Henry James Morello
Education:
Ph.D.
in Hispanic Studies, University of Illinois, 2006. .
M.A. in Hispanic Studies, Illinois State University,
1998.
B.A.
in Theatre, Western Illinois University, 1989.
Areas of Specialization:
20th
Century Latin American and Spanish Theatre, Literature, and Culture; Comparative
Theatre Studies; Trauma Theory; Film and Media
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Associate Teaching Professor.
Comparative Literature, Spanish, Latin American Studies. Pennsylvania State
University, University Park, PA. (2017-Present).
Senior
Lecturer. Comparative Literature, Spanish, Latin American Studies. Pennsylvania State
University,
University Park, PA. (2006-Current; Lecturer 2002-2006).
Director of Undergraduate
Studies. Comparative Literature. Pennsylvania State University. University
Park, PA (2015-2017)
Director and Honors Adviser of
Global and International Studies Major. Pennsylvania State University.
University Park, PA (2015-2016)
Graduate
Teaching Assistant. Department of
Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. University of
Illinois, Urbana, IL. (1999-2002).
Graduate Teaching Assistant. Department of Foreign Languages. Illinois
State University, Normal, IL.
(1997-1998).
Teacher.
Colegio Nueva Granada, Bogotá,
Colombia. (1995-1996). Introduction to Theatre,
Language Arts (English).
Teacher
Providence St. Mel. Chicago, Illinois (1994-1995) (Spanish)
PUBLICATIONS:
Editorial
Volume Advisor. Contemporary Literary
Criticism: Ricardo Piglia. Gale Cengage Press, 2016.
With
Sophia A. McClennen. Representing
Humanity in an Age of Terror. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue UP, 2010. (originally appeared as a special issue of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture.
<http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol9/iss1/> (March 2007).
Journal Articles:
“Voiceless Victims in Sin tetas no hay paraíso.” CLC Web: Comparative Literature and Culture
(Forthcoming December, 2017)
“Fractured Narratives in El secreto de sus ojos and Zulu Love Letter.” (Submitted Cultural Critique Fall, 2017.)
“Performing Torture in Argentina and Chile” Argus-a: Arts & Humanities. 5 (21)
2016. Web.
“Time and Trauma in Ricardo Piglia’s The Absent City.” The Comparatist. 37 (1), 219-233 (May 2013).
“Aterciopelados’ Musical
Testimony: Bearing Witness to Colombia’s Traumas.” Studies in Latin American Popular Culture. 30 (2012). (Winner of
the Carlos and Guillermo Vigil Best Essay of the Year Prize)
“Autobiographical Fantasies:”
Identity Construction in a Virtual World.” Americana: American Popular
Culture.com.< http://www.americanpopularculture.com/emerging.htm
> (January 2012).
“Two Traumas One Aesthetic in
Rodolfo Walsh’s Operación masacre and
Moisés Kaufman’s The Laramie Project.”
CLC Web: Comparative Literature and
Culture, 12.1 (2011)
Revised Reprint (With Sophia A.
McClennen). “Introduction.” Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror. West
Lafayette, IN: Purdue UP, 2010. 1-14.
(With Sophia A. McClennen).
“Introduction” in Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror. Thematic
issue of CLC Web: Comparative Literature and Culture 9.1
<http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol9/iss1/1/>. (2007).
“e-(re)volution: Zapatistas and the
Emancipatory Internet.” A Contracorriente,
4.2 (2007): 54-76.
Reviews:
Review
of Michelle Balaev’s The Nature of Trauma
in American Novels. (Northwestern UP, 2012) in Simplokē 22 (1) 2014, 422-425.
Review
of Stef Craps’ Postcolonial Witnessing:
Trauma Out of Bounds. (Palgrave, 2013) in The Comparatist 38 (1) 2014, 345-347.
Translation:
“Novels of the End of the World,” by Carlos Franz. Mediations, volume 22, Spring (1999): 144-49.
Research in progress
Posttraumatic Culture in Spanish
and Latin American Theatre
This book studies the relationship between traumatic histories and cultural responses to social trauma. Through their stylistic features, the plays examined here manifest the symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder. These texts also, due to the performative nature of the genre, serve as tools for ameliorating the pain that societies have suffered. Furthermore, this book employs work in the areas of cognitive and clinical psychology, neuroscience, illness studies, and Paul Ricoeur’s theories of time and narrative to better understand the cultural production of traumatized societies.
This manuscript looks at the way literature, film, music, and performance from the children of those who directly suffered trauma attempts to deal with those events. Preliminary research shows a distinct difference in the way the next generation approaches those traumas.
Stages of Violence: Depictions of Violence
in Latin American Theater
Starting with the circuses that depicted fist fights on stage and ending with sometimes vary graphic depictions of violence this book traces the history of as well as the possible reasons for the use of violence in Latin American theater.
“From Cyber Resistance to Cyborg Resistance in Mexico: Zapatistas and Sleep Dealer”
“Virtual Reality as Microcosm in Edmundo Paz Soldán’s El delirio de Turing.”
“Colombia’s Theater of Hope”
“Interview with Cesar Badillo of Teatro de Candelaria
“Yes, the River Talks: Testimonial Poetry in Si el río hablara”
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS:
Recipient of NEH summer seminar
award to attend seminar on Latin American Theater in Buenos Aires. 2015
Winner of the Carlos and
Guillermo Vigil Best Essay of the Year Prize for
“Aterciopelados’ Musical Testimony: Bearing Witness to Colombia’s Traumas.” Studies in Latin American Popular Culture.
30 (2012).
The Erasmus award for excellence
in mentoring and advising in Comparative Literature – Penn State, 2011 and 2012.
Incomplete List of Excellent
Teachers – UIUC Fall 1999, Spring 2000, Spring 2001
“The Contagious Nature of Trauma”
Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts, October 2016
“Horror, BDSM, and Trauma
Tourism: Questions of Voyeurism in Posttraumatic Latin America” Society for
Comparative Literature and the Arts, October 2013
“Voices of the (un)dead in the
Work of Edmundo Paz Soldán”
American
Comparative Literature Association, March 2013
“Visual Distortions: Space and
Time in El secreto de sus ojos and Zulu
Love Letter.”
Southern
Comparative Literature Association, Fall 2012.
“History
and Memory in Edmundo Paz Soldán’s Sueños
digitales and Ricardo Piglia’s La
ciudad ausente.” The
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Spring 2012
“The Magical in the Virtual Reality in Edmundo
Paz Soldán’s El delirio de Turing.”
The
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Spring 2011
“Time
and Trauma in Ricardo Piglia’s La ciudad
ausente,”
American
Comparative Literature Association, Spring 2011
“Virtual
Reality as Microcosm in Edmundo Paz Soldán’s El delirio de Turing”
Southern
Comparative Literature Association, Fall 2010
“Digital Exile? Teaching and
Studying Literature in the Online and Hybrid Classroom”
Roundtable,
Southern Comparative Literature Association, Fall 2010
“Repackaging Pain: Colombia’s
Tragedies for Global Consumption”
American
Comparative Literature Association, April 2010.
“Sin senos no hay paraíso: The
Socially Conscious Soap Opera?”
Southern
Comparative Literature Association, October 2009
“Identity in Virtual Worlds”
Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, Bielefeld, Germany: “E pluribus
unum?”Multiculturalism and Beyond: Identity Politics, Cultural Difference, and
Hybridity in the Americas, July 2009
“Voiceless
Victims in Gustavo Bolívar Moreno’s “Sin tetas no hay paraíso”
American
Comparative Literature Association, March 2009
“A More Personal Anonymity:
Subjectivity in Virtual Worlds”
Modern
Language Association, December 2008
“Colombia Calling: Punk Rock from
London to Bogotá”
Southern
Comparative Literature Association, October 2008
“Finding the Self: Colombian Identity in the
Music of Aterciopelados”
Latin
American Studies Association, September 2007.
“Two Traumas, One Aesthetic: Post-Traumatic
Theory in Rodolfo Walsh’s Operación
Masacre and Tectonic Theater’s The
Laramie Project.” American Comparative Literature Association, Princeton,
New Jersey, March 2006.
“Teaching Critical Thinking After
9/11.”
Modern
Language Association, December 2005.
“Witnessing History and Trauma in
Latin America.”
Latin
American Studies Association Conference November 2004.
“Echoing Silence: Responsible
Politics In and Out of the Classroom.”
Modern
Language Association, December 2003.
SCHOLARLY EVENTS CHAIRED/ORGANIZED (Selected):
Co-Organizer/Chair “The Lives of
Others: Voyeurism and the Art of Witnessing” Society for Comparative Literature
and the Arts, October 2013.
Organizer/Chair “Bending Time and
Space: Narratives of Disruption and Distortion”
Southern
Comparative Literature Association, October 2011.
Organizer/Chair. “Languages of
Terror, Cultures of Trauma”
American
Comparative Literature Association, March 2009.
Co-Organizer/Chair.
"Terrorism, Violence, and Topographies of Otherness"
Southern
Comparative Literature Association, September 2007.
Seminar Organizer/Chair.
“Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror”
American
Comparative Literature Association, March 2006.
Panel Organizer/Chair.
“Performing Humanity in an Age of Repression”
Latin
American Studies Association, March 2006.
Seminar Organizer/Chair.
“Colonizing the Mind”
American
Comparative Literature Association, March 2005.
Panel Chair. “We Work: Graduate
Student Activists Making Over the MLA”
Modern
Language Association, December 2001.
COURSES
TAUGHT:
Spanish:
Survey of Spanish Literature
Since 1700
Spanish and Latin American Film
Spanish American Literature
through “Modernismo”
Iberian Civilization
Ibero-American Civilization
Spanish Composition
Intermediate Spanish Grammar
Spanish Conversation
Basic Spanish
Comparative
Literature:
Introduction
to World Literature
Introduction
to World Drama
Narrative
Theory: Film and Literature
International Film and Literature
Honors
Introduction to Comparative Literature
Honors
Comparative Human Rights
Literature
of the Americas
Internet Course: International
Film and Literature
Global and International
Studies:
Introduction
to Globalization
Capstone
course on Globalization
English:
Introduction to
Film
Theatre Experience:
Professional
Actor – Chicago Actor’s Ensemble, Oklahoma Shakespeare Festival, Torso Theatre
Plays Directed – La agonía del difunto, Bogotá, Colombia
1996
Play scripted – Still Life with Death, University
produced in Debrecen Hungary; “The Killing Game” Citation recipient with Chicago
Emerging Artists Project 1994.
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION (SELECTED):
Director
of Social Media– SCLA (2011-present)
Executive
Board – Southern Comparative Literature Association (2009- 2011)
Book
Review Editor Comparative Literature and
Culture CLCWeb (2005-2008)
President
– Graduate Student Caucus of the MLA – 2002-3
Web
Master – Graduate Student Caucus of the MLA – 2004-6
DEPARTMENTAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE (SELECTED):
Curriculum Development Committee
(2016-Present)
Director of Undergraduate
Recruitment and Alumni Relations (2017-Present)
Leader: Study Abroad Puebla
Mexico Program, Pennsylvania State University (Summer 2017)
Director of Undergraduate Studies,
Pennsylvania State University (2015-2017)
Director of Global and
International Studies Major, Pennsylvania State University (2015-Present)
Faculty Senate, Pennsylvania
State University (2013-2016)
Undergraduate Committee,
Pennsylvania State University (2012-2015)
Faculty Advisor, International
Studies Program, Pennsylvania State University (2011-Present)
Teaching
Mentor, Department of Comparative Literature – Pennsylvania State University
(2008-Present)
Graduate
Representative to Faculty – University of Illinois (2001-02)
Graduate
Student Advisory Group - Representative – Illinois State University (1998)
Graduate
Committee - Student Representative – Illinois State University (1997)
Fine
Arts Planning Committee - Western Illinois University (1988)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
Modern Language Association
Latin American Studies
Association
American Comparative Literature
Association
Society for Comparative
Literature and the Arts
LANGUAGES:
English – Native
Spanish- Near-Native
Portuguese – Research Competent
PUBLIC SERVICE:
Habitat for Humanity Honduras
(2011)
Portable Assisted Study Sequence
for students of migrant farm workers
ADDITIONAL SKILLS:
Taught
Computer-Aided Courses
Created
Online Teaching Courses
Web
Editing and Design (Plone and Dreamweaver)
Digital
Video Editing
Digital
Humanities: Including digital applications in the classroom, collaboration with
online publishing, and analysis of digital media culture.