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CURRICULUM VITAE
Erin Graff Zivin
Professor and Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0358
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 213-740-7659
Fax: 213-740-9463
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor, Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature, University of
Southern California, December 2014 – present.
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese (March 2009 – December 2014)
and Comparative Literature (September 2010 – December 2014), University of Southern
California
Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Southern California,
August 2008 – March 2009.
Assistant Professor, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of
Pittsburgh, August 2004 – July 2008.
EDUCATION
New York University, New York, NY
Ph.D. with Honors, Spanish and Portuguese, May 2004
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
M.A., Comparative Literature and Latin American Studies, May 1998
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
B.A. with Honors, Social Science (Literature and Religious Studies), May 1994
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
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Modern Spanish American and Luso-Brazilian literature
Continental philosophy, deconstruction, critical theory
Ethics, politics, aesthetics
Literary representations of Jewishness and marranismo
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BOOKS
Figurative Inquisitions: Conversion, Torture, and Truth in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic. Evanston,
IL: Northwestern University Press, 2014. (Winner of 2015 Award for Best Book, Latin
American Jewish Studies Association)
The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary. Durham, NC:
Duke University Press, 2008.
Reviewed in:
• Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 46.1 (2012)
• Comparative Literature Studies 48.2 (2011)
• Luso-Brazilian Review 48.1 (2011)
• Bulletin of Latin American Research 30.4 (2011)
• Bulletin of Spanish Studies 88.2 (2011)
• RILCE: Revista de Filología Hispánica 27.2 (2011)
• Revista Hispánica Moderna 63.2 (2010)
• Hispanic Review 78.3 (2010)
• Revista Iberoamericana 76.231 (2010)
• Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe 21.2 (2010)
• Shofar 28.2 (2010)
• Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature (2010)
• Latin American Review of Books (2009)
• Chasqui; revista de literatura latinoamericana 38.2 (2009)
EDITED VOLUME
The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism: Reading Otherwise. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2007.
Reviewed in:
• Luso-Brazilian Review 46.2 (2009)
• Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 13 (2009)
ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
28. “Ante la ley: Interrogación, interpelación y la producción de la culpa.” Revista
Iberoamericana, in press.
27. “Marrano Secrets, Or, Misunderstanding Literature.” CR: The New Centennial Review 14.3
(Winter 2014). 75-92.
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26. “Beyond Inquisitional Logic, or, Toward an An-archaeological Latin Americanism.” CR:
The New Centennial Review 14.1 (Spring 2014). 195-211.
25. “Politics Against Ethics.” Política Común. A Journal of Thought 4 (2013).
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/pc.
24. “Aporias of Marranismo: Sabina Berman’s En el nombre de Dios and Jom Tob Azulay’s O
Judeu.” CR: The New Centennial Review 12.3 (Winter 2012). 187-216.
23. “Seeing and Saying: Towards an Ethics of Truth in José Saramago.” SubStance 41.1 (January
2012). 109-123.
22. “Kidnapped Language: Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics in Sergio Chejfec’s Los planetas.”
Journal of Jewish Identities 5.1 (January 2012). 77-87.
21. “Semitic Mysteries, Universal Truths: Jewishness and Arabness in Jorge Luis Borges.” Latin
American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 6.2 (July 2011). 119-137.
20. “Diagnósticos modernistas de Max Nordau: Darío, Ingenieros y Silva leen al médico judío.”
Estudios: Revista de Investigaciones Literarias y Culturales (Caracas, Venezuela) 14.28
(2006). 171-186. (Reprint of “Traducir lo raro.” Published in 2008.)
19. “Writing the Absent Face: ‘Jewishness’ and the Limits of Representation in Borges, Piglia
and Chejfec.” MLN 122.2 (2007). 350-370.
18. “Transacciones judías y discursos promiscuos en ‘Emma Zunz.’” Variaciones Borges 22
(2006). 191-199.
17. “Conversiones textuales, inquisiciones transatlánticas: La figura de la cristiana nueva en Dias
Gomes y Antonio Gala.” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 6.3 (2005). 259-269.
16. “Reading Max Nordau: Unspeakable Difference in Spanish American Modernism.” Chasqui;
revista de literatura latinoamericana 34.1 (2005). 102-113.
15. “The Face of the Other: Diagnosing Jewishness in Latin American Literature.” Modern
Jewish Studies 14 (2004). 91-101.
BOOK CHAPTERS
14. “Writing in Latin America.” Invited contribution to Iberian Postcolonialities: A Metahistory
of the Practices of Material Power, Vol. 3 of Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, eds.
Sangeeta Ray and Henry Schwarz. London: Wiley-Blackwell, in press (forthcoming
2016).
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13. “El pensar-marrano, o, hacia un latinoamericanismo an-arqueológico.” Post-hegemonía. El
final de un paradigma de la filosofía política contemporánea en América Latina, ed.
Rodrigo Castro Orellana. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2015. 205-216. (Revised and
translated version of “Beyond Inquisitional Logic, or, Toward an An-archaeological Latin
Americanism.”)
12. “El lenguaje secuestrado: Estética, ética y política en Los planetas de Sergio Chejfec.” Sergio
Chejfec: Trayectorias de una escritura. Ensayos críticos, ed. Dianna Niebylski.
Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 2012. 87-100. (Revised
and translated version of “Kidnapped Language: Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics in Sergio
Chejfec’s Los planetas.”)
11. “Ethics.” Dictionary of Latin American Cultural Studies, eds. Mónica Szurmuk and Robert
McKee Irwin. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012. 147-152.
10. “The Scene of the Transaction: ‘Jewishness,’ Money and Prostitution in the Brazilian
Imaginary.” Rethinking Jewish-Latin Americans, eds. Raanan Rein and Jeffrey Lesser.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. 106-131.
9. “Introduction: Reading Otherwise.” The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism: Reading
Otherwise, ed. Erin Graff Zivin. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 1-7.
8. “Cuerpos errantes, sujetos patológicos en la obra de Luisa Futoransky y Margo Glantz.”
Memoria y representación: Configuraciones culturales y literarias en el imaginario judío
latinoamericano, eds. Alejandro Meter and Ariana Huberman. Rosario, Argentina:
Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2006. 249-262. (Revised and translated version of “Sick Jews.”)
7. “Sick Jews: Disease and Deformity in Luisa Futoransky’s De Pe a Pa: De Pekín a París and
Margo Glantz’s ‘Zapatos: Andante con variaciones.’” Luisa Futoransky y su palabra
itinerante, ed. Ester Gimbernat González. Montevideo, Uruguay: Hermes Criollo, 2005.
121-132. (Revised version of “Pathological Subjects.”)
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
6. “Traducir lo raro: Darío, Ingenieros, y Silva leen a Max Nordau.” In Balderston et al.,
Literatura y otras artes en America Latina: Actas del XXXIV Congreso del Instituto
Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (selected proceedings). Iowa City:
University of Iowa (2004). 203-211.
5. “Pathological Subjects: Narratives of Self-Diagnosis in Luisa Futoransky and Margo Glantz.”
La jornada literaria XII (2003). 53-64.
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BOOK REVIEWS
4. Baroque Sovereignty: Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and the Creole Archive of Colonial
Mexico, by Anna More (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013). Hispanic
Review, forthcoming.
3. Market and Thought: Meditations on the Political and Biopolitical, by Brett Levinson (New
York: Fordham University Press, 2005). Revista Hispánica Moderna LVII (2006). 328329.
2. Latin American Cultural Studies Reader, by Ana del Sarto, Alicia Ríos and Abril Trigo, eds.
(Durham: Duke University Press, 2004). Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 39.1 (2005).
213-214.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
1. “Luisa Futoransky.” In Jewish Women. A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Jerusalem:
Shalvi Publishing Ltd., 2007.
WORK IN PROGRESS
“Misunderstanding Literature: Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics in a Post-Literary Latin America.”
(Book-length manuscript, in preparation.)
“The Marrano Specter: Derrida and Hispanism.” (Edited volume, in preparation.)
“Teatralidad y metacrítica en El congreso de literatura de César Aira.” (In preparation.)
“Beyond Jameson: The Metapolitics of Allegory.” Invited contribution to special issue of
boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture, eds. Jacques Lezra and
Tara Mendola. (In preparation.)
“The Aesthetics and Politics of Error.” Invited contribution to special issue of Política Común. A
Journal of Thought, eds. Alberto Moreiras and Gareth Williams. (In preparation.)
“Campos virtuales y postliteratura.” Invited contribution to special issue of Revista
Iberoamericana, ed. Javier Guerrero. (In preparation.)
“Marrano Ethics.” The Marrano Spirit: Derrida and Hispanism, ed. Erin Graff Zivin. (In
preparation.)
“The Ethical Turn.” Invited contribution to 25 Years of Latin American Studies in Culture,
Power and Politics, ed. Juan Poblete. (Revised and resubmitted.)
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“Latin American Comparative Literature.” Invited contribution to American Comparative
Literature Association Report on the State of the Discipline, ed. Ursula Heise. (Under
review.)
“Marranismo, Allegory and the Unsayable in Arturo Ripstein’s El Santo Oficio.” Invited
contribution to The Sinister Wink of the World: The Films of Arturo Ripstein, eds. Luis
Duno-Gottberg and Manuel Gutiérrez. (Under review.)
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
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Best Book prize for Figurative Inquisitions, Latin American Jewish Studies Association,
2015
USC Del Amo Foundation Faculty Summer Research Grant, 2015
Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grant,
University of Southern California, 2014
USC Del Amo Foundation Faculty Summer Research Grant, 2014
Visions and Voices Grant, University of Southern California, 2013-2014
Casden Institute Faculty Research Grant, University of Southern California, 2013-2014
(declined)
USC Del Amo Foundation Faculty Summer Research Grant, 2013
USC Shoah Foundation Institute Summer Research Fellowship, 2013 (declined)
Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences Grant Writing Mentorship
Program, University of Southern California, 2012-2013
Casden Institute Faculty Research Grant, University of Southern California, 2010-2011
College Commons Course Enhancement Fund, University of Southern California, 20102011
University Research Council Small Grants Program, University of Pittsburgh, 2007-2008
Center for Latin American Studies Faculty Research Grant, University of Pittsburgh,
2007
Arts and Sciences Faculty Research and Scholarship Program, University of Pittsburgh,
2005
Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, New York University, 2003-2004
Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Arts and Sciences, NYU, 2003
Susan Eliakim Siman Scholarship in Sephardic Studies, NYU, 2002
Travel Grant, Latin American Jewish Studies Association, 2002
Dissertation Summer Travel Grant, King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, NYU, 2002
Tinker Field Research Grant, NYU, 2001
Woman of the Year, Academic Achievement Program, NYU, 2001
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Travel Grant, NYU, 2000
Power Summer Field Research Grant, UC Berkeley, 1997
Social Science Graduate Research Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 1997
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Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship, Santiago, Chile, 1995
INVITED TALKS
2016 “Levinas in Latin America.” Casden Research Seminar in Jewish Studies, University of
Southern California (invitation accepted)
2015 “The Ethical Turn.” Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of
Michigan
2015 “The Ethics of Latin American Literary Studies.” Keynote Address, XVIII Annual
Spanish Graduate Student Conference, School of International Letters and Cultures,
Arizona State University
2014 “Figurative Inquisitions.” Roundtable on Erin Graff Zivin’s Figurative Inquisitions.
Department of Philosophy, Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación,
Santiago, Chile
2014 “El pensar-marrano, o, hacia un latinoamericanismo an-arqueológico.” Universidad
ARCIS, Santiago, Chile
2014 “Misunderstanding Literature.” Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies, University of
Illinois, Chicago
2014 “Marrano Secrets.” Symposium on Erin Graff Zivin’s Figurative Inquisitions and
Abraham Acosta’s Thresholds of Illiteracy. University of Texas, Dallas
2014 “Misunderstanding Literature.” Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton
University
2013 “Misunderstanding Literature.” Departments of Comparative Literature and Spanish and
Portuguese, New York University
2010 “Semitic Mysteries, Universal Truths: Jewishness and Arabness in Jorge Luis Borges.”
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Northwestern University
2008 “Interrogative Signs: The Specter of the Inquisition in Jom Tob Azulay’s O Judeu.”
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Southern California
2007 “The ‘Jew’ as Wandering Signifier in Latin American Literature.” Department of
Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
2007 “Textualidades promíscuas; o, la invención de la prostituta judía.” Department of
Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Stony Brook University
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2004 “Conversiones textuales, inquisiciones transatlánticas.” Department of Hispanic
Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh
CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA (including participation by invitation)
2015 “Literature and/as Error.” XXXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association; New York, NY (proposal under review)
2015 “The Metapolitics of Translation: On Walter Benjamin’s ‘The Task of the Translator.’”
“Benjamin in Palestine: On the Place and Non-Place of Radical Thought” conference;
Goethe Institute Ramallah, Palestine (proposal accepted)
2015 “Exposición en César Aira.” Invited talk at III Encuentro “Filosofía, arte y política”;
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
2015 “Estética y política del error.” Seminario Crítico Político Transnacional, Department of
the History of Philosophy, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
2015 “Exposition and Exposure in César Aira.” XXXIII International Congress of the Latin
American Studies Association; San Juan, PR
2015 “Beyond Jameson: The Metapolitics of Allegory.” American Comparative Literature
Association Annual Meeting; Seattle, WA
2014 “Misunderstanding Literature.” I Congreso Internacional Políticas de la Literatura: Un
Diálogo con Jacques Rancière; Granada, Spain
2014 “Literatura, teatralidad y acontecimiento en El congreso de literatura de César Aira.”
Invited talk at II Encuentro “Filosofía, arte y política”; Pontificia Universidad Católica de
Valparaíso; Viña del Mar, Chile
2014 “Deconstruction and its Precursors: Borges after Derrida.” Invited talk at “Renewing
Theory in an International Frame” conference; Université d’Aix-Marseilles, France
2014 “Literatura, teatralidad y acontecimiento en El congreso de literatura de César Aira.”
Debates Actuales de la Teoría Política Contemporánea, Universidad de Buenos Aires,
Argentina
2014 “Reading after the Death of Reading.” Invited talk at “Literatura, Post-hegemonía,
Infrapolítica” workshop, Department of the History of Philosophy, Universidad
Complutense de Madrid, Spain
2014 “Repetition and Event: Latin American Avant-Gardes and the Digital ‘Turn.’” XXXII
International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association; Chicago, IL
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2014 “The Ethical Turn.” Invited Session: “25 Years of Latin American Studies in Culture,
Power and Politics.” XXXII International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association; Chicago, IL
2014 “Figurative Inquisitions: Conversion, Torture, and Truth in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic.”
Invited Session: “New Perspectives on Literary and Cultural Criticism.” XXXII
International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association; Chicago, IL
2014 “Figurative Inquisitions: Conversion, Torture, and Truth in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic.”
Regional Latin American Jewish Studies Association Conference; New York, NY
2014 “Marrano Ethics.” “The Marrano Spirit: Derrida and Hispanism” colloquium; University
of Southern California
2014 “Deconstruction and its Precursors.” American Comparative Literature Association
Annual Meeting; New York, NY
2014 “Deconstruction and its Precursors.” Invited talk at “Borges and Philosophy Today”
symposium, Stanford University
2013 “Teatralidad y metacrítica en El congreso de literatura de César Aira.” Invited talk at III
Congreso Internacional Artes en Cruce. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013 “Políticas marranas; o, más allá de la lógica inquisicional.” Invited talk at “Posthegemonía. El final de un paradigma de la filosofía política contemporánea en América
Latina” workshop. Department of the History of Philosophy, Universidad Complutense
de Madrid, Spain
2013 “Marrano Secrets, Or, Misunderstanding Literature.” Invited talk at “Hispanic Literatures
and the Secret of the World” symposium. Department of Comparative Literature,
University at Buffalo
2013 “Ethicopolitical Interruption and the Literary.” XXXI International Congress of the Latin
American Studies Association; Washington, DC
2012 “Identity Dis/orders.” XXX International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association; San Francisco, CA
2012 “Beyond Censorship: Allegory, Ruins and the Logic of Haunting.” 47th Annual
Comparative Literature Conference; California State University, Long Beach
2012 “Writing.” Invited talk at “Iberian Postcolonialities” workshop. Universidad Complutense
de Madrid, Spain
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2011 “Figurative Inquisitions.” Invited talk at workshop on Sephardic Literary Studies and
Comparative Methodologies in Iberia and the Americas; CUNY-Graduate Center, New
York, NY
2011 “Allegorizing Colonial Violence.” Conference on Ethnicity, Race, & Indigenous Peoples
in Latin America & the Caribbean; University of California, San Diego
2011 “Inquisition Narratives in the U.S./Latino Imaginary.” Western Regional National
Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies Conference; San Diego, CA
2011 “Crypto-Narratives in the Americas.” Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies; San Diego, CA
2011 “Aporias of Marranismo.” XV International Research Conference, Latin American
Jewish Studies Association; Arizona State University
2011 “Allegory and Hauntology.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual
Meeting; Vancouver, Canada
2010 “Seeing and Saying: Towards an Ethics of Truth in Jose Saramago’s Ensaio sobre a
Lucidez.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting; New Orleans,
LA
2009 “In Other Worlds: Truth, Universality and the Question of Semitic Particularity in
Borges.” Invited talk at “The ‘Other’ Others: Jews and Arabs in Latin America”
symposium. Tam Institute for Jewish Studies and The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry,
Emory University
2008 “Wandering Jewish Studies: Transnational, Transatlantic and Interdisciplinary
Approaches.” Latin American Jewish Studies Association Symposium; New York, NY
2008 “Interrogative Signs: Conversion, Torture and ‘Truth’ in Luso-Brazilian Literature.”
Invited talk at “Post-Literature” symposium. Department of Romance Languages and
Literatures, University of Michigan
2008 “Convertible Subjects: Inquisition, Interrogation and Jewish Conversion in the Modern
Luso-Brazilian Imaginary.” Discourses of “Jewishness” Conference; University of
Pittsburgh
2007 “‘Being’ Other: ‘Jewishness’ and Cosmopolitanism in Modern Argentine Writing.”
XXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association; Montreal,
Canada
2007 “‘Jewishness’ and the Limits of Representation in Sergio Chejfec’s Los planetas.”
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting; Puebla, Mexico
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2006 “O Judeu: Inquisitorial Violence in Twentieth-Century Brazilian Film and Theatre.”
Brazilian Studies Association VIII International Conference; Nashville, TN
2006 “Transacciones judías: comodificación y resistencia en la narrativa argentina.” XXVI
International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association; San Juan, PR
2004 “The Cultural Politics of Samba: Foreignness and Brazilianness in Noel Rosa’s ‘Quem dá
mais?’” XXV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association; Las
Vegas, NV
2004 “Actos de prostitución: Promiscuidad judía en ‘Emma Zunz.’” XXXV Congreso del
Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana; Poitiers, France
2004 “Escritura promiscua: Prostitución judía y modernidad brasileña en Madame Pommery de
Hilário Tácito.” Literatura e instituciones Conference; Columbia University
2003 “Textual Conversions.” Modern Language Association 119th Convention; San Diego, CA
2003 “Performing Theory.” Modern Language Association 119th Convention; San Diego, CA
2003 “Escritura promiscua: Prostitución judía y modernidad brasileña en Madame Pommery de
Hilário Tácito.” XXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association;
Dallas, TX
2002 “Literary Assassinations: Rhetorical and Ethical Language in the Philosophy of
Emmanuel Levinas.” Modern Language Association 118th Convention; New York, NY
2002 “Pathological Subjects: Narratives of Self-Diagnosis in Luisa Futoransky and Margo
Glantz.” Rutgers Graduate Student Conference; New Brunswick, NJ
2002 “Traducir lo raro: Darío, Ingenieros y Silva leen a Max Nordau.” XXXIV Congreso del
Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana; Iowa City, IA
2002 “The Face of the Other: Diagnosing Jewishness in Latin American Literature.” XI
International Research Conference, Latin American Jewish Studies Association; Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil
2002 “Representations of the Jew and New Christian in Brazilian Literature.” Brazilian Studies
Association VI International Conference; Atlanta, GA
2001 “Hacia la hospital(idad): Exilio, enfermedad y escritura en De pe a pa.” XXIII
International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association; Washington D.C.
2000 “Da antropofagia à internete: Um samba-globalização.” Brazilian Studies Association V
International Conference; Recife, Brazil
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2000 “From Anthropophagy to the Internet: A Globalization Samba.” Texts in Transit
Conference; Columbia University
GUEST LECTURES/WORKSHOPS
2015 “Toward an An-archaeological Latinamericanism.” Graduate Student Workshop,
University of Michigan
2013 “Toward an An-archaeological Latinamericanism.” Guest facilitator, Crítica
Latinoamericana Reading Group, Columbia University/New York University
2010 “Lo judío, lo argentino y lo cosmopolito en Borges.” Guest lecture in Graduate Seminar,
Department of Languages and Literatures, California State University, San Marcos
2010 “Jewishness, Brazilianness and Political Militancy in The Year My Parents Went on
Vacation.” Department of Languages and Literatures, University of San Diego
2010 “Ethics and Politics in ‘Deutsches Requiem.’” Guest lecture in Freshman Seminar,
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Northwestern University
2007 “Jewish Identity and Political Militancy in O Ano em que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias.”
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Columbia University
CONFERENCES, COLLOQUIA AND LECTURES ORGANIZED
2012
Prof. Gabriela Basterra (New York University), “Freedom as Other”; University
of Southern California
2015
Co-Organizer, Seminario Crítico-Político Transnacional, Department of the
History of Philosophy, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
2015
Karina Miller, Ph.D. (UC Irvine), “Escrituras impolíticas: Literatura y politica en
la América Latina de los años sesenta”; University of Southern California
2015
Prof. Abraham Acosta (University of Arizona), “Thresholds of Illiteracy: The
Fictions of Sovereignty and Decoloniality”; University of Southern California
2015
Prof. Mariano Siskind (Harvard University), “World War I as a Latin American
Event: Modernismo and the Question of Cosmopolitan Distance”; University of
Southern California
2015
Prof. Anna More (UCLA / Universidade de Brasília), “Sovereignty and the Creole
Archive in New Spain”; University of Southern California
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2014
Co-Organizer, “The Marrano Spirit: Derrida and Hispanism” colloquium;
University of Southern California
2013
Prof. Jacques Lezra (New York University), “Subject/effects in Judith Butler”;
University of Southern California
2013
Prof. Jessica Pressman (UC San Diego), "The Book is Not the Center: Between
Page and Screen, Augmented Digital Poetics, and New Literacies"; University of
Southern California
2012
Prof. Gabriela Basterra (New York University), “Subjectivity and the Outside of
Language: Velázquez, Salinas, Levinas”; University of Southern California
2011
Prof. Marta Hernández-Salván (UC Riverside), “Heroism and Spectrality in
Cuban Revolutionary Film”; University of Southern California
2011
Prof. Freya Schiwy (UC Riverside), “Community Media, Decolonization, and the
Question of the Political”; University of Southern California
2011
Prof. Horacio Legrás (UC Irvine), “Subalternity and the Latin American
Archive”; University of Southern California
2008
Co-Organizer, “Discourses of ‘Jewishness’” conference; University of Pittsburgh
2005
Organizer, “Reading Otherwise: The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism”
colloquium; University of Pittsburgh
2004-2005
Co-Organizer, Work-in-progress Lecture Series, Department of Hispanic
Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh
1999
Co-Organizer, “Geografías Móviles” conference; NYU
1994
Co-Organizer, “Claiming Our Place: Jews in a Multicultural World” conference;
UC Berkeley
OTHER CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
2015 Session Chair, “States of Precariousness: Emergence and Emergencies in Contemporary
Latin America.” XXXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association; San Juan, Puerto Rico
2014 Seminar Co-Organizer, “The Marrano Spirit: Derrida and Hispanism.” American
Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting; New York, NY
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2012 Session Organizer and Chair, “Iberian Postcolonialities I.” XXX International Congress
of the Latin American Studies Association; San Francisco, CA
2012 Panel Moderator, “Varia Imaginación: A Celebration in Honor of Sylvia Molloy.” New
York University
2011 Session Chair, “Race and Ethnicity in Latin American Fictional Film.” Conference on
Ethnicity, Race, & Indigenous Peoples in Latin America & the Caribbean; University of
California, San Diego
2010 Workshop Participant, “Transnationalism, Aesthetics and Latin America.” XXVIV
International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association; Toronto, Canada
2007 Session Chair, “Walter Benjamin in Latin America.” Modern Language Association
122nd Convention; Chicago, IL
2007 Session Organizer, Chair and Moderator, “Reading Otherwise: The Ethics of Latin
American Literary and Cultural Studies.” XXVII International Congress of the Latin
American Studies Association; Montreal, Canada
2007 Session Co-Chair, “Modernisms: Transpositions, Displacements and Historical
Intersections.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting; Puebla,
Mexico
2006 Session Organizer, “Telling Violence: Problems of Representation in Contemporary
Brazilian Visual Culture.” Brazilian Studies Association VIII International Conference;
Nashville, TN
2006 Session Organizer, “Escenas de la transacción: Comodificaciones de cultura,
estetizaciones del dinero.” XXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association; San Juan, PR
2006 Session Organizer, “Sujeto decadente y proyecto político en De Sobremesa de José
Asunción Silva.” XXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association; San Juan, PR
2005 Opening Remarks, “Reading Otherwise: The Ethics of Latin American Literary
Criticism” colloquium; University of Pittsburgh
2005 Panel Moderator, “Jacques Rancière: Aesthetics and Politics”; University of Pittsburgh
2004 Session Organizer and Chair, “Porno, Prose and Propaganda: Constructions of Difference
in Modern Brazilian Culture.” XXV International Congress of the Latin American
Studies Association; Las Vegas, NV
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2004 Discussant, “Jewish Latin America: Memory and Representation.” XXV International
Congress of the Latin American Studies Association; Las Vegas, NV
2000 Discussant, “Travels in Latin America: Writing, Criticism, Theories”; New York
University
1999 Panel Moderator, “Geografías Móviles”; New York University
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
At the University of Southern California (2009-present):
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SPAN 602: Seminar in Spanish and Latin American Critical Theory. After the Death of
Reading: Error, Blindness, Misunderstanding (graduate seminar, Fall 2015)
SPAN 545: 20th and 21st Century Latin American Literature and Culture. Latin America
in Theory / Theory in Latin America (graduate seminar, Fall 2012 and Spring 2015)
SPAN 602: Seminar in Spanish and Latin American Critical Theory. Misunderstanding
Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics (graduate seminar, Fall 2013)
ARLT 100g: Unorthodox Jewish Writing in the Americas (undergraduate course, Spring
2012 and 2013)
SPAN 301: Introduction to Hispanic Literature and Film (undergraduate course, Fall
2011 and 2012, Spring 2015)
COLT 555: Studies in Literatures of the Americas. Interrogative Signs: The Aesthetics of
Torture (graduate seminar, Spring 2011)
SPAN 372: Modern and Contemporary Latin American Fiction. Narrative, Audio and
Visual Culture in Latin America (undergraduate course, Spring 2011 and 2013)
COLT/SPAN 375: Latin American Cultural and Literary Theory (undergraduate course,
Fall 2009 and 2011, Spring 2016)
SPAN 372: Modern and Contemporary Latin American Fiction. The Aesthetics of
Violence in Latin America (undergraduate course, Fall 2009, Spring 2012)
ARLT 100g: Trials, Torture and Truth in 20th Century Narrative, Theater and Film
(undergraduate course, Fall 2008, Spring 2014)
At the University of Pittsburgh (2004-2008):
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SPAN 2706: Analysis of Hispanic Literary Texts. Interrogative Signs: Confession,
Conversion and ‘Truth’ in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic (graduate seminar; Spring 2008)
SPAN 1600: Survey of Spanish Literature (undergraduate course; Fall 2005 and 2006)
SPAN 1700: Contemporary Hispanic Topics. Imagining Jewishness (undergraduate
course cross-listed with Jewish Studies and English departments; Fall 2005)
SPAN 1705: Seminar, Hispanic Literature and Culture. Racial, Sexual and Cultural
Difference in 20th-Century Literature and Film (undergraduate seminar in the Honors
College; Spring 2005)
SPAN 2666: Ethics, Alterity and Representation in the Hispanic Atlantic (graduate
seminar; Spring 2005)
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SPAN 0082: Latin America Today (undergraduate course taught in English to nonmajors; Fall 2004 and 2006, Spring 2007)
SPAN 1601: Peninsular Literature. The Canon and its Others (undergraduate course in
Peninsular Literature; Fall 2004)
At New York University (1998-2003):
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Continuing Spanish
Intermediate Spanish I and II
SERVICE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE (USC)
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Department Chair (2013-2016 three-year term, 2014-2015 off)
Director of Graduate Studies (Spring 2015)
Organizer, Book proposal workshop for faculty (Spring 2015)
Member and Diversity Liaison, Search Committee for Director of Basic Language
Program (2014-2015)
Member, Search Committee for six (6) NTT faculty (2014)
Organizer, Grant-writing workshop for faculty (Spring 2014)
Chair, Lecture Committee (2012-2013)
Junior Faculty Mentor (2012-2013, 2014-2015)
Chair, Search Committee for professor and department chair (2012-2013)
Member, Tenure Promotion Committee for Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla (2012-2013)
Evaluator, Provost's Postdoctoral Scholars Program (2011-2013)
Chair, Search Committee for assistant professor of Mexican and/or Central American
literature (2011-2012)
Chair, Merit Evaluation Committee for tenure-track faculty (2011-2012)
Member, Search Committee for Director of Basic Language Program (2011-2012)
Member, Consultative Committee to appoint department chair (2011-2012)
Member, Promotion Committee for non-tenure track faculty (2011-2012)
Organizer, Department Welcome Reception (Fall 2011)
Member, Bylaws Committee (2009-present)
Member, Undergraduate Studies Subcommittee for Curriculum Review (2009-present)
Member, Graduate Studies Committee (2008-2011, 2012-present)
Chair, Merit Evaluation Committee for tenure-track faculty (2010-2011)
Member, Promotion Committee for non-tenure track faculty (2010-2011)
Member and Diversity Liaison, Search Committee for assistant professor of Spanish
film (2009-2010)
Member, Consultative Committee to appoint department chair (Fall 2009)
Member, Merit Evaluation Committee for non-tenure track faculty (Fall 2009)
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SERVICE TO DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE (USC)
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Dissertation Director, Lacey Schauwecker (in progress)
Reader, Qualifying Exam, Jaclyn Simon (Spring 2015)
Member, Dissertation Committee, Ricardo Wilson (defended March 2015)
Chair, Comparative Field Exam, Lacey Schauwecker (Spring 2014)
Member, Dissertation Committee, Ana Lee (defended April 2014)
Member, Merit Evaluation Committee for tenure-track faculty (2013-2014)
Director of Graduate Studies (2011-2013)
Reader, Master’s Exam, Ricardo Wilson (December 2012)
Reader, Qualifying Exam Ana Lee (Fall 2012)
Member, Consultative Committee to appoint department chair (Fall 2011)
Directed Research, Ricardo Wilson (Fall 2011)
Faculty Mentor, EDGE First Year Institute for Research Socialization and Training
(FIRST), Lauren Wiendling (Summer 2011)
Reader, Master’s Exam, Ana Lee (June 2011)
Dissertation Committee External Member, Fiorella Cotrina (defended October 2009)
SERVICE TO COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (CSLC)
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Member, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture Steering Committee (20132014, 2015-2016)
Member, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture Graduate Studies Committee
(2011-2013, 2014-2015)
Dissertation Director, Vincent Cervantes (in progress)
Dissertation Director, César Pérez (in progress)
Dissertation Director, Ali Kulez (in progress)
Chair, Qualifying Exam, Ali Kulez (Fall 2015)
Chair, Qualifying Exam, Vincent Cervantes (Spring 2015)
Chair, Qualifying Exam, César Pérez (Spring 2015)
Reader, Qualifying Exam, Guillermo Rodríguez (Spring 2015)
Chair, Comparative Field Exam, Ali Kulez (Spring 2015)
Reader, Field Exam, César Pérez Sánchez (Fall 2014)
Reader, Field Exam, Vincent Cervantes (Fall 2014)
Reader, Field Exam, Guillermo Rodríguez (Spring 2014)
SERVICE TO THE DEPARTMENT (UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH)
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Undergraduate Advisor, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures (20052008)
Graduate Advisor, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures (2004-2008)
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Job Market Mentor, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures (2004-2008)
Dissertation Committee Member (former Director), Deborah Bensadon, “Modernity
and Crisis: The Writing of ‘the Jew’ in Trans-Atlantic Literature” (defended August
2012)
Dissertation Co-Director, Gerardo Gómez Michel, “La letra hereje: Iglesia, fe y
religiosidad en la literatura mexicana contemporánea” (defended April 2010)
Dissertation Committee Member, Leah Strobel, “Confessions of Privilege: Women’s
Narrative and the Possibility of Solidarity Across Cultures” (defended December 2009)
Dissertation Committee Member, María del Pilar Melgarejo, “El lenguaje de la
regeneración: Nación y purificación en Colombia y México” (defended November 2007)
Dissertation Committee Member, Antonio Gómez, “El discurso latinoamericano del
exilio: Extraterritorialidad y novela en Argentina y Cuba desde los años setenta”
(defended May 2007)
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Director, Emily Haimowitz (graduated May 2007)
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Director, Suzanna Publicker (graduated May 2006)
Member, Ad-hoc committee on Spanish Honors Major (2006-2007)
SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY (USC)
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Organizer, Academic Book Proposal Workshop with Richard W. Morrison (Fordham
University Press), Center for Excellence in Research (Fall 2015)
Affiliated Faculty, Jewish Studies Program (2013-present)
Member, Nemer Lecture Series Committee, Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish
Role in American Life, University of Southern California (2013-present)
Member, Graduate School’s Task Forces for Advanced PhD Fellowships (Spring 2015)
Organizer, Grant-writing workshop for faculty in Humanities and Social Sciences,
invited speaker Prof. Jeffrey Lesser, Emory University (Spring 2013)
Panelist, Roundtable on Argentina New Cinema in conjunction with Argentine Film
Festival, co-sponsored by School of Cinematic Arts and Dornsife College of Letters, Arts
and Sciences (Fall 2011)
Graduate Qualifying Exam Reader, Edward Kozaczka, Dept. of English (Fall 2011)
SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY (UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH)
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Associated Faculty, Graduate Program for Cultural Studies, 2006-2008
Graduate Faculty, School of Arts and Sciences, 2005-2008
Member, Faculty Advisory Board, European Union Center of Excellence/European
Studies Center, 2004-2008
Core Faculty, Center for Latin American Studies, 2004-2008
Committee Member, Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship
competition, Center for Latin American Studies, 2007
Organizer and Facilitator, Levinas/Badiou Reading Group, 2005
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Committee Member, Graduate Student Field Research Grants, Center for Latin
American Studies, 2005
SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY (NYU)
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Master Graduate Student Teacher, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2003
Co-Organizer and Facilitator, Graduate School Educational Development Program,
2003
President, Graduate Student Association; Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 19992000
Department Representative, Graduate Student Council, 1999-2000
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Member, Dissertation Award Committee, Latin American Jewish Studies Association,
2014-2015
Member, Program Committee, XVI International Research Conference, Latin American
Jewish Studies Association, 2010-2011
Member, Elections Committee, Latin American Jewish Studies Association, 2009
Manuscript Reviewer, Palgrave Macmillan
Manuscript Reviewer, Fordham University Press
Manuscript Reviewer, Vanderbilt University Press
Manuscript Reviewer, University of California Press
Manuscript Endorsement, Lexington Books
Referee, Hispanic Review
Referee, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies
Referee, Luso-Brazilian Review
Referee, Estudios: Revista de Investigaciones Literarias y Culturales
Referee, Revista Hispánica Moderna
RESEARCH AND STUDY ABROAD
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Buenos Aires, Argentina: Library/archival research for “Misunderstanding Literature,”
2014
Madrid, Spain: Library/archival research for “Figurative Inquisitions,” 2005
São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Library/archival research for The Wandering
Signifier, 2001 and 2002
Havana, Cuba: Archival research for M.A. thesis at Casa de las Américas, 1997
Santiago, Chile: Rotary Ambassadorial Fellowship at the Universidad de Chile, 1995
Jerusalem, Israel: Junior Year Abroad program at Hebrew University, 1992-1993
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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
Latin American Jewish Studies Association (LAJSA)
LANGUAGES
English:
Spanish:
Portuguese:
French:
Hebrew:
Native fluency
Near-native fluency
Fluency
Good reading knowledge
Basic reading knowledge
**UPDATED SEPTEMBER 20, 2015