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PUBLICATIONS

 

·        “Una palabra en cada esquina: una visión queer de la ciudad posmoderna en las crónicas urbanas de Pedro Lemebel”. (“A Word on Every Street Corner: a Queer Vision of the Postmodern City in the Urban Chronicles of Pedro Lemebel.”) Article accepted for publication in Alba de América, journal of the Instituto Literario y Cultural Hispánico de América, California State University, Domínguez Hills, CA. Forthcoming in the Summer 2006 issue.

 

·        “Lenguaje en celo: análisis de la transgresión sexual en los poemas de Evohé de Cristina Peri Rossi” (“Language in Heat: Analysis of Sexual Transgression in the Collection of Poems Evohé by Cristina Peri Rossi.”) Revista de Estudios Hispánicos . 39 (2005):129-51.

 

·        “El adiestramiento a no ser: paralelismos neobarrocos entre las novelas Pájaros de la playa de Severo Sarduy y Mano de obra de Diamela Eltit.” (“Training for Non-Existence: Neo-Baroque Parallelisms between the Novels Birds of the Beach by Severo Sarduy and Labor Force  by Diamela Eltit.”)  Trascendiendo fronteras: lo hispano y su literatura. Serie Encuentros de Viejos y Nuevos Mundos. Ed. Enrique Herrera. Lock Haven, PA: Asociación de Estudios Culturales Hispánicos, 2004. 87-99.

 

·        “Martín Rivas de Alberto Blest Gana: un discurso de transición” (“Martín Rivas by Alberto Blest Gana: a Transitional Discourse”). Litterae. Revista del Instituto Caro y Cuervo. Bogotá, Colombia. 11 (2002): 184-97.

 

·        “El discurso de la liminalidad y de la simultaneidad: las múltiples identidades latinoamericanas”. Latinoamérica en la globalización y el tercer milenio. Vol.1 Frontera y Globalización. Eds. Leopoldo Zea  and Hernán Taboada. México: Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2002. 23-32

 

·        “Exuberancia neobarroca o crisis postmoderna: Pájaros de la playa de Severo Sarduy como desconstrucción del paraíso americano.” Tinta, Research Journal of Hispanic and Lusophone Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.  Fall 2000. 9-37.

 

·        “La postmodernidad: ¿condición histórica o un nuevo estilo?” Litterae: Revista de Ex-alumnos del Instituto Caro y Cuervo.  6.8 (1996): 27-48.

 

 

CONFERENCES, SCHOLARLY PAPERS

·         “From Cross-Dressing to Performance: New Agencies of Identity (De-)Formation in Recent Chilean Neo-Avant-Garde Narrative.” Paper presented at the 9th Annual Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures, Linguistics and Cultures “Agencialidades / Agencies”. The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio on April 28, 2006.

 

·        “Travestir el canon: las voces descentralizadoras de la neovanguardia chilena de la postdictadura” (“Cross-Dressing the Canon: De-centering Voices of the Chilean Neoavant-Garde of the Post-Dictatorship.”) Presented at the 2006 Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Congress in San Juan , Puerto Rico, March 15-18, 2006

 

·        “De-centering the literary canon in times of crisis: dissonant voices in recent narrative, (anti-) poetry, and criticism from Chile and Colombia.” Organizer and chair of session at the 2006 LASA  Congress in San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 15-18, 2006.

 

·        “The World as a Supermarket: Post-Colonial Parallelisms in the Narratives by Bruno Schulz (Poland) and Diamela Eltit (Chile).” 9th Annual New Europe at the Cross-Roads Conference in Poznan, Poland. July 26-28, 2005.

 

·        “A Word on Every Street Corner: Pedro Lemebel’s View of the Other in Essays on the Postmodern City.” Presented at the 25th International Congress of the LASA (Latin American Studies Association), Las Vegas, Nevada, October 7-9, 2004.

 

·        “El corazón que está en la calle: la visión queer de la ciudad posmoderna en las crónicas urbanas de Pedro Lemebel”. Presented at the 24th International Symposium on Literature organized by the Instituto Literario y Cultural Hispanico in Buenos Aires, Argentina on August 9-14, 2004.

 

·        “El adiestramiento a no ser: paralelismos neobarrocos entre las novelas Pájaros de la playa de Severo Sarduy y Mano de obra de Diamela Eltit.” (“Training into non-existence: neobaroque parallelisms between the novels Birds of the Beach by Severo Sarduy and Labor force  by Diamela Eltit”). Presented at the 3rd International Congress of Hispanic Literature in Lima, Peru on March 3-5, 2004

 

“La ambiguedad lingüística y sexual: el texto como espacio de transgresión en las primeras novelas de Diamela Eltit. Presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP), Chicago, Illinois, August 1-5. 2003.

 

·      “Las múltiples faces del travesti: los espacios transexuales, transculturales e internacionales en Cobra de Severo Sarduy” (“The Many I’s and Here’s of Cobra: Transexual, Transcultural and International spaces in the novel Cobra by Severo Sarduy”). Presented at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Congress in Dallas, Texas on March 27-29, 2003.

 

·      “Linguistic Ambiguity and Gender Play in the Early Novels by Diamela Eltit” Presented at the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters in Hope College, Holland, Michigan on March 21, 2003.

 

 

·        “Lenguaje en celo: escritura, pasión, evohé. Reflexiones sobre la transgresión del género sexual en la poesía de Cristina Peri Rossi”. Presented at the Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures. Washington University in St. Louis on Sept 26-28, 2002.

 

·        Chair of Panel “Can We Narrate the Body?” at the “Narrative: an International Conference” at Michigan State University, Lansing, Michigan. April 11-14, 2002.

 

·        “The Economy of the Word: a Relationship Between the Baroque and the Latin American Economic Context.”  Paper presented at the XXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), September 6-8, 2001, Washington, D.C.

 

·        “Amor frustrado o lucha de clases: la ambigüedad como elemento generador de sentido en Flores de Papel de Egon Wolff”.  Paper presented at the 21st Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati, May 10-12, 2001.

 

·        “From Hybridity and Mestizaje to Simultaneity: Decentering Latin American Identities.” Paper presented at “La Frontera: una nueva concepción cultural,” V Reunión Internacional del Programa de Investigación Interdisciplinaria en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, La Paz, Baja California Sur, México. March 1-4, 2001.

 

·        “Exuberance and Crisis: the American Paradise in Severo Sarduy’s Neobaroque Narrative.” Presented at the “Entre Nous: RLL and Friends” lecture series at the University of Florida, Gainesville. October 24, 2000.

 

·        “The Caribbean Neobaroque and its Latin American Connections.” Caribbean Literary Studies Conference 2000, University of Miami, September 2000.

 

·        “Exuberancia neobarroca o crisis postmoderna: Pájaros de la playa de Severo Sarduy como desconstrucción del paraíso americano”. 50th International Congress of Americanists, Symposium on “The Baroque in Europe and the Americas at the Turn of the Millennium”, University of Warsaw, Poland, July 2000.

 

·        “Slavery of the Word: Clarice Lispector’s The Stream of Life and Bakhtin’s Dialogism.” The Graduate Student Forum, University of Florida, Gainesville, April 2000.

 

·        “El indígena como construcción discursiva en la historiografía y en la ficción: ejemplos de Naufragios de Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca y de El largo atardecer del caminante de Abel Posse.” Institute of Latin American Studies Student Association’s 20th Annual Student Conference on Latin America, University of Texas, Austin, February 2000.