Professor Livon-Grosman specializes in Latin American poetics, travel literature and film. He is currently working on an Anthology of 500 years of Latin American Poetry in translation to be published by Oxford University Press in 2009. He also has several ongoing digitalization projects; among them is ailleurs a journal on poetics and visual arts published in Paris by Uruguayan poet Carmelo Arden Quin during the early 1960s. The digitalization of ailleurs is part of a larger project designed to make available, through the web, out of print South American journals dedicated to experimental writing. The first example of these efforts is XULdigital a public project made possible thanks to O’Neill Library and Boston College.

In addition Professor Livon-Grosman has just finished his first documentary, Cartoneros, a film about the social and cultural implications of the massive informal recycling that takes place everyday in his native Buenos Aires. The film premiered in the US during the fall of 2006. It won the National City 2007 Tulipanes Film Award for "Best Educational Film." The film also won the "Best Green Film" award at the 2008 Connecticut Film Festival and received special mention at the 2008 International Film and Human Rights Festival in Buenos Aires.

Professor Livon-Grosman received an Academic Technology Innovation Grant and is working on a new documentary:"Isidro Velázquez: The case of Social Banditry".

Education and Academic Degrees:

Ph.D. in Latin American Literature, New York University, 2000; M.A. in Spanish and Latin American Literature, New York University; B.A. in Spanish Literature, Empire State College.

Recent Publications:

Books:

	The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology. Edited by Cecilia Vicuña and Ernesto Livon-Grosman. Oxford University Press, 2009. Highly recommended by Dorfmann in the Washington Post.
	José LezamaThe Oxfor 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.

 
Electronic:

The XUL digital website is the digital edition of the journal XUL: Old and New Sign, published in Argentina in the 1980's as a space for literary and political expression during the dictatorship. Content Direction and Development by Prof. Livon-Grosman.

Journals:

"Memorias privadas, imágenes públicas. La primera persona en dos documentales argentinos recientes" in Iberoamericana. América Latina-España-Portugal, Vol VIII, 29 (2008), 105-121.

 

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