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Vincent D. Cervantes
Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
University of Southern California
3501 Trousdale Parkway
Taper Hall of Humanities 161
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0358
E-mail: [email protected]
EDUCATION
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Ph.D., Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture, May 2017 (expected)
Emphasis: Spanish and Latin American Studies
Dissertation: “México Necrótico: Queer Reading and Feeling Death”
Advisor: Erin Graff Zivin
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
M.A., Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture, May 2015
Emphasis: Spanish and Latin American Studies
Harvard University, Divinity School, Cambridge, MA
M.T.S., Religions of the Americas, May 2012
University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
B.A., with honors, Religious Studies, June 2010
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
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Modern Latin American literature and visual culture
Mexican and Chicana/o literature and culture
Gender and sexuality studies, feminist theory, queer theory
Continental philosophy, deconstruction, critical theory
ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
“Drag Acts of Transitional Performance: Sex, Religion, and Memory in Pedro Almodóvar’s La mala
educación and Ventura Pons’s Ocaña, retrat intermitent.” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies
15.4 (2014).
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“Traces of Transgressive Traditions: Shifting Liberation Theologies through Jotería Studies.” Aztlán:
Journal of Chicano Studies 39.1 (2014).
CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES AND ANTHOLOGIES
“Still Flaming.” Queer in Aztlán: Chicano Male Recollections of Coming Out and Consciousness.
San Diego: Cognella Academic Press (2013).
WORKS IN PROGRESS
“Autobiografía, política y la sexualidad de la muerte en El vampiro de la colonia Roma de Luis
Zapata” (article under review).
“Laberintos riesgosos: la crisis sexual y el sentir mexicano de Octavio Paz” (article manuscript).
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant, Gender Studies Program, University of Southern California
• Spring 2015: Social Issues in Gender (Professor Karen Tongson)
• Fall 2014: Gender Conflict in Cultural Contexts (Professor Sherry Velasco)
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Southern California
• Spring 2014: Spanish II
• Fall 2013: Spanish I
INVITED TALKS
2016 “Laberintos riesgosos: la crisis sexual del nacionalismo mexicano en la obra de Octavio Paz.”
Programa Universitario de los Estudios de Género. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México.
2015 “Decolonizing Trans*, Trans-Postcoloniality.” Gender Studies Program. University of
Southern California.
2014
“Promiscuity and Conflicts of Sexuality Futurity: Luis Zapata and Gloria Anzaldúa.” Gender
Studies Program. University of Southern California.
2012 “Jotos in the Margins: Mexican Maleness and Queer Identities.” Department of Chicana/o
Studies, California State University, Fullerton.
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“Borders Trouble: Decolonizing Unity in Difference and Power.” Keynote lecture at the East
Coast Chicana/o Student Forum. University of Pennsylvania.
CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA (including participation by invitation)
2016 “Mexicanidad Performing Queer Violence in the Work of Lechedevirgen Trimegisto’s
“Inferno Varieté.” Latin American Studies Association. New York, NY (accepted).
2016 “Sexual Aporias of Nihilistic Nationalisms.” American Comparative Literature Association.
Cambridge, MA (accepted).
2015 “Subjetividades nihilistas, necropolítica y las respuestas artísticas.” Invited talk presented at
XXII Coloquio Internacional de Estudios de Género. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México. Ciudad de México, México.
2015 Invited Discussant. “Precarious Affect in Latino America.” Latin American Studies
Association. San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2015 “Disembodiment and Thinking Beside the Trans-Corporeality in Ana Clavel.” Latin
American Studies Association. San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2014
“Castrating Desire: Mutilated and Sexual Memory in Cristina Rivera Garza’s La muerte me
da.” Latin American Studies Association. Chicago, IL.
2014 Graduate Roundtable. Colloquium on “The Marrano Spirit: Derrida and Hispanism.”
University of Southern California. Los Angeles, CA.
2014
“Perversions of the Letter: Dismembering Lacan, Bataille, and Elizondo.” American
Comparative Literature Association. New York, NY.
2014 “Subalternidad, sexualidad y sujetos: críticas radicales de la representación y la traducción de
lo queer.” 5ª Conferencia Internacional de Paradigmas Queer. Quito, Ecuador.
2013
“Decolonizing Grace and Incarnation.” Colloquium on “Pressing On: Legacy of Marcella
Althaus-Reid.” Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2013 “Political Forces Body Matters in Peri Rossi’s La nave de los locos and Zapata’s El vampiro
de la colonia Roma.” Latin American Studies Association. Washington, D.C.
2012
“Our Bodies, Our Spirits: Latinidad in Process of a Theological Mestizaje.” Queering
Paradigms IV. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
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Visiting Research Fellow at the Programa Universitario de los Estudios de Género (PUEG),
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), 2015-2016
USC Graduate School Research Enhancement Fellowship, 2015-2016
USC Del Amo Summer Research Fellowship, 2015
USC CSLC Summer Research Fellowship, 2014
Graduate Fellow, Human Rights Campaign Summer Institute in Religious and Theological
Study, 2013
USC Del Amo Summer Research Fellowship, 2013
USC Del Amo Endowed Fellowship, 2012-2013
Srinivasan Scholarship Fund, 2011-2012
William and Lucille Nickerson Scholarship, 2010-2011
UCR Edwin Gaustad Award for Religious Studies, 2010
UCR Religious Studies Encouragement Award, 2009
SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY (University of Southern California)
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Organizer, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture Graduate Reading Group on
Derrida and Deconstruction (2013-2014)
Co-Organizer, Sexuality and Spirituality Program Retreat (2012-2014)
Member, Steering Committee for the Sexuality and Spirituality Initiative (2012-2014)
Senator, Graduate Student Government (2012-2013)
SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY (Harvard Divinity School)
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Member, Graduate Admissions Committee (2012)
President, Nuestra Voz, Latin American and Latina/o Organization (2011-2012)
Vice Executive Director, The Immigration Project (2011-2012)
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
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Steering Committee Member, Gay Men and Religion Group, American Academy of
Religion (2015-)
Guest Editor, Esferas: NYU Department of Spanish and Portuguese Undergraduate Journal
(2015).
Juror, LASA Sexualities Section, Sylvia Molloy Prize for Best Peer-Reviewed Article in the
Humanities (2015-)
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LANGUAGES
English (native), Spanish (near-native), Portuguese (reading), French (reading)
Last updated: February 1, 2016
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