Fiction: Ekphrasis in Carlos Rojas's El Jardín de las Hespérides." Modern Language Studies 22.2 (1992): 102-10.

"A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Ekphrasis in the Contemporary Spanish Novel." Journal of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies/Cuadernos Interdisciplinarios de Estudios Literarios 3.1 (1991): 71-90.

Reviews:
Miranda Bonilla, Alberto. La tribu. (Hondarribia [Guipúzcoa]: Argitaletxe Hiru, 1998). Estreno: Cuadernos del Teatro Español Contemporáneo 26.2 (2000): 37. (Solicited.)

Buero Vallejo, Antonio. Aventura en lo gris. Ed. Mariano de Paco (Murcia: Secretariado de Publicaciones, Universidad de Murcia, 1993). Estreno: Cuadernos del Teatro Español Contemporáneo 25.1 (1999): 64. (Solicited.)

David K. Herzberger. Narrating the Past: Fiction and Historiography in Postwar Spain (Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1995). Inti: Revista de Literatura Hispánica 48 (1998): 187-88. (Solicited.)

Javier Marías. Corazón tan blanco (Barcelona: Anagrama, 1992). Letras Peninsulares 7.2-3 (1994-95): 505-06. (Solicited.)

Josep M. Benet i Jornet. Deseo. Traducción de José Sanchis Sinisterra. (Madrid: El Público/Centro de Documentación Teatral, 1990). Estreno: Cuadernos del Teatro Español Contemporáneo 17.2 (1991): 47. (Solicited.)

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

"Sinergia de pintura y palabra: The Interrelation of Art, Historiography, and Narrative in the Works of Carlos Rojas," Spanish Session IV-Literary Theory and Hispanic Criticism, 43^rd Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Cleveland, OH, 1-3 November 2001.

"La historia real, or What do the Bourbon Monarchs Mean to Spain Today?" Spain in the Twenty-First Century: Literature, the Arts, and Culture–An International Symposium, The Ohio State University (Columbus), 1-4 November 2000.

"Figurative Fiction: Paloma Díaz-Mas’s El sueño de Venecia as Imagetext," 21^st annual Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge), 2-4 March 2000.

"‘Historias Reales’: The Art of Biography in Carlos Rojas’s Non-Fiction Works," Carlos Rojas: The Dream of Reason and the Nightmare of History (special session), 69^th annual South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention, Atlanta, GA, 4-6 Nov. 1999.

"Historias ‘reales': La monarquía borbónica en la obra de Carlos Rojas," 52nd Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Univ. of Kentucky (Lexington), 22-24 April 1999.

"La peste ¿borbónica?: representaciones de la monarquía española en la narrativa de Carlos Rojas," 1998 Symposium on Peninsular Spanish Literature and Language, Univ. of Missouri (Columbia), 19-22 March 1998.

"Metatheatre as Ideology in Fermín Cabal's Ello dispara," Twentieth-Century Literature Conference (Univ. of Louisville), Louisville, KY, 20-22 February 1997. (To read this paper, click here.)

"El Valle de los Caídos: History according to Goya, Vasari, and Rojas," 21st Annual Colloquium on Literature and Film, West Virginia University (Morgantown), 17-19 October 1996.

"El Valle de los Caídos: The History of Spain according to Goya, Vasari, and Rojas" (invited lecture), Dept. of Modern and Classical Languages, University of Louisville, 1 April 1996.

"Mutilation, Fabulation and Interpretation in Paloma Díaz-Mas's El sueño de Venecia," Las Novísimas session, Northeast Modern Language Associate Convention (Boston, MA), 31 March-1 April 1995.

"Art as (Hi)Story in Paloma Díaz-Mas's El sueño de Venecia," Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages and Literatures, Rollins Coll. (Winter Park, FL), 24-26 February 1994.

"Pre-texts and Con-texts: El viaje a la luna, Poeta en Nueva York and the Theatre of Federico García Lorca," Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Clemson Univ. (Clemson, SC), 7-9 October 1993.

"As 'Eye' Lay Dying: The Poetics of Perception in Julio Llamazares's La lluvia amarilla," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Univ. of Kentucky (Lexington), 22-24 April 1993.

"Metateatro e intertextualidad en El pasajero de la noche de María Manuela Reina," Contemporary Spanish Theatre session, Northeast Modern Language Association Convention (Buffalo, NY), 3-5 April 1992.

"A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Examples of Ekphrasis in the Contemporary Spanish Novel," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Univ. of Kentucky (Lexington), 25-27 April 1991.

"Los sueños de la razón: El surrealismo en El Valle de los Caídos de Carlos Rojas," International Conference on Surrealism and the Oneiric Process (Atlanta, GA), 26-28 October 1990.

"The Role of Painting in Carlos Rojas's El Jardín de las Hespérides," Spain Toward the 21st Century: Literature and Culture, The Ohio State Univ. (Columbus), 4-7 April 1990.

"Ekphrasis in Carlos Rojas's El Valle de los Caídos and El Jardín de las Hespérides: The Spatial-Temporal Aspects of the Novels," Art in Contemporary Spanish Novel and Theatre session, Modern Language Association Convention (Washington, DC), 27-30 December 1989.

"En torno a Presente profundo: el feminismo de Elena Quiroga," Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages and Literatures, Rollins Coll. (Winter Park, FL), 23-25 February 1989.

"El novelista: Reconsidering the Role of Ramón Gómez de la Serna in the Modern Spanish Novel," Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference, Duquesne Univ. (Pittsburgh), 16-18 September 1988.

"Los intereses creados como metateatro 'dialéctico,'" Contemporary Spanish Theatre session, Northeast Modern Language Association Convention (Providence, RI), 24-26 March 1988.