Curriculum Vitae

Gustavo Arango

rangog@oneonta.edu

http://employees.oneonta.edu/arangog/

 

EDUCATION:

2004                             Ph.D. Latin American Literature and Literary Theory. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Rutgers University. Dissertation: Historias de solitarios: Absurdo y creación en la narrativa hispanoamericana. Director: Carlos R. Narváez. Degree: October, 2004.

2001                             MA in Spanish and Latin American Literature, Rutgers University. MA thesis: Sísifo jubiloso: La escritura del fracaso en Cuando ya no importe de Juan Carlos Onetti. Director: Carlos R. Narváez.

1987                             BA in Social Communication (emphasis in Journalism). Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellín, Colombia. BA thesis: Un tal Cortázar, (with Honors). Directors: Federico Medina Cano and Maryluz Vallejo.

 

OTHER EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1998                             Workshop: "Narrative in Journalism". Tomás Eloy Martínez (Instructor). Fundación para un Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano, Buenos Aires, Argentina. April, 1998.

1997                             Workshop: "Narrative in Journalism". Gabriel García Márquez (Instructor). Fundación para un Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano, Barranquilla, Colombia. December, 1997.

1997                             Seminar: "Books of Style". Alex Grijelmo (Instructor). Fundación para un Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano, Cartagena, Colombia. October, 1997.

1996                             Seminar: "Research in Journalism". Germán Castro Caicedo (Instructor). Fundación para un Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano, Cartagena, Colombia. May, 1996.

1995                             Seminar: "Myth, History and Fiction: Latin American Narrative Today". Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, La Rábida, Huelva, Spain. August, 1995.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

2004-Present                 Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, SUNY Oneonta. Oneonta, New York.

2004-2007                     Lecturer, Spanish and Portuguese Department, Rutgers University (Summer sessions).

2002- 2004                    Lecturer. Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures. Princeton University.

1999-2003                     Teaching Assistant. Spanish and Portuguese Department. Rutgers University.

1994-1998                     Profesor de Cátedra (Part Time Lecturer). Universidad de Cartagena. Cartagena, Colombia.

1995-1998                     Profesor de Cátedra (Part Time Lecturer). Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano del Caribe. Cartagena, Colombia.

COURSES TAUGHT:

SUNY Oneonta

Since 2004                    Introduction to Spanish (SP 101, SP102), Second Year Spanish (SP103), Review of Spanish Grammar (SP201), Advanced Spanish Usage (SP 202, SP203), Latin American Civilization (SP205), Introduction to Spanish American Literature (SP 208), Survey of Latin American Literature (SP314), Mexican Literature and Revolution (SP323). Literature of the Hispanic Caribbean (SP340), Independent Studies: “Latin American Short Story”, “One hundred Years of Solitude”, “Edgar Allan Poe and the Latin American Writers”, “Seminar in Literary Translation”, “Creative Writing”.

Rutgers University:

1999-2007                     Culture and Civilization of Latin America (Graduate Course), Spanish American Essay (summer 2007), Civilization of Spanish America/Seminar in Latin American Studies (summer 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006), Seminar in Creative Writing (summer 2005, 2006, spring 2003). Latin American Cinema (Winter 2004, 2005). Other courses taught: “La soledad de América Latina”, “El continente absurdo”, Seminar in Spanish American Literature: "El boom: la invención del lector" (with Tomás Eloy Martínez), Literature and Culture of the Spanish Caribbean, Main Currents in Hispanic Literature, Literature and Culture of Spanish America, Advanced Grammar and Composition, Spanish Review and Continuation, Advanced Language Workshop, Spanish for Native Speakers, Elementary Spanish I and II.

Princeton University:

2002-2004                     Intermediate Spanish (105), Advanced Spanish (108).

Other universities:

1995-1998                     Courses on Literature and Journalism. Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano del Caribe, Cartagena, Colombia).

1994-1998                     Courses on Literature, Communication and Humanities. Universidad de Cartagena, Colombia.

1995-98                        Journalism in the School. Programa Prensa-Escuela. Workshops on Reading, Writing and Journalism at Public Schools. Cartagena, Colombia.

 

PUBLICATIONS:

Books on Literature and Journalism:

Forthcoming                 Historias de solitarios: Absurdo y creación en la narrativa hispanoamericana. Universidad Pontifica Bolivariana (2008).

2006                             Vida y opiniones de Wenceslao Triana. New Brunswick: El Pozo. Limited edition. Compilation of op-ed articles published in the Colombian newspaper El Universal, between 1993 and 2003. Published with funds from an Individual Development Award, conferred by the Bargaining Unit of United University Professions (UUP), State University of New York, Oneonta.

2001                             La voz de las manos: Crónicas sobre escritores latinoamericanos. New Brunswick: El Pozo. Includes works on Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, Juan Carlos Onetti, Mario Vargas Llosa, Álvaro Mutis, Adolfo Bioy Casares, among others. Publication supported by the Latin American Studies Program, at Rutgers University.

1996                             Retratos. Cartagena, Colombia: Secretaría de Educación y Cultura. Journalistic works and profiles of Colombian writers.

1995                             Un ramo de nomeolvides: García Márquez en El Universal. Cartagena, Colombia: El Universal. A chronicle about García Márquez as a writer and journalist in Cartagena (1948-1950). Included in the selection “The best books of 1995”, El Tiempo newspaper, Bogotá, Colombia.

1987                             Un tal Cortázar (Biographical work). Medellín, Colombia: Facultad de Comunicación Social. UPB. Colección Mensajes No. 4.

Chapters in Books:

2004                             “La voz del paraíso: El aire en la obra de Juan Carlos Onetti”. In Ensayos sin Frontera. Carlos Aguasaco ed. New York: Sin Frontera Editores.

2003                             "Los territorios del guapo" (essay), in collaboration with Margarita Sánchez. Revista Iberoamericana. Special issue: Más allá de la ciudad letrada. Ediciones Ciudades. University of Pittsburg Press.

2001                             "El afán de llegar" (Journalism). In the anthology Años de fuego: Grandes reportajes de la última década. Bogotá, Colombia: Planeta.

Literary translation:

2007                             Fugas de sangre (Blood Fugues), a novel by Edgardo Vega-Yunque. New York: Harper Collins.

Articles in Professional Journals:

2003                             “Vida y milagros de una lengua muerta: Presencia del etrusco en el español”. La Jornada Literaria: Actas de la X Conferencia de Estudiantes Graduados. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University. Año VII Número 1.

2002                             “De los sentidos al sinsentido, en ‘Maldito Gato’, de Juan Emar”. La Jornada Literaria: Actas de la IX Conferencia de Estudiantes Graduados. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University. Año VI Número 1.

                                    "Onetti y el fracaso". Yzur: Revista de literatura y creación. No. 2. New Brunswick, New Jersey.

2001                             "Jacob y el otro y la picaresca". La Jornada Literaria: Actas de la VIII Conferencia de Estudiantes Graduados. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University. Año V Número 1.

                                    "Los destellos de Dios: una lectura de Kenosis, de Gustavo Ibarra Merlano". Revista Viacuarenta, Barranquilla, Colombia. Republished by "La casa de Asterión". Online Magazine. No. 2. http://lacasadeasterion.homestead.com/v1n2.html

2000                             "Verdad y autobiografía en Crónica de una muerte anunciada". La Jornada Literaria: Actas de la VII Conferencia de Estudiantes Graduados. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University. Año IV. Número 1.

1998                             "Telones de papel: el cine en la obra de Julio Cortázar". Revista Risaralda Cultural. Secretaría de Educación de Risaralda. March, 1998.

Books of Literary Creation:

2007                             El origen del mundo (novel) Finalist for Premio Herralde de Novela 2007 (unpublished).

2005                             El país de los árboles locos (novel). Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana: Medellín, Colombia.

2003                             La risa del muerto (novel). Editora Nacional: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

2000                             Criatura perdida (novel). New Brunswick: El Pozo.

1993                             Su última palabra fue silencio (short stories). Cartagena, Colombia: Alcaldía de Cartagena. 2nd edition, New Brunswick: El Pozo, 2001.

1990                             Bajas Pasiones (short stories). Cartagena, Colombia: El Guarro.

 

Creative (short stories):

Forthccoming                Escapar”, in the anthology Minificciones. Minigeschichten aus Lateinamerika, an Anthology of Latin American Short Stories. Erica Engeler, ed. Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv). April, 2008.

2006                             Exégesis”. Yzur: Revista de literatura y creación. No. 4. New Brunswick, New Jersey. Spring 2006.

2005                              “El Intruso”, included in the anthology Cuentistas Colombianos del Siglo XXI (Colombian Short Story Writers of the 21st Century). Christiane Laffite ed., Indigo: Paris (France). March, 2005.

2004                             Oscuridad variable”, included in the anthology Narraciones sin Fronteras: 27 Spanish American Writers. Ed. Fundacion Literaria Botella y Luna. New York/Cali (Colombia), August, 2004.

2001                             "La unidad". Finalist in Concurso de cuento corto "Juan Rodríguez Freyle". National award for short stories. Bogotá, Colombia: Lecturas Dominicales, Periódico El Tiempo. July 15.

                                    "Que ajenos a mí tus sueños". Revista Ajiaco. Arkansas Technological University. No. 1.

                                    "Testimonios". Revista Caligrafías, University of Kentucky.

2000                             “El ardor” Revista Tranvía, México D.F. No. 2

1997                             "Escapar" and "Lo mismo que en mi sueño" (short stories). Included in the anthology Dos veces bueno: antología del cuento corto hispanoamericano. Raúl Brasca ed., Buenos Aires: Ed. Desde la Gente.

1996                             "La venganza del ángel de la guarda" Commemorative edition of Concurso International de Cuento Fernando González 1996. Instituto Politécnico Jaime Isaza Cadavid. Medellín, Colombia.

1994                             "Su última palabra fue silencio". Commemorative edition of Concurso de Cuento Fernando González 1994. Instituto Politécnico Jaime Isaza Cadavid. Medellín, Colombia.

Articles in Journalism:

2007                             “Gabito en la ancianidad”. Profile on the Colombian writer in his 80th birthday. Periódico El Colombiano, Literary Suplement Generación. Medellín (Colombia). March 4, 2007.

2007                             Op-ed articles published the Colombian newspaper Centropolis. Since February 2007. http://www.centropolis.com

2006                             Op-ed articles published weekly in Cartagena en línea. Pseudonym: Wenceslao Triana. Since January 2006. http://www.cartagenaenlinea.com/opi_triana/triana.php

2005                             “Julio Verne, un genio incomprendido”. Periódico El Colombiano, Literary Suplement Generación. Medellín (Colombia). March 13.

                                    “Manuel Zapata Olivella: La segunda desalienación”. Periódico El Colombiano, Literary Suplement Generación. Medellín (Colombia). January 9th, 2005. Republished by El Meridiano cultural, literary suplement of El Meridiano newspaper. Montería (Colombia), January 23, 2005.

2004                             “Tomás Eloy Martínez explora sus propios límites” (interview with the Argentinian writer). Periódico El Colombiano, Literary Suplement Generación. Medellín (Colombia). November 7.

1993-2003                     Op-ed articles published weekly in El Universal newspaper, Cartagena, Colombia. Pseudonym: Wenceslao Triana.

2002                             "El cronista en la crónica". Published simultaneously in: Suplemento Dominical, El Universal newspaper, Cartagena, Colombia, and Dominical Literario, El Colombiano newspaper, Medellín, Colombia. February 24.

1990-1998                     About 300 articles (profiles, articles, interviews) published as a journalist. El Universal, Cartagena, Colombia.

 

PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS:

2007                             Literary reading. Program: ¨Literary Journeys¨. Book Fair Expo 2007, Astoria, New York, October 5.

                                    “La ciudad subterránea: Representaciones de Medellín en Noticia de un secuestro”. Latin American Studies Association Congress. Montreal, September 6.

                                    “Cartagena de Indias en la vida y la obra de Gabriel García Márquez”. Diplomado Conocimiento vital del Caribe. Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar (Cartagena, Colombia), June 27.

2006                             Seminar in Creative Writing. Universidad del Atlantico and Comfamiliar, Barranquilla, Colombia. June 22.

                                    La novela como reportaje (The Fiction Novel as a Journalistic Genre). Presented at the “Coloquios de Periodismo y Cultura” (Dialogues on Journalism and Culture). Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. June 14.

2005                             “La muerte en el texto: El autor como personaje en Noche sin fortuna, de Andrés Caicedo”. XIV Biennial Conference of the Association of Colombianists. Denison University, Granville, Ohio. August 5.

                                    Coordinator, Session 43: “Formación de espacios literarios: el corpus, la casa, el mundo”. XIV Biennial Conference of the Association of Colombianists. Denison University, Granville, Ohio.    

                                    Seminar in Literary Journalism. Universidad de Antioquia, Facultad de Comunicaciones. Medellín, Colombia. May 16.

                                    “Twice upon a time” (On Creative Writing in Spanish). Guest Speaker at the Twenty First Annual Banquet of Phi Sigma Iota (The International Foreign Language Honor Society), Beta Epsilon Chapter, SUNY Oneonta. May 1.

                                    “Riesgos y oportunidades de la enseñanza de la escritura”. Coloquios de periodismo y Cultura. Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellín (Colombia). February 24.

2004                             Literary reading. Program ¨Entre Palabras¨. Fort Lauderdale Main Public Library. June 19.

2003                             Dialogue: La pertinaz obsesión de recordar.        2nd Internacional Conference of Latino Artists. LART (Latino Artists Round Table). King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center. New York University. New York. October 24.

                                    Literary reading and presentation of the novel La risa del            muerto. Program: “Nueva York vestida de verano”, organized by LART (Latino Artists Round Table) Wilmer Jennings Gallery. Manhattan, New York. July 27.

2002                             Moderator of Writers Roundtable with Tomás Eloy Martínez and Ricardo Piglia. 12th Annual Distinguished Lectures Series. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Rutgers University. October 26.

                                    “Vida y milagros de una lengua muerta: Presencia del etrusco      en el español y las lenguas romances”. La Jornada. Graduate students' Conference. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Rutgers University. October 12.

                                    “Ficción y realidad: páginas de un mismo libro”. Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. Penn State University. March 15.

                                    “El cronista en la crónica”. Seminario Realidad y Verdad, Facultad de Comunicación Social, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. Medellín, Colombia. February 7.

                                    “Fuentes literarias de la crónica”. Corporación Universitaria Luis Amigó. Medellín, Colombia. February 8.

 2001                            “De los sentidos al sinsentido en Maldito gato, de Juan Emar”.   La Jornada. Graduate students' Conference. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Rutgers University. October, 2001.

2000                             Jacob y el otro y la picaresca”. La Jornada. Graduate students' Conference. Department of Spanish. Rutgers University. October, 2000.

1999                             “Las raíces del genio”. V Conference of Colombian Literature in New York. Colombian Cultural Council, Consulate General of Colombia. October 28.

                                    “Verdad y autobiografía en Crónica de una muerte anunciada”. La Jornada. Graduate students' Conference. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Rutgers University. October, 1999.

                                    “El periodismo literario” State University of New York – New Paltz, Foreign Languages Department and Latin American Studies Program. February 2, 1999.

                                    “Los inicios literarios de Gabriel García Márquez”. Conferences of PECX: Profesionales y Estudiantes Colombianos en el Exterior. Skirball Institute. NYU Medical Center. June 25.

1998                             “Las huellas del periodista”. IX Encuentro Nacional de Literatura: "García Márquez, el Maestro". Universidad del Norte. Barranquilla, Colombia. October 30.

                                    “El hombre sombra: el cine en la obra de Felisberto Hernández”. Comfamiliar Risaralda. Encuentro Nacional de Críticos de Cine. Pereira, Colombia. October, 1998.

1997                             “Telones de papel: el cine en la obra de Julio Cortázar”. Comfamiliar Risaralda. Encuentro Nacional de Críticos de Cine. Pereira, Colombia. October, 1997.

1996                             “El arte del periodismo”. Facultad de Comunicación Social, Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano del Caribe. Cartagena,        Colombia. May, 1996.

1995                             “Promoción de lectura en colegios”. Seminario de Promoción de Lectura. Biblioteca Bartolomé Calvo, Banco de la República. Cartagena, Colombia.

1990/95/96                   Papers delivered at Semana Cortazariana. Cartagena, Colombia.

 

HONORS AND AWARDS:

Academic and Professional:

2007                             Outstanding Faculty Member Award, conferred by Oneonta Inter-Greek Council.

2006                             Faculty Creative Activity Grant 2007, conferred by Grants Development Office, SUNY Oneonta, for the literary project “La isla de nadie”. December, 2006.

                                    Individual Development Award, conferred by the Bargaining Unit of United University Professions (UUP), for the non commercial edition of the book “Vida y opiniones de Wenceslao Triana”.

                                    Faculty Creative Activity Grant 2006, conferred by Grants Development Office, SUNY Oneonta, for the literary project “Impromptus in the Island”. January, 2006.

2005                             Elected as a Phi Sigma Iota Member (The International Foreign Language Honor Society) Member, Beta Epsilon Chapter, SUNY Oneonta, May 1, 2005.

                                    Research grant, conferred by Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional, one month research visit to Spain (12/2005-01/2006), for the Project: “Poéticas de Hispanoamérica” on the creative philosophy of five major Latin American Writers. April, 2005.

                                    Faculty Creative Activity Grant 2005, conferred by Grants Development Office, SUNY Oneonta, for the literary project “Triptych of Sadness”. February, 2005.

2003                             Louis Bevier Dissertation Fellowship. Graduate School, New Brunswick. Rutgers University. August, 2003.

                                    Faculty of Arts and Sciences Award for Distinguished Contribution to Undergraduate Education. Rutgers University. May, 2003.

1999-2002/03                Graduate School Fellowship. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University.

2002                             Premio Modelo en Comunicación Distinction conferred to outstanding graduates of the Social Communication Program, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellín, Colombia. October, 2002.

1999-2002                     Teaching Assistantship. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University.

2000                             Fellowship. Summer Institute 2000 "Writing the Americas". Boston University.

1996                             Included in the list Books of the Year 1995 (El libro del año 1995), Un ramo de nomeolvides. Bogotá, Colombia: Lecturas Dominicales, El Tiempo, February 18.

1995                             Fellowship Summer Program. Universidad Internacional de Andalucía. Huelva, Spain.

1994                             First Prize in Journalism, Premio Especial de Periodismo Antonio J. Olier. Cartagena, Colombia.

1993                             Finalist, VII Premio Postobón de Periodismo Deportivo. National award in journalism. Bogotá, Colombia.

1992                             First Prize in Journalism, Premio Nacional de Periodismo Simón Bolívar 1992, Mejor Trabajo Cultural en Prensa. National award in journalism. Bogotá, Colombia.

1987                             Mención de Honor (Honors) for BA thesis Un tal Cortázar. Facultad de Comunicación Social, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. Medellín, Colombia.

Literary Prizes:

2007                             Finalist for Premio Herralde de Novela 2007, Barcelona (Spain), with the novel El origen del mundo.

2002                             First Prize Premio Internacional de Novela Marcio Veloz Maggiolo (International literary award) for La risa del muerto. New York: Casa de la Cultura Dominicana. November, 2002.

                                    First Prize Premio Clarín de Relatos Cortos (International literary prize for short stories). Asturias, Spain. June, 2002.

2001                             Finalist Concurso de cuento corto "Juan Rodríguez Freyle" (National award for short stories). Bogotá: Periódico El Tiempo.

1997                             Finalist Concurso Internacional de Cuento Erótico Revista Lexus International (Literary award for short stories). Barranquilla Colombia.

1996 and 1994               Finalist Concurso Internacional de Cuento Fernando González (International literary award for short stories). Medellín, Colombia: Instituto Politécnico Jaime Isaza Cadavid.

1996                             Finalist Premio Nacional de Poesía Jorge Artel (National poetry award). Cartagena, Colombia.

1994                             First Prize Premio de Poesía Universidad de Cartagena. (Poetry award). Cartagena, Colombia.

 

SOME REVIEWS ON MY WORK and INTERVIEWS:

2006                            Hernández González, Erasmo (Universidad de Granada, Spain). El paso del tiempo y otros temas en Bajas Pasiones, de Gustavo Arango. Revista Espéculo. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Number 34, November 2006/February 2007

                                    Hernández González, Erasmo (Universidad de Granada, Spain). Amor y dolor existencial en El país de los árboles locos, de Gustavo Arango. Revista Espéculo. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Number 33, July–October 2006.

                                    Hernández González, Erasmo (Universidad de Granada, Spain). Los seres desamparados en Criatura perdida, de Gustavo Arango. Revista Espéculo. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Number 32, March-June 2006.

                                    Hernández González, Erasmo (Universidad de Granada, Spain). La literatura como refugio, en La risa del muerto, de Gustavo Arango. Revista Espéculo. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Number 31, November 2005/February 2006

2005                            “Cuando quiero novedades las busco en el pasado”, Interview with John Junieles. El Universal (Dominical), Cartagena (Colombia). November 13, 2005.

                                    Hernández González, Erasmo (Universidad de Granada, Spain). El cuento colombiano reciente: Gustavo Arango (Recent Colombian Short Story: Gustavo Arango). Revista Espéculo. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Number 28, November 2004/February 2005.

 

 

EDITORIAL WORK:

2006                             Member of the Editorial Committee, “Café con letras” (academic journal). Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira. Pereira, Colombia.

2000-2003                     Editor of La Jornada. Memories of the Graduate Students' Conference. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Rutgers University.

2002                             Editor and creator of Yzur, graduate student's magazine of literature and literary creation. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University.

2000                             Web editor. Assistant. Learning Links (educational web project). Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Rutgers University.

1992-98                        Editor Suplemento Cultural Dominical (Magazine of Arts and Culture). El Universal, newspaper. Cartagena, Colombia.

 

ACADEMIC SERVICE:

2007                             Department Representative to the College Curriculum Committee. SUNY Oneonta. Since 2004.

                                    Department Representative to the Library Committee. SUNY Oneonta. 2006-2007.

2006                             Team Member of the committee for the Strategic Plan on Equity and Inclusion. SUNY Oneonta. 2005-6         

2005                             Member of the Competency Exam Committee, since October, 2004. Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. SUNY Oneonta.

2002-2003                     Member of the Course of Study Advisory Committee Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Rutgers University.

2002-2003                     Member of the Faculty and Students Liaisons Committee Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Rutgers University.

2002                             Member of the Graduate Curriculum Committee. Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

2001-2003                     Member of the Conference and Activities Committee. Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

Spring 2001                  Member of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Rutgers University.

 

OTHER EXPERIENCE:

1999-2002                     Assistant, Language Laboratory. Language Institute, Rutgers University.

1994-98                        Director, Taller de Literatura y Escritura Creativa. Creative Writing Workshop. Biblioteca Bartolomé Calvo, Cartagena, Colombia.

 

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS:

                                    19th and 20th Century Latin American Literature, Literary Theory, Journalism, Latin American Essay, Latin American Cinema, Creative Writing,  Comparative Literature.