Alberto Hernández-Lemus
Philosophy Department
Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO 80903
(719) 389 6029
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
2000Ph.D. Philosophy, New School University, New York, New York. Dissertation on the cinema theory of Gilles Deleuze under the supervision of Richard Bernstein, Agnes Heller and David Rodowick
1996M.A. Philosophy, New School for Social Research, New York, New York.
1997Film production courses at the New School and at Film/Video Arts, New York, New York
1993-94Experimental Cinema Theory and Praxis at the Hochschule der Künste (School of Fine Arts), Berlin, Germany
1993-94Exchange student at Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany. Aesthetics courses with Albrecht Wellmer
1987B.A. cum laude Liberal Arts and Sciences (Comparative Literature), Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Thesis on the literature of Raymond Queneau, Italo Calvino, Cabrera Infante and Jorge Ibarguengoitia
1979 K-12th, Swiss School of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
HONORS AND AWARDS
2005-07Mac Arthur Professorship, Colorado College
2000Alfred Schütz Dissertation Award, New School University, The Coalescence of Sign Regimes: Deleuze and Italian Neorealism
1998Bolin Fellowship, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
1990-97University Scholar and Diamond Fellow, Graduate Faculty, New School University
1987Phi Beta Kappa, Colorado College,
1980-86Colorado College Full International Student Scholarship
1983French Language Award, Colorado College
DIPLOMAS
1997Federal Court Interpreters Certificate (Spanish and English), U.S. Department of Justice, Washington D.C.
1979First Certificate of English, Cambridge, U.K.
1979Deutsches Sprachdiplom II (German Language Proficiency Exam), Bonn, Germany.
ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS
Caribbean Philosophical Association
Latin American Studies Association
Radical Philosophy Association
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2010-2013Director, Race and Ethnic Studies, Colorado College
2008- present Associate Professor of Philosophy, Colorado College
2005- 2007Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Colorado College
2002-04Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature, Colorado College
2000-01Visiting Professor in Philosophy and Comparative Literature, Colorado College
1999-2000Riley Scholar in Residence, Lecturer in Philosophy, Comparative Literature and Spanish, Colorado College
1998-99Bolin Fellow and Lecturer on Film and Philosophy, Williams College
1998Lecturer on cinema theory, Eugene Lang College, New York, New York
1998Certified Federal Court Interpreter, U.S. Department of Justice, New York, New York
1997Film Festival Curator, A New Generation: Contemporary Mexican Cinema, co-sponsored by Instituto Cervantes, Mexican Cultural Institute, Anthology Film Archives and the New School University, New York, New York
1995-97Editor, Janey Program in Latin American Studies, New School University, New York, New York
1992-95Translator and Interpreter, YAR Communications, New York, New York
1990-92Translator, New School University. Collective translation of Reiner Schürmann’s Hégemonies brisées from French into English
1989-90Chief Translator, The Bank of New York, Funds Transfer Division, Utica, New York.
LANGUAGES
Reading, writing and speaking fluency in Spanish, English, German, French and Italian. Presently learning Portuguese, currently at the advanced level of proficiency.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Globalization and Philosophy
- Latin American Philosophy and History
- Ethnicity and Race
- Aesthetics: Cross-fertilization of Literature, Cinema and Philosophy
- Italian Film and Literature
- Community Based Learning
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
-Caribbean Philosophical Association, Riviera Maya, Mexico, “Dining with the Devil:
Resisting the growing concentration of wealth: three Latin American techniques.”
7/18/15.
-Radical Philosophy Association Conference, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, 11/4/14, “Pensiero debole in Latin America: autonomous territories outside state structures.”
- Colorado University, Denver, 11/4/14, “Philosophical Reflections on Latin America Today.”
-Southwest Seminar in Continental Philosophy, Colorado Springs, 7/6/14, “Pensiero debole in Latin America: autonomous territories outside state structures.”
-Caribbean Philosophical Association, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 7/20/12, “Pensiero debole in Latin America: autonomous territories outside state structures.”
- Colorado College Spanish Department, Tertulia Series, 9/16/10. Hablando de México, “La Colombianización de México: Paralelos entre el Plan Colombia y el Plan Mérida.”
-Caribbean Philosophical Association, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, 8/14/10, “La Danse Macabre: State Violence in Mexico.”
- Latin American Studies Association, Rio de Janeiro, 15/7/09, “Zapatismo and égalité.”
-Caribbean Philosophical Association, Point-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe, 15/6/08, “Race and Reason: 500 Years of Exclusionary Standards in Chiapas.”
- Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, 9/8/07, “Race and Reason: 500 Years of Exclusionary Standards in Chiapas.”
- American Association of Italian Studies, Colorado Springs, 5/3/07, “Bergson and New Italian Cinema: Memory Regained in Ozpetek’s Facing Windows.”
- Abriendo Brecha III, Activist Scholarship Conference, Center for Mexican-American Studies, Austin, 2/17/06, “Performance Activism at the Borderlands: The Minutemen, Anzaldúa and Gómez-Peña.”
- International Society for Universal Dialogue, Helsinki, 7/18/05, “The Road to Civil Society in Chiapas: Zapatismo and Liberation Theology.”
- National Association of Ethnic Studies, 3/25/05, Chicago, “The Road to Civil Society in Chiapas: Zapatismo and Liberation Theology.”
- International Comparative Literature Association, 8/11/04, Hong Kong, “Deleuze and Italian Neorealism: The Irruption of the Virtual.”
- International Comparative Literature Association, 8/12/04, Hong Kong, “The Conquest of Mexico as a Clash of Sign Regimes.”
- American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Committee on Hispanics, 12/29/03, commentator for James Maffie’s “The Epistemology of Aztec Time-Keeping.”
- University of Colorado, Fort Collins, Philosophy Colloquium, 12/12/03 “Nietzsche and the Conquest of Mexico.”
PUBLICATIONS
1. “Bad Logic or Bad Faith?” in Inside Higher Ed Academe, January-February 2016.
2. “Portugal: la nueva inquisición del capital.” Submitted to Revista Nexos, Mexico City, December 2015.
3. “US permanent war and historic revisionism: a lesson from Aztec history.” Submitted to Latin American Research Review, February 2016.
4. “Beyond Pensiero debole in Latin America.” Revised and re-submitted after suggestions from peer reviewers, Radical Philosophy Review, March 2015.
5. “Deleuze and Italian Neorealism: The Irruption of the Virtual,” Realism and Anti-realism in Literature, Eds .Manfred Engel and Christine Baron, Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft (IFAVL) vol. 142, 2010.
6. Migration: Dreams and Hopes from the South, translated by Alberto Hernández-Lemus, Melel Xojobal, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico, 2009.
7. So That You Know: Aspirations and Stories by Women of Chiapas, translated by Alberto Hernández- Lemus and Roberto Irrizary, Melel Xojobal, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico, 2008.
8. “NAFTA,” co-authored with Juan Carlos Hernández-Lemus, Latinos and Latinas in US History and Culture: An Encyclopedia, Ed. David Leonard, 2009.
9. “Indigenismo,” co-authored with Juan Carlos Hernández-Lemus, Latinos and Latinas in US History and Culture: An Encyclopedia, Ed. David Leonard, 2009.
10. “Rosario Castellanos,” co-authored with Juan Carlos Hernández-Lemus, Latinos and Latinas in US History and Culture: An Encyclopedia, Ed. David Leonard, 2009.
11. “Performance Activism at the Borderlands: The Minutemen, Anzaldúa and Gómez-Peña,” Política y Cultura, Number 26 “Cultura y Globalización.”Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, Fall 2006,
12. “The Road to Civil Society in Chiapas: Zapatismo and Liberation Theology,” Humanity at the Turning Point: Rethinking Nature, Culture and Freedom, Ed. Sonja Servomaa, Renvall Institute Publications 23, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 2006.
13. “Philosophical Reflections on the Conquest of Mexico” Teaching Philosophy Journal, 28:2, June 2005.
14. “Reflecting on the Good life: An Intergenerational Dialogue,” Academic Exchange Quarterly, Summer 2003, 66-70.
SERVICE TO THE COLORADO SPRINGS/COLORADO COLLEGE COMMUNITY
2015 - summerCo-author, with Dennis McEnnerney, of Philosophy Department Assessment Report
2015 - springFaculty Secretary
2010-2013Director, Race and Ethnic Studies, Colorado College
2011-2012Participant in the Immigrant Detainee creative writing project at the El Paso County Jail.
2008- 2013Member of Diversity Taskforce, Colorado College.
2009-2013Member of the Steering Committee of the Partnership for Civic Engagement, Colorado College.
2008-2012Faculty representative on the Student Conduct Committee, Colorado College
2008Civic Engagement project of a Latin American Philosophy course: Oral Histories of the Latin American Diaspora
2007- 2013Director of the Colorado College Humanities Bridge Program
2006 Faculty panel in the “Good Sex” conversation series with students coordinated by Heather Horton, Colorado College
2005- 2008Faculty co-chair of Minority Concerns Committee, Colorado College
2005Community Based Learning tutoring project by Colorado College students with students of East Middle School
2005Faculty panel for prospective minority students, Colorado College
2004-2007Assistant Director of Colorado College Humanities Bridge Program, Colorado College
2004Community Based Learning adjunct course: Intergenerational poetry reading between Colorado College students and residents of Crestview Manor retirement community
2004-presentCommunity Based Learning course on Latin American philosophy (focus on Liberation Theology) co-taught with Stephen Handen in Chiapas, Mexico
2003-2008Coordinator of the Lewis Prize, Philosophy Department, Colorado College
2003-presentActive participant in American Cultural Studies group, Colorado College, since 2009 Race and Ethnic Studies
2002-presentActive participant in Latin American Studies group, Colorado College
2000-04Comparative Literature and Romance Languages Film Series, co-organizer with Dana Renga: weekly screenings of foreign films alternating in Spanish, Italian and French
2003Community Based Learning course: Intergenerational dialog between senior citizens served by Silver Key and first year Colorado College students working to produce autobiographical narratives
2002-03Active participant in the First Year Experience Retreat, Colorado College
2003 Active participant in the Civic Engagement Initiative discussions, Colorado College
2002-03Active participant in Diversity Initiative discussions organized by the Teaching and Learning Center and the Colorado College “Mappers”
2002-presentActive participant in New Student Orientation activities, Colorado College
2002Attended Conference on Diversity and Learning, Association of American Colleges and Universities, St. Louis, Missouri
2001-03Cognate and minority concerns committee representative of Colorado College Romance Language Department searches in French and Italian
2000Accompanied professor Salvino Bizzarro’s Italian Language Summer course, Sorrento, Italy
1999-presentDirected independent study courses in comparative literature, Latin American studies, and philosophy
1999-presentSponsored and directed Venture Grant projects for students in Comparative Literature, Romance Languages, Art Studio and Philosophy
2000-presentDirected senior theses for comparative literature and philosophy students
COURSES TAUGHT AT COLORADO COLLEGE
Philosophy 244: Social and Political Philosophy
Philosophy 314: Italian Marxism
General Studies 520: Philosophy of Education, MAT Capstone Seminar
Philosophy 118: Modernity and Postmodernity in Philosophy and Art
Philosophy 201: History of Modern Philosophy
Philosophy: College Ahead! Globalization and Philosophy
Philosophy 203: Globalization and Philosophy
Philosophy 213: Introduction to Epistemology
Philosophy 283: Latin American Philosophy
Philosophy 209: Introduction to Aesthetics
Philosophy 285: Philosophy and Race
Philosophy 203: Identity in a Global Context
Philosophy 203: Philosophical Reflections on the Conquest of Mexico (taught in Mexico)
Comparative Literature 200, Italian 307: Italian Neorealism in Film and Literature (taught on campus and in Orvieto, Italy)
Comparative Literature 103: Poetry Reading as a Service to the Community (extended format adjunct, Spring 2004)
Philosophy 303/Comparative Literature 351: Film, Time and Philosophy
Comparative Literature 100: Introduction to Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature 118; Philosophy 118: First Year Experience: The Juncture of Ethics and Aesthetics
Spanish 305: Cultural Context and Written Expression
Spanish 316: The Cinema of Pedro Almodovar
GRANTS
Mellon Grant to prepare a course to be taught in Brazil, “Challenges on the Way to Development: The Case of Brazil”. Summer 2014.
Mellon Language Grant to study Portuguese in Salvador, Bahía, Brazil. Summer 2013.
Mellon Language Grant to study Portuguese in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Summer 2011.
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