Raquel Albarrán Spanish and Portuguese Studies University of Washington Box !"#!$% Seattle WA, *+,*-·∙!"#$ ·∙ #$%·∙%&%·∙!!"# albarrn@uw.edu
Education PhD Candidate, Hispanic Studies University of Pennsylvania (!"#$, expected) MA, Hispanic Studies University of Pennsylvania (!""#) Certificate in Paleography, Graduate Hispanic Paleography Workshop Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (August !""#) BA, Human Biochemistry and Nutrition, Minor in Hispanic Studies, magna cum laude Universidad de Puerto Rico (!""#) Employment Acting Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of Washington (2342-­‐Present) Graduate Fellow of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania (Summer 89::) Undergraduate Adviser of the Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) Program, University of Pennsylvania ("##$-­‐!"#") Graduate Instructor of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania (;<<=-­‐!""#, Summer !"#") Selected Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (!"##-­‐!"#!) Fellowships Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (!"##-­‐!"#!), declined & Grants
Fontaine Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania (!""#-­‐!""#, !""#-­‐!"##) Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Penn Graduate Humanities Forum Research Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania (!""#-­‐!"#") Elsie Mae Willsey Excellence Award, University of Puerto Rico (<==>) National Institutes of Health (NIH)-­‐Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy (SNSP)-­‐ Instituto de Investigación Nutricional-­‐International Nutrition in Peru Study and Research Fellowship, Iowa State University (Summer !""#) Programa de Estudios de Honor [Honors Studies Program], University of Puerto Rico (<==<-­‐
!""#) Research Colonial Latin American literature: Mexico, Peru, the Caribbean & Teaching Literary theory Interests
Colonialism and postcolonial critical theory Race and ethnicity Visual and material culture Theories of space and territoriality European and indigenous cartography Hispanic Caribbean literatures and cultures Selected Book Publication Intimidad de los extraños [Stranger Intimacy]. San Juan: Atarraya Cartonera, ,-.-. Print. Artisanal poetry collection on recycled cardboard; assembled collectively by Atarraya Cartonera and visitors of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (MAC) Recent Invited Talks Presentations “El siglo del oro: ensamblajes coloniales en la producción transatlántica del siglo XVI” [The age of gold: colonial assemblages in the transatlantic production of the XVIth century] Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures, Princeton University Princeton NJ, February )*, #$!" “El siglo del oro: ensamblajes coloniales en la producción transatlántica del imperio” [The age of gold: colonial assemblages in the transatlantic production of empire] Division of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, University of Washington Seattle WA, January (), #$!" “El siglo del oro: ensamblajes coloniales en la producción transatlántica del imperio” [The age of gold: colonial assemblages in the transatlantic production of empire] Department of Spanish, Franklin & Marshall College Lancaster PA, January (), #$!" Selected Conference Papers “Revolt of the Objects in the ‘mundo al rreués’” Latin American Studies Association Washington DC, May 01-­‐June &, ()&* “The Geometric City” Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas Tepoztlán MX, July 12-­‐August ', )*+) “Golden Empires: The Fetish, Theodor De Bry and the Formation of a Spanish Imperial Subjectivity” Centre for Early Modern Exchanges Launch Conference, University College London London UK, September 01-­‐!", %&!! “Más allá de la semiosis colonial: Pensar la colonialidad como ensamblaje” [Beyond Colonial Semiosis: Coloniality as an Assemblage] Latin American Studies Association Toronto CA, October .-­‐!, $%&% “Latin Americanism, Aesthetics, Remediation (Lezama Lima Reads Nietzsche)” Instituto Iberoamericano de Literatura, Georgetown University Washington DC, July 2-­‐!", "%!% Selected Experimento de fatiga textual [Experiment in Textual Fatigue] Performance
Taller Vivo at the MAC: “¿Leo, leo… Qué lees?” with Atarraya Cartonera San Juan PR, December +,-­‐!", !%&% Video (Produced by Nicole C. Delgado): http://vimeo.com/-./01..2 Reviewed in frecuEncia uRbe (Spain): http://frecuenciaurbe.wordpress.com/5675/65/78/experimento-­‐de-­‐fatiga-­‐textual-­‐por-­‐raquel-­‐
albarran/ -­‐ ! -­‐ Teaching University of Washington Division of Spanish and Portuguese Studies “Latin American Fiction: Nineteenth Century” (Fall 89:;) “New World Objects: Materiality and Colonial Discourse in Latin America” (Spring ABCD) “Islands of Desire: Imperial Designs and the Invention of the Hispanic Caribbean” (Spring )*+,) “Latin American Colonial Discourse and Material Culture,” graduate seminar (Winter :;<:) “Introduction to Latin American Literature: Colonial Era through Early Independence” (Fall <=><) University of Pennsylvania Center for Africana Studies Summer Institute for Pre-­‐Freshmen (with Deborah Thomas) “Blackness in Global Perspective” (July '(-­‐!" $"%%), in English Prepared and led daily recitation session for twelve out of 45 students in intensive week-­‐long anthropology course on the concept of diaspora Introduced students to research techniques and to the following interpretive methods in the social sciences and the humanities: conducting and transcribing interviews, historical, literary, and visual media analysis, and anthropological theory Evaluated student work, both written and verbal, including a collaborative ethnographic project Department of Romance Languages, Hispanic Studies “Introductory Spanish I” (Summer ()*)) “Hispanic Texts and Contexts” (Spring )**+, Fall )**0) “Intermediate Spanish II” (Spring )**+) “Advanced Introductory Spanish” (Fall &''() Theses University of Washington Directed Undergraduate Departmental Honors Kayva Crawford and Ramana Marshalla (Spring )*+,) Selected University of Washington Departmental Member, Undergraduate and Graduate Studies Committees & University
Division of Spanish and Portuguese Studies ("#$"-­‐Present) Service
University of Pennsylvania Co-­‐founder and Moderator, Hispanic Studies Works in Progress (WIPs) Department of Romance Languages (3455-­‐!"#!) Co-­‐organizer, Academic talk for the Hispanic Studies section Department of Romance Languages (3455-­‐!"#!) Grant Advisor for the Graduate Student Center Division of the Provost Administrative Affairs ()*++-­‐!"#!) Founder and Coordinator, Latin Americanisms Working Group Latin American and Latino Studies Program (4556-­‐!"#") Co-­‐Chair for the Latin American and Latino/a Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (LAGAPSA) Office of Student Life ("##$-­‐!"#") -­‐ ! -­‐ Co-­‐Organizer, Graduate Romanic Association Conference: Traversing Geographies: New Poetics of Space Department of Romance Languages (3445-­‐!""#) Hispanic Studies Vice President, Graduate Romanic Association Department of Romance Languages (3445-­‐!""#) Public Moderator, Seattle Latino Film Festival Educational Outreach Program Scholarship
Lakeside School, Seattle WA (3456) Planning Committee Member, XXIVth and XXVth Annual Book and Crafts Fairs Taller Puertorriqueño, Philadelphia PA ('(()-­‐!"##) Digital Founding Member and Managing Editor, Derivas Humanities
Derivas.net, San Juan PR (3445-­‐!""#) Press in Primera hora (Puerto Rico): http://corp.primerahora.com/archivo.asp?guid=567C99CE6;<766=;;>F76@EB=;B@=F7@&year=5==<
&keyword= Mentions in blogs and other digital publications: http://nicolececilia.blogspot.com/2344_42_34_archive.html; http://www.isabelbatteria.com/?p=45 Editorial Edition and Translation Consultant Experience
East-­‐West Translation Institute, Philadelphia PA (6778) Co-­‐Editor, Contornos University of Puerto Rico, Programa de Estudios de Honor, San Juan PR (;<<=-­‐!""#) Additional Languages Information Spanish (native) English (fluent) Portuguese and French (intermediate proficiency) Latin (introductory reading knowledge) Membership American Studies Association (1231-­‐Present) Latin American Studies Association (/001-­‐Present) Modern Language Association of America (/001-­‐Present) Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (34!"-­‐Present) Society of Early Americanists (-../-­‐Present) Caribbean Philosophical Association (3445-­‐!"#") Women Investigating Race, Ethnicity, and Difference (WIRED) ("#$%-­‐Present) References Available upon request -­‐ ! -­‐