Positions
2011- Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Hispanic Studies, McGill University.
2007- Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Hispanic Studies, McGill University.
2008-2011 Chair of the Department of Hispanic Studies, McGill University.
2004-2007 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Hispanic Studies, McGill University.
2001-2007 Assistant Professor, Department of Hispanic Studies, McGill University.
Education
2001 Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of Oregon, Eugene.
1996 M.A. Comparative Literature, University of Oregon, Eugene
1994 B.A., McGill University
Books
Cultures of the City: Mediating Identities in Urban Latin/o America. Co-edited with Richard Young. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010. 264 pages.
City Fictions: Language, Body and Spanish American Urban Space. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2007. 212 pages.
- Reviews: Gabriela Muniz Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 33.2 (2009): 462-65.
Fernando Fabio Sánchez The Colorado Review of Hispanic Studies I 6 (2008): 203-205.
Ignacio Sánchez Prado Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 41.3 (2007): 482-483.
Erin Redmond Chasqui 35.2 (2007): 143-6.
M.S. Arrington Jr. Choice 45.2 (October 2007): 286.
Reference and Research Book News (May 2007): 252.
Articles
“Landscape and the Artist’s Frame in Lucrecia Martel’s La ciénaga and La niña santa.” New Trends in Argentine and Brazilian Cinema. Ed. Cacilda Rego and Carolina Rocha. Bristol: Intellect Ltd, 2011. 131-146.
“Pen and Brush in Dialogue: Octavio Paz and Antoni Tàpies in their Trans-Atlantic Livre d’Artiste.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 88.3 (2011): 369-383.
“Textual Revisions of Identity: Nostalgia and Modernity in Asunción.” Cultures of the City: Mediating Identities in Urban Latin/o America. Ed. Richard Young and Amanda Holmes. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010. 105-119.
“Art, Science and the New World in Daniel Kehlmann’s Die Vermessung der Welt and César Aira’s Un episodio en la vida del pintor viajero.” Neophilologus 94.2 (2010): 195-207. Published online, 2009: DOI 10.1007/s11061-009-9194-4.
“Modern Heroics: The Flâneur in Peronist Buenos Aires.”Circulation and the City: Essays on Urban Culture. Ed. Will Straw and Alexander Boutras. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2010. 240-257.
“El Sur en el Nuevo Cine Argentino.” Actas del Primer Encuentro de la Asociación Argentina de Estudios del Cine y Audiovisual. Buenos Aires, 2009.
“China in Argentine Exotismo: Contemporary Inventions of the Orient.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies. 85.1 (2008). 71-83.
“The Spatial Self: Remembering the Caribbean Diaspora in Esmeralda Santiago, Jamaica Kincaid and Cristina García.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 30.1 (2005): 109-128. [Published in 2006]
“El flâneur en la ciudad peronista de El sueño de los héroes de Bioy Casares.” Alba de América: Revista Literaria 24.45-6 (July 2005): 53-66.
“Estética y dictadura: ‘Grafitti’ de Julio Cortázar.” Cuadernos Literarios 2.3 (2004): 85-94.
“Residential Unhomes in Short Stories by Julio Cortázar and Ilse Aichinger.” Neophilologus 87.2 (April 2003): 247-264.
“Transformations of the Magical Real: Ransmayr and García Márquez.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature. 29.4 (2002): 537-51.
“Los locos de Babel o la ciudad imaginada de La nave de los locos de Cristina Peri Rossi.” Escritos: Género y Teoría 25 (2002): 175-197.
“Urban Violence in Diamela Eltit’s Vaca sagrada.” Feministas Unidas 22.2 (Fall 2002): 26-30.
Encyclopedia Articles
“Magical Realism.” Encyclopedia of Hispanic American Literature. Ed. Luz Elena Ramirez. Washington D.C.: Facts on File, 2008.
“Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia.” Encyclopedia of Hispanic American Literature. Ed. Luz Elena Ramirez. Washington D.C.: Facts on File, 2008.
Reprint of “Residential Unhomes in Short Stories by Julio Cortázar and Ilse Aichinger.” Short Story Criticism Volume 76. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. New York: Thomson Gale Publishers, 2005. 173-182.
Reviews
Review of Confronting Patriarchy: Psychoanalytic Theory in the Prose of Cristina Peri Rossi by Mary Boufis Filou. Bulletin of Spanish Studies 88.3 (2011): 442-43.
Review of Noe Jitrik Reader: Selected Essays of Latin American Literature. Ed. by Daniel Balderston. Confluencia. 25.1 (2009): 162-65.
Review of Unfolding the City: Women Write the City in Latin America edited by Anne Lambright and Elisabeth Guerrero. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. 43.2 (2009): 429-30.
Review of La ciudad imaginaria by Javier de Navascués. The Colorado Review of Hispanic Studies 6 (2008): 217-18.
Review of The Technical Imagination: Argentine Culture's Modern Dreams by Beatriz Sarlo. Trans. by Xavier Callahan. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine. 27.4 (2008): 50-1.
Review of The Supernatural in Short Fiction of the Americas: The Other World in the New World by Dana Del George. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 28.2 (2004): 437-9.
Review of The Art of Transition by Francine Masiello. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 27.3 (2003): 592-4.
Review of Albricia: La novela chilena del fin de siglo. Ed. by Verónica Cortínez. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 27.2 (2003): 357-8.
Selected Academic Awards
Faculty of Arts research stipend, McGill University. (2007-2008)
Établissement de nouveaux professeurs-chercheurs. Fonds Québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC). (2004-2007)
Individual New Researchers Grant from the Research Development Fund, McGill University. (2003)
Co-investigator of Culture of Cities research team, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Director: Alan Blum. (2002-2005)
Undergraduate Arts Association Fund Award for Media Resource Center for Department of Hispanic Studies, McGill University. Co-signers: Kay Sibbald, Nicolás Gulino, Alex Hatch. (2002)
Internal Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council award, McGill University. (2002)
Stephen L. Wasby Dissertation Research Grant, Graduate School, University of Oregon. (2000-2001)
Conferences and Lectures
“The Erotics of Natural Space in Latin American Film” Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Montreal. June 2010.
“Carnal Landscapes in Contemporary Latin American Film” Annual Meeting of the Northeast Modern Language Association, Montreal. April 2010.
“El Sur en el Nuevo cine argentino” Meeting of the Asociación Argentina de Estudios de Cine y Audiovisual (ASAECA), Tandil, Argentina. June 2009.
“The Delimitations of Politics in Claudia Piñeiro’s Las viudas de los jueves” Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. June 2009.
“A Return to the South in New Argentine Film” Annual Meeting of the Association of Canadian Hispanists, University of Ottawa. May 2009.
“Search for the Ideal: Cultural Representations of the Argentine Gated Community” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard University, Cambridge. March 2009.
“Geografías exóticas: espacios argentinos en la literatura contemporánea” VII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica (VII CILH), Cuzco, Peru. March 2008.
“Pen and Brush in Dialogue: Socio-Political Engagement in the livre d’artiste” Annual Meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association. November 2007.
“Uncanny Portraits of Family: Lucrecia Martel’s La ciénaga and La niña santa” Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Montreal. September 2007.
“Asunción in Print: Literary Restorations of Identity” Annual Meeting of the Association of Canadian Hispanists, York University. May 2006.
“L'invention argentine d'Orient: Una novela china de César Aira” Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS). McGill University, Montreal. May 2006.
Invited speaker at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. Presented “Myth and the City in the Poetry of Octavio Paz.” June 2005.
“The Spatial Self: Jamaica Kincaid, Cristina García and the Caribbean Diaspora” Annual Meeting of the Association of Canadian Hispanists, University of Western Ontario, London. May 2005.
“When Push Comes to Shove: The Crowd in Carlos Monsiváis’ Los rituales del caos” Latin American Studies Association, Las Vegas, Nevada. October 2004.
“Cortázar and the Urban Aesthetic” Modern Language Association of America, San Diego. December 2003.
“Fantasies of Inclusion in Cristina Peri Rossi’s Short Fiction” Modern Language Association of America, San Diego. December 2003.
“El flâneur en la ciudad peronista de El sueño de los héroes de Bioy Casares” XXIII Simposio Internacional de Literatura, Asunción, Paraguay. August 2003.
“The Impotent Flâneur in Peronist Buenos Aires” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Hispanists, Dalhousie University, Halifax. May 2003.
“Urban Travel: Cristina Peri Rossi's Representations of the Postmodern City” Latin American Studies Association, Dallas, Texas. March 2003.
“Urban Violence in Diamela Eltit’s Vaca sagrada” Modern Language Association of America, New York City. December 2002.
Invited speaker at Université Laval, Quebec City. Presented “Literatura en contra: Diamela Eltit responde a la dictadura militar.” October 2002.
“Octavio Paz’s City of Broken Words” Culture of Cities Summer Institute, UQAM, Montreal. August 2002.
“Grabando la ciudad: Lenguaje y espacio urbano en la poesía de Octavio Paz” IV Seminario Internacional La experiencia institucional en la ciudad de México: Esfera pública y élites intelectuales, Instituto Mora, Mexico City. June 2002.
“Refractions of the Metropolis: Narrating the Latin American City” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Hispanists, University of Toronto, Toronto. May 2002.
“Fictions of the Eternal Traveler: Cityscapes of Jorge Luis Borges and Cristina Peri Rossi,” American Comparative Literature Association, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico. April 2002.
“Urban Design and the Fictional City of Christoph Ransmayr’s Die letzte Welt,” American Comparative Literature Association, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado. April 2001.
“From Dietrich to Rex: Patriarchy and German Imagery in Cristina Peri Rossi's La nave de los locos,” Ninth International Conference of the Asociación de la Literatura Femenina Hispánica, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona. September 1998.
Courses Taught
Undergraduate: Survey of Spanish American Literature I and II, Dictator in Spanish American Literature, Spanish American Novel, Spanish American Short Story, Twentieth Century Spanish American Poetry, Modernismo, Women Writers of Fiction, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Honours Seminar.
Graduate: New Argentine Cinema, Landscape and Place in Latin American Film, The City in Latin American Literature and Culture, Latin American Literary Geographies, Travel and Identity, The Fantastic.
Selected Professional Service
2004-2007; 2011- Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Hispanic Studies, McGill University
2008-2011 Chair of Department of Hispanic Studies, McGill University
2004-2007 Chair of Nominating Committee for the Canadian Association of Hispanists
2003- Member of the Editorial Board for Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos
2001- Reviewer and peer evaluator for Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos
2003-2004 Co-organizer with Kay Sibbald of symposium, “Salvaging the Self: Memory, Oblivion and the Autobiographical Text,” Department of Hispanic Studies, McGill University, March 2004.
2002-2004 Undergraduate Academic Advisor, Department of Hispanic Studies, McGill University.
October 2004 Chair of Session “La crónica literaria: Carpentier, Poniatowska, Monsiváis, Lemebel” for LASA meeting.
1998-1999 Organizer of three-day international Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference, “The Nature of the Literary” at the University of Oregon, January 1999.
Languages
English, Spanish, German, French
