samuel dot steinberg at trincoll dot edu

University of Pennsylvania, PhD, Hispanic Studies, 2009

University of California, Irvine, MA, Comparative Literature, 2003

University of California, Santa Cruz, BA, Literature, with honors, 2000

Assistant Professor, Modern Languages, Denison University (2011-present)

Visiting Assistant Professor, Language and Culture Studies, Trinity College (2010–2011)

Visiting Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University (2009–2010)

“To Begin Writing: Bellatin, Reunited.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (forthcoming)

“Re-cinema: Hauntology of 1968.” Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture (forthcoming)

“Resistances of Latin Americanism.” CR: The New Centennial Review 7, no.3 (2007): 263–78. Special issue “Singularities of Latin American Philosophy.”

“After Macondo: Latin American Literature and the 1960s.” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 11 (2007): 155–69.

“Franco’s Kids: Geopolitics and Postdictatorship in ¿Quién puede matar a un niño?” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 7, no.1 (2006): 23–36.

Freud’s Mexico: Into the Wilds of Psychoanalysis, by Rubén Gallo. Hispanic Review (forthcoming)

“Ends of the Revolution.” Review of Fictions of Totality: The Mexican Novel, 1968, and the National-Popular State, by Ryan F. Long. A Contracorriente 7, no.2 (2010): 353–60.

Mexico, From Mestizo to Multicultural: National Identity and Recent Representations of the Conquest, by Carrie E. Chorba. Latin American Literary Review 37, no. 73 (2009): 139–41.

Mexican Modernity: The Avant–Garde and the Technological Revolution, by Rubén Gallo. Hispanic Review 75, no. 4 (2007): 427–29.

“Displacement, Language, Sacrifice: Stellet Licht.” Iberian and Latin American Film Festival, Trinity College. October 2010

“Hauntology of 1968.” Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University. December 2008

“Addenda to Mario Bellatin.” Post-literature in Latin America Colloquium, University of Michigan. March 2008

“Teaching Latin American History and Politics through Cinema.” Film and Pedagogy Colloquium. Program in Cinema Studies, Penn. March 200

“The Impopular Trace.” LASA, San Francisco. May 2012

“‘My eyes, these tears, this camera, the rain’: Photopoetics at Tlatelolco.” MLA, Seattle. January 2012

“Francis Alÿs: Politics of the Line.” LASA, Toronto. October 2010

“Ritual and Prosthesis.” MLA, Philadelphia. December 2009

“Bolaño’s Ghosts.” Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University. November 2009

“Spectral Matters: Recurrence and Form.” Seminar co-organized with Janet Neary. ACLA, Cambridge, MA. March 2009

“Latin American Literature and the Debt.” ACLA, Long Beach. April 2008

“Geohemopolítica: Mexico 68.” MLA, Chicago. December 2007

“The Sixties Today.” LASA, Montreal. September 2007

“The Years We Lived Dangerously: Culture, Politics, and Radical Thinking in the Sixties.” Panel organized. LASA, Montreal. September 2007

“Ruins of Allegory, the Future of Truth: Theses on Bellatin.” ACLA, Puebla. April 2007

“Latin American Literature After Revolution.” MLA, Philadelphia. December 2006

“On the Liberation of Culture: The 1960s in Latin America.” Special session organized. MLA, Philadelphia. December 2006

“Animalitos: Abject Politics and Mexican Video.” LASA, San Juan. March 2006

“Superficial Inscriptions: Space and Alterity in the Inca Garcilaso’s Comentarios reales.” LASA, Las Vegas. October 2004

“Notes Toward a Critical Affectivity: Subalternity and Neo-Zapatismo.” ACLA, CSU San Marcos. April 2003

“Forgetting Benjamin (Theses on Beatriz Sarlo).” Western Humanities Alliance Annual Conference, University of California, Irvine. October 2002

Memory at Work in Latin American Culture
Introduction to Cultural Analysis: Literature and Subjectivity
Travel Narratives (Studying in the Hispanic World Colloquium)
Advanced Grammar and Composition
Intermediate Spanish I
Mexican Literature: Mexican Century
Introduction to the Study of Hispanic Cultures
Composition and Conversation through Hispanic Cinema
Spanish Grammar in Context
Spectral Intensities: Representations of Mexico ’68 (taught in English)
Exploring Hispanic Texts
Conversation on Hispanic Cultures
Contexts of Hispanic Culture
Spanish for Reading Knowledge
Intermediate Spanish I
Beginning Spanish I
Genre and Medium: Technologies of the Self (T.A.)
Critical Reading and Rhetoric

Benjamin Franklin Fellowship, Penn, 2003–2008

Department of Romance Languages Summer Research Grant, Penn, 2008
    Research in Mexico City

Department of Romance Languages Summer Research Grant, Penn, 2007
    Research in Mexico City

Cornell University School of Criticism & Theory Matching Grant, 2006 (declined)

Department of Romance Languages Summer Research Grant, Penn, 2005
    Research in Mexico City

Department of Romance Languages Summer Research Grant, Penn, 2004
    Instituto cubano del libro, Havana

UC Humanities Center Research Grant, Irvine, 2002
    Arabic Language Institute, Fez

Department of Comparative Literature Summer Research Grant, Irvine, 2001
    Research in Mexico City

UC Regents’ Fellowship, Irvine, 2001–2003

Invited lecture on The Savage Detectives in Francisco Goldman’s undergraduate seminar “Sex, Violence and Substance Abuse: Mexico by Non-Mexicans.” Dept. of English, Trinity College. April 2011

Hispanic Studies Representative, Trinity College/Hartford Public Library Big Read, 2010–2011

Reader, Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, 2009

Coordinator, Mesa de español, Hamilton College, 2008–2009

Graduate Student Mentor, University of Pennsylvania, 2006–2008

Reader, Working Papers in Romance Languages and Literatures, 2006–2008

Invited lecture in Michael Solomon’s undergraduate course on Mexican cinema. Dept. of Romance Languages, Penn. October 2007

Invited presentation for Graduate Romanic Association Workshop on Publication. Dept. of Romance Languages, Penn. October 2007

Invited lecture in Michael Solomon’s graduate seminar on Mexican cinema. Dept. of Romance Languages, Penn. December 2005

Hispanic Studies Student-Faculty Liaison, University of Pennsylvania, 2004–2005

Invited lecture in Adriana Johnson’s undergraduate course on genre. Dept. of Comparative Literature, UC Irvine. May 2003

Educador de calle, Fundación Pro-Niños de la Calle, Mexico City, 2001

Intern, Tikkun (magazine), 1998

Modern Language Association, Latin American Studies Association, American Comparative Literature Association

English (native), Spanish (near-native), French and Portuguese (written and spoken), German and Modern Standard Arabic (basic)