Abel Muñoz Hermoso
CAMPUS ADDRESS
Department of Romance Languages
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB#3170, 118 Dey Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3170
amunoz@email.unc.edu
HOME ADDRESS
200 Blueridge Road
Carrboro, NC 27510
(919) 968-1956
PERSONAL DATA
Current Rank: Lecturer
Place of Birth: Seville, Spain
Residency Status: Spaniard with permanent residency in the United States
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Contemporary Spanish Literature
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 2006
Dissertation: “Esperanza e insatisfacción adolescente en la novela española de
finales del siglo veinte: graffiteros, okupas y soñadores.” Director: J.M. Polo de
Bernabé.
Area of Specialization: Contemporary Spanish Youth Novel. Supporting program:
Anthropology and Cultural Studies
M.A. in Twentieth Century Spanish Literature
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, December 2003
Thesis: “Diálogo, máscara y otredad como formas de afirmar la existencia en la
sociedad moderna en dos obras de Miguel de Unamuno y Sherwood Anderson.”
Director: Marsha S. Collins
B.A. in English and American Literature
The University of Seville, Spain, 1999
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Fall 2006 – Present. Lecturer. UNC-CH, Dept. of Romance Languages.
Courses Taught:
Spring 2008.
 Span 101 (Sec. 05W- 18 students, Sec. 06W -18 students)
 Span 101 (Sec. 951- 16 students)
 Span 203 (Sec.16- 16 students)
 Span 340 (Sec. 001- 24 students)
Fall 2007.
 Span 101(Sec.06W- 15 students, Sec 07W- 18 students)
 Span 203 (Sec. 032- 13 students)
 Span 340 (Sec. 002- 19 students)
Spring 2007
 Span 101(Sec. 003- 21 students)
 Span 101 (Sec. 951- 17 students)
 Span 102 (Sec. 012- 15 students)
 Span 372 (Sec.002- 23 students)
Fall 2006.
 Span 101(Sec. 007 Auralog-20 students, Sec.008 Auralog- 19 students)
 Span 203 (Sec.951- 16 students)
 Span 260 (Sec.003- 19 students)
Fall 2004 – Spring 2006. Spanish Instructor. Carolina College for Lifelong Learning,
UNC-CH
Courses Taught:
 Beginning Spanish
 Continuing Spanish
 Concentrated Conversational Spanish
 “La novela española: Trends and Conditions”
 “Spanish Popular Music and Singer-Song Writers”
Fall 2000 – Spring 2006. Graduate Teaching Fellow. UNC-CH Dept. of Romance
Languages
Courses Taught:
 Beginning Spanish I (Span 101)
 Beginning Spanish II (Span 102)
 Accelerated Elementary Spanish (Span 105)
 Intermediate Spanish I (Span 203)
 Intermediate Spanish II (Span 204)
 Advanced Spanish Conversation and Composition (Span 250)
 Spanish Conversation (Span 255)
 Introduction to the Spanish and Spanish American Literature (Span 260)
 Cultural History of the Hispanic World (Span 330)
 Cultural History of Spain in the XX century (Span 340)
Fall 2000 – Present. Private Spanish Tutor for Children. Chapel Hill, NC
 Assisted children to improve their language and communicative skills in
Spanish
 Helped prepare high school students for college placement tests
September 1997 – June 1999. English Tutor. The University of Seville, Spain
 Tutored students in English and American Literature
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Fall 2007-present. EN LINEA, helped develop a new online course for beginner
students of Spanish at UNC-CH
Fall 2006. Reader for the forthcoming online textbook “Cultural History of the
Hispanic World” by Drs. Hélène de Fays and Larry King
Fall 2001 – May 2004. Research Assistant for Prof. Stuart Day. UNC-CH Dept. of
Romance Languages
Responsibilities:
 Searching catalogues and literary journals for books on specific topics
 Collecting materials for class preparation
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2000 – 2004. Volunteer for “Familias del Pueblo” Road Race. Chapel Hill, NC
Responsibility:
 Helped in the organization of the road race for the Hispanic community of
the Chapel Hill/Carrboro area
Fall 2000 – Present. Member of Editorial Committee for Horizontes. UNC-CH, Dept.
of Romance Languages
Responsibilities:
 Evaluating original works (poems, short-stories, drawings and
photographs)
 Selecting and editing works for publication in Horizontes, a student
publication in Spanish and Portuguese
Summer 1999. Clerk for Siglo XXI Bookstore. Alcalá de Guadaíra, Spain
Responsibilities:
 Assisting the public with their purchases
 Maintaining the catalogue of available books
 Ordering school textbooks directly from the publishers
Fall 1998 – Spring 1999. Clerk for Vertice Bookstore. Seville, Spain
Responsibility:
 Maintaining the catalogue of books available at the store
PUBLICATIONS
A review of Generation X Rocks: Contemporary Peninsular Fiction, Film, and Rock
Culture. Edited by Chirstine Henseler and Randolph D. Pope. Hispanófila 2007
(149) 89-90
A review of Conversaciones literarias con novelistas contemporáneos. Katarzyna
Olga Beilin. Forthcoming in Hispanófila
A review of Spanish Culture Behind Barbed Wire: Memory and Representation of
the French Concentration Camps, 1939-1945. Francie Cate-Arries.
Forthcoming in Hispanófila
Dictionary entry on “Lorenzo Silva.” World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia.
Ed. Salvador Oropesa and Maureen Ihrie. (in press)
Dictionary entry on “Javier Tomeo.” World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia.
Ed. Salvador Oropesa and Maureen Ihrie. (in press)
CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS
Forthcoming
“El loco del sótano o la memoria traumática en El tragalúz de Antonio Buero
Vallejo”. Fifty-Eight Annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference
MIFLC). Wilmington, NC, October 2008.
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Completed
“Escapismo temporal y ventanas en dos novelas urbanas de los
noventa: El chico que imitaba a Roberto Carlos (1996) y Mensaka
(1993)”. Sixtieth Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY,
April 2007.
“La novela juvenil española de la década de los noventa: ‘¿para adolescentes?,
¿con adolescentes?, ¿sobre adolescentes?’. Seventy Ninth Annual Convention of the
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), Atlanta, GA, November
2007.
“The Construction of Identity in the Age of Globalization: Immigration and the
Global Cultural Supermarket in the Contemporary Spanish Novel”. Fifty-Eight
Annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference MIFLC), Harrisonburg,
VA, October 2006.
"Chronotope and Bildungsroman in El chico que imitaba a Roberto Carlos (1996), by
Martín Casariego, and Héroes (1993), by Ray Loriga ". Eleventh Annual Carolina
Conference on Romance Literatures, UNC, CH, NC, March 2005
“The City as Chronotope in Two Contemporary Spanish Novels: El chico que imitaba
a Roberto Carlos and Héroes”. Eleventh Annual Conference on Romance Literature.
UNC-CH, Chapel Hil, NC, April 2005
“Miguel de Unamuno y Sherwood Anderson: dos formas de vivir la realidad a través
de la persona y el grotesque” . Tenth Annual Conference on Romance Literature.
UNC-CH, NC, Chapel Hill, NC, April 2004
“Summer in the City: The Influence of Environmental Factors on the Writer in
Martín Casariego’s Qué te voy a contar” . Sixteenth Southeast Conference on
Foreign Languages & Literatures. Rollins College, Orlando, FL, March 2004
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Modern Language Association
Southern Comparative Literature Association
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Blackboard
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point)
Adobe Photoshop
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
Spanish: native speaker
English: fluently spoken, written and read
French: read and spoken
Italian: read
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REFERENCES
Prof. Glynis Cowell
Dept. of Romance Languages
UNC-CH
(919) 962-0156
gscowell@email.unc.edu
Prof. J.M. Polo de Bernabé
Dept. of Romance Languages
UNC-CH
(919) 962-1022
jpolo@email.unc.edu
Prof. William Maisch
Dept. of Romance Languages
UNC-CH
(919) 962-5613
maisch@email.unc.edu
Prof. Stuart Day
Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese
University of Kansas
(785) 864-0286
day@ku.edu
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