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Spanish Department, 341 Burrowes, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 16802,e-mail: lac321@psu.edu, Office number: 814-865-0035
DEGREES:
M.A. The Pennsylvania State University Spanish Literature 2008
Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University Spanish (In Progress, Fall 2008).
Ph.D. Minor in Human Geography The Pennsylvania State University (In progress Fall 2008)
B.A. Pontificia Universidad Católica, Lima-Perú Hispanic Linguistics and Literature 2006 (Spanish and Latin American Literatures Concentration)
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION AND REASEARCH:
Latin American Literature, Literary Theory on Cultural Studies and Ecocriticism.
My main research is concentrated in the study of inner immigration routes through Peruvian Literature.
Animal’s representation through Literature and Cinema. I study its linkage with classical fables, as well as its sociological importance and symbolism.
I am especially interested in the bio-political use of the animals’ figure.
Human Geography: Political Ecology and mobility. I am particularly interested in the study of immigration routes and its linkage with environmental problems.
I am also interested in analyzing the ways with which literary texts include the environment as individual characters and Leit Motifs of their arguments.
Specialization in Teaching with Technology. Teaching with Technology Certificate by The Penn State University, 2006.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Introduction to Western Literatures since the Renaissance (cmlit 002) Instructor. Penn State University. Comparative Literature Department.
Spring 2010
Introduction to Literatures of the Americas (cmlit 005) Instructor. Penn State University. Comparative Literature Department.
Fall 2009. Comparative interpretation of the oral and written literary traditions of North, Central, and South America.
Spanish Instructor of Basic Spanish. The Penn State Language Institute, State College, PA. Summer 2009
Spanish Graduate Instructor of Spanish 01, 02 and 03. The Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA. Spring 2006- Spring 2009
Theatre T.A. Pontificia Universidad Católica, Lima, Perú. January. 2005-December 2006
Description: T.A. for the 3 Credit elective course. The course offers a panoramic knowledge on Greek, Victorian and Latin American Modern Theater.
Redacción y Argumentación/ Writing and Argumentation T.A. Pontificia Universidad Católica, Lima, Perú. August 2002-December 2006
Description: T.A for a mandatory 3 credit course. This course prepares students to perform research activities and to develop their writing skills.
Editor of the Compendium of Liberal Arts. National University of Engineers, Lima, Perú. January-February 2006.
Description: The book contains a wide range of information on Universal, and National History, Geography, Psychology, Linguistics, Literature and Philosophy. This course book is designed to prepare candidates for University and academic life.
Coordinator of the Liberal Arts Seminars. National University of Engineers, Lima, Perú, July 2004-July 2006.
Description: The seminars intended to prepare candidates for the universitarian and academic life. Students received classes of Universal, and National History, Geography, Psychology, Linguistics, Literature and Philosophy.
Language and Literature Professor. National University of Engineers, Lima, Perú, July 2004-July 2006
Description: The course is a general introduction to the studies of European and Latin American Literature.
Coordinator and Professor of a Narrative Workshop. Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas/ Peruvian University of Applied Sciences, Lima, January 2004-January 2005.
Description: This course was an introduction to Latin-American Short Stories. Students were prepared to analyze and create literary texts.
Tutor of Linguistics. Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas/ Peruvian University of Applied Sciences, Lima, Perú, January 2004 –December 2006.
Description: Tutoring on Cognitive and Pragmatism Theory, as well as in Socio- linguistics.
Counselor for the National Language Evaluation. Education Ministry, Lima, Perú, January-February 2004
Description: Assisted with the design of tests and evaluation of the national results.
PUBLICATIONS
"Ser para otro: Máscaras, Fresa y Chocolate y la retórica de la metáfora homosexual." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. Fall 2009 (In progress)
“On Time and Being of Exile: Visiting Bartoloni’s Book on Exile”.
Work reviewed: Bartoloni, Paolo. On The Cultures of Exile, Translation, and Writing. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2008. 166pp. Osa Mayor journal. University of Pittsburg, 2009. (In progress)
“Social Physiognomy of Humilated Bodies in Mario Vargas Llosa’s “La tía Julia y el escribidor” y “¿Quién mató a Palomino Molero?”. Tropos. University of Michigan, Summer 2008.
CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIUM INVOLVEMENT
“Multiple Exiles and the Impossibility of the Exile in Luis Sepulveda’s
The Old Man who Reads Love Stories.” The Cartographical Necessity of Exile. American Comparative Literature Association. Anual meeting 2009, Harvard University – EE.UU.
“Animals’ condition as a Social Physiognomy in Garcilaso de la Vega’s Comentarios Reales”. Literature, Epidemiology, Risk American Comparative Literature Association. Anual meeting 2008, California – EE.UU.
Alusiones y elusiones en “La Oveja negra y demás fábulas” de Augusto Monterroso, para la American Comparative Literature Association.
Anual meeting 2007, Puebla- México.
¿Utopía o ideal Sanchopancesco?
Iberoamerican Congress of Literature
Penn State 2007
Organized Visualizing Animals Conference 2009
Description: The interdisciplinary group “Visualizing Animals” unites a group of faculty and graduate students across several colleges and several departments (including History, German, English, Art History, Women’s Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Spanish, Sociology, Rural Sociology, the School of Visual Arts and the Smeal College of Business). Initiated in Spring 2006, we meet regularly to address the field of Animal Studies in comparative and historical perspective.
Organized 4th Graduate Student Symposium on Hispanic Literature: “Remapping the American Imagination: Colonial and Post-Colonial Encounters”
October 2008
Description: The Coloquio Iberoamericano celebrated its third annual graduate symposium on Hispanic Literature on Saturday, October 25th, 2008. This Hispanic Literature graduate student symposium is “meant to enhance the importance of Hispanic Studies at Penn State and propitiate a multi-cultural exchange and bring together all components of the academic world”
AWARDS
SIPGSO Graduate Student Award Doctorate. 2008, Penn State University, State College, PA.
Description: Recognition to the Department’s graduate student community
COLLEGIATE ACTIVITIES (University Service)
Board Editor of Aleph (Journal of The Spanish Department). Pennsylvania State University, 2007-8.
SIGPSO’S Vice-president (Spanish, Italian and Portuguese Students Organization)
LANGUAGES
Fluent in Spanish and English (written and spoken)
Have taken a 4th Level language course in Portuguese
Basic knowledge of French
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