Idelber Avelar
Professor
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118
EDUCATIONAL RECORD:
Ph.D. Spanish and Latin American Studies. Duke
University. 1996.
M.A. Luso-Brazilian Literature,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 1992.
B.A.
Luso-Brazilian/ Anglo-American Literatures. Federal University. Minas Gerais, Brazil. 1990.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Full Professor. Spanish and Portuguese. Tulane University. 2005-
Associate Professor. Spanish and Portuguese. Tulane University.
1999-2005.
Visiting Assistant Professor. Tulane University. Spring 1999.
Assistant Professor. Spanish, Portuguese, and Interpretive Theory. The
University of Ilinois at Urbana-Champaign. Fall 1996-Spring 1999.
Instructor. Spanish language and Spanish American Literature. Duke
University. Spring 1993-Spring 1996.
Instructor. Portuguese language and Brazilian literature. The University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Fall 1990-Spring 1992.
Instructor. English as a second language. The Federal University of
Minas Gerais. 1988-1990.
HONORS AND AWARDS:
National and International
Awards:
Brazilian Foreign Ministry International Award for
best essay on Machado de Assis. 2006.
Katherine Singer Kovacs prize for an outstanding book
published in English in the fields of Spanish and Latin American literatures
and cultures. Modern Language Association of America. For The Untimely Present. 2000.
Grants:
University
of Chile – Chilean Ministry of Education Grant for Visiting Faculty. Santiago, Chile. 2005.
Brazilian
Ministry of Education Fellowship for Visiting Faculty. Federal University of
Minas Gerais. 2001.
Rockefeller
Resident Fellowship. Revista de Crítica Cultural. The University of Chile.
Santiago, Chile. 2000.
Hewlett
Foundation Research Grant. 1999.
Rockefeller Grant for Conference on Latin America. 1999.
Ford
Foundation Grant for Conference on Latin Americanism. 1998.
Joseph
and Virginia Ellis Love Fellowship in Brazilian Studies. 1998.
Andrew
Mellon Research Grant. 1990-92.
Brazilian
Council for Research Grant. 1989-90.
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
2. The Letter of Violence: Essays on Narrative, Ethics, and
Politics. New York: Palgrave, 2004. 194 pp.
1. The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the
Task of Mourning. Durham and London: Duke UP, 1999. 293 pp.
Modern
Language Association Kovacs award. 2000.
Revised
and extended Spanish translation: Alegorías
de la derrota: La ficción postdictatorial y el trabajo del duelo. Santiago: Cuarto Propio, 2000. 336 pp.
Portuguese
translation: Alegorias da Derrota: A
Ficção Pós-Ditatorial e o Trabalho do Luto na América Latina. Belo
Horizonte: Editora UFMG, 2003. 303 p.
Articles:
Scholarly Articles
39.
“Machado de Assis on Popular Music: A Case for Cultural Studies in 19th-century
Latin America.” Portuguese Literary
and Cultural Studies 13/14. Special
issue organized by João Cezar Castro Rocha. Forthcoming in 2006.
38.
“Otherwise National: Locality and Power in the Art of Sepultura.” Metal
Rules the Globe: Heavy Metal Music Around the World. Ed. Jeremy Wallach, Paul Green, and Harris
Berger. London: Routledge. Forthcoming.
37. “A
Poetics of Discomfort: Teaching Puig with Babenco.” Approaches to Teaching The Kiss of the Spider Woman. Ed. Francine Masiello and Daniel
Balderston. New York: MLA. Forthcoming.
36. “De Mílton ao Metal: Política e Música
em Minas.” ArtCultura 8 (2005): 26-37.
35. “Xenophobia and Diasporic Latin Americanism:
Mapping Antagonisms around the Foreign.” Ideologies
of Hispanism. Ed. Mabel Moraña. Hispanic
Issues Series. Nashville: Vanderbilt UP. 2004.
269-83.
33.
"Transculturation and Natiohood." Latin American Literary Culture:
Subject to History. Vol. 3 of Literary Cultures of Latin America: A
Comparative Literature. Ed. Mario Valdés and Djelal Kadir. Oxford and New
York: Oxford UP. 2004. 251-57.
32.
“Lula y la historia del PT.” Revista
de Crítica Cultural 28 (2004): 48-55.
31. “Notas para un glosario de Ricardo
Piglia.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos
(2004) 227-34.
30. “La experiencia del PT y la superación
del populismo en Brasil.” Punto de Vista
77 (2003): 1-5.
29. “Heavy Metal Music in Postdictatorial
Brazil: Sepultura and the Coding of Nationality in Sound.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 12.3 (2003) 329-46.
28. “Xenofobia, lengua ‘extranjera’y
latinoamericanismo diaspórico: A la luz del 11 de septiembre.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 37
(2003): 127-143.
27. “Alegorías de lo apócrifo: Ricardo Piglia,
duelo y traducción.” Valoración múltiple de Ricardo Piglia. Ed. Jorge
Fornet. Havana, Cuba: Casa de las
Américas, 2002. 37-52.
26. “João Gilberto Noll e o Fim da Viagem.” Travessia [Florianópolis, Brazil] 39
(1999 [2002]): 167-92.
25. “La práctica de la tortura y la historia
de la verdad.” Retrazos de la transición. Ed. Nelly Richard and Alberto
Moreiras. Santiago: Cuarto Propio, 2001. 175-95.
English translation: “Five Theses on Torture.” Trans.
Philip Derbyshire. Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 10.3 (2001): 253-71.
24. “ La
muerte y la doncella, o la hollywoodización de la tortura.” Revista
de Crítica Cultural 22 (2001): 20-23 [folio].
23.
“Defeated Rallies, Mournful Anthems, and the Origins of Brazilian Heavy
Metal.” Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization. Ed. Charles Perrone and Christopher
Dunn. Gainsville: U of Florida P,
2001. 121-35.
Paperback reissue:
London: Routledge, 2002.
22.
“Toward a Genealogy of Latin Americanism.” Dispositio/N
49 (1997 [2000]): 121-33.
21. “The
Ethics of Criticism and the International Division of Intellectual Labor.” SubStance
91 (2000): 80-103.
20. “The
Clandestine Ménage à Trois of Cultural Studies, Spanish, and Critical
Theory.” Profession (1999): 49-58.
19. “An
Anatomy of Marginality: Figures of the Eternal Return and the Apocalypse in
Chilean Post-Dictatorial Fiction.” Studies
in Twentieth-Century Literature 23.2
(1999): 211-37.
18.
“Restitution and Mourning in Latin American Postdictatorship.” boundary 2 26.3 (1999): 201-24.
17.
“Dictatorship and Immanence.” Journal of
Latin American Cultural Studies 7.1 (1998): 75-94.
Spanish translation:
“Pensamiento posdictatorial y caída en la inmanencia.” Dialectos
en transición: Política y subjetividad en el Chile actual. Ed. Mauro
Salazar and Miguel Valderrama. Santiago:
ARCIS-LOM, 2000. 213-239.
16. “The
Angel of History’s Forged Signature: The Ruins of Memory and the Task of
Mourning in a Brazilian Post-Dictatorial Novel.” Modern Fiction Studies 44.1 (1998): 184-214.
15. “Alegoría y postdictadura: Notas sobre
la memoria del mercado.” Revista de Crítica Cultural 14 (1997):
22-7.
14. “El espectro en la temporalidad de lo
mesiánico: Derrida y Jameson a propósito de la firma Marx.” Espectros
y pensamiento utópico. Vol. 2 of La invención y la herencia. Jacques Derrida et al. Santiago:
ARCIS-LOM, 1995. 22-32.
13. “Cómo respiran los ausentes: La
narrativa de Ricardo Piglia.” Modern Language Notes 110
(1995): 416-32.
12. “Conficciones
y la retórica del nombre propio: Autobiografía y política en Juvenilia, de Miguel Cané.” La Torre 9 (1995): 111-21.
11. “A Morta,
de Oswald de Andrade: A Emergência de uma Mímesis Paradoxal no Teatro
Brasileiro.” Latin American Theater Review 29 (1995): 21-37.
10. “Bares desiertos y calles sin nombre:
Literatura y experiencia en tiempos sombríos.”
Revista de Crítica Cultural 9 (1994): 37-43 [folio].
9. “The Logic of Paradox in Guimarães Rosa's Tutaméia.” Latin
American Literary Review 43 (1994): 67-80.
8. “Os Paradoxos do Vazio e da Ausência em Grande Sertão: Veredas.” Brazil / Brasil 11 (1994): 9-23.
7. “Machado de Assis e o Aprendizado do
Esquecimento.” Romance
Notes 34 (1994): 135-42.
6. “De Macondo al Huarochirí: El canon
literario latinoamericano ante prácticas discursivas emergentes.” Dispositio
18 (1993): 193-214.
5. “La
casa de los espíritus: La Historia del Mito y el Mito de la Historia.” Revista Chilena de Literatura 43 (1993): 67-74.
4. “O Ano de 1993:
Sobre as Ruínas da Anti-utopia.” Letras e Letras [O Porto, Portugal] 99
(1993): 39-42.
3. “Pós-modernidade e Constituição do Sujeito em Bolor.”
Letras e Letras [O Porto,
Portugal] 69 (1992): 7. [Folio].
2. “Notas para uma Poética da Desmetaforização.” Revista
Literária da UFMG 22 (1990): 118-130.
1.
“Porque Vivemos
numa Época Barroca.” Suplemento Literário de Minas Gerais 23
(1989): 12-3.
Collectively-Authored
Pieces:
3.
“Photography and Writing in Post-Coup Chile: A Conversation with Nelly
Richard.” Double Exposure: Writing and
Photography in Latin America. Ed.
Mary Beth Tierney Tello and Marcy Schwarz. Forthcoming from University of New
Mexico Press.
2. “The
Future of Scholarly Publishing.” Profession. New York: MLA, 2002. 172-86. Coauthored by 8 scholars convened as
the Ad Hoc MLA Committee on the Future of Scholarly Publishing.
1. “Op.
Cit.” Policy Perspectives 10.3
(2001): 1-12. Co-authored by 28 faculty,
administrators, librarians, and editors convened by the Knight Higher Education
Collaborative.
Reviews,
Prefaces, Proceedings, Journalism Pieces:
12. “A Literatura sem Papel.” Preface to Blog
de Papel. São Paulo: Gênese, 2005.
11. Review of Posmarxismo,
by Ernesto Laclau et al (Santiago: ARCIS, 2002). Extremoccidente 2 (2003): 38.
10. Review of Literaturas indigentes y placeres bajos: Felisberto Hernández, Virgilio
Piñera, Juan Rodolfo Wilcock, by Reinaldo Laddaga (Rosario: Beatriz
Viterbo, 2000). Hispamérica 90
(2001): 116-8.
9.
Review of The Muffled Cries: The Writer
and Literature in Authoritarian Brazil, 1964-1985, by Nancy T. Baden
(Lanham, Maryland and Cumnor Hill, Oxford: University Press of America, 1999). Hispanic American Historical Review 81.2
(2001): 418-20.
8.
Review of Divergent Modernities: Culture
and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, by Julio Ramos. Trans. John
D. Blanco (Durham and London: Duke UP, 2001). Nepantla: Views from the South 2.3 (2001): 578-85.
7. “Tres Signos Vacíos y el 11 de
septiembre.” Revista de Crítica Cultural 23 (2001): 66-7.
6. “Sensibilidad melancólica y alegoría
crítica.” Nueva Sociedad [Caracas, Venezuela] 170 (2000): 212-17. Review of Nós, os
Mortos: Melancolia e Neo-Barroco, by Denílson Lopes (Rio de Janeiro: Sette
Letras, 1999).
5. Review of Ziembinski
e o Teatro Brasileiro, by Yan Michalski (São Paulo and Rio: Hucitec and
FUNARTE, 1995). Luso-Brazilian Review
35.2 (1998): 120-22.
4.
Review of Tropical Multiculturalism: A
Comparative History of Race in Brazilian Cinema and Culture, by Robert Stam
(Durham: Duke UP, 1997). Luso-Brazilian Review 36.1 (1999): 136-8
3. “A Arqui-Textura de Sousândrade: Poética e Política.” Limites: Anais do 3o Congresso da Associação
Brasileira de Literatura Comparada. São Paulo: Edusp, 1995. 685-90.
2. “Marx, en inminencia y urgencia (o la
hipótesis de una espectrología deconstructiva).” Revista
de Crítica Cultural 11 (1995): 63-6 [folio]. Review of Spectres de Marx: l’état de la dette, le travail du deuil et la
nouvelle Internationale, by Jacques Derrida (Paris: Galilée, 1993).
1. “Fantasmas, fantoches y fanfarrias.” La escritura en escena. Ed. Carlos
Brück, Carmen Heuser, and Carlos Pérez.
Buenos Aires: Corregidor, 1994. 207-10.
Papers
read:
Invited Lectures and Keynote Addresses:
“Popular Music in
the Fiction and Crônicas of Machado de Assis: A Case for Cultural Studies in 19th-Century
Latin America”.
University
of Pennsylvania. January 2006
University
of California, Davis. February 2006.
University
of Pittsburgh. February 2006.
Northwestern
University. February 2006.
“Origens e História do Termo
‘Multiculturalismo’. Federal University
of Juiz de Fora, Brazil. December, 2005.
“Cultural Studies
in the Blogosphere.” The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism ”
The University of Pittsburgh. October,
2005.
“Violencia y destrucción en Walter Benjamin.”
University of Chile. Santiago, Chile. October 2005.
“De Chico Science
a Berimbrown: Mangue Beat e Blackitude mineira pensando a nação e a cidadania.
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Laboratório de Etnomusicologia. Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil. August 2005.
“A Representação da Experiência e o Boom dos Blogs.”
6º Salão do Livro de Minas Gerais.
Belo Horizonte, Brazil. July
2005.
“20th
Century Thinking on Violence.” Williams College. April 2005.
“Chico Science
and the New Popular Music of the Brazilian Northeast.” Williams College. April
2005.
“Julio Cortázar
between Politics and Aesthetics.”
Rutgers University. April 2005.
“Brazilian
Popular Music and the Coding of Nationhood in Sound.” Northwestern
University. Chicago. February 2005.
“Jacques Derrida
and the Concept of Justice.” Obituaries for Jacques Derrida. Department of French and Italian, Tulane
University. November 2004.
“Misreading
Weimar Germany in Occupied Palestine: Derrida and Benjamin on Violence and
Law.” Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University. April 2004.
“Rhythm,
Nationhood, and Violence in Brazilian Youth Musics.” Keynote Address.
Conference of the Duke University and University of North Carolina Consortium
in Latin American Studies. February 2004.
“Heavy Metal Music
in Postdictatorial Brazil: Sepultura and the Coding of Nationality in Sound.”
Georgetown University. November 2003
Birkbeck
College. The University of London.
United Kingdom, June 2003.
“Lula, el PT y el futuro de la izquierda a 30 años
del 11 de septiembre.” Utopías II. ARCIS University and Revista de Crítica Cultural. Santiago, Chile. September 2003.
“Transformações da Literatura Latino-Americana na
Pós-Ditadura.” University Center of
Formiga, Brasil. August 2003.
“Postdictatorial
Fiction and Mourning in Latin America.” Colorado State University. March, 2003.
“Literature and
State Politics in 19th Century Latin America.” Emory
University. February, 2003.
“Mímesis de la violencia: Jacques Derrida lee a
Walter Benjamin.” Coloquio Mímesis y Política. The
University of Chile. Santiago, October 2002.
“Academic
Migrations and Discursive Wars: Notes on Diasporic Latin Americanism”.
The University of Chicago. Chicago, May 2002.
The University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, April 2002.
“The Origins of
Latin Americanism.” Carleton College. April, 2002.
“Exilio académico y el latinoamericanismo
diapórico.” Universidad San Andrés.
Buenos Aires, March 2002.
“Transculturación y nacionalidad.” Princeton University. March 2002.
“Los orígenes del latinoamericanismo.” Brown
University. March 2002.
Workshop on The Untimely Present. Center for Study of the Novel. Stanford University, November 2001.
“The Origins of
Literature and the Genealogy of Latin Americanism.” Princeton University, May
2001.
“On
Literary and Cultural Studies in Spanish and Portuguese.” Princeton University, May 2001.
“Teorías de la comunidad, gramáticas de lo
privativo, y la genealogía del latinoamericanismo”. Contra/Comunidad. Duke University, April 2001.
“Alegoría y mercado”. ARCIS
University (Santiago, Chile), August 2000.
“Comentario a Políticas y estéticas de la memoria, ed. Nelly
Richard.” University of Chile, Andrés Bello Room, August 2000.
“Brazilian
Music and the African Diaspora.” New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
New Orleans, May 2000.
“Recuento tardío de un ménage à trois
clandestino: Estudios culturales y ‘teoría crítica’ en los programas
norteamericanos de castellano.” Cultural
Studies and Disciplinary Boundaries in Latin/o America. The University of Illinois, October 1999.
"Duelo y ficción en la
postdictadura." Rockefeller Seminar on Postdictatorship. Santiago,
Chile, May 1999
"The
Ethics of Criticism and the International Division of Intellectual
Labor." Illinois Program for
Research in the Humanities. The
University of Illinois, April 1999.
"The
Clandestine Ménage à Trois of Cultural Studies, Spanish, and Critical
Theory." Stone Center for Latin American Studies. Tulane University. April 1999.
“On
Postdictatorial Narratives and the Politics of Mourning in Latin America.”
Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Tulane University. February 1999.
“Representations
and Representability of Torture.” Program for Arms Control, Disarmament, and
International Security of the University of Illinois. November 1998.
“The
Unhappy Marriage of Spanish and Cultural Studies.” Duke University Colloquium
in Latin American Cultural Studies.
October 1998.
“Literature
and the Burial of the Dead: The Politics of Mourning in Post-Dictatorship Latin
America.” Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory of the University of
Illinois. Urbana: October 1997.
“Transculturation
and Nationhood.” Transculturation and
State Discourse in Latin America.
Conference sponsored by Duke University: November 1997.
“Post-Dictatorship
and the Task of Mourning: Ricardo Piglia’s La
ciudad ausente.” Dept of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University
of Illinois (January 1996), Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University
(February 1996), Dept of Modern Languages at DePaul University (February 1996),
Dept of Spanish and Portuguese at Dickinson College (January 1996).
“Deconstrucción y guerrilla anti-idealista:
Derrida y Jameson a propósito de la firma Marx.” Universidad de Artes y
Ciencias Humanas (ARCIS), Santiago, Chile, June 1995.
Papers
read at National and International Conferences:
“Políticas
del otro”. Coloquio internacional
Emanuel Lévinas. Universidad de Chile. Santiago, Chile. October 2005.
““O Mangue Beat e a codificação da nacionalidade na música
popular do Brasil.” VI Congress of the International Association for the
Study of Popular Music. Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 2005.
“Espectros de Walter Benjamin: Luto e
Violência no Pensamento de Jacques Derrida.” Desconstrução e Contextos
Nacionais: Conference organized by the University of the State of
São Paulo (UNESP). Araraquara, Brazil. June 2005.
“Brazilian
Mangue Beat movement and the recoding of social violence in sound.” 25th
Congress of the Latin American Studies Association . Las Vegas, October 2004.
“A Música Popular entre a Etnomusicologia, os Estudos
Culturais, e a Crítica Lliterária.” 9th Congress of the Brazilian
Association of Comparative Literature. Porto
Alegre, Brazil. July 2004.
“Codificações Sonoras da Violência Social: Do Heavy Metal
ao Mangue Beat, de Pernambuco a Minas.” 5th Congress of the International Association for the Study
of Popular Music. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
June 2004.
“Ficción y estado policial.” 24th
Congress of the Latin American Studies Association,
Dallas, TX, March 26-29, 2003.
“Notas para un glosario de Ricardo Piglia.” Mid-American Conference on Hispanic Languages and
Literatures. Washington
University. St. Louis. September, 2002.
“O Estrangeiro e a Guerra: Notas sobre a Xenofobia e o
Trabalho Intelectual desde 11/09.” 8th
Congress of the Brazilian Association of Comparative Literature. Belo
Horizonte, Brazil, July 2002.
“Between
the Absence of Philosophy and the Ubiquity of Cultural Studies”. 116th Convention of the Modern
Language Association. Washington,
December 2000.
Round
table on “The Future of Scholarly Publishing”. 116th Convention of the Modern Language Association. Washington,
December 2000.
“A Invenção do Literário e a Genealogia do
Latino-Americanismo”. 7th
Congress of the Brazilian Association of Comparative Literature. Salvador, Brazil, July 2000.
“Paulo
Lins’s Cidade de Deus: New Strategies
for the Representation of Working Class Brazilians in Fiction. “22nd International Congress of the Latin
American Studies Association. Miami,
March 2000.
“From
the Intellectual to the Expert: The Technification of the Intellectual Field in
Post-Dictatorship Latin America.” 21st
International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Chicago, September 1998.
“A Dissolução da Universidade na Universalidade do
Mercado.” 6th Congress of the
Brazilian Association of Comparative Literature. Florianópolis, Brazil, August 1998.
“The Latin Americanist Rhetoric of Identity:
Notes on a Disciplinary Machine.” 113th
Convention of the Modern Language Association of America. Toronto: December, 1997.
“Edipo en tiempos posauráticos: La retórica
modernizadora del boom hispanoamericano y sus exclusiones.” 49th International Congress of Americanists. Quito, Ecuador: July, 1997.
“Fin de siglo y postdictadura: Alegorías del
mercado.” 20th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association,
Guadalajara, Mexico: April, 1997.
“Ricardo Piglia e o Conceito de Cânone Literário na
Argentina.” 5th Meeting of the Brazilian Association of Comparative Literature,
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: August, 1996.
“Translation
as Strategy in Contemporary Brazilian Culture.”
6th Biennial Northeast Regional
Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese,
Yale University: September-October,
1994.
“The
Sublime Object of Restitution: Latin Americanism in the Age of Cultural
Studies.” Latin Americanism as a Cultural Practice. International Conference
organized by Duke University: March, 1994.
“La Vuelta al Paradiso en Nueve Pasos
Perdidos, o Crónica de un Descubrimiento Anunciado: El arpa y la sombra, de Alejo Carpentier.” Purdue
Conference on Romance Languages, Literatures and Film, Purdue
University: October, 1993.
“A Arqui-Textura de Sousândrade: Poética e
Política.” 3rd Meeting of the Brazilian Association of Comparative Literature,
Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil: August, 1992.
“O Ano de 1993: Upon the Ruins of
Anti-Utopia.” 12th Cincinnati Conference
on Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati: May, 1992.
“The
Paradoxes of Time and Memory in Guimarães Rosa's Grande Sertão: Veredas.” 3rd Area Conference for Romance Languages,
University of North Carolina: March, 1992.
“Memory,
Creation, and Authorship in Machado de Assis.” 16th Annual Meeting of the Philological Association of the Carolinas,
Clemson University: March, 1992.
“Memory,
Narrative, and History in the Late Benjamin.” Benjamin for the Jetztzeit, Duke University: February, 1992.
“Hawthorne's
'Young Goodman Brown' as an Edenic Myth.”
Week of Germanic Studies at UFMG,
Belo Horizonte, Brazil: November, 1987.
COURSES TAUGHT AT TULANE:
Graduate:
SPAN / PORT 791. Latin American Cultural Studies
(bilingual course).
PORT 629 Brazilian Cultural Studies
SPAN 610. Seminar in Literary Theory.
SPAN / PORT 671. Contemporary Fiction in Spanish America:
Roa Bastos, Lezama Lima, Guimarães Rosa (bilingual).
SPAN 654 Literature of the Southern Cone – J. L.
Borges.
PORT 629/ BRAZ 481/ADST 482: Brazilian Popular Music.
SPAN / PORT 619.
Latin American Avant-Gardes (bilingual).
SPAN 610. Seminar in Literary Theory.
SPAN 621. The Essay in Spanish America.
SPAN 656. Literature of the Southern Cone: Postdictatorial
Memory
Undergraduate:
SPAN 685 – Senior Seminar - The River Plate Short Story.
SPAN 425. Advanced Speaking and
Writing
SPAN 413 Topics – Violence in Latin American Literature and Film.
SPAN 401. Introduction to Literature.
SPAN 307 Borges in English Translation
SPAN 313 Introduction to Latin American Culture
SPAN 323 Readings in Spanish American Literature.
SPAN 203 Elements of Spanish III.
SPAN 102 Elements of Spanish II
SERVICE:
Member
of the Modern Language Association Task Force on Promotion and Tenure. 2004-
Member
of Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Publishing. 2000-03.
MLA
Representative at ARL-NHA-Knight Collaborative Roundtable on Scholarly
Communication in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Philadelphia, March 2001.
Referee of tenure cases for
Binghamton University (2000), the University of New Hampshire (2004), and
Cornell University (two cases, 2003 and 2004).
Editorial
Boards, Profession (Modern Language
Association, 2000-03), La
invención y la herencia series (Santiago: ARCIS, 2000-02), and ArtCultura
(Minas Gerais: Brazil, 2004-)
Referee of manuscripts on
Latin America. Duke University Press, (1999-), Luso-Brazilian Review (1998-), PMLA (2001-)
2.
Service to Tulane University at campus and college levels:
Secretary of the Faculty
of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2004-
Executive Committee of
the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences. 2004-
Committee on Committees.
Liberal Arts and Sciences. 2004-
Provost’s Freshman
Reading Project Committee. 2001-
Head of Latin American Studies Curriculum Revision
Project, 2000-03.
Executive Committee –Center for Latin American Studies.
2000-03.
Member, Committee on Tinker Research Summer Grants.
2002-03.
Faculty Advisor for Interdisciplinary Scholars Network,
2001-02
Graduate Admissions Committee, Chair. Lat. Am. Studies,
2001-02
Brazilian Studies Council, 1999-
Stone Center Committee on Cultural Studies and the Arts.
2000-
3.
Service to Tulane University at deparmental Level:
Spanish and Portuguese Executive Committee. 2003-
Grievance Committee.
2001-03
Major/minor advisor, Spanish. 2000-present
Graduate Exam Committee, Chair. 1999-2000
Faculty Liason for Bookstore and Library. 1999-.
Service To The University of Illinois:
1.
Campus and College Levels:
UIUC
International Council (1998-99).
Humanities
Task Force, dean-appointed committee in charge of revitalizing the humanities
on the UIUC campus (1997-98).
Evaluation
Committee. Study-Abroad Programs. Spain and Latin America (1996-97)
Evaluation
Committee. Tinker Foundation Graduate Research Grants (1997)
Evaluation
Committee. Hewlett Foundation International Conference Grants (1998)
In-Site
Supervision of Buenos Aires Study Abroad Program (1997)
Search
Committee for Position in Transnational History. History Department (1998)
2. Departmental
Level:
Departmental Curriculum Committee (1998)
Search Committee for Position in Golden
Age Literature (1997-98)
Search Committee for Position in Latin
American Literature (1998-99)
Outcomes and Assessment Committee
(1998).
Elaboration of Curricular Content for
New Cultural Studies Track in Spanish BA (1997)
Capricious Grading Committee (1997-98).
Flores Undergraduate Award Committee (1997)
Service To Duke University:
Planning Committee for the Elaboration of a PhD Program in Latin
American Cultural Studies, 1995 (Program implemented in 1997).
Committee for the elaboration of “New Directions and Rules” for the
Graduate Program in Romance Studies, 1994.
Department of Romance Studies Faculty-Student Liason
Committee, 1993-4.
Campus Awards:
Tulane:
Stoll
Faculty Development Technology Grant. 2004.
Provost’s
Research Fund. Publication of The Letter
of Violence. 2003.
Culpeper
Faculty Development Technology Grant.2000.
Translation
Grant Stone Center for Latin American Studies. 2000.
Illinois:
Grant for State-of-the-Art Conference in Cultural Studies. The
University of Illinois College of LAS. 1999
Alumni
Discretionary Award for Special Service. The University of Illinois. 1998.
Translation
Grant. The University of Illinois. 1998.
“Incomplete
List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students.” Fall 1996, Spring
1997, Fall 1997, Spring 1998, Fall 1998. Average of 4.7 on a 5.0 scale for
classes taught at UIUC.
Duke:
Andrew
Mellon Grant, Dissertation Research in Chile, Argentina, and Brazil, 1995.
Grant
from Duke University Center for International Studies for Dissertation Research
in Chile, Argentina and Brazil, 1995.
Theses and Dissertations
Directed
In
progress at Tulane:
Michelle Nasser. “Tra(n)zando Identidades: National
Inscriptions on Marginalized Bodies.” Ph.D.
Mónica Albizurez. “Un latinoamericanismo alterno: Pensar
América Latina desde la material esperanza.” Ph.D.
Carmen Muñoz. “La (Pen)insula olvidada: Literatura Yucateca
contemporánea en el contexto caribeño.” Ph.D.
Joyce Baugher. “Bodily Ramifications: Writing, Violence,
Sexuality and Gender in Latin American Fiction and Autobiography.” Ph.D.
Ari Zighelboim. “Sujetos coloniales, objetos
coloniales: Estrategias culturales de la
nobleza indígena en el Cuzco virreinal.” Ph.D. 2nd reader.
Defended
at Tulane:
Ph.D:
Alejandra Osorio. “(Re)velaciones del deseo nacional: Análisis
de lasa imágenes de los tipos populares en México 1828-1910.” Reader.
2006.
Felipe Victoriano. “Cultura y excepción: Ficción y testimonio en
Chile en 1973”. 2005.
John Harvey.
“Brazilian Popular Music in the 1970s: Pop Genres under
Dictatorship” Ph.D. Portuguese. 2004.
Steve Sloan. “Modernity and Urban Marginality in the
Chronicles of João do Rio, Roberto Arlt, and Lima Barreto.” 2003. Now
tenure-track faculty at Texan Christian University.
Uriel Quesada. “La Historia como crimen: el
relato policial de Cuba y Centroamérica.” Ph.D. Coadvisor. 2003. Now
tenure-track faculty at Loyola University.
Alejandra Jaramillo. “Bogotá imaginada:
Narraciones urbanas, cultura y política.” 2002.
Dolores
Tierney. “Myth, Marginalization, and
Machismo in the Cinematic Works of el Indio Fernández.”2nd Reader.
2002. Now faculty at Girton College, the
University of Cambridge.
Dixon
Abreu. “Islanders in Transit: Migrancy
and Insularity in Contemporary Atlantic Narratives.” 2002. Now tenure-track
faculty at the University of Richmond.
MA:
Charles
Heath. “Nélson Pereira dos Santos’s Riot of Reflection on Race: Filming Works
by Amado and Freyre.” MA Latin American
Studies. 2004.
Alejandra Osorio, “El cine posdictatorial
argentino: La historia oficial, Un muro de silencio y Garaje Olimpo” MA Latin American
Studies. 2003.
Todd
Molvar. “The Military Police and Their Role in Democratic Brazil.” MA Latin American Studies. 2nd reader. 2003
Michelle
Nasser. “Bicha Negra: The
Construction of the Afro-Brazilian Homosexual from 19th Century to
the Present.” MA. 2nd reader. 2003
William
Hiatt. “The Peruvian Press and the
Indigenous Rebellions of 1920-24.” MA Latin American Studies. 2nd reader. 2002.
Heather
Goodell. “Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma and National Allegory.” MA. 2001.
Joyce Baugher.
“Language and the Path Unknown: An Analysis of the Works of Marilene
Felinto.” MA. 2001.
Senior Theses:
Emily
Mitchell. “The Children of the
Disappeared: Representations in Fiction and Film”. Honors Thesis. 2001
Sarah
Partridge. “Contrasting Representations of Gender in the Works of Isabel
Allende and Diamela Eltit.” Honors Thesis. 2001.
Jennifer Ridge.
“The Trajectory of the Opus Day in Chile and Spain.” Honors Thesis. 2001.
Ph.D.:
Leisa Kauffmann.
“Hydrid Historiography in Colonial Mexico: Genre, Event, and Time in the
Cuauhtitlán Annals and the Historia de la nación chichimeca.” Ph.
D. Comparative Literature. The University of Illinois. 2003. Now faculty at
Monmouth College.
Kathy
León. “Gender, Performance, and
Homosociality in the Fiction of Puerto Rican Women Authors.” University of
Illinois. 2nd Reader. Now tenure-track faculty at St. Ambrosy
University.
Alejandra Jaramillo. “Bogotá imaginada:
Narraciones urbanas, cultura y política.” 2002. Now public official in
Colombia.
Rosana Díaz-Zambrana. “De errabundos y nómadas: La desarticulación
del motivo del viaje en la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea.” The
University of Illinois. 2002.
Marisela Funes.
“The Medicalization of the Body Politic in Contemporary Argentine
Fiction.” University of Illinois. 2002.
Now tenure-track faculty at Colby College.
Jay Twomey. “Toward an Aesthetic of Globality.”
University of Illinois. 2nd reader. 2001. Now tenure-track faculty
at the University of Cincinnatti.
Senior Theses:
Rachel
Gressel. “An Analysis of the Theme of Community in Gabriel García Márquez’s
Early Short Fiction.” Honors Thesis. University of Illinois. 1999.
Margaret
Caygill. “The Wife, the Spinster, and
the Indigenous Woman in the Work of Rosario Castellanos.” Honors Thesis.
University of Illinois. 1999.
Blog: O Biscioto Fino e a Massa. http://idelberavelar.com. A
Portuguese-language weblog on literature, music, soccer, politics, and cultural
criticism. Average of 2.000 daily pageviews.
Selected
Interviews:
TV Cultura
Minas Gerais. Interview on Literature and Rock Music. November 2005.
BBC Radio. On music
in the Americas. August 2005.
O Globo. Columnist
Luiz Gravatá. On literature and blogs. Caderno Informática. May 16, 2005.
Condomínio Brasil. Site
editor Esther Bittencourt. Spring 2005. http://www.condominiobrasil.com/archives/2005/07/lorem_ipsum.html#more
Estado de
Minas. On Latin
American literature and culture. August 02, 2003.
Correio Brasiliense. On tolerance in the aftermath of 11 September. September 30,
2001.
Jornal do
Brasil.
On the fantastic in Latin American Literature. June 14, 2001.
Canal
13, Chilean
Television. On Alegorías de la derrota. “Off the
Record,” show hosted by journalist Fernando Villagrán. Sunday August 20, 2000.
El Mostrador. Chilean online magazine. On
Alegorías de la derrota. Available
online: http://www.elmostrador.cl/modulos/noticias/constructor/detalle_noticia.asp?id_noticia=8346&estHomepage=Ademas
El
Mercurio (Santiago, Chile). Literary Supplement “Artes y
Letras.” Sunday August 13, 2000.
El
Mercurio. On
postdictatorial literature. Thursday August 10, 2000.
Radio Terra (community radio station,
Santiago, Chile). “La Palabra Empeñada”,
hosted by poet Carmen Berenguer. On Alegorías
de la derrota. Wednesday August 9, 2000.
Databases developed:
Database
of philosophical and literary-critical texts. Links and resources for the study
of Critical Theory in Spanish. Available online: http://www.tulane.edu/~avelar/span610
CD
collection with introduction to Brazilian Music through 110 selected songs.
Lyrics translated. Co-organized with Christopher Dunn.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
Associação Brasileira
de Literatura Comparada (ABRALIC)
International Association for Philosophy and Literature
(IAPL)
International Association for the Study of Popular Music
(IASPM)
LANGUAGES
Native speaking, reading, writing: Spanish, Portuguese,
and English.
Fluent reading, some speaking: French
Fluent reading: Italian and German.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Interpreter,
Supranational Formations and the Cultural
Contradictions of Global Interaction. Conference sponsored by the
Rockefeller Foundation. Belaggio, Italy: May, 1994.
Portuguese translator, DTS Language Services, Chapel Hill:
1994-95.
Portuguese and Spanish translator, Global Translation, Chapel Hill: 1993-94.