Jeffrey Zamostny Assistant Professor of Spanish University of West Georgia Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures 1601 Maple Street Carrollton, Georgia 30118 Office Phone: (678) 839-5959 jzamostn@westga.edu EDUCATION 2007-2012 Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies, Dissertation Title: Faustian Figures: Modernity and Male (Homo)sexualities in Spanish Commercial Literature, 1900-1936 2008-2010 Graduate Certificate in Social Theory, 2003-2007 B.A. in Spanish, McDaniel College (Westminster, Maryland) Valedictorian, Summa Cum Laude, Honors in Spanish, Honors Program 2005-2006 Programa Especial Integrado, Universidad de Salamanca (Spain) 2004 Summer Spanish School, Middlebury College ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS May, 2012-present Director of the Minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of West Georgia January, 2012-present Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of West Georgia AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Spanish Literary and Cultural Studies Social Theory Gender and Sexuality Studies
Zamostny 2 PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS Book Hustlers, Seducers, and Inverts: Faustian Figures in Silver Age Spain. Manuscript completed in July of 2012. Proposals under review as of August of 2012. Book Chapters Sex Reform and Inversion: Chaste Inverts between Tradition and Modernity in La antorcha apagada and El ángel de Sodoma. Fringe Discourses: Modernity and Epistemology in Nineteenth-Century Spain. Ed. Ryan Davis and Alicia Cerezo Paredes. Manuscript under review as of July of 2012. Constructing Ethical Attention in Lucía Puenzo s XXY: Cinematic Strategy, Intersubjectivity, and Intersexuality. Representing History, Class, and Gender in Spain and Latin America: Children and Adolescents in Film. Ed. Carolina Rocha and Georgia Seminet. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 189-204. Articles Pimping the Text: Gendered Tropes in Spain s Mass Literary Market. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (St. Louis, MO). Accepted for publication as of September of 2012. Canon Formation and Diversity: Latin American Gay Literature in the Global Market, Dossier of Images. Chasqui 41.1 (2012): 187-190. *The editor of Chasqui agreed to publish this dossier after he accidentally omitted my images from the 2011 publication listed below. Canon Formation and Diversity: Latin American Gay Literature in the Global Market. Chasqui 40.2 (2011): 80-94. El malestar estomacal en La de Bringas de Galdós. Decimonónica 7.1 (2010): 61-75. Comings Out: Secrecy, Sexuality, and Murder in Michael Nava s Rag and Bone. MELUS 34.3 (2009): 183-204. Todos a bordo!: Viajes al tercer sexo madrileño en A Sodoma en tren botijo de Álvaro Retana. Divergencias 7.1 (2009): 55-60. EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE 2012 Reviewer, JAISA (Journal for the Association of the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts). University of West Georgia
Zamostny 3 2011-2012 Editor-in-Chief, Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos. Department of Hispanic Studies,. Vol. 2: Apocalypse and the End Times/Apocalipsis y el fin del mundo. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/naeh/ 2011-2012 Reviewer, Polifonía: Revista académica de estudios hispánicos. Austin Peay State University. http://www.apsu.edu/polifonia 2010-2011 Co-Editor, disclosure (Journal of Social Theory). Committee on Social Theory,. Vol. 20: Family, Sex, Law. http://socialtheory.as.uky.edu/ disclosure 2010 Reviewer, Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos. Department of Hispanic Studies, CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION Conference Presentations November, 2012 Blackmail, Debt, and Modernity in Silver Age Spain. Conference of the Midwest Modern Language Association. Cincinnati, Ohio. Accepted November, 2012 Trains, Surveillance, and Seduction in Silver Age Spanish Gay Fiction. 27 th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities. University of West Georgia. Accepted April, 2012 Queer Don Juans: The Seducer in Spanish Medicine and Erotica of the 1920s. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. September, 2011 The Literary Pharmacies of Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent and Carmen de Burgos: Decadence, Queer Desire, and Spanish Commercial Literature. Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference. Auburn University March, 2011 Gendered Tropes in Spain s Short Novel Collections, 1907-1936. XIV Annual Hispanic and Lusophone Studies Symposium. Ohio State University October, 2010 Ethical Attention and Intersexuality in Lucía Puenzo s XXY. Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference. Radford University February, 2010 Canon Formation and Diversity: Latin American Gay Literature in the Global Market. Latin American Studies Graduate Student Symposium. University of Kentucky October, 2009 Puesta en abismo: La (in)comunicación en Los disparates de Francisco Goya. Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference. Furman University
Zamostny 4 February, 2009 Todos a bordo!: Viajes al tercer sexo madrileño en A Sodoma en tren botijo de Álvaro Retana. Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature, Language, and Culture. University of Arizona November, 2008 Entre la obra y el (hiper)texto: El andalucismo islamista en Blas Infante, un musulmán andaluz. Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Louisville, Kentucky October, 2008 All Aboard: Journeys Towards a Sexually-Dissident Subculture in Álvaro Retana s A Sodoma en tren botijo. Border Crossings: Boundaries of Cultural Interpretation. Vanderbilt University Conference Organization January, 2013 Organizer of the Special Session Spectacles of Gender and Desire in Silver Age Spain with Maite Zubiaurre (UCLA), Alejandro Mejías-López (Indiana U- Bloomington), and Rakhel Villamil-Acera (Adelphi U). Modern Language Association Convention. Boston, Massachusetts. Accepted October, 2010 Organizer of the Panel Latin American Women Filmmakers. Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Radford University September, 2009 Organizer of the Symposium Goya at the Equinox II. Department of Hispanic Studies, April, 2008-2012 Chair for Panels in the Spanish Peninsular Section, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Other Presentations February, 2012 Chaste Inverts between Tradition and Modernity in La antorcha apagada and El ángel de Sodoma. Brown Bag Research Presentation to Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of West Georgia FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS Fall, 2011 and Spring, 2009 Travel Grants for Conference Presentations, Graduate School, 2010 Dissertation Grant, Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain s Ministry of Culture and United States Universities 2007-2010 Multi-Year Fellowship, Graduate School, 2007-2010 Daniel R. Reedy Quality Achievement Award, Graduate School, University of Kentucky
Zamostny 5 2007-2009 T. Marshall Hahn, Jr. Graduate Fellowship, College of Arts and Sciences, 2003-2007 Full Scholarship, McDaniel College 2003-2007 Finalist, Maryland Distinguished Scholar Program, State of Maryland 2003-2007 Maryland Senatorial Scholarship, Senator of Maryland ACADEMIC HONORS Spring, 2009 Keller Award for Outstanding Research, Department of Hispanic Studies, Spring, 2007 Argonaut Award for Valedictorian, McDaniel College Spring, 2007 Edith Farr Riddington-Phi Beta Kappa Writing Award for Best Honors Thesis, McDaniel College Spring, 2007 Frank and Margaret Malone Award for Excellence in a Foreign Language, McDaniel College Spring, 2007 Eloise B. and Lowell S. Ensor Award for Graduate or Professional Study, McDaniel College Spring, 2007 Jacob K. Javits Commended Scholar, United States Department of Education Spring, 2007 Finalist, American Graduate Fellowship, Council of Independent Colleges Spring, 2006 H. Samuel Case and Susan Snodgrass Case Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research, McDaniel College Spring, 2005 Millard Milburn Rice Non-Fiction Writing Prize, McDaniel College TEACHING University of West Georgia SPAN 4785 Special Topics: Nature and Art in Hispanic modernismo (projected Su 2013) SPAN 4484 Senior Capstone (projected Sp 2013) SPAN 4260 Modern Spanish Poetry (projected F 2013) SPAN 4012 Spanish Culture and Civilization (projected Sp 2014) SPAN 3102 Spanish Composition (F 2012) SPAN 3030 Introduction to Hispanic Literature (Sp 2012, projected Sp 2013) SPAN 2001 Intermediate Spanish I (Su 2012, F 2012)
Zamostny 6 SPAN 1001 Elementary Spanish I (Sp 2012) XIDS 2100 Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies (projected Sp 2013) XIDS 2002 What Do You Really Know About International Sports? (F 2012, team-taught with three other instructors) SPA 310 Spanish Composition through Textual Analysis (Sp 2011) SPA 203 High Intermediate Spanish (F 2011) SPA 201-202 Intermediate Spanish I and II (Sp 2010, F 2010, Sp 2011) SPA 101 Elementary Spanish I (F 2009) SPA 101-102 Lab Elementary Spanish I and II, Lab (Su 2008) September, 2011 Invited Lecturer, SPA 482, Spanish Enlightenment and Romanticism, Dr. Ana Rueda Fall, 2009 Course Leader for SPA 101 (coordinated, revised, and distributed exams; mentor to other 101 instructors) Pedagogy Course and Workshop Participation Spring, 2011 Course, Instructional Technology, Fall, 2010 Certificate, Written Spanish Workshop Series, Department of Hispanic Studies,. Led by Judith Liskin-Gasparro, Janet C. Eldred, and Cecilia M. Colombi Fall, 2008 Course, Teaching of Spanish, Spring, 2006 Course, Metodología de la enseñanza del español como segundo idioma, Universidad de Salamanca (Spain) SERVICE University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities Fall, 2012 Study Abroad Committee Spring, 2012-present Director of the Minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies University of West Georgia, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures 2012-2013 Faculty Co-Director, Summer Study Abroad in Costa Rica 2013 Fall, 2012 FLAIR Learning Community Committee
Zamostny 7 Fall, 2012 Study Abroad Committee Summer, 2012 Advised prospective language majors at three Summer Orientation Sessions Spring, 2012 Search Committee Member, Assistant Professor Position in Spanish Spring, 2012 Search Committee Member, Instructor Positions in Spanish Spring, 2012 Preview Day Representative for Foreign Languages and Literatures University of West Georgia, Spanish Section Fall, 2012 Organizer, Hispanic Film Series: Contemporary Latin American Women Filmmakers Spring, 2012-present Leader for Spanish tertulia (weekly conversation hour) and panzón (monthly dinners) 2011-2012 Paid Research Assistant, Committee on Social Theory Spring, 2011 Paid Research Assistant, Hispanic Kentucky Oral History Project 2011-2012 Assistant to the Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Hispanic Studies 2011-2012 Vice President, Hispanic Studies Graduate Student Association 2009-2010 Secretary, Hispanic Studies Graduate Student Association 2008-2009 Vice President, Sigma Delta Pi (Spanish Honor Society) LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY English native speaker Spanish near-native French reading, intermediate speaking and writing Italian reading, elementary speaking and writing Portuguese reading Catalan reading
Zamostny 8 REFERENCES Dr. Susan Larson Dr. Ana Rueda Dr. Marion Rust Dr. Alan Brown Dr. Thomas Deveny Department of Hispanic Studies Director of Graduate studies (859) 257-1569 slarson@email.uky.edu Department of Hispanic Studies, Chair (859) 257-7091 rueda@email.uky.edu Department of English, Interim Chair (859) 257-6960 marion.rust@uky.edu Department of Hispanic Studies Director of Undergraduate Studies (859) 257-7093 alan.brown@uky.edu McDaniel College Department of Foreign Languages (410) 857-2460 tdeveny@mcdaniel.edu