Adrian Massei
Associate Professor
- Email: adrian.massei@furman.edu
- Phone: 864.294.3318
- Office: Riley Hall 109-P
Dr. Adrián Massei is a native of Argentina. He pursued his undergraduate studies at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, where he specialized in communications and discourse analysis. After working at Radio Nacional Córdoba for two years, he received a Rotary Foundation scholarship to pursue graduate studies at the University of Iowa, where he obtained a doctoral degree, specializing in Latin American literature of the Southern Cone. After teaching Spanish and Latin American literature at Middlebury College and the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, he joined Furman University in 2000.
Honors
Mellon grant to conduct the inter-institutional project The Southern Cone: Dictatorship, Democracy, and Globalization (July 15-August 15, 2006); Embassy of Spain and Fundación José Ortega y Gasset Grant to participate in the Seminar and Workshop on Language Teaching for Professors of Spanish in the United States and Canada, Madrid, Spain (July 8-26, 2002); Summer Research Experience for Faculty/Student Collaboration Grant (Summer 1997). Grant to develop the research project Voices of Dissidence in Contemporary Latin American Narrative of the Southern Cone (1973-1990); National Endowment for the Humanities/Iowa Humanities Board Grant (1993), to organize the program “Language, Literature, and Cultural Identity in Latin America."
Education
- Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese (1994), University of Iowa;
- M.A. in Journalism and Mass Communications (1990), University of Iowa
- Licenciatura in Communication Studies (1988), Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina.
Research
Latin American narrative and theatre of the Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay); fiction and history in Latin America; militarism and democratic reconstruction in South America.
Publications
- "La muerte y la doncella y Paso de dos: negociando democracias sobre su cadáver (el de ella). Romance Languages Annual 12.2. Spring 2002. 560-564.
- "Oralidad y escritura en la trilogía histórica de Héctor Tizón." Pensamiento y crítica: los discursos de la cultura hoy. Durán, Javier, Rosaura Hernández Monroy & Manuel Medina (Eds.). México: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2000. 9-23.
- "Tras las máscaras del desencanto: Nadie es profeta en su espejo, de Jorge Díaz." Romance Language Annual 10.2 (1999): 710-714.
- "Las voces de la memoria en La casa y el viento." Hispanic Journal. 20.1. (Spring 1999). 141-155.
- Héctor Tizón: una narrativa desde el margen. Buenos Aires/Córdoba: Editorial Alción, 1998. [book]
- "Tradición y progreso en El hombre que llegó a un pueblo." Confluencia 14.1 (Fall 1998).
- "Más allá del regionalismo: el discurso bicultural de Héctor Tizón." Romance Language Annual, Spring 1997: 556-560.
- "Márgenes y metrópoli en la narrativa argentina del interior." Selected Proceedings of the 17th Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Leslie Bary, Vicente Carmona, Arnulfo Ramírez, Jesús Torrecilla, and Gustavo Verdesio (Eds.). Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1996. 255-264.
- “Belisa y la zapatera o las cadenas de la imaginación: para una relectura de los códigos genéricos en dos obras de García Lorca." Ariel 9, No. 1 (1993): 39-64.
- “A Dios rogando y con el garrote dando: sobre el honor en El alcalde de Zalamea de Calderón de la Barca." Ariel 8, No. 2 (1993): 5-34.
- “Entre el cielo de la liberación y el infierno de la dominación: el espacio de la mujer en Pubis angelical." Torre de Papel 1, No. 2 (1991): 6-23.
- “El lector y su laberinto: presencia de Borges en Cien años de soledad." Torre de Papel 1, No. 1 (1991): 6-11.
- “Cortázar - Benedetti. Dos intelectuales, dos realidades... ¿Un mismo compromiso?" Letras 9, No. 3 (1989): 15-32.
Additional Professional Activity
Dr. Massei is an active ACTFL-certified OPI (Oral Proficiency Interview) tester in Spanish and a Trainer in both the ACTFL academic OPI and the ILR OPI protocols. He is also an active Writing Proficiency Test (WPT) and OPIc (Oral Proficiency Interview-Computer) rater. He has participated in ACTFL projects and initiatives since 2001, including the mentorship of newly-certified testers. He has offered workshops in oral and written language proficiency at many educational institutions throughout the country. He has also conducted Language Proficiency Interview training workshops for the Peace Corps in several Latin American countries.