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MICHAEL J. HORSWELL, PhD
Department of Languages, Linguistics, and Comparative Literature
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Florida 33431
(561) 297-3863; [email protected]
Web page: http://www.fau.edu/llcl/Horswell.php
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY, Boca Raton (5/2005-present)
Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature
Associate faculty in Comparative Literature, Caribbean and Latin American Studies,
and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY, Boca Raton (9/1998 to 5/2005)
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature
FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY, Boca Raton (9/1997 to 9/1998)
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish Golden Age Literature
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, College Park (9/1992 to 7/1997)
Teaching Assistant: Responsible for planning, teaching and evaluating Spanish classes.
ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
FLORDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY, Boca Raton
Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and
Letters, (12/2012 to present)
*Assist the Dean in the overall management and strategic planning of the college,
including faculty hiring and retention, public programs, budgeting and financial
planning, development, and academic administration related to graduate programs and
research initiatives.
*Serve as college liaison to Graduate College, Division of Research, Center for Global
Engagement, and Center for eLearning.
Director, PhD in Comparative Studies, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, an
interdisciplinary PhD program with tracks in Fine and Performing Arts; Cultures,
Languages and Literatures; and Public Intellectuals (8/2012-1/2017)
*Responsible for all curricular, schedule, budgetary, and programmatic issues
*Primary academic advisor for 50 active PhD students
*Chaired the PhD Executive Committee
*Supervised program coordinator and research assistants
Chair, Department of Languages, Linguistics, and Comparative Literature (8/2008-12/2012)
*Responsible for supporting and supervising 27 full-time faculty, 10 adjunct faculty, 42
Graduate Teaching Assistants, and 3 staff
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*Oversaw the BA degrees in French, Italian, Linguistics, and Spanish
*Oversaw the MA degrees in French, Linguistics, Comparative Literature, and Spanish
*Managed an annual departmental budget of $2, 078, 910. 00
*Managed enrollment and scheduling for approximately 130 classes per semester
*Served on Dean’s College Management Council
*Promoted departmental public events and lectures
*Co-PI, Title VI USIFL grant to add Arabic and Chinese languages to dept., 2010-2013
Associate Chair and Director of Graduate Studies (9/2004-9/2008)
* Managed enrollment and scheduling for approximately 130 classes per semester
*Recruited graduate students to our department; managed graduate admissions; advised
graduate students; certified graduate student graduation
*Assisted chair on special projects
Head of Spanish Studies (9/2005-8/2008)
*Served as primary advisor to Spanish majors and MA students
*Supervised Spanish language program director and Spanish instructors
*Planned special events and promoted the BA and MA programs
*Hired and scheduled Spanish adjunct faculty
TEACHING AND RESEARCH FIELDS
Latin American Colonial Literature
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Andean Studies, Indigenismo
Colonial and Post-colonial Studies
19th Century Latin American Literature
Spanish Language for Business Purposes
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, College Park
Ph.D. in Spanish American Literature, December, 1997.
CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS REGIONALES ANDINOS “BARTOLOMÉ DE LAS CASAS” Cuzco,
Perú, Summers 1995, 1996.
Graduate seminar series: “Andean Linguistics and Quechua Language”
Graduate seminar series: “Society and Culture of the Andes”
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE, Middlebury, Vermont and Madrid, Spain
Masters of Arts in Spanish Studies, August, 1989.
ROTARY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL SCHOLAR, 1988
Graduate work in International Economics at the Universidad de Belgrano, Argentina
WOFFORD COLLEGE, Spartanburg, South Carolina
Bachelor of Arts, Spanish and Business Economics, May, 1987.
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SCHOLARSHIP
Books
Sexualidades Periféricas. Consolidaciones literarias y fílmicas en la España de fin de siglo XIX y
fin de milenio. Co-edited with Nuria Godón. Madrid: Fundamentos, 2016. 294 pages.
Baroque Projections: Images and Texts in Dialogue with Early Modern Hispanic World.
Co-edited with Frederic Conrod. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs, 2016. 263
pages.
Sumergido/Submerged: Cine alternativo cubano (Alternative Cuban Cinema). Co-edited with Luis
Duno-Gottberg. Houston: Literal Publishing, 2013. 173 pages.
La descolonización del sodomita en los Andes coloniales, Spanish translation of Decolonizing the
Sodomite: Queer Tropes of Sexuality in Colonial Andean Culture. Austin: University of Texas
Press, 2005. (Published by Abya-Yala Press, Quito, Ecuador, 2010; second edition, 2013). 402
pages.
Decolonizing the Sodomite: Queer Tropes of Sexuality in Colonial Andean Culture. Austin:
University of Texas Press, 2005. 331 pages.
Book chapters
“Introducción: Sexualidades periféricas.” By Nuria Godón and Michael J. Horswell in
Sexualidades Periféricas. Consolidaciones literarias y fílmicas en la España de fin de siglo XIX y
fin de milenio. Madrid: Fundamentos, 2016. 7-31.
“Introduction: Trans-Historical Projections of the Hispanic Baroque” by Michael J. Horswell and
Frederic Conrod in Baroque Projections: Images and Texts in Dialogue with Early Modern
Hispanic World. Co-edited with Frederic Conrod. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic
Monographs, 2016. 9-22.
“Inca Garcilaso and Transnational Identity: At the Crossroads of the Digital Humanities and
Transatlantic Studies” in MLA Approaches to Teaching Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Eds. José
Antonio Mazzotti and Christian Fernández. In press, 2017.
“Hacia un tercer cine queer: La crítica de cuerpos y espacios transnacionales en Dependencia
sexual de Rodrigo Bellot.” Book chapter in Miradas al margen. Cine y subalternidad en América
Latina y el Caribe. Ed. Luis Duno-Gottberg. Caracas: Fundación Cinemateca Nacional de
Venezuela, 2009. 157-180.
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“‘Perros aucas’ y ‘Mati-umas:’ Una lectura de la representación ideológica de los Cañari en las
crónicas.” Book chapter in Encuentro Nacional Sobre Historia del Azuay Cuenca 2007. Edited by
Juan Cordero Iñiguez. Universidad de Cuenca (Ecuador), 2008. 220-230.
“Transatlantic Performances of Hybridity in Sor Juana´s Baroque Festival, Los empeños de una
casa.” Crosscurrents: Transatlantic Perspectives on Early Modern Hispanic Drama, eds. Bonnie
Gasior and Mindy E. Badía. Bucknell: Bucknell UP, 2006. 64-84.
“Toward an Andean Theory of Ritual, Same-sex Sexuality and Third Gender Subjectivity,” in
Peter Sigal, ed., Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2003. 25-69.
“Un sacrificio fundacional: el Inca Garcilaso, los sodomitas, y la identidad híbrida del
cronista,” in Jorge Bracamonte Allaín, ed., De Amores y Luchas: Diversidad Sexual, Derechos
Humanos y Ciudadania. Lima, Peru: Centro de la Mujer Peruana “Flora Tristán,” 2001. 81-103.
Journal Articles
“’The museum cross-dressed as a museum:’ Neo-Baroque Language and Peripheral Activist
Aesthetics in the Museo travesti de Perú.” Journal of Language and Sexuality 5.2 (2016):
222-249.
“Transnational Discourses of Peripheral Sexualities in the Hispanic World.” Co-authored
introduction (with Nuria Godon) to special issue of the Journal of Language and Sexuality 5.2
(2016): 145-154.
“Negotiating Apostasy in Vilcabamba: Titu Cusi Yupanqui Writes from the Chaupi.” Romanic
Review 103 Nos. 1-2 (January-March 2012): 81-110. (Special volume on “Examining Heretical
Thought,” edited by José Rabasa and Jesús Rodríguez Velasco).
“El cuerpo y la memoria en El nueva corónica de Guaman Poma de Ayala.” Kipus: Revista Andina
de Letras 11 (September, 2000). 55-67.
“Ciclos de tiempo, espacio, y sangre en el Popol Vuh y la cultura Maya”. Ojo de Buey 4 (1995)
19-27.
Bibliographic Essays, Encyclopedia Entries, Book Reviews
“Baroque and Neo-Baroque in the Americas,” Oxford Bibliographies in Latin American Studies.
Ed. Ben Vinson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Review of “¿Cómo se piensa lo “queer” en América Latina? Coordinadores: María Amelia
Viteri, José Fernando Serrano, y Salvador Vidal-Ortiz. Iconos. Revista de Ciencias Sociales.
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Número 39, enero 2011. Quito, Ecuador. In Journal of Language and Sexuality, 2.2 (2013):
321-328.
Encyclopedia of Latin America: Amerindians through the Age of Globalizations, Ed. J. Michael
Francis. NY: Facts on File, 2010. Entries on
“Amazon women”
“Francisco Pizarro”
“Hernando Pizarro”
“Pedro Pizarro”
Working Papers
“Time and Control in a Mexican Maquiladora: A Case Study,” Occasional Paper #82, CIBER,
University of Maryland, College Park, August, 1996. 1-35.
“Mexico--U.S. Negotiation Simulation: A Cross-Cultural Business Exercise,” CIBER/IBFL,
University of Maryland, College Park (1994), co-authored with Doreen Bass and Roberta Lavine.
1-34.
WORK IN PROGRESS
“Andean Sexuality;” “Confessional Manuals in Colonial Latin America”; “Third Gender” for
Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History. (3,000 word
entries; under contract for August 31, 2017).
“Un suplemento barroco transatlántico: El martirio mimético de Guamán Poma de Ayala.” (journal
article in progress)
PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES AND OTHER VENUES
International
“El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega en la encrucijada de las Humanidades Digitales,” VII Congreso
Internacional de la Asociación Hispánica de Humanidades, Santiago de Compostela, June, 2014.
“Martirio, masoquismo y mímesis en la Nueva corónica y buen gobierno
de Guamán Poma de Ayala,” Latin American Studies Association, Toronto, Canada, October,
2010.
“Transcultural Betrayals of Empire: Inca Gracilaso, Tirso de Molina, and the Inequities of Colonial
Ethnicity and Gender,” Latin American Studies Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 11, 2009.
“Descolonización de tropos de la sexualidad en los Andes.” Biblioteca y Archivo Nacional de
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Bolivia; Sucre, Bolivia, 20 de junio, 2007. (Invited lecture)
“‘Perros aucas’ y ‘Mati-umas:’ Una lectura de la representación ideológica de los Cañari en las
crónicas.” History Symposium: “Cuenca 500 Años,” Cuenca, Ecuador, April, 2007. (Invited
keynote lecture)
“Escribir en el chaupi: La subjetividad “ladina” en los textos coloniales.” XVI Simposio
Internacional de Literaturas Indígenas Latino-Americanas (Latin American Indian Literatures
Association annual conference). Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 9-12, 2003.
“Un sacrificio fundacional: el Inca Garcilaso, los sodomitas, y la identidad híbrida del cronista,”
International symposium, “De Amores y Luchas: Diversidad Sexual, Derechos Humanos y
Ciudadania,” Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru, September 13, 2000.
“Languages, Cultures, and International Business” (co-presented with Laurie Nesbitt) at
UNISUL´s College of Languages and Literatures, Florianopolis, Brazil, May, 2000.
Organized and chaired panel: “Cuerpos transgredidos, memorias subalternas en textos coloniales;”
Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana (JALLA), Cuzco, Peru. August 13, 2000.
“Cuerpos rituales como memoria subalterna,” Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana
(JALLA), Cuzco, Peru, August 13, 1999.
“El Concilio de Trento y la formación de subjetividades sexuales en crónicas andinas,” Latin
American Studies Association XX International Congress, Guadalajara, Mexico, April, 1997.
“La transculturación del género sexual indígena en la historiografía colonial peruana,”
Universidad de San Marcos, Lima, Perú. June, 1996. (Invited lecture).
National
“Los tormentos de Guaman Poma de Ayala: Afecto y martirio en el suplemento “Camina el autor”
de su Nueva corónica y buen gobierno.” Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton
University, April 12, 2017. (invited lecture)
“Postcolonial Ekphrasis in the Poems of Odi Gonzales’ La escuela de Cusco,” Society for
Amazonian and Andean Studies 2015 conference, September 27, 2015, Baton Rogue, LA.
“Transvestisms of National Identity and Decolonizing from Peripheral Spaces: El museo travesti
de Perú,” Discourses of Peripheral Sexualities in Hispanic Studies Symposium, Florida Atlantic
University, April 18, 2014.
"Project-Based Learning for On-line Language Courses," IALLT 2013 Conference, Ft. Lauderdale,
FL, June 14, 2013 (Henderson Award finalist)
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“Un suplemento barroco transatlántico: El martirio mimético de Guamán Poma de Ayala.” Paper
presented at the Early Modern Image and Text (EMIT) Society Conference, October, 2012.
“Transcultural Betrayals of Empire: Inca Garcilaso, Tirso de Molina, and the Imaginings of a
Mestizo Kingdom.” Invited lecture, Rice University Global Hispanisms Lecture Series, November,
2008.
“Toward a Queer “Third Cinema:” The Critique of Transnational Spaces and Bodies in Roger
Bellot’s Dependencia sexual.” Presented at Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference,
American University, Washington, DC, February 15, 2008.
“Desiring Pizarro(s), Sacrificing Coyas in Early Modern Transatlantic Literature.” Presented at
“Questioning Colonialism,” 16th Annual Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Interdisciplinary
Symposium, University of Miami, January, 2007.
“Reenactments of Conquest: Sexuality, Violence, and Mimetic Desire in the Andes.” Presented at
2006 Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory: “Commemorating Encounters:
Reenactments and Reinterpretations,” November, 2006.
“The Heresies of Mestizaje: Writing from the Chaupi in Andean Colonial Literature.” Presented
at Semmycolon’s seminar, “Examining Heretical Thought,” Department of Spanish and
Portuguese, University of California, Berkeley, February 7-10, 2006
“Performing Mestizaje in Early Colonial Peru: Doña Francisca Pizarro and the Ideologies of Race,
Gender, Class, and Religion.” Presented at the Modern Language Association annual conference,
December 28, 2005.
“Playing Moros y Cristianos in the Andes: Guaman Poma’s Mimicry of Difference and the
Execution of Túpac Amaru.” Presented at Tulane University’s Gulf Coast Colonial Latin
American Studies symposium. February 18, 2005.
"Ipa Mama Huaco: From Third Gender Corn Mother to Queer Inca Tyrant," Invited Lecture,
Department of History, Florida State University, March 19, 2004.
“From Morisco luxuria to Inca sodomía: The Invention of Indigenous Sin in Colonial Andean
Ecclesiastical Literature,” Ethnohistory Conference, November 8, 2003.
“Figuring the Moor in Transatlantic Discourses of Coloniality” 12th Annual Interdisciplinary
Symposium in Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Studies: “Islam,” University of Miami,
February 21-22, 2003.
“Transatlantic Performances of Hybridity in Sor Juana´s Baroque Festival, Los empeños de una
casa,” Association of Hispanic Classical Theatre conference, El Paso, Texas, March 7, 2003.
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“Transculturation in a Ladino´s Relación: A Queer, Third Space in the Andes,” “(In)versions of the
New World: Writing Race, Religion and Sex in Colonial Latin America;” 36th Annual Symposium
on Comparative Literature at Texas Tech University, March 13-15, 2003.
“Of Beards and Swords: Performing Masculinity in El poema de mio Cid,” University of Miami´s
Annual Symposium in Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Studies, “Performance and
Performativity,” March 2, 2002.
“A ´Queer´ Story in Colonial Andean Literature: Santacruz Pachacuti´s Relación de
antiguedades,” Florida State University´s 27th Annual Conference on Literature and Film, January
24-26, 2002.
“En venta: Developing Sales Language and Techniques in the Business Spanish Classroom,”
Thunderbird-EMU 2000, Language, Communication and Global Management, April 5-8, 2000.
“Business Spanish at Florida Atlantic University,” Thunderbird-EMU 2000,
Language, Communication and Global Management, April 5-8, 2000.
“A Task-Based Marketing Project for Business Spanish,” Eastern Michigan University
Conference on Languages and Communication for World Business and the Professions, March,
1999.
“Supay Sexuality: Re-evaluating Andean Feminine Autonomy in the Huarochirí Manuscript,”
“Imaginarios Femeninos:” XI Conferencia Internacional de la Asociación de Literatura Femenina
Hispánica, September, 1998.
“Colonial Transculturation of Subjectivity in the Viceroyalty of Peru,” Modern Language
Association Convention, Washington, D.C., December, 1996.
“La construcción cultural del ´sodomita´ en textos coloniales andinos,” Latin American Studies
Association International Congress, September, 1995.
“Destablizing Gender Categories in 17th Century Spain: Lope de Vega's La vengadora de las
mujeres,” Lavender Languages and Linguistics, American University, September, 1995.
“El mito como discurso subalterno en la imaginación protonacional peruana,” 20th Century
Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February, 1995.
“Inca Garcilaso's Relational Subalternity in the Comentarios reales,” Conference on Colonial
andPost-colonial Literatures and Cultures, Georgetown University, April, 1994.
“Un ejemplo del control del imaginario en el 'americanismo literario': El matadero,” University of
Georgia's “International Conference on Representations of Love and Hate,” October, 1993.
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Regional
Keynote panel presenter (invited), Florida Consortium of Women’s Studies Annual Conference,
“Gendered and Racialized Technologies of Change;” April 1, 2011; “From Decolonization to
Queer Activism: The Museo Travesti de Perú”
Keynote speaker (invited), Ninth Annual Latin American and Caribbean Studies Graduate Student
Conference (FIU, U of Miami, FAU), April 14, 2011; “Transvestisms of National Identity: El
museo travesti de Perú”
“Writing on the Frontiers of the Spanish Empire” Public lecture at the Norton Museum, in
conjunction with the exhibition, “Spain in the Age of Exploration.” February 15, 2005.
“Advertising in the Business Spanish Class,” Hispanic Advertising Seminar, Florida
International University, May, 1999. (Invited lecture).
“Third Gender as Andean Subaltern: Re-reading Spanish and Mestizo Historiography from the
16th and 17th Centuries,” Across the Curriculum: Contemporary Issues in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Studies, a Mid-Atlantic Conference, Mary Washington College, February, 1996.
“The Learner-centered Business Language Classroom: Successes and Pitfalls,” Graduate
Colloquium on Peninsular and Latin American Literature, Culture, and Language, Catholic
University of America, April, 1995.
“Cross-cultural Simulation in the Business Language Classroom,” Eastern Michigan University
Conference on Languages and Communication for World Business and the Professions, April,
1995.
“El exilio interno y la voz subalterna de José María Arguedas en El zorro de arriba y el zorro de
abajo,” The Philological Society of the Carolinas, University of North Carolina at Asheville,
March, 1995.
“Hermaphrodites or Androgynes?: A 17th Century Debate on Women and Learning,” Center for
Renaissance and Baroque Studies, University of Maryland, December, 1994.
WORKSHOPS CONDUCTED IN BUSINESS LANGUAGE PEDAGOGY
“Teaching Business Spanish,” Florida Foreign Language Association, October, 1998.
“Beyond Bullfights and Berets: New Approaches to Teaching 'Deep Culture',” Eastern Michigan
University's Conference on Languages and Communication for World Business and the
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Professions, April, 1996.
“Playing at Business: Computer Simulations for Cross-Cultural Communication,” Eastern
Michigan University's Conference on Languages and Communication for World Business and
the Professions, April, 1996.
“Captivating Through Context: ´Real World´ Activities for the Business Language Classroom,”
workshop for faculty of South Georgia's Nine College Consortium for International Studies,
October, 1995.
“Developing Curriculum and Resources for the Business Spanish Language Class,” University of
Maryland's workshop, “Getting Started: The Business Language Classroom,” June, 1995.
“Playing at Business: Computer Simulations for Cross-Cultural Communication,” Eastern
Michigan University Conference on Languages and Communication for World Business and the
Professions, April, 1995.
EDITORIAL WORK
Referee, Hispanic Review, 2015
Referee, Hispanic Review, 2014
Referee, Perífrasis: Revista de Literatura, Teoría, Crítica, 2014
Referee, Hispanic Review, 2011
Referee, Ohio State UP, 2011
Referee, Latin American Research Review, 2006
Referee, Latin American Historical Review, 2004
Textbook review of Visión y voz for John Wiley and Sons, Inc. (February, 2000)
Textbook review of Cada uno a su manera for Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. (June, 1997)
Textbook review of Arriba for Simon and Schuster, Inc. (April, 1995)
Textbook review of Paralelos for Paramount Publishing, Inc. (July, 1994)
Textbook review of Mosaicos for Paramount Publishing, Inc. (November, 1994)
COURSES DEVELOPED AND TAUGHT
Undergraduate Courses created and taught, unless noted:
LGBTQ Literature and Film from Latin America and the Latinx Diaspora (in English)
Road Movies and Travel Tales from Latin America (in Spanish and English)
Latin American Culture and Civilization (fully on-line modality, in Spanish)
Latin American Culture and Civilization (face-to-face modality, in Spanish)
Andean Cultural Studies in Ecuador (in Spanish and English)
Andean Cultural Studies in Peru (in Spanish and English)
Love and Desire in Latin American Literature and Film (in Spanish)
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Spanish Peninsular Literature and Film (taught in Salamanca, in Spanish)
Cultural History of Salamanca and Spain (taught in Salamanca, in Spanish)
Orality and Writing in Colonial and Post-colonial Andean Literature (in Spanish)
Spanish American Literature until 1880 (in Spanish)
Introduction to Hispanic Literature (in Spanish, using dept. syllabus)
Introduction to Latin American Studies (in English)
Spanish Peninsular Literature from Medieval to 1800 (in Spanish)
Spanish Peninsular Literature from 1800 to present (in Spanish)
Commercial Spanish I and II (in Spanish)
Cross-Cultural Communication for Business in Mexico (in Spanish at UMCP)
Spanish Language: Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced (in Spanish; using dept. syllabi)
Graduate Courses created and taught:
Andean Film and Literature (in Spanish)
Barroco de Indias y sus antecedentes (in Spanish)
Transatlantic Studies: Escribir en las fronteras del Imperio Español (in Spanish)
Introduction to Literary Theory and the Hispanic Tradition (in Spanish)
Foreign Language Teaching Practicum for Graduate Teaching Assistants (in English)
Literatura Andina: Del Incaismo al Post-indigenismo (in Spanish)
Seminar in Colonial Latin American Literature (in Spanish, specific topics vary)
Gender and Sexuality in Spanish Golden Age Literature (in Spanish)
20th Century Spanish Peninsular Literature and Film (in Spanish)
STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
Andean Cultural Studies Program in Ecuador and Peru (2002-2013)
Founder and director of interdisciplinary study abroad, summer program. Led students on a 6
week study of Andean culture, including home-stays in indigenous communities in the
highlands and the Amazon basin. Coordinated program cooperation with three Ecuadorian
universities. Coordinated participation of other FAU faculty; supervised language instruction
by local teachers; coordinated excursions and experiential learning encounters; recruited
students; directed graduate student research projects in Ecuador and Peru.
Spanish Studies Program in Salamanca, Spain (1999-2001)
Resident director of summer study abroad program in Salamanca, Spain. Supervised language
teachers; coordinated study tours to historical/cultural sites; taught Spanish culture class;
recruited students.
Master’s of Science in International Business Language Program (1999-2005)
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Worked on team to develop the language modules for FAU’s MSIB. Designed graduate level
Spanish and Portuguese for Business courses (six credits). Coordinated instruction with
Brazilian and Spanish partner institutions, UNISUL and ESIC.
PhD DISSERTATION ADVISING
Advisor, Candy Hurtado, “The Subaltern Speaks, the Music and Dance of the Mantaro Valley,
Peru,” (working title), in progress.
Committee member, Betsaida Casanova, “Cuban and Caribbean literature and culture,” (exact
topic to be determined), in progress.
Committee member, Elaine Mendelow, “Jewish Immigrant Autobiographies” (working title), in
progress.
Committee member, Inbal Mazar, “Birth Across Borders: A Comparative Study of
Guatemalan-Maya Maternal Care in San Miguel Acatán and Palm Beach County,” March,
2015.
Advisor, Hernando Olivares, “Translatinamerican Cinema: Confronting and Re-evaluating
Hollywood’s Hegemonic Codes of Representation through New Hybrid Cinematic Forms,” in
progress.
Committee member, Peter Cava, “‘Science fiction girlfriend’: The politics of trans and intersex in
U.S. science fiction television, 1990–present,” April, 2015.
Committee member, Elizabeth Cruz Petersen,“Building a Character: A Somaesthetic Approach to
Comedias and Women of the Stage,” March 2013; published as a book in 2016 with
Routledge, Women's Somatic Training in Early Modern Spanish.
Committee member, Emanuel Alvarado, “Beyond Culture Wars: The Role of Christian Religiosity
in in the Public Support of Social Saftey Net Policies in Contemporary America,” May, 2010.
Advisor, Gabriela Ovando Barrero, “From Subaltern to President: Evo Morales, New Social
Movements, and Autonomies in Bolivia,” Fall 2007 (revised version published as book with
Plural Editores, A grandes males, grandes reformadores, La Paz, Bolivia, 2008)
Committee member, Diana Sinisterra, “Colombian Happiness: A Look at Life Satisfaction and
Explanatory Style,” Fall, 2006 (book version under review at a Colombian press)
MASTERS THESIS ADVISING
Thesis reader, Ricardo Leveratto-Sabogal, Dept. of Anthropology, “The Empathy of a Merciful
Divinity: Symbolic Meanings of the Pacific Ocean Among the Peruvian Fishermen–Surfers
from Huanchaco Beach”, in progress
Thesis reader, Blair Modic, “Tiene su raíz en la tierra: Un estudio comparativo de la visión
indigenista del problema de la tierra en Balún Canán por Rosario Castellanos y “El problema
del indio” por José Carlos Mariátegui,” August, 2010.
Advisor, Ariana Magdaleno, “La identidad velada del Caribe: La deconstrucción del ser en Silena
Serena vestida de pena,” December, 2009.
Thesis reader, Eve Brooks, Dept. of Anthropology, “The Ecuadorian Travestí: An Analysis of
Social Space,” December, 2009.
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Advisor, Enrique Tellez, “Miradas transatlánticas del rebelde: Una reinterpretación de Lope de
Aguirre a través de las crónicas y de la novela del exilio de Ramón J. Sender,” May, 2008.
Thesis reader, Alfredo Palacio, “Tejidos arquitectónicos: Exploraciones de la dinámica entre el
individuo y la ciudad en “Walking Around” de Pablo Neruda y Aura de Carlos Fuentes,”
August, 2008.
Thesis reader, Inbal Mazar, “Imagenes de la muher transgresora en la tradición romancera, el
romance celestinesco y la adultera como eco de las normas sociales sefardies,” December,
2008.
Thesis reader, Elizabeth Cruz Petersen, “La transformación de la bruja en las obras de Maria de
Zayas,” May, 2008.
Thesis reader, Javier Fernandez, “La fuerza del al tradición: Representaciones del estudiante en la
novela picaresca,” December, 2008.
Thesis reader, Clarisse Bandeira de Mello, “Atraves(s)ando fronteras: La traducción del portugués
al español de la novela brasileña Adeus, Rios dulce,” December, 2008.
Advisor, Mario Mantilla, ““El discurso andino en Los ríos profundos,” May, 2007.
Advisor, Nuria Duff, “Más allá de las palabras: La textualidad en los tejidos de Jalq’a y Tarabuco,”
May 2006.
Thesis reader, Maria Eugenia Rojas, “El estado, el bandido, y la violencia en Gustavo Alvares
Gardeazabal,” May, 2006.
Thesis reader, Jason Hawkins, “Mesianismo imperialista en el Siglo de Oro: Experiencia
imperialista y espiritualidad mesiánica en el caso de Cristóbal Colón”, August 2006
Advisor, Alejandra Peyronnel, “Literatura ‘gauchista’ y la denuncia social de Benito Lynch en Los
caranchos de la Florida y El inglés de los guesos”, August, 2005.
Thesis reader, John Colhouer, “Y tu hijo también: La representación de la masculinidad en la
literatura y cine mexicanos (1915-2001),” May, 2005.
Thesis reader, Marcela Baez: “La identidad racial y cultural en la obra de Alicia Yánez Cossio”,
May 2005
Advisor, Anabel Ramirez, “¿Una nación afro-ecuatoriana?: Un estudio de Juyungo y El último río
de Adalberto Ortiz y Nelson Estupiñan Bass,” May, 2004.
Advisor, Silvia Lanza, “El desengaño en el poema épico, La Argentina.” May, 2002.
Thesis reader, Angela Martin, “Maldito amor and Sweet Diamond Dust: Rosario Ferre Between
Languages,” Spring 2000.
Thesis reader, Karen Lewis Scorza, “Jazz Discourse in Julio Cortázar´s Rayuela: Improvising a
Narrative,” Spring 2000.
Thesis reader, Ana Adriazola , “Portrayal of Annihilation of Women´s Artistic Creativity in
Selected Works by Elena Poniatowska,” Spring 2000.
Co-advisor, Gabriela Ovando Barrero, “La aventura del héroe: Una aproximación crítica a
Lituma en los Andes,” Spring, 1999.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Current Administrative Positions:
Associate Dean, College of Arts and Letters, December, 2012 to present
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Current College and University Service:
College of Arts and Letters Liaison to the Office of International Programs
Member, ex oficio, College Graduate Programs Committee
Member, ex oficio, Executive Committee, Ph.D. in Comparative Studies
Member, University Research Council
Member, University Graduate Associate Deans Committee
Member, University´s Center for eLearning Advisory Board
Member, Faculty Committee, Caribbean and Latin American Studies Certificate
Affiliate, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Chair, Search Committee, Director of Education Abroad, December, 2016 -January 2017
Past Administrative and Service Positions:
Director, PhD in Comparative Studies, August, 2012 to January, 2017
Chair, Executive Committee, Ph.D., August, 2012 to January, 2017
Member, Provost´s task force on Post Tenure Review, July 2014-December, 2016
Steering Committee, Peace, Justice, and Human Rights Initiative, Spring, 2014-2016
Program Reviewer, FAU’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Spring 2016
Program Reviewer, FAU’s Department of Biological Sciences, Spring 2015
Member, Search Committee for Vice President of Research, July 2014-November 2014
Member, College Strategic Planning Task Force, 2012-2013
Program Reviewer, FAU’s School of Social Work, Spring, 2014
Chair, Search Committee for Interim Dean of the College of Science, July, 2013
Chair, Department of Languages, Linguistics, and Comparative Literature, August, 2008 to
December, 2012
Contributor, QEP proposal, “Integrating and expanding a “culture of research and scholarship” at
FAU through the framework of an honors program,” Spring, 2011
Interim Director of Jewish Studies (9/2009-9/2010)
Member, University Research Priority Steering Committee, 2010
Director, Andean Cultural Studies Program in Ecuador, Summers of 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Associate Chair, Department of Languages, Linguistics, and Comparative Literature (LLCL)
Fall, 2004 – Summer, 2008
Head of the Spanish Studies Program, Fall 2005 to Summer, 2008
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of LLCL, Fall 2002-Summer, 2008
Member, departmental P&T Guidelines Revisions committee Fall, 2007, Spring 2008
Member, Search Committee, Study Abroad Coordinator, Office of International Programs
Chair, Search Committee, Assistant Professor in Spanish Linguistics and SLA, Spring 2007
Member, Search Committee, Assistant Professor in Italian Studies, Spring 2007
Member, Search Committee, Schmidt Chair in Humanities, Fall 2003 to Spring 2004
Director, Latin American Studies Certificate program, 2000-2004
Member, Planning Committee, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2002-2005
Chair, Search Committee, Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics, Fall, 2006
Member, Search Committee, Assistant Professor of Italian, Fall, 2006
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Chair, Search Committee, Caribbean Literature Assistant Professor, Spring, 2003
Member, Search Committee, Second Language Acquisition-Spanish, Spring, 2003
Faculty liaison to FAU´s language programs in Spain and Ecuador, Spring 1999 - present
Faculty liaison to FAU´s Masters of Science in International Business, 1999 -2005
Acting Head of Spanish, Spring, 2002
Undergraduate Spanish Minor Advisor, 1998-2002
Chair, Study Abroad Committee, Fall 1999-2001
Acting Head of Spanish, Spring 2000
Acting Director of Latin American Studies Certificate program, Spring, 2000
Resident Director, FAU Study Abroad Program in Salamanca, Spain, Summers 1999-2001
Member, Search Committee, Caribbean Literature Associate Professor, 2000-2001
Chair, Search Committee, Golden Age Literature Assistant Professor, 1999-2000
Member, Search Committee, Chair of Languages and Linguistics, Spring, 2000
Member, Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Language Pedagogy, Spring 1999
Member, Distinguished Lecturers Committee, 1998-99, Summer 2000
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND PUBLIC PROGRAMING
Program Reviewer, Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics, Concordia
University, January 2016.
Co-organizer, Simposio: Sexualidades Periféricas en la Tradición Hispánica, FAU, April 2014
(25 papers presented)
Co-organizer, PJHR Symposium: “Eugenics: Race, Public Health and the Science of
Nationalism,” February 10, 2014; 10 papers and 2 keynote speakers presented.
Program Reviewer, MA in Comparative Literature, Dept. of Comparative and World Literature,
San Francisco State University, Oct. 21, 22, 2013.
Co-organizer and local host of “Sumergido: Festival de Cine Alternativo Cubano,” September 27,
28, 29, 2013. (Screenings of 18 contemporary Cuban films with discussions and lectures; in
collaboration with Rice, Tulane, and Princeton Universities).
Co-organizer of the IALLT conference, June 11-15, 2013, FAU and Pine Crest School (125 papers
presented)
Advisor to PhD Student Association conference, “Examining Public Voice, Human Rights, and
Social Justice across Time and Space”, April 5 and 6, 2013. (30 papers presented, 3 keynote
speakers)
Guest speaker, Palm Beach State College Spanish Film Festival, presented and led Q&A on “Y
también la lluvia” and “La teta asustada,” April 3 and 12, 2013.
Co-organizer of the Early Modern Image and Text (EMIT) Society Conference, October, 2012,
FAU. (25 papers presented)
Organizing committee, International symposium, “French Cultures of Embodiment,” March
26-27, 2010 (25 papers presented)
Organizer and host, Poetry for World Peace, student poetry reading in honor of the Dalai Lama,
February, 2010
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Faculty reader, Latin American Studies Graduate Student Conference (FIU, FAU, UM), April,
2010
Co-organizer, Southeast Conference on Amazonian and Andean Studies, Sept. 19-20, 2008 (65
papers presented)
Organizing committee, special exhibition, “Furia y redención: El arte de Oswaldo Guayasamín,”
Fall, 2008
Organizer, Ecuadorian Film Festival, Fall, 2008
Organizer and Host, Latin American Poetry Reading, Fall, 2008
Conducted three days of seminars for professors and tourism professionals at the Universidad de
Cuenca, Ecuador, on Colonial Andean culture and literature: “Cultura colonial andina:
“Escribiendo desde el chaupi en las fronteras del imperio español,” July, 2006.
Principal organizer of the year-long series, “Voices and Images from Latin America,” 2003-2004
HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS
PI and Co-supervisor for Dr. Heiko Motschenbacher’s Marie Curie Global Fellowship, “Linguistic
Dimensions of Sexual Normativity,” from the European Commission. (FAU’s expected
overhead and direct cost revenue over two years, funded for 2017-2019: 34, 800 Euros)
Subcontract PI, South Florida Partnership for Japanese Studies, grant from Japan Foundation,
November 2012 ($29,506.00 for FAU, funded for 2013-2016)
Co-PI, US Dept. of Education Title VI grant: “Strengthening Asian Studies at FAU” (funded for
2010-12, $198,000)
Co-PI, Florida Humanities Council mini-grant: “Filmmaking in Haiti, Before and After” (funded,
$2,000)
PI- Grant Application to Fulbright Commission for FLTA in Chinese (chosen as alternate for
2009-10)
Co-PI, Grant application to the Legacy Jewish Heritage Project for public programs: “Judaism
through the Ages: Survival, Dialogue, and Transformation.” ($20,000; not funded)
Nominated to the Modern Language Association’s Executive Committee of the Division on
Colonial Latin American Literature, 2009-2014
Faculty Advisor for “Puentes al mundo” Collaborative Curriculum Challenge Grant, Palm Beach
County School District (funded for 2008-2009)
Nominated for the FAU President’s Leadership Award, 2006
Co-PI, Florida Humanities Council Grant for “Untold Testimonies of Human Rights: The Legacy
of Oswaldo Guayasamín,” Grant director for CLACS public programs for 2004-05,
submitted May 7, 2004 (not funded)
FAU Division of Research summer grant for research project, 2003: “Writing from the Chaupi:
Ladino Subjectivity in Colonial Andean Literature,” ($5,600.00)
Grant director for “Voices and Images from Latin America,” LASC sponsored event. Grant
proposal sent to Florida Humanities Council, May 8, 2003. ($25,000.00) (not funded)
NSEP Graduate International Fellowship, 1996
U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language/Area Studies Fellowship, 1995
Master Teaching Assistant--Department of Spanish, UMCP, 1993
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Outstanding Instructor Award--University College, UMCP, 1993
Rotary Foundation International Graduate Fellowship, 1988
Boyd Hipp Scholarship for Economics, Wofford College, 1987
Holloway Scholarship for Leadership, Wofford College, 1987
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
English: native fluency
Spanish: near-native fluency
Quechua: reading for research
Portuguese: reading and translation
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association
Latin American Studies Association
Asociación Internacional de Peruanistas
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