Professor Norma Valle Ferrer, Ph.D

I. Education

• Doctorate (Ph.D), 2004
  Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe (Center for Advanced Studies of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, San Juan, Puerto Rico)
  Dissertation Title: FIRE, a study on how a worldwide audience consumes/receives the radio program Feminist International Radio Endeavor
  High honors
• Masters (MA), 1981
  Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe (Center for Advanced Studies, San Juan, Puerto Rico)
  Theses Title: Luisa Capetillo, the Story of a Pioneer Puerto Rican Feminist (Published)
  High honors
• Baccalaureate (BA),1969
  Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (Terre Haute, Indiana)
  Senior Theses Title: The Editorial Policies of the Terre Haute Star
  
• Junior Year Abroad (1967-1968)
  Escuela Oficial de Periodismo de Madrid (Official School of Journalism, Madrid, Spain)
  Junior Thesis Title: The history of the first two years of ABC newspaper.

II. Academic Experience/Teaching Experience

• 1988-2011
  University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras,
  Professor, School of Communications
  
  Courses taught in the Graduate Program
  
  COPU 6576  Theory of Journalism (Teoría del periodismo)
  COPU 6725  Seminar in Journalism I (Seminario en periodismo I)
  Writing Creative Nonfiction (Periodismo de interés humano)
  In depth Journalism (Periodismo  analítico)
  COPU 6726  Seminar in Journalism II (Seminario en periodismo II)
  Women and Radio, studies in grassroots production and consumption of radio
  Gender and Communications
  COPU 6696  Direction of Theses or Project/Dirección de tésis o proyecto. 
  
  Courses taught in the Undergraduate Program
  
  COPU 4148  Writing for the Media (Redacción para los medios)
  COPU 4017  Introduction to the media (Introducción a los medios)
  INFP 4001 News Writing I (Redacción de noticias I)
  INFP 4002  News Writing II (Redacción de noticias II)
  INFP 4036 Newspaper design (Técnicas y gráficas periodísticas)
  INFP 4016 Introduction to Journalism (Introducción al periodismo)
  INFP 4205  Seminar in Communication (Seminario de comunicación)
  Women’s biography in film
  Communications and gender
  INFP 4809 Seminar in Journalism (Seminario de periodismo)
  Journalism and Gender
  A time for debate, the column in times of Internet
  Wild Women in Journalism
  Digital Journalism and feminism in Puerto Rico
  The Journalism of Gabriel García Márquez
• 2005-2009
  University of Puerto Rico at Cayey
  Director Women Studies Program
  Created and developed a minor in Women Studies
  Approved by the Academic Senate and the Central Academic Office of the University of Puerto Rico
  Courses taught:
  Introduction to Women Studies
  History of Puerto Rican Women
  Literature Written by and about Women
• 1998-1999
  Visiting Professor
  City University of New York, York College
  Courses taught:
  History of Puerto Rico
  Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora
• 1990-2000
  International Lecturer on Inclusive or Non Sexist Journalism
  --CIPAF---Dominican Republic
  --FIRE ----Costa Rica
  --Flora Tristán—Perú
  --Universidad del Valle-- Cali, Colombia

III. Professional Experience in the Media

• 2014-Present
  Freelance journalist and radio producer
• 2011-2013  
  Columnist, weekly for El Vocero de Puerto Rico (daily newspaper, San Juan, Puerto Rico.)
• 2000-2011
  Conductor and producer for Agenda de Hoy,
  weekly radio talk show aired on WRTU, 89.7 FM, (http://www.wrtu.pr)
• 1999-2011
  Member of the Board of Directors of the weekly newspaper Claridad
• 1988-1998
  Founder of the News Department, University of Puerto Rico Radio Station and Advisor to the Department.
• 1984-1988
  El Reportero (daily newspaper, San Juan, Puerto Rico)
  Managing Editor and Editor (1988)
• 1981-1983
  Taller Creativo Advertising and Public Relations Agency
  Copy Editor
• 1980
  El Nuevo Día (daily newspaper, San Juan, Puerto Rico)
  Human interest reporter
• 1969-1977
  El Mundo (daily newspaper, San Juan, Puerto Rico)
  Reporter, Copy Editor
• Freelance writer and correspondent:
  Ms Magazine (New York, USA)
  Fempress (Santiago, Chile)
  ABC (Madrid, Spain)

IV. Scholarship

• Books (author, editor and co-author)
  Luisa Capetillo, pioneer Puerto Rican Feminist. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2006.
  Las mujeres en Puerto Rico. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Editorial del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 2006.
  Luisa Capetillo, historia de una mujer proscrita. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Editorial Cultural, 1990, 1998.
  Fiestas de Cruz en Puerto Rico, tradición y devoción en la comunidad puertorriqueña. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Editorial del Instituto de Cultura, 1980, 1985.
  
  Editor. Luisa Capetillo, Obra completa “Mi Patria es la libertad”.  San Juan y Cayey: Universidad de Puerto Rico en Cayey/DTRH, 2008.
  Editor. Apreciación crítica de la radio en Puerto Rico. Río Piedras, Puerto Rico: Escuela de Comunicación Pública, UPR, 1996.
  Co-author. El abc del periodismo no sexista. Santiago de Chile: Fempress, 1996.

• Editor of Peer Reviewed Academic Journals, accredited by Latindex
  2005-2010
  Identidades, revista interdisciplinaria de estudios de las mujeres y el género (Identidades, journal of interdisciplinary studies on women and gender) Published by the University of Puerto Rico, Cayey.
  2008-2011
  Revista Cayey. Published by the University of Puerto Rico, Cayey.

• Academic articles
  Peer reviewed:
  Co-authored with Dra. Blanca Borges. “El liderazgo de las mujeres en las organizaciones magisteriales de Puerto Rico/Women’s leadership in teachers’ organizations in Puerto Rico.”  Identidades, revista interdisciplinaria de estudios de las mujeres y el género, Núm. 7, pp. 170-201.