CURRICULUM VITAE
Erin Graff Zivin Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature Chair, Department of Comparative Literature 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.
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Literature, University of California—San Diego, July 2020 – June 2021.
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 and media; Continental philosophy, deconstruction, critical theory; Ethics, politics, aesthetics; Literary representations of Jewishness and marranismo
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AWARDS AND HONORS
2021 Early Sabbatical Award, Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Southern California
2020-2021 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Literature, University of California—San Diego
2018 Raubenheimer Outstanding Faculty Award, University of Southern California
2013-2019 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
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Member, Executive Council, Modern Language Association, 2021-2025
Member, Nominations Committee, American Comparative Literature Association, 2021-present Graff Zivin CV Page 3 of 32
Member, “Post-foundational Contemporary Thought” Research Group (Ref. PID202-117069GB-100), Directed by Laura Llevadot, University of Barcelona, 2021-2023
Managing Editor, Women in Theory bibliography and book forum, 2020-present
Founding Director, Women in Theory collective, 2018-present Member, “Historia y ontología del presente. La perspectiva hispana” Research Group (Ref. 941051), Directed by José Luis Villacañas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2018-present
Member, Editorial Board, Coleción Euroamericana, Escolar y Mayo Editores, Madrid, Spain, 2018- present
Co-Director, Seminario Crítico-Político Transnacional, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2014- present
Member, Advisory Committee, PMLA, 2018-2021
Member, External Review Committee, Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan, 2021
Member, Doctoral exam committee, Department of Hispanic Studies, University of California- Riverside, 2021
Member, External Review Committee, Department of Philosophy, Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación, Santiago, Chile, 2020
Advisory Board, “Mayo del 68/50 años después” International Conference. Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 2018
Judge, Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book, 2016
Member, External Review Committee, Comparative Literature, Emory University, 2016
Member, 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, Stanford University, University of Toronto, CUNY, University of Michigan, University of San Diego, University of California, Irvine Graff Zivin CV Page 4 of 32
Referee, Promotion to Associate Professor, University of Warwick, UK, University of Michigan, University of Arizona, Dartmouth College
Manuscript Reviewer, Bloomsbury, University of California Press, Fordham University Press, University of Pittsburgh Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Vanderbilt University Press, SUNY Press
Referee, PMLA, Comparative Literature, Diacritics, Hispanic Review, Revista Hispánica Moderna, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Luso-Brazilian Review, Estudios: Revista de Investigaciones Literarias y Culturales, Journal of Jewish Identities
WORK IN PROGRESS
Transmedial Exposure. Book-length manuscript. (In preparation.)
“Exposed: Levinas and Derrida in the Desert.” (In preparation.)
“Transmedial Ekphrasis.” (In preparation.)
“Fuera de la ley del género.” (In preparation.)
“Sobre la naturaleza de las cosas de Lezra.” Special issue of Res Publica. Revista de Historia de las Ideas Políticas, eds. Juan Leal Ugalde and Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott. (Under review.)
BOOKS
6. Anarchaeologies: Reading as Misreading. New York: Fordham University Press, 2020. 192pp.
Reviewed in: • Gonzalo Díaz Letelier, “Anarqueologías errantes, Borges disjunto y el perro yagán” Machina et subversio machinae (2020) • Kate Jenckes, “Presentación de Anarqueologías” Machina et subversio machinae blog (2020) • Derrida Today (forthcoming 2021) 6a. Anarqueologías: Ética y política de la lectura errada, trans. Jimena Jiménez Real. Buenos Aires: Editorial Prometeo, 2021 (in press). (Spanish translation of Anarchaeologies: Reading as Misreading)
5. Terror: La perspectiva hispana. Co-edited with Jacques Lezra, Alberto Moreiras, and José Luis Villacañas. Madrid, Spain: Guillermo Escolar, 2020.
4. The Marrano Specter: Derrida and Hispanism. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017. 184pp. (Edited volume.)
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• Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies (2020) • Comparative Literature Studies 56.3 (2019) • Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe 29.2 (2019) • Bulletin of Spanish Studies 96.8 (2019)
3. Figurative Inquisitions: Conversion, Torture, and Truth in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2014. 174pp. (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) • Latin American Literary Review 43.85 (2015) • Alberto Moreiras, “Zivin’s Spectral Injunction,” Infrapolitical Deconstruction Collective blog (2014)
3a. Inquisiciones Figurativas: Conversión, tortura, y verdad en el Atlántico Luso-Hispano, trans. Paola Cortes- Rocca. Buenos Aires: La Cebra, 2017. 228pp. (Revised and extended Spanish translation of Figurative Inquisitions)
2. The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. 240pp.
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 de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana 36.72 (2010) • 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. 235pp. (Edited volume.)
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Reviewed in: • Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 44.1 (2010) • Iberoamericana 38 (2010) • Luso-Brazilian Review 46.2 (2009) • Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 13 (2009)
DOSSIERS
Guest editor, “Women in Theory.” Special issue of Diacritics 49.2 (2022). (In press.)
Guest editor, “In Honor of Peggy Kamuf.” Special issue of Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture. 41.2-3 (2019).
JOURNAL ARTICLES
44. “Trans-genre Lyotard.” Philosophy Today 66.2 (2022). (In press.)
43. “Irritating Subjects.” Diacritics 49.2 (2022). (In press.)
42. “Introduction: Women in Theory.” Diacritics 49.2 (2022). (In press.)
41. “Historia de un espectro.” Revista Rizoma. Estética, Crítica y Política 1.1 (2021). 48-57.
40. “Transmedial Noise: Babel and the Translation of Radio.” Yearbook of Comparative Literature 63 (2020). 160-177.
39. “Hineni, hineni: Violent Ethics in Kierkegaard, Levinas, Derrida and Cohen.” Cahiers d’études lévinassiennes (2020). 150-166.
38. “Introduction” (with Akira Mizuta Lippit). “In Honor of Peggy Kamuf.” Special issue of Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture. 41.2-3 (2019). 185-191.
37. “Beyond Jameson: The Metapolitics of Allegory.” Yearbook of Comparative Literature 41 (2017). 156-173.
36. “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.”)
35. “The Aesthetics and Politics of Error.” Política Común. A Journal of Thought 10 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/pc.12322227.0010.008.
34. “Ante la ley: Interrogación, interpelación y la producción de la culpa.” Revista Iberoamericana 257 (2016). 759-774.
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33. “Marrano Secrets, Or, Misunderstanding Literature.” CR: The New Centennial Review 14.3 (Winter 2014). 75-92.
32. “Beyond Inquisitional Logic, or, Toward an An-archaeological Latin Americanism.” CR: The New Centennial Review 14.1 (Spring 2014). 195-211.
31. “Politics Against Ethics.” Política Común. A Journal of Thought 4 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/pc.12322227.0004.009.
30. “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.
29. “Seeing and Saying: Towards an Ethics of Truth in José Saramago.” SubStance 41.1 (January 2012). 109-123.
28. “Kidnapped Language: Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics in Sergio Chejfec’s Los planetas.” Journal of Jewish Identities 5.1 (January 2012). 77-87.
27. “Semitic Mysteries, Universal Truths: Jewishness and Arabness in Jorge Luis Borges.” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 6.2 (July 2011). 119-137.
26. “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.)
25. “Writing the Absent Face: ‘Jewishness’ and the Limits of Representation in Borges, Piglia and Chejfec.” MLN 122.2 (2007). 350-370.
24. “Transacciones judías y discursos promiscuos en ‘Emma Zunz.’” Variaciones Borges 22 (2006). 191-199.
23. “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.
22. “Reading Max Nordau: Unspeakable Difference in Spanish American Modernism.” Chasqui; revista de literatura latinoamericana 34.1 (2005). 102-113.
21. “The Face of the Other: Diagnosing Jewishness in Latin American Literature.” Modern Jewish Studies 14 (2004). 91-101.
BOOK CHAPTERS
20. “Cecil Taylor.” Trans. Inger Flem Soto. Música en medio del Capitalismo, ed. Germán Cano and Ricardo Espinoza Lolas. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Caja Negra Editora, forthcoming 2022.
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19. “El giro ético.” Nuevos acercamientos a los estudios latinoamericanos, ed. Juan Poblete. Mexico and Buenos Aires: UNAM/CLACSO, forthcoming 2022. (Reprint of “El giro ético o Levinas en Latinoamérica.”)
18. “Distorting Latinamericanism.” The Routledge Companion to 20th and 21st Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms, eds. Guillermina de Ferrari and Mariano Siskind. New York: Routledge, forthcoming 2022.
17. “Exposición, experimento, exapropiación: Después del sujeto (latinoamericano).” Sujetos del latinoamericanismo, eds. Florencia Garramuño, Héctor Hoyos, and Romina Wainberg. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, forthcoming 2022.
16. “Derrida, lector de Levinas.” Jacques Derrida: el arte de leer, eds. Matías Bascuñán and Diego Rossello. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Katz Editores, forthcoming 2021.
15. Del marranismo: Derrida avec Montaigne.” Terror: La perspectiva hispana, eds. Erin Graff Zivin, Jacques Lezra, Alberto Moreiras, and José Luis Villacañas. Madrid, Spain: Guillermo Escolar, 2020. 157-166.
14. “Marranismo, Allegory and the Unsayable in Arturo Ripstein’s El Santo Oficio.” The Films of Arturo Ripstein: The Sinister Gaze of the World, eds. Luis Duno-Gottberg and Manuel Gutiérrez. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 83-106.
13. “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.
12. “Derrida’s Marranismo.” Introduction to The Marrano Specter: Derrida and Hispanism, ed. Erin Graff Zivin. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017. 1-12.
11. “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.
10. “The Ethical Turn.” New Approaches to Latin American Studies: Culture and Power, ed. Juan Poblete. New York: Routledge, 2017. 65-79.
9. “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.
8. “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
7. “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.”)
6. “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.”)
5. “Ethics.” Dictionary of Latin American Cultural Studies, eds. Mónica Szurmuk and Robert McKee Irwin. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012. 147-152.
4. “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.
3. “Introduction: Reading Otherwise.” The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism: Reading Otherwise, ed. Erin Graff Zivin. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 1-7.
2. “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.”)
1. “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
“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.
“Pathological Subjects: Narratives of Self-Diagnosis in Luisa Futoransky and Margo Glantz.” La jornada literaria XII (2003). 53-64.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
“Difficult Elections.” Jewschool (2020). https://jewschool.com/2020/10/172286/difficult-elections/.
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“Pensamiento exote; o, experimentos transmediales.” Ficción de la razón (2020). https://ficciondelarazon.org/2020/09/07/la-imagen-exote-de-willy-thayer-editorial- palinodia-santiago-2020/.
“Live Free; or, Die.” Jewschool (2020). https://jewschool.com/2020/05/172124/live-free-or-die-2/.
“Listening to Color.” Jewschool (2020). https://jewschool.com/2020/06/172150/listening-to-color/.
“Cuatreros, de Albertina Carri: Herencia an-árquica.” Trans. Jimena Jiménez Rodríguez. Revista Transas: Letras y artes de América Latina (2017). http://www.revistatransas.com/2017/07/26/cuatreros-de-albertina-carri-herencia-an- arquica/.
“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
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.
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.
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
“Luisa Futoransky.” In Jewish Women. A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Jerusalem: Shalvi Publishing Ltd., 2007. (Revised version published 2020.) https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/futoransky-luisa.
INVITED TALKS
2021 “Transmedial Ekphrasis.” Program in Critical Theory, Northwestern University (virtual event)
2021 “Feminismo errorista.” Roundtable on Ni Una Menos. University of California, Irvine (virtual event)
2020 “Distorting Ethics: Narcisa Hirsch’s Experiments.” Program in Critical Theory, University of California, Berkeley (cancelled due to COVID-19) Graff Zivin CV Page 11 of 32
2019 “Transmedial Exposure: Narcisa Hirsch’s Experiments.” Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Miami
2019 “Transmedial Noise: Babel and the Translation of Radio.” Department of Romance Studies, Cornell University
2019 “Secret Junctions.” Anthropology of the Image Lab, University of California Davis
2018 “Violent Ethics in Kierkegaard, Levinas, Derrida and Cohen.” American Institute for Levinasian Studies, Alliance Française de Los Angeles
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 Graff Zivin CV Page 12 of 32
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
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CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA (including participation by invitation)
2022 “Derrida’s Desert.” 7th Derrida Today conference; Washington DC (proposal accepted)
2021 “Exposed: Levinas and Derrida in the Desert.” North American Levinas Society (virtual event)
2021 “Irritating Subjects.” “Women in Theory” international symposium (virtual event)
2020 “Fuera de la ley del género: Las hijas del fuego y la subversión del porno.” XLIII Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana; Université de Reims Champagne- Ardenne, France (cancelled due to COVID-19)
2019 “‘Experimentación ciega’: Reparación y deconstrucción.” VI Seminario Crítico-Político Transnacional, Department of Philosophy and Society, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
2019 “Transmedial Haunting.” XXXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association; Boston, MA
2019 “Del Marranismo: Derrida avec Montaigne.” Invited talk at “Pensar tras Derrida” colloquium, Department of Philosophy, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
2019 “Transmedial Noise: ‘Babel’ and the Translation of Radio.” Invited talk at “What is Art Doing for You?” colloquium, Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine
2019 “Transmedial Noise.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting; Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
2018 “Deconstructing Simone de Beauvoir: Ethical Feminism beyond Subjectivity and Alterity.” 25th International Conference of the Simone de Beauvoir Society; Université Paris-Diderot, France
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 Philosophy and Society, 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 Graff Zivin CV Page 14 of 32
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 Graff Zivin CV Page 15 of 32
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 Graff Zivin CV Page 16 of 32
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
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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
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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/ROUNDTABLES
2021 “Anarchaeologies: Reading as Misreading.” Book workshop, University of California, Davis (invitation accepted)
2021 “Anarchaeologies: Reading as Misreading.” Book workshop, University of California, Riverside (invitation accepted)
2021 “Hear say yes.” Roundtable on Naomi Waltham-Smith’s Shattering Biopolitics. University of Warwick (virtual event)
2021 Chair, roundtable on Geoffrey Bennington’s Scatter 2. University of Southern California (virtual event)
2021 “Anarchaeologies: Reading as Misreading.” Book workshop, Duke University
2020 “Anarchaeologies: Reading as Misreading.” Book workshop, University of California, Berkeley (postponed due to COVID-19)
2020 “Family Secrets and the Archive.” Roundtable on Sarah Abrevaya Stein’s Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century. University of California, San Diego (virtual event)
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2020 “Anarqueologías: Ética y política de la lectura errada.” Roundtable on Erin Graff Zivin’s Anarchaeologies. Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación; Santiago, Chile (virtual event)
2020 “Pensamiento exote; o, experimentos transmediales.” Roundtable on Willy Thayer’s Imagen exote. Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación; Santiago, Chile (virtual event)
2020 “Sobre la naturaleza de las cosas de Lezra.” Roundtable on Jacques Lezra’s República salvaje. Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación; Santiago, Chile (virtual event)
2020 “Anarchaeologies: Reading as Misreading.” Book workshop, University of British Columbia, Canada (virtual event)
2019 “Figurative Inquisitions.” Book workshop, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Whittier College
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
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CONFERENCES, COLLOQUIA AND LECTURES ORGANIZED
2021 Co-Organizer, “Formas de lo sensible: horizontes del post-capitalismo.” VII Seminario Crítico-Político Transnacional, Department of Philosophy and Society, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain (virtual event)
2021 “Women in Theory” international symposium (virtual event)
2020 “Women in Theory” IV annual workshop (virtual event)
2020 Prof. Catherine Malabou (UC Irvine), “Philosophy and Anarchy.” University of Southern California (postponed due to COVID-19)
2020 Prof. Eyal Peretz (Indiana University), “Self-Portraiture and the Crisis of Sovereignty.” University of Southern California (postponed due to COVID-19)
2020 Co-Organizer, “Institución, an-arkhē: Pensamiento constituyente y destituyente.” VII Seminario Crítico-Político Transnacional, Department of Philosophy and Society, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain (virtual event)
2020 “Women in Theory” III annual workshop (virtual event)
2020 “Transmedial Latin America” symposium; University of Southern California
2020 Prof. Lital Levy (Princeton University), “Temporalities of Israel/Palestine.” University of Southern California
2019 Co-Organizer, “Tiqqun-Comité invisible.” VI Seminario Crítico-Político Transnacional, Department of Philosophy and Society, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
2019 Prof. Peter Szendy (Brown University), “The Image in the Age of its General Exchangeability.” University of Southern California
2019 Prof. Samuel Weber (Northwestern University), “The Mediacy of the Media: A Psychoanalytic Approach.” University of Southern California
2019 “Women in Theory” II annual workshop, George Washington University
2019 Screening of El escarabajo de oro and discussion with Director Alejo Moguillansky (Argentina). University of Southern California
2019 Prof. Iván Trujillo (University of California, Riverside), “Celos—De la literatura.” University of Southern California
2018 Prof. Tarek Elhaik (University of California, Davis), “States of Cogitation.” University of Southern California
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2018 Prof. Sergio Chejfec (New York University) and Prof. Heather Cleary (Sarah Lawrence), Translation Studies Graduate Certificate inaugural event, University of Southern California
2018 Prof. Rebecca Comay (University of Toronto), “How To Do Things with Levers: Kant and Derrida in the University.” University of Southern California
2018 Contemporary Political Thought in the Hispanic World with Prof. Ricardo Forster (Universidad de Buenos Aires) and Prof. Laura Llevadot (Universitat de Barcelona), University of Southern California
2018 Co-Organizer, “Antropología filosófica” (with Étienne Balibar). V Seminario Crítico-Político Transnacional, Department of Philosophy and Society, 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” I annual workshop, 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, 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 discussion with Director Albertina Carri (Argentina). 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
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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 Graff Zivin CV Page 23 of 32
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
OTHER CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
2020 Seminar Co-Organizer, “Women in Theory.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting; Chicago, IL (cancelled due to COVID-19)
2020 Roundtable participant, “¿Qué hay de material en la cultura?” (virtual event)
2019 Discussant, “For a Future After/Anti-‘Literature’: Experimentation, Affect, Event, and Boundary.” XXXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association; Boston, MA
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
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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 California-San Diego (2020-2021):
LTCS 173: Violence and Visual Culture. Aesthetics of Violence in the Americas (undergraduate course, Winter 2021)
LTCS 250: Topics in Cultural Studies. Transmedial Exposure (graduate course, Winter 2021)
At the University of Southern California (2008-2020):
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SPAN 602: Seminar in Spanish and Latin American Critical Theory. Transmedial Latin America (graduate course, Spring 2020)
CSLC 700: Dissertation Proposal Workshop (graduate course, Fall 2018, Fall 2019)
COLT 593: Teaching Practicum for Graduate Students (graduate course, Fall 2019)
CSLC 600: Academic Publishing Workshop (graduate course, Spring 2019)
SPAN 602: Seminar in Spanish and Latin American Critical Theory. After the Death of Reading: Error, Blindness, Misunderstanding (graduate course, Fall 2015, Spring 2019)
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. 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)
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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)
SERVICE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LATIN AMERICAN AND IBERIAN CULTURES (USC)
Member, Lectures and Events Committee (2018-2020)
Member, Fifth Year Review Committee (2019-2020)
Member, Second Year Review Committee (2018-2019)
Chair, Promotion Committee (2017-2018)
Member, Third Year Review Committee (2017-2018, 2019-2020)
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 (2015)
Member and Diversity Liaison, Search Committee for Director of Basic Language Program (2014- 2015)
Member, Search Committee for six (6) NTT faculty (2014)
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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 (2009-2011)
Member, Undergraduate Studies Subcommittee for Curriculum Review (2009-2011)
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 (2017-2022; on leave 2020-2021)
Founding Director, Graduate Certificate in Translation Studies (2018-present; on leave 2020-2021)
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Dissertation Director, Lacey Schauwecker (defended December 2017; currently Visiting Assistant Professor, Indiana University)
Reader, Qualifying Exam, Jaclyn Simon (Spring 2015)
Member, Dissertation Committee, Ricardo A. Wilson II (defended March 2015; currently Assistant Professor, Williams College)
Chair, Comparative Field Exam, Lacey Schauwecker (Spring 2014)
Member, Dissertation Committee, Ana Lee (defended April 2014; currently Assistant Professor, Columbia University)
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)
Member, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture Steering Committee (2013-2014, 2015-2016, 2017-2020)
Dissertation Director, César Pérez-Sánchez (in progress)
Dissertation Director, Noraedén Mora Méndez (in progress)
Dissertation Director, Javier Pavez (in progress)
Chair, Qualifying Exam, Edith Adams (scheduled for Fall 2021)
Chair, Qualifying Exam, Jane Kassavin (scheduled for Fall 2021)
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Chair, Qualifying Exam, Inger Flem Soto (scheduled for Fall 2021)
Reader, Qualifying Exam, Adam Gill (Spring 2021)
Chair, Qualifying Exam, Javier Pavez (Spring 2021)
Member, Dissertation Committee, Jacqueline Sheean (defended May 2020; currently Assistant Professor, University of Utah)
Reader, Field Exam, Javier Pavez (Spring 2020)
Reader, Field Exam, Alejandro Garay Celeita (Spring 2020)
Reader, Qualifying Exam, Cord-Heinrich Plinke (Spring 2020)
Chair, Qualifying Exam, Noraedén Mora Méndez (Spring 2020)
Reader, Field Exam, Jane Kassavin (Spring 2020)
Director, Doctoral Program (2018-2019)
Reader, Field Exam, Xu Lie (Fall 2019)
Reader, Qualifying Exam, Matthew Berger (Fall 2018)
Chair, Field Exam, Noraedén Mora Méndez (Fall 2018)
Dissertation Director, Ali Kulez (defended June 2018; currently Collegiate Assistant Professor, University of Chicago; Assistant Professor at Boston College beginning Fall 2021)
Dissertation Director, Xiomara Cervantes-Gómez (defended December 2017; currently Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Member, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture Graduate Studies Committee (2011-2013, 2014-2015)
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)
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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 UNIVERSITY (USC)
Member, Faculty Advisory Board, Latinx and Latin American Studies Center (2020-present)
Seminar Leader, Early Modern Political Thought Series, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute (2017-present)
Ad-hoc Member, Dornsife Committee on Tenure and Promotion (2019-2020)
Member, Search Committee for Professor of Latinx and Latin American Studies (2018-2019)
Member, Promotion Committee to Full Professor (2018-2019)
Program Director, Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics Series, Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics (2015-2018)
Member, Merit Evaluation Committee for tenure track faculty, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures (Fall 2018)
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)
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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 DEPARTMENT (UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH)
Dissertation Committee Member (former Director), Deborah Bensadon (defended August 2012; currently Upper School Languages Teacher/Assistant Director of Equity and Inclusion at Lakeside School, Seattle, WA)
Dissertation Co-Director, Gerardo Gómez Michel (defended April 2010; currently Assistant Professor at Busan University)
Dissertation Committee Member, Leah Strobel (defended December 2009; currently Spanish Instructor at Woodlands Academy, Wisconsin)
Dissertation Committee Member, María del Pilar Melgarejo (defended November 2007; currently Lecturer at Southern Methodist University)
Dissertation Committee Member, Antonio Gómez (defended May 2007; currently Associate Professor at Tulane University)
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)
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 (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 Graff Zivin CV Page 32 of 32
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
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Modern Language Association (MLA), American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI)
LANGUAGES
English: Native fluency Spanish: Near-native fluency Portuguese: Fluency French: Good reading knowledge Hebrew: Basic reading knowledge
**UPDATED AUGUST 23, 2021