GARY L. ATWOOD-MENDEZ portrait
  • Assistant Professor (Lecturer), World Languages and Cultures

Internal Service

  • Honors Faculty Advisor for World Languages and Cultures. Honors Faculty for World Languages and Cultures, 08/22/2022 - 07/01/2023. Department service.
  • Spanish MA Committee. One student. Member, 09/2019 - 05/2020. Department service.
  • Search Committee. Spanish Tenure-Track. Peninsular literature since 1975. Memeber, 09/2019 - 05/2020. Department service.
  • Strategic plan sub-group on "Student Success". member, 11/2013 - 02/2014. Department service.
  • Advisor/Evaluator for student transfer and study abroad credit . Advisor/Evaluator, 07/2013 - 05/2015. Department service.
  • CLCS M.A. committee. 0ne student (Exam Spring 2014). Committee member, reader, 03/2013 - 03/2014. Department service.
  • PhD committee. One student(Defended Spring 2012) . Member, reader, 05/2011 - 05/2012. Department service.
  • Advisor and Evaluator for student transfer credit and study abroad credit. Advisor/Evaluator, 08/2010 - 05/2014. Department service.
  • Spanish M.A. committee member. member, reader, 08/2010 - 05/2012. Department service.
  • Search Committee, adjunct position in Peninsular Spanish literature Spring 2007. Chair, Spanish MA committee. Fall 2009-Spring 2010 . Chair, 09/2009 - 05/2010. Department service.
  • Spanish MA committee. Chair, 08/2009 - 05/2010. Department service.
  • TAC peer-reviewer. peer-reviewer, 01/2009 - 03/2009. Department service.
  • Department Graduate Committee Fall 2007-Spring 2009. member, 09/2007 - 05/2009. Department service.
  • Search Committee, tenure-track Search Committee. Spanish Post-60’s position. Fall 2007-Spring 2008. member, 09/2007 - 05/2008. Department service.
  • Individual Spanish M.A. committees (total: 5 students). member, 01/2007 - 03/2013. Department service.
  • Search Committee, adjunct position in Latin-American literature. Spring 2007. member, 01/2007 - 05/2007. Department service.

Outreach

  • Second Language Teaching and Research Center summer teacher workshop. Teaching and Learning Hispanic Culture. “Studying the Spanish Civil War through Poetry.” July 30-31, 2014 . 07/30/2014 - 07/31/2014
  • Tanner Gateway to Learning Summer Workshop for teachers. Utopias and Distopias in the Spanish Speaking World, 20th Century- Present. “Remapping Identities: Spanish Fantasy and Science Fiction in the Age of Globalization.” August 4, 2010. 08/04/2010 - 08/04/2010
  • Tanner Gateway to Learning Summer Workshop for teachers. Violence and Trauma in Twentieth Century Latin American and Spanish Literature. “Reconstructing the Spanish Civil War: (Op)positional Identities.” August 5, 2009 . 08/05/2009 - 08/05/2009