Dr. Sharon K. Ugalde
Spanish Professor
Office: CEN 141
Tel: (512) 245-3072
Fax: (512) 245-8298
e-mail:SU01@txstate.edu

Mailing address:

Texas State University
Department of Modern Languages
San Marcos, TEXAS 78666-4615

Sharon Keefe Ugalde, Professor, received her B.A. from the University of California, Davis, Certificate of completion for one year of study at the University of Madrid, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Spanish from Stanford University,. She joined the Texas State faculty in 1973 and was a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1998. She is the Section Coordination of the Spanish Division of the Department of Modern Languages. Her principal area of research is 20th- and 21st-century poetry of Spain and gender and she has also done research on the Latin American novel. She has published the following books: Sujeto femenino y palabra poética: Estudios críticos de la poesía de Juana Castro, Ed., Córdoba: Diputación de Córdoba, 2002; La poesía de María Victoria Atencia: un acercamiento crítico, Ed., Madrid: Huerga & Fierro, 1998; Conversaciones y poemas. La nueva poesía femenina española en castellano. Madrid: Siglo XXI, 1991; En homenaje a Ángel González: Ensayos, Entrevista y Poemas, Co-editor with Andrew Debicki, Boulder, Co.: Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies, 1991; Gabriel Celaya. Boston: Twayne, l978. Recent articles include: ³Los grandes temas: ellas también². Zurgai. Voz de Mujer (Julio, 2004): 6-17; "Theater and Performance in Los devaneos de Erato," The Poetry of Ana Rossetti, Ed. Jill Robbins. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2004: 63-87; "Poetics of Mid-Century Women Poets of Spain," Essays in Honor of Andrew Debicki, Ed. Roberta Johnson, Boulder, Co.: Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies, 2003: 87-102; "Can That Be Ophelia? Margarita Borja's Helénica. Poemas para 'El público'", Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 9.1 (2003): 69-81; ³La sombría claridad," Ángel González. Tiempo inseguro. Litoral 223, 2002. She is completing an anthology and critical study of women poets of Spain of the 1950s and 1970s and initiating research on the evolution of space and gender in 20th-century Spanish poetry.

HONORS AND AWARDS:

Program for Cultural Cooperation. Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture and United States' Universities. ³Anthology of Spanish Women Poets: Generations of 1950s and 1970s². Summer 2005.

Program for Cultural Cooperation. Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture and United States' Universities. "The Figure of Ophelia in Women's Poetry of Spain." Madrid, Feb.- April, 2001.

"Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarly Activity," 1999.

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Stipend. "The Re-Vision of the Figure of Ophelia in Recent Spanish Women's Poetry." 1993.

The United States-Spanish Joint Committee for Cultural and Educational Cooperation Research Fellowship. "Contemporary Women's Poetry in Spain." Madrid, Feb.-Dec. 1988.

Southwest Texas State Univ. Research Enhancement Grant:
Summer 2000: "An anthology of Spanish Women's Poetry"
Summer 1996: "A Collection of Articles on María Victoria Atencia." Study in Spain.
Summer 1995: "A Study of the Figure of Lilith." Study in Spain.
Summer 1991: "The Figure of Ophelia" Folger Library. Washington, D.C.

"Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarly Activity," 1991.

Southwest Texas State Univ. Merrick Instructional Award:
Spring 1995: Poetry through Visual Images course
Fall 1992: Development Honors course on Chicana poetry.
Spring l987: Video texts in First-year Spanish.
Spring l986: Development inter-disciplinary course on Latin America dictator novel.

"Presidential Seminar" Award, l985.

South Central Organization of Latin American Studies Award for best scholarly article on literature, l985.

NDEA Fellowship, Stanford, l966-l969.

B.A. Magma cum laude, l966.

Phi Beta Kappa

Regents Scholar, U.C. Davis, l962-l966.