Professor Raúl Bueno is the 2012 recipient of the Ezequiel Martínez Estrada Award for the best essay book published in 2009/2010, entitled Promesa y Descontento de la Modernidad: Estudios Literarios y Culturales en America Latina. This award was given to Professor Bueno by the Casa de las Americas, a Cuban institution created in 1959 which performs non-governmental activities aimed at developing and extending socio-cultural relations with the peoples of Latin America, the Caribbean and the rest of the world. The Casa de las Americas sponsors, awards and publishes the work of writers, artists, musicians, playwrights and scholars of literature, arts and social sciences of the Continent, which encourages cultural integration while encouraging exchanges with institutions and individuals worldwide. Congratulations Raúl!!
Beginning Assistant Professor of Spanish
Field of specialization: 18th and 19th Century Spanish literary and cultural production. A strong theoretical foundation and native or near-native fluency in Spanish are required. The successful candidate must demonstrate experience in teaching and show a strong promise of scholarly excellence. In addition to teaching courses in the area of the candidate's expertise, all faculty members teach different levels of literature, culture, and language and participate in the department’s extensive study abroad program. Ph.D in hand by July 2012.
Dartmouth College, an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, is strongly committed to diversity, and encourages applications from women and minorities. Please send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, writing sample, and three letters of reference to: Chair, Peninsular Search Committee – Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH 03755. Application deadline is November 18, 2011.
Beginning Assistant Professor of Spanish
Field of specialization: Latin American Performance Studies. Any period. A strong theoretical foundation and native or near-native fluency in Spanish are required. The successful candidate must demonstrate experience in teaching and show a strong promise of scholarly excellence. In addition to teaching courses in the area of the candidate's expertise, all faculty members teach different levels of literature, culture, and language and participate in the department’s extensive study abroad program. Ph.D in hand by July 2012.
Dartmouth College, an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, is strongly committed to diversity, and encourages applications from women and minorities. Please send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, writing sample, and three letters of reference to: Chair, Latinamerican Search Committee – Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH 03755. Application deadline is November 18, 2011.
Associate Professor Antonio Gómez has received the John M. Manley Huntington Award for Newly Tenured Faculty. Congratulations Antonio!
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is pleased to announce that the promotion to Associate Professor, with Tenure, has been awarded to Txetxu Aguado and Antonio Gómez. We are extremely proud of our two new Associate Professors and very much appreciate the hard work and dedication they have shown to our department, the students, and the College at large. Congratulations!
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese is pleased to announce that our Writer-In-Residence/Visiting Creative Writing Professor Pedro Ángel Palou has been awarded the prestigous Guggenheim Latin America and Caribbean Fellowship to Assist Research and Artistic Creation, in the category of Creative Arts-Fiction, for 2011. Congratulations Pedro!
http://www.gf.org/news-events/2011-Latin-America-and-Caribbean-Fellows-by-Field/
Julio Ariza, Assistant Professor of Spanish, holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from Washington University in St. Louis. He worked as an Assistant Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba and the Universidad Siglo 21 in Argentina. At these prestigious institutions he taught a variety of subjects, such as Film Theory, Communication and Mass-Media Theory, and Contemporary Latin American Literature. Julio's current research explores aesthetic manifestations of the new subjectivities that surfaced during and after the socio-economic crisis in Argentina in 2001.
Carlos Minchillo, Instructor of Portuguese, is a doctoral candidate in Brazilian Literature at Universidade de Sào Paulo, Brazil, where his research focuses on the history of the reception of Erico Verissimo’s publications in order to outline and analyze major forces in the Brazilian intellectual field from the 1930’s to the 1960’s under the inspiration of Pierre Bourdieu’s works. Carlos has many years of teaching and cooperation experience, namely at the Colégio Bandeirantes in Sào Paulo, where he had the opportunity to design and publish several instructional materials, including online software. Additional teaching and coordination assignments include language as well as Western and Brazilian literature courses at Faculdades de Campinas. Carlos is also the author of several articles and co-author of seven books.
