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CURRICULUM VITAE

Erin Graff Zivin Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature

Chair, Department of Comparative Literature Director, Doctoral Program in Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture

Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA 90089-0358 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 213-740-7659

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Professor, Departments of Latin American and Iberian Cultures (formerly Spanish and Portuguese) and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California, December 2014 – present. Associate Professor, Departments of Spanish and Portuguese (March 2009 – December 2014) and Comparative Literature (September 2010 – December 2014), University of Southern California Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Southern California, August 2008 – March 2009. Assistant Professor, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh, August 2004 – July 2008. EDUCATION

New York University, New York, NY Ph.D. with Honors, Spanish and Portuguese, May 2004 University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA M.A., Comparative Literature and Latin American Studies, May 1998 University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA B.A. with Honors, Social Science (Literature and Religious Studies), May 1994 AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Modern Spanish American and Luso-Brazilian literature; Continental philosophy, deconstruction, critical theory; Ethics, politics, aesthetics; Literary representations of Jewishness and marranismo

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BOOKS 5. Anarchaeologies: Ethical and Political Thinking After Literature. New York: Fordham

University Press, 2019. (In press.) 4. The Marrano Specter: Derrida and Hispanism. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017.

(Edited volume.) 3. Figurative Inquisitions: Conversion, Torture, and Truth in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic.

Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2014. (Winner of 2015 Award for Best Book, Latin American Jewish Studies Association)

Reviewed in:

• Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 52.1 (2018) • Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 20 (2016) • A Contracorriente 13.3 (2016) • Infrapolitical Deconstruction Collective blog (“Zivin’s Spectral

Injunction,” by Alberto Moreiras, September 29, 2014) https://infrapolitica.wordpress.com/2014/09/29/zivins-spectral-injunction-by-alberto-moreiras/

• Latin American Literary Review 85 (forthcoming) • Chasqui; revista de literatura latinoamericana (forthcoming) • Revista Hispánica Moderna (forthcoming)

Revised and extended Spanish translation: Inquisiciones Figurativas: Conversión, tortura, y

verdad en el Atlántico Luso-Hispano, trans. Paola Cortes-Rocca. Buenos Aires: La Cebra, 2017.

2. The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary. Durham,

NC: Duke University Press, 2008.

Reviewed in: • Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 46.1 (2012) • Comparative Literature Studies 48.2 (2011) • Luso-Brazilian Review 48.1 (2011) • Bulletin of Latin American Research 30.4 (2011) • Bulletin of Spanish Studies 88.2 (2011) • RILCE: Revista de Filología Hispánica 27.2 (2011) • Revista Hispánica Moderna 63.2 (2010) • Hispanic Review 78.3 (2010) • Revista Iberoamericana 76.231 (2010) • Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe 21.2 (2010) • Shofar 28.2 (2010)


• Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature (2010) • Latin American Review of Books (2009) • Chasqui; revista de literatura latinoamericana 38.2 (2009)

1. The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism: Reading Otherwise. New York: Palgrave

Macmillan, 2007. (Edited volume.)

Reviewed in: • Luso-Brazilian Review 46.2 (2009) • Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 13 (2009)

ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS 38. “Beyond Jameson: The Metapolitics of Allegory.” Yearbook of Comparative Literature 41

(2017). 156-173. 37. “El giro ético, o, Levinas en Latinoamérica.” Revista Pléyade 19 (2017). 91-111.

http://www.revistapleyade.cl/pleyade/ediciones/numero-19/. (Revised and translated version of “The Ethical Turn.”)

36. “The Aesthetics and Politics of Error.” Política Común. A Journal of Thought 10 (2016).

http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/pc.12322227.0010.008. 35. “Ante la ley: Interrogación, interpelación y la producción de la culpa.” Revista

Iberoamericana 257 (2016). 759-774. 34. “Marrano Secrets, Or, Misunderstanding Literature.” CR: The New Centennial Review 14.3

(Winter 2014). 75-92. 33. “Beyond Inquisitional Logic, or, Toward an An-archaeological Latin Americanism.” CR:

The New Centennial Review 14.1 (Spring 2014). 195-211. 32. “Politics Against Ethics.” Política Común. A Journal of Thought 4 (2013).

http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/pc.12322227.0004.009. 31. “Aporias of Marranismo: Sabina Berman’s En el nombre de Dios and Jom Tob Azulay’s O

Judeu.” CR: The New Centennial Review 12.3 (Winter 2012). 187-216. 30. “Seeing and Saying: Towards an Ethics of Truth in José Saramago.” SubStance 41.1 (January

2012). 109-123. 29. “Kidnapped Language: Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics in Sergio Chejfec’s Los planetas.”

Journal of Jewish Identities 5.1 (January 2012). 77-87.


28. “Semitic Mysteries, Universal Truths: Jewishness and Arabness in Jorge Luis Borges.” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 6.2 (July 2011). 119-137.

27. “Diagnósticos modernistas de Max Nordau: Darío, Ingenieros y Silva leen al médico judío.”

Estudios: Revista de Investigaciones Literarias y Culturales (Caracas, Venezuela) 14.28 (2006). 171-186. (Reprint of “Traducir lo raro.” Published in 2008.)

26. “Writing the Absent Face: ‘Jewishness’ and the Limits of Representation in Borges, Piglia

and Chejfec.” MLN 122.2 (2007). 350-370. 25. “Transacciones judías y discursos promiscuos en ‘Emma Zunz.’” Variaciones Borges 22

(2006). 191-199. 24. “Conversiones textuales, inquisiciones transatlánticas: La figura de la cristiana nueva en Dias

Gomes y Antonio Gala.” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 6.3 (2005). 259-269. 23. “Reading Max Nordau: Unspeakable Difference in Spanish American Modernism.” Chasqui;

revista de literatura latinoamericana 34.1 (2005). 102-113. 22. “The Face of the Other: Diagnosing Jewishness in Latin American Literature.” Modern

Jewish Studies 14 (2004). 91-101. BOOK CHAPTERS 21. “El agotamiento de la responsabilidad; o, para una universidad pasiva.” La universidad

(im)posible, eds. Elizabeth Collingwood-Selby, Mary Luz Estupiñán, raúl rodríguez freire and Willy Thayer. Santiago, Chile: Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación, 2018. 140-148.

20. “Derrida’s Marranismo.” Introduction to The Marrano Specter: Derrida and Hispanism, ed.

Erin Graff Zivin. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017. 1-12. 19. “Deconstruction and its Precursors: Levinas and Borges after Derrida.” In The Marrano

Specter: Derrida and Hispanism, ed. Erin Graff Zivin. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017. 138-152.

18. “The Ethical Turn.” New Approaches to Latin American Studies: Culture and Power, ed.

Juan Poblete. New York: Routledge, 2017. 65-79. 17. “Comparative Literature and Latin American Literary Studies. A conversation with

contributions from José Quiroga, Wander Melo Miranda, Erin Graff Zivin, Francine Masiello, Sarah Wells, Ivonne del Valle, and Mariano Siskind, moderated by Guillermina De Ferrari.” Futures of Comparative Literature. Ed. Ursula K. Heise, et. al. Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2017.


16. “Writing in Latin America.” The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, Sangeeta Ray, Henry Schwarz, José Luis Villacañas Berlanga, Alberto Moreiras and April Shemak (eds). Blackwell Publishing, 2016. Blackwell Reference Online. 25 February 2016 <http://www.literatureencyclopedia.com/subscriber/tocnode.html?id=g9781444334982_chunk_g978144433498227_ss1-8>

15. “El pensar-marrano, o, hacia un latinoamericanismo an-arqueológico.” Post-hegemonía. El

final de un paradigma de la filosofía política contemporánea en América Latina, ed. Rodrigo Castro Orellana. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2015. 205-216. (Revised and translated version of “Beyond Inquisitional Logic, or, Toward an An-archaeological Latin Americanism.”)

14. “El lenguaje secuestrado: Estética, ética y política en Los planetas de Sergio Chejfec.” Sergio

Chejfec: Trayectorias de una escritura. Ensayos críticos, ed. Dianna Niebylski. Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 2012. 87-100. (Revised and translated version of “Kidnapped Language: Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics in Sergio Chejfec’s Los planetas.”)

13. “Ethics.” Dictionary of Latin American Cultural Studies, eds. Mónica Szurmuk and Robert

McKee Irwin. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012. 147-152. 12. “The Scene of the Transaction: ‘Jewishness,’ Money and Prostitution in the Brazilian

Imaginary.” Rethinking Jewish-Latin Americans, eds. Raanan Rein and Jeffrey Lesser. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. 106-131.

11. “Introduction: Reading Otherwise.” The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism:

Reading Otherwise, ed. Erin Graff Zivin. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 1-7. 10. “Cuerpos errantes, sujetos patológicos en la obra de Luisa Futoransky y Margo Glantz.”

Memoria y representación: Configuraciones culturales y literarias en el imaginario judío latinoamericano, eds. Alejandro Meter and Ariana Huberman. Rosario, Argentina: Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2006. 249-262. (Revised and translated version of “Sick Jews.”)

9. “Sick Jews: Disease and Deformity in Luisa Futoransky’s De Pe a Pa: De Pekín a París and

Margo Glantz’s ‘Zapatos: Andante con variaciones.’” Luisa Futoransky y su palabra itinerante, ed. Ester Gimbernat González. Montevideo, Uruguay: Hermes Criollo, 2005. 121-132. (Revised version of “Pathological Subjects.”)

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 8. “Traducir lo raro: Darío, Ingenieros, y Silva leen a Max Nordau.” In Balderston et al.,

Literatura y otras artes en America Latina: Actas del XXXIV Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. Iowa City: University of Iowa (2004). 203-211.


7. “Pathological Subjects: Narratives of Self-Diagnosis in Luisa Futoransky and Margo Glantz.” La jornada literaria XII (2003). 53-64.

CULTURAL JOURNALISM 6. “Cuatreros, de Albertina Carri: Herencia an-árquica.” Revista Transas: Letras y artes de

América Latina (2017). http://www.revistatransas.com/2017/07/26/cuatreros-de-albertina-carri-herencia-an-arquica/.

5. “Más allá de Jameson: La metapolítica de la alegoría.” Trans. Jimena Jiménez Rodríguez.

Revista Transas: Letras y artes de América Latina (2017). http://www.revistatransas.com/2017/05/26/metapolitica-de-la-alegoria-mas-alla-de-jameson/.

BOOK REVIEWS 4. Baroque Sovereignty: Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and the Creole Archive of Colonial

Mexico, by Anna More (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013). Hispanic Review 84.3 (2016). 351-354.

3. Market and Thought: Meditations on the Political and Biopolitical, by Brett Levinson (New

York: Fordham University Press, 2005). Revista Hispánica Moderna LVII (2006). 328-329.

2. Latin American Cultural Studies Reader, by Ana del Sarto, Alicia Ríos and Abril Trigo, eds.

(Durham: Duke University Press, 2004). Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 39.1 (2005). 213-214.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES 1. “Luisa Futoransky.” In Jewish Women. A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Jerusalem:

Shalvi Publishing Ltd., 2007. WORK IN PROGRESS Guest editor, Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture. Special issue in

honor of Peggy Kamuf. (In preparation.) “Introduction” (with Akira Mizuta Lippit), Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media

and Culture. Special issue in honor of Peggy Kamuf. (In preparation.)


Pensamiento y terror social: El archivo hispano. Co-edited with Jacques Lezra, Alberto Moreiras, and José Luis Villacañas Berlanga. Madrid, Spain: Escolar y Mayo Editores. (Edited volume, in preparation.)

“Introduction” (with José Luis Villacañas, Alberto Moreiras, and Jacques Lezra). Pensamiento y

terror social: El archivo hispano, eds. Erin Graff Zivin, Jacques Lezra, Alberto Moreiras, and José Luis Villacañas Berlanga. Madrid, Spain: Escolar y Mayo Editores. Madrid, Spain: Escolar y Mayo Editores. (In preparation.)

Review essay on Abraham Acosta, Thresholds of Illiteracy and Jaime Hanneken, Imagining the

Postcolonial. Revista Hispánica Moderna. (In preparation.) “Exposición, experimento, exapropiación: Después del sujeto (latinoamericano).” Revista

Iberoamericana. (Under review.) “Derrida, lector de Levinas.” (Under review.) “Marranismo, Allegory and the Unsayable in Arturo Ripstein’s El Santo Oficio.” The Sinister

Wink of the World: The Films of Arturo Ripstein, eds. Luis Duno-Gottberg and Manuel Gutiérrez. (Under review.)

“Towards a Passive University.” Postmodern Culture. (Revised and resubmitted.) “Del marranismo: Derrida avec Montaigne.” Pensamiento y terror social: El archivo hispano,

eds. Erin Graff Zivin, Jacques Lezra, Alberto Moreiras, and José Luis Villacañas Berlanga. Madrid, Spain: Escolar y Mayo Editores. (Accepted for publication.)

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 2013-2018 USC Del Amo Foundation Faculty Summer Research Grant 2015 Best Book prize for Figurative Inquisitions, Latin American Jewish Studies

Association 2014 Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grant,

University of Southern California 2013-2014 Visions and Voices Grant, University of Southern California 2013-2014 Casden Institute Faculty Research Grant, University of Southern California

(declined) 2013 USC Shoah Foundation Institute Summer Research Fellowship (declined)


2012-2013 Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences Grant Writing Mentorship Program, University of Southern California

2010-2011 Casden Institute Faculty Research Grant, University of Southern California 2010-2011 College Commons Course Enhancement Fund, University of Southern California 2007-2008 University Research Council Small Grants Program, University of Pittsburgh 2007 Center for Latin American Studies Faculty Research Grant, University of

Pittsburgh 2005 Arts and Sciences Faculty Research and Scholarship Program, University of

Pittsburgh 2003-2004 Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, New York University 2003 Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Arts and Sciences, NYU 2002 Susan Eliakim Siman Scholarship in Sephardic Studies, NYU 2002 Travel Grant, Latin American Jewish Studies Association 2002 Dissertation Summer Travel Grant, King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, NYU 2001 Tinker Field Research Grant, NYU 2000 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Travel Grant, NYU 1997 Power Summer Field Research Grant, UC Berkeley 1997 Social Science Graduate Research Fellowship, UC Berkeley 1995 Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship, Santiago, Chile INVITED TALKS 2018 “Ética violenta.” Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico (invitation accepted) 2018 “Violent Ethics in Kierkegaard, Levinas, Derrida and Cohen.” American Institute for

Levinasian Studies, Alliance Française de Los Angeles (invitation accepted) 2018 “Giros éticos.” Instituto Gino Germani, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina


2018 “Hineni, hineni: Violent Ethics in Kierkegaard, Levinas, Derrida and Cohen.” Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy

2018 “Intermedial Exposure.” Keynote Address, Graduate Student Research Conference,

Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Riverside 2017 “Towards a Passive University.” Global Studies program, Temple University;

Philadelphia, PA 2017 “Principios an-árquicos: estética, política, economía.” Roundtable with Diego Rossello

and Martín Plot. Instituto Gino Germani, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina 2017 “Estética y política del error.” (experiencia) HIEDRA Gallery. Buenos Aires, Argentina 2017 “Ética violenta.” Department of Philosophy, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba; Córdoba,

Argentina 2017 “Deconstrucción y poder: lógicas del arjé.” Roundtable with Iván Trujillo, Valeria

Campos, Jacques Lezra. Librería Metales Pesados; Valparaíso, Chile 2016 “Towards a Passive University.” Department of Comparative Literature, University of

California, Irvine 2016 “Reading after the Death of Reading: Levinas, Derrida, and Rancière in Latin America.”

David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University 2016 “Figurative Inquisitions.” Undergraduate Honors Program, Yeshiva University 2016 “The Ethical Turn in Latin American Studies.” Keynote Address, Graduate Student

Research Conference, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University 2016 “Levinas in Latin America.” Casden Research Seminar in Jewish Studies, University of

Southern California 2015 “The Ethical Turn in Latin American Studies.” Department of Spanish and Portuguese,

University of California, Irvine 2015 “The Ethical Turn.” Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of

Michigan 2015 “The Ethics of Latin American Literary Studies.” Keynote Address, XVIII Annual

Spanish Graduate Student Conference, School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University


2014 “Figurative Inquisitions.” Roundtable on Erin Graff Zivin’s Figurative Inquisitions. Department of Philosophy, Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación, Santiago, Chile

2014 “El pensar-marrano, o, hacia un latinoamericanismo an-arqueológico.” Universidad

ARCIS, Santiago, Chile 2014 “Misunderstanding Literature.” Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies, University of

Illinois, Chicago 2014 “Marrano Secrets.” Symposium on Erin Graff Zivin’s Figurative Inquisitions and

Abraham Acosta’s Thresholds of Illiteracy. University of Texas, Dallas 2014 “Misunderstanding Literature.” Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton

University 2013 “Misunderstanding Literature.” Departments of Comparative Literature and Spanish and

Portuguese, New York University 2010 “Semitic Mysteries, Universal Truths: Jewishness and Arabness in Jorge Luis Borges.”

Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Northwestern University 2008 “Interrogative Signs: The Specter of the Inquisition in Jom Tob Azulay’s O Judeu.”

Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Southern California 2007 “The ‘Jew’ as Wandering Signifier in Latin American Literature.” Department of

Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University 2007 “Textualidades promíscuas; o, la invención de la prostituta judía.” Department of

Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Stony Brook University 2004 “Conversiones textuales, inquisiciones transatlánticas.” Department of Hispanic

Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA (including participation by invitation) 2019 “Transmedial Noise.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting;

Georgetown University, Washington D.C. (proposal submitted) 2019 “Transmedial Haunting.” XXXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies

Association; Boston, MA (proposal submitted) 2018 “Deconstructing de Beauvoir: Ethical Feminism beyond Subjectivity and Alterity.” 25th

International Conference of the Simone de Beauvoir Society; Université Paris-Diderot, France (proposal accepted)


2018 “Distorting Ethics.” XXXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies

Association; Barcelona, Spain 2018 “Políticas del pronombre.” V Seminario Crítico-Político Transnacional, Department of

the History of Philosophy, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain 2018 “Error ‘after’ Truth.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting;

University of California, Los Angeles 2018 “The Anachronic Aleph.” Invited talk at “Sujetos del latinoamericanismo: actores, redes

y teorías” international symposium, Stanford University 2018 “The Anachronic Aleph.” Invited talk at “Rethinking Form in Latin American Literature

and Visual Art” colloquium, University of Texas, Dallas 2017 “The Politics of Truth in the Age of Trump.” Invited talk at “State Reason, University

Thought” colloquium, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine

2017 “Anarchic Inheritance: Albertina Carri’s Cuatreros.” Invited talk at Department of

Hispanic Studies, University of California, Riverside 2017 “Exposición: Aira.” Invited talk at “O Futuro do Hispanismo” symposium, Universidade

Nacional de Brasilia, Brasil 2017 “Spinoza’s Error.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting;

Utrecht University, the Netherlands 2017 “Ética violenta.” IV Seminario Crítico-Político Transnacional, Department of the History

of Philosophy, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain 2017 “Ética violenta.” Invited talk at “Teoría Crítica, Violencia y Acontecimiento”

colloquium; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile 2017 “The Ethical Turn in Latin American Studies.” Invited talk at Consortium of Humanities

Centers and Institutes; University Nacional Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2016 “Error como concepto político.” Invited talk at IV Encuentro “Filosofía, arte y política”;

Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina 2016 “Del marranismo.” III Seminario Crítico-Político Transnacional; Real Academia

Conquense de Artes y Letras, Cuenca, Spain 2016 “The Exhaustion of Responsibility, or, Towards a Passive University.” 5th Derrida Today

conference; Goldsmiths, University of London, UK


2016 “Literature and/as Error.” XXXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies

Association; New York, NY 2016 “Indisciplinarity and/as Exposure.” Invited Session: “Universidades 2: Contesting Public

and Private (in) Education.” XXXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association; New York, NY

2016 “El agotamiento de la responsibilidad; o, para una universidad pasiva.” Invited talk at “La

universidad posible” colloquium. Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación; Santiago, Chile

2016 “Of Marranismo: Derrida, Montaigne, and Equivocal Reading.” American Comparative

Literature Association Annual Meeting; Cambridge, MA 2015 “Exposición en César Aira.” Invited talk at III Encuentro “Filosofía, arte y política”;

Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina 2015 “Estética y política del error.” II Seminario Crítico-Político Transnacional, Department of

the History of Philosophy, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain 2015 “Exposition and Exposure in César Aira.” XXXIII International Congress of the Latin

American Studies Association; San Juan, PR 2015 “Beyond Jameson: The Metapolitics of Allegory.” American Comparative Literature

Association Annual Meeting; Seattle, WA 2014 “Misunderstanding Literature.” I Congreso Internacional Políticas de la Literatura: Un

Diálogo con Jacques Rancière; Granada, Spain 2014 “Literatura, teatralidad y acontecimiento en El congreso de literatura de César Aira.”

Invited talk at II Encuentro “Filosofía, arte y política”; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso; Viña del Mar, Chile

2014 “Deconstruction and its Precursors: Borges after Derrida.” Invited talk at “Renewing

Theory in an International Frame” conference; Université d’Aix-Marseilles, France 2014 “Literatura, teatralidad y acontecimiento en El congreso de literatura de César Aira.”

Debates Actuales de la Teoría Política Contemporánea, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

2014 “Reading after the Death of Reading.” I Seminario Crítico-Político Transnacional,

Department of the History of Philosophy, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain 2014 “Repetition and Event: Latin American Avant-Gardes and the Digital ‘Turn.’” XXXII

International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association; Chicago, IL


2014 “The Ethical Turn.” Invited Session: “25 Years of Latin American Studies in Culture,

Power and Politics.” XXXII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association; Chicago, IL

2014 “Figurative Inquisitions: Conversion, Torture, and Truth in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic.”

Invited Session: “New Perspectives on Literary and Cultural Criticism.” XXXII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association; Chicago, IL

2014 “Figurative Inquisitions: Conversion, Torture, and Truth in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic.”

Regional Latin American Jewish Studies Association Conference; New York, NY 2014 “Marrano Ethics.” “The Marrano Spirit: Derrida and Hispanism” colloquium; University

of Southern California 2014 “Deconstruction and its Precursors.” American Comparative Literature Association

Annual Meeting; New York, NY 2014 “Deconstruction and its Precursors.” Invited talk at “Borges and Philosophy Today”

symposium, Stanford University 2013 “Teatralidad y metacrítica en El congreso de literatura de César Aira.” Invited talk at III

Congreso Internacional Artes en Cruce. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina 2013 “Políticas marranas; o, más allá de la lógica inquisicional.” Invited talk at “Post-

hegemonía. El final de un paradigma de la filosofía política contemporánea en América Latina” workshop. Department of the History of Philosophy, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

2013 “Marrano Secrets, Or, Misunderstanding Literature.” Invited talk at “Hispanic Literatures

and the Secret of the World” symposium. Department of Comparative Literature, University at Buffalo

2013 “Ethicopolitical Interruption and the Literary.” XXXI International Congress of the Latin

American Studies Association; Washington, DC 2012 “Identity Dis/orders.” XXX International Congress of the Latin American Studies

Association; San Francisco, CA 2012 “Beyond Censorship: Allegory, Ruins and the Logic of Haunting.” 47th Annual

Comparative Literature Conference; California State University, Long Beach 2012 “Writing.” Invited talk at “Iberian Postcolonialities” workshop. Universidad Complutense

de Madrid, Spain


2011 “Figurative Inquisitions.” Invited talk at workshop on Sephardic Literary Studies and Comparative Methodologies in Iberia and the Americas; CUNY-Graduate Center, New York, NY

2011 “Allegorizing Colonial Violence.” Conference on Ethnicity, Race, & Indigenous Peoples

in Latin America & the Caribbean; University of California, San Diego 2011 “Inquisition Narratives in the U.S./Latino Imaginary.” Western Regional National

Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies Conference; San Diego, CA 2011 “Crypto-Narratives in the Americas.” Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies; San Diego, CA 2011 “Aporias of Marranismo.” XV International Research Conference, Latin American

Jewish Studies Association; Arizona State University 2011 “Allegory and Hauntology.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual

Meeting; Vancouver, Canada 2010 “Seeing and Saying: Towards an Ethics of Truth in Jose Saramago’s Ensaio sobre a

Lucidez.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting; New Orleans, LA

2009 “In Other Worlds: Truth, Universality and the Question of Semitic Particularity in

Borges.” Invited talk at “The ‘Other’ Others: Jews and Arabs in Latin America” symposium. Tam Institute for Jewish Studies and The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University

2008 “Wandering Jewish Studies: Transnational, Transatlantic and Interdisciplinary

Approaches.” Latin American Jewish Studies Association Symposium; New York, NY 2008 “Interrogative Signs: Conversion, Torture and ‘Truth’ in Luso-Brazilian Literature.”

Invited talk at “Post-Literature” symposium. Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan

2008 “Convertible Subjects: Inquisition, Interrogation and Jewish Conversion in the Modern

Luso-Brazilian Imaginary.” Discourses of “Jewishness” Conference; University of Pittsburgh

2007 “‘Being’ Other: ‘Jewishness’ and Cosmopolitanism in Modern Argentine Writing.”

XXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association; Montreal, Canada

2007 “‘Jewishness’ and the Limits of Representation in Sergio Chejfec’s Los planetas.”

American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting; Puebla, Mexico


2006 “O Judeu: Inquisitorial Violence in Twentieth-Century Brazilian Film and Theatre.” Brazilian Studies Association VIII International Conference; Nashville, TN

2006 “Transacciones judías: comodificación y resistencia en la narrativa argentina.” XXVI

International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association; San Juan, PR 2004 “The Cultural Politics of Samba: Foreignness and Brazilianness in Noel Rosa’s ‘Quem dá

mais?’” XXV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association; Las Vegas, NV

2004 “Actos de prostitución: Promiscuidad judía en ‘Emma Zunz.’” XXXV Congreso del

Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana; Poitiers, France 2004 “Escritura promiscua: Prostitución judía y modernidad brasileña en Madame Pommery de

Hilário Tácito.” Literatura e instituciones Conference; Columbia University 2003 “Textual Conversions.” Modern Language Association 119th Convention; San Diego, CA 2003 “Performing Theory.” Modern Language Association 119th Convention; San Diego, CA 2003 “Escritura promiscua: Prostitución judía y modernidad brasileña en Madame Pommery de

Hilário Tácito.” XXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association; Dallas, TX

2002 “Literary Assassinations: Rhetorical and Ethical Language in the Philosophy of

Emmanuel Levinas.” Modern Language Association 118th Convention; New York, NY 2002 “Pathological Subjects: Narratives of Self-Diagnosis in Luisa Futoransky and Margo

Glantz.” Rutgers Graduate Student Conference; New Brunswick, NJ 2002 “Traducir lo raro: Darío, Ingenieros y Silva leen a Max Nordau.” XXXIV Congreso del

Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana; Iowa City, IA 2002 “The Face of the Other: Diagnosing Jewishness in Latin American Literature.” XI

International Research Conference, Latin American Jewish Studies Association; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2002 “Representations of the Jew and New Christian in Brazilian Literature.” Brazilian Studies

Association VI International Conference; Atlanta, GA 2001 “Hacia la hospital(idad): Exilio, enfermedad y escritura en De pe a pa.” XXIII

International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association; Washington D.C. 2000 “Da antropofagia à internete: Um samba-globalização.” Brazilian Studies Association V

International Conference; Recife, Brazil


2000 “From Anthropophagy to the Internet: A Globalization Samba.” Texts in Transit Conference; Columbia University

GUEST LECTURES/WORKSHOPS 2017 “The Ethics of Untranslatability.” Center for Latin American Studies, Universidad

Nacional de San Martín; Buenos Aires, Argentina 2017 “Anarqueologías.” Department of Philosophy, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba;

Córdoba, Argentina 2016 “Interdisciplinary Publishing and Professionalization.” Guest speaker, American Studies

and Ethnicity dissertation proposal seminar, University of Southern California 2015 “Toward an An-archaeological Latinamericanism.” Graduate Student Workshop,

University of Michigan 2013 “Toward an An-archaeological Latinamericanism.” Guest facilitator, Crítica

Latinoamericana Reading Group, Columbia University/New York University 2010 “Lo judío, lo argentino y lo cosmopolito en Borges.” Guest lecture in Graduate Seminar,

Department of Languages and Literatures, California State University, San Marcos 2010 “Jewishness, Brazilianness and Political Militancy in The Year My Parents Went on

Vacation.” Department of Languages and Literatures, University of San Diego 2010 “Ethics and Politics in ‘Deutsches Requiem.’” Guest lecture in Freshman Seminar,

Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Northwestern University 2007 “Jewish Identity and Political Militancy in O Ano em que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias.”

Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Columbia University CONFERENCES, COLLOQUIA AND LECTURES ORGANIZED 2018 Prof. Sergio Chejfec (New York University) and Prof. Heather Cleary (Sarah Lawrence),

Translation Studies Graduate Certificate inaugural event, University of Southern California (invitation accepted)

2018 Contemporary Political Thought in the Hispanic World (Profs. Ricardo Forster and Laura

Llevadot), University of Southern California (invitation accepted) 2018 Prof. Rebecca Comay (University of Toronto), “How To Do Things with Levers: Kant

and Derrida in the University.” University of Southern California (invitation accepted)


2018 Co-Organizer, “Antropología filosófica” (with Étienne Balibar). IV Seminario Crítico-Político Transnacional, Department of the History of Philosophy, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

2018 Prof. Michael Gallope (University of Minnesota), “David Tudor's Esoteric Spectacle—

Town Hall, 1958.” University of Southern California 2018 Prof. Jacques Lezra (UC Riverside), “The Ends of Populist Reason: Celluloid Cervantes.”

University of Southern California 2018 “Women in Theory” workshop (Rei Terada, Tracy McNulty, Karen Benezra, Valeria

Campos Salvaterra, Julia Ng, Adriana Johnson), University of Southern California 2018 Prof. Judith Butler (UC Berkeley), “Interpreting Non-Violence.” Levan Institute for

Humanities and Ethics, University of Southern California 2017 Symposium in honor of Peggy Kamuf (Geoffrey Bennington, Karen Pinkus, David Wills,

Elizabeth Rottenberg, Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús, Ellen Burt, Tim Holland), University of Southern California

2017 Prof. Marc Redfield (Brown University), “The Cut of the Shibboleth: Language, Borders,

and the Fascination of Fascism.” University of Southern California 2017 Prof. Dimitris Vardoulakis (Western Sydney University), “The Figure of Moses:

Spinoza’s Political Theology and the Baroque.” University of Southern California 2017 Screening of Cuatreros and Conversation with Director Albertina Carri. University of

Southern California 2017 Co-Organizer, “Los arcanos de la política.” IV Seminario Crítico-Político Transnacional,

Department of the History of Philosophy, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain 2016 Co-Organizer (with Brenno Kenji Kaneyasu), “Latin America in Theory / Theory in

Latin America: Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics” colloquium; University of Southern California

2016 Prof. Rachel Price (Princeton University), “Planet/Cuba.” University of Southern

California 2016 Prof. Gil Hochberg (UCLA), “Visual Occupations.” University of Southern California 2016 Ronald Mendoza-de-Jesús, Ph.D. (USC), “Time Fails: Reading Ethics in Two Poems of

Borges.” Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics Series, Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics, University of Southern California


2016 Co-Organizer, “Pensamiento y terror social: El archivo hispano.” III Seminario Crítico-Político Transnacional; Real Academia Conquense de Artes y Letras, Cuenca, Spain

2015 Prof. Gabriela Basterra (New York University), “Freedom as Other”; Aesthetics, Ethics,

Politics Series, Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics, University of Southern California

2015 Co-Organizer, “Bases conceptuales del pensamiento político actual.” II Seminario

Crítico-Político Transnacional, Department of the History of Philosophy, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

2015 Karina Miller, Ph.D. (UC Irvine), “Escrituras impolíticas: Literatura y politica en la

América Latina de los años sesenta”; University of Southern California 2015 Prof. Abraham Acosta (University of Arizona), “Thresholds of Illiteracy: The Fictions of

Sovereignty and Decoloniality”; University of Southern California 2015 Prof. Mariano Siskind (Harvard University), “World War I as a Latin American Event:

Modernismo and the Question of Cosmopolitan Distance”; University of Southern California

2015 Prof. Anna More (UCLA / Universidade de Brasília), “Sovereignty and the Creole

Archive in New Spain”; University of Southern California 2014 Co-Organizer (with Samuel Steinberg), “The Marrano Spirit: Derrida and Hispanism”

colloquium; University of Southern California 2013 Prof. Jacques Lezra (New York University), “Subject/effects in Judith Butler”; University

of Southern California 2013 Prof. Jessica Pressman (UC San Diego), "The Book is Not the Center: Between Page and

Screen, Augmented Digital Poetics, and New Literacies"; University of Southern California

2012 Prof. Gabriela Basterra (New York University), “Subjectivity and the Outside of

Language: Velázquez, Salinas, Levinas”; University of Southern California 2011 Prof. Marta Hernández-Salván (UC Riverside), “Heroism and Spectrality in Cuban

Revolutionary Film”; University of Southern California 2011 Prof. Freya Schiwy (UC Riverside), “Community Media, Decolonization, and the

Question of the Political”; University of Southern California 2011 Prof. Horacio Legrás (UC Irvine), “Subalternity and the Latin American Archive”;

University of Southern California


2008 Co-Organizer, “Discourses of ‘Jewishness’” colloquium; University of Pittsburgh 2005 Organizer, “Reading Otherwise: The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism”

colloquium; University of Pittsburgh 2004-5 Co-Organizer, Work-in-progress Lecture Series, Department of Hispanic Languages and

Literatures, University of Pittsburgh 1999 Co-Organizer, “Geografías Móviles” conference; NYU OTHER CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION 2019 Discussant, “For a Future After/Anti-‘Literature’: Experimentation, Affect, Event, and

Boundary.” XXXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association; Boston, MA (proposal submitted)

2018 Session Chair, “Aesthetics and Thought.” XXXVI International Congress of the Latin

American Studies Association; Barcelona, Spain 2017 Seminar Co-Organizer, “Literary Spinoza.” American Comparative Literature

Association Annual Meeting; Utrecht University, the Netherlands 2015 Session Chair, “States of Precariousness: Emergence and Emergencies in Contemporary

Latin America.” XXXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association; San Juan, Puerto Rico

2014 Seminar Co-Organizer, “The Marrano Spirit: Derrida and Hispanism.” American

Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting; New York, NY 2012 Session Organizer and Chair, “Iberian Postcolonialities I.” XXX International Congress

of the Latin American Studies Association; San Francisco, CA 2012 Panel Moderator, “Varia Imaginación: A Celebration in Honor of Sylvia Molloy.” New

York University 2011 Session Chair, “Race and Ethnicity in Latin American Fictional Film.” Conference on

Ethnicity, Race, & Indigenous Peoples in Latin America & the Caribbean; University of California, San Diego

2010 Workshop Participant, “Transnationalism, Aesthetics and Latin America.” XXVIV

International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association; Toronto, Canada 2007 Session Chair, “Walter Benjamin in Latin America.” Modern Language Association

122nd Convention; Chicago, IL


2007 Session Organizer, Chair and Moderator, “Reading Otherwise: The Ethics of Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies.” XXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association; Montreal, Canada

2007 Session Co-Chair, “Modernisms: Transpositions, Displacements and Historical

Intersections.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting; Puebla, Mexico

2006 Session Organizer, “Telling Violence: Problems of Representation in Contemporary

Brazilian Visual Culture.” Brazilian Studies Association VIII International Conference; Nashville, TN

2006 Session Organizer, “Escenas de la transacción: Comodificaciones de cultura,

estetizaciones del dinero.” XXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association; San Juan, PR

2006 Session Organizer, “Sujeto decadente y proyecto político en De Sobremesa de José

Asunción Silva.” XXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association; San Juan, PR

2005 Opening Remarks, “Reading Otherwise: The Ethics of Latin American Literary

Criticism” colloquium; University of Pittsburgh 2005 Panel Moderator, “Jacques Rancière: Aesthetics and Politics”; University of Pittsburgh 2004 Session Organizer and Chair, “Porno, Prose and Propaganda: Constructions of Difference

in Modern Brazilian Culture.” XXV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association; Las Vegas, NV

2004 Discussant, “Jewish Latin America: Memory and Representation.” XXV International

Congress of the Latin American Studies Association; Las Vegas, NV 2000 Discussant, “Travels in Latin America: Writing, Criticism, Theories”; New York

University 1999 Panel Moderator, “Geografías Móviles”; New York University TEACHING EXPERIENCE At the University of Southern California (2009-present): CSLC 700: Dissertation Proposal Workshop (graduate course, Fall 2018) CSLC 503: Introduction to Comparative Studies in Culture. Violent Ethics (graduate course,

Spring 2018)


SPAN 545: 20th and 21st Century Latin American Literature and Culture. Latin America in

Theory / Theory in Latin America (graduate course, Fall 2012, Spring 2015, Fall 2016) SPAN 382: The Aesthetics of Violence in Latin America (undergraduate course, Fall 2016) COLT/SPAN 375: Latin American Cultural and Literary Theory (undergraduate course, Fall

2009 and 2011, Spring 2016) SPAN 602: Seminar in Spanish and Latin American Critical Theory. After the Death of Reading:

Error, Blindness, Misunderstanding (graduate course, Fall 2015) SPAN 602: Seminar in Spanish and Latin American Critical Theory. Misunderstanding

Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics (graduate course, Fall 2013) ARLT 100g: Unorthodox Jewish Writing in the Americas (undergraduate course, Spring 2012

and 2013, Fall 2017) SPAN 301: Introduction to Hispanic Literature and Film (undergraduate course, Fall 2011 and

2012, Spring 2015) COLT 555: Studies in Literatures of the Americas. Interrogative Signs: The Aesthetics of

Torture (graduate course, Spring 2011) SPAN 372: Modern and Contemporary Latin American Fiction (undergraduate course, Fall

2009, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013) ARLT 100g: Trials, Torture and Truth in 20th Century Narrative, Theater and Film

(undergraduate course, Fall 2008, Spring 2014) At the University of Pittsburgh (2004-2008): SPAN 2706: Analysis of Hispanic Literary Texts. Interrogative Signs: Confession, Conversion

and ‘Truth’ in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic (graduate course; Spring 2008) SPAN 1600: Survey of Spanish Literature (undergraduate course; Fall 2005 and 2006) SPAN 1700: Contemporary Hispanic Topics. Imagining Jewishness (undergraduate course cross-

listed with Jewish Studies and English departments; Fall 2005) SPAN 1705: Seminar, Hispanic Literature and Culture. Racial, Sexual and Cultural Difference in

20th-Century Literature and Film (undergraduate course in the Honors College; Spring 2005)

SPAN 2666: Ethics, Alterity and Representation in the Hispanic Atlantic (graduate course;

Spring 2005)


SPAN 0082: Latin America Today (undergraduate course taught in English to non-majors; Fall

2004 and 2006, Spring 2007) SPAN 1601: Peninsular Literature. The Canon and its Others (undergraduate course in

Peninsular Literature; Fall 2004) At New York University (1998-2003): Spanish for Beginners I and II Continuing Spanish Intermediate Spanish I and II SERVICE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE (USC) Chair, Promotion Committee (2017-2018) Member, Third Year Review Committee (2017-2018) Chair, Tenure Promotion Committee (2016-2017) Co-chair, Search Committee for assistant professor of Latin American literature (2016-2017) Chair, Lectures and Events Committee (2016-2017) Junior Faculty Mentor (2012-2013, 2014-2015, 2016-present) Department Chair (2013-2014, 2015-2016) Director of Graduate Studies (Spring 2015) Organizer and Facilitator, Book proposal workshop for faculty (Spring 2015) Member and Diversity Liaison, Search Committee for Director of Basic Language Program (2014-2015) Member, Search Committee for six (6) NTT faculty (2014) Organizer and Facilitator, Grant-writing workshop for faculty (Spring 2014) Chair, Lecture Committee (2012-2013) Chair, Search Committee for professor and department chair (2012-2013)


Member, Tenure Promotion Committee (2012-2013) Evaluator, Provost's Postdoctoral Scholars Program (2011-2013) Chair, Search Committee for assistant professor of Mexican and/or Central American literature (2011-2012) Chair, Merit Evaluation Committee for tenure-track faculty (2011-2012) Member, Search Committee for Director of Basic Language Program (2011-2012) Member, Consultative Committee to appoint department chair (2011-2012) Member, Promotion Committee for non-tenure track faculty (2011-2012) Organizer, Department Welcome Reception (Fall 2011) Member, Bylaws Committee (2009-present) Member, Undergraduate Studies Subcommittee for Curriculum Review (2009-present) Member, Graduate Studies Committee (2008-2011, 2012-2013, 2017-2018) Chair, Merit Evaluation Committee for tenure-track faculty (2010-2011, 2017-2018) Member, Promotion Committee for non-tenure track faculty (2010-2011) Member and Diversity Liaison, Search Committee for assistant professor of Spanish film (2009-2010) Member, Consultative Committee to appoint department chair (Fall 2009) Member, Merit Evaluation Committee for non-tenure track faculty (Fall 2009) SERVICE TO DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE (USC) Department Chair (2017-present) Faculty Advisor, Graduate Certificate in Translation Studies (2018-present) Dissertation Director, Lacey Schauwecker (defended December 2017) Reader, Qualifying Exam, Jaclyn Simon (Spring 2015)


Member, Dissertation Committee, Ricardo Wilson (defended March 2015) Chair, Comparative Field Exam, Lacey Schauwecker (Spring 2014) Member, Dissertation Committee, Ana Lee (defended April 2014) Member, Merit Evaluation Committee for tenure-track faculty (2013-2014) Director of Graduate Studies (2011-2013) Reader, Master’s Exam, Ricardo Wilson (December 2012) Reader, Qualifying Exam Ana Lee (Fall 2012) Member, Consultative Committee to appoint department chair (Fall 2011) Directed Research, Ricardo Wilson (Fall 2011) Faculty Mentor, EDGE First Year Institute for Research Socialization and Training (FIRST), Lauren Wiendling (Summer 2011) Reader, Master’s Exam, Ana Lee (June 2011) Dissertation Committee External Member, Fiorella Cotrina (defended October 2009) SERVICE TO COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (CSLC) Director, Doctoral Program (2018-2019) Member, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture Steering Committee (2013-2014, 2015-2016, 2017-2019) Member, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture Graduate Studies Committee (2011-2013, 2014-2015) Dissertation Director, César Pérez-Sánchez (in progress) Dissertation Director, Ali Kulez (defended June 2018) Dissertation Director, Vincent Cervantes (defended December 2017) Reader, Qualifying Exam, Sarah Skillen (Fall 2016) Reader, Qualifying Exam, Nike Nivar (Fall 2016)


Reader, Qualifying Exam, Jacqueline Sheean (Fall 2016) Chair, Qualifying Exam, Ali Kulez (Fall 2015) Chair, Qualifying Exam, Vincent Cervantes (Spring 2015) Chair, Qualifying Exam, César Pérez (Spring 2015) Reader, Qualifying Exam, Guillermo Rodríguez (Spring 2015) Chair, Comparative Field Exam, Ali Kulez (Spring 2015) Reader, Field Exam, César Pérez Sánchez (Fall 2014) Reader, Field Exam, Vincent Cervantes (Fall 2014) Reader, Field Exam, Guillermo Rodríguez (Spring 2014) SERVICE TO THE DEPARTMENT (UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH) Undergraduate Advisor, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures (2005-2008) Graduate Advisor, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures (2004-2008) Job Market Mentor, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures (2004-2008) Dissertation Committee Member (former Director), Deborah Bensadon, “Modernity and Crisis: The Writing of ‘the Jew’ in Trans-Atlantic Literature” (defended August 2012) Dissertation Co-Director, Gerardo Gómez Michel, “La letra hereje: Iglesia, fe y religiosidad en la literatura mexicana contemporánea” (defended April 2010) Dissertation Committee Member, Leah Strobel, “Confessions of Privilege: Women’s Narrative and the Possibility of Solidarity Across Cultures” (defended December 2009) Dissertation Committee Member, María del Pilar Melgarejo, “El lenguaje de la regeneración: Nación y purificación en Colombia y México” (defended November 2007) Dissertation Committee Member, Antonio Gómez, “El discurso latinoamericano del exilio: Extraterritorialidad y novela en Argentina y Cuba desde los años setenta” (defended May 2007) Undergraduate Honors Thesis Director, Emily Haimowitz (graduated May 2007) Undergraduate Honors Thesis Director, Suzanna Publicker (graduated May 2006)


Member, Ad-hoc committee on Spanish Honors Major (2006-2007) SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY (USC) Seminar Leader, Early Modern Political Thought Series, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute (2017-present) Program Director, Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics Series, Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics (2015-present) Member, Promotion Committee to Full Professor (2018-2019) Member, Promotion Committee to Full Professor (2017-2018) Ad-hoc Member, Dornsife Committee on Tenure and Promotion (2017-2018) Graduate Qualifying Exam Reader, Amy Silverberg, Dept. of English (Fall 2016) Organizer, Academic Book Proposal Workshop with Tom Lay (Fordham University Press), Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Center for Excellence in Research (Fall 2015) Affiliated Faculty, Jewish Studies Program (2013-present) Member, Nemer Lecture Series Committee, Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life, University of Southern California (2013-present) Organizer, Grant-writing workshop for faculty in Humanities and Social Sciences, invited speaker Prof. Jeffrey Lesser, Emory University (Spring 2013) Panelist, Roundtable on Argentina New Cinema in conjunction with Argentine Film Festival, co-sponsored by School of Cinematic Arts and Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences (Fall 2011) Graduate Qualifying Exam Reader, Edward Kozaczka, Dept. of English (Fall 2011) SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY (UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH) Associated Faculty, Graduate Program for Cultural Studies, 2006-2008 Graduate Faculty, School of Arts and Sciences, 2005-2008 Member, Faculty Advisory Board, European Union Center of Excellence/European Studies Center, 2004-2008


Core Faculty, Center for Latin American Studies, 2004-2008 Committee Member, Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship competition, Center for Latin American Studies, 2007 Organizer and Facilitator, Levinas/Badiou Reading Group, 2005 Committee Member, Graduate Student Field Research Grants, Center for Latin American Studies, 2005 SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY (NYU) Master Graduate Student Teacher, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2003 Co-Organizer and Facilitator, Graduate School Educational Development Program, 2003 President, Graduate Student Association; Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 1999-2000 Department Representative, Graduate Student Council, 1999-2000 SERVICE TO THE DISCIPLINE Co-Director (with José Luis Villacañas, Alberto Moreiras, and Jacques Lezra), Seminario Crítico-Político Transnacional, 2014-present Advisory Committee, PMLA, 2018-2021 Advisory Board, “Mayo del 68/50 años después” International Conference. Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2018 Judge, Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book, 2016 Advisory Board, “Populismo versus Republicanismo: Genealogía, Historia, Crítica.” Departamento de Historia de la Filosofía, Estética y Teoría del Conocimiento, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2016 Judge, Latin American Jewish Studies Association Dissertation Award, 2014-2015 Member, Program Committee, XVI International Research Conference, Latin American Jewish Studies Association, 2010-2011 Member, Elections Committee, Latin American Jewish Studies Association, 2009 Referee, Promotion to Full Professor, University of Michigan


Referee, Promotion to Full Professor, University of San Diego Referee, Promotion to Full Professor, University of California, Irvine Referee, Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure, University of Michigan Referee, Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure, University of Arizona Manuscript Reviewer, University of Pittsburgh Press Manuscript Reviewer, Palgrave Macmillan Manuscript Reviewer, Fordham University Press Manuscript Reviewer, Vanderbilt University Press Manuscript Reviewer, University of California Press Manuscript Reviewer, SUNY Press Manuscript Endorsement, Lexington Books Referee, Hispanic Review Referee, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies Referee, Luso-Brazilian Review Referee, Estudios: Revista de Investigaciones Literarias y Culturales Referee, Revista Hispánica Moderna Referee, Journal of Jewish Identities PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Modern Language Association (MLA) American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA)


LANGUAGES English: Native fluency Spanish: Near-native fluency Portuguese: Fluency French: Good reading knowledge Hebrew: Basic reading knowledge

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