CURRICULUM VITAE Guillermo Rodríguez-Romaguera Department of English and Comparative Literature University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27514 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.oculardispersion.com/ ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, July 2017-present EDUCATION Ph.D. Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture (Comparative Media and Culture), University of Southern California, 2017 M.A. Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture (Comparative Media and Culture), University of Southern California, 2015 M.F.A. Cinema-Television Production, University of Southern California, 2004 A.B. Comparative Literature and Latin American Studies, Princeton University, 1999 BOOKS Mirrors to the Unconscious: Spanish Meta-Art and Contemporary Cinema (under advance contract at Wayne State University Press) ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS 1. Rodríguez-Romaguera, G. “Hermetic Space as Abstraction of the Mechanisms of Censorship: Symptomatic ‘Archive Fever’ in Carlos Saura’s La madriguera.” Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies 2.1 (2018), pp. 1-16. Link to Article 2. Rodríguez-Romaguera, G. “The Quixotic in Horror: Self-Generating Narrative and Its Self- Critical Sequel in Wes Craven’s Self-Reflexive Horror Cinema.” Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America 37.2 (2017), pp. 143-168. Link to Article G. Rodríguez2 -Romaguera 2 3. Rodríguez-Romaguera, G. “‘Y te sacarán los ojos’: The Defiance of Reconstituted Sight in Dictatorship and Post-Dictatorship Spanish Cinema.” Studies in European Cinema 13.2 (2016), pp. 119-133. Link to Article OTHER PUBLICATIONS 4. Rodríguez-Romaguera, G. “Luis Buñuel (1900-1983)” (article for retrospective Objects of Desire: The Films of Luis Buñuel sponsored by the Embassy of Spain), 2016 Fall/Winter Spanish Cultural Program US & Canada, Spain arts & culture, Washington DC 5. Rodríguez-Romaguera, G. The Glad Game (thriller novel), Kindle Edition, October 20, 2015 6. Rodríguez-Romaguera, G. Baby (horror novel), Kindle Edition, August 1, 2015 7. Rodríguez, G. "Fact and Fantasy: Puerto Rico's Ferré fictionalizes family history" (fiction review The House on the Lagoon), The Daily Princetonian CXX: 129 (December 12, 1996), Princeton, NJ 8. Rodríguez, G. "Violence and faith faceoff in King's bloody thriller" (fiction review Desperation), The Daily Princetonian CXX: 101 (October 24, 1996), Princeton, NJ 9. Rodríguez, G. "Isabel arrived in the island by air: A Conversation with Isabel Allende" (article Interview), Víspera IV: 6 (1994), San Juan, PR 10. Rodríguez, G. "El espejo" (short story, winner 1st place CSI Literary Contest), Víspera 1:1 (1991), San Juan, PR WORKS IN PROGRESS The Fluid Gaze: Transgender and Interracial Visual Pleasure in Horror and Hispanic Cinema FILMOGRAPHY 1. Mala Coda (narrative feature film), Writer and Director (In Development) 2. Baby (narrative feature film), Writer and Director (Pre-Production) 3. The Glad Game (narrative feature film), Co-writer and Director (Pre-Production) 4. Killer Ending (TV feature film), Co-writer, Incendo Media, 2011 5. Deadly Affairs (TV feature film), Co-writer, Incendo Media, 2011 6. Sweet Thing (16mm narrative feature film), Producer and Editor Released: 2009. Distributor: Cinetic Media G. Rodríguez3 -Romaguera 3 Dramatic Competition, Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2009 Official Selection, Seattle International Film Festival 2008 Official Selection, Boston International Film Festival 2008 7. The Shadows (Digital narrative feature film), Writer, Director, Producer and Editor DVD Release: October 28, 2008 (Water Bearer Films). Available on Amazon Prime Official Selection (Dramatic Competition), Outfest 2007: Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival Official Selection, Reeling 26: The Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival Official Selection, Melbourne Queer Film Festival 2008 Official Selection, Film Out San Diego Film Festival 2008 8. The Accident (16mm short film), Writer, 2005 Aired on The Independent Film Channel, June 2005 Official Selection, 2005 First Look Film Festival, Director’s Guild of America 9. Playing (35mm short film), Writer and Director, MFA Thesis, 2004 2004 Caucus for TV Writers, Producers & Directors Outstanding Student Filmmaker Award First look Film Festival at the Director’s Guild of America Riverside Multicultural Youth Film Festival Lake Arrowhead Film Festival 10. The Mirror Maker (16mm short film), Writer, Cinematographer and Director, 2003 11. Alice Awakens (16mm short film), Writer, Director and Editor, 2002 12. Four Walls (DV short film), Writer, Director and Editor, 2002 13. The Shield (DV short Film), Director and Editor, 2002 14. Honor Among Thieves (16mm short film), Cinematographer and Editor, 2001 15. Quiet in the Hallway (16mm B&W short film), Writer and Director, 2001 16. Inversion (DV short film), Writer, Director, Cinematographer and Editor, 2001 17. The Heat in Shadows (DV short film), Writer, Director, Cinematographer and Editor, 2001 18. Just a Little Piece (DV short film), Writer, Director, Cinematographer and Editor, 2001 19. Strings at Midnight (DV short film), Writer, Director, Cinematographer and Editor, 2001 20. The Suicide Watch (DV short film), Writer, Director, Cinematographer and Editor, 2001 GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 2019 Faculty Development Grant for Online Courses (UNC Chapel Hill) 2018 Summer Research Travel Grant (Buenos Aires) 2018 Digital Literacy Project Funding (UNC Chapel Hill) 2016-2017 USC Graduate School Endowed Fellowship 2016 Del Amo Foundation Summer Research Award (Madrid and Barcelona) 2015-2016 USC Dornsife College Graduate Merit Award 2015 CSLC Summer Award 2014 Del Amo Foundation Summer Research Award (Madrid and Barcelona) 2014 CSLC Summer Award 2013-2014 Del Amo Foundation Endowed Fellowship G. Rodríguez4 -Romaguera 4 2012 Frederick and Dorothy Quimby Memorial Fellowship 2003 Outstanding Student Filmmaker Grant, The Caucus Foundation for Producers, Writers and Directors 2002-2003 The Rodolfo Montes Memorial Scholarship 2001-2003 Harold C. Lloyd Foundation Scholarship 1998 Princeton Atelier with Toni Morrison and Gabriel García Márquez 1995-1997 Princeton University Scholarships CONFERENCE AND SYMPOSIA PRESENTATIONS (including participation by invitation) 2020 Panel chair, “Queer Genres.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference; Denver, Colorado, April 1-5 2019 “Censored Sight in Víctor Erice’s The Spirit of the Beehive.” Guest lecture for “Film Culture” (Yaron Shemer). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Nov 7 2019 “Race, Gender and Zombies: Haitian Voodoo, The Civil Rights Movement and The Accidental Politics of George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead.” Guest lecture for “Death and Dying” (Jeannie Loeb, Jocelyn Chua, Jennifer Larson). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, September 9 2018 “Twin Peaks as Cinematic Antidote to the Serial Addictions of Traditional Narrative.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference; Toronto, Canada, March 14-18 2017 “La casa doblada: Latin American Gothic Horror in English-Language Spanish Cinema.” XXXV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association; Lima, Peru, April 29-May 1 2017 “The Confined and Delusional Spectator: Striped Minds in Hermetic Spaces in Un Chien andalou (1929) and Meta-film as Virtual Oneiric Simulation in Open Your Eyes (1997) and eXistenZ (1999).” Invited Talk, Comparative Literature Department, University of Southern California; Los Angeles, California, April 5 2016 “The Uncanny Crystals of The Double Life of Veronique” (academic paper) & “The Influence of Krzysztof Kieślowski on my film The Mirror Maker” (lecture as artist). ‘No End: Twenty Years into Krzysztof Kieślowski's Second Life’ – Conference, University of Southern California, October 13-14 2016 Invited respondent to keynote lecture “Reframing Buñuel in the Light of Neuroscience” by Marsha Kinder. ‘Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Archive in Spanish Cinema’ – Symposium, University of Southern California, October 7 G. Rodríguez5 -Romaguera 5 2016 “The Quixotic in Horror: Self-Generating Narrative and its Self-Critical Sequel in Wes Craven’s Self-Reflexive Horror Cinema.” ‘Happy in the Life to Come: 400 Years of Cervantine Afterlives’ - Conference, University of Southern California; Los Angeles, California, February 11-13 2015 “‘Restless in its Transvestite Clothes’: Transgender Televisual Pleasure from Laura Palmer to Maura Pfefferman.” Invited Talk, Gender Studies Program, University of Southern California; Los Angeles, California, September 24 2015 “The Exposure of Murder within Capital Punishment Through Film Aesthetic: The Scopic Case of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Short Film About Killing against the Death Penalty in Poland.” ‘Execution, Spectacle, Law: A Symposium on Capital Punishment with Austin Sarat’ – Graduate Student Conference, University of Southern California; Los Angeles, California, April 22-23 2015 “The Spectral Spectator: The ‘visor effect’ in film.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting; Seattle, Washington, March 26-29 2014 “The Virtualization and Exsanguination of Capital Punishment in Jacques Derrida’s Death Penalty Vol. I.” Invited Talk, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Southern California; Los Angeles, California, November 21 2014 “The Possession of Carlotta’s Necklace Under Revolutionary Cuba: Re-Distribution of the Perceptible through