Lacey Schauwecker
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EDUCATION University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (Expected Graduation May 2016)
Candidate for a Doctorate Degree in Comparative Literature
Graduate Certificates: Gender Studies and Visual Studies
Languages: English (native), Spanish (fluent), Portuguese (proficient)
University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom (Graduation February 2010)
Master of Arts Degree in Critical Theory (Distinction)
Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA (Graduation June 2008)
Bachelor of Arts Degrees in English and Individual Studies (Honors)
Minor in Spanish Studies
DISSERTATION “Scream Circuits: Visualizing War in the Central American Diaspora”
Erin Graff Zivin, Julian Gutierrez-Albilla, Samuel Steinberg
AWARDS USC Graduate School Endowed Fellowship, Los Angeles, CA 8/15 – 5/16
• Fellowship for outstanding PhD students who have compelling research projects and timely degree progress
UT Austin Residential Scholars Program, Antigua, Guatemala 5/15 – 6/15
• Scholar-in-Residence position at UT Austin’s Casa Herrera, a center for Mesoamerican research
USC Graduate School Research Enhancement Fellowship, Los Angeles, CA 8/14 – 5/15
• Fellowship for outstanding PhD students whose research requires work in
international contexts
USC Genocide Resistance Summer Research Grant, Los Angeles, CA 6/13 – 8/13
• Funding for fieldwork on urban artists in Los Angeles, Guatemala, and Brazil
USC EDGE Summer Institute Fellowship, Los Angeles, CA 6/12 – 8/12
• Funding for faculty-mentored development of grant and dissertation proposals
PUBLICATIONS “The Creative Process of Robinson Crusoe: Exile, Loneliness and Humanism”
Translated chapter, Blackwell Companion to Buñuel, 2013
PRESENTATIONS “Gritos Visuales: Atestiguar en la posguerra de Guatemala”
Paper Panelist at Seminario Crítico-Político Transnacional, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, July 2015 (invitation accepted)
“Tengo que gritarlo”: Atestiguar en la posguerra de Guatemala”
Guest lecturer at Proyecto Poporopo, Guatemala City, Guatemala, June 2015
“Tengo que gritarlo”: Witnessing in Postwar Guatemala
Guest lecturer for Luis Urrieta’s “Education, Culture & Diversity” course, UT Austin, June 2015
“The Traumatized Body in Public Space”
Working group member at NYU & Colombia University Convergence Conference, Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics, October 2014
“Phenomenology of the Secret”
Roundtable conversant at The Marrano Spirit: Derrida and Hispanism, USC, April 2014
“Learning a Movement: Street Dance and Creative Encounters”
Paper panelist at Connecting Practices: Digital Media and Learning Conference, DML Research Hub, March 2014
“Popular Testimony in Postwar Guatemala”
Guest lecturer for Samuel Steinberg’s “Cultures of Latin America” course, USC, October 2013
“Visualizing Cultural Circuits”
Working group organizer at USC & UCLA Convergence Conference, Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics, October 2013
“Haunting Back in Tununa Mercado’s En estado de memoria”
Paper panelist at UC Santa Barbara Graduate Conference, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, May 2012
“Crossing Borders: Identity as Identification in Gloria Anzaldúa and Jacques Derrida”
Paper panelist at UC Riverside Graduate Conference, Department of Hispanic Studies, April 2011
TEACHING Areas of interest and competence: Latin American literature (fiction and non-fiction since The Boom), Latin American documentary film, Central American art and politics, Visual Studies, Women’s studies, Beginning and intermediate Spanish language
Unlocking Silent Histories, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala 7/14 –
Volunteer teacher and fundraiser
USC Comparative Literature Department, Los Angeles, CA 8/13 – 5/14 Teacher’s Assistant
Courses: Cultures of Latin America (COLT250) and Studies in Arts & Letters (ARLT101)
USC Spanish and Portuguese Department, Los Angeles, CA 8/10 – 5/13
Assistant Lecturer
Courses: Beginning Spanish (SPAN120) and Intermediate Spanish (SPAN150)
PROFESSIONAL HASTAC Scholar, Los Angeles, CA 8/14 – 5/15
USC Graduate and Professional Student Senate, Los Angeles, CA 8/11 – 8/12
SERVICE Senator for Comparative Literature department
PROFESSIONAL Modern Language Association 3/15 -
MEMBERSHIPS BRASA Brazilian Studies Association 8/11 – 12/13
REFERENCES Erin Graff Zivin
Associate Professor of Spanish & Portuguese & Comparative Literature, USC
E: T: 213-740-7659
Julian Gutierrez-Albilla
Associate Professor of Spanish & Portuguese & Comparative Literature, USC
E: T: 213-740-1258
Samuel Steinberg
Assistant Professor of Spanish & Portuguese & Comparative Literature, USC
E: T: 213-740-8144
Peggy Kamuf
Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French & Comparative Literature, USC
E: T: 213-740-0101
Sally Pratt
Vice Provost of Graduate Programs & Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures, USC
E: T: 213-740-8867