CURRICULUM VITAE Guillermo Rodríguez-Romaguera Department of English and Comparative Literature University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27514 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.oculardispersion.com/

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, July 2017-present

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture (Comparative Media and Culture), University of Southern , 2017

M.A. Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture (Comparative Media and Culture), University of Southern California, 2015

M.F.A. Cinema-Television Production, University of Southern California, 2004

A.B. Comparative Literature and Latin American Studies, Princeton University, 1999

BOOKS

Mirrors to the Unconscious: Spanish Meta-Art and Contemporary Cinema (under advance contract at Wayne State University Press)

ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

1. Rodríguez-Romaguera, G. “Hermetic Space as Abstraction of the Mechanisms of Censorship: Symptomatic ‘Archive Fever’ in Carlos Saura’s La madriguera.” Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies 2.1 (2018), pp. 1-16. Link to Article

2. Rodríguez-Romaguera, G. “The Quixotic in Horror: Self-Generating Narrative and Its Self- Critical Sequel in Wes Craven’s Self-Reflexive Horror Cinema.” Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America 37.2 (2017), pp. 143-168. Link to Article

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3. Rodríguez-Romaguera, G. “‘Y te sacarán los ojos’: The Defiance of Reconstituted Sight in Dictatorship and Post-Dictatorship Spanish Cinema.” Studies in European Cinema 13.2 (2016), pp. 119-133. Link to Article

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

4. Rodríguez-Romaguera, G. “Luis Buñuel (1900-1983)” (article for retrospective Objects of Desire: The Films of Luis Buñuel sponsored by the Embassy of Spain), 2016 Fall/Winter Spanish Cultural Program US & Canada, Spain arts & culture, Washington DC

5. Rodríguez-Romaguera, G. The Glad Game (thriller novel), Kindle Edition, October 20, 2015

6. Rodríguez-Romaguera, G. Baby (horror novel), Kindle Edition, August 1, 2015

7. Rodríguez, G. "Fact and Fantasy: Puerto Rico's Ferré fictionalizes family history" (fiction review The House on the Lagoon), The Daily Princetonian CXX: 129 (December 12, 1996), Princeton, NJ

8. Rodríguez, G. "Violence and faith faceoff in King's bloody thriller" (fiction review Desperation), The Daily Princetonian CXX: 101 (October 24, 1996), Princeton, NJ

9. Rodríguez, G. "Isabel arrived in the island by air: A Conversation with Isabel Allende" (article Interview), Víspera IV: 6 (1994), San Juan, PR

10. Rodríguez, G. "El espejo" (short story, winner 1st place CSI Literary Contest), Víspera 1:1 (1991), San Juan, PR

WORKS IN PROGRESS

The Fluid Gaze: and Interracial Visual Pleasure in Horror and Hispanic Cinema

FILMOGRAPHY

1. Mala Coda (narrative feature film), Writer and Director (In Development) 2. Baby (narrative feature film), Writer and Director (Pre-Production) 3. The Glad Game (narrative feature film), Co-writer and Director (Pre-Production) 4. Killer Ending (TV feature film), Co-writer, Incendo Media, 2011 5. Deadly Affairs (TV feature film), Co-writer, Incendo Media, 2011 6. Sweet Thing (16mm narrative feature film), Producer and Editor Released: 2009. Distributor: Cinetic Media G. Rodríguez3 -Romaguera 3

Dramatic Competition, Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2009 Official Selection, Seattle International Film Festival 2008 Official Selection, Boston International Film Festival 2008 7. The Shadows (Digital narrative feature film), Writer, Director, Producer and Editor DVD Release: October 28, 2008 (Water Bearer Films). Available on Amazon Prime Official Selection (Dramatic Competition), Outfest 2007: LGBTQ Film Festival Official Selection, Reeling 26: The Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival Official Selection, Melbourne Queer Film Festival 2008 Official Selection, Film Out San Diego Film Festival 2008 8. The Accident (16mm short film), Writer, 2005 Aired on Film Channel, June 2005 Official Selection, 2005 First Look Film Festival, Director’s Guild of America 9. Playing (35mm short film), Writer and Director, MFA Thesis, 2004 2004 Caucus for TV Writers, Producers & Directors Outstanding Student Filmmaker Award First look Film Festival at the Director’s Guild of America Riverside Multicultural Youth Film Festival Lake Arrowhead Film Festival 10. The Mirror Maker (16mm short film), Writer, Cinematographer and Director, 2003 11. Alice Awakens (16mm short film), Writer, Director and Editor, 2002 12. Four Walls (DV short film), Writer, Director and Editor, 2002 13. The Shield (DV short Film), Director and Editor, 2002 14. Honor Among Thieves (16mm short film), Cinematographer and Editor, 2001 15. Quiet in the Hallway (16mm B&W short film), Writer and Director, 2001 16. Inversion (DV short film), Writer, Director, Cinematographer and Editor, 2001 17. The Heat in Shadows (DV short film), Writer, Director, Cinematographer and Editor, 2001 18. Just a Little Piece (DV short film), Writer, Director, Cinematographer and Editor, 2001 19. Strings at Midnight (DV short film), Writer, Director, Cinematographer and Editor, 2001 20. The Suicide Watch (DV short film), Writer, Director, Cinematographer and Editor, 2001

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2019 Faculty Development Grant for Online Courses (UNC Chapel Hill) 2018 Summer Research Travel Grant (Buenos Aires) 2018 Digital Literacy Project Funding (UNC Chapel Hill) 2016-2017 USC Graduate School Endowed Fellowship 2016 Del Amo Foundation Summer Research Award (Madrid and Barcelona) 2015-2016 USC Dornsife College Graduate Merit Award 2015 CSLC Summer Award 2014 Del Amo Foundation Summer Research Award (Madrid and Barcelona) 2014 CSLC Summer Award 2013-2014 Del Amo Foundation Endowed Fellowship G. Rodríguez4 -Romaguera 4

2012 Frederick and Dorothy Quimby Memorial Fellowship 2003 Outstanding Student Filmmaker Grant, The Caucus Foundation for Producers, Writers and Directors 2002-2003 The Rodolfo Montes Memorial Scholarship 2001-2003 Harold C. Lloyd Foundation Scholarship 1998 Princeton Atelier with Toni Morrison and Gabriel García Márquez 1995-1997 Princeton University Scholarships

CONFERENCE AND SYMPOSIA PRESENTATIONS (including participation by invitation)

2020 Panel chair, “Queer Genres.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference; Denver, Colorado, April 1-5

2019 “Censored Sight in Víctor Erice’s The Spirit of the Beehive.” Guest lecture for “Film Culture” (Yaron Shemer). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Nov 7

2019 “Race, and Zombies: Haitian Voodoo, The Civil Rights Movement and The Accidental Politics of George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead.” Guest lecture for “Death and Dying” (Jeannie Loeb, Jocelyn Chua, Jennifer Larson). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, September 9

2018 “Twin Peaks as Cinematic Antidote to the Serial Addictions of Traditional Narrative.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference; Toronto, Canada, March 14-18

2017 “La casa doblada: Latin American Gothic Horror in English-Language Spanish Cinema.” XXXV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association; Lima, Peru, April 29-May 1

2017 “The Confined and Delusional Spectator: Striped Minds in Hermetic Spaces in Un Chien andalou (1929) and Meta-film as Virtual Oneiric Simulation in Open Your Eyes (1997) and eXistenZ (1999).” Invited Talk, Comparative Literature Department, University of Southern California; Los Angeles, California, April 5

2016 “The Uncanny Crystals of The Double Life of Veronique” (academic paper) & “The Influence of Krzysztof Kieślowski on my film The Mirror Maker” (lecture as artist). ‘No End: Twenty Years into Krzysztof Kieślowski's Second Life’ – Conference, University of Southern California, October 13-14

2016 Invited respondent to keynote lecture “Reframing Buñuel in the Light of Neuroscience” by Marsha Kinder. ‘Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Archive in Spanish Cinema’ – Symposium, University of Southern California, October 7

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2016 “The Quixotic in Horror: Self-Generating Narrative and its Self-Critical Sequel in Wes Craven’s Self-Reflexive Horror Cinema.” ‘Happy in the Life to Come: 400 Years of Cervantine Afterlives’ - Conference, University of Southern California; Los Angeles, California, February 11-13

2015 “‘Restless in its Transvestite Clothes’: Transgender Televisual Pleasure from Laura Palmer to Maura Pfefferman.” Invited Talk, Gender Studies Program, University of Southern California; Los Angeles, California, September 24

2015 “The Exposure of Murder within Capital Punishment Through Film Aesthetic: The Scopic Case of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Short Film About Killing against the Death Penalty in Poland.” ‘Execution, Spectacle, Law: A Symposium on Capital Punishment with Austin Sarat’ – Graduate Student Conference, University of Southern California; Los Angeles, California, April 22-23

2015 “The Spectral Spectator: The ‘visor effect’ in film.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting; Seattle, Washington, March 26-29

2014 “The Virtualization and Exsanguination of Capital Punishment in Jacques Derrida’s Death Penalty Vol. I.” Invited Talk, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Southern California; Los Angeles, California, November 21

2014 “The Possession of Carlotta’s Necklace Under Revolutionary Cuba: Re-Distribution of the Perceptible through Hitchcock’s Vertigo in Fernando Pérez’ Madrigal.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting; New York, New York, March 20-23

2013 “The Seams of Memory and Post-Dictatorship: The Excision of Guilt in Lucrecia Martel’s The Headless Woman.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting; Toronto, Canada, April 4-7

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Southern California Preparing forthcoming book manuscript Aesthetics, Ethics and Trauma in the Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar by Julián Gutiérrez-Albilla (Fall 2016)

Research Assistant, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Southern California Co-designed digital humanities component of graduate course “Adapting Through Don Quixote” for Sherry Velasco (Spring 2016)

Research Assistant, Gender Studies Program, University of Southern California Co-designed digital humanities component of undergraduate course “Gender Conflicts Across Cultural Contexts” for Sherry Velasco (Fall 2015) G. Rodríguez6 -Romaguera 6

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

AT UNC Chapel Hill Video Games and Narrative Cinema (Fall 2020 - new course designed & added to curriculum) Crafting the Dramatic Film: Theory Meets Practice (Fall 2020 - new course designed & added to curriculum) Introduction to Latina/o Studies (Spring 2020) Horror and the Global Gothic: Film, Literature, Theory (Spring 2020) Film and Politics (Fall 2019) Horror (Spring 2019, Summer 2019, Fall 2019, Summer 2020 - Online) Film and Culture (Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019) English Composition & Rhetoric (Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Summer 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Summer 2019 – UNC Summer Bridge Program, Fall 2019, Spring 2020)

AT USC On Location: The Place of Literature in Global Cultures (Teaching Assistant; Spring 2015) Crime Stories: Eastern European Fiction from Crime to Punishment (Teaching Assistant; Fall 2014) Spanish I (Assistant Lecturer; Spring 2014) Spanish II (Assistant Lecturer; Fall 2013) Advanced Film Production Workshop (Teaching Assistant; Spring 2003, Fall 2013, Spring 2004)

UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE ADVISING

Marcy Pedzwater (dissertation committee member 2019-present) Sarah White (senior honors thesis director 2019-2020)

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION AND TEACHING

Film and Television Studies, Global Cinema, Critical Theory, Continental Philosophy, Film and Television Production, Spanish and Latin American Cinema, Eastern European Cinema, Gothic Literature, Surrealism and Horror, Gender Studies, Queer and Trans Theory, Video Games, American Cinema and Television, English Composition and Multimedia Rhetoric, Latinx Studies

SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY

Center for Faculty Excellence’s Faculty Peer Visits Program, Spring 2020

IDEAs in Action Course Review Committee, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2019-2020

Q&A Presenter The Chambermaid, Cyrano My Love, Greener Grass, Ford v Ferrari, Film Fest 919, Chapel Hill, NC, October 9-13, 2019 G. Rodríguez7 -Romaguera 7

Diversity & Inclusion Committee, Department of English & Comparative Literature, 2019-present

Teaching Awards Committee, Department of English & Comparative Literature, 2019-present

Introducer and Q&A, “Cinematic Journeys into the Brain,” semester-long film series co-sponsored by Ackland Art Museum, 2019

Selection Committee, Postdoctoral Fellowships, Dept of English & Comparative Literature, 2019

Member, UNC-Chapel Hill Advisory Board: Latinx Studies Program, 2018-present

Co-Organizer, “No End: Twenty Years into Krzysztof Kieślowski's Second Life” (Conference commemorating Krzysztof Kieślowski's death and film legacy), University of Southern California, October 13-14, 2016

Graduate Student Organizer/Film Roundtable Moderator, “Happy in the Life to Come: 400 Years of Cervantine Afterlives” (Conference commemorating Cervantes’ death and the publication of the second part of Don Quixote), University of Southern California, February 11-13, 2016

Co-Organizer, “Execution, Spectacle, Law: A Symposium on Capital Punishment with Austin Sarat” (Graduate Conference), University of Southern California, April 22-23, 2015

Co-Founder, Film/Colloquium Series, University of Southern California (Spring 2014)

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2011-2014 Editor, On Air Promo Judge Judy, CBS Television City 2012 Editor, Amanda & Lindsay (HD Color 2 Minutes), Dir. Blass Blas 2011 Promo Editor, DirecTV Latin America Editor, The Cooking Lady (Reality TV Series – Cooking Show), Thunder Communications 2010 Editor, Born and Bred (Documentary, HD Color 90 minutes), Dir. Justin Frimmer Editor, The Prettiest Girl (HD Color 10 minutes), Film Independent Director’s Lab, Mentor: Catherine Hardwicke, Dir. Sasha Isaac-Young Sizzle Reels Editor, Secret Handshake Entertainment 2009 Director and Editor, 12 Volt CarAoke commercial “Car Dance Mob,” Sabatino Day Editor, Where The Road Meets The Sun (35mm Color 90 Minutes), Dir. Mun Chee Yong Additional Editor, Stasis (35mm Color 30 Minutes), Dir. Christian Swegal 2008 Editor, U-Direct NYC, Diapers.com (30s Commercials The Ad Store) Editor, Gangland Season 2 (The History Channel), Towers Productions 2007 Editor, Affiliate Promotional Services, NBC Universal Heroes, Chuck, Life, ER, Law & Order, Bionic Woman, 30 Rock, The Office (TV Spots) G. Rodríguez8 -Romaguera 8

2007 Editor, Bait Car (Court TV), New Box Media Editor, Peggy Rajski Productions Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Documentary Short, HD Color 20 Minutes) Alone No Love (Documentary Short, HD Color 30 Minutes) Trevor (I-Tunes Spot, 35mm Color 3 Minutes) Promo Editor, America’s Got Talent Season 3 (NBC), Freemantle Media 2006 Trailer Editor, All The Days Before Tomorrow (35mm Color 148 Mins), Kangoo Films Trailer Editor, Shamelove (16mm Color 79 Mins), Mentone Pictures Assistant Editor, Alexis Arquette: She’s My Brother (Documentary), A&E/Channel 4 Assistant Editor, Freemantle Media Property Ladder Season 2, American Idol Best & Worst DVD, Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency, Mediums at Large 2005 Assistant Editor, Freemantle Media Property Ladder Season 1, How Clean is Your House, Love on the Rocks Assistant Editor, Survivor: Palau (CBS), Mark Burnett Productions 2004 Production Designer, 9:30 (35mm Color 12 Minutes), Dir. Mun Chee Yong Assistant Editor, Survivor: Vanauatu (CBS), Mark Burnett Productions Assistant Editor, Expeditions to the Edge (National Geographic), GRB Entertainment 2003 Co-Editor, Manuel (35mm Color 17 Minutes), Dir. Gabriel J. Serrano Editor, Stone (35mm Color 12 Minutes), Dir. Pyongson Yim Co-Editor, 18 Money (16mm Color 10 Minutes), Dir. Eriko Ueno 2001 Grip, In The Land of Milk & Money (35mm Color 90 Minutes), Dir. Susan Emshwiller

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Latin American Studies Association (LASA) American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Cervantes Society of America (CSA)

LANGUAGES

Spanish: Native Fluency English: Bi-Lingual Fluency Portuguese: Some Fluency German: Good Reading Knowledge, Basic Language Skills French: Basic Reading Knowledge

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REFERENCES

Akira Mizuta Lippit T.C. Wang Family Endowed Chair in Cinematic Arts, Vice Dean of Faculty and Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Comparative Literature Critical Studies Division, School of Cinematic Arts University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-2211 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (213) 740-8508

Julián Gutiérrez-Albilla Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Comparative Literature and Gender Studies Department of Spanish and Portuguese University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-0358 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (213) 740-1258

Sherry Velasco Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Gender Studies; Interim Divisional Vice Dean for the Humanities, USC Dornsife Department of Spanish and Portuguese University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-0358 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (213) 740-7659

Anna Krakus Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Department of Slavic Languages and Literature University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-0358 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (213) 740-2735

Updated: January 2020