CURRICULUM VITAE Osvaldo Di Paolo University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. Doctor of Philosophy in Hispanic Studies (With Distinction)

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1 address: CURRICULUM VITAE Osvaldo Di Paolo Education University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. Doctor of Philosophy in Hispanic Studies (With Distinction) Major Area: 19th and 20th Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies. Minor Areas: Gender and Women's Studies/ Latin American History. Allied Field I: 20th Century Spanish Peninsular Literary and Cultural Studies. Allied Field II: Medieval Spanish Literary and Cultural Studies. Summer 2008 Middlebury College. Graduate Study Abroad Program in Guadalajara Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN. Teaching Certification: Certified to teach Spanish, grades 7-12 in Tennessee and Kentucky Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN. G.P.A. 4.0, Bachelor of Arts. (Major: Spanish Literature Concentration/ Minor: Education. (GPA 4.0). Summa cum laude National University of Rosario, Rosario, Argentina School of Commerce, Rosario, Argentina. B.S. in Commerce (Bachiller comercial). Teaching Experience 2013-Present Associate Professor. Languages and Literature Department, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN Assistant Professor. Languages and Literature Department, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN Graduate Teaching Assistant for Latin American Studies,University of Kentucky. Teach LAS 201 (Introduction to Latin American Studies. Assist with coordination of research and teaching activities). 1

2 Graduate Teaching Assistant of Spanish, Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Kentucky. Teach Spanish (Beginners and Intermediate Levels) Kenwood High School/ Clarksville High School (Student Teaching) Instructor of Spanish, Austin Peay State University, TN. Pre-Teaching Field Experiences 2006 Kenwood High School (Educ 2100/ Ling 4400/ Educ 4080/ Sped 3000) Clarksville High School (Educ 4080). Related Teaching Experiences 2005 Spanish Tutor, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN. Awards and Honors 2013 Recipient of a Summer Research Fellows Program (SRFP) Recipient of a Faculty Research Fund Grant (FRFG) Initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines Nominated for the Richard M. Hawkins Award for significant contributions to scholarship, Austin Peay State University Nominated for the Richard M. Hawkins Award for significant contributions to scholarship, Austin Peay State University Recipient of an Academic Success Initiative Grant (RASI) Nominated for the Richard M. Hawkins Award for significant contributions to scholarship, Austin Peay State University Recipient of a Research Fellows Program (SRFP) Award of distinction for doctoral dissertation Arts & Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Kentucky Provost Outstanding Teaching Award Finalist, University of Kentucky Department of Hispanic Studies Teaching Award, University of Kentucky. 2

3 Teaching Assistantship, University of Kentucky 2006 Best Spanish Literature Student Award, Austin Peay State University Best Advanced Hispanic Student Award, Austin Peay State University Dean s List, 4.0 GPA, Austin Peay State University. Praxis II Examination Results Spanish Content Knowledge Score: 194/ 200. Spanish Productive Language Skills Score: 200/ 200. Principles of Teaching and Learning: 172/ 200. Publications Books Gemidos y explosiones apocalípticas poshumanas: la novela negra y de ciencia ficción hispana del siglo XXI. Madrid: Pliegos, (September 2013). Print. Cadáveres en el armario: el policial palimpséstico en la literatura argentina contemporánea. Buenos Aires: Teseo, Print. This book was selected among the top one-hundred Argentine books to promote Argentinian publications in the rest of the world. Only two books from Teseo were chosen to be sponsored overseas. The selection was conducted by the City of Buenos Aires, Book Foundation, Argentine Book Association, Argentine Association of Publications, and Ministry of Economics. Essays in Books Agentes de cambio: Perspectivas cinematográficas de España y Latinoamérica en el siglo XXI. "El negrótico: Nuevas tendencias del cine argentino del nuevo milenio en Malditos sean (2013) de Demián Rugna y Fabián Forte". Book chapter for "La otredad transatlántica: migración, racismo, fusiónde culturas". Agentes de cambio: Perspectivas cinematográficas de España y Latinoamérica en el siglo XXI. Emory University, The Citadel and Salem State University. (Forthcoming 2014). Print. Telling Tales: The Place of Storytelling in Contemporary Spain."Zombis y detectives en la novela bestia y negrótica española del nuevo milenio". Book chapter for Telling Tales: The Place of Storytelling in Contemporary Spain. ACIS. University of Sydney, Australia. (Forthcoming 2014). Print. 3

4 The Literature of the Apocalypse: from Prophecy to Disaster. "Images of the Apocalypse in Latin America: Preterist, Futurist, and Postmodern Interpretations. Ed. University of Oradea, Romania. Emanuel University Press. (Forthcoming 2014). Print. Estudios hispánicos en el siglo XXI. "La ciencia ficción española del nuevo siglo: poshumanismo apocalíptico en Alaridos de Dios de José Miguel Vilar-Bou. Ed. University of Belgrado, Serbia. University of Belgrado Press. (Forthcoming 2014). Print. 13 formas de entender la novela negra: la voz de los escritores y la crítica literaria. El policial palimpséstico en Caminaré en tu sangre de Vicente Battista. Ed. Gustavo Forero Quintero. Bogotá: Planeta, Print. El género negro: el fin de la frontera. Mujeres homicidas y violencia doméstica en Emilia Basil, cocinera. Javier Sánchez Zapatero y Álex Martín Escriba (eds.). Santiago de Compostela: Andavira, March Print. Essays "El humor y el poder en El complot mongol de Rafael Bernal". Revista Hispanista Escandinava. (October 2013). Web. Imitación, asimilación, importación y posesión: una lectura cursi de María de Jorge Isaacs". Revista de Estudios Colombianos August Print. "Pudo haber sido una novela negra: Crímenes como el de Ángeles Rawson dejan huellas más profundas que se ramifican a la literatura policial". Newsweek Argentina. (July 2013). Print. Satanismo y porno gore en Cadáver de ciudad: una novela negra apocalíptica de Juan Hernández de Luna. Monographic Review: The Occult in Hispanic Literature. November Print. «Le récit policier palimpsestique argentin dans Escritos con sangre de Sergio Olguín. Université d Angers/ Association des Langues Néo-Latines/ Centre National du Livre. Les Langues néo-latines 362. October Invitation from the University of Angers to contribute an essay for the issue entitled Faits divers, faits littéraires dans la literature latino-américaine contemporaine. The essay was translated into French. Print. El poshumanismo apocalíptico en la novela negra argentina contemporánea: Ciudad santa y 77. Universidad Católica de Chile. Literatura y Lingüística 25. July Print. La Habana y Medellín: dos mundos poshumanistas y posapocalípticos a través dela neblina del ayer y Rosario Tijeras. Universidad de Kentucky. Nomenclatura:aproximaciones a los estudios hispánicos Vol. 2: Iss. 1, Article Web. Invitation from the University of Kentucky to contribute an essay for the issue entitled Apocalypse and the End Times. 4

5 El policial autobiográfico en Yiya Murano de Martín Murano. University of Oklahoma. Pegaso 5. (May 2012) Print. Cobra: el barroco, el posestructuralismo, el budismo y la cancelación del sentido.the University of Texas-Pan American. Hipertexto 15 (February 2012): < utpa.edu/dept/modlang/hipertexto/hiperissues.htm>. Web. El policial palimpséstico en Marta Odera, monja de Marisa Grinstein: crónica roja, Cronicuento y serie de televisión. Romance Quarterly 58.3 (June 2011): Print. Marriage: Power and the Law in Esmeralda Comes by Night. Disclosure 20(April 2011): Print. La rehabilitación de la ciudad en Oda a Walt Whitman y otros poemas de Poeta en Nueva York. Destiempos 29 (April 2011): < Web. La próxima estación de Pino Solanas: un recorrido por el pasado nacional a través de la industria ferroviaria. Florida Memorial University. Hispanet Journal (January 2011). < Web. El periodismo y el cuento: un estudio del policial argentino basado en hechos reales y en Dos primas de Enrique Sdrech. Grama: Revista de Literatura 13 (Spring 2010): 3-7, Monterrey, Mexico. Print. La estética del crimen y del humor en La decente de Miguel Mihura. Divergencias 7.1 (May 2009): Web. Trescientoscincuenta: una reactivación de la memoria rosarina. Ciberletras December < Web. Review of Course Management Systems. Hispania 91.2 (May 2008): Print. Essays under Review "Vampiros y detectives: el negrótico costarricense como mutación genérica posmoderna en El laberinto del verdugo de Jorge Méndez Limbrick". Book chapter for Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia. (Submitted September 2013). Print. "La corrupción, el crimen y el paisaje urbano y cultural argentino durante el gobierno de Carlos Saúl Menem ( )". Latinoamérica: Revista de Estudios Latinoamericanos. Universidad Autónoma de México. Centro de Investigaciones sobre Latinoamérica y el Caribe (CIALC). (Submitted March 2013). Print. Book under Review 5

6 Negrótico by Osvaldo Di Paolo and Nadina Olmedo. This book explores the hybridity of gothic and hardboiled literature and film in Chile, Argentina, Spain and Costa Rica. Also, it focuses on the new hardboiled novel as the monstrous novel and traces the influence of gothic literature in hardboiled, under the termed coined as negrótico. Current Research Projects Patagonia se dice en plural: identidades y geografías imaginarias en la literatura patagónica argentina y chilena (1983- circa 2012). This is part of an international research committee funded by the National University in the Humanities and Social Sciences of Patagonia, Argentina. The project will start on January 1, 2013 and will conclude on December 15, Guest Speaker Invitations Special invitation (Guest lecture) to present my book entitled "Gemidos y explosiones apocalípticas poshumanas: la novela negra y de ciencia ficción hispana del siglo XXI", during the Semana Negra in Medellín (September 2013). Special invitation (Guest lecture) to participate in a panel ("conversatorios") made up of selected scholars and writers during Medellin Negro 2013 after a presentation entitled "'La voz de los sin voz' o el concierto desvelado de las víctimas de la marginalidad en la actual novela cubana", given by writer and journalist Amir Valle (September 2013). Invited speaker for the presentation of 13 maneras de entender la novela negra, published by Editorial Planeta. September 13, Event sponsored by the Mayor s Office of Medellín (Alcaldía de Medellín) and the University of Antioquia during the Colombia Book Fair (Fiesta del libro y la cultura). Festival Azabache Mar del Plata, Argentina. May 10-13, Invited to speak at the largest detective fiction festival in Latin America. Mujeres asesinas: Emilia Basil, cocinera. Cine Club Andrés Caicedo. Commentary and discussion of film. UK Hispanic Studies and Latin American Studies Program. University of Kentucky. November 10, Dictatorship in Argentina. Guest speaker. Fondo de Cultura Económica. Panel with Argentine writers Alicia Partnoy and María del Carmen Sillato. August 15, Guadalajara, Mexico. Trescientoscincuenta. Cine Club Andrés Caicedo. Commentary and discussion of film. UK Hispanic Studies and Latin American Studies Program. University of Kentucky. December 4, Conferences 6

7 "Vampiros y detectives: el negrótico costarricense como mutación genérica posmoderna en El laberinto del verdugo de Jorge Méndez Limbrick". IV Congreso Internacional de Literatura: Medellín Negro. Universidad de Antioquia. Medellín, Colombia. September 16-20, "Images of the Apocalypse in Latin American Hardboiled: Preterist, Futurist, and Postmodern Interpretations." The Literature of the Apocalypse. Emanuel University of Oraeda, Romania. May 17, "La metamorfosis del vampiro-asesino en el negrótico costarricense de Jorge Méndez Limbrick". 66th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. April 18-20, Patagonia se dice en plural: identidades y geografías imaginarias en la literatura patagónica argentina y chilena (1983 circa 2012). V Jornadas de Historia de la Patagonia "Homenaje al Dr. Pedro Navarro Floria". Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Don Juan Bosco. Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina. April 15-13, Gemidos y explosiones apocalípticas en la novela negra: Virulencia (pos)apocalíptica en La neblina del ayer de Leonardo Padura. III Congreso Internacional de Literatura: Medellín Negro. Universidad de Antioquia. Medellín, Colombia. September 12-14, El poshumanismo apocalíptico en la novela negra argentina. 65th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. April 19-21, El policial palimpséstico en Caminaré en tu sangre de Vicente Battista. II Congreso internacional de literatura: Medellín Negro. University of Antioquia. Medellín, Colombia. September 14-17, El policial autobiográfico en Mi madre, Yiya Murano de Martín Murano. 64th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. April 14-16, Mujeres homicidas y violencia doméstica: crónica roja, cronicuento y serie de televisión en Emilia Basil, cocinera. VII Congreso de Novela y Cine Negro: Crimen sin fronteras Fronteras del crimen. University of Salamanca. Salamanca, Spain. April 5-8, El cuento policial palimpséstico en Escritos con sangre de Sergio Olguín. II International Congress of Criminal Fiction: Hard-boiled in the Times of Globalization. University of León. León, Spain. October 13-15, Journalism and Palimpsestic Detective Fiction in Two Cousins by Enrique Sdrech. 1st Latin American Studies Symposium. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. February 25-26, El periodismo y el cuento: un estudio del policial argentino basado en hechos reales y en Dos primas de Enrique Sdrech. 18th Colloquium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and 7

8 Linguistics Merging Textualities, Emerging Paradigms. University of Texas, Austin, TX. November 13-14, Trescientoscincuenta: una reactivación de la memoria rosarina. 4th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium. Dismembering the Map: New Perspectives on the Luso-Hispanic Word. University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, CA. April 10-11, La estética del crimen y del humor en La decente de Miguel de Mihura. 19th Annual Graduate and Professional Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature, Language and Culture. University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ. February 5-7, El bicentenario argentino en La próxima estación de Pino Solanas: un recorrido del pasado nacional a través de la industria ferroviaria. Hispanic Studies Colloquium on Bicentennial Celebrations in Latin America. University of Kentucky. Lexington, KY. November 3, El humor negro y el poder en El complot mongol de Rafael Bernal. Hispanic Studies Colloquium on Latin American Humor. University of Kentucky. Lexington, KY. December 5, Editorial Work Editor in Chief for Polifonía: Revista de estudios académicos. Austin Peay State University (2011-Present): Utopías y distopías en la ciencia ficción peninsular y latinoamericana (Forthcoming 2014). Print. Cadáver exquisito: un panorama actual de la novela y el cine negro en el mundo hispano (2013). Print. Venas góticas en la literatura y el cine hispánico (2012). Print. Producciones culturales del nuevo milenio (2011). Print. Member of the Editorial Board for La Palabra. This reputable Colombian journal is indexed in Publindex Categoría C, EBSCO Publisher and Latindex. (2013-Present) Reviewer/ Editor for Hispania: A Journal Devoted to the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese of "Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice". (June 2013). Reviewer/ Editor for Hispania: A Journal Devoted to the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese of Feminización de la violencia en Rosario Tijeras de Jorge Franco Ramos. (January 2012). Reviewer/ Editor for Hispania: A Journal Devoted to the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese of Juan José Campanela. El secreto de sus ojos. (September 2011). 8

9 Reviewer/ Editor for American Studies in Scandinavia of Narrative of Dislocation: The Conflicts of Space and Place in Esmeralda Santiago s novel: When I was Puerto Rican. (May 2011). Press Releases and Interviews "APSU's Di Paolo explores Hispanic sci-fi and detective novels in new book". (August 2013). Web. Moda negra: Enigma para escritores. Señales de la cultura y la sociedad. Rosario, Argentina. (10 June 2012) Print. Crímenes reales en clave de ficción: el policial palimpséstico. Juan Manuel Rapaciolli. Télam Suplemento literario. Buenos Aires, Argentina. (5 March 2012). Policiales de verdad. Osvaldo Aguirre. La Capital. Rosario, Argentina. (5 Feb. 2012). 6. Print. La demonización del delito juvenil. Miradas al sur 5:193. Buenos Aires, Argentina. (29 Jan. 2012). < del-delito-juvenil>. New Scholarly Journal on Hispanic Studies Comes to Austin Peay. The Leaf Chronicle. Clarksville, United States. (5 December 2011). < theleafchronicle.com/ Austin_Peay_State_University/?page=17>. Book by APSU Profesor Examines Argentina Crime. The Leaf Chronicle. Clarksville, United States. 9 October 2011). D4. VII Congreso de novela y cine negro de Salamanca. Silencio se lee 72. Salamanca, Spain. (23 April 2011). < Study Abroad Experience 2013-Present 2010-Present 2010-Present Director of the APSU Study Abroad Latin America in Galápagos Islands (Ecuador). Director of the APSU Study Abroad Latin America in Rosario (Argentina). Member of the APSU International Committee Service 2013 Advisor for the At-Risk Advising Program 9

10 Asanbe Diversity Symposium Committee APSU Assessment Committee International Committee Scholarship Committee (Chair) Foreign Language Committee (Chair) Foreign Languages Hiring Committee Guest Speaker for LING 4020: History of American English Organized lectures of invited guest speakers: Dr. Shelley Godsland (Women Crime Writers from Spain) and Mrs. Marisela Ortiz Rivera (From Hope to Femicide: No More Violence Against Women in Juárez) Organized a Spanish Praxis Examination Workshop Participated in the 2013 Academic Audit Faculty Session Participated in the A Celebration of Scholarship sponsored the Felix Woodward Library Participated in the Summer Research Fellowship Program Congratulatory Dinner and presented a summary of current research project. Attended the Secondary Teaching Licensure Program meetings organized by the College of Education Established a new Study Abroad Latin America program in Ecuador Advisor for Sigma Delta Pi/ Spanish Honor Society Attended the Degree Compass Workshop Worked with Mr. Jarad Sneed, a Web Service Specialist, in order to improve the visibility of the Language programs and activities in the Languages and Literature Webpage Participated in the 2013 Global Govs Recognition Banquet Worked on the three-year plan for a B.A. in Foreign Languages (Spanish Specialization) with Latin American Studies Minor and on the four-year plan for a B.A. in Foreign Languages (Spanish Specialization with Professional Education Minor) 10

11 Participated in a discussion panel entitled Violence against Women: Femicides in Ciudad Juárez, sponsored by the Hispanic Cultural Center, after the film screenings of On the Edge and Juárez Mothers Fight Femicide 2012 APSU Assessment Committee International Committee Foreign Languages Hiring Committee Foreign Languages Committee Asanbe Diversity Symposium Committee Guest Speaker for the Library Athenaeum Guest Speaker for the Women s and Gender Studies Book Talk Series Guest Speaker for SPAN 3220 (Phonetics and Conversation) Guest Speaker for Summer 2012 Study Abroad Report Back: APSU in Argentina Guest Speaker for LING 3030 (International Learning Community) Editor of Polifonía/ 2012 Issue Advisor of Sigma Delta Pi Member of APSU Hispanic Alumni Chapter Organized lectures of invited guest speakers: Drs. Eva Núñez Méndez and Alicia Partnoy 2011 Member of APSU Hispanic Alumni Chapter Member of APSU Faculty Search Committee in order to select a new Assistant Professor of German Participated in APSU Last Look as faculty representative of the Languages and Literature Department. The Last Look event allows new admitted students to make a final decision about studying at the University Worked with H.O.P.E (Hispanic Organization for Progress and Education) and APSU students to promote the Hispanic Culture at Rivers & Spires Festival 2011, Clarksville, TN 11

12 Coordinator of APSU First International Fair of Tourism in the Hispanic Countries Presentation at the APSU Hispanic Cultural Center: It is not All About Tacos: Focus on Argentina APSU Faculty Representative at the Spanish Immersion Weekend at Cedars of Lebanon State Park. Sponsored by the Mid-Continent Consortium for International Education Editor of Polifonía/ 2011 Issue Advisor of Sigma Delta Pi 2010 Friends of the Library. Presentation at the Montgomery County Public Library: Argentine Crime News, Fiction and Film in the Era of Globalization. Guest Lecture for Women in Culture (WS 2050) at APSU University of Kentucky, Hispanic Studies Department, President of Hispanic Graduate Student Association (HIGSA) Austin Peay State University, Hispanic Studies Department, President of Sigma Delta Pi. 12