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Class Dates:March 19-26, 2005
University Of Maryland
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This Field Study Course will direct its attention to Hemingway's Spanish novels, short stories, writings and By-lines; The Spanish Civil War; and Hemingway's affinity to Goya.
Note to students:
Please review this site in its entirety as it was designed to better prepare you for this course. Links to individual web pages have carefully been listed on the top, bottom and left hand side using navigational bars. No hidden information is buried within this site, as some may have experienced with other sites, and any topic of significance is displayed on every page as a link within the areas just mentioned.
Towards the bottom of the left navigational bar is a section titled "Important Information." As we draw closer to the start date, any NEW information will be displayed here [again as a link]. Please review this portion regularly.
If you have any comments or questions directed toward this field study in which this site does not satisfactorily address, please send an email to rwburda@onlinehome.de. Further contact information is provided by clicking on the Advanced Groundwork link to the left.
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Francisco Goya - Bullfight in a Village, 1812/1819
Oil on wood 47x72 cm Madrid, Museo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes |
Our program is being developed with assistance from the Cultural Affairs Officer, Ed Loo, and the Cultural Affairs Historian, Carmen González López-Briones, of the American Embassy, Madrid. The following Program, as of this date [December 2003] is a projection. Changes will be posted as they occur.
R. W. Burda first taught a course in Ernest Hemingway at Illinois Wesleyan University where he was chairman of the Department of English, Coordinator of International Studies, and both Teacher and Fine Arts Person of the Year.
At UMUC, he teaches Shakespeare, The Modern Novel, Creative Writing and seminars in Hemingway's shorter works. The recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for research in Symbolism and Semiotics, he is listed in The Directory of American Scholars, Who's Who in the Midwest, The Dictionary of International Biography and Contemporary Authors. He studied at Northwestern, Georgetown, The Universities of Chicago and Minnesota, Harvard and San Francisco State. Author of two novels and playwright, he is Associate Professor of English and has taught for the Overseas Division of the University of Maryland in Holland, Belgium, Spain, Germany, Italy, Greece and Bahrain since 1986.