Aileen El-Kadi, Ph.D. - Faculty - University of Texas at El Paso

Areas of Specialization
Aileen El-Kadi, Ph.D.
Department of Languages and Linguistics
Liberal Arts Building 137
University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, TX 79968 USA
Office Phone: 915.747.8054 / Fax: 915.747.5292
Email: aelkadi2@utep.edu
Website: http://faculty.utep.edu/aelkadi2
Brazilian and Hispanic American Contemporary Narrative and Film.
Brazilian and Hispanic American History and Politics.
Current Academic Employment
2008-to present Assistant Professor and Director of Brazilian Studies at the University of
Texas at El Paso
University of Colorado at Boulder
EDUCATION
2004-2007 PhD in Spanish and Latin American Literature. Dissertation title: “The
Representation of Urban Violence in Contemporary Colombian and Brazilian
Narrative.”
Director: Professor Peter M. Elmore (PhD University of Texas at Austin 1991)
Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (Argentina)
1999 Bachelor (Licenciatura) in Iberian and Latin-American Literature.

Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
1997 Graduate researcher on Medieval Spanish Literature at Instituto de Filología
del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid; and at
Instituto Universitario de Estudios de la Mujer, Universidad Autónoma de
Madrid, Spain.
Advisors: Manuela Marín and Pilar Pérez Canto.
University of Colorado at Boulder
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
2008 Lecturer of Spanish and Portuguese. Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
University of Colorado at Boulder.
2006-2008 Instructor and lecturer of Spanish and Portuguese (1 st , 2 nd , 3d levels). School of
Continuing Education.
2001-2007 Graduate Part-Time Instructor of Spanish and Portuguese . Department of Spanish
and Portuguese. University of Colorado at Boulder.
Emerson Process Management Micro Motion Inc. (Boulder, Colorado)
2007 Portuguese for Business.
Watershed High School (Boulder, Colorado)
2005 Language Instructor. Taught courses in advanced Spanish.
SCOLA (McClelland, Iowa)
2004-2005 Official translator of Brazilian News Jornal Nacional for Brazilian Television
Network Rede Globo.
Mexico Real Estate (Denver, Colorado)
2002 Spanish for Business. Taught courses in advanced Spanish for business.
Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (Argentina)
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1999 Lecturer. Taught graduate seminar entitled, “Trasvase cultural árabe. España y
Argentina” and “Las comunidades española, aborigen, sirio-libanesa y
sefaradita en Tucumán. Tradición cultural e identidad.” Sponsored by
Programas de Investigación – Consejo de Investigación de la Universidad
Nacional de Tucumán (CIUNT), and coordinated by Professors María Esther
S. de Cywiner, Liliana Palacios de Cosiansi (Centro de Estudios de Asia y
África), and Liliana Asfoura de Adad (Cátedra de Historia), Facultad de
Filosofía y Letras, UNT, Argentina.
1998 Lecturer. Taught graduate seminar entitled, “Espacios y sociedades del mundo
árabe.” Sponsored by Programas de Investigación – CIUNT, Department of
Asian and African Geography, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UNT, Argentina.
1995-1997 Lecturer and Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, on Argentine literature. Courses:
“Literatura argentina del siglo XIX”, and “Literatura contemporánea del Cono
Sur.” Chair: Nilda Flawiá de Fernández. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UNT.
Argentina.
Books
Co-authored (published)
PUBLICATIONS
2012 Sam no es mi tio – veinticuatro crónicas migrantes y un sueño americano. Twenty four
chronicles written by well-known Latin American fiction writers and journalist
living in the US and in Latin America. Co-editor with journalist Diego Fonseca.
Published in fourteen countries including the USA. (Alfaguara/Santillana USA)
Under-Review by Press
2012 Faces of Violence. A Critical Anthology of Brazilian Contemporary Fiction. As the
editor, organizer, and contributor (preface and two essays). Fifteen short
stories and chapters translated into English and accompanied by essays written
by well-known scholars from the US and Brazil. Sponsored by Itamaraty,
Ministry of External Relations in Brazil and the General Consul of Brazil in
Houston, TX. (work-in-progress)
2012 Las Caras de la Violencia. Los Escritores de Hoy en Brasil. As the editor, organizer,
and translator (with Julia Maciel). Twenty short stories and chapters of
contemporary Brazilian writers translated into Spanish. (work-in-progress)
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2011 In the Shadow of the State: the Rule of the Narcos in the Americas. An anthology that
explores the transformative impact of drug trafficking organizations on
fundamental social, political, cultural, and legal structures in the Americas. Coeditor
with Moira Murphy (University of Texas at El Paso). (Under review by
Arizona University Press)
Authored (published)
2000 Trivias. Poems. Nueva Avenida. Año 8, número 91.
1999 Imágenes de mujeres a través de poetas musulmanes de al-Andalus (en sus poesías amorosaseróticas).
Serie Raíces 7. Colección Pliegos del ILE (Instituto de Literatura
Española). Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán.
1998 Los dioses verticales. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Universidad Nacional de
Tucumán.
Book Chapters
2012 “Reflexiones sobre puntos de contacto en las ficciones contemporáneas de
Brasil, México y Colombia” in Beyond Tordesillas: Critical Essays in Comparative
Luso-Hispanic Studies. Edited by Robert Newcomb (UC Devis) and Richard
Gordon (University of Georgia) Forthcoming 2013.
2011 “La oficialidad del crimen en la narrativa de Elmer Mendoza” en Vida y
Resistencia en Ciudad Juárez. Colegio de La Frontera Norte. COLEF, Ciudad
Juárez, Chichuahua, Mexico.
1998 “La mujer y su espacio en la sociedad de al-Andalus en el siglo XIII.” Temas de
Mujeres - Perspectivas de género. Centro de Estudios Históricos Interdisciplinarios
sobre las Mujeres. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Univesidad Nacional de
Tucumán, Argentina. 826-30.
Articles and other Publications
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
2012 “Evident Body: Balas de plata by Elmer Mendoza and the National
Narcothriller” (under review by Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana,
Tufts University)
2010 “O dia em que matei meu pai: o parricídio como espetáculo da violência” in
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Revista de Estudos em Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea. Ed. UnB (Universidade
de Brasilia, Brazil) nº 37 - brasília, janeiro/junho de 2011.
2010 “Un asesino solitario, la autoria de un crimen compartido: del centro a los
márgenes y el espectáculo de la violencia política en el México de los 90.” In
Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, número 44. Año 16.
University of Texas at El Paso, TX.
2009 “The Violence and the Imaginary in Brazilian and Colombian Contemporary
Fiction.” In Journal Encruzilhadas/Crossroads n.8. Department of Spanish and
Portuguese. University of California at Los Angeles.
2008 “Violencia y melodrama en Rosario Tijeras.” In Revista Estudios de Literatura
Colombina. Asociación de Colombianistas.
2007 “Feliz Ano Novo: A escenificação da violencia urbana.” In Brasil/Brazil: A
Journal of Brazilian Literature. Brown University.
2007 “La Virgen de los Sicarios o una gramática del caos.” Espéculo. Revista
Electrónica Cuatrimestral de Estudios Literarios. Facultad de Ciencias de la
Información. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Marzo 2007 Año XIII. 35.
2004 “Utopía nacional, violencia y conciencia citadina en El Periquillo Sarniento.” The
Colorado Review of Hispanic Studies 2: 7-25.
2004 “Sujeto marginal y discurso de protesta: Argentina: entre el tango y la cumbiavillera.”
Revista Candil 4, Argentina: 12-23.
2000 Theater Reviews: “Romeo y Julieta de Oli Alonso” 8:6, “El combate del
Establo de Mauricio Rosencof” 9:9, “Ivonne, princesa de Borgoña de
Gombrowicz” 10:9, “Chico Buarque de Hollanda: la figura del malandro” 11:9.
Journal Critica. Cuadernos del Alberdi. Teatro Alberdi de la Universidad Nacional
de Tucumán.
1998 “Trasvase cultural árabe en el NOA.” Revista Candil 7.4, Argentina: 43-46.
Book Reviews
2012 Cacilda Rêgo & Carolina Rocha (editors). New Trends in Argentine and Brazilian
Cinema (Intellect Bristol / University of Chicago Press, 2011). Hispania. The
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.
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2011 Drummond, Roberto. Hilda Hurricane (University of Texas Press, 2010),
translated by Peter Vaudry-Brown. Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas
83, ‘Cityscapes: Rio and Bahia’ (guest editors for the issue: Elizabeth Lowe and
Peggy Sharpe).
2010 Perrone, Charles A. “Brazil, Lyric, and the Americas. Gainesville, FL: University
Press of Florida.” In Hispania, published by the AATSP (American Association
of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese). Classical & Modern Languages at
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX. Issue December, 93.4.
2010 Domínguez-Ruvalcaba, Héctor and Ignacio Corona. “Gender Violence at the U.S.-
Mexico Border: Media Representation and Public Response. Edited by. Tucson, AZ:
The University of Arizona Press.” In Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana.
Department of Romance Languages at Tufts University, Medford, MA. VOL.
XXXVI - No 72 - 2010 -- J.M. ARGUEDAS: 100 años de vigencia--
2010 Wieser, Doris. “Crimenes y sus autores intelectuales – Entrevistas a escritores
del género policial en América Latina y África lusófona. Ed. Martin
Meidenbauer, München, 2010.” In Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea.
University of Texas at El Paso. (Forthcoming)
2009 Ruffato, Luiz. “Luiz Ruffato: O Livro das Impossibilidades.” In Brasil/Brazil – A
Journal of Brazilian Literature. Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
at Brown University. N. 39
2005 Weiss, Jason. “Lights of Home: A Century of Latin American Writers in Paris.
London: Routledge, 2003.” In Confluencia 20.2: 246 (3). University of Northern
Colorado, CO.
2004 Moraña, Mabel, ed. “Espacio urbano, comunicación y violencia en América Latina.
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh P, 2002.” In The Colorado Review of
Hispanic Studies. 2: 224–27.
Translations
2011 Translation from Portuguese to Spanish of excerpts of novels and short stories
by João Almino, Bernardo Ajzenberg, Altair Martins, Marçal Aquino, Santiago
Nazarian, Luiz Ruffato, and Mario de Araujo for anthology Las Caras de la
Violencia, Ficcion Brasilera Contemporanea. (work-in-progress)
2011 Translation from Portuguese to Spanish of excerpts from João Almino’s novel
Cidade Livre. “Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos” (n. 735, september 2011) Special
edition “Literatura Brasileña Hoy”. Madrid, Spain.
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2011 Translation from Portuguese to Spanish of André de Leones chronicle
“Abaixo da linha de sombra” and Carola Saavedra “Heranças” for Ellos y
Nosotros. Chronicles written by well known Latin American fiction writers and
journalist living in the US and in Latin America (to be published in 2012 by ed.
Alfaguara/ Santillana USA.)
2011 Translation from English to Spanish of Daniel Alarcón’s chronicle “Aquí está
bien” [Here is fine] for Ellos y Nosotros. Chronicles written by well known Latin
American fiction writers and journalist living in the US and in Latin America
(to be published in 2012 by ed. Alfaguara/ Santillana USA.)
2009 Translation of Milton Hatoum´s short stories from A Cidade Ilhada from
Portuguese to Spanish. Mesa Redonda Grupo Editorial and Underwood Peru.
2000 Translation and adaptation to Spanish of Jorge Amado’s Dona Flor e seus dois
maridos and A Ópera do Malandro for theater, including Chico Buarque’s songs
from “A ópera do malandro.” Teatro Alberdi de la Universidad Nacional de
Tucumán. Director: Carlos Alsina.
Other Publications
1999 Various articles on the arts in the periodical El Siglo / Siglo XXI (literary
session). San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina.
1998 Interviewed by Patricia Rodríguez (El Siglo / Siglo XXI) about my research on
“The Domestic Context for Chauvinist Jokes in Spanish on the Web” as part
of a Research Program for the Sociology Department of the Facultad de
Filosofía y Letras, UNT, Argentina.
Invited Lectures and Courses
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES
2012 US-Brazil Higher Education Consortia Program FIPSE/CAPES. Taught
course “A experiência urbana na literatura e filmes contemporâneos da
América Latina” at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. (June 2012)
2012 Invited to give a talk at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. At
the XI Seminário Internacional de Estudos de Literatura - Cenários
Contemporâneos da Escrita as part of the Grupo de pesquisa do CNPQ.
Organized by Karl Erik Schollhammer and Heidrun Krieger Olinto. (26 and 27
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June)
2012 Invited by Alfaguara/Santillana Publisher at Los Angeles Book Fair LéaLA to
present book Sam no es mi tio with Diego Fonseca (co-editor) and Mario
Bellatin. (11 to 13 of May)
2011 Vida y Resistencia en la Frontera Norte. (October 20, 21, 22) panel entitled:
“Sexualidad, Violencia y Estudios Culturales”. Ciudad Juárez en el Entramado
Mundial – Colegio de La Frontera Norte. COLEF. Sponsored by Dirección
Regional Noroeste Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. (Invited speaker)
2011 Invited to teach a graduate course for the University of Massachusetts at
Dartmouth 18th Annual Summer Program in Portuguese. Director
Christopher Larkosh. Course entitled: Urban Violence in Contemporary
Brazilian Literature and Culture. (From July 5 to August 4)
2010 Second Brazilian Literary Festival at Georgetown University. Sponsored by the
Embassy of Brazil at Washington DC.
2010 FLIP (Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, invited as
interviewer at “Jogo de Ideias” by Itaú Cultural (Brazil). Interviewed Flavio
Carneiro, Brazilian Writer, on his latest book of essays The Feigned Reader.
2009 Brazilian Literary Networks. “The Brazilian Initiative” at University of
Wisconsin-Madison. Invited speaker at the panel “On Literary Translation”
2009 Invited speaker at “Encontros de Interrogação” sponsored by Itaú Cultural –
São Paulo, Brazil. Panel entitled: “Debate: O Espaço da Tradução ou Como o
Ofício de Traduzir Irrompe na Criação e Como a Criação se Insinua no Ato de
Traduzir”, with: Allison Entrekin, Paulo Henriques Britto and Walter Costa.
2009 Invited lecturer at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis,
Brazil. Centro de Comunicação e Expressão – Pós-Graduação em Estudos da
Tradução. Paper entitled “Conotação e contextualização cultural no processo
de tradução literária.” Directors: Walter Costa and Andreia Guerini.
2009 Lecture for “The Disappeared exhibition.” The Rubin Center, the Centennial
Museum and the Union Gallery here on the UTEP campus. Lecture title: “The
Burned Society: Brazilian Dictatorship in Cildo Meireles' Art.”
2009 Invited hostess at the “70 th Anniversary of the Exile of the Spanish Civil
War”, Lecture and testimonials by the Spanish Civil War Refugees. Sponsored
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y the Department of History, and the Center for Inter-American and Border
Studies. University of Texas at El Paso.
2009 Invited lecture and participant of the Roundtable discussion on “Drug Trade
Issues: The Colombian Experience”, with Dr. Manuel Ernesto Salamanca and
Edgar Mauricio Solano Calderon (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana). University
of Texas at El Paso.
2011 Book presentation. Commentator of Oswaldo Zavala’s novel Siembra de Nubes
Centro Cultural Paso del Norte Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez.
Refereed Panels
2012 (presenter) 66th Annual Rocky Mountain Modern Languagew Association
Convention in Boulder, Colorado. Panel entitled: De la locura y la prostitución
en los estudios hispánicos y lusófonos - Siglo XX y XXI. Paper entitled: “Los
fantasmas porno de Santiago Nazarian, cuando el bizarrismo adolecente
encuentra la locura urbana.” (October 11-14)
2012 (organizer, chair, presenter) Eleventh International Congress of the BRASA
(Brazilian Studies Association) at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Panel entitled: Novidade ou repetição na literatura contemporânea brasileira.
As a panel leader, coordinator, & discussant: Discussants: João Camillo Penna
(Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Jaime Ginzburg (Universidade de
São Paulo), Márcia Ivana de Lima e Silva (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande
do Sul), Helena Bonito Couto Pereira (Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie),
Pedro Erber (Cornell University).
2012 (presenter) Eleventh International Congress of the BRASA (Brazilian Studies
Association) at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Panel entitled:
Creating Citizenship: Contemporary Brazilian Culture and the Arts of
Citizenship. Paper entitled: Milton Hatoum: o Paradoxo do Exotismo Brasileiro.
2011 (organizer, chair, presenter) AATSP 93rd Conference –The American
Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese – Washington DC. (July 6-
9) Paper entitled: “Violentando a civitas: Ronaldo Bressane e as metástasis
lingüísticas”
2011 (presenter) RMCLAS – Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies
Conference. Santa Fe, New Mexico. (April 6-8) Panel entitled: Spaces of Hope
and Cartographies of the (Im)Possible: Literary Agendas in Early Twentieth-
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Century Latin American Literature. Paper entitled: “Eles eram muitos cavalos de
Luiz Ruffato, vértigo y anonimato en la ciudad mecánica”
2010 Participated in ASNE/IAPA Border Newspapers Editors Summit on Violence
Against Journalists Along the U.S.-Mexican Border. at University of Texas at
El Paso.
2010 (presenter) APSA (American Portuguese Studies Association) 7th Conference
“Trans-Atlantic Exchanges”(October 7-9) at Brown University. Paper entitled:
“O dia que matei meu pai: parricídio como arte biográfica”
2010 (presenter) BRASA 10th International Congress of The Brazilian Studies
Association – Brasília, Brazil. Panel entitled: “Arte-compassiva, Arte-corrosiva,
Apresentações da Violência na Cultura Brasileira.” Paper entitled: “Perversos
melodramas: Marçal Aquino 2005”
2010 (presenter) XV Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea – El Paso,
Texas. University of Texas at El Paso. Paper entitled: “El cuerpo evidente:
Balas de Plata de Elmer Mendoza y el narcothriller nacional”
2009 (presenter) AATSP 91st Conference –The American Association of Teachers
of Spanish and Portuguese – Albuquerque, New Mexico. Paper entitled “Luiz
Ruffato, Infernos da Modernidade”
2009 (presenter) Symposium on Portuguese Traditions. University of California Los
Angeles. Paper entitled “A violência e o imaginário nas ficções brasileiras e
colombianas”
2009 (presenter) XII Annual Symposium on Hispanic and Lusophone Studies. The
Ohio State University. Paper entitled “Violence and the Imaginary in Brazilian
and Colombian Contemporary Fiction”
2009 (presenter) The Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture Since 1900.
University of Louisville, KY. Paper entitled: “Keep them there! Patricia Melo’s
Inferno: Marginalizing the Favelados”
2007 (presenter) LASA (Latin American Studies Association) Conference, Montreal,
Canada. – Paper Titled “Inferno: El favelado como criminal pop”
2005 (participant) Primer Congreso Internacional de Docentes de Lenguaje y
Literatura.Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, and la Pontificia Universidad
Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.
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2005 (presenter) 60 th Annual RMMLA Convention Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Paper
entitled “La ausencia del estado y el espectáculo de la violencia criminal en
Cidade de Deus”
2005 (presenter) Céfiro’s Annual Conference on Latin American and Iberian
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Paper entitled “El papel del discurso
oriental/orientalista dentro del proyecto “ideológico” en la prosa castellana
medieval. El Libro del Caballero Zifar y El Conde Lucanor”
2004 (presenter) 10 th Annual Conference in México “México en el mundo: el mundo
en México” University of California at Irvine. Paper entitled “Discurso
nacional, violencia y conciencia citadina en El Periquillo Sarniento”
2000 (presenter) Primeras Jornadas “Espacio, Memoria e Identidad,” Facultad de
Humanidades y Artes, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Santa Fé, Argentina.
Paper entitled “Testimonios de inmigrantes sirios y libaneses en la Provincia
de Tucumán”
1999 (participant) XIV Encuentro Nacional de Mujeres. Workshop “Mujer y
Violencia.” San Carlos de Bariloche, Rio Negro, Argentina.
1998 (participant) XIII Encuentro Nacional de Mujeres. Workshop “Mujer y
Violencia.” Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina.
1996 (presenter) VI Congreso Nacional de la Sociedad Argentina de Lingüística
(SAL), FFL, UNT, Argentina.
1996 (presenter) IV Jornadas de Historia de las Mujeres y Estudios de Género.
Paper entitled “La Mujer y su espacio en la sociedad de al-Andalus del siglo
XII”, with Dr. Liliana Asfoura de Adad and Arq. Aldo Misuriello. UNT,
Argentina.
1995 (presenter) JALLA (Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana).
Tucumán, Argentina.
1995 (presenter) VIII Congreso Nacional de Literatura Argentina. Facultad de
Filosofía y Letras, UNT. Paper entitled “El concepto de nación en tres textos
de Héctor Tizón”
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1994 (presenter) JALLA (Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana)
Chulumani- La Paz – Bolivia.
1993 (presenter) VII Congreso Nacional de Literatura Argentina (La literatura
Argentina a partir de 1940). Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UNT. Paper entitled
“Una lectura psicoanalítica de Todo verdor perecerá de Eduardo Mallea”
1993 (presenter) II Jornadas de Literatura Hispanoamericana. Instituto
Interdisciplinario de Estudios Latinoamericanos, Faculdad de Filosofia y
Letras, UNT, Argentina. Paper entitled “Sor Juana entre espejos y sombras”
1991 (presenter) VI Congreso Nacional de Literatura Argentina. Facultad de
Filosofía y Letras, UNT.
RESEARCH GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS
2010 Competitive grant by Itamaraty, Ministry of External Relations by the Cultural
Department of Brazilian Government through the Consulate General of Brazil
at Houston, TX. For translations. Award $13,000.
2009 UCLA Library Research Grant. Latin American Institute. University of
California at Los Angeles. (competitive)
2008 Grant from the Center of Academic Excellence Program (CAE) by the Office
of National Intelligence (US), to develop and strengthen the study of Brazil in
the United States.
2007 Eaton Graduate Student Travel Grant. Center for Humanities and the Arts at
the University of Colorado at Boulder. (competitive)
2005 Summer Research Fellowship. Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
University of Colorado at Boulder.
2000 First prize in Bienal de Poesía Horacio Rega Molina. Mensuario Cultural. Nueva
Avenida de La Plata. Argentina. Ed. Medi Calgraf- SA (Publication of poems)
2000 First prize in the poetry contest “Nueva Avenida” (Publication of poems)
Publicación Mensual Independiente de Arte y Cultura. Año 8, número 91.
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2000 First prize in poetry contest sponsored by “Organización Federal por la
Cultura.” Poems edited in Revista OFC. Año 1, número 1, La Plata, Buenos
Aires.
2000 Second prize in Arts Contest of Salón del Poema Ilustrado Casa Nougués
(with painter Alejandro Contreras Moiraghi). Gobierno de la Provincia de
Tucumán. Argentina.
2000 Scholarship to work in cultural activities at the Teatro Alberdi, UNT,
Argentina. Director: Carlos Alsina (Premio Casa de las Américas 1996 (Teatro),
Jurado Casa de las Américas 2005: Teatro).
1999-2000 Scholarship to work as coordinator of cultural activities for the University
Extension Dept. of the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina.
Director: David Lagmanovich.
1997 Scholarship to conduct research on medieval Iberian literature at the
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
(Instituto de Estudios de la Mujer). CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones
Científicas), Universidad de Granada (Departamento de Estudios Semíticos).
Directed Master Thesis
SERVICE AND OUTREACH
2009 Thesis advisor of graduate student Amaris Guzman (Center for Inter Americas
and Border Studies). UTEP-CIBS Thesis entitled: “Youth Movements in Latin
America: Stories of Age, Struggle, and Socio-Political Independence.” Student
received the Outstanding Graduate Student Award for her performance.
(currently a PhD candidate at Miami University)
2012 Thesis advisor of graduate student Clayton Nacimento (from Brazil). Thesis
entitled: La representacion estetica de la violencia en La Virgen de los sicarios (de
Fernando Vallejo) y en Un asesino solitario (de Élmer Mendoza). (currently a
student at Universidad de Sonora, Mexico)
Master Thesis Advisement
2010 Member of graduate committee of Kerry Doyle, MA Candidate, Latin
American and Border Studies and Assistant Director Stanlee and Gerald Rubin
Center for the Visual Arts (UTEP). Thesis entitled: “Pacto por la Cultura: The
Power and Possibility of Cultural Activism in Juarez.” (defended)
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2010 Member of graduate committee of Luciene Wandermurem. (UTEP –
Department of Education). Thesis entitled: “Dominant discourses in popular
culture: An analysis of Brazilian teachers` critical consciousness.” (defended)
External Reviewer for Peer-Reviwed Journals
2011-to present External reviewer for Revista de Estudos em Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea.
Ed. UnB (Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil)
2011-to present External reviewer for Perífrasis, Revista de Literatura, Teoría y Crítica.
Departamento de Humanidades y Literatura. Universidad de los Andes,
Colombia.
2010 -to present External reviewer for Hispania, A journal devoted the teaching of Spanish
and Portuguese, published by the AATSP (The American Association of
Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese)
Member of Scholarly Commitees
2011-to pr. AATSP (The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese).
Organizer of Cultural Studies sessions.
2011-to pr. Member of the Advisory Board for the Center for Inter American and Border
Studies at the University of Texas at El Paso.
2009-to pr. Member of committee for Admissions and Academic Standards at the
University of Texas at El Paso
2009-to pr. Member of committee for Reviewing the Academic Curriculum for the
Department of Languages and linguistics at the University of Texas at El Paso
Service to Texas and Colorado Universities
2008-to pr. Advisor of the Student Organization: Brazilian Culture Center (University of
Texas at El Paso)
2008 Advisor of the Student Organization: Environmental Clothing Organization.
University of Texas at El Paso
2008-2011 Organizer of the Portuguese Club – University of Texas at El Paso.
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2008 Member of the Organizing Committee of the IV International Conference in
Education, Labor and Emancipation. June 16-19, 2009. Salvador, Bahia, Brasil.
2008 Organizer of the Capoeira sport group at UTEP.
2008 Coordinator of Portuguese Round Table. Spanish and Portuguese Department.
University of Colorado at Boulder.
2006-2007 Promotional representative for the University of Colorado Study Abroad
Program in Brazil and Argentina.
2005-2006 Presenter of Brazilian films at the annual “Spanish and Portuguese Film
Series.” Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Colorado at
Boulder.
2003-2004 Coordinator of weekly Portuguese meetings for students at the University of
Colorado at Boulder, sponsored by the Department of Spanish and
Portuguese.
2002 Graduate advisor for the Chair. Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
University of Colorado at Boulder.
2000 Member of the Organizing Committee of the Cultural Department at the
Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
2004-2005 Official Translator of Brazilian news for Jornal Nacional O Globo Television
(Brazilian Network TV) for SCOLA (a non-profit educational organization that
receives and re-transmits television programming from around the world in
native languages. SCOLA content is available via satellite, the Internet and
cable providers).
2003 Assistant of Direction and Actor in the Drama “Nuestra Señora de las Nubes”
by Arístides Vargas. Directed by Frédéric Conrod. University of Colorado at
Boulder.
2000 Member of the Staff at the Teatro Alberdi de la Universidad Nacional de
Tucumán, Argentina Co-organizer of Symposia, political debates and national
and international cultural events.
2000 Member of the Organizing Committee of the “Segundo Julio Cultural
Universitario”, UNT, Argentina.
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2000 co-organizer at the “II Encuentro Nacional de Poetas” sponsored by Secretaría
de Extensión Universitaria, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina.
1998-2000 Speaker in several meetings for the environmental organization “Conciencia
Verde”, Argentina.
1996 Educational workshops with handicapped children using arts. Coordinator of
literature workshop. “Taller integral de arte Lajta Mauca” (sponsored by
UNICEF), Tucumán y Santa Fé, Argentina.
1994-1995 Collaborator with the project “Quila-Quina Mapuche-Curruhuinca
Community”. Teaching Spanish and literature to the native children in the
indigenous community in San Martin de los Andes, Neuquén, Argentina.
MLA - Modern Language Association.
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
LASA - Latin American Studies Association.
BRASA - Brazilian Studies Association.
AATSP – The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.
RMLA - Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association.
LANGUAGES
Spanish: Native fluency in reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
Portuguese: Native fluency in reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
English: Near-Native fluency in reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
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