The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology. Edited by Cecilia Vicuña and Ernesto Livon-Grosman. Oxford University Press, 2009.
Ernesto Livon-Grosman
Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies
Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies
romance languages and literatures
Academic Degrees
Ph.D., M.A., New York University; B.A., Empire State College
Research Areas
Latin American poetics, travel literature and film
Honors and Awards
Boston College Academic Technology Innovation Grant, 2008, 2009
Books
José Lezama: The Oxford Lima Selections. Edited and with an Introduction by Ernesto Livon-Grosman. Berkeley: University of California Press, February, 2005.
Geografías imaginarias: el relato de viajes y la construcción del espacio patagónico. Buenos Aires: Beatriz Viterbo Editora. 220 pages, 2003; 2nd Ed. 2004.
The XUL Reader: An Anthology of Argentine Poetry 1980-1990. Editor and author of the introductory study. New York: Roof Books, 1997.
Charles Olson: Poemas (Translation) Buenos Aires: Tres Haches, 1997.
Digital Journal
The XUL digital website is the digital edition of the journal XUL: Old and New Sign, published in Argentina in the 1980s as a space for literary and political expression during the dictatorship.
Recent Articles and Book Chapters
“La primera persona en dos documentales argentinos recientes: La televisión y yo de Andrés Di Tella y Los rubios de Albertina Carri,” Entre discursos: Nuevos espacios y nuevas lecturas. Ana Amar Sánchez ed. Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuet, Vol. VIII, 29 (2008), 105-121.
“Reinscripciones: textos y fotos en la narrativa del Perito Moreno.” Delirios de grandeza: los mitos argentinos (cultura, memoria e identidad). Eds. María Cristina Pons and Claudia Soria. Beatriz Viterbo Editora, Argentina, 2005. 273-287.
“La poética del decir y del hacer: Pablo Neruda y Edgardo Antonio Vigo.” Sophia Austral Revista de la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Magallanes 9 (2005): 67-71.
Recent Papers and Presentations
Expo-Trastienda, “Sobre la relación entre palabra e imagen.” Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 16, 2009.
“Cartoneros” screening and talk. Invited Speaker. Aston University, Birmingham, UK, April 28, 2009.
“Cartoneros” screening and talk. University of California at San Marcos, April 9, 2009.
“Cartoneros” screening and talk as part of “Cultures of Democracy.” University of California at Irvine, April 11, 2009.
“Cartoneros” screening and talk. Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas (LLILAS), March 24, 2009.
“Cartoneros” screening and talk. Argentine Embassy. Washington, DC as part of the “DC Environmental Film Festival,” March 13, 2009.
“Revolución y pop en en la obra de un documentalista cubano.” Panelist on Transameríques. Les echánges culturels continentaux. Paris, October 16, 2008.
Panelist on “Latinos in US Media.” Boston International Latino Film Festival. Howard Thurman Center, Boston University, Saturday, October 20, 2007.
“Argentina 2001: Six Years After.” University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, October 5, 2007.
“Representing Buenos Aires Since 2001.” Panel respondent. Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Montreal, September 6, 2007.
“XUL y 5 + 5: digitalización y nueva escrituras.” Jornadas Internacionales: Poesía y Artes de Experimentación. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, August 15, 2007.
"Boston Film Festivals: All You Need to Know as an Up and Coming Filmmaker (Strategy, Representation, and Social Identity)." Panel moderator. Boston International Latino Film Festival. Center For Latino Arts, Boston, October 28, 2006.
“(Des)Haciendo la poética del decir: Un poema de Edgardo Antonio Vigo.” Jornadas Internacionales: Poesía y Artes de Experimentación. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, June 30, 2006.
“Imágenes del pasado, recuerdos del presente: Las fotos del Perito Moreno.” Centro Cultural de la Municipalidad de Santa Rosa, June 23, 2006.
“Digital XUL.” eTeaching Symposium, Boston College, May 17, 2006.
“Historia visual de un espacio vacío.” Part of the lecture series: “Textes, lectures et représentations.” Université de Reims, March 9, 2006.
“Imágenes del pasado, recuerdos del presente: Las fotos del Perito Moreno.” Patagonia Otra, Trelew, Argentina, February 16-19, 2005.
“Apuntes para una teoría del vacío.” Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Las Vegas, October 6, 2004.
“Cuerpos innombrables, imágenes del vacío.” Jornadas de Literatura Argentina en la Patagonia, Neuquén, Argentina, June 16-18, 2004.
“Naturaleza, genealogía y nación en Días de ocio en la Patagonia.” Narrando los márgenes: William Henry Hudson y ‘The Purple Land,’ Montevideo, Uruguay, June 23-25, 2004.
“Cartoneros, reciclaje y documentales en la era de la globalización.” Modelo para (Des)Armar: Simposio interdisciplinario de estudios latinoamericanos. University of California at Irvine, April 23-24, 2004.
Boston College
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Lyons Hall 304D
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3804
Phone: 617-552-2680
FAX: 617-552-2064
Email: ernesto.livon-grosman.1@bc.edu
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