Lorgia García-Peña Curriculum Vitae
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Lorgia García-Peña Curriculum Vitae Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Committee on Degrees in History and Literature Harvard University 507 Boylston Hall Cambridge, MA 02138-2495 Tel: (617) 495-0801. Email: [email protected] http://scholar.harvard.edu/garciapena/home EDUCATION 2009 PhD., American Cultures. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2009. Dissertation: “Dominicanidad in Contra (Diction): Marginality, Migration and the Narration of Dominican Identity. Advisor: LaWrence LaFountain-Stokes 2004 M.A. in American Cultures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2002 M.A. in Spanish and Portuguese Literatures and Cultures, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick 1998 B.A., Journalism and Spanish Language and Literatures. High Honors, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Certificates 1999 Rapid Emergency Response. United Nations. 1997 Spanish-English Translations. Universitat de Valencia, Spain ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT 2013- Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of History and Literature, Harvard University. 2010-2013 Assistant Professor of Latino/a Studies, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Georgia. 2009-2010 Postdoctoral Fellow, African Diaspora Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. 2007-2008 Director, La Casa, Dartmouth College, NeW Hampshire. 2003-2007 Graduate Instructor in American Culture, University of Michigan. 1 2001-2002 Head Teaching Assistant, Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University. 2001-2003 Director, Casa Boricua, Rutgers University. OTHER EMPLOYMENT 2000-2003 Communications Coordinator, UN Consortium for Emergency Response, Latin America Region 1999-2000 Reporter, UN Consortium for Emergency Response, Latin America Region 1998-2000 Reporter, Listín Diario Newspaper HONORS AND AWARDS 2016 Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Research Award 2015 Editor’s Choice 2015 Top Article "Translating Blackness: Dominicans Negotiating Race and Belonging." The Black Scholar 45, no. 2 (2015): 10-20 2011 Macanogni Prize for Best Research Proposal, Willson Center for the Humanites and the Arts, University of Georgia, Athens 2005 International Young Scholar Award, Mexican Ministry of Education, Mexico 2005 Global Scholarship Initiatives Award, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2002 Graduate Student Teaching Award, Rutgers University, New Brunswick 2002 Latina Leadership Award, NeW BrunsWick, NJ 1998 Phi Beta Kappa GRANTS 2016 Elson Family Art Grant for Course Development, Harvard University 2016 Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities, Harvard University 2014 Elson Family Arts Grant for Course Development, Harvard University 2014 Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities, Harvard University 2013 William F. Milton Fund, Harvard University 2012 Franklin College Seed Grant for Innovative Research, University of Georgia 2008 Dartmouth College Humanities Grant for Research FELLOWSHIPS 2015 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship 2015 Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Sabbatical Fellowship 2015 David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Research FelloWship 2011 Sarah Moss Fellowship for the Advancement of Research. 2010 Postdoctoral Scholarship in African Diaspora Studies, Johns Hopkins University. 2009 Future of Minority Studies Fellowship, Syracuse University. 2 2006 Dissertation Fellowship, Ford Foundation. 2005 Visiting Scholar Fellowship, Universidad de Chiapas, Mexico. 2004 Pre-dissertation Fellowship, International Institute, D.C. 2000 Rutgers University Graduate Fellowship, Full tuition 2000-2003. PUBLICATIONS (ACADEMIC) BOOKS The Borders of Dominicanidad. Race, Nations and Archives of Contradiction (Durham: Duke University Press, 2016) argues that official narratives and histories have been projected onto racialized Dominican bodies as a means of sustaining the nation's borders. The book constructs a genealogy of dominicanidad that highlights hoW Afro-Dominicans, ethnic Haitians, and Dominicans living abroad have contested these dominant narratives and their violent, silencing, and exclusionary effects through the study of literary, historical and cultural texts (1822-2010). IN PROGRESS Translating Blackness: Migrations and Detours of Latino/a Colonialities in Global Perspective examines how race, immigration and coloniality intersect to produce restrictive categories of citizens in the neW millennium. Through a genealogical analysis of Afro-Latino intellectual discourse (1874-2016), the book examines hoW people, particularly Afro-Latin American migrants and their descendants, find Ways to translate their experiences of oppression and exclusion through the very hegemonic ethno-racial categories invented to exclude them (black/Hispanic/Latina/Migrant), in order to gain access to services and to connect with wider international netWorks of contestations. Los bordes de la dominicanidad: raza, nación y archivos de contradicción: A translation of The Borders of Dominicanidad currently in progress. ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS “Arthur’s Schomburg’s Haiti and The Production of Afro-Latinidad.” Forthcoming in Small Axe, Winter 2016. “Black in English: Race, Migration and National Belonging in Postcolonial Italy.” Forthcoming in Kalfou, Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies. Forthcoming, Fall 2016. "Un-Bordering Hispaniola: David Pérez's Performance Actions of Haitian-Dominican Solidarity." Afro-Hispanic Review 32, no. 2 (2013): 57-71. "Being Black Ain't So Bad… Dominican Immigrant Women Negotiating Race in Contemporary Italy." Caribbean Studies 41, no. 2 (2013): 137-161. 3 “NeW Freedom Fights: The Creation of Freedom University Georgia.” Latino Studies 10, no. 1 (2012): 246-250. “De dominicano a Dominicanyork. El viaje en la narrativa deJosefina Báez y Junot Díaz.” Xinesquema, Revista literaria dominicana 2 (2009): 23-38. "Performing Identity, Language, and Resistance: A Study of Josefina Baez's Dominicanish." Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean and Its Diaspora 11, no. 3 (2008): 28-47. PEER-REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS “Almost Citizens: Transnational Belonging in the Age of Immigration.” Forthcoming in Translations: The Future of the Humanities. Duke University Press, Winter 2016. “Junot Díaz.” In Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography, edited by Franklin W. Knight and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. London: Oxford University Press, 2016. “Más que Cenizas: An Analysis of Juan Bosch’s Dissident Narration of Dominicanidad Ausente” in Voices from Abroad: Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration, edited by Vanessa Pérez Rosario, 52-72. New York: Palgrave, 2010. BOOK REVIEWS “A RevieW of Papi (in translation) by Achy Obejas” forthcoming in Small Axe Salon, December, 2016. “A RevieW of La Mucama de Omicunlé by Rita Indiana Hernández” Pittsburgh University Press: Asterix, a Journal of Literature, Art and Criticism. Online. July 26, 2016. http://asterixjournal.com/author/lorgiagarciapena/ “Becoming Julia de Burgos. The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon (University of Illinois, 2014) by Vanessa Pérez Rosario.” Women’s Review of Books 33(1) (2016): 9-10. “Black Behind the Ears. Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops (Duke 2007) de Ginetta Candelario.” Revista Iberoamericana 90 (2008): 607-613. "Haitian-Dominican Counterpoint. Nation Race, and State of Hispaniola by Eugenio Matibag." Revista Iberoamericana 71, 211 (2005): 629-632. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL PUBLICATIONS “Cien años después de la ocupación: El legado de la intervención militar de Estados Unidos en la República Dominicana.” Cielo Naranja, Julio 30, 2016. http://WWW.cielonaranja.com/ediciones_biblipohu.htm 4 “One Hundred Years After the Occupation” The North American Congress on Latin America, May 25, 2016. http://nacla.org/news/2016/05/25/one-hundred-years-after-occupation “Suddenly, Illegal at Home” New York Times, December 12, 2013. http://WWW.nytimes.com/2013/12/13/opinion/suddenly-illegal-at-home.html?_r=0 “El sur sí existe. Activismo y academia en Georgia” Listín Diario, November 14, 2011. “Da pa’ lo do’ solidaridad con Haití desde la diáspora” in Jornada, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, February 2011. “Re-Visiting History: Las narrativas diaspóricas de la dominicanidad” in Ventana, revista de literatura y arte dominicano. June 12. 2004. “Los etíopes dominicanos: desplazamiento de la narrativa de pobreza en la República Dominicana contemporánea.” Listín Diario, January and March 2000. TRANSLATIONS Fiesta de palos. El ritmo de la resistencia. A documentary video about Dominican Afro- religious traditions. Editora AAA. Dir. Adalberto Grullón Morillo, Santo Domingo, 2006. Son nuestros muchachos y muchachas. Sex tourism in Boca Chica, Dominican Republic. An International Report to the United Nation on the State of Child Sexual Exploitation in Santo Domingo’s Tourist Areas, Santo Domingo, 2005. KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS: Keynote, Closing Plenary, Latina/o Studies Association Conference, Pasadena, 2016. Keynote Speech for the Tenth Anniversary of the Latino Studies Program, Williams College, 2014. Keynote Plenary. “Bridging Research and Practice: Ethnic Studies in the Age of Anti- Immigrant Racism.” Ethnic Studies Conference, Wellesley College, 2013. INVITED LECTURES: “Black in English: Latino/a Colonialities and Migration Beyond the United States.” Expanding Latinidades Conference, Northwestern University, 2016. 5 “Undocumented Citizens and the Global War on Blackness.” Annual Plática, MALCS, University of Texas, Austin, 2016. “Racial Translations.” Mellon Future of Humanities Conference. Franklin Institute,