JENNIFER HARFORD VARGAS

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1 Updated 9/17/2014 JENNIFER HARFORD VARGAS Assistant Professor Department of English Bryn Mawr College EMPLOYMENT Assistant Professor. Bryn Mawr College, Department of English, July 2011-Present EDUCATION Ph.D. Department of English, Stanford University, M.A. Department of English, Stanford University, B.A. Department of English and Latin American Studies Program, Miami University, (Summa Cum Laude, University Honors, Department Honors) PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT: Novel Testimony: Alternative Archives in Edwidge Danticat s The Farming of Bones. (forthcoming in Callaloo) Dictating a Zafa: The Power of Narrative Form in Junot Díaz s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (Fall 2014): A Tale of Two Novels from the Global South. Economic and Political Weekly (December 13, 2008): Reprinted as Critical Realisms in the Global South: Narrative Transculturation in Senapati s Six Acres and a Third and García Márquez s One Hundred Years of Solitude. Ed. Satya Mohanty. Colonialism, Modernity, and the Study of Literature: A View from India. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, CO-AUTHORED: Transnational Forms. With Monica Hanna. Latina/o Literature in the Classroom: 21 st Century Approaches to Teaching. Ed. Frederick Aladama. Routledge, IN PROGRESS: Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination, co-edited with Monica Hanna and José David Saldívar (under review at Duke University Press) Forms of Dictatorship in the Latina/o Novel (in preparation) 1

2 RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS 20 th and 21 st century U.S. literature, Literature of the Americas, Latina/o and Latin American Cultural Studies, Transnational American Studies, Theories of the Novel, Race and Ethnicity, Postcolonial and Decolonial Theory, Slave Narrative and Testimonio, Migration and Literature FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS Career Enhancement Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Mellon Regional Faculty Fellow, Penn Humanities Forum, Mellon Tri-College Faculty Forum Program, Seed Grant, and Mellon Tri-College Faculty Forum Program, Two Brainstorming Grants, Spring Isabel H. Benham Fund for Faculty Research, Bryn Mawr College, The Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Dissertation Fellow, Stanford University, Ernesto Galarza Prize for Excellence in Graduate Student Research, Stanford University, El Centro Chicano, Graduate Scholar-in-Residence, Stanford University, Diversifying Academia Recruiting Excellence Fellow, Stanford University, Chicano/Latino Community Awards, Outstanding Graduate Mentor, Stanford University, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Graduate Fellow for Humanistic Studies, INVITED TALKS Entering through el Hueco and Living in las Entrañas: The Colombian Undocumented Migrant Imaginary in Jorge Franco s Paraíso Travel. Penn State University, March Unsealed Voices: Testimonial Archives against the Parsley Massacre in Edwidge Danticat s The Farming of Bones. Miami University, September SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS: The Borderlands of Authoritarianism. Tepotzlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas. Tepotzlán, México, July The Floating Dictatorship in The Ordinary Seaman. Imagining Latino Studies: Past, Present, and Future. Chicago, July Plotting Justice in The Tattooed Soldier. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. New York University, March Colombian Migration Metaphors. 1 st Biennial U.S. Latina/o Literary Theory and Criticism Conference. The City University of New York-John Jay College, March

3 Junot Díaz and the Latino American Literary Field Imaginary. American Studies Association Annual Meeting. San Juan, Puerto Rico, November Reading the Ruins of Dictatorship. Junot Díaz: A Symposium. Stanford University, May Dictatorship, Diaspora, and the Fantasy of Justice: Intersections of Insurgence in The Tattooed Soldier. Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Seattle, January Authoritarianism and the Borderlands of Dictatorship. TransAmerican Studies Working Group. Stanford Humanities Center, November The Fall of the Author in The People of Paper. Clinton Institute for American Studies Summer School. University College Dublin, July The Trans-American Counter-Dictatorial Imaginary. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. New Orleans, April The TransAmerican Power of Form: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao as a Decolonial Zafa. Working Group on the Novel. Stanford Humanities Center, October A TransAmerican Zafa: The Decolonial Power of Narrative Form in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. The Futures of American Studies Institute. Dartmouth College, June Dictating Form, Countering Power: Characterizations of Dictatorship and the Critical Structures of Storytelling. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. Harvard University, April Counter-Dictatorial Zafas: The Decolonial Politics of Narrative Form in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Decolonizing Epistemology: New Knowing in Latina/o Philosophy and Theology. Drew University, November Migrating Dictator Novels: The Fall of the Patriarch in the Latina/o Imaginary. Society for Multi- Ethnic Studies of Europe and the Americas Conference. Leiden University, June Decolonizing Wounds: Testimonial Narrative Politics in the Americas. The Future of Minority Studies Summer Institute. Cornell University, July Colombian Migrant Testimonial Politics. National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Annual Meeting. San José, April Writing an Out for las Chica(na)s: Loosening Gender Roles in Sandra Cisneros s Poetry. Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality: The Power of Intersectionality. Miami University, February COURSES TAUGHT AT BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ESEM 008: Borders. Emily Balch Seminar. ENGL 217: Narratives of Latinidad. Cross-listed in: English, Spanish, LALIPC, Africana Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies. ENGL 237: The Dictator Novel in the Americas. Cross-listed in: English, Spanish, Comparative Literature, LALIPC, Gender and Sexuality Studies. ENGL 276: Transnational Américan Literature. Cross-listed in: English, LALIPC, Africana Studies. 3

4 ENGL 345: Theories of the Ethnic Novel. Cross-listed in: English, LALIPC, Africana Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies. ENGL 399: Senior Essays. Department of English. COLLEGE SERVICE AT BRYN MAWR COLLEGE Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Peoples and Cultures Program, Advisory Committee, Present. Program in Comparative Literature, Steering Committee, 2013-Present. Committee on Endowed Lectures, Committee Member, 2013-Present. Honor Board, Committee Member, Spanish Department Job Search, Committee Member, Search for a Consortium for Faculty Diversity at Liberal Arts Colleges Postdoctoral Fellow, Committee Member, Bryn Mawr Messaging Project, Working Group, Spring Seymour Adelman Poetry Award, Selection Committee, Spring M. Carey Thomas Essay Prize, Selection Committee, Spring 2012 and Spring Thomas Prize in Diversity, Selection Committee, Spring Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowsip. Faculty Advisor Pensby Diversity Internship. Faculty Advisor. Summer and Fall Migration, Art, and Social Justice, Event Co-Organizer and Panel Moderator, Spring On Graduate School, Organizer and Panelist, Fall 2011 and Spring New Faculty Orientation, Invited Speaker, Fall TLI New Faculty Pedagogy Seminar, Invited Speaker, Fall Pensby Center Social Justice Training Program, Invited Speaker, Spring PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Manuscript Reviewer. Contemporary Literature, Hispanic Review, Latino Studies, and MELUS. Symposium Co-Organizer. Junot Díaz: A Symposium. Stanford University, May 18 th -19 th, Working Groups:. Tri-Co Faculty of Color Group, Co-Coordinator, Spring 2012-Present.. Faculty Working Group on American Studies, Participant, 2011-Present.. Tri-Co Junior Faculty Group, Co-Coordinator, Spring TransAmerican Studies Working Group, Co-Coordinator, Stanford Humanities Center, TransAmerican Literary Studies Working Group, Co-Coordinator, Stanford University, Chicana/o Literature Reading Group, Co-Coordinator, Stanford University,

5 . Latin American Theory Reading Group, Co-Coordinator, Stanford University, Americanity/Coloniality/Modernity Working Group, Co-Coordinator, Stanford University, PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) American Studies Association (ASA) Future of Minority Studies (FMS) Modern Language Association (MLA) National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC) National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD) LANGUAGES English (Native Speaker), Spanish (Fluent), French (Reading Proficiency) 5