AARON J LORENZ, PHD 5231 Stratford Rd. • Los Angeles, CA 90042 • (323) 534 2222 • [email protected] ______EDUCATION
PhD, Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University 2009 • Dissertation: “Aversive Pleasures: Urban Poverty and Violence in Contemporary Brazilian and Colombian Literature and Film.” Dissertation Director: Dr. Idelber Avelar
MA, Department of Performance Studies New York University 2000
BA, Gallatin School New York University 1996 ______HONORS AND AWARDS • Tulane University Graduate Fellowship 2002-2007 • Tinker Summer Research Grant, Tulane University 2000 and 2004 • Federal Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Brazil) 2003 • New York University Graduate Assistantship 2000 ______LANGUAGES • Spoke and Written English – Native • Spoken and Written Portuguese – Superior • Spoken and Written Spanish – Advanced High • Spoken and Written French – Advanced Mid ______RESEARCH AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Lecturer of Spanish Aug., 2011-Present Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Southern California • Teaching Intermediate Spanish 150 & 220. Cofounder of the Portuguese conversation table, Bate Papo.
Post-Doctoral Associate, Luso-Brazilian Studies 2010-2011 Department of Romance Studies, Duke University • Taught intermediate and upper division undergraduate courses in Portuguese and English including “Introduction to Brazilian Literature,” “Intersections in Brazilian Music and Literature,” and “Latin American Film (1950 – Present).” Co-coordinated the Brazilian Conversation group and designed and developed a Brazilian Documentary Film Festival and Lecture Series.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish 2009-2010 Department of Modern Languages University of Indianapolis • Taught introductory classes in Spanish, business Spanish, and translation, as well as seminars and composition classes that focus on twentieth century Latin America literature and film. Co- led a two-week travel course that explored the history of Medieval France. Co-coordinated Spanish Language Program. Participated in evaluation committees and coordinated the Romance Studies Spring cultural encounter.
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Adjunct Instructor 2007-2009 Department of Spanish and Portuguese Tulane University • Taught beginning and intermediate Spanish, intermediate Portuguese, and two topic-based courses titled “The History of Salsa” and “Film and Testimonial in Latin America.” Organized conferences and participated in the Latin American Studies graduate student curriculum committee.
Instructor 2003-2007 Stone Center for Latin American Studies Tulane University • Co-developed curriculum with the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, and taught “Introduction to Latin American Studies” (for three consecutive years), “Introduction to Brazilian Studies,” and “Latin American Ghetto,” a course based on my dissertation research. ______LIST OF CLASSES TAUGHT
• Contemporary Latin American Film, 1950 – Present (In English) • Intersections in Brazilian Music and Literature (In Portuguese) • Introduction to Brazilian Literature (In Portuguese) • Latin American Short Story (In Spanish) • Business Spanish (In Spanish) • Multi-Lingual Translation (co-taught) • Beginning Spanish (101) • Intermediate Spanish (102) (150) (220) • Realismo Mágico, Lo Fantástico, y Lo Real Maravilloso (In Spanish) • Latin American Ghetto (In English) • Testimonio and Cinema (In English) • A History of Salsa (In English) • Beginning Portuguese • Introduction to Latin American Studies (In English) ______OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Capoeira Instructor, Reily Center, Tulane University 2004-2007 • Founded the Capoeira Club at Tulane University, and served as president, secretary and instructor for the group. Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian game that mixes dance, martial arts, theater music and song.
Translator, Museum of Modern Art, Chicago Summer 2005 • Translated Tropicália: A Revolution in Culture, Ed. COSAC & NAIFY, São Paulo, 2005, with Professor Christopher Dunn and Renata Nascimento.
Web Designer 2000-2001 Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics, University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil • Developed a website for an interactive internet based class with the University of Rio de Janeiro, New York University, and the Catholic Pontifica University in Lima, Peru.
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• “The Pleasures of Violence: Irony and Post-Testimonial Discourse in Cidade de Deus, by Paulo Lins.” Working Papers 3:1 (2008). University of Pennsylvania, Department of Romance Languages.
• “Embodying the Favela: Representation, Mediation, and Citizenship in the Music of Bezerra da Silva.” Brazilian Popular Culture and Citizenship. Ed. Idelber Avelar and Christopher Dunn. Durham, NC; Duke University Press, 2011.
• “Paulo Lins’ Cidade de Deus: Mapping racial and class difference in the favela.” Afro-Hispanic Review 29:2 (2010). Vanderbilt University
• “Rosario’s fugitive voice: deciphering Rosario Tijeras’ ironic challenge to the notion of literatura sicaresca” (Forthcoming; Symposium, University of Syracuse).
• “Contruyendo la voz del pueblo: La crítica de Agarrando Pueblo (1978) de Luis Ospina y Carlos Mayolo.” (under review, Ensayos, Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
• Conference on Ethnicity, Race and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean. (November, 2011) University of California, San Diego. “Strategic anti-essentialism in two documentary perspectives in Rio de Janeiro’s Jardim Gramacho garbage dump.” (presenter).
• Brazilian Documentary Film Festival. Duke University (March –April 2011). “Framing Inequality and Social Justice.” (organizer).
• Romance Studies Lecture Series. Duke University (March, 2011). “Reconsidering Garbage: Memory, trauma and waste in Marcos Prado’s Estamira (2004).” (presenter).
• Mulheres da Retomada: Women Directors in Brazilian Film 1995 – Present. Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (2011).. “Strategies for Engaged Filmmaking: Laís Bodanzky’s Bicho de Sete Cabeças and o movimento antimanicomial.” (presenter).
• CLACS Consortium Conference. UNC Chapel Hill. Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature (2010), Washington University, St. Louis. “Fernando Meirelles’ Cidade de Deus and the contemporary aesthetics of violence.” (presenter).
• Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature. Washington University, St. Louis (2010). “Fernando Meirelles’ Cidade de Deus and the contemporary aesthetics of violence.” (presenter).
• Congresso de Ensino do Portugués como língua estrangeira na América do Norte. Fall River Community College, Rhode Island (2010). “MPB in the classroom: Music and performance- based teaching in the Portuguese classroom.” (presenter)
4 • I Encuentro de investigadores de Cine, La Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia (2009). “Agarrando Pueblo 30 años después: Perspectivas desde Cidade de Deus y Rosario Tijeras.” (presenter)
• Colloquium on Colombian Literature and Culture, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (2009). (co-organizer)
• Brazilian Studies Association Annual Meeting, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (2008). “Mainstream Favelas? –Cidade dos Homens and the New Aesthetics of Poverty.” (presenter and technical coordinator)
• Virtual Caribbeans, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (2008). “Uriel Henado and the Boom of Colombian ‘Corridos prohibidos’: Musical Border-crossing, 1990 to the Present.” (presenter)
• Tulane Latin American Studies Graduate Student Conference, New Orleans, LA (2007). “ ‘Me Respectas!’ Sex and Violence in Rosario Tijeras.” (presenter and organizer)
• Brazilian Studies Association Annual Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2005). “A geografia da exclusão: O espaço de um utopia negativa em Clara dos Anjos, de Lima Barreto.” (presenter)
• Performance Studies International, Brown University, Providence, R.I. (2005).“Favelegy: Bezerra da Silva and Hélio Oiticica.” (presenter)
• Conference on Capoeira Angola and African Cultural Legacies in Brazil, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (2004). (organizer)
• Caribbean Soundscapes: A Conference on Caribbean Musics and Cultures, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (2004). “Produto do morro: Bezerra da Silva.” (presenter)