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Raquel Alfaro
Raquel Alfaro is in her third semester at the University of Pittsburgh. She earned her licenciatura
in Literature at Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in Bolivia. Her interests include 20th
Century Latin American Literature, as well as Andean Studies.
Alejandro Bruzual
Alejandro Bruzual expects to complete his PhD in Latin
American literature at the University of Pittsburgh in spring 2006.
Bruzual holds an MA from the University of Pittsburgh (2003) and a BA
from the Central University of Venezuela (1993). He also completed
“Guitar Studies” in Caracas (1985).
Bruzual has written and published two books of poetry
and six biographies about Venezuelan musicians. Additionally, his most
recent publication, The Guitar in Venezuela/A Concise History to the End of the 20th Century
(Quebec: Doberman-Yppan, 2005), was awarded an honorable mention by the
2001 Casa las Américas Musicology Awards. He has edited Objeto visual, Venezuela’s Cinemateca Nacional magazine (number 10, 2004), and he has served as co-editor of Osamayor,
the graduate magazine of the Department of Hispanic Languages and
Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh (2005). Both magazines have
dealt with Latin-American political cinema. Bruzual also edits Revista Iberoamericana (2006), the forthcoming publication about the relationship between music and literature.
Bruzual is currently working on his dissertation on
Latin-American avant-garde narratives under the guidance of Professor
Gerald Martin.
Alejandra Canedo
Alejandra Canedo received her licenciatura in Literature from the Universidad
Mayor de San Andrés, in La Paz, Bolivia.
Her main research interests relate to 20th-century
Latin American literature, especially topics regarding the realm of the
sacred. Currently, she is in her second
year at the University
of Pittsburgh.
Emily Cherné
Emily Cherné received
her BA in Spanish from Weber
State University
in Ogden, Utah,
where she was the Outstanding Arts and Humanities graduate (2002). Before
beginning her studies in Pittsburgh,
she served the beautiful town of Bluff,
Utah as an
AmeriCorps VISTA by writing grants for children and community programs.
She later taught English and attempted to learn Aymara on Isla Titicaca, Bolivia.
With interests in both Central and South America,
she has spent time in Mexico,
Guatemala,
Costa Rica,
Ecuador,
Peru,
and Bolivia.
Her current research includes memory, children's literature, education, as well
as postcolonial, Andean and indigenous studies.
Alessandra Chiriboga Holzheu
Alessandra Chiriboga received a
BA in Literature and Philosophy from the University Rafael Landívar in
Guatemala City, Guatemala. Her research
interests include 20th- century Latin American literature, Central
American vanguard literature, as well as Latin American cultural studies.
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Mauricio Duarte
Completed his undergraduate studies at the
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá and later received his MA from Arizona State
University where he worked on the
topic of Poetics of Teatro Libre in Colombia. His research focuses on Latin American
Literature and Clture, specifically interdisciplinary approaches to literature,
such as Aesthetics and Material Culture. In winter 2005, after his daughter
Abril was born and Ángela María received her Ph.D., they all moved to Pittsburgh. Currently he is enrolled in the PhD program at
University of Pittsburgh. “Liminal Aesthetics in Contemporary Latin
American Urban Narratives” is the title of one of his working papers.
Veronica Garibotto
Veronica Garibotto was awarded her BA from the
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Her main interests are 19th- and
20th-century Latin American literature and literary theory. She is
currently working on the re-reading of Southern Cone’s 19th
century and the rethinking of realism within a postdictatorial and
postnational framework.
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Antonio Gómez
Antonio Gómez (Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellow, 2005–06) is currently working on his PhD dissertation titled Latin American Exile Discourse: Extraterritoriality and Novel in Argentina and Cuba
(1970–). His interests also include the relationship between
legal discourse and cultural production, and the cinematic
representations of trauma in postdictatorial Argentina.
Aurelia Gómez
Aurelia Gómez is
currently working in her PhD dissertation entitled Narrativas marginales en
México 1968-1994. She received her BA in Hispanic Literature from the
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2000) with the thesis Revaloración del discurso utópico
americano en la nueva novela histórica, awarded with honors. She completed
her MA at the University
of Pittsburgh (2003). She
is interested in representation, marginality, social and resistance movements
in Latin American narratives.
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Carolina Gainza
Carolina Gainza received both her
BA in sociology and an MA in Latin American studies from the University of Chile
in 2006. She is currently in her first year of the Hispanic Languages and
Literatures Ph.D. program. Her research interests are related to the field of cultural studies, principally focused on
new technologies (Internet), sociocultural networks, social movements and
identities, as well as the relationship between literature and technology, as
found in the new narratives developed around the
hypertext. Her publications include Beyond the technology: the free software movement in Latin America (2007); The eternal search for
development. The information society and the technological fallacy
in Latin America
(2006); Actores sociales y sociedad de la información: ¿hacia una
sociedad sin sujetos? (2006); ¿Hacia el surgimiento de un
nuevo espacio de sentido identitario?. Los procesos de construcción identitaria
y las nuevas tecnologías de la comunicación y de la información en América
Latina
(2006); Dinámicas
de exclusión e inclusión en América Latina (2006, with Alejandra Botinelli and
Juan Pablo Iglesias); Identidad y globalización en Manuel
Castells: hacia una nueva articulación (2004).
Betina González
Betina González studied Social Communication at the University of Buenos Aires, where she also taught
Semiotics and Media Analysis for a few years. She worked as a research
assistant at the same institution on a group project about the history of
radio, the phonograph and records in Buenos
Aires (1900-1939).
She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University
of Texas at El Paso.
Her main area of interest is the representation of the social crisis in
contemporary Argentine literature and film.
Koichi
Hagimoto
Koichi
Hagimoto received his BA in Liberal Arts from Soka University of America
(2005). His research interests include
19th-century Latin American literature, the question of Nation and Race, Cuba,
Brazil,
postcolonial theory, and Latin American cultural studies.
Lizardo M Herrera
Lizardo M Herrera
received his Licenciatura in Latin
American History, in 2001, from the Pontifícia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
(PUCE, Quito) after defending his thesis,
Imagen y teatralidad: medios de control simbólico en la sociedad quiteña del siglo
XVII. He continued his studies at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, where
he received an MA in Cultural Studies in 2003, upon defending his thesis, Entre el Santo y el Rey: Los festejos
organizados en Quito por la canonización de San Raymundo de Peñafort en 1603.
He then came to the University of Pittsburgh, where he received a second
MA, in Hispanic Languages and Literatures in2005, and a year later a PhD
Certificate in Cultural Studies. During this time he was also the
intra-departmental student representative.
At present his interests include the representation of drugs, violence,
and marginality in Latin American literature and film (1990s and 2000s) and the
debate around the Baroque and Neo-baroque in Latin America.
Margarita Jara
Margarita Jara obtained a BA in Hispanic languages and
literatures with mention in Hispanic linguistics in the Pontificia
Universidad Católica del Perú Catholic. She has five
years of experience training bilingual indigenous teachers and doing
fieldwork in Peruvian Amazonian communities. In 1992 the Spanish
International Cooperation Agency awarded her a scholarship to study in
Madrid where she obtained the Diploma of Spanish Language and
Literature Teachers. She worked seven years as instructor and
coordinator of Spanish at the University of Lima. During this period
the University of Lima granted her a scholarship to complete the MA
course work in educational administration. In 2002 she received the MA
degree in Hispanic linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh.
Currently Margarita is a PhD candidate specializing in
Hispanic linguistics and pursuing the Certificate of Latin American
Studies. Her dissertation is on the use of the preterit and present
perfect in the Spanish of Lima. Her research interest is focused on the
areas of Latin American dialectology and sociolinguistics, social and
geographic varieties of Spanish, linguistic variation, language
attitudes, bilingualism, and languages in contact.
Mildred. F. Lopez
Mildred
F. Lopez graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú with a bachelor’s
degree in History. She obtained her M.A.
in History and Spanish Literature from the University of Connecticut
in 2005. While there, she organized the
round table “Andean Cinema,” as part of the VIII Encuentro de Cine
Latinoamericano, elcine (Lima-2004),
and was an Associate Coordinator of the VI Conference/Festival, Latin American
Theatre Today: Translation, Transgender and Transnationalism (Connecticut-2005).
Mildred is currently a second year PhD student and Teaching Fellow of
Intermediate Spanish. Most broadly, her academic interests include Andean migration,
music, performance, visual culture, representations, memory, violence and
postcolonial theory. Her dissertation will focus on modernity, tradition and the
production of new aesthetic forms in a context of violence. Her research
addresses these key questions: How, in a context of globalization/modernization,
can Andean urban migrants be affected in their re-configuration of the notion
of “self?” What frameworks and processes are involved in the production of their
aesthetic and knowledge? What are the challenges for postcolonial theory and its
re-negotiations in the study of the Andean area? She will discuss three types
of texts (literature, music and cinema), using an interdisciplinary approach. Mildred’s personal interests are social
movements, world music, theater, singing, Quechua language, foreign cinema, dance,
kickboxing, cooking and outdoor activities
Becky Klink
Becky Klink received her BA from the Indiana University of
Pennsylvania (2004) where she majored in both the English and Spanish Honors
programs. She was an international exchange student on 2 different occasions which
enabled her to study at La Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit (1999) and La Universidad de Las Americas (2002). She also participated in the National Student
Exchange program which provided her the opportunity to study at the California State
University at San Bernardino (2003).
Becky’s research interests include gender and queer theory,
national identity formation, race, and postcolonial theory. She is also interested in the socio-political
legitimization of violence and its relationship to gendered identities. She
expects to complete her MA in the spring of 2007. She also maintains the departmental website.
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Fernando Lanas
Fernando Lanas received his BA from the Universidad San
Francisco de Quito in Quito,
Ecuador, and
his MA in Monastic Studies from Saint Vincent Seminary. His current interests
include religious narrative in the Andes, and
contemporary Latin American political discourse.
Maricarmen León
Maricarmen
León tiene un bachillerato en Ciencias de la Comunicación y el grado de
licenciada en periodismo de la universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón.
Realizó periodismo de investigación en diferentes casos políticos y sociales en
el Perú. También elaboró y realizó
campañas de instrucción cívica a la población amazónica de su país como
parte de un programa integral educativo del poder judicial peruano. Actualmente, tiene cuatro años de experiencia
como instructora de español en la Universidad de Pittsburgh y se encuentra en
el segundo año del programa doctoral del departamento de literatura hispánica.
Su interés de estudio se perfila en narrativas postmodernas de encierro.
Magdalena López
Magdalena López has a BA in literature from the
Universidad Central de Venezuela and an MA in romance languages and
literatures from the University of Notre Dame. She works on topics
related to the problem of identity in cinema and literature,
particularly in the Caribbean region.
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Fabio López de la Roche
Fabio López de la Roche obtained a BA in History from the Patrice Lumumba
University in Moscow
(Russia)
in 1984. In 1993, he earned his
“Maestría en Análisis de Problemas Políticos e
Internacionales Contemporáneos” at the Universidad Externado de Colombia
in Bogotá. At present, López is a second-year graduate student in
Hispanic languages and literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently on leave from the Universidad
Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá, where he is Profesor Asociado in the Instituto
de Estudios Políticos y Relaciones Internacionales and coordinates the Research
Group on “Communication, Culture, and Politics.” He is a member of the team that, in 2005,
created the MA Program in Cultural Studies and also served as Director of the
Instituto de Estudios en Comunicación y Cultura (2002-2003).
López de la Roche has written many articles on twentieth
century Colombian political and cultural history. Since 1994, he has been working
in communication studies and media analysis, integrating interdisciplinary
perspectives from political science, communications and journalism to analyze
the cultural and political influence of media. His publications include Izquierdas y
cultura política. Oposición alternativa?, 1994; Cultura, medios y
sociedad (with Jesús Martín-Barbero), 1998; Modernidad
y sociedad política en Colombia, (with Eduardo Pizarro, Miguel Eduardo
Cárdenas, et al), 1993; Memoria, museo y nación. Misión de
los museos nacionales para los ciudadanos del futuro, (with Gonzalo Sánchez et al.), 2002;
"El periodismo: ese relegado objeto de
estudio y de debate ciudadano," in Diálogos de la Comunicación, 66 (Lima) 2003. He was also the guest editor for a
special issue of Historia Crítica (28 [Bogotá] 2004) that focused on the History of
Mass Media and Journalism in Colombia.
Aarti Madan
Aarti Madan originally hails from Chattanooga, Tennessee
and is a 2004 graduate of Birmingham-Southern
College, where she received
her BA in both English (creative writing) and Spanish. In addition to pursuing graduate certificates
in Latin American Studies and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh,
her research interests include the creative process, 20th-century
Latin American narrative and questions of identity, and postcolonial
theory. Aarti is expected to complete
her MA in the spring of 2007, at which point she would like to devote time to
her hobbies (live music, cooking, and travel) as well as to her dissertation
proposal.
Citlali Martínez
Citlali Martínez completed her BA in Visual
Arts at Brown University
(2002) with a focus on mixed media and installation, and has recently completed
her M.A. at the University
of Pittsburgh (2006). She
is currently in her third-year of the Hispanic Languages and Literatures Ph.D.
Program and completing certificates in Cultural Studies and Latin American
Studies. Her current interests include the politics and theory of translation,
performance and video art, issues in women’s writing, and ritual resistance
processes in art and literature.
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Luciano Martínez
Luciano Martínez earned a Profesor de Castellano
y Literatura from the Instituto San José in Argentina (1996). He
completed a Profesor en Letras at the National University of Mar del
Plata (1998), earning the dean’s Outstanding Graduate Award. In
2000 Luciana earned his Licenciatura en Letras and, once again, merited
the dean’s Outstanding Graduate Award. He was honored to receive
Academia Argentina de Letras national award, which is given to the most
outstanding graduating student of literature from among public and
private universities nationwide. In 2003 he obtained his Master of Arts
at the University of Pittsburgh.
His book, Miguel Briante, genealogía de un olvido, received numerous reviews in Spain, Argentina, and the United States.
In 2005 Luciano’s quality of teaching was singled
out for recognition with the University’s new Elizabeth Baranger
Excellence in Teaching Award, and he also received the Cole and Marty
Blasier Award for his contribution and constant support to the Center
for Latin American Studies (CLAS).
Currently he is an Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellow and
is working on his dissertation. The dissertation deals with sexual
marginalities in Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil (1970–2000) and
explores the changes and transformations in the representation of gays
and lesbians in the literatures of these countries.
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Maria del Pilar Melgarejo
Maria del Pilar
Melgarejo (Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellow, 2006-07) is currently working on her PhD dissertation,
"El lenguaje de la regeneración:
producción del discurso político en Colombia y México en el siglo XIX." Her research interests
include 19th-century Latin American literature, cultural theory, political
theory and philosophy of culture. María del Pilar holds an MA in Latin
American literature from the University of Pittsburgh (2003), and MA in philosophy from the
Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá (2002) and a BA in
communication from the same university. She has published articles on
topics such as nation, language and history.
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Gerardo Gómez Michel
Gerardo Gómez Michel received his BA from the
Universidad Autónoma de Baja California in Tijuana,
México, and his MA from the University of Salamanca in
Salamanca, Spain. His current interests include the relationship
between the Catholic Church and literary canon in México from
the colonial period to the 20th century.
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Gabriela Núñez
Gabriela Núñez obtained her B.A. in Philosophy at the
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and her Master’s degree in
Communications at the same university. Currently she is pursuing a second Master
of Arts degree in Hispanic Languages and Literatures while a Ph.D. candidate in
the Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh.
She received the Latin American Social and Public Fellowship (2005-2006) given
by the Center for Latin American Studies. Her interests are communication and education,
orality and literacy theories, Latin American cultural studies, media and culture
and Latin American melodrama.
Sarah Soanirina Ohmer
Sarah Soanirina Ohmer is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at the
University of Pittsburgh. She received her M.A. in
Spanish Literatures at the University
of Houston (2006), where
she also received her B.A. in Spanish and English Linguistics with Honors
(2004). Her main interests include Contemporary Mexican and U.S. Hispanic
Literature, Contemporary Latin American Cinema, border studies, U.S. third
world feminism and interdisciplinary studies. Her work focuses on the theme of
healing, the role of literature and cinema within the community and the
‘national’ imaginary, in terms of (de)colonizing the imagination.
Her thesis works include an undergraduate thesis entitled
“Juan Rulfo’s Glocal Serendity, From el Mas Alla, Jusqu’ici”, and an M.A.
thesis called “La función curativa de los textos literarios de Patricia Laurent
Kullick, Gloria Fuertes and Gloria Anzaldúa”.
She also acted in and directed one of many French plays with
Et Voila Theatre in Houston,
a non-profit organization that promotes the French language through the theatre
arts. www.etvoilatheatre.org
George Palacios
George Palacios received a MA in Foreign Languages and
Literatures (Spanish) from Purdue
University (2004). His
undergraduate studies extended across Philosophy, Spanish and English at Corporación
Universitaria Lasallista (2000) and Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (2002) in
Medellín, Colombia.
His research interests relate to Africa in the Americas, especially
the concepts of memory, identity, race and ethnicity in Afro-Hispanic
Literatures within the Caribbean and Colombian contexts.
Jung Won Park
Jungwon Park first became interested in Latin America while
studying in his country, Korea,
where he received his B.A. (1997) and M.A. (2002) in Hispanic Literature from Seoul National
University. His study of Latin America in comparative
perspective with Korea
dates to that time.
Last spring he defended his doctoral dissertation proposal on
border representations and imaginations, Imagining
Border(less)ness: Cosmopolitanism and Nation in the Periphery (Mexico and USA). He is currently carrying
out research in Tijuana, Mexico under the auspices of El
Colegio de la Frontera Norte.
His other interests include postcolonial South-South
connections, and post-dictatorship narratives in the Southern Cone.
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Rafael Ponce-Cordero
Rafael Ponce-Cordero is from Guayaquil, Ecuador
and is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Hispanic Languages and
Literatures. He received a B.A. in journalism (2000) and an M.A. in Latin
American history (2004) from the University
of Seville, where he carried out
research for his master’s thesis at the Archivo General de Indias. Most recently, in 2005, he received
his M.A. in Latin American literature and cultural studies with a minor
concentration in Peninsular literature from the University of Pittsburgh.
Ponce-Cordero has received a graduate certificate from the Center for Latin
American Studies and will soon finish the requirements for his Cultural Studies
graduate certificate. He has conducted research in Ecuador
and Spain, and plans to do
the same in Mexico
in the near future. Currently, Ponce-Cordero is co-editor of Osamayor, the department’s graduate
publication, for its forthcoming 2007 issue. His interests include 20th-century
Latin American narrative (especially boom and post-boom), Latin American
cultural studies (for example soap operas and popular music, among other
phenomena), and a variety of Latin American literary and theoretical debates (particularly
postcolonial and subaltern studies). At present, Ponce-Cordero is working on
his doctoral dissertation, which focuses on the figure of the popular hero in
Latin America and its treatment in literature and pop culture, and will include
real-life and fictional icons such as Julio Jaramillo, Daniel Santos, Santo el Enmascarado de Plata, Kalimán, El Chapulín Colorado, Ernesto Che
Guevara, Diego Armando Maradona, and the narcos
and guapos de barrio of narcocorrido
and reggaetón.
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Sebastian Reyes
Sebastian Reyes received his BA in sociology from the
Universidad Academia Humanismo Cristiano in Santiago, Chile. His
interests include the relationships between Latin American literature,
sexuality and gender studies. His prior research concentrated on the
history of the Chilean feminist movement. Currently his research
focuses on literature and queer studies and involves the works of such
authors as José Donoso, Luis Zapata, Juan Goytisolo, and Nestor
Perlongher.
Bernardo
Rocco
Bernardo
Rocco is in his first semester as a doctoral student at the University of
Pittsburgh, School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Hispanic Languages and
Literatures. He obtained a BA in Hispanic languages and literatures from the University of Chile
(2000) and an MA at Temple University, Philadelphia
(2006). His research interests include 20th and 21st century Latin American
literature, critical theory, and Latin American studies. He is also interested
in representation,
marginality, borderlands, and violence in Latin American narratives. He
recently published his first book of poetry, book Maquina (Peru,
2007).
Valerie Rodrigues
Valerie Rodrigues received her Associate
Degree (2002) in General Studies (English), and her BA in Spanish Literature (2005)
from the University of Guyana (South America). She lived for several years in
Venezuela, where she taught school at all levels. She has also taught Spanish language
at the secondary and university levels in Guyana. Her current scholarly interests are Hispanic
Literatures and Latin American Studies.
Rosario Rodríguez
Márquez
Rosario Rodríguez Márquez is on leave from at the
Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (Bolivia), where she is a professor
of Literature and an investigator at the Instituto de Estudios Bolivianos, while
she finishes her PhD studies. Previously
she received her licenciatura in
Literature at San Andrés, and both an MA in Hispanic Languages and Literatures
and a Graduate Certificate in Latin American Studies at Pitt. Together with Ricardo Kaliman and Guillermo
Marica, she founded JALLA (Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana), an
international congress that has met bi-annually since 1993 in different Latin
American countries. She has published
many articles about literature and culture, with an emphasis on cultural linkages.
Carolina Rueda
Carolina Rueda
received an MA in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the University of
Cincinnati in August 2007.
Previously, she
worked professionally in the fields of film and video. In 1999, while living in
San Francisco, she co-founded LatinEyes,
a television program that focuses on Latino culture in such a way as to break
down the stereotyped images of Hispanic people living in the US. LatinEyes received an Emmy Award for
Best Cultural TV Show in 2006 (San Francisco, California). Carolina has also participated in the
creation of several documentaries and films. She is co-producer of Visitas, a film directed by Venezuelan
director, Pedro Lange. In this production, she was in charge of the camera and
was editing operator. In 2006, Visitas
was exhibited at several international film festivals including the Festival
des Films du Monde (Montréal), the Internationale Filmfestival Freiburg (Switzerland), the Chicago Latino Film
Festival, the Festival de cine de Granada (Spain), and Cine Las Américas (Austin,
Texas).
At the doctoral
level Carolina is currently working on identifying and analyzing new
relationships between world cinema and Hispanic literature focusing on the link
connecting esthetics and socio-political content.
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Rubén Sánchez-Godoy
Ruben Sanchez-Godoy
holds a MA from the University of Pittsburgh (2006), a BA in Theology (1994),
and a BA in Philosophy (1991), both from the Javeriana University in Bogotá,
Colombia. From 1994 to 2004, he taught courses in Continental Philosophy,
Aesthetics, and XVII Century Thinking at both the Javeriana and the Universidad
de los Andes. He published several articles about these
themes, including “El cuerpo al interior de una ontología histórica de nosotros
mismos” (in Perspectivas sobre el cuerpo.
Madrid, UNED, 2001), “La locura en Spinoza” (in Cuadrante Phi, 2002), “El yo entre la regularización y la
singularidad” (in El cuerpo, fábrica del
yo. Bogotá, CEJA, 2005), and “Sometimiento y deformación en la obra de Luis
Caballero y Lorenzo Jaramillo” (in: El
cuerpo, fábrica del yo. Bogotá,
CEJA, 2005). Currently, he is working on XVII century Atlantic literature. His
is exploring the transformations of wit in Baroque thinking and their impact on
the constitution of later ethical and political discourse and practice.
Ignacio M. Sánchez-Prado
Ignacio M. Sánchez-Prado received his BA in
literature from the University of the Americas–Puebla in Mexico
and is currently working on his dissertation. He is the author of
El canon y sus formas (2002) and editor of the collections Alfonso Reyes y lose studios latinoamericanos (2004) and Nuevas perspectives de los estudios literarios y culturales latinoamericanos
(2005). He has published articles on topics such as pre-Columbian
studies, contemporary Mexican literature, the literary-cultural studies
debate, and film and Latin American narrative, which have appeared in
publications such as Hispanic Issues, Revista de literature mexicana contemporánea, Kipus, Quehacer and Chasqui.
He is currently working on issues of nation and occidentalism in
20th-century Mexico and in the “World Literature” debates.
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Leah Strobel
Leah Strobel received an MA in Foreign Language and
Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2004. During that time she focused her research on
women writers of the Southern Cone and themes of identity in post-colonial
literatures. While studying at UWM she
presented her work on Marta Traba and Luisa Valenzuela at the Tropos Conference
at Michigan State University
(2002), and a work on Rosario Castellanos at the National Women’s Studies
Association Conference (2004). She was
also granted a Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowship in 2003 in order to
study Portuguese at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison.
Leah is currently in the process of completing her Ph.D.
work at the University
of Pittsburgh. Her current research interests are race and
identity in twentieth-century women’s writing, with a focus on the Caribbean and Brazilian novel. She is also working on a certificate in
Women’s Studies and is serving as co-editor of Osamayor, the graduate student journal of the University of Pittsburgh
Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures.
Fernando Toledo
S.
Bachiller en
Literatura Hispánica por la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Ha
publicado artículos y entrevistas en revistas de crítica literaria peruanas.
Hasta Julio de 2006 fue editor de “Casa de Citas. Revista de Literatura”. Sus
intereses apuntan hacia las relaciones entre las guerras y la producción de
discursos sobre la nación en la narrativa peruana.
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Nicolas M. Vivalda
Nicolas M. Vivalda received his Profesor en Letras and
Licenciado en Letras from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario in
Argentina where he was a researcher at the Centro de Teoria y Critica
Literaria (UNR). Vivalda received his MA from the University of
Pittsburgh (2003). He is currently a PhD candidate writing his
dissertation on the concept of “engaño a los
sentidos” in Spanish baroque literature. He is currently studying
the aesthetic idea of perception in 17th-century Spanish literature
(Cervantes, Gracián, Alemán, Calderón, etc.) from
an epistemological perspective. He is also exploring early modern
Hispanic topics from a transatlantic point of view.
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Jorge Zavaleta
Jorge Zavaleta is in
his second year in the department. His
specific interests include the relationships between film and literature in
works such as those of Manuel Puig. He
is also interested in the novels of the “boom” in their diverse manifestations
and themes, and the influence of audiovisual media in the definition of a new
and surprising popular culture in the face of globalization.
He received a BA in linguistics
and literature from the Pontifícia Universidad Católica del Perú. He has studied journalism, film, publicity
and political analysis at different institutions, including IDEA in Caracas. He has published essays and articles in the
principal newspapers and specialized journals of Lima, as well as in Latin American
publications (Letralia, Proyecto, Patrimonio, Sustancia de
Locura).
He has also worked for
the news agencies Notimex (Mexcio) and DPA (Germany). He has authored a novel, Católicas (Jaime Campodónico Editor, 1998), and an essay. El cine en el Perú” ¿La luz al final del túnel?, included in Literatura peruana hoy: crisis y creación (Catholic University of Eichstätt, Germany).
Mariana C. Zinni
Mariana C. Zinni has a Profesorado en Letras (1999)
and a Licenciatura en Letras (2001) from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario in
Argentina where she was a researcher at the Centro de Teoría y Crítica
Literaria (UNR). She
received her MA from the University
of Pittsburgh (2003) and successfully
defended her PhD proposal (2005). She is
currently is writing her dissertation on Latin American colonial literary
topics. She is interested in problems of mimesis and narration in early
American chronicles and Historias de Indias, especially in authors such
as Christopher Columbus, Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo, Bernardino de Sahagún,
etc. She is focusing her investigation on the imaginary process of invention
and constitution of the New World
Ms. Zinni won
the 2006-2007 Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship, but she resigned the award
to take a visiting professorship at Vassar
College where she is
currently teaching and working on her dissertation.
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