Curriculum Vitae - Michael Sawyer
Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, MO

ADDRESS

(Home) 407 Franklin St.
Warrensburg, MO 64093

(660) 747-9525
Email: sawyersone@earthlink.net

(Work)  Department of Modern Languages
Central Missouri State University
236C Martin Building
Warrensburg, MO 64093

(660) 543-8640
Email: msawyer@cmsu1.cmsu.edu

EDUCATION

2001 - Texas Tech University - Ph.D., Spanish

Dissertation: "Coloniality and Postcoloniality in Cuba and Brazil: The Noble Savage as Barometer of Subversive Discourse”  Janet Pérez, Director 

Primary field:  18th & 19th Century Latin American/Brazilian Prose      

Secondary field:  18th & 19th Century Peninsular Prose/Portuguese

1997 - Texas Tech University

M.A., Romance Languages

1993 - Stephen F. Austin State University

B.A., English and Spanish

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2001-present ­ Central Missouri State University - Assistant Professor of Spanish

Courses taught: Elementary Spanish I & II, Intermediate Spanish I & II, Spanish Composition, Advanced Spanish Composition, Spanish American Civilization, Foreign Studies in Spanish (Study Abroad)

1995-2000 - Texas Tech University

Graduate Part-time Instructor, 1997-2001

Teaching Assistant, 1995-97

1993-95 - Huntington Independent School District

English/Spanish Instructor

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

2001-02 ­ Study Abroad Tour Director, Valencia, Spain (May-June 2002, 2003)

2001-02 ­ Advisor for Alpha Mu Gamma, Theta Eta chapter, National Foreign Language Honor Society

2001-02 ­ CMSU Committees:

University-wide
Committee for Selection of Presidential Scholars

College
Arts & Sciences Curriculum Committee
Arts & Sciences Dean’s Advisory Council

Department
Spanish Curriculum/Textbook Committee
Sponsor, Alpha Mu Gamma, Theta Eta Chapter (National Foreign Language Honor Society)

2001-02 ­ Trained CMSU faculty in operation of a new digital language laboratory 

1999 - Texas Tech University 

President and co-founder of Céfiro, an organization of Texas Tech graduate students               

1999 - Texas Tech University

Co-founder and supporter of the Annual Graduate Student/Faculty Interdisciplinary Research Conference and its related journal

1997-98 - Lubbock Health Education Office

Provided free English/Spanish translation

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

2003 - Editorial Board Member for Academic Journal Céfiro: Enlace Hispano Cultural y Literario, Texas Tech University Press

2001 - Webmaster for Hispania, the journal of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese

1999 - Spring, Texas Tech University - Teaching intern for 3rd year course, Masterpieces of Spanish Literature

1998 - Spring, Texas Tech University - Substitute (long-term) for Introductory Portuguese

1998 - Summer, Rotary Foundation International Group Exchange Scholarship (Río de Janeiro State, Brazil)

1998 - Air Tractor, Inc., Olney, TX  Portuguese/English translator

RESEARCH/PUBLICATION

Book review:

Boggs, Bruce A.  Rebels with a Cause: Adam and Eve in Modern Spanish Literature. Forthcoming in Hispania 

Paper at Professional Conference:

28th Annual Meeting of the Missouri Philological Association, Truman State University, February 28-March 1, 2003. Presented paper: "The Romantic Noble Savage as Hegelian Hero: A Post-Colonial Reassessment of Gómez de Avellaneda’s Sab"

Currently revising dissertation for commercial publication, as per the recommendation of my dissertation defense committee

Focus of research in the immediate future:  the evolution of Enlightenment symbols, icons and ideas in Latin American and Peninsular prose literature through the end of the Romantic period, and the appropriation of each as tools of anti- and post-colonialist writers; using Post-Colonial Theory as a lens to examine the dynamic confluence of history, literature and philosophy, especially as interpreted by Hegel, Mannheim and Bakhtin.

GRANTS RECEIVED

$500 Graduate School Funding of New Graduate Summer Study Abroad Publicity

$500 Center for Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellowship

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Experienced in using current instructional equipment, including traditional audio lab and computer lab environments

Experienced in the implementation of computer-assisted instruction, both for in-class delivery and ancillary assignments

Focus on Internet technologies in curriculum

Experienced in additional IT and computing technologies, including PC hardware configuration

Familiar with productivity and academic applications

Comfortable with leading-edge technologies

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese

American Association of University Professors

Modern Language Association