laura gandolfi - Romance Languages and Literatures

LAURA GANDOLFI
CURRICULUM VITAE
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
University of Chicago
Classics 120
1115 East 58th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
EDUCATION
2010- 2013
Ph.D. Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures. Princeton
University.
Dissertation: “Objetos itinerantes: prácticas de escritura, percepción y
cultura material”
Advisor: Professor Rubén Gallo.
Second Reader: Professor Gabriela Nouzeilles
Dissertation Committee: Professors Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones, German
Labrador, Rachel Price.
2010- 2013
Graduate Certificate in Italian Studies. Princeton University.
Professors: Pietro Frassica, Wendy Heller.
2008-2010
M.A. Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures. Princeton
University.
Exam areas: Contemporary Latin American Literature, Luso-Brazilian
Literature, Colonial Literature.
2005-2007
Diploma di Laurea Spacialistica (M.A.) in Modern Foreign Languages,
Cultures and Literatures (English and Spanish). Università di Trieste,
Italy. Summa cum laude.
Thesis: “Entre luz y sombra(s): Encuentro de discursos históricos,
fantásticos y de género en algunas obras de Claribel Alegría”
Advisors: Professors Sergia Adamo and Ana Cecilia Prenz.
2002-2005
Diploma di Laurea Triennale (B.A.) in Modern Foreign Languages and
Literatures (English and Spanish). Università di Trieste, Italy. Summa
cum laude.
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Mexican Literature and Culture; XIX and XX Latin American Literature and Culture;
Transatlantic Studies; Media and Visual Culture; Material Culture; Migration Literature
(Latin America and Europe); Gender and Sexuality Studies; Psychoanalysis; XX and XXI
Italian Literature; Sephardic Literature in Eastern Europe (Serbia and Bosnia).
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FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS AND GRANTS
2013
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2009-2013
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2002-2007
PLAS Summer Research Grant, Princeton University (Field research in
Mexico City).
Porter Ogden Jacobus Honorific Fellowship, highest honor of the Graduate
School of Princeton University.
PIIRS Research Grant, Princeton University (Field research in Mexico
City).
PLAS Summer Research Grant, Princeton University (Field research in
Mexico City).
LASA Travel Grant.
William Ebenstein Student Summer Research Grant, Princeton University
(Field research in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Paris, France).
NeMLA Summer Fellowship (Field research in Buenos Aires, Argentina,
and Paris, France).
Fulton McMahon Research Fund, Princeton University.
Armstrong Grant, Princeton University.
The Eleanor Green Fellowship for Studies in American Literature,
Princeton University.
Perkins Prize, Princeton University.
Summa cum laude in Spanish. M. A. Università di Trieste, Italy.
Fellowship for International Mobility [Borsa di studio per la Mobilità
Internazionale], Università di Trieste, Italy.
Summa cum laude in Spanish. B. A., Università di Trieste, Italy.
Merit-based Tuition Reduction Award [Riduzione di merito], Università di
Trieste, Italy.
PUBLICATIONS
Articles:
 “La Ocasión de Juan José Saer: hacia una tensión entre espíritu y materia.” Colorado
Review of Hispanic Studies. 8 (2010): 287-298.
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“Princesa: The Textual Space between Translation and Divergence.” Ellipsis. 8 (2010):
75-90.
 “Freud in Trieste: Journey to an Ambiguous City.” Psychoanalysis and History. 12.2
(2010): 129-151.
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“El túnel e lo scandalo del matricidio: convergenza/divergenza di due miti.” Scandalo:
Quaderni di Synapsis VIII. Ed. Rossella Carbotti. Firenze: Le Monnier/Mondadori, 2009.
246-255.
 “Elementos fantásticos como subversión del orden convencional en Claribel Alegría.”
Mediterránea: Rassegna di studi interculturali. A cura di Gianni Ferracuti, Università di
Trieste, giugno 2008. 24-50.
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Interviews:
 with Gavin Arnall and Enea Zaramella “Aesthetics and Politics: An Interview with
Jacques Rancière.” Critical Inquiry 38.2 (2012): 289-297.
 with Gavin Arnall and Enea Zaramella “El régimen estético: conversación con Jacques
Rancière.” La Tempestad 12.76 (2011): 80-85.
Translations:
 “Ptosis” by Guadalupe Nettel. Rivista Sagarana. 49 (2012). Web.
 “Pietre e altre parole (cammino a Comala)” by Luis Felipe Fabre. Rivista Sagarana. 47
(2012). Web.
 “Incontro dei due mondi, quello slavo e quello spagnolo in Bosnia ed Erzegovina” by
Nezirovic, Muhamed. Da Sefarad a Sarajevo. Percorsi interculturali: le multiformi
identità e lo spazio dell’Altro. Ed. Ana Cecilia Prenz. Napoli: Ellissi, 2006.
 “La comunità sefardita della Bosnia tra le comunità sefardite dell’Europa e del
Mediterraneo” by Nezirovic, Muhamed. Da Sefarad a Sarajevo. Percorsi interculturali: le
multiformi identità e lo spazio dell’Altro. Ed. Ana Cecilia Prenz. Napoli: Ellissi, 2006.
 “È il judeoespañol la lingua di Cervantes?” by Ivana Vučina. Da Sefarad a Sarajevo.
Percorsi interculturali: le multiformi identità e lo spazio dell’Altro. Ed. Ana Cecilia Prenz.
Napoli: Ellissi, 2006.
Other publications:
 Book Review. Los ingrávidos. Valeria Luiselli. México: Sexto Piso, 2011. El Roommate.
(forthcoming)
 Book Review. Todo nada. Brenda Lozano. Me ico: Tusquets,
December 11, 2011. Web.
. El Roommate.
 “Argentina.” Rivista Sagarana. 41 (2010). Web.
Articles in progress and/or under consideration:
 “Le rovine di Italo Calvino: in viaggio attraverso il Messico precolombiano”
 “¿Modernidad mecánica? Explorando los tranvías de la Ciudad de México: Nájera,
Modotti, Buñuel”
 “Between Dolls and tableaux (pas) vivants: Reading Perversion in Felisberto
Hernández’s Las Hortensias”
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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES
 “Museos costumbristas y la retórica del objeto.” To be presented at MLA 2013, Chicago,
January 2014.
 “Más allá de la mercancía: hacia una nueva estética modernista de los objetos.” (Panel
chair). Presented at LASA 2013, Washington, May 31-June 1 2013.
 “Cuando las cosas hablan: los objetos sensibles del fin del siglo.” Presented at NeMLA
2013, Boston, March 21-24 2013.
 “El Zócalo de Tina Modotti: los tranvías y el anarcosindicalismo mexicano.” Presented
at PLAS Lecture Series, Princeton University, November 13 2012.
 “Viajando por las calles de la Ciudad de México: ‘La novela del tranvía’ de Manuel
Gutiérrez Nájera.” (Panel chair). Presented at LASA 2012, San Francisco, May 23-26
2012.
 “Antiquités mexicaines: Eugène Boban y el museo portátil de antigüedades
precolombinas.” Presented at the Symposium “Collections and the Ordering of
Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia,” Princeton University, May 5
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 “Antigüedades mexicanas: William Bullock y Eugène Boban." Presented at PLAS
Lecture Series, Princeton University, November 29 2011.
 “El coleccionismo en el siglo XIX.” Presented at the graduate seminar of Professor
Rubén Gallo, “Proust's Latin Americans and Theories of Cosmopolitism.” Princeton
University, November 15 2011.
 “Redefinition of the Subject-Object Relation in Juan José Saer.” (Panel chair). Presented
at NeMLA 2011, New Brunswick, April 6-10 2011.
 “Escritores latinoamericanos en Italia: ¿Literatura de migración o letteratura della
migrazione?” (Panel chair). Presented at LASA 2010, Toronto, Canada, October 6-9
2010.
 “Hacia una poética del deseo: representación y materialidad en Felisberto Hernández.”
Presented at XVII Congreso de la Asociación Internacional Hispanistas, Roma, July 1924, 2010.
 “Des-encuentros y traducción: Princesa.” Presented at XVLII Congreso de la Asociación
Canadiense de Hispanistas, Concordia University, Montreal, May 28-31, 2010.
 “Hacia una decodificación del género policial: Syria Poletti y el ‘crimen ausente.”
Presented at TUCSPS Annual Conference on Spanish and Portuguese Studies, Temple
University, Philadelphia, October 23-24, 2009.
 “Historia pública/historia privada: cuestionamiento de la subordinación femenina y
recuperación del orden simbólico materno en Cenizas de Izalco.” Presented at XXXIII
Congreso Anual de Literaturas Hispánicas, Indiana University of Pennsylvania,
October 19-20, 2007.
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2012-2013
Senior Thesis Workshop, Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton
University.
2011-2012
Senior Thesis Writing Seminar, Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
Princeton University.
2011 Fall
Assistant in Instruction. Advanced Spanish, SPA 108, Princeton
University.
2010 Fall
Assistant in Instruction. Intermediate/Advanced Spanish, SPA 107,
Princeton University.
2009 Fall
Assistant in Instruction. Beginner’s Spanish I, SPA 101, Princeton
University.
2009 Spring
Assistant in Instruction. Beginner’s Spanish II, SPA 1
University
2006 Fall
Volunteer Spanish Language Mentor, Chemeketa Community College,
Salem OR.
, Princeton
PEDAGOGY RECEIVED
2011-2013
Teaching Transcript Program, McGraw Centre for Teaching and Learning,
Princeton University
2008-2009
Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, Princeton University.
RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES
Interdepartmental Service:
2012
Co-organizer of the symposium “Alla Scuola delle Muse: The Sister Arts in
Italian Thought and Culture” (Keynote speaker: Prof. Carlo Vecce,
Università di Napoli), Program in Italian Studies, Princeton University,
March 30-March 31, 2012.
2011
Co-organizer of the symposium “Across the Border of Desire: Italy as a
Land of Departure and Destination” (Keynote speakers: Prof. Federica
Mazzara, UCL, and Prof. Julio Monteiro Martins, Università di Pisa),
Program in Italian Studies, Princeton University, March 31-April 1, 2011.
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2010 – 2012.
Co-organizer of the Work-in-progress Colloquium in Italian Studies.
2010 – 2012.
Co-organizer of the Program in Italian Studies.
2010 – 2012
Co-organizer of the Gender and Sexuality Graduate Studies Colloquium.
Research Assistantships:
2010 – 2012
Professor Ricardo Piglia, Princeton University.
(Research on First World War and Italian literature)
2009 – 2010
Professor Rubén Gallo, Princeton University.
(Research for book project on Proust and Latin America)
Other relevant professional activities and services:
2013
Co-organizer of the session “Culturas masivas: pedagogía, política y
sensibilidad.” LASA 2013, Washington, May 29-June 1, 2013.
2013
Co-organizer of the session “Challenging Narratives: Nineteenth Century
in Latin America.” NeMLA 2013, Boston, March 21-24, 2013.
2011
Organizer of the session “Narrated Objects: Literature and Material
Culture in the Americas.” NeMLA 2011, New Brunswick, April, 6-10 2011.
2010
Organizer of the session “Dislocaciones, fronteras, espacios: hacia una
literatura de migración.” LASA 2010, Toronto, Canada, October 6-9 2010.
2008 – pres.
Reader for the journal Working Papers, Department of Romance
Languages, University of Pennsylvania.
2006 – 2009
Member of the project on Sephardic Literature Convergenze Peninsulari:
Iberica, Italica, Balcanica (Peninsular Convergences: Iberian, Italian,
Balcanic), Università di Trieste and University of Sarajevo.
2008
Summer School in Latin Language and Classical Culture, Università di
Bologna.
2007
Synapsis, European School for Comparative Studies, Università di Bologna
and Università di Siena.