FRANCISCO A. ORTEGA MARTÍNEZ THE RESEARCH PROJECT EUROPE 1815-1914,

P.O. BOX 24, UNIONINKATU 40A, FI-00014, UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI, FINLAND +358 504154907 ● francisco.ortega@helsinki.fi ● http://www.helsinki.fi/erere/

EMPLOYMENT University of Helsinki, Finland Post-doctoral Researcher, “The

Research Project Europe 1815-1914,”

2009 – 2012

Universidad Nacional de Colombia Associate Professor, History Department (On leave until August 2012)

since 2004

Universidad Nacional de Colombia Senior Researcher Center for Social Studies CES (On leave until August 2012)

since 2005

University of Wisconsin-Madison Assistant Professor, Department of

Spanish and Portuguese 2000-2004

RESEARCH INTERESTS Intellectual and Conceptual History

Political Culture of Latin America, 18th and 19th Centuries

Cultural History, Cultural Studies and Literary theory

Philosophy of History, Memory, Trauma

EDUCATION University of Chicago Ph.D., Dpt of Comparative Studies in Literature.

Fields: Cultural theory, memory, philosophy of history Dissertation: "The Anxieties of Trauma: Catastrophe in Colonial and Contemporary Latin America." Advisors: Françoise Meltzer (UChicago) and Doris Sommer (Harvard U)

2001

Harvard University Visiting Scholar, Latin American Studies and Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

1995 to 1999

University of Chicago

MA, Department of Comparative Studies in Literature

1993

University of Massachusetts/Boston

BA, English and Spanish. Summa Cum Laude

1992

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Universidad de Salamanca

Instituto Iberoamericano. Certificado de Estudios Hispánicos

1991

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Visiting Scholar, Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford Univ. Summer 2008 Fulbright Research/Lecture Fellowship in Bogotá, Colombia. Spring 2003 Int. Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World. Harvard Univ. August 2002 Lilly Library Mendel Research Fellowship, Indiana Univ., Bloomington, June 2002 National Endowment for the Humanities, Ohio State Univ., Summer 2001 NEBHE Dissertation Fellowship, 1999-2000. Boston College Hewlett Field Research Grant for Peru, summer 1999 University of Chicago, CLAR Dissertation Research Grant, 1999 Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Derek Bok Center, Harvard Univ, October 1997 Mellon Fellowship for the Writing in the Americas Summer Institute, 1997 Title VI Fellowship for the study of Portuguese, UWisconsin at Madison, 1993 Trustees Fellowship at the University of Chicago, 1992-1996 National Hispanic Fund Scholarship, 1991 UMass Hispanic Studies Scholarship, Universidad de Salamanca, summer 1991 Inst. for the Recruitment of Teachers, Summer Internship, Phillips Academy, 1990

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Author, Born of the Same Womb, Different in Origin and Blood: Social Fragmentation and the Making of the Gran Colombian Republics 1770-1870 (work in progress).

Coeditor with Yobenj Chicangana-Bayona . Conceptos fundamentales de la cultura política de la Independencia (Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2012). 550 pages.

Coeditor with Yobenj Chicangana-Bayona . 200 años de independencias. Las culturas políticas y sus legados (Medellín: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2011). 631 pages.

Coeditor with Yobenj Chicangana-Bayona . Del dicho al hecho. 200 años de Independencia y ciudadanía en Colombia. XIII Cátedra de Historia Ernesto Restrepo Tirado (Bogotá: Editorial Universidad Javeriana, 2011). 240 pages.

Editor, Trauma, cultura e historia: Reflexiones interdisciplinarias para el nuevo milenio. (Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2011). 626 pages.

Editor, Veena Das: Sujetos del dolor, agentes de dignidad. (Bogotá: Universidad Nacional- CES, 2008). 560 pages.

Editor, La irrupción de lo impensado. Cátedra Michel de Certeau. Cuadernos: Pensar en Público, 0. (Bogotá: Instituto Pensar-Universidad Javeriana, 2004). 344 pages.

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Book Chapters and Journal Articles

Coauthor with Alex Chaparro. “Disfraz y pluma de todos.Opinión pública y cultura política, siglos XVIII y XIX” in Disfraz y pluma de todos opinión pública y cultura política, siglos XVIII y XIX. Edited by Francisco A. Ortega and Alex Chaparro (Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, forthcoming 2012), pp. 11-34.

Coauthor with Alex Chaparro. “El nacimiento de la opinión pública en la Nueva Granada, 1785-1830” in Disfraz y pluma de todos opinión pública y cultura política, siglos XVIII y XIX. Edited by Francisco A. Ortega and Alex Chaparro (Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, forthcoming 2012), pp. 37-125.

“Ariadne’s Thread: Early Latin American Constitutions: New Granada 1810-1812”. in Constitutionalism, Legitimacy, and Power: Nineteenth-Century Experiences, Edited by Kelly L. Grotke y Markus J. Prutsch (forthcoming 2012). 27 pages.

“La publicidad ilustrada y el concepto de opinión pública en la Nueva Granada” in Fronteras de la Historia (Bogotá: ICANH) 17:1 (forthcoming 2012). 30 pages.

“El hilo de Ariadna: El concepto de constitución durante la primera república neogranadina” in Independencia: historia diversa, Edited by Bernardo Tovar (Bogotá: Editorial La Carreta, forthcoming 2012). 39 pages.

“Sacrificar la reputación de literato al título de ciudadano: Cultura política neogranadina a finales del siglo XVIII”. In Bicentenario de la Independencia Hispanoamericana. Edited by Horacio Crespo and Victoria Crespo (México: UNAM. forthcoming 2012). 20 pages.

“Writing the History of an Andean Ghost: There is only one World”: in Garcilaso in Dialogue with Today’s World-Making. Edited by Sara Castro de Klaren and Christian Fernández (University of Pittsburg Press, forthcoming 2012). 36 pages.

Introduction to Conceptos fundamentales de la cultura política de la Independencia. Edited by Francisco Ortega and Yobenj Chicangana-Bayona (Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2012), pp. 11-26.

“Entre ‘constitución’ y ‘colonia’, el estatuto ambiguo de las Indias en la monarquía hispánica” in Conceptos fundamentales de la cultura política de la Independencia. Edited by Francisco Ortega and Yobenj Chicangana-Bayona (Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2012), pp. 59- 89.

“Acontecimiento y eventualización: debates historiográficos” in Historia Cultural desde Colombia. Editors Max Sebastian Hering and Amada Carolina Pérez, (Bogotá: Universidad Javeriana-Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2012), 447-480.

"¿Cosmopolitismo crítico en el siglo XIX americano? Simón Rodríguez, las sociedades americanas y el principio de interdependencia" in 200 años de independencias. Las culturas políticas y sus legados Edited by Francisco Ortega and Yobenj Chicangana-Bayona (Medellín: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2011), pp. 213-240.

Coauthor with Franz Hensel and Yobenj Chicangana-Bayona . “El pasado como posibilidad”. In Del dicho al hecho. 200 años de Independencia y ciudadanía en Colombia. XIII Cátedra de Historia Ernesto Restrepo Tirado. Editors Francisco Ortega and Yobenj Chicangana-Bayona (Bogotá: Editorial Universidad Javeriana, 2011), pp.21-38.

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“Postcolonialism and Latin American writing, 1492–1850”. The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature. Editor Ato Quayson (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 2012), 2 vols. Vol 1, pp. 288-308.

“Ni nación ni parte integral: “Colonia” de vocablo a concepto en el siglo XVIII iberoamericano” in PRISMA. Revista de Historia Intelectual. (Buenos Aires: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes) 15 (2011); pp. 11-30.

“Colonia, nación y monarquía. El concepto de colonia y la cultura política de la Independencia” in La cuestión colonial. Edited by Heraclio Bonilla (Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2010), pp. 109-134.

¿Puede el Inca hablar? La Ynstruçión y relación de Titu Cusi Yupanqui (1570) in Estudios transatlánticos postcoloniales. Vol. 2: Mito, archivo, disciplina: cartografías culturales. Edited by Josebe Martínez and Ileana Rodríguez (Barcelona: Anthropos, 2011), pp. 155-202.

“El trauma social como campo de estudios” in Trauma, cultura e historia: Reflexiones interdisciplinarias para el nuevo milenio. (Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2011), pp. 17-59.

“Historical Interpretation and Ethics. Notes on the Role of Alterity” in Sharing Values. A Hermeneutics for Global Ethics. Edited by Ariane Hentsch Cisneros and Shanta Premawardhana (Geneve, Switzerland: Globethics.net, 2011), pp. 269-308.

“Tomen lo bueno, dejen lo malo: Simón Rodríguez y la educación popular.” Revista de Estudios Sociales 38 (Bogota: Universidad de los Andes, 2011), pp. 30-46.

“Jesuitas e Independencia en la Nueva Granada” in Los Jesuitas formadores de ciudadanos. La educación dentro y fuera de sus colegios (siglo XVI-XXI). Edited by Perla Chinchilla (México: Universidad Iberoamericana. 2010), pp. 69-92.

“La utopía del pasado: los fantasmas de Bolívar” in Ciudadanías en escena. Performance y derechos culturales en Colombia. Edited by Paolo Vignolo (Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2009), pp. 515-518.

“Violencia social y acontecimiento” in Historia y Grafía (México: Universidad Iberoamericana) 16: 32 (2009): pp. 171-194.

“Violencia social e historia: el nivel del acontecimiento” in Universitas Humanística (Bogotá: Universidad Javeriana) 66: 2 (2008); pp. 31-56.

“History of a Phantom.” The Blackwell Companion to Latin American Culture and Literature (Malden, Ma: Blackwell Press, 2008).

“Rehabitar la cotidianidad.” Veena Das: Sujetos del dolor, agentes de dignidad. (Bogotá: Universidad Nacional- CES, 2008); pp. 15-69.

“La fuerza de la fantasía o la historia de un fantasma andino” in Pensamiento herido. Filosofía, ficciones e insistemas de sonido España-Colombia. (Bogotá: Universidad Javeriana, 2008); pp. 90-122.

“Sin orden ni final. Escritura y desastre. Representación de La Violencia en Colombia” in Revista Iberoamericana (Pittsburg, Pittsburg University) LXXXIV: 223 (2008); pp. 361-378.

“Historia y humor negro” in Historia y Grafía 14: 27 (2007), 197-231.

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“The Political Memory of Earthquakes during the Colonial Period.” Re-Vista (David Rockefeller Latin American Studies Center, Harvard University), Spring 2007; 22-27. Available on Internet: http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/publications/revista

“Between Midnight and Dawn: The Disabling of History and the Impoverishment of Utopia in Ricardo Piglia’s Artificial Respiration.” South Atlantic Quarterly (Duke University Press) 106.1 (December 2006): 153-182.

“Memoria y crisis: aproximación a la cultura política de finales del siglo XVIII”. Revista de Estudios Colombianos 27-28 (2005): 49-66.

“Catastrophe, Ambivalent Praises, and Liminal Figurations in Pedro de Oña's Temblor de Lima de 1609.” Colonial Latin American Review 13: 2 (January 2005): 213-241.

“La ética de la historia: una imposible memoria de lo que olvida.” Desde el Jardín de Freud. Revista de Psicoanálisis 4 (December 2004): 102-119. Special issue on Memory and Forgiveness.

“Excessive Friendships: Face-to Face and Play in Caminha’s Letter to the King.” Chasqui: Revista de Estudios de Literatura Latinoamericana. (December 2004): 7-41. Special Issue No. 1: Brazilian and Spanish American Literary and Cultural Encounters.

“Historia y éticas: apuntes para una hermenéutica de la alteridad.” Revista Historia Crítica 27 (January-June 2004): 187-220. Special issue on History and Social Ciences.

“La opacidad o lo que ocurre con la historia en el ámbito colonial: La Ynstruçión y relación de Titu Cusi Yupanqui (1570)” in El Nuevo Mundo: problemas y debates. Edited by Diana Bonnet and Felipe Castañeda. Bogotá: Editorial Uniandinos, June, 2004; pp. 155-202.

“Aventuras de una heterología fantasmal.” La irrupción de lo impensado. Cátedra Michel de Certeau. Francisco Ortega, ed. Cuadernos: Pensar en Público, 1. (Bogotá: Instituto Pensar, 2004); pp. 5-46.

“El lugar del Barroco: Entre retornos y promesas”. Literatura y otras artes en América Latina. Actas del XXXIV Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. Edited by Daniel Balderston et al., Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 2004, 259-66.

“Crisis social y trauma: nuevas propuestas desde la historiografía cultural”. Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura 30 (2003): 45-96.

Trauma and Narrative in Early Modernity: Garcilaso’s Comentarios reales (1609-1616).” Modern Language Notes 118.2 (2003): 393-426.

“On the Verge of Combustion: Colombian Narrative Authors since the 90s.” Re-Vista (David Rockefeller Latin American Studies Center, Harvard University. Spring 2003). 81-83. Available on-line: http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/publications/revista/colombia/ortega.html

“The Staging of the Fatalidad lastimosa or the Creole Nation’s Unviability.” Working Paper Series, The International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1800. The Structure of Colonial Societies, 1500-1825. Cambridge: Harvard University, 2002. Abstract available on line at: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~atlantic/prog02.html.

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"'Con la memoria del bien perdido': Improductividades narrativas en los Comentarios reales del Inca Garcilaso." Actas de JALLA 1999 Cusco. Edited by July Miranda Bernal. Cusco: Fondo Editorial Cronolibros, 2001. 127-132.

Encyclopedia Articles

Extended biographical entry on "Delia Zapata Olivella." Noted Twentieth-Century Latin American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. Edited by Cynthia Tompkins and David Foster. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999) 295-299.

"Jorge Artel." Encyclopedia entry. Encarta Africana (Redmont (WA): Microsoft, 1999) and Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. (New York: Perseus, 1999.).

"Arnoldo Palacios." Encarta Africana (Redmont (WA): Microsoft, 1999) and Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. (New York: Perseus, 1999.)

Book Reviews

Lúcia Costigan, editor. Diálogos da conversão (Campinas: Unicamp 2005). Luso Brazilian Review 2006, Vol. 43: 2, 164-167.

Ana María Gómez Londoño, editora. Muiscas. Representaciones, cartografías y etnopolíticas de la memoria (Bogotá: Universidad Javeriana, 2005). Pie de página 2006, Num. 7, p. 80.

Renán Silva, Los ilustrados de Nueva Granada 1760-1808. Genealogías de una comunidad interpretativa (Medellín: EAFIT-Banco de la República, 2002). Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura 30 (2003). 363-369.

Alberto Moreiras, The Exhaustion of Difference: The Politics of Latin American Cultural Studies (Duke University Press 2001). Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 5:3 (2003) 460-462.

INVITED LECTURES AND SEMINAR, CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Lecturer “La Democracia de la sangre. Diversidad, republicanismo

y la creación de las repúblicas americanas durante la primera mitad del siglo XIX. Invited by the Seminario Permanente de Historia Intelectual de la Política Moderna, coordinated by Javier Fernández Sebastián. Universidad de Bilbao, Bilbao, February 10, 2012.

Lecturer “Genealogies of the People During the Early Nineteenth Century.” Paper presented at the Iberian Postcolonialities Colloquium, organized by the Universidad Complutense, Madird, February 3, 2012.

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Lecturer ‘“Democracy of blood’: The language of racial fusion and the Spanish American republics during the 19th century” invited by the research project Trajectories of modernity: comparing non-European and European varieties, coordinated by Peter Wagner. University of Barcelona, Jan. 31, 2012

Lecturer “‘Born of the Same of Womb, Different in Origin and Blood.’ The birth of the American Republics and the question of racial diversity.” Paper presented at the International Conference Teleology and History: A Critical Assessment of an Enlightenment Thought. Organized by The Research Project Europe 1815-1914. Athens, June 10, 2011.

Lecturer “Ariadne’s Thread: the Concept of Constitutions and Constitutional Experience during the First American Republic 1810-1812.” Presentation at the International Workshop Constitutions and the Legitimisation of Power. Organized by the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, April 11, 2011.

Lecturer “We either invent or we err” Post-Colonial Critical Cosmopolitanism in the 19th century?” Paper presented at the international symposium Revisiting the Imaginations of Europe and the World. Coming to Terms with Teleologies and Assessing Cosmopolitanism. Universityof Helsinki, Helsinki, April 27, 2010.

Lecturer “Colonia, nación y monarquía. La cuestión colonial y la cultura política de la Independencia”. Paper presented at the international symposium La cuestión colonial, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Bogotá, November 27, 2009.

Lecturer “Early Latin American Constitutions (1809-1816) and Constituent Impetus”. Paper presented at el Concepta Research Training Seminar: Constitution and Constitutionalism, realizado en la Universidad de Estocolmo. Estocolmo, Suecia, November 4, 2009.

Lecturer “Writing the History of Andean Phantoms”. Paper presented at the congress “‘There Is Only One World’: Garcilaso in Dialogue with Today’s World-making Debate”. Realizado por el Departamento de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la Universidad de Johns Hopkins. Baltimore, EEUU, May 22, 2009.

Lecturer “The People Is Not An Imaginary Entity. Genealogies of the People during the Early Nineteenth Century In New Granada”. Paper presented at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge University. Cambridge, UK, April 27, 2009.

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Lecturer “Sacrificar la reputación de literato al título de ciudadano: Cultura política neogranadina a finales del siglo XVIII”. Paper presented at Encuentro Internacional Conmemorativo de la Independencia Hispanoamericana. Universidad Autónoma de México y la Universidad de Morelos. México, February 10, 2009.

Lecturer

“Doscientos años de ciudadanías.” Opening speech of the Cátedra Ernesto Restrepo Tirado, Museo Nacional de Colombia. Bogotá, October 22, 2008.

Lecturer

“Colonial Latin America through the Post-Colonial Prism.” Presentation at the symposium Postcolonial History and Literature organized by the Center for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto. September 18-21, 2008.

Lecturer

“Prensa en Hispanoamérica. Siglo XVIII.” Invited by the Centro de Estudios Iberoamericanos, Universidad de Puerto Rico. Arecibo, March 25, 2007.

Discussant

“Estudios culturales hoy.” Estudios Culturales Hoy. Trayectorias, tendencias y perspectivas. A simposium organizad by the Instituto Pensar, Universidad Javeriana and Instituto CES, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Bogotá, November 14-16, 2007

Lecturer

“La cotidianidad impregnada de acontecimiento.” Presentation at the symposium “El Corazón sangrante.” XII Congreso Nacional de Antropología. Bogotá, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. October 13, 2007.

Lecturer

“Pueblo más leal y noble. Independencia y la construcción de ciudadanías republicanas.” Presentation at the XV Congress of Colombianists. Bogota, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. August 3, 2007

Lecturer

“Recounting Independence and the Hegemony of the Nation”. Presentation at the symposium Cultural Studies Now. Organized by the University of East London. London, United Kingdom, July 19, 2007.

Lecturer

“Historias fantasmales, historias de fantasmas.” Conferences Pensamiento Trans-Atlántico. Organized by the Luis Ángel Arango Library and the Spanish Embassy. Luis Ángel Arango Library, May 14, 2007.

Lecturer

“Social Crisis and the Colonial World: México 1692” invited by the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Texas, Austin. September 1, 2006.

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Lecturer

“The Center of the Periphery: The Privilege of Being Ex-Centered.” Talk in the Department of History. University of Texas, Austin. August 30, 2006.

Lecturer

“La geopolítica del conocimiento.” Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. August 30, 2006.

Lecturer

“Los usos del Barroco”. Paper read at JALLA (Jornadas Andinas de Lengua y Literatura). Bogotá, August 15, 2006.

Lecturer

“Socio-cultural Resources and the Idea of Citizenship”. Department of Anthropology and the Program of Latin American Studies, The Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore. April 12, 2006.

Lecturer

“History’s Black Bile”. Department of Anthropology and the Program of Latin American Studies, The Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore. April 11, 2006.

Lecturer

“The Public Uses of History”. LASA. San Juan, Puerto Rico. March 14, 2006.

Lecturer

“Jacques Derrida y los fantasmas de la historia”. Cátedra Jacques Derrida. Instituto Pensar, Universidad Javeriana. October 13, 2005.

Lecturer

“Historias fantasmales”. Seminario Cronistas: Una lectura crítica. Universidad del Cauca, Popayán. June 10, 2005.

Lecturer

"Criticism: Between Irruptions and Mourning". In Comparable Americas: Colonial Studies After the Hemispheric Turn. Universidad de Chicago y Newberry Library. April 30, 2004.

Lecturer

"El barroco americano." Talk of the Month. Museo de Arte Colonial. Bogotá, Colombia. December 4, 2003.

Lecturer "La dimensión fantasmal de la historia: trauma y cultura”. Invited by the research group The Social Function of Writing. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia. October 7, 2003.

Lecturer "Memoria y crisis social, 1781-1810." XIII Congreso de Colombianistas. Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia. August 14, 2003.

Lecturer "Crisis social, trauma y el mundo colonial: Nuevas perspectivas desde la historiografía cultural." Talk given at the “Coloquio de Historia,” Universidad Nacional de Bogotá, Colombia. May 16, 2003.

Lecturer “El barroco de Indias y la cultura americana." Seminario Fulbright. Commission Fulbright de Colombia. Bogotá, Colombia. May 13, 2003.

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Lecturer “El fantasma y/en/ de la historia.” Paper read at the “Coloquio Permanente de Psicoanálisis,” Universidad Nacional de Bogotá, Colombia. April 21, 2003.

Guest Speaker "Historiografía y narrativa." Talk given at the “Historia de las instituciones jurídicas” seminar. Universidad de los Andes-Law School. Bogotá, Colombia. January 16, 2003.

Panelist “Interrogating Trauma in Early Modernity.” Paper read at the “Recovery Conference” organized by CEMERS (Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies). University of Binghamton. Binghamton, NY, November 1, 2002.

Participant and panelist

“Mexican Creole Intellectuals and the 1692 revolt.” The International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1800. The Structure of Colonial Societies, 1500-1825. Harvard University. Cambridge, August 5-16, 2002.

Panelist “El lugar del Barroco: Entre retornos y promesas.” Paper read at the XXXIV Instituto Iberoamericano de Literatura Latinoamericana. University of Iowa. Iowa City, July 3, 2002.

Lecturer “Trauma and Melancholia in Early Modernity.” Comparative Literature Colloquia (CLSO). University of Wisconsin. Madison, April 12, 2002

Organizer and Panelist

“Re-Thinking the Baroque: Genres and Subjectivity in the Seventeenth Century Americas.” University of Wisconsin. Madison, March 15-16, 2002.

Chair and Panelist "The Role of the Intellectual In Colombia." Paper read at the special panel session at the XXIII Congress of Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Washington DC. Sept. 6, 2001.

Panelist "Cornelius de Pauw y el intelectual americano." Paper read at the V Congreso de Estudios Caribeños. Cartagena de Indias, August 3, 2001.

Chair and Moderator

"New Approaches to the Study of Social Conflict In Colombia." Center for Latin American Caribbean and Iberian (LACIS) Studies at the University of Wisconsin. Madison, March 23, 2001.

Chair and Moderator

"Recalling the Conquest." A panel on colonial discursive production. Mid-America Conferences on Hispanic Literature. Madison, September 23, 2000.

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Panelist “Escenarios del futuro: Nueve premisas filosóficas para pensar el país.” Re-Thinking Colombia Conference. The Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University, New Orleans. April 11, 2000.

Panelist “Inscribing Violence: Trauma and Representation in Colombia.” Paper read at the XXII congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Miami, March 17, 2000.

Lecturer “Early Creole Patriotism and the 1692 Mexican riots.” Paper read at the University of Wisconsin. Madison, February 17, 2000.

Lecturer “Andean Collapse and Melancholic Reconstitutions.” Paper read at Rutgers University. New Brunswick, January 21, 2000.

Panelist "’Con la memoria del bien perdido’: Improductividades narrativas en los Comentarios Reales." Paper read at the New Perspectives on the Inca Garcilaso panel at JALLA (Jornadas Andinas de Lengua y Literatura). Cuzco, Peru, August 12, 1999.

Panelist "Between Apocalypses and Utopia: The Political Memory of Earthquakes in Poniatowska's Nada, nadie." Paper read at the XXI congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Chicago, September 23, 1998.

Lecturer "Post-Colonial Theory and Latin America." Seminar Law, Sex, and Post-Coloniality. Harvard Law School, Cambridge (MA), March 12, 1998.

Lecturer "Mestizo and Creole Subjectivities: Garcilaso and Oña in the era of Post-Colonial Studies." Colby College, Waterville (ME), February 17, 1998.

Panelist "Is a Subaltern Perspective Possible Where There Are No Subalterns?: Pedro de Oña's Temblor de Lima de 1609." Modern Language Association (MLA). Toronto, Canada, December 28, 1997.

Panelist "El 8 de June de 1692: La puesta en escena de la fatalidad lastimosa." Paper read at the XX Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) for the panel Renaissance Norms and Delinquent Texts. Guadalajara, Mexico, April 18, 1997.

COURSES TAUGHT Associate Professor “Historia intelectual y cultura política. Discursos, lenguajes y

conceptos”. Undergraduate theory seminar, History Departament, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. First Semester, 2008.

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Associate Professor “Cultura política de la Independencia, 1808-1816”. Graduate seminar, History Departament, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. Second Semester, 2007.

Associate Professor “Representaciones e imaginarios de la Independencia neogranadina”. Undergraduate Seminar, History Departament, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. First semester, 2007.

Associate Professor “Post-colonial Theory”. Graduate seminar, Cultural Studies Graduate Program, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. Second semester, 2006.

Associate Professor “Qualitative Methods”. Graduate seminar, History Departament, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. First semester, 2006.

Associate Professor “El retorno del Barroco”. Advanced undergraduate seminar, History Departament, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. First semester 2005.

Associate Professor “Cultural y agencia”. Graduate seminar, History Departament, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. Second semester 2004.

Associate Professor Colonial history of América. Introduction to colonial culture and society. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. 2004-2006

Assistant Professor "Lo uno y lo múltiple: Temas y problemas de la teoría poscolonial en el siglo XVIII hispanoamericano " (Span 801). Seminar for doctorate students based on current research. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Spring 2004.

Fulbright Visiting Professor

“Trauma e historia: Nuevas propuestas desde la historiografía cultural." Graduate seminar. History Department, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. Spring 2003.

Assistant Professor "Cultura hispanoamericana: Perú y Colombia" (Span 363). Undergraduate survey of important cultural topics in Peru and Colombia. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Spring 2002.

Assistant Professor "Introduction to Hispanic Literatures" (Span 224). Departmental introductory course to the study of literature. University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2000-02; 2004.

Assistant Professor “Space and Cultural History in the Andes" (Span 899) Independent Study. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Spring 2002.

Assistant Professor "Trauma, narrativa y nación: La escritura del desastre" (Span 801). Seminar for doctorate students based on current research. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Fall 2001.

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Assistant Professor "Graduate Survey of Colonial Spanish America" (Span 501). An intensive course designed to introduce students to the basic features of colonial discursive production. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Spring 2001.

Assistant Professor “Memory and Oral History: Quito in the Colonial Period" (Span 899). Independent study. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Spring 2001.

Assistant Professor "Representing Race and Ethnicity in Spanish America" (Span 520). An advanced undergraduate course examining the representation of ethnic subjects and the production of minority discourse in Latin America. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Fall 2000.

Visiting Professor "Narrativa, trauma y nación" A two-week advanced undergraduate and graduate seminar on the relationship between trauma, narrative, and national identity. Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, August 1999.

GRADUATE STUDENTS

PH.D. DISSERTATION CHAIR María Isabel Zapata Villamil (Universidad Nacional, History Department)

PH.D. DISSERTATION COMMITTEES:

Cynthia Milton (UWisconsin, History Department. May 2002) Michael Ferreira (UWisconsin, Spanish and Portuguese. May 2001) Kathryn Mayers (UWisconsin, Spanish and Portuguese. May 2003) Ileana María Rodríguez Silva, (UWisconsin, History Department. May 2004)

PH.D. EXAMINATION COMMITTEES: Eve Pujol (August 2002) Gabriela Castro-Barrientos (August 2002) Chris Schulenberg (August 2002) Pilar Melero (August 2001) Martin Pflug (August 2001) Dinorah Cortes (August 2001)

M.A. THESIS CHAIR

Maite Yie (Universidad Nacional, History Department, Nov. 25, 2008) Rafael Acevedo (Universidad Nacional, History Department. Dic. 1, 2008) Daniel Castro (Universidad Nacional, History Department) Carlos Villamizar (Universidad Nacional, History Department) Pamela Rosero (Universidad Nacional, History Department)

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ACADEMIC SERVICE

Cultural Studies Committee

Study, develop and recommend initiatives concerning the Program's graduate academic program. (Fall 2004-present)

Graduate Studies Committee

Study, develop and recommend initiatives concerning the Department's graduate academic program. (Fall 2002)

Editorial Reviewer Peer review of scholarly articles for Estudios de Literatura Colombiana (Medellín 2003-2004).

Editorial Reviewer Peer review of scholarly articles for Revista Letras Femeninas (Madison 2002)

Reviewer Latin American Caribbean and Iberian Studies (LACIS) Fellowships and Scholarships Committee. (2001-2002)

Participant and co-coordinator

Ford funded workshop on "Early Modern Studies." (2000). Organizer of conference on the "Barroco de Indias" for Spring of 2002.

Ph. D. examiner Meet with students to help them prepare for the doctoral examinations in the field of colonial literature and culture. (2000 to present)

Undergraduate Studies Committee

Study, develop and recommend initiatives concerning the Department's undergraduate academic program. (Fall 2000 to spring 2002)

Co-coordinator Colombian Colloquium at Harvard, 1997-2000. Fundraised for, organized, and implemented a series of talks geared to stimulate interdisciplinary discussion and participation on a variety of topics related to Colombia’s armed conflict. Invited guests came from a variety of fields and backgrounds such as indigenous leaders, scholars, and journalists.

Senior Subject Editor for Latin America and the Caribean

Afropaedia: The Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora. W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University, December 1997 to December 1999 (Afropaedia was released as Encarta Africana CD-ROM, Microsoft, 1999 and as Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. New York: Perseus Books, 1999.) In charge of establishing the canon, commissioning, reading, and content editing of over one thousand entries pertaining to the black diaspora's political and cultural history in Latin America and the Caribbean. Part of the editorial team headed by Professors Kwame A. Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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OTHER Member of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Member of the Asociación de Colombianistas Fully bilingual (English - Spanish). Proficient in Portuguese. Reading knowledge of French, Italian, and Latin.