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Federico Fridman
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Hispanic Studies
University of California, Riverside
[email protected]
Education
2009-2014
Ph.D. Romance Studies. Cornell University. Dissertation title: “Secret
Societies in Latin American Literature: Positioning the Intellectual Elite”.
Chair of committee: Professor Bruno Bosteels.
2011
Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Seminar: "Theories of the Subject"
conducted by Professor Bruno Bosteels. (May-June, 2011).
2007-2009
M.A. Romance Studies. Cornell University.
2006
School of Criticism and Theory. Course attended: “On Creaturely Life”
conducted by Professor Eric Santner. (June-July, 2006).
1998-2004
Licenciatura (B.A.) in Political Science. University of Buenos Aires,
Argentina.
Employment
2015-pres.
Visiting Assistant Professor. Department of Hispanic Studies. University
of California, Riverside.
2014-2015
Visiting Lecturer of Spanish. Department of Romance Studies. Cornell
University.
Publications
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
“The Impolitical Dimension in Jorge Luis Borges’ Literature: A Gaze on the Impossible for
Politics through Roberto Esposito’s thought,” in Exploring the Political Thought of
Roberto Esposito. Eds. Antonio Calcagno and Inna Viriasova (forthcoming).
“Deciphering Macedonio Fernández’ project to found an alternative community in Museo de la
Novela de la Eterna (Primera novela buena),” in Alternative Communities in
Contemporary Latin American and Iberian Literature. Eds. Luis H. Castañeda and Javier
González. U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (forthcoming, 2016).
“José Martí entre dos crónicas: Presiones editoriales y la autonomía relativa de la producción del
escritor modernista.” Revista Literaturas Modernas. Mendoza, Argentina: Instituto de
Literaturas Modernas, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo,
2014. Vol. 44, N° 2, 91‐122.
“Derivas de Poeta Ciego de Mario Bellatín,” in Salón de anomalías. Diez lecturas críticas
acerca de la obra de Mario Bellatín. Ed. Salvador Luis Raggio. Lima: Ediciones Altazor,
2013, 193-209.
“Mind the Gap. La tragedia entre Marx, Hegel y Nietzsche.” Zettel. Arte y Ciencias Sociales,
Buenos Aires, 2005, 99-111.
Book Reviews
Comunidades efímeras. Grupos de vanguardia y neovanguardia en la novela hispanoamericana
del siglo XX by Luis H. Castañeda. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, (October 2016).
Palacio Quemado by Edmundo Paz Soldán. Nuestra América, 7 (Ago - Dic 2009): 290-293.
Conferences
“Buenos Aires: Myth, Fate, and Fiction.” Annual Meeting of the Northeast Modern Language
Association. Ryerson University. Toronto, Ontario (April 30—May 3, 2015).
“Political militancy, processes of subjectivation, and lines of fracture.” Annual Meeting of the
American Comparative Literature Association. New York University, New York (March
20–23, 2014).
“Avant-gardists and Conspirators: War Machines in the Río de la Plata”. Sixth International
Deleuze Studies Conference. University of Lisbon, Portugal (July 10-13, 2013).
“‘Visión de Anáhuac (1519)’: Rediscovering America.” XVIII Annual Juan Bruce-Novoa
Mexican Conference. University of California-Irvine (April 25-27, 2013).
“Becoming and History: Problematizing Gilles Deleuze’s and Felix Guattari’s Philosophy.”
Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association. Toronto
University, Canada. (April 4-7, 2013).
“Historia y violencia en la nueva narrativa latinoamericana.” Graduate students’ conference:
“Reflections on Violence.” Texas A&M University, College Station (March 22-23,
2013).
“The Newness and Actuality of Dispositifs.” Fifth International Deleuze Studies Conference.
Tulane University, New Orleans (June 25-27, 2012).
“Secret Communities in Latin American Literature: Positioning the Intellectual Elite.” Annual
Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association. Brown University,
Providence (March 29–April 1, 2012).
“Sade in Roberto Bolaño’s work: A Hurricane of Evil.” Graduate students’ conference: “Political
Dreams and Nightmares in Iberian and Latin American Literatures.” The University of
Chicago (April 15-16, 2011).
“Provincia de Buenos Aires: Un umbral a la luz de las últimas elecciones presidenciales.”
Identity, Territory and Social Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean. SyracuseCornell Conference 28-29. (Feb. 28-29, 2008).
Panel Chair
“Experience and Modern Literature.” Fifth International Deleuze Studies Conference, Tulane
University, New Orleans (June 25-27, 2012).
“Trends in Contemporary Latin American Writing.” Latin American / Latino Voices for the New
Century, Cornell University, Ithaca (Sept. 23-24).
Fellowships and Grants
Fall 2012
Provost’s Diversity Fellowship. Cornell University,
2012
Sage Fellowship. Cornell University.
Summer 2011
Travel Research Grant. Cornell University. Research conducted in France.
2010
The Institute for Comparative Modernities. Graduate Reading Group
Grant. Subject: “Reading Late Capitalism in Latin America.” Cornell
University, 2010.
2007
Sage Fellowship. Cornell University.
2006
Tuition scholarship for “The School of Criticism and Theory" at Cornell
University.
Teaching Experience
UC Riverside
Fall 2015
Visiting Assistant Professor. Voyages through Latin America: a Cultural
and Literary Vision.
Visiting Assistant Professor. Introduction to Literary Criticism and
Analysis. UC Riverside.
Cornell University
Spring 2015
Visiting Lecturer. Advanced Spanish Writing and Conversation Course.
Fall 2014
Visiting Lecturer. Spanish Intermediate-Advanced Composition and
Conversation I.
Spring 2014
Teaching Assistant. Survey literature course: 19th and 20th century Spanish
Peninsular Literature.
Fall 2013
Teaching Assistant. Foreign Language Across the Curriculum: Discussion
session in Spanish for students taking the course “Modern Mexico: A
Global History” conducted by Professor Raymond Craib from History
Department.
Teaching Assistant. Spanish Intermediate-Advanced Composition and
Conversation I.
Spring 2013
Teaching Assistant. Spanish Intermediate-Advanced Composition and
Conversation II.
Spring 2011
Teaching Assistant. Spanish Intermediate-Advanced Composition and
Conversation I.
Fall 2010
Teaching Assistant. Advanced Spanish Writing and Conversation Course.
Spring 2010
Teaching Assistant. Survey literature course: The Tradition of Rupture.
19th and 20th Century Latin American Writing.
Fall 2009
Teaching Assistant. Spanish Intermediate-Advanced Composition and
Conversation I.
Spring 2009
Teaching Assistant. Spanish Intermediate-Advanced Composition and
Conversation I.
Fall 2008
Teaching Assistant. Spanish Beginning-Intermediate Level.
Cornell University Program at Auburn Correctional Facility
Fall 2008
Teaching Assistant. Survey literature course: Latin American Science
Fiction: Invention and Representation.
University of Buenos Aires
2005-2006
Teaching Assistant. State Theory. Law School.
2004-2007
Teaching Assistant. The State and the Law in the Postmodern Era. Political
Science program.
Teaching Assistant. Virtual Politics. Political Science program. University
of Buenos Aires.
University of Buenos Aires Program at Devoto Federal Prison
2005-2006
Teaching Assistant. State Theory. Law School.
Languages
English: near native fluency.
French: good reading knowledge.
Italian: intermediate.
Portuguese: good reading knowledge.
Spanish: native speaker.
Professional Memberships
The American Comparative Literature Association
Member: 2012, 2013, and 2015.
The Latin American Studies Association
Member: 2015.
North East Modern Language Association
Member: 2015.
Research and Teaching Interests
Latin American Literature (emphasis on Mexico and Argentina); 20th century Peninsular
Literature; Trans-Atlantic Studies; Literary Theory; Visual Studies; Political Theory; European
Continental Philosophy; History of Ideas; Critical Theory.