Luz Ainaí Morales-Pino

 Morales-­‐Pino 1 Luz Ainaí Morales-Pino
University of Miami
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
P.O. Box 248093
Merrick Building Room 210-24
(786)3037803/ (305)2844002
[email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Candidate in Romance Studies
University of Miami (August 2011-Present)
Dissertation Title: “Visual Narratives of Nation and Modernity. Mapping and Unraveling
Competing Visualities in the Entre-Siglos Peru and Venezuela”
Certifications: SLA-T (Second Language Acquisition- Teaching), 2012
B.A. Literature Cum Laude
Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, 2007
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Juan Germán Roscio: La subversión de la palabra. Caracas: Universidad Católica
Andrés Bello, 2008.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
"El Perú Ilustrado: las visualidades en competencia en la articulación de un imaginario
de nación." Decimonónica (In Press).
“Tensiones disciplinarias. Palabra, imagen y subversión semántica en la estética realista
de
El
Zarco”.
Decimonónica
vol.
11,
no.1
(2014):
14-27.
http://www.decimononica.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Morales-Pino_11.1.pdf
Articles in Edited Books (Peer-Reviewed Publications)
"El Museo Venezolano: las políticas de la imagen en el proceso de formación nacional."
Cecilia Rodríguez Lehmann and Victor Goldgel Carballo (Eds). La nación en imágenes.
Impresos ilustrados en el siglo XIX. Forthcoming by Iberoamericana Press.
AWARDS AND HONORS
Tinker Field Research Grant to conduct research in Perú and Venezuela. Summer
2014.
Research Project: "Visual Narratives of Nation and Modernity: Mapping and Unraveling
Competing Visualities in 19th Century Literary and Illustrated Cultural
Productions"
Morales-­‐Pino 2 University of Miami, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: Summer
Research Award for Conducting Research in Perú and Venezuela, 2014.
Research Project: “Word, Image and Gaze: Mapping and Unraveling Competing
Visualities in a Nineteenth-Century Peruvian Archive.”
University of Miami, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures:
Outstanding Graduate Student Award AY 2013-2014.
University of Miami, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures:
Conference Travel Award for attending LASA, Washington 2013.
Modern Languages and Literatures Department: Research Travel Grant for
conducting research in Caracas-Venezuela, Summer 2012.
Research Project: “Images and Imagined Communities:” Venezuelan 19th
Century Illustrated Publications and the Problematic of “The Lettered City.”
University of Miami Max and Peggy Kriloff Student Travel Scholarship, May 2013
University of Miami Max and Peggy Kriloff Student Travel Scholarship, May 2012
University of Miami Max and Peggy Kriloff Student Travel Scholarship, Nov. 2012
University of Miami Max and Peggy Kriloff Student Travel Scholarship, Nov. 2011.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
19th and 20th Century Latin American Literary and Cultural/Political Discourses.
Visual Culture Studies and the (Dis) Articulation of Imaginaries of Nation, Modernity,
Gender, and Race in 19th and 20th Century Latin American Literary and Cultural
Productions.
Spaces of Subversion/Tension within “Hegemonic” Cultural Productions and Discourses.
Word, Image and Gaze in 19th - 20th Century Latin American Cultural Productions.
19th Century Peninsular Literature and Discourses.
19th and 20th Century Brazilian Literature and Cultural Productions.
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
2011- Present Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Miami
2010-2011 Full Time Instructor, Departamento de Lengua y Literatura, Universidad
Simón Bolívar (Caracas, Venezuela)
LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Conference Presentations and Lectures
Morales Pino, Luz Ainai. "El Perú Ilustrado: la industria cultural visual y las
visualidades en competencia en la articulación de un imaginario de
Morales-­‐Pino 3 nación." Congreso Perú Trasatlántico. Lima, July 2014.
Morales Pino, Luz Ainai. "Las agendas de la imagen. Narrativas visuales de nación y
modernidad en El Perú Ilustrado y El Cojo Ilustrado." Guest
Lecture at the Curso Internacional De Literatura Latinoamericana.
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Invited by Prof.
Marcel Martín Velázquez Castro). Lima, July 2014.
Morales Pino, Luz Ainai. "Los usos políticos de la imagen. La prensa ilustrada
decimonónica y las estrategias de invisibilización en la
(des)articulación del imaginario nacional." LASA. Chicago, May
2014.
Morales Pino, Luz Ainai. “La imagen como desarticulación de la coherencia semántica
del discurso disciplinario en El Zarco.” SAMLA. Atlanta, Nov.
2013.
Morales Pino, Luz Ainai. “La centralidad de la imagen en la comunidad imaginada
decimonónica. El museo venezolano (1865) y el disciplinamiento
de la Mirada.” LASA Washington D.C, May 2013.
Morales Pino, Luz Ainai. “El Perú Ilustrado and the Contradictions of Modernity:
Constructing a Nation of Progress over the Basis of Consumption,
Desire and Social Erasures.” SAMLA. Durham, Nov. 2012.
Conference Panels Organized and/or Chaired
Morales Pino, Luz Ainai. Co-Organizer and Chair of the panel Imagen, consumo y
trivialidad. Redes político disciplinarias de la cultura visual
decimonónica. LASA Chicago, May 2014.
Morales Pino, Luz Ainai. Organizer and Chair of 19th Century Spanish American
Literature Panel: Re-Reading the 19th Century: Locating the
Counter-Hegemonic within Foundational Discourses. SAMLA.
Atlanta, Nov. 2013.
Morales Pino, Luz Ainai. Organizer and Chair of Colonial Spanish American Literature
Panel: (De)Legitimizing Metaphors in Colonial Spanish American
Discourses: Re-Thinking the Signifiers and Constructs that
Underpinned the Struggle for Symbolic and Real Power During
Colonial Times. SAMLA Atlanta, Nov. 2013.
Morales Pino, Luz Ainai. Co-Organzer and Chair of the Eleventh Graduate Student
Conference: Cyberaesthetics and Narrative. Department of Modern Languages
and Literatures, University of Miami, Oct. 2012.
Morales-­‐Pino 4 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Organizer of Special Guest Lecture with Ángela Zago (Fall 2014): “Literatura
testimonial. ¿Qué hay detrás del autor?” (University of Miami, Department of
Modern Languages and Literatures).
Organizer of Special Guest Lecture with Antonio López Ortega (Spring 2014): “Doña
Bárbara: La tradición como proyecto moderno” (University of Miami,
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Miami
Undergraduate Courses:
Spanish 211 (Fall 2014)
Spanish 354: Palabra, imagen y mirada. Puestas en escena de la civilización
(Co-Teaching with Christina Civantos, PhD.) (Spring 2014)
Spanish 211 (Fall 2013)
Spanish 102 (Spring 2013)
Spanish 101 (Fall 2012)
Universidad Simón Bolivar
Undergraduate Courses:
Lenguaje y Comunicación 113 (May 2011)
Lenguaje y Comunicación 112 (January 2011)
Lenguaje y Comunicación 111 (October 2010)
Lenguaje y Comunicación 003 (January 2011)
Lenguaje y Comunicación 002 (October 2010)
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Spanish: Native fluency
English: Near-native fluency
Portuguese: High proficiency
French: Advanced reading proficiency
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Modern Language Association, Member since 2013
Latin American Studies Association, Member since 2012
Centro de Investigaciones Críticas y Socioculturales (Universidad Simón Bolívar),
Member since 2012
PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES
Dr. Elena Grau-Llevería
Associate Professor of Spanish
Director of Undergraduate Studies in Spanish
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Morales-­‐Pino 5 University of Miami
P.O. Box 248093
Coral Gables, FL 33124-2074
E-mail: [email protected]
Web page: http://www.as.miami.edu/mll/people/#elleveria
Dr. Christina Civantos
Associate Professor
Department of Modern Languages & Literatures
University of Miami
P.O. Box 248093
Coral Gables, FL 33124-2074
Phone: 305-284-7265
Fax: 305-284-2068
Email: [email protected]
Web page: http://www.as.miami.edu/mll/people/ChristinaCivantos
Dr. Beatriz González Stephan
Lee Hage Jamail Professor of Latin American Studies
Full Professor in Hispanic Studies
(713) 348-3237
(713) 348-5451
Web Page: http://swg.rice.edu/gonzalez-stephan/
[email protected]
Dr. Eduardo Elena
Eduardo Elena
Associate Professor
History Department
University of Miami
Ashe 604
P.O. Box 248107
Coral Gables, FL 33124
Web Page: http://www.as.miami.edu/history/people/faculty/eduardo-elena/
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Lillian Manzor
Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Miami
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Office: Merrick Building, 210-07
Tel.: 305-284-4858 Ext. 7314
Web Page: http://www.as.miami.edu/mll/people/faculty/dr-lillian-manzor-/
Email: [email protected]