John Thomas Maddox IV
E-mail: [email protected]
Telephone: 706-372-7864 (Cell)
Mailing Address: 2401 Colony Park Drive, Birmingham, AL 35243
Education:
PhD, Combined Spanish and Portuguese,
Vanderbilt University. 2014.
Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Dissertation Fellow
Certificate in Latin American Studies (CLAS)
Co-Major Professors: Earl Fitz and William Luis
MA, Romance Languages (Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures),
University of Georgia. 2007.
Thesis: “El cuerpo narrado en The Buenos Aires Affair y O Centauro no Jardim”
Research Interests:
Specialty: Hispanic Caribbean.
Interests: African Diaspora, Brazil, Latino/a Literature, inter-American Literature, Race, Gender,
History in Literature, Religion, Narrative, Film, Translation.
Current Book Project: “Tragedies of Memory: Slavery in the Historical Novels of Manuel Zapata
Olivella and Ana Maria Gonçalves.” Under Review at University of Florida Press.
Publications:
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
1. “The First New World Tragedy of Manuel Zapata Olivella’s Changó el Gran Putas.” Afro-Hispanic
and Afro-Latin Literature and Classics. 2016. 61-81. Black Diasporic Worlds series, edited by
Elizabeth J. West (Georgia State) and Antonio Tillis (Charleston). Lexington Books.
2. “La retórica anti-esclavista de Reinaldo Arenas.” Hispanic Journal. 37.1 (2016): 47-66. Indiana
University of Pennsylvania.
3. (with Michael Steinkampf). “Continuing the Revolution: A Critical Analysis of Henry Louis Gates’s
Black in Cuba.” Afro-Hispanic Review. 43.1 (2015): 71-85. Vanderbilt University.
4. “AfroReggae: Antropofagia, Sublimation, and Intimate Revolt in the Favela.” Hispania 97.3 (2014):
463-76. American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.
5. “Is Loung Ung’s First, They Killed My Father a Khmer testimonio?” CLCWeb 15 (2013): 5, 1-12.
Purdue.
6. “Afro-McOndo en The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” Caribe. 14.2 (2011-12): 27-42.
Marquette University/University of North Florida.
7. “Un lamento y un contra-depresivo para Borinquén: ‘El tigre por la cola’ de Rosario Ferré.” Revista
Tinkuy. 18 (2012): 133-46. Université de Montréal.
8. “The Aleijadinho at Home and Abroad.” CR: The New Centennial Review. 12.2 (2012): 183-216.
Michigan State University.
9. “Las artistas autónomas de A paixão segundo G.H. y La nada cotidiana”. Revista Brasileira do
Caribe 10.2 (2010): 45-78. Centro de Estudos do Caribe no Brasil.
Accepted:
10. “Tapia’s Póstumo el Transmigrado: A Pre-Incarnation of Brás Cubas.” Portuguese Literary and
Cultural Studies. 29 (2016). University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
11. “Un Atlántico Negro Mayor: Manuel Zapata Olivella y Paul Gilroy.” Interpretaciones Críticas de la
Biblioteca de Literatura Afrocolombiana. (2017). Ed. Jerome Branche (Pittsburgh) and George
Palacios (Clemson). Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, Pittsburgh.
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12. “The Place of the Forge: The African Diaspora, History, and Comparative Literature.” Hispania.
(2017). American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.
13. “Modernity, Double-Consciousness, and Afro-Brazilian Flux: Ana Maria Gonçalves’s Um defeito
de cor.” Callaloo. (2017. Texas A and M.
14. “Coronel Delmiro Gouveia, Brazilian (Film) Industry, and World War I in the Sertão.” Latin
American Research Review. (2018). Latin American Studies Association.
In Press, Non-Peer Reviewed:
1. “El Atlántico negro: Manuel Zapata Olivella, un precursor de Paul Gilroy.”
Homenaje Internacional a Manuel Zapata Olivella. Popayán, Colombia. Multiple Universities. 1921 November 2014. (2017).
Peer-Reviewed Reference Entries
1-3. “Ana Maria Gonçalves,” “Nei Lopes,” “William Luis,” Dictionary of Caribbean and AfroLatin American Biography. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Franklin W. Knight. Oxford UP. (2016).
115-16, 142-44, 172.
Translations
1. Juliet of the Tropics, A Translation, With Introduction and Bibliography, of Alejandro Tapia y
Rivera’s La cuarterona (1867). Book Manuscript. Cambria Press, 2016. 218 pp.
2. Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, “As academias de Sião,” “Uma visita de Alcibíades.” ExCatedra: Stories by Machado de Assis. Ed. Glenn Alan Cheney, Luciana Tanure, and Rachel
Kopit. New London Librarium, 2014. 2-19, 48-65.
3. Buarque de Hollanda, Bernardo Borges. “In Praise of Improvisation in Brazilian Soccer:
Modernism, Popular Music, and a Brasilidade of Sports.” Critical Studies in Improvisation 7.1
(2011). University of Guelph, Canada. 13 pp.
Peer-Reviewed Book Reviews
1. Accepted: “Maurício Barros de Castro and César Fraga. Do outro lado.” Callaloo. (2017). Texas A
and M.
2. Accepted: “Park, Stephen M. The Pan-American Imagination: Contested Visions of the Hemisphere
in Twentieth-Century Literature.” Comparative Literature Studies. (2017). Penn State UP.
3. “Juanamaría Cordones-Cook and María Mercedes Jaramillo, ed. Del palenque a la escena:
Antología crítica de teatro afrolatinoamericano.” Afro-Hispanic Review 33.2 (2014): 183–84.
4. “Graciela Maglia, ed. Si yo fuera tambó: Poesía selecta de Candelario Obeso y Jorge Artel.”
Caribe. Fall 2014. Western Michigan University.
5. “Eduardo de Assis Duarte and Maria Nazareth Soares Fonseca, Literatura e Afrodescendência no
Brasil.” Ellipsis. 12 (2013). American Portuguese Studies Association.
6. “Llanos-Figueroa, Dahlma. Daughters of the Stone.” Afro-Hispanic Review 30.2 (2011): 205-08.
Vanderbilt.
7. “Isfahani-Hammond, Alexandra. White Negritude: Race, Writing, and Brazilian Cultural Identity.”
LLJournal 4.1 (2009). City University of New York.
8. “Domínguez-Ruvalcaba, Héctor. Modernity and the Nation in Mexican Reflections of Masculinity:
From Sensuality to Bloodshed.” LLJournal 3.2 (2008). City University of New York.
8. “Klobucka, Ana and Sabine, Mark. Embodying Pessoa: Corporeality, Gender, Sexuality.” Tinta 8
(2008). University of California, Santa Barbara.
9. “Herrero-Olaizola, Alejandro. The Censorship Files: Latin American Writers and Franco’s Spain.”
Espéculo 38 (2008). Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
10. “Oleszkiewicz-Peralba, Malgorzata. The Black Madonna in Latin America and Europe: Tradition
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and Transformation.” LLJournal 2.2 (2007). City University of New York.
Teaching Experience:
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Assistant Professor of Spanish
1. Fall, 2016: Graduate/Senior Seminar: US Latino Writers (Service Learning), Spanish 2.
2. Spring, 2016: Conversation and Culture (UNAM), Spanish 1 (2 sections).
3. Fall, 2015: Medicine and Literature, Conversation and Culture (Skype Exchange with
UNAM), Spanish 3.
4. Spring, 2015: Graduate/Senior Seminar: Panorama of the Afro-Hispanic World,
Conversation and Culture (UNAM), Spanish 1.
5. Fall, 2014: Advanced Grammar and Composition (UNAM), Spanish 1.
Vanderbilt University
Teaching Assistant/Graduate Student Instructor
1. Spring, 2013: Introduction to Literature in Spanish: Narrative, Drama, and Poetry
2. Fall, 2012: Accelerated Introduction to Portuguese
3. 2009-2010: Spanish for True Beginners, 1 section of Elementary Spanish 2
Athens Academy Upper School (Grades 9-12)
Spanish Teacher
Fall 2004-Spring 2009: Taught 25 sections of Spanish 1 through Literature, organized and led
Study Abroad in Spain.
Conference Presentations:
National and International Conferences:
1. Accepted: Panel Organizer. American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. July
2017. “Transgressions, Taboos, and Subalterns in the Americas.”
2. Panel Organizer. American Association of Teachers of Spanish and
Portuguese. July 2016. “Medicine and Literature in the Hispanic World.” Panel: Medicine and
Literature in the Library and the Classroom.
3. Panel Organizer. Modern Language Association. January 2016. “‘Doors without
Knobs’: Entering Women’s Prisons in Orange is the New Black and Cela Forte Mulher.” Panel:
Prison Politics: Today’s Testimonies of the Americas in Contact.
4. “Hijos de la Xica que manda: Fe en disfraz y la recepción de El laberinto de la
soledad” Primer Congreso de Afrodescendencia en Puerto Rico. November 2015. University of
Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.
5. Panel Organizer. American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. July
2015. “Manuel Zapata Olivella’s Afro-Latino Moments in the United States.”
6. American Comparative Literature Association. March 2015. Seattle. “Nuevo Muntu
Fictions.”
7. American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese “Survival Spanish for K-12 Teachers”
Workshop and Research Presentation “One Woman’s Tragedies in Um defeito de cor by Ana Maria
Gonçalves.” Panama City, Panama. July 2014.
8. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference 2014. University of Kentucky. “O espírito trágico da nação
no romance Oiobomé de Nei Lopes.”
9. Negritud. Universidad de Cartagena. Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. March 2014. “El Atlántico
negro: Manuel Zapata Olivella, un precursor de Paul Gilroy.”
10. American Philological Association Annual Meeting 2014. Chicago. January 2014. “The First New
World Tragedy of Manuel Zapata Olivella’s Changó, the Biggest Badass.”
11. Brazilian Studies Association XI. University of Illinois. September 2012. “Póstumo el
Transmigrado, a Pre-incarnation of Brás Cubas.”
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12. National Association of African American Studies National Conference. Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
February 2012. “Afro-McOndo en The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.”
13. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference 2011. University of Kentucky. April 2011. “Rebirth in
Changó, the Biggest Badass and A Color Defect.”
14. Let the Spirit Speak! CUNY African Diaspora Conference. April 2010. “La autobiografía en la nada
clariceana.” published in Let Spirit Speak! Ed. Vanessa K. Valdés.
15. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference 2008. University of Kentucky. April 2008. “The Centaur in
the Garden: The Narrated Body.”
16. Consortium for American Higher Education Collaboration Conference. San Juan, PR. October 2005.
“La Cuarterona de Tapia: ¿Obra subversiva?”
Local and Regional Presentations
1. “The Pedagogy of the Possessed in Nei Lopes’s novel Oiobomé.” Black Resistance and Negotiation
in Latin America and the Caribbean: Runaway Slave Communities. UAB. October 2016.
2. “The African Diaspora in Latin America.” UAB Interdisciplinary Haddin Forum. February 2016.
3. (with Daina Mason). “Lengua y Ritmos: La Diáspora Africana en Latinoamérica.”
Alabama World Language Association. January 2016. Troy University.
4. “Latino Americans: The New Latinos.” UAB Sterne Library guest speaker. October 2015.
5. BSA Symposium on Brazil. University of Georgia. March 2015. “Three Candles on
Three Continents: Ana Maria Gonçalves’s Um defeito de cor in a Black Atlantic Context.”
6. Foreign Language Film Conference VII. University of Alabama at Birmingham.
“Coronel Delmiro Gouveia: A Monument to World War I Brazil.”
7. Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Public Lecture. “A Bigger Black Atlantic: Manuel
Zapata Olivella, a Precursor to Paul Gilroy.” April 2014.
8. New Sources for the Study of Slave Societies. Ecclesiastical Sources on Slave Societies. Vanderbilt.
February 2012. “Manuel Zapata Olivella: Diary of an Afro-Hispanic Renaissance Man.”
9. South Atlantic Modern Language Association 2012. November 2012. “Reinaldo Arenas, cimarrón.”
Durham, North Carolina.
10. Vanderbilt Center for Latin American Studies Graduate Student Roundtable. January 2011. “Os
espíritos secretos em Esaú e Jacó.”
11. Vanderbilt Graduate Student Conference: “Bodies and Oddities with Diamela Eltit.” October 2010.
“A castração feminina em Um defeito de cor.”
12. Georgia Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Conference. University of Georgia. March 2006.
“Fuego fatuo: Existential frustration in the Short Fiction of Mario Vargas Llosa.”
13. University of Georgia Women’s Studies Symposium. March 2006. “Manuel Puig’s The Buenos
Aires Affair: Body, City, Masculinity.”
Professional Activity:
Interviews
1. “Palenque de San Basilio hoy: Entrevista con Víctor Simarra.” PALARA 18 (2014): 85–95. College
of Charleston.
2. “Dos islas: Una entrevista a Isabel Allende.” Caribe. 17.1-2 (2014–2015): 101–12. Marquette U; U
of North Florida.
3. “Inpiração e viagens através da diáspora: Uma entrevista com Ana Maria Gonçalves”
Afro-Hispanic Review 30.2 (2012): 167-80. Vanderbilt.
Grants and Academic Awards:
1. Alabama Humanities Foundation Major Grant: K-12 Spanish Teacher Workshop on Afro-Latin
American Culture. 7-8 October 2016.
2. UAB College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Development Grant: Black Resistance and Negotiation in
Latin America Colloquium, 7-8 October 2016.
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3. (with Ling Ma). 2016 UAB Center for Teaching and Learning Teaching Innovation
and Development Grant. “Do Skype Conversation Partners . . . Help Students Learn a Foreign
Language?”
4. American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Member Spotlight, December 2015..
5. Faculty Fellows in Engaged Scholarship: Training in Service-Learning and Funding for Puerto Rico
2016 Study Abroad Trip with Students.
6. American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Outstanding Scholarly
Publication Award for a Hispania Article (“Afroreggae”).
7. UAB Dean’s Grant for book of literary criticism: Slavery, Sex, and Women in Today’s Puerto Rican
Historical Novels
8. Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Harper Dissertation Completion Fellowship,
2013–2014.
9. Vanderbilt University Miguel Enguídanos Award for Excellence in Research. “Juliet of the Tropics:
A Translation of Alejandro Tapia y Rivera’s La cuarterona (1867).” 2012.
10. Vanderbilt Arts and Science Summer Research Award. 2011.
11. Tinker Field Research Award. 2010.
Service:
Academic Journals
1. Estudios de Literatura Colombiana Journal Reader, Fall 2016.
2. Afro-Hispanic Review
Editorial Board, 2014–Present.
Vanderbilt Editorial Board. Fall 2011–2014.
Assistant Editor. Fall 2010–Spring 2011.
3. Hispania Journal Reader. Spring 2013–Present.
4. Vanderbilt E-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies Journal Reader. Fall 2014-Jan. 2015.
Service to the Profession
1. College/University Representative, American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.
November 2016-Present.
2. Conference Program Selection Committee, American Association of Teachers of Spanish and
Portuguese. August 2016-Present.
3. Higher Education Committee, American Association of Teachers of Spanish and
Portuguese. August 2015-Present.
4. Vice President, Alabama Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. February
2015-present.
5. Selection Committee, “First-Time-Attendee Scholarship.” American Association of
Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. January 2015.
6. Comité Científico, Homenaje Internacional a Manuel Zapata Olivella. Popayán,
Colombia. 19-21 November 2014.
Service to UAB DFLL
1. Annual Review Committee, Malinda O’Leary. April-May 2016.
2. “Spanish and Service Learning in Puerto Rico” May mini-term Organizer and Faculty
Leader. May 2016.
3. “Palomitas” Spanish and Latin American Film Club. Faculty Sponsor. Spring 2015Present.
4. Chair, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures “Outstanding Student”
Award Taskforce. Spring 2015.
5. Hosted Guest Speaker Armin Schwegler from University of California, Irvine.
November 2015.
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6. Hosted Guest Speakers Michael Ferreira and João Telles from Georgetown University
to give a workshop on Skype in the Foreign Language Classroom. March 2015.
7. Hosted Guest Speaker Giovani López from the University of Alabama to present on
Colombian linguistics. March 2015.
8. Member, DFLL Publications Taskforce. Fall 2014.
9. Collaborated with J. Richard Andrews’ family to bring over 3,000 books to UAB.
Service to UAB College of Arts and Sciences
1. Co-Organized Black Resistance and Negotiation in Latin America Colloquium on Runaway Slave
Communities. Hosted 19 speakers from 4 countries, 7 disciplines, and 4 UAB departments.
7-8 October 2016.
Professional Development:
1. Alabama Association of Foreign Language Teachers Conference. Montgomery. January
2015.
2. UAB Faculty Fellows in Engaged Scholarship Workshops. Fall 2015-Spring 2016.
3. UAB Center for Teaching and Learning Certificate in Effective Teaching Practice:
Attended five workshops. Fall 2014.
Professional Organizations
1. American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. 2004-Present.
2. Asociación de Colombianistas. 2016-Present.
3. Modern Language Association. 2013-Present.
4. Alabama World Languages Association/Alabama Association of Foreign Language Teachers.
2014-Present.
5. American Comparative Literature Association. 2014-2015.
6. Latin American Studies Association. 2014-Present.
7. Afro-Latin American Research Association. 2014-2016.