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CURRICULUM VITAE
GONZALO AGUIAR MALOSETTI, Ph.D.
136 E. 3rd St.
Oswego, NY 13126
[email protected]
(315) 532-7393 (cell)
(315) 216-6758 (home)
EDUCATION AND DEGREES
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS, MO
Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures, August 2010.
Thesis: Campos magnéticos de la modernidad latinoamericana: una historia intelectual de
Argentina, Brasil y Uruguay (1900-1935).
Thesis Director: Mabel Moraña
Specialization in 20th Latin American literature (Spanish and Portuguese).
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS, MO
M.A. in Spanish, May 2005.
FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACIÓN, Montevideo, Uruguay
B.A. in Latin American literature and Literary Theory, April 2003.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE, State University of New York at
Oswego (Fall 2014-)
COORDINATOR OF SPANISH 101-102 SUBSECTIONS, Washington University in St. Louis (Fall
2011-Spring 2013)
Administrative responsibilities include interviewing and hiring qualified undergraduate
students to teach subsections of Spanish 101-102; holding meetings and training sessions over
the academic semester; creating weekly assignments and new topics for 101-102 syllabi;
supervising both lesson plans and quizzes created by subsection instructors; observing
subsection instructors teaching in their classes throughout the semester; collecting weekly
attendance reports from subsection instructors. A great deal of instructional technology was
involved, including the administration of Vistas Supersite (online homework) for Washington
University undergraduate students taking the sequence of Spanish 101-102.
LECTURER IN SPANISH, Washington University in St. Louis (Fall 2011-Spring 2014)
LECTURER IN LITERARY THEORY, Washington University in St. Louis (Summer 2013)
VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Tulane University (Fall 2010-Spring 2011)
GONZALO AGUIAR MALOSETTI
SENIOR TEACHING ASSISTANT, Washington University in St. Louis (Spring 2010)
In charge of a preceptorial class on Cuban literature and culture (1500s up to the Special
Period in the 1990s).
GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT, Washington University in St. Louis (2004-2008)
Acquired a great deal of experience by teaching a wide variety of Spanish courses at all
levels. Taught courses ranging from Spanish 101 to upper-level courses in Spanish-American
Literature. Responsible for teaching and developing syllabus and reading materials for
Spanish 336, Spanish American Literature II.
LECTURER IN LITERARY THEORY, University of the Republic in Montevideo, Uruguay (20002004).
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
The Eva Sichel Memorial Prize for Best Essay in Spanish: “¿Cómo enunciar la modernidad
en la cuestión de género?: Para un esquema tropológico de El veneno del arte, de Carmen de
Burgos.” Washington University in St. Louis. May 3, 2005.
Bryant Travel Fund to pursue archival work in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. June 2009.
Washington University in St. Louis
Writing in the Americas Summer Institute at Boston University. “The Place of Literature:
A View from the South.” Prof. Alicia Borinsky in charge. Boston, MA. Summer 2004.
Honorable Mention for the manuscript titled AlfredoMario Ferreiro en la vanguardia: el
fenómeno del humorista lúcido en el contexto de la modernidad uruguaya. Annual Literary
Awards at the Ministerio de Educación y Cultura in Montevideo, Uruguay. 2003.
Honorable Mention for the novel entitled La música de Mateo. Premio Posdata de Novela.
Montevideo, Uruguay. 2000.
CERTIFICATES
Teaching Citation awarded by the Dean of Arts & Sciences. Washington University in St.
Louis. October 2009. (An optional program for Washington University Ph.D. students who
pursue teaching experience and expertise beyond the requirements of their departments and of
the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.)
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PUBLICATIONS
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Book Chapters:
“Triumph of the Will: Annihilation of Ariel in Manuel Gálvez’s Calibán.” Rethinking
Intellectuals in Latin America. Ed. Mabel Moraña. Madrid and Frankfurt am Main:
Iberoamericana / Vervuert, 2010. 65-87. Print.
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
“La Inquisición portuguesa en sesión: arte, poder y resistencia en O Judeu, de Jom Tob
Azulay.” (in coauthorship with Prof. Joseph Schraibman). Hispanic Review 78.1 (2010): 10122. Print.
“El cocoliche y la sutura de la deuda simbólica en Stéfano y La Nona.” Latin American
Theatre Review 41.1 (2007): 7-31. Print.
Articles Published Abroad:
“La Inquisición portuguesa y la refutación perversa del sujeto colonial: el caso de O Judeu
(1996), de Job Tom Azulay.” (in coauthorship with Prof. Joseph Schraibman). MaguénEscudo 151 (2009): 40-59. Print
“Recuerdos del futuro: cultura visual y utopía poshumana en Mantra (2001), de Rodrigo
Fresán.” Más allá de los (pos)tulados. Reflexiones sobre posmodernismo, posformalismo,
poshumanismo, posestructuralismo, posmitología, poshistoricismo y poscolonialismo. Ed.
Silka Freire. La Plata, Argentina: AlMargen, 2009. 49-72. Print.
CONFERENCES
Session Chair
“Webs of Power / Redes del poder.” IV South by Midwest International Conference on Latin
American Cultural Studies. Washington University in St. Louis. March 28, 2013. Saint Louis,
MO. A session devoted to biopolitical issues of contemporary Latin American literature and
culture.
Session Chair and Panelist
“Paradojas del hombre nuevo: construcción de la fábula de la Revolución cubana en la obra
de Ezequiel Vieta.” Radical Caribbeans / Los Caribes Radicales: Repositioning Caribbean
Life. Tulane University. October 5, 2013. New Orleans, LA.
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“Bajo la larga sombra del caudillo: política y hegemonía en El fiscal (1993), de Augusto Roa
Bastos.” Latin American Studies Association (LASA). May 24, 2012. San Francisco, CA.
Discussant
“Sobre el género policíaco.” Latin American Studies Association (LASA). May 27, 2015. San
Juan, Puerto Rico.
Panelist
“Ética del homo economicus en La Bolsa (1891), de Julián Martel.” Kentucky Foreign
Language Conference (KFLC). April 24, 2015. Lexington, KY.
“Turning ‘Our America’ Into a Text of Multiple Authorship: Frank Tannenbaum and the
Daunting Task of Translating Latin America during the Cold War.” The Southeastern Council
of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS). March 13, 2015. Charleston, SC.
“Entre fariseos y clérigos: el sentimiento trágico de la función intelectual en los escritos
políticos de Leopoldo Lugones.” Latin American Studies Association (LASA). May 22, 2014.
Chicago, IL.
“’Excluidas por naturaleza’: género y marxismo en Parque Industrial (1933), de Patrícia
Galvão.” Panel on 20th-Century Luso-Hispanic Political Literature. Midwest Modern
Language Association (M/MLA). November 10, 2013. Milwaukee, WI.
“La lección del maestro: prácticas cívicas en Alfonso Reyes y Carlos Vaz Ferreira.” MidAmerica Conference on Hispanic Literatures (MACHL). October 29, 2010. Saint Louis, MO.
“A Long Border That Must Be Reopened: Brazilian Literary Field as a Thorn in Ángel
Rama’s Side.” Latin American Colloquium Series. November 2, 2009. Washington University
in St. Louis. Saint Louis, MO.
“El bufón de la corte (estatal): función intelectual en Lima Barreto y Julio Herrera y Reissig.”
Latin American Studies Association (LASA). June 12, 2009. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
“Enunciaciones como denunciaciones: el intelectual periférico y las políticas de ordenamiento
cultural en la era del ‘subdesarrollo’ latinoamericano (el caso de Brasil, Argentina y
Uruguay).” First Spanish Graduate Conference at Washington University in St. Louis.
November 2007. Saint Louis, MO.
TRANSLATIONS
Revised translation of “As ciências sociais e o inglês” / “Social Sciences and the English
Language,” by Renato Ortiz. In Rethinking Intellectuals in Latin America. Ed. Mabel Moraña.
Madrid and Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana / Vervuert. 2010.
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“The Ebbs and Flows of Negritude among Brazilian Hip Hoppers: Cultural History and
Interpretation in Latin America’s Blackest Nation” by Prof. Derek Pardue (Washington
University in St. Louis). From English and Portuguese to Spanish. In Cultura y cambio social
en América Latina. Ed. Mabel Moraña (Washington University in St. Louis / South by
Midwest). 2008.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
 Intelectuales, sociedad civil y campo cultural. Argentina, Brasil y Uruguay (1900-1935)
[Intellectuals, Civil Society, and Cultural Field. Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay, 19001935] (Book manuscript under final revision)
 “Holding the Barbarians at the Gates: Apropos Alfonso Reyes’s Cartilla moral.”
(Article)
 “El largo viaje hacia el origen de la tiranía en El fiscal, de Augusto Roa Bastos.” (Article)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Latin American Intellectual History / Law and Literature / Immigration in the Southern Cone /
Cultural Studies / Culture and Power / Literary Theory / 19th and 20th century Latin American
Literature / Culture and State Formation / Ethics / Brazilian Studies / Nationalism / Citizenship /
Postcolonial Studies / Public Sphere / History of Ideas / Spanish and Spanish American 20th
century novel / Latin American Theatre / Paraguayan literature and culture /.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate Courses
SPANISH 6540: Intellectuals and Powers in Latin America (Spring 2011, Tulane University).
A graduate seminar. A survey of fictional works dramatizing the relationship between
intellectuals and powers in Latin America, including Brazil. It includes literary works by José
Mármol, Alberto Blest Gana, José Enrique Rodó, Lima Barreto, Augusto Roa Bastos, Raul
Pompéia, Roberto Bolaño, Luisa Valenzuela, Diamela Eltit, and Mario Vargas Llosa.
Undergraduate Courses Taught Abroad
SPANISH 311: Hispanic Culture and Civilization I (Summer Language Institute in Madrid,
Summer 2006). A survey on Spanish literature and culture from the Roman Empire to Spain
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in the late 1990s. Responsible for all aspects of course instruction, including selection of
readings, films, and group activities based on cultural trips across southern Spain.
Under a Fellowship Program
Does the World Exist to End Up As a Book?: Interpreting the Text in Contemporary Literary
Theory and Criticism. Merle Kling Undergraduate Honors Fellowship Program (Washington
University in St. Louis, Summer 2013).
A twenty-hour course conducted in English. The course was designed for undergraduate
students pursuing a degree in Humanities. The course was composed of discussions on the
major theoretical points of key moments in 20th and 21th century literary theory and criticism,
followed by practical applications of the theory into selected texts of Spanish American
literature.
Preceptorials
SPANISH 442: Preceptorial for Cuban Literature and Culture (Spring 2010, Washington
University in St. Louis, Prof. Elzbieta Sklodowska in charge). Responsible for providing a
historically as well as culturally contextualized information on Cuba from colonial times to
the Período especial in the 1990s.
Undergraduate Courses
At SUNY Oswego
SPANISH 495: Murders as Political Acts: Solving Puzzling Cases in Latin American Detective
Fiction (Spring 2015)
SPANISH 202: Intermediate Spanish B (Spring 2015)
Spanish 101: Continuing Elementary Spanish (Spring 2015)
SPANISH 352: Survey of 19th to 21st Spanish American Literature (Fall 2014). Close reading of
key texts in the formation of national identities, with a particular emphasis on racial, gender,
and political issues.
SPANISH 201: Intermediate Spanish A (Fall 2014).
SPANISH 102: Continuing Elementary Spanish (Fall 2014).
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At Tulane University
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SPANISH 4050: Modern Readings in Spanish (Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Tulane University). A
survey of modern Hispanic cultures from 1800 to the present. From Romanticism to Latin
American Boom.
SPANISH 3040: Advanced Grammar and Composition (Fall 2010, Tulane University).
SPANISH 3130: Introduction to Latin American Culture (Fall 2010, Tulane University).
Students are introduced to a wealth of information about some of the most significant issues
in Latin America throughout the centuries. Topics include race, slavery, gender and social
issues in urban centers, religion, and poverty in peripheral societies in Latin America.
At Washington University in Saint Louis
SPANISH 334: Spanish Literature II (Spring 2013, Washington University in St. Louis).
An introduction to key texts from Spanish literature and culture of nineteenth, twentieth and
twenty-first centuries in their specific historical contexts. Particular emphasis is also given to
film adaptations of canonical works. Authors included in this course are Benito Pérez Galdós,
Emilia Pardo Bazán, Federico García Lorca, Carme Riera, Luis Buñuel, and Pilar Távora.
SPANISH 3352: From Empire to Nation: Spanish American Literature of the Long Nineteenth
Century (Spring 2012 / Fall 2012 / Spring 2014, Washington University in St. Louis).
A survey where students are introduced to prominent themes such as independence writing,
the experience of race in literature, romanticism, civilization vs. barbarism, the appeal of
literature to popular classes, modernismo, the place of literature in nation building and in
shaping national identity, and the idea of the past as present.
SPANISH 101: Spanish Level 1 (Fall 2012, Washington University in St. Louis). Beginning
language program stressing rapid acquisition of communicative ability.
SPANISH 321: Oral Communication II (Spring 2012, Washington University in St. Louis).
Designed to offer students with advanced skills in Spanish an opportunity to refine their
ability to discuss a variety of topics. Various media (film, t.v., and newspapers) are used as a
basis for debate on cultural topics pertaining to the Spanish-speaking world.
SPANISH 201: Intermediate Spanish (Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Spring 2013-Fall 2013, Washington
University in St. Louis). It reviews basic and some advanced skills intensively with increased
emphasis upon reading, writing, culture, and vocabulary learning.
SPANISH 336: Spanish American Literature II (Fall 2008). A survey on Latin American
literature from modernismo to contemporary narrative in Mexico, Central America, and
Southern Cone. Section on Spanish American Cinema also included. Required research on
criticism for final papers. Responsible for course development, text and film selection.
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SPANISH 112: Elementary Spanish Level I (University College at Washington University in
St. Louis, Fall 2006). Responsible for classroom instruction, syllabus and materials, and
grading of the course.
SPANISH 307: Grammar And Composition I (Spring 2006 / Fall-Spring 2007 / Spring 2013 /
Spring 2014). Spanish composition course designed to prepare students for advanced classes
in literature and culture. Incorporated technology for teaching Spanish grammar.
SPANISH 313: Beginning Spanish Conversation (University College at Washington University
in St. Louis, Spring 2006). Responsible for classroom instruction, syllabus and materials, and
grading of the course.
SPANISH 308: Grammar And Composition II (Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Spring 2008, Fall 2011).
Spanish composition course designed to prepare students for advanced classes in literature
and culture. Incorporated technology for teaching literature and grammar.
SPANISH 108: Elementary Spanish Level I (University College at Washington University in St.
Louis, Summer 2005, Summer 2007, Summer 2008). Responsible for classroom instruction,
syllabus and materials, and grading of the course.
SPANISH 101: Spanish Level 1 (Spring 2005). Responsible for classroom instruction and
grading of the course.
SPANISH 201: Spanish Level III (Fall 2004). Responsible for classroom instruction and
grading of the course.
DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
Responsible for the symposium organized for undergraduate students majoring or minoring in
Spanish. SUNY Oswego, Spring 2015. (A selection of scholarly texts produced by
undergraduate students in the target language will be read during a one-day departmental
event named Simposio. This event will be organized in collaboration with Hart Hall and
Penfield Library.)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES / SERVICE
I selected a term paper written by one of my undergraduate students, Daniel Durocher, to
enter QUEST 2015. I personally supervised the translation of this paper from Spanish to
English.
I wrote a detective story for pedagogical purposes. The text will be tested in my upcoming
course on crime fiction in Latin America, a course with which I plan to apply for the
Curriculum Innovation Grant. December 2014.
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ALANA 2015 Planning Committee. November 2014.
I made a scholarly presentation on my current research for the entire Department of Modern
Languages and Literatures. The presentation was titled “Coming to Terms with Latin America
during the Cold War: Some Reflections on Frank Tannenbaum’s Intellectual Mediation in
Early 1960s.” I personally invited a colleague from the Department of History, Prof.
Leonardo Hernández, in order to count on his perspective given the interdisciplinary nature of
my approach to the topic under discussion. November 6, 2014.
I selected a sample of student research papers produced in my literature class to be used for
assessment purposes at Penfield Library. Those papers were quite relevant because of their
proper use of the MLA format and system of citations. November 2014.
I requested book purchases I considered essential to increase the Latin American collection of
Penfield Library. I compiled an exhaustive list of titles in English, Spanish, and Portuguese
and sent it to Michelle Bishop, our subject librarian. Since then, a few important titles have
been purchased by Penfield Library. November 2014.
Participant at the International Coffee Hour, an event sponsored by the Department of Modern
Languages and Literatures with the purpose of helping students develop communicative
competence in the target language in a less stressful environment. The International Coffee
hour is held on a weekly basis during the academic semester. September-November 2014.
Graduate Council Representative. Department of Romance Languages and Literatures,
Washington University in St. Louis, 2005-2006.
RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIPS
Research Assistant to Prof. Mabel Moraña. Washington University in St. Louis. Summer
2009.
Research Assistant to Prof. Joseph Schraibmann. Washington University in St. Louis.
Summer 2007-2008.
Research Assistant to Prof. John Garganigo. Washington University in St. Louis. Summer
2005.
EDITORIAL WORK
Contributor to El cuento hispánico: A Graded Literary Anthology, 8th edition. Ed. Edward J.
Mullen (University of Missouri, Columbia) and John F. Garganigo (Washington University in
St. Louis). January 2011.
Responsible for creating new activities based on literary texts by Horacio Quiroga, Marco
Denevi, Sandra Cisneros, and Elena Poniatowska. Also responsible for preparing exercise
materials and for suggestions for improvements in content and style.
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Proofreading of Prof. Elzbieta Sklodowska’s book entitled: Espectros y espejismos: Haití en
el imaginario cubano. Washington University in St. Louis. 2008.
Proofreading of El cuento hispánico: A Graded Literary Anthology, 7th edition. Ed. Edward J.
Mullen (University of Missouri, Columbia) and John F. Garganigo (Washington University in
St. Louis). 2007.
Transcript and edition of taped interviews with Argentinian writers in the early 80’s. By Prof.
John Garganigo. Washington University in St. Louis. 2007.
Contributor to Huellas de las literaturas hispanoamericanas, 3rd edition, by John Garganigo,
Elzbieta Sklodowska et al. Washington University in St. Louis. 2006.
Responsible for creating new questions for texts by José Lezama Lima, Nicanor Parra,
Octavio Paz, Rosario Castellanos, Ernesto Cardenal, Nancy Morejón, Guillermo Cabrera
Infante, Elena Poniatowska, Luisa Valenzuela, Cristina Peri Rossi, Isabel Allende, Rosario
Ferré, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Roberto Fernández Retamar, and Rigoberta Menchú.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES
2ND ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING. Binghamton University.
September 20, 2014. A day-long conference mostly devoted to discussing the impact of
technology in contemporary approaches to foreign language teaching. The event included
hands-on demonstrations of apps and web sites designed for instructional settings.
WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES ON TEACHING AND RESEARCH ATTENDED
DEVELOPMENT OF NEW OR EXISTING COURSES. William Bosch, presenter. SUNY Oswego.
January 16, 2015.
TOOLS FOR FLIPPING THE CLASSROOM. John Kane and Lisa Langlois, presenters. SUNY
Oswego. January 14, 2015.
FLIPPING THE CLASSROOM. John Kane, presenter. SUNY Oswego. January 14, 2015.
INTRODUCTION TO PREZI. John Kane, presenter. SUNY Oswego. January 13, 2015.
PREZI – BEYOND THE BASICS. John Kane, presenter. SUNY Oswego. January 13, 2015.
CREATING FACULTY DIGITAL PORTFOLIOS FOR PROMOTION AND RETENTION. Mark Springston
and Amy Bidwell, presenters. SUNY Oswego. November 19, 2014.
BRIDGING FRAMEWORKS: THE ACTFL GUIDELINES AND THE CEFR. Prof. Erwin Tschirner.
Washington University in St. Louis. March 18, 2013.
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I TEACH FACULTY SYMPOSIUM: EXCHANGING IDEAS ON TEACHING. Washington University in
St. Louis. January 12, 2012. A day-long event where faculty across disciplines exchange
insights on teaching while attending to seminars and workshops on the topic of their interest.
WRITING A SUCCESSFUL GRANT PROPOSAL. Tulane University. Prof. Kevin Fox Gotham,
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, School of Liberal Arts (SLA). February 3, 2011.
USING TECHNOLOGY TO ENHANCE YOUR TEACHING. Washington University in St. Louis.
August 21, 2009.
GENDER AND TEACHING. Washington University in St. Louis, April 22, 2009.
WRITING A TEACHING PHILOSOPHY AND CREATING A TEACHING PORTFOLIO. Washington
University in St. Louis, April 14, 2009.
DESIGNING A COURSE. Washington University in St. Louis, March 23, 2009.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
 Fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, and English.
 Reading knowledge in Italian.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERHIPS
 Modern Languages Association (MLA)
 Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
 The Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS)
 Sigma Delta Pi
Updated 1/15/2015
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