Loustaunau CV- XXX
Esteban E. Loustaunau
Curriculum Vitae
Department of Modern & Classical Languages & CulturesAssumption College
500 Salisbury Street
Worcester, MA 01609
(508) 767-7589
/ 23 Berwick Street
Worcester, MA 01602
(508) 459-9271
EDUCATION:
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
Ph.D. Latin American Literatures and Cultures, 1998.
M.A. Modern Spanish and Latin American Literatures and Cultures, 1994.
Carleton College, Northfield, MN.
B.A. Spanish, 1992
Off-Campus Study: Hamilton College Academic Year in Spain, Fall 1991.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
Director, Latin American Studies Program, Assumption College, 2011-present.
Associate Professor of Spanish, Dept. of Modern & Classical Languages & Cultures, Assumption College, 2008-present. Tenured in Winter 2012.
Associate Professor of Spanish, Spanish Department, Augustana College (Rock Island, IL), 2004-2008. Tenured in Winter 2004.
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Spanish Department, Augustana College, 1998-2004.
Graduate Teaching Associate, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State
University, 1992-1998.
PUBLICATIONS:
“Decolonizing Youth Culture: Guatemalan Hip Hop Dissidents in Cyberspace.” The Internet As a
Contestatory Medium in Latin America. Hilda Chacón, ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars
Publishing (forthcoming in 2015).
“Imaginar la ecuatorianidad en tiempos de crisis: Cartas al Ecuador y la representación cultural de
la migración contemporánea.” De Atahualpa a Cuauhtémoc: El nacionalismo cultural de Benjamín
Carrión y José Vasconcelos. Michael Handelsman and Juan Carlos Grijalva, eds. Pittsburgh:
Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana; Museo de la Ciudad, Quito, Ecuador.
(In Press).
“De autor a compilador cómplice: Luis Humberto Crosthwaite, el mar y la supervivencia.” Revista
de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea 41.15 April-June (2009): 75-83.
“The Creation of Imaginative Reality in Juan García Ponce’s Pasado presente,” CR: The New Centennial Review 5. 3 Winter (2005): 83-104.
“Imaginarios interculturales en los límites de la integración latinoamericana,” Revista Iberoamericana LXX.207 (2004): 545-564.
“La espontaneidad como ilegalidad urbana.” Procesos urbanos y las ciudades latinoamericanas en el nuevo [des]orden mundial. Marc Zimmerman and Patricio Navia, eds. Mexico City: Editorial Siglo XXI, 2004. 375-385.
“Fuera de lugar: Desbordes locales en El llano en llamas de Juan Rulfo.” Cánones literarios masculinos y relecturas transculturales. Ileana Rodríguez, ed. Barcelona: Anthropos, 2001. 321-336.
Encyclopedia entries on Nicaraguan Popular Culture (co-authored with Ileana Rodríguez): "Alexis Argüello," "Barricada," "Violeta Barrios de Chamorro," "Alan Bolt," "Tomás Borge," "Omar Cabezas," "Pedro Joaquín Chamorro," "Envío," "Norma Helena Gadea," "INCINE," "Bianca Jagger," "Dennis Martínez," "Luis Enrique Mejía Godoy," "Uriel Molina," "nacatamal," "Nicaragua, Nicaragüita," "Nicarauac," "Nixtayoleros," "Editorial Nueva Nicaragua," "Palacio Nacional," "Palo de mayo," and "Roger." Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American Culture. Daniel Balderston, Ana López, and Mike González, eds. London: Routledge, 2000.
"Sergio Méndez Arceo (1907-1992)." Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society & Culture. Michael Warren, ed. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998. 791-792.
WORKS IN PROGRESS:
Book manuscript:
“Disorderly Conduct: Writing Dispossessed Defiance in Contemporary Mexico”
Edited volume, with Lauren Shaw, Elmira College:
“Migrant Voices: Latin American Diaspora in Documentary Film.”
List of Contributors: Hilda Chacón, Ramón Guerra, Ada Ortúzar-Young, Cecelia Lawless, Jared
List, Esteban Loustaunau, Manuel Medina, Juan Ramos, Diana Rodgríguez, Lauren Shaw, and Zaira
Zarza.
HONORS AND GRANTS:
Assumption College
Honors Summer Faculty/Student Fellowship, Summer 2013
SOPHIA Stipend to Revise a Course (SPA 140) for Vocational Reflection, Summer 2013
Selected as a SOPHIA Faculty Mentor, 2013-2014
Nominated to the Faculty Community Engagement Award, The Colleges of Worcester Consortium, 2012
Faculty Development Grant, Summers 2011, 2009
Augustana College
Presidential Research Fellowship, Summer 2008 (declined)
Phi Beta Delta Honor Society of International Education, Spring 2008.
Presidential Research Fellowship, Summer 2007
Humanities Fund Grant, 2007, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000
Faculty Research Fund Grant, 2005, 1999
First-Year Course Grant, Center for Vocational Reflection, Spring 2003
Lilly Endowment Faculty Fellowship, Center for Vocational Reflection, Winter 2003-04
Supplemental Travel Award, Office of Academic Affairs, Winter 2003, 2002
The Ohio State University
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, 1994
The Tinker Foundation Travel Grant, 1994
The Phyllis Krumm Memorial International Scholarship, 1994
CONFERENCES:
Panel organizer and chair, Migrant Voices: Latin American Diaspora in Documentary Film.
Proposed panel at the XXXII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association,
Chicago, IL. May 21-24, 2014. (Forthcoming.)
“Migrant Motherhood and Empowerment in La Americana and Los Invisibles,” Paper to be
presented at the XXXII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association,
Chicago, IL. May 21-24, 2014. (Forthcoming.)
Panel organizer and co-chair, wth Lauren Shaw: When Immigrants Speak: Where Culture and
Politics Meet in Documentary Film. Panel at the 45th Annual Northeast Modern Language
Association Convention, Harrisburg, PA. April 3-6, 2014. (Forthcoming.)
“Yearning Voices: Unnacompanied Minor Immigrants Challenge Border Politics in Which Way
Home,” Paper to be presented at the the 45th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association
Convention, Harrisburg, PA. April 3-6, 2014. (Forthcoming.)
“Decolonizing Youth Culture: Dissident Guatemalan Street Performers in Cyberspace,” Paper
presented at the XXXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association,
Washington, DC. May 30-June 1, 2013.
Panel organizer and co-chair, with Lauren Shaw: Contested Representations of Immigration: the
Documentary or Fiction Film. Panel at the 44th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association
Convention, Boston, MA. March 21-24, 2013.
“Documentar lo indocumentado: Fidelidades y sentimientos translocales entre Ecuador y España,”
Paper presented at the 44th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Boston,
MA. March 21-24, 2013.
“Miradas post-comunitarias: Los migrantes mexicanos cuentan sus vidas,” Paper
presented at the XXX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association,
San Francisco, California. May 23-26, 2012.
Panel organizer and co-chair, with Lauren Shaw: Otra manera de mi(g)rar: Latin American
Women’s Views of Migration. Panel at the 43rd Annual Northeast Modern Language Association
Convention, Rochester, NY. March 15-18, 2012 (forthcoming).
“Imaginar la ecuatorianidad en tiempos de crisis: Cartas al Ecuador y la representación
cultural de la migración contemporánea.” International Symposium on National Cultural Formations
in Ecuador and Mexico: The Cultural Nationalisms of Benjamín Carrión and José Vasconcelos. La
Maison de l’Amérique latine, Paris, France. March 9, 2012 (read in absentia).
Panel organizer and co-chair, with Lauren Shaw: Displaced Communities. Panel at the 42nd Annual
Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, New Brunswick, NJ. April 7-10, 2011.
“‘Siempre vamos a ser ecuatorianos:’ Testimonios of Displacement and the Limits of Integration,”
Paper presented at the 42nd Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, New
Brunswick, NJ. April 7-10, 2011.
“La orfandad como resistencia post-comunitaria en La señora Rodríguez y Toda una vida de
Martha Cerda,” at the XVI Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, El Paso, TX.
March 3-5, 2011.
“Always Becoming: Immigrants Rethinking Place and Ethnicity Through Storytelling,”
at the 41st Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Montreal, Canada. April 8-
11, 2010.
“De autor a compilador cómplice: Luis Humberto Crosthwaite, el mar y la supervivencia,” at the
XIV Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, El Paso, TX. March 5-7, 2009.
“Una Casa de Puertas Abiertas: A Cultural Politics Approach to Community Organizations Serving
Latinos,” at Nuestra America in the U.S.? A U.S. Latino/a Studies Conference, The University of
Kansas. February 8-9, 2008.
“Martha Cerda’s Y apenas era miércoles and the Emergence of Communal Knowledge.” Paper presented at the XXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, Canada. September 5-8, 2007.
Chair, Politics and Mexican Literature. Panel at the XXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, Canada. September 5-8, 2007.
“More than Sex Objects: Women and Political Mobility in the U.S.-Mexico Border," Paper presented
at the XXV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association XXV International
Congress, Las Vegas, NV. October 7-9, 2004.
“Multitemporalidad e historias alternativas en La luna siempre será un amor difícil de L.H.
Crosthwaite.” Paper presented at the X Jornadas Metropolitanas de Estudios Culturales. Centro
Cultural Casa Lamm, Mexico City. July 4-6, 2003.
Moderator, Teatro y la producción de identidad. Panel at the X Jornadas Metropolitanas de Estudios Culturales. Centro Cultural Casa Lamm, Mexico City. July 4-6, 2003.
“Imágenes en tránsito: Intersecciones culturales en espacios locales.” Paper presented at the XXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Dallas, TX. March 27-29, 2003.
Chair and Organizer, Imaginarios, representación y participación intelectual en el triángulo EEUU-América Latina-Europa. Panel at the XXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Dallas, TX. March 27-29, 2003.
“Contra el futuro negado: Cultura y globalización en la narrativa mexicana de los noventa.” Paper presented at the 117th Modern Language Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA. December 27-30, 2001.
“Retratos efímeros. Intervenciones artísticas en la interculturalidad urbana.” Paper presented at the XXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, DC. September 7-9, 2001.
“Espontaneidad urbana. Subalternidad y representación.” VII Jornadas Metropolitanas de
Estudios Culturales. Centro Cultural Casa Lamm, Mexico City. July 4-6, 2001.
“Broken Earth, Breaking Ground: Globalization and the Limits of the Formal-Informal Divide in Poniatowska’s ‘Nothing, Nobody.’” Paper presented at the XXII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Miami, FL. March 16-18, 2000.
Chair, Modernization, Multiculturalism, and Subaltern Studies in Latin America. Panel at the XXII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Miami, FL. March 16-18, 2000.
“Exhibicionismos populares: Cultura y participación social en la era transnacional.” Paper presented at the VI Jornadas Metropolitanas de Estudios Culturales. Centro Cultural Casa Lamm, Mexico City. July 4-6, 1999.
“Globalization: Transcultural Threat or Opportunity? Or Claiming Rain in ‘Tláloc’ by Paco Ignacio Taibo II.” Paper presented at the Conference on the Americas. Race, Culture, and Border Crossings. The Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI. February, 1999.
“Networking Chaos: Translocal Actors in the Megacity.” Paper presented at the XXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Chicago, IL. September 7-9, 1998.
"Fronteras: Our House in the Last World." Paper presented at the Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures. University of Cincinnati. May, 1996.
"Sujetos-literarios/Imaginarios letrados." Respondent to "Reading/Culture/Modernity During the Porfiriato" by Danny J. Anderson. Coloquio sobre identidades y sujetos nacionales en el siglo XIX. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. April, 1996.
"Crisis en los límites." Paper presented at the Midwest/Modern Languages Association Conference.
St. Louis, MO. November, 1995.
Panel member. "Socialism/Utopias," Marxist Literary Group 1995 Institute on Culture and Society.
Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburgh, PA. June, 1995.
"Jesusa Palancares como alegoría de identidad, género y nación." Paper presented at the Comparative Literature Symposium: Latin American Women Writers: Canons, Traditions, Revisions." Texas Tech University. Lubbock, TX. January 1995.
"Ultimas tardes con Teresa: dos amargos quijotes," Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference.
Duquesne University. September, 1993.
GUEST PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES:
“Thinking of Your Vocation as a Mission Statement.” Guest speaker on Vocational Stories and
Objects of Discernment. SOPHIA Retreat at Craigville Retreat Center, Craigville, MA. September
13-15, 2013.
“Frida Kahlo and The Art of Complementing Differences.” Invited lecture in celebration of
National Hispanic Heritage Month. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New England District
Concord, MA. October 17, 2012.
“Orphans in the City: Re-imagining Space and Community in Martha Cerda’s Y apenas
era miércoles,” Guest lecture for the Neisett Dinner, Languages and Literatures Division, Augustana
College. May 5, 2008.
“Lessons from the Border: Visualizing Communal Knowledge in Luis Humberto Crosthwaite’s La luna siempre será un amor difícil.” Sabbatical Talk at Friday’s Conversations. Augustana College, April 16, 2008.
“Imagining the Horizontal City: Subaltern Survival in Martha Cerda’s Y apenas era miércoles.” Guest lecture Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture Colloquium, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University. April 2007.
“Frida Kahlo and the Art of Life.” Guest lecture for the Day of the Dead Celebration. Figge Art Museum. Davenport, IA. November 2, 2007.
Participant in the panel for faculty Learning Beyond Classroom Walls: Alumni reflections about Service, Experiential, and Cross-Cultural Learning On and Off Campus. Part of the series Learning In and Out of the Class sponsored by the Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching, Carleton College. April, 2003.
Participant in the panel for students: What have I done with my life?: Alumni Reflections about Service, Experiential, and Cross-Cultural Learning On and Off Campus. Part of the series Learning In and Out of the Class sponsored by the Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching, Carleton College. April, 2003.
“Displaced Subjects: Gender and Border-Thinking in Mexico,” Tea Hour Series in Feminist Studies. Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Augustana College. April, 2002.
“Language and Bilingual Education.” Discussion leader for Richard Rodriguez’ Hunger of Memory. Quad City Arts “Let’s All Read” Program. Augustana College. March, 2002.
Moderator and discussant for “Testimonial Literature” a special lecture by writer Elena Poniatowska.
Augustana College Latin American Term 2000, Hotel Imperial, Mexico City. October, 2000.
"Cultural Diversity: U.S. Latino/a Experiences and Free Trade," Seminar on Cultural Diversity. Marion Technical College, Marion, OH. November, 1997.
"Viajes en la megaciudad: Literatura y vida cotidiana," Departamento de Difusión Cultural. Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico City Campus. February 9, 1997.
"Teaching in a Multi-media Classroom." Department of Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Teaching Associate Training Seminar, The Ohio State University. September 1997 and 1996.
"México visto por José Vasconcelos y Octavio Paz," Guest speaker at the Undergraduate Seminar on Latin American Identity. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University. October, 1994.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Assumption College
SPA 101 and SPA 102: Beginning Spanish I and II
SPA 103 and SPA 104: Intermediate Spanish III and IV
SPA 140: Introduction to Literature in Spanish
SPA 220: Spanish Composition (CSL: Community Service Learning Elective)
SPA 318: Rebellion and Reinvention in Mexico (CSL, WSM: Women’s Studies Elective)
Student project website: https://sites.google.com/site/spa318rebelionenmexico/
SPA 381: Contemporary Spanish-American Drama (CSL, WSM)
SPA 400: Special Topics: Rebellion, Repression, and Reinvention in Mexico (WSM, CSL)
SPA 401: Special Topics: Voice and Memory in Central American Literature and Culture (WSM,
CSL)
SPA 400: Special Topics: Youth Culture and Memory in Central America (WSM, CSL)