Modern Languages and Classics
201 Little Hall
The University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469
Tel: 207-581-2075
Fax: 207-581-1832

E-mail: eugene.delvecchio@umit.maine.edu


Education

1979: Ph.D. University of Washington
1977: M.A. University of Washington
1972: A.B. University of California


Academic Positions

2000-Present: Professor and Chair, Univ. of Maine
1989-1999: Associate Professor, Univ. of Maine
1984-89: Assistant Professor, Univ. of Maine.
1980-83: Assistant Professor Romance Languages, Duquesne University


Administrative Appointments

Chair, Modern Languages and Classics, (2000-present)
Associate Dean of the Graduate School (1995-1996)
Graduate Coordinator, Modern Languages and Classics (199093)


Teaching

PreModern and Modern Spanish Literature; Comparative Literature; Honors; Spanish Culture.

Publications

a. Refereed Book
Rosalía de Castro. En las orillas del Sar. Akal Editor: Madrid, 1993. 156pp.

b. Refereed articles

24. "Time and Place in Julio Llamazares' Poetry: Traces of Celtic Mythology."
Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies (7) 2003, 18-25.

23. “The Romantic Imagination in Calderón’s “El pintor de su honra.” Bulletin of the Comediantes (53) 2001, 197-216.

22. "Metahistory in Valle-Inclán's Sonatas." Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea (27.3) 2000, 165-173.

21. "The Locus Amoenus in Rosalía de Castro's En las Orillas del Sar." Actas del
Congreso Internacional de Estudios Gallegos, Oxford University, 1998, 21-29.

20. "Bécquer's Escenas de Madrid," El Gnomo: Boletín de Estudios Bécquerianos," (5) 1996:64-71.

19. "The Hallowed Precinct in Bécquer and Ruskin," Tropelías: Revista de Teoría
de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada, (5-6) 1994-95, 101-116.

18. "Ecriture in A. Machado's Soledades, galerías y otros poemas," Ojacano:Revista de literatura española, (10) octubre 1995, 32-40.

17. Cándido Nocedal, Dictionary of Literature of the Iberian Peninsula. Bleiberg Ihrie and Perez, eds. Greenwood Press: Westport, CN:1993, 2 vols, 1166-68.

16. Marqués de Molins, Dictionary of Literature of the Iberian Peninsula. Bleiberg Ihrie and Perez, eds. Greenwood Press: Westport, CN:1993, 2 vols, 1113-14.

15. Sebastián Miñano, Dictionary of Literature of the Iberian Peninsula. Bleiberg Ihrie and Perez, eds. Greenwood Press: Westport, CN:1993, 2 vols, 1090-91.

14. Mesonero Romanos, Dictionary of Literature of the Iberian Peninsula. Bleiberg Ihrie and Perez, eds. Greenwood Press: Westport, CN:1993, 2 vols, 1976-1078.

13. Francisco Martínez Marina, Dictionary of Literature of the Iberian Peninsula. Bleiberg Ihrie and Perez, eds. Greenwood Press: Westport, CN:1993, 2 vols,
1035.

12. Ricardo Macias Picavea, Dictionary of Literature of the Iberian Peninsula. Bleiberg Ihrie and Perez, eds. Greenwood Press: Westport, CN:1993, 2 vols, 988-89.

11. Ramon López Soler, Dictionary of Literature of the Iberian Peninsula. Bleiberg Ihrie and Perez, eds. Greenwood Press: Westport, CN:1993, 2 vols, 973-74.

10. Teodoro Llorente, Dictionary of Literature of the Iberian Peninsula. Bleiberg Ihrie and Perez, eds. Greenwood Press: Westport, CN:1993, 2 vols, 951.

9. Gumersindo Laverde, Dictionary of Literature of the Iberian Peninsula. Bleiberg Ihrie and Perez, eds. Greenwood Press: Westport, CN:1993, 2 vols, 923-24.

8. Silverio Lanza, Dictionary of Literature of the Iberian Peninsula. Bleiberg Ihrie and Perez, eds. Greenwood Press: Westport, CN:1993, 2 vols, 917-18.

6. "Schlegelian Romantic and Artistic Irony in Bécquer." Hispania (72) 2 May 1989 22026.

5. "A. Machado and E.A. Poe: An Undisclosed Affinity" Discurso Literario (5) 2 Spring 1988, 395401.

4. "Larra and the Romantic Imagination" Evocaciones del Romanticísmo Hispánico Editorial Porrúa: Madrid 1988, 129140.

3. "A ironía romantica en El primer loco de Rosalía de Castro," Grial 99 (XXVI) 62-67. 1988.

2. "Metahistory in Bécquer's Historia de los templos de España." Crítica Hispánica IX (12) 1987 14758.

1."Bécquer's Poético recinto," Hispania 4 (67) December 1984, 554559.


c. Reviews

* Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer. Rimas. Edicion de Russell Sebold. Clasicos Castellanos, 22. Madrid:Espasa Calpe, 1989. 371 pp. (clxix + 202 pp.) in Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, 17 (1) otoño 1992 210-11.

* Neoclassical and Romantic Spanish Poetry Walter Dobrian, Ed. (Gredos: Madrid) 1988 Hispania May, 1990, 289.

* Review of Unamuno, Miguel de. 'San Manuel Bueno, mártir' and 'La novela de Don Sandalio, jugador de ajedrez. Edited by C. A. Longhurst. Manchester, United Kingdom: Manchester University Press, 1984. 104 Hispania, 69 (1), 1986 10203.

* "Fiches signaletiques des études consacrées au Roman bourgeois d'Antoine Furetiére," Oeuvres et Critiques, I, 2 (Eté, 1976) 85110.


d. Selected previous/ongoing peer refereed conference papers

“The pícaro’s other quest in La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes” American Compartative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Princeton NJ, March 23-26 2006.

"Presence and absence in Julio Llamazares' La lentidud de los bueyes." Mid America Conference on Hispanic Literatures, University of Colorado. Boulder, CO Oct 10-12, 1995.

The Locus amoenus in Rosalía de Castro's En las orillas del Sar." International Galician Studies Association, Queen's College, Oxford, England Sep 25-28, 1994.

"Interior Exile in A. Cunqueiro and Eduardo Mendoza's Work."
American Comparative Literature Association, Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA March 3-5, 1994.

"The Scene of Writing in Rosalía de Castro's En las orillas del Sar." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY April 20- 23, 1994.


Fellowships, Grants and Memberships

Awarded a $2,500 grant from Institutes and Conferences to run a campus wide conference on European Romanticism, Fall '86.

Summer Seminar for College Teachers titled "The Symbolist Aesthetic in Prose and Poetry." Princeton University, 1983.

Research Assistant, Romanishes Seminar, University of Tubingen, Germany. Summer 1975.

Member of the Modern Language Association, Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, Associación Internacional de Hispanistas, American Comparative Literature Association, International Comparative Literature Association. American Council on Teachers of Foreign Languages, Foreign Language Association of Maine.


Selected Professional Activities

Attended Grant Writing Workshop, Portland, ME, March 2005

Attended ACCS Workshop for Modern Language Chairs. St. Louis, MO, June 2004

Attended Diversity Workshop: Women and Tenure, Colby College, Waterville, ME June 8-9, 2003.

Attended ACCS Workshop for New Chairs. Williamsburg, VA, June 2000

Attended the Council of Graduate Schools Annual Meeting. Participated in Workshops on Legal Issues and Program Review. Washington D.C. December 6-9, 1995.

Attended the Governor's Conference on Economic Issues in the State of Maine.
Orono, ME; October 9-10, 1995.

Attended The President's Conference on Higher Education in Maine. Orono, ME, October 26-27, 1995.

Attended a Seminar on ITV (Distance Learning) sponsored by the University of Maine System. Orono, ME; December 12, 1995.

Elected Chair, Spanish Neoclassicism and Romanticism, NEMLA, April 36, 1989 Toronto

Elected to the delegate assembly of the Modern Languages Association for the New England area (198689).


Selected Service

Elected to Faculty Senate (2002-2005)

Elected to Undergraduate Program and Curriculum Committee (2001-04)

Elected to College Academic Council (2001-04)

College of Humanities Dean Search Committee (198990)

Student Affairs Committee (198891)

Executive Committe, Graduate Board (198889)

Coordinator of Campus wide Conference the "Age of Romanticism" Symposia 198788.

Graduate Board (198689)

Chair, Symposium on European Romanticism. (19841986)

References

Dr. James Breece, Dept of Economics, CLAS
(207) 581-1954 320 Stevens Hall

Dean Ann Leffler, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Maine
(207) 581-1958 3 North Stevens Hall

Prof. Kristina Passman, Modern Languages and Classics, Univ. of Maine
(207) 581-2972

* All addresses are at:
The University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469-5782