Professor of Spanish

Education

• Ph.D., A.M., Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
• B.A., Spanish Literature, Smith College, Magna cum Laude Phi Beta Kappa

Teaching Areas

• Spanish literature (from the Middle Ages through the 21st century)
• Animals in world literature
• Introduction to film and Spanish cinema
• Spanish language (all levels)
• Spanish for special purposes (health, business, travel)

Main Areas of Research

• Medieval Spanish literature (especially the Libro de buen amor)
• Web site, Libro de buen amor: http://home.comcast.net/~vetterma
• Animals in world literature
• The Camino de Santiago de Compostela
• Pedagogy (textbook and Web site writing)

Honors

• Phi Beta Kappa
• Woodrow Wilson Award
• Harvard Univ. Romance Languages Prize for Excellence in Teaching
• Massachusetts Spanish Teacher of the Year
• Alfonso X el Sabio Award from the government of Spain in recognition of service to the profession
• Distinguished Service Award, AATSP

Important National Offices Held

• Chair, Steering Committee, AATSP Biennial Northeast Regional Meetings (2005-present)
• Member, Division of Medieval Spanish Literature, Modern Language Association (2001-2005)
• Chair, Division of Medieval Spanish Literature, MLA (2004)
• President, American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) (2003)
• Executive Council, AATSP (1997-1999)
• Co-Chair, Christianity and Literature Conference, Regis College, October 1996 and October 2007
• Table Leader, Grading of Advanced Placement Exams in Spanish (ETS) (1986-90, 1992-2006)
• Editor, Massachusetts Foreign Language Association Bulletin & Newsletters (1986-1990)

Recent Publications

• Co-author, Caminos textbook (various components), Houghton Mifflin, 1999; revised, 2002 and 2007.
• Co-author, Reflejos textbook (various components), Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
• "Holy Beasts…in Juan Ruiz's Libro de buen amor (Book of Good Love)." Selected Proceedings of the 1998 Northeast Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature, ed. Denise T. Askin and Teresa Méndez-Faith, Manchester, N.H.: St. Anselm College Press (1999): 182-194.
• "Los siete pecados capitales en el Libro de buen amor a la luz de la teoría del entrelazamiento" Actas del XIII Congreso de la AIH, Madrid: Editorial Castalia, 2000, pp. 244-48.
• "Omnes, Aves, Animalias: Cras morredes: Death in the Libro de buen amor," Studies in Honor of Enrique Anderson Imbert, ed. Nancy Abraham Hall and Lanin A. Gyurko. Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2003, pp. 191-205.
• "Fables and Film: A Few Thoughts on the Past, the Present and the Future," Presidential Address given at the AATSP meeting in Chicago, summer 2003. Essay published in the December 2003 issue of Hispania, pp. 893-897.
• "La crítica y los animales en el Libro de buen amor," Actas del XIV Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, Vol. 1, Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2004, pp. 133-144.
• "La aventura de estudiar en España: vida, literatura, arte, cine."Hispania, September, 2004.
• Editor, ENLACE, AATSP's online newsletter (3-4 numbers per year), 2005-present:
  • https://www.aatsp.org/scriptcontent/custom/members/02_resources/newsletter_pdfs/enlace_fall_2005.pdf
  • https://www.aatsp.org/scriptcontent/custom/members/02_resources/newsletter_pdfs/enlace_Spring_2006.pdf
  • https://www.aatsp.org/scriptcontent/custom/members/02_resources/newsletter_pdfs/enlace_summer_06.pdf
• Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela," Regis Today, fall 2005, pp. 9-11: http://www.regiscollege.edu/alum/pdf/rt_fall05.pdf.
• "Dangerous Pilgrimages: Murder Mysteries Written by Women on the Camino de Santiago," Proceedings of the Northeast Region Annual Meeting, Conference on Christianity and Literature, October 22, 2005, Caldwell College, eds. Brigid Brady, O.P, and Patricia Verrone, pp. 75-76.

Editor of Conference Proceedings (Books)

• Selected Papers: Reflections on the Conquest of America Five Hundred Years After. 5th Biennial Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese,1992. Durham: Univ. of New Hampshire, 1996. (Editor along with TM Faith, FW Forbes, B. Wing.)
• Proceedings: Northeast Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature, Regis College, Oct. 10-12, 1996, edited along with Joan Hallisey and funded by Regis College.

• Literature:
  • "Women in the Cinema of Luis Buñuel," ACTFL Meeting (AATSP Sponsored Session), Boston, November 2000.
  • "Omnes, aves, animalias: Cras, cras morredes: Death in the Libro de buen amor." Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C., December 2000.
  • "Whose Zoo: Critics and Animals in the Libro de buen amor." AATSP Annual Meeting, San Francisco, July 2001.
  • "La crítica y los animales en el Libro de buen amor." AIH, New York City, July 2001.
  • "Teaching Today's Students: Don Juan, the Mujer Brava and Lazarillo de Tormes." MLA, New York City, December 2002.
  • "Don Quijote in the Twenty-First Century," Workshop for MaFLA. Presented January 2003 and May 2003.
  • "Don Quijote in the Twenty-First Century" for AATSP 10th Biennial, Yale, September 2004.
    
• Pedagogy:
  • "Using Like Water for Chocolate as a Tool to Teach the Subjunctive." Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, August 1995.
  • "Selena, Gloria, and Enrique: Music for Today's Classroom." Annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, August 1996.
  • "Using Technology to Teach the Libro de buen amor." May 1998 Meeting of Medievalists in Kalamazoo.
  • "No hay mal que por bien no venga: Sugerencias para acción positiva con situaciones difíciles: (1) Ser buen colega y mentor (2) Distribuir a los estudiantes por todo el departamento (3) Modernizar la enseñanza (4) No morir de exceso de trabajo," AATSP Meeting in Madrid, Summer 1998.
  • "Literature and Film in Spanish: Women as Teasers, Tyrants and Torturers," Co-presenter with Joy Renjilian-Burgy (Wellesley College), Lanin Gyurko (Univ. of Arizona), Patricia Pogal (Morehouse College), ACTFL, November 2002, Salt Lake City. (Also chaired a session on "Innovative Spanish via Technology.")
  • "Innovative Spanish via Technology," chair of session, ACTFL, November 2002, Salt Lake City.
  • Headed discussion session on issues in the profession, Northeast Conference, Washington, D.C., April 2003.
  • Co-presenter in a workshop on film at MaFLA, October 2003.
  • Organized a session on food in Hispanic literature and culture for ACTFL, November 2003, Philadelphia.
  • Presenter at a session on women and war at ACTFL, November 2003, Philadelphia.
  • "Women and Madness in Spanish Cinema," presentation at ACTFL, Chicago, November 2004.
  • "Dangerous Pilgrimages: Murder Mysteries Written by Women on the Camino de Santiago" Northeast Region Annual Meeting, Conference on Christianity and Literature, October 22, 2005, Caldwell College.
  • "El Camino de Santiago: leyendas y experiencia personal." MaFLA Annual Meeting, Sturbridge, MA, October 2005.
  • "El Camino de Santiago: cultura, literatura, y experiencia personal." AATSP Annual Meeting in Salamanca, Spain, July-August 2006.
  • "La magia del Camino de Santiago." MaFLA Annual Meeting, Sturbridge, Mass., October 2006.
  • "Murder on the Camino: Struggle, Martyrdom and Spirituality" Northeast Region Annual Meeting, Christianity and Literature, St. Francis College, New York City, October 2006.

Talks

• Translator at Symposium for the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, Brandeis University, April 1994.
• "La aventura de estudiar en España: vida, literatura, arte, cine," invited featured speaker for the ceremony on the occasion of the Nebrija Award for the AATSP, Salamanca, Spain, July 2004.
• "The Camino de Santiago: A Tale of Travel and Reflection," New Vistas Lecture Series, sponsored by the Regis College Alumnae Board, March 2005.
• "La aventura de estudiar en España: vida, literature, arte, cine," Invited featured speaker for the ceremony of the Nebrija Award for the AATSP, Salamanca, Spain, July 2004.
• "The Camino de Santiago: A Tale of Travel and Reflection." New Vistas Lecture Series, sponsored by the Regis College Alumnae Board, March 2005.
• "El Camino de Santiago." Invited talk for Honors Induction Ceremony, Framingham State College, Spring 2006.

Membership in Professional Organizations

• AATSP, ACTFL, Christianity and Literature, MaFLA, MLA, Medieval Society of America

Travel
Throughout the United States and Puerto Rico, Canada, Spain, Portugal, England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Holland, Germany, Italy, Greece, Mexico, Brazil, and Japan.