Ollie O. Oviedo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
(Director of Composition: 1989-1995)
Department of Languages and
Literature, Station 19
Eastern New Mexico University
Portales, New Mexico 88130. Tel: (505) 562-2742.
Fax: 505-562-2362
E-mail: ollie.oviedo@enmu.edu
Web site, Conference on College
Composition and Communication/Research Network Forum
http://athena.english.vt.edu/~dubinsky/rnf/rnf.htm
Education
Ph.D., New York
University
M.A., The New School for Social Research, New York
B.A., Baruch College, The City University of New York
Publications
Currently in Print
Edited Anthologies
Ed.
( with Janice R. Walker),
TnT: Texts and Technology (Cresskill:
NJ: Hampton Press, 2002. Cloth and paperback editions). Foreword by Jay Bolter.
The essays in this anthology address socio-cultural, ideological, technical,
and/or pedagogical concerns relating to digital technologies (hypertext,
hypermedia, cyberspace, cyberculture), literacy, and society as a whole as they
relate to thinking about and production and apprehension of texts (online texts
as well as those created using technological means for print dissemination). The
anthology will also contain some of the essays published in the fall/Winter 1999
special issue of the journal Readerly/Writerly Texts.
JWALKER@gsvms2.cc.gasou.edu
Walker:
http://www2.gasou.edu/facstaff/jwalker/
Ed. (with Stephanie Gibson), The
Emerging CyberCulture: Literacy, Paradigm and Paradox (Cresskill: NJ:
Hampton Press, 2000. Cloth and paperback editions). Foreword by Cynthia Selfe. Sections: Early
Paradigms: (1) Literacy: Information, Education and Entertainment; (2)
Paradigm and Conceptions of Self; (3) Paradox: The Power of Infinite Connection. The book provides a background for understanding
why these conceptual divisions stand out among other possibilities. It discusses
how these conceptual units can be recognized in other technological shifts
throughout history. Each section has a brief introduction by the editors
explaining the coherence of the essays. About the anthology:
This culture is struggling to come to terms with the
flood of new information pouring into the life of everyday citizens. New digital
communications technologies—the Internet and the World Wide Web in particular—have
an impact on the way meaning is negotiated from text. Indeed, prior to World War
II literacy referred to the ability of reading and writing in the native
language of one's country. The introduction of television into culture brought
an emphasis on the visual from which arbiters of literacy to this day have not
yet recovered. Now literacy, not yet recovered from the swapping in of the
visual, is being pulled in yet another direction with the non-linearity, non-sequentiality,
and interactivity of several forms of hypertext—both distributed (the World
Wide Web) and non-distributed. The book explores the history of
hypertextual meaning-making in print literacy. It also expands this history to
bring the exploration forward into a solid group of pieces about how literacy
will be configured in the age of electronic information and entertainment. Conceptions
of self are similarly challenged in this anthology in all paradigmatic
shifts. Contributors include: Sue Barnes, Sandra Braman, James Connor, David Downing, J.
Yellowlees
Douglas, Sandra Feinstein, Carolyn Guyer, Terry Harpold, Cynthia Haynes, Jan
Rune Holmevik, Michael
Joyce, Nancy Kaplan, Neil Kleinman, Beth Kolko, James J. Sosnoski, Lance Strate,
Victor Vitanza.
http://www.booksoncomputing.com/abooks1/1572731966AMUS.html
Books Authored
Intertextualidad, Surrealismo y Literaturización (Bogotá,
Colombia: Unión de Escritores de América, January, 1999. 200 pages). This
Spanish version is the translation from English of the book, Intertextuality,
Surrealism, and Literaturalization [forthcoming]).
Authored Essays in Refereed Journals, Chapters in Anthologies
Co-authored (with James Connor), "Media, Design and
Reputation: The New York Times on the Web,"
TnT: Texts and Technology (Cresskill: NJ: Hampton Press, 2002).
Introduction, with Janice R. Walker, “The
Intersection of Text And Technology: TnT: Texts and Technology.”
"TA Training Should Incorporate Some Linguistic Principles."
Selected Essays: The Seventeenth LACUS Forum.
Ed. Angela Della Volpe
(Lake
Bluff, IL: Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States, 1991. 600
pages).
"Surrealist Leitmotifs in Octavio Paz's Poem ‘Salamander.’"Surrealism
& the Oneiric Process: Selected Essays. Ed. Joseph Tyler (State
University of West Georgia P, 1992. 200 pages).
Essays in Scholarly Journals
"Echoes of Art as Aesthetic Operatives in Writings by
Jorge Luis Borges: Thematic Intertextuality." Readerly/Writerly Texts
4.1 (fall/Winter 1996): 187-217.
"Leitmotifs Surreslistas: Elementos Alquimicos de Agua y
Fuego, Aire y Tierra en el Poema 'Salamandra.'" Atenea (Journal
of the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Facultad de Artes y Ciencias/Liberal
Arts and Sciences, 1997): 51-84.
"‘Salamander’ Revisited: Surrealist Leitmotifs in
Octavio Paz’s Poem." Readerly/Writerly Texts 1.2 (spring/summer
1994): 67-96.
"Motivos Surrealistas en el Poema 'Carrera de la Vida'
de Arturo Camacho Ramírez" (Surrealist Motifs in Arturo Camacho Ramírez's
Poem "Carrera de la Vida"). PIJAO: Arte y Literatura Latinoamericana
(Colombian journal [Jan-Feb 1994], No. 8).
Excerpts of my translation (with Angela McEwan) of the
novel Irene by Jorge Eliecer Pardo, Colombian author and
university
professor (PIJAO: Arte y Literatura Latinoamericana [journal; Nov.-Dec.
1993], No. 7).
MLA International Bibliography. As of 1993 it has
indexed and abstracted my following published essays: "The Training in
Composition for TAs Should . . . ," "Leitmotifs in Octavio Paz's Poem
'Salamandra/ Salamander,'" "Echoes of Art as Aesthetic Operatives in
Writings by Jorge Luis Borges: Thematic Intertextuality" and "Motivos
Surrealistas en el poema 'Carrera de la vida' de Arturo Camacho Ramírez." Readerly Writerly Texts is yearly included in the MLA
International Bibliography, as of 1993 in the print, CD ROM, and Microfilm
and Microfiche versions).
Online MLA Style: Documentation Manual for File Transfer Protocols
(Online Version.) "MLA (and other) Styles Manual for File Transfer Protocol (FTP)," by Ollie Oviedo (published in the print version of R/W Texts, Special Issue on Text and Technology [fall/Winter 1999]).
Book Reviews (Consulting Work)
Of Writing With A Purpose, Tenth ed., by Joseph Trimmer (for Houghton Mifflin, 1993).
Translations
Books and Essays
Currently in Print
Books
Novel (with Angela McEwan), Irene by Jorge E. Pardo. Bilingual edition (Blacksburg/Lund/Santa Ana: Research UP; Sigma: Bogotá, Colombia, 2002).
Novel (with Angela McEwan), Irene by Jorge E. Pardo. English edition (Blacksburg/Lund/Santa Ana: Research UP, 2002).
Journal Essays
"Avant-Garde Poetry in Latin America and Spain: Aspects and Historical
Background." by Nelson González Ortega. Readerly/Writerly Texts 3.1 (fall/Winter
1995): 161-178. (Trans. from Spanish into English with
Teresa San Pedro, The College of New Jersey.)
Forthcoming Authored Anthologies
Intertextuality, Surrealism, and Literaturalization.(English
version of book already published in Spanish.)
Scholarly and Literary Editing
Editor, Readerly/Writerly Texts: Essays on Literary,
Composition, and Pedagogical Theory. This is a refereed, semiannual international
journal which publishes essays on critical theory, literary and textual
criticism, editorial theory and practices, the interrelations between literature
and the social sciences, rhetoric and composition, and related pedagogies. It
also publishes book reviews, graphics, graphic prose, and cartoons. The journal
is a pluralistic forum for faculty/scholars and students in Ph.D. programs to
exchange and advance the theoretical constructs that affect writers and their
audiences. It attempts to enhance the ongoing heuristic dialogue on theoretical
methods of proceeding, such as the Dialectic, Operational, Problematic, and
Logistic—from the classic texts (e.g., Plato's) to contemporary trends in
literary criticism (e.g., Marxism, Psychological, Formalism, Structuralism and
Semiotics, Poststructuralism, Cultural, Reader-Response)—and issues such as
the Canon and Authorial Intention. Editorial Board includes:
Roy Boland, Vincent Casaregola, James
Connor, Robert Con Davis, James Dubinsky, Cynthia Haynes, Inger Enkvist, Nelson
Gonzalez, Stephanie Gibson, Doris Starr Guilloton, Fred Kemp,
AnaLouise Keating, Neil Kleinman, Kim Brian Lovejoy, Seymour Menton, Gary Olson,
Ollie Oviedo, Mike Palmquist, Jorge Eliécer Pardo, James Porter, Dawn Rodrigues,
Steve Tabachnick, Jonathan Tittler, Joseph Tyler, Janice Walker,
Raymond Leslie Williams, Ross W. Winterowd.
Work in Progress
Anthologies
Ed.
( with Byron Hawk and James Inman),
Digital Tools in Cultural
Contexts:
Assessing the Implications of New Media..
Date of publication: Approximately spring, 2003.
Contributors include: Steve Mann, Wendy Warren Austin, Johanna Drucker, James J.
Sosnoski, David Blakesley, Janice R. Walker, Collin Gifford Brooke, Joanna
Castner, Lance Strate, Jill Walker, Adrian Miles, Lev Manovich.
Ed., Best
Ten Years' Essays of Readerly/Writerly Texts: Essays for the New Millennium: Literary
Criticism, Composition/Rhetoric, Digital Communication, and their Pedagogies. Contributors include: Robert Con Davis, Gary A. Olson , Lynn Worsham, Charles Bazerman, Dorothy Augustine, W.
Ross Winterowd, Oscar Ronald Dathorne, Irene Isser, Cezar M. Ornatowski, Jane
Greer, James Connor, Neil Kleinman, Jay David Bolter, Stephanie B. Gibson,
Carolyn Guyer, Stuart Moulthrop, Ronda Leathers Dively, Vincent Casaregola,
AnnLouise Keating, Magda Graniela. The introduction will be written by Gary
Olson of the University of South Florida. Table of Contents: Chapter One: Readerly/Writerly: Reader-writer Transactions and Critical Approaches; Chapter
Two: Technology and Scholarly Communication: Teaching and Learning in the New
Millennium; Chapter Three: Composition and Rhetoric: Rethinking Pedagogies, the
Profession, Tools, and Audiences; Chapter Four: Reading Through the Other:
Gender Transactional Discourse.
Textbooks
Online manual for documentation of electronic sources,
containing a glossary of terms most commonly used in computer mediated
technology.
Online manual for building and maintaining Web pages.
Essays
"Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic Fiction: Dark Romantic
Tales of Horror."
"A Reader-Response Approach to Writings by Edgar
Allan Poe and Jorge Luis Borges."
"The Shadow Archetype in Thomas Mann’s Doctor
Faustus: Adrian Leverkühn’s Music as Damnation."
"A Psychoanalytic/Archetypal Reading of Gabriel
García Márquez’s One Hundred Year’s of Solitude: Colonel
Aureliano Buendía’s Failed Mythic Journey."
"Water and Fire, Earth and Air in T. S. Eliot’s Four
Quartets and Octavio Paz’s ‘Salamander.’"
Conference Presentations
“Texts and Technology: Pedagogy,
Ethics--Where Are We Going?" Research
Network Forum
(CCCC/RNF), March 20, 2002, Chicago.
“A Reader-Response Approach to Ralph
Ellison=s
Invisible Man: Existentialism as the Narrator's Means to Total Freedom,”
Popular Culture Association/American
Culture Association, February 13-17, 2002, Albuquerque, NM.
“A Comparative Reading Approach
to Texts in Translation: Jorge Eliécer Pardo’s Irene,”
American Literary Translators Association, Raleigh,
NC, North Carolina State University, October 24-27, 2001.
"The Effects of Computers on Writers and
Writing: Are you Reading On-line?" CCCC/Research Network Forum,
Minneapolis, MN, April 12-15, 2000.
"Cyberspace: Digital Tools and Pedagogical
Links," CCCC/Research Network Forum, Atlanta, GA, 1999.
"Documenting Online and Portable Databases:
Virtual Tools Available and Pedagogical Concerns," CCCC/ Research
Network Forum, Chicago, IL, 1998.
"Scholarly Electronic Publishing and Faculty
Evaluation," CCCC /Research Network Forum, Phoenix, AZ, 1997.
"Why the Publishing of Scholarly Journals Should
Matter to Graduate Students," CCCC/Research Network Forum, Milwaukee,
WI, March 27-30, 1996.
"Editorial Theories and Practices: The
Constructed Text," CCCC/Research Network Forum/CCCC, Washington D.C.,
1995.
"Theories of the Literary Canon Should Be
Incorporated in the Training of Graduate Teaching Assistants in Composition," CCCC/Research
Network Forum, Nashville, March 16-19, 1994.
"Writing Assessment and TA Training in
Composition: Theory and Research Into Practice," CCCC/Research Network
Forum, San Diego, March 31,1993; two presentations.
"Destruction and Incest Motifs in Selected Works
by William Faulkner: The Microcosmic Locale of the South," College
English Association at the MLA Convention, Chicago, December 27-30, 1995.
"Training GTAs to Teach the Personal Essay: How
to Stimulate Student Writing," College English Association at the MLA
Convention, New York, 1992.
"Textos y Contextos: Arquetipos en tres
cuentos tolimenses reconstruidos por Flor Romero," Ninth Congress of
the Association of North American Colombianists (Asociación de
Colombianistas), Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, July 26-30,
1995.
"Don Quixote as a Readerly and Writerly
Text," Colegio Clemencia de Caicedo y Vélez, Colombia,
summer 1994.
"A Psychoanalytic Reader-Response Approach to
Jorge Eliecer Pardo's Novel Irene," Eighth Forum of North
American Colombianists, University of California, Irvine, June 28-30, 1993.
"Textual Criticism: Juan Goytisolo’s Work
Translated into English," The Goytisolo Project, Lund University, Lund,
Sweden, summer 1998.
"Carlos Fuentes’s Aura: The Anima
Archetype and Jung’s Theory on the Collective Unconscious,"
Conference on Latin American Literature, Lund University, Lund, Sweden,
summer 1996.
"Octavio Paz’s Surreslist Poetry," Latin
American Literature Conference, University of Helsinki, Finland, June 1996.
"A Deconstructive Reading of Carlos Fuentes's Christopher
Unborn: Demythologizing 500 Years," International Conference on
Word and World of Discovery, Atlanta, State University of West Georgia,
Carrollton, GA, Oct. 16-18, 1992.
"The Witches in Carlos Fuentes's Aura,"
VI Symposium on Anthropology and Literature, "La construcción de las
Americas," Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, July 1992.
"Motivos Surrealistas en el poema 'Carrera de
la Vida' de Arturo Camacho Ramírez," Seventh Congress of North
American Colombianists, Bogotá, Colombia, August 1991.
"TA Training Should Incorporate Some
Linguistic Principles," Seventeenth Linguistic Association of Canada
and the United States Forum, California State University, Fullerton, CA,
August 7-11, 1990.
"Intertextual Readings of the Mythic Christian
Devil or Shadow Archetype in João Guimarães Rosa's The Devil To Pay
in the Backlands and Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus,"
International Conference on Myth and Fantasy, State University of West
Georgia, Oct. 1991.
"Reading Canonical and Noncanonical
Texts for Their Aesthetic Axiology," College English Association
Twenty-Second Annual Conference, San Antonio, April 17-19, 1991.
"Marginal Leitmotifs in Noncanonical Texts: The
Latin American and the European Faust Legend," Second Annual Conference
on The Canon and Marginality, State University of NY, Binghamton, May 3-4,
1991.
"Madness in Don Quixote: Cervantes's
Subversion of the Canon of Chivalry," Second Annual Conference on The
Canon and Marginality, State University of NY, Binghamton, May 3-4, 1991.
"Semiotics and Saussure's Legacy of Synchronic
Linguistics," Eighteenth Linguistic Association of Canada and the
United States Forum, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, August 13-17, 1991.
"Echoes of Art as Aesthetic Operatives in
Borges's Notion (and Application) of Intertextuality: A Semiotic
Approach," 15th annual Meeting of The Semiotic Society of America,
University of Oklahoma, Norman, October 18-21, 1990.
"Surrealist Leitmotifs in Octavio Paz's Poem
'Salamander,'" International Conference on Surrealism and the Oneiric
Process in Literature and the Visual Arts, State University of West Georgia,
Atlanta, Oct. 26-28, 1990.
"Pablo Neruda's Poetry in Translation," Jersey
City State College (spring 1979).
Sessions/Events Chaired
Chair, The
Research Network Forum, 2002,
CCCC/RNF, Chicago, 20-23 March.
Executive
Committee of the 2002 CCCC/RNF,
March 20-23, Chicago.
Editors’
Roundtable at the 2002 CCCC/RNF,
March 20, Chicago, for e-journals and print journals in
rhetoric/composition and technical writing.
Two sessions at the 2002 CCCC/RNF—morning:
“Rhetoric
of Tomorrow? Tech-Savvy Pedagogies”; afternoon:
“The Rhetoric of Virtual Spaces: Hypertext and E-Mail.”
“Literature and
the Africa-American Experience,”
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, February
13-17, 2002, Albuquerque, NM.
Cyberspace and Beyond: Technology and The Writing
Classroom, CCCC/Research Network Forum, Atlanta, GA, March 24-27, 1999.
Internet Concerns and Online and Portable Databases,
CCCC/Research Network Forum, Chicago, April 1-4, 1998. (Morning session.)
Gender, Ownership, and Publishing, CCCC/Research
Network Forum, Chicago, April 1-4, 1998. (Afternoon session).
Internet Use for furthering Professional Activities,
CCCC, Milwaukee, WI, April 1-4, 1996. Organizer: Helen Schwartz, Purdue
University, Indianapolis. I replaced David Downing, who had to cancel.
Scholarly Electronic Publishing, CCCC/Research Network
Forum, Milwaukee, WI, March 27-30, 1996.
Computer Support for Writing Across the Curriculum:
Theoretical Perspectives, Practical Challenges, CCCC/Research Network Forum,
Nashville, March 16-19,1994.
Americans Teaching Abroad: . . . , CCCC/Research
Network Forum, Washington, D.C., March 22-25, 1995.
Administration and the Multilingual Classroom—An
Agenda or Action, CCCC, San Diego, CA, March 31-April 3, 1993. (Session A.
20.)
(Roundtable) "To Have and Have Not the Quandary of
Control," CCCC, Cincinnati, 1992.
Three Fresh Approaches to Training Teachers of
Writing, CCCC, Boston, March 20-23, 1991.
Learning to Write Technical and Scientific Prose: The
Role of Class instruction and Experience on the Job, Tenth Annual Penn State
Conference on Rhetoric & Composition, University Park, July 10-13, 1991.
The Implications of Rhetoric of Inquiry for
Post-Secondary Writing Instruction, Ninth Annual Penn State Conference on
Rhetoric and Composition, University Park, July 11-14, 1990.
Evaluating Student Papers, 10th Annual Southeastern
Writing Center Association Conference, Washington D.C., Aril 12-14, 1990.
(Sponsored by George Mason University.)
Intertextual Readings and The Myth, The
International Conference on Myth and Fantasy, State University of West
Georgia, Carrollton, GA, Oct. 25-27, 1991.
Escribir (Vivir) de Manera Peligrosa en los Estados
Unidos: Reinaldo Arenas, The Second Annual Conference on The Canon and
Marginality, State University of NY, Binghamton, May 3-4, 1991.
Race, Regionalism and Cultural Exchange, at the
Conference, Crossing The Disciplines: Cultural Studies in the 1990s and
the 15th Annual Meeting of The Semiotic Society of America, The Oklahoma
Project for Discourse and Theory Conference, Norman, Oct. 19-21, 1990.
Situated Aesthetics, Crossing the Disciplines:
Cultural Studies in the 1990s, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oct. 19-21,
1990.
Sessions Organized
Cyberspace & Beyond: Technology & The Writing
Classroom, CCCC/Research Network Forum, Atlanta, GA, March 24-27, 1999.
Gender, Ownership, and Publishing, CCCC/Research
Network Forum, Chicago, April 1-4, 1998. (Afternoon session.)
Scholarly Electronic Publishing,
CCCC/Research Network Forum, Milwaukee, WI, March 27-30, 1996.
Editors Roundtable: Electronic Publishing, CCCC/Research
Network Forum, 1995.
The Faust Motif in European and Latin American Literature,
Chapman University, 1988.
Grants
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH Fellow)
Service to Professional Organizations
Chair, Conference on College Composition and
Communication/Research Network Forum, 1995-2003. Founded in 1987 by
Charles Bazerman and others as a pre-convention workshop, the RNF is an
opportunity for published researchers, new researchers, and graduate
students to discuss their current research projects and receive response
from new and senior researchers.
The RNF features two sessions (morning & afternoon) at the yearly meeting of the CCCC, each a little over an hour allowing each of the plenary speakers a 12-15 minute presentation and a question period. At the subsequent roundtable discussions, work-in-progress presenters discuss in 12-15 minute presentations their current projects and obtain the responses of other researchers, including the discussion leader.
Visit RNF at:
http://athena.english.vt.edu/~dubinsky/rnf/rnf.htm
Executive Committee, Conference on College
Composition and Communication /Research Network
Forum, 1994-2003.
Editors Roundtable, Moderator, CCCC/Research Network
Forum, 1996-2003.
NCTE, 1998 Outstanding Book Award Committee (with
Ellen Knodt, Gwendolyn Gong, Shirley Wilson Howard Tinberg). The Committee
selected the top scholarly book from among 35 titles published in
rhetoric/composition and related fields.
Readerly/Writerly Texts. Currently serving as a
member of the editorial board.
Media Ecology: An Electronic Journal. Ed.
Stephanie Gibson, University of Baltimore. Currently serving as a
member of the editorial board.
Focuses: Journal Linking Composition Programs and
Writing Center Practice. Served as a member of the editorial board.
Antipodas: Journal of Hispanic Studies for
New Zealand and Australia, La Trobe University, Australia. Currently
serving as a member of the editorial board.
Editorial Advisory Board member and Consulting
Editor (1990-present) for Analytical Writer: A College Rhetoric and
Collegiate English Handbook (Collegiate Press, San Diego).
Selected Teaching Activities
Eastern New Mexico University
ITV (Long Distance Learning) Courses: Literary Figures: Gothic Literature ( Classroom & ITV)
(ENG 403/593; summer 1999)
Comparative Literature (ENG363):
The Quest of the Faust Hero in Europe, U.S., and Latin America (Faust works include those by Marlowe,
Byron, Melville, Bulgakov, Valery, Goethe, Thomas Mann, Carlos Fuentes); spring
2000).
Literary Figures: Gothic ( Classroom & ITV) (ENG 403/593;
summer 1999).
Forms-Themes/1920's Left-Bank Émigré Writers: Modern
American Literature (ENG 454); Modern Literature in English (ENG 567).
Guided Research and Independent Study Courses (Graduate and
Upper Level)
English Grammar (ENG
410); Studies in Literary Criticism (ENG 494/524); Six
Major American Authors and the New Critical Theories (ENG 579);
Latin American and American Fiction: (Comparative Literature (ENG 579).
Courses Designed (and Taught) by Me at Other Schools
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Undergraduate Courses Taught at Other Schools Have
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