Freya Schiwy Curriculum Vitae Professional ... - Hispanic Studies

Freya Schiwy
Assistant Professor of Latin American Media and Cultural Studies
Media and Cultural Studies Department
Collaborating Faculty Hispanic Studies Department
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
Tel.: (951) 827 1468 / e-mail: freyasch@ucr.edu
Professional Experience
Curriculum Vitae
Assistant Professor, University of California, Riverside, July 2004 - present
Vice-Chair Latin American Studies Program, UCR July 2007- June 2009
Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut, August 2002-June 2004
Graduate Student Instructor, Duke University, August 1997 – May 2002
Education
Ph.D Department of Romance Studies, Duke University. “Reframing
Knowledge: Indigenous Video, Gender Imaginaries, and Colonial
Legacies.” Director: Walter Mignolo. (2002). Specialization in
contemporary Latin American literature, culture, and media.
Graduate Certificates in Women’s Studies, Latin American Cultural Studies,
and Latin American Studies, Duke University
M.A. in Romance Philology (Spanish), Institut für Romanische Philologie,
J.W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany. “Aspekte feministischer
Theoriebildung in Lateinamerika: ‘Feminismo’ und ‘feminismo popular’
unter dem Vorzeichen der Postmoderne.” Director: Birgit Scharlau. (1994).
Abitur Immanuel Kant-Schule-Gymnasium, Rüssselsheim, Germany, 1984
Honors and Awards
• University of California Regents Fellowship for 2009-10 “Broadcasting
Dissent” ($ 9,500)
• Center For Ideas and Society Fall Quarter Resident Fellowship,
“Digital Media, Cultural Production and Speculative Capitalism.”
Fall 2005.
• Co-recipient of University of Connecticut Humanities Institute
Interdisciplinary Working Group Award: “Biopolitics, Culture, and
Globalization.” $ 1,500. Awarded Spring 2003.

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• Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies Tinker Mellon Travel
Grant. Two-week research abroad in Ecuador. $ 800. Summer
2001
• Graduate School Award for International Research. Three-month
research in Bolivia; one-month research in Colombia. $ 1,200. Year
1999/2000.
• Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) One-Year Fellowship.
$10,000 stipend plus tuition and fees. Year 1999/2000
• Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies Tinker Mellon Travel
Grant. One-month research abroad in Bolivia. $ 800. Summer
1999.
• Ernestine Friedl Research Award: “The Image of Gender: Media
Technology, Feminisms, and the Construction of Indigenous
Subjectivity in Late 20 th Century Bolivia.” One-month research in
Bolivia. $ 1,000. Summer 1999.
• Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies Ford Foundation
Grant: “The Image of Gender: Media Technology, Gender and the
Construction of Indigenous Identities in Peruvian Social
Movements.” One-month research in Peru. $ 2,500. Summer 1999.
• Department of Education/Latin American Studies Center Summer
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship. Eight-week
intensive Quechua language training at UCLA. $ 3,620. Summer
1998.
• Duke Council on Latin American Studies and Graduate School of
Duke University Latin American Studies Graduate Fellowship. Tuition
and fees for the first three years of graduate studies plus a stipend
of $ 10,000 for the first year. Awarded 1996.
Language Proficiency
German (native speaker), English (near native proficiency), Spanish
(near native proficiency), Portuguese (reading proficiency), French
(reading proficiency), Quechua (intermediate reading proficiency)
Publications
Monographs:
• Indianizing Film: Decolonization, the Andes, and the Question of
Technology. Newark, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2009. (282
pages).
Edited volumes and special journal issues:

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• Digital Media, Cultural Production and Speculative Capitalism.
Special Issue of Social Identities. Journal for the Study of Race,
Nation and Culture 15.3 (2009). Edited and introduced with
Alessandro Fornazzari and Susan Antebi (Collection of 8 essays and
an introduction).
• Indisciplinar las ciencias sociales. Geopolíticas del conocimiento y
colonialidad del poder. Perspectivas Andinas. Introduced and
edited with Catherine Walsh and Santiago Castro-Gómez. Quito:
Duke (Global Studies and the Humanities), UASB, Abya-Yala,
(August) 2002. Pp. 247.
• Knowledges and the Known. Dossier of 3 articles. Edited and
introduced with Mike Ennis. Nepantla. Views from South 3.1 (2001):
1-97.
Articles and book chapters:
Submitted for publication:
• “Decolonizing the Technologies of Knowledge. Video and
Indigenous Epistemology” Transl. Dalida Maria Benfield, Tara Daly,
and Freya Schiwy. Worlds and Knowledges Otherwise. A Web
Dossier 3.1 (2009). http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/wko/index.php.
Originally published as “Descolonizar las tecnologías del
conocimiento.” In Walsh, C., Ed. Estudios Culturales
Latinoamericanos retos desde y sobre la region andina. Ecuador,
UASB: 2003. 304 – 313.
• “La distribución del cine y productos audiovisuales
latinoamericanos en los Estados Unidos.” With Toby Miller.
Producción, Coproducción, Distribución y Exhibición del Cine
Latinoamericano en América Latina y Otras Regiones. Ed. Octavio
Getino y Nora de Izcue. 25 pages typescript. Submitted 11/25/2008.
• “’Todos Somos Presidentes/We Are All Presidents.’ Bolivia and the
Question of the State.” Left Turns. Eds. Eric Hershberg, Maxwell A.
Cameron, John Beasley-Murray. 31 pages typescript. Submitted
08/31/2008.
• “Prácticas mediales indígenas. La cuestión de la marginalidad en
la época multicultural.” Miradas al margen: Cine y Subalternidad
en América Latina y el Caribe. Ed. Luis Dunno-Gottberg. Caracas.
Submitted 08/15/2007. 30 pages typescript. Accepted 08/30/2007.

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Journal articles published:
• “Digital Ghosts, Global Capitalism, and Social Change.” Social
Identities. The Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture
15.3 (2009). XXX. Peer reviewed.
• “Digital Media, Cultural Production and Speculative Capitalism.
Special Issue of Social Identities.” With Alessandro Fornazzari and
Susan Antebi. Introduction to a guest edited edition of Social
Identities. The Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture.
15.3 (2009). XXX. Peer reviewed.
• “Double Translation: Transculturation and the Colonial Difference”
with Walter Mignolo. Originally published in Translation and
Ethnography: The Anthropological Challenge of Intercultural
Understanding, ed. Leland M. Searles. University of Arizona Press,
2003. 3-30. Reprinted in Revista IC (Departamento de Periodismo.
Universidad de Sevilla) 4 (2007): 6-28. Available online
• “Indigenous Media and the End of the Lettered City.” Journal of
Latin American Cultural Studies. 17.1 (2008): 23 - 40. Peer reviewed.
• “Decolonization and the Question of Subjectivity: Gender, Race,
and Binary Thinking.” Cultural Studies 21.2-3 (2007): 271-94. Peer
reviewed.
• “La Otra Mirada: Video Indígena y Descolonización.” Miradas.
Revista del audiovisual 8 (2005). On-line journal.
http://www.miradas.eictv.co.cu/index.php (23 pages typescript).
• “Decolonizing the Frame: Indigenous Video in the Andes.”
Framework 44.1 (2003): 116-132. Peer reviewed.
• "Introduction: Knowledges and the Known: Andean Perspectives on
Capitalism and Epistemology" with Michael Ennis. Nepantla. Views
from South 3.1 (2002): 1-14. Peer reviewed.
• "Santa Rosa, the Contested Saint. An exploration of an early
attempt at constructing national hegemony in Peru." Journal of
Latin American Cultural Studies 8(1), June 1999: 49-62. Peer
reviewed.

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Book chapters published:
• “Contra la mirada colonial: algunos apuntes sobre género sexual,
video digital, y comunicación indígena.” In Hofmann, Sabine (ed.):
Más allá de la nación. Medios, espacios comunicativos y nuevas
comunidades imaginadas. Berlin: Editorial Tranvía, August 2008. 109-
122.
• “Film, Indigenous Video, and the Visual Economy of the Lettered
City”. Blackwell Companion to Latin American Literature and
Culture, ed. Sara Castro-Klaren. March, 2008. 647-664.
• “Nayrapacha: Medios Indígenas y Tiempo Cinematográfico.”
Inszenierungen von Entdeckung und Eroberung im Film. Eds. Monika
Wehrheim and Ute Fendler. München: Martin Meidenbauer, 2007.
135-54.
• “’No queremos ser un capítulo en tu libro’: Notas sobre
heterogeneidad, colonialidad y zonas refractarias.” No Pudieron
con Nosotras: El desafío del feminismo autónomo de Mujeres
Creando. Ed. Elizabeth Monasterios, prologue John Beverley.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh and La Paz: Plural, 2006. 173-205.
• “Descolonizando el encuadre: video indígena en los Andes”
(Des)Colonialidad del ser y del saber (Videos indígenas y los límites
coloniales de la izquierda) en Bolivia. Cuaderno 1. Freya Schiwy
and Nelson Maldonado Torres. Intro. Walter Mignolo. Colección: El
Desprendimiento: Pensamiento Crítico y Giro Descolonial. General
Intro. Walter Mignolo. Translation of “Decolonizing the Frame.”
Framework 44.1 (2003) 116-32. Buenos Aires: Ediciones del Signo and
Globalization and the Humanities Project (Duke University), 2006.
31-61.
• “Entre Multiculturalidad e Interculturalidad: Video indígena y la
descolonización del pensar. “ Construcción y poética del
imaginario boliviano, ed. Josefa Salmón. La Paz: Plural, January
2005. 127-147.
• “Das Ende der Ciudad Letrada: Zum Denken Lateinamerikas in
indianischen Videos.” In Lateinamerika: Orte und Ordnungen des
Wissens. Festschrift für Birgit Scharlau, ed. Sabine Hofman, Tübingen:
Gunter Narr Verlag, 2004. 243-259.
• “Descolonizar las tecnologías del conocimiento: video y
epistémología indígena.” In Memorias del I Encuentro Internacional

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Sobre Estudios Culturales Latinoamericanos: Retos Desde y Sobre la
Región Andina, Quito 13-15 de Junio, 2001. Quito: UASB, 2003. 303-
113.
• “Double Translation: Transculturation and the Colonial Difference”
with Walter Mignolo. In Translation and Ethnography: The
Anthropological Challenge of Intercultural Understanding, ed.Tullio
Maranhão and Bernhardt Streck. University of Arizona Press, 2003.
3-30.
• “Intelectuales Subalternos Notas sobre las dificultades de pensar
un diálogo intercultural.” (In)disciplinar las ciencias sociales. Eds.
Catherine Walsh, Freya Schiwy and Santiago Castro-Gómez. Quito:
Abya-Yala, 2002. 101-134.
• "Translation/Transculturation and the Colonial Difference" with
Walter Mignolo. Beyond Dichotomies. Histories, Identities, Cultures,
and the Challenge of Globalization. Ed. Elizabeth Boyi. Series
Exploration in Postcolonial Studies. Syracuse: SUNY Press, 2002. 251-
286.
• "Ecoturismo, mujeres indígenas y globalización: rearticulaciones de
la naturaleza en este fin de siglo." La naturaleza en disputa.
Retóricas del cuerpo y el paisaje en América Latina. Ed. Gabriela
Nouzeilles. Buenos Aires: Paidós, 2002. 203-234.
• "Camerógrafos indígenas, ecoturistas y la naturaleza. El papel del
género sexual en las geopolíticas del conocimiento." La
Reestructuración de las ciencias sociales en América Latina.
Colección Pensar. Ed. Santiago Castro-Gómez. Bogotá: CEJA,
2000. 263-283.
• "Discovery and the Construction of Gender in the Amazon." Inroads:
Women and Gender Across the Academic Landscape, proc.
Seventh Annual Women's Studies Graduate Research Conference,
Duke University, Jan. 31- Feb. 1, 1997:11-16.
Review Articles:
Submitted
• Book review. Joanne Hershfield. Imagining La Chica Moderna:
Women, Nation, and Visual Culture in Mexico, 1917-1936. Durham:
Duke UP, 2008. by Freya Schiwy. Bulletin of Latin American Research.
3 pages typescript. Submitted Jan 24, 2009.

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Other:
• Translation into English of Call for Submissions – 9 th International
Indigenous Film and Video Festival, Bolivia September 11-20, 2008. 5
pages typescript. Submitted Dec. 13, 2007. Posted on webpages
www.plandecomunicacionindigena.org and www.clacpi.org
• Translation into English of IX International Film and Video Festival of
the Indigenous Peoples Registration Form. 7 pages typescript.
Submitted January 07, 2008. Posted on webpages
www.plandecomunicacionindigena.org and www.clacpi.org
• English subtitles for the fiction short Cocanchej Sutimpy/En Nombre
de Nuestra Coca/In the Name of Our Coca. Bolivia 2006, Prod.
CEFREC/CAIB (Quechua and Spanish). November 10, 2006
(Translation and Transcription, 27 pages typescript.)
• English subtitles for the fiction short Venciendo el
Miedo/Overcoming Fear. Bolivia 2005, Prod. CEFREC/CAIB
(Quechua and Spanish). September, 20, 2006. (Translation and
Transcription, 28 pages typescript.)
• Translation into English of “Communication Strategies and
Indigenous Rights. Report on the Indigenous Aboriginal National
Plan for Audiovisual Communication, 2000-2004” (A report by
CEFREC for funding agencies). Submitted September 2005.
• “Project: Systematizing and Making Accessible a Visual Archive on
Indigenous Peoples’ Rights (December 2000 – October 2001)*Ref.
WW0666601/Sephis/res/062/00.” (A report by CEFREC for SEPHIS).
Submitted January 2002.
• Audiotranscript. Interview with indigenous videomakers Julia
Mosúa, Alfredo Copa, and Marcelino Pinto by Daniel Flores. May
2000. 40 pages typescript. Selection published as “Bolivian Links” in
Bomb 2000/2001. 31-33.
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Invited Lectures
• “Frida. Naturaleza Viva” and “La Cinta que envuelve una bomba.”
Introduction to two films about Frida Kahlo. Riverside, Public Library,
May 8, 2007.
• “A Response to Emory Elliot.” Roundtable on Transnational Studies,
University of California, Riverside. April 12, 2007.
• “NayraPacha: Indigenous Media, Memory, and Cinematic Time.”
School of Critical Studies at CalArts. 2 nd Annual Series on Film and
Social Criticism in Latin America: “Crossings: Borders and Memory in
the Americas. CalArts REDCAT, Los Angeles. February 24-26, 2006.
Invited Speaker.
• “Motivational address” MUJERES UNIDAS. Riverside, July 2005.

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• Presenter and discussant of “El Abrazo Partido/The Broken
Embrace” (dir. Daniel Burman, 2004). VI Latin American Film
Festival, University of California, Irvine, May 7, 2005.
• “Indigenous Video and the Technologies of Knowledge: Translation,
Transculturation, Indianization.” Georgetown University, April 30,
2004.
• “Reframing Knowledge. Video and the Decolonization of the
Mind.” Florida Atlantic University, March 31, 2004.
• “Indigenous Video and the Technologies of Knowledge: Translation,
Transculturation, Indianization.“ Duke University, March 29, 2004.
• "Technologies of Knowledge: The Use of Video in Indigenous
Epistemic Politics." Symposium on Andean Film, Tulane University,
March 26, 2001.
• "¿Intelectuales Subalternos Globalización, movimientos andinos y
producciones audiovisuales." Coloquio del Taller Intercultural de la
Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Sede Ecuador (Quito, Ecuador),
May 2000.
• "¿Intelectuales Subalternos Globalización, video y movimientos
andinos." Instituto Pensar, Universidad La Javeriana (Bogotá,
Colombia), April 2000.
Conferences and Professional Meetings
2008/2009:
• “Occupation and Indigenous Media.” Faculty Workshop Meeting of
UC MRG “Subaltern and the Popular.” Santa Barbara, April 25-27,
2009.
• “Coloniality and the Political. Some notes on indigenous notions of
democracy.” Cultures of Democracy in the Americas. University of
California, Irvine. April 10-11, 2009.
2007/2008
• “Todos Somos Presidentes/We Are All Presidents. Bolivia and the
Question of the State.” Left Turns Workshop, Simon Fraser University,
Vancouver April 18-19, 2008.
• “Decolonization, Indigenous Media, and the Bolivian Revolution.”
Global Conversations. A Festival of Marginalized Languages.
International Center for Writing and Translation. University of
California Irvine, October 24-26, 2007.
2006/2007
• “Pachakuti- ¿Una Nueva Era Bolivia, Descolonización y Mercado.”
XXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association (LASA 2007), Montreal, September 5-8, 2007.

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• “Digital Ghosts, Global Capitalism, and Social Change.” American
Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Annual Meeting,
Puebla (Mexico), April 19-21, 2007.
• “Selling Out Indigenous Media, Ayni, and the Global Market.”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Chicago, March 8-11, 2007.
• Chair and organizer of panel “Looking Relations and the Age of
Multiculturalism: Native Media in the Americas.” Society for Cinema
and Media Studies, Chicago, March 8-11, 2007.
• “’Todos Somos Presidentes/We Are All Presidents’ Bolivia and the
Question of the State.” Subaltern and the Popular MRG Faculty
Workshop. Upham Hotel, Santa Barbara. November, 4-6, 2006.
• Roundtable Panelist “Gendering the State.” Subaltern and the
Popular MRG Faculty Workshop. Upham Hotel, Santa Barbara.
November, 4-6, 2006.
2005/2006
• “Pachakuti – A New Era Bolivia, Decolonization, and the Market.”
The Discourse of Autonomy in Social Movements and Political
Theory Today. University of California, Irvine. May 19-20, 2006.
• Participant. Roundtable discussion: “The Future of Film and Media
Studies”. University of California Riverside, May 17, 2006.
• Chair and Organizer, “Indigenous Video in Mexico” Latin American
Studies Association (LASA) XXVI International Congress, San Juan
Puerto Rico, March 15-18, 2006.
• Organizer, “TV, Globalization, and Latin America” Latin American
Studies Association (LASA) XXVI International Congress, San Juan
Puerto Rico, March 15-18, 2006.
• Chair, “Nation, Region, Roots: Politics in Andean Music.” Encuentros
2006. Music and Politics in the Andes. University of California,
Riverside. February 22-23, 2006.
• Participant in “The Subaltern and the Popular 2: Re-visioning
analytic frames.” The Subaltern and the Popular Workshop. A
University of California Multi-Campus Research Group. University of
California, Santa Barbara, October 21-22, 2005.
2004/2005
• “Prácticas mediales y descolonización: algunos apuntes sobre
género sexual, video digital, y comunicación indígena.” Online
paper posting in Spanish at
(February 17,
2005) and Conference presentation in English at 5 th Annual
Hemispheric Institute Encuentro: “’Performing Heritage’:
Contemporary Indigenous Community Based Practices.”

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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, March
11-20.
• “Prácticas mediales y descolonización: algunos apuntes sobre
género sexual, video digital, y comunicación indígena.” XX
Jornadas de la Asociación Alemana de Hispanistas (20 th Annual
Convention of the German Association of Hispanists), Bremen,
March 1-4, 2005.
• “Video, Coloniality, and the Global Market Place” Latin American
Studies Association (LASA), presentation and panel chair, Las
Vegas, October 7-9, 2004.
2003/2004
• “Some notes on a critical theory of decolonization: race, gender,
and cultural production.” International conference/workshop on
Critical Theory and Decolonization. University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill and Duke University. May 30-June 1, 2004.
• “Indigenous Bodies and Audiovisual Narratives: Some Notes on
Decolonization and Immaterial Labor.” Annual Conference of the
Modern Language Association, San Diego December 27-30, 2003.
• “On Multiculturalism, Gender, and the Reshaping of Capitalism in
the Andes.” Rethinking Marxism’s 5 th International Gala
Conference. ‘Marxism and the World Stage’. University of
Massachussetts, Amherst. November 6-9, 2003.
• “Video Indígena y Descolonización.” Panel Chair and Organizer.
2 nd International Conference of BSA (Bolivian Studies Association).
La Paz, July 21-25, 2003.
• “Cuerpo y descolonización. Aportes indígenas desde los nuevos
medios audiovisuales.” 2 nd International Conference of BSA (Bolivian
Studies Association). La Paz, July 21-25, 2003.
• “Sobre género sexual y descolonización. Aportes indígenas desde
los nuevos medios audiovisuales.” Sixteenth International
Symposium of LAILA (Latin American Indian Literature Association).
Buenos Aires, July 9-12, 2003.
2002/2003
• “Decolonization in the Age of Video: Intercultural Perspectives on
Gender and Immaterial Labor.” Annual Conference of the Society
for Latin American Studies. Manchester (UK), April 11-13, 2003.
• “Beyond Indigenismo II.” Panel chair and co-organizer. LASA,
Dallas, TX, March 2003.
• “TechnoNature and PachaMama: ¿Son compatibles el
multiculturalismo y la interculturalidad LASA, Dalles, TX, March
2003.

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• Panel “Legacies of the 60s in Bolivia.” Respondent. LASA, Dallas, TX,
March 2003.
• “Decolonization in the Age of Video: Perspectives on Gender and
Immaterial Labor.” Conference talk and roundtable discussion on
Modernity/Coloniality at Duke University, February 8, 2003.
2001/2002
• “Saber, Cuerpo y Tecnología.” LASA, Washington DC, September
2001.
• Chair “Cultura y pensamiento crítico desde los Andes.” Latin
American Studies Association (LASA), Washington DC, September
2001.
• “Descolonizar las tecnologías del conocimiento: video y política
epistémica indígena.” I Encuentro Internacional Sobre Estudios
Culturales Latinoamericanos: Retos Desde y Sobre la Región
Andina, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Sede Ecuador (Quito),
June 2001.
1997-2000
• "Subaltern Intellectuals Globalization and the Construction of
Indigenous Movements in the Andes." LASA, Miami (Florida), March
2000.
• “Camarógrafos indígenas, ecoturistas y la naturaleza: el papel del
género sexual en las geopolíticas del conocimiento.” Simposio
Internacional sobre la Reestructuración de las Ciencias Sociales en
los Países Andinos. (Universidad La Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia),
October 1999.
• “Entre Tiempo y Espacio: la subalternidad femenina y la
imaginación de la identidad nacional en Aves sin nido y Las
memorias de Mamá Blanca.” Fifth Annual Carolina Conference on
Romance Literatures (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill),
March 1999.
• "Mystic and Macho. Escaping binary categories in the life story of
Jesusa Palancares." Ninth Annual Duke University Women's Studies
Graduate Research Conference, October 1998.
• "The Mystic and the State: The contested icon of Santa Rosa de
Lima and the construction of the Peruvian nation state in early 19th
century hagiography." Duke/UNC Working Group on Culture and
State Conference: Culture and State in Latin America, May 1998.
• "Navegando por Internet en la clase de español" (with Julia
Caballero and Tracy Lynne Devine). Videoconferencia, VIII
Encuentro para profesores de español: la enseñanza y la
tecnología, CEPE-UNAM (México); EPESA-UNAM (San Antonio); UC-
DAVIS; DUKE UNIVERSITY, September 1997.

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• "Discovery and the Construction of Gender in the Amazon." Seventh
Annual Women's Studies Graduate Research Conference, Duke
University, Jan./Feb. 1997.
Teaching
Media and Cultural Studies Department, University of California, Riverside
• Undergraduate Seminar “Comedy as Social Critique.” Taught in
English. Spring 2009.
• Undergraduate Seminar “Latin America, Democracy, and the
Media.” Taught in English. Spring 2009.
• Undergraduate Seminar “Gender, Media, and Latin America.”
Taught in English. Winter 2009.
Film and Visual Culture Program, University of California, Riverside
• Undergraduate Seminar “Imagining the Nation - Mexican Film.”
Taught in English. Spring 2008.
• Undergraduate Seminar “Indigenous Media and Latin America.”
(Taught in English) (Winter 2008)
• Undergraduate Seminar “Real to Reel. Democracy, Latin America
and the Media.” (Taught in Spanish) (Fall 2007)
• Undergraduate Lecture course “Introduction to Television Studies.”
(Taught in English) (Spring 2007)
• Undergraduate Seminar “Introduction to Latin American Film.”
Taught in English (5 units) (Winter 2007)
• Undergraduate Seminar “Imagining the Nation: Cuban Film.”
Taught in English (Fall 2006)
• Undergraduate Seminar “Gender, Media, and Latin America.”
Taught in English (Spring 2006)
• Undergraduate Seminar “Indigenous Video and Latin America.”
Taught in English (Winter 2006).
• Undergraduate Seminar “Imagining the Nation: Andean Film and
Media.” Taught in English (Winter 2006).
• Undergraduate Seminar “Major Figures in Film and Media.” Taught
in English (Winter 2005).
Hispanic Studies Department, University of California, Riverside
• Graduate Seminar “SPN 270F Cine latinoamericano y cambio
social” (Taught in Spanish) Winter 2008.
• Graduate Seminar “SPN 273 C Colonialidad del Poder – Literaturas y
culturas coloniales y sus legados en el presente.” (Taught in
Spanish) (Spring 2007)

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• Graduate Seminar “SPN 270 F Topics in Latin American Cultural
Studies: Voces subalternas y las tecnologías de la representación.”
(Taught in Spanish) (Spring 2006)
• Undergraduate Seminar “Interdisciplinary Approaches: Gender
Studies and Latin America” (Taught in Spanish) (Spring 2005)
Department of Modern and Classical Languages, University of
Connecticut:
• Undergraduate seminar “Latin American film.” Taught in Spanish
(Spring 2004).
• Undergraduate seminar “Great works of Spanish American
literature: Nación, multiculturalismo y el “problema del indio” en la
literatura andina.” Taught in Spanish (Spring 2004).
• Graduate seminar “Cine y subversión.” Taught in Spanish. (Fall
2003)
• Undergraduate seminar “Topics in Iberoamerican Civilization and
Culture.” Taught in Spanish. (Fall 2003)
• Independent Study “El realismo mágico.” Graduate Level, taught in
Spanish (Fall 2003).
• Independent Study “The construction of gender in Latin American
film.” Undergraduate level, taught in Spanish (Fall 2003).
• Graduate seminar “Seminar in International Studies.” Co-taught in
English (1 unit). (Fall 2003)
• Undergraduate seminar “Más allá del realismo mágico.” Taught in
Spanish. (Spring 2003)
• Undergraduate seminar “Gender Studies in Spanish. Gender, Race,
and Class in Latin America.” Taught in Spanish. (Spring 2003).
• Undergraduate seminar “Intermediate Composition.” Taught in
Spanish (Fall 2002)
• Undergraduate seminar “Movimientos Indígenas y tecnologías de
la representación.” Taught in Spanish. (Fall 2002).
• Independent Study “Gender and Representation in the Andes.”
Undergraduate level, taught in Spanish. (Fall 2002).
Department of Romance Studies, Duke University:
• Undergraduate seminar "Indigenous Movements and Technologies
of Representation." Taught in Spanish (Spring 2001).
• Undergraduate seminar “Introducción al análisis
literario/Introduction to Literary Analysis.” Taught in Spanish (Spring
2002, Spring 1999)
• Undergraduate seminar “Why Hispanics Aren’t White.” Teaching
Assistant to Walter Mignolo. (Fall 2001)
• Spanish as a second language, all levels. (1997-99)

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Focus Program, Duke University:
• Undergraduate IDC (discussion class) Globalization and Cultural
Change. Instructor (Fall 1998).
Professional Activities and Service
University of California, Riverside
• Vice-director of the Latin American Studies Program. May 2007-June
2009
• RIFF (Riverside International Film Festival) faculty liaison. Feb. 2007-
March 2008.
• Executive Committee Representative for UCR, MRG (UC-wide Multicampus
Research Group) “Subaltern and the Popular.” Winter
2007- present
• Weekly Latin American film series. Fall 2007-Spring 2008.
• Monthly Latin American film series. Fall 2005 – Winter 2007.
• Weekly Brazilian film series, Spring 2005.
Organized and hosted visiting speakers:
• John Beverley. “Rethinking the Armed Struggle in Latin America.
March 13, 2008. (Latin American Studies Program, Distinguished
Lecturer Series).
• Gregory Berger and Estela Kempis screening and discussion of
“Aborto Sin Pena.” March 4, 2008
• Ann Kaneko and screening and discussion of her film “Against the
Grain: An Artist’s Survival Guide to Peru.” October 11, 2007.
• Jacqueline Loss “Dreaming in Russian. The Soviet Legacy in
Contemporary Cuban Fiction and Film” Public lecture, November
30, 2006.
• Alexandra Halkin, Founding Director of Chiapas Media Project, April
6, 2006. Lecture and screening.
• Maureen Gosling. Lecture, and public screening of “Blossoms of
Fire.” January 23, 2006.
• Jon Beasley-Murray “Hollywood South of the Border.” Public lecture,
Dec 7, 2005.
University of Connecticut
2003/2004:
• Coordinated a lecture series on Latin American film. Speakers
included: Gabriela Aleman “The Construction of an Ecuadorian
National Cinema” (Fall 2003); Gabriela Copertari “Breaking the Spell

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Cast by Images in Alejandro Agresti’s Buenos Aires Viceversa”
(3/22/04)
• Co-organized interdisciplinary working group “Biopolitics, Culture,
and Globalization” funded by the University of Connecticut
Humanities Institute.
• Co-organized Modern and Classical Languages Department
“Research Colloquium.” Meetings to discuss essay-length
publication drafts by an advanced graduate student or a faculty
member.
• Gladstein Committee on Human Rights, member
• Committee on International Studies Major, member.
• Spanish Search Committee, member.
• Committee for the Creation of a Film Studies Minor, member.
• Undergraduate Spanish Major adviser (28 advisees).
2002/2003
• Co-organized interdisciplinary working group “Biopolitics, Culture,
and Globalization” funded by the University of Connecticut
Humanities Institute.
• Co-organized Modern and Classical Languages Department
“Research Colloquium.” Meetings to discuss essay-length
publication drafts by an advanced graduate student or a faculty
member.
• Created three new classes on Film (SPAN 209 “Spanish Film”; SPAN
219 “Latin American Film”; SPAN 250 “Film in Spain and Latin
America, taught in English”).
• Committee on Effects of SEVIS on Foreign Languages and Cultural
Studies teaching and research, Chair.
• Committee for International Studies Curriculum development,
member.
• Committee for the Creation of a Film Studies Minor, member.
• Undergraduate Spanish Major adviser (8 advisees).
Duke University
• organized and coordinated visit by videomakers Ivan Sanjinés
(Director of CEFREC and CLACPI) and Jesús Tapia (Director of CAIB)
to Duke University. (Spring 2002).
• organized and coordinated visit to Duke University by filmmaker and
film scholar Gabriela Aleman (Tulane University). (Spring 2001).
• Co-organized conference/workshop "Knowledges and the Known:
Capitalism and the Geopolitics of Knowledge" (with Walter Mignolo,
Irene Silverblatt, and Michael Ennis) (Fall 2000).
• Coordinated workshop/retreat for Focus group "Globalization and
Cultural Change" (Fall 1998).

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• Graduate Student representative, Liason Committee, Romance
Studies Duke University. (Academic Year 1997/98).
Interdisciplinary Working Groups:
• “Dialogic Ethics and Critical Cosmopolitanism” Duke Working
Group in Global Studies and the Humanities at the John Hope
Franklin Center for International and Interdisciplinary Studies.
Member, Fall 2001- Spring 2002.
• "Andean Working Group" Duke/UNC Program in Latin American
Studies. Member, 2000-2001.
• Latin American Cultural Studies Duke/UNC Program in Latin
American Studies. Member, 1998-2001.
• "Cities and the Popular"/"Urban Imaginaries" Duke/UNC Program in
Latin American Studies. Member, 1998-1999.
• "Gender and Praxis"/"Gender and Latin America" Duke/UNC
Program in Latin American Studies. Member, 1997-1998/Fall 1998.
• "Culture and State" Duke/UNC Program in Latin American Studies,
Member 1996-1998.
Fields of Interest
Decolonization, cultual theory, Indigenous and communty media,
contemporary Latin American film, television, literature, and culture.
Andes, Gender Studies, Subaltern Studies, Globalization.
Memberships
• Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), Modern Language
Association (MLA), American Comparative Literature Association
(ACLA), Latin American Studies Association (LASA).
(updated June 15, 2009)