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BEATRIZ URRACA
Humanities Division
Widener University
One University Place
Chester, PA 19013-5792
Phone: 610-499-1112
Email: [email protected]
EDUCATION
PhD, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1993)
Dissertation: “The Literary Construction of National Identities in the Western Hemisphere:
Argentina and the United States, 1845-1898.” Chair: Professor Walter Mignolo
MA, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan (1987)
Licenciatura, English Philology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain (1984)
CERTIFICATIONS
American Translators Association Certified Translator, English into Spanish (2000)
Goethe-Institut Zertifikat Deutsch als Fremdsprache, Middlebury College, Vermont (1987)
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor of Spanish, Widener University (2010-present)
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Widener University (2004-2010)
Associate Professor of Spanish and Humanities, Neumann College (2003-2004)
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Humanities, Neumann College (2001-2003)
Visiting Assistant Professor of English Literature, Swarthmore College (2000-2001)
Assistant Dean for Advising, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania (SP 2001)
Visiting Lecturer, College Seminar Program, Bryn Mawr College (F 2000)
Lecturer in Spanish, Lauder Institute, University of Pennsylvania (1999-2000)
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, Haverford College (1997- 2000;
1994-1995)
Lecturer, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and College of General Studies,
University of Pennsylvania (1996-1998)
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish, Swarthmore College (1993-1998)
Instructor of Spanish, Drexel University (1992-1993)
Teaching Assistant, Department of Romance Languages and Residential College, University of
Michigan (1985-1991)
Assistant Teacher, Department of Foreign Languages, Hope College, Holland, Michigan (1984-1985)
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COURSES TAUGHT
Widener University
GWS 101: Introduction to Women’s Studies
GWS 288S/ANTH 288S/ SOC 288 S: Women and Development in Latin America (Travel Course,
Service Learning, with Dean Sharon Meagher)
ASC-400: Imagined Communities: National Identity, Policy, and the Modern State (Values Seminar,
Writing Enriched, with Professor Rebecca Jones)
GLS 588: Narratives of the Child and Adolescent Self in Spanish and Latin American Cinema (Master’s
in Liberal Studies)
HUM 388: Children and Adolescents in Spanish and Latin American Cinema (Honors Colloquium,
Writing Enriched)
HUM 388: The Self-Conscious Text: Metafiction and Self-Reflexivity (Honors Seminar, Writing Enriched)
HUM 388: Urban Visions (Humanities Interdisciplinary Seminar, Service Learning, Writing Enriched)
HUM 388: Spanish Culture and Civilization (in English)
SPAN 101, 102: Elementary Spanish I and II
SPAN 201, 202: Intermediate Spanish I and II
SPAN 301, 302: Spanish Conversation and Composition I and II
SPAN 188: Spanish for Travel
SPAN 304: Spanish Culture and Civilization (in Spanish)
SPAN 306: Introduction to Hispanic Literature
SPAN 310: The Hispanic Short Story
SPAN 314: Introduction to Latin American Literature
SPAN 340/GWS 340: Spanish, Latin American, and Latina Women Writers
SPAN 409: Latin American Film (Senior Seminar, Writing Enriched)
SPAN 409: The United States in the Latin American Imagination (Senior Seminar, Writing Enriched)
Other Institutions
Advanced Spanish
Business Spanish and Latin American Culture (M.A. course)
Elementary Spanish (regular and intensive)
Hispanic Writers in the United States
Intermediate Spanish (regular and intensive)
Introduction to Latin American Literature
Introduction to Comparative Literature
Literatures of Foreign Cultures
Literature and Psychology (Honors, with Professor Kurt Wallen)
Spanish for Health Professionals
Spanish for Law Enforcement
The Arts: Theory, and Criticism
The Civil War in Modern Spanish Literature and Film
The Fantastic Short Story in Argentina and Uruguay
The Literature of the United States-Mexico Border
The United States in the Latin American Imagination
Urban Culture
Visualizing Chicano Culture (Service Learning)
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GRANTS FROM WIDENER UNIVERSITY
Provost Grants (2014, 2013, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005)
Faculty Development Options Awards (2015, 2014, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2006, 2005)
Sabbatical award (Spring 2011)
Academic Service-Learning Travel Grants (2009, 2010)
Academic Service-Learning Faculty Development Fellowship (2005)
GRANTS FROM OTHER INSTITUTIONS
Southeastern Pennsylvania Consortium for Higher Education Travel Grant (2002)
Swarthmore College Faculty Research Grant (1993, 1995)
Rackham Research Partnership, University of Michigan (1991)
Travel Grant from the Comité Conjunto Hispano Norteamericano para la Cooperación Cultural y
Educativa, Ministry of Education, Spain (1985)
FUNDED TEACHING ACTIVITIES
P&L mini-grants (SP 2015, F 2014, F 2013, SP/F 2012, SP 2010, SP 2009, SP 2008, SP/F 2007, SP/F
2006, SP/F 2005, F 2004)
Student Government Association mini-grant (2006)
HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
Phi Beta Delta Honor Society (2006)
Alpha Mu Gamma Honor Society (2005)
Delta Epsilon Sigma Honor Society (2002)
PhD Qualifying Examinations passed with Distinction, University of Michigan (1990)
Program in Comparative Literature Award for Extraordinary Academic Progress, University of
Michigan (1987)
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Contemporary Latin American (especially Argentine) literature, culture, and cinema
Comparative literature
Gender and Women’s Studies
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Directory of World Cinema: Argentina, Vol. II. Co-edited with Gary M. Kramer. Bristol: Intellect, 2016.
Under contract.
“Rituals of Performance: Ricardo Darín as Father Julián in Elefante blanco,” Revista de Estudios
Hispánicos XLVIII: 2 (2014): 353-372.
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Directory of World Cinema: Argentina. Co-edited with Gary M. Kramer. Bristol: Intellect. 2014.
“Independent Cinema in Argentina: The Role of the BAFICI,” in Daniela Ingruber and Ursula Prutsch,
eds., Filme in Argentinien – Argentine Cinema. Münster/Berlin/Vienna/Zurich: Lit Verlag, 2012.
219-232.
“No Longer Young: Childhood, Family, and Trauma in Las mantenidas sin sueños,” in Carolina Rocha
and Georgia Seminet, eds., Representing History, Class, and Gender in Spain and Latin America.
New York: Palgrave, 2012. 223-238.
“Transactional Fiction: (Sub)urban Realism in the Films of Trapero and Caetano,” in Cacilda Rego and
Carolina Rocha, eds., New Trends in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema. Bristol: Intellect, 2010.
147-161.
“La creación del primer BAFICI: entrevista a Ricardo Manetti,” Imagofagia, 4 (2011) .
http://www.asaeca.org/imagofagia/sitio/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=160%
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“International Service-Learning: The Building Blocks of a Successful Experience,” in Michael Ledoux,
Paula Silver, and Stephen Wilhite, eds., Civic Engagement and Service Learning in a
Metropolitan University: Multiple Approaches and Perspectives. New York: Nova Publishers,
2011. 145-156.
“An Argentine Context: Civilization and Barbarism in El aura and El custodio,” in Elizabeth Montes
Garcés and Carolina Rocha, eds., Representations of Violence in Contemporary Argentine
Literature and Film. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2010. 125-142.
“La configuración de la mirada en el cine de Verónica Chen,” Hispanic Research Journal, 11:4 (2010):
338-52.
“Los lenguajes del recuerdo en Un mundo menos peor de Alejandro Agresti,” Imagofagia, 1 (2010).
http://asaeca.org/imagofagia/Presentes/Urraca.pdf
“Beyond the Comfort Zone: Lessons of Intercultural Service,” co-authored with Michael W. Ledoux and
James T. Harris, III, The Clearing House, 82:6 (2009): 281-289.
“A New Cinema for a New Argentina,” Cuaderno Internacional de Estudios Humanísticos y Literatura,
VII (2007): 128-151.
“Inscrito en la calle: la estética naturalista de Steve Lopez en Third and Indiana,” Bilingual Review/
Revista Bilingüe, 28:1 (2007): 47-53.
“Una vida de novela: Martha Mercader and the Contemporary Argentinian Historical Novel,”
Ciberletras, 14 (2005). http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/
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“He Said/She Said: Gendered Historical Discourses in Rosario Ferré’s The House on the Lagoon,”
CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, XVII:2 (2005): 224-231.
ENTRIES
“Eduardo Goligorsky” and “Alberto Vanasco,” in Darrell Lockhart, ed., Latin American Science Fiction
Writers. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004. 91-94, 207-209.
REVIEWS
“El drama cotidiano como espectáculo: Anagramas de Santiago Giralt,” Film Review, Imagofagia 10
(2014). http://www.asaeca.org/imagofagia/sitio/images/stories/pdf10/1_Critica__Beatriz_Urraca.pdf
“La poética de la ausencia: Carta a un padre de Edgardo Cozarinsky,” Film Review, Imagofagia 10
(2014). http://www.asaeca.org/imagofagia/sitio/images/stories/pdf10/2_Critica__Beatriz_Urraca.pdf
“Excavación y magnetismo: El color que cayó del cielo de Sergio Wolf,” Film Review, Imagofagia 10
(2014). http://www.asaeca.org/imagofagia/sitio/images/stories/pdf10/3_Critica__Beatriz_Urraca.pdf
Jessica Stites Mor, Transition Cinema. Political Filmmaking and the Argentine Left since 1968.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012. The Americas 70:1 (2013): 112-113.
Jens Andermann, New Argentine Cinema. London: I.B. Tauris, 2012. Historical Journal of Film, Radio
and Television 33:2 (2013): 347-349.
Jeffrey Middents, Writing National Cinema. Film Journals and Film Culture in Peru. Lebanon, NH:
Dartmouth College Press, 2009. The Americas 68:4 (2012): 613-614.
Bettina Perut + Iván Osnovikoff, La muerte de Pinochet (Chile, 2011). CineDocumental 5 (2012). Film
Review. http://revista.cinedocumental.com.ar/5/criticas_04.html
Miriam Haddu and Joanna Page, eds., Visual Synergies in Fiction and Documentary Film from Latin
America. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Imagofagia 3 (2011).
http://www.asaeca.org/imagofagia/sitio/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=128%
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Amelia María de la Luz Montes and Anne Elizabeth Goldman, eds., María Amparo Ruiz de Burton:
Critical and Pedagogical Perspectives. The Americas 64:3 (January 2008): 434-435.
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS PRIOR TO WIDENER UNIVERSITY
“’Quien a Yankeeland se encamina...’: The United States and Nineteenth-Century Argentine
Imagination,” Ciberletras 2 (2000). http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/ Re-published in
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the Fundación Biblioteca Miguel de Cervantes portal (2012)
http://bib.cervantesvirtual.com/FichaObra.html?Ref=46119.
“Juana Manuela Gorriti and the Persistence of Memory,” Latin American Research Review 34:1 (1999):
151-173.
“A Textbook of Americanism: Richard Harding Davis’s Soldiers of Fortune,” in Frances Aparicio and
Suzanne Chávez Silverman, eds., Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad.
Hanover: University of New England Press, 1997. 21-50.
“Angélica Gorodischer’s Voyages of Discovery: Sexuality and Historical Allegory in Science-Fiction’s
Cross-Cultural Encounters,” Latin American Literary Review 23:45 (1995): 85-102.
“Wor(l)ds Through the Looking-Glass: Borges’s Mirrors and Contemporary Theory,” Revista
Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, XVII:1 (1992): 153-76; excerpts reprinted in Harold Bloom,
ed., Jorge Luis Borges (Bloom’s Major Short Story Writers). New York: Chelsea House, 2002.
53-55.
“Autobiography Completes no Pictures: Fragmentation in Rafael Alberti’s La arboleda perdida,”
Hispanic Journal 13:1 (1992): 51-68.
“El concepto de personaje en Casa de campo: Entre la tradición y la innovación,” Revista Chilena de
Literatura 31 (1988): 105-124.
BOOK REVIEWS PRIOR TO WIDENER UNIVERSITY
John Tomlinson, Cultural Imperialism: A Critical Introduction. Literary Research/Recherche Littéraire
18 (1992): 38-39.
Doris Sommer, Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America. Literary
Research/Recherche Littéraire 16-17 (1991): 64-65.
Patrik von zur Mühlen, Fluchtziel Lateinamerika; Die deutsche Emigration 1933-1945: politische
Aktivitäten und soziokulturelle Integration. Latin American Jewish Studies Newsletter 11:2
(1991): 5.
NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS PRIOR TO WIDENER UNIVERSITY
“Speaking Americano—‘Nuestra Lengua’: Spanish Language Use in the United States,” a report
prepared in collaboration with Dr. Robert Burciaga Valdez for the Health Care Financing
Administration’s Horizons Project (2001).
PRESENTATIONS
“La precariedad y la autorreflexividad en el cine argentino contemporáneo,” Latin American Studies
Association (LASA), San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 2015. Accepted.
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“Celebrity, Slums, and Religion: Reflections on the Other Argentina,” “Visual and Performing Arts and
Human Rights” series, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, 13 November 2014. Invited speaker.
“Acting, Stardom, and Performance in Elefante blanco,” LASA, Chicago, May 2014.
“Considerations on Film Production in Latin America,” LASA, Chicago, May 2014. Discussant and
Moderator.
“The Role of Film Festivals in Funding, Producing, and Distributing Latin American Film,” LASA,
Washington, DC, May 2013.
“Challenging Children: Discourses on Childhood in South American Cinemas” panel, LASA,
Washington, DC, May 2013. Discussant.
“Hacia un espectador crítico,” Asociación Argentina de Estudios de Cine y Audiovisual (ASAECA),
Córdoba, Argentina, May 2012.
“Hacia un espectador crítico,” LASA, San Francisco, May 2012.
“Industry and History in Latin American Cinema,” LASA Workshop, San Francisco, May 2012.
“No Longer Young: Traumatic Childhood Narratives in Recent Argentine Cinema,” LASA, Toronto,
Canada, October 2010.
“Experiencias traumáticas de la niñez en el cine argentino reciente,” ASAECA, Buenos Aires,
Argentina, October 2010.
“Eva Perón: Política y feminismo en Argentina,” Swarthmore College, 13 April 2010. Invited speaker.
“El cine de Verónica Chen: Grietas, rupturas, y espacios de libertad,” LASA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
June 2009.
“Civilization and Barbarism in Contemporary Argentine Cinema: The Case of El aura by Fabián
Bielinski,” Language Department, Eastern University, PA, April 2008. Invited speaker.
“Best Practices in International Service Learning” roundtable, Pennsylvania Council for International
Education (PaCIE), Harrisburg, September 2007. Invited speaker.
“Historia y memoria: El cine y las consecuencias de la dictadura,” LASA, Montreal, Canada,
September 2007.
“Out of Order: Stories of Greater Buenos Aires in the Films of Trapero and Caetano,” Modern Language
Association (MLA), Philadelphia, December 2006.
“Urban Realism in Contemporary Argentinian Cinema,” LASA, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 2006.
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“Una vida de novela: Martha Mercader y la novela histórica argentina contemporánea,” Northeast MLA
(NEMLA), Boston, March 2005.
PRESENTATIONS PRIOR TO WIDENER UNIVERSITY
“He Said/She Said: Gendered Historical Discourses in Rosario Ferré’s The House on the Lagoon,”
Caribbean Studies Association (CSA), Belize City, Belize, May 2003.
“Inscrito en la calle: Las raíces naturalistas de Third and Indiana,” Segundo Congreso Internacional
sobre Escritura, Individuo y Sociedad en España, las Américas y Puerto Rico, Arecibo, Puerto
Rico, November 2002.
“Women Writers in Nineteenth-Century Argentina and Peru: Nationalism and Internationalism,” LASA,
Washington, D.C., September 1995.
“Angélica Gorodischer’s Voyages of Discovery: Sexuality and Historical Allegory in Science-Fiction’s
Cross-Cultural Encounters,” NEMLA, Boston, March 1995.
“Women’s Literature, History, and National Identity in Argentina: Juana Manuela Gorriti and the
Persistence of Memory,” Department of Romance Studies, Duke University, February 1995.
Invited speaker.
“Angélica Gorodischer’s Voyages of Discovery: Sexuality and Role Reversal in Cross-Cultural
Encounters,” LASA, Atlanta, March 1994.
“Chicana Feminism: Politics from a Personal Perspective,” MLA, Toronto, Canada, December 1993.
“Barbarism in the City: Two Views of Argentine Immigration,” Latin American Cultures Program,
University of Pennsylvania, February 1993. Invited speaker.
“Ramona’s Choice and the Politics of National Shame,” Sixth National Graduate Student Conference,
Temple University, October 1992.
“The Utopian Past: Juana Manuela Gorriti and Women’s History,” LASA, Los Angeles, September 1992.
“Americans Abroad: The Construction of an American National Identity in Sarmiento’s and Emerson’s
Travel Narratives,” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), New York, April
1992.
“Alberti’s La arboleda perdida: Fragments of a Palimpsest,” Second Area Conference for Graduate
Students in Hispanic Literatures, Ohio State University, Columbus, April 1991.
“Wor(l)ds Through the Looking-Glass: The Figure of the Mirror in Borges’s ‘The Library of Babel’ and
‘Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,’ ” First Area Conference for Graduate Students in Hispanic
Literatures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 1990.
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CONFERENCE PANELS CHAIRED
“Precariedad en el cine latinoamericano contemporáneo,” LASA, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 2015.
Accepted.
“Memory, Acting, and Performance,” LASA, Chicago, May 2014.
“Historia y cine,” ASAECA, Córdoba, Argentina, May 2012.
“Lenguajes y estéticas del cine,” ASAECA, Córdoba, Argentina, May 2012.
“El cine argentino contemporáneo ante el espectador: modelos representacionales y tendencias
estéticas,” LASA, San Francisco, May 2012.
“Modos de la política en el cine argentino contemporáneo,” LASA, Montreal, Canada, September 2007.
“Urban Realism and Globalization in Contemporary Literature and Film,” LASA, San Juan, Puerto Rico,
March 2006.
“The New Historical Novel in Latin America,” NEMLA, Boston, March 2005.
“Voices of Third World Women,” NEMLA, Montreal, Canada, March 1996.
“Women Writers in Nineteenth-Century Argentina and Peru: Nationalism and Internationalism,” LASA,
Washington, D.C., September 1995.
PRESENTATIONS AT WIDENER UNIVERSITY
Gender and Women’s Studies Film Series, Spring 2015.
Coordinator, screening of Purgatorio (Rodrigo Reyes, 2014) and panel on the U.S.-Mexico Border,
January 2015.
Coordinator, A&S Diversity Forum on Feminist Practices and Pedagogies, March 2014.
“Acting, Stardom, and Performance: Ricardo Darín in White Elephant,” Humanities Colloquium,
February 2014.
Coordinator, A&S Diversity Forum on Intersecting Identities, November 2012.
“Cross-Cultural Experience Benefits of Studying Abroad,” International Week, November 2010.
Session Coordinator, “Students and Faculty in Argentina,” International Week, November 2010.
“International Service-Learning,” Bridge Week, May 2010.
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“Students with Asperger’s Disorder and the Transition to College,” with Dr. Geraldine Bloemker and
Jennifer Cullen, Bridge Week, May 2009.
“Civilization and Barbarism in Contemporary Argentine Cinema: The Case of El aura by Fabián
Bielinski,” Hispanic Heritage Month, September 2007.
Rosario Ferré, The House on the Lagoon, Book Club Discussion, Wolfgram Library, November 2006.
“Urban Realism in Contemporary Argentinian Cinema,” Humanities Colloquium, March 2006.
“Institutionalizing Academic Service-Learning,” with Dr. Kit Healey, February 2006.
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT
Participant, Literary Theory Seminar. Washington, D.C. (2013-present).
Participant, Program Administrators and Directors Workshop. National Women’s Studies Association
(NWSA), Cincinnati, 6 November 2013.
Participant, “Técnica e ideología: El lugar del espectador. La parte de la sombra,” seminar by Director
Jean-Louis Comolli. Alianza Francesa, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 18-19 October 2010. Participant, “Recent Trends in Latin American Cinema,” seminar by Professors Ernesto Livón-Grossman
(Boston College) and Ana María López (Tulane University). LASA, Toronto, Canada, 6 October
2010.
Participant, “Cines del norte, cines del sur,” seminar at the Universidad de Granada, Spain, June 2009.
SERVICE (WIDENER UNIVERSITY)
University
Ex-officio member, LGBT Task Force (2014-present)
Member, Faculty Council Executive Committee (2013-present)
Chair, Faculty Grants and Awards Committee (2013-present)
Strategic Plan GO Team – Dynamic Campus Community (2013-present)
A&S representative, Academic Computing Services Committee (2011-2012)
Honors in General Education Advisory Committee (2009-2011)
International Week Committee (2004-2006, 2010-2011); Co-Chair (2005-2006)
Search Committee, Assistant Dean for Student Life (2009)
Academic Community Service-Learning Committee (2007-2013)
Chair, International Service-Learning Sub-Committee (2007-2008)
A&S representative to Faculty Council (2005-2007)
Search Committee, Wellness Center Director (2005-2006)
Service-Learning Advisory Committee (2006-2007)
Modern Languages Representative to the Teacher Education Council (2005-2006, 2010)
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College of Arts and Sciences
Director, Program in Gender and Women’s Studies (2014-present)
Ex-officio member, Committee on Diversity (2014-present)
At-large representative, Gender and Women’s Studies Committee (2012-2014)
Humanities representative, Committee on Diversity (2009-2010, 2011-2014)
Academic Assessment and General Education Committee (Spring 2009)
Humanities representative, Promotion and Tenure Committee (2008-2009)
At-large representative, Curriculum and Planning Committee (2007-2009)
Humanities representative, Women’s Studies Committee (2005-2010)
Vice-Chair (Spring 2009)
Women’s History Month Subcommittee (2005-2007)
Pew Lecture Committee (2005-2010)
Co-Chair, Phi Beta Delta Advisory Committee (2006-2010)
Humanities Division
Promotion and Tenure Committee (2008-2009; 2011-2012); Secretary (2008-2009)
Michael Clark Prize Committee (2004-present)
Other Service to the University
Widener Day (November 2014)
Service-Learning Trip to Puebla, Mexico (January 2015)
Faculty Advisor, Triota (2014-present)
Judge, Student Essay Contest (2014)
Urban Excursion to Miami (Spring Break 2014; Spring Break 2015)
Engineers Without Borders Trip to Panama (Spring Break 2013)
Coordinator, Spanish Cinema Night (2010-2012)
Faculty Marshall (2009-2010, 2014)
Faculty Advisor, Latinos Unidos Club (2005-2010)
Library Acquisitions Committee, Humanities Liaison (2005-2012)
Organizer, Alternative Spring Break in Argentina (2008, 2009, 2010)
Presidential Service Corps trip to Bolivia (January 2007)
Study Abroad Advisor (2006-2007)
Alternative Spring Break in Arizona (2005)
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION AND OUTREACH ACTIVITIES
Presentation and screening of El cerrajero (Natalia Smirnoff, 2014); post-film discussion with the
director, American Film Institute’s Latin American Film Festival, Washington, DC, 5 October
2014). Sponsored by the Embassy of Argentina
Member, Electronic Publications Committee, ASAECA (2014-present)
Instructor, “Buenos Aires: Cinema of Survival” with Gary M. Kramer, Bryn Mawr Film Institute
(November 2014)
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Presentation, screening, and discussion of Elefante blanco (Pablo Trapero, 2012) with Gary M. Kramer,
International House, Philadelphia (September 2014)
Peer reviewer, Journal of Urban Cultural Studies (2014)
Spanish Language Advanced Placement Reading Table Leader (2014)
Editorial Board Member, Imagofagia (2014-present)
Secretary, LASA Film Studies Section (2012-2014)
Peer reviewer, Imagofagia (2011-2014)
Spanish Language Advanced Placement Reader (2006-2008; 2010-2013)
Jury member, “Domingo Di Núbila” Film Essay Contest (2013). Sponsored by Mar del Plata
International Film Festival, Argentina
Textbook Reviewer, Enfoques (Vista Higher Learning) (2013)
Member, Scientific Committee, ASAECA (2011-2012)
Peer Reviewer, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos (2011-2012)
Co-Chair, LASA Film Studies Section, with Dorian Lugo-Bertrán, University of Puerto Rico (20102012)
Peer Reviewer, Representing History, Class, and Gender in Spain and Latin America, ed. Carolina
Rocha and Georgia Seminet. New York: Palgrave, 2012
Peer Reviewer, Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies (2011)
Program Co-Chair, LASA Congress Film Studies Track with Laura Podalsky, Ohio State University
(2010)
Executive Committee Member, LASA Film Studies Section (2007-2010)
Peer Reviewer, New Trends in Latin American Cinema, ed. Cacilda Rego and Carolina Rocha. Bristol:
Intellect, 2010
Spanish Language Advanced Placement Course Auditor (2007-2008)
Peer Reviewer, CLC Web: Comparative Literature and Culture (2008)
Peer Reviewer, Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association (2008)
Peer Reviewer, College Literature (2006)
MEDIA
Interview by Roberto Vinces, WMFZ-Channel 69 News, “Edición en Español,” 10 November 2014.
Interview by Ana Gamboa, “Cine en la villa argentina.” Al Día News, 4 September 2014.
http://aldianews.com/articles/cultura/film-television/cine-en-la-villa-argentina/35455
Review by Steven Rea, “Argentine Masterpiece at I-House,” Philly.com, 3 September 2014.
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/onmovies/Argentine-masterpiece-at-I-House-and-new-NewWorld-Cinema-book.html
Interview by Michael Luongo, “New Book on Argentine Cinema,” about.com, June 2014.
http://goargentina.about.com/od/Culture-History-And-Language/fl/New-Book-On-ArgentineCinema.htm
COMMUNITY SERVICE
City to Shore Multiple Sclerosis Ride participant (2012, 2013, 2014)
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Chester Eastside Ministries Board member (2009)
Alternative Spring Break with Neumann College at Saint Joseph’s Mission School, San Fidel, NM
(2004)
Community Learning Center, Philadelphia, Outreach Committee member (2004)
WYBE Public Television Minority Affairs Consulting Board member (2002)
LANGUAGES
Spanish: Native
English: Near-native
German: Intermediate reading, speaking, and writing
Latin, French, and Portuguese: Reading knowledge
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
Asociación Argentina de Estudios de Cine y Audiovisual (ASAECA)
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