Curriculum Vitae - University of Minnesota

Employment
Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo – Curriculum Vitae
Current: Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota 2008-present
Previous: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Virginia Tech, 2005-08
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Puerto Rican/Latin American Studies, John Jay
College, CUNY, 2003-05
Instructor, Social Thought and Political Economy Program, University of Massachusetts at
Amherst, 1999-2003
Education: Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Political Science), May 2004
B. A. Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras (Political Science, Magna Cum Laude), May
1997
Books
• Scenes of Responsibility: Responding to Power and Suffering in a Post-Political Age (Under
Review)
Journal Articles (Refereed)
• Vázquez-Arroyo, Antonio Y., “Democracy Today: Four Maxims,” Theory and Event
13:2 (June 2010)
• Vázquez-Arroyo, Antonio Y., “Minima Humana: Adorno, Exile, and the Dialectic,”
Telos 149 (Winter 2009): 105-125
• Vázquez-Arroyo, Antonio Y., “Universal History Disavowed: On Critical Theory
and Postcolonialism,” Postcolonial Studies 11: 4 (December 2008): 451-473
• Vázquez-Arroyo, Antonio Y., “Liberal Democracy and Neoliberalism: A Critical
Juxtaposition,” New Political Science 30: 2 (June 2008): 127-159
• Vázquez-Arroyo, Antonio Y., “Responsibility, Violence, and Catastrophe,”
Constellations 15:1 (March 2008): 98-125
• Vázquez-Arroyo, Antonio Y., “Re-cognizing Recognition: A Commentary on
Patchen Markell’s Bound by Recognition,” Polity 38:1 (January 2006): 4-12
• Vázquez-Arroyo, Antonio Y., “El nuevo imperialismo norteamericano,” Historia y
Sociedad 25 (2004): 85-107
• Vázquez-Arroyo, Antonio Y., “Agonized Liberalism: The Liberal Theory of William
E. Connolly,” Radical Philosophy 127 (September/October 2004): 8-19
Book Chapters
• Vázquez-Arroyo, Antonio Y., “La dialéctica de la catástrofe y la ‘catastrofización’ de
la política” Antropolítica, ed. Monica Espinosa Arango and Alex Betancourt-Serrano
(Bogotá: Editorial de la Universidad de los Andes, Forthcoming 2011)
Review Essays
• Vázquez-Arroyo, Antonio Y., “Inverted Totalitarianism,” Telos (Forthcoming 2011)
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• Vázquez-Arroyo, Antonio Y., “Utopia: A Critical Archaism or an Ideological
Anachronism?,” Political Theory 36:2 (April 2008): 321-332
• Vázquez-Arroyo, Antonio Y., “Agamben, Derrida, and the Genres of Political
Theory,” Theory & Event 8:1 (2005)
• Vázquez-Arroyo, Antonio Y., “Recasting the Left at the End of History,” Polity 34:3
(Summer 2002): 553-569
Work in Progress
• Shadows of Catastrophe (book project)
• Universal History and Political Forms (book project)
• “Wayward Dialectics, or, Fredric Jameson and the Dialectical Legacy” (essay under
review)
• “How Not to Learn from Catastrophe” (essay under review)
• “‘Swallows and Bats’: Franquismo, Fascism, and Counterrevolution” (essay
manuscript, in progress)
• “Undisciplined Political Theory” (essay manuscript, in progress)
Invited Paper Presentations
• “Power, Freedom, and Political Forms,” Sponsored by the conference Freedom and
Democracy in an Imperial Context: Dialogues with James Tully, Department of
Political Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, May 27-29, 2010.
• “Unseen Catastrophes: Capitalism and Colonialism as Non-Events,” Sponsored by
the Political Theory Seminar in the Department of Political Science, New School for
Social Research, NY, May 4, 2010.
• “La dialéctica de la catástrofe y la “catástrofización” de la política,” Rutas de Poder,
Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, November 13-14, 2008.
• “Democratic Responsibility as Fidelity.” Sponsored by the Department of Political
Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA, April 20, 2007.
• “Slavery: Modernity’s Root Metaphor?” Sponsored by the Department of History,
Pomona College, CA, April 10, 2007.
• “Universal History Disavowed: On Critical Theory and Postcolonialism.” Sponsored
by the Political Theory Workshop, Department of Political Science, University of
Virginia, VA, February 23, 2007.
• “Hannah Arendt y la responsabilidad política.” Sponsored by Departamento de
Ciencias Sociales and Centro de Estudios Iberoamericanos, Universidad de Puerto
Rico, Arecibo, Puerto Rico, March 9, 2006.
• “La responsabilidad ante la catástrofe en el siglo XX” Sponsored by Departamento
de Historia, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, March 8, 2006.
• “Recasting the Idea of Universal History,” Sponsored by the Departments of History
and Politics, Ithaca College, NY, April 29, 2003.
Teaching
University of Minnesota
• Undergraduate courses: POL 1201: Political Ideas and Ideologies (Fall 2009, Fall
2010); POL 3251: Ancient and Medieval Political Thought (Fall 2009, Fall 2011);
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POL 4010: Totalitarianism and the Idea of Total Power (Fall 2008); POL 4210:
Catastrophes, Crises and Political Life (Spring 2011); POL 4253: Late Modern
Political Thought (Spring 2011).
• Graduate courses: POL 8201: Understanding Political Theory (Fall 2008); POL 8060:
Research Proseminar in Political Theory; POL 8260: Enlightenment, Catastrophe,
and Memory (Spring 2009); POL 8260: The Dialectical Legacy (Fall 2010); POL
8990: Directed Study in Critical Theory (Fall 2009); POL 8990: Directed Study on
Hegel’s Science of Logic (2009-10)
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