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Javier Mocarquer

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Assistant Professor of Spanish at Providence College. He holds a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Notre Dame (2015), with a specialization in modern and contemporary Latin American literature and culture, especially from the Southern Cone and Brazil. He earned an M.A. in Spanish from Middlebury College (2010), a Magíster en Filología Hispánica from the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (2009), and a Licenciatura en Letras Hispánicas from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2007). His research interests cover the tensions between aesthetics and politics, cultural and gender studies, and critical theory.

Dissertation: 

Políticas de género y sexualidad en el Cono Sur: Gabriela Mistral, Victoria Ocampo y Cecília Meireles en las esferas pública y privada” [The Politics of Gender and Sexuality in the Southern Cone: Gabriela Mistral, Victoria Ocampo, and Cecília Meireles in the Public and Private Spheres

Teaching experience:

  • Literary and Visual Representations of Dictatorship and Violence in the Southern Cone and Brazil (sophomore level seminar), Spring 2015
  • Intermediate Spanish 201 (third­semester Spanish), Spring 2014
  • Intensive Beginning Portuguese (first and second semester Portuguese), Spring 2013
  • Brazilian Portuguese Language and Culture I (first­ semester Portuguese), Fall 2012
  • Intermediate Spanish 201, Spring 2012
  • Beginning Spanish 102 (second­ semester Spanish), Spring 2011
  • Beginning Spanish 102, Fall 2011
  • Beginning Spanish 101 (first­ semester Spanish), Fall 2010

Selected Publications

  • Excesos y excedentes del Chile postdictatorial en el proyecto contrahegemónico de Diamela Eltit.” A Contracorriente: A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America 12.3 (Spring 2015): 75­104.
  •  “Devenir animal: metáforas, metamorfosis y metástasis de El amor insecto de Cristián Basso.” Argus­a 3.13 (summer 2014): 1­20. Web. 1 October 2014.
  •  “La representación del cuerpo en la poesía modernista latinoamericana.” Pandora Brasil 35 (2011): n.p. Web. 1 October 2014.
  •  “Las vanguardias en México: el estridentismo y Manuel Maples Arce.” Eds. Márcia Sipavicius Seide y Rita Felix Fortes. Trama 6.11 (2010): 74­90. Print.
  • “Cervantes y el Nuevo Mundo: un exilio quimérico.” Pandora Brasil 19 (2010): n.p. Web. 1 October 2014.
  • “Madres en la patria ausente: Poema de Chile y Gabriela Mistral.” Pandora Brasil 16. (2010): n.p. Web. 1 October 2014.

Selected Grants and Fellowships:

  • Harvard University, Institute for World Literature Fellowship, IWL Summer Program at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, 2015.Bruce and Norah Broillet Fellowship, Dissertation Completion, AY 2014­2015. Institute for Scholarship in Liberal Arts (ISLA), University of Notre Dame, Graduate
  • Student Professional Development Award, Institute for World Literature, Harvard University, Summer School Program, June­July 2013.
  •  Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Summer Research Travel Grant, Research at the National Library in Santiago, Chile; Buenos Aires, Argentina and Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 16­August 13, 2012.
  •  Doctoral Exams: Distinguished Pass, Ph.D. in Literature Program, University of Notre Dame, May 2012.
  •  Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures (CSLC), University of Notre Dame, Summer Language Study Abroad Grant, Portuguese Language Studies, Lisbon, Portugal, Summer 2011.
  •  Middlebury College Portuguese School Scholarship, Summer 2011.
  •  Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Literary Research and Language Training, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Summer 2010.
  •  Beca Fundación Carolina (full scholarship covering studies and living expenses in Madrid, Spain for pursuing a Master in Hispanic Philology, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), AY 2008­2009.

Contact Information:

 Sullivan Hall 219 Providence College Providence, RI 02918
Tel.: 401­-865­-2690
jmocarqu@providence.edu

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