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ARTURO ARIAS
Department of Spanish and Portuguese University of Texas at Austin BEN 2.116 1 University Station B3700 Austin, TX 78712-1155 (512) 232-4549 (512) 471-8073 (fax) [email protected]
EDUCATION
PhD. Sociology of Literature, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, June 1978. “Mention Trés Bien.”
M.A. English, Boston University, May 1974.
B.A. English, Boston University, May 1973. Graduated magna cum laude.
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Professor of Latin American Literature. University of Texas at Austin. September 2007 to present.
Hood Fellow, University of Auckland, New Zealand, February 22 to March 17, 2013.
Savage Distinguished Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies, University of Oregon, May to June 2008.
Greenleaf Chair Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies, Tulane University. January 2007 to May 2007.
Professor of Latin American Studies. University of Redlands. September 2004 to August 2006.
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Professor, Director of Latin American Studies. University of Redlands. September 2000 to August 2004.
Visiting Professor, Spanish and Portuguese Dept., University of California at Berkeley. August 1999 to December 1999.
Professor, Department of Humanities. San Francisco State University. September 1993 to August 2000.
Resident Director in Spain, California State University International Programs. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. August 1995 to August 1996.
Martha Sutton Weeks Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University. Visiting Professor, Dept.of Spanish and Portuguese, Stanford University. September 1994 to June 1995.
Visiting Professor, International and Area Studies, University of California at Berkeley. January 1993 to May 1993.
Associate Professor, Department of Humanities. San Francisco State University. January 1991 to August 1993.
Visiting Professor, Department of Literary Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. July 1990 to October 1990.
Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese Department. University of Texas at Austin. September 1989 to May 1990.
Research Fellow, Lecturer and Chairman of the Central Working Group Committee, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin. May 1987 to August 1989.
Lecturer, Government Department and Spanish Department, University of Texas at Austin. May 1987 to August 1989.
Editor, Voices of Mexico, magazine in English aimed at a U.S. audience, edited by the National Autonomous University of Mexico. January 1986 to May 1987.
Member of research staff on contemporary Mexican literature, Institute for Social Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico. March 1986 to May 1987.
Member of research staff, United Nations' University. March 1986 to May 1987.
Member of research staff, Centro Integral de Desarrollo Comunal (CEIDEC), Mexico. January
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1984 to May 1987.
Professor of Mexican Fiction, Department of Philosophy and Literature, Division of Latin American Studies, National Autonomous University of Mexico. November 1982 to November 1983.
Founder and Director, Publications Department, National School of Anthropology, Mexico. February 1982 to February 1984.
Founder and Editor, Cuicuilco magazine, Journal of the National School of Anthropology, Mexico. March 1980 to February 1984.
Director, Independent Center for Anthropological Studies of Latin American Theater, Mexico. July to November 1981.
Member of Academic Council and Administrative Council, Independent Center for Anthropological Studies of Latin American Theater. March to November 1981.
Professor of Mexican Fiction, Department of Literature, Centro de Enseñanza para Extranjeros, National Autonomous University of Mexico. June 1980 to January 1982.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Literary Award Constituted in My Name. Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. September 2013.
Tomas Rivera Regents Professor in Spanish Language and Literature. The University of Texas at Austin. August 29, 2013 onwards.
Hood Fellowship Award. Visiting Professor. University of Auckland. Auckland, NZ Spring semester 2013.
UT Appreciation for Services for Students with Disabilities. January 2013.
Faculty Research Leave. Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies. The University of Texas at Austin. December 2011.
Faculty Research Award. College of Liberal Arts. The University of Texas at Austin. November 2011.
Humanities Research Award. College of Liberal Arts. The University of Texas at Austin. November 2010.
The Role of Central American Cultural Studies in Latino Studies: Homage to Arturo Arias’s
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Research and Contribution to Latino Studies. San Francisco State University. Professors Roberto Rivera, Byron Barahona, and poet Maya Chinchilla spoke of Arias’s work and contribution. Thursday March 18, 2010.
Participant of Humanities Institute 2008-9 Seminar, “Ethical Life in a Global Society.” University of Texas at Austin. Spring 2009.
Premio Nacional de Literatura Miguel Angel Asturias. Ministry of Culture, Guatemala. National Book Award for Lifetime Achievement in Fiction. November 2008.
Taking Their Word: Literature and the Signs of Central America (2007) finalist for the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) 2008 Bryce Wood Book Award for Best Academic Book Published in English.
Special LASA Award for Efforts in Transforming LASA Forum. March 17, 2006.
Distinguished Citizen, City of Quezaltenango, Guatemala. Offered keys to the city by Mayor Rigoberto K'emé, for distinguished accomplishments in the field of literature and letters. July 29, 1997.
Stanford Humanities Center Martha Sutton Weeks Fellowship for Research. Stanford University. 1994-95.
Anna Seghers Scholarship, awarded by the Academy of Arts in Berlin, Germany, for promising literature in Spanish. Fall 1990.
Academy Award Nomination, along with Gregory Nava, Anna Thomas and Eraclio Zepeda, for Best Original Script for El Norte, 1986.
Casa de las Américas Award for Best Novel, Itzam Na. 1981.
Casa de las Américas Award for Best Essay, Ideología, Literatura y Socedad Durante la Revolución Guatemalteca 1944 - 1954. 1979.
Fellowship, Mexican National Institute for Fine Arts, Mexican National Endowment for the Arts, (INBA-FONAPAS), 1980.
First Runner Up for Mexican National Award for Best Novel, INBA-FONAPAS, 1980 (for Itzam Na).
First Runner Up for Award for Best Central American Novel, 1976 (for Después de las Bombas). Conferred by EDUCA (Central America's Universities Press) in San José, Costa Rica.
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Gerard Warner Brace Award, Boston University, 1971 (for “Amatitlán,” a Short Story).
EDITORIAL BOARDS
PMLA. May 2011 to present.
Centroamerica. July 2011 to present.
Revista de crítica literaria hispanoamericana. December 2010 to present.
Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World. March 2010 to the present.
Maya Studies Journal. October 2008 to present.
Mesoamerica. August 2008 to present.
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
I. ACADEMIC BOOKS
Taking their Word: Literature and the Signs of Central America. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2007.
Gestos Ceremoniales: Narrativa Centroamericana 1960 -1990 (Ceremonial Gestures: Central American Narrative 1960 - 1990). Guatemala: Artemis-Edinter, 1998.
La Identidad de la Palabra: Narrativa Guatemalteca a la Luz del Siglo Veinte (The Identity of the Word: Guatemalan Narrative in the Light of the New Century). Guatemala: Artemis- Edinter, 1998.
Ideología, Literatura y Socedad Durante la Revolución Guatemalteca 1944 - 1954 (Ideology, Literature and Society During the Guatemalan Revolution 1944-1954). Havana: Casa de las Américas, 1979.
II. EDITED BOOKS
The Rigoberta Menchú Controversy. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 2001.
Mulata de tal de Miguel Angel Asturias. Edición Crítica. Madrid: Colección Archivos, 2001.
Antología del Cuento Guatemalteco (Anthology of Guatemalan Short Stories). San José: Eitorial Universitaria Centroamericana (Central American University Presses), 1999.
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III. EDITED JOURNALS
Solo editor. “Centroamericanidades: Imaginative Reformulations and New Configurations of Central Americanness.” Special Issue of Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature (forthcoming Fall 2013).
Co-editor with Claudia Milian. “U.S. Central Americans: Representations, Agency, and Communities.” Special Issue of Journal of Latino Studies 11, 2 (Summer 2013). Edited all articles, galleys and page proofs. Co-wrote introduction.
Co-editor, with Alicia del Campo. “Memory and Popular Culture.” Special Issue of Latin American Perspectives. Issue 168:Vol. 36 No. 5 (Sept. 2009). Edited all articles, galleys and page proofs. Co-wrote introduction.
IV. ACADEMIC ARTICLES IN BOOKS
“Un escritor es un arquitecto.” Pasiones y obsesiones: Secretos del oficio de escribir. Ed. Sandra Lorenzano. México D.F.: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2012. P. 23-27.
“Los estudios culturales latinoamericanos como forma endógena de conocimiento.” Pensar los Estudios Culturales desde España: Reflexiones fragmentadas. Ed. Patricia Arroyo, Marta Casaús, Clara Garavelli and María Luisa Ortega. Madrid: Verbum, 2012. P. 27-48.
“Racialized Subalternity as Emancipatory Decolonial Project: Time Commences in Xibalbá by Luis de Lión.” Luis de Lión. Time Commences in Xibalbá. Trans. Nathan C. Henne. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2012. P. 85-115.
“Post-identidades post-nacionales: duelo, trauma y melancolía en la constitución de las subjetividades centroamericanas de posguerra.” (Per) Versiones de la modernidad. Literaturas, identidades y desplazamientos. Ed. Beatriz Cortez, Alexandra Ortiz Wallner y Verónica Ríos Quesada. Guatemala: F&G Editores, 2012. P. 121-139.
“Epicentro y la ubicación de los centroamericanos en el centro: la emergencia de una nueva literatura centroamericano-americana.” Poéticas de los dislocamientos. Gisela Heffes (ed.). México D.F.: Literal, 2012. P. 251-283.
“Txitzi’n for the Poxnai: Indigenous Women’s Discourses on Revolutionary Combat.” Meanings of Violence in Contemporary Latin America. Gabriela Polit Dueñas and María Helena Rueda (eds.). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. P. 11-35.
“La subalternidad racializada en los cuentos de Luis de Lión.” La puerta del cielo. Luis de Lión.
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Guatemala: Editorial Cultura, 2011. P. 9-24.
“Lectura decolonial de los discursos de mujeres mayas sobre el combate revolucionario.” Anais do II Congresso de Cultura Ibero-Americana: Cultura e Transformaçao Social. São Paulo, Brazil: SESC-SP, 2010. P. 378-385.
“Configurando los estudios culturales centroamericanos” in Actas del Segundo congreso centroamericano de estudios culturales (2009). Héctor M. Leyva (ed.). Tegucigalpa: Plural, 2010.P. 23-33.
“Cultural Studies” in A Companion to Latin American Philosophy. Susana Nuccetelli, Ofelia Schutte and Otávio Bueno (eds.). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. P. 425-438.
“Fernando Vallejo’s Ruinous Heterotopias: The Queer Subject in Latin America’s Urban Spaces” in Telling Ruins in Latin America. Michael J. Lazzara and Vicky Unruh (eds.). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. P. 229-240.
“La literariedad, la problemática étnica y la articulación de discursos nacionales en Centroamérica” in Estudios culturales centroamericanos en el nuevo milenio. Marc Zimmerman and Gabriela Baeza Ventura (eds.). San José, Costa Rica: Universidad de Costa Rica, 2009. P. 189-211.
“The Maya Movement, Postcolonialism and Cultural Agency” in Coloniality at Large: Latin America and the Postcolonial Debate. Mabel Moraña, Enrique Dussel, and Carlos A. Jáuregui, editors. Durham, N.H.: Duke U P, 2008. P. 519-538.
“And the Storm Raged On: The Daily Experience of Terror during the Central American Civil Wars, 1966-1996” in Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Latin America: From the Wars of Independence to the Central American Civil Wars. Pedro Santoni (ed.). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008. P. 263-288.
“Entre mayas y letrados: Emergencia de la memoria indígena en Guatemala” in Memoria y Ciudadanía. Ileana Rodríguez and Mónica Szurmuk (eds.). Santiago de Chile: Editorial Cuarto Propio and México D.F.: Editorial Instituto Mora, 2008. P. 65-91.
“Teaching Testimonio: A New, Ex-Centric Design Emerges” in Teaching Life Writing Texts. Miriam Fuchs and Craig Howes (eds.). New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2008. P. 310-317.
“Central American-Americans: Invisibility, Power and Representation” in The Other Latinos: Central and South Americans in the United States. José Luis Falconi and José Antonio Mazzotti (eds.). Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2007. P. 101-121.
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“Centroamericanos-americanos: Invisibilidad, poder y representación en el mundo latino de los Estados Unidos” in Ir y venir: Procesos transnacionales entre América Latina y el Norte. Sonia Báez Hernández, Anadeli Bencomo and Marc Zimmerman. (eds.). Houston: Bravo y Allende Editores, 2007.
“Central American Diasporas: Transnational Gangs and the Transformation of Latino Identity in the United States” in Technofuturos: Critical Interventions in Latina/o Studies. Nancy Raquel Mirabal and Agustín Laó-Montes (eds.). New York/Plymouth, UK: Lexington Books, 2007. P. 173-189.
“La literariedad, la problemática étnica y la articulación de discursos nacionales en Centroamérica” in Estudios culturales centroamericanos en el nuevo milenio. Marc Zimmerman and Gabriela Baeza Ventura (eds.). Houston: LACASA, 2007. P. 142-156.
“Conspiracy on the Sidelines: How the Maya Won the War” in Cultural Agency in the Americas. Doris Sommer (ed.). Raleigh-Durham: Duke UP, 2006. P. 167-177.
“Transgresión erótica y recodificación de símbolos en Mulata de tal” in Oralia Preble-Niemi (ed.). Cien Años de Magia: Ensayos Críticos Sobre la Obra de Mieguel Angel Asturias. Guatemala: F & G Editores, 2006. P. 19-32.
“The Predicament of Rivera as a Postcolonial Intellectual” in Roberto Rivera. A Study of Liberation Discourse: The Semantics of Opposition in Freire and Gutierrez. New York: Peter Lang, 2004. P. ix-xiv.
“Negatividad subversiva lo sagrado y la estética de la anti-estética en Maladrón de Miguel Angel Asturias” in Maladrón: Edición Crítica. Amos Segala (ed.). Madrid: Archivos, 2003.
“Representatividad mestiza, dialogización simbólica: Contrapunteos étnicos en “Las Casas: El obispo de dios” de Miguel Angel Asturias” en Miguel Angel Asturias: Teatro. Edición crítica. Lucrecia Méndez de Penedo (ed.) Madrid: Archivos, 2003. P. 1051-1070.
“Politics and Society” in The Companion to Latin American Studies. Philip Swanson (ed.). London: Edward Arnold, 2003. P. 26-46.
“El cuento guatemalteco” in Reni Marchevska (ed.). El cuento hispanoamericano actual: Antología. Sofia: Hemes, 2002.
“Travestismos, etnicidades, géneros: Recodificación de símbolos en Miguel Angel Asturias y Rigoberta Menchú” in Livia de Freitas Reis and Márcia Paraquett (eds.). Fronteiras do litérario II. Niterói: Editora da Universidade Federal Fluminense, 2002.
“Revisitando a Asturias en su Centenario: ¿Temeroso de las Mujeres, Confundido con el
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Sexo?”in Ileana Rodríguez (ed.). Cánones Literarios Masculinos y Relecturas Transculturales. Lo Trans-Femenino/Masculino/Queer. Colección “Feminismo y Diferencia” dirigida por Iris Zavala. Barcelona: Anthropos, 2001.
“Repensando Hombres de maíz: ¿Génesis de la narratividad posmoderna?” in Joaquín Manzi (ed.). Locos, excéntricos y marginales en las literaturas latinoamericanas: Coloquio Internacional. Tomo I. Poitiers: CNRS-Archivos-Université de Poitiers, 2000.
“El Señor Presidente: Amor y Sentimentalidad Como Tropo de la Unidad Frente a la Dictadura” in Miguel Angel Asturias El Señor Presidente: Edición Crítica. Gerald Martin (ed.). Madrid: Archivos, 2000.
“El nacimiento del neo-indigenismo: Quetzalcoatl Resimbolizado” in Miguel Angel Asturias Leyendas de Guatemala: Edición Crítica. Mario Roberto Morales (ed.). Madrid: Archivos, 2000
“Después de la guerra centroamericana: ¿Identidades simuladas, culturas reciclables?” in Mabel Moraña (ed.) Nuevas perspectivas desde/sobre América Latina. Santiago: Editorial Cuarto Propio/Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 2000.
“Enterrando el mito del primitivismo, redescubriendo a un autor eminentemente contemporáneo” in 1899/1999: Vida, obra y herencia de Miguel Angel Asturias. Catálogo. Exposición organizada por la UNESCO y la Colección Archivos. Paris: ALLCA XX/Ediciones UNESCO 1999.
“Mulata de tal: Lugar de este libro en el conjunto de la producción asturiana” in 1899/1999: Vida, obra y herencia de Miguel Angel Asturias. Catálogo. Exposición organizada por la UNESCO y la Colección Archivos. Paris: ALLCA XX/Ediciones UNESCO 1999.
“Roque Dalton: el extremismo ético y el culto del habla popular” in Rafael Lara-Martínez and Dennis L. Seager (eds.), Otros Roques: La poética múltiple de Roque Dalton. New Orleans: University Press of the South, 1999.
“Textualidad y tendencias discursivas en Guatemala antes y después de las masacres” in Jorge Román-Lagunas and Rick McCallister (eds.), La literatura centroamericana como arma cultural. Guatemala: Centro Internacional de Literatura Centroamericana, 1999.
“Caballo viejo de la sabana versus perro hambriento: La estética simbólica como eje narrativo” in Rafael Arévalo Martínez, El hombre que parecía un caballo: Edición Crítica. Dante Liano (ed.). Madrid: Colección Archivos, 1997.
“Gioconda Belli: The Magic and/of Eroticism ” in Claudia Ferman (ed.), The Postmodern in Latin and Latino American Cultural Narratives. New York: Garland, 1996.
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“Rigoberta Menchú: From Peasant to National Symbol ” in Allen Carey-Webb and Stephen Benz (eds.) Teaching and Testimony: Rigoberta Menchú and the North American Classroom. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.
“Foreword: Ethics and Self-Empowerment in Rigoberta Menchú and Judith Thorn ” in Judith Thorn, The Lived Horizon of My being. Tempe: Arizona State University Center for Latin American Studies Press, 1966.
“Muecas en el vacío: autoreflexiones desde la marginalidad de la creación” in Manuel Gutierrez Estevez, Jorge Klor de Alva, Gary Gossen and Miguel León-Portilla (eds.) De Palabra y Obra en el Nuevo Mundo vol. 4: Tramas de Identidad. Madrid: Siglo XXI, 1995.
“La democracia en Guatemala: Actualidad y perspectivas” in Pablo González Casanova y Marcos Roitman (eds.) La democracia en América Latina. Mexico/Madrid: SigloXXI/ Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1995.
“La novela social: entre la autenticidad del subdesarrollo y la falacia de la racionalidad conceptual” in Ana Pizarro (ed.) América Latina: Palavra, Literatura e Cultura Vol. 2 (Latin America: Word, Literature and Culture). São Paulo: Memorial de América Latina/UNICAMP, 1994.
“Claribel Alegría's Recollections of Things to Come” in Sandra Boschetto and Marcia McGowan (eds.) Claribel Alegría and Central American Literature: Critical Essays, Columbus: University of Ohio Press, 1994.
“Algunos aspectos de ideología y lenguaje en Hombres de maíz” in Miguel Angel Asturias, Hombres de maíz: Edición Crítica. Gerald Martin ed.). Madrid: Archivos, 1992.
“Políticas culturales en Guatemala y Costa Rica” ("Cultural Policies in Guatemala and Costa Rica") en Dos Santos, Mario y Calderón Fernando, Políticas Culturales en América Latina (Cultural Policies in Latin America). Buenos Aires: CLACSO, Biblioteca de Ciencias Sociales, 1991.
“Nueva narrativa centroamericana” in Centroamericana: Studie di Litteratura Ispanoamericana No. 1. Milan: University of Milan/Bulzoni Editore, 1990.
“La cultura, la política y el poder en Guatemala” in Hugo Zemelman (ed.) Cultura y política en América Latina. Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1990.
“Shifts in Indian Identity: Guatemala's Violent Transition to Modernity” in Carol Smith (ed.) Guatemalan Indians and the State, 1521 - 1988. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990. 230-257.
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“Consideraciones en torno al género y génesis de Guatemala, las líneas de su mano” in Varios Autores, Cardoza y Aragón: La voz más alta. Guatemala: Colección Rial Academia, 1989.
“La Dinámica Reciente de las Poblaciones Indígenas Como una Respuesta a la Crisis Agraria y a la Opresión” in Varios Autores, Guatemala, Polos de Desarrollo: El Caso de la Desestructuración de las Comunidades Indígenas. México: CEIDEC-Ed. Praxis, 1988.
“La Respuesta del Poder 1982-1986: Población Indígena Militarizada, Acelerada Desestructuración de la Cultura e Identidad Etnicas” in Varios Autores, Guatemala, Polos de Desarrollo: El Caso de la Desestructuración de las Comunidades Indígenas. México: CEIDEC-Ed. Praxis, 1988.
“Su Ejemplo y Nuestra Responsabilidad” in Recopilación de textos sobre Roque Dalton. La Habana: Casa de las Américas, 1986.
“El Movimiento Indígena en Guatemala, 1970-1983" (The Guatemalan Indian Movement 1970- 1983) in Menjívar, Rafael, ed., Historia de Movimientos Populares en America Central. San José: Ediciones FLACSO, 1985.
“Culture, Genocide and Ethnocide in Guatemala” in Jonas, Susanne et. al., eds., Guatemala: Tyranny on Trial. San Francisco: Synthesis Publications, 1984.
“La Función de la Cultura en el Proceso de Guerra Popular Revolucionaria” (The Function of Culture in the Revolutionary Process) in Cardoza y Aragón, ed. Guatemala, Las Líneas de su Mano. Mexico: Centro de Estudios del Tercer Mundo, 1982.
“Historia del Cine en Guatemala” (History of Film in Guatemala) in Gumucio-Dagrón, Alfonso, ed., Les Cinémas en Amérique Latine. Paris: Filmeditions Pierre Lherminier, 1981.
“Literatura Contemporánea en Guatemala” (Contemporary Literature in Guatemala) in De León, Olver (ed.), Manual de Literatura Iberoamericana. Paris: Ophrys, 1981.
V. JOURNAL SCHOLARLY ARTICLES
“Tradition versus Modernity in Contemporary Yukatekan Maya Novels? Yuxtaposing X-Teya, u puksi’ik’al ko’olel and U yóok´otilo´ob áak´ab.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies Vol. 22 No. 1 (March 2013): 89-110.
“Nahuahtlizando la novelística: de infiernos, paraísos y rupturas de estereotipos en las prácticas discursivas decoloniales.” Alter/nativas, Latin American Cultural Studies Journal No. 1
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(Autumn 2013): http://alternativas.osu.edu/en/index.html
“Trayectorias, desafíos y nuevos paradigmas en los estudios culturales latinoamericanos.” Revista Iberoamericana Vol. 79 No. 242 (enero-marzo 2013) pp. 257-264.
“Indigenous Women at War: Discourses on Revolutionary Combat.” A contracorriente Vol. 10 No. 3 (2013), pp. 108-140.
“¿Tradición versus modernidad en las novelas yukatekas contemporáneas? Yuxtaponiendo X- Teya, u puksi’ik’al ko’olel y U yóok´otilo´ob áak´ab.” Revista Javeriana/ Cuadernos de Literatura Vol. 16 No. 32 (Julio-Diciembre 2012) pp. 208-235.
“Narratividades centroamericanas y decolonialidad: ¿Cuáles son las novedades en la literatura de posguerra?” Istmo 24 (January-June 2012): http://istmo.denison.edu/n24/articulos/index.html
“Central American-Americans in the Second Decade of the Twenty-First Ce ntury: Old scars, New Traumas, Disempowering Travails.” Diálogo Vol. 15 No. 1 (Spring 2012), pp. 4-16.
“Centroamericanidades: New Configurations of Central Americanness.” Portal No. 7 (2011- 2012), pp. 4-7.
“EpiCentro: The Emergence of a New Central American-American Literature.” Comparative Literature. Vol. 64 No. 3 (Summer 2012), pp. 300-315.
“Re-Visioning Latin American Studies in the United States.” Charles R. Hale, Sonia E. Alvarez, co-authors. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research Vol. 17 No. 2 (December 2011), pp. 131-145.
“Literaturas de Abya Yala.” Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante, Emilio del Valle Escalante, co-authors. LASA Forum Vol. 43 No. 1 (October 2011), pp. 7-10.
“Re-Visioning Latin American Studies.” Charles R. Hale, Sonia E. Alvarez, co-authors. Cultural Anthropology Vol. 26 No. 2. (May 2011), pp. 225-246.
“The Ghosts of the Past, Human Dignity, and the Collective Need for Reparation.” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Vol. 5 No. 2 (July 2010), pp. 207-218.
“Configuranndo los estudios culturales centroamericanos.” Istmo. 20 (enero-junio 2010): http://istmo.denison.edu/n20/articulos/12.html
“Post-identidades post-nacionales: Transformaciones en la constitución de las subjetividades
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globalizadas.” Centroamericana 18. (2010), pp. 11-30.
“Post-identidades post-nacionales: Transformaciones en la constitución de las subjetividades globalizadas.” Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana. No. 69 (Fall 2009), pp. 135- 152.
“Letter From Guatemala: Indigenous Women on Civil War.” PMLA Vol. 124, No. 5 (October 2009), pp. 1874-1877.
Revisiting the Guatemalan Genocide: Crisis of the Ladino Left, Pyrrhic Victory of the “Maya Populares” Portal No. 3 (Fall 2008), pp. 21-23.
“Kotz’ib’: The Emergence of a New Maya Literature.” Indigenous Literatures and Social Movements in Latin America. Special issue of The Latin American Indian Literatures Journal. Issue I:Vol. 24 (2008), pp. 7-28.
“Constructing Ethnic Bodies and Identities in Miguel Angel Asturias and Rigoberta Menchú.” Postmodern Culture Vol. 17 No. 1 (September 2006): http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/pmc/v017/17.1arias.html
“The Maya Movement, Postcolonialism and Cultural Agency.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies Vol. 15, No. 2 (August 2006), pp. 251-262.
“Travestismo, etnia, género: recodificación de símbolos en Miguel Angel Asturias y Rigoberta Menchú.” Estudios. Revista de Investigaciones Literarias y Culturales. Vols. 13-14, Nos. 26-27 (July 2005-June 2006), pp.27-51.
“The Maya movement: Post-Colonialism and Globalization.” AGLOS News No. 7. Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan (November 2005), pp. 56-66.
“América Latina, el futuro del mundo: Entrevista con el Dr. Arturo Arias.” SEKAI. 4, No. 738. Tokyo, Japan. (2005).
“Democracia y Cultura en América Central: Problemas y Perspectivas.” Iberoamericana. Vol. XXVII, No. 1. Instituto Iberoamericano, Universidad Sofía, Tokyo, Japan (First Trimester, 2005), pp. 1-17.
“Personal Stories of Latin Americanism.” Radical History Review No. 89. Special Issue, “Our Americas: Cultural and Political Imaginings” (Winter 2004), pp. 49-55.
“Central American-Americans: Invisibility, Power and Representation in the U.S. Latino World.” Latino Studies. Vol. 1, Issue 1 (March 2003), pp. 168-187.
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“Reading Menchú Truthfully? Producing an American Reading of the Subaltern Text.” Nuevo Texto Crítico Año XV-XVI, No. 29/32 (2002-2003), pp. 177-198.
“After the Rigoberta Menchú Controversy: Lessons Learned About the Nature of Subalternity and the Specifics of the Indigenous Subject.” MLN, Vol. 117, No. 2 (March 2002), pp. 481-505.
“Después de la controversia en torno a Rigoberta Menchú: Lecciones acerca de la naturaleza del sujeto subalterno y del sujeto indígena.” Casa de las Américas. Havana: January- February 2002.
“Authoring Ethnicized Subjects: Rigoberta Menchú and the Performative Production of the Subaltern Self.” PMLA Vol. 116, No. 1 (January 2001), pp. 75-88.
“Central American-Americans? Re-mapping Latino/Latin American Subjectivities on Both Sides of the Great Divide.” Explicación de Textos Literarios. 28.1-2 (1999-2000), pp. 47-63.
“Objetos perdidos, dulzuras ignoradas: sistematizando el imaginario centroamericano.” Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana. No. 50 (1999), pp. 173-185.
“Lezama Lima: A Cat to be Defined.” Barataria, Pliegos de la Insula. Alcalá de Henares, Spain, Journal of Filología y Creación Literaria, the University of Alcalá: No. 4 (1999), pp. 71- 82.
“Latin America and Globalization: Response to Jeremy Adelman’s Paper.” LASA Forum. Vol. XXIX, No. 1, Spring 1998.
“La psique interior de los guatemaltecos, las cuestiones del biculturalismo.” in Mesoamerica. No. 34, December 1997.
“Forum on Anthropology in Public: Consciousness, Violence, and the Politics of Memory in Guatemala. Comments to Charles R. Hale.” Current Anthropology. Vol. 38, No. 5, December 1997.
“Decolonizing Knowledge, Reformulating Textuality: Rethinking the Role of Central American Narrative.” College of Humanities Magazine. Vol. 15,No.1, Spring 1997.
“Hombres de maíz: ¿Génesis de la narratividad postmoderna?” Centroamericana: Studie di Litteratura Ispanoamericana. No. 6/7, University of Milan/Bulzoni Editore, 1996.
“Literature in Times of Crisis: Central American Narratives 1969-1990.” Symposium. Dept. of Humanities, San Francisco State University, Spring 1995.
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“Breaking Through the Barriers: Central American Literature and Its Links to North American Postmodernist Literature.” College of Humanities Magazine. Vol. 13 No. 1, Fall 1994.
“A Guatemalan Melodrama with a Vengeance.” Latin American Perspectives. Vol. 21 No. 4, Fall 1994.
“Mayas and Gringos: The Guatemalan Political Documentary in the Eighties.” Film Criticism. No 17.1, Allegheny College, Spring 1994.
“Teoría Literaria y Narración del Cambio Social.” Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana. No. 39. 1994.
“The National Ethnic Question: Some Ideas to Reflect Upon in the Context of the Encounter of Two Worlds.” Humanities Journal. Spring 1993.
“El periodismo iluminador de Miguel Angel Asturias.” Revista Iberoamericana: La Colección Archivos: hacia un nuevo canon. Vols. 158-159, 164-165, April-June 1992/July-Dec. 1993.
“Keynote Address: Central America: Social Scientists as Targets and as Decipherers of Catastrophic Signs.” Latin American Studies. Vol. 4, No. 2, Fall 1992.
“Conciencia de la palabra: Algunos rasgos de la nueva narrativa centroamericana.” Hispamerica. No. 61, Journal of Latin American Literature, University of Maryland. Fall 1992.
“Bakhtin's Challenge and the Reformulation of Literary Theory.” Magazine. Spring 1992, School of Humanities, SFSU.
“Literary Production and Political Crisis in Central America.” International Political Science Review. Vol. 12 No. 1, January 1991.
“Consideraciones en torno al género y la génesis de Guatemala, las líneas de su mano.” USAC. Revista de la Universidad de San Carlos No. 2, August 1988.
“¿En qué se diferencian la novela y el cuento?” Plural. No. 188, May 1987, Mexico.
“Algunos Aspectos de Ideología y Lenguaje en Hombres de Maiz.” Texto Crítico. No. 30, January-February 1985, Xalapa, Mexico.
“Palabras en la Inauguración del Encuentro de Jóvenes Artistas Latinoamericanos y del Caribe.” Casa de las Américas. No. 142, January-February 1984, Havana.
“La Transformación Indígena en la Guerra Guatemalteca.” Casa del Tiempo. No. 31/32, July-
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August 1983, Mexico.
“Hacia una Crítica Sociológica de la Literatura.” Serie Separatas Anuario. No. 11, 1979, Universidad de San Carlos, Guatemala.
“Roque Dalton: su ejemplo y nuestra responsabilidad.” En Ancas. No. 4, a. 1, 1977, Caracas.
“La Estructura Oximorónica en los Cuentos de Jorge Luis Borges.” Anuario. 1973, Universidad de San Carlos, Guatemala.
VI. BOOK REVIEWS
“Entre hombres: masculinidades del siglo XIX en América Latina. Editado por Anna Peluffo e Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies. Volume LXXXVIII, No. 6 (September 2011): 922-923.
“Sobre Sonia Báez Hernández, Anadeli Bencomo y Marc Zimmerman, cords. Ir y Venir: Procesos transnacionales entre America Latina y el norte. Revista Iberoamericana. Vol. 77, No. 235(April-June 2011): 597-601.
“Latin American Literature: Love and Provocation.” American Book Review. Vol. 13 No. 1, (April-May 1991): 89-91.
“El Centro Independiente de Estudios de Teatro Latinoamericano.” La Cabra. No. 33-35, (June- August 1981): 47-49.
“Sobre Lo Demás es Silencio de Augusto Monterroso.” Araucaria. No. 6, (1979): 77-79.
VII. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
“Relatoría” in Néstor García Canclini (ed.). Iberoamérica 2002: Diagnóstico y Propuestas para el Desarrollo Cultural. Mexico: Santillana, 2002.
VIII. ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
“Claribel Alegría,”“Miguel Angel Asturias,” “Otto René Castillo,” “Carlos Illescas,” “Augusto Monterroso” and “Carlos Wyld Ospina” in The Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. Barbara A. Tenenbaum (ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995.
IX. COMPETITIVE GRANTS
UT COLA Humanities Research Award. 2010-2013.
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Mellon Fellowship for Research in Guatemala, Summer 2012.
Mellon Fellowship for Research in Guatemala, Summer 2011.
Mellon Fellowship for Research in Guatemala, Summer 2010.
Mellon Fellowship for Research in Guatemala, Summer 2009.
Mellon Fellowship for Research in Guatemala, Summer 2008.
Corrigan President’s Grant for Summer Research. Summer 1998.
Stanford Humanities Center. Martha Sutton Weeks Fellowship in the Humanities.1994-95.
McDermid Fellowship. One-semester Fellowship Spring 1992.
Mellon Fellowship for Research in Brazil, Summer 1990.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
“Kotz`ib`: El surgimiento de narrativas indígenas contemporáneas en Abya Yala.” First International Congress of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America, 19th to 21st Centuries. Oaxaca Institute of Culture. Oaxaca, Mexico. October 31, 2013.
“¿No abortó el tiempo? Racialidades y racismos en las relaciones interétnicas de la novelística de Crispín Amador Ramírez.” Third Ethnicity, Race and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean – LASA. Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca. Oaxaca, Mexico, October 25, 2013.
“¿Tradición versus modernidad en la novelística indígena contemporánea? Explorando sus implicaciones teóricas en X-Teya, u puksi’ik’al ko’olel y U yóok´otilo´ob áak´ab.” Latin American Cultural Studies in the 21st Century Symposium. Ohio State University. Columbus, OH, November 2, 2012.
“Reconfiguring Guatemalan Historical Memory: The Lived Experience of Maya Women at War.” War and Memory: Bearing Witness to Loss in Everyday Life conference. University of Oregon School of Law. Keynote Speech. Eugene, OR, October 19, 2012.
¿Tradición versus modernidad en las novelas yukatekas contemporáneas? Yuxtaponiendo X- Teya, u puksi’ik’al ko’olel y U yóok´otilo´ob áak´ab. XXXIX Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. Cádiz, Spain, July 3, 2012.
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“Meanings of Violence in Contemporary Latin America.” XXX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), San Francisco, CA. May 26, 2012. . “Central American-Americans: Imaginative Reformulations and New Configurations of Central Americanness in the US.” XXX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), San Francisco, CA. May 24, 2012.
“Tradition versus Modernity in Contemporary Yukatekan Maya Novels? Yuxtaposing X-Teya, u puksi’ik’al ko’olel and U yóok´otilo´ob áak´ab. “The Future of Latin American Cultural Studies: 20 Years of JLACS” conference. UT Austin, Department of Spanish & Portuguese. March 31, 2012.
“A New Maya Literature in the Making: A Contribution to Decoloniality.” 2012 Maya Meetings Symposium. Beyond Glyphs: Ancient Maya Inscription as Literature. UT Austin Casa Herrera. Antigua, Guatemala. March 15, 2012.
“Narratividades centroamericanas y decolonialidad: ¿Cuáles son las novedades en la literatura de posguerra?” Texas A&M Colloquium on Central American Writing. Keynote Speech. Texas A&M University. College Station, TX November 16, 2011.
“EpiCentro, and other Central Americans Within the Center: The Emergence of a New Central American-American Literature.” Streamlines Conference for Language, Literature, and Writing. Keynote Speech. Clarke University. Dubuque, IA, Saturday November 12, 2011.
“Indigenous Women at War: Problematizing Discourses on Revolutionary Combat.” Tierra Tinta Annual Conference on Latin American, Spanish & Luso-Brazilian Literatures. Keynote Speech. University of Oklahoma. Norman, OK, October 7th, 2011.
“Articulando modernidades heterogéneas: producción literaria centroamericana a fines del siglo diecinueve y principios del veinte.” XIV Congresso Brasileiro de Professores de Espanhol. Keynote Speech. Universidade Federal Fluminense. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. July 22, 2011.
“EpiCentro y la ubicación de los centroamericanos en el centro: la emergencia de una nueva literatura centroamericano-americana.” I simposio internacional sobre ideología, política y reivindicaciones en lengua, literatura y cine en español. UNED. Santander, España. July 7, 2011.
“¿Cuánto dura la “postguerra”? Nuevos parámetros para la crítica literaria centroamericana.” XXIX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Toronto, Canada. October 8, 2010.
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“The Future of Latina/o Studies.” XXIX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Toronto, Canada. October 8, 2010.
“Responding to the Cold War: Theory and Cultural Production in 1960s Latin America.” Cold War Cultures: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives Conference. University of Texas at Austin. Austin, TX October 1, 2010.
“De-Centering Latin American Studies.” Independence! Two Centuries of Struggle. Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia 2010 Conference Keynote Speech. Australian National University. Canberra, Australia. July 7, 2010.
“Post-Identidades Post-Nacionales: Duelo, Trauma y Melancolía en la Constitución de las Subjetividades Centroamericanas de Postguerra.” Transnationality in the Luso-Hispanic World. VII Graduate Students Conference, Spanish & Portuguese Dept., UCLA Keynote Speech. Los Angeles, CA, April 29, 2010.
“Central American Narrativity and the Coloniality of Power: Is Post-War Literature New?” Theme, Structure and Aesthetics in Post-Civil War Central American Narratives Conference Keynote Speech. University of Liverpool. Liverpool, England. April 16, 2010.
“Txitzi’n for the Poxnai: Indigenous Women’s Discourses on Revolutionary Combat.” Mid- American Conference on Hispanic Literature. University of Kansas. Lawrence, KS. November 6, 2009.
“Txitzi’n para las Poxnai: Lectura decolonial de los discursos de mujeres mayas sobre el combate revolucionario.” II Congreso Ibero-Americano de Cultura. SESC-Vila Mariana. Brazilian Ministry of Culture. São Paulo, Brazil. October 2, 2009.
“Configurando los estudios culturales centroamericanos.” II Congreso Centroamericano de Estudios Culturales Centroamericanos Keynote Speech. Universidad de Costa Rica. San José, Costa Rica. July 23, 2009.
“Kotz’ib’: Profundizando los significantes de la literatura maya.” XXVIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. June 12, 2009.
“Post-identidades Post-nacionales: Transformaciones en la producción literaria centroamericana de postguerra.” Representations of War and Peace in Postwar Central American Narratives Conference Keynote Speech. Central American University, San Salvador. April 14, 2009.
“The Maya Achi and the Chixoy Dam: Ghosts of the Past, Human Dignity, and Collective Need
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For Reparation.” 2nd International Congress of Pre-Hispanic Myths Keynote Speech. University of Liverpool. July 1, 2008.
“Revisiting the Guatemalan Genocide: Crisis of the Ladino Left, Pyrrhic Victory of the ‘Maya Populares.’” What’s Left of the Latin American Left? Conference. University of Texas at Austin. April 29, 2008.
“Grupo Cero a la izquierda and the Emergence of a Visual Understanding of the Salvadoran War.” Reconstructing a Historical Memory of Violence and Overcoming the Effects of Terror and War. University of Texas School of Law. April 18, 2008.
“Redrawing the Region: Edelberto Torres Rivas, Subaltern Theory, and the Construction of Central America’s Social Identity.” Andre Gunder Frank’s Legacy of Critical Social Science Conference. University of Pittsburgh. April 12, 2008.
“EpiCentro, and other Central Americans within the Center: The Emergence of a New Central American-American Literature.” Nuestra América in the U.S.? A U.S. Latino/a Studies Conference. University of Kansas. February 8, 2008.
“The Ghosts of the Past, Human Dignity, and the Collective Need for Reparation.” Violence and Reconciliation in Latin America: Human Rights, Memory, and Democracy Conference Keynote Speech. University of Oregon. February 2, 2008.
“Kotz’ib’: The Emergence of a new Maya Literature.” 123d convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA). Chicago, IL December 27, 2007.
“Trayectorias, desafíos y nuevos paradigmas en los estudios culturales latinoamericanos.” I Congreso Centroamericano de Estudios Culturales Centroamericanos. Keynote Speech. Universidad Centroamericana “José Simeón Cañas,” UCA. San Salvador, El Salvador. October 10, 2007.
“Los espacios urbanos queer en El desbarrancadero y La virgen de los sicarios de Fernando Vallejo.” XXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Montréal, Canada. September 6, 2007.
“Chixoy, Apocalypto: la pasada violencia local como violencia simbólica globalizada.” VII Encuentro de Estudios Mayas. Keynote Speech. Rafael Landívar University, Guatemala City, Guatemala. August 8, 2007.
“Teaching Testimony: A New, Ex-Centric Design Emerges.” 122nd convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA). Philadelphia, PA, December 29, 2006.
“New Subject, New Urban Configurations: Fernando Vallejo, Ruins, AIDS and Death.” 122nd
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convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA). Philadelphia, PA, December 28, 2006.
“Revisitando el Genocidio Guatemalteco a Diez Años de la Firma de los Acuerdos de Paz.” International Congress of the Latin American Sociological Association (ALAS). Antigua, Guatemala, October 26, 2006.
“Beyond Subalternism: The Emergence of a New Maya Literature.” Romance Studies Colloquium 2006. University of Oregon. Eugene, OR, October 20, 2006.
“Identity/Literariness: The “Mongolian Spot” and the Emergency of a New Maya Literature.” 34th Annual National Conference of the National Association of Ethnic Studies. San Francisco, CA. April 1, 2006.
“Post-identidades post-nacionales: Transformaciones en la constitución de las subjetividades globalizadas.” XXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), San Juan, PR. March 16, 2006.
“A New Urban Subjective Configuration: Fernando Vallejo's Constitution of the Queer Subject in Latin America's Urban Spaces.” 121st convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA).Washington D.C. December 29, 2005.
“Fernando Vallejo: A New Genealogy of Queer Subjectivity.” QUEER SCAPES Body Space Sexuality Joint USC/UCLA Queer Studies Conference. Los Angeles, CA, November 18, 2005.
“The 'Mongolic Stain' and the Emergence of a New Maya Literature.” Knowledge and Belief 25th Anniversary Conference and Reunion. Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University.Palo Alto, CA, October 15, 2005.
“Final Words About a New Beginning.” 6o. Congreso de Estudios Mayas. Universidad Rafael Landívar. Guatemala City, August 5, 2005.
“Ideas y conceptos provocadores para el analisis de la subalternidad y de la postcolonialidad.” 6o. Congreso de Estudios Mayas. Keynote Speech. Universidad Rafael Landívar. Guatemala City, August 3, 2005.
“La Importancia de la Obra de Cornejo Polar Para el Latinoamericanismo.” UC Berkeley IX Encuentro Latinoamericano en Berkeley: Homenaje a Antonio Cornejo Polar. Berkeley, CA, April 2, 2005.
“Queering the Latin American Literary Canon: Fernando Vallejo’s Reconfiguration of the Past From a Contemporary Perspective.” Hawaii International Conference on Arts and
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Humanities. Honolulu, January 13, 2005.
“The Outcasts of Global Citizenship: Central American Cultural Production and Globalization After a Decade of Peace.” 120th convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA). Philadelphia, PA December 28, 2004.
“The Maya Movement: Poscolonialism and Globalization.” Expanding Conflict and Refugees: Can Globalization Construct a Global Community? Sophia University. Tokyo, Japan, December 4, 2004.
“Envisioning A Future For Cultural Criticism.” XXV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Las Vegas, NV, October 9, 2004.
“Siempre modernos, siempre maginales: El conundrum centroamericano.” XXV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Las Vegas, NV. October 8, 2004.
“On The Maya and Cultural Agency.” On Our Own Ground: Mapping Indigeneity Within the Academy. Harvard University. Cambridge, MA. September 18,2004.
“The Maya Movement, Post colonialism and Cultural Agency.” Celebrating the Fourth World: A Symposium for Gordon Brotherston. University of Essex. London, England. September 15, 2004.
“Madrid, Capital Literaria Centroamericana? Validación de las Literaturas Periféricas Desde los Aparatos Culturales Españoles.” III Congreso Internacional sobre Madrid en la Literatura Espanola, Iberoamericana y Universal. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. Madrid, Spain. July 10, 2004.
“Future Issues for Latino/Latin American Studies.” Reflections on the Future: Dialogues on the Intersections of Latina/o-Chicana/o-Latin American(s) Studies. University of California, Santa Cruz. February 21, 2004.
“My experience in conceptual, curricular and institutional building in these areas.” Framing Latin American and Latino Studies. University of California, Santa Cruz. June 5, 2003.
“Why Still Re-Visiting Menchú? Implications of the Controversy for the Future of Cultural and Subaltern Studies.” Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies. Keynote Speech. Los Angeles. November 8, 2002.
“Translation and the Reproduction of Culture.” Western Humanities Alliance 21st Annual
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Conference. UC Irvine. October 18, 2002.
“After the Rigoberta Menchú Controversy: Lessons Learned About the Nature of Subalternity and the Specifics of the Indigenous Subject.” Hispanic Cultural Studies: The State of the Art. Tucson, AZ. September 20, 2002.
“La literariedad, la problemática étnica y la articulacion de discursos nacionales en Centroamerica.” VIII International Congress of ABRALIC (Brazilian Comparative Literature Association). Semi-Keynote Speech. Federal University of Minas Gerais. Belo Horizonte, Brazil. July 24, 2002.
“¿Dos o tres Menchúes? Visión española, norteamericana y guatemalteca de la polémica en torno a Rigoberta Menchú.” Challenges of Central American Literatures and Cultures. UCLA. Los Angeles, May 24, 2002.
“Re-Thinking the Americas, Re-Thinking LASA: The Complexities of Negotiating Language Differences.” Cultural Agency in Reshaping the Americas. University of California- Irvine. May 23, 2002.
“¿Fuentes o Menchú? Diferentes naciones, diferentes representaciones, diferentes literariedades.” Geografías de Carlos Fuentes: Cuarenta años de La muerte de Artemio Cruz y Aura. Brown University. Providence, April 20, 2002.
“Central American-Americans: Invisibility, Power and Representation in the U.S. Latino World.” What About The Other Latinos? Harvard University. Cambridge, MA April 5, 2002.
“Racism and Affirmation of Eurocentric Discourses Behind the Rigoberta Menchú Controversy: Positioning Criticism From Within a Southern Perspective.” 117th convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA). New Orleans, December 29, 2001.
“Rethinking the Americas: Dialogue, Strategies, Research.” 117th convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA).New Orleans, December 28, 2001.
“LASA’s Role in Relation to the Americas in the Context of a Globalized World.” XII Jornada de Estudos Americanos of the Associão Brasileira de Estudios Americanos (ABEA).Brasilia. November 6, 2001.
“La quema de la embajada de España en Guatemala: El libro de Máximo Cajal y la versión ideologizada de David Stoll.” XXIII Congress of the Asociación Latinoamericana de
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Sociología (ALAS). Antigua Guatemala, October 31, 2001.
“¿Hacia dónde nos dirigimos desde aquí? Consecuencias teóricas de la actitud de Stoll para los estudios culturales centroamericanos.” Segunda Conferencia Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Centroamericana. CSU Northridge. October 26, 2001.
“El amante de la modernidad.” Segunda Conferencia Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Centroamericana. CSU Northridge. October 26, 2001.
“The place of Central American literature and Culture in the United States: Shifting Parameters for Framing Knowledge and Identity.” Intellectual Agendas and the Localities of Knowledge: A Hemispheric Dialogue. Mexico City. October 5, 2001.
“La quema de la embajada de España en Guatemala: la versión de Máximo Cajal y la construcción ideológica de la versión defendida por Stoll.” XXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Washington D.C.. September 8, 2001.
“After the Rigoberta Menchú Controversy: Lessons Learned About the Nature of Subalternity and the Specifics of the Indigenous Subject.” Genealogies of Displacement: diaspora/Exile/Migration and Chicana/Latina/Latin American/Peninsular Cultural Studies. UC Santa Cruz. May 27, 2001.
“The Rigoberta Menchú Controversy.” First International Congress on Literature and Testimonial. Central America. University of El Salvador. San Salvador, El Salvador. March 7, 2001.
“The Controversy behind the Rigoberta Menchú Controversy: A Guatemalan Perspective.” The Rise of New World Studies: Indigenous Cultures in the Americas at 2000. University of Oklahoma. Norman, November 16, 2000.
“Reconsidering El Norte 15 Years Later.” Reconstructing Central America II: The Pueblos of Maize in the United States. University of Maryland. College Park, MD. October 13, 2000.
“Inter-medios Culturales: Central American Cultural Production in the U.S.” Reconstructing Central America II: The Pueblos of Maize in the United States. University of Maryland. College Park, MD. October 13, 2000.
“Parecería simple pero no lo es: Dificultades, peligros y contradicciones en la enseñanza de la
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literatura latinoamericana en los Estados Unidos.” Keynote Speech. First Congress of the Brazilian Hispanist Association. Universidad Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. October 10, 2000.
“El Cuerpo del Cuento Centroamericano: Visibiliando lo Indecible.” International Symposium, The Short Narrative in the Hispanic World. Keynote Speech. California State University, Sacramento. March 24, 2000.
“Travestismos, Etnicidades, Generos: Recodificación de Símbolos en Miguel Angel Asturias y Rigoberta Menchú.” XXII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Miami. March 18, 2000.
“The Stoll/Menchú Debate.” XXII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Miami, March 18, 2000.
“It Might look Simple, But It is Not: Difficulties, Perils and Contradictions in the Teaching of Central/Latin American Literature.” Mid-American Conference for the Teaching of Latin American Literature. Keynote Speech. Wabash College. November 5, 1999.
“Ethnic Identities and Political Contradictions: Myths and Mirrors in Central American Textuality.” Rebuilding Central America: The People of Maize in the Age of Globalization. Paper titled University of Maryland. College Park, MD, April 27, 1999.
“From Jaguar en llamas.” First Conference of Central American Literature. Keynote Reading. Arizona State University, Tempe, April 10, 1999.
“Central American-Americans? Remapping Latino/Latin American Subjectivities on Both Sides of the Great Divide.” Cultural Borders of Latin America and Spain conference. Keynote Speech. UC Riverside, February 26, 1999.
“Latin America and Globalization: New Subjects, New Politics.” Radical Philosophy Association Congress. San Francisco, November 6, 1998.
“Central American Variations in the Latin American/Latino World [Dis}Order.” International Symposium on Mapping Latino/Latin American Chicago: Theoretical and Cultural Dimensions in the Age of Globalization. Chicago, September 28, 1998.
“¿Postcolonialidad latina, subalternidad maya? La difícil adecuación de corrientes teórico- metodológicas a los espacios simbólicos centroamericanos.” XXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Chicago, September 25, 1998.
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“Towards a Theory of Central American Cultural Studies.” 4th Annual San Francisco State's Humanities Graduate Students' Symposium. April 18, 1998.
“Después de la guerra centroamericana: ¿Identidades simuladas, culturas reciclables?” International Symposium on New Perspectives in/on Latin America: The Challenge of Cultural Studies. Pittsburgh, March 21, 1998.
“Delirios Etnicos y Recreación de las Identidades en las Prácticas Discursivas Centroamericanas.” La Chispa Hispanic Literature Conference. Louisiana State University. February 21, 1998.
“Nacionalismo y crisis de identidad en las prácticas discursivas centroamericanas.” Hispanics and the U.S.: Cultural Locations.” University of San Francisco. October 11, 1997.
“Representación dialógica, otredad e identidad cultural maya en la ficción de Miguel Angel Asturias.” 14th Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. September 20, 1997.
“La Gringa de Carlos Wyld Ospina y La Tempestad de Flavio Herrera: El verdadero nudo del racismo ladino en la novelística guatemalteca.” 2nd International Congress of Mayan Studies, Guatemala City. August 8, 1997.
“Decolonizing Knowledge, Reformulating Textuality: Rethinking the Role of Central American Narrative.” 1st. Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, UCSD. Keynote Speech. La Jolla, May 17, 1997.
“Objetos perdidos, dulzuras ignoradas: sistematizando el imaginario centroamericano.” XX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Guadalajara, Mexico. April 19, 1997.
“Hegemony, Domination, Mobilization: Cultural Studies, post-colonial studies, subaltern studies?” 3d Annual San Francisco State's Humanities Graduate Students' Symposium. Keynote Speech. April 4, 1997,
“Los estudios culturales en Centroamérica y su posible implementación.” V Central American International Congress on Literary Criticism. San José, Costa Rica, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica and Purdue University-Calumet.February 21, 1997.
“Lezama Lima: A Cat to be Defined.” The Powers of Poetry in Spanish, Latin American and
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Latino/a Cultures. Dept. of Romance Languages of the University of Oregon. Eugene, OR. October 24, 1996.
“Miguel Angel Asturias: Mayan Symbolism, Ladino Nation?” 1st. International Congress of Mayan Studies, Guatemala City. August 7, 1996.
“A Proposal for the Reformulation of the Nation-State in Guatemala.” 1st. European Congress of Latin Americanists. Salamanca. June 28, 1996.
“Miguel Angel Asturias: Genesis of Postmodern Literature?” Fools, Excentrics and Marginals in Latin American Literature. University of Poitiers. Poitiers. June 6, 1996.
“Literature and Film.” New York City’s 16th Conference on Latin America. Keynote Speaker. Montclair State University, Montclair NJ, April 26, 1996.
“Identidad/literariedad: marginalidad y postmodernidad en Centroamerica.” XIX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Washington D.C. September 29, 1995.
“Introduction to Central American Literature and Culture.” Latin American Literatures and Cultures: Self and Society. Univ. of California-San Diego. July 11-14, 1995.
“Los rugidos del Jaguar en llamas: Reflexión autocrítica.” III Central American International Congress on Literary Criticism, Guatemala City, Guatemala, Universidad de San Carlos and Purdue University-Calumet. February 23, 1995.
“Repensando Hombres de maiz: ¿Génesis de la narratividad postmoderna?” 11th Annual Mid- America Conference on Hispanic Literature, Lawrence, Kansas. September 10, 1994.
“Descolonizando el conocimiento, reformuando la textualidad: repensando el papel de la narrativa centroamericana” II Latin American Symposium at Berkeley. April 23, 1994.
“Rigoberta Menchú as Living Icon: The Problems of Political Self-Representation.” Rigoberta Menchú Conference. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. March 25, 1994.
“Descolonizando el conocimiento, reformulando la textualidad: repensando el papel de la narrativa centroamericana.” XVIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Atlanta, GA. March 12, 1994.
“Una función con móbiles y tentetiesos: Pactos retóricos, concierto de voces barrocas.” II
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Central American International Congress on Literary Criticism, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Universidad Nacional and Florida State Univesity. February 23, 1994.
“Dialogism of Mayas and Gringos: The Guatemalan Political Documentary in the Eighties and Nineties.” VI Bakhtin International Conference, Cocoyoc, Mexico. July 7, 1993.
“From Central America, Without Central America.” Human Rights and Democracy Colloquium, Keynote Speaker. University of South Carolina at Spartanburg. Spartanburg, SC, June 25, 1993.
“Tales from the Struggle of the Mayan Peoples.” Indigenous Peoples/First Nations in the Americas: Land, Ecology, Human Rights and Self-Determination. University of California at Berkeley. May 12, 1993.
“Changes in Central American Cultural Identity.” Cultural Policies, Artists and Communicators in Globalization Processes and Regional Integration. Mexico City. CLACSO, UNESCO and UAM-Iztapalapa. May 6, 1993.
“Gioconda Belli: Magic and/or Eroticism.” I Central American International Congress on Literary Criticism, Granada, Nicaragua. Instituto Nicaragüense de Cultura and Florida State University. February 25,1993.
“Gestures in Emptiness: Self-Reflection from the Periphery of Creation.” Listening to New Voices: Discourse and the Plurality of Meaning. State University of New York at Albany and the Rockefeller Institute. Nov. 2, 1993.
“Changing Indian Identity: Guatemala's Violent Transition to Modernity.” Listening to New Voices: Discourse and the Plurality of Meaning. State University of New York at Albany and the Rockefeller Institute. November 2, 1992.
“Repensando el predicamento del intelectual neocolonial en Centroamerica.” XVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Los Angeles, CA. September 26, 1992.
“From Sopa de caracol.” XVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Los Angeles, CA. September 25, 1992.
“The National Ethnic Question: Some Reflections on the Encounter of Two Worlds.” Southwestern Anthropological Association 63d Annual Meeting, Berkeley, CA. April 9, 1992.
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“Contradictions of Concepts? The Humanities and Cultural Studies.” 23d Annual Conference. The California Humanities Association. Keynote Speech. Sacramento, CA. April 4, 1992.
“The National Ethnic Question: Some Ideas to Reflect Upon in the Context of the Encounter of Two Worlds.” 1992 Krost Symposium, Texas Lutheran University. Feb. 14, 1992.
“Día de la Raza: Deconstructing Race in Latin America.” Keynote Speech. Program at Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY. October 8, 1991.
“Teoría literaria y narración del cambio social.” XVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Washington D.C. April 6, 1991.
“Central America: Social Scientists as Targets and Decipherers of Catastrophic Signs.” 36th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies. Keynote Speech. San Francisco. October 26, 1990.
“The Place of Latin American Narrative.” X Brazilian Congress on Literary Theory and Criticism. University of Paraiba and the Brazilian Association of Semiotics. Campina Grande, Paraiba, Brazil. September 17-19, 1990.
“Chronotopes and Definition of National Identities in the Literature of the Americas.” 2nd. Congress of the Brazilian Association of Comparative Literature (ABRALIC). Keynote Speech. Federal University of Minas Gerais. Belo Horizonte, Brazil. August 10, 1990.
INVITED TALKS
“Recovering Lost Footprints: The Emergence of Contemporary Indigenous Narratives in Abya Yala.” Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, the University of Texas at Austin. Investiture as Tomas Rivera Regents Professor in Spanish Language and Literature. Austin, TX. August 29, 2013.
“Recuperando las huellas perdidas: El surgimiento de narrativas indígenas contemporáneas en Abya Yala.” Centro de Estudios Literarios Antonio Cornejo Polar, Lima, Peru. August 13, 2013.
“El surgimiento de narrativas mayas contemporáneas en Guatemala.” Guatemala Scholars Network 2013 Meeting. Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española. Antigua, Guatemala. July 11, 2013.
“Conversatorio con Arturo Arias: su obra y su trabajo academico.” CSU Sacramento Summer
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Program. Hotel Antigua. Antigua, Guatemala. July 5, 2013.
“Central American Narrativity in a Post-War Context: What is New?” Emory University. Atlanta, GA, June 18, 2013.
“Recuperando las huellas perdidas: La emergencia de narrativas indígenas contemporáneas en Abya Yala.” Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Programa de Estudios Amerindios. Querétaro, QRO, Mexico, April 11, 2013.
“Truth and Narrative: A Meditation on Creative Writing and Decolonization.” Waipapa Marae, The University of Auckland. Auckland, NZ, March 14, 2013.
“Oxlajuj B’aqtun: Not the End but a New Beginning for Maya, Indigenous Peoples and the Earth.” The University of Auckland. Auckland, NZ, March 12, 2013.
“Decolonisation, Research and Indigenous Peoples Today.” A Joint Workshop with Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith for Researchers. Waipapa Marae, The University of Auckland. Auckland, NZ, March 11, 2013.
“An Exchange on Decolonial Theories and Methodologies.” A Joint Workshop with Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith for Māori Researchers. Te Kotahi Research Institute, The University of Waikato. Hamilton, NZ, March 7-8, 2013.
“Centroamericanidades: Imaginative Reformulations and New Configurations of Central Americanness.” DePaul University. Chicago, IL, October 11, 2012.
“Taberna literaria: Novelas de posguerra en Guatemala.” Guatemala City Downtown Festival. Casa Cervantes. Guatemala City, Guatemala, August 16, 2012.
“U.S. Central Americans: Representations, Agency, and Communities.” University of the Ozarks. Clarksville, AR, March 29, 2012.
“Literatura maya contemporánea: la emergencia del letrado indígena.” University of Western Ontario. London, ON, September 23, 2011.
“From Hombres de Maíz to The King Corn.” Dept. of Modern Languages. Texas State University. San Marcos, TX September 14, 2011.
“Erotismo, humor y muerte: líneas de fuga en la literatura guatemalteca contemporánea.” Guadalajara International Book Fair. Guadalajara, Mexico. December 1, 2010.
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“Indigenism and Indigeneity: Contemporary Maya History and Culture.” The New Zealand Centre for Latin American Studies. The University of Auckland. Auckland, New Zealand. July 2, 2010.
“Txitzi’n for the Poxnai: Indigenous Women’s Discourses on Revolutionary Combat.” University of Manchester. Manchester, England. April 20, 2010.
“Txitzi’n for the Poxnai: Indigenous Women’s Discourses on Revolutionary Combat.” University of Sheffield. Sheffield, England. April 20, 2010.
“Taking their Word: Literature and the Signs of Central America.” San Francisco State University. March 18, 2010.
“War and Peace: Literature, Indigeneity, and Change in Guatemala.” Loyola University of New Orleans. November 18, 2009.
“Central American Integration Through Its Literature.” Guatemalan International Book Fair. August 1, 2009.
“Presentation of Javier Mosquera’s Espirales.” Guatemalan International Book Fair. July 30, 2009.
Inaugural Speech. Guatemalan International Book Fair. July 24, 2009.
“La producción novelística por mujeres en Centroamérica.” Rafael Landívar University. Guatemala City, Guatemala. August 4, 2009.
“Of Dams and Massacres: Accelerated Modernity, Indigenous Subjectivity and Early Globalization.” University of North Texas, Denton. March 25, 2009.
“The Ghosts of the Past, Human Dignity, and the Collective Need for Reparation.” College of Fine Arts. University of Texas at Austin. January 28, 2009.
“The Ghosts of the Past, Human Dignity, and the Collective Need for Reparation.” LLILAS. University of Texas at Austin. November 4, 2008.
“From Modernity to Postmodernity in European Cultural Thinking” – 1st. Part. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. October 20, 2008.
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“From Modernity to Postmodernity in European Cultural Thinking” – 2nd. Part. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. October 20, 2008.
“Feminism, Subalternism, Postcolonialism and Other ‘isms.’” Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. October 21, 2008.
“Culture and Power in the Lettered City: The Trajectory of Latin American Cultural Studies.” Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. October 22, 2008.
“Constructing Ethnic Bodies and Identities in Miguel Angel Asturias and Rigoberta Menchú.” University of Bristol, England. June 26, 2008.
“Between Two Fires: Latinos Emerging Visibility and Immigration Policies in the U.S.” McDaniel College, Baltimare, MD. April 2, 2008.
“Cross-Dressings, Ethnicities, Genres: Re-Encoding Symbols in Miguel Angel Asturias and Rigoberta Menchú.” University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. February 7, 2008.
“Introduction to El Norte.” University of Texas at Austin. November 5, 2007.
“Kotz’Ib: The Emergence of a New Maya Literature.” Louisiana State University-Lafayette. Lafayette, LA. April 27, 2007.
“Constructing Ethnic Bodies and Identities in Miguel Angel Asturias and Rigoberta Menchú.” Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge. Baton Rouge, LA. April 23, 2007.
“Globalization in the Americas.” St. Cloud State University. St. Cloud, MN. April 16, 2007.
“Kotz’Ib: The Emergence of a New Maya Literature.” University of Texas at Austin. Austin, TX. March 27, 2007.
“Kotz’Ib: The Emergence of a New Maya Literature.” Tulane University. New Orleans, LA. March 13, 2007.
“Kotz’Ib: The Emergence of a New Maya Literature.” University of Western Michigan. Kalamazoo, MI. February 26, 2007.
“Constructing Ethnic Bodies and Identities in Miguel Angel Asturias and Rigoberta Menchú.”
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University of California, Irvine. Irvine, CA. February 9, 2007.
“Kotz’Ib: The Emergence of a New Maya Literature.” University of California, Merced. Merced, CA. January 26, 2007.
“Beyond Subalternism: The Emergence of a New Maya Literature.” University of California, Irvine. Irvine, CA. November 20, 2006.
“Asedios teóricos a la textualidad latinoamericana.” Rafael Landívar University. Guatemala City, Guatemala. October 24, 2006.
“Latinos Emerging Visibility and Immigration Policies in the U.S.” University of North Carolina-Greensboro. Greensboro, NC. October 12, 2006.
“A Debate on Immigration.” Keynote Speaker. University of Redlands Undergraduate Student Symposium. Redlands, CA. May 11, 2006.
“The Guatemalan Maya Movement 10 Years After the Peace Process: Building Bridges of Hope.” Lafayette Orinda Episcopal Church. Orinda, CA. April 30, 2006.
“Más allá del subalternismo: La emergencia de una nueva literatura maya.” University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, PA. January 26, 2006.
“Arturo Arias Reads From His Work in English and Spanish.” University of Cincinnati. Cincinnatti, OH.October 7, 2005.
“Arturo Arias Reads From Rattlesnake.” Trinity University. Hartford, CT. September 26, 2005.
“Central American Literature of the Guerrillerista Period.” Universidad del Valle. Guatemala City, Guatemala. August 16, 2005.
“On the Making of El Norte.” Ramon Llul University. Barcelona, Spain. July 6, 2005. “Literatura, identidad y problematica etnica en Centroamerica.” Centro Catalán de Cooperación Iberoamericana,. Barcelona, Spain. July 5, 2005.
“Race and Etnicity in Central America.” Miami University of Ohio. Oxford, OH. March 23, 2005.
“Scriptwriting and the Making of El Norte.” Azusa Pacific University. Los Angeles, CA. March 10, 2005.
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“The Tatooed Soldier and Odyssey to the North: Central Americans’ Emerging Visibility and Representation in the United States.” University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, NC. March 1, 2005.
“Presentando a Nélida Piñón: Su vida y Su Obra.” Paiz Cultural Festival. Antigua, Guatemala. February 11, 2005.
“Siempre modernos, siempre marginales: La literariedad y la problemática étnica en Centroamerica.” UC Berkeley. Berkeley, CA. February 3, 2005.
“Forever Modern, Forever Marginal: The Central American Conundrum.” Soka University of America. Aliso Viejo, CA. January 28, 2005.
“Forever Rigoberta: The Rigoberta Menchú Controversy.” University of Washington. Seattle, WA. November 12, 2004.
“Globalización, Cultura y Sujeto Etnico: Dificultades y Contradicciones.” Rafael Landívar University. Guatemala City, Guatemala. August 19, 2004.
“The Maya Movement, Postcolonialism and Cultural Agency.” Miami University of Ohio. Oxford, OH. October 2, 2003.
“The Artist As Activist.” To Promote Democracy: The United States In Latin America Special Series. Philadelphia, PA. September 14, 2003.
“The Caribbean & Central America Case Studies.” To Promote Democracy: The United States In Latin America Special Series. Philadelphia, PA. September 13, 2003.
“El Futuro de la América Latina.” To Promote Democracy: The United States In Latin America Special Series.Philadelphia, PA. September 12, 2003.
“Transgresión erótica y recodificación de símbolos en Mulata de tal.” Rafael Landívar University. Guatemala City, Guatemala. August 20, 2003.
“Central American Literary Production in the Post-War Period.” Wellesley College. Wellesley, MA. May 2, 2003.
“Reshaping Thought on Latin America/the Americas.” UC Riverside. Riverside, CA. April 28, 2003.
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“La literariedad, la problemática étnica y la articulación de discursos nacionales en Centroamérica.” UCLA. Los Angeles, CA. February 27, 2003.
“Reading Menchú Truthfully? Producing an American Reading of a Subaltern Text.” UC Davis. Davis, CA. February 13, 2003.
“Why the Controversy Mattered for Subaltern Studies.” David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University. Cambridge, MA. April 4, 2002.
“Lessons Learned About the Rigoberta Menchu Controversy.” UMass Amherst. Amherst, MA. April 2, 2002.
“Latin America in the Age of Globalization.” Pennsylvania State University. State College, PA. Sept. 24, 2001.
“Nuevas perspectivas en torno a Luis Cardoza y Aragón.” Rafael Landívar University. Guatemala City, Guatemala. August 8, 2001.
“Prospective U.S.-Mexico Relations.” L.I.F.E. Society. UCR Extension. Riverside, CA. May 15, 2001.
“The Controversy behind the Rigoberta Menchú Controversy: A Guatemalan Perspective.” UC Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz, CA. May 3, 2001.
“The Rigoberta Menchú Controversy.” Tulane University. New Orleans, LA. April 13, 2001.
“History and Controversy Behind the Rigoberta Menchú Controversy.” Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, MD. April 6, 2001.
“Panorama de la literatura centroamericana.” Universidade Federal Fluminense. Nitéroi, RJ, Brazil. November 21, 2000.
“Identity, Representativity and the Nature of Literariness in the Wake of the Menchu/Stoll Controversy.” UC Berkeley. Berkeley, CA. May 5, 1999.
“Central-American Americans: the Forgotten Minority.” Boston University. Boston, MA. April 22, 1999.
“Ladino Identity and the Pan-Mayan Movement: Imagined Subjectivities, Forged
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Contradictions.” Harvard University. Cambridge, MA. April 21, 1999.
“Introduction to the film El Norte and an explanation of its production process.” Webster University. St. Louis, MO. May 1, 1998.
“La Ultima Década del Siglo y las Transformaciones en la Narratividad Centroamericana.” UC Irvine. Irvine, CA. January 14, 1998.
“Primera aproximación a `El brujo' de Luis Cardoza y Aragón.” Cesar Brañas Library. Guatemala City, Guatemala. August 18, 1997.
“¿Hacia la formulación de estudios culturales centroamericanos?” Center for Regional Mesoamerican Research (CIRMA).Guatemala City, Guatemala. August 14, 1997.
“Hegemonía, dominación, mobilización: estudios culturales, estudios post-coloniales, estudios subalternos?” Center for Regional Mesoamerican Research (CIRMA). Guatemala City, Guatemala. August 12, 1997.
“Contemporary Central American Literature.” University del Chopo Museum. Mexico City, Mexico. August 15, 1996.
“Towards a Renaissance of Mayan Culture.” School of Higher Studies in the Social Sciences. Paris, France. June 3, 1996.
“Cervantes and the Western Canon: Beyond Harold Bloom.” Ateneo of Madrid. Madrid, Spain. April 19, 1996.
“Contemporary Central American Literature.” Center for International Studies. Madrid, Spain. March 20, 1996.
“The Role of Asturias’s Men of Maize and the Popol Vuj in Contemporary Guatemalan Consciousness.” Autonomous University of Madrid. Madrid, Spain. February 13, 1996.
“Re-reading Miguel Angel Asturias.” Italian-Latin American Institute. Rome, Italy. November 15, 1995.
“Politics and Culture Amongst the Mayas.” University of Milan. Milan, Italy. November 14, 1995. “Identidad/literariedad: marginalidad y postmodernidad en Centroamerica.” Spanish Dept. UC Berkeley. Berkeley, CA. April 20, 1005.
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“Contemporary Central American Literature.” Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University. Palo Alto, CA. February 15, 1995.
“A Latin American Writer in a California City.” Sixth California Studies Conference, San Francisco, CA. February 4, 1994.
“Under Siege: The Guatemalan Political Crisis Rolls On and On and On.” Immigration Law Clinic, University of California at Davis. Davis, CA. October 27, 1993.
“Latino Roots: Common Goals, Common Threads.” Macalester College, St. Paul MN. September 16, 1993.
“History and Literature of Guatemala.” Network of Educators on the Americas, Washington D.C. February 6, 1993.
“Latin American Literature in Exile.” Mission Cultural Center 15th Anniversary, San Francisco, CA. December 20, 1992.
“Indigenous Narratives and Cultural Production in Central America.” Southern Oregon State College, Ashland, OR. November 20, 1992.
“Freedom to Cross, Freedom to Struggle.” Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA. November 14, 1992.
“The Rio Conference, The Nobel Prize and New issues for Indigenous Peoples of the Americas.” First Congregational Church of Berkeley, Berkeley, CA. November 9, 1992.
“After the Bombs and El Norte: Their Meaning in the Context of Central American History.” Oakton High School, Vienna, VA. March 2, 1992.
“The Legacy of the Quetzal: Presentation on the History and Literature of Guatemala.” Network of Educators on Central America and the D.C. Community Humanities Council, Washington D.C. February 29, 1992.
“My Work in the Context of Central American Literature.” Linfield College, McMinnville, OR. January 17, 1992.
“The Criminal States: Central America in the 1990s.” Portland State University, Portland, OR. January 16, 1992.
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“Culture and Politics in Central America.” University of Portland, Portland, OR. January 16, 1992.
“El Norte Revisited.” Portland Central America Solidarity Committee, Portland, OR. January 15, 1992.
“Effects of the War on Central American Culture.” University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. October 18, 1991.
“Presentation, The Battle for Guatemala: Rebels, Death Squads and U.S. Power.” Modern Times Bookstore, San Francisco, CA. October 13, 1991.
“Latin America and Latino Reality in the U.S.: Common Goals, Common Threads.” Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY. October 8, 1991.
“El Norte and Latino Life in the U.S.” Grover Cleveland High School, Buffalo, NY. October 8, 1991.
“The Development of Latin American Literature in the 20th Century.” Erie Community College, Buffalo, NY. October 7, 1991.
“Introduction to El Norte.” Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. October 5, 1991.
“Arturo Arias Speaks About his Novel and Life Experiences.” Canisius College, Buffalo, NY. October 4, 1991.
“Cultural Production and Political Crisis in Central America.” Daemen College, Buffalo, NY. October 4, 1991.
“The Place of Guatemalan Literature Within Modern Tendencies of Latin American Literature.” Casa Xelaju de Español, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. August 6, 1991.
“Historical and Literary Perspective on Central America.” George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, July 2, 1991.
“500 Years of Racism: Narrative of Indigenous and African-American Resistance.” Washington D.C. Community Humanities Council and Network of Educators on Central America, Washington, D.C. July 1, 1991.
“Central America after the Gulf War.” Global Exchange and New College of California, San
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Francisco, CA. June 18, 1991.
“Screening and Discussion of El Norte.” Saskatchewan Writers Guild, Regina, Regina, Canada. June 9, 1991.
“Ideology vs. Imagination.” Saskatchewan Writers Guild, Regina, Canada. June 8, 1991.
“Origins of the Indigenous Movement for Liberation in Guatemala.” Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. May 30, 1991.
“Being a Writer from Central America: Reality and Fiction in El Norte.” Herbert Hoover Middle School, San Francisco, CA. April 29, 1991.
“Democracy in Guatemala.” I International Seminary Perspectives for Democracy in Latin America organized by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. April 18, 1991.
“Culture and Society in the Context of Central America's Crisis.” Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H. April 8, 1991.
“Central American Literature and Magical Realism.” San Diego High School, San Diego, CA. March 22, 1991.
“Tons of Death: The War in the Persian Gulf.” Modern Times Bookstore, San Francisco, CA. March 5, 1991.
“Ethnicity and Social Change in Central America.” Latin American Program of New College of California, San Francisco, CA. February 11, 1991.
“Arturo Arias Speaking on his novel After the Bombs.” University of Missouri-Kansas City. November 28, 1990.
“Discussion and Reading from After the Bombs.” Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA. November 19, 1990.
“What it Means to be a Writer.” University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. November 8, 1990.
“History-Fiction, Reality-Irreality: A Latin American Perspective.” Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN. November 5, 1990.
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“The Actuality of Hispanic-American Literature.” Fluminense Federal University, Nitéroi, Brazil. June 20, 1991.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE I. UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
Advanced Composition Latin American Literature: Modernism to the Present Don Quijote Theories and Methods in the Humanities Postmodern Culture and Literature Images of Eroticism Biography of a City: Rio de Janeiro Introduction to Latin American Studies Sex and Sexuality in Latin America Special Topics: Latin American Literature in Translation Special Topics: Central American Literature in Translation History of Latin American Cinema Topics in Latin American Studies: “The Latin American Testimonio in Translation” Women Texts in the Latino and Latin American Culture Topics in Latin American Studies: Re-Visiting the Sixties, Literature and Cinema Theories and Methods for Latin American Cultural Analysis Spanish American Literature: from Modernism to the present Advanced Topics in Latin American Studies: “Contemporary Latin American Cultural Theory” Special Topics: The revolutionary Imagination and Representations of Dissidence in Latin American Literature Special Topics: Sex and Sexuality in Latin American Culture Contemporary Indigenous Literature Senior Seminar in Latin American Studies Senior Seminar in the Humanities
II. GRADUATE COURSES
Introduction to Latin American Studies Literature in the Humanities: What is Literariness? Problematizing the Concept of Genre Literature in the Humanities: New Chronotopes in Latin American Fiction Contemporary Humanistic Scholarship: Poststructural Theory Contemporary Humanistic Scholarship: Postcolonial Theory Contemporary Humanistic Scholarship: Complete Works by Mikhail Bakhtin Contemporary Humanistic Scholarship: Majors Texts by Michel Foucault
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Contemporary Humanistic Scholarship: Bakhtin, Foucault, Derrida Narrative and Testimonial Literature Contemporary Central American Narrative Maya Literature and Literature About the Mayas Indigenismo, poscolonialismo, subalternismo Narrativa contemporánea centroamericana: desarrollismo, modernidades alternativas y revolución Topicsin Hispanic Literature and Linguistics: Introduction to Critical and Literary Theory
III. PH.D. SUPERVISION
A. ACTING CHAIR OF DISSERTATIONS
Amy Olen. Spanish & Portuguese Dept., University of Texas at Austin. Ongoing.
Adam Coon. Spanish & Portuguese Dept., University of Texas at Austin. Ongoing.
Regan Boxwell. Spanish & Portuguese Dept., University of Texas at Austin. Finished April 2013. Currently Lecturer at Texas Christian University.
Verónica Ríos. Spanish & Portuguese Dept., University of Texas at Austin. Finished April 2013. Currently Asisstant Professor at University of Costa Rica.
Becky Thompson. Spanish & Portuguese Dept., University of Texas at Austin. Finished May 2012. Currently Assistant Professor at Susquehanna University.
Belinda Mora. Spanish & Portuguese Dept., University of Texas at Austin. Finished May 2012.
Jorge García. Spanish & Portuguese Dept., University of Texas at Austin. “La afectividad Como Contra-Discurso de la Poesía Comprometida de Daisy Zamora, Otto René Castillo y Roque Dalton.” Finished May 2010. Currently Assistant Professor at Ithaca College.
Cynthia Napoli-Abella. University of California, Irvine. “Motherhood, Mourning, Testimonios and the Representations of Silenced Histories.” Finished December 2009.
Maritza Cárdenas. American Studies. University of Michigan. “Third Wor(l)d Subjects: The Politics, Poetics, and Production of Central American-American Culture.” Finished September 2009. Currently Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona.
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Myron Avila. Spanish and Portuguese Dept. UC Irvine. “Generando Letras/Deletreando engendros: Discurso y recurso sentimental en las novelas de Argentina Díaz Lozano.” Finished December 2008. Currently Assistant Professor at Georgia College & State University.
Alicia Yvonne Estrada. Literature Dept. UC Santa Cruz. Finished August 2006. Currently Associate Professor at CSU Northridge.
Nicole Caso. Spanish and Portuguese Dept. UC Berkeley. Finished August 2004. “Practicing Memory in Central American Literature: Reflections on Histories, Space, and Language.” Currently Associate Professor at Bard College.
Byron Barahona. Spanish and Portuguese Dept. UC Berkeley. Finished June 2001. “Ethnographic Surrealism, Narrative of Heterogeneity, and Rupture of Meaning as Mechanisms of Morality in the Work of Miguel Angel Asturias.” Currently Lecturer at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Sheila Candelario. Hispanic Languages and Literature, SUNY Stony Brook. Finished December 2000. Currently Associate Professor, Modern Languages, Fairfield University.
B. DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
Patricia Ruiz-Healy. Dept. of Art History. University of Texas at Austin. Ongoing.
Cuitláhuac Chávez. Spanish & Portuguese Dept., University of Texas at Austin. Ongoing.
Nanci Buiza. Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese. Emory University. Finished June 2013.
Carlos Amador. Spanish & Portuguese Dept., University of Texas at Austin. Finished May 2012.
Ajb’ee Jiménez. Dept. of Anthropology. University of Texas at Austin. Finished May 2008.
Kenia Halleck. Spanish and Portuguese Dept. UC San Diego. Finished May 1999.
Ana Patricia Rodríguez. Spanish Dept., UC Santa Cruz. Finished May 1998.
John Domini. The Union Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio. Finished August, 1996.
Alice Brittin. Spanish and Portuguese Dept., UC Berkeley. Finished May, 1995.
IV. MISCELLANOUS INDIVIDUAL SUPERVISION OF STUDENTS
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A. ACTING CHAIR OF MASTERS THESIS
Tiara Naputi. Department of Communication Studies. University of Texas at Austin. Finished December 2009.
Karina Hodoyan. Dept. of Comparative Literature, SFSU. Finished May 1998.
Tomás Crowder. Dept. Of Comparative Literature, SFSU, Finished May 1994.
B. INDEPENDENT STUDIES GRADUATE
Natalie Richardson. Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies. University of Texas at Austin. Finished May 2013.
Lucía Aramayo. Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies. University of Texas at Austin. Finished May 2012.
C. INDEPENDENT STUDIES UNDERGRADUATE
Melanie Molina. Spanish & Portuguese. University of Texas at Austin. Finished May 2012.
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
Committee Member. 2011-12 MLA Prize in U.S. Latina/Latino and Chicana/Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies. Summer/Fall 2013.
Evaluation of Publications of Assistant Professor Fernando Rivera-Díaz, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Tulane University, for promotion to Associate Professor and Tenure. Fall 2012.
Evaluation of Publications of Assistant Professor Sofía Ruiz, Department of Spanish, Franklin & Marshall College, for promotion to Associate Professor and Tenure. Fall 2012.
Evaluation of Publications of Assistant Professor Nathan Henne, Latin American and Caribbean Center, Loyola University, New Orleans, for promotion to Associate Professor and Tenure. Summer 2012.
Discussant in panel for the XXX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), San Francisco, CA, in panel titled Cultural and National Identity Facing Imperialist Imposition in 20th Century Central American Literature organized by Karina Zelaya. May 26, 2012.
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Discussant in panel for the XXX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), San Francisco, CA, in panel titled Literatura y colonialidad del poder en Centroamérica y los Andes organized by Jorge García. May 26, 2012.
Discussant in panel for the XXX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), San Francisco, CA, in panel titled Listening to the Wounds: The Legacy of Violence in Postwar Central American Fiction organized by Nanci Buiza. May 24, 2012.
Evaluation of manuscript titled “País mío vení: Home in Poetry and Short Fiction in a Globalized Central American Isthmus” for possible publication with Bucknell U P. March 2012.
Evaluation of Publications of Assistant Professor Emilio del Valle Escalante, Dept. of Romance Languages & Literatures, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for promotion to Associate Professor and Tenure. Winter 2012.
Evaluation of Publications of Associate Professor Gustavo Remedi, Dept. of Language and Culture Studies, Trinity College, for promotion to Full Professor. Summer 2011.
Evaluation of Publications of Assistant Professor Erick Blandón, Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures, the University of Missouri, for promotion to Associate Professor and Tenure. Summer 2011.
Committee Co-director of comprehensive exam for Oriel María Siu. Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA. Friday November 5, 2010.
Chair in panel titled Cárcel y campo de concentración. XX Congress of the Asociacion Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispanica (AILCFH). Austin, TX. October 16, 2010.
Chair in panel titled El nuevo safismo mesoamericano. XX Congress of the Asociacion Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispanica (AILCFH). Austin, TX. October 15, 2010.
Discussant in panel for the XXIX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Toronto, Canda, in panel titled Un travesti, dos indígenas y un poema: identidades y espacios híbridos desde el siglo XIX hasta el siglo XXI en la literatura de Puerto Rico, México, Chile y Perú, organized by Juan Carlos Lopez. October
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9, 2010.
Discussant in panel for the XXIX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Toronto, Canda, in panel titled Pek Tinamit: diálogos críticos sobre la diáspora Maya y su resistencia cultural, organized by Alicia Ivonne Estrada. October 9, 2010.
Discussant in panel for the XXIX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Toronto, Canda, in panel titled Batallas por la memoria en la producción textual indígena, organized by Emio del Valle-Escalante, organized by Emio del Valle-Escalante. October 7, 2010.
Evaluation of Publications of Associate Professor Gareth Williams, Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures, the University of Michigan, for promotion to Full Professor. Summer 2010.
Evaluation of Publications of Assistant Professor Yajaira Padilla, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the University of Kansas, for promotion to Associate Professor and Tenure. Summer 2010.
Evaluation of Publications of Assistant Professor Uriel Quesada, Latin American and Caribbean Center, Loyola University, New Orleans, for promotion to Associate Professor and Tenure. Summer 2010.
Evaluation of Publications of Associate Professor Javier Sanjinés, Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures, the University of Michigan, for promotion to Full Professor. Summer 2009.
Discussant in panel for the XXVIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in panel titled Memoria y Revolución: Reflexiones desde el Sur de América Latina, organized by María Rosa Olivera-Williams. June 13, 2009.
Chair in panel titled “Ri K’a Chab’al’/Nütramkan: Diálogos críticos y acercamientos a textos indígenas mayas y mapuches contemporáneos, I.” XXVIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 12, 2009.
Discussant in panel for the XXVIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in panel titled Las élites intelectuales y la construcción literaria de la nación en América Central: de la Reforma Liberal a la Revolución del 44, organized by Marta Casaús. June 12, 2009.
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Chair in panel titled “Technofuturos: New Directions in Latino Studies.” XXVIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 11, 2009.
External Evaluator, American University, Language and Foreign Studies Department. March 17- 18, 2009.
External Evaluator, Occidental Colleges, Spanish and French Literary Studies Department. November 9-10, 2006.
Discussant in panel for the XXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), San Juan, PR, in panel titled Nuevas tendencias en la literatura guatemalteca y centroamericana, organized by Ana Contreras. March 18, 2006.
Referee. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Latin American Literature and Studies Fellowships. May 2005 to present.
Associate Editor. LASA Forum. November 1, 2004 to September 1, 2007.
Presenter and Moderator for the XXV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Las Vegas, NV, Kalman Silvert Award Winner panel. October 8, 2004.
Discussant for the XXV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Las Vegas, NV. In round-table titled Central American Literature. October 7, 2004.
Referee. The University of Ohio Title VI Program in Latin American Studies. November 2003 to present.
Referee. Mesoamérica Journal. June 2003 to present.
Discussant in Presidential Panel for the XXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Dallas, TX, in panel titled Paradigmas de la producción literaria de Arturo Arias (Paradigms of the Literary Production of Arturo Arias) organized by Marcia Paraquett. March 29, 2003.
Discussant in Presidential Panel for the XXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Dallas, TX, in panel titled El sentido de la diferencia en los cuerpos escriturales: ideas de las nuevas promesas emergiendo en el horizonte cultural latinoamericano (The Sense of Diference in Bodies of Writing: Ideas of Emerging Scholars in the Latin American Cultural Horizon) organized by myself. March 29, 2003.
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Discussant in Presidential Panel for the XXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Dallas, TX, in panel titled Cultural Agency organized by myself. March 29, 2003.
Presenter and Moderator for the XXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Dallas, TX, at the LASA Awards Ceremony and Business Meeting, organized by myself. March 28, 2003.
Presenter in Presidential Panel for the XXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Dallas, TX, in panel titled Honoring Academics Who Have Furthered Latin American Scholarship: Hommage to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, with presence of scholar being honored, organized by myself. March 28, 2003.
Discussant in Presidential Panel for the XXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Dallas, TX, in panel titled Historias Personales del Latinoamericanismo (Personal Stories of Latin Americanism) organized by myself. March 27, 2003.
Discussant in Presidential Panel for the XXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Dallas, TX, in panel titled Globalization From Below: The Future of Past Politics II organized by myself. March 27, 2003.
Discussant in Presidential Panel for the XXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Dallas, TX, in panel titled Globalization From Below: The Future of Past Politics I organized by myself. March 27, 2003.
Organizer and Planner of Key Discussion Issues. Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Strategic Work Plan Finalization Conference. Raleigh-Durham. November 1-3, 2002.
Discussant of Plenary Session. The Americas Studies Conference. Duke University. Raleigh- Durham. October 31, 2002.
Organizer and Planner of Key Discussion Issues. Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Strategic Planning Conference. Redlands, CA Feb. 1-3, 2002.
Elaboration of Summary Paper and Conclusions. Las culturas de Iberoamérica en el Siglo XXI. Organization of Iberoamerican States and Mexico’s National Council for Culture. National Museum of Art. Mexico City January 22, 2002.
President, Latin American Studies Association (LASA). November 1, 2001 to April 30, 2003.
Member of the Social Science Reseach Council (SSRC) “Intellectual Agendas and the Localities
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of Knowledge” Hemispheric Dialogue. October 2001 onwards.
Chair in panel titled “Latina/os and U.S. Foreign Policy.” XXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Washington D.C., September 7, 2001.
Vice President, Latin American Studies Association (LASA). May 1, 2000 to October 31, 2001.
1999-2001 Chair of the Literature, Languages and Humanities Panel of the National Research Council, Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities Program.
Discussant in panel for the XXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Chicago, in panel titled Literatura centroamericana y la reconstitución de espacios imaginarios de la Nación organized by Jill Robbins (UC Irvine). September 25, 1998.
Discussant in panel for the XXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Chicago, in panel titled Filming Fear: From Chile to the U.S. (A Film Director’s Perspective organized by Susan Eckstein, LASA President, with the presence of writer Ariel Dorfman. September 25, 1998.
Participant as moderator and discussant. Culture of the Americas and the Narratives of Globalization Research Group’s closing conference. California Humanities Institute. Irvine, CA. May 26-28, 1998.
Elected Member. Latin American Studies Association Executive Council. September 1995 - October 1998.
Participant as Guest Researcher. Culture of the Americas and the Narratives of Globalization Research Group. California Humanities Institute. Irvine, CA. April 6-10, 1998.
Discussant in panel for the XX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Guadalajara, Mexico, in panel titled Miguel Angel Asturias organized by Mario Roberto Morales (Pittsburgh). April 18, 1997.
Reader. Research Projects for Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship Candidates. December 1996 to present.
Member of Evaluation Committee of Simmons College International Program in Spain. March 8, 1996.
Discussant in panel for the XVIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Atlanta, GA, in panel titled Hommage to Luis Cardoza y Aragón organized by Jo Anne Engelbert (Montclair State University). March 10, 1994.
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Member of the Board. Forum for a Changing America. 1994 - 95.
Member of the Literature, Languages and Humanities Panel of the National Research Council. Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities Program. 1995, 1997 and 1998.
Member of the Literature, Languages, Humanities Panel of the National Research Council for the 1994-95 period.
Discussant for First Meeting of an Inter-American Network of Cultural Studies, Mexico City, sponsored by Center for Cultural Studies CUNY, UAM-Iztapalapa and CLACSO. May 3-5, 1993.
Judge of the 1992 Latino Literature Prize sponsored by the Latin American Writers Institute.
Member of nominations committee for 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Member. Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Media Award Committee for the 1992- 1994 period.
Discussant in panel for the XVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Los Angeles, CA, in panel titled Visiones y Perspectivas de Centroamérica: Arturo Arias (Visions and Perspectives on Central America: Arturo Arias) organized by Ileana Rodríguez (Ohio State University)."Una respuesta a mis críticos) (A Response to my Critics) September 25, 1992.
Member. Pacific Coast Conference on Latin American Studies (PCCLAS) Executive Committee, 1991.
Member of the Board. Network of Educators on Central America (NECA), Washington D.C. Feb. 1991 to present.
Literary Judge for the 1992 Latino Literature Prize sponsored by the Latin American Writers Institute, New York City, NY. March 31, 1992.
Member of Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Programs Committee for the 1989-1991 period.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Organizer of the Lozano Long Conference, first-ever CMAS-LLILAS Collaboration, “Central Americans and the Latino/a Landscape: New Configurations of Latino/a America.” February 22-25, 2012.
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Representative of the Spanish & Portuguese Dept. to College of Liberal Arts Promotions and Tenure Committee. University of Texas at Austin. 2009-2011.
Guest Speaker. LLILAS Pro-Seminar. November 12, 2010.
Organizer and Chair. LLILAS Faculty Seminar on Maya Studies. Session on Testimonio. November 11, 2010.
Organizer and Chair. LLILAS Faculty Seminar on Maya Studies. Session on Contemporary Maya Literature. September 23, 2010.
Member of the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies Executive Committee. University of Texas at Austin. Fall 2007- Spring 2011.
Guest Speaker at LLILAS Pro-Seminar. November 6, 2009.
Organizer of the Lozano Long Conference Contested Modernities: Indigenous and Afro- Descendant Experiences in Latin America. February 26-28, 2009.
Panel Member of Bridging Disciplines Program (BDP) in Human Rights and Social Justice. University of Texas at Austin. Ongoing.
Diversity Mentor for Giovanni Batz, graduate student at LLILAS. 2008-2009.
Guest Speaker at LLILAS Pro-Seminar. September 26, 2008.
Member of the Advisory Committee created by the Vice-President for Thematic Initiatives and Community Engagement. University of Texas at Austin. 2007-2008.
Latin American Studies Advisory Committee Coordinator. University of Redlands. 2000- 2006.
Member of Art and Art History Department Search Committee for a Position in Latin American Art and Aesthetics. University of Redlands. 2002-2003.
Member of Johnston College Search Committee for a Position in Cinema. University of Redlands. 2001-2002.
Member of All-University Tenure and Promotion Appeals Committee. University of Redlands. 2000-2002.
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Member of All-University Student Life Committees. University of Redlands. 2000-2001.
Member of All-University Sub-Committee Dean of Human Relations Search. San Francisco State University. Spring 1998.
Member of Department Committee for Leave with Pay. San Francisco State University. Fall 1992-Spring 1993.
Member of Department Sub-Committee for Revision of Undergraduate Curriculum, Humanities Dept. San Francisco State University. Fall 1991-Spring 1992.
Member of All-University Sub-Committee in charge of substantiating a philosophical foundation for Working Committee on Multicultural Perspectives in the SFSU Curriculum. San Francisco State University. Fall 1991-Spring 1992.
Director of Department Chair Review Committee. San Francisco State University. Fall 1993.
Member of Department Retention, Hire, Tenure and Promotion Committee. San Francisco State University. Fall 1993-Spring 1994.
Chair of Department Retention, Hire, Tenure and Promotion Committee. San Francisco State University Fall 1994.
Chair of Department Retention, Hire, Tenure and Promotion Committee. San Francisco State University. Fall 1996 - Spring 1997.
2. DEPARTMENT SERVICE
Chair of the Graduate Courses Planning Committee (GCPC). Fall 2012.
Member of Ad-Hoc Committee Committee on the Qualifying Paper and Dissertation Proposal. Fall 2012.
Chair of the Faculty Productivity Committee. Fall 2011.
Chair of the Colonial Search Committee. Fall 2011-Spring 2012.
Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Visiting Colonial Search Committee. University of Texas at Austin. Fall 2010-Spring 2011.
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Member of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Visiting 19th Century Peninsular Search Committee. University of Texas at Austin. Fall 2010-Spring 2011.
Member of the Spanish and Portuguese Department Executive Committee. University of Texas at Austin. 2008-2010.
Member of the M.A. Exam Preparation Committee. Spring 2010.
Member of the Spanish Graduate Students Committee Executive Committee. University of Texas at Austin. 2008-2009.
Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese U.S. Latino Search Committee. University of Texas at Austin. Fall 2008-Spring 2009.
Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Indigenous Search Committee. University of Texas at Austin. Fall 2008-Spring 2009.
Member of the Graduate Admissions and Financial Aid Committee (GAFA). University of Texas at Austin. Spring 2009-ongoing.
Member of Dissertation Award Committee. University of Texas at Austin. Spring 2009-ongoing.
Member of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Sociolinguistics Search Committee. University of Texas at Austin. Spring 2008.
II. ADMINISTRATIVE ASSIGNMENTS
Latin American Studies Association President. Nov. 1 2001-April 1, 2003.
Latin American Studies Association Vice-President. May 1, 2000- Oct. 31, 2001.
Latin American Studies Program Chair. University of Redlands. Fall 2000 to Spring 2003.
Humanities Dept. Graduate Coordinator. San Francisco State University. Fall 1996 to Spring 2000.
Humanities Dept. Undergraduate Coordinator. San Francisco State University Fall 1996.
Resident Director in Spain. California State University International Programs. Academic Year 1995 - 1996.
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Humanities Dept. Graduate Coordinator. San Francisco State University. Fall 1992- Fall 1994.
General Education Advisor. San Francisco State University. Academic Year 1991-92.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Latin American Studies Association (Past President) Modern Languages Association (Executive Council candidate) Central American Writers' Association (Past President) Latin American Sociological Association Guatemalan P.E.N. Club (Past President) Social Sciences Research Council Phi Beta Kappa Pacific Coast Conference on Latin American Studies Mexican P.E.N. Club Mexican Anthropological Association
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
Spanish: native English: native-like fluency French: native-like fluency Portuguese: excellent reading, basic speaking Italian: Basic reading
FICTION BOOKS
Arias de don Giovanni. Guatemala: F&G, 2010 (novel).
Rattlesnake (English translation of Cascabel), translated by Sean Higgins and Jill Robbins. Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 2003.
Sopa de caracol (Snail Soup). Guatemala: Alfaguara, 2002 (novel).
Cascabel (Rattlesnake). Guatemala: Artemis-Edinter, 1998 (Novel).
Los caminos de Paxil (The Roads to Paradise). Guatemala: Editorial Cultura, 1991. (Novel).
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After the Bombs (English translation of Después de las bombas), translated by Asa Zatz. Willimantic CT: Curbstone Press, 1990.
Jaguar en llamas (Jaguar in Flames). Guatemala: Editorial Cultura, 1989. (Novel).
Itzam Na. Havana: Casa de las Américas, 1982. (Novel).
Después de las bombas (After the Bombs). Mexico: Joaquín Mortiz, 1979. (Novel).
En la Ciudad y en las Montañas (In the City and in the Mountains). Guatemala: RIN, 1975. (Short stories).
PUBLISHED TRANSLATIONS
Rattlesnake (English translation of Cascabel), translated by Sean Higgins and Jill Robbins. Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 2003.
After the Bombs (English translation of Después de las bombas), translated by Asa Zatz. Willimantic CT: Curbstone Press, 1990.
Itzam Na (Portuguese edition). Río de Janeiro: Marco Zero, 1983.
MOVIE SCRIPTS
Co-author of script for film El Norte, produced by American Playhouse, Public Broadcasting System, 1983, with Gregory Nava and Eraclio Zepeda.
FICTIONAL STORIES OR FRAGMENTS OF NOVELS IN BOOKS
“Carreras de carros.” Puertos abiertos: Antología del cuento centroamericano. Sergio Ramírez (ed.). México D.F. Fonde de Cultura Económica, 2011.
“Pandora’s Box.” Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing. Lázaro Lima and Felice Picano (eds.). Madison: The U of wisconsin P, 2011. P. 27-44.
“Carreras de carros.” Naufragios. Revista de literatura y arte. Vol. 1, No. 1. Spring 2009. http://www.publications.villanova.edu/naufragios/index.html
“El amante de la modernidad” in Reni Marchevska (ed.). El cuento hispanoamericano actual: Antología. Sofia: Hemes, 2002.
“An Interview with Arturo Arias” by Cheryl A. Roberts in Farhat Iftekharuddin, Mary Rohrberger and Maurice Lee (eds.) Speaking of the Short Story: Interviews With
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Contemporary Writers. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997.
“Bocado de viento” in Poli Délano (ed.), Latinos: Narrativa contemporánea desde 14 países. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Instituto Movilizador de Fondos Cooperativos, 1992.
“Woman in the Middle” in Nick Caistor (ed.) Contemporary Latin American Short Stories. London: Faber and Faber, 1989.
“The Woman in the Middle” in Barbara Paschke and David Volpendesta (eds.), Clamor of Innocence: Stories from Central America. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1988.
“Guatemala 1954: Funeral for a Bird” in Rosario Santos (ed.), And We Sold the Rain: Contemporary Fiction from Central America. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1988.
JOURNAL FICTIONS OR ARTICLES ABOUT MY FICTION
“Carreras de carros.” Naufragios. Villanova University: Vol. 1 No. 1. Spring 2009.
“The Lover of Modernity.” Translated by Jill Robbins. Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas. New York: No. 67, Fall 2003.
“El amante de la modernidad.” Alaluz. Madrid: Año XXXII., Nos. 1 y 2, Spring-Fall, 2000.
La mujer de enmedio.” Periplo. Mexico: No. 0, August 1997.
“An Evening with the Mayan Shamans.” (m)Other Toñgués. Ganges BC, Canada: Issue Three, Autumn/Winter 1991-92.
“Stranger in a Strange Land.” Utne Reader. No. 48, Nov./Dec. 1991, pp. 132-33.
“A Writer's Experience of Exile.” San Francisco Review of Books. Vol. 16, No. 1, Summer 1991.
“Jaguar en llamas.” Crónica. Guatemala: Año II, No. 88, 18-24 August 1989.
“Jaguar en llamas” (fragment). Pedernal. Guatemala: No. 1, april-june 1989.
“La Mujer de Enmedio.” Plural. Mexico: No. 173, February 1986.
“La Mujer de Enmedio.” Panorama. Mexico: No. 11, October-November 1986.
“Funeral for a Bird.” Fiction International. San Diego: Spring 1986.
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“Reflections of Amabilis.” Texas Observer. Austin: October 1985.
“1954.” Bomb. New York: No. 9, Spring 1985.
“Amabilis Conoce a Quiché Achí.” El Séptimo Sueño. Mexico: No. 3, September-October 1982.
“El Libro de la Buena Muerte.” Casa de las Américas. Havana: No. 130, January-February 1982.
“Fragmento de Itzam Na.” Sábado. Mexico: March 7th., 1981.
“Funeral Para un Pájaro.” Alero. Guatemala: No. 24, 3a. época, 1977.
INVITED LITERARY READINGS
A Reading of “El panteón familiar.” XXXIX Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. Cádiz, Spain, July 4, 2012.
Presentation of new novel Arias de don Giovanni. Instituto Cultural de México en Costa Rica. San José, Costa rica. March 16, 2011.
Presentation of new novel Arias de don Giovanni. Centro Cultural Hispánico. Guatemala City, Guatemala. January 29, 2011.
Presentation of new novel Arias de don Giovanni. Guadalajara International Book Fair. Guadalajara, Mexico. November 29, 2010.
Honored Guest at the Curbstone Press 30h Anniversary Party. “Fiesta with Notable Authors at Eastern Connecticut State University.” Willimantic, CT, September 25, 2005.
Speaker at the Paiz Cultural Festival. “Las letras en la sopa: Arturo Arias habla de su obra literaria y lee de Sopa de Caracol.” Antigua, Guatemala, February 10, 2005.
Literary Reading at the Seattle Public Library. “Arturo Arias Reads From His New Work.” Seattle, WA, November 13, 2004.
Speaker at California State University- Northridge. “Arturo Arias Talks About His Life and Work.” Northridge, CA, October 14, 2004.
Literary Reading at Guatemalan Consulate, Los Angeles, CA. “A Reading From Sopa de Caracol.” June 3, 2004.
Literary Reading at the Virginia Festival of the Book. “Arturo Arias Reads From Rattlesnake.”
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Charlottesville, VA, March 26, 2004.
Literary Reading at Italian Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA. “A Bilingual Reading From Arturo Arias: Rattlesnake and Sopa de Caracol.” December, 11, 2003.
Literary Reading at Modern Times Bookstore, San Francisco, CA. “Arturo Arias Reads From Rattlesnake.” November 25, 2003.
Presentation of New Novel Sopa de Caracol. Auditorium of the Hispanic Cultural Center. Guatemala City, Guatemala, August 19, 2003.
Presentation of New Novel Sopa de Caracol. Auditorium of the Chilean Cultural Center. San José, Costa Rica, August 12, 2003.
Literary Reading. “Arturo Arias Reads From Cascabel.” The Americas Society. New York City. November 14, 2002.
Speaker at UC Irvine. “Arturo Arias Speaks About His Novel After the Bombs.” Irvine, CA, November 7, 2002.
Literary Reading. “Arturo Arias Reads From Cascabel. Harbourfront International Writing Festival. Toronto. October 24, 2002.
Reading from Después de las bombas followed by question-and-answer period about my work and creative process” at Webster University, St. Louis, MO, April 30, 1998.
Participant at the “Latinos Writing in a Multicultural City” panel at the San Francisco Bay Area Book Festival. November 5, 1994.
Speaker at the First Annual Latin American Writers’ Gathering and Book Fair. The University of Illinois at Chicago. Chicago, IL, October 27 - 29, 1994.
Presentation for the Third International Conference on the Short Story in English. University of Northern Iowa/Iowa State. “Reading from Jaguar en llamas.” June 7, 1994.
Speaker at the “Latin American Writers Living in the U.S.” panel at the San Francisco Bay Area Book Festival. “Making Sense of Exile: Our Displaced Identity.” November 6, 1993.
Literary Reading for the Network of Educators on the Americas, Washington D.C. February 7, 1993.
Literary Reading for Wildcat Words, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco. January 13, 1993.
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Literary Reading for the International Writers Series of the Southern Oregon State College, Ashland, OR. “Arturo Arias Reads From his Work.” November 20, 1992.
Literary Reading at 3d. International Hispanic Book Fair and Latin American Writers Meeting. “Arturo Arias Explains His Literary Trajectory and Reads From his Work.” Providence, RI. October 6, 1992.
Benefit Literary Reading and Reception for the Network of Educators on Central America. Washington DC. March 1, 1992.
Literary Reading for the Alternative Program of the Modern Language Association Conference, Modern Times Bookstore, San Francisco, CA, December 29, 1991.
Talk for the Vancouver International Writers Festival, Vancouver, BC. “To Leave or Not to Leave, That is the Question.” October 27, 1991.
Talk for the Vancouver International Writers Festival, Vancouver, B.C. “Magic? Realism?” October 26, 1991.
Literary Reading at the "Breaking Through the Barriers" Program, Vancouver International Writers Festival, Vancouver, BC, October 25, 1991.
Reading from my own work at the Olean Public Library, Olean NY. October 7, 1991.
Reading from my own work at the Calumet Arts Cafe and Bookstore, Buffalo, NY. October 6, 1991.
Book Signing at Talking Leaves Book Store, Buffalo, NY. October 5, 1991.
Literary Reading for La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley. "Bilingual Reading from After the Bombs and Los Caminos de Paxil." June 19, 1991.
Literary Reading for International Vancouver Writers Festival, Vancouver, Canada. "Extracts from Jaguar en llamas and After the Bombs." June 10, 1991.
Literary Reading for Saskatchewan Writers Guild, Regina, Canada. "From After the Bombs." June 8, 1991.
Literary Reading for St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas. "Reading from After the Bombs." December 6, 1990.
Literary Reading and Talk for the University of Texas at Austin's Central American Working
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Group. December 5, 1990.
Tour of the U.S. promoting the publication of After the Bombs for Curbstone Press. October 17 - December 6, 1990.
Reading and Book Signing at Dixon Place Theater. New York City. November 15, 1990.
Reading and Book Signing at The Americas Society Cultural Center. New York City. November 13, 1990.
Reading and Book Signing at Curbstone Press. Willimantic, CT. November 10, 1990.
Reading and Book Signing at Real Art Ways Cultural Center. Hartford, CT. November 9, 1990.
Reading and Book Signing at Salt of the Earth Bookstore. Albuquerque, NM. October 17, 1990.
Reading and Book Signing at Midnight Special Bookstore. Los Angeles, CA. October 21, 1990.
Reading and Book Signing at Kepler's Bookstore. Menlo Park, CA. October 23, 1990.
Reading and Book Signing at Modern Times Bookstore. San Francisco. October 24, 1990.
Reading and Book Signing at Cody's Bookstore. Berkeley. October 25, 1990.
Reading and Book Signing at Powell's Bookstore. Portland, OR. October 28, 1990.
Reading and Book Signing at Elliott Bay Bookstore. Seattle, WA. October 30, 1990.
Reading and Book Signing at Guild Books. Chicago, IL. November 3, 1990.
Reading and Book Signing at UConn Coop Bookstore. Storrs, CT. November 8, 1990.
Reading and Book Signing at Atticus Bookstore. New Haven, CT. November 12, 1990.
INTERVIEWS RELATED TO MY CREATIVE WORK
"Sense of Exile: An Interview with Arturo Arias"by Gerard Nicosia, for Poetry Flash No. 222, September 1991.
“Letter from San Francisco: Where the Beat Goes On” by Gerard Nicosia, for Washington Post, Sunday April 7, 1991.
TV AND RADIO PROGRAMS
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Participant in Latino USA Program on NPR. “Guatemala, Tenth Anniversary of the Peace Agreements.” December 29, 2006.
Participant in KDHX “Hispanic Culture” Radio Program in KDHX Community Radio, St. Louis, MO. May 4, 1998.
Participant in Channel 53 TV Program Juventud Latina. Program dedicated to support of San Francisco Cultural centers. October 17, 1993.
Participant in two segments of award-winning public service television series Línea Directa. “The Nature of the Spanish State in 1492 and the Meaning of Columbus's Discovery.” “The Effects of the Conquest on Native Peoples and the Meaning of Present-Day Multiculturalism.” Washington D.C. Videotaped October 9, 1992. Broadcast October 23-24 1992.
Guest of KPFA Program “En Contacto Directo - La Nueva Dimensión” produced and hosted by Sylvia Mullally Aguirre. September 4, 1992.
Guest of KPFA Program “En Contacto Directo - La Nueva Dimensión” produced and hosted by Sylvia Mullally Aguirre. September 10, 1993.