CURRICULUM VITAE

Luis Felipe Díaz, Ph.D. P.O. Box 2097, Toa Baja. P.R. 00951 Tel. 787-672-9198 (Cell.). 787-792-7128 (Home) E-mail: [email protected]

EDUCATION:

1978 - 83 University of Minnesota, Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese. Thesis: "Irony and Ideology in La Regenta of Leopoldo Alas."

1975 - 77 University of Illinois, M.A. in Spanish Language and Literature.

1969 - 75 University of , B.A. in Humanities. Major: Literature and History.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

1987 - 2011 University of Puerto Rico (Río Piedras), Professor in Hispanic Studies.

1987 - 88 Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Assistant Professor in Spanish Language and Literature, and Critical Thinking.

1986 – 87 Kalamazoo College, Michigan, Assistant Professor in Spanish Language and Literature.

1983 – 85 Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Assistant Professor in Spanish, Puerto Rican Literature, Critical Thinking, and World Literature.

1978 – 80 University of Minnesota, Spanish Instructor.

1975 - 77 University of Illinois at Chicago, Spanish Instructor.

AREAS OF INTEREST:

Generalist in Latin American and Spanish Peninsular Literature (special interest in 19th and 20th Centuries); Caribbean Literature and Culture; Literary Theory and Criticism (semiotics, sociology, post-structuralism, postmodernism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction), Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Theory of Language and Cultural Thought (Ideologies), Post-colonialism and Cyber Culture.

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COURSES TAUGHT (1983-2011)

Undergraduate: World Literature; Logical and Critical Thinking, Caribbean Literature, Contemporary Spanish Literature, Puerto Rican Literature I (16th to 19th Cents.), Puerto Rican Literature II (20th to 21st Cents.), Contemporary Puerto Rican Literature, Spanish Literature I (IX to XV Cent), Spanish Literature II (XVI to XX Cent), Latin American Literature I (XVI-XIX), Latin American Literature II (XX-XXI), Puerto Rican Literature and Psychoanalysis, Puerto Rican Society and Literature, Psycholinguistics and Media Society, Spanish Seminar in Monographic Writing, Literary Genres in , Contemporary Spanish Poetry and Theater.

Graduate: Latin American Modern Novel, Latin America and Its Literary Boom, Puerto Rican Literature and Society I and II (19th-21st Cents.), Linguistics and Literary Theory, Literary Criticism, Semiotics and Theory of Communication, The 20th Century Spanish Novel, Spanish Enlightenment and Romanticism, Generation of 98, M.A. Thesis Seminar, Ph.D. Thesis Seminar, Spanish Romanticism, Spanish Realism and Naturalism, Caribbean Literature (20th Cent.), Aesthetics and Communication in the Present Culture, Contemporary Puerto Rican Literature, Puerto Rican Theatre, Puerto Rican Literature and Cultural History, Advanced Grammar and Writing.

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:

— Coordinator: Graduate School of Hispanic Studies, University of Puerto Rico (from 1994 to 1997; 2004 to 2006; 2008 to 2009). — Acting Director: Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Puerto Rico, (Summers of 1995, 1996, 2008). — Director of General Education Studies Program (Inter American University, 1986-87). In charge of curriculum development, personnel training, and grant writing.

GENERAL PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES:

— Invited to teach at the Colegio de Artes Plasticas, San Juan, Puerto Rico (M.A. Seminar), 2011. — Invited to participate in curricular planning and teach the following graduate courses: Literary Theory, Caribbean Narrative, Puerto Rican Literature and Culture. Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe (CEAPRC), San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2005-2011). — In charge of M.A. Thesis Proposals at the Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe, San Juan (2007-2011). — In charge of Ph.D. and M.A. Thesis Proposals in the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of Puerto Rico (1997-2009). — Exchange Professor at City College of City University of New York, with participation in its M.A. thesis program (1998-1999) — Invited to teach at City University of New York, Summer Programs of 1999, 2000, and 2001.

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— Member of the Personnel Committee, College of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico, 2000-2002. — Member of the Personnel Committee, Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Puerto Rico, 1993-1995, 1999-2002, 2003-2004, and 2007-2009. — Member of the Committee for Curricular Development, Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Puerto Rico, 1994-1997 and 2003-2005. — Invited to teach a graduate course (Aesthetics and Communication) in the School of Communication, University of Puerto Rico, 2004. — Invited to teach a graduate course (Semiotic of Modern and Postmodern Communication) in the School of Communication, University of Puerto Rico, 1996. — Invited to teach “Psychoanalysis and Puerto Rican Narrative” in the Department of Psychology, University of Puerto Rico, 1994. — Invited to teach “Interdisciplinary Puerto Rican Studies” in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Puerto Rico, 1992 and 1995. — Invited to teach Psycholinguistics in the School of Communication, University of Puerto Rico, 1994. — Invited to teach Psycho-Social Problems in Puerto Rican Literature, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, 1993. — Member of many departmental and faculty committees: Personnel, Student Activities, Faculty Activities Planning, Curriculum Development, and Search, University of Puerto Rico, (1987-1990). — Faculty Member in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies. In charge of the Puerto Rican Studies Program, Curricular Development and Lecturing, 1990-92. — Consultant and Lecturer of Curriculum Development in Acquisition of Values and Critical Thinking, Department of Public Education of Puerto Rico and the University of Puerto Rico (1988-90). — Invited to teach Psycholinguistics and Semiology, School of Public Communication, University of Puerto Rico, 1988 and 1991. — Invited to teach Puerto Rican Literature and Society, School of Social Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, 1992. — Consultant: Cayey Research Program for the Study of the Quality of Thinking for Students, University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Campus (1989). — Participated in workshops and forums on the essay as a genre, Federico de Onís Seminar, University of Puerto Rico, Summer, June, 1988. — Attended Workshops for the Editing of Proposals, Inter American University, Aug., 1987. — Member of the Academic Senate of the Inter American University of Puerto Rico. Participated in the Curricular Development and Student Affairs Committees at Inter American University (1984-85). — Attended seminars and workshops in the teaching of Spanish language through structural grammar and applied linguistics, University of Illinois and University of Minnesota (1976-77; 1978-79, respectively). — Board Member at the Center for the Study and Analysis of Puerto Rican Affairs, Chicago, Illinois, 1980-1982. — Participated in the development of a Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education grant in Chicago. The grant was awarded to establish the Center for the Study

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and Analysis of Puerto Rican Affairs. I was in charge of Curricular Development and Lectureship, 1980-82. — Board Member and Lecturer Resource for the International University, Chicago (A Site of Governor State University in Illinois). Lecturer on Sociology of Minorities in the , 1981. — Board Member of Journal of Contemporary Puerto Rican Thought (1975-77), Chicago, Illinois. — Lecturer: Sociology of Minorities in United States and History of Puerto Rico, YMCA Community College, Chicago, Illinois, 1975-76.

BOOKS PUBLISHED:

— Modernidad, postmodernidad y tecnocultura actual. San Juan: Ediciones Gaviota 2011. — De charcas, espejos, velorios e infantes en la literatura puertorriqueña. San Juan/ Santo Domingo: Isla Negra, 2010: 153 pp. — La na(rra)ción en la literatura puertorriqueña. San Juan: Ediciones Huracán: 2008: 239 pp. — Modernidad literaria puertorriqueña. San Juan: Editorial Isla Negra/Editorial Cultural, 2005: 300 pp. — Globalización, nación, postmodernidad. Luis Felipe Díaz and Marc Zimmerman, Editors. San Juan: Ediciones LACASA Chicago/San Juan, 2001: 350 pp. — Semiótica, psicoanálisis y postmodernidad. San Juan: Editorial Plaza Mayor, 1999: 215 pp. — Ironía e ideología en La Regenta de Leopoldo Alas. New York: Peter Lang Editorial, 1992: 275 pp.

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATION:

— Modernidad, postmodernidad y tecnocultura actual. San Juan: Editorial Gaviota: (Norberto González), 450 pp. (to be released in May, 2011).

OTHER ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS:

— “El discurso poético puertorriqueño en el umbral de fin del siglo”, El Sótano 00931, Edición Especial, República Dominicana y San Juan, 2009: 189-200. — “Travestismo literario en la narrativa de Mayra Santos”, Revista del Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños, Hunter College, 2004: 24-36. — “La guaracha del Macho Camacho de Luis Rafael Sánchez y la cultura de la pseudo- comunicación”, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Vol. XXX, No. 1, 2003. — “En el fondo del caño hay un negrito”: una lectura semiótica”, Primer Congreso Internacional de Lengua, Literatura y Educación, San Juan: Departamento de Educación, 2004: 264-272. — “Ironía e ideología en el discurso del siglo XIX. Alonso, Tapia y Rivera, Hostos y Zeno Gandía”, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Año XXIX, Núms. I y 2, 2002: 49-70.

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— ”El discurso vanguardista de Tuntún de pasa y grifería de Luis Palés Matos”, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Vol. XXVII, No. 2, 2000: 51-74. — ”Tránsitos y traumas" en el discurso literario del siglo XX en Puerto Rico”, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Año XXIV, Núm. 1, 1997: 185-203. — "Inscripción del discurso literario puertorriqueño de los años 70”:, bordes , San Juan, 1998: 64-83. — ”Insularismo y el ingreso a la modernidad”, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Año XXII, 1995: 285-298. — ”La crítica literaria en el periodismo puertorriqueño, 1950-1990”, 22 Conferencias, San Juan: Ateneo Puertorriqueño, 1994: 370-411. — ”Ideología y sexualidad en Felices días Tío Sergio de Magali García Ramis”, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Año XXI, 1994: 325-341. — "José de Jesús Domínguez", "José de Diego" and “Pedro Juan Soto", Diccionario Enciclopédico de las Letras de América Latina, Caracas: Ayacucho, 1994. — Traducción: poemas de poetas caribeños y canadienses: Manuel Batanzos Santos, Mario Gross, Raymond Filip, Sonja Skarstedt, Nela Rio, Revista Mairena, Año XIV, Num 34, Rio Piedras, 1992. — "El sujeto lírico del vanguardismo puertorriqueño", Revista Mairena, Río Piedras, 1994: 7-28. — Translations of various poems: Serpent Underfoot by Frank Varela. Chicago: Chicago: Abrazo Press, March, 1993. — "Ideología en el discurso del El Jíbaro de Manuel Alonso", Año III, Nún. 3, O’Clip. Revista del Seminario Federico de Onís, Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1993, pp. 37-52. — "La metáfora y la metonimia en Insularismo de Antonio S. Pedreira", Revista del Ateneo Puertorriqueño, Año, II, Núm 4, Enero-Abril, San Juan, 1992: 75-100. — "La Regenta en sus límites narrativos", Cuadernos, Revista de la Facultad de Humanidades. Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1991: 146-169. — Translation into Spanish: “An Investigation on the Quality of Thinking of Freshman Students of Cayey University College” by Dr. Carlos Torre (Yale University, 1990), 170 pp. — "En el fondo del caño hay un negrito" de José Luis González. Estructura y discurso narcisista”, Revista Iberoamericana, Num. 162-163, January-June (University of Pittsburgh), 1993, pp. 127-144. — "La trilogía trágica de Federico García Lorca. Revista Encuentro. San Juan, 1987. — "De historia y meta-narrativa", Revista El Faro. Universidad Interamericana, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, 1984. — “Editor-at-Large”, Journal of Contempory Puerto Rican Thought, Chicago, 1975-76. — Preface to Otro Canto de Ana Castillo (Chicano Poetry) Chicago, 1977.

OTHER MEDIA PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:

— ”Sirena Selena vestida de pena; novela de Mayra Santos”, Claridad (Newspaper), March 9, 2001: 24-25. — “Una visita a El sótano 00931”, Claridad (Newspaper), May 24, 2001: 26-27. — Television forum on the writing of José Luis González, Channel 13, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November, 1996.

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— Television interview on Walter Mercado (media astrologer) and the popular culture of the sixties. Prohibido Olvidar Program. WIPR. Channel 6, Puerto Rico, September, 1997. — Television interview on the writing of Magali García Ramis (Puerto Rican contemporary writer), Prohibido Olvidar Program, WIPR. Channel 6, Puerto Rico. March, 1999. — Television interview on the death of Enrique Laguerre (see above), WAPA. Channel 4 News, 5:00 p.m. Feb. 2005. — Television interview on the death of Enrique Laguerre (Puerto Rican novelist), WIPR. Channel 6 News, Puerto Rico: 6:00 p.m., Feb. 2005.

LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS, FORUMS, PANELS, WORSHOPS:

— Presentation: The poetry of John Torres. March, 2010. La Tertulia Bookstore, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. — Interview to Four Recent Puerto Rican Writers. Program of Exchange Students. University of Puerto Rico in Aguadilla, Nov. 2009. — Conference: Lacan: ”The Purloined Letter” (E. Allan Poe) and Literary Theory and Criticism”, Federico de Onís Seminar, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Feb. 2009. — Interview to three new Puerto Rican writers, July, 2009. Borders, Plaza Las Américas, San Juan, Puerto Rico. — Conference: The Puerto Rican Cultural Debate at the End of the XXth. Century. Book Fair in La Habana, Cuba, University of La Habana, Feb., 2009, Cuba. — Presentation: Palabras encontradas by Mélanie Pérez. ( San Juan: Ediciones Callejón, 2009), Federico de Onís Seminar, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, April, 2009. — Forum: Death as Metaphor in Puerto Rican Literature and Culture. Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe, PRSA. April, 2008, San Juan, Puerto Rico. — Conference: Contemporary Literary Criticism and Theory, Federico de Onís Seminar, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, PR., April; 2008. — The Poetics if the National Infant in Puerto Rican Literature, Inter American University, San Germán, Puerto Rico, April, 2008. — Forum: Travestism as Performance. Coribantes Theater , Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, August, 2007. — Presentation: Mariconerías by Daniel Torres, Book Fair, Santo Domingo, , April, 2007. — Presentation: Sandro, A Novel by Mónica Volonteri, Book Fair, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, April, 2004. — Conference: Puerto Rican Literature in Its Socio-Cultural Mirror. Department of Education. Ponce, Puerto Rico, April, 2004. — Conference: Postmodern Discourse in Puerto Rico. Inter American University, Ponce, 2004. — Conference: “En el fondo del caño...” and José Luis González, Federico de Onís Seminar, University of Puerto Rico, 2004. — Conference: From La charca to the Cibertext. Jornadas de Literatura Puertorriqueña, Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Puerto Rico, 2004. — Conference: Postmodern Discourse and Post-Colonial Ideology. Encuentro, Inter American University, Ponce, February, 2004.

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— Conference: The Poetics of the Na(rra)tional Infant, Semana de la Lengua, Departament of Hispanic Studies, University Puerto Rico, April, 2003. — Conference; “Huella-sombra y cantar. The Poetry of Francisco Manrique Cabrera”. Bienal de Poesía y Centenario de la Universidad de Puerto Rico. College of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico, March 23, 2003. — Talk: Gayness and Transvestism in Latino Culture. Puerto Rican Studies Association. Chicago, May 2002. — Presentation: Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Año XXII, No. 2, 2000. In Seminario Federico de Onis, Nov. 15, 2002. — Presentation: Todos los hombres son iguales, short stories by Juan Carlos Rueda, Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, San Juan, December, 2000. — Presentation: Serena Silena vestida de pena, a novel by Mayra Santos, San Sebastian Street, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April, 2000. — Conference: Postmodern Literary Discourse in Puerto Rico. Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Puerto Rico, April, 2000. — Presentation: Nation, Patriarchy and the Queer Discourse in La Patografía (a novel) by Angel Lozada. Borders, World Trade Center, New York, 1999. — Conference: Postmodern Literary Discourse: The Case of Luis Rafael Sánchez. City College of New York, Nov. 1999. — Conference: "Tránsitos y traumas” in Puerto Rican Literature". Seminario Federico de Onís, University of Puerto Rico, 1997. — Talk: The Literary Journey of José Luis González, Colegio Puertorriqueño de Niñas, Hato Rey, 1997. — Presentation: Voices of AIDS (Poesida: Carlos Rodríguez, Editor). Sagrado Corazón University, San Juan, December, 1996. — Forum: The Symbolic and the Imaginary in Noches del Riel de Oro (short stories) by Magali García Ramis. University of Puerto Rico, March, 1996. — Confernece: Ideology and Sexual Identity in Felices días, tío Sergio (novel, by Magali García Ramis). Yale University, Nov., 1994. — Forum: The Generation of “tránsito y trauma” in Puerto Rico. Yale University (PMLA), 1994. — Talk: The Semiotic Theory and the Spanish Language Teacher, Board of Education, Puerto Rico, 1993. — Forum: The Poetic Voice in the Puerto Rican Avant-guard Poetry, Faculty of the Humanities, University of Puerto Rico, 1993. — Conference: Psychoanalytic Study of "En el fondo del caño hay un negrito" and the Entrance to the Modernist Society in Puerto Rico.” Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Puerto Rico, 1992. — Conference: Literary Criticism in Puerto Rican Journalism, 1950-1990. Puerto Rican Athenaeum, 1992. — Conference: Eros and Power in the Dramas of Federico García Lorca, Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Puerto Rico, 1991. — Conference: Metaphor and Metonymy in Insularismo by Antonio S. Pedreira (Puerto Rican Literature and Culture), Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Puerto Rico 1990.

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— Forum: On the Theory of the Essay. Federico de Onís Seminar, University of Puerto Rico, 1988. — A Series of Lectures and Workshops on the Acquisition of Values and Critical Thinking. Presented to the Teachers of the Department of Education of Puerto Rico (1988-90). — Conference: Miau and the "Contemporary Novels" of Benito Pérez Galdós, Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Puerto Rico, Sept., 1987. — Conference: La Regenta at the End of 19th Century Ideology, Department of Hispanic Studies, Sept. University of Puerto Rico, 1986. — Conference: The Acquisition of Language in its Socio-Historical Context: The Puerto Rican Case. Kalamazoo College, Michigan, September, 1976. — Conference: Literature and Migration, Yale College, Yale University, March, 1986. — Conferences and Workshops: Acquisition of Values and Critical Thinking. Presented to the Teachers of the Departament of Education of Puerto Rico (1988-90).

POST-DOCTORAL STUDIES:

— Twelve (12) Graduate Credits in Psychology. Department of Psychology at the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras. (1993-94).

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS:

— Gender and imaginary transgression in Primero sueño by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Mexico), and in the narrative of María Luisa Bombal (Chile). — Allegories of na(rra)tionalism in Alejo Carpentier, Juan Bosch and Emilio S. Belaval. — Don Quixote and the Meta-Narrative in the 20th century Latin American novel. From Los de abajo to El beso de la mujer araña. — Postcultural studies, postcolonialism, subjectivity and the cyborg culture. — General view of 20th Century Puerto Rican theatre, poetry and essay.

THESIS DIRECTED:

— Carmen Caratini, “El feminismo en los cuentos de Rosario Ferré”. M.A. Thesis-en-lieu, CUNY, 1999. — Lilliam Mammut, “Analogía crístico-cidiana del Cantar de Mio Cid”. M.A., Thesis-en- lieu, CUNY, 1999. — Juan Carlos Quiñones, “La novela bingo de Manuel Ramos Otero”, M.A., University of Puerto Rico, 2003. — Francisco Agrait, “El cante jondo en la poesía de Federico García Lorca”, Ph.D., University of Puerto Rico, 2006. — Loida Rodríguez, “La obra narrativa del Manuel Ramos Otero”. Ph.D., University of Puerto Rico, 2007. — Doris Hernández, “La justicia en la cuentística de José Luis González”, Ph.D., 2008. — Leyda Vázquez, “La visión cultural en los ensayos de Juan Flores”, M.A, University of Puerto Rico, 2008.

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— Jaime Ramos Escobar, “Presencia del dramaturgo puertorriqueño y la culminación de un teatro nacional en los festivales del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña”, 1944-1961”. Ph.D., University of Puerto Rico, 2008. — María Antonia Rivera Martínez. “El español de Puerto Rico: Campos léxicos en la norma culta hablada en la zona rural de Cidra, P.R.”. University of Puerto Rico Dec. 2008. — María Benítez Sterling, “Feminismo y teatro neovanguardista en la obra de tres dramaturgas puertorriqueñas: Myrna Casas, Lydia Milagros González y Adriana Pantoja”. Ph.D., University of Puerto Rico, 2009. — María Martínez Roche, “La reescritura de los clásicos españoles en tres piezas del teatro- de-autor del grupo La Candelaria (Colombia)”, Ph.D., University of Puerto Rico, 2010. — Lisa Oquendo, “Lo real maravilloso y fantástico en Cuentos de la Plaza Fuerte de Emilio S. Belaval”. M.A., CEAPRC, 2011 — María Arana, “La narrativa y la poesía de César Abreu Adorno”, Ph.D. CEAPRC, 2011.

GRANTS AND AWARDS:

— University of Puerto Rico and ASPIRA of Chicago Fellowship (1969-1974) — Ford Foundation Fellowship for Graduate Studies (1977-1981). — Ateneo Puertorriqueño and the Puerto Rican Legislature. Literature Award for Semiótica psicoanálisis y postmodernidad, 2001. — Sabbatical for Research and Writing, Awarded by the University of Puerto Rico for the academic year 2001-2002. — Honorary Distinction for Modernidad literaria puertorriqueña. Awarded in 2006 by the Penn Club of Puerto Rico.

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES:

I am a gay activist, member of “Puerto Rico para tod@s”, “Saliendo del Closet”, and “Homoerótica”. I have participated in activities for the Gay, Lesbian, Transvestite, Trans-Sexual, Bi-Sexual Communities in Puerto Rico, Chicago and New York.