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2009.<\/strong> Retired as Dean of Arts at uOttawa and retreated to Orange County, California.<\/p>\n

2004.<\/strong> Appointed Dean of Arts at uOttawa.<\/p>\n

2004.<\/strong>\u00a0Intermediate flamenco guitar tutoring\u00a0(daily for one month). David (El Poeta) Hill, Jerez, Spain.<\/p>\n

2003.<\/strong>\u00a0Intensive course in intermediate Spanish, Carpe Diem: Escuela de Espa\u00f1ol, Seville.<\/p>\n

2003.<\/strong>\u00a0Mactaggart Writing Award. Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta.<\/span><\/p>\n

2003.<\/strong>\u00a0Classical guitar tutoring\u00a0(weekly, Jan-April), Christian Goly, Freie Waldorf Schule, Innsbruck.<\/span><\/p>\n

2003. Jan-May<\/strong>. Sabbatical semester in Innsbruck, Austria.<\/p>\n

2002. May.<\/strong> Gastprofessor Sprachwissenschaft. Univerit\u00e4t Innsbruck, Austria.<\/p>\n

2001-2002<\/strong>.\u00a0McCalla Research Professorship, University of Alberta.<\/span><\/p>\n

2000. Jan-April.<\/strong>\u00a0Teaching at the University of Alberta Field School in Cortona (Tuscany), Italy.<\/p>\n

1998-2003.<\/strong>\u00a0Black Belt in Aikido\u00a0(Shodan)\u00a0awarded by the Vietnamese Sensei Tran-Hiep-Hoa 6th Dan, proponent of the Tenshinkai (heaven-heart) lineage of Aikido (harmony-energy-path). Edmonton.<\/p>\n

1997-1998.<\/strong> Associate Dean of Arts (Fine Arts and Humanities). University of Alberta.<\/p>\n

1987.<\/strong>\u00a0Assume tenure-track position in French\u00a0at the University of Alberta.<\/p>\n

1986-1987.<\/strong> Assistant Professor of French, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NewJersey.<\/p>\n

1985.<\/strong> Return to academic life. Sessional instructor in Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, Edmonton.<\/p>\n

1983-1985.<\/strong>\u00a0Classical guitar tutoring\u00a0(weekly). Jon Harris, Berkeley, California.<\/span><\/p>\n

1980-1985<\/strong>.\u00a0Wine Merchant\u00a0— Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, Berkeley, California.<\/span><\/p>\n

1979-1980<\/strong>. Assistant associ\u00e9, UER Anglais, Universit\u00e9 de Bordeaux III<\/p>\n

1979<\/strong>.\u00a0Intensive course in Mandarin\u00a0(ten weeks), UC Berkeley.<\/span><\/p>\n

1978. Autumn.\u00a0<\/strong>Visiting Assistant Professor, Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrooke, Qu\u00e9bec.<\/p>\n

1977<\/strong>. Move to Berkeley, California.<\/p>\n

1975-1977<\/strong>.\u00a0Vice-Pr\u00e9sident (Communications), NPD-Qu\u00e9bec\u00a0(Nouveau parti d\u00e9mocratique \/ New Democratic Party), Montr\u00e9al.<\/span><\/p>\n

1976, April-July<\/strong>.\u00a0Translator\u00a0for Summer Olympic Games, Montr\u00e9al.<\/span><\/p>\n

1976<\/strong>.\u00a0Auditeur libre, Cours d’interpr\u00e9tation, Universit\u00e9 de Montreal.<\/span><\/p>\n

1973-1977<\/strong>. Residence in Montr\u00e9al begins. Founding member of the Rassemblement des citoyens de Montr\u00e9al \/ Montreal Citizens Movement<\/em>.<\/p>\n

1972-1973<\/strong>. Dissertation research on French-language African and Caribbean literatures. Paris.<\/p>\n

1969-1972.<\/strong> Graduate work to the PhD in Comparative Literature, University of Alberta, Edmonton.<\/p>\n

October, 1969<\/strong>. Declined the draft and obtained Landed Immigrant status in Canada.<\/p>\n

1967-1969<\/strong>. Taught at Cuttington College, a small liberal arts school in central Liberia.<\/p>\n

1963-1967<\/strong>. B.A. in Comparative Literature, Beloit College, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

1945-1963<\/strong>. Born and raised in the East End of Houston, Texas.<\/p>\n

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2009. Retired as Dean of Arts at uOttawa and retreated to Orange County, California. 2004. Appointed Dean of Arts at uOttawa. 2004.\u00a0Intermediate flamenco guitar tutoring\u00a0(daily for one month). David (El Poeta) Hill, Jerez, Spain. 2003.\u00a0Intensive course in intermediate Spanish, Carpe Diem: Escuela de Espa\u00f1ol, Seville. 2003.\u00a0Mactaggart Writing Award. Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta. 2003.\u00a0Classical … <\/p>\n

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