Anahit m. Hakoupian

ANAHIT M. HAKOUPIAN
University of Southern California Department of Spanish and Portuguese Taper Hall of Humanities

3501Trousdale Parkway

Los Ángeles, CA 90089-0358

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_{October, 2016}

EDUCATION
Year	Institution	Degree	Major
1992-1997	USC	Ph.D.	Spanish
1989-1992	UCLA	M.A.	Spanish
1985-1989	UCLA	B.A.	Spanish

Area of specialization: Spanish literature-Medieval

Minor Field: Spanish literature-Golden Age

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2017- Present Associate Professor (teaching)-Department of Spanish & Portuguese University of Southern California
2011- 2017 Assistant Professor (teaching)-Department of Spanish & Portuguese University of Southern California
1997-2011 Full-time lecturer-Department of Spanish & Portuguese

University of Southern California

1992-2010 Instructor of Spanish –UCLA Extension
1992-1997 Assistant lecturer- Department of Spanish & Portuguese

University of Southern California

1990- 1992 Teaching assistant –Department of Spanish & Portuguese- University of California, Los Angeles)

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2017 Participant (Center for Excellence in Teaching) CET-University of

Southern California-Course Pilot Project (Course developer- “Spanish Composition through Literature”

2014 Participant (American Council on Teaching on Foreign

Languages) ACTFL Writing Proficiency Test (WPT) Workshop

2014 ACTFL (OPI) Oral Proficiency Interview Certified Tester
2014 (summer) Course developer and lead instructor- “Spanish for Every- Day Life” --UCLA Extension
2012 ACTFL-OPI Certified Rater
2011-2012 Organizer - Instructor Development Workshops in Foreign Language Teaching-Department of Foreign Languages—UCLA Extension
2011-2012 (summer) Course developer and lead instructor-Conversational

Spanish—UCLA Extension

May-July 2011 Participant-on-line course-Foreign Language Teaching Methods-professional development Modules (12 modules) for foreign language Instruction- University of Texas at Austin
2005-2010 Course Developer –Department of Foreign Languages UCLA Extension (created and introduced new courses: (Spanish for Communication: the Media; Spanish for Business Communication)
2003-2004 Coordinator and lead instructor -Weekend Immersion Workshops in Conversational Spanish- Department of Foreign Languages-UCLA Extension
1999-2002 Coordinator, course developer and lead instructor- Business Spanish- Federal Reserve Bank (bankers); Universal Studios (business managers)-Department of Foreign Languages-UCLA Extension

SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY
2017 Incorporated Breaking Bread Program in Spanish 150 and

220 curriculum

2016 Participant for Course Design Pilot Project- Center for

Excellence in Teaching- University of Southern California

2015-2016 Incorporated Breaking Bread Program in Spanish 150 and

220 curriculum

2015-2016 Evaluator-Fulbright-Language Proficiency-University of

Southern California

2014 Presenter and Session Chair-Hawaii International

Conference on Arts and Humanities- “Literary Pedagogy- The

Reading and Teaching Experience: The Romantic

Movement in Hispanic-American Novel: María"- University of

Louisvelle, Honolulu, Hawaii
2012 Presenter and Session Chair-Hawaii International

Conference on Arts and Humanities- “Critical Approaches to

Teaching and Learning Literature: The Labyrinth of Irony: A

Study of Irony in Juan de Mena's Laberinto de fortuna"-University of Louisevelle, Honolulu, Hawaii

2010 Coordinator-Persian Placement Exam- University of Southern California
2009 Speaker- “The Troubadour and the Courtly Love Tradition” University of Southern California-Department of Comparative Literature (guest speaker)
2000-2007 Trainer FLTT (Foreign Language Teacher Training) University of Southern California
2005-2006 Evaluator-language proficiency-Fulbright Fellowship- University of Southern California
1994 Speaker- Meet the Writers Conference-University of Iowa—“The Teaching and Learning Experience from a literary text: Civilization and Barbarism in the Spanish

American novel: Doña Barbara”

SERVICE TO THE DEPARMENT

2017 Creator- Portfolio-Department of Spanish and Portuguese-

Basic Language Program
2017 Member, Spanish Language Program Committee

2017 Evaluator-Diagnostic Exams-Language Proficiency-Department of

Spanish and Portuguese
2016 Member, Spanish Language Program Committee
2015-2016 Member, Evaluation and Mentoring Committee-Department of

Spanish and Portuguese

2015-2016 Member, Merit Evaluation Committee-Department of

Spanish and Portuguese

2015-2016 Member, Senior Recognition Award Committee-outstanding undergraduate student award (academic achievement and service contribution) Department of Spanish and Portuguese
2015-2016 Evaluator-Diagnostic Exams-Language Proficiency-Department of

Spanish and Portuguese

2012 Member – Promotion Committee (TF) Department of Spanish and Portuguese
2000-2015 Mentor-Department of Spanish & Portuguese

University of Southern California

2005 Presenter- workshop – “Teaching Grammar in the Communicative

Classroom” –University of Southern California- Department of

Spanish and Portuguese
1997 Coordinator of Video Lab-Department of Spanish & Portuguese-University of Southern California
1994 Exam Developer-Department of Spanish & Portuguese- University of Southern California
1994 Speaker- “Making Sense of Complex Relationship

Among Reading, Teaching and Learning from a Literary Text: Octavio Paz and the Surrealism”-University of Southern California-Department of Spanish and Portuguese (guest lecturer)

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
2016 Textbook reviewer (Spanish) for McGraw-Hill Higher

Education Publications

2000-2007 Faculty adviser, “We Care for Youth” non-profit organization- provided tutorial services to underprivileged students in high school who wish to enter four-year colleges
2000-2007 Scholarship donor to the non-profit organization,

“We Care for Youth”-provided financial assistance to underprivileged high school students who wish to attend four-year colleges

1993-1994 President, Graduate Student Association-Department of Spanish & Portuguese-University of Southern California
1991-1992 Teaching Assistant Representative-Department of Spanish & Portuguese-University of California, Los Angeles
1991-1992 Group coordinator for language classes- University of California,

Los Angeles

1991 Speaker-“The Courtly Love Tradition in Medieval Spain” University of California, Los Angeles (guest lecturer)


HONORS AND AWARDS

2015-present Recognition- America’s Top Professors -Faculty Row- Honorary member (Private Network)

2014 Recognition-Outstanding Teaching- OSHER Lifelong Learning

Institute at UCLA

2012 Recipient-Faculty Development Grant
2009 Faculty Recognition Certificate-Ten Years of Service- University of Southern California
2002 Recognition-Outstanding Teaching-Top Ten USC Faculty

1992 Teaching Assistant Fellowship-University of Southern

California

LANGUAGE SKILLS
Persian (fluent) Armenian (fluent) English (fluent) Spanish (fluent)

French (proficient, reading and writing) Italian (proficient, reading and writing)

Revised: September

September 27, 2017