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Education/
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, 2007
Jardín en Playa Unión. Buenos
Aires: Ediciones Corregidor, 2005
El lugar de Girondo. Buenos
Aires: Ediciones Corregidor, 2001
Deuda 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, 1981
Articles:
“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
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