The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology. Edited (with introductory essays) 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 film, poetics, and travel writing
Honors and Awards
Cartoneros (documentary), received the following awards and distinctions: “Best Educational Film,” Tulipanes International Film Festival, Holland, Michigan, August 2007; "Best Green / Outdoors Film," Connecticut Film Festival, May 2007; and the "Enviromental Film Award," Tenth International Festival Cinema for Human Rights, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2008.
Mensaje a la humanidad (visual poem), was a finalist in the Zebra Film Festival (category, "Focus Argentina"), Berlin, 2010, sponsored by the Goethe Institute.
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. 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 (Translated by Ernesto Livon-Grosman and Jorge Santiago Perednik.) Buenos Aires: Tres Haches, 1997.
Film and Digital Media Productions
Several contributions (on poets Jorge Santiago Perednik, Charles Bernstein, Roberto Cignoni, Reina Maria Rodriguez, and Raul Zurita) to the visual poetry series sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania, "Pennsound:" Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing.
The "Radio Reading Project," a series of recordings and interviews in English and Spanish with poets from South and North America, co-produced at New York University by Ernesto Livon Grosman.
Cartoneros (2006): a documentary about the socio-economics of trash recycling in Buenos Aires, written, directed and co-produced by Ernesto Livon-Grosman.
The XUL digital website, conceived and curated by Ernesto Livon-Grosman, is a digitalized edition (enriched by a new critical apparatus) of the Argentinian intellectual journal, XUL: Signo Viejo e Nuevo, published in the 1980s as a forum for both literary and political expression during the years of dictatorship.
Recent Articles and Book Chapters
"Memorias privadas, imágenes públicas. La primera persona en dos documentales argentinos recientes," Iberoamericana 8.29 (2008): 105-122 (special issue on the theme, "Entre-discursos: medios masivos, literatura y política en la cultura latinoamericana").
Recent Papers and Presentations
“Mapping the Americas,” Dr. Milton Ellis Memorial Event, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, October 4, 2012.
“Videopoetics,” presentation of exhibition co-curated by Ernesto Livon Grosman, McNally Jackson Bookstore, 52 Prince Street, New York, NY, May 4, 2012.
“Tribute to Jorge Santiago Perednik," McNally Jackson, 52 Prince Street, New York, NY, May 11, 2012.
“Looking Out to See In: Nicolasito Guillén Landrián’s Other Strategy,” Society for Film and Media Studies, Boston, March 23, 2012.
“Technicians of the Sacred,” lecture at commemorative event, “Jerome Rothenberg @ 80,” Martin E. Segal Theatre, City University of New York, New York, December 9, 2011.
“Looking Out to See In: Nicolasito Guillén Landrián’s Other Strategy,” Caribbean Philosophical Association, Rutgers Univeristy, New Brunswick, September 30, 2011.
“Recent Trends in Latin American Cinema,” panel co-organizer and paper presenter. Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Twenty-ninth International Congress, Toronto, Canada, October 6, 2010.
"Mensaje a la Humanidad: Roberto Cignoni" (see above), screening and lecture. Annual Espresso Film Festival, Vienna, Austria, August 13, 2010.
“Revolution within the Revolution: The Aesthetic Challenges of Nicolasito Guillén Landrián’s Films,” Visible Evidence: Seventeenth Annual International Conference on Documentary Film and Media, Istanbul, Turkey. August 11, 2010.
“Sobre la relación entre palabra e imagen.” Presented at the annual visual arts fair, "Expotrastiendas," Centro de Exposiones, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 16, 2009.
“Cartoneros” screenings, with public lectures, of my documentary film (see above) at the following venues: Aston University, Birmingham, UK, April 28, 2009; California State University at San Marcos, April 9, 2009 (annual Spring Arts and Lecture Series); University of California at Irvine, April 11, 2009 (“Cultures of Democracy" series); the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS), University of Texas, March 24, 2009; the Embassy of Argentina, Washington, DC, as part of the “DC Environmental Film Festival,” March 13, 2009; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, April 15, 2010.
“Revolución y pop en en la obra de un documentalista cubano.” Presented at the Onzième Colloque international du CRICCAL, 16-18 octobre 2008, Paris, on the theme, "Transamériques: Les échanges culturels continentaux."
Photo by Facundo Garay
Contact Information
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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