Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies 
Department of French, Italian and Spanish
The University of Calgary
2500 University Dr. NW 
Calgary, Alberta 
CANADA T2N 1N4 
Phone: (403) 220 5457 
Fax: (403) 284 3634 
E-mail: gimenez@ucalgary.ca
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~gimenez/

1996-1998

Research project: Modelos novelescos de hibridez y desterritorialización. El “narrador nómada” en Juan Goytisolo y Mario Vargas Llosa.

Under the supervision of Mario J. Valdés. 

Title of dissertation: L'irruption des “autres.” Les discours identitaires de revendication depuis 1es années 1960 jusqu'à nos jours.

Under the supervision of Wladimir Krysinski. 

Title of thesis: Todas las sangres de José María Arguedas. Ética y estética del mestizaje y de la transculturación. 

Under the supervision of Catherine Poupeney Hart and Antonio Gómez-Moriana. 

Under the supervision of Roberto Bein. 

Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies (The U. of Calgary, Department of French, Italian and Spanish), 1998-2000. Language courses. Undergraduate literature courses: “20th-century Latin American Fiction” (Winter 2000), “Hispanic Rhetoric and Composition” (Fall 1999), “20th-century Latin American Poetry and Drama” (Winter 1999). Graduate literature courses: “Advanced Translation,” “The Inscription of Orality and Cultural Diversity in Latin American Literature” (Winter 2000, Fall 1998).

Guest lecturer (U. of Toronto, Semiotics and Communications Theory), March 1997. Course:  “Poststructuralism and Postmodernism.” (See Lectures) 

Instructor (U. de Montréal, Département de Littérature Comparée), Winter 1995. Course: “Courants de la littérature contemporaine.” 

Responsible for the training of lecturers of Spanish Language courses (U. du Québec, Télé-université), May 1994. 

Translator (French-Spanish) of the guidebook for Spanish advanced language course ESP 4001 (U. du Québec, Télé-université), January 1994. 

Linguistic proofreader of the manual for Spanish intermediate language course ESP 3001 (U. du Québec, Télé-université), May 1993. 

Linguistic proofreader of the manual for Spanish advanced language course ESP 4001 (U. du Québec, Télé-université), June 1992-January 1993. 

Lecturer for the Spanish advanced language course ESP 4001 (U. du Québec, Télé-université), March 1993. 

Lecturer for the Spanish intermediate language course ESP 3001 (U. du Québec, Télé-université), March 1993. 

Teacher (Instituto Español de Montreal, affiliated with the Spanish Government's Instituto Cervantes), September 1990-September 1992. 

Research assistant (U. de Montréal, Département de Littérature Comparée), September 1991-September 1992. 

Instructor (U. de Montréal, Département de Littératures et de Langues Modernes), February-April 1992. 

Spanish teaching assistant (U. de Montréal, Département de Littératures et de Langues Modernes), Fall 1990. 

Corrector (U. de Montréal, Département de Littératures et de Langues Modernes), Fall 1990. 

Instructor (U. de Montréal, Département de Littératures et de Langues Modernes), Fall 1990. 

Archivist (U. de Montréal, Département de Littératures et de Langues Modernes), May-June 1989.

Member of the Latin American Studies Curriculum Committee, Latin American Studies Group, The U. of Calgary, since February 2000.

Member of the ad hoc selection committee in French (new position), Department of French, Italian and Spanish,  The U. of Calgary, since November 1999.

Member of the ad hoc selection committee in Spanish (new position), Department of French, Italian and Spanish, The U. of Calgary, since October 1999.

Library Coordinator, Spanish section, Department of French, Italian and Spanish, The U. of Calgary, since October 1999.

Member of the ad hoc committee to compile data and write a report on the Latin American Studies Group Research Strength, Latin American Studies Group, The U. of Calgary, February-April 1999.

Nancy Cloutier, M.A. in Spanish, Department of French, Italian and Spanish, The U. of Calgary, since February 2000. Title of the thesis (tentative): “Negativity as Affirmation - A Feminine Dialogue Between the Works of Three Latin American Writers: Virginia Elena Ortea, Rosario Ferré, and Montserrat Álvarez.”

Travel Grant (The U. of Calgary) to attend the MLA Convention, Chicago, 26-30 December 1999.

Travel Grant (The U. of Calgary) to attend the JALLA International Conference, Cusco, Peru, 9-13 August 1999.

Research Excellence Grant (Government of Alberta, The U. of Calgary), 1998-2000. 

Starter Grant to support new faculty members (The U. of Calgary), 1998-2000. 

Postdoctoral Fellowship, SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada), 1996-1998. 

Postdoctoral Fellowship (bourse d'excellence), Fonds FCAR (Fonds pour la formation de chercheurs et l'aide à la recherche, Québec), 1996-1997.*

Doctoral Scholarship, Fondation Édouard-Léger (U. de Montréal), 1994-1995. 

Doctoral Fellowship (bourse d'excellence), Fonds FCAR, 1992-1995.*

Doctoral Fellowship, SSHRC, 1992-1996. 

Master's Scholarship (bourse d'excellence), Fonds FCAR, 1991-1992. 

Undergraduate Scholarship (bourse au mérite), U. de Montréal, 1990-1991. 

Nominated for the 1999-2000 U. of Calgary Students' Union Teaching Excellence Award, Fall 1999.

Research Excellence Award (Government of Alberta, The U. of Calgary), 1998-2000.

Canadian Association of Hispanists, to the best essay by a graduate student (1993). Title: “La revisión de la historiografía en El general en su laberinto.” 

Mention of excellence of the U. de Montréal (1991). 

The candidate figures in the “Palmarès du doyen” (U. de Montréal) as an exceptional student (1991).

Member of the Latin American Studies Group (The U. of Calgary) since 1998.

Collaboration in the international project on “Latin American Literatures: A Comparative History of Cultural Formations” (U. of Toronto), coordinated by Mario J. Valdés and Djelal Kadir, 1996-2000. More than two hundred scholars from around the world. Integrated into the project on "Rethinking Literary History -- Comparatively,” next entry. 

"Rethinking Literary History -- Comparatively” (U. of Toronto), coordinated by Linda Hutcheon and Mario J. Valdés, 1996-2000. 

“Groupe de recherche sur l'Amérique Latine” (U. de Montréal, U. du Québec à Montréal, Concordia U.), January 1992-…

“Marginalisation et marginalité dans les pratiques discursives“ (U. de Montréal), coordinated by Antonio Gómez-Moriana, 1991-1992, integrated into the CIADEST (next entry). 

“Centre inter-universitaire d'analyse du discours et sociocritique des textes” (U. de Montréal, McGill U., U. du Québec à Montréal), coordinated by Marc Angenot.

Assessing articles for publication

Asociación Canadiense Crítica Literaria sobre las Escritoras Hispanoamericanas (CCLEH). Proceedings of the International Colloquium Celebración de la Escritura Femenina Contemporánea en las Américas, Concordia U., March 2000.

Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos (published by the Canadian Association of Hispanists). Member of the assessing team.

Canadian Review of Comparative Literature (published by the Canadian Association of Hispanists). Member of the assessing team.
 

Web edition

Book

L'irruption des “autres.” Analyse de trois fronts discursifs d'identité et de résistance: chicano, antillais et andin péruvien. Montréal: Balzac-Le Griot, forthcoming. 
(Grant from the Scholarly Publications Programme of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences; see Grants.)
 

Monograph (full reproduction of the Master's thesis)

Articles in learned journals

“The Deterritorialization of Knowledge in El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, forthcoming. Peer reviewed.

“El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo di José María Arguedas. Verso l'assunzione di una identità latino-americana multipla.” Il Mondo 3. Rivista di teoria delle scienze umane e sociali (Roma), forthcoming. Peer reviewed.

“Presentación.” Estudios hispánicos en la Red. Número monográfico sobre la inscripción de la oralidad en las culturas latinoamericanas 1999. 

“Escrituras y oralidades. Una dinámica histórica de tensión, interferencias y apropiaciones mutuas.” Estudios hispánicos en la Red. Número monográfico sobre la inscripción de la oralidad en las culturas latinoamericanas 1999. 

“Babélicas voces del presente chimbotano, imprecisos ecos del pasado de Comala.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 22.2, Winter 1998, pp. 343-57. Peer reviewed.

“Intertexte, interculture, interidentité. Essayer de comprendre le néo/post-colonial à travers l'intertexte pré-colonial.” Versus (published by Milano A. Mauri for the Department of Semiotics of the U. di Bologna under the direction of Umberto Eco) 77-78, 1997, pp. 99-120. Publication in this journal is only through the editor's invitation.

“José María Arguedas y la modernidad.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 20.2, Winter 1996, pp. 241-65. Peer reviewed.

“La Biografía de un cimarrón et le discours calibanesque.” Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (published by the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies) 21.41, 1996, pp. 31-57. Peer reviewed.

“Lorca:  teatro  posible  e  imposible.” Anales  de  la  literatura  española contemporánea (published in Spain and the USA by the Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies under the auspices of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)  20.3, 1995, pp. 351-64. Peer reviewed.

“À  la  recherche  des  limites  perdues  de  l'interprétation.” Semiotic Inquiry (published by the Canadian Semiotic Association) 15.1-2, Spring 1995, pp. 91-120. Peer reviewed.

“Le Récit en direct chez Cortázar et Beckett: Ces personnages qui lisent/se font lire l'histoire de leur propre devenir.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature (published by the Canadian Comparative Literature Association) 21.4, December 1994, pp. 597-612. Peer reviewed.

“Diversas conexiones entre Celestina y Elicia.” Celestinesca (published by the Department of Romance and Classical Languages, Michigan State U.) 18.1, Spring 1994, pp. 35-50. Peer reviewed.

“Todas las sangres de José María Arguedas. Síntomas de una reordenación de la hegemonía discursiva.” Lenguas, literaturas, sociedades (published by the hispanic section of the ACFAS-Association Canadienne-Française pour l'Avancement des Sciences) 4, 1993, pp. 93-102. Peer reviewed.
 

Articles in collective works and collaborations

“Caliban in Aztlan: From the Emergence of Chicano Discourse to the Plural Constitution of New Solidarities.” In National Identities and Socio-Political Changes: Latin America Between Marginalization and Integration, Antonio Gómez-Moriana, ed. New York: Garland, forthcoming. Peer reviewed.

“Tous sangs mêlés de José María Arguedas. La modernité, un projet in-amorcé?” In Repenser la modernité. Entre les idéologies et l'esthétique, Wladimir Krysinski, ed., forthcoming. Peer reviewed.

Translation (French-Spanish) of Paul Ricœur. “Retórica, poética, hermenéutica,” “La experiencia estética,” “Interpretación,” “Relectura de la Poética de Aristóteles,” forthcoming. 

Translation (French-Spanish) of Wladimir Krysinski. “Los nuevos actantes de la literatura universal.” Revista de Occidente, forthcoming. 

Proofreading of Wladimir Krysinski. La novela en sus modernidades. A favor y en contra de Bajtin, forthcoming. 

Proofreading of Wladimir Krysinski. El paradigma inquieto. Pirandello y el campo de la modernidad. Frankfurt am Main/Madrid: Vervuet Verlag/Iberoamericana, 1995. 

Translation (French-Spanish) of the guidebook by Enriqueta Ribé y Mónica Zapata. La lectura y la redacción en español. Manuel d'apprentissage. Québec: Télé-université, 1994. 

Proofreading of Enriqueta Ribé y Mónica Zapata. La lectura y la redacción en español. Manuel d'apprentissage. Québec: Télé-université, 1994. 

Proofreading of Enriqueta Ribé (dir.). La conversación en español. Manuel d'apprentissage. Québec: Télé-université, 1993.
 

Reviews

“HALINA JANASZEK-IVANICKOVÁ AND DOUWE FOKKEMA, eds. Postmodernism in Literature and Culture of Central and Eastern Europe.” Literary Research (published  by  the International Comparative Literature Association) 28, Fall-Winter 1997. 

“LISA BLOCK DE BEHAR. Una retórica del silencio. Funciones del lector y procedimientos de la lectura literaria/Una palabra propiamente dicha.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, forthcoming.

“Utopia and Deterritorialization in the New World: A Comparative Study of Utopian Projects by Exiles.” Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics, Concordia U., January 2000.

Introduction of Mexican writer Silvia Molina and commentaries on her works. PanCanadian WordFest, The U. of Calgary, October 1999.

“El camino de Damasco pasa por la Amazonía. El paradigma de la conversión en El hablador de Mario Vargas Llosa.” Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics, Concordia U., December 1998.

“El hablador de Mario Vargas Llosa. Crónica de una conversión anunciada.” Department of French, Italian and Spanish, The U. of Calgary, February 1998. 

“Searching for the Lost Limits of Interpretation.” Semiotics and Communications Theory, U. of Toronto, March 1997. 

“El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo, o la babelización del lenguaje.” Department of Spanish and Portuguese, U. of Toronto, March 1996.

Designer and organizer of the session “Utopías y exilios.” 
36 Congress of the Canadian Association of Hispanists, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, U. of Alberta, Edmonton, May 2000. Participants: Emilia Deffis de Calvo (Bishop's U.), María José Giménez (Dalhousie U.), José Antonio Giménez Micó (The U. of Calgary), Sylvia Riccetto (The U. of Calgary), Adam Spires (U. of Alberta), and Lisa Taylor (OISE/U. of Toronto).

Chair of the session “Oralidad, testimonio y culturas populares,” designed and organized by María Inés Martínez (Roosevelt U., Chicago). 36 Congress of the Canadian Association of Hispanists, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, U. of Alberta, Edmonton, May 2000. Participants: María Inés Martínez (Roosevelt U., Chicago), Rafael Rodríguez-Contreras (McGill U.), Natalia Santamaría-Laorden (The U. of British Columbia), and Patricia Valladares-Ruiz (McGill U.).

Designer and organizer of the session “La inscripción de la oralidad y de la diversidad cultural en la literatura hispánica.” 
35 Congress of the Canadian Association of Hispanists, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Bishop's U./U. de Sherbrooke, June 1999. Participants: Miguel Báez Durán (The U. of Calgary), José Antonio Giménez Micó (The U. of Calgary), María Inés Martínez (Roosevelt U., Chicago), Elizabeth Montes (U. of Arkansas at Little Rock), and Rodney Williamson (U. of Ottawa).

Chair of the session “Imaginary and (Im)possible Spaces.” Congress of the Canadian Association of Comparative Literature, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Bishop's U./U. de Sherbrooke, June 1999. Participants: Marie Carrière (U. of Toronto), Patrick Imbert (U. of Ottawa), and Janusz Prychodzen (U. of California, Berkeley).

Co-organizer of Encuentros. Second Provincial Meeting of Teachers of Spanish. The U. of Calgary, April 1999. 

Designer and organizer of the colloquium “Escribir el presente releyendo el pasado.” 31 Congress of the Canadian Association of Hispanists, Learned Society Congress, U. du Québec à Montréal, May 1995. Participants: Maryse Bertrand de Muñoz (U. de Montréal), Félix Carrasco (U. de Montréal), Cecilia Fasola (U. de Montréal), José Antonio Giménez Micó (U. de Montréal), María José Giménez (U. of Prince Edward Island), Rafael Izquierdo (U. de Montréal), Mercedes Juan-Saura (Winona State U.), María Inés Martínez (U. de Montréal), Olga Mendieta (U. of Toronto), Sol Navarro (U. du Québec à Montréal), Z. Nelly Martínez (McGill U.), Katarzyna Noworyta (The U. of Calgary), María Oddo (U. de Montréal), and Daniel Zamorano (U. de Montréal).

“Utopía y desterritorialización en el Nuevo Mundo: Riel y Vasconcelos.” 36 Congress of the Canadian Association of Hispanists, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, U. of Alberta, Edmonton, May 2000.

“Building Babel: La case du commandeur by Édouard Glissant, or the Irruption of Le Divers.” International Colloquium on “Globalization and Cultural Identity.” The U. of Calgary, April 2000. Guest Speaker: Fredric Jameson.

“La Elicia: escribir el presente releyendo el pasado.” Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, December 1999. 

“La créolité. Accomplissement de la ‘prophétie’ de l’antillanité?” Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, December 1999. 

“¿Saben los zorros ‘lo que pasa en Chimbote y en el mundo’? La convocatoria de saberes tradicionales en El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo.” International Conference of JALLA (Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana), U. Nacional de San Antonio Abad (Cusco, Peru), August 1999. 

“Escrituras y oralidades. Una dinámica histórica de tensión, interferencias y apropiaciones mutuas.” 35 Congress of the Canadian Association of Hispanists, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Bishop's U./U. de Sherbrooke, June 1999. 

“La desterritorialización del Conocimiento en El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo de José María Arguedas.” Fourth International Colloquium, Northern Telecom Ibero-American Studies, U. of Toronto, May 1999. 

“Utopia and Deterritorialization in the New World: A Comparative Study of Utopian Projects by Exiles.” Interuniversity Conference of Modern Languages, U. of Alberta, Edmonton, April 1999.

“La alegoría del movimiento chicano en 'Zoo Island' de Tomás Rivera.” 34 Congress of the Canadian Association of Hispanists, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, U. of Ottawa, May 1998. 

“'Le reliquaire des amoureux' ou l'irruption du Divers.” Congress  of  the  Canadian  Comparative  Literature  Association, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, U. of Ottawa, May 1998.

“Babélicas voces del presente chimbotano, imprecisos ecos del pasado de Comala.” Simposio Internacional Juan Rulfo: entre lo tradicional y lo moderno, U. of Ottawa/Carleton U., Ottawa, October-November 1996. 

“Le croisement des cultures: vers une théorie incertaine de la traduction.” International Conference on Translation and Globalization, Victoria U. in the U. of Toronto, October 1996. 

“Continuidad de los parques, o el relato en directo.” 32 Congress of the Canadian Association of Hispanists, Learned Society Congress, Brock U., St. Catharines, May 1996. 

“Diversas ocurrencias del topos de la procedencia precolombina del cristianismo americano.” 64e Congrès de l'ACFAS (Association Canadienne-Française pour l'Avancement des Sciences), Hispanic section, McGill U., Montreal, May 1996. 

“L'Impromptu d'Ohio, ou le récit en direct chez Samuel Beckett.” 64 Congrès de l'ACFAS, littératures d'expression française, McGill U., Montreal, May 1996. 

“La Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho comentada. ¿Parodia 'posmoderna' y/o remiendo antimoderno?” 31 Congress of the Canadian Association of Hispanists, Learned Society Congress, U. du Québec à Montréal, May 1995. 

“La Biografía de un cimarrón y la práctica testimonial.” 30 Congress of  the Canadian Association of Hispanists, Learned Society Congress, The U. of Calgary, June 1994. 

“L'approche théâtrale de la communication et le théâtre de l'incommunication.” Congress of the Canadian Comparative Association, Learned Society Congress, The U. of Calgary, June 1994. 

“L'implicite et le dialogue théâtral chez Ionesco.” 62e Congrès de l'ACFAS, littératures d'expression française, U. du Québec à Montréal, May 1994.

“El paradigma de la desterritorialización en Todas las sangres, de José María Arguedas.” 29 Congress of the Canadian Association of  Hispanists, Learned Society Congress, Carleton U., Ottawa,  May-June 1993. 

“Lorca: teatro posible e imposible.” 61e Congrès de l'ACFAS, hispanic section, U. du Québec à Trois-Rivières, May 1993. 

“Diversas conexiones entre Celestina y Elicia.” 28 Congress of  the Canadian Association of Hispanists, Learned Society Congress, U. of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, May 1992. 

“La revisión de la historiografía en El general en su laberinto.”  60e Congrès de l'ACFAS, hispanic section, U. de Montréal, May 1992. 

“Todas las sangres de José María Arguedas. La transculturación, fenómeno de mestizaje sociocultural.” 59e Congrès de l'ACFAS, hispanic section, U. de Sherbrooke, May 1991.