JORGE ZAVALETA BALAREZO, LITERATURA Y CINE

Jorge Zavaleta Balarezo:   110 New Castle Court
Frederick, MD 21702
(412) 728 - 3865 e-mail: joz5@pitt.edu

EDUCATION:
- Ph.D., Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh.
Concentrations: Latin American Film, Cultural Studies, 20th and 21st century Latin American Literature.
Dissertation: Hacia un Cuarto Cine: violencia, marginalidad, memoria y nuevos escenarios globales en veintiún películas latinoamericanas.
Directors: Dr. Elizabeth Monasterios and Dr. Juan Duchesne-Winter.
Committee Members: Dr. John Beverley, Dr. Hermann Herlinghaus, Dr.Aníbal Pérez- Liñán.
- Graduate Certificate in Latin American Studies, Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), University of Pittsburgh.
- 2008, M.A., Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh.
Concentrations: Latin American Film, Cultural Studies, Brazilian Literature.
M.A. Research paper: Crisis y cambio social en el cine peruano contemporáneo.
- 2005, B.A., Lingüística y Literatura Hispánicas, Facultad de Letras y Ciencias Humanas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Lima).

EXPERIENCE:
- 2007-2008, 2009-2011, Teaching Fellow, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures.
Courses taught: Elementary Spanish 1 and 2; Intermediate Spanish 3 and 4; Conversation; Grammar and Composition.
Texts used include Mosaicos, Enfoques, Revista, Repase y Escriba.
Teaching software expertise: Blackboard, QUIA, My Spanish Lab, Supersite, Turnitin.
- 2008-2009, Proof-reader, Revista Iberoamericana. Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI), University of Pittsburgh.
Copy-editing texts submitted to the Revista Iberoamericana and books published by IILI including La esclava Isaura (2009) and La estela de Caicedo (2009).
- 2008-2010, Co-organizer of “Amigos del Cine Latinoamericano,” the Latin American Film Series at the University of Pittsburgh, sponsored by the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, the Eduardo Lozano Collection at Hillman Library, and the Center for Latin American Studies.
- 2009 - Co-editor of Osamayor 20, the graduate students’ journal of the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh.
- 2000 - present, Contributor of La gran ilusión, Godard!, Butaca, Voces, El Dominical (Peru), Uno más Uno, Notimex (Mexico), DPA (Germany), Argenpress (Argentine), Letralia (Venezuela), Proyecto Patrimonio (Chile).

PUBLICATIONS:
ARTICLES:
- “Sexualidad, opresión y el fin de la esperanza en El Sexto y Hombres sin mujer: retratos de dolor y crisis colectiva.” Nomenclatura (forthcoming).
- “Borges y el cine: imaginería visual y estrategia creativa”. Mester 39 (2010): 111-130.
http://escholarship.org/uc/item/25z3t02m.pdf

- Un lustro sin Roberto Bolaño.” Visions of Latin America. IV-1 (Spring 2009): 10-11.
- “Travesuras de la niña mala.” Visions of Latin America. III-2 (Spring 2008): 7-8.
- “Pícaros y crisis social en Rinconete y Cortadillo.” Q. En un lugar de las letras. Jorge Gómez Jiménez, ed. Cagua, Venezuela: Letralia, 2005. 103-107. (http://www.letralia.com/ed_let/pdf/quijote.pdf).
- “Dogville: atrapados por el destino.” Butaca 26 (2005): 38-39.
- “Josie Bliss: un poema para comprender la tradición erótica en Neruda.” Residencia en la Tierra de Letras. Jorge Gómez Jiménez, ed. Cagua, Venezuela: Letralia, 2004. 48-51. http://www.letralia.com/ed_let/pdf/neruda.pdf.

- “El cine en el Perú: ¿la luz al final del túnel?” Literatura peruana hoy: crisis y creación. Karl Kohut et. al. eds. Frankfurt and Madrid: Iberoamericana, 1998. 262-265.

BOOK REVIEWS:

- “Borges va al cine.” Variaciones Borges 32 (2011): 231-236.
http://www.borges.pitt.edu/sites/default/files/ResenaZavaleta.pdf
- “Crisis and Capitalism in Contemporary Argentine Cinema.” Revista Iberoamericana. 77.235 (2011): 606-609.
-“Imágenes gay en el cine mexicano.” Revista Iberoamericana.76.232-233 (2010): 1003-1006.

FICTION:
- Psicoanálisis estival (a collection of short stories) (forthcoming).
- “Butter” (short story). Apuntes Hispánicos 9 (2008): 34-38. http://www.spanport.utoronto.ca/apuntes/v9/balarezo.pdf.

- Católicas (novel). Lima: Jaime Campodónico Editor, 1998.

CONFERENCE PAPER PRESENTATIONS:
- 2010,“Adrián Caetano y una trilogía de la marginalidad: Retratos de exclusión, violencia y crisis social en Pizza, birra, faso, Bolivia y Un oso rojo.” Paper presented at the “34th Colloquium on Literature and Film.” Department of Foreign Languages, West Virginia University.
- 2009, “Psicoanálisis estival.” Short story presented at the conference on “History and Fiction: For the Record.” Department of Romance Languages, Boston College.
- 2007, “La belleza, motivo trágico en La estrella de Sevilla.” Paper presented at the conference on “Teatro del Siglo de Oro: Hacia la tragedia.” Department of Romance Languages, University of Chicago.

OTHER CONFERENCE ROLES:
- 2010, Chair, “Hispanic Linguistics” Session. “34th Colloquium on Literature and Film.” Department of Foreign Languages, West Virginia University.

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
- Teaching Assistantship/Fellowship, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh (2007-2011).
- Summer Fellowship for writing the Ph.D. proposal (Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh, 2009).

AWARDS AND HONORS:
- First Prize for a film review (“Dogville, atrapados por el destino”), Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, 2005.

MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
- Modern Language Association (MLA).
- Latin American Studies Association (LASA).

LANGUAGES:
- Spanish (Native speaker).
- English (Advanced reading; Good oral).
- Portuguese (Reading knowledge).

REFERENCES:
Hermann Herlinghaus, Professor of Latin American Literature, University of Pittsburgh. Phone Number: 412-683-0417. E-mail address: hxh@pitt.edu
John Beverley, Distinguished Professor of Latin American Literature, University of Pittsburgh. Phone Number: 412-361-8734. E-mail address: brq@pitt.edu
Elizabeth Monasterios, Associate Professor of Latin American Literature, University of Pittsburgh. Phone Number: 412-624-2709. E-mail address: elm15@pitt.edu
Carlos Ramírez, Coordinator of Spanish Language Program, Department of Hispanic Language and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh. Phone Number: 412-624-1130. E-mail address: cramirez@pitt.edu
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Good News...
Jorge Zavaleta Balareo has successfully defended his dissertation, “Hacia un Cuarto Cine: violencia, marginalidad, memoria y nuevos escenarios globales en veintiún películas latinoamericanas.” (7 XII 2011)...
http://escholarship.org/uc/item/25z3t02m
http://escholarship.org/uc/item/25z3t02m.pdf
Peer Reviewed
Title:
Borges y el cine: imaginería visual y estrategia creativa
Journal Issue:
Mester, 39(1)
Author:
Zavaleta Balarezo, Jorge, University of Pittsburgh
Publication Date:
2010
Publication Info:
Mester, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UC Los Angeles
Permalink:
http://escholarship.org/uc/item/25z3t02m
Keywords:
Borges, Cine, Ficción, Cuentos, Narración visual, América Latina, Vanguardia


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