Samuel C. Manickam
- Language Building 101E
- Samuel.Manickam@unt.edu
- (940) 369-8606 (Office)
- (940) 565-2404 (Department)
Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae LinkEducation
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PhD, University of Oklahoma, 2008
Major: Spanish
Specialization: Spanish
Dissertation: "La representaciones del poder en la reciente novela latinoamericana del dictador" ["Representations of Power in the Contemporary Latin American Novel of the Dictator"]
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MA, University of Tennessee, 2000
Major: Spanish
Specialization: Spanish
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BA, Goshen College, 1987
Major: English
Specialization: Secondary Education
Current Scheduled Teaching
| SPAN 4010.001 | Aspects of Contemporary Mexican Culture | Spring 2025 | ||
| SPAN 5209.001 | Mexican Short Story | Spring 2025 | ||
| SPAN 3140.001 | Mexican Civilization | Fall 2024 | Syllabus | |
| SPAN 5380.001 | The Spanish American Novel | Fall 2024 |
Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.
Previous Scheduled Teaching
| SPAN 5210.001 | Mexican Novel | Spring 2023 | SPOT | |
| SPAN 3140.001 | Mexican Civilization | Fall 2022 | Syllabus | SPOT |
| SPAN 5690.001 | Latin American Short Story | Spring 2022 | SPOT | |
| SPAN 4010.001 | Aspects of Contemporary Mexican Culture | Fall 2021 | Syllabus | SPOT |
| SPAN 5380.001 | The Spanish American Novel | Spring 2021 | SPOT | |
| SPAN 3140.001 | Mexican Civilization | Fall 2020 | Syllabus | SPOT |
| SPAN 4900.701 | Special Problems | Summer 5W2 2020 | ||
| SPAN 5690.001 | Latin American Short Story | Fall 2019 | SPOT | |
| SPAN 5950.001 | Master's Thesis | Fall 2019 | ||
| SPAN 4010.001 | Aspects of Contemporary Mexican Culture | Spring 2019 | Syllabus | SPOT |
| SPAN 5950.701 | Master's Thesis | Spring 2019 | ||
| SPAN 3140.001 | Mexican Civilization | Fall 2018 | Syllabus | SPOT |
| SPAN 4920.701 | Cooperative Education in Spanish | Summer 5W1 2018 | ||
| SPAN 5380.001 | The Spanish American Novel | Spring 2018 | SPOT | |
| SPAN 3140.001 | Mexican Civilization | Fall 2017 | Syllabus | SPOT |
| SPAN 4010.001 | Aspects of Contemporary Mexican Culture | Spring 2017 | Syllabus | SPOT |
| SPAN 3140.001 | Mexican Civilization | Fall 2016 | Syllabus | SPOT |
| SPAN 5210.001 | Mexican Novel | Spring 2016 | SPOT | |
| SPAN 5200.001 | Seminar in Spanish | Summer 10W 2015 | ||
| SPAN 3060.003 | Advanced Spanish Composition and Oral Practice | Spring 2015 | Syllabus | |
| SPAN 4010.001 | Aspects of Contemporary Mexican Culture | Spring 2015 | Syllabus | |
| SPAN 5950.705 | Master's Thesis | Spring 2015 | ||
| SPAN 3060.002 | Advanced Spanish Composition and Oral Practice | Fall 2014 | Syllabus | |
| SPAN 3090.005 | Advanced Spanish Grammar I | Fall 2014 | Syllabus | |
| SPAN 5950.704 | Master's Thesis | Fall 2014 | ||
| SPAN 3140.001 | Mexican Civilization | Fall 2014 | Syllabus | |
| SPAN 5200.001 | Seminar in Spanish | Summer 10W 2014 | ||
| SPAN 4010.001 | Aspects of Contemporary Mexican Culture | Spring 2014 | Syllabus | |
| SPAN 5345.001 | Latin American Essay | Spring 2014 | ||
| SPAN 5950.003 | Master's Thesis | Spring 2014 | ||
| SPAN 3090.005 | Advanced Spanish Grammar I | Fall 2013 | Syllabus | |
| SPAN 5950.002 | Master's Thesis | Fall 2013 | ||
| SPAN 3140.001 | Mexican Civilization | Fall 2013 | Syllabus | |
| SPAN 5900.702 | Special Problems | Fall 2013 | ||
| SPAN 4370.001 | Survey of Spanish American Literature | Fall 2013 | Syllabus | |
| SPAN 5200.002 | Seminar in Spanish | Summer 5W1 2013 | ||
| SPAN 5950.704 | Master's Thesis | Spring 2013 | ||
| SPAN 4900.704 | Special Problems | Spring 2013 | ||
| SPAN 5380.001 | The Spanish American Novel | Spring 2013 | ||
| SPAN 3090.001 | Advanced Spanish Grammar I | Fall 2012 | Syllabus | |
| SPAN 3110.003 | Introduction to Hispanic Literature | Fall 2012 | Syllabus | |
| SPAN 5950.704 | Master's Thesis | Fall 2012 | ||
| SPAN 3140.001 | Mexican Culture and Civilization | Fall 2012 | Syllabus | |
| SPAN 4900.704 | Special Problems | Fall 2012 | ||
| SPAN 4010.001 | Aspects of Contemporary Mexican Culture | Spring 2012 | Syllabus | |
| SPAN 5200.001 | Seminar in Spanish | Spring 2012 | ||
| SPAN 4900.704 | Special Problems | Spring 2012 | ||
| SPAN 3110.003 | Introduction to Hispanic Literature | Fall 2011 | Syllabus | |
| SPAN 5950.704 | Master's Thesis | Fall 2011 | ||
| SPAN 3140.001 | Mexican Culture and Civilization | Fall 2011 | Syllabus | |
| SPAN 3030.001 | Readings in Spanish American Short Story | Fall 2011 | Syllabus | |
| SPAN 4900.704 | Special Problems | Fall 2011 | ||
| SPAN 5900.704 | Special Problems | Fall 2011 | ||
| SPAN 5950.704 | Master's Thesis | Summer 10W 2011 | ||
| SPAN 5950.704 | Master's Thesis | Spring 2011 | ||
| SPAN 5200.001 | Seminar in Spanish | Spring 2011 | ||
| SPAN 3110.001 | Introduction to Hispanic Literature | Fall 2010 | Syllabus | |
| SPAN 3110.003 | Introduction to Hispanic Literature | Fall 2010 | Syllabus | |
| SPAN 5950.704 | Master's Thesis | Fall 2010 | ||
| SPAN 3140.001 | Mexican Culture and Civilization | Fall 2010 | Syllabus | |
| SPAN 5950.704 | Master's Thesis | Summer 5W2 2010 | ||
| SPAN 5200.002 | Seminar in Spanish | Summer 5W1 2010 | ||
| SPAN 5900.704 | Special Problems | Summer 5W2 2010 | ||
| SPAN 4010.001 | Aspects of Contemporary Mexican Culture | Spring 2010 | Syllabus | |
| SPAN 5950.704 | Master's Thesis | Spring 2010 | ||
| SPAN 5200.001 | Seminar in Spanish | Spring 2010 | ||
| SPAN 3110.001 | Introduction to Hispanic Literature | Fall 2009 | Syllabus | |
| SPAN 3110.003 | Introduction to Hispanic Literature | Fall 2009 | Syllabus | |
| SPAN 5950.704 | Master's Thesis | Fall 2009 | ||
| SPAN 3040.001 | Mexican Culture and Civilization | Fall 2009 | ||
| SPAN 4010.001 | Aspects of Contemporary Mexican Culture | Spring 2009 | ||
| SPAN 5200.001 | Seminar in Spanish | Spring 2009 | ||
| SPAN 3060.001 | Advanced Spanish Composition and Oral Practice | Fall 2008 | ||
| SPAN 3060.002 | Advanced Spanish Composition and Oral Practice | Fall 2008 | ||
| SPAN 4360.001 | Survey of Spanish American Literature | Fall 2008 |
Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.
Published Intellectual Contributions
- Manickam, S.C. (2020). Más mejicanos en el espacio: Un homenaje al legado artístico y literario de Carlos Olvera. https://www.amazon.com/Más-Mejicanos-Espacio-art%C3%ADstico-literario-ebook/dp/B08J698R7Z/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=mas+mejicanos+en+el+espacio&qid=1613088188&s=amazon-devices&sr=1-1
- Manickam, S.C. (2021). “La ciencia ficción mexicana: 1960-2000”". Historia de la ciencia ficción latinoamericana II: Desde la modernidad hasta la posmodernidad. Edited by Teresa López-Pellisa and Silvia G. Kurlat Ares. 311-346. Madrid,
- Samuel Manickam. (2014). “La identidad transculturada en Espantapájaros, de Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz”. Chapter in "Ensayos sobre la narrativa México-Estados Unidos". 113-124.
- Samuel Manickam. (2011). "Transnacionalismo, individuación y autobiografía en Memorias de un psiquiatra, de Virgilio Mora Rodríguez". In "La narración de Virgilio Mora: Complejidad, polifonía y dialogismo", ed. Jorge Chen Sham.
- Manickam, S.C. (2021). Cyborgs, Sexuality, and the Undead: The Body in Mexican and Brazilian Speculative Fiction. 6 (1) 245-247. Utah, Journal of Lusophone Studies. https://jls.apsa.us/index.php/jls/issue/view/31
- Manickam, S.C. (2016). El espectáculo de la violencia en el cine mexicano del siglo XXI, by Guadalupe Pérez-Anzaldo. 70 (1)
- Samuel Manickam. (2014). Dios, hermano, amado: los nombres de la poesía primera en Jorge Debravo by Jorge Chen Sham. XXX (1) 754-756. San José, University of Costa Rica. http://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filyling
- Samuel Manickam. (2014). Theorising the Ibero-Atlantic, Eds. Harold E. Braun and Lisa Vollendorf. XLV (3) 754-756. https://www.escj.org
- Samuel Manickam. (2014). Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice, eds. M. Elizabeth Ginway and J. Andrew Brown. Hispania. 97 (2) 328-329. AATSP. http://www.aatsp.org/page/Hispania
- Samuel Manickam. (2012). The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction by Rachel Haywood Ferreira (2011).
- Samuel Manickam. (2009). Utopian Dreams, Apocalyptic Nightmares: Globalization in Recent Mexican and Chicano Narrative by Miguel López-Lozano.
- Samuel Manickam. (2004). Spanish American Women's Use of the Word by Stacey Schlau.
- Samuel Manickam. (2014). "Mejicanos en el espacio y en el tiempo". Book chapter. 21-29. Toluca,
- Manickam, S.C. (2020). Trauma and Historiography in Hugo Hiriart's La destrucción de todas las cosas. Hispania. 103 (3) 373-385.
- Manickam, S.C. (2019). “Rebellious Youth vs. Empire in Carlos Olvera’s Mejicanos en el espacio”. Chasqui.
- Manickam, S.C. (2018). "Retrato dinámico de la mujer mexicana moderna en La esquina de los ojos rojos, de Rafael Ramírez".
- Samuel Manickam. (2014). "Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz: escritor, editor y estudioso de la ciencia ficción mexicana".
- Samuel Manickam. (2014). "A Failed Utopia in Marcela del Río's Proceso a Faubritten". Hispania. 97 (1) 125-139. AATSP. http://www.aatsp.org/page/Hispania
- Samuel Manickam. (2012). "Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary Mexican Science Fiction".
- Samuel Manickam. (2012). "The Other Mexico Through the Cinematic Eyes of Carlos Reygadas".
- Samuel Manickam. (2011). "Beasts, Female Bodies and Christian Mythology in Brianda Domecq's Bestiario doméstico".
- Samuel Manickam. (2010). "La sexualidad desafiante frente al dictador en Tengo miedo torero".
- Samuel Manickam. (2010). El seductor de la patria: A Dialogic Response to the Real Santa Anna.
- Samuel Manickam. (2009). "Los encuentros entre México y Los Estados Unidos en Spanglish y Los tres entierros de Melquiades Estrada"..
- Samuel Manickam. (2008). Las estrategias del poder traumatizante de un dictador en La fiesta del Chivo, de Mario Vargas Llosa.
- Samuel Manickam. (2006). "Las traiciones del cuerpo en los cuentos de Enrique Serna".
- Samuel Manickam. (2005). Interview with Debra Castillo.
- Samuel Manickam, Translator. (2002). Spanish Film and the Postwar Novel: Reading and Watching Narrative Texts. By Norberto Mínguez Arranz (Translation of: La Novela y el cine: análisis comparado de dos discursos narrativos, Ediciones de la Mirada: Valencia, 1998.).
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| Overall Summative Rating |
Challenge and Engagement Index |
Response Rate |
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out of 5 |
out of 7 |
% of students responded |
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Overall Summative Rating (median):
This rating represents the combined responses of students to the four global summative items and is presented to provide an overall index of the class’s quality. Overall summative statements include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 5 = Excellent, 3 = Good, and 1= Very poor):- The course as a whole was
- The course content was
- The instructor’s contribution to the course was
- The instructor’s effectiveness in teaching the subject matter was
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Challenge and Engagement Index:
This rating combines student responses to several SPOT items relating to how academically challenging students found the course to be and how engaged they were. Challenge and Engagement Index items include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 7 = Much higher, 4 = Average, and 1 = Much lower):- Do you expect your grade in this course to be
- The intellectual challenge presented was
- The amount of effort you put into this course was
- The amount of effort to succeed in this course was
- Your involvement in course (doing assignments, attending classes, etc.) was