CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal Data

Robert McKee Irwin

Assistant Professor

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Educational Record

· 1980-84: BA, University of Pennsylvania

· 1993-95: MA, New York University, Comparative Literature

· 1995-99: PhD, New York University, Comparative Literature

Concentrations:

· Literature of the Americas 1870-1970

· Identity Theory and Latin America: Gender, Sexuality, Race

· Contemporary Critical Theory

Dissertation:

“The Trials and Tribulations of los Hijos de la Chingada: Mexican Masculinities (1810-1960)

Director: Sylvia Molloy

Readers: George Yúdice, Gerard Aching, Jennifer Wicke, Ana María Dopico

Teaching Experience

· 1999-2000: Tulane University, Visiting Assistant Professor

· 2000-present: Tulane University, Assistant Professor

Publications

1. Books

Monographs:

· Forthcoming 2003: Mexican Masculinities, University of Minnesota Press

Edited Volumes

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· 1998: Hispanisms and Homosexualities, Duke University Press (with Sylvia Molloy)

· Forthcoming 2002: The Famous 41, Palgrave (with Edward McCaughan and Michelle Nasser)

2. Articles

Articles Published in Peer Reviewed Journals:

· 1998: “El Periquillo Sarniento y sus cuates: El ‘éxtasis misterioso’ del ambiente homosocial en el siglo diecinueve” in Literatura Mexicana

· “La homosexualidad cósmica mexicana: Espejos de diferencia racial en Xavier Villaurrutia” in Revista Iberoamericana, special issue: “Erotismo y escritura”

· “The Famous 41: The Scandalous Birth of Modern Mexican Homosexuality” in GLQ, A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies

· “La Pedo Embotellado: Sexual Roles and Play in Salvador Novo’s La estatua de sal” in Studies in the Literary Imagination, special issue: “Borders and Identities in the Mexican Novel”

· “Altamirano’s Studs: Male Beauty in Nineteenth Century Mexican Literature” in Nómada

· “Toward a Border Gnosis of the Borderlands: Joaquín Murrieta and Nineteenth-Century US-Mexico Border Culture” in Nepantla

Articles Submitted and Currently Under Consideration at Peer Reviewed Journals:

· “El centenario de los 41” in Revista de Crítica Cultural

· “’Las inseparables’ and Other Early Traces of Modern Mexican Lesbianism” in Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos

· “Ramona and Postnationalist American Studies: On ‘Our America’ and the Mexican Borderlands” in American Quarterly

· “The Legend of Lola Casanova: On the Borders of Border Studies” in Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies

· “Transamerican Studies and the Mexican Borderlands: Aurelio Pérez Peña’s Heroína” in Modern Fiction Studies

Book Chapters

· 1997: “Los de abajo y los debates sobre la identidad masculine nacional” in La otredad, Silvia Elguea Véjar, Coord., Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco/ Centro de Cultura Casa Lamm/University of Louisville

· 1997: “El más triste de los alquimistas mexicanos: Jorge Cuesta y la tragedia del género” in La seducción de la escritura, Rosaura Hernández Monroy and Manuel Medina, Coord., Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco/Centro de Cultura Casa Lamm/University of Louisville

· 1998: “Introduction” to Hispanisms and Homosexualities (see Books above), with Sylvia Molloy

· 1998: “The Legend of Jorge Cuesta: The Perils of Alchemy and the Paranoia of Gender” in Hispanisms and Homosexualities (see Books above)

· 2000: “As Invisible as He Is: The Queer Enigma of Xavier Villaurrutia” in Reading and Writing the Ambiente: Queer Sexualities in Latino, Latin American and Spanish Culture, Susana Chávez-Silverman and Librada Hernández, Eds., University of Wisconsin Press

· Forthcoming 2002: “Introduction” in The Famous 41 (with Edward McCaughan, Michelle Nasser) (see Books above)

· Forthcoming 2002: “Centenary of the Famous 41” in The Famous 41 (see Books above)

· Forthcoming 2003: “An Approach to Gender and Sexuality Studies in the Undergraduate Curriculum” in Cultural Studies in the Curriculum: Teaching Latin America, Jill Kunheim, Danny Anderson, Eds., Modern Language Association of America

CD ROM

· Forthcoming 2003: “Lola Casanova en nuestra América” in Memoria del XXV simposio de historia y antropología de Sonora, Universidad de Sonora

Other Articles

· 2000: “Conference on the Future of Doctoral Education: A Participant’s View” in PMLA

3. Papers Read

Invited Lectures

· 1998: “Construcciones y usos de la masculinidad: El caso mexicano,” Colegio de Postgraduados (Mexico)

· 1999-2000: “Los 41 y otros crímenes de género en México: 1900-1910,” Tulane University, Northwestern University, Duke University, University of Texas at Austin, University of California at Berkeley

· 2000: “Los ‘éxtasis misteriosos’ del mundo homosocial masculine en el siglo XIX,” Tulane University

Conference Papers

· 1995: “Tezcatlipoca, Nefarious Sodomite: The Codex Chimalpopoca and Sixteenth Century Discourse on Gender and Sexuality in Mexico,” University of Iowa: “In Queery, in Theory, in Deed: The Sixth North American Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Studies Conference”

· 1995: “Los de abajo y los debates sobre la identidad masculina nacional,” Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco, Mexico City: “II Jornadas Metropolitanas de Estudios Culturales” and New York University-Columbia University Graduate Studient Conference on Spanish and Portuguese Literatures: “Literature and the Body”

· 1996: “The Shocking Tragedy of the Saddest of the Mexican Alchemists,” New York University, Department of Comparative Literature, Graduate Student Conference: “Culture Shock”

· 1996: “Tan invisible como él: Xavier Villaurrutia en la crítica,” University of California-Irvine: “México en la Cultura”

· 1996: “El más triste de los alquimistas mexicanos: Jorge Cuesta y la tragedia del género,” Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco, Mexico City: “III Jornadas Metropolitanas de Estudios Culturales”

· 1997: “El éxtasis misterioso del Periquillo Sarniento,” Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco, Mexico City: IV Jornadas Metropolitanas de Estudios Culturales” and University of California-Irvine: “Criticism and Art in Mexico”

· 1997: “41: Virility and Crisis in Mexico City, 1901,” LASA, Guadalajara

· 1998: “La literature viril y su afeminamiento: Usos de retórica intergenérica,” Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México: “Las expresiones del poder”

· 1998: “Villaurrutia’s Open Secret,” LASA, Chicago

· 1998: “La visibilidad de lo privado: Los famosos 41 y los estereotipos de la homosexualidad,” University of California-Irvine: “Criticism and Art in Mexico”

· 1999: “Un beso pocho: La masculinidad mexicana se interroga,” Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco, Mexico City: “VI Jornadas Metropolitanas de Estudios Culturales”

· 1999: “La Pedo Embotellado: Salvador Novo and Twentieth Century Mexican Male Homosexuality,” MLA, Chicago

· 2000: “New Assistance for Hombres Necios,” LASA, Miami

· 2000: “La Pedo Embotellado: Los papeles sexuales y el juego en La estatua de sal de Salvador Novo,” Tulane University, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Conference, “Cultural Encounters”

· 2000: “Mysterious Ecstasies: Understanding Male-Male Intimacy in Nineteenth Century Latin America,” University of Chicago, Gay and Lesbian Studies Project, “The Future of the Queer Past”

· 2000: “The Severed Head of Joaquín Murrieta and Nineteenth Century Border Culture,” MLA, Washington, DC

· 2001: “Las criminales sexuales del porfiriato,” LASA, Washington, DC

· 2001: “Ramona’s Uneasy Adopted Mexicanness,” MLA, New Orleans

· 2002: “Ramona y Lola Casanova: La frontera y Nuestra América a finales del siglo XIX,” Southwest Council of Latin American Studies, “Imágenes Multiculturales de las Américas,” Morelia, Mexico

· 2002: “Lola Casanova en Nuestra América,” XXVII Simposio de Historia y Antropología de Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico

Round Table Discussions

· 1997: “Doña Herlinda y su hijo,” Centro Juan Carlos, New York University

· 2001: “The Latter Stages of the Academic Job Search,” MLA, New Orleans

Panel Responses

· 2001: “Cuerpo masculine y practices de nacionalización: Alegoría y diferencia,” LASA, Washington, DC; scheduled speakers: Gabriel Giorgi, Carla Giaudrone, Sandra Garabano, Francisco Javier Hernández-Adrián

4. Reviews

· 1999: Review of A Cultural History of Latin America, Leslie Bethell, Ed. (Cambridge University Press, 1998) in Luso-Brazilian Review

· 2000: Review of Gender and Nationalism in Colonial Cuba: The Travels of Santa Cruz y Montalvo, Condesa de Merlin, Adriana Méndez Rodenas (Vanderbilt University Press, 1998) in Latin American Literary Review

· Forthcoming 2002: Review of Lizardi and the Birth of the Novel in Spanish America, Nancy Vogeley (University Press of Florida) in Revista Iberoamericana

Courses Taught

New York University, Graduate Teaching Assistant

Fall 1997:

· Spanish A95.0001: first semester Spanish

Spring 1998:

· Comparative Literature V29.0190: Topics in 20^th Century Literature: Masculinities of the Americas

Tulane University, Visiting Assistant Professor

Fall 1999:

· Spanish 413: Topics in Latin American Literature: Before Machismo: Gender in Nineteenth Century Mexican Literature

· Spanish 101 (2 sections): first semester Spanish (Co-Coordinator of Multi-Section Course)

Spring 2000

· Spanish 672: Nineteenth Century Latin American Literature

· Spanish 325: Advanced Composition and Grammar

Tulane University, Assistant Professor

Fall 2000

· Spanish 313: Introduction to Latin American Culture

· Spanish 325: Advanced Composition and Grammar (Coordinator of Multi-Section Course)

· Spanish 795: Independent Study: Environmental Focus in Latin American Literature (Camilo Gomides)

· Latin American Studies 695: Independent Study: Queer Studies: Brazil (Michelle Nasser)

Spring 2001

· Spanish 676: Border Studies: An Historical Perspective

· Spanish 410: Gender and Sexuality in Latin America

· Spanish 600: Independent Study: Gender and the African Diaspora in Latin American Culture (Danita King)

Fall 2001

· Spanish 791: Graduate Seminar: Sexuality and Social Control in Latin America, c. 1901

· Spanish 413: Topics in Latin American Literature: Sex Crimes, Mexico, 1901

· Latin American Studies 700: Graduate Core Seminar (team taught course: three segments on Literary/Cultural Studies Theory)

· Spanish 491: Independent Study: Growing Up Latino (Beth Bagneris)

Spring 2002

· Spanish 419/Communication 419: Introduction to Latin American Film

· Spanish 203: third semester Spanish

· Spanish 795: Independent Study: La Trayectoria de la Teoría Queer: América Latina (Jhon Valencia)

· Spanish 491: Independent Study: Costa Rican Literature (David Coffey)

· Latin American Studies 899: Master’s Thesis Research: Bicha Negra (Michelle Nasser)

Fall 2002

· Spanish 652: Mexican Literature: The Great National Icons

· Spanish 313: Introduction to Latin American Culture

· Latin American Studies 700: Graduate Core Seminar (team taught course: three segments on Literary/Cultural Studies Theory)

· Spanish 600: Independent Study: Discursos de Sexo en Cuba (Inmaculada Álvarez)

Service

Professional Organizations: Modern Language Association

· 1997-99: Task Force on Graduate Education

· 1999-2001: Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession

Department of Spanish and Portuguese Administration

· 2000: Undergraduate Studies Committee

· 2000-1: Undergraduate Advisor for Upper Level Transfer Credit

· 2000-1: Committee on Five-Year MA

· 2000-1: Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Caribbean Literature

· 2001-present: Director of Undergraduate Studies

· 2001-present: Major/Minor Recruiting Committee

· 2002-present: Search Committee for Language Program Director

Department of Spanish and Portuguese: Graduate Advising

Dissertations Directed: in process

· Christina Sisk, co-director of dissertation

Dissertation Committees: defended

· Dolores Tierney, dissertation committee (defended 4/02)

· Eduardo Santa Cruz, dissertation committee (defended 4/00)

· Isabel Durocher, dissertation committee (defended 6/02)

Dissertation Committees: in process

· Marcie Rinka, dissertation committee

· Steven Sloan, dissertation committee

· Raúl Rubio, dissertation committee

· Sonia Valle, dissertation committee

· Ana Yolanda Contreras, dissertation committee

· María Fernández, dissertation committee

Stone Center for Latin American Studies: Administration

· 2000-present: Latin American Library Committee

· 2000-1: Curriculum Committee

· 2001-2: Awards Committee

· 2002-present: Undergraduate and Graduate Curriculum Committee, co-chair

Stone Center for Latin American Studies: Graduate Advising

Masters Theses Directed: in process

· Michelle Nasser, director of masters thesis

Conference Organization

· 1996: Organizing Committee: “Crossing National and Sexual Borders,” at New York University and City University of New York

· 1997-99: Organizing Committee: “The Future of Doctoral Education” at University of Wisconsin at Madison (MLA Executive Council Task Force on Graduate Education)

· 1999: Advisory Committee: “Crossing Borders ‘99” at Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York

· 2000-1: Chair, Organizing Committee: “Centenary of the Famous 41: Sexuality and Social Control in Latin American, 1901” at Tulane University

Honors and Awards

· 2001: Newcomb College Mortar Board Award for Outstanding Teaching

Other

Fellowships and Research Grants

· 1994: New York University, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Summer Travel Grant

· 1994: New York University, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (for Portuguese declined due to multiple fellowship rule at NYU)

· 1994-98: New York University, MacCracken Fellowship

· 1996-97: New York University, Graduate Assistanceship: assigned as Research Assistant to Sylvia Molloy, Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities

· 1997: New York University, Department of Comparative Literature, Anais Nin Summer Research Fellowship

· 1998-99: New York University Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship

· 2000, 01, 02: Tulane University, Stone Center for Latin American Studies: Faculty Summer Travel Grant

· 2001: Tulane University, Foreign Language Instructional Technology Environment, Culpepper Grant for web based instructional development

· 2001: Tulane University Senate Committee on Research Summer Fellowship

Professional Memberships

· 1994-present: Modern Language Association

· 1996-present: Latin American Studies Association

· 1998-present: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana

· 2002-present: MLA Discussion Group on Mexican Literary and Cultural Studies

· 2002-present: American Studies Association