Manuel Gutiérrez, Ph.D. Rice University Hispanic Studies MS-34 Rayzor Hall 333 P.O. Box 1892 Houston, Texas 77251-1892 (713) 348-3667 manuel.gutierrez@rice.edu EMPLOYER Rice University, Houston Assistant Professor Department of Hispanic Studies School of Humanities EDUCATION University of California, Los Angeles Ph.D., Department of Spanish and Portuguese; September 2009 Mexican Poets and the Arts: 1900-1950 Chair: Professor John Skirius Universidad Autónoma de México, México Archival Work 2007-2008 University of California, Los Angeles M.A., Latin American Literature; June 2007 University of California, Santa Cruz M.A., Spanish and Latin American Literature; June 2003 Thesis: The Mexican Picaresque Novel: From El Periquillo Sarniento to El Vampiro de la Colonia Roma University of California, Santa Cruz B.A., College Honors, Honors in the Major: Spanish Literature; June 2001 Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain Junior Year Abroad 1999-2000 ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS Rice University, President s Research Award, 2011-2012 Rice University, President s Research Award, 2010-2011 Faculty Fellow (UCLA), 2009 The UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2008 The Henry and Yvonne Lenart Graduate Research Fellowship (UCLA), 2007 Honors in the Major: Spanish Literature (UCSC), 2001 College Honors: Stevenson College (UCSC), 2001 Stevenson College Junior Teaching Fellowship (UCSC), 2001
CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS How, When and Why Modern Mexican Art Came to New York: The Art Criticism of José Juan Tablada, Tecnológico de Monterrey, México. October, 5 2011. The Sinister Gaze of the World: The Films of Arturo Ripstien, Department of Hispanic Studies, Rice University, September 2011 Rethinking Octavio Paz and Carlos Monsivais, Mexican Revolution Lecture Series, Rice University, November 2010 Los ultimos zapatistas y el cine, Mexican Film Festival, Department of Hispanic Studies, Rice Media Center, Houston, October 28, 2010 Surrealism in the Americas: new directions, Surrealism in the Americas Symposium, Department of Art History and Department of Hispanic Studies, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 6, 2010 Mexican literature during the most violent years of the Mexican revolution, 100 th Anniversary of the Mexican Revolution Symposium, Center for Mexican Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, November 16, 2009. José Juan Tablada: Poet and Critic of the Arts, Motus Sodalis Lecture, University of California, Los Angeles, May 11, 2009 Entre lo que veo y digo : The Poetic Art Criticism of Luis Cardoza y Aragón and Octavio Paz, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, April 17, 2009. PUBLICATIONS The Novel of the Mexican Revolution, Oxford University Press, Online Bibliographies (Accepted) An intellectual travelogue: Freud in Mexico, Revista Literal, Fall 2011. El ocaso de los poetas intelectuales, A Review, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (Accepted) Poets and the Arts in Mexico (In progress). The Sinister Gaze of the World: The Films of Arturo Ripstein (In Progress)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor Department of Hispanic Studies, Rice University, 2010-Present Spanish 348 The Mexican Renaissance, Fall 2010 Spanish 371 Contemporary Mexican Novel, Fall 2010 Freshman Seminar Modern Latin American Art, Spring 2011 Spanish 389 The Mexican Short Story, Spring 2011 Faculty Fellow Department of Spanish and Portuguese (UCLA), 2009-2010 Spanish 27: Composition for Spanish Native Speakers (Fall) Spanish 144 A: Mexican Studies, Literature (Winter) Spanish 144 B: Mexican Studies, Culture (Spring) Teaching Fellow Department of Spanish and Portuguese (UCLA), 2007-2009 Spanish Language Instructor Levels 3 through 5 Teaching Associate Department of Spanish and Portuguese (UCLA), 2003-2007 Spanish Language Instructor Levels 2 through 6 Intensive Spanish Abroad Program: Granada, Spain. Spanish 120B Hispanic Literature 1700-1898 Teaching Assistant Art History Department (UCSC), 2002-2003 Art History 135 Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican Art (Fall) Art History 10e Introduction to Latin American Art (Winter) Teaching Assistant Literature Department (UCSC), 2001-2002 Literature 190 Literature and History Literature 155 Golden Age Spanish Literature Literature 100 Introduction to Spanish and Latin American literature Junior Teaching Fellow Steven College (UCSC), 2001 Humanities Core Course RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Research Assistant for Professor John Skirius José Vasconcelos: A Life (Forthcoming), 2009 Research Assistant for Professor Jorge Aladro-Font s critical edition of Pedro de Chaves La conversión de María Magdalena, 2001-2003 EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE Advisory Board Member, Gulf Coast Press (University of Houston), 2010-Present Assistant Editor, Mester, Literary Journal (UCLA), 2005 Editor, Párrafo 451, Literary Magazine (UCLA), 2004 Multicultural Editor and Writer, City on a Hill Press, Newspaper: (UCSC); thirty newspaper features, articles, clips and editorials published (Available upon request), 1998-1999
DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEES Global Hispanism Workshop, Rice University, Fall 2011 Arturo Ripstein, A Retrospective, Rice Univeristy, Fall 2011 Mexican Film Festival, Rice University, Spring 2011 Centennial Mexican Committee for Lectures, Film Festival, and Art Exhibit, Fall 2011 Ad Hoc Committee for Latin Americanist in the Department of Art History, Spring 2011 Ad Hoc Search Committee for Mexicanist Job Search, 2009 President Graduate Student Conference Committee: Literature and the Arts: Convergences in Latin American and Luso-Brazilian Literatures, 2007 Modern Language Association, 2009 Latin American Studies Association, 2009 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS English: Native Speaker Spanish: Native Speaker Portuguese, French, Italian: reading knowledge LANGUAGES REFERENCES Prof. A. John Skirius, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Los Angeles jskirius@humnet.ucla.edu Prof. Maarten Van Delden, Chair, Department of Spanish and Portugues, University of California, Los Angeles mvandelden@humnet.ucla.edu Prof. Verónica Cortínez, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Los Angeles cortinez@humnet.ucla.edu Prof. Michelle Clayton, Dept. of Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles clayton@humnet.ucla.edu Prof. Charlene Villaseñor Black, Dept. of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles cvblack@humnet.ucla.edu Prof. Teófilo Ruiz, Dept. of History, University of California, Los Angeles tfruiz@history.ucla.edu REFRENCES ALSO AVAILABLE Prof. Jorge Aladro Font, Dept. of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz jaladro@ucsc.edu
Prof. Liliana Weinberg, Centro de Estudios Latino Americanos, Universidad Autónoma de México weinberg@servidor.unam.mx Prof. Ariel A. Rodríguez García, Centro de Estudios Bibliotecarios, Universidad Autónoma de México rgarciaa@servidor.unam.mx