Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures Swarthmore, PA Jastak Burgess Hall

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1 PERSEPHONE BRAHAM University of Delaware 100 S. Swarthmore Ave. Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures Swarthmore, PA Jastak Burgess Hall Newark, DE Education University of Pennsylvania Ph.D., Romance Languages, Spanish Language and Literature 1998 Barnard College, Columbia University B.A., Political Science 1985 Teaching Positions University of Delaware, Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures (joint appointment to Latin American & Iberian Studies Program) Associate Professor Assistant Professor University of Pennsylvania, Department of Romance Languages Visiting Lecturer, Full-time Barnard College, Department of Spanish and Latin American Cultures Visiting Assistant Professor Columbia University, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Visiting Assistant Professor Academic Administration Director, University of Delaware Latin American & Iberian Studies Program Chair, Greater Philadelphia Latin American Studies Consortium Other Professional University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Design Information Systems & Technology Specialist Anthony McCall Associates, New York Graphic Design Studio Manager Unitron Inc. Pre-Press Services, New York Customer Service Representative Network for Learning / Warner Audio Books, New York Production Manager / Art Director Publications Book Crimes Against the State, Crimes Against Persons: Detective Fiction in Cuba and Mexico. University of Minnesota Press, February Refereed Journal and Book Articles The Monstrous Caribbean. Chapter in The Ashgate Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous. Ed. Asa Mittman and Peter Dendle. London: Ashgate, 2012.

2 Braham CV / 2 Los vampiros, el cine, y el simulacro del dictador. Book chapter in La literatura y el cine hispánicos en el bicentenario de las independencias hispanoamericanas ( ). Barcelona: Promociones y Publicaciones Universitarias. Modern Language Series, Ana Lydia Vega y el género negrogótico. Revista Iberoamericana LXXVI.231 (April-June 2010), Anthropology, Anthropophagy and Amazons. Letras Hispanas 5.2 (Fall 2008), El feliz cautiverio de Gonzalo Guerrero. Hispanic Review 74.1 (Winter 2006), Las fronteras negras de Juan Hernández Luna y Paco Ignacio Taibo II. Book article in El norte y su frontera en la narrativa policíaca mexicana, Ed. Juan Carlos Ramírez Pimienta and Juan Pablo Villalobos. Plaza y Valdés El corazón sangrante and Crónica de las destrucciones: Olivier Debroise s critique of the mythic palimpsest. Ciberletras 11, July Los simuladores del talento: Representing Monsters in Argentinean Letters, Latin American Literary Review (Jan-June 2003), Adventures in the Picturesque: Voyage and Voyeurism in the Travelers Guidebook to Mexico. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos XXVI.3 (Spring 2002), Mrs. Watson in Havana. Hopscotch 2.1, Fall Machismo, travestismo y revolución en dos novelas policiacas cubanas. Pensamiento y critica: Los discursos de la cultura hoy. Javier Durán, Rosaura Hernández Monroy, and Manuel F. Medina, eds. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University; University of Louisville; Centro de Cultura Casa Lamm, Mexico Violence and Patriotism: La novela negra from Chester Himes to Paco Ignacio Taibo II. Journal of American Culture, Fall Encyclopedia articles Ghosts of Latin America for Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary Monsters. Ed. Jeffrey Weinstock. London: Ashgate Press. Forthcoming June Sirens for Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary Monsters. Ed. Jeffrey Weinstock. London: Ashgate Press. Forthcoming June Scylla and Charybdis for Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary Monsters. Ed. Jeffrey Weinstock. London: Ashgate Press. Forthcoming June Leonardo Padura Fuentes for Gale World Scholar Latin America & the Caribbean. Ed. in Chief Erick Langer Book Reviews Los orígenes de la narrativa policial en la Argentina. Recepción y transformación de modelos genéricos alemanes, franceses e ingleses. By Román Setton. Madrid: Iberoamericana/Veuvert, Forthcoming in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Unraveling the Real: The Fantastic in Spanish-American Ficciones. By Cynthia Duncan. Philadelphia, Temple University Press, The Americas 69.2 (October 2012). Contemporary Hispanic Crime Fiction: a Transatlantic Discourse on Urban Violence. By Glen S. Close. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 45.1 (March 2011). Magdalena: A Fable of Spirituality. By Beatriz Escalante. Trans. Jay Miskoviec. DeRLAS 4.1 (Winter 2003). Luminous Cities. By Eduardo García Aguilar. Trans. Jay Miskoviec. DeRLAS 4.1 (Winter 2003). Writing Paris: Urban Topographies of Desire in Contemporary Latin American Fiction. Hispanic Review 70.2 (Spring 2002). Postmodernidades latinoamericanas: La novela postmoderna en Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Perú y Bolivia. By Raymond L. Williams. Hispanic Review 69.2 (Spring 2001).

3 Braham CV / 3 Sexual Textualities: Essays on Queer/ing Latin American Writing. By David William Foster. Hispanic Review 69.1 (Winter 2001). Yo-Yo Boing! By Giannina Braschi. Review 60 (Spring 2000). A Place in the Sun? Women Writers in Twentieth-Century Cuba. By Catherine Davies. Hispanic Review 67.3 (Summer 1999). The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature. Ed. Roberto González Echevarría and Enrique Pupo-Walker. Hispanic Review 66.1 (Winter 1998). Jicoténcal por el padre Félix Varela. Ed. Luis Leal and Rodolfo J. Cortina. Hispanic Review 65.1 (Winter 1997). Translations Adolfo Castañon, Dos cuentos. Web site Artes e Historia de México (Fall 1999). Ricardo Chávez Castañeda, Ángeles. Web site Artes e Historia de México (Summer 1999). Adriana González, Toros. Web site Artes e Historia de México (Summer 1997). Invited and Keynote Presentations Mass Murder and Representation in Mexico. Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, March Novela negra, nota roja: True Crime, Crime Fiction, and Tabloids in Mexico. Keynote presentation. Second Congreso Internacional de Literatura Detectivesca en Español. Texas Tech, Lubbock, TX, September Novela negra, nota roja: True Crime, Crime Fiction, and Tabloids in Mexico. Keynote presentation. Loyola University Language, Literature, & Society Colloquium, Baltimore, MD, April Ana Lydia Vega s Noir Gothic. Columbia University Institute of Latin American Studies/Center for Brazilian Studies, New York, April Conference presentations True-crime, novela negra, y nota roja en México. Congreso CEISAL, Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Oporto, Portugal, June A Technology of Vampires: Latin American Dictators and the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, March From Amazons to Zombies: Latin America s Monstrous Fantastic. International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, March The Monstrous Caribbean. X Congreso International de Literatura Hispánica. San Juan, Puerto Rico, March Ana Lydia Vega s Noir Gothic. LASA2010, Toronto, October Vampires, Film, and the Dictator-Simulacrum. Florida International University VII Biennial Conference, Miami, FL, March Using wikis to develop student research, collaboration, and critical thinking EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, September Vampires, Film, and the Dictator-Simulacrum. SCOLAS, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, March New World Teratologies: The Mermaid Metaphor. MLA, Chicago, IL, December Anthropology, Anthropophagy and Amazonia. LASA 2007, Montreal, Canada, September Latin American Short Stories. Four two-day seminars for 11 th and 12 th grade students at the St. Paul's School, Baltimore, MD, February "Walking With Zombies: Mayra Montero's Haitian Inferno." LASA2006, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March (Session organizer / presenter)

4 Braham CV / 4 Introduction to Mexican Culture." Spanish Languages and Hispanic Cultures for Educators Professional Development Cluster, University of Delaware, November New World Teratologies: Taxonomic Lessons and the Mermaid Metaphor. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April Anthropology, anthropophagy and the vagina dentata. LASA 2004, Las Vegas, October PBL Applications in the Humanities: Latin American Civilizations and Culture PBL International Conference, Cancun, Mexico, June PBL Applications in the Humanities: Latin American Civilizations and Culture Winter Teaching Learning and Technology (TLT) Institute, UD Center for Teaching Effectiveness, January El feliz cautiverio de Gonzalo Guerrero. IX Jornadas Metropolitanas de Estudios Culturales, UAM/UNAM, Michigan State, and University of Louisville, Mexico, D.F., July Ya veis estos mis hijitos cuán bonicos son: Gonzalo Guerrero, the Other Castaway. LASA 2001, Washington, DC, September Los límites de la representación (pos)nacional en la literatura mexicana del siglo XX. Panel discussant, LASA 2001, Washington, DC, September Los simuladores del talento: Representing monsters in Argentinean letters, University of Pennsylvania, Spring Crónica de las destrucciones y la historia profiláctica: el arte contra el mítico palimpsesto. LASA 2000, Miami, March Mexico City 2001: Mapping the Megalopolis. Panel discussant, LASA 2000, Miami, March Los simuladores del talento: Representing monsters in Argentinean letters, Columbia University, February Detective Literature en español: Modernity, Genre, Antigenre. NEMLA Panel Chair, Pittsburgh, April Pronósticos de fin de siglo. Jorge Ibargüengoitia y la novela policiaca. LASA, Chicago, September Género, subgénero y nación: la novela policiaca cubana. NEMLA, Baltimore, April Dictadura y jettatura: la patologización psíquica de la Argentina en Bunge y Laferrère. Columbia/NYU Graduate Student Colloquium, March Machismo, travestismo y revolución en dos novelas policiacas cubanas. IV Jornadas Metropolitanas de Estudios Culturales, UAM/UNAM, Michigan State, and University of Louisville, Mexico, D.F., July Violence and Patriotism: The novela negra from Chester Himes to Paco Ignacio Taibo II. Art and Criticism in Mexico, University of California, Irvine, April Symposia (organizer) The African Americas Project. Latin American & Iberian Studies with Black American Studies and the University Museums, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, October Latin American Cities, Greater Philadelphia Latin American Studies Consortium, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, April Women in Action: Social Transformation in Latin America, Greater Philadelphia Latin American Studies Consortium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, February Grants and Awards Delaware Humanities Forum Grant ($15,000) for African Americas Project, Summer University of Delaware Area Studies Research Award ($1,500), Summer 2011.

5 Braham CV / 5 College of Arts & Sciences Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Center Grant ($6,000) for African Americas Project, Spring University of Delaware Center for Educational Effectiveness E-Portfolio Development Grant ($15,000), December Institute for Global Studies Faculty Fellowship ($10,000), Center for Teaching Effectiveness Exemplary Assessment Fellow, January Latin American Studies Capstone seminar development grant ($11,000), December National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Stipend ($6,000), Summer University of Delaware General University Research Grant ($6,000), Academic University of Delaware ITUE Travel Grant, June University of Delaware ITUE Training Grant, Summer University of Delaware Center for Teaching Effectiveness General Education Initiative Grant, Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania Research Fellowship, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania Dissertation Fellowship, Summer Research Assistant to Professor José Miguel Oviedo, Researched and edited his Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana vols. I and II. Research Latin American literatures and cultures from the Discovery to the present Areas of specialization: XIX, XX and XXI centuries, Caribbean literatures, Mexican literature, cultural studies, film, cities Current book project: From Amazons to Zombies: Monsters in Latin America Courses taught Hispanic Caribbean Literature (graduate and undergraduate) Monsters & Machines (graduate and undergraduate) Pan-Caribbean Literature in Translation Mexican Literature & Culture Colonial Latin America Latin American Humanities I and II Latin American Civilizations Latin American Film Latin American Cities (conventional and capstone) Latin American Travel Literature Latin American Politics & Literature Latin American literature surveys, all periods Advanced Grammar and Composition Advanced Reading and Composition Conversation, all levels Spanish language, all levels Other/Community Chair, Board of Directors, The School in Rose Valley Corporation (coed day school, pre-k-6 th grade)