samuel amago, cv - Kellogg Institute for International Studies

samuel amago, cv - Kellogg Institute for International Studies

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SAMUEL AMAGO, CV
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Faculty Fellow, Nanovic Institute for European Studies
EDUCA TION
Ph.D., Spanish Literature, University of Virginia, 2003.
M.A., Spanish Literature, University of Virginia, 1999.
B.A., Spanish Literature, University of California, San Diego, 1996.
ApPOINTMENTS
Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame, 2003-Present.
Graduate Instructor of Spanish, University of Virginia, 1997-2003.
BOOK
True Lies: Narrative Self-Consciousness in the Contemporary Spanish Novel. Lewisburg:
Bucknell University Press, 2006. [forthcoming]
REFEREED ARTICLES
'Why Spaniards Make a Good Bad Guys: Sergi Lopez and the Persistence of the Black Legend in
Contemporary European Cinema~' Film Criticism 30.1 (2005): 41-63.
'H>rror and Ambivalence in Tesis: Alejandro Amemibar's Reflections on the Postmodern
Condition~' Revista de Estudios Hispimicos 38 (2004): 143-58.
'01 the Possible Origins of Amor y pedagogia: Unamuno's Debt to John Stuart MiIr'Letras
Peninsulares 15.3 (2003): 681-90.
'Sexual Pollution, Social Legitimacy, and the Economies of Power in the Legend of the Siete
In/antes de Lard'Revista de Estudios Hispanicos 36.1 (2002): 3-22.
'lesbian Desire and Related Matters in Carmen Laforefs Nada~'Neophilologus 86.1 (2002): 6586. Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 219.
Updated March 2006
"The Form and Function of Homosocial Desire in La madre naturaleza." Romance Quarterly
48.1 (2001): 54-63.
"Isabel Allende and the Postmodern Literary Tradition: A Reconsideration of
Cuentos de Eva Luna." Latin American Literary Review 28.56 (2000): 43-60.
BOOK CHAPTERS
"Can Anyone Rock Like We Do? Or, How the Gen X Aesthetic Transcends the Age of the
Writer." Generation X Rocks: Music, Television, and the Revision oJReality in Contemporary
Peninsular Literature. Christine Henseler and Randolph Pope, eds. Vanderbilt University Press
[forthcoming].
REVIEWS
Rios-Font, Wadda. The Canon and the Archive: Configuring Literature in Modern Spain.
Iberoamericana 5.20 (2005): 235-38.
Aguilar Pifial, Francisco. La biblioteca y el monetario del academico Candido Maria Trigueros.
Dieciocho 23.1 (2000): 168-69.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, University of Notre Dame. NEH Summer Stipend
Internal Competition. $5,000. 2005.
Nanovic Institute for European Studies and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts,
University of Notre Dame. Course Development Grant. $3,500. 2005.
Faculty Senate Dissertation Fellowship, University of Virginia Jefferson Scholar's Program.
$20,000. 2002-2003.
Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports
and United States Universities, Research subvention. $1,000. 2002.
INVITED LECTURES
"Getting the Story Straight: Narrative and Memory in Soldados de Salamina." University of
Illinois at Chicago, November 3rd 2004.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
"On Being African, Spanish, and Catalan: Reconfiguring Transnational Spanish Identities in
Recent European Cinema." The Transnational in Latin American and Iberian Cinemas, Institute
for Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London, April 2006.
"Catalans, Spaniards, and Africans: Sub/Trans/National Identities in Contemporary European
Cinema." Midwest Modern Language Association, Milwaukee, November 2005.
"Why Spaniards Make Good Bad Guys: Harry and Sneaky Juan as Embodiments of the 'Black
Legend.'" Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February 2005.
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"Todo sobre mi movie: Almodovar Does it Intertextually." The Second Romance Languages
Film Symposium, Wake Forest University, September 2004.
"Jorge Luis Borges and His Peninsular Spanish Admirers: Transatlantic Intertextuality and
Metanarrativity in Carlos Cafieque's Quil?n."Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April
2004.
"Lost in Madrid without a Map: Writing a Frommer's Guide ofthe Mind." Mid-America
Conference on Hispanic Literatures, University of Colorado, Boulder, October 2003.
"Home Sweet Hombre: Masculinity, Rent Control and Death in Two Spanish Neo-Realist
Films." Romance Language Film Symposium, Wake Forest University, April 2003.
"Metafiction and Identity in Rosa Montero's La hija del canibal." Mid-America Conference on
Hispanic Literatures, Washington University, September 2002.
"Eduardo Mendoza Confronts the Experimental Novel: A Reconsideration of La verdad sobre el
caso Savolta." 55thUniversity of Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 2002.
"An Unsuspected Alternative to Mother Nature's Nature." 49thMountain Interstate Foreign
Language Conference, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, October 1999.
"On the Hereditary Nature of Sin: The Peculiar Case of Emilia Pardo Bazan." Graduate Student
Lecture Series, University of Virginia, April 1998.
COURSES TAUGHT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME
ROSP 40520: Understanding Multicultural Spain through its Cinema
ROSP 53430: Recent Spanish Fiction (Senior Seminar)
ROSP 548: One Hundred Years of Self-Conscious Narrative (Graduate seminar)
ROSP 444: Recent Developments in the Spanish Novel (Senior Seminar)
ROSP 30720: Survey of Spanish Literature II
ROSP 30310: Textual Analysis
COURSES TAUGHT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
SPAN 411: Advanced Grammar
SP AN 330: Literary Analysis
SPAN 311: Grammar Review
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SERVICE
DEPARTMENT
Sigma Delta Pi (Spanish Honor Society), Faculty Director, 2004-Present.
Teaching Evaluation Committee, 2004-2005.
Undergraduate Honors Committee, 2004-2006.
Iberian and Latin American Studies, Undergraduate Advisor, 2004-Present.
Library Committee, 2004-2006.
UNIVERSITY
Office of Undergraduate and Post-Baccalaureate Fellowships, Faculty Mentor, 2004-Present.
Nanovic Institute for European Studies, Faculty Fellow and Advisor for the Minor in European
Studies, 2004-Present.
PROFESSION
Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States
Universities, Executive Committee, 2006-Present.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Asociacion Internacional de Hispanistas, 2005-Present.
Modern Language Association, 2000-Present.
LIST OF REFERENCES
Marvin D'Lugo, ProJessor oJSpanish, Clark University
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Worcester, MA 01610-1477
David T. Gies, Commonwealth ProJessor oJ Spanish, University of Virginia
123 Wilson Hall, P.O. Box 400777, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4777 (434) 924-4652
Ruth Hill, Associate ProJessor oJ Spanish, University of Virginia
126 Wilson Hall, P.O. Box 400777, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4777 (434) 924-7003
Eleanor Kaufman, Associate ProJessor oJ English, University of Virginia
102A Bryan Hall, P.O. Box 400121, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4121 (434) 924-6074
Randolph Pope, Commonwealth ProJessor oJ Spanish, University of Virginia
103 Wilson Hall, P.O. Box 400777, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4777 (434) 924-4651
Dayle Seidenspinner-Nufiez, Associate Dean, Arts and Letters, U of Notre Dame
100 O'Shaughnessy Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556 (574) 631-2738
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