Curriculum Vitae - VIVO CU-Boulder

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Juan Pablo Dabove, Ph.D. - Curriculum Vitae
1 Personal and Professional Information
Academic Positions: Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University
of Colorado at Boulder.
Administrative Position: Associate Chair for Graduate Studies
Address
McKenna Languages Building, Room 230, 278 UCB, University of Colorado at
Boulder, Boulder, CO, 80309-0278
Phone
303-735-6414 (O) / 720-254-3271 (H)
E-mail
[email protected]
2. Education
2002 PhD University of Pittsburgh.
1999 MA University of Pittsburgh.
1994 BA Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina.
3. Research
Field of specialization
Post-independence Latin American Literature and Culture; the cultural representation of the
various forms of insurgency labeled “banditry”.
Works in Progress
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Book: Bandit Narratives in Latin America: From Villa to Chávez
Status: Manuscript completed, under review at university press.
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Critical edition: critical edition of Juan Moreira, by Eduardo Gutiérrez, for the Archivos
Series (ALLCA). In addition to the critical edition, the volume will feature a massive
critical dossier, and seven appendixes.
Status: Under advanced contract, in progress.
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Book chapter: “Bandits and Paramilitaries”. In Men With Guns: Cultures of
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Paramilitarism in the Americas edited by Joshua Lund and Anne-Garland Mahler. Status:
In progress.
Works in Press
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“Banditry”. Invited entry for the Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. Volume on
Hispanic Postcolonial Culture edited by Henry Schwarz and Sangeeta Ray.
Forthcoming in 2016
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“Aumentarán los sombreros y disminuirán las cabezas”: bandolerismo y destinos del
intelectual moderno en La guerra del fin del mundo”. Invited contribution to Saga:
revista de letras (UNR). Fortcoming in 2015.
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“Liberal literati”. Invited entry for the Cambridge History of Mexican Literature,
edited by José Ramón Ruisanchez Serra and Ignacio Sánchez Prado. Forthcoming in
2015.
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“Cuerpos para la horca” ¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa!” invited Chapter for Guerra y
Cultura in América Latina, edited by Felipe Martínez Pinzón and Javier Uriarte.
Pittsburgh: IILI. Forthcoming in 2015.
Published Works
Monographic Book
2007 Nightmares of the Lettered City: Banditry and Literature in Latin America,
1816-1929. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Winner of the Kayden Award for Literary Studies
Reviewed in A Contracorriente: A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin
America; The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Interamerican Cultural History;
Bulletin of Latin American Research; Bulletin of Spanish Studies; Chasqui;
Confluencia: Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura; Revista Hispánica Moderna;
Critique; Dissidences; Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe;
Hispania; Hispanic American Historical Review; Orbis Tertius; Prismas: revista de
historial intelectual; Revista de Estudios Hispánicos; Revista Iberoamericana., Siglo
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XX. The reviews can be read at
http://spanish.colorado.edu/sites/default/files/images/stories/pdf/dabove/reviewsdabove.pdf
Edited Books
2009 Borges, políticas de la literatura. Pittsburgh, PA: Instituto Internacional de Literatura
Iberoamericana.
2008 Y todo el resto es literatura: ensayos sobre Osvaldo Lamborghini. Co-edited with
Natalia Brizuela. Buenos Aires: Interzona Latinoamericana.
2003 Heterotropías: Narrativas de identidad y alteridad latinoamericana. Co-edited with
Carlos A. Jáuregui. Pittsburgh, PA: Instituto Internacional de Literatura
Iberoamericana.
Edited Journal
2007 Demons of Nineteenth Century Hispanic Literatures. Special Issue of The Colorado
Review of Hispanic Studies.
Annotated Edition
2012 El año del desierto, by Pedro Mairal (co-edited with Susan Hallstead). Buenos Aires:
Stockcero.
Articles Published in Journals, Collective Books and Conference Proceedings
2013 “An Abundance of Hats and a Shortage of Heads: Banditry, Theater of the Law and
the (Im) possibility of literature in La guerra del fin del mundo by Mario Vargas
Llosa”. In L'objet littérature aujourd'hui, edited by Annick Louis.
2012 “Juan Moreira, de Eduardo Gutiérrez. Prólogo de Bernardo Verbitsky. Ilustración de
tapa: Antonio Berni”. Entry for the Catalog Centro Editor de América Latina /
Eudeba: bibliografía, documentación y testimonios, curated by Cecilia Arthagnan
and Judith Gociol. Buenos Aires: Biblioteca Nacional
2012 El bandido y su legado maldito en la fundación de la nación-estado: Zárate, de
Eduardo Blanco In Escribir la patria, edited by Beatriz Gonzáles-Stephan and
Eduardo Sandoval. Caracas: Fundarte. 102-130.
2011 “Hugo Chávez y Maisanta: el fuera de la ley y la construcción de un linaje insurgente”.
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In El lenguaje de las emociones: Afecto y cultura en América Latina, edited by Mabel
Moraña and Ignacio Sánchez Prado. Madrid: Iberoamericana. 154-180.
2011 “Lettered City” In Dictionary of Latin American Cultural Studies. Edited by Robert
McKee Irwin and Monica Szurmuck. Gainesville: Florida UP. 204-22.
2011 “Hugo Chávez and Maisanta: Orality, Literacy and the Construction of Legitimacy
Outside the Law”. In Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies.
2011 “Dangerous Illusions and Shining Utopias: From Banditry to Party in Seara
Vermelha, by Jorge Amado”. In The Utopian Impulse in Latin America, edited by Kim
Beauchesne and Alessandra Santos. New York: Palgrave, 203-223.
2010. “Plata Quemada: Banditry, Neoliberalism and the Dilemma of Literature at the End of
the Twentieth Century”. In Rethinking Intellectuals in Latin America, edited by
Mabel Moraña and Bret Gustafson. Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert, 125-146.
2010 “Eduardo Gutiérrez: narrativas de bandidos y novela popular argentina”. In The
Critical History of Argentine Literature (Historia crítica de la literatura argentina).
Noé Jitrik (series editor) and Alejandra Laera (volume editor). Buenos Aires: Emecé
Editores, 230-267.
2009 “Pasiones fatales: consumo, violencia y género en El Zarco”. In A Contracorriente:
una revista de historia social y literatura de América Latina, Special Issue on “Nuevas
aproximaciones al siglo XIX” coordinated by Ana Peluffo. 168-188. (with Susan
Hallstead)
2008 “Ciudad Letrada”. In Diccionario de Estudios Culturales Latinoamericanos. Mónica
Szurmuk and Robert McKee Irwin, editors. Mexico: Siglo XXI. 55-60.
2008 “’La cosa maldita’: Leopoldo Lugones y el Gótico Imperial”. Revista Iberoamericana
LXXV. 228 (2009): 773-795. Special Issue on “Otros estudios transátlanticos”, edited
by Nina Gerassi-Navarro and Eyda Merediz.
2008 “Borges: políticas de la literatura”. In Borges: políticas de la literatura. Juan Pablo
Dabove, editor. Pittsburgh: IILI. 9-31
2008 “Borges y Moreira: las pasiones del gaucho malo”. In In Memoriam JLB. Rafael Olea
Franco, editor. Mexico: El Colegio de México. 350-375.
2008 “Introducción”. In Y todo el resto es literatura: ensayos sobre Osvaldo Lamborghini.
Juan Pablo Dabove and Natalia Brizuela, editors. Buenos Aires: Interzona
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Latinoamericana. 9-31.
2008 “La muerte la tiene con otros”: sobre “El niño proletario”. In Y todo el resto es
literatura: ensayos sobre Osvaldo Lamborghini. Juan Pablo Dabove and Natalia
Brizuela, editors. Buenos Aires: Interzona Latinoamericana. 215-233.
2008 “Bandidaje y experiencia de los límites de la razón letrada en José Revueltas”. Revista
de Crítica Literaria. Latinoamericana. 66: 77-93. Special Issue devoted to the
narrative of the Mexican Revolution, coordinated by Adela Pineda and Viviane
Maieux.
2007 “Kiss of the Spider Woman: On Revolution, Identity and the Decline of the Lettered
City”. Approaches to teaching Kiss of the Spider Woman, edited by Daniel Balderston
and Francine Masiello. New York: MLA. 91-100.
2007 “Demonios culturales: conjuras y exorcismos” The Colorado Review of Hispanic
Studies. Special Issue on Demons of Nineteenth Century Hispanic Literatures 4:
1-20.
2006 “El bandido y su legado maldito en la fundación de la nación-estado: Zárate, de
Eduardo Blanco”. Estudios. Revista de Investigaciones Literarias y Culturales 12-13:
26-27: 259-290
2006. “Sobre algunas ficciones de violencia en la obra de J. L. Borges: bandidaje, melancolía,
ley”. Variaciones Borges 22.2: 167-189.
2005 “Emilio Bejel”. In Encyclopedia of Caribbean Authors, edited by Danilo Figueredo
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 70-72
2005 “El bandido social mexicano entre el bárbaro y el soberano ilustrado: el caso de
Astucia, de Luis Inclán (México, 1865)”. Latin American Literary Review XXXIII.65.
47-72.
2005 “Claudicaciones de la razón letrada y romance nacional totalitario: sobre Cola de
lagartija, de Luisa Valenzuela”. Revista Iberoamericana LXXI.210: 203-220. Special
Issue on “Imaginarios femeninos de América Latina”, edited by Alicia Ortega and
Susana Rosano.
2004 “Tomóchic, de Heriberto Frías: violencia campesina, melancolía y genealogía
fratricida de las naciones”. Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, XXX.60:
351-373
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2004 “’Villistas para todo lo que se ofrezca:’ violencia campesina, bandidaje y política
subalterna en ¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa!, de Rafael F. Muñoz”. Quehacer (Lima,
Perú) 151:15-24.
2003 “Mapas heterotrópicos de América Latina” (with Carlos Jáuregui). Heterotropías:
Narrativas de identidad y alteridad latinoamericana. Eds. Carlos Jáuregui y Juan
Pablo Dabove. Pittsburgh: IILI. 7-35.
2003 “La fiesta, la banda de bandidos, la “bola”. La revolución y sus metáforas en Los de
abajo”. Heterotropías: Narrativas de identidad y alteridad latinoamericana. Eds.
Carlos Jáuregui y Juan Pablo Dabove. Pittsburgh: IILI. 167-195.
2002 “Las lanzas coloradas: Vanguardia, Nación y Guerra”. Uslar Pietri, Las lanzas
coloradas. Ed. Francois Delprat. Nanterre: Colección Archivos. 612-630.
2001 “El debate de las armas y las letras en el testimonio de delincuentes: El caso de Soy
un delincuente, de José Antonio Brizuela”. Actas del XX Congreso de Literatura
Española y Latinoamericana. Ciudadanía: Apropiaciones y definiciones . Eds. Marta
López-Luaces and Alicia Cipria. Washington: Literal Books. 37-52.
2001 “Sobre Las lanzas coloradas”. Revista de Letras 7: 58-74.
2000 “Los pasquines como alegoría de la disolución de la ciudadanía en La mala hora, de
Gabriel García Márquez”. Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana XXVI.52:
269-287.
1999 “Espejos de la ciudad letrada: el arrastraderito y el juego como metáforas políticas
en El Periquillo Sarniento”. Revista Iberoamericana LXV.186: 31-48.
1998 “Ficción autobiográfica y letrado ‘nacional’: sobre El Periquillo Sarniento, de José
Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi” Hispanic Culture Review V.1-2: 53-67.
Symposia, Panels, Lectures, Conferences
2015. (forthcoming). Presenter. Annual meeting of the American Association of
Comparative Literature. Paper Titled: “Eduardo Gutiérrez, Buenos Aires, and the
Politics of the Gaucho Malo”
2015. (forthcoming). Guest lecturer. “¿Qué es un bandido?”. At the Department of Foreign
Languages and Literatures, Colorado State University.
2014 Presenter. Annual meeting of the American Association of Comparative Literature.
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Paper Titled: “The Gothic Imagination in Argentine Culture: Monsters and Men of
Letters”
2013 Seminario de Historia de las Ideas, los Intelectuales y la Cultura “Oscar Terán”.
(instituto Ravignani, UBA) Presenter in a session devoted to my book-in progress.
2013 Guest lecturer, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Escuela de traductorado.
Presentation Titled: “Teaching Latin American Literature in the USA”.
2012 Guest Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania. Paper Titled: “Las muchas vidas de
Pancho Villa:”
2012. Guest Lecturer, Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Paper Titled: “El rostro de la
multitud: on Banditrs and Men of Letters”
2012 Guest Lecturer, Boston University. Paper Titled: “Pancho Villa, bandolero”
2012 Keynote Address, Conference “Spaces of Violence”. Tulane University. Paper Titled:
“The Uses of Banditry”
2012 Guest Panelist, “Iberian Postcolonialities”. Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Presentation Tiled: “Banditry”
2011 Panelist. Colloquium “Crime and Punishment in Latin America: Practices and
Representations”, CU-Boulder. Paper Titled: “Villa: Banditry and Representation”
2011 Guest Panelist, “L'objet littérature aujourd'hui". Paris, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
Sciences Sociales-Paris. Paper Titled: “Fiction and the Theater of the Law: Outlaws
and Men of Letters in Latin America”
2011 Guest Lecturer, Texas A&M University. Paper Titled: “La autobiografía de Pancho
Villa”.
2011 Keynote Address, International Conference on “The Image of the Outlaw in
Literature, Media, and Society”. Colorado State University – Pueblo. Paper Titled:
“Villa: Banditry and Representation”
2010 Presenter, Conference on Good Bandits, Warrior Women and Revolutionaries. ASU.
Paper Titled: “Cuerpos para la horca: sobre ¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa!”
2010 Presenter, Annual Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association (Toronto,
Canada). Paper Titled: “Bandidos en el indigenismo literario peruano: pishtacos,
oscuros aliados, equívocos heraldos del porvenir”.
2010 Invited Lecturer, Universidad de Buernos Aires – Instituto de Literatura
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Hispanoamericana. Coloquium on Banditry and Criminality in latin America. Paper
Titled: “Narrativas de bandidos y alegorías de legitimación de la nueva izquierda”
2010 Invited Panelist, LASC, CU-Boulder, roundtable. Latin America: What’s next?
Intervention titled: “The Future of the Past: Argentina and its return to the
nineteenth century”
2010 Invited Panelist, CU-Denver, roundtable “Why Still Borges?”
2010 Invited Lecturer in University of Tel Aviv’s annual international colloquium devoted
to “Interpretations of violence in Latin America and Spain”. Paper titled: Banditry
and emancipation in Venezuela.
2010 Invited Lecturer, Bowdoin College, “Literature and the dilemmas of popular
sovereignty in post-independence Argentina”. Part of a series of keynote lectures
devoted to commemorate the bicentennial of the Latin American Independence wars
2010 Rocky Mountain Latin American Studies Conference. Paper titled: “Zamora, Maisanta
and the case of the Llanero outlaw in Venezuelan cultural imaginary from Boves to
Chávez”
2010 Biennial Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages & Literatures. Paper titled:
“Zamora, Maisanta and the case of the Llanero outlaw in Venezuelan cultural
imaginary from Boves to Chávez”
2009. Invited Lecturer, Stanford University “An Abundance of Hats and a Shortage of
Heads: Banditry, Theater of the Law and the (Im)possibility of literature in La guerra
del fin del mundo by Mario Vargas Llosa”,
2009 Bold Caballeros and Noble Bandidas Conference at Arizona State University. Paper
titled: “La Guerra del Fin del Mundo: Banditry, Postmodernity and the Historical
Imagination”.
2008
MLA Annual Conference in San Francisco, CA, Paper titled: “Pasiones homicidas:
venganza y masculinidad en las narrativas de bandidos del siglo XIX
latinoamericano”. To be presented within the panel “Flows of Desire. Symbolic and
material traffic in 19th-century Latin America”
2008 Invited Lecturer, University of Kansas. Paper Titled: “Pesadillas de la ciudad letrada:
Leopoldo Lugones y el gótico imperial”
2008 Invited lecturer. Symposium “Rethinking Intellectuals in Latin America”, 2008 South
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by Midwest International Conference at Washington University in St. Louis. Paper
titled: “Plata Quemada, by Ricardo Piglia: Crime, Neoliberalism, and the Paradoxes of
the Contemporary Public Intellectual”.
2008 IV Transatlantic Conference sponsored by the Department of Hispanic Studies at
Brown University. Paper titled: “Bandidaje llanero y guerra de independencia: sobre
Las lanzas coloradas”.
2008 Invited lecturer, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Paper Titled: “Banditry and the
nomadic war machine: on Las lanzas coloradas”.
2007 Annual Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association (Montreal, CA). Paper
titled: “La negación fortalecedora: militantes, bandidos y traidores en José
Revueltas”.
2006 Invited Panelist, “International Conference ‘South by Midwest”, University of
Washington St. Louis. Paper Titled: “La negación fortalecedora: militantes, bandidos
y traidores en José Revueltas”.
2006 Invited Lecturer, University of California at Davis. Paper Titled: “’La cosa maldita’:
Leopoldo Lugones y el Gótico Imperial”.
2006 Invited panelist, “In Memoriam J.L.B”. International meeting to commemorate the
20th anniversary of Borges’s death. El Colegio de México (México D.F.). Paper Titled:
“Borges y Moreira: las pasiones del gaucho malo”.
2006 Invited Lecturer, University of California at Berkeley. Paper titled “Ante la ley: Borges
y las ficciones de la violencia”.
2006 Annual Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association (San Juan, PR). Paper
titled: “’Cuerpos para la horca’: bandidaje y representación en ¡Vámonos con Pancho
Villa!, de Rafael F. Muñoz”.
2005 Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association (Washington D.C.). Paper
Titled: “Bandidos, malevos, outlaws: Borges y las ficciones de la violencia”. Panel
organized by the Instituto International de Literatura Iberoamericana to
commemorate the 20th anniversary of Borges’ death.
2005 Invited lecturer, Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Northern Colorado,
on “The Novel of the Mexican Revolution”.
2005 Annual Conference of the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Association
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(Baton Rouge, LA) Paper Titled: Banditry, Sugar and the Invention of a National
Genealogy: on Franklin Távora’s O Cabeleira.
2004 Annual Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association (Las Vegas, NV). Paper
Titled: “Hordas, tribus, gavillas, estados: los dilemas de la soberanía en La Génesis
del crimen en México, de Julio Guerrero”.
2004 Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (Dallas, TX).
Paper Titled: “’Villistas para todo lo que se ofrezca:’ violencia campesina y política
subalterna en ¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa!, de Rafael F. Muñoz”.
2004 XXXV International Conference of Ibero-American Literature co-organized by the
Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI) and Centre de
Recherches Latino Américaines at the University of Poitiers. Paper titled: “Zárate, de
Eduardo Blanco: bandido, nación y experiencia de los límites”.
2003 “XIX Coloquio Internacional de Literatura Mexicana e Hispanoamericana”
(Hermosillo, Sonora, México). Paper Titled: “El gran poder de Dios, y la genealogía
fraticida de las naciones: Tomochic, de Heriberto Frías”.
2003 22nd Annual Western Humanities Alliance Conference “Memory, Material, and
Meaning” hosted by Tanner Humanities Center, at the University of Utah. Paper
Titled: “Peasants, Prophets and the Fratricidal Genealogy of the Nations: the Case of
Tomochic, by Heriberto Frías”.
2003 First International Conference “Educación, trabajo y desarrollo regional en la
globalización” (Firmat, Argentina). Paper Titled: “Sobre ética, cultura y sociedad”.
2003 Fifth International Conference Orbis Tertius of Theory and Literary Criticism (La
Plata, Argentina). Paper Titled: “Claudicaciones de la razón letrada y ‘romance
nacional totalitario’: sobre Cola de lagartija, de Luisa Valenzuela”.
2003 Annual Meeting of the Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference. Paper Titled:
“Fronteras entre espacios de soberanía, o el bandido mexicano entre el monstruo y
el soberano ilustrado: el caso de Astucia, de Luis Inclán (México, 1865)”.
2003 Annual Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association (Dallas, TX). Paper Titled:
“Banditry, Literature and the Genealogy of the Nation-State: The Case of Los
Bandidos de Río Frío by Manuel Payno (Mexico, 1891)”.
2001 Tenth Annual New York University-Columbia University Graduate Conference on
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Spanish and Portuguese Literatures. Paper titled: “La fiesta, la banda de bandidos, la
‘bola’. La revolución y sus metáforas en Los de abajo, de Mariano Azuela”.
1999 Conference “Parody, Satire and the Grotesque”, held at Arizona State University.
Paper titled: “Cola de Lagartija de Luisa Valenzuela: hacia un romance nacional
totalitario”.
1999 Conference “Citizenship: Appropriations and Definitions”, held at Montclair
University. Paper titled: “El debate de las armas y las letras en el testimonio de
delincuentes. El caso de Soy un delincuente, de José Antonio Brizuela”.
1998 Graduate Student Conference “Approaching the New Millennium” held at George
Mason University. Paper titled: “Ficción autobiográfica y letrado ‘nacional’ en El
Periquillo Sarniento de José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi”.
1998 Graduate Student Conference at the Ohio State University Department of Spanish
and Portuguese. Paper titled: “Los pasquines como alegoría de la disolución de la
ciudadanía en La Mala Hora, de Gabriel García Márquez”.
Awards and Sponsored Research
At the University of Colorado at Boulder
2014. Research Grant, Graduate Committee on the Arts & Humanities – CHA.
2014. Grant, Dean's Fund for Excellence.
2013 Grant, Center for Humanities and the Arts to subsidize copy editing of my book
manuscript.
2013 Grant, Dean's Fund for Excellence.
2012 Grant, Dean's Fund for Excellence.
2012 Kayden Research Award, College of Arts and Sciences.
2011 Kayden Research Award, College of Arts and Sciences.
2011 Research Cluster Grant, Latin American Studies Center.
2010 Kayden Book Award, College of Arts and Sciences.
2010 Kayden Research Award, College of Arts and Sciences.
2010 Grant, Dean's Fund for Excellence.
2009 Research Grant, Graduate Committee on the Arts & Humanities – CHA.
2009 Grant, Dean's Fund for Excellence.
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2009 Grant, Dean's Fund for Excellence.
2008 Kayden Research Award, College of Arts and Sciences.
2008 Grant, Dean's Fund for Excellence.
2007 Grant, Dean's Fund for Excellence.
2006 Travel Grant, Graduate Committee on the Arts & Humanities – CHA.
2005 Grant, Dean's Fund for Excellence.
2005 Big 12 Faculty Fellowship Office of Diversity and Equity.
2004 Small Grant, Graduate Committee on the Arts & Humanities.
2004 Grant, Dean's Fund for Excellence.
2004 Travel Grant, Graduate Committee on the Arts & Humanities.
2003 Travel Grant, Graduate Committee on the Arts & Humanities.
At the University of Pittsburgh
2001 Andrew Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, College of Arts and Sciences.
2001 Travel Grant, Center for Latin American Studies.
1999 Martin and Cole Blazier Award, Center for Latin American Studies.
1999 Travel Grant, Center for Latin American Studies..
Book Reviews
2009 On Carpenter, Victoria (ed.). A World Torn Apart: Representations of Violence in
Latin American Narrative. Bern: Peter Lang (Cultural Identity Studies Series, 9),
2007. Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe.
2004 On Cuentos fantásticos del siglo XIX (España e Hispanoamérica), edited by David
Roas. (Madrid: Clásicos marenostrum, 2003). Theatralia
2004 On The Write Way Home: A Cuban-American Story, by Emilio Bejel (San Francisco:
Versal Editorial Group, 2003). Confluencia: revista hispánica de cultura y literatura
2004 On Carlos Monsiváis: Culture and Chronicle in Contemporary Mexico, by Linda Egan
(Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2001). Latin American Literary Review
31.62: 125-128.
2002 On El cuerpo del delito, by Josefina Ludmer (Buenos Aires: Perfil Editora, 1999).
Hispanic Review 69.4: 560-562
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2001 On Pirate Novels, by Nina Gerassi-Navarro (Durham: Duke U.P., 1999). Arizona
Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 4: 313-315.
2000 On The Post-Boom in Spanish American Fiction, by Donald Shaw (Albany: State
University of New York Press, 1998). Revista Iberoamericana LXVI / 190: 207-211.
1993 On Manuel Puig y la tela que atrapa al lector, by José Amícola (Buenos Aires: GEL,
1992). Boletín 3: 101-108.
Teaching
Visiting Professor
2015 Universidad Nacional de San Martín (Argentina)
2011 Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina)
University of Colorado - Boulder
Graduate Seminars
2014 Romanticism: Literature and Politics in Latin America
2013 The Gothic Imagination in Latin America
2012 Argentina, from the Independence Wars to the Fall of Rosas
2011 The Mexican Revolution in Literature, Film and the Visual Arts.
2011 My Trade is Retribution; Vengeance is my Calling!: Bandit Narratives in Latin
America.
2010 Prose and Politics in Nineteenth Century Spanish America.
2010 Documents of Culture and Documents of Barbarism: Readings in
Nineteenth-Century Argentine Literature.
2008 Narrativas de bandidos en América Latina (siglos XIX y XX).
2007 Jorge Luis Borges.
2006 The Social Novel in Latin America.
2005 Writing and Difference: Intellectual Foundations of Twentieth Century Literary
Criticism.
2005 Masters in the Periphery: Readings in Latin-American Nineteenth Century Narrative.
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2004 Entre la épica y el genocidio: representación de la Guerra en la cultura
latinoamericana de los siglos XIX y XX.
2003 Fury and Death: Violence and War in Nineteenth Century Mexico.
Graduate Student Mentoring
Principal Dissertation / Advisor for Graduate Student (Ph.D. Level)
Current
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Builes, Beatriz, Ph.D Candidate
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Iturbe-Lagrave, Valentina, Ph.D. Candidate
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Van der Linde, Carlos Germán, Ph.D Candidate
Past
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Márquez, Wladimir, Ph.D. Candidate (Dissertation Defended August 2013)
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Bolívar-Rubín, Mariana, Ph.D. Candidate (2008-2011)
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Goldberg, Elizabeth K., Ph.D. Candidate
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Salas-Carrillo, Gisela Inés, Ph.D. Candidate (Dissertation Defended August 2011)
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Carrillo, Leonel, Ph.D. Candidate (Dissertation Defended August 2010)
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Bush, Matt, Ph.D. Candidate (Dissertation Defended August 2007)
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Sanchez, Fernando, Ph.D. Candidate (Dissertation Defended August 2006)
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Zavala, Itza, Ph.D. (Dissertation Defended in February 2005)
Principal Advisor for Graduate Student (MA Level)
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Xavier Dapena, (Degree obtained spring 2014)
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Keogh, Ximena (Degree obtained spring 2012)
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Herbozo, José Miguel (Degree obtained spring 2012)
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Bocanegra, Nancy (Degree obtained spring 2008)
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Trushnina, Lidia (Degree obtained spring 2008)
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Member of Dissertation/Thesis Committee (other than Principal Advisor) or of
Masters or Ph.D Qualifying Examination Committee
Current
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Carroll, Adam, MA Ph.D Candidate
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Cesarco, Laura, Ph.D. Candidate
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García, Juan Antonio, MA Student
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Muñoz, María José. Ph.D. candidate
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Wright, Suzie, Ph.D Student.
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Malloy, Tiffany, MA Student
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Glover, Allison, Ph.D Student.
Past
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Márquez, Eva, Ph.D. (Dissertation Defended Spring 2013)
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Doellig, Richard, MA
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Hazard, Tyson, MA.
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Saavedra, Olga, Ph.D (Dissertation Defended Spring 2012)
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González, Javier, Ph.D. (Dissertation Defended Spring 2012)
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Castañeda, Luis Hernán, PhD (Dissertation Defended Spring 2012)
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Rabí Do Carmo, Alonso, Ph.D (Dissertation Defended Spring 2011)
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Salas-Díaz, Daniel (Dissertation Defended Spring 2010)
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Domínguez-Hermida, Beatriz (Dissertation Defended Spring 2009)
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Behm, Ana. (MA obtained spring 2008)
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Bougham, Rose, Ph.D. (Dissertation defended Spring 2006)
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Cisneros, Vitelia, Ph.D. Student (Dissertation defended Fall 2006)
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Doub, Yolanda, Ph.D. (Dissertation defended Spring 2005)
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Galdo, Juan Carlos, Ph.D. (Dissertation defended Fall 2003)
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Godón, Nuria, Ph.D. (Dissertation defended Fall 2006)
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Gomez, Antonio, Ph.D. (Dissertation defended Spring 2005)
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Kusnyer, Laura (Terminal Master Spring 2006)
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Monzón, Gloria, (Terminal Master Spring 2012)
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Petersen, Amanda, Ph.D. (Dissertation defended Spring 2010)
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Rock, Kristin, MA (Master Awarded Spring 2010)
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Rodriguez-Guridi, Bárbara, Ph.D. (Dissertation Defended Fall 2006)
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Ugaz-Pereda, Jimena Ph.D. (Dissertation Defended Spring 2005)
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Wlad, Kerrie, Ph.D. (Dissertation Defended Spring 2006)
Undergraduate Courses (taught on a regular, rotating basis)
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Span 3100. Introducción al Análisis Literario.
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Span 3220. Cultura Latinoamericana
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Span 3340. Introducción a la Literatura hispanoamericana.
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Span 4170. Obras Maestras de la Literatura Hispanoamericana (1492 a 1898).
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Span 4180. Obras Maestras de la Literatura Hispanoamericana (1898 a 2004).
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Span 4220. Tópicos Especiales en Literatura Hispanoamericana.
Director of Honors Thesis
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McCullough, Nicholas (successfully defended Spring 2010)
5. Service
Department
2009 – Present – Associate Chair for Graduate Studies
2010- Present
Designer and Webmaster of the departmental website.
2002- Present
Library Liaison
2013
Tania Martucelli 4th Year Review (PUEC Chair)
2013
Admin III Selection Committee
2013
Vivian Elmore Reappointment Committee
2013
Cristina Piras Reappointment Committee
2004-2012
Director / Editor / Web designer The Colorado Review of Hispanic Studies
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2011-2012
Andrés Prieto Tenure Committee (PUEC Chair)
2010-2011
John Slater Tenure Committee
2004-2007
Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies.
2010
Javier Rivas 4th Year Review Committee
2009
Andres Prieto 4th Year Review Committee
2009
John Slater 4th Year Review Committee
2009
Mary Long’s Reappointment Committee
2008-2009
Executive Committee.
2008-2009
PRP subcommittees on Faculty Hiring and Graduate Education.
2005-2006
Search Committee, Hispanic Colonial Literature (Chair).
2004-2005
Search Committee, Hispanic Baroque Literature and Culture.
2004
Study Abroad Committee (Chair).
2004-2007
Curriculum Committee (Chair).
2003
Search Committee, Spanish American Literature and Culture. Successful hire.
2003–2004
Executive Committee.
2002-2003
Graduate Committee.
University
2013
Graduate Fellowship for Incoming Graduate Students Committee (Arts and
Sciences)
2013
Dissertation Completion Fellowship Committee (Arts and Sciences)
2011
Organizer of the International Colloquium Crime and Punishment in Latin
America: Practices and Representations
2008-2011
Dissertation Fellowship Committee (Arts and Sciences)
2009-2012
Member of the Steering Committee, Center for Latin American Studies
2009
Member, Organizing Committee, RMCLA
Profession
2014
Project Evaluator, CONICET
2014
Manuscript Evaluator, LARR
2013
Tenure Reviewer, Rice University
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2012
Tenure Reviewer, University of Georgia
2012
Tenure Reviewer, Ohio University
2012
Manuscript Evaluator (article) Hispanic Review
2012
Manuscript Evaluator (book) University of Texas Press
2011
Chair of the track on Latin American Literature (XIXth century) for the
international conference of the Latin American Studies Association.
2011
Manuscript Evaluator (book), Purdue University Press
2011
Manuscript Evaluator (book), University of Pittsburgh Press
2011
Manuscript Evaluator (article), Decimonónica
2009
Evaluator for the American Association of Learned Societies New Faculty
Fellowships
2009
External evaluator for tenure case, Amy Robinson, BGSU
2009
Manuscript Evaluator (book), University of Pittsburgh Press
2009
Manuscript Evaluator (article), Latin American Research Review
2009
Manuscript Evaluator (article) Hispanic American Historical Review
2009
Manuscript Evaluator (article), Decimonónica
2009
Manuscript Evaluator (article), Prismas: Revista de Historia Intelectual
2008
Manuscript Evaluator (article), Instituto Internacional de Literatura
Iberoamericana
2007
Manuscript Evaluator (book), Instituto Internacional de Literatura
Iberoamericana
2007
Manuscript Evaluator (article), Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana