Mark Paul Del Mastro
Mailing Address:
MSC 155
171 Moultrie St.
Charleston, S.C. 29409
delmastrom@citadel.edu
tel: 843.953.5065
fax: 843.953.7257

EDUCATION
1993: Ph.D., Spanish literature, University of Virginia, 4 January.
1989: M.A., Spanish, Middlebury College, 11 August.
1988: B.A., Spanish, Wake Forest University, 16 May.

DISSERTATION
España filosófica contemporánea and Idearium español: Ángel Ganivet's Ideal Plan for Social Reform as Attempted by Pío Cid, Prof. Javier Herrero, Director.

AREAS OF RESEARCH
Identity and Psychoanalysis in Post Spanish Civil War Narrative
The Generation of 1898

STUDY ABROAD
1988-89: Middlebury College, Instituto Internacional, Madrid, Spain
1987 (spring): Wake Forest University in cooperation with the University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
The Citadel:
2005 (fall)- : Professor of Spanish
1997-2005: Associate Professor of Spanish
1992-97: Assistant Professor of Spanish
Courses taught (B.A.):
Elementary Spanish Communication I
Elementary Spanish Communication II
Intermediate Spanish Communication
Spanish Conversation, Reading, and Composition
Intermediate Hispanic Culture
Intermediate Spanish Composition & Conversation
Intermediate Spanish Culture
Advanced Spanish Conversation
Advanced Spanish Composition
Introduction to the Study of Hispanic Literature
Survey of Spanish Literature
Business Spanish
Spanish Business Correspondence
Special Topics in Contemporary Spanish Culture
Special Topics in Contemporary Spanish Usage
Special Topics in Contemporary Spanish Usage and Spanish American Culture
Nineteenth Century Literature of Spain
Twentieth Century Literature of Spain
The Generation of 1898
The Spanish Civil War, the Francoist Dictatorship and the Spanish Novel
Spanish in the Context of Civil Engineering
Spanish Language Pedagogy
Internship in Hispanic Language & Culture

Middlebury College:
2003 Summer: Visiting Faculty, Spanish School
Courses taught (M.A.):
Literary Analysis
The Fall of an Empire: Spanish History, Ideology and Literature of the "fin de siglo" (1832-1936)

University of Virginia:
1989-92: Graduate Instructor of Spanish
Courses taught (B.A.)::
Elementary Spanish: Review
Advanced Intermediate Spanish

Wake Forest University:
1988 (spring): Student Teacher, Mt. Tabor High School, Winston-Salem, N.C.
1987-88: Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

COLLEGE SERVICES
The Citadel:
2006 (July 1)-present: Head, Modern Languages
2006-present: Professional Education Board
2003-present: Webmaster, The Citadel's chapter of Phi Kappa Phi
1996-present: Founding Webmaster, Modern Languages website
2007-08: Dean of Humanities & Social Sciences Search Committee
2006-07: Spanish Search Committee
2006 (spring): Chair, Post-tenure Review Committee, Modern Languages
2006 (spring): Post-tenure Review Committee, Psychology Department
2006: Teacher Education Task Force, Modern Languages Content Focus
2001-2006: Spanish Section Chief
2005-06: M.A. Thesis Committee, Psychology Department
2005-06: Research Committee
2005-06: Standing Appeals Committee
2004-06: Chair, Spanish Search Committee
2001-2005: Computer Services Committee
2005 (spring): Arland D. Williams Professorship Committee
2004 (fall): Fulbright Committee (campus ad hoc)
2002-03: Dean of Humanities & Social Sciences Search Committee
2001-03: Student Awards Committee
1995-2003: CF Faculty Solicitation Committee
1999-2002: Founding Director, Modern Languages Messenger (departmental newsletter)
2000-02: Spanish Search Committee
2000-02: Founding Director, Maymester Program in Ecuador
2000-01: Modern Languages Technology Committee
1995-2001: Scholarships & Awards Committee
1993-2001: Director, Elementary Spanish Courses
2000 (fall): Chair, Modern Languages Chair Search Committee
2000 (fall): Fulbright Committee (campus ad hoc)
1993, 94, 97, 2000: Director, Study Abroad Program in Spain
1996-1999: Modern Languages Library Liaison
1999 (spring): CDF Faculty Fellows Committee
1998 (spring): Chair, Spanish Search Committee
1997 (spring): Modern Languages Chair Search Committee
1996 (fall): CDF Humanities Seminar
1995 & 96 (spring): Chair, Modern Languages' Awards Banquet
1995-96: Curriculum and Instruction Committee
1994-96: The Citadel Family Circle
1994-95: The Round Table
1993-95: Library Services Committee
1993-94: Graduate Student Behavior Committee (ad hoc)
1992-94: Company Academic Adviser, Oscar Company
1994 (spring): Spanish and German Search Committees
1993 (spring): Faculty Adviser, The Citadel Lacrosse Team

University of Virginia:
1991-92: Course Director, Advanced Intermediate Spanish
1991: Program for Implementation of Oral Testing in UVA Spanish Curriculum

COMMUNITY SERVICES
2007- : Founding Webmaster, The Hispanoamerican Society of Charleston
2004-present: Founding Director, South Carolina Spanish Teacher of the Year Award, www.scspanishteacheroftheyear.org.
2004-2006: Founding Director, Lowcountry Spanish Teacher of the Year Award (Charleston, Berkeley and Dorchester Counties), www.citadel.edu/spanishteacher.htm.
2002-present: Founding Director, Spanish Certification Program for South Carolina high schools.
2003: Co-Director, Hispanoamerican Society of Charleston and Sigma Delta Pi Annual Poetry Contest
1993-2002: Director, Hispanoamerican Society of Charleston and Sigma Delta Pi Annual Poetry Contests (9 consecutive yrs).
1994: Judge, Charleston County School District's Annual Declamation Contest.

ACADEMIC SERVICES
2006-09: Board Member, Association of College Honor Societies.

2006-09: Co-Chair, Committee on Standards & Definitions, Association of College Honor Societies.

1992-present: Founding Faculty Adviser, Tau Iota Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi (named "Honor Chapter" by National Executive Committee for 15 consecutive years--1993-2007--for outstanding activities).

1997-present: Executive Secretary-Treasurer, Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society. (Appointed by National Executive Committee on 8/17/97; reappointed for triennia 1998-2001, 2001-04, 2004-07 and 2007-10.)

1996-present: Designer and Webmaster, Sigma Delta Pi and El Cid webpages..

2008: External Reviewer for Modern Languages & Cultures Department at Virginia Military Institute, 2-4 April.

2006-07: Reader, undergraduate honors thesis, University of South Carolina (Columbia).

2004-06: Webmaster, Decimonónica, an online, international refereed journal devoted to all Hispanic cultural production of the 19th century. Utah State University.

2006: External Reviewer for Foreign Languages Department at Berry College, 12-14 December.

2006: Outside Evaluator, Committee on Tenure and Academic Freedom at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

2002: Founder, Miguel de Cervantes Award, presented to the most improved Spanish major or minor at The Citadel.

1998-1999: Acting National President, Sigma Delta Pi, 9/23/98-3/2/99.

1993-97: South Carolina State Director, Sigma Delta Pi.

1997: Guest speaker, Spanish Honor Society Induction Ceremony, St. John's High School, Charleston, 8 May.

1997 (spring): Judge, Sigma Delta Pi National Scholarship Competition.

1996: Guest speaker, Sigma Delta Pi Initiation Ceremony, Clemson University Chapter, Clemson, 4 April. Presentation: "Un paso adelante: algunos proyectos para un capítulo activo."

1995 (spring): National Elections Committee Chair, Sigma Delta Pi.

University of Virginia:
1991-92: Vice President, Sigma Delta Pi, Zeta Zeta Chapter

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Book:
Del Mastro, Mark P., and Linda B. Bartlett. Literatura española «fin de siglo»: Texto, contexto y crítica. Raleigh: McGraw-Hill, February 1998.

Articles:
Del Mastro, Mark P. "La insolación y Al volver la esquina: Las verdaderas obras cumbres de Carmen Laforet." Forthcoming in Caleta.

---. "Psychosocial Development and Female Identity in Laforet's La mujer nueva." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 83.6 (2006): 509-21.

---. "The Role of Women in Carmen Laforet's Short Stories." Letras Hispanas 2.2 (Fall 2005): 26-38.

---. "Deception through Narrative Structure and Female Adolescent Development in Laforet's Nada and La isla y los demonios." Confluencia 20.1 (Fall 2004): 45-53.

---. "Gaining Ground and Escaping Destiny in Laforet's La isla y los demonios." Letras Peninsulares 16.3 (Winter 2003-04): 667-80.

---. "Identity Achievement and Lost Innocence in Carmen Laforet's La insolación." Ojáncano 25 (April 2004): 43-60.

---. "Ganivet, Unamuno and Revindicating a '98 Precursor." South Carolina Modern Language Review 2.1 (Spring 2003).

---. "Failed Reform and Lost Utopia in Los trabajos del infatigable creador Pío Cid." Hispanófila 43.1 (September 1999): 19-26.

---. "Beneath Satire: Exposing Ganivetian Ideology in La conquista del reino de Maya." Romance Notes 32.2 (Winter 1998): 215-21.

---. "Cheating Fate: Female Adolescent Development and the Social Web in Laforet's Nada." Hispanic Journal 18.1 (Spring 1997): 55-66.

---. "'La idea directiva,' 'las ideas madres,' and 'las ideas redondas': Conceptual Bases of Ganivet's Utopian Spain." Postscript (Publication of the Philological Association of the Carolinas) 12 (spring 1995): 51-60.

---. "The Vital Role of Sigma Delta Pi Advisors: Overcoming the 'Phantom- Chapter Syndrome.'" Entre Nosotros 37.1 (spring 1995): 27-28.

Book Chapter:
Del Mastro, Mark P. "Germán D. Carrillo, 1999-2004: Forging Ahead" in Sigma Delta Pi: A Brief History, Recounting a Decade (1995-2004). Electronic edition, November 2004; Paper edition, February 2005.

Book Edition:
Del Mastro, Mark P. Sigma Delta Pi: A Brief History (1919-1994). By T. Earle Hamilton. Electronic edition, January 2004.

Manual:
Del Mastro, Mark P., Richard Chandler and T. Earle Hamilton. Sigma Delta Pi Chapter Adviser Handbook (1st and 2nd editions). Charleston, S.C.: Sigma Delta Pi, September 2001; July 2007.

Book Reviews:
Del Mastro, Mark P. Rev. of Carmen Laforet, by Teresa Rosenvinge and Benjamín Prado. Symposium 60.4 (Winter 2007): 272-75.

---. Rev. of Al volver la esquina, by Carmen Laforet. Letras femeninas 31.1 (Summer 2005): 239-40.

---. "Reflexiones de una novelista en Ana María Matute: La voz del silencio de Marie-Lise Gazarian-Gautier." Entre Nosotros 40.1 (Spring 1998): 57.

Textbook Reviews:
2007 (July): Conversación y controversia, Prentice Hall, 5th ed.

2007 (February): Metas, McGraw Hill.

2006 (fall): Perspectivas, Thomas Heinle, 7th ed.

2006 (summer): Atando cabos, Prentice Hall, 3rd ed..

2005 (fall): Tú dirás, Thomson Heinle, 4th ed.

2005 (fall): How to Say Anything in Spanish, Thomson Heinle.

2005 (fall): Intercambios: Spanish for Global Communication, Thomson Heinle, 5th ed.

2005: Dicho y hecho, Wiley, 8th ed.

2005: Imagina, Vista Higher Learning.

2003 & 2005: Atando cabos, Prentice Hall, 2nd ed., 2004.

2004: Dímelo tú, Heinle/Thomson Higher Education, 5th ed., 2005.

2004: Dicho y hecho, Wiley, 7th ed., 2004.

2003: Pura vida, Prentice Hall.

2002-03: Identidades, Prentice Hall, 1st ed., 2005.

Editorial Experience:
Fall 2006, Spring 2007: Reader/reviewer, Letras Femeninas, the journal of the International Association of Femenine Hispanic Literature and Culture.

2004-present: Advisory Board Member, StockCero, Inc., Spanish and Latin American Literature Publishers.

2003-present: Founding Co-Director, Decimonónica, an online, international refereed journal devoted to all Hispanic cultural production of the 19th century. Utah State University.

1997 (fall)-present: Director, Entre Nosotros, national journal of Sigma Delta Pi.

1993-present: Founding Director, El Cid, The Citadel's national student publication of Sigma Delta Pi (17 editions published to date).

1997 (spring): Co-Director, Entre Nosotros.

Papers Presented:
2008: "What is Autonomy?: Deciphering Female Identity in Josefina Aldecoa's El vergel." 61st Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, 17-19 April.

2007: "Fetishism and Identity in Laforet's Nada." 60th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, 19-21 April.

2006: "Self-Discovery through Mirrors in Carmen Laforet." 59th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, 20-22 April.

2005: "Projecting the Identity Search in Carmen Laforet's Al volver la esquina through Carol Reed's The Third Man." 55th Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Winston-Salem, N.C., 13-15 October.

2005: "The Spanish Civil War, Carmen Laforet and Questions of Identity." Phi Kappa Phi Brown Bag Symposium, The Citadel, 28 September.

2005: "Reflections of Oneself: Reconciling Identity in Carmen Laforet's Al volver la esquina." 58th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, 21-23 April.

2004: "El papel de la mujer en algunos cuentos de Carmen Laforet." Homage to Carmen Laforet at the University of Barcelona, Spain, 11 November. Sponsored by the University of Barcelona and Ediciones Destino.

2004: "The Female Quest for Identity and Empowerment in Carmen Laforet's 'La llamada.'" 30th Annual Hispanic Literatures Conference, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 8-9 October.

2004: "The Role of Women in Four Short Stories by Carmen Laforet." 57th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, 15-17 April.

2003: "Rediscovering Identity: An Adult's Quest for Self in Laforet's La mujer nueva." 53rd Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Charleston, S.C., 9-11 October.

2003: "Developing Identity in Carmen Laforet's La insolación." 56th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, 24-26 April.

2002: "Erikson, Laforet and the Pursuit of Identity." Guest Lecturer, Brigham Young University, Utah, 25 October.

2002: "The Art of Deception through Narrative Structure in Laforet's Nada and La isla y los demonios." 55th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, 18-20 April.

2001: "One Step Ahead: Female Adolescent Development and Escaping Destiny in Laforet's La isla y los demonios." 54th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, 18-21 April.

1999: "Ganivet, Unamuno and Another Case for a '98 Precursor," 52nd Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, 22-24 April.

1998: "Are They Feeling Okay?: Spanish Malaise and Another Revindication of '98," 51st Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, 16-18 April.

1997: "Success, Failure and Disillusion: The Ganivetian 'maestro' and His Utopian Quest in Los trabajos del infatigable creador Pío Cid." 21st Annual PAC Conference, Greenville, N.C., 6-8 March.

1996: "Rediscovering '98 and Lighting the Shadows of the Master Works: The Case of the «abulia» and the 'Literary Movement.'" The Generation of 1898 Panel Discussion, sponsored by Brigham Young University's Sigma Delta Pi Chapter, Utah, 15 November.

1996: "Ganivet y Unamuno: ¿Padrastro y padre de los noventayochistas?" Guest Lecturer, Brigham Young University, Utah, 14 November.

1996: "Un paso adelante: Algunos proyectos para un capítulo activo." Sigma Delta Pi induction ceremony (Chapter Iota Phi), Clemson University, 4 April.

1996: "A Twist of Fate?: Andrea's Identity Search through the Social Web in Laforet's Nada." 20th Annual PAC Conference, Rock Hill, S.C., 14-16 March.

1995: "Satirical or Serious?: Ganivetian Reform in La conquista del reino de Maya por el último conquistador Pío Cid," 16th Annual Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Tulane Univ., New Orleans, 2-4 March.

1994: "The Hispanic Honor Society: Overcoming the 'Phantom-Chapter Syndrome,'" Annual SAMLA Convention, Baltimore, 11-13 November.

1994: "'La idea directiva,' 'las ideas madres' and 'las ideas redondas': Utopian Concepts from Ganivet's Unique Plan of Social Reform," Annual Philological Association of the Carolinas (PAC) Conference, Charleston, S.C., 10-12 March.

Honors & Awards:
2001-present: Honorary Editor, Entre Rascacielos (literary journal of the Sigma Delta Pi Chapter of St. John's University).
2004: The Order of Don Quijote, Sigma Delta Pi, 31 July.
2003 (summer): Visiting Faculty, Spanish M.A. Program, Spanish School, Middlebury College.
2002: Krause Faculty Award, 18 October.
2002: Phi Kappa Phi, The Citadel Chapter, inducted 21 April.
2001: The Order of the Discoverers, Sigma Delta Pi, 8 July.
1998: The Citadel Faculty Achievement Award, for 1997-98 academic year.

Faculty Development:
2001: Participant, Workship for Spanish Faculty Development in International Business, Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina, 22-28 June. CIBER Scholarship Recipient.

Other:
2003-08 (April): Organizer and Presenter, Sigma Delta Pi Informative Session, Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference.

2008: Session Organizer and Chair, "Contemporary Spanish Women Writers," 61st Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, 17-19 April.

2007: Session Organizer and Chair, "Contemporary Spanish Women Writers," 60th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, 19-21 April.

2006: Session Organizer and Chair, "In Honor of Donald L. Shaw: Literatura española 'fin de siglo,'" and "Contemporary Spanish Women Writers," 59th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, 20-22 April.

2005: Session Organizer and Chair, "Female Voices in 20th Century Spanish Literature," 55th Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, 13-15 October.

2005: Session Organizer and Chair, "Literatura española «fin de siglo»," 58th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, 21-23 April.

1999: Session Organizer and Chair, "La generación del 98," 52nd Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, 22-24 April.

1998: Reviewer, Leading the Way: Language Program Direction. Author: Dr. Keith Mason, New Providence School District, N.J.

1998: Session Organizer, "La generación del 98," 51st Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, 16-18 April.

1998: Organizer for special class lecture and presentation to The Citadel and greater Charleston communities by Dr. Dale Pratt, Brigham Young University. Presentation entitled "La belleza poética." 10 March.

1997: Session Organizer, "The Generation of '98," 21st Annual PAC Conference, Greenville, N.C., 6-8 March.

1997: Session Chair, "19th and 20th Century Spanish Literatures." 21st Annual PAC Conference, Greenville, N.C., 6-8 March.

1996: Session Organizer, "20th Century Spanish Literature." Annual PAC Conference, Rock Hill, S.C., 14-16 March.

1994: Session Organizer, informative session on "Sigma Delta Pi, The National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society," Annual SAMLA Convention, Baltimore, 11-13 November.

1994: Session Organizer, "La generación del 98," Annual PAC Conference, Charleston, S.C., 10-12 March.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)
Association of College Honor Societies (ACHS)
International Association of Feminine Hispanic Literature and Culture (AILCFH)
Phi Kappa Phi
Sigma Delta Pi, The National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society