Spanish Faculty: ALIX INGBER Professor of Spanish Director of Academic Advising Department of Modern Languages and Literatures e-mail: ingber@sbc.edu

• Ph.D. The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 1979
  
• M.A. University of Illinois, Urbana, 1967
  
• B.A. Brooklyn College, City University of New York, 1965
  

• 2001-2008: Director of Academic Advising, Sweet Briar College
  
• 1998-2001: Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Sweet Briar College
  
• 1996-1998: Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs, Sweet Briar College
  
• 1991-2009: Professor of Spanish, Sweet Briar College
  
• 1989-1992: Director of the Honors Program, Sweet Briar College
  
• 1984-1991: Associate Professor of Spanish, Sweet Briar College
  
• 1980-1984: Assistant Professor of Spanish, Sweet Briar College
  
• 1977-1980: Instructor of Spanish and Coordinator of Individualized Instruction in Spanish (1978-80), The Ohio State University
  

Courses taught at Sweet Briar College:

• Spanish language (Elementary and Intermediate)
  
• Spanish Conversation
  
• Advanced Grammar and Composition
  
• Introduction to Literary Analysis
  
• Introduction to Spanish literature (part I, 12th through 17th centuries)
  
• Introduction to Spanish literature (part II, 18th through 20th centuries)
  
• Spanish Literature of the Middle Ages
  
• Spanish Golden Age Literature
  
• Don Quijote
  
• Special Topics: Hispanic Poetry
  
• What is Honor? (team-taught Honors Seminar)
  
• A Sense of Place (team-taught writing-intensive course)
  
• Writing Lives (team-taught First-Year Seminar)
  
• Advanced Research and Analysis for Spanish/Business major (team-taught)
  
• Senior Seminar for Spanish/Business major (team-taught)
  
• Senior Seminar in Spanish

Research Interests:

• Spanish Golden Age theatre
  
• Lope de Vega
  
• Spanish Golden Age poetry
  
• Honor in Spanish Golden Age literature and society
• Teaching and technology (development of interactive web sites)

Selected Publications:

"The Recursive Quijote." in A Celebration of Brooklyn Hispanism: Hispanic Literature from Don Quijote to Today, ed. Malva Filer, Dominick Finello, William Sherzer. Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2004, pp. 65-75.

"Lope de Vega." In Spanish Dramatists of the Golden Age. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998, pp. 229-243.

"El juego de motivos contextuales en El caballero de Olmedo, Revista La Torre (University of Puerto Rico), 1, (#3-4, 1988), pp. 429-444.

"A most ingenious paradox: Castro and the comedia," inAmérico Castro: The Impact of His Thought, ed. R. Surtz, J.Ferrán, and D. Testa. Madison: The Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1988, pp. 239-247.

El bien más alto: A Reconsideration of Lope de Vega's Honor Plays, Gainesville: University Presses of Florida (Humanities Monograph no. 56), 1984

"Honor Reconsidered: Los Comendadores de Córdoba," Journal of Hispanic Philology, 4(1979), pp. 59-75.

" Las fuerzas extrañas de Leopoldo Lugones:análisis crítico," in Estudios críticos sobre la prosa modernista hispanoamericana, ed. José Olivio Jiménez. New York: Eliseo Torres, 1975, pp. 237-253.

Translation from the Spanish of the essay: "Welcoming a New Book by Vicente Aleixandre: on Diálogos del conocimiento(1974)," by José Olivio Jiménez. In Revista de letras,Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, no. 22, June, 1974.

Book Reviews :

Francisco Márquez Villanueva, Lope: vida y valores.Journal of Hispanic Philology.Spring, 1992, pp. 339-340.

L.A. Murillo, A Critical Introduction to Don Quijote.Journal of Hispanic Philology, vol. 16, no. 1, Autumn, 1991, pp. 70-71.

E. W. Hesse, ed., Approaches to Teaching Spanish Golden Age Drama.Bulletin of the Comediantes, vol. 42, no. 2, Winter, 1990, pp.227-229.

Selected Software and World Wide Web:

Golden Age Spanish Sonnets - a "bilingual edition" of more than a hundred Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Sonnets with verse translations.

"Plus ça change... Photographs Old and New" - An exhibition of photographs at the Benedict Gallery, Sweet Briar College, April 5 - May 20, 2007

"Multiculturalism gone wrong: Spain in the Renaissance" - (adapted from a guest lecture given for the European Civilization course)

Spanish Grammar Drills (Interactive grammar drills on the web)

Spanish Grammar Exercises (Spanish grammar tutorials with accompanying exercises.) Knoxville, Tennessee: HyperGlot Software, 1989, 6disks.

Selected Presentations and Papers:

"The Recursive Quijote." Paper delivered at the symposium "A Celebration of Brooklyn Hispanism: Hispanic Literature from Don Quijote to Today" sponsored by Brooklyn College, The Office of Academic Afairs of the City University of New York, The Cervantes Institute and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. New York: October, 2002.

"Teaching the comedia in the 21st Century: Problems and Opportunities." Paper delivered at the MLA Annual Convention, session organized by the Division on Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Drama, New Orleans: December, 2001.

"Literature in Cyberspace." Paper delivered at the NEMLA Annual Convention, Philadelphia, April, 1997.

"What is an Honor Play?" Paper delivered at the MLA Annual Convention, session organized by the Division on Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Drama, New York: December, 1992.

"A most ingenious paradox: Castro and the comedia," Paper delivered at the symposium, "Américo Castro in Search of a New Hispanic Humanism,"Princeton University, October 18-19, 1985.

"Courtesy, Altruism, and Honor: A new reading of Lope de Vega's Fuenteovejuna." Paper delivered at NEMLA Annual Convention, Philadelphia, March, 1984.