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RICHARD VELA
CURRENT POSITION Professor, English, Theatre, and Languages Department EDUCATION Ph.D. English (1986) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
M.A. English (1970) University of Dallas, Dallas, TX
B.A. English (1968) University of Dallas, Dallas, TX
Languages: Spanish (native speaker), French (reading knowledge) ACADEMIC HONORS
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
PUBLISHING Currently contributing editor for Literature Film Quarterly, Pembroke Magazine, and on the editorial board of Postscript: The Journal of the Philological Association of the Carolinas. Recent articles published in The Encyclopedia of Stage Plays into Film, Pembroke Magazine, Postscript, and Film & Philosophy. Articles under review for The Directory of Major Film Directors and for the Proceedings volume for BRICHA. Several recent conference papers on Shakespeare, Film, the Renaissance, Contemporary and Latino Literature. Poetry and reviews in Puerto Del Sol, The Quarterly, Mestizo: Anthology of Chicano Poetry, Southern Poetry Review, RiverSedge, St. Andrews Review, T he Paper, The Small Pond, Bitterroot, Voices International, Tar River Poetry, Pembroke Magazine, Epos, South and West, Kerygma, Contemporary Poets, and others. CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS 2001 "The Latino Romeo and Juliet: Baz Luhrmann, Robert Wise, and Cantinflas." Blue Ridge International Conference of the Humanities and the Arts, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 2001 "Romeos and Juliets: On Ten Adaptations of Shakespeare’s Play." Southwest Popular Culture Association. Albuquerque, NM 2001 "The Blue Angel Figure in Recent Academic Novels." 25th Annual Meeting of the Philological Association of the Carolinas, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 2001 "Crossing the Border: Mexico as Emotional Boundary in American Films." Conference on Film and Literature. Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. 2000 "Shakespeare and The Uses of Violence in Henry V." Second Millennium Literature/Film Conference. Ocean City, Maryland. 2000 "Going Indian": the Role of the Go-Between In Hollywood Westerns." The Western Literature Association, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 2000 "Shakespeare’s ‘Rude Mechanicals’: Interpreting the Role of Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream." Medieval-Renaissance Conference, The University of Virginia’s College at Wise, Wise, VA 2000 "The Idea of Boundaries in the Work of Alberto Ríos." The Blue Ridge International Conference on the Humanities and the Arts. Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 2000 "Shakespeare’s Comic Endings." The 24rd Annual Meeting of the Philological Association of the Carolinas. Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC 2000 "Party at the Capulets: Visual Strategies in Romeo and Juliet." Southwest Popular Culture Association. Albuquerque, NM 2000 "Into the Past: The Separation of Experience and Understanding in Film Noir." Conference on Film and Literature: On the Edge of Time. Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.
1999 "Bilingual Humor in The Works of Julia Alvarez," Blue Ridge International Conference of the Humanities and the Arts. Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 1999 "The Subject of the Poem: Religion, the Everyday World, and the New Formalism in the Poetry of Mark Jarman" 23rd Annual Meeting of the Philological Association of the Carolinas. The University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC. 1999 "Breaking The Skin: Construction And Destruction in Dystopian Films," for the 24th annual Conference on Film and Literature. Tallahassee, FL. 1998 "‘Things which Cannot in Their Huge and Proper Life Be Here Presented’: 1998 "The Relationship Between Language and Action in Henry V." Medieval-Renaissance Conference, Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia, Wise, VA 1998 "Daughter of Invention: The Poetry of Julia Alvarez." Philological Association of the Carolinas. Converse College, Spartanburg, SC 1998 "The Translator Device in Films About Native Americans." Film-Literature Conference, The University of Florida, Tallahassee, FL 1997 "Comic Codas in Shakespeare." Medieval-Renaissance Conference, Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia, Wise, VA 1996 "Hamlet’s ‘Have You Eyes...Ha, Have You Eyes’: Visual Signals and the Problem of Proof in Hamlet." Medieval-Renaissance Conference, Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia, Wise, VA 1996 "Slandered Women, Faithless Men: Jealousy in Shakespeare." Meeting of the Philological Association of the Carolinas, Winthrop College, Rock Hill, SC. 1995 "Sublunary Lovers: The Problem of Knowing in Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, and Cymbeline. Medieval-Renaissance Conference, Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia, Wise, VA 1994 "Portentous Things: Knowledge and Death in Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra. Medieval-Renaissance Conference, Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia, Wise, VA 1993 "The Function of Outrageousness in Screwball Comedy." [Co-authored with Dr. Jeffery Geller] International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Fine Arts of the 20th Century. St. Andrews College, Laurinburg, NC 1993 "Classical Unities and Shakespearean Stagecraft: The Comedy of Errors and The Tempest." Medieval-Renaissance Conference, Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia, Wise, VA 1993 "Elizabethan Publishing Practices and the Shakespeare/Oxford Debate. Methodist College, Fayetteville, NC 1993 "Darwin and the Dinosaurs: Obstacles to Retention." Strategies for Increased Retention Conference, Fayetteville State University. Fayetteville, NC 1992 "Retention: A Whole Campus Approach." Strategies for Increased Retention Conference, Fayetteville State University. Fayetteville, NC 1992 "Shakespeare's Strategies of Place." Medieval-Renaissance Conference, Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia, Wise, VA
1988 "Visual Analogues to Spenser's House of Alma." Medieval-Renaissance Conference, Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia, Wise, VA 1987 "Place in Shakespeare's Cymbeline." Medieval-Renaissance Conference, Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia, Wise, VA 1987 "Film Literacy." Three-hour workshop for the English Department, Scotland High School, Laurinburg, NC. 1987 "Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream on the Elizabethan Stage." Talk given before a performance of the play. Givens Performing Arts Center. Pembroke State University, Pembroke, NC. 1987 "Surviving the Freshman Year." Presentation to parents, counselors, and scholarship students. Pembroke State University, Pembroke, NC. [Presented in 1985, 1986, 1987] 1984 "Sex in Utopia: The Renaissance Background for Orwell’s 1984." Interdisciplinary Seminar, Pembroke State University, Pembroke, NC.
1978 "The Image of Childhood." Series of three talks on the films THE BICYCLE THIEF, THE 400 BLOWS, and MY UNCLE ANTOINE, Cumberland County Public Library, Fayetteville, NC 1977 "Baroque as a Literary Term." Humanities Seminar. Pembroke State University, Pembroke, NC. 1977 "Mexican-American Language and Literature." Minority Literature Conference. Pembroke State University, Pembroke, NC. 1977 "Teaching the Research Paper." Freshman English Conference. St. Andrews Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, NC. 1976 "The Argument from Design: Theology and Literature." Religion Seminar, Pembroke State University, Pembroke, NC.
1975 "The Male Image in Literature." North Carolina Humanities Committee Symposium on Religious Images and Sexual Responsibility, Pembroke State University, Pembroke, NC 1975 "Movies and Minorities." North Carolina Humanities Committee Forum on American Indian Culture, Pembroke State University, Pembroke, NC ARTICLES AND REVIEWS "As You Like It." The Encyclopedia of Stage Plays into Film. James Welsh and John Tibbetts, eds. New York: Facts on File. 2001. [3900 words] "Cymbeline" The Encyclopedia of Stage Plays into Film. James Welsh and John Tibbetts, eds. New York: Facts on File. 2001. [2700 words] "Much Ado About Nothing." The Encyclopedia of Stage Plays into Film. James Welsh and John Tibbetts, eds. New York: Facts on File. 2001. [3900 words] "Romeo and Juliet." The Encyclopedia of Stage Plays into Film. James Welsh and John Tibbetts, eds. New York: Facts on File. 2001. [8500 words] "The Subject of the Poem: Religion, the Everyday World, and the New Formalism in the Poetry of Mark Jarman" Pembroke Magazine. 2001. "Ruben Navarette, Jr.: A Darker Shade of Crimson: Odyssey of a Harvard Chicano (Bantam, 1993)"
"Daughter of Invention: The Poetry of Julia Alvarez." Postscript. 1999. 33-42. [publication award] "The Function of Outrageousness in Screwball Comedy." Film and Philosophy. 1997. 58-65. [Co-authored with Dr. Jeffery Geller]
"This Native Pond, That Naked Tree: The Realities of Guy Owen." South and West. Winter, 1973: 14_20. [best article award]
Review of Cockpit by Jerzy Kosinski. The Robesonian. June 5, 1977. Review of Vonnegut in America by Jerome Klinkowitz and Donald L. Lawler. The Robesonian. September 1, 1974.
Review of "Perchance to Dream: Shakespeare for Two." Southwest Times Record. April 18, 1970. POETRY . Book manuscript currently in circulation. "Autobiography With Horses." Mestizo: An Anthology of Chicano Poetry. Albuquerque, New Mexico: Pajarito Publications, 1978. "A Way to Say Death." Epos. Summer, 1973 "Being There." RiverSedge Chicano Issue: 4. Fall 1995. "Bird Shot." The Paper. Winter, 1972. "Briefly." The Small Pond. Spring, 1972. "Blue Animals." Epos. Spring, 1972. "Cinnamon_Orange." The Paper. Winter 1972. "The Civil War Field." Bitterroot. Autumn, 1979. "Cranes." Pembroke Magazine. 1977. "Custody Battles." Puerto Del Sol. Summer, 1997 "Cycle." Voices International. Winter, 1970. "Dying in Miami." Tar River Poetry. Fall, 1978. "Dying Into A Dance." Mestizo: An Anthology of Chicano Poetry. Albuquerque, New Mexico: Pajarito Publications, 1978. "Elegy: For A Son." St. Andrews Review. Spring and Summer, 1972. "Ice." RiverSedge 7:1 Chicano Issue, Fall 1992. "Julia, Mostly." Mestizo: An Anthology of Chicano Poetry. Albuquerque, New Mexico: Pajarito Publications, 1978. "Medication."RiverSedge Chicano Issue: 4.Fall 1995. "Mexican Heritage." Pembroke Magazine. 1972. "Night After the Move From L.A." Mestizo: An Anthology of Chicano Poetry. Albuquerque, New Mexico: Pajarito Publications, 1978. "Night Fishing." RiverSedge 7:1 Chicano Issue, Fall 1992. "Poem." Bitterroot. Fall, 1971. "Portraits." The Paper. Winter, 1972. "Reason and Direction." Pembroke Magazine. 1976. [Translated into German: "Grund und Richtung." Katapult 77, 1977.] "Resurrection." South and West. Winter, 1970. "Sail." South and West. Winter, 1970. "Selling the House After My Father Died." RiverSedge 7:1 Chicano Issue, Fall 1992. "Signs." Mestizo: An Anthology of Chicano Poetry. Albuquerque, New Mexico: Pajarito Publications, 1978. "Snake Skins." Pembroke Magazine. 1977. "Something Like the Waves." The Quarterly. Spring 1994. "Tiger Hunting in Siberia." Pembroke Magazine. 1976. "To El Mariachi Juvenil." Pembroke Magazine. 1976. "To That Man Who Thought He Saw A Vision of The Virgin Mary Naked in The Rio Grande." Southern Poetry Review. Spring, 1972. "Vital Signs." RiverSedge 7:1 Chicano Issue, Fall 1992. "Whitewater Lake, 1964_1973." Pembroke Magazine. 1976. "Wild Horses." Pembroke Magazine. 1977. "Winding Up." RiverSedge Chicano Issue: 4. Fall 1995. "Working For My Father." RiverSedge Chicano Issue: 4. Fall 1995. FICTION
DRAMA AND TELEVISION
POETRY READINGS AND WORKSHOPS
EDITING
COURSES TAUGHT (partial list)ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY
UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE Writing and Language Courses
Creative Writing Courses
Literature Courses
Film Courses
Philosophy
UNIVERSITY SERVICE (partial list)
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIPS
COMMUNITY SERVICE (partial list) Rape Crisis Center of Robeson County
Rape Crisis Volunteers of Cumberland County
Other
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