8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast and Registration (Franke Institute: all events will
take place at the Franke Institute unless otherwise noted)* 9:00-9:30 Opening Remarks
Jenna Leving, President, Spanish Graduate Students Committee,
University of Chicago Ryan Giles, Adviser to the Spanish Graduate Students Committee, University of Chicago
9:30-10:45 Panel 1: Performance and Archive: The Nightmare of Pinochet in
Chilean Cultural Production Panel chair: Kelly Austin, Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature, University of Chicago
9:30-9:50 “Sade in Roberto Bolaño’s work: A hurricane of evil” Federico Fridman, Cornell University
9:50-10:10 “An Alternative Model for the Archive: Performative Memorialization in
the work of Diamela Eltit” Megan Corbin, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
10:10-10:30 “‘Mi nombre: Akira Kurosawa’: la performance del otro en Sueños para
Kurosawa de Raúl Zurita” Anthony Morales Jr., Montclair State University
10:30-10:45 Discussion 9:30-11:05 Panel 2: Revisiting Medieval and Early Modern Nightmares (**Regenstein Library Room 522)
Panel chair: Ryan Giles, Assistant Professor of Spanish Literature, University of Chicago
9:30-9:50 “A Flame in the Darkness: Political Invective and Healing in the Dezir a
las siete virtudes” Mark Aquilano, University of Arizona
9:50-10:10 “Hell Dorado: La inversión distópica de Werner Herzog y Aguirre: La
cólera de dios” Timothy F. Johnson, University of California, Davis
10:10-10:30 “St. Dominguito de Val of Zaragoza-The Transference of Ritual Murder in Modern Catholic Spain” Rieko Tadenuma, Kyoto University, Japan 10:30-10:50 “El Bárbaro y el animal en los discursos del imperialismo español del siglo XVI” Alexander Menaker, University of Chicago 10:50-11:05 Discussion 11:05-11:15 Break 11:15-12:30 Panel 3: Pesadillas del pasado: reconciliando el pasado en la narrativa
de la transición Panel chair: Ana Corbalán, Assistant Professor, University of Alabama
11:15-11:35 “Contra los fantasmas de la Guerra Civil: El lápiz del carpintero como
lugar de memoria” Shelly Hines-Brooks, University of Alabama 11:35-11:55 “Una figura de mil voces: la representación colectiva de la mujer
encarcelada a través de la estructura fragmentada” Betsy Brooks, University of Alabama
11:55-12:15 “Los mitos franquistas y su desmitificación en Los girasoles ciegos de Alberto Méndez” Brianne Kobeck, University of Alabama 12:15-12:30 Discussion 11:15-12:30 Panel 4: Revolución en el Perú: genealogía de un sueño (**Regenstein
Library Room 522) Panel chair: Juan Camilo Acevedo, PhD Student, University of Chicago
11:15-11:35 “Por el Sendero Luminoso de José Carlo Mariátegui: Sueños de
Revolución” René Carrasco, University of Texas at Austin 11:35-11:55 “La interdicción política de la historia en la narrativa peruana de dos
etapas post revolucionarias” Cristine Tamayo, University of Texas at Austin
11:55-12:15 “Sueños de emancipación en la crítica anarquista de Manuel González
Prada” Giulianna Zambrano, University of Texas at Austin
Panel chair: Frederick A. De Armas, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Spanish Literature and Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
1:30-1:50 “Quevedo y Velázquez: el caso de los ékfrases de Cómo ha de ser el
privado” Victoria Grefer, University of Chicago
1:50-2:10 “Los Desastres de la Guerra de Goya o las pesadillas de la razón
ilustrada” Mayra Bottaro, University of California, Berkeley
2:10-2:30 “El Greco’s Dream of Phillip II and San Juan de la Cruz’s Andalusian
Nightmare: The Theological Body and Worldly Politics in Golden Age Spain circa 1580”
Eric C. Graf 2:30-2:45 Discussion 1:30-2:45 Panel 6: Rewriting, Re-inscribing, and Remembering (Counter) Histories (**Regenstein Library Room 522)
Panel chair: Jesús Botello, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago
1:30-1:50 “La luz de la retrospección: niveles meta-teatrales en Corona de sombra
de Rodolfo Usigli” Harrison Meadows, Auburn University
1:50-2:10 “Performing Inclusion and Disillusion in Argentine Popular Theater
(1890-1916)” Victoria Garrett, University of California, Los Angeles
2:10-2:30 “¿Reivindicación del conde Julián o reafirmación de los valores tradicionalistas españoles?” Rose Phillips, University of California, Irvine
2:30-2:45 Discussion 2:45-3:00 Break 3:00-4:15 Panel 7: Dreams of Power, Nightmares of Corruption: Violence and Marginalization in Latin American Literature Panel chair: Olivia Núñez Hackman, PhD Student, University of Chicago 3:00-3:20 “La función y estética de la violencia en Pedro Páramo de Juan Rulfo”
Cecily Raynor, Georgetown University 3:20-3:40 “Who haunts my nightmare? The Colombian sicario in contemprary
literature” Anna Marin, University of Texas at Austin
3:40-4:00 “Sueños y pesadillas en el sicariato en Colombia en relación con la novela Rosario Tijeras de Jorge Franco”
Luis Carlos Flórez-Ortega, Universidad del Cauca, Colombia 4:00-4:15 Discussion 3:00-4:15 Panel 8: Sex Dreams?: cuestiones de género en la literatura hispánica (**Regenstein Library Room 522)
Panel chair: Traci Dybdahl, PhD Student, University of Chicago 3:00-3:20 “María sacrificada y resucitada”
Irene Domingo, Washington University in St. Louis 3:20-3:40 “El desafío a la dicotomía mujer caída vs. ángel del hogar del discurso
conservador en Doña Berta de Clarín” Antonio José Couso-Liañez, University of Oregon 3:40-4:00 “La negra Angustias: rupturas de una soldadera mulata a la
heteronormatividad de ‘lo mexicano’” Manuel R. Cuellar, University of California, Berkeley
4:00-4:15 Discussion
End of Day 1
Saturday, April 16
8:30-9:00 Breakfast 9:00-10:35 Panel 9: Subaltern perspectives: Reimagining Race and National Identity
Panel chair: Dain Borges, Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago
9:00-9:20 “¿Dónde están los negros? - Cuestiones raciales en Ingermina o la hija de Calamar, de Juan José Nieto” Camilo Jaramillo, University of California, Berkeley 9:20-9:40 “El Montero: Rural Banditry and the Nightmares of Colonial Hispaniola” Diego Ubiera, University of California, San Diego 9:40-10:00 “La incorporación del proyecto (proto)nacionalista de Avellaneda en Sab
en el liberalismo español decimonónico” Sabina Carp, University of Oregon
10:00-10:20 “Mestizaje Re-visited: A New Perspective on Mexican Identity from the
Novel Duerme by Carmen Boullosa” Chantelle Hug, University of Calgary
10:20-10:35 Discussion 10:35-10:45 Break 9:00-10:35 Panel 10: New Cases of Alternative Political Spaces
(**Regenstein Library Room 522) Panel chair: Dana Gordon Dombrowski, Ph.D. Student, University of Chicago
9:00-9:20 “Carlos Monsiváis, cronista y pícaro”
Robert Stone, United States Naval Academy 9:20-9:40 “Eating Dis/orders: The Alimentary American Dream in La guaracha del
Macho Camacho” Elizabeth Huard, Florida State University 9:40-10:00 “Locura y violencia en Delirio de Laura Restrepo”
Isaac García-Guerrero, Michigan State University 10:00-10:20 “Observando la realidad latinoamericana desde el cuarto de los niños: El
libro de mis Primos (Cristina Peri Rossi) y Casa de Campo (José Donoso)” María José Navia, Georgetown University
10:20-10:35 Discussion 10:45-12:00 Panel 11: Remembrance and Disillusion: The Spanish Civil War and Posguerra
Panel chair: Mario Santana, Associate Professor of Spanish Literature, University of Chicago
10:45-11:05 “La búsqueda para un héroe: dos narrativas humanizadas de Javier Cercas” Michael Burriss, University of Georgia
11:05-11:25 “El viaje sin retorno: España en la poética de Antonio Machado antes y
durante la guerra civil” Nelson Danilo León, University of Missouri-Columbia
11:25-11:45 “Cela, Asturias y la novela de la dictadura”
Katie Lyle, Boston College 11:45-12:00 Discussion 10:45-12:00 Panel 12: Dreams of the Nation: National Identity Discourses in Latin
America (**Regenstein Library Room 522) Panel chair: Alfredo Cesar Melo, Assistant Professor of Luso-
Brazilian Literature, University of Chicago 10:45-11:05 “Atlacatl: A Fabricated Prince of the Fabricated Land and Nation Building
in El Salvador” Fernando A. Moreira 11:05-11:25 “The Amazon Imagined: À margem da História by Euclides da Cunha” Cinthya Torres Nuñez, Harvard University 11:25-11:45 “El proyecto nacional en la novela Juan de la Rosa, su ausencia y
posibilidad Otra” Manuel Modesto, University of Michigan
11:45-12:00 Discussion 12:00-1:00 Lunch 1:00-2:15 Panel 13: Reporting Mexican Nightmares: The Press and The Novel
Panel chair: Heather Allen, PhD Candidate, University of Chicago 1:00-1:20 “Opposition Journalism as Locura in Porfirian Era Narrative”
Kevin M. Anzzolin, University of Chicago 1:20-1:40 “La paz de los sepulcros: Jorge Volpi’s Mexican Political Dystopia”
Kyle James Matthews, Brown University 1:40-2:00 “1857 y la no invasión mexicana: El papel del ‘costumbrismo’”
José Antonio Losada Montero, City University of New York 2:00-2:15 Discussion 2:15-2:30 Break 2:30-3:45 Panel 14: Textual Politics in 20th Century Cuba
Panel chair: Jenna Leving, PhD Student, University of Chicago
2:30-2:50 “Entre lo sagrado y lo abyecto: La Estrella afrocubana de Tres tristes
tigres de Guillermo Cabrera Infante” Diana Aramburu, University of Chicago
2:50-3:10 “Cecilia and Cecilia: Betrayal for Artistic Creation in Reinaldo Arenas’ La
loma del ángel” Olivia Núñez Hackman, University of Chicago 3:10-3:30 “Janus in the Revolution: Cuban Literature of the Angolan War”
Lanie Millar, University of Texas at Austin 3:30-3:45 Discussion 3:45-4:30 Break
4:30-6:00 Keynote Address
“La isla desierta: 1938-1958”
Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones,
Emory L. Ford Professor of Spanish, Princeton University
Presented by Agnes Lugo-Ortiz,
Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures,
The University of Chicago
6:00 Closing Reception
The McCormick Tribune Lounge in The Reynolds Club ***
