Synopsis:
Although born in New York, I lived for many years in Southwestern
Virginia. In 1971, I received a BA degree in Spanish and Secondary
Education from Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. Before coming to
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where I earned the
MA and PhD degrees in Spanish, I worked for seventeen years as a high
school Spanish teacher and Chairman for Foreign Languages at the North
Cross School, a private day school in Roanoke, Virginia.My primary
area of interest is Spanish medieval and Golden Age narrative. I am
also fascinated by medieval and early renaissance Italian literature,
particularly the work of Boccaccio. My dissertation, "Narrative
Experimentation in the Fifteenth-Century Sentimental Novels,"
applies modified contemporary structuralist approaches to the novelas
sentimentales' characteristically "self-conscious" treatment
of the issues of reading, writing, language and literature. I am enthusiastic
about my plans to apply the methodology that I have developed in this
work to a reassessment of a variety of medieval and early renaissance
narrative forms, including not only prose works but literary epics
and other narrative verse.I am sincerely committed to both teaching
and research, to both language and literature, and I am always ready
to question established pedagogical theories in search of a better
way to teach. I am currently working on a fourth-semester Spanish
language text that focuses on Latino culture in the United States;
the book, titled Somos
Vecinos is scheduled for publication in 2002 by Prentice Hall.
In addition to my own teaching and research, I have had many rewarding
experiences directing the efforts of new graduate teaching assistants
here at UNC. I particularly enjoy getting the new graduates to think
about the many ways in which we can all become better teachers.
Homepage: http://www.unc.edu/~maisch/
Course Pages:
[Spanish
105 (2X)] [Spanish
204 (4)] [Spanish
204H (4A)] [Spanish
260H (21A)] [Spanish
280 (46)] [Spanish
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