Modern &
Classical Languages
P.O. Box 3970
Atlanta, GA 30302-3970
Phone: 404.413.6593
E-mail: fernandez (at) gsu (dot) edu
EDUCATION
1990-94 Ph.D. in Hispanic
Languages and Literature, Department of Hispanic
Languages and Literature, Stony Brook University.
Major area of concentration: Spanish American literature; minor
area of concentration: Spanish Peninsular literature.
Dissertation topic: Narrativas de representación urbana: un
estudio de expresiones culturales de la modernidad
latinoamericana; co-directors: Prof. Kathleen Vernon
and Prof. Román de
la Campa.
Date of dissertation defense: December 18, 1995.
Date of graduation: May 12, 1996.
1993 M.A. in Hispanic Languages and
Literature, Department of Hispanic Languages and
Literature, Stony Brook University. Stony Brook,
NY.
1980-1987 B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Department of
Electrical Engineering, Universidad
de los Andes. Santa Fe de Bogotá, DC.
Thesis topic: Biorretroalimentación de
electropotenciales fisiológicos
(biofeedback); director: Prof. Germán Cavalier.
(Includes credits for a minor in literature prior to the
approval of the program.)
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE
1998-date Associate Professor (tenure granted on Aug. 18,
2003). Department of Modern and Classical
Languages, Georgia State University.
Atlanta, GA.
1996-1998 Assistant Professor (tenure-track). Department
of Foreign Languages, University
of Montevallo. Montevallo, AL.
1994-1996 Instructor (tenure-track). Modern Foreign
Languages Program, English Department, Castleton State College.
Castleton, VT.
1990-1994 Teaching Assistant. Department of Hispanic
Languages and Literature, Stony Brook University. Stony Brook,
NY.
COURSES TAUGHT
Georgia State University: FORL 3300 (Romance Literature in
Translation, crosslisted as EGL 4200/SPAN 4480/FREN 4414/GRMN
4414), HON 1000 (The Cultural Politics of Globalization; Nation,
Identity, and Nationalism in Graphic Narratives),
PERS 2001 (Graphic Narratives and World Cultures), SPAN 8885
Special Topics in Latin American Literature and/or Culture (Film
Adaptation/Adaptación cinematográfica; Seminar on
Mexican Identity/Seminario sobre la mexicanidad; The Latin
American Documentary/El documental latinoamericano), SPAN 7151
Spanish for Reading, SPAN 6603 Cultural Studies (Narratives of
Identity/Narrativas identitarias; Identity, Inequality, and
Violence in Latin America/Identidad, desigualdad y violencia en
Latinoamérica), SPAN 4999 Directed Readings, SPAN 4470
Special Topics in Latin American Literature and/or Culture (Latin
America via Internet/Latinoamérica vía Internet;
Contemporary Latin American Chronicle/Crónica
latinoamericana contemporánea; Latin America through the
Eyes of Hollywood/ Latinoamérica según Hollywood),
SPAN 3315 Survey of Latin American Literature, SPAN 3311 Latin
American Culture and Civilization, SPAN 3305 Advanced Conversation
and Composition, SPAN 2501 Intermediate Spanish for Heritage
Speakers, SPAN 2002 Intermediate II, SPAN 2001 Intermediate I, and
SPAN 1002 Introductory II.
University of Montevallo: SPN 430 Special Topics in
Peninsular Studies, SPN 402 The Hispanic World Today, SPN 341
Peninsular Culture and Civilization, SPN 330 The Latin American
Short Story, SPN 302 Advanced Conversation & Composition II,
SPN 301 Advanced Conversation & Composition I, SPN 102
Spanish II, and SPN 101 Spanish I.
Castleton State College: FLL 201 Romance Literature in
Translation, SPA 402 Survey of Peninsular Literature, SPA 312
Survey of Golden Age Theatre, SPA 206 Introduction to Latin
American Culture, SPA 202 Intermediate II, and SPA 201
Intermediate I.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Historietas, Comics,
Muñequitos: Nation and Identity in Latin/o American
Comics. A compilation of my writings on Latin American
comics.
Nationalism, Culture,
Identity: Mediation and Identity Politics in Contemporary
Colombia. A study of the articulation of national
identity by the Colombian government, the private sector, and
NGOs.
BOOKS
All Cumbias, The Cumbia:
The Transnationalization of a Latin American Musical Genre
(tentative title). Edited with Pablo Vila. Durham, NC: Duke
University Press, forthcoming.
"Amores Invisibles: The Politics of Gender in
the Colombian Cultural
Industry." In
The Colombia Reader:
Mapping Contemporary Culture. Eds. Andrea Fanta,
Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola, and Chloe Rutter-Jensen. Forthcoming.
"Invasion of the Nacos!
Mocking Social Prejudice in Contemporary Mexico in Rudo y Cursi."
In
Humor in Latin American Cinema.
Eds. Juana Suárez and Juan Poblete. Forthcoming.
"Gender and Nation from Past to Present: From María to
Macabéa." In Tracing
the Feminine: Iconic Women Characters in Latin American and
Spanish Literature. Eds. Eva Paulino Bueno and Maria
Claudia Andre. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, forthcoming. "On Whitening and other Disaffections: The
Impact of Tropipop on Colombia's Music Scene." In Music and Youth in Latin America.
Ed. Pablo Vila. Forthcoming.
"Ethnicity, Province, and Nation: The Politics
of Border Crossings in Mexico's Guía del Migrante." In Gente
de frontera: The Mexico-U.S. Border in Hispanic Literature.
Eds. Bob Hunter and Jeffrey Oxford. Forthcoming.
“Create Two, Three, Many Latino Superheroes:
Latino Identity and the US Comics Industry.” In Ages of Heroes, Eras of Men.
Eds. Julian C. Chambliss, Thomas Donaldson, and William Svitavsky.
Forthcoming.
"On the Mexican State's War on Drug Violence: Transgression in
the Representation and Circulation of a Critique." In Transgression 2.0. Eds.
David Gunkel and Ted Gournelos. New York, NY: Continuum, 2011:
256-275.
"Del Falcon como encarnación de la argentinidad: autos
endemoniados y otros oprobios." In Autos, barcos, trenes y aviones: Modernidad,
transportes y lenguajes artísticos en América
Latina. Ed. Fernando Reati. Córdoba, Argentina:
Alción Editora, 2011: 251-264.
“Gender, Drugs, and the Global Telenovela: Pimping Sin Tetas No
Hay Paraíso.” In Soap
Operas and Telenovelas in the Digital Age: Global Industries,
Hybrid Content, and New Audiences. Eds. Diana I. Rios and
Mari Castaneda. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2011: 165-182.
"De música y colombianidades: en torno a una historia de la
cumbia, la parrandera." In Cumbia: raza, nación, etnia
y género en Latinoamérica. Trans. and
eds. Pablo Semán and Pablo Vila. Buenos Aires, Argentina:
Editorial Gorla, 2011: 141-167.
"Todas las cumbias, la cumbia: la latinoamericanización de
un género tropical." In Cumbia: raza, nación, etnia
y género en Latinoamérica.
Trans. and eds. Pablo Semán and Pablo Vila. Buenos Aires,
Argentina: Editorial Gorla, 2011: 169-210.
"Sobre os estereótipos vizinhos: Memín
Pinguín como uma oportunidade perdida." In Imprensa, humor e caricatura: A
questão dos estereótipos culturais. Trans.
and ed. Isabel Lustosa. Belo Horizonte, Brazil: Editora da
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (EDUFMG), 2011: 139-149.
"Delirios de modernidad (y violencia): premonitorios destellos de
Hollywood en la obra de Andrés Caicedo." In La Estela de Caicedo.
Eds. Juan Duchesne Winter and Felipe Gómez
Gutiérrez. Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de
Literatura Iberoamericana, 2009: 245-259.
"All Cumbias, The Cumbia: The Latin Americanization of a Tropical
Genre." In Imagining Our Americas: Towards a
Transnational Frame. Eds. Sandhya Shukla and Heidi
Tinsman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007: 338-364.
"On Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle and Mexican Nationalism:
The Politics of Identity in Jorge Volpi’s In Search of Klingsor."
In Science,
Literature, and Film in the Hispanic World. Eds. Jerry
Hoeg and Kevin S. Larsen. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006:
109-128.
"Sobre la representación de la violencia en el cine
colombiano: una lectura de Rodrigo D. y el no futuro de los
pandilleros de Medellín." In En torno a la violencia en Colombia: Una propuesta
interdisciplinaria. Ed. Cecilia Castro Lee. Cali,
Colombia: Universidad del Valle, 2005: 273-289.
"De la tautología darwiniana y otros ensayos." In Fernando Vallejo, condición y
figura. Ed. Eufrasio Guzmán Mesa. Medellín,
Colombia: Taller El Ángel Editor, 2005: 155-171.
"From Mafalda to Boogie: The City and Argentine Humor." In Imagination Beyond Nation.
Eds. Eva Bueno and Terry Caesar. Pittsburgh, PA: University of
Pittsburgh Press, 1999: 81-106.
"De Mafalda a Boogie: la ciudad y el humor argentino." Selected
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Hispanic
Humor. Ed. Paul W. Seaver. Potomac, Maryland: Scripta
Humanistica, 1998: 142-152.
"De Mafalda a Boogie: de la porteñización de
'Carlitos' a la norteamericanización del malevo." Third
Biennial Conference: Culture, Technology, and Change in the
Americas: Selected Proceedings. Tampa, FL: University of
South Florida Press, 1996: 111-120.
ARTICLES
"Transnationalism
and
Hegemony Amid a Very Uneven Modernity: On Arandú,
El Principe de la Selva and The Dynamics of The Mexican
Comics Industry." International
Journal of Comic Art, forthcoming.
"Ciencia ficción y configuración identitaria en
Gel azul: en torno a una
mexicanidad futura." Ed. Silvia G. Kurlat-Ares. Revista Iberoamericana,
forthcoming.
"Del nacionalismo como treta de la imaginación identitaria
en '450 años de guerra contra el imperialismo', de
Héctor Germán Oesterheld." Ed. Ana Merino. Revista Iberoamericana Vol.
LXXVII, Núm. 234, enero-marzo 2011: 41-57.
"Edgar Clément's "The Sword of God": On the
Practice of Hybridization in Mexican Comics." International Journal of Comic Art
12.1 (Spring 2010): 135-146.
"Haciendo memoria a punta de detectivesca: riesgos
implícitos de El Eskimal
y la Mariposa." Estudios
de Literatura Colombiana No. 20, enero-junio, 2007: 15-36.
"Del vallenato propio y ajeno: hacia una reconfiguración
del imaginario colombiano y mexicano." Revista de Estudios Colombianos
No. 27-28, 2005: 73-77.
"How to Face Neoliberalism and Make It as A Mexican Cartoonist:
Óscar Gónzalez Loyo and The Ka-Boom! Experience."
International Journal of Comic
Art 7. 1 (Spring/Summer 2005): 304-316.
"Flopi Bach: A Benevolent Misogyny?" International Journal of Comic Art
7.1 (Spring/Summer 2005): 206-229.
"The Colombian Caribbean amidst the National Debacle: Failure or
Rebirth of a Nation?" National
Identities 6.2 (July 2004): 173-184.
"Vladdo, Aleida, and the Politics of Gender in War-Torn Colombia."
International Journal of Comic
Art 6.1 (Spring 2004): 148-162.
"The Mystery of Kalimán, el Hombre Increíble." International Journal of Comic Art
5.1 (Spring 2003): 220-230.
"De insectos y otros demonios: Breves apuntes sobre las obsesiones
de Guillermo del Toro." Objeto
Visual. Cuadernos de Investigación de la Cinemateca
Nacional de Venezuela 10.8 (December 2002): 42-51.
“Resurrecting the Nation Through the Eyes of a Native: The Case of
Turey el Taíno.” International
Journal
of Comic Art 4.2 (Fall 2002): 70-83.
"Nationalism as Burden: Rituals of Migration in
Contemporary Latin American Cinema." Chasqui 29.3 (May
2000): 64-74.
"Between Comic Strips and Literature: On Fragmentation and
Identity in Ricardo Piglia's La Argentina en pedazos." SECOLAS
Annals: Journal of the Southeastern Council on
Latin American Studies 30 (March 1999): 52-59.
"The Politics of Desire in the Literature of Andrés
Caicedo." JAISA: The Journal of the Association for the
Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts 3.2 (Spring 1998) :
43-51.
CREATIVE WRITING
"Aprieta." Tercer Concurso
de Cuento. Bogotá: Editorial Universidad de los
Andes, 1986.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
"Life Sucks," "Latinos in Graphic Novels," "Palomar: The
Heartbreak Soup Stories," and "Sanctuary."
Graphic Novels. Eds. Bart
Beaty and Stephen Weiner. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press,
forthcoming.
"Rock (en español)." Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latin American Music.
Ed. Jorge Torres. Westport CT: Greenwood Press,
forthcoming.
"Chalino Sánchez," "Merengue," "Nationalism," "Rock
en Español," "Thalía," "Tigres del Norte," and
"Tito Puente." The
Encyclopedia of Latin Music. Eds. Ilan Stavans and
Jennifer Acker. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, forthcoming.
"Champeta," "Chucu-chucu," "Mapalé,"
"Merecumbé," "Rock," and "Tropipop." Vol. IX, Genres of
Caribbean and Central and South American Origin, Encyclopedia of Popular Music of
the World (EPMOW). Eds. John Shepherd, David Horn, and
Dave Laing. London: Continuum Books, forthcoming.
"Néstor García Canclini," "Carlos
Monsiváis," "Beatriz Sarlo," "Juan Zapata Olivella," and
"Manuel Zapata Olivella." World
Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia. Eds. Maureen
Ihrie and Salvador A. Oropesa. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO,
2011.
"Imperialismo cultural." Diccionario de Estudios Culturales. Eds.
Robert McKee Irwin and Mónica Szurmuk. Mexico: Siglo XXI
Editores/Instituto Mora, 2009.
"Marvel Moreno" and "Laura Restrepo."
Latin American Women Writers:
An Encyclopedia. Eds. María
Claudia André and Eva Bueno. New York: Routledge, 2008.
"Jessica Alba," "Lalo Alcaraz,"
"John 'Jellybean' Benitez," "Irene
Cara," "Elpidia Carrillo," "Daddy
Yankee,""Dolores
del Río,""Oscar D'León,""El
General,""Alma
Guillermoprieto,""Los Hernandez Brothers," "John
Leguizamo," "Ricky Martin," "A.
Martinez,""Luis
Miguel," and "Esai Morales." Hispanic American Biographies.
London: The Brown
Reference Group, 2006.
"Helena Araújo," "Fernando Charry
Lara,""Cóndores no
entierran todos los días,""Eduardo
Cote Lamus,""Santiago
García," "Grupo de Barranquilla,""Jaime Jaramillo Uribe," "Luis
Carlos
López,""Rafael
Maya,""Jorge Orlando
Melo," and "Jorge Zalamea." Encyclopedia
of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures.
Eds. Daniel Balderston, Mike González, and Ana M.
López, London: Routledge
Press, 2001.
REVIEWS
"Sitios de contienda:
producción cultural colombiana y el discurso de la
violencia." Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América
Latina y el Caribe, forthcoming.
"Musical
Imagination: U.S.-Colombian Identity and the Latin Music Boom."
Camino Real 2.3 (2010): 187-189.
"Your Brain on
Latino Comics: From Gus Arriola to Los Bros Hernandez."
Pacific Historical Review 79.4 (Fall
2010): 677-678.
"Los amantes de Todos los Santos." Revista de Estudios Colombianos
No. 36, 2010: 50-51.
"¡Viva la historieta!: Mexican Comics, NAFTA, and the Politics of
Globalization." International Journal of Comic Art 11.2
(Fall 2009): 457-461.
"Nación y melancolía: narrativas de la violencia
en Colombia (1995-2005)." Revista de Estudios Colombianos
No. 33-34, 2009: 142-144.
"Imágenes de un imperio: Estados Unidos y las formas de
representación de América Latina." The Americas 64.1
(July 2007): 91-93.
Martín-Barbero,
Jesús. "Communication Media." In Dictionary of Latin American
Cultural Studies. Eds. Robert McKee Irwin and
Mónica Szurmuk. Gainesville, FL: University Press of
Florida, 2012: pp. 51-58.
Fernández L'Hoeste, Héctor. "Cultural Imperialism."
In Dictionary of
Latin American Cultural Studies. Eds. Robert McKee Irwin
and Mónica Szurmuk. Gainesville, FL: University Press of
Florida, 2012: pp. 73-78.
Nieves Moreno, Alfredo. "A Man Lives Here:
Reggaetón’s Hypermasculine Resident." In Reggaeton. Eds. Raquel Z.
Rivera, Wayne Marshall, and Deborah Pacini Hernandez. Durham, NC:
Duke University Press, 2009: 252-279.
ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
"Nation, City, and Public Transportation: A Case of Latin
American Hegemony." Latin
American Urban Cultural Production. Ed. David William
Foster. Hispanic Issues On Line
3.6 (Fall 2008): 113–135.<http://hispanicissues.umn.edu/issues/2008.html>
"Identidad nacional en una era
transnacional: la publicidad colombiana y su papel en el
desarrollo de una imagen nacional." Revista Z. Año IV-No. 2-Abril 2008/Julho
2008: 15.25 pp. <http://www.pacc.ufrj.br/z/ano4/2/inicial.php>
"Marvel Moreno," "Laura Restrepo," and "Beatriz
Sarlo." The Feminist Encyclopedia of Latin
American Literature. Eds. María Claudia
André and Eva Bueno. <http://www.hope.edu/latinamerican/>
Interviewed for a program on cumbia in the Americas for PRI's
Afropop
Worldwide Hip Deep Series (broadcast on Thursday Jan. 27,
2011).
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Member, Three-Year Review Committee (Assistant
Professor position), 2011.
Resident scholar (Chamblee Library) for PRIME TIME: Family Reading Time®, a
nationally-recognized, six to eight-week literacy program
developed by the Louisiana
Endowment for the Humanities in cooperation
with the American Library
Association and aimed at Spanish-speaking
families (2010-2011).
Program Director, Spanish Studies in Guadalajara,
summer 2000, 2002-2004, and 2006-2010. Georgia State
University. Atlanta, GA.
MCL departmental liaison to the University Library,
Georgia State University, 2000-2003.
Member, Petitions Committee, 2000-2002; head of
committee, Georgia State University 2001-2002.
Outside reviewer for Chasqui (2000,
2003, 2004), Colegio de México (2010), Editorial de la
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (2008), Journal of
Popular Music Studies (2003), New York University Press
(2008), Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos
(2003, 2006), Revista de
Estudios Hispánicos (2011), Rowan Littlefield
Publishing Group (2010), Science Fiction Film and
Television (2007), TRANS (2008), The University
of Arizona Press (2004), and Wallflower Press (2003).
MCL webmaster, Georgia State University, 1999-2003.
Member, MCL committee for the creation of a heritage
speakers course, Georgia State University, 1999.
Coordinator, Foreign Language Films at Montevallo,
1996-1998. University of Montevallo. Montevallo, AL.
Coordinator, The Alternative Cinema, 1992-94. Stony
Brook University. Stony Brook, NY.
Member, Cine Club Uniandes, 1985-87. Universidad de los Andes.
Santa Fe de Bogotá, DC (Colombia).
2011 "Transnationalism and Hegemony Amid a Very Uneven
Modernity: On Arandú, El Principe de la
Selva and The Dynamics of The Mexican Comics
Industry."
Sept. 30, at the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the
International Comic Arts Forum. Center for Cartoon
Studies (CCS). White River Junction, VT.
2011 "On Recent Trends within
The US Latino Population." Oct. 12, guest speaker at the
National Credit Union Administration. Atlanta, GA.
2011 "Hispanics in The Nation
and at CDC." Sept. 22, guest speaker at the Hispanic Heritage
Month Panel Discussion. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. Atlanta, GA.
2011 "Convergências
e divergências: panorama da pesquisa em quadrinhos
ibero-americana. " Aug. 25, keynote speaker at the
I Jornadas Internacionais de Histórias em Quadrinhos.
University of São Paulo. São Paulo, SP (Brazil).
2011 “Amid Comics and
Radionovelas: The Changing Role of The Armed Forces in
Colombia’s Cultural Industry.” April 2, guest speaker at the 5thPor Colombia Student
Conference. Yale University. New Haven, CT.
2010 "Scholarship and Comics: Matters of Disciplinary
Consideration." November 5, at the 82nd annual SAMLA Convention.
Georgia State University. Atlanta, GA.
2010 "Dramatizing National
Crisis (and History) for an International Audience: The Case of
Caracol's El Cartel." Oct. 7, at
the XXIX meeting of the Latin American Studies Association. Toronto,
ON (Canada).
2009 "Nation and State: Public vs. Private in Rodrigo Plá's
La Zona." Nov. 5, at
Geographical Imaginaries & Hispanic Film. Tulane University.
New Orleans, LA.
2009 "Edgar Clément's 'The
Sword of God': On the Practice of
Hybridization in Mexican Comics." Oct. 15, at the Fourteenth
Annual International Comic Arts Forum. The School of the Art
Institute of Chicago. Chicago, IL.
2009 "De la idealización de la guerra en los medios
oficiales: el papel de la radionovela en la configuración
de un imaginario nacionalista colombiano." Aug. 6, at the XVI
Biennial
Conference of the Association of Colombianists. University of
Virginia. Charlottesvile, VA.
2009 "En torno a la obra de Rogelio Salmona: hacia una
teoría de la arquitectura nacional en Colombia." June 14, at
the XXVIII meeting of the Latin American Studies Association. Rio
de
Janeiro, RJ (Brazil).
2009 "In Search of Identity in Brazilian Comics."
June 12, discussant for this panel at the XXVIII
meeting of the Latin American Studies Association. Rio
de
Janeiro, RJ (Brazil).
2009 "La construcción identitaria brasileña en
medios estadounidenses." June 10, at Georgia State University na
FCRB. Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil).
2009 "De blanqueamiento y otros desafectos: el impacto del
tropipop en la escena musical colombiana." March 12, at Negritud:
1st Annual Conference of Afro-Latin American Studies. Clark
Atlanta University. Atlanta, GA
2009 "Una auténtica ciudad de animales: el DF según
Sebastián Carrillo." Feb. 20, at the 4th Interdisciplinary
Colloquium in Spanish/Latin American Linguistics, Literatures, and
Cultures. University of Florida. Gainesville, FL.
2008 "From Mexifornia to Newyorktitlan: East vs. West Meets the
Mexican Tradition." Oct. 9, at the Thirteenth
International Comic Arts Forum (ICAF).
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, IL.
2008 "In the Name of the Other: Puerto Rico's El Antillano and Its
Interactive Cuadernos." Feb. 28, at Virtual Caribbeans: A
Conference on Representation, Diaspora & Performance in and on
the Caribbean. Tulane University. New Orleans, LA.
2007 "El rock no te necesita: La Pestilencia frente a
la movida electrónica colombiana." Sept. 6,
at the XXVII meeting of the Latin American Studies Association.
Montréal, QC (Canada).
2007 "Redrawing the Nation: Latin American Comics and
the Graphic Construction of Cultural Identities." Sept.
6,
discussant for this panel at the XXVII meeting of the Latin
American Studies Association. Montréal, QC (Canada).
2007 "De la exaltación del nacionalismo en la
historieta colombiana: el caso de Hombres de Acero." Aug.
3, at the XV
Biennial Conference of the Association of Colombianists.
Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Santa Fe de
Bogotá, DC (Colombia).
2006 "From Rodrigo to Rosario:
Birth and Rise of the Sicaresque." Nov. 10, at Memories of
Modernity: An International Conference on Hispanic Cinemas. Stony
Brook University in Manhattan. New York, NY.
2006 "On Neighborly Stereotypes: Memín Pinguín as A
Lost Opportunity." August 22, at the Primeiro Seminário
Internacional sobre Imprensa, Humor e Caricatura: A Questão
dos Estereótipos Culturais. Fundação
Casa de Rui Barbosa. Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil).
2006 "Haciendo memoria a punta de detectivesca: riesgos
implícitos de El Eskimal
y la Mariposa." August 14, at the Jornadas Andinas de
Literatura Latinoamericana (JALLA) 2006. Biblioteca Luis Ángel
Arango. Santa Fe de Bogotá, DC (Colombia).
2006 "Sobre cumbia." June 30, in "Obladí Obladá,"
with Julia Palacios as radio host, at Ibero 90.9, Universidad
Iberoamericana. Mexico, DF (Mexico).
2006 "On Angels, Drugs, and Trade: Edgar Clément's Operación Bolívar."
April
15, at the 36th Annual Conference of the Popular Culture
Association. Atlanta, GA.
2006 "Hegemonía gubernamental y transporte urbano: de
TransMilenio cual potenciador institucional de una versión
identitaria nacional." March 18, at the XXVI
Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. San Juan, PR.
2005 "Beyond Just Gender: On The World of Maitena
Burundarena." October 15, at the 2005 International
Comic Arts Forum. The Library of Congress.
Washington, DC.
2005 "Documental sobre un autor: Fernando Vallejo y su
desazón suprema." Aug. 5, discussant for this panel
at the XIV Biennial Conference of the Association
of Colombianists. Denison University. Granville, OH.
2005 "Identidad nacional en una era transnacional: la publicidad
colombiana y su papel en el desarrollo de una imagen
nacional." Aug. 4, at the XIV Biennial
Conference of the Association of Colombianists. Denison
University. Granville, OH.
2005 "Nationalist Identity in A Transnational Age: The Colombian
Advertising Sector and Its Role in The Development of the National
Image." April 8, at the 52nd annual meeting of the
Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies (SECOLAS).
Vanderbilt University. Nashville, TN.
2004 "Del vallenato propio y ajeno: hacia una
reconfiguración del imaginario colombiano y mexicano."
October 8, at the XXV Congress of the Latin
American Studies Association. Las Vegas, NV.
2004 "Flopi Bach: A Benevolent Misogyny?" October 1, at
the 2004 International Comic Arts Festival.
Bethesda, DC.
2004 "How to Face Neoliberalism and Make It as A Mexican
Cartoonist: Óscar González Loyo and the Ka-Boom!
Experience." April 7, at the 34th Annual Conference of the Popular
Culture Association. San Antonio, TX.
2004 "Introduction to Plata
Quemada, by Marcelo Piñeyro." April 2, guest
speaker at From Ink to Screen: Films of
Literary Adaptation. Guionajes: Spanish and Latin American Film
Festival, Emory University. Atlanta, GA.
2003 "Vladdo, Aleida, and the Politics of Gender in War-Torn
Colombia." September 6, at the 2003 International Comic Arts
Festival. Georgetown University. Washington, DC.
2003 "Todas las cumbias, la cumbia: la
latinoamericanización de un género tropical." March
28, at the XXIV Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association. Dallas, TX.
2003 "Amid Music and Identity: On Carlos Vives as Progeny of
Cumbia." March 7, at the 50th annual meeting of the
Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies (SECOLAS).
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, NC.
2002 "The Utimate Mexican Alterity: The Case of Kalimán,
el Hombre Increíble." September 6, at the 2002
International Comic Arts Festival. Bethesda, MD.
2002 "Recalling the Province: Nation and Identity in Colombian
Historiography." April 12, at the Annual Meeting of the Society
for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies. The University of
Georgia. Athens, GA.
2002 "The Case of Turey el Taíno:
Resurrecting the Nation through the Eyes of a Native." March 15,
at the 2002 meeting of the Popular Culture Association. Toronto,
ON (Canada).
2001 "Shakira Mebarak y Andrea Echeverri: aproximaciones
encontradas del rock colombiano." Sept. 8, at the XXIII Congress
of the Latin American Studies Association. Washington, DC.
2001 "Latinoamérica en el cine: violencia,
política doméstica y cambio social." Sept. 6,
discussant for this panel at the 2001 meeting of the Latin
American Studies Association. Washington, DC.
2001 "Fernando Vallejo: una aproximación a
Medellín." March 7. Departamento de Literatura,
Universidad de los Andes. Santa Fe de Bogotá, DC
(Colombia).
2000 "An Introduction to Eliseo Subiela." October 16, at
Meet the Director Eliseo Subiela, Facing the Southeast. Center
for Latin American and Latino/a Studies, Georgia State
University. Atlanta, GA.
2000 "On Latin American Rock." October 12. Musical Forum
of the Hispanic Heritage Month. Center for Latin American and
Caribbean Studies, University of Georgia. Athens, GA.
2000 "The Colombian Caribbean Amidst the National Debacle:
Failure or Rebirth of the Nation?" September 29, at the
Contextualizing the Caribbean: Redefining Approaches in an Era
of Gobalization Conference. University of Miami. Miami, FL.
2000 "Drugs, Violence, and Identity: In Search of a
Narrative for the Colombian Debacle." April 8, at the Narrative
2000 Conference. Emory University/The Georgia Institute of
Technology. Atlanta, GA.
2000 "On How Bloque de Búsqueda Lost Part of its
Name: The Predicaments of Colombian Rock in the U.S. Market."
March 22, at the Fourth Annual Symposium. Center for Latin
American and Latino/a Studies, Georgia State University.
Atlanta, GA.
2000 "De cómo el Bloque de Búsqueda
perdió parte de su nombre: los afanes del rock colombiano
en el mercado norteamericano." March 16, at the XXII Congress of
the Latin American Studies Association. Miami, FL.
1999 "La Virgen de los Sicarios o las visiones
dantescas de Fernando Vallejo." October 29, at 1999: Hispanic
Literature and Film at the End of the Millennium, Second Florida
International University Conference on Iberian and
Iberian-American Literature. Florida International University.
Miami, FL.
1999 "On Cuban Music." October 19, guest speaker at An
Evening at the Rialto. Georgia State University. Atlanta, GA.
1999 "De insectos y otros demonios: las obsesiones urbanas
de Guillermo del Toro." July 8, at the VI Jornadas
Metropolitanas de Estudios Culturales. Casa Lamm. Mexico, DF
(Mexico).
1999 "Nationalism as Burden: Rituals of Migration in
Contemporary Latin American Cinema." April 23, at the Third
Annual Symposium. Center for Latin American and Latino/a
Studies, Georgia State University. Atlanta, GA.
1999 "Of Angels and Prospects: The End of the Millennium
in Laura Restrepo's The Angel of Galilea." April
6, at New Novel Conference 1950-2050: The Millenial
Border. University of Aberdeen. Aberdeen, Scotland (read by E.
Morales-Díaz, of SUNY, Albany).
1999 "On María Luisa Bemberg's Yo, la peor de
todas." February 23, guest speaker at the Latin American
Film Festival. State University of West Georgia. Carrollton, GA.
1998 "Aproximaciones literarias a la urbe peruana: de
Lima, entre Ricardo Palma y Jaime Bayly." Nov. 13, at the 1998
SCMLA Annual Convention. New Orleans, LA.
1998 "Rediagramando la ciudad de los virreyes: Lima en la
obra de Jaime Bayly." September 24, at the 1998 Congress of the
Latin American Studies Association. Chicago, IL.
1996 "On Gender and Religion: The Aesthetics of Poverty in
A hora da estrela." March 23, at The Male and Female
Image Conference. University at Albany, State University of New
York. Albany, NY.
1995 "Culture and Identity in Contemporary Latin American
Cinema." Oct. 4, keynote speaker at the Soundings Seminar.
Castleton State College. Castleton, VT.
1995 "De Mafalda a Boogie: la ciudad y el humor
argentino." Sept. 30, at the First International Conference on
Hispanic Humor. West Chester University. Philadelphia, PA.
1995 "De Mafalda a Boogie: de la
porteñización de 'Carlitos' a la
norteamericanización del malevo." April 6, at the Third
Biennial Conference: Culture, Technology and Change in the
Americas. University of South Florida. Tampa, FL.
1994 "Rodrigo D.: No Futuro: Narrating the Urban
Space of Death." Feb. 25, at CINE-LIT II, an international
conference on Hispanic literatures and cinematographies.
Portland State University. Portland, OR.
EVENTS ORGANIZED
2010 "As the World Turns: Telenovelas after a Global
Market." Oct. 7, at the XXIX
meeting of the Latin American Studies Association. Toronto,
ON (Canada).
2009 "Urban Space in Latin America." June 14, at
the XXVIII meeting of the Latin American Studies Association. Rio
de
Janeiro, RJ (Brazil).
2009 "In Search of Identity in Brazilian Comics." June 12, panel at
the XXVIII meeting of the Latin American Studies Association. Rio
de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil).
2007 "Rock nacional y rol identitario: ejemplos recientes de
cómo va la mano." Sept. 6, panel at the
XXVII meeting of the Latin American Studies Association.
Montréal, QC (Canada).
2006 Lectures by Silvana
Paternostro, Peter Wade,
and Mónica
Roa. Feb. 16, March 20, and
Sept. 14, for The Center for Latin American and Latino/a Studies,
Georgia State University. Atlanta, GA.
2005 Lecture by Pablo
Menéndez. Feb. 25, for The Center for
Latin American and Latino/a Studies, Georgia State University.
Atlanta, GA.
2004 "Identidad musical y nacionalismo cultural en Colombia (y
sitios afines)." October 8, panel at the XXV
meeting of the Latin American Studies Association. Las Vegas, NV.
2004 Lectures by Luis
Ospina and Juan
Poblete. March 1 and Dec. 8, for The Center
for Latin American and Latino/a Studies, Georgia State University.
Atlanta, GA.
2003 "War
and Peace in Colombia." April 10, seventh annual symposium
of The Center for Latin American and Latino/a Studies, Georgia
State University. Atlanta, GA.
2003 Lecture by Lalo
Alcaraz and María
S. Tabuenca. Oct. 14 and Oct. 16, for The
Center for Latin American and Latino/a Studies, Georgia State
University. Atlanta, GA.
2002 "Rockin' Las Américas." June 26-July 8, Team
Residency. Bellagio Conference Center. Bellagio, Italy.
2002 Co-organizer of "Brazilian
Popular Culture." April 3, sixth annual
symposium of The Center for Latin American and Latino/a Studies,
Georgia State University. Atlanta, GA.
2001 "Música e identidad en la modernidad latinoamericana."
Sept. 8, panel at the XXIII meeting of the Latin American Studies
Association. Washington, DC.
2000 "Rock nacional y rol identitario: cuatro casos
recientes." March 16, panel at the XXII meeting of the Latin
American Studies Association. Miami, FL.
LANGUAGES
Spanish, native proficiency; fully bilingual, fluent in
English; reading knowledge of French and Portuguese.