Curran's Cordel Connection
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Curran, Mark J. Curriculum Vitae
Mark
Joseph Curran Department
of Languages and Literatures Arizona
State University Tempe,
Arizona 85287 Tel.
(602) 965-1754 (work)
965-6281 (message, work)
Born
in Abilene, Kansas.
Ph.D. Saint Louis
University. St. Louis, Missouri,
1968. Major:
Spanish and Latin American Studies.
Minor: Luso-Brazilian Studies.
B.S.B.A. Rockhurst College, Kansas City, Missouri, 1963.
Major: Business Management. Minor: Spanish.
Study abroad. Universidad Nacional de México, 1962. Teaching
and Work Experience: 1968-present.
Coordinator of Portuguese Section, DLL, ASU 1983
to present: Professor of Spanish-Portuguese, ASU 1985-1992.
Assistant Chair, Department of Foreign Languages, ASU 1987.
Teaching in ASU Summer Program, Spain 1973-1982.
Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, ASU 1976-1977.
On-site Director of the Arizona State University- 1968-1972.
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, ASU 1966-1967.
Fulbright-Hays Research Fellow in Brazil 1963-1966.
Graduate Fellow in Spanish and Latin American
Studies, Saint Louis University Honors
and Awards: Invited
guest, Brown University, Department of Portuguese and ASU
Travel for Research Grant, 1998, 1996, 1995, 1991. Invited
guest: seminar and lançamento of book Cuíca de Santo Amaro:
Poeta-Repórter da Bahia, Bahia,
Oct. 1990. Research
Grant for Brazil, American Philosophical Society, 1990. Invited
Participant, Seminário de Língua e Literatura Popular, National
Selection Committee for Fulbright-Hays Research Grants for Faculty and Students, American Republics,
Washington, Arizona
State University Mini-Grant, January, 1989. Invited
Participant at the First International Congress on Northeastern Literature, Federal University
of Pernambuco, Arizona
State University Small Grants Award, 1986. Sebastião
Nunes Batista Prize. Given for the essay "Grande Sertão: Veredas
e a Literatura de Cordel."
Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa-Livraria José Olympio EdtaBiblioteca
"Orígenes Lessa". Arizona
State University Small Grants Award, 1985. National
Selection Committee, Fulbright-Hays Research Grants for Guest Participant in "Commemoration of 50 Years of Literature of Jorge Amado," Salvador da Bahia, November, 1981. Publication of the monograph, Jorge Amado e a Literatura de . Arizona
State University Summer Research Grant, 1981. Dean's
Research Grant, College of Liberal Arts, ASU, 1980. Arizona
State University Summer Research Grant, 1979. American
Philosophical Society Research Grant, 1978. Governing
Board of Pacific Coast Council of Latin American Studies, 1974-1977. Guest
Participant of the First International Congress of Portuguese Philology, Rio de
Janeiro, 1973. Arizona
State Univerity Summer Research Grants, 1972, 1970, 1969 Fulbright-Hays
Dissertation Research Grant, Brazil, 1966-1967. NDEA
IV Graduate Fellowship, Saint Louis University, 1963-1966. Honors
in Business Management, Rockhurst College, 1963. Memberships:
American Association of Teachers of Spanish-Portuguese, 1968 to present.
Brazilian Studies Association. Intermitent:
Pacific Coast Council of Latin American Studies, Rocky Mountain Council of Latin
American Studies. University,
College or Departmental Committees-Administration College
of Liberal Arts Research-Travel Grants Committee, 1998-1999 Coordinator
of Portuguese Section, DLL, since 1968 College
of Liberal Arts, Planning and Budget Committee 1996 Spanish
and Portuguese Seven-Year Review Committee, Portuguese Section,
Fall, 1995. Dean's
Advisory Council, College of Liberal Arts 1986-1989 DFL
Personnel Committee 1985-1996, chair 1991-92. DFL
Search Committee for Chair, 1983-4 Spanish
Graduate Committee 1990, 1982-4 University
Fulbright-Hays Committee, 1978-1980 Liberal
Arts Committee on Quality of Teaching, three years Advisory
Council for Center of Latin American Studies, 1976-1999 Faculty
Advisor of Brazil Club, 1975. Library
Acquisitions, Brazilian Literature and Culture, 1968... Departmental
Policies Committee, two terms Ph.D.
Dissertation Committees, second or third reader, frequent. Master's
Thesis Committees, reader, frequent. Travel
and Study Spain
and Portugal, 1987. Study, travel,
teaching. Brazil:
1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1978, 1981, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1996. Research,
awards, publications, congresses. Peru.
Travel in 1967. Mexico.
Study and travel in 1962, 1976, 1996, 1998, 1999. Colombia.
Sabbatical study and travel in 1975. Guatemala. 1962, 1969, 1970, 1976, 1977. Travel and teaching. Italy,
Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Russia. Travel
in 1989. Languages:
English (Native Speaker), Spanish, Portuguese. Papers
Read at Major Conferences: "The
Influence of the Literatura de Cordel on Brazilian Literature: O Auto
da Compadecida by Ariano Suassuna."
Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies, B.Y.U., 1970. "The
Popular Poet as Spokesman of the Masses."
Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies, ASU, 1971. "Twentieth
Century Brazilian Literature: Influence of the Poetry of the Masses (Mário de
Andrade, Jorge Amado, João Guimarães Rosa and Ariano Suassuna)."
UCLA Semana de Arte Moderna Symposium, Los Angeles, 1972. "The
'Journalistic Page' of the Brazilian Popular Poet."
Arizona Latin American Studies Conference, ASU, 1973. "Grande
Sertão: Veredas e a Literatura de Cordel". Primeiro Congresso Internacional de Filologia Portuguesa, Rio
de Janeiro, 1973. "A
Cultura Popular e Grande Sertão: Veredas."
University of Southern California Symposium on Luso-Brazilian Oral
Traditions: Verse Forms. Los Angeles, 1975. "Rodolfo
Coelho Cavalcante: Brazilian Popular Poet and Propagandist for the Literatura
de Cordel." Pacific Coast
Council of Latin American Studies, Fresno, 1975. "An
Overview of the Brazilian Ballad Tradition: the Cantador and the Poeta
Popular of the Literatura de Cordel." American Folklore Society, Philadelphia, 1976. Chairman
for "Current Trends in Brazilian Culture" at the Pacific Coast Council
of Latin American Studies Conference, Santa Clara, 1977. "The
Cangaço Theme in the Literatura de Cordel."
Pacific Coast Council of Latin American Studies, Fullerton, 1978. Director
of Workshop on Portuguese Language, Annual Meeting of the AATSP, San Diego,
1978. "The
Literatura de Cordel Today: the Poets' Point of View."
Symposium on the Popular Dimensions of Brazil, U.C.L.A., Los Angeles,
1979. "Jorge
Amado e a Literatura de Cordel." South Central Modern Language Association, New Orleans, 1979. "Brazil's
Literatura de Cordel: its Distribution and Adaptation to the Brazilian
Mass Market." Conference on
Latin American Popular Culture, El Paso and Juarez, 1981. "Cuíca
de Santo Amaro: Controvérsia no Cordel."
V Symposium on Portuguese Traditions, U.C.L.A. Los Angeles, 1982. "O
Poeta na Literatura de Cordel: a Visão de Rodolfo Coelho Cavalcante."
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, AGSIM, Glendale, 1983. "A
Política na Literatura de Cordel: a Visão de Rodolfo Coelho Cavalcante."
Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies, University of Arizona,
Tucson, 1984. "The
Image of the United States in Brazil's Literatura de Cordel."
Pacific Coast Council of Latin American Studies, Cal. State
University-Los Angeles, 1984. "The
Brazilian Democratic Dream: the View from Cordel."
Pacific Coast Council of Latin American Studies.
U. of Nevada-Las Vegas, 1985. "New
Cordel in Brazil - 1985." Latin
American Popular Culture Conference, Tulane University, New Orleans, 1986. "AIDS,
Homosexuality and Roberta Close: What
Do You Say If You Are Catholic, Conservative and Write Cordel?"
Pacific Coast Council of Latin American Studies, ASU, 1987. "Brazil
after Tancredo: a Chronicle from Cordel." Pacific Coast Council of Latin American Studies, ASU, 1987. "Jorge
Amado e a Literatura de Cordel". Primeiro
Congresso Internacional de Literatura Nordestina, UFEPE, Recife, 1988. "A
Visão dos Estados Unidos na Literatura de Cordel." Seminário de Língua e
Literatura Popular, UFEPB, João Pessoa, 1989. "Cuíca
de Santo Amaro: Poeta-Repórter da
Bahia." Debate on the occasion
of the publication of the book in Salvador da Bahia, Fundação Casa de Jorge
Amado, Pelourinho, Salvador, Oct. 1990. "Reporting
in Brazil: Folk-Popular Poetry. (Summary of 20th Century Themes)."
Meeting of the Pacific Coast Council of Latin American Studies, Glendale
(AGSIM), October 16, 1992. Brazil's
Literatura de Cordel ["String Literature"]:
Poetic "A
Visão Internacional do "Jornal do Povo": a Literatura de "Os
Desafios da Nova Ordem Mundial: a Visão desde o Cordel".
V Congreso do SOLAR, São Paulo, USP, 1996. "Uma
Nova Leitura da História Brasileira -- História segundo o Cordel."
Symposium on Portuguese Traditions.
UCLA, Los Angeles, April,
1998. Publications: Dissertation:
"Leandro Gomes de Barros and the Literatura de Books: História
do Brasil em Cordel. São
Paulo: Editora da Universidade de São Paulo, 1998, 288 pps. La
Literatura de Cordel Brasileña. Antología
Bilingüe. La Lira de Licario. Madrid:
Editorial Orígenes, 1991, 211 pp. Cuíca
de Santo Amaro: Poeta - Repórter
da Bahia. Salvador
da Bahia: Fundação Casa de Jorge Amado, 1990, 197 p. A
Presença de Rodolfo Coelho Cavalcante na Moderna Literatura de Cordel.
Rio de Janeiro: Nova Fronteira-Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa, 1987.
324 pp. Jorge
Amado e a Literatura de Cordel. Bahia: Fundação Cultural do Estado da Bahia - Fundação
Casa de Rui Barbosa, 1981. 95 pp. A
Literatura de Cordel. Recife:
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 1973.
94 pp. Articles
or Chapters in Books: "Os
Desafios da Nova Ordem Mundial: a Visão do Povo no "Jornal do Povo"
In: Anais do V Congresso do Solar II, São Paulo: EDUSP, 1998,
pp. 553-557. "A
Visão da Segunda Guerra Mundial na Literatura de Cordel-- O Caso de Cuíca de
Santo Amaro" In: A Guerra
no Cordel, ed. Jerusa Pires,
P.U.C., São Paulo, forthcoming. "Brazil's
Literatura de Cordel [String Literature]: Poetic Chronicle and Popular
History." Studies in Latin
American Popular Culture v. 15, 1996, 219-229. "Grande
Sertão: Veredas e a Literatura de Cordel." Brasil/ Brazil n. 14, ano 8, 1995, 9-49. "A
literatura de cordel: antes e agora."
Special Portuguese Edition of Hispania (74:3) Sept. 1991, 570-576. "Cordel:
One Hundred Years of Brazilian History."
Brazil Hoje (May-June, 1991) 1,9. "New
Cordel in Brazil: 1985." Studies
in Latin American Popular Culture, V. 7, 1988, 107-120. "Images
of the United States in Brazil's Literatura de Cordel."
Proceedings of the Pacific Coast Council of Latin American Studies.
14:1 (1987), 145-172. "The
Brazilian Democratic Dream: the View from Cordel."
Luso-Brazilian Review. 23:2
(1986), 29-46. "Politics
in the Brazilian Literatura de Cordel: the View of Rodolfo Coelho
Cavalcante." Studies in
Latin American Popular Culture. Eds.
Harold Hinds, Charles M. Tatum. V. 3, 1984, 115-126. "Folk-Popular
Literature in Brazil: a Seminal Study of "Stories on a String."
Studies in Latin American Popular Culture. V.2, 1983, 234-238. "Brazil's
Literatura de Cordel: Its Distribution and Adaptation to the Brazilian
Mass Market." Studies in
Latin American Popular Culture. V.
1, 1982, 164-178. "Literatura
de Cordel Today: the Poets and the Publishers."
Journal of Latin American Lore.
6:1 (1980), 55-75. "From
the Cantador to the Poeta Popular: the Folk-Popular Poetry of
Northeastern Brazil." Latin
American Digest. 13:4
(1979), 1-3, 20. "The
Poetry of the Cangaço." Arizona
Latin American Conference Papers. Tempe,
CLAS, 1978, 24 pp. "An
Annotated Bibliography of Selected Works on Brazil' Literatura de Cordel."
Proceedings of the Pacific Coast Council of Latin American Studies.
V. 5, 1976, 160-168. "Jorge
Amado" and "Ariano Suassuna", A Dictionary of Brazilian
Authors. Eds. David Foster and
Roberto Reis. Tempe: CLAS, 1973,
2-4, 141-142. "The
Journalistic Page of the Brazilian Popular Poet."
Arizona Latin American Conference on Latin American Studies.
Tempe: CLAS, 1973, 30-52. "A
Sátira e a Crítica Social na Literatura de Cordel".
Literatura Popular em Verso.
Estudos I. Rio de Janeiro:
Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa, 1973, 271-330.
(With studies by Ariano Suassuna, Bráulio do Nascimento, Dulce Martins,
Mark J. Curran, Manuel Diégues Júnior, Raquel de Queiróz and Sebastião Nunes
Batista.) 2a. ed.
Belo Horizonte: Itatiaia - USP, 1986. Romero,
Sílvio. Estudos sobre a Poesia
Popular do Brasil. In: Teaching
Interests and Courses Taught: Spanish
language, Survey of Spanish Literature, Don
Quixote; Portuguese language, Os Lusíadas, Brazilian Literature,
Northeastern Literature of Brazil, Jorge Amado, Grande Sertão: Veredas,
Música e Poesia: Chico Buarque de Holanda, the Literatura de Cordel of
Brazil; Cordel e Vida Brasileira,
Luso-Brazilian Civilization, Special Topics - Brazil, Spanish American
Civilization. Thank
you for your attention, Mark
J. Curran Department
of Languages and Literatures Arizona
State University Tempe,
AZ 85287 tel.
(602) 965-1754 fax:
965-0135 e-mail:
profmark@asu.edu
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