RENÉ CARRASCO Lecturer Committee on Instruction History & Literature Harvard University

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1 RENÉ CARRASCO Lecturer Committee on Instruction History & Literature Harvard University RESEARCH INTERESTS Indigenista Literature in México and in Latin America; Colonial Latin American Literature; Colonial/Decolonial Studies; pre-columbian Mexico; Baroque Studies in the New Spain; The Novel of the Mexican Revolution; Philosophical Thought in Latin America; Literary Criticism; Historiography; Anthropology; Ethnography. EDUCATION Ph.D. M.A. B.A. The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX Doctor of Philosophy in Spanish American Literatures Dissertation Title: Gramática de la Redención: Genealogía de las lógicas discursivas del indigenismo en México. Director: David M. Solodkow (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) Co-director: Arturo Arias (The University of Texas at Austin, Texas) Portfolio: Indigenous Studies The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX Masters of Arts in Spanish and Spanish American Literatures University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA Bachelor of Arts in Spanish (with Honors) Bachelor of Arts in History May, 2015 May, 2010 May, 2008 PUBLICATIONS PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES El surgimiento del mestizo y la desaparición del indígena: la fase biopolítica del discurso indigenista en México. Submitted to Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, February Summer 2012 Mariátegui y Arguedas: el socialismo indoamericano y su dramatización en Todas las Sangres, in Arguedas: La dinámica de los encuentros culturales, Fondo Editorial Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2012.

2 Curriculum Vitae - Carrasco 2 NEWSPAPER ARTICLES Fall 2005 Spring 2006 La voz de Berkeley. Writer. September 2005-May Berkeley, CA Monthly column called Ventanas CONFERENCE PAPERS Summer 2016 Fall 2015 Spring 2012 El surgimiento del mestizo y la desaparición del indígena: la fase biopolítica del discurso indigenista en México. XII Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación de la Universidad Mayor de San Andrés. La Paz, Bolivia. August 8-12, On the Zapatista case: Rethinking Indigenous Autonomy as a Response to a colonial legacy. 21 st Annual Philosophy Conference, Legacies of Colonialism and Philosophies of Restistance. Vilanova University, Vilanova, PA, April 14-15, Indigneismo y Neo-zapatismo: La palabra indígena en búsqueda de autonomía política. 4 th Conference on Ethnicity, Race & Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean. Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. October 15-17, 2015 Lógicas discursivas del discurso indigenista en México. Segunda ventana: Apropiaciones simbólico-retóricas de lo indígena durante el barroco novohispano. XXXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. San Juan, Puerto Rico. May 27-30, Por una decolonización profunda: José Carlos Mariátegui y el problema de la tierra. XXX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. San Francisco,CA. May 23 26, Fall 2011 La nueva guerrilla maya: El EZLN a través de sus comunicados Conference on Ethnicity, Race & Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean. University of California, San Diego, November 3-5, Summer 2012 Mariátegui y Arguedas: El <<socialismo indoamericano>> y su novelización en Todas las Sangres. Congreso Internacional Arguedas: La dinámica de los encuentros culturales. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, June 20 24, Spring 2011 Por el Sendero Luminoso de José Carlos Mariátegui: Sueños de Revolución. Political Dreams and Nightmares in Iberian and Latin American Literatures, The University of Chicago, April 15 16, 2011

3 Curriculum Vitae - Carrasco 3 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Harvard University Committee on Degrees in Histroy & Literature Fall 2015 Present Tutor for HL90 Latin American Cultural Criticism Tutor for HL97 Sophomore Tutorial: Landscaping Latin America Tutor for HL98 Junior Tutorial Latin America: A history against the grain of the other America Tutor for HL99 Supervised the Senior Thesis: Transnational mestizajes: Race, place and the political in Vasconcelos La Raza Cósmica and Anzaldúa's Borderlands by Alicia Zamora. The University of Texas at Austin Spanish and Portuguese Department Fall Assistant Instructor Instructor of SPN 611D Intermediate Spanish II Instructor of SPN 610D Bilingual Spanish for Heritage Speakers Instructor of SPN 610D Intermediate Spaish I Instructor of SPN 601D Beginning Spanish Instructor of SPN 507K Beginning Spanish Teaching Assistant Assistant in SPN 346 Practical Phonetics Assistant in six sections of Spanish 506K Assistant in SPN 322K Latin American Civilization University of California, Berkeley Spring 2008 Decal Instructor Taught SPAN 98/198 Zapatismo: Creando Mundos Nuevos. Created sylabus, graded reading responses, prepared class and lectured. Berkeley Maynard Academy, CA Fall 2005-Spring 2006 After School Tutor Tutored K-12 students in Math and English, while developing lesson plans, test and learning activities. FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS & AWARDS Jan Thaddeus Teaching Prize. Committee on Degrees in History & Literature, Harvard University.

4 Curriculum Vitae - Carrasco 4 International Travel Grant / Professional Developmental Award. Department of Spanish & Portuguese, The University of Texas at Austin. Lila M. Casis Dissertation Award. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. The University of Texas at Austin. Spring 2012 Professional Developmental Award, Department of Spanish & Portuguese. The University of Texas at Austin. SERVICE AND COMMUNITY EXPOSURE Spring 2010 Present Judge for Annual Poetry Declamation Contest organized by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The University of Texas at Austin (Regional Community- Focused Event) Fall 2010 Editor and Contributor for Revista Pterodáctilo, online literary journal of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The University of Texas at Austin. (Dossier Special) Fall 2009 Spring 2010 Graduate Student Organization s Film Co-Chair LANGUAGES Spanish: Native speaker English: Near-native speaker Portuguese: Advanced (reading, writing, speaking) Latin: Intermediate (translating, reading) Italian: Intermediate (reading, writing, speaking) Náhuatl: Beginner (translating, reading) PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Modern Language Association (MLA)

5 Curriculum Vitae - Carrasco 5 REFERENCES Provided upon request