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1 Rhett Warren McNeil Department of Comparative Literature Penn State University 427 Burrowes Building University Park, PA Tel.: E Broadway Ln. Tempe, AZ Tel.: rhettmcneil@gmail.com Education PhD in Comparative Literature (Minor in Literary Criticism, Theory, and Aesthetics) Penn State University. Anticipated, May 2015 Chair: Dr. Thomas Beebee Dissertation Title: Machado and Borges: A New Trajectory of Avant-Garde Fiction in the Americas MA in Comparative Literature. Penn State University, December 2006 BA (dual) in Liberal Arts (English and Portuguese) and in Arts (Art History) University of Texas at Austin, December 2003 Language Proficiency English: Native Portuguese: Near-Native Spanish: Near-Native French: Reading Knowledge Awards, Fellowships, Grants, and Honors Translation Grants from the Brazilian National Library for Stories and Free City, 2014 Best Translated Book Award 2013 Longlist, for Joseph Walser s Machine Samuel P. Bayard Award Graduate Award in Comparative Literature, Penn State University, 2011 Translation Grant from the Spanish Ministry of Culture for No World Concerto, 2010 Fellowship in Applied Literary Translation, Dalkey Archive Press at The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, RGSO Dissertation Support Grant, Penn State University, Spring 2008 (Funded research trip to Brazilian National Library and Academy of Letters) Waddell Biggart Graduate Fellowship, Penn State University, 2006 Erasmus Graduate Student Teaching Award, Department of Comparative Literature, Penn State University, 2006 Graduate Scholar Award, Department of Comparative Literature, Penn State University, Sparks Fellowship, Department of Comparative Literature, Penn State University, 2004 Graduation with honors from the College of Liberal Arts in English and Portuguese and the College of Fine Arts in Art History, The University of Texas at Austin, December 2003 Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of Texas. Inducted Fall 2003

2 Teaching Experience Publications Foreign Language (Penn State University) Portuguese 002, Elementary Portuguese. Course designer and instructor Spanish 100, Intermediate Grammar and Composition. Taught on multiple occasions. Instructor Literature (Penn State University) Comparative Literature 120, Literature of the Occult. Taught on multiple occasions. Course designer and instructor Comparative Literature 005, Introduction to the Literatures of the Americas. Taught on multiple occasions. Course designer and instructor Comparative Literature 453, Narrative Theory: Film and Literature. Course designer and instructor Comparative Literature 105, Literary Humor. Course designer and instructor Comparative Literature 109, Native American Myth, Legend, and Literature. Taught on multiple occasions. Course designer and instructor Comparative Literature 005, American Life Through Language, Literature, and Film. Course designer and instructor Comparative Literature 108, World Mythology (online). Instructor Comparative Literature 105, Literary Humor (online). Taught on multiple occasions. Instructor Comparative Literature 001, Introduction to Western Literatures through the Renaissance. Course designer and instructor Comparative Literature 105, Literary Humor. Teaching Assistant Comparative Literature 108, World Mythology. Instructor, discussion section Composition (Arizona State University) English 102, First-Year Composition. Instructor Journal Articles Just How Marginal Was Machado de Assis? The Early Translations and the Borges Connection. TranscUlturAl: A Journal of Translation and Cultural Studies (2013) Translations Enigmas of Spring, João Almino. Translated from the Portuguese. Forthcoming from Dalkey Archive Press, Fall 2015 How and Why I Write Fiction, João Almino. Translated from the Portuguese. Forthcoming in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Fall 2014 A Man: Klaus Klump, Gonçalo M. Tavares. Translated from the Portuguese. Dalkey Archive Press, 2014 excerpt from A Man: Klaus Klump, Gonçalo M. Tavares. In Colony Magazine, Issue 1, Brief Notes on Science (excerpt), Gonçalo M. Tavares. Translated from the Portuguese. In Asymptote, April 2014

3 The Academies of Siam, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. Translated from the Portuguese. In Harper s Magazine, March 2014 Stories, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. Edited and with an introduction, translated from the Portuguese. Dalkey Archive Press, 2014 Almost Ten Stories, Rui Manuel Amaral. Translated from the Portuguese. In Best European Fiction 2014, Champaign: Dalkey Archive Press, 2014 The Dictionary, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. Translated from the Portuguese. In Review of Contemporary Fiction 23.1 (Spring 2013) The Priest, or the Metaphysics of Style, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. Translated from the Portuguese. In Review of Contemporary Fiction 23.1 (Spring 2013) Free City, João Almino. Translated from the Portuguese. Dalkey Archive Press, 2013 The No World Concerto, A.G. Porta. Translated from the Spanish. Co-translated with Darren Koolman. Champaign: Dalkey Archive Press, Angels on the Inside, Dulce Maria Cardoso. Translated from the Portuguese. In Best European Fiction Champaign: Dalkey Archive Press, 2012 Joseph Walser s Machine, Gonçalo M. Tavares. Translated from the Portuguese. Champaign: Dalkey Archive Press, 2012 Today, Santiago Pajares. Translated from the Spanish. In Best European Fiction Champaign: Dalkey Archive Press, 2012 The Splendor of Portugal, António Lobo Antunes. Translated from the Portuguese. Champaign: Dalkey Archive Press, 2011 Six Short Tales, Gonçalo M. Tavares. Translated from the Portuguese. In Best European Fiction Champaign: Dalkey Archive Press, 2011 Far from Here, Enrique Vila-Matas. Translated from the Spanish. In Best European Fiction Champaign: Dalkey Archive Press, 2011 Viscount Lescano Tegui and On Elegance While Sleeping: The Fringes of a Poetics, Celina Manzoni. Translated from the Spanish. In On Elegance While Sleeping. Champaign: Dalkey Archive Press, 2010 On the Ark, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. Translated from the Portuguese. Metamorphoses 18.1 (Spring 2010): Essays Translator s Introduction. in Enigmas of Spring, João Almino. Forthcoming from Dalkey Archive Press, Fall 2015 Voyage Around Machado. in Stories, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. Dalkey Archive Press, 2014 Translator s Introduction. In Joseph Walser s Machine, Gonçalo M. Tavares. Dalkey Archive Press, 2012 Book Reviews Blinding, Mircea Cartarescu. In Review of Contemporary Fiction. Forthcoming Quesadillas, Juan Pablo Villalobos. In Review of Contemporary Fiction. Forthcoming. Uma Viagem à Índia, Gonçalo M. Tavares. In Review of Contemporary Fiction. Forthcoming, Fall 2014 Breves notas sobre a ciência, Gonçalo M. Tavares. In Review of Contemporary Fiction. Forthcoming, Fall 2014 Firefly, Severo Sarduy. In Review of Contemporary Fiction. Forthcoming, Spring 2014

4 The Obscene Madame D, Hilda Hilst. In Review of Contemporary Fiction. Spring 2013 The Neighborhood, Gonçalo M. Tavares. In Review of Contemporary Fiction. Spring 2013 Breath of Life, Clarice Lispector. In Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 2012 The War in Bom Fim, Moacyr Scliar. In Review of Contemporary Fiction, Fall 2011 Why Translation Matters, Edith Grossman. In Review of Contemporary Fiction. Summer 2010 Conference Papers Barth, Rushdie, and the South American Avant-Garde. Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association: Harvard University, 2009 The Fictional Philosophies and Philosophical Fictions of Borges and Machado. Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association: Long Beach, 2008 Interamerican Affinities: The Canon, the Fantastic, and Artistic Creation in the Short Fiction of Machado de Assis and Jorge Luis Borges. Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association: Puebla, Mexico, 2007 The Infinite Series in Language and Image: Foucault, Magritte, and Borges. Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association: Princeton University, 2006 Invited Participation Moderator The Center for Translation Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Brazilian Writers and their Translators. November 2009 First Congress of Brazilian Women Writers, New York City. The Impact of Translation on the Writer s Work. October 2009 Sozopol Fiction Seminars, Bulgaria. Writing and Editing Translations. June 2009 Presenter Majoritizing Minority Literatures Through Translation: A Symposium. Penn State University. Dalkey Archive Press and Translation in the U.S. March 2011 Comparative Literature Luncheon, Penn State University. Machado and Borges: A New Trajectory of Avant-Garde Fiction in the Americas. January 2011 Brazilian Literary Networks, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Panel on Translation. November 2009 Rustaveli State University, Batumi, Georgia. Colloquium on Translation. September 2009 Vilenica International Literary Festival, Slovenia. Meeting of the Literary Mediators. September 2009 Judge Blue and White Film Festival. Penn State University, 2013

5 Academic Events Organized Writing the Americas, Writing World Literature: A Symposium. Penn State University, with keynote speakers Luisa Valenzuela, Zulfikar Ghose, and João Almino, Spring Colloquium on Ecocriticism. Penn State University, with keynote speakers George Handley (BYU) and Ursula Heise (Stanford), Spring 2009 Seminar entitled Cultural Interdependence in the Literatures of the Americas. Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association: Harvard University, 2009 Machado 100: A Centenary Commemorating the 100 th Anniversary of the Death of Machado de Assis. Penn State University, Fall 2008 Colloquium on Literary Translation. Penn State University, with keynote speaker John O Brien of the Dalkey Archive Press, Spring 2008 Seminar entitled Trajectories of Western Philosophy in the Literatures of the Americas. Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association: Long Beach, 2008 Fields of Teaching and Research Luso-Brazilian Literature Interamerican Literature Literary Translation Film and Literature Latin American Avant-Garde Fiction Aesthetics (esp. concepts of formal experimentation, enstrangement, and beauty) Service Penn State Americanists, (served variously as president, vice-president, treasurer, and secretary) Professional Affiliations Modern Language Association, 2005-present American Comparative Literature Association, 2005-present International Comparative Literature Association, 2005-present Southern Comparative Literature Association, 2005-present Phi Beta Kappa, 2003-present References -Dr. Thomas Beebee (chair and advisor), Edwin Earle Sparks Professor of Comparative Literature and German. tob@psu.edu Tel.: Dr. João Almino, Consul General of Brazil in Madrid joaoalmino@gmail.com -Dr. Henry Morello, Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Spanish morello@psu.edu Tel: