Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

JUAN PABLO LUPI Department of Spanish and Portuguese Phelps Hall 4319 University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 [email protected] • Skype ID: jplupi

EDUCATION

2005 PhD, Comparative Literature Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1999 MA, Comparative Literature Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1994 MA, Physics Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela

1991 Licenciatura, Physics. Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

Contemporary Spanish American literature, with emphasis on the Hispanic Caribbean; Lezama Lima and Orígenes group; Venezuelan literature, society and history; literary and critical theory; comparative literature; literature and science; literature and philosophy.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

University of California Santa Barbara

Department of Spanish and Portuguese 2012-present Associate Professor 2005-2012 Assistant Professor

Harvard University

Department of Romance Languages 2001-2005 Teaching Fellow Core Curriculum Program 2001, 2003-2004 Teaching Fellow

Universidad Simón Bolívar (Caracas, Venezuela)

Department of Physics 1993-1994 Instructor SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS

Reading Anew: José Lezama Lima’s Rhetorical Investigations. Madrid: Iberoamericana / Vervuert, 2012

Edited Volumes

Asedios a lo increado: Nuevas aproximaciones a José Lezama Lima. Eds. Marta Hernández-Salván, Juan Pablo Lupi and Jorge Marturano. Madrid: Verbum, 2016

Book Chapters

“Espectros de Mallarmé: Apuntes sobre la crítica imaginaria de Lezama”. Asedios a lo increado: Nuevas aproximaciones a José Lezama Lima. Eds. Marta Hernández-Salván, Juan Pablo Lupi and Jorge Marturano. Madrid: Verbum, 2016

“Cubagua’s Ghosts.” Espectros: Ghostly Hauntings and the Talking Dead in Contemporary Transhispanic Narratives. Eds. Amanda Petersen and Alberto Ribas-Casasayas. (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2016)

“Lezama, Mallarmé y el evento insular.” José Lezama Lima. Eds. Teresa Basile and Nancy Calomarde. Buenos Aires: Corregidor, 2012

“(Mis)Reading as Engagement: Some Thoughts on José Lezama Lima and World Literature.” Foundational Texts of World Literature. Ed. Dominique Jullien. New York: Peter Lang, 2011. 215- 28.

Journal Articles

“Lezama, Novalis y las vicisitudes de la futuridad.” Revista Hispánica Moderna 66.2 (2013): 139-158

Introduction. Imaginarios de la lengua en América Latina. Eds. Juan Cristóbal Castro and Juan Pablo Lupi. Spec. issue of Estudios: Revista de Investigaciones Literarias y Culturales 18.35 (2010): 7-11

“’Higiene en la casa del habla’: Eugenio Montejo’s El cuaderno de Blas Coll.” Hispanic Review 79.3 (2011): 473-95

“La ciencia de Lezama Lima.” Chasqui 38.2 (2009): 20-36

“Orígenes ante las vanguardias.” Revista Iberoamericana 224 (2008): 615-33

“Tras El rastro de Margo Glantz.” Cien años de lealtad: En honor a Luis Leal. Eds. Sara Poot-Herrera, Francisco A. Lomelí and María Herrera-Sobek. México, DF: Oro de la Noche, 2007. 1: 597-605.

“(Mis) Understanding Chávez and Venezuela in Times of Revolution.” The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs 29 (2005): 81-102 (co-authored with Leonardo Vivas).

"Non-Abelian BF Theories with Sources and Two-dimensional Gravity" Physical Review D 54, 6 (1996): 3861-68 (co-authored with. A. Restuccia and J. Stephany). JUAN PABLO LUPI

"Topological Selection of Trajectories of a Particle in a BF Field Theory" Physics Letters B 309 (1993): 53-57 (co-authored with A. Restuccia).

"El poema: del otro lado del espejo: 'Arte Poética' de Jorge Luis Borges y 'Ars Poetica' de Rafael Cadenas" Argos 14 (1991): 75-82.

Book Reviews

Review of Writing of the Formless: José Lezama Lima and the End of Time, by Jaime Rodríguez-Matos, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos (forthcoming)

Review of Becoming Reinaldo Arenas: Family, Sexuality and the Cuban Revolution, by Jorge Olivares. Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe 27.1 (2016). Web.

Review of Narrative and National Allegory in Rómulo Gallegos’s Venezuela, by Jenni M. Lehtinen. Bulletin of Spanish Studies 93.3 (2016): 27-9

Review of Urban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America, by Viviane Mahieux. Bulletin of Latin American Research 33.4 (2014): 528-30.

Review of Havana Beyond the Ruins: Cultural Mappings After 1989, eds. Anke Birkenmaier and Esther Whitfield. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 47.2 (2013): 339-41.

CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS

Guest Lectures

“Orígenes y Diáspora(s) ante el arte de la historia.” Colegio de Estudios Latinoamericanos. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Mexico City, Mexico. May 8, 2017

“Lezama, sin telos.” Department of Spanish and Portuguese. UCLA. May 7, 2015

“Venezuela and Hugo Chávez’s ‘Bolivarian Revolution’.” Department of Modern Languages. Manhattan College, New York, NY. March 24, 2014

“Lezama Lima’s Historiographies: Teleology, Revolution and Chance.” Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas at Austin. April 3, 2012.

Conference Presentations

“Imagen y para-historia.” Coloquio Internacional “Pensamientos en La Habana.” Havana, Cuba. November 17, 2016

Guest Respondent. Borrowed Time: The Cultural Impact of Debt in Latin American Narratives. Panel Participants: José E. González, Alberto Ribas-Casasayas and Burke White. Latin American Studies Association (LASA) International Congress 2016. New York, NY. May 30, 2016.

“La historia como poesía: Diáspora(s) y los orígenes de la obra de arte.” Latin American Studies Association (LASA) International Congress 2016. New York, NY. May 27, 2016.

Department of Spanish and Portuguese • University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4150 [email protected] • Skype ID: jplupi “Rafael José Muñoz: Vanguardia, archivo y alteridad.” Latin American Studies Association (LASA) International Congress 2015. San Juan, Puerto Rico. May 29, 2015.

“Virtuality and the Messianic Question in Lezama Lima.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting 2015. Seattle, WA. March 29, 2015

“Orígenes’s Messianic Wake.” Latin American Studies Association (LASA) International Congress 2014. Chicago. May 22, 2014.

“Symbolist Qualities: From Poesía Pura to Imaginary Criticism.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting 2014. New York University. March 21, 2014

Roundtable Presentation. “Migration and Exile in Spain, 1939-2013.” 2014 Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention. Chicago. January 12, 2014.

“Red Unraveling: Media, Nation and Dystopia in Gisela Kozak’s En rojo”. XXIII Congress of the International Association of Feminine Hispanic Literature and Culture. The Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA. October 12, 2013.

“Phantasmatic Historiographies in Enrique Bernardo Núñez’s Cubagua.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting 2013. University of Toronto, Canada. April 6, 2013.

“Frustrational Fictions: Notes on the Literature of the Venezuelan Diaspora.” The Santa Barbara Global Studies Conference. Orfalea Center, University of California Santa Barbara. February 23, 2013.

“Chance, Crisis, Catastrophe: José Lezama Lima’s Cuban Revolution.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting 2012. Brown University. March 31, 2012

“Ghostly Modernities in Enrique Bernardo Núñez’ Cubagua.” Caribbean Crossroads Conference. University of California Santa Barbara. February 22, 2012.

“Lezama, Mallarmé y el evento insular.” International Congress: El Caribe y sus culturas. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Córdoba, Argentina. September 2, 2010.

Guest Respondent. “Mob Politics, Dangerous People: Non-Traditional Social Movements and Representation in Contemporary Venezuela.” Lecture by Luis Duno-Gottberg. University of California Los Angeles. May 3, 2010.

“Lezama, Theories, Legacies.” One Hundred Years of José Lezama Lima (Panel Organizer and Chair). American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting 2010. New Orleans, LA. April 4, 2010.

Guest Respondent. Intellectual Projects in the Caribbean. Panel Participants: Fernando Valerio-Holguín, Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia, César Salgado. Conference: The 1950s in the Caribbean. University of California Los Angeles. January 30, 2010

“Lezama Lima and the Allegories of World Literature.” Conference: Foundational Texts: Translation, Circulation, Diffusion and Adaptation. Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California Santa Barbara. November 19, 2009. JUAN PABLO LUPI

“Messianism and Melancholia: Some Reflections on the Writing of History in Cuba.” Latin American Studies Association (LASA) International Congress 2009. Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. June 11, 2009.

“’Higiene en la casa del habla: Parody, Language and Modernity in Eugenio Montejo’s El cuaderno de Blas Coll.” The Literary (as) Sovereign. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting 2009. Harvard University. Cambridge, MA. March 29, 2009.

“The Difficult Reader.” Difficult Journeys. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting 2008. Long Island, CA. April 25, 2008.

“Orígenes ante las vanguardias”. Department of Spanish and Portuguese Colloquium Series 2007. University of California Santa Barbara. May 1, 2007.

“Orígenes y el simbolismo francés.” International Congress: Escritura, Individuo y Sociedad en España, Las Américas y Puerto Rico. Universidad de Puerto Rico. Arecibo, Puerto Rico. November 16, 2006

“Verdades y mentiras”. Roundtable Presentation. IX Colloquium on Mexican Literature. University of California Santa Barbara. November 4, 2006

“The Task of De-Translation.” Conference: Literary Translation in Non-Literary Age. University of California Santa Barbara. May 12, 2006.

“Para-dicho: Mallarmé, barroco y traducción en José Lezama Lima.” Latin American Studies Association (LASA) International Congress 2006. San Juan, Puerto Rico. March 17, 2006

“Tras El rastro de Margo Glantz.” VIII Colloquium on Mexican Literature. University of California Santa Barbara. October 29, 2005.

“From the Book to the Image: The Poetics of Mallarmé and Lezama Lima.” Cuban Studies Workshop. David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University. December 12, 2003.

“Simón Bolívar: Figura y Política.” Summer Language Institute. Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University. August 15, 2001.

“’A Splash Quite Unnoticed’: Pictures of the Fall of Icarus.” Efface: Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference. Harvard University; April 28, 2001.

“On the Interaction of BF Fields with Sources." II Latin American School of Theoretical Physics. Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela; October 26, 1995.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Literature and Interdisciplinary Courses

2005-present University of California Santa Barbara

Undergraduate Courses: Department of Spanish and Portuguese • University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4150 [email protected] • Skype ID: jplupi  Spanish 102L: Introduction to Hispanic Literary Studies  Spanish 111C: Twentieth Century Spanish American Literature  Spanish 169: Literature and Cultural Identity in the Spanish Caribbean  Spanish 177: Spanish American Thought  Spanish 183EC (Special topic): Transnational Perspectives in the 19th. Century: Spain/Cuba/United States (team-taught with Prof. Silvia Bermúdez)  Spanish 185: La Nueva Novela Hispanoamericana  Spanish 189: Vanguard Poetry  Comparative Literature 100: Introduction to Comparative Literature  Freshman Seminar: The Cuban Revolution: An Introduction  Honors Seminar: Venezuela, 1998-2013: The Bolivarian Revolution

Graduate Courses:  Spanish 218 (Special Topics): o El Grupo Orígenes o Cien Años de José Lezama Lima  Spanish 213: Theory of Literary Criticism  Spanish 294A-B (Research Seminar on Spanish American Literature): From the Avant-Garde to the Revolution: Literature in Cuba, 1927-1961.  Comparative Literature 200 (Special Topics): o The Cultural Logic of the Caribbean (team-taught with Prof. Eric Prieto)

2001-2004 Harvard University  Literature and Arts C-55: “Surrealism: Avant-Garde Art and Politics between the Wars” (Course Leader: Prof. Susan Suleiman)  Spanish 155: “Inventing Cultural and Political Myths in Latin America” (Course Leader: Prof. Diana Sorensen)  Foreign Cultures C-37: “Madrid: fin-de-siècle” (Course Leader: Prof. Luis Fernández-Cifuentes)

Language Courses

2000-2004 Harvard University  Spanish 41-42: Spanish for Bilinguals  Spanish 30: Oral Expression II  Spanish Ca-Cb: Intermediate Spanish  Spanish A: Elementary Spanish

Science Courses

1993-1994 Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela  Physics 3-4: Electromagnetism  Physics 2: Classical Mechanics

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS JUAN PABLO LUPI

Faculty Research Grant. Academic Senate. University of California Santa Barbara. 2016-17.

Hellman Family Fellowship. University of California Santa Barbara. 2008

University of California Regents Junior Faculty Fellowship 2006-2007.

Certificate of Distinction in Teaching. Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. Harvard University. 2003-2004 and 2004-2005.

Graduate Society Term-time Research Fellowship. Harvard University. 2003.

Tinker Summer Research Travel Grant. David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; Harvard University. Summer 2002.

Writing in the Americas Fellowship. Boston University. Summer 2001.

Mariscal de Ayacucho Foundation Grant. 1998-2000.

Serrano-Poncela Prize for Best Essay in the Humanities. Universidad Simón Bolívar. 1991.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Modern Language Association of America (MLA), Latin American Studies Association (LASA), American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)

Department of Spanish and Portuguese • University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4150 [email protected] • Skype ID: jplupi