CURRICULUM VITAE
DANIEL CHÁVEZ
The University of Oregon
Dept. of Romance Languages
102 Friendly Hall
Eugene OR 97402
Office Phone: (541) 346-5813
E-mail: dchavez4@uoregon.edu
Education:
2002
Ph.D. Romance Languages (Spanish). Department of Romance Languages and Literatures,
The University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI.
Graduate Certificate in Film Studies. Department of Film and Video Studies.
The University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI.
1999
M.A. International Affairs. Latin American Studies (Political Science). Center for International
Studies. Ohio University. Athens, Ohio.
1994
M.A. Spanish. Department of Modern Languages. Ohio University. Athens, Ohio.
1991
B.S. Biochemical Engineering. Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
(ITESM) Mexico.
Positions Held:
2014- Present
Visiting Assistant Professor. Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures. University of Oregon. Eugene.
2007- 2014
Assistant Professor. Dept. of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese and at the American Studies Program.
The University of Virginia.
2006- 2007
Director of the Summer Graduate School. Middlebury College in Guadalajara.
2005- 2007
Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Hispanic Studies. The University of Kentucky.
2003-2005
Chair of Latin American Studies Program and Assistant Professor of International Studies and Romance
Languages. Washington University in Saint Louis.
2000-2003
Visiting Assistant Professor Dept. of Hispanic Studies. Vassar College.
Areas of Specialization:
20th & 21st Century Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies. Mexican and Central
American novel and poetry. Latin American and U.S. Latina/o Film and Visual Culture.
Academic Awards, Honor Societies and Grants:
2010
XXVIII Efraín Huerta National Poetry Award. Tampico, Mexico.
2009-2010
Page Barbour Grant. 100 Years in Quest for Democracy, the Mexican Revolution,
Legacies & Debates. UVA
2008
Summer Research Grant. University of Virginia. (Project: Cyberhistory in Contemporary Mexico)
2007
Excellence in Diversity Fellows Program. Teaching Resource Center. UVA (Grant and Participant)
2004
International Activities Grant. Washington University. (Project: Mexican Cinema of Transition)
2002-2003
Vassar College Research Grant (Project: Historical Telenovelas in Mexico and Brazil)
2001
NEH Summer Institute and Grant “Brazil: the Invisible Giant.”
2000
Vassar College Media Studies Program Summer Grant (Project: Visual Representations of Coloniality
and Postcoloniality in the Hispanic World)
1998-9
Rackham Pre-doctoral Fellowship. The University of Michigan
1998
Multicultural Course Development Grant. (Project: Design Courses on Latin American Popular Culture)
1997
University of Michigan Summer Grant for Research in Nicaragua
1996
University of Michigan Summer Grant for Research in Nicaragua
University of Michigan, International Institute Grant for Research in Nicaragua
1994
MAIA Outstanding Academic Achievement Award. Center for International Studies. Ohio University.
Outstanding Graduate Student Award Nominee. Department of Modern Languages. Ohio University.
Ohio Humanities Council.
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1992
1987 and 1989
Phi Beta Delta. Honor Society for International Scholars.
Sigma Delta Pi. National Spanish Honor Society.
National Poetry Award ITESM, Mexico.
Publications:
Books
Nicaragua and the Politics of Utopia, Development and Culture in the Modern State.
Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2015.
Fábula del Poder, Corporalidad, Estado y Violencia en la Narrativa de Sergio Ramírez.
Guadalajara: CUCSH- Universidad de Guadalajara, 2015.
Cyberhistory: New Media Representations of Mexican & Mexican American History. (In progress)
Revolution Reloaded, the New Historical Novel and the Mexican Revolution. Edited Collection. (In progress)
Articles in Refereed Journals
Chávez, Daniel. “Film Adaptation and Transnational Cultures of Production: the Case of Guillermo Arriaga.”
Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Submitted. (2014).
- - - , “From Miss Cristera to the Desert Within: Toward a Contemporary War of Images in Mexico.”
Studies in Hispanic Cinemas. 9.1 (2012): 63-80.
- - - ,“El coronel no tiene con quién jugar, representaciones latinoamericanas en la literatura y el
videojuego.” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. 14 (2010): 159-176.
- - - , “The Eagle and the Serpent on the Screen, the State as Spectacle in Mexican Cinema.”
Latin American Research Review. 45.3 (2010): 115-141.
- - - ,“Alsino y el cóndor, hacia una crítica del espectador latinoamericano y nicaragüense.”
Chasqui. 37.2 (2008): 27-47.
- - - , “Cuando el estado habla en cómic, historieta e historiografía en México.” Quaderns de Filologia. Estudis de
Comunicació. 3 (2008): 51-76. (Universidad de Valencia).
Chávez, Daniel. “Technologies of the Self and the Body in Octavio Paz’s ‘The Works of the Poet.’”
Revista Hispánica Moderna. 60.1 (2007): 15-33.
- - - , “La alta modernidad visual y la intermedialidad de la historieta en México.”
Hispanic Research Journal. 8.2 (2007): 155-69.
- - - , “Globalizing Tequila: Mexican Television’s Representations of Neoliberal Reconversion of Land and Labor.”
Arizona Journal of Hipanic Cultural Studies. 10 (2006): 1-17.
- - - , “Tomochic: Nationalist Narrative, Homogenizing Late Nineteenth Century Discourse and Society
in Mexico.” Chasqui. 35.2 (2006): 72-88.
- - - , “El Barzón, Performing Resistance in Contemporary Mexico.”
Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. 2 (1998): 87-112.
Swales, J. D. Chavez. et. al. “Consider this. . . Imperatives in Academic Writing.”
Applied Linguistics. 19.1 (1998): 97-121.
Chávez, Daniel. “Propuestas para un análisis del discurso en Noticias del Imperio de Fernando del Paso.”
Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea. 1.3 (1996): 29-34.
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- - - , “Ideología y juego intertextual en La Campaña de Carlos Fuentes.”
Mester 13.2 (1994): 31-43.
Book Chapters (refereed)
Chávez, Daniel. “Escribir novelas, como escribir películas, adaptación, capital cultural y culturas de producción
trasnacional en el cine de Guillermo Arriaga.” en Vargas, Juan Carlos. ed. Géneros y rumbos del cine
contemporáneo. Universidad de Guadalajara /FICG. 2014. (Forthcoming).
- - - ,“De faunos hispánicos y monstruos en inglés, la imaginación orgánica en el cine de Guillermo del
Toro.” en Vargas, Juan Carlos. ed. Tendencias del cine iberoamericano del nuevo milenio: Argentina,
Brasil, España y México. Universidad de Guadalajara / Cineteca Nacional. 2011. 373-410.
- - - ,“Residencia en la imagen, Pablo Neruda en la fotografía y el cine.” Neruda en el corazón de
España. Roses, Joaquín ed. Córdoba: Universidad de Córdoba / Diputación de Córdoba, 2004. 89-103.
Teaching Experience:
2013
Globalization and the Contemporary Mexican Novel. Graduate Seminar
Dept. of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese. The University of Virginia.
Latina/o Confidential. Detective Fiction and Racial Identity in the United States
Undergraduate seminar. American Studies Program. The University of Virginia.
Culture and Revolution in Latin America. Undergraduate Seminar
Dept. of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese. The University of Virginia.
2012
U.S. Latin@ visual culture. Undergraduate Seminar
American Studies Program. The University of Virginia.
Spectacle and Dissidence, the Politics of Latin American Cinema. Graduate Seminar
Dept. of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese. The University of Virginia.
2011
Screening Macondo, Film Adaptations of Latin American Literature
Dept. of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese. J-Term. The University of Virginia.
2010
Formations in American Cultural Studies. Core Course.
American Studies Program. The University of Virginia.
New Trends in Latin American Narrative. Undergraduate Seminar
Dept. of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese. The University of Virginia.
Polygraphic Writing in Mexican Literature. Graduate Seminar
Dept. of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese. The University of Virginia.
Cuando Ellas Miran. Women Directors in Hispanic Cinemas. Undergraduate Seminar.
Dept. of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese. The University of Virginia.
Introduction to U.S. Latino Studies.
American Studies Program. The University of Virginia.
2009
Visual Culture and Nation Building in Mexico and Brazil. Graduate Seminar
Dept. of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese. The University of Virginia.
Globalization and the Contemporary Mexican Novel. Graduate Seminar
Dept. of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese. The University of Virginia.
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Latino/a Political Participation. Seminar
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. Washington D.C.
2008
U.S. Latino Cultural and Social Movements. Seminar
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. Washington D.C.
Mexican Literature of the 21st Century (Novel and Poetry). Undergraduate Seminar
Dept. of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese. The University of Virginia.
Latina/o Cinema and Social Narrative. Undergraduate Seminar
American Studies Program. The University of Virginia.
Visual Culture and Nation Building in Latin America. Undergraduate Seminar
Dept. of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese. The University of Virginia.
Crossing Borders. Introduction to Latino Studies.
American Studies Program. The University of Virginia.
2007
From Text to Bronze Screen, Film Adaptations of U.S. Latino Literature
Dept. of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. The University of Virginia.
Graduate Seminar: Reading Jalisco, from Regional to Global Literature in Rulfo, Arreola and
Yáñez. Graduate School Program. Middlebury College in Guadalajara, México.
Graduate Seminar: Cuando Ellas Miran, Directoras del Cine Hispánico.
Dept. of Hispanic Studies. The University of Kentucky, Lexington.
Undergraduate Senior Seminar: Nuevas Tendencias en la Narrativa Latinoamericana.
Dept. of Hispanic Studies. The University of Kentucky, Lexington.
Literature and Revolution in Latin America, Women Perspectives
Dept. of Hispanic Studies. The University of Kentucky, Lexington.
2006
Graduate Seminar: El Reino de la Imagen, Cultura Visual y Representación Colonial en América
Latina. Dept. of Hispanic Studies. The University of Kentucky, Lexington.
Latin American Film. Undergraduate Course.
Dept. of Hispanic Studies. The University of Kentucky, Lexington.
Summer Graduate Seminar: Cultura Visual y Construcción de la Nación en México
Graduate School Program. Middlebury College in Guadalajara, México.
Graduate Seminar: Cultura Visual y Construcción de la Nación en América Latina
Dept. of Hispanic Studies. The University of Kentucky, Lexington.
2005
Graduate Seminar: Políticas del Cine Latinoamericano
Dept. of Hispanic Studies. The University of Kentucky, Lexington.
Graduate Seminar. Protest and Pleasure, the Politics of Latin American Cinema. Dept. of
Romance Languages and Literatures. Washington University in Saint Louis.
2004
Crossing Borders II. “Globalization and the Persistence of Borders.” International and Area
Studies Program. Washington University in Saint Louis.
Undergraduate Seminar “Cultura y Revolución en Latinoamérica” Dept. of Romance Languages
and Literatures. Washington University in Saint Louis.
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Graduate Seminar. Women Film Directors “Cuando ellas miran.” Summer Spanish School.
Middlebury College.
Mass Media and Nation Building in Latin America. International and Area Studies Program.
Washington University in Saint Louis.
Introduction to the Study of Hispanic Literatures. Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures.
Washington University in Saint Louis.
2003
Hispanic Cultures and Civilization. Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures.
Washington University in Saint Louis.
Graduate Course. “Hispanic Cinemas: from Text to Screen.” Summer Spanish School
Middlebury College, Vermont.
Hispanic Culture through Film. Summer Spanish School
Middlebury College, Vermont.
2002
Latin American Modernity, “Pólvora y Tinta” Literature and Revolution in Contemporary Latin
America. Department of Hispanic Studies. Vassar College.
Hispanic Cultures through Cinema, a course on Latin American Cinema. Spanish Summer
Language School. Middlebury College. Vermont.
Advanced Grammar for the Masters in Spanish. Summer Language School.
Middlebury College, Vermont.
Senior Seminar on Latin American Media. “Historical Melodrama from Serial Novel to
Telenovela in Mexico and Brazil.” Latin American Studies Program, Vassar College
2000-2002
Latin American Colonial Literature Survey. “El Reino de la Imagen.”
Dept. of Hispanic Studies, Vassar College
Introduction to Latin American Cultural Studies. Dept. of Hispanic Studies, Vassar College.
Intermediate Spanish Language Course. Dept. of Hispanic Studies, Vassar College.
1999
Introduction to Hispanic Literary Studies. Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures
University of Michigan
Webmaster for advanced language courses (fourth semester)
1998
Cultura Popular en Latinoamérica. Teaching and Research Assistant for Professor Frances
Aparicio. Selection of readings, music and films. Preparation of multimedia presentations.
Webpage design and maintenance, CD, CD-ROM design and production.
Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures. University of Michigan
Intermediate Course. Cómics e Historia en Latinoamérica.
Residential College, University of Michigan.
1996-1997
Intermediate Readings and Advanced Composition (Latino/a Cultures in the US).
Residential College, University of Michigan.
1996
Intermediate Course. Cultura y Revolución en Latinoamérica.
Residential College, University of Michigan.
1994-1996
Intermediate Spanish (Third and Fourth Semester). Design and implementation of summer
program syllabi, organization of cultural activities, design of exams and other materials.
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Integration of internet based cultural activities. Romance Languages and Literatures. University of
Michigan.
1991-1994
Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced Spanish. Modern Languages. Ohio University.
1990-1991
Coordinator and Instructor of the Creative Writing Workshop, Poetry. ITESM Queretaro. Mexico.
Conferences (selection):
2014
“Verde Newton, Ethics and Poetics of the Subject in the Poetry of Cristina Rivera Garza.”
Organizer and Chair. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington KY. April 10-12.
2013
“Border Doom and Joy: The Uses of the US-Mexico Border as a Dystopian Space in
Videogames.” Latin American Studies Association, XXVIII International Congress (LASA).
Washington DC. (May 29-June 1)
2011
Guest Speaker. Does Democracy Need a New Woman? Desire and Politics in Mexican Cinema of
the 21st Century. Virginia Latino Higher Education Network (VLHEN). James Madison
University. Harrisonbourg VA. October 3, 2011.
2010
Dialectics of the Gaze, Octavio Paz Poet-Photographer. International Conference on Octavio Paz.
California State University. Los Angeles. CA. May 14-15.
Sujeto Clínico y Poesía en Los Textos del Yo de Cristina Rivera Garza. International Conference
in Spanish and Latin American Poetry. Wake Forest University. Winston-Salem. NC. April 9-10.
2009
Broadcasting “Miss Cristera:” Contemporary Mexican Film, the Church and the Return of the
Fantasy of Repression. Latin American Studies Association, XXVIII International Congress
(LASA). Río de Janeiro, Brazil. (June 11-14)
Guest Lecture.“Taming the Revolution, Televisual Nation and the Historical Telenovela in
Mexico.” Latin American Media: Distortions and Resistance. Georgia State University
Symposium on Latin American Studies. Atlanta, GA. (April 1 st).
Guest Lecture. “From Amores Perros to The Burning Plain, Serendipity and Adaptation in the
Films by Guillermo Arriaga.” Pomona College. Pomona, CA. (February 18)
2008
Filming Everyday Violence under Neoliberalism.
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, KY. (April 17-19)
2007
Chair. La identidad entre dos culturas en la poesía americana.
Conference of Hispanic and Spanish American Poetry. University of Virginia. (November 8-10)
Chair. Baroques, Borders, and Other Hemispheric Projects.
American Studies Association, Annual Meeting (ASA). Philadelphia. (October 11-14)
Mapping Riches, Primitivism and Denial of Coevalness in Visual Discourses about Mexico.
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting (ACLA).
Puebla, Mexico (April 19-22)
2006
Cyber-Republic: Videogame Representations of Latin America. Latin American Studies
Association, XXVI International Congress (LASA). San Juan, Puerto Rico. (March 15-18)
Chair. Mexican Phantoms and Fantasies: Recent Narrative Models
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, KY. (April 20-22)
Chair. Transatlantic Traffic: Nineteenth Century Spanish Colonialism in the Americas (1824-1898)
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Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, KY. (April 20-22)
2004
“Residencia en la imagen: Pablo Neruda en la fotografía y el cine.” International Conference:
Pablo Neruda en el Corazón de España. Universidad de Córdoba / Diputación de Córdoba.
Córdoba, Spain. (November 15-20)
“An Hour of History and Tears: Official Speech Genres and Historical Melodrama in Mexico.”
International Conference on Critical Discourse Analysis. University of Valencia and Menendez
Pidal International University. Valencia, Spain. (May 5-8)
Guest Speaker. “Mexican Visual Culture from Photography to Television.”
Title VI Series for the Globalization of College Curriculum. Missouri Community College
Association. Lake of the Ozarks MO. (April 17)
Guest Speaker. “Poverty and Violence, from Street Theatre to the Screen
the Adaptation of De la Calle. Film into Screen Series. Emory University, Atlanta GA. (April 8)
2003
“Del “señor bueno y bien quisto” al “padre de la patria,” la noción de buen gobierno en la
Historia de Tlaxcala.” Latin American Studies Association, XXIV International Congress
(LASA). Dallas, TX. (March 27-29)
“El caracol violento o de Cabrera a Gaviria, la dimensión estética de la violencia en el cine
colombiano.” Cine-Lit V: an International Conference on Hispanic Film and Fiction. Oregon
State University, Portland OR (Feb 26- Mar 1)
2001
“Del Río Escondido a la Ley de Herodes, sobre la representación cinematográfica del estado en México.”
Truth in the Lens, International Symposium/Festival on Latin American Cinema. University of Richmond.
Richmond, VA. (March 22-24)
“Tequila and Telenovela: Neoliberal Nostalgia for Land in the 90’s.” Latino Studies and Popular Culture
Symposium. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI. (March 16)
2000
"Rewriting the Chronicles in the Nineties or When Bernal Díaz Meets Issac Assimov."Latin American
Studies Association, XXII International Congress (LASA). Miami, FL. (March 18-20)
"De tropeles y tropelías o del poder de la fábula en el estado ficticio centroamericano"
Octavo Congreso Internacional de Lit. Centroamericana (CILCA).Antigua, Guatemala. (March 1-3)
1999
“Mapping the Colonial Gaze in Herzog’s Aguirre, the Wrath of God.” 1998 Modern Languages
Association Convention (MLA) San Francisco, CA. (December 27-30)
Chair of Session “Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Narrative.” Paper: “Utopia and
Dystopia, Literary Imagination and the Construction of the Modern State in Nicaragua.” Latin American
Studies Association, XXI International Congress (LASA). Chicago, IL. (September 24-26)
“Renegociación de los espacios público y privado en Gioconda Belli. XI Conferencia Internacional de la
Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica. Arizona State University. Tempe, AZ. (September 17-19)
"Tarzán en Chapultepec o la proliferación de la modernidad visual en la historieta mexicana."
In visible Narrations: Criticism and Art in Mexico.University of California, Irvine. CA. (April 16-18)
1997
Chair of Session “Reading Latin American Theory.” 1997 Modern Languages Association Convention
(MLA) Toronto, Canada. (December 27-30)
“El Barzón: Performing Resistance in Contemporary Mexico.” XX International Congress of the Latin
American Studies Association. (LASA) Guadalajara, Jalisco. Mexico. (April 17-19)
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“Tomochic a Nationalist Narrative or how the National Recuperates the Local in Late XIX Century
Mexico.” La Crítica y el Arte en México, 3a Conferencia Anual. University of California, Irvine CA.
(April 4, 5)
1996
“Hacia un análisis del discurso en Noticias del Imperio de Fernando del Paso.” Fifth Annual Charles F.
Fraker Conference. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI. (March 23)
1995
“Teoría y Juego Intertextual en La Campaña de Carlos Fuentes.” Fifteenth Annual Cincinnati Conference
on Romance Languages and Literatures. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH. (May 11-13)
"Technologies of the Self in The Works of the Poet by Octavio Paz." American Comparative Literature
Association Conference. Universty of Georgia, Athens. (March 16-18)
Academic Service
2011-2013
Luso-Brazilian Search Committee. Dept. of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese
2010-2013
Financial Aid Committee. The University of Virginia.
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee. Dept. of Spanish. The University of Virginia.
2009-2014
Founder and Director U.S. Latino Minor. American Studies Program
The University of Virginia.
2006-2007
Director of Graduate Studies Program. Middlebury College. Summer Spanish School in Guadalajara,
Mexico. June-August 2006 and 2007. (40 graduate students, 8 professors)
2004-2005
Chair, Latin American Studies. International and Area Studies Program. Washington University in
Saint Louis.
2003-2005
Director of 8 Senior Thesis for the Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures and the
International and Area Studies Program. Washington University in Saint Louis.
2000-2003
Co-director of four Senior Thesis in Hispanic Studies and Latin American Studies. Vassar College.
Member of the Committee for Media Studies Development Program. Vassar College.
1998-1999
Editor in Chief. Ellipsis. Graduate Students Journal of the Department of Romance Languages
and Literatures. The University of Michigan.
1995 - 1997
Founding Member and President of the Romance Languages Graduate Students Association.
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. The University of Michigan.
1996
Search Committee for Latin American Literature Scholars. Department of Romance Languages
and Literatures. The University of Michigan.
Languages:
Fluent: Spanish, English, French, Portuguese.
References
Professor
Frances Aparicio. Northwestern U, Chicago
Catherine Benamou. U of California, Irvine
Andrew Bush. Vassar College
Santiago Colás. University of Michigan
David Gies. University of Virginia
Tabea Linhard. Washington Univ. St. Louis
Lizabeth Paravisini. Vassar College
Gustavo Pellón. University of Virginia
Phone
(847) 491-8249
(949) 824-5830, 5386
(845) 437-5605
(734) 764-5344
(434) 924-4652
(314) 935-8224
(845) 437-5611
(434) 924-4655
E-mail
frances-aparicio@northwestern.edu
cbenamou@uci.edu
bush@vassar.edu
scolas@umich.edu
dtg@virginia.edu
tlinhard@artsci.wustl.edu
liparavisini@vassar.edu
pellon@virginia.edu
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Sandhya Shukla. University of Virginia
Daniel Torres. Ohio University
Enrico Santí. The University of Kentucky
Thomas Walker. Ohio University
James Wertsch. Washington Univ. St. Louis
(434) 924-6616
(740) 593-2769
(859) 257-7066
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