Curriculum Vitae, Enrique Yepes - Bowdoin College

ENRIQUE YEPES
Associate Professor of Romance Languages, Bowdoin College
COLLEGE ADDRESS
Bowdoin College
Department of Romance Languages
7800 College Station
Brunswick, ME 04011-8478
Phone Number: (207) 725-3870
Fax: (207) 725-3348
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Education
• Ph.D. Spanish-American Literature, Rutgers University, May 1998.
Dissertation: Los poderes del goce: La revisión cultural en poesía hispanoamericana 1960-1995. (The
Powers of Enjoyment: Cultural Revision in Spanish American Poetry 1960-1995).
Dissertation director: Dr. Carlos R. Narváez.
• Licenciatura (B.A. equivalent) in Education-Modern Languages, Univ. Pontificia Bolivariana
(Medellín-Colombia), 1989.
Publications - Refereed
“Regiones en vías de extinción: El canto de las moscas de María Mercedes Carranza”. (Endangered
Regions: The Song of the Flies by Carranza). Revista Lingüística y Literatura. Forthcoming.
“La inmensa minoría: Poesía y activismo por la paz en Colombia” (The Immense Minority: Poetry
and Peace Activism in Colombia). National University of Ireland – Maynooth Papers in Spanish,
Portuguese and Latin American Studies, Number 18. May 2008.
“El Festival Internacional de Poesía de Medellín: Gestión en la aldea global”. (Medellín’s
International Poetry Festival: Agency in the Global Village). Revista de Crítica Literaria
Latinoamericana. XXIX.58 (2003): 91-104.
“La tigra de 1930 a 1990: Los cambios del proyecto nacional ecuatoriano”. (The Tiger Woman from
1930 to 1990: Changes in Ecuador’s National Project). Cine-Lit 2000: Essays on Hispanic Film
and Fiction. Eds. George Cabello-Castellet, Jaume Martí-Olivella and Guy H. Wood. Corvallis,
Oregon: Cine-Lit Publications, 2001. 86-98.
“Fuera Yo: El Manual de tolerancia de Héctor Abad Gómez”. (The Tolerance Manual, a book by
Colombian essayist Héctor Abad Gómez). Revista Universidad de Antioquia, (Medellín-
Colombia) 262 (Oct.-Dec 2000): 105-110.
Oficios del goce: Poesía y debate cultural en Hispanoamérica (1960-2000). (Practices of Pleasure: Poetry and
Cultural Debate in Spanish-America). Medellín-Colombia: Fondo Editorial Universidad EAFIT,
2000. 420p.
“El microcuento hispanoamericano ante el próximo milenio”. (Spanish American short fiction
facing the next millennium). Revista Interamericana de Bibliografía / Inter-American Review of
Bibliography. 46.1-4 (1996): 95-108.
“Notas para un análisis semiológico del salón de clases”. (Notes for a Semiological Analysis of the
Classroom). Educación y Pedagogía, Revista de la Facultad de Educación, Universidad de
Antioquia (Medellín - Colombia). 3.7 (1992): 47-58.

Publications – Non-Refereed
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“Poetry: A Way to Peace and Pluralism.” Americas 62.6 (Dec 2010): 2-4.
Review of Kuhnheim, Jill. Textual Disruptions: Spanish American Poetry at the End of the Twentieth Century.
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2004. Dissidences: Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism.
Number 2, Fall 2006. http://www.dissidences.org/ReviewKuhnheim.html
“Rastrear el entusiasmo: La enseñanza de narrativa breve latinoamericana para adolescentes”.
(Tracing Enthusiasm: Teaching Latin American Short Narrative for Teenagers). ReD Lecturas
(Medellín-Colombia) 1.1 (2004): 49-66.
Herramientas de español. An on-line reference manual on Spanish grammar with interactive practice.
2005-2011. http://www.bowdoin.edu/~eyepes/newgr/ats/index.html
Review of Francesca Denegri’s El abanico y la cigarrera. Latin American Literary Review 25. 50 (July-
December 1997): 171-73.
Spanish version of Lanford Wilson’s Eukiah. Art Teatral, Cuaderno de Minipiezas Ilustradas. 8.8 (1996):
75-80.
Contributing writer to Pasajes: Lengua, Cultura, Literatura. 4 th Ed. Intermediate Spanish Textbook by
Mary Lee Bretz, Trisha Dvorak and Carl Kirschner. San Francisco: McGraw-Hill, 1997.
“La estructura ausente: un reporte de lectura”. (The Absent Structure: A Reading Report). Escritos
U.P.B., Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana International Magazine (Medellín) 8.21 (1990): 95-
104.
“Dolor y libertad en Prometeo encadenado”. (Pain and Freedom in Prometheus Chained). Escritos U.P.B.
8.20 (1989): 209-16.
Papers Delivered at Learned Societies
“Voz po-ética y actuación ecologista en Homero Aridjis” (Poetic Voice and Ecologist Performance
in Aridjis). Latin American Studies Association (LASA) XXX International Congress. San
Francisco, May 23-26, 2012.
“Regiones en vías de extinción: El canto de las moscas de María Mercedes Carranza”. (Endangered
Regions: The Song of the Flies by Carranza). III Coloquio Nacional de Historia de la Literatura
Colombiana. Medellín, Colombia, May 25-27, 2011.
“Hospedando a la naturaleza: Poesía hispanoamericana y pensamiento ecológico” (Hosting Nature:
Spanish American Poetry and Ecological Thought). American Association of Teachers of
Spanish and Portuguese Lorca Chapter Annual Meeting, Lewiston, Maine, October 23, 2009.
“Respondiendo a la violencia: Poesía en Medellín” (Responding to Violence: Poetry in Medellín).
Latin American Studies Association (LASA) XXVIII International Conference. Montreal,
Canada, September 5-8, 2007.
“The Dynamics of Contemporary Mapuche Poetry”. “Culturas en el aire” Symposium. A
Conference of Scholars, Writers and Activists on Indigenous Movements in the Americas
organized by Harvard University in Santiago, Chile. October 14-16, 2005.
“Fuera de lugar: Fútbol, masculinidad y nación en dos películas sudamericanas recientes”. (Out of
Place: Soccer, Masculinity and Nation in Two Recent South American Movies). Florida
International University Conference on Spanish and Latin American Film and Literatures.
Miami, Florida, Feb. 27-29, 2004.

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“La gestión (po)ética indígena en el cambio de siglo: Ariruma Kowii (Ecuador) y Vitorio Apüshama
(Colombia)”. (Indigenous Poetic/Ethic Agency at the Turn of the Century: Kowi and
Apüshama). 19th International Symposium of the Instituto Literario y Cultural Hispánico
(California). Lima, Perú, Aug. 7-12, 2002.
“Poéticas del Carnaval: Tres hallazgos en Brasil, el Caribe y Europa”. (Carnival Poetics: Three
Findings in Brazil, the Caribbean and Europe). Second International Symposium on Carnivals
of the Colombian Ministry of Culture. Barranquilla, Colombia, October 5-8, 2001.
“La tigra y el proyecto nacional ecuatoriano de 1930 a 1990”. (The Tiger Woman and Ecuador’s
National Project from 1930 to 1990). Cine-Lit 2000, International Conference on Hispanic
Literatures and Cinematography. Portland, OR, Oregon State University, Feb. 18-21, 2000.
“Atravesar defensas: tres poemas de Alarcón, Caulfield y Sarduy en torno al SIDA”. (Overcoming
Defenses: Three Poems by Hispanic Writers in the US and France on AIDS). American
Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Annual Conference. Madrid, July-August
1998.
“La imaginación radical y las localidades hispanas en Poesída” (Hispanic imagery and collective
unconscious in the poetry of AIDS in Spanish). Interdisciplinary Conference on Hispanic
Cultural Locations. University of San Francisco, October 1997.
“Fuera yo: El Manual de tolerancia de Héctor Abad Gómez, a diez años de su asesinato”. (Selfrepresentation
in Colombian Héctor Abad Gómez’s essays). 10 th Conference of the
Colombianists International Association. The Pennsylvania State University, August 1997.
“El poder del contacto en Poesída”. Presentation of a poetry volume edited by Carlos A. Rodríguez
Matos (New York: Ollantay, 1995). The Powers of Poetry Conference at the University of
Oregon, October 1996.
“Dislocated Identities: Evohé by Cristina Peri Rossi and ‘Pequeñas canciones’ by Alejandra
Pizarnik.” Modern Language Association Conference in Chicago, December 1995.
“Fábulas de la garza desangrada, de Rosario Ferré: ¿un neo-barroco feminista?” (Feminist baroque
style in Puerto Rican Rosario Ferré’s poetry). Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature.
University of Colorado, October 1995.
“La vorágine y Canaima: o cómo la modernidad se enmaraña en la selva”. (The contradictions of
modernity in two South American novels of the 1920s). 23rd Annual 20th-Century Literature
Conference. Univ. of Louisville, Kentucky. February 1995.
“El testimonio de los ‘desechables’ de Medellín en la textualidad posmoderna”. (Literary value of
poetry written by slum teenagers from Medellín - Colombia). Second Graduate Conference on
Peninsular, Latin American and Luso-Brazilian Literatures. University of Maryland at College
Park, April 1994.
“La disonancia tecnológica en la poesía nadaísta”. (Representation of technology in Colombian
poetry in the 1960s). Third Graduate Conference on Spanish and Portuguese Literatures,
Columbia University, New York, March 1994.
“Del manifiesto al ensayo en Gonzalo Arango: otra versión del compromiso intelectual en los años
sesenta”. (A Colombian poet’s essay writing as a political strategy in the 1960s). First
Colloquium on Hispanic Literatures. Rutgers University, New Jersey, November 1993.
“What is the Question? Literary Theory From a Latin American Male U.S. Graduate Student’s
Perspective.” Third Graduate Colloquium on Literary Studies. Rutgers University, New
Jersey, April 1993.

Papers Delivered as a Guest Speaker
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“Ecocriticism and Spanish American Literature.” University of California, Riverside, Department of
Hispanic Studies, April 20, 2012.
“Carving the Air: On Poetry Festivals.” II Translations International Poetry Festival at Bates
College. Lewiston, ME, October 27, 2011.
“Nicolás Guillén, Afro-Cuban Music, and Cuban Exceptionalism.” Maine Humanities Council
Seminar at the University of Southern Maine, November 23, 2009.
“La inmensa minoría: Poesía y activismo por la paz en Colombia”. National University of Ireland –
Maynooth, May 2, 2008.
“Poetry and Social Activism in Latin America: Two Contemporary Cases.” Peter M. Small
Professorship Inaugural Lecture, Bowdoin College, December 5, 2007.
“Estudiar América Latina desde Estados Unidos.” Lecture series organized by the Curricular
Development Committee of the Education and Literature Department, Universidad de
Antioquia, Medellín, June 21, 2006.
“Hasta Siempre: Re-inventing Che Guevara as a Cultural Icon.” Lecture series organized by Students
for Democratic Socialism, Bowdoin College, April 27, 2005.
“Cuban Music and Poetry: Intersections.” Brunswick-Trinidad Sister City Association, Bowdoin
College, April 1, 2004.
“The Essence of Desire: Reading Saint John of the Cross.” Brunswick Jung Association, Bowdoin
College, March 25, 2003.
“To Be at Home: Reflections on the Concept of Home in Personal and Collective Transformation.”
Karofsky Encore Lecture for the Bowdoin College Common Hour, Brunswick, Maine,
August 31, 2001.
“Glocal Cultures: Medellín’s Poetry Festival.” Bowdoin College Faculty Lecture Series, Brunswick,
Maine, April 23, 2001.
“La enseñanza del cuento hispanoamericano: Un modelo de trabajo.” (Teaching Spanish-American
Short Story: A Working Model). Keynote presentation at the lecture series organized by
Colombia’s Ministry of Education in Medellín to celebrate “The Spanish Language History
Month”, April 13, 2000.
“José Torres Tama’s We are Patriots with Dark Faces.” Center for Cultural Exchange, Portland,
Maine, March 27, 1999.
“Poetry and Human Rights in Central America, 1970s.” Women Studies Lecture Series on Human
Rights. Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, May 25, 1998.
“No Futuro: Los “desechables” de Medellín”. University of Southern Maine Spanish
Immersion Weekend. Freeport, ME, March 20-21, 1998.
Latin American Literature in Translation. Penobscot School / Camden Foreign Affairs Conference.
Rockport, ME, January 6 and 13, 1998.
“Hyphenated Identities: The Latino Experience.” Hispanic Heritage Month’s Event, Bowdoin
College, October 18, 1996.

Academic Service
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• Committee of Appointments, Promotion and Tenure, 2003-05. 2011-12.
• Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Advisory Committee, 2011-12.
• Faculty Fellow, McKeen Center for the Common Good, 2009-12.
• Chair, Latin American Studies Program, 2004-10.
• Oversight Committee on Gender and Sexuality Issues. 2008-11.
• Oversight Committee on Multicultural Affairs. 2010-11.
• Organizer of “1810: Insurgence in Spanish America” Symposium. Bowdoin College, April 15-
16, 2010.
• Consultants for Teaching Group. 2005-07.
• Co-organizer of “Insularity and Integration: Recent Trends in Caribbean Scholarship”
Symposium. Bowdoin College, December 2-3, 2004.
• Classroom Design Committee, 2004-05; 2005-06.
• Steering Committee for the CBB Program in Quito, 2003-04.
• Ad Hoc Committee for Asian Studies Search, 2003.
• Co-organizer of “Multiple Caribbeans” Symposium. Bowdoin College. Summer 2003.
• Off-Campus Study Committee (chair), 2002-03; 2005-07.
• Governance Committee, Bowdoin College, 2001-02.
• Appeals Committee, Bowdoin College, 2001-02.
• Faculty liaison for the Latin American Student Organization, Bowdoin College, 1998, 2001-06.
• Co-director of the Colby, Bates and Bowdoin Colleges Mellon Consortium for Study Abroad in
Quito, Ecuador, 1999.
• Ad Hoc Committee for Sociology and Anthropology Search, 1999.
• Search Committee for Spanish and Italian, 1998-99.
• Faculty Resources Committee. 1998-99. Sub-chair for Undergraduate Fellowships
• Faculty liaison for Picante, the Spanish Club at Bowdoin College, 1997-99.
• Ad Hoc Committee for Asian Studies Search, 1998.
• Pre-Major Academic Advisor, Bowdoin College, 1997-99, 2001-06.
• Bias Incident Group. Bowdoin College, 1997-98.
• Latin American Studies Committee. Bowdoin College, 1997- 2006. (co-chair 2002-03).
• Graduate Student Association representative, and delegate to the Council on Languages and
Literatures, Rutgers University, Fall 1995.
• Assistant Director for the Rutgers Summer Study in Spain (Madrid, Salamanca), 1993.
Professional Service
• Editorial board, Dissidences: Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism. 2007-present.
• Manuscript reviewer for Editorial Universidad de Antioquia, 2002-present.
• External evaluator for Kalamazoo College Romance Languages Department, 2008.

Fellowships and Academic Honors
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• Appointed Peter M. Small Associate Professor of Romance Languages, 2007-2012
• The McKeen Center Faculty Award for Public Engagement, 2011.
• MERLOT Peer-Reviewed Classic Award for On-Line Pedagogical Materials, 2006
• Sydney B. Karofsky Prize for Junior Faculty, 1999.
• William R. Kenan Fellowship, Bowdoin College, 1999-2001.
• Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Mellon Language Technology Project Stipend for development of World
Wide Web instructional materials. Summer, 1998.
• Rutgers Graduate School-New Brunswick Doctoral Fellowship, 1995-96.
• “The 1992-93 Faculty of Arts and Sciences Award for Distinguished Contributors to
Undergraduate Education”, May 4, 1993. Rutgers University.
• “Beca de Honor” (Merit Fellowship), Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, 1988.
• “Diploma de Reconocimiento a Estudiantes Avanzados” (Outstanding Student Diploma),
Universidad de Antioquia, 1988.
Teaching experience
Associate Professor of Spanish, Bowdoin College
• Ecological Thought in Latin American Literature. Fall 2011.
• Poetry and Social Activism in Latin America. Fall 2007, spring 2011.
• The idea of Latin America. Fall 2010, spring 2011.
• Engaging Neruda’s Canto General. Fall 2009.
• US-Latino Literature in Spanish. Fall 2006.
• Caribbean(s): An Interdisciplinary Approach. Fall 2004.
(Taught in collaboration with Dr. Allen Wells, Roger Howell Jr. Professor of History).
• Introduction to Hispanic Studies: Poetry and Theater. Fall 2008, spring 09, 10, 12.
• Advanced Spanish. Fall 2002-05, 08-11 and spring 2006.
• Intermediate Spanish. Spring 2010.
• Reading Images: Intersections between Words and Visual Texts in 20 th -Century Latin America. Spring
2005, 09, 12.
• The Gaze: Reading Modern Poetry in the Americas. Fall 2002, 03 and 05.
• Latin American Cultures. Spring 2003-07.
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Bowdoin College
• Colombia: Disentangling 100 Years of Conflict. Spring 2002. (Taught in collaboration with Dr.
Allen Wells, Roger Howell Jr. Professor of History).
• Fiestas. Senior Seminar. Spring 1999 and 2001.
• Hybrid Cultures. Senior Seminar. Spring 1997 and 98.
• Introduction to the Study and Criticism of Modern Hispanic Literatures. Spring 98, 99.
• Advanced Spanish. Fall 1998 and 2001.
• Intermediate Spanish. Fall 1997.

• Introduction to Hispanic Literatures. Spring 1997.
• Latin American Cultures. Fall 1996, 97 and 98, spring 2001 and 02.
• Spanish American Short Story. Fall 1996 and 2001.
Graduate Teaching Assistant in Spanish, Rutgers University
• Literature and Culture of Hispanic Caribbean. 1993- 95.
• Advanced Grammar Workshop. 1993-95.
• Introduction to Hispanic Literatures. Spring 1994.
• Conversation and Composition. Fall 1992 and 94.
• Intermediate Spanish. 1991-92. Course Coordinator 1994-95.
Adjunct Instructor, Jersey City State College
• 19th Century Spanish American Literature. Summer, 94.
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Adjunct Assistant Professor (Profesor Asistente de Cátedra), Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana:
• Teoría Literaria. 1991.
• Fundamentos de Literatura. 1990-1991.
Adjunct Lecturer (Profesor Auxiliar de Cátedra), Universidad Ponticia Bolivariana:
• Seminario III de Literatura: Poética. 1990.
• Spanish as a Second Language. Levels I-IV. 1989.
Languages
• Spanish, native speaker.
• English, near-native.
• French, intermediate ability.
• Portuguese, reading ability.
Professional Memberships
• Modern Language Association
• Latin American Studies Association
• American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
• Colombianists Association
• Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana
• The Association for the Study of Literature & Environment