Carlos Juregui

Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature, Vanderbilt University 

Fields of Interest

Colonial Latin American Literature, 19th Century Latin American Literature, Post-Colonial Theory and Criticism, Latin American Cultural History (Spanish-America and Brazil), and Continental Afro-Hispanic Literature.

 

Education

 

Ph.D. Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh , Fall 2001. Title of dissertation: “Canibalismo revisitado: calibanismo, antropofagia cultural y consumo en América Latina” [“Revisited Cannibalism: Calibanism, Cultural Anthropophagy and Consumption in Latin America”]. Director: Mabel Moraña.
 

Graduate Certificate in Latin American Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh, August, 2000.

Master of Arts in Spanish American Literature, West Virginia University , 1997. Title of Master's Thesis: “Amor, tierra y locura: lectura crítica de la obra de Raúl Gómez Jattin.” Director: Kathleen McNerney.

Law Degree, Licenciado en Leyes. Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, 1993.

Teaching Experience


Vanderbilt University , Nashville Tennessee, Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature 2001-Present

 

University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, PA. Teaching Fellow, 1997-1999

 

West Virginia University , Morgantown, WV. Teaching Assistant, 1995-1997

 

Waynesburg College , Waynesburg, PA. Spanish Instructor, 1996-1997

 

 

Publications


Edited Book

•    Heterotropías: narrativas de identidad y alteridad latinoamericana, Co-edited with Juan P. Dabove. Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana -- IILI (Forthcoming, Spring 2002). Contributors: Hugo Achugar, John Beverley, Sara Castro-Klaren, Margo Glantz, Stuart Hall, Herman Herlinghaus, John Kraniauskas, William Luis, Jesús Martín Barbero, Silvia Molloy, Mabel Moraña, Michael Palencia-Roth, Nelly Richard, Javier Sanjinés, Doris Sommer, Diana de Armas Wilson and Andrés Zamora.

Articles

•    “Profilaxis, traducción y ética: la humanidad “desechable” en Rodrigo D, No futuro, La vendedora de rosas y La virgen de los sicarios.” (in cooperation with Juana Suárez) Special Issue of Revista Iberoamericana. (Forthcoming, 2002).

•    “Mapas heterotrópicos de América Latina (introducción) (with Juan Pablo Dabove). Heterotropías: narrativas de identidad y alteridad latinoamericana . IILI (Forthcoming, Spring 2002).

•    “Brasil especular: alianzas estratégicas, trastornos semánticos y “viajes estacionarios” por el tiempo salvaje de la Canibalia.” Heterotropías: narrativas de identidad y alteridad latinoamericana. IILI (Forthcoming, Spring 2002).

•    "María Mercedes Carranza." Notable Twentieth-Century Latin American Women: a Biographical Dictionary. Cynthia Margarita Tompkins and David William Foster (eds.). Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press (December 2000): 71-76.

•    “Writing Communities on the Internet: Textual Authority and Territorialization.” Beyond the Lettered City: Latin American Literature and Mass Media. Debra Ann Castillo and Edmundo Paz-Soldán (eds.). Garland Publishing / Hispanic Issues. (2000): 358-374.

•    "Saturno caníbal: fronteras, reflejos y paradojas en la narrativa sobre el antropófago.” Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana 51, (2000): 9-39. 

•    "Candelario Obeso: entre la espada del Romanticismo y la pared del proyecto nacional" Special issue of Revista Iberoamericana 189: Literatura Afro-hispánica. Coordinator: Dolores Aponte-Ramos. (1999): 567-590. A version of this article was republished in Revista Casa Silva 13 (2000): 44-63.

•    "Enfermedad, diagnósticos y pócimas en Macondo: lectura de la práctica médica en Cien años de soledad." Revista de Estudios Colombianos 20 (1999): 37-46.

•    "Calibán: ícono del 98. A propósito de un artículo de Rubén Darío" (article) and Rubén Dario's "El triunfo de Calibán" (edition and notes). Special Issue of Revista Iberoamericana 184-185: 1898-1998 Balance de un siglo. Coordinator: Aníbal González. (1998): 441-449; 451-455. 


Interviews

•    “Violencia, representación y voluntad realista.” Interview with Víctor Gaviria. In Espacio urbano, comunicación y violencia en América Latina [Urban Space, Communication and Violence in Latin America] (March-April, 2000). IILI (2002): 223-236.

Reviews and Notes

•    Review of Cannibalism and the Colonial World. Francis Barker, Peter Hulme and Margaret Iversen (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998. In Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 4 (2000): 323-325.

•   "El suicidio público del artista." Boletín Cultural y Bibliográfico (Banco de la República) 45. Volumen XXXIV (1997); and in Magazín 738 (July 6, 1997).


Translations into Spanish

•    “Thinking the Diaspora: Home-thoughts from Abroad” by Stuart Hall in Small Axe, 6 (2000).

•    "Enemies of God: Monsters and the Theology of Conquest," by Michael Palencia-Roth in Monsters, Tricksters and Sacred Cows: Animal Tales and American Identities. James Arnold (ed.). Charlottesville: The University of Virginia UP, (1996): 23-50.

•    “‘Cronos and the Political Economy of Vampirism: Notes on a Historical Constellation” by John Kraniauskas, in Cannibalism and the Colonial World. Francis Barker, Peter Hulme and Margaret Iversen (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, (1998): 142-157.

Participation in conferences and Lectures

•   “Las protestas del cuerpo sufriente: razón imperial, humanismo cristiano y los trastornos semánticos del tropo caníbal” Simulacros de la fantasía: nuevas indagaciones sobre arte y literatura virreinales. Simposio Internacional en homenaje a José Pascual Buxó. UNAM. México D. F.. March 6-8, 2002.

•     “Cannibalism and the Eucharist: New World of Plagiarism and Voracity” MLA Convention.  New Orleans. December 2001.

•    “Ñam, ñam: Paranoid Nationalism and the Dominican "Negro Comegente." Race in the Humanities -- An Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse.  (November 2001).

•    “Canibalia: escenarios discursivos del canibalismo americano.” Guest lecturer at Princeton University (Enero 12, 2001) and the University of Minnesota (February 5, 2001).

•    "Cannibalia and Religious Commonality: Discursive Scenarios of the American Feast." Guest lecturer at Boston College (January 29, 2001) and the State University of New York, Albany (February 8, 2001).

•    “Canibalismo y conciencia criolla en las loas a los autos El cetro de José y El divino Narciso de Juana Inés de la Cruz.” VII Congresso da Associação Brasileira de Literatura Comparada (ABRALIC). Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. July 2000.    

•    "Los versos de Candelario Obeso." Guest lecturer at Casa de poesía Silva. Bogotá, Colombia. August 1999.

•    "Las metáforas de la materia prima y la ingestión en la cultura nacional: modernismo brasileño" at The Ohio State University Department of Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Seminar . May 1999.

•    "Canibalismo e identidad latinoamericana en el Modernismo brasileño." Guest lecturer at Universidad de los Andes. Bogotá, Colombia. May 1999.

•    "Decentering Authorship: A Case Study of the Impact of Internet on Spanish-American Literature" at the Conference on: Latin American Literature and Mass Media. Cornell University. March 1999.

•    "Enfermedad, diagnósticos y pócimas en Macondo: Lectura de la práctica médica en Cien años de soledad" at The First Annual Graduate Student Conference on Language, Literature and Cultural Studies, "Approaching the New Millennium." George Mason University . October 1998.

•    "Autobiografía de un esclavo de Juan Francisco Manzano. Las trampas del espacio literario." at The Twenty-third Annual Colloquium on Literature and Film. West Virginia University. October 1998.

•    "Calibán: ícono del 98. A propósito de un artículo de Rubén Darío" at The Ohio State University Department of Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Seminar . May 1998.

•    "Subversión letrada del margen afro-hispánico en la obra de Candelario Obeso" at the Seventh Annual Graduate Student Symposium Department of Spanish and Portuguese. The University of Arizona . March 1998.

•    "Memorias de un diálogo con Cristobal Nonato y epístola a Quetzalcoatl" at the Eleventh International Symposium on Spanish: Homenaje a Carlos Fuentes. The University of Texas-Pan American . April 1997.

 

 

Other academic activities 

•  Assistant Coordinator. Second International Conference on Cultural Studies: Urban Space, Communication and Violence in Latin America (March-April, 2000). Organized by Professor Mabel Moraña. Participants: Hugo Achugar, José Teixeira Coelho Netto, Román De la Campa, Ticio Escobar, Hermann Herlinghaus, Martin Hopenhayn, Juan E. Poblete, Mary Louise Pratt, Nelly Richard, Rossana Reguillo-Cruz, Beatriz Sarlo. Keynote speakers: Jesús Martín-Barbero and Victor Gaviria.

•    Assistant Coordinator. International Symposium on New Perspectives in/on Latin America: The Challenge of Cultural Studies (March, 1998). Organized by Professors Mabel Moraña and John Beverley. Participants: Raúl Antelo, Arturo Arias, Debra Ann Castillo, Sara Castro-Klarén, Román De la Campa, Brad Epps, Regina Harrison, Ricardo Kaliman, John Kraniauskas, Neil Larsen, Horacio Machín, Renato Ortiz, Nelly Richard, Ileana Rodríguez, José Rabasa, Julio Ramos, William Rowe, Javier Sanjinés, Abril Trigo, Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, George Yúdice, Hernan Vidal, Andrés Zamora, Marc Zimmerman. Keynote speakers: Jean Franco and Nestor García Canclini.

Honors, Awards, Grants and  Fellowships

•   Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship for the academic year 2000-2001. University of Pittsburgh.

•   Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) Graduate Student Field Research Grant for Summer 2000: “Brazilian Cultural Cannibalism: the 24th Bienal de São Paulo.”

•   Honored at the 2000 Annual Honor Convocation Ceremony of the University of Pittsburgh for Outstanding Academic Achievement.

•   U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLASF) for the academic year 1999-2000. University of Pittsburgh.

•   Honored at the 1999 Annual Honor Convocation Ceremony of the University of Pittsburgh for Outstanding Academic Achievement.

•   High Honors obtained at the Ph.D. preliminary exam, 1998.

•   U.S Department of Education National Resource Center Summer Fellowship to study Portuguese, 1998.

•   U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLASF) for the academic year 1998-1999. University of Pittsburgh.

•  Outstanding Graduate Student for 1996-97. Department of Foreign Languages. West Virginia University, 1997.

•    Fellowship (HERF) at West Virginia University 1996-1997.

•    Beca de honor (Fellowship) at Universidad Externado de Colombia, 1987.

Languages

Spanish- Native speaker.

English- Near native speaker.

Portuguese - Fluent speaker.

Professional memberships and other activities

Modern Language Association .

Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana.

Latin American Studies Association.

Asociación de Colombianistas.

Associação Brasileira de Literatura Comparada (ABRALIC).

The College Language Association (CLA)

Contributing Editor of Proyecto Sherezade , literary journal on the Internet, hosted by Princeton University (from 1997 to 1999) and University of Manitoba (since 2000).

 

Contact Information

308 Furman Hall
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37240
Phone: (615) 322-6856
Fax: (615) 343-7260
E-mail: carlos.a.jauregui@vanderbilt.edu