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CURRICULUM VITAE

September 2017

Gabriel Alejandro Giorgi Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures

New York University gag206@nyu.edu

Education

2002 Ph. D. Spanish and Portuguese New York University

1996 Magister en Semiótica Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

1992 Licenciatura en Letras Modernas Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Academic Positions

2017-- Full Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, New York University

2008- 2017 Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, New York University

2002 -2008 Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, University of

Southern California (promoted to Associate Professor in 2008)

1997-2001 Teaching Assistant, New York University

1991- 1996 Jefe de Trabajos Prácticos; Profesor Adjunto

Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

1994- 1996 Jefe de Trabajos Prácticos, Universidad Blas Pascal

Scholarly Publications

Books

2016 Formas comuns. Animalidade, cultura, biopolitica (Editora Rocco,

Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)

2014 Formas comunes. Animalidad, cultura, biopolítica ( Editorial Eterna

Cadencia, Buenos Aires, Argentina) [ Forms of the Common.

Animality, Culture, Biopolitics]

Reviewed in:

Bazar Americano, March/April 2014, Florencia Garramuño

Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Críticos Animales, July 2014,

Fermín Rodriguez

La Nación, June 2014, Cecilia Macón

Badebec, September 2014, Eduardo Jorge

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Otra parte, October 2014, Evelyn Galiazo

Revista Landa, November 2014, Matías Ayala Munita

Celehis (Boletín del Centro de Letras Hispanoamericana, UML),

november 2014, Isabel Quintana

Meridional. Revista, Chilena de Estudios Latinoamericanos, April

2015, Nicolás Román

Orbis Tertius, May 2015, Valeria de los Ríos

Orillas, Rivista d’ispanistica, August 2016, Emanuela Josa

2004 Sueños de exterminio. Homosexualidad y representación en la literatura argentina,

Rosario, Beatriz Viterbo editora, 2004. [Dreams of Extermination. Homosexuality

and Representation in Argentine]

Reviewed in :

Bazar Americano, April/May 2005 by Gonzalo Aguilar

Radar (Página12), 01/23/2005 by Cecilia Sosa

Revista Orientaciones, 9 (2005) by Santiago Esteso

Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 39.3 (2006) by Emily Maguire

Revista Iberoamericana, 72.217 (2006) by Rafael Castillo Zapata

Iberoamericana 19 (2005) Patricio Pron

Latin American Research Review, 42 (2007) by Carolina Rocha

Edited Anthology

2007 Excesos de vida. Ensayos sobre biopolítica [ Life’s Excess. Essays on

Biopolitics ] Buenos Aires, Paidós, 2007 (co-edited volume with

Fermin Rodriguez; selection and translation of essays by Giorgio

Agamben, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Antonio Negri and Slavoj

Zizek. (Introduction: “Prólogo” co-authored with Fermin Rodriguez.

9-34.)

Edited Journals

2012 Co-editor, journal e-misférica, “Bios/Zoo” (Introduction: “Bio/Zoo”, co-

authored with Fermín Rodríguez, Alvaro Fernandez Bravo,

http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/es/e-misferica-101)

2009 Invited editor, Revista Iberoamericana, “Monstruosidad y biopolítica”,

(Introduction: “Política del monstruo”)

2007 Co-editor, journal e-misférica, 6, “Performance, affect, politics” (Introduction:

“Passions, Performance, Public Affect”, co-authored with Mirta Antonelli,

http://hemi-server.ps.tsoa.nyu.edu/fmi/xsl/4_1/homepage.xsl?-

lay=homeXsl&-find)

Journal Articles

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2015 “Lo real contiene todos sus pasados. Informe sobre espectros”, Estudios de

Teoría Literaria, Vol. 4, Num.8, Universidad de Mar del Plata,

http://fh.mdp.edu.ar/revistas/index.php/etl/article/view/1311

2015 “El animal, el espectro. Notas sobre las imágenes”, Revista La Fuga,

Santiago de Chile, otoño 2015, http://www.lafuga.cl/el-animal-el-

espectro/747

2014 “Imagen, comunidad, supervivencia: E agora? Lembra-me, de Joaquim

Pinto”, Kilómetro 111 – Ensayo sobre cine, num.12, september 2014,

Buenos Aires, http://kilometro111cine.com.ar/portfolio/n12-historia-

politica/

2013 “La guerra por la ciudad. Copi y la rebelión animal”, no-retornable,

14, http://www.no-retornable.com.ar/v14/animal_planet/giorgi.html

2013 “Precarious Selves. Neoliberalism and Subjectivity”, Social Text, 31,

Summer 2013, New York, pag 69-83

2012 “El animal comunista”, e-misférica, New York, December, 10.1

hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/es/e-misferica-101

2012 “El animal de adentro. Retóricas y políticas de lo viviente”, Voz y Escritura. Revista de Estudios Literarios.Nº 20, 2012. Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela, pp. 181-194

2011 “La vida impropia. Historias de mataderos”, Boletín de Crítica y Teoría

Literaria, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, n 16, December, 25-46

2010 “Después de la salud. La escritura del virus”, Revista Estudios ,

Caracas, 33, 13-34.

2009 “El umbral animal. Apuntes sobre algunas ficciones del presente”, Revista Nombres, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba , 11, 17-34.

2008 “Lugares comunes: vida desnuda y ficción”, Revista Grumo, Rio de

Janeiro-Buenos Aires, 9 , p. 6-17

2008 “Zones of Exception. Biopolitical Territories of the Neoliberal Era”, in

collaboration with Karen Pinkus, Diacritics v. 36 no. 2 (Summer 2006)

p. 99-108

2006 “Osvaldo Lamborghini: Laboratorios de la excepción”, Revista

Grumo, 6 (2006) 132-138

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2005 “El relato sin futuro: homosexualidad y ficción contemporánea en

América Latina”, Revista Orientaciones, 9 (2005) 93-111

2003 “Sueños de exterminio: Perlongher”, Ciberletras, 9, (2003)

www.cuny.lehman.edu/ciberletras

2002 “Madrid en tránsito: Travelers, Identity and Gay Culture” in GLQ.

Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies 8(1-2), (2002) 57-79

1999 “Nombrar la enfermedad. Medicos y artistas alrededor del cuerpo

masculino en De sobremesa, de Jose A. Silva”, in Ciberletras, 1 (1999),

www.cuny.lehman.edu/ciberletras

1998 “Sexo moderno. Sexualidad y límites de la representación en la obra

de J. Cortazar”, Revista Estudios/Teoria/Critica (ETC) 9 (1998) 95-108

1996 "El combate bicolor. Homosexualidad, política y representación",

Estudios 6 (1996) 65-73

Articles in Edited Volumes

2016 “La rebelión de los animales: cultura y biopolítica”, in Martinez-

Pinzón, J. And Uriarte, J. (eds) Entre el humo y la niebla: guerra y

cultura en América Latina, Instituto Internacional de Literatura

Iberoamericana, Pittsburgh, 195-216

2016 “Dissident cosmopolitanisms” (in collaboration), Szurmuk, M, and

Rodriguez, I. (comp.) The Cambridge History of Latin American

Women’s Writers, Cambridge University Press, New York, 261-278

2016 “Temporalidad del sobreviviente”, in Martinelli, Lucas and Manetti, Ricardo (eds) Teoría queer e industrias culturales en América Latina, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 41-56

2013 “Lo que queda de una vida. Cadáver y comunidad”, in Scardino, Rafaela and Alexandro Moraes, Traços de um outro mapa. Literatura nas Americas, EDUFES, Vitoria, Universidade Federal do Santo Espirito, 257-277

2013 “Joao Gilberto Noll: Hacia el animal” in Vidal, Paloma (ed.) O futuro

pelo retrovisor: inquietudes da literatura brasileira contemporânea, Rocco

Editora, Sao Paulo, 163-175

2011 “ A vida impropia. Historias dos matadouros”, in Maciel, María

Esther (editor) Pensar/escrever o animal. Ensaios de zoopoética e

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biopolítica,Belo Horizonte, Editora Universidade Federal Santa

Catarina, 199-221

2010 “El animal y el cadáver: escrituras del abandono”, Di Leone, Luciana (comp.) Literatura argentina y brasileña contemporánea: cuerpo, experiencia, subjetividad, Buenos Aires, Editorial Arcos, pag. 22-37.

2008 “El crimen, el experimento, la literatura: Osvaldo Lamborghini y la

naturaleza”, in Brizuela, Natalia and Dabove, Juan Pablo (editors), Y

todo el resto es literatura: ensayos sobre Osvaldo Lamborghini. Buenos

Aires, Ed Interzona, 233-253

2008 “Zona Común: imágenes de la ciudad neoliberal. En torno a Ronda

nocturna, de Edgardo Cozarinsky”, in Melo, Adrián editor, Cine

argentino y cultura queer , Buenos Aires: Editorial Lea, 193-205

2005 “Anales de la colimba”, in Delirios de grandeza. Mitos argentinos

(cultura, política, sociedad), Soria, Claudia and Pons, Cristina, editors,

Rosario: Beatriz Viterbo editora, 229-245

2003 “Diagnósticos del raro: cuerpo masculino y nación en Osvaldo

Lamborghini” in Heterotropías: narrativas y tropos de la identidad

latinoamericana, Dabove, Juan Pablo and Jáuregui, Carlos editors,

Pittsburg: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 321-

343

2000 “Mirar al monstruo: homosexualidad y nación en los ’60 argentinos”

in Sexualidad y nación, edited by Daniel Balderston, Pittsburgh,

Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana: 243-261 (peer

reviewed)

1996 "Siberia blues: diferencia, transgresión e identidad", in: AAVV, Voces

e ideología: estudios bajtinianos, Córdoba: Alción: 53-75

Other Publications

2016 “Muertos públicos. Supervivencias de Act Up”, Informe Escaleno,

http://www.informeescaleno.com.ar/index.php?s=articulos&id=433

2014 “Genética marcada”, Informe Escaleno,

http://www.informeescaleno.com.ar/index.php?s=articulos&id=269

2013 “Cine, terror, seguridad”, Informe Escaleno,

http://www.informeescaleno.com.ar/index.php?s=articulos&id=92

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Encyclopedia Entry

2008 “Cuerpo”, in Robert Irwin and Mónica Schurmuk eds, Diccionario de

Estudios Culturales, México: Siglo XXI , 34-38

Interviews

2014 “El neoliberalismo es una administración del abandono”, Télam

Cultura, http://www.telam.com.ar/notas/201404/58711-el-

neoliberalismo-seria-una-administracion-del-abandono.html

2014 “Vidas fuera de serie”, La Voz del Interior, Córdona

http://www.lavoz.com.ar/ciudad-equis/vidas-fuera-de-serie

Translations

2007 “El monstruo político. Vida desnuda y potencia” - Antonio Negri;

Italian to Spanish, Giorgi, Gabriel and Rodríguez, Fermin editors,

Excesos de vida. Ensayos sobre biopolítica, Buenos Aires: Paidos, 2007

2003 “Reescribiendo lo abyecto desde el inmigrante. Sida y mariconería

latina en el imaginario cultural” – Alberto Sandoval; English to

Spanish, Heterotropías: narrativas y tropos de la identidad

latinoamericana, edited by Dabove, Juan Pablo and Jáuregui, Carlos

editors, Pittburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura

Iberoamericana, 343-351

Book Reviews

2016 Yelín, Julieta, La letra salvaje. Ensayos sobre literatura y animalidad,

Bazar Americano, november/december 2015,

http://www.bazaramericano.com/resenas.php?busqueda=todo

2011 Rodriguez, Fermín, Un desierto para la nación. La escritura del vacío.

Contracorriente, Vol. 8, No. 2, Winter 2011, 431-435

2009 Sorensen, Diana, A Turbulent Decade Remembered. Scenes from the

Latin American sixties, Latin American Literary Review

2006 Balderston, Daniel, El deseo, enorme cicatriz luminosa, Revista

Iberoamericana, 217 (2006): 1054-56

2005 Guttman, Mathew, Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin

America, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 38 (2005) 372-3

1998 David W. Foster, Bodies and Biases. Sexuality in Hispanic Cultures

and Literatures, Revista Iberoamericana,, 178 (1998) 563-564

1997 José Amícola (editor), La traición de Rita Hayworth: materiales

previos, Revista Iberoamericana, 180 (1997) 557-559

1995 Josefina Ludmer (editor), Culturas de fin de siglo en América Latina,

Tramas 1 (1995) 198-201

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Invited Lectures

Keynote Speaker , “Diccionario de supervivencia” , Conference “Efectos virales”, Museo de Arte

Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), June 14-15 2017

Invited Speaker, “Hacia lo no-humano. Desfondamientos de la ficción”, Department of

Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University, May 2017

Invited Speaker, “Politics of Precariousness”, Emergency Lectures Series, New York

University, King Juan Carlos Center, April 2017

Invited Speaker, “Macabéa precária”, Conference “The Clarice Factor”, Dept. of Hispanic Studies,

Columbia University, February 2017

Invited Speaker, “Precariedade e animalidade”, Escola de Comunicação, Universidade Federal do Rio

de Janeiro, Río de Janeiro, September 2016

Invited Speaker, “"El pobre, el animal, el precario. Retóricas biopolíticas de la cultura

contemporánea en América Latina"”, University of Bergen, Norway, May 2016

Invited Panelist, “Um povo não humano. Precarity, Animality, Biopolitics”, Colloquium Post-

Anthropocentrism in Brazilian Thought, University of Chicago, April 2016

Invited Panelist, “Animales, masas, espectros. Imágenes de lo viviente y temporalidades

políticas” Encuentros de Teoría y Crítica, Universidad de Rosario, October 2015

Invited Speaker, “Animales, espectros, masas: imágenes de lo viviente y temporalidades políticas”, Dept of Romance Studies, Harvard University Invited Speaker, “Espectros y fósiles”, Romanisches Seminar, Universitat Zurich, March 2015 Invited Speaker, “The Animal Threshold: Culture and Biopolitics”, Interdisciplinary

Colloquium MATTER, Stanford University, February 2015 Invited Speaker, “La ciudad biopolítica: territorios y ficciones”, Departamento de Letras,

Universidad de La Habana, February 2015 Keynote Speaker, “El animal, el monstruo: biopolítica y cultura”, V Jornadas Monstruos y Monstruosidades, Instituto de Género, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires,

November 2014 Invited Panelist “Retóricas políticas de la vida”, Coloquio Gubermentalidad y política, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, October 2014 Invited Panelist “Biopolítica: recorridos latinoamericanos”, colloquium Michel Foucault y América Latina, Universidad Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, August 2014 Invited Speaker “Formas Comunes. Animalidad, cultura , biopolítica”, Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral, Santiago de Chile, November 2013

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“Lo que queda de una vida. Cadáver y comunidad”, Universidad Católica de Chile, Instituto de Estética, Noviembre 2013 “La lección animal: Pedagogías queer”, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, April 2013

“La voz animal”, Graduate Students Conference, Dept. of Luso-Hispanic Studies, CUNY,

March 2012

“Vida sin forma/forma de vida. Retóricas de lo viviente de la cultura contemporánea”,

Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University, September 2011

"La vida impropia. Historias de mataderos", Dept of Romance Languages, Harvard

University, February 2011

“Retóricas de lo viviente”, Escuela de Letras, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, June 2010

"Lo que queda de una vida: cadáver, anonimia, comunidad", Clinic Zone, Córdoba, August

2010

"Cadáveres fuera de lugar", Master in Hispanic Literatures, NYU in Madrid, March 2010

"Osvaldo Lamborghini: Writing and Anomaly", Symposium "Iberian Cruelties", Department

of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University, April 2009

“Future Life: Eugenics and Utopian Writing in Latin America”, Center for the Study of

Women, University of California at Los Angeles, April 2007

“Michel Foucault: recorridos en torno a la biopolitica y el biopoder”, Centro de Estudios

Avanzados, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, August 2005

“Literature and Eugenics”, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California

at Berkeley, April 2005

“The Biopolitical Imagination”, Department of Romance Studies, Duke University, March

2005

“Experimentos biopolíticos”, Centro de Estudios Avanzados, Universidad Nacional de

Córdoba, August 2004

Conference Papers

“The Geological Agent. Non-Human Temporalities and the Question of the Contemporary”,

Colloquium The Environment in Brazilian Culture, Georgetown University, October 2017 “Enciclopedia precaria”, LASA conference, Lima, Peru, May 2017 “Figuras de sobrevida y temporalidades políticas”, Latin American Studies Association conference, New York, May 2016

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“Fossils and Specters: Non-Human Memories in Nuno Ramos”, Brazilian Studies Association conference, Brown University, March 2016 “¿De qué está hecha Macabea? Dos tesis sobre la precariedad”, Coloquio Por qué Brasil? Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, August 2015 “La ciudad biopolítica”, LASA Conference, Chicago, May 2014 “El rumor animal. Biopolítica y escritura”, III Congreso de Teoría y Crítica, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, April 2013 “El animal en común”, LASA conference, San Francisco, May 2012 “I am in love with Victoria Okampo: cosmopolitismo y rareza”, Colloquium Sur Queer, NYU in Buenos Aires, November 2011 “La ficción de la especie”, Using Queer: New (In)visibilities in the Spanish and Latin American Public Sphere, Hispanic Institute, Columbia University “La rebelión de los animales”, Animalidade e o pos-humano, Departamento de Letras, Universidad de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Mayo 2011 “Política del animal”, LASA conference, Toronto, October 2010 "Animales sin especie: retòricas de lo viviente", Colloquium "El giro animal", NYU in Buenos Aires, August 2010 "Antologías gay y lésbicas" (roundtable), Latin American Queer Geographies, University of Pittsburgh, April 2010 “El animal y el cadáver. Escrituras del abandono”, II Taller Cuerpo, subjetividad y experiencia, Universidad de San Andrés/ Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2009

“Ficción y singularidad”, Latin American Studies Association Conference, Rio de Janeiro, 2009 "Lugares comunes: vida desnuda y ficción", Graduate Colloquium, Department of Spanish and Portuguese , New York University “Lo raro y lo común. Retóricas de la singularidad”, Symposium “The State of Fiction Cultures of Contemporary Argentina”, UCLA-USC, Los Angeles, April 2008 “Laboratorios de la población: modernidad y monstruosidad”, MLA Convention,

Chicago 2007

“Cuerpo y excepción. Ficciones de la era neoliberal”, Latin American Studies Association

Conference, Montreal, Canada, September 2007

“Eugenics, Fiction and the Technologies of the Human”, 18th Congress of the

International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,

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August 2007

“Diario de la Guerra: Peronismo y eugenesia”, Peronismo: The Aesthetics of Modern Power

in Argentina, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, and University of

Southern California, Los Angeles, April 2007

“Common Zone: Images of the Neoliberal City”, Symposium Neoliberalism & Culture,

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, March 2007

“El relato sin futuro: ficciones terminales, cuerpos queer”, Congreso del Instituto

Iberoamericano de Literatura, Rosario, Argentina, June 2005

“Diario de la guerra”, Latin American Studies Association Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada,

September 2004

“Historia natural: Fogwill”, V Encuentro de Teoría y Crítica, Universidad Nacional de

Rosario, Argentina, August 2004

“Experimentos biopolítcos”, II Congresso da Associação Brasileira de Homocultura,

Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil, June 2004

“Queer Multitudes: the Bodies of Peronismo”, Queer Performance in the Americas, Yale

University, New Haven, Connecticut, April 2004

“Hospital Lamborghini”, IV Encuentro de Teoría y Crítica, Universidad Nacional de Rosario,

Argentina, August 2002

“Excesos viriles: narrativas fraternas e imaginación nacional”, Latin American Studies

Association Conference, Washington, D.C., September 2001

“Historias de la sexualidad en las afueras: Perlongher y Lemebel”, Patologías,

NYU/Columbia

Graduate Students conference, New York University, New York, New Cork, April

2001

“Tourists and Immigrants: Global Travelers and Gay Identity”, Queer Geographies of

Globalization, CLAGS/ CUNY, New York, New York, February 2001

“Hyper/masculine Citizens. Political Narratives of Gender and Sexuality in the formation of

Modern Argentina” Future of the Queer Past Conference, University of Chicago,

Chicago, Illinois, September 2000

“Fraternal Identifications: Homosexuality and Gender after Peronismo in Argentine

Literature”, Latin American Studies Association Conference, Miami Florida, March

2000

“Los límites de la ciudadanía. Territorios urbanos y disidencia sexual”, New Cultural Borders

in Latin America and Spain, University of California at Riverside, Riverside,

California, September 1999

“Secreto e identidad. La sexualizacion de la infancia en La traición de Rita Hayworth”, IV

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Graduate Students City University of New York, New York, November 1997

“The sex of the kids. Bodies and Identities for Gays and Lesbians in Argentina” Queer

Studies Conference, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, March

1997

“Los textos del combate bicolor. Homosexualidad, política y representación” in Jornadas

sobre Instituciones Nacionales, Sujeto y Sexualidad, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras,

Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 1995

"Minorías y representación: algunos problemas teóricos" in Políticas culturales y nuevos

sujetos, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires,

Argentina, June 1995

“Intimidad y política. El cuerpo/el género en la narrativa de David Viñas. Usos de la

homosexualidad”, IV Congreso Nacional de Semiótica, Córdoba, Argentina,

September 1995

“Entre el sujeto y la verdad: La traición de Rita Hayworth, de Manuel Puig”, IV Congreso

Nacional de Literatura Argentina, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina,

October 1991

Other Academic Activities

Invited Panelist, Graduate Students Conference “Theory (In) Place” Columbia University,

2014

Panelist, “La hora de Clarice” (annual celebration of the work of Clarice Lispector). City of

Buenos Aires, December 2014.

“La pregunta por el animal.” Divanes Nómades/Ecole Lacanniene de Psychanalyse. Córdoba

(Argentina), November 2014.

Fellowships and Awards

2015 Faculty Fellowship, Center for the Humanities (declined)

2015 Visiting Researcher/Professor, Fundaçao CAPES, Ministerio de Educação,

Brazilian Government

2009 Research in Residence, Humanities Research Institute, University of

California at Irvine (declined)

2005 Del Amo Research Grant, University of Southern California.

2003 General Education Teaching Award, University of Southern California

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2003 Outstanding Dissertation Award, New York University (Mention of Honor)

2003 Research Grant - Zumberge Foundation, University of Southern California.

2001 Summer Travel Grant awarded by Coca-Cola Foundation, New York

University

2000 Awarded essay “Retóricas de la soberanía: los viajes patagónicos del Perito

Moreno”, Competition “Hernán Vidal. Territorios, culturas e identidades”,

Centro Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO), Buenos Aires

1999 Summer Travel Grant awarded by Center for Latin American and Caribbean

Studies, New York University

1997-1999 Fellowship for Outstanding Graduate Students, Ministerio de Educación,

Gobierno Argentino

1991-1995 Research Fellowship, Consejo Provincial de Investigación, Gobierno de

Córdoba, Argentina

Teaching Activities

1) At New York University:

Undergraduate Courses

“Queer Cultures and Democracy” (networked course with NYU-Buenos Aires)

“Politics of Resistance: Neoliberalism and Culture”

"Literature and Animality"

"Readings in Spanish American Literature"

"Interrupted Narratives: Fictions of "Latin America"

"Lo íntimo y lo precario: problemas de la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea"

Graduate Courses

“Disputar lo precario”

“Animalidad y política en América Latina”

“La comunidad en cuestión”

“Sexualidades impropias”

"En torno a la 'vida desnuda': teoría y ficción"

"Retóricas de lo viviente e imaginación estética"

“Animalidad y política en la cultura latinoamericana”

-At the University of Southern California:

Undergraduate Courses

“Survey of Latin American Fiction” (Spanish)

“Iberian and Latin American Cultures: Readings on Society” (Spanish)

“Between Empires: Sexuality and Writing in Latin America” (Spanish)

“Modern and Contemporary Latin American Fiction” (Spanish)

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“The City at its Ends: Latin American Urban Fiction” (General Education)

“Gender and Literature” (Spanish)

“Cultures of Latin America” (Comparative Literature)

“Introduction to Comparative Literature” (Comparative Literature)

“Literature and the City” (Spanish)

“Iberian and Latin American Cultures: Readings on the Arts” (Spanish)

“Iberian and Latin American Cultures Readings on the Arts” (Spanish)

Graduate Courses

“Other Bodies: Literature and the Politics of Life” (Comparative Literature)

“Between the Nation and the State: Disease, Criminality and Queerness in Contemporary

Latin American Literature” (Spanish)

2) At the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Graduate Seminars

“Biopolítics”

“Michel Foucault: biopower and biopolitics”

“Discourse, sexuality, nation”

Graduate Evaluation

Advisor

Ezequiel Zeidenwerg

Francisco Marguch

Germán Garrido (defended May 2017)

Marcos del Cogliano

Marcelo Carosi

Patricio Orellana (defended May 2016)

Cristel Jusino (defended August 2015)

Eun Ha Choice (Defended August 2012)

Dissertation Committee Member

Cristina Colmena

Osdany Morales

Irina Troconi

Tess Rankin

Emmanuel Velayos (defended August 2017)

Tess Rankin

Noé Bautista

Member in Dissertations Defenses

At New York University

Carlos Rojas

Ana Kaluza

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Patricia Lopez-Gay

Javier Guerrero

Mariana Amato

Santiago Deymonaz

Lina Meruane

Alexandra Falek

Claudia Salazar

Mariano Lopez Seoane

Javier Uriarte

Felipe Martinez Pinzon

Romina Pistacchio

(Institute of Fine Arts) Jason Dubbs

(Social and Cultural Analysis) Jennifer Flores

At University of Southern California

Michelle Kim

As Outside Reader

Juan Ariel Gomez, Department of Hispanic and Portuguese Studies, University of

Pennsylvania

Laura Arnés, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Julieta Vitullo Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University

Teresa Ko, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Columbia University

Melissa Gonzales, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Columbia University

University Service

At New York University (Department of Spanish and Portuguese)

2016 Member of Graduate Admissions committee

Member of Third Year Review committee for Laura Torres Rodríguez

Chair Search Committee for Senior Latin Americanist ; appointment of Licia

Fiol Matta and Jens Andermann

2015 Co-chair of Search Committee for Senior Latin Americanist

Chair of Review Committee for appointment of Sergio Chejfec as

Distinguished Writer in Residence

2014 Member of the Graduate Committee

Co-chair Search Committee for Senior Latin Americanist

2013 Member of Graduate Committee

2012 Member of Search Committee for Assistant Professor in Brazilian Studies;

appointment of prof Dylon Robbins

2010-2012 Director of Graduate Studies

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2010 Chair of Search Committee for Assistant Professor in Colonial/Mexican

Studies; appointment of Juan de Dios

2009 Member of Graduate Committee

At University of Southern California

2007 Member of Graduate Studies Committee, Department of Comparative

Literature

2007 Member of Graduate Program Committee, Department of Spanish and

Portuguese

2007 Member of Merit Review Committee, Departments of Comparative

Literature and Spanish and Portuguese

2007 Member of Zumberge Fellowship Advisory Committee

2007 Member of Search Committee for Full-Time Lecturers, Department of

Spanish and Portuguese

2006 Member of Merit Review Committee, Departments of Comparative

Literature and Spanish and Portuguese

2004 Member of Search Committee for Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish

and Portuguese

2004 Member of Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of Comparative

Literature

2004 Member of Search Committee for Latin American Assistant/Associate

Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Organization of Academic Events

2013 Co-organizer (with Mariano López Seoane) of faculty/student workshop “Sur

Queer.” Department of Spanish and Portuguese/NYU Buenos Aires, October

2013

2012 Co-organizer of conference “Varia Imaginación” in honor of Sylvia Molloy.

Department of Spanish Languages and Literatures, NYU, May 2012

2011 Member of organizing committee of colloquium “Sur Queer.” Department of

Spanish and Portuguese/NYU Buenos Aires, November 2011

2010 Member of organizing committee of colloquium "El giro animal."

Department of Spanish and Portuguese/NYU Buenos Aires, August 2010

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2008 Member of organizing committee of symposium “The State of Fiction:

Cultures of Contemporary Argentina.” University of Southern California,

Spring 2008

2006-2007 Member of organizing committee of symposium “Neoliberalism and

Culture.” University of Southern California, Spring 2007

2003-2004 Coordination of Work-in-Progress Series. Department of Spanish and

Portuguese, University of Southern California

2000 Co-organization of “Workshop on Masculinities”, New York University

1999 Member of organizing Committee of IV NYU/Columbia Graduate Student

Conference

1995 Member of organizing Committee of V National Conference of Semiotics,

Córdoba (Argentina)

Other Professional Service

Since 2005 Reader/ refereee for Revista de Estudios Críticos Animales, Journal of Spanish

Cultural Studies, Cuadernos del Sur, American Quarterly, Letras Femeninas,

Cambridge University Press

2014 Co-chair of track “Culture, Subjectivity, Power.” Latin American Studies

Association conference, Chicago 2014

2013 Outside evaluator for tenure case, Princeton University

Languages

Spanish, English, Portuguese Fluent

French, Italian Reading proficiency (high)