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JAVIER MOCARQUER Sullivan Hall 219 Providence College, Providence, RI 02918 Tel.: 401-865-2690 [email protected]

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS: Providence College Assistant Professor of Spanish (August 1, 2015 to present)

EDUCATION: University of Notre Dame (2015) Ph.D. in Literature (Comparative Literature with a Specialization in Latin American Literatures and Cultures) Dissertation: Políticas de género y sexualidad en el Cono Sur: Gabriela Mistral, Victoria Ocampo y Cecília Meireles en las esferas pública y privada Middlebury College (2010) Master of Arts in Spanish Literature Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Madrid, Spain; 2009) Magíster en Filología Hispánica [Master of Arts in Hispanic Philology] Thesis: Madres en la patria ausente: Poema de Chile y Gabriela Mistral. Summa cum laude Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2007) Licenciatura en Letras con mención en Lingüística y Literatura Hispánicas [Bachelors of Arts in Letters with Specialization in Hispanic Linguistics and Literature]

OTHERS: University of London, Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities (June-July 2017) London Critical Theory Summer School, England University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School’s Lauder Institute (June 2016) 14th Annual Summer Program: For Learning a Second Language for Business Education Harvard University, Institute for World Literature (June-July 2015) Summer School Program at the University of Lisbon, Portugal Harvard University, Institute for World Literature (June-July 2013) Department of Comparative Literature, Summer School Program Middlebury College (June-August 2011) Portuguese Language School. Advanced and Graduate level courses



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REFERRED PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES: “El exilio dentro y fuera: La Ciudad de Gonzalo Millán, 1979 y 1994.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 41.2 (Otoño 2017): 51-73. “Excesos y excedentes del Chile postdictatorial en el proyecto contrahegemónico de Diamela Eltit.” A Contracorriente: A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America 12.3 (Spring 2015): 75-104. “Devenir animal: metáforas, metamorfosis y metástasis de El amor insecto de Cristián Basso.” Argus-a 3.13 (Summer 2014): 1-20. Web. 1 October 2014.

BOOK REVIEWS: “Revisitar la violencia, recuperar el testimonio: encuentros y disyuntivas de la memoria en la historia reciente de América Latina.” Rev. of The Struggle for Memory in Latin America: Recent History and Political Violence. Allier-Montaño, Eugenia and Emilio Crenzel, eds. A Contracorriente: A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America 13.2 (Winter 2016): 410-20.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS: “La representación del cuerpo en la poesía modernista latinoamericana.” Pandora Brasil 35 (2011): n.p. Web. 1 October 2014. “Las vanguardias en México: el estridentismo y Manuel Maples Arce.” Eds. Márcia Sipavicius Seide y Rita Felix Fortes. Trama 6.11 (2010): 74-90. Print. “Cervantes y el Nuevo Mundo: un exilio quimérico.” Pandora Brasil 19 (2010): n.p. Web. 1 October 2014. “Madres en la patria ausente: Poema de Chile y Gabriela Mistral.” Pandora Brasil 16. (2010): n.p. Web. 1 October 2014.

IN PROGRESS: “Victoria Ocampo and Revista Sur: Doing World Literature from the Periphery?” “Gabriela Mistral y Alfonso Reyes: correspondencias de un proyecto americanista” “Martín Rivas: a Chilean Bidungsroman”



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PRESENTATIONS AND PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCES: “Gabriela Mistral y Alfonso Reyes: correspondencias de un proyecto americanista.” XLII International Congress, Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI). University of Pittsburgh / Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia, June 2018. (Forthcoming) “Victoria Ocampo and Revista Sur: Doing World Literature from the Periphery?” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands, July 2017. “Infancia en dictadura: representaciones visuales y cinematográficas en Argentina y Chile.” Artkiné Internacional, Colectivo interdisciplinario de teoría y estética del cine de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Congreso “Cines y Literaturas – Literaturas y cines: la transdisciplina en los discursos audiovisuales contemporáneos.” Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 2016. “Amrik in Between: An Encounter of Two Na(rra)tions.” American Portuguese Studies Association Tenth International Conference, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, October 1315, 2016. “Resistir y reivindicar: Mónica Montero en la escena literaria contemporánea chilena.” Organizer and Chair of the panel: “Cartografías de la resistencia: subjetividades de género, marginalidades y saberes en la producción cultural chilena contemporánea.” Latin American Studies Association International Congress, New York City, NY, May 2016. “Gendering the Latin American “Lettered City”: Gabriela Mistral, Victoria Ocampo, and Cecília Meireles as Public Intellectuals.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, March 2016. “Hacia una nueva intelectualidad latinoamericana desde el género: Gabriela Mistral, Victoria Ocampo y Cecília Meireles en las esferas pública y privada.” Organizer and co-chair of the panel: “Estéticas de la disidencia: cuerpos, sujetos e identidades en las transformaciones del campo cultural en el Cono Sur.” Latin American Studies Association International Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 2015. “Excesos y excedentes del Chile postdictatorial en el proyecto contrahegemónico de Diamela Eltit.” Co-chair of the panel: “The Politics of Aesthetics, the Aesthetics of Politics: Circuits, Networks and Interfaces in Contemporary Latin American Artistic Production.” Latin American Studies Association International Congress, Chicago, IL, May 2014. “Devenir animal: metáforas, metamorfosis y metástasis de El amor insecto de Cristián Basso.” Latin American Studies Association International Congress, Washington D.C., May 2013. “Hotel de Inmigrantes: componiendo una cartografía (trans)nacional de la modernización en el Río de la Plata.” American Comparative Literature Association International Conference, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, April 2013.



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“Nomadic Bodies and the Politics of Resistance: Isabela Figueiredo’s Caderno de Memórias Coloniais in the Aftermath of Trauma.” American Portuguese Studies Association Conference, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, October 2012. “Cavando la bóveda celeste: Persistencias y resistencias de la memoria en busca de los cuerpos desaparecidos por la dictadura militar chilena en Nostalgia de la Luz.” Chair of the panel: “Film and Media Expression in Latin America.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, April 2012. “The New Public Intellectual in Latin America: The Politics of Knowledge and Cyber Activism.” American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Brown University, Providence, RI, March 29-April 1, 2012. “La modernidad barroca de Sor Juana a través del Primero Sueño.” Chair of the panel: “Women and Religious Influence in the Americas.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, April 2011. “Las narrativas del retorno: literaturas postcoloniales de expresión portuguesa y española a través de Caderno de Memórias Coloniais de Isabela Figueiredo y La casa sin palabras de Ángel García Galiano.” Roundtable discussion with Isabela Figueiredo, Isabel Ferreira Gould, and Pedro S. Pereira. University of Notre Dame, September 2011.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Providence College Spring 2018 - SPN 104, Intermediate Spanish II - SPN 212, Hispanic Civilization - SPN 370, Special Topics: “State of Terror: Memory, Film, and the Visual Arts from Latin America” -SPN 490, Independent Study: State Terrorism in Latin America through Film and Literature Fall 2017 - SPN 103, Intermediate Spanish I - SPN 210, Spanish Conversation - SPN 417, Spanish American Literature: “Gabriela Mistral and the Twentieth Century” Spring 2017 - SPN 104, Intermediate Spanish II - SPN 212, Hispanic Civilization - SPN 322, Survey of Spanish American Literature Fall 2016 - SPN 103, Intermediate Spanish I (2 sections) - SPN 104, Intermediate Spanish II - SPN 201, Spanish Composition



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Spring 2016 - SPN 103, Intermediate Spanish I (2 sections) - SPN 322, Survey of Spanish American Literature Fall 2015 - SPN 104, Intermediate Spanish II (2 sections) - SPN 210, Spanish Conversation

Advising Experience: Faculty advisor for undeclared major students, from Fall 2017 to present. Faculty advisor for Spanish majors, from Fall 2016 to present. University of Notre Dame - Literary and Visual Representations of Dictatorship and Violence in the Southern Cone and Brazil (sophomore level seminar), Spring 2015 - Intermediate Spanish 201 (third-semester Spanish), Spring 2014 & Spring 2012 - Intensive Beginning Portuguese (first and second semester Portuguese), Spring 2013 - Brazilian Portuguese Language and Culture I (first-semester Portuguese), Fall 2012 - Beginning Spanish 102 (second-semester Spanish), Fall 2011 & Spring 2011 - Beginning Spanish 101 (first-semester Spanish), Fall 2010 Universidad San Sebastián, Santiago de Chile (March 2007-June 2008) Adjunct Professor. Class taught: Comprensión y producción de textos verbales Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (March 2005-June 2007) Teaching Assistant in Literature and Linguistics courses Preuniversitario Nacional, Santiago de Chile (March 2007-June 2008) Teacher of Language and Literature

PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING: Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning. Striving for Excellence in Teaching Series of Workshops.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: “Meet the Editors Workshop,” led by Acquisitions Editor Dr. Beatrice Rehl and Journal Acquisitions Editor Mr. Hal Moore from Cambridge University Press. Providence College, May 2017. Responsibilities and Ethics in the Conduct of Research Workshop, The Graduate School, University of Notre Dame, January 2014.



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FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND HONORS: Major Banco Santander scholarship, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania’s Lauder Institute, 14th Annual Summer Program: For Learning a Second Language for Business Education, June 5-10, 2016. Institute for World Literature Fellowship, Harvard University, 2015 IWL Program hosted at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, Summer 2015. Bruce and Norah Broillet Fellowship, Dissertation Completion, AY 2014-2015. Institute for Scholarship in Liberal Arts (ISLA), University of Notre Dame, Graduate Student Professional Development Award, Institute for World Literature, Harvard University, Summer School Program, June-July 2013. Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Summer Research Travel Grant, Research at the National Library in Santiago, Chile; Buenos Aires, Argentina and Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 16August 13, 2012. Doctoral Exams: Distinguished Pass, Ph.D. in Literature Program, University of Notre Dame, May 2012. Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures (CSLC), University of Notre Dame, Summer Language Study Abroad Grant, Portuguese Language Studies, Lisbon, Portugal, Summer 2011. Middlebury College Portuguese School Scholarship, Summer 2011. Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Literary Research and Language Training, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Summer 2010. Beca Fundación Carolina (full scholarship covering studies and living expenses in Madrid, Spain for pursuing a Master in Hispanic Philology, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), AY 2008-2009. Additional Grants and Funding London Critical Theory Summer School, Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London, June-July 2017. Funded by the Office of Academic Affairs, the School of Arts and Sciences, and the Center for Teaching Excellence of Providence College. Modern Language Association Travel Grant, 130th Annual Convention, Vancouver, Canada, January 2015.

Latin American Studies Association Travel Grant, International Congress, Chicago, May 2014. Conference Travel Grant, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Latin American Studies Association, Washington D.C, May 29-June 1, 2013. ISLA, Graduate Student Professional Development Award for travel, American Comparative Literature Association University of Toronto, Canada, April 2013. Ph.D. in Literature Program, Conference paper presentation travel grant, American Portuguese Studies Association, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, October 4-6, 2012. The Graduate School, Notebaert Professional Development Grant, American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Brown University, March 29-April 1, 2012, ISLA, Graduate Student Professional Development Award, American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Brown University, March 29-April 1, 2012, Graduate Student Union, Conference Presentation Grant for travel, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 19-April 21, 2012. The Graduate School, University of Notre Dame, Intensive Summer Language Program Fellowship, Middlebury College, Summer 2011. Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Research Travel Grant, Portuguese Postcolonial Literature, Lisbon, Portugal. Research title: “The Narratives of Return: Portuguese Postcolonial Fiction, Memory and Identity in the Aftermath of Trauma.” Interview with Isabela Figueiredo, Portuguese writer, Summer 2011. ISLA, Graduate Student Professional Development Award for travel, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, 14-16 April 2011. Harold and Ruth Pearson Scholarship for completing M.A. in Spanish Literature, Middlebury College, Guadalajara, Mexico, Summer 2010. Middlebury College Language Schools Scholarship, Summer 2008 & Betty Jones Scholarship, Middlebury College, Summer 2007.

COLLEGE AND DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE: Curriculum development of Spanish for Business, including an interactive website: https://sites.google.com/view/spanishbusiness101/página-principal. Liaison with the School of Business. Proposal approved by the Faculty Senate on April 2018. Organizer of a concert and conversation with Chilean songwriter and musician Nano Stern, in conjunction with Dr. Richard Snyder, Professor of Political Science at Brown University. Sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program of Providence College, April 30th, 2018.

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Chair for the department’s website committee and website editor. From Spring 2018 to present. Member of the department’s website committee. From Fall 2017 to present. Organizer of a special talk delivered by Dr. María Rosa Olivera-Williams, Professor of Latin American Literature, University of Notre Dame, “What a Poem Can Do,” Providence College, October 16th, 2017. Funded by the FLS Department, the Office of Institutional Diversity, and the Latin American and Latino Studies Program. Interpreter/translator for non-English speaking parents/guardians (Spanish and Portuguese). Parent Program. From Fall 2017 to present. Latin American and Latina/o Studies Committee to provide advice to the Director of the program, from Fall 2017 to present. Member of search committee for the Assistant Professor of Spanish position with a specialization in Spanish Linguistics, 2017. Spanish and Portuguese exam grader for Master of Arts in History second language requirement. Portuguese Alliance of Lusophone Students Club, Faculty advisor, from August 2016 to present. Presenter at the Showcase Event: Global Learning and Engagement at Providence College, Poster presentation: “Learning a Second Language for Business Communication.” November 3rd, 2016. Organizer of a special talk delivered by Dr. Cecily Raynor, Professor of Hispanic Studies and Digital Humanities, McGill University, “Contemporary Latin American Writing beyond National Boundaries,” Providence College, April 1st, 2016.

SERVICE TO PROFESSION: Reviewer for Literatura y Lingüística. Research Assistant to Dr. Sarah Ann Wells, Assistant Professor of Portuguese and Spanish, Romance Languages and Literatures Department, University of Notre Dame, Fall 2014. Volunteer Mentor Certificate, Foreign Language & Culture Mentoring Program for Undergraduate Tutoring, Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures, Spring 2013. Co-moderator of a cross-cultural discussion, Community Voices Program, Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures, “Hispanic Leadership Coalition,” Spring 2013. Organizer of a bilingual Reading in honor of Chilean poet Gonzalo Rojas at the University of Notre Dame, May 4, 2011. Undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty participated in this event.



PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: - American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) - American Portuguese Studies Association (APSA) - Art-kiné, Colectivo interdisciplinario de teoría y estética del cine (U. de Buenos Aires) - Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas - Critical Theory Research Network. An International Community of Practice - Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, University of Pittsburgh - Sigma Delta Pi. National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society

LANGUAGES: - Spanish (Native) - Portuguese (Fluent reading, writing, and speaking) - English (Fluent reading, writing, and speaking) - French (Reading ability) - Italian (Reading ability) - Latin (Novice reading ability)

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