Jeffrey Zamostny
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Director of the Minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies
University of West Georgia
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
1601 Maple Street
Carrollton, Georgia 30118
Office Phone: (678) 839-5959 jzamostn@westga.edu
EDUCATION
2012 – Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies, University of Kentucky
Dissertation Title: “Faustian Figures: Modernity and Male (Homo)sexualities in Spanish
Commercial Literature, 1900-1936”
2010 – Graduate Certificate in Social Theory, University of Kentucky
2007 – B.A. in Spanish, McDaniel College (Westminster, Maryland)
Valedictorian, Summa Cum Laude, Honors in Spanish, Honors Program
2005-2006 – Programa Especial Integrado, Universidad de Salamanca (Spain)
2004 – Summer Spanish School, Middlebury College
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
May, 2012-present – Director of the Minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of West
Georgia
January, 2012-present – Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of West Georgia
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Spanish Literary and Cultural Studies
Social Theory
Gender and Sexuality Studies
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Edited Volume Project
Zamostny, Jeffrey, and Susan Larson, eds. Kiosk Literature in Silver Age Spain: Mass Culture and Modernity . CFP distributed in September, 2013.

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Book Chapters
“Constructing Ethical Attention in Lucía Puenzo’s XXY : Cinematic Strategy, Intersubjectivity, and Intersexuality.”
Representing History, Class, and Gender in Spain and Latin
America: Children and Adolescents in Film . Ed. Carolina Rocha and Georgia Seminet.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 189-204.
Articles
“Homosexuality, Crime, and the Press in Jacinto Benavente’s
De muy buena familia
.” Submitted
August 2013.
“Locating Tragedy in El ángel de Sodoma : Inversion and the Unchanged Name.” Submitted May
2013.
“Pimping the Text: Gendered Tropes in Spain’s Mass Literary Market.”
Revista de Estudios
Hispánicos
47.1 (2013): 55-78.
“Canon Formation and Diversity: Latin American Gay Literature in the Global Market, Dossier of Images.”
Chasqui 41.1 (2012): 187-190. *The editor of Chasqui agreed to publish this dossier after he accidentally omitted my images from the 2011 publication listed below.
“Canon Formation and Diversity: Latin American Gay Literature in the Global Market.”
Chasqui 40.2 (2011): 80-94.
“El malestar estomacal en
La de Bringas de Galdós.”
Decimonónica
7.1 (2010): 61-75.
“Comings Out: Secrecy, Sexuality, and Murder in Michael Nava’s Rag and Bone .” MELUS 34.3
(2009): 183-204.
“¡Todos a bordo!: Viajes al tercer sexo madrileño en
A Sodoma en tren botijo de Álvaro Retana.”
Divergencias
Book Reviews
7.1 (2009): 55-60.
Zubiaurre, Maite. Cultures of the Erotic in Spain, 1898-1939 and A Virtual Wunderkammer :
Early Twentieth Century Erotica in Spain in Romance Quarterly
. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt UP, 2012. Review
60.1 (2013): 62-63.
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
2011-2013 – Editorial board,
Polifonía: Revista académica de estudios hispánicos
. Austin Peay
State University. http://www.apsu.edu/polifonia
2012 – Reviewer, JAISA ( Journal for the Association of the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts ).
University of West Georgia
2011-2012 – Editor-in-Chief, Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos .
Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Kentucky. Vol. 2: Apocalypse and the
End Times/Apocalipsis y el fin del mundo. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/naeh/
2010-2011 – Co-Editor, disClosure (Journal of Social Theory) . Committee on Social Theory,
University of Kentucky. Vol. 20: Family, Sex, Law. http://socialtheory.as.uky.edu/ disclosure

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2010 – Reviewer,
Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos.
Department of
Hispanic Studies, University of Kentucky
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Conference Presentations
November, 2013 – “Professional and Amateur Acting: Defamiliarizing Darín in El aura
.”
28 th
Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities . University of West Georgia.
Accepted
October, 2013 – “Darín and the Animal Gaze: Celebrity and Anonymity in El aura
.”
Conference of the Mid-West Popular Culture Association . St. Louis, Missouri. Accepted
April, 2013 – “Locating the Tragic in El ángel de Sodoma : Inversion and the Unchanged Name.”
KFLC: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference . University of Kentucky
January, 2013 – “Trains, Surveillance, and Seduction in Silver Age Spanish Gay Fiction.”
Modern Language Association Convention . Boston, Massachusetts. [This paper substituted for a last-minute cancellation on a special session I organized.]
November, 2012 – “Blackmail, Debt, and Modernity in Silver Age Spain.” Conference of the
Midwest Modern Language Association . Cincinnati, Ohio
November, 2012 – “Trains, Surveillance, and Seduction in Silver Age Spanish Gay Fiction.”
27 th
Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities . University of West Georgia
April, 2012 – “Queer Don Juans: The Seducer in Spanish Medicine and Erotica of the 1920s.”
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference . University of Kentucky
September, 2011 – “The Literary Pharmacies of Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent and Carmen de
Burgos: Decadence, Queer Desire, and Spanish Commercial Literature.”
Mountain
Interstate Foreign Language Conference . Auburn University
March, 2011 – “Gendered Tropes in Spain’s Short Novel Collections, 1907-1936.” XIV Annual
Hispanic and Lusophone Studies Symposium . Ohio State University
October, 2010 – “Ethical Attention and Intersexuality in Lucía Puenzo’s XXY
.”
Mountain
Interstate Foreign Language Conference . Radford University
February, 2010 – “Canon Formation and Diversity: Latin American Gay Literature in the Global
Market.”
Latin American Studies Graduate Student Symposium . University of
Kentucky
October, 2009 – “Puesta en abismo: La (in)comunicación en Los disparates de Francisco Goya.”
Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference . Furman University
February, 2009 – “¡Todos a bordo!: Viajes al tercer sexo madrileño en A Sodoma en tren botijo de Álvaro Retana.”
Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature, Language, and Culture . University of Arizona
November, 2008 – “Entre la obra y el (hiper)texto: El andalucismo islamista en Blas Infante, un musulmán andaluz .” Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association .
Louisville, Kentucky
October, 2008 – “All Aboard: Journeys Towards a Sexually-Dissident Subculture in Álvaro
Retana’s A Sodoma en tren botijo .” Border Crossings: Boundaries of Cultural
Interpretation . Vanderbilt University

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Conference Organization
November, 2013 – Director of Professions, the 28 th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the
Humanities . University of West Georgia
January, 2013 – Organizer of the Special Session “Spectacles of Gender and Desire in Silver Age
Spain” with Maite Zubiaurre (UCLA), Alejandro Mejías-López (Indiana U-
Bloomington), and Rakhel Villamil-Acera (Adelphi U). Modern Language Association
Convention . Boston, Massachusetts.
November, 2012 – Organizer of four panels on Gender Studies. 27 th
Annual Interdisciplinary
Conference in the Humanities . University of West Georgia.
October, 2010 – Organizer of the Panel “Latin American Women Filmmakers.” Mountain
Interstate Foreign Language Conference , Radford University
September, 2009 – Organizer of the Symposium “Goya at the Equinox II.” Department of
Hispanic Studies, University of Kentucky
April, 2008-2013 – Chair for Panels in the Spanish Peninsular Section, Kentucky Foreign
Language Conference, University of Kentucky
Other Presentations
February, 2012 – “Chaste Inverts between Tradition and Modernity in La antorcha apagada and
El ángel de Sodoma .” Brown Bag Research Presentation to Department of Foreign
Languages and Literatures, University of West Georgia
Translations
Rueda, Ana. “Voices in Combat: Nineteenth-Century Heroic Rhetoric in Episodes on the
African War.” To be read by the author. Invited lecture. University of North Carolina-
Chapel Hill. March 22, 2013.
Rueda, Ana. “Turkey, the Ancient Hispano-Ottoman Rivalry, and the New Sensibility in
Nineteenth-Century Spanish Culture.” Read by the author. 4 th International Conference of Mediterranean Worlds . Istambul. September 5-7, 2012.
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
Fall, 2011 and Spring, 2009 – Travel Grants for Conference Presentations, Graduate School,
University of Kentucky
2010 – Dissertation Grant, Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of
Culture and United States Universities
2007-2010 – Multi-Year Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Kentucky
2007-2010 – Daniel R. Reedy Quality Achievement Award, Graduate School, University of
Kentucky
2007-2009 – T. Marshall Hahn, Jr. Graduate Fellowship, College of Arts and Sciences,
University of Kentucky
2003-2007 – Full Scholarship, McDaniel College
2003-2007 – Finalist, Maryland Distinguished Scholar Program, State of Maryland
2003-2007 – Maryland Senatorial Scholarship, Senator of Maryland

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ACADEMIC HONORS
Spring, 2009 – Keller Award for Outstanding Research, Department of Hispanic Studies,
University of Kentucky
Spring, 2007 – Argonaut Award for Valedictorian, McDaniel College
Spring, 2007 – Edith Farr Riddington-Phi Beta Kappa Writing Award for Best Honors Thesis,
McDaniel College
Spring, 2007 – Frank and Margaret Malone Award for Excellence in a Foreign Language,
McDaniel College
Spring, 2007 – Eloise B. and Lowell S. Ensor Award for Graduate or Professional Study,
McDaniel College
Spring, 2007 – Jacob K. Javits Commended Scholar, United States Department of Education
Spring, 2007 – Finalist, American Graduate Fellowship, Council of Independent Colleges
Spring, 2006 – H. Samuel Case and Susan Snodgrass Case Award for Excellence in Scholarly
Research, McDaniel College
Spring, 2005 – Millard Milburn Rice Non-Fiction Writing Prize, McDaniel College
TEACHING
University of West Georgia
SPAN 4785 – Special Topics: Nature and Art in Hispanic modernismo (Su 2013)
SPAN 4484 – Senior Capstone (Sp 2013, F 2013)
SPAN 4260 – Modern Spanish Poetry (F 2013)
SPAN 4205 – Hispanic Literature and Culture in Context: Costa Rican modernismo in the Latin
American Context (projected Su 2014)
SPAN 4012 – Spanish Culture and Civilization (projected Sp 2014)
SPAN 3102 – Spanish Composition (F 2012)
SPAN 3030 – Introduction to Hispanic Literature (Sp 2012, Sp 2013)
SPAN 2002 – Intermediate Spanish II (Sp 2013, F 2013)
SPAN 2001 – Intermediate Spanish I (Su 2012, F 2012)
SPAN 1001 – Elementary Spanish I (Sp 2012, project Sp 2014)
XIDS 2100 – Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies (Sp 2013)
XIDS 2002 – What Do You Really Know About International Sports? (F 2012, team-taught with
three other instructors)
XIDS 2002 – What Do You Really Know About Language Learning? (F 2013, team-taught with
two other instructors)
University of Kentucky
SPA 310 – Spanish Composition through Textual Analysis (Sp 2011)
SPA 203 – High Intermediate Spanish (F 2011)
SPA 201-202 – Intermediate Spanish I and II (Sp 2010, F 2010, Sp 2011)
SPA 101 – Elementary Spanish I (F 2009)
SPA 101-102 Lab – Elementary Spanish I and II, Lab (Su 2008)

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September, 2011 – Invited Lecturer, SPA 482, Spanish Enlightenment and Romanticism, Dr.
Ana Rueda
Fall, 2009 – Course Leader for SPA 101 (coordinated, revised, and distributed exams; mentor to other 101 instructors)
Pedagogy Course and Workshop Participation
Spring, 2011 – Course, Instructional Technology, University of Kentucky
Fall, 2010 – Certificate, Written Spanish Workshop Series, Department of Hispanic Studies,
University of Kentucky. Led by Judith Liskin-Gasparro, Janet C. Eldred, and Cecilia M.
Colombi
Fall, 2008 – Course, Teaching of Spanish, University of Kentucky
Spring, 2006 – Course, Metodología de la enseñanza del español como segundo idioma,
Universidad de Salamanca (Spain)
SERVICE
University of West Georgia, university-wide service
Fall, 2012-present – Director of Professions: 28 th
Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities , University of West Georgia (October 31-November 2, 2013)
Fall, 2013 – Co-facilitator, Safe Zone RA training during RA orientation
Spring, 2013 – Discussant, Episodes in Sexuality , student theatrical presentation, University of
West Georgia
Spring, 2012-present – Director of the Minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies
University of West Georgia , College of Arts and Humanities
Fall, 2013 – Executive Committee (replacement for Dr. Lisa Connell during her leave)
Fall, 2013 – Graduate Studies Subcommittee
University of West Georgia, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Fall, 2013 – Curriculum Committee (replacement for Dr. Julia Farmer during her leave)
2012-2014 – Faculty Co-Director, Summer Study Abroad in Costa Rica 2013 and 2014
2012-2014 – FLAIR Learning Community Committee
2012-2014 – Study Abroad Committee
2012-2013 – Advising for Language Majors at Summer Orientation
Spring, 2012 – Foreign Languages Preview Day Representative
Spring, 2012 – Search Committee Member, Assistant Professor Position in Spanish
Spring, 2012 – Search Committee Member, Instructor Positions in Spanish
University of West Georgia, Spanish Section
Fall, 2013 – Presenter of Spanish short films for Luso-Hispanic Day

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Spring, 2013 – Presenter in the Hispanic Film Series: Cityscapes in Latin American Film
Fall, 2012 – Organizer, Hispanic Film Series: Contemporary Latin American Women
Filmmakers
Spring, 2012-present – Leader for Spanish tertulia (weekly conversation hour) and panzón
(monthly dinners)
University of Kentucky
2011-2012 – Paid Research Assistant, Committee on Social Theory
Spring, 2011 – Paid Research Assistant, Hispanic Kentucky Oral History Project
2011-2012 – Assistant to the Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Hispanic Studies
2011-2012 – Vice President, Hispanic Studies Graduate Student Association
2009-2010 – Secretary, Hispanic Studies Graduate Student Association
2008-2009 – Vice President, Sigma Delta Pi (Spanish Honor Society)
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
English – native speaker
Spanish – near-native
French – reading, intermediate speaking and writing
Italian – reading, elementary speaking and writing
Portuguese – reading
Catalan – reading
REFERENCES
Dr. Susan Larson
Dr. Ana Rueda
Dr. Marion Rust
University of Kentucky
Department of Hispanic Studies
Director of Graduate studies
(859) 257-1569 slarson@email.uky.edu
University of Kentucky
Department of Hispanic Studies, Chair
(859) 257-7091 rueda@email.uky.edu
University of Kentucky
Department of English, Interim Chair
(859) 257-6960 marion.rust@uky.edu

Dr. Alan Brown
Dr. Thomas Deveny
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University of Kentucky
Department of Hispanic Studies
Director of Undergraduate Studies
(859) 257-7093 alan.brown@uky.edu
McDaniel College
Department of Foreign Languages
(410) 857-2460 tdeveny@mcdaniel.edu