CURRICULUM VITAE
IDELBER V. AVELAR
Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese 7711 Willow Street
Tulane University New Orleans, LA 70125
302 Newcomb Hall Phone: (504) 861-1727
New Orleans, LA 70118 Fax: (504) 862-8752
iavelar@tulane.edu www.tulane.edu/~avelarPROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Associate Professor of Spanish, Portuguese, and Critical Theory. Tulane University. 1999-Visiting Professor. Graduate Program in Literature. Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. 2001.
Visiting Assistant Professor. Tulane University. Spring 1999.
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Portuguese, and Interpretive Theory. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996-99.
Spanish and Literature Instructor. Duke University. 1993-96.
Portuguese Instructor. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 1990-92.
English Instructor. The Federal University of Minas Gerais. 1987-90.
Ph.D. in Spanish and Latin American Studies, Duke University, May 1996.M.A. in Luso-Brazilian Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 1992.
B.A. in Brazilian / Anglo-American Literatures (major in Afro-American Poetry), University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, July 1990.
BOOKS:1. The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning. Durham and London: Duke UP, 1999. 293 pp.
Katherine Singer Kovacs prize for an outstanding book published in English in the fields of Spanish and Latin American literatures and cultures. Given by the Modern Language Association of America.2. Alegorías de la derrota: La ficción postdictatorial y el trabajo del duelo. Santiago: Cuarto Propio, 2000. 336 pp. (revised and extended translation of 1).
3. Alegorias da Derrota: A Ficção Pós-Ditatorial e o Trabalho do Luto na América Latina. Trans. Saulo Gouveia. Belo Horizonte: Editora UFMG. Forthcoming in 2002. (translation of 2).
MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS:
Crítica literaria y ética genealógica: Tres interfaces ficción/filosofía. Collection of essays in final stages of completion. Analyzes a set of problems related to philosophical approaches to literature.Toward a Genealogy of Latin Americanism: An Essay on the Disciplinary Uses of Identity. Monograph in progress. Analyzes the constitution of a discourse on Latin American identity and its relationship with the emergence of an autonomous literary sphere in Latin America.
ARTICLES
FORTHCOMING:
32. “Five Theses on Torture.” Trans. Philip Derbyshire. Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 10.3 (2001). [translation of 31]
31. “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.
30. “Entre el ensayo y el paper: Notas sobre el latinoamericanismo diaspórico.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (2002). Special Issue. Ed. Elzbieta Sklodowska.
29. “João Gilberto Noll e o Fim da Viagem.” Travessia. Forthcoming.
28. “Transculturation and Nationhood.” Latin American Literatures: A Comparative History of Cultural Formations. Ed. Mario Valdés and Linda Hutcheon. 3 vols. Forthcoming in English (Oxford UP), Spanish (Fondo de Cultura Económica), and Portuguese (Editora UFRJ), as well as in CD-ROM format. Ongoing research for this collective project can be accessed via the internet on <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/lithist>.
27. “Alegorías
de lo apócrifo: Ricardo Piglia, duelo y traducción.”
Valoración
múltiple de Ricardo Piglia. Ed. Jorge Fornet. Havana:
Casa de las Américas.
PUBLISHED
26. “ La muerte y la doncella, o la hollywoodización
de la tortura.” Revista de Crítica Cultural 22 (2001):
20-23 [folio].
25. “Defeated Rallies, Mournful Anthems, and the Origins of Brazilian Heavy Metal.” Chiclete com Banana: The Dialectics of Internationalization in Brazilian Music. Ed. Charles Perrone and Christopher Dunn. Gainsville: U of Florida P, 2001. 121-35.
24. “Toward a Genealogy of Latin Americanism.” Dispositio/N 49 (1997 [2000]): 121-33. Online:
23. “The Ethics of Criticism and the International Division of Intellectual Labor.” SubStance 91 (2000): 80-103. Online:
22. “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. [translation of 18]
21. “The Clandestine Ménage à Trois of Cultural Studies, Spanish, and Critical Theory.” Profession (1999): 49-58.
20. “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.
19. “Restitution and Mourning in Latin American Postdictatorship.” boundary 2 26.3 (1999): 201-24.
18. “Dictatorship and Immanence.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 7.1 (1998): 75-94.
17. “The Angel of History’s Forged Signature: The Ruins of Memory and the Task of Mourning in a Brazilian Post-Dictatorial Novel.” Contested Spaces in the Americas. Ed. Aparajita Sagar and Marcia Stephenson. Special Issue of Modern Fiction Studies 44.1 (1998): 184-214.
16. “Alegoría y postdictadura: Notas sobre la memoria del mercado.” Revista de Crítica Cultural 14 (1997): 22-7.
15. “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. Available online:
14. “Cómo respiran los ausentes: La narrativa de Ricardo Piglia.” Modern Language Notes 110 (1995): 416-32.
13. “Conficciones y la retórica del nombre propio: Autobiografía y política en Juvenilia, de Miguel Cané.” La Torre 9 (1995): 111-21.
12. “A Morta, de Oswald de Andrade: A Emergência de uma Mímesis Paradoxal no Teatro Brasileiro.” Latin American Theater Review 29 (1995): 21-37.
11. “Bares desiertos y calles sin nombre: Literatura y experiencia en tiempos sombríos.” Revista de Crítica Cultural 9 (1994): 37-43 [folio].
10. “The Logic of Paradox in Guimarães Rosa's Tutaméia.” Latin American Literary Review 43 (1994): 67-80.
9. “Os Paradoxos do Vazio e da Ausência em Grande Sertão: Veredas.” Brazil / Brasil 11 (1994): 9-23.
8. “Machado de Assis e o Aprendizado do Esquecimento.” Romance Notes 34 (1994): 135-42.
7. “De Macondo al Huarochirí: El canon literario latinoamericano ante prácticas discursivas emergentes.” Dispositio 18 (1993): 193-214.
6. “La casa de los espíritus: La Historia del Mito y el Mito de la Historia.” Revista Chilena de Literatura 43 (1993): 67-74.
5. “O Ano de 1993: Sobre as Ruínas da Anti-utopia.” Letras e Letras [O Porto, Portugal] 99 (1993): 39-42.
4. “Pós-modernidade e Constituição do Sujeito em Bolor.” Letras e Letras [O Porto, Portugal] 69 (1992): 7. [Folio].
3. “Notas para uma Poética da Desmetaforização.” Revista Literária da UFMG 22 (1990): 118-130.
2. “A Literatura Afro-Americana sob a Ótica da Tradução.” Revista de Estudos Germânicos da UFMG 10 (1989): 36-9.
1. “Porque Vivemos numa Época Barroca.”
Suplemento Literário de Minas Gerais 23 (1989): 12-3.
REVIEWS, PROCEEDINGS, JOURNALISM PIECES:
12. Literaturas indigentes y placeres bajos: Felisberto Hernández, Virgilio Piñera, Juan Rodolfo Wilcock, by Reinaldo Laddaga (Rosario: Beatriz Viterbo, 2000). Review forthcoming in Hispamérica.
11. Divergent Modernities: Culture and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, by Julio Ramos. Translated by John D. Blanco (Durham and London: Duke UP, 2001). Review forthcoming in Nepantla: Views from the South.
10. 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). Review forthcoming in Hispanic American Historical Review.
9. “Três Palavras Vazias e o 11 de Setembro.” Correio Brasiliense. “Pensar” Cultural Supplement. Sunday, November 11, 2001.
8. “Tres Signos Vacíos y el 11 de septiembre.” Revista de Crítica Cultural 23 (2001). [translation of 9].
7. “Sensibilidad melancólica y alegoría crítica.” Nueva Sociedad [Caracas, Venezuela] 170 (2000): 212-17. Review of Nós, os Mortos: Melancolia e Neo-Barroco, de Denílson Lopes (Rio de Janeiro: Sette Letras, 1999).
6. Ziembinski e o Teatro Brasileiro, by Yan Michalski (São Paulo and Rio: Hucitec and FUNARTE, 1995). Luso-Brazilian Review 35.2 (1998): 120-22.
5. 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
4. “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.
3. “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).
2. “Fantasmas, fantoches y fanfarrias.” La escritura en escena. Ed. Carlos Brück, Carmen Heuser, and Carlos Pérez. Buenos Aires: Corregidor, 1994. 207-10. Response to conferences on Writing and Psychoanalysis at Duke University and Universidad de La Plata.
1. “O Rosto do Poder.” O Estado de Minas, 23 May 1990: 3. Review of Wilson Oliveira’s theatrical production O Rosto.
INVITED LECTURES
“Exilio académico y el latinoamericanismo diapórico.” To be delivered at Universidad San Andrés. Buenos Aires, March 2002.“Los orígenes del latinoamericanismo.” To be delivered at 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. Conference organized by 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.
“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. Urbana: October, 1999.
"Duelo y ficción en la postdictadura." Rockefeller Seminar on Postdictatorship. ARCIS University and Revista de Crítica Cultural. 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 at Urbana-Champaign. 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.” Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University of Illinois (January 1996), Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University (February 1996), Department of Modern Languages at DePaul University (February 1996), and Department 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.
“Paulo Lins’s Cidade de Deus: New Strategies for the Representation of Working Class Brazilians in Fiction. “ Accepted for 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.
Katherine Singer Kovacs prize
for an outstanding book published in English in the fields of Spanish and
Latin American literatures
and cultures. Given by the Modern Language Association of America to The
Untimely
Present: Postdictatorial
Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning (1999).
Culpeper Faculty Development Grant. Tulane University. To develop technological environments for teaching Critical Theory in Spanish. May 2000.Rockefeller Resident Fellowship. Universidad ARCIS and Revista de Crítica Cultural. Santiago, Chile. May-June 1999.
Hewlett Foundation Summer Research Grant. Research on Latin Americanism. May-June 1999.
College of LAS Grant for State-of-the-Art Conference in Latin American Cultural Studies (with Prof. Rolando Romero). $10,000.
Rockefeller Grant for State-of-the-Art Conference on Latin American Cultural Studies (with Prof. Rolando Romero). $15,000.
Alumni Discretionary Award for Special Service. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. July 1998.
Joseph L. and Virginia Ellis Love Fellowship in Brazilian Studies. Summer 1998.
Ford Foundation Grant for Conference on Latin Americanism. Spring 1998.
UIUC Research Board Grant, Translation of The Untimely Present into Spanish.
Andrew Mellon Grant, Dissertation Research in Chile, Argentina, and Brazil, 1995.
Andrew Mellon Grant, Research on Brazilian literature, University of North Carolina, 1990-92.
Grant from Brazilian Council for Research (CNPq) for Ph.D. at Duke University, 1992-96.
Grant from Duke's Center for International Studies for Dissertation Research in Chile, Argentina and Brazil, 1995.
Latin American Studies Certificate, University of North Carolina, 1992.
Grant from Federal University of Minas Gerais (1988-89) and Brazilian Council for Research (1989-90) for work on African-American poetry.
Several travel awards from the University of North Carolina (1990-92), Duke University (1993-96), and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1996-present)
TEACHING RECORD
At Tulane University:
Graduate:
Brazilian Popular Music. Cotaught with Christopher Dunn. Spring 2002
The Essay in Spanish America. Spring 2002.
Roa Bastos, Lezama Lima, Guimarães Rosa. Spring 2001.
Seminar in Literary Theory. Fall 2000.
Seminar in Latin American Cultural Studies. Fall 1999.
Literature of the Southern Cone: Mourning & Memory in Postdictatorship. Spring 1999.Undergraduate:
Senior Seminar: The River Plate Short Story. Fall 2001.
Introduction to Latin American Culture. Spring 2001.
Introduction to Literature. Spring 2000.
Borges in English Translation. Spring 2000.
Elements of Spanish III. Fall 1999.
Readings in Spanish American Literature. Spring 1999.At The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:
Graduate:
Seminar in Latin American Cultural Studies (Comp. Lit 451), Fall 1998
La genealogía del latinoamericanismo (Spanish 440), Spring 1998.
La vanguardia en Brasil e Hispanoamérica (Spanish 442), Fall 1997.
Memoria, subjetividad e historia en la ficción moderna (Spanish 442), Summer 1997.
The Spanish American Novel (Spanish 340), Spring 1997.Undergraduate:
Spanish American Literature II: From modernismo to the present, Fall 1997.
Hispanic Literature and Culture (conducted in English), Spring 1997.
Introduction to Hispanic Literature I: Medieval, Golden Age, and Colonial, Fall 1996.
Introduction to Hispanic Literature II: Modern Peninsular and Latin American, Fall 1996.Recognition for Teaching Performance at UIUC:
“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.At Duke University:
Introduction to Literary Analysis, Spring 1996.
Southern Cone Fiction and Film after the Dictatorships, Fall 1995.
Introduction to Hispanic Literature, Spring 1994-Spring 1996.
Basic, intermediate, and advanced Spanish, Fall 1993-Spring 1996.At the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill:
Basic, intermediate, and advanced Portuguese, Fall 1990-Spring 1992.At The Federal University of Minas Gerais
Basic, intermediate, and advanced English as a second language, 1987-90.PEDAGOGICAL MATERIALS DEVELOPED:
Database of philosophical and literary-critical texts. Links and resources for the study of Critical Theory in Spanish. Syllabi, student work, and links available online: http://www.tulane.edu/~avelar/span610Database of materials on new directions for Area Studies, especially Latin American Studies. Part of current curriculum revision project I am heading for the Stone Center for Latin American Studies.
THESES AND DISSERTATIONS DIRECTED
IN PROGRESS:
Steve Sloan. "The Chronicles of João do Rio, Lima Barreto, and Roberto Arlt."Uriel Quesada. "Truth, Nation, and Power in Latin American Detective Fiction". Co-Advisor.
Dixon Abreu. “Islanders in Transit.” Ph. D. Spanish. Tulane University. Co-Advisor.
Alejandra Jaramillo. “Bogotá: una ciudad (re)pensada a finales de siglo.” Ph. D. Spanish. Tulane University. Co-Advisor.
John Harvey. “La muerte y la brújula: The History of Detective Fiction in Argentina.” Ph.D. Spanish. Tulane University.
Marisela Funes. “The Medicalization of the Body Politic in Contemporary Argentine Fiction.” Ph.D.. Spanish. University of Illinois.
Heather Goodell. “Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma and National Allegory.” MA Thesis. Latin American Studies. Tulane University.
Dolores Tierney. “Myth, Marginalization, and Machismo in the Cinematic Works of el Indio Fernández.” Ph.D. Spanish. 2nd Reader.
DEFENDED:
Jay Twomey. “Toward an Aesthetic of Globality.” Ph.D. Comparative Literature. University of Illinois. April 2001. Co-Advisor.Joyce Baugher. “Language and the Path Unknown: An Analysis of the Works of Marilene Felinto.” MA Thesis. Tulane University. January 2001.
Rachel Gressel. “An Analysis of the Theme of Community in Gabriel García Márquez’s Early Short Fiction.” Honors Thesis. University of Illinois. May 1999.
Margaret Caygill. “The Wife, the Spinster, and the Indigenous Woman in the Work of Rosario Castellanos.” Honors Thesis. University of Illinois. May 1999.
ACADEMIC EVENTS ORGANIZED
II Colloquium in Performance, Cultural Studies, and Literature. Tulane, April 2001.Two-panel series on “Regionalismo, Cosmopolitismo e Razão Imperial.” ABRALIC, Bahia, Brazil. July 2000.
Symposium on Cultural Critique and the Globalization of Capital. ICA. Warsaw, Poland, July 2000.
I Colloquium in Performance, Cultural Studies, and Literature. Tulane. March 2000.
Conference: Cultural Studies and Disciplinary Boundaries in Latin/o America. Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and the University of Illinois. October 1999.
Panel on “Paradigmas da Crítica Cultural Contemporânea nas Américas.”ABRALIC, Florianópolis, Brazil: August 1998.
Colloquium on The Genealogy of Latin Americanism. Ford Foundation Funding
Panel on “Toward a Genealogy of Latin Americanism.” MLA1997.
Panel on “Representación, ethos individual y transformaciones sociales.” LASA 1997.
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.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
Associação Brasileira de Literatura Comparada (ABRALIC)
International Association for Philosophy and Literature (IAPL)LANGUAGES
Native speaking, reading, writing: Spanish, Portuguese, and English.
Fluent reading, some speaking: French and German.
Fluent reading: Italian.
2 and 1/2 years of Russian (no expertise claimed).SERVICE:
To The Intellectual Community:
MLA Representative at ARL-NHA-Knight Collaborative Roundtable on Scholarly Communication in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Philadelphia, March 2001.
Profession Advisory Committee (2000-01)
Translations, lectures, and workshops in New Orleans’s Jazz and Heritage Festival (2000)
Member of Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Publishing. 1999-2001
Referee of tenure case. Binghamton University. 2000.
Referee of manuscripts on Brazil. Luso-Brazilian Review. 1998-present.
Referee of book manuscripts for Duke University Press. 1999.
Editorial Board of La invención y la herencia. Santiago: ARCIS and LOM. 1999-presentTo Tulane University (1999-2001):
Deparmental Level:
Major/minor advisor, Spanish (2000-)
Graduate Exam Committee, Chair (1999-2000)
Book Chair (1999-)
Course Development: Spanish 401, “Introduction to Literature”.
Course Development: Spanish 610, “Literary Theory”Campus and College Levels:
Head of Latin American Studies Curriculum Revision Project (2000-2002)
Executive Committee – Stone Center for Latin American Studies (2000-2003)
Chair of Graduate Admissions Committee, Latin American Studies (2001-2002)
Member, Brazilian Studies Council (1999-)
Member, Stone Center Committee on Cultural Studies, Performance, and the Arts.To The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1996-1999):
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 for Study-Abroad Programs in Spain and Latin America (1996-97)
Evaluation Committee for Tinker Foundation Graduate Research Grants (1997)
Evaluation Committee for 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)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)
To Duke University (1993-1996):
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 Liason Committee, 1993-4.