This document summarizes the education and experience of Lee Isogai Williams. It includes a Ph.D. in Romance Studies from the University of Miami, an M.A. in Spanish from Middlebury College, and a B.S. in Journalism from the University of Maryland. Williams has held teaching positions at various universities and currently works as the Director of Spanish and ESL at Touro College South. Research interests include metafiction, gender studies, and Latin American and European modernism. Awards include a Fulbright Fellowship to Uruguay and the Barrett Prize for the best University of Miami dissertation on a Latin American topic.

1. Education 2005, Ph.D. (Romance Studies - Spanish track, including more than 18 English/comparative
morphology graduate credits), University of Miami
1997, M.A. (Spanish), Middlebury College
1979, B.S. Journalism, University of Maryland
Experience Touro College South, Director of Spanish and ESL, 2008-present
National University, Online Adjunct Professor of Spanish and English, 2009-present
Nova Southeastern University, visiting assistant professor of Spanish, 2007-2008
University of Miami, Graduate Teaching Assistant of Spanish, Coral Gables, FL. 1998-2004
H.O.E. language school, ESL instructor, 1994-95, Osaka, Japan
Aboard magazine, editor/translator, 1993-94, Coral Gables, FL
Courses Taught Survey of Modern Literature I
Survey of Modern Literature II
Advanced Topics in English – Journalism
Advanced Topics in English – Drama
Modern Drama
Chaucer
17th Century Literature (British)
Tudor and Stuart Drama
Restoration and 18th Century Literature (British)
American Literature through 1900
Literature of the Holocaust
Shakespeare
Literature of the Middle Period
Creative Writing
Freshman Literature for Composition
Second-semester Literature for Composition
Third-semester Literature for Composition
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English as a Second Language
Elementary Spanish I
Elementary Spanish II
Intermediate Spanish I
Commercial Spanish
Spanish for Heritage Speakers
Latin American Modernism
Cross-Cultural Communication
Introduction to Latin American Cultures
Dissertation “The Metafiction (and Modernism) of Quiroga, Arlt and Onetti: Debunking the Pre-Boom
Lacuna” (co-winner of the University of Miami’s annual Barrett Prize for the best dissertation
written on a Latin American topic)
Rebecca Biron, chair
Hugo Achugar, Marc Brudzinski, Christina Civantos and David R. Ellison
Scholarship “Las fluctuaciones del tiempo en Absalom, Absalom! y Cien años de soledad.” William
Faulkner y el mundo hispánico: Diálogos desde el otro Sur. Beatriz Vegh, ed. Montevideo:
Linardi y Risso, September 2008
“Tit-Bits, un nexo significativo en la narrativa de Joyce y Onetti.” Proust y Joyce en ámbitos
rioplatenses: Reflexiones desde Montevideo. Beatriz Vegh, ed. Montevideo: Linardi y Risso,
June 2007
“Hollywood as Imaginary in the Work of Horacio Quiroga and Ramón Gómez de la Serna,”
Imaginary Places in Literature and Film, University of West Virginia: West Virginia
Philological Papers. Armand Singer, ed. Vol. 53, May 2007
“Imaginarios extranjeros en Nostromo de Conrad y ‘El puritano’ de Quiroga.” Melville,
Conrad: Imaginarios y Américas. Reflexiones desde Montevideo. Beatriz Vegh, ed.
Montevideo: Linardi y Risso, July 2006
“El contar como desenlace: Pip y Silvio en Grandes esperanzas de Charles Dickens y El
juguete rabioso de Roberto Arlt.” Charles Dickens en América Latina: Reflexiones desde
Montevideo. Beatriz Vegh, ed. Montevideo: Linardi y Risso, July 2005
“Telling as Denouement in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations and Roberto Arlt’s El juguete
rabioso [Mad Toy].” Dickens Quarterly. London: March 2005

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“Film Criticism and/or Narrative? Horacio Quiroga’s Early Embrace of Cinema,” Studies in
Hispanic Cinemas. London: May 2004. Vol. 1. No. 3
“Un viaje anacrónico” (a book review of Henri Calet’s El gran viaje). Montevideo: Brecha,
July 11, 2003, p. 32
La metaficción (y modernismo) de Quiroga, Arlt and Onetti: desmintiendo la laguna del pre-
Boom. Forthcoming, Montevideo: Galeón
Fiction Clickety Clack, Clickety Clack: Abe Lincoln's Train Done Jumped the Track, El Portal
Publications, El Portal, FL, 2013
The Lifeguard Murders: A South Beach Story, Rip Current Publishing, Miami Beach, 2009
Author of Destiny: (Also Known as The Ochoa Case), Livingston Press, University of West
Alabama, 2002. Invited writer at the Miami Book Fair 2002
Memoirs of a Thin Man, (novel under contract)
Conference Papers “Yiddish on the Pampas,” Association for Jewish Studies 41st
Annual Conference, December
20-22, 2009, Los Angeles
“When Crooks (and Gumshoes) Talk Yiddish: On Babel, Singer and Chabon,” Conney
Conference, Madison: University of Wisconsin, April 22-24, 2009
“Las fluctuaciones del tiempo en Absalom, Absalom! y Cien años de soledad”. William
Faulkner and the Hispanic World. Montevideo: University of the Republic, June 26-28, 2007
“Tit-Bits, un nexo significativo en la narrativa de Joyce y Onetti.” A la recherche du temps
perdu y Ulysses en ámbitos rioplatenses. Montevideo: University of the Republic, July 5-7,
2006
“Hollywood as Imaginary in the Work of Horacio Quiroga and Ramón Gómez de la Serna,”
Imaginary Places in Literature and Film, University of West Virginia, September 15-17, 2005
“Foreign Imaginaries in Conrad’s Nostromo and Quiroga’s “El puritano.” Benito Cereno,
Nostromo & Cía: Imaginarios y Amerícas. Montevideo: University of the Republic, July 4-6,
2005
“Candid Lies in Juan Carlos Onetti’s ‘Avenida de Mayo – Diagonal Norte – Avenida de
Mayo.’” Annual Graduate Student Conference, “Politics and Poetics of (Dis)Figuration,”
University of Miami, March 4-5, 2005

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“Film Bites in Horacio Quiroga’s “El vampiro.” Future Faculty Forum, University of Miami.
January 20, 2005
“The Writer as Text: Metafictional Elements in Borges’ ‘The Secret Miracle’ and
Hemingway’s ‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro,’” Student Conference on Latin American and
Caribbean Studies, Florida International University, April 1-2, 2004
“The Immoralist [Gide]: An Illusory Journey into Self,” Annual Graduate Student Conference,
“Ex-Centric Texts, Exiled Selves,” University of Miami, March 26-27, 2004
“Film Criticism and/or Narrative? Horacio Quiroga’s Early Embrace of Cinema,” Hispanic
Cinemas Conference, Institute for Romance Studies, London, November 28-29, 2003
“Telling as Denouement in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations and Roberto Arlt’s El juguete
rabioso [Mad Toy].” Dickens in Latin America conference, Universidad de la República,
Montevideo, June 23-25, 2003
“La proyección masculina y la (Octavio Paz)ificación de la mujer,” Southeast Conference on
Foreign Languages and Literatures, Orlando, March 2-4, 2000
Invited Presentations University of Miami, taught two one-day graduate level classes on the River Plate Vanguard
and its relation to Modernism, 2005
Alianza, designed and taught a four-session course on the Hemingway short story; four-session
course on short stories by Eudora Welty, Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe, and Raymond
Carver. Montevideo, Uruguay, 2003
University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay, taught a one-day graduate-level seminar,
“The detective story’s double plot in Absalom, Absalom!” 2003
Research Interests Metafiction, Narratology and Frame Theory
Gender Studies and Critical Race Theory
Twentieth and Twenty First Century Latin American Literature
European and North/South American Modernism
Latin American Jewish Studies
Popular Media (film and pulp fiction) in Literature; High/Low Hybrids
Awards Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowship August, 2010 (University of Texas at Austin)

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Fulbright Fellowship to Uruguay, February-November, 2003
Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) grant for pre-dissertation research in Uruguay,
2001
Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) full tuition scholarship in intensive Portuguese and
stipendium for summer 2000 at University of California, Los Angeles
Barrett Prize co-winner for the best dissertation on a Latin American topic at the University of
Miami defended during calendar year 2005
Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Department of Languages and Literatures, University of
Miami, 2004
Instructional Advancement Center certification, University of Miami, 2002
Languages Native in English; native-like in Spanish; knowledgeable in Portuguese and German
Feats Kayak trip Miami Beach to Key West (ten days), 2006
Hike Madrid to Lisbon (four weeks), 2001
Bicycle trip Cabo San Antonio to Punta de Maisí, Cuba (four weeks), 2000
Kayak trip Miami to Baltimore (ten weeks), 1996
Round-the-world trip (eleven months), 1984
Bicycle trip Atlantic to Pacific (eight weeks), 1980
Abroad Spain (one year), Japan (one and a half years), Uruguay (one year), Germany (six months),
Peru (four months), Mexico (four months), Cuba (two months). Plus extensive travel
throughout Asia, Oceania, South America and Europe