Curriculum Vitae

PERSONAL: Born July 2, 1945, Terceira, Azores, Portugal

Citizenship: Portugal; U.S.

Military Service: U.S.M.C., 1964-1967; honorably discharged as sergeant

ADDRESS: Residence: 1294 Gale Dr., Kent, Ohio 44240

TELEPHONE: (330) 673-0994

Business: Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies

Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242

TELEPHONE: (330) 672-2151

E-mail: mfontes@neo.rr.com

EMPLOYMENT

1985-2008. Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Kent State University, Kent, Ohio

1979-1985 Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Kent State University, Kent, Ohio

1975-1979 Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Kent State University, Kent, Ohio

1973-1975 Teaching Assistant, Spanish

3 quarters University of California, Los Angeles

1972-1973 Lecturer, Portuguese

2 summers Stanford University, Stanford, California

EDUCATION

1972-1975 University of California Ph.D. Hispanic Languages

Los Angeles and Literatures

1970-1972 University of California M.A. Spanish

Berkeley

1968-1969 Stanislaus State College B.A. Spanish

Turlock, California

1961-1964 Modesto Junior College A.A. Foreign Languages

Modesto, California

1956-1961 Liceu Nacional de Angra Prescribed program

Azores, Portugal

LANGUAGES

Portuguese: Native tongue

Spanish: Excellent command

French: Fair command

Italian: Reading knowledge

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Elementary and Intermediate Spanish

Elementary and Intermediate Portuguese

Spanish Composition and Conversation

Portuguese Composition and Conversation

Survey of Spanish Literature

Survey of Portuguese Literature

Medieval Spanish Poetry

Medieval Spanish Prose

Hispanic Folk Literature

Golden Age Prose

Don Quijote

Minor Works of Cervantes

OTHER EXPERIENCE

Acting Chairman, Spring 1990, 1993

Graduate Coordinator, 1985-1992, Spring 1995

Graduate Council, 1981-82, 1985-91

Vice-President=s Promotions Committee, 1987-88, 1991-92, 1995-96

College Advisory Committee, 1987-88, 1990-91

Head of Chairperson=s Review Committees, 1986, 1988

Faculty Advisory Committee, 1985-89, 1990-93, 1994-1996, 2001-02

Editor of the Department=s Graduate Newsletter, 1986-91

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Grant and travel support from the Luso-American Research Foundation, 1975, 1977 (summers); partial publication subvention, 1996.

Summer Research Appointments from the Office for Research and Sponsored Programs, Kent State University, 1977, 1980, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1989

Academic Year Research Appointment from the Office for Research and Sponsored Programs, Kent State University, Fall 1991, Spring 1994, Spring 1997, Spring 1999, Spring 2004, Fall 2006

Fellowships for Individual Study and Research from the National Endowment for the Humanities, January-December 1978, July 1980-June 1981

Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, June 1984-May 1985

Publication subvention from the Instituto Camões (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lisbon), 1996

HONORS

Launching of O Romanceiro Português e Brasileiro by Luiz Antonio Barreto, Secretary of State for Culture, Sergipe, Brazil, in Laranjeiras and Aracaju, January 10, 1997

Advisory Board: Centro de Tradições Populares Dr. Manuel Viegas Guerreiro (University of Lisbon)

Distinguished Scholar Award, Kent State University, May 15, 1997

Finalist, 2005 National Jewish Book Award in the Sephardic Studies Category (The Art of Subversion in Inquisitorial Spain: Rojas and Delicado, West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 2005)

EDITORIAL BOARDS

Gávea-Brown (Brown University)

Estudos de Literatura Oral (University of the Algarve, Gambelas)

Albatros-Hispanófila (Valencia, Spain), a series dedicated to Golden Age Spanish Literature

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese

Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas

Cervantes Society of America

Iberian Medieval Association of North America

Society of the Cantigueiros of Santa Maria.

PAPERS AND LECTURES

AThe Importance of the Portuguese Ballad Tradition in California.@ Symposium on Portuguese Folklore in California, University of California, Los Angeles, May 1974.

AThe Social Functions of Ballads and the Portuguese Ballad Tradition in California.@ Symposium on Portuguese Presence in California, San Leandro, June 1974.

AA New Portuguese Ballad Collection from California.@ Annual Convention of the American Folklore Society, Portland, Oregon, November 1974.

AD. Duardos in the Portuguese Oral Tradition.@ Symposium on Portuguese and Brazilian Oral Traditions: Verse Forms, University of Southern California, May 1975.

AA New Portuguese Tale Collection from California.@ Annual Convention of the American Folklore Society, New Orleans, November 1975.

ALizarda: A Rare Vicentine Ballad in California.@ Annual Convention of the American Folklore Society, Philadelphia, November 1976.

APortuguese Ballads in California and in North America.@ Second International Symposium on the Hispanic Ballad, University of California, Davis, May 1977.

AEchoes of the Classical Age in Contemporary Portuguese Oral Tradition.@ Section on the Classical Age of Portuguese Literature of the Portuguese Week, University of Toronto, October 1978.

AConde Arnaldos, Remando vão remadores, and Barca Bela.@ 33rd Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, April 1980.

ARemando vão remadores: An Original Vicentine Ballad?@ Third Symposium on Portuguese Traditions (Europe, America, Africa, Asia), University of California, Los Angeles, May 1980.

AThe Study of the Ballad and Other Portuguese Traditions in North America.@ Fifth Symposium on Spanish and Portuguese Bilingualism, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, November 1981 (this paper was read in absentia).

AEl romancero transmontano: Nueva recolección.@ Third International Colloquium on the Hispanic Ballad, Madrid, Spain, December 1982.

AO Romanceiro Açoriano: Panorama e Sugestões de Estudo.@ International Symposium on Azorean Literature, Brown University, April 1983.

AThe Ballad of Floresvento and Its Epic Antecedents.@ 20th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan Universiy, Kalamazoo, May 1985.

ACollecting Portuguese Ballads.@ 10th International Conference on Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies, Villanova University, Philadelphia, September 1985.

ACrypto-Jewish Prayers from Rebordelo.@ 39th Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Provo, Utah, October 1985; 16th Annual Meeting of the American Popular Culture Association, Atlanta, April 1986.

AThe Survival of Judaism in Portugal, 1497-present.@ Faculty Senate Lecture, Kent State University, April 1986.

AThe Portuguese Ballad in Its Pan-Hispanic Context.@ 39th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, April 1986.

AFour Modern Portuguese Crypto-Jewish Prayers and Their >Inquisitorial= Counterparts.@ 2nd Biennial Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, September 1986; Seminar at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, December 1986.

APhilippe de Vigneulles, Rabelais, Nicolas de Troyes, Timoneda and a Portuguese Folk Story from New England.@ 40th Annual Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, April 1987.

AThe Idea of >limpieza= in La Celestina.@ 7th Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati, May 1987.

ATrês Orações Criptojudias de Rebordelo (Vinhais).@ Colóquio Literatura Popular Portuguesa e Teoria da Literatura Oral/Tradicional/Popular, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal, November 1987.

AMore Crypto-Jewish Prayers from Rebordelo.@ 41st Annual Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, April 1988; Third Biennial Northeast Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Fordham University, New York, September 1988.

AVida de Freira in the Portuguese Oral Tradition.@ Conference on the United States and the Azores: Past, Present and Future Ties, Southeastern Massachusetts University, April 1989; 24th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 1989.

AFernando de Rojas, Cervantes, and Two Portuguese Folk Stories.@ 43rd Annual Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, April 1990.

AThe Holy Trinity in La Lozana andaluza.@ 25th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 1990.

Lecture, discussion, and performance of Portuguese ballads. Villanova University Institute for Spanish Teachers: Medieval Ballads in Hispania, July 10, 1990.

AAnother Look at Celestina=s House.@ 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Miami Beach, Florida, August 1990.

ACrypto-Jewish Prayers in the Portuguese Oral Tradition.@ 18th Annual Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, April 1991.

AThe Holy Trinity in La Lozana andaluza: Another Look.@ 44th Annual Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, April 1991.

ASecret Jewish Lives: Hidden Prayers in Portugal.@ Winter Educational Series: The Sephardic Experience, The Jewish Community Center of Akron and Educational Resource Center of the Akron Jewish Community Federation, Akron, Ohio, February 24, 1992.

ACrypto-Jewish Prayers in the Modern Portuguese Tradition.@ Beth Am Lecture Series, Congregation Beth Am, Cleveland, Ohio, March 13, 1992.

AThe Idea of Exile in La Lozana andaluza.@ 45th Annual Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, April 1992.

AAnother Portuguese Ballad Fragment on the Death of D. Fernando I.@ 27th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 1992.

AAnti-Trinitarianism and the Virgin Birth in La Lozana andaluza.@ 46th Annual Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, April 1993.

AMartínez de Toledo=s >Nightmare= and the Courtly and Popular Traditions.@ 28th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 1993.

ABetween Oral and Written Transmission: O Sacrifício de Isaac in the Portuguese Oral Tradition.@ 23rd International Ballad Conference of the Kommission für Volksdichtung (Société Internationale d=Ethnologie et de Folklore), Westwood Plaza Hotel (University of California, Los Angeles), June 1993.

AThe Ballad O Sacrifício de Isaac Among the Portuguese Crypto-Jews: Another Look.@ NEMLA, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 9, 1994.

AAdam and Eve Imagery in Celestina: A Reinterpretation.@ 47th Annual Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, April 21, 1994.

AThe Ballad A Morte do Rei D. Fernando and the Cantar de la muerte del rey don Fernando y cerco de Zamora.@ Lecture, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, April 7, 1995.

AThe >Art of Sailing= in La Lozana andaluza.@ 48th Annual Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, April 20, 1995.

AEarly Motifs and Metaphors in a Modern Traditional Poem: A Fonte do Salgueirinho.@ 77th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, San Diego, California, August 11, 1995.

ASamuel G. Armistead and Sephardic Balladry.@ Howard Gilman International Colloquium: The Spanish-Jewish Cultural Interaction, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 1, 1995.

AOn Alfonso X=s >Interrupted= Encounter with a soldadeira.@ 49th Annual Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, April 20, 1996.

AAfuera, afuera, Rodrigo as a Synthesis of Traditional and Learned Elements.@ 31st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 9, 1996.

ATwo Crypto-Jewish Prayers from Rebordelo (Vinhais).@ Conference on Oral Tradition: Folklore and Literature in Hispanic Lyrics, Institute of Romance Studies, University of London, and the Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, November 1, 1996.