Michael Hammer

1600 Holloway Avenue

San Francisco, CA 94132

(415) 338-1927

mhammer@sfsu.edu

Education
2003	Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles (Hispanic Languages and Literatures) Specialist in medieval Spanish literature, with minors in 20th century peninsular literature and Golden Age literature. Dissertation: “Framing the Reader: Exemplarity and Ethics in the Manuscripts of the Conde Lucanor.” Dissertation Director: John Dagenais
1997	MA, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah (Spanish) Thesis: “Horns, Hounds and Hierarchy: Creating and Crossing Boundaries in the Libro de la monteria.” Thesis Director: Dale Pratt
1991	BA, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah (Journalism)
Professional Experience
Teaching:
Fall 2003-Present	Assistant Professor of Spanish (San Francisco State University). Courses taught: Fall 2003: Spanish 101 (2 sections) Spanish 301 (Advanced Grammar) Spring 2004: GSpanish 102 (2 sections) Spanish 562 (Don Quijote) Spanish 880 (Great Works of Spanish Literature) Fall 2004: Spanish 101 (2 sections) Spanish 216 (Intermediate Conversation and Reading) Spanish 521 (Medieval Spanish Literature) Spring 2005: Spanish 102 (1 section) Spanish 562 (Don Quijote) Spanish 831 (Spanish Renaissance Literature) Fall 2005: Spanish 101 (2 sections) Spanish 205 (Grammar Review) Spanish 821 (Golden Age Lyric Poetry)
Fall 2002-Spring 2003	Adjunct Faculty (Los Angeles Mission College). Course taught: Spanish 1 (2 times)
Summer 2002	Visiting Lecturer (Brigham Young University). Courses taught: Spanish 339 (Survey of Spanish and Latin American Literature) Spanish 441 (Survey of Spanish Literature)
Teaching Assistant:
Fall 2002	Teaching Assistant (UCLA). Course taught: Spanish 3.
Spring 2000	Teaching Assistant (UCLA). Course taught: Spanish/History M198 (Late medieval and early modern Spanish Literature, History and Culture). Professors: John Dagenais and Teófilo Ruiz
Fall 1999Spring 2000	Teaching Assistant (UCLA). Course taught: Spanish 120A (Survey of medieval, Golden Age and Colonial Literature). Professor: Carroll Johnson
1996–1997	Teaching Assistant (Brigham Young University). Courses taught: Spanish 101-102
Research Assistant:
1997–1999	Research assistant to John Dagenais (UCLA). Worked on ARCA union database of medieval Spanish books and assorted other projects.
2000–2002 2000Ø2002	UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (see Honors and Awards). Assigned to work with: Robert Frank (Medical History) Ynez O’Neil (Medical History) Kevin Terraciano (Colonial Latin American History) Teófilo Ruiz (Medieval History) Claudia Parodi (Spanish)
Honors and Awards
1997-1999	Dean’s Del Amo Fellowship (UCLA). Two-year award that provided stipend for graduate study.
2000	Lenart Fellowship (UCLA). Competitive fellowship administered by UCLA Humanities Division. Provided funding for research travel to Spain.
2000-2002	Research Assistantship (UCLA). Interdisciplinary Research Assistantship administered through UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Worked with faculty from History, Medical History, Spanish.
Professional and Civic Activities
Service to Department and Campus:
2003-2005	Chair, Spanish Search Committee. Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. San Francisco State University.
2003-2005	Undergraduate Advisor. Spanish Program. Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. San Francisco State University.
2004-2005	Member, General Education Segment II Committee: Lifelong Learning.
Service to Profession:
1997-Present	Co-director of Mediber (Medieval Iberia) listserv, which serves more than 350 academic subscribers worldwide.
1999-2000	Member Editorial Board of Comitatus, graduate student journal of UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Spring 2004	Article reader for Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Published under the auspices of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Publications
Articles:
Book Chapter	“The Book of Count Lucanor and Patronio.” World Literature and its Times V: Spanish and Portuguese Literatures and Their Times. Ed. Joyce Moss. Detroit: Gale Group, 2002. 59-68.
Encyclopedia Entry	“Spanish Language and Literature.” Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World. Ed. Jonathan Dewald. New York: Thomson Gale, 2003. 493-499.
Report	“Pilgrimage and Architecture: In Honor of the Jubilee of St. James of Compostela.” AVISTA: Journal of the Association of Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Science, Technology, and Art 14 (2004).
Translations:
Edition and Translation (with John Dagenais)	Castilian glosses of Milagros de Santa María. Teaching Medieval Lyric with Modern Technology. CD ROM Application. A Project Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and Mount Holyoke College. Margaret Switten, Director; Robert Eisenstein, Production Coordinator. South Hadley, MA 2001.
Translation (with Blair Sullivan)	Bartolomé de las Casas. Las Casas on Columbus: The Third Voyage. Repertorium Columbianum 11. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2001. 333 pp.
Reviews:
Review	Contrary Things: Exegesis, Dialectic and the Poetics of Didacticism, by Catherine Brown. Comitatus 30 (1999): 198-200.
Review	Iconography and the Professional Reader: The Politics of Book Production in the Douce Piers Plowman, by Kathryn Kerby Fulton and Denise L. Despres. Comitatus 31 (2000): 263-64.
Review (with Ynez Violé O’Neill)	Andrés Laguna y el humanismo médico: Estudio filológico and Entre la imitación y el plagio: Fuentes e influencias en el ‘Dioscórides’ de Andrés Laguna. Both by Miguel Angel González Manjarrés. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 77 (2003): 190-192.
Works in Progress:
Book Chapter	“Sancho’s Confession Re-examined: Don Juan Manuel’s Aristocratic Self Image in the Libro de las armas.” To appear in Alfonso XI and His Times. Nicolas Agrait, ed. Brill, 2005.
Review	Márquez Villanueva, F. Santiago: trayectoria de un mito. Barcelona: Ediciones Bellaterra, 2004. 460 pp. Invited to review for La coronica.
Conferences:
Presentation	“Horns, Hounds, and Hierarchy: Social Control in a Medieval Hunting Manual.” “Borderlands” Graduate Student Conference. Columbia University, New York, NY. March, 1995.
Presentation	“Divine Partners: The Virgin Mary and Alfonso X in Cantiga 175.” AATSP Annual Conference. Madrid, Spain. August, 1998.
Presentation	“Of a Hound, a Hawk, and a Horse: Desire and Excess in the Libro del cavallero Cifar.” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference. Tempe, Arizona. February, 1999.
Presentation	“Sancho Panza as Intruder in the Discourse of the Hunt.” International Symposium on Cultural Borders of Latin America and Spain. University of California, Riverside. February, 1999.
Session Chair	Pilgrimage and Architecture: In Honor of the Jubilee of St. James of Compostela, 2004 (Session 3). 39^th International Congress of Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. May 2004.
Presentation	"Exemplary Hunting and Narratives of Power: Book III of Alfonso XI’s Libro de la montería." 40^th International Congress of Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. May 2005.
Non-Academic Professional Experience:
1995–2000	Freelance journalist for various news organizations including Associated Press and the Los Angeles Times.
1996	Copy editor, Executive Excellence, Provo, Utah.
1991–1995	Reporter and/or editor at three California newspapers: San Luis Obispo Telegram Tribune, Inyo Register, Ventura County Star.