Carlos A. Jáuregui

Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Anthropology

Director of Graduate Studies (Spring 2003-Spring 2004 and Fall 2005-Spring 2006).

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

306 Furman Hall

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, TN 37240

Phone: (615) 322-6856

Fax: (615) 343-7260

E-mail: carlos.a.jauregui@vanderbilt.edu 

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh, Fall 2001. Title of dissertation: “Cannibalism Revisited”. Director: Mabel Moraña.

Graduate Certificate in Latin American Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh, August, 2000.

Master of Arts in Spanish American Literature, West Virginia University, 1997.

Law Degree, Licenciado en Leyes. Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, 1993.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

• The Conquest on Trial: Carvajal’s Complaint of the Indians in the “Court of Death.” Pennsylvania State University Press, Series “Latin American Originals: Colonial and Nineteenth-Century Primary Sources,” under the direction of Matthew Restall (In press, 2008).
• Canibalia. Canibalismo, calibanismo, antropofagia cultural y consumo en América Latina. Premio Casa de las Américas de Ensayo 2005.  Revised, second edition.  Madrid, Spain: Vervuert, ETC: Ensayos de Teoría Cultural 1, 2008. 724 pages. Hardcover ISBN 9788484892991
• Canibalia. Premio Casa de las Américas 2005, ensayo [Casa de las Américas Award]. La Habana, Cuba; Córdoba, Spain: Fondo Editorial Casa de las Américas, 2005. 977 pages, 35 illustrations. ISBN: 959-260-118-6.

• Querella de los indios en las Cortes de la Muerte (1557) de Michael de Carvajal (México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, (2002). This book includes a study and an annotated critical edition of the Escena XIX of Cortes de la Muerte.

 Reviewed by

- Beatriz de Alba-Koch. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 29.3, (2005): 613-615.

- María Dolores Bravo. Revista Iberoamericana 71: 210. (2005): 332-337.

- Juan José Daneri. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 38:2 (2004): 374, 375.

- Alejandro Ortiz Bullé Goyri. Latin American Theatre Review (Fall 2004): 193-194.

- Vicente Pérez de León. Anuario de Estudios Cervantinos 1. (2004): 190.

Edited volumes

• Of Rage and Redemption: The Art of Oswaldo Guayasamín / Furia y redención. El arte de Oswaldo Guayasamín. [Art catalog for the National tour and exhibition at the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, TN (February 7-March 20, 2008), the Art Museum of the Americas, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C (April 3–May 29, 2008), The Alameda Museum, San Antonio, Texas (June 19–August 14, 2008), University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida (September 4–October 30, 2008), Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania (January 23–March 27, 2009), Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California (April 12–August 16, 2009)]. Co-authored & Co-edited with Joseph S. Mella and Edward F. Fischer. Nashville: The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery (In Press, 2008). ISBN: 978-0-615-18701-3.

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• Colonialidad y crítica en América Latina. Bases para un debate. Coedited with Mabel Moraña. Puebla, México: UDLA, Colección: Pensamiento Latinoamericano 2007. 565 pages. ISBN 978-968-6254-96-9.

• Heterotropías: narrativas de identidad y alteridad latinoamericana, Co-edited with Juan P. Dabove. Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana -- IILI (2003). Contributors: Hugo Achugar, Edna Aizemberg, John Beverley, Sara Castro-Klaren, Nina Gerassi-Navarro, Margo Glantz, Stuart Hall, Herman Herlinghaus, John Kraniauskas, William Luis, Jesús Martín-Barbero, Silvia Molloy, Mabel Moraña, Michael Palencia-Roth, Rosanna Regillo, Nelly Richard, Alberto Sandoval, Diana de Armas Wilson and Andrés Zamora.

• Coloniality at Large. Latin America and the Postcolonial Debate (to be published by Duke University Press, 2008). Co-edited with Enrique Dussel y Mabel Moraña. 2003 FORD-LASA Special Projects Award.

• Bulletin of the Comediantes 58.1. Monographic issue on Colonial Theatre in Spanish America. Co-edited with Edward H. Friedman (2006).

Articles, Book Chapters, Essays and Critical introductions (peer-reviewed marked with an asterisk)

• “Of Rage and Redemption. Oswaldo Guayasamín (1919-1999) / Furia y redención. Oswaldo Guayasamín (1919-1999).” Co-authored with Edward F. Fischer. In Of Rage and Redemption: The Art of Oswaldo Guayasamín / Furia y redención. El arte de Oswaldo Guayasamín. [Art catalog for the US National tour and exhibition February 7-August 16, 2009)]. Co-edited by Carlos A. Jáuregui, Joseph S. Mella and Edward F. Fischer. Nashville: The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery (2008): 17-38.

• "Imperial Reason, War Theory and Human Rights in Las Casas’s Apología and the Valladolid Debate” (with Luis F. Restrepo). In Approaches to Teaching the Writings of Bartolomé de las Casas, Ed. Santa Arias and Eyda Merediz. Book proposal accepted by the Modern Language Association's series: Approaches to Teaching World Literatures, (Accepted for publication 2006-2007). (17 pages).

• “Cannibalism, the Eucharist, and Criollo Subjects.” Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas: Empires, Texts, Identities Ralph Bauer and Jose Antonio Mazzotti (eds.), (forthcoming with Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture at the College of William and Mary in Colonial Williamsburg, University of North Carolina Press, 2006). [This is a revised English version of article § 8]. (54 pages).
• “Apetitos coloniales, salvajes críticos y razón de imperio en las Cortes de la Muerte (1557).” Bulletin of the Comediantes 58.1 (2006): 103-140.
• “Teatro colonial hispánico” (with Edward H. Friedman). Introductory essay to Monographic issue of Bulletin of the Comediantes 58.1 (§ 4), (2006): 9-30.
• “Colonialism and its Replicants” (with Enrique Dussel and Mabel Moraña). Introductory essay to Coloniality at Large. Latin America and the Postcolonial Debate, (Accepted for publication, Duke University Press 2006-2007). (24 pages).
• “Canibalia (notas para una cartografia nocturna)” Humboldt 142: 47 Goethe Institut (2005) [Also in Portuguese: “Canibalia. Notas para uma cartografia noturna)”]. (Invited contributor for the special issue “Comer y ser comido”).
• “Lascasianismo y razón imperial en las Cortes de la muerte 1557” Verónica Salles Reese (ed.). Repensando el pasado, recuperando del futuro: Nuevos aportes interdisciplinarios para el estudio de la América colonial. Bogota: Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, (2005): 312-346.
• “Candelario Obeso, la literatura ‘afro-nacional’ y los límites del espacio literario decimonónico.” Literatura y cultura afrocolombiana. Ensayos Críticos. Lucía Ortiz (ed.). Frankfurt: Vervuert (In press, 2007). (19 pages).
• “Arielismo e imaginario indigenista en la Revolución boliviana. Sariri: una replica a Rodó (1954).” Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana 59, (2004): 155-183.
• “ ‘El plato más sabroso’: eucaristía, plagio diabólico, y la traducción criolla del caníbal,” Colonial Latin American Review. 12: 2 (2003): 199-231.
•  “Mapas heterotrópicos de América Latina” (with Juan Dabove). Heterotropías: narrativas de identidad y alteridad latinoamericana. IILI (2003): 7-36.Republished by: Enfocarte: Arte y cultura 26 (2005).
• “Brasil especular: alianzas estratégicas y “viajes estacionarios” por el tiempo salvaje de la Canibalia.” Heterotropías: narrativas de identidad y alteridad latinoamericana. IILI (2003): 77-114. An earlier version of this article was published in Enunciación 7 (2002).
• “Profilaxis, traducción y ética: la humanidad “desechable” en Rodrigo D, No futuro, La vendedora de rosas y La virgen de los sicarios” (in cooperation with Juana Suárez). Revista Iberoamericana 199 (2002): 367-392.
•  "Saturno caníbal: fronteras, reflejos y paradojas en la narrativa sobre el antropófago.” Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana 51, (2000): 9-39.
•  “Writing Communities on the Internet: Textual Authority and Territorialization.” Beyond the Lettered City: Latin American Literature and Mass Media. Debra Ann Castillo and Edmundo Paz-Soldán (eds.). Garland Publishing / Hispanic Issues. (2000): 358-374.
• “Candelario Obeso: entre la espada del Romanticismo y la pared del proyecto nacional" Special issue of Revista Iberoamericana 189: Literatura Afro-hispánica. Coordinator: Dolores Aponte-Ramos. (1999): 567-590. [A version of this article was republished in Revista Casa Silva 13 (2000): 44-63].
•  “Enfermedad, diagnósticos y pócimas en Macondo: lectura de la práctica médica en Cien años de soledad." Revista de Estudios Colombianos 20 (1999): 37-46.
• “Calibán: ícono del 98. A propósito de un artículo de Rubén Darío". Special Issue of Revista Iberoamericana 184-185: 1898-1998 Balance de un siglo. Coordinator: Aníbal González. (1998): 441-449.

Text edition

• Rubén Dario's “El triunfo de Calibán” (Edition and notes). Revista Iberoamericana 184-185. (1998): 451-455. Republished in Proyecto Ensayo Hispánico. ISBN 0-9763880-0-6, José Luis Gómez-Martínez (ed.).

 Interview

• “Violencia, representación y voluntad realista.” Interview with Víctor Gaviria. Objeto Visual: Imagen y subalternidad. El cine de Víctor Gaviria. Caracas: Cinemateca Nacional de Venezuela, (2003): 91-104. Also published in Espacio urbano, comunicación y violencia en América Latina. Pittsburgh, IILI (2002): 223-236. 

other publications

·         Eduardo F Lozano (Buenos Aires, junio 1, 1925 - Pittsburgh, agosto 25, 2006). Obituario. Revista Iberoamericana (2007)(Forthcoming).

·         “Nuevos caníbales y calibanes” (Breve diálogo con Carlos Jáuregui), entrevista hecha por Maité Hernández-Lorenzo. La ventana 15 de Marzo del 2005

·        “Las protestas del cuerpo sufriente: razón imperial, humanismo cristiano y los trastornos semánticos del tropo caníbal.” Actas del Simposio Internacional: Simulacros de la fantasía: nuevas indagaciones sobre arte y literatura virreinales. José Pascual Buxó (Ed.) UNAM, México (Accepted for publication, 2007): 19 pages.

• “Canibalismo y conciencia criolla en las loas a los autos El Cetro de José y El Divino Narciso de Juana Inés de la Cruz.” Terras e Gentes, Anais do VII Congresso da Associação Brasileira de Literatura Comparada (ABRALIC). Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. July 2000. Universidade Federal da Bahia, (2002): CD. 16 pages.
• “María Mercedes Carranza” (Encyclopedia article). Notable Twentieth-Century Latin American Women: a Biographical Dictionary. Cynthia Margarita Tompkins and David William Foster (eds.). Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press (December 2000): 71-76.
• “La poesía colombiana en el siglo XX.” Actual 1: 47-48. Voces de la poesía hispanoamericana (2001): 180-188.
• “El suicidio público del artista.” Boletín Cultural y Bibliográfico. Número 45. Volumen XXXIV – 1997- (pub. in 1998): 143.

Book Reviews

• Review of Rainforest Literatures: Amazonian Texts and Latin-American Culture by Lúcia Sá (Minnesota University Press, 2004), for the The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History (Accepted for publication, 2007).
• Review of Cannibalism and the Colonial World. Francis Barker, Peter Hulme and Margaret Iversen (eds.). (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998) for the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 4 (2000): 323-325.

Translations into Spanish (in Heterotropías § 5)

• “Oswaldo Guayasamín, Los toturados, 1976-1977” by Leonard Folgarait. In Of Rage and Redemption: The Art of Oswaldo Guayasamín / Furia y redención. El arte de Oswaldo Guayasamín. [Art catalog for the US National tour and exhibition February 7-August 16, 2009)]. Co-edited by Carlos A. Jáuregui, Joseph S. Mella and Edward F. Fischer. Nashville: The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery (Forthcoming 2008).

• “Thinking the Diaspora: Home-thoughts from Abroad” by Stuart Hall in Small Axe, 6 (2000).
• “Enemies of God: Monsters and the Theology of Conquest,” by Michael Palencia-Roth in Monsters, Tricksters and Sacred Cows: Animal Tales and American Identities. James Arnold (ed.). Charlottesville: The University of Virginia UP, (1996): 23-50.
• “‘Cronos and the Political Economy of Vampirism: Notes on a Historical Constellation” by John Kraniauskas, in Cannibalism and the Colonial World. Francis Barker, Peter Hulme and Margaret Iversen (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, (1998): 142-157.

AWARDS, GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

• Premio Casa de las Américas (Casa de las Américas Award), 2005, for the book Canibalia (§ 1).
• Fellow of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities (2005-2006) in the program Pre-Modern Others: Race and Sexuality.
• Research Scholar Grant: for the proposal: “Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Politics of Gender and Identity in the Baroque Culture of New Spain.” (Summer 2005)
• Research Scholar Fellowship from Vanderbilt University (2004). For the proposal: “Cannibalia: Cannibalism as Metaphor in the Cultural History of Latin America.”
• FORD-LASA Special Projects Award from the Ford Foundation and Latin American Studies Association LASA (2003). For the proposal “Coloniality at Large. Latin America and the Postcolonial ebate” (a collective reflection on the theoretical and critical implications of colonialism and the so-called Latin American “postcolonial condition;” co-edited with Enrique Dussel and Mabel Moraña, 2004-2005).
• National Resource Center Grant for Latin American Studies (U.S. Department of Education). Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh (2003). For the proposal: “Cannibals, Coloniality, and the Politics of Cultural Consumption in Latin America.”
• Research Scholar Grant Summer Stipend from Vanderbilt University (2003). For the proposal: “Paranoid Nationalism and the Dominican ‘Man-Eating Negro’.” Archival research in Seville and Santo Domingo.
• Research Grant from the Program for Cultural Cooperation from Spain’s Ministry of Education (2002). For the proposal: “The Protests of the Suffering Body: Imperial Reason and Lascasianism in Michael de Carvajal’s Cortes de la Muerte.” Archival research in Spain.
• Research Scholar Grant from Vanderbilt University (2002). For the proposal: “The Protests of the Suffering Body: Imperial Reason and Lascasianism in Michael de Carvajal’s Cortes de la Muerte.” Archival Research in Spain.
• Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship for the academic year 2000-2001. University of Pittsburgh.
• Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) Graduate Student Field Research Grant (The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation) for summer 2000: “Brazilian Cultural Cannibalism: the 24^th Bienal de São Paulo.”
• U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLASF) for the academic year 1999-2000. University of Pittsburgh.
• U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLASF) for the academic year 1998-1999. University of Pittsburgh.
• Fellowship (HERF) at West Virginia University 1996-1997.

HONORS, NATIONAL COMMITTEES AND OTHER DISTINCTIONS 

• Chair of the Executive Committee of the MLA Division on Latin American Literature from independence to 1900. (2008)
• Member on the Executive Committee of the Colonial Americas Studies Organization (CASO) (2004-2008).
• Nominated for the Vanderbilt University Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching (2005).
• Secondary appointment in Anthropology. Department of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University (since Fall 2004).
• Associate Scholar. Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh (since June 2003).
• Elected member on the Executive Committee of the MLA Division on Latin American Literature from independence to 1900 (2004-2008).
• Honored at the 1999 and the 2000 Annual Honor Convocation Ceremonies of the University of Pittsburgh for Outstanding Academic Achievement.
• Outstanding Graduate Student for 1996-1997. Department of Foreign Languages. West Virginia University, 1997.

LECTURES AND PARTICIPATION IN ACADEMIC CONFERENCES

Invited Presentations / Lectures

•  Early Modern Race and Colonization in the Americas. Premodern Race and Sexuality Conference. Newberry Library, Chicago, March 30, 2007.
• “El canibalismo sirve para pensar.” Diálogo de Culturas / Civilizaciones. Ayuntamiento de Sevilla and Fundación Sevilla Nodo. By invitation of the Mayor of Seville, Spain, September 28, 2006.
• “Las dimensiones simbólicas del canibalismo.” Book presentation at the Ayuntamiento de Sevilla and Fundación Sevilla Nodo. By invitation of the Mayor of Seville, Spain, September 29, 2006
• “Tropología, horror e identidad.” Universidad de Ibagué (Coruniversitaria), Ibagué, Colombia, August 10 and 11, 2006.
• “Canibalismo y consumo: apuntes para una crítica cultural.” Washington University, St. Louis, April 10, 2006.
• Canibalia.” Book presentation at the Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba, January 12, 2006.
• “Apetitos coloniales, salvajes críticos y razón de imperio.” Duke University, Durham NC, November 15, 2005.
• “Cannibalism, the Eucharist, and Allegorical Indians.” University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC. November 16, 2005.
• “Bartolomé de las Casas y la legislación indiana, s. XVI.” West Virginia University, Morgantown WV, November 8, 2005.
• “El ‘Calibán’ de Rubén Darío: el monstruo finisecular del 98.” Universidad de Vigo, Vigo, Spain (May 7, 2003).
• “Canibalia: escenarios discursivos del canibalismo americano.” Lecture at Princeton University (January12, 2001).
• “Cannibalia and Religious Commonality: Discursive Scenarios of the American Feast.” Lecture at Boston College (January 29, 2001).
• “Los versos de Candelario Obeso.” Casa de poesía Silva. Bogotá, Colombia. (August 1999).
• “Canibalismo e identidad latinoamericana en el Modernismo brasileño.” Universidad de los Andes. Bogotá, Colombia. May 1999.

Presentations in Academic Conferences

• “Cuerpos relevantes y cuerpos relevados de humanidad (colonialidad, horror y resistencia en los relatos sobre robo y tráfico de órganos humanos).” VII Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana (JALLA). Universidad de los Andes, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, and Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Bogotá, Colombia, August 14-18, 2006.
• “Colonialidad, terror e historia ‘minúscula’ (el caso de un asesino en serie de finales del siglo XVIII en Santo Domingo.” Second International Interdisciplinary Symposium of the Colonial Americas Studies Organization (CASO). Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, Colombia, August 8-11, 2005.
• “Alteridad religiosa, transubstanciación y agencia criolla.” XXV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Las Vegas, Nevada. October 7-9, 2004.
• “Razón imperial y protestas lascasianas en las Cortes de la Muerte.” Colonial Americas: First International Interdisciplinary Symposium. Colonial Americas Studies Organization (CASO). Georgetown University. Washington D.C. October 9-11, 2003.
• “Sariri, the Bolivian Revolution and the Indianist Erasure of the 'Indian'.” Sixty-third Annual College Language Association Convention and Sixty-sixth Anniversary: Signifying Theories: New Gazes on Literatures and Languages. Howard University, Washington. April 23 - 27, 2003.
• “Hans Staden y la escena salvaje.” XXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), in Dallas, Texas, March 27 - 29, 2003.
• “Fantasías gótico-”posmodernas” del consumo y la desposesión del cuerpo en América Latina.” VIII Congresso da Associação Brasileira de Literatura Comparada (ABRALIC). Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, July 22-26, 2002.
• “Sariri y Calibán: imaginarios de la multitud y la insurgencia en la Revolución boliviana.” Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. Iowa July 2-6, 2002.
• “Ñam, ñam: Paran