Patricio Rizzo-Vast
Full Time Instructor of
Spanish and Portuguese
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Northeastern Illinois University, Lech Walesa Hall 2040
5500 N. St. Louis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60625
Tel. (773) 442-4732
Email:
p-rizzovast@neiu.edu
Ph.D. in Spanish,
University of California, Davis, 2001
Major Field: Latin American Literature
M.A. in Spanish, 1995
Teaching Credential in Spanish, 1992
Spanish-English Bilingual Certificate
of Competence for the State of California, 1991
San Francisco State University
B.A. in Latin American Studies,
University of California, Berkeley, 1988
Publications
Books:
Ananda naranja. Buenos Aires: Dunken, 2007Jardín en Playa Unión. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Corregidor, 2005
El lugar de Girondo. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Corregidor, 2001Deuda externa: condicionalidades y desarrollo infraestructural en la Argentina, Buenos Aires: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, 1993
Desde el océano. From the Ocean. Oakland: Inkworks, 1981Articles:
“Paisaje e ideología en Campo nuestro de Oliverio Girondo,” Revista Iberoamericana, Pittsburgh, Vol. LXVII, Num. 194-195, January-June 2001, pp. 105-120
“Paisaje e ideología en Los pasos perdidos de Alejo Carpentier,” La Torre, Puerto Rico, Año 5, 17, Julio-Sept. 2000, pp. 463-477
“Mercedes Sosa: voz de América,” Canto, San Francisco State University, Fall 1994-Spring 1995, Vol. 2, Num. 2, pp. 36-41
Research Interests:
Contemporary Latin American Poetry and Culture
Presently I am working in a collection of poems in Spanish to be published soon.
Translating and updating my book “El lugar de Girondo” to English.
Other Relevant Work Experience:
Translator for Current Anthropology, a publication of the University of Chicago and the Dept. of Anthropology of UC Davis, 2002 to present
Translator for the Department of Public Health, San Francisco, 1993
Researcher for the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1991-1992
Copyeditor for Houghton and Mifflin for Spanish bilingual texts for the State of Texas, 1984-86
Interpreter for A.M.S. Associates, San Francisco, working with injured immigrant field workers in California, 1980-1984
Papers Presented and Conferences
Conference, “Images of Globalization in Jose Saramago’s La caverna,” Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, September 2007
Conference, “Aspectos del panorama orillero borgiano (1936-1948)” University of Iowa, Iowa City, May 2007
Conference, “Mecanización y Globalización en La caverna de José Saramago,” XXVIIII Simposio Internacional de Literatura. Literatura y Globalización, Montevideo, August 2006
Conference, “The Desert in the Poetry of Jacobo Fijman,” Latin American Studies Association, Puerto Rico, March 2006
Conference, “El Martín Fierro y la nación argentina,” California State University, Fullerton, December 2003
Conference, “Paisaje e ideología en Campo nuestro de Oliverio Girondo,” Columbia University, Manhattan, April 2000
Conference, “Ética y estética en ‘Estival’ de Rubén Darío.” Octavo Congreso Internacional de Literatura Centroamericana, Guatemala City, March 2000
Presenter, UC Davis Summer Sessions Film Series: “Four Days in September,” September, 1998 and “The Star Maker,” August 1997
Conference, “Lenguaje e ideología: aspectos del dialecto nacionalista-católico en la Argentina.” UC Davis, May 1998
Conference, “Landscape and Ideology: The Figure of the Desert in Argentine Literature.” University of California, Davis, July 1997
Conference, “Ideología modernista en ‘Estival’ de Rubén Darío.” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, May 1997
Conferencie, “La pasión de los tigres: cultura y violencia en ‘Estival’ de Rubén Darío.” UC Davis, December 1996
Travel in the Americas:
Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Peru, Mexico (fourteen visits and a year writing in Mexico City), Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Trinidad & Tobago, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Belize, Jamaica