CURRICULUM VITAE
A. BIOGRAPHICAL
INFORMATION
1. Personal
Eva-Lynn Alicia Jagoe
e.jagoe@utoronto.ca
Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese
Centre for Comparative Literature
University of
Toronto
Toronto, ON, M5S 1K7
2. Degrees
PhD,
English Literature (1998) Duke
University
Dissertation: “Geotemporal
Allegories: Perception and the
Racialized Other in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Latin America.”
Supervisors: Alberto Moreiras and Eve Kosofsky
Sedgwick.
MA,
Critical and Cultural Theory (1990) University
of Wales, College of Cardiff
BA,
English Honours (1989) McGill
University
3. Academic Employment
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Cinema Studies Graduate Appointment (February 2011 to
present)
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Director of Latin American Studies (July 2009-2010)
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Associate Professor of Spanish and of Comparative
Literature (September 2009 to present)
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Assistant Professor of Spanish and of Comparative
Literature (September 2006 to 2009)
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Lecturer in Literature and Film, Latin American
Studies Program Member, University of Essex (2004-2006)
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Assistant Professor of Spanish and of Comparative and
World Literature
Latina/Latino
Studies Affiliate
Center
for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Affiliate
Unit
for Criticism and Interpretive Theory Affiliate
University
of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2001-2004)
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Instructor of Spanish, Instructor of English, Franklin
and Marshall College (1998-1999)
4. Honors
Illinois
Program for Research in the Humanities Faculty Fellowship, University of
Illinois (2002-2003)
5. Professional Affiliations and Activities
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Evaluator: Catalan Review
(2011)
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Evaluator: Bucknell University Press (2009)
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Evaluator: SSHRC (2009)
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Evaluator: Revista Canadiense de
Estudios Hispánicos (2007 to present)
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Evaluator: Routledge (2007)
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Evaluator: University of Toronto
Quarterly
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Evaluator: Mediations
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Evaluator: Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
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Evaluator: Studies in Travel Writing
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Evaluator: Liverpool
University Press
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Member: Latin American
Studies Association (LASA)
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Member: American Comparative
Literature Association (ACLA)
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Member: Modern Languages
Association (MLA)
B. ACADEMIC HISTORY
6. A. Research Awards
Chancellor Jackman Research Fellow (2011-12).
Connaught New Staff Matching Grant, University of
Toronto (2009), $5000
The Susan Treble Trick and the Mary Treble Currelly
Travelling Scholarship, Victoria College, University of Toronto (2009) $3400
SIG Award, Dept. Spanish and Portuguese, University
of Toronto (2008) $2350
Victoria
College Conference Grant, University of Toronto (2006) $1500
Connaught
Start-Up Award, University of Toronto (2006) $10,000
William and Flora Hewlett International Research
Travel Grant, University of Illinois (2004) $1500
Research Board Grant, University of Illinois (2004) $2142
Humanities Travel Research Grant, University of
Illinois (2003) $1500
Travel Research Grant, U.S Department of Education (2003)
$1500
Research Board Grant, University of Illinois (2003)
$4720
Travel Research Grant, U.S Department of Education (2002)
$3700
Research Board Grant, University of Illinois (2002)
$1500
Course Development Grant for Latina/Latino Studies,
University of Illinois (2001) $5000
C. Scholarly and Professional
Work
7. Refereed Publications
A.
Book
The End of the World as They Knew It: Writing Experiences of the Argentine South. Bucknell University Press,
March 2008. 240 pp
Reviews:
Studies in Travel Writing, 14.3, 2010.
Revista canadiense de estudios hispánicos, 33.3, 2009.
B.
Articles
“An Act of
Listening in Ricardo Piglia’s Plata
quemada.” Revista Hispánica Moderna 62.2 (December 2009), 143-162.
“Buenos Aires and the Aesthetics of
Defamiliarization.” Journal of Latin
American Cultural Studies 17.3 (December 2008). 299-315.
“Promesas
de ruina: La ciudad y el desencuentro en Boca
de lobo de Sergio Chejfec.” Forthcoming in La Torre 2009. 11 pp
“Degrading Forms of Pantomime:
Englishness and Shame in De Quincey.” Studies in Romanticism 11 (Spring 2005): 23-40.
“Familial Triangles: Eduarda Mansilla, Domingo Sarmiento,
and Lucio Mansilla.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 30.2,
(March 2005): 507-523.
“Pace and the Pampas in Argentine Travel Narratives.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 81.2
(2004): 361-377.
“Las herencias
colombianas: Corporealidad y
colonización en la obra de Jorge Isaacs.”
Cuadernos Americanos 102.6 (2003): 144-62.
“Patagonian Peripheries.” Studies in Travel Writing 7 (2003):
29-45.
“The Disembodied Machine: Matter, Femininity, and Nation in La ciudad ausente.” Latin American Literary Review 23.44
(1995): 5-17.
C. Chapters
“‘A través de un cristal:’ The Representation
of Patagonia in César Aira’s La liebre.”
Patagonia: Myths and Realities. Edited by Fernanda
Peñaloza, Jason Wilson, and Claudio Canaparo. Bern: Peter Lang Publishers,
2010. 215-36.
“Asociaciones afectivas:
literatura y política en la Argentina del siglo diecinueve” in Entre hombres Masculinidades del siglo XIX
en América Latina. Ed. Ana Peluffo and Ignacio Prado. Madrid/Frankfurt:
Iberoamericana/ Vervuert, 2010, 109-122.
“Vibraciones encarnadas en
La niña santa de Lucrecia Martel.” Co-authored with John Cant. In El cine argentino de hoy: entre el arte y la
política. Ed. Viviana Rangil. Buenos Aires: Editorial Biblios, 2007.
169-190.
“‘The
Visible Horizon Bounds Their Wishes’:
Seclusion and Society in Fanny Calderón de la Barca’s Postcolonial
Mexico” in Imperial Objects: The Colonial Emigration of Victorian
Women, ed Rita S. Kranidis.
Twayne Publishers, 1997.
170-89.
8. Non-Refereed Publications
A.
Museum Catalog Article
“Jorge Macchi’s Fractured Narratives of Buenos
Aires.” In Light Music. AHRC Research
Centre for Studies of Surrealism and its Legacies, University of Essex, 2006. 47-63.
B. Book
Reviews
Stephen Hart, A Companion to Latin
American Film
, Revista canadiense de estudios
hispánicos 31.3, Spring 2007, 527-8.
Marzena
Grzegorczyk, Private Topographies: Space,
Subjectivity, and Political Change in Modern Latin America. New York:
Palgrave, 2005. In Revista
de estudios hispánicos, 40.3, Oct 2006. 586-7.
Claire Lindsay, Locating
Latin American Women Writers. Cristina Peri Rossi, Rosario
Ferré, Albalucía Angel and Isabel Allende. New York: Peter Lang. 2003. In Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 82:6, Sept
2005. 865-6.
Silviano
Santiago, The Space In-Between: Essays on Latin American Culture. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. In Bryn Mawr Review of
Comparative Literature, 3. 2 (Fall 2002). http://www.brynmawr.edu/bmrcl/Fall2002/Santiago.html.
4pp
9. Manuscripts/Publications
in Preparation
A.
Books
Too
Much: The Time of Reading, The Time of Psychoanalysis. Self-authored
book to be completed in 2012.
B.
Articles
“‘Los efectos raros’ de W.H.
Hudson en la literatura argentina” To be published in Entre Borges y Conrad: Estética y territorio en W.H. Hudson. Edited
by Leila Gómez and Sara Castro-Klarén.
10. Papers Presented at Conferences
A. Refereed
“Long
and Slow.” American Comparative Literature Association in Vancouvers, April
2011.
“La naturaleza, los indígenas, y el inconsciente óptico en el cine mudo
argentino.” Latin American Studies Association in Toronto, September 2010.
“’Unafraid of the Odium’: Psychoanalysis and the Long Novel as Extended Form”. Literatures of Modernity Symposium, Ryerson University, Toronto, March 29, 2010.
“The Power
of Electricity in the Argentine Novels of Roberto Arlt and Ricardo Piglia.”
Utopian Studies Association in Toronto, October 2007.
“The
Aesthetics of Experience.” Latin American Studies Association in Montréal,
September 2007.
“The
Singers’ Room: Sound, Electricity, and Torture.” American Comparative
Literature Association in Puebla, Mexico, April 2007.
“Lucio V. Mansilla’s Manly
Men.” Modern Languages Association
in Philadelphia, PA, December 2004.
“The
Patagonian Andes in the Argentine Imaginary.” Modern Languages Association in Philadelphia, PA, December
2004.
“The
Desire for the Urban: Cosmopolitan
Affect in Buenos Aires.” Latin
American Studies Association in Las Vegas, NV, October 2004.
“Otros
espacios, otros enlaces:
Argentina, Europa y ficciones femeninas.” Latin American Studies Association in Dallas, TX,
March 2003.
“Paracolonial Peripheries.” Latin American Studies
Association in Washington, DC, September 2001.
“Allegories of Subaltern Geotemporality.” American
Comparative Literature Association in Boulder, CO, April 2001.
“The Transatlantic Self and the Savage Other: Metropolitan Identifications in
Paracoloniality.” American Comparative Literature Association in Montreal,
April 1999.
11. Invited Presentations
“Memoria recobrada,
tiempo perdido.” “Testimonio, memoria, transmisión.” Instituto del campo
freudiano. Barcelona, Jan 10, 2011.
“Forma y
temporalidad: la novela larga y el psicoanálisis.” Keynote. “Transformaciones
culturales,” IV Congreso Internacional de Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires,
22-27 November, 2010.
“Technologies of Extended Perception:
Psychoanalysis and the Long Novel as Expanded Forms.” The Linda Hutcheon and J.
Edward Chamberlin Lecture in Literary Theory, "Explosive Past, Radiant
Future,” Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference, March 20, 2010.
“Forms of
Silence in Argentine Film.” “The Intermedial City: Practices, Technologies,
Imaginaries.” McGill University, Montreal, October, 2008.
“Buenos
Aires and the Aesthetics of Defamiliarization.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Birkbeck College,
London, May 2006.
“Trajectories
of Chance in Jorge Macchi’s Buenos Aires
Tour.” Centre for Latin
American Cultural Studies.
University of Manchester, March 2006.
“Urban
Mappings: Ephemera and Experience
in Buenos Aires.” Institute for Cultural Research. University of Lancaster, January 2006.
“Argentine
Cartographies of Convergence and Loss.”
Modern Languages Association in Washington, DC, December 2005 and
University of Essex, November 2005.
“Southern
Orientations.” Patagonia: Myths and Realities. University of Manchester, September 2005.
“Travel and Gender.” Goldsmiths College, University of
London, Feb 2005.
“La temporalidad del sur
en la obra de Perito Moreno y Charles Darwin.” Foro de Crítica Cultural,
Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, April 2004.
“El
ritmo de las pampas en las narrativas de viaje de Head y Mansilla.” XIX Jornadas de Investigación,
Instituto de Literatura Hispanoamericana, Universidad de Buenos Aires, March
2004.
“Argentines, Brits, Southern Spaces.” Illinois Program for Research in the
Humanities “The South” Conference, University of Illinois, April 2003.
“Nineteenth-Century Argentine Discourse: The Example of Sarmiento’s Facundo.” Center for Latin American and
Caribbean Studies Brown Bag Series, UIUC, October 2003.
“Argentine Travel Narratives:
Some Notes on Pace.” University of Illinois, November 2002.
“‘Falsos argentinos’:
Borges, Hudson, Piglia y la criolledad.” Mid-America Conference on
Hispanic Literature, St. Louis, September 2002.
“Embodied Inheritances in Jorge Isaacs’ María.” University of Illinois,
Northwestern University, Florida State University, Reed College.
January-February 2000.
“Herencias incorporadas en María.” Tulane University.
January 2000.
“Geography, Ethnography, and Imagination in 19th
c. British and Latin American Travel Texts.” Franklin and Marshall
College. March 1999.
“Perito
Moreno and Charles Darwin: Mapping Time in Argentina.” Emory University, University of
Calgary. February 1998.
D. LIST OF COURSES
12. A. Undergraduate Courses Taught
i. University of
Toronto
SPA381 Nation,
Identity, and Literary Modernism in Spanish America
SPA467 Latin
American Experimental Narrative
LAS400 Argentine
Aesthetics in the Public Sphere
ii. University of Essex
LT354 English
Novel and Beyond
LT365 Cities
of the Americas in Literature and Film
iii. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Spanish 242 Gender
and Sexuality in Latina/Latino Culture (cross-listed Latina/o Studies)
Spanish 244
Jungle Imaginaries (cross-listed Comparative Literature)
Spanish 244
Representing Argentina (cross-listed Comparative
Literature)
Spanish 254
Ideologies
of Place
Spanish
256 Latin
American Women Writers 1875-2000
Spanish 256
Southern
Cone Dictatorial Literature
B. Graduate Seminars Taught
i.
University of Toronto
COL5099 “Circulations
and Circumlocutions: Spacing Nineteenth Century Literature”
COL5094 “Forms
of Critical Writing”
COL5074 “Reading Proust as Theory”
COL5085 “Proust
and Modernity”
COL5059H “Nature and Civilization in
the New World”
COL5065H “The Forms of Literature in
the Age of Electricity”
SPA2951H “Nineteenth-Century
Spanish American Literature”
COL5072H “Affinities: Readings
of Realism and Radicalism”
SPA3000H “The Aesthetics
of Genre in Contemporary Argentine Culture”
COL1910H “Borges
and Narrative Trickery”
ii. Central European University,
Budapest, Summer 2006.
"Culture as Resource: Culture and Democracy in
the Global System." With Eric Cazdyn, Maria Elisa Cevasco, Prem Kumar
Rajaram, Will Straw, Imre Szeman, and Erna von der Walde.
iii. University
of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Spanish
442 “The
South in Latin American Literatures,” (cross-listed Comparative Literature
471).
Spanish 340
“Representations
of Space and Identity in Argentina 1810-2000.”
Spanish
390 “Nineteenth-Century
Spanish-American Literature.”
C.
Gradual Doctoral Committees
Primary Supervisor
Jonathan Allan. In progress. “The Sexual Scripture: A Study of Virginity in
Romance.” Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto.
Gina
Beltrán. In progress. “The Violence of Performance on the Latin American Stage.” Spanish and
Portuguese, University of Toronto.
Joe Culpepper. In progress. “Reception and Adaptation: Magic Tricks,
Mysteries, Con Games.” Centre for Comparative Literature, University of
Toronto.
Sarah O’Brien. In progress. “Binding and Loosing: Posthumanist Movements
in Contemporary North American Literary and Visual Culture.” Centre for
Comparative Literature, University of Toronto.
Catherine Schwartz. In progress.
Raquel Castellanos. In progress.
Darcy Gauthier. In progress.
Doctoral Committee Member
i. University of Toronto
Pablo
Pemeja. “Modernist Curiosities:
Desire, Knowledge and Literature in Gustave Flaubert’s Bouvard et
Pécuchet, Elias Canetti’s Die Blendung and Jorge Luis Borges’s “El
Aleph.” Defended Summer 2011.
Violeta
Lorenzo. “El bildungsroman en el Caribe hispano.” Defended Spring
2011.
Natalia
Cousté. “Construcciones cartográficas: lindes y deslindes de
la urbe barroca frente a tres ciudades latinoamericanas contemporáneas.” Defended Fall 2010.
León
Berdichesky. “Distorted Historical Fictions of the Holocaust, the Chilean
Dictatorship, and the Algerian War of Independence.” Defended
Spring 2008.
Mario
Boido. “De límites y convergencias:
La relación palabra/imagen en la cultura visual latinoamericana del siglo
veinte.” Defended Spring 2007.
Caroline Couillard.
“Fin de Siècle and the Latin American City in Film and Literature.” Defended
Spring 2008.
Ramiro Armas Austria. In progress.
Nelson Darío González. In progress.
Ximena Berecochea. In progress.
Ingrid Waisgluss. In progress.
Agnieszka Bijos. In progress.
Manuel Campirano. In progress.
Lauren Beard. In progress.
ii. University of Illinois:
Henry
Morello. “Masking the Past: Trauma
and Memory in Latin American and Spanish Theatre.” Defended Spring 2006.
Timothy
Wilson, “Rocking the Regime: The
Role of Argentine Rock Music in a Changing Socio-Political Context
(1970-85). Defended Spring 2005.
Kathy
Nofgster León, “Divorcing Tradition:
Marriage, Family and Female Homosociality in 20C. Puerto Rican
Literature.” Defended Spring 2003.
Elisa
Bartosik-Velez, “Articulations of Empire and the Nation: Christopher Columbus in
Nineteenth-Century Spain, Italy, the United States, and Spanish America.” Defended Spring 2003.
Johnny S.
Presbitero. “Hybridity in
Manunaíma and La Malinche.” Defended Fall 2002.
Rosana Díaz Zambrana. “De errabundos y nómadas: la desarticulación del viaje en la
literatura posmoderna latinoamericana.” Defended Spring 2002.
iii.
University of Essex
Haifa Saud
Alfaisal. “Religious Discourse in
Postcolonial Studies: The Case of Hombres de maíz and of Bandarshah.
External
Examiner
Donna
Fitzgerald, “Forgetting JB: Reading the Woman in Borges.” University of
Nottingham. Spring 2005.
Emily
Barker: “Patriarchy and Narrative:
The Racial Subject and the Gendered Object in Male-Authored Detective
Fiction of the United States.” University of Essex. 2007-2008
E. ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS
13. A. Service on
Departmental Committees
Spanish
and Portuguese:
Policy and Planning Committee,
2010-11.
PTR/Merit Committee, 2010-11
Graduate Advisory and
Admissions Committee, 2007-08, 2009-10.
Research Committee, 2008-2010
Search Committee, 2008-9
Tenure and Promotion
Committee, 2009-10, 2010-11.
Comparative
Literature
Northrop Frye Speaker
Committee, 2006-11.
Curriculum and Policy
Committee, 2009-10.
Senior Common Room
& High Table Committee, 2007 -2009.
Academic Advisory Committee
Victoria College. 2009-10
College Life Committee,
2010-11
C. University Service
Director
of Latin American Studies, 2009-10.
LAS
Advisory Committee, 2010-11.
F. OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION
14. Professional Activities
Organizer, “Long Times, Slow Times” seminar, ACLA,
Vancouver, April 2011.
Organizer, “Creating Affinities: 1810 and 1910 in
Latin American Culture” symposium. University of Toronto March 6, 2010.
Organizer, “Elective Affinities: Nineteenth-Century
Social Movements in Latin America,” for LASA, Rio, Brazil (2009)
Poetry reading, Octavio Paz, Consulate General of
Mexico in Toronto and Latin American Studies. April 2008.
Respondent for Latin American Studies Research Day (March
24, 2008)
Treasurer: Latin
American Studies Association’s Southern Cone Section (2007 to present)
Chair, Oral Defense, Dept of Art, Gillian Kaye
Atkins, Ephemeral
Installations: Contemporary Canadian Art in the Public Arena (2007)
Organizer, “Technologies of the Modern” for ACLA, Puebla, Mexico (2007)
Assessor for Calgary Institute for the Humanities,
Nayibe Bermúdez Barrios, “Examining Genre: Space and the Cultural Underpinnings
of Lesbian Representation in Latin American Film.”
Reviewer, Arts and Humanities Research Council,
Claire Lindsay, “Contemporary Travel Writing of Latin America.”
University Press Reader, Liverpool University Press,
Routledge Press, Bucknell University Press.
Chair, “Urban
Desires: Demarcating Metropolitan
Spaces in Latin/o America” panel for Latin American Studies Association (Autumn
2004)
Organizer, “The
Space of Caribbean Diasporas,” American Comparative Literature Conference
(2001)
15.
Curriculum
Workshops Attended