ERNEST HARTWELL hartwell@fas.harvard.edu

253.217.7800 EDUCATION Harvard University, Cambridge, MA PhD Romance Languages & Literatures, Spanish Section; expected 2017 Dissertation: “Borderline Voices: Anti-colonial Ambivalence in the Philippines, Cuba, and

Puerto Rico” Committee: Doris Sommer (Harvard), Mariano Siskind (Harvard), Vicente Rafael

(University of Washington) New York University, New York, NY BA, summa cum laude: Spanish (Highest Honors) & Religious Studies, June 2010

University of Buenos Aires, Capital Federal, Argentina Coursework in Filosofía y Letras: literary theory and Argentine Literature, 2009.

RESEARCH INTERESTS Philippine, Cuban and Puerto Rican literature

and history Border Studies Colonial cultural studies and postcolonial theory Nationalist & global modernities Travel writings and photography Transatlantic and transoceanic influences,

correspondences, coalitions and rivalries

TEACHING INTERESTS Spanish at all levels Caribbean literature and culture Postcolonial Cinema and Visual Culture Latin American Culture Studies Border and Latin@ studies Aesthetics, cultural agency and civic

humanities Southern Cone lit and culture

LANGUAGES Spanish (Fluent), English (Fluent), French (Reading and speaking), Portuguese (Reading and speaking), Tagalog (Beginner)

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS Dissertation Completion Grant, Faculty of Arts and Science, Harvard University 2016-2017

Distinction in Teaching, Derek Bok Center Certificate, Harvard University (Received for six semesters taught in Spanish, Latin Am Studies and Gen Ed) 2013-2016

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Research Travel Grant, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) Archival work in Manila, Philippines 2016 Conference Travel Grant, DRCLAS Departmental Conference Travel Grant, RLL for Latin American Studies Association conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico 2015 Coatsworth Fellowship for year-long research in Latin American history, DRCLAS 2014-2015 Highest Honors for Senior Honors Thesis NYU 2010 PUBLICATIONS “Bodies (un)made: Languages of Ageing and Violence in Two Argentine Novels” Transverse-University of Toronto Press October 2012 “Nacidas de la nada: Mamushkas de Roberta Iannamico” Colectivo-NYU BA Press November 2009 “Tratado de un alma perdida: Caetano Veloso 1973” Colectivo-NYU BA Press April 2009 “He leído a Hemingway” MOLDE magazine November 2008 CONFERENCES “The Empire in the Cage: Borders, Spectacles, and Language in Luna and Martí’s Chronicles” Invited Speaker, Miami University Dept of Span and Port, Oxford, OH February 2017 “¿Con qué derecho?: Submissive Subversive Annotations in Caribbean and Philippine Histories” Latin American Studies Association Conference, San Juan, PR May 2015 “Mitos, chismes y cadáveres: Eva Perón e Imelda Marcos” Latin American Studies Association Conference, Chicago May 2014

“La política de las citas y la escritura del exilio: como Gombrowicz y Cortázar no se conocieron” also: Discussant in panel “New Paradigms: Literature and Literary Theory” University of Pittsburgh Grad Student Conference in Spanish October 2013

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“Plibastiero, plibustiero, plibestiero: El robo de la palabra en Noli me tangere” Brown University Grad Student Conference in Spanish and Portuguese October 2012 “‘Explicaciones rabínicas’: The Kabalah and Language in Borges’s Prose” NYU Honors Research Conference April 2010 “Bodies (un)made: Languages of Ageing and Violence in Two Argentine Novels” University of Minnesota Grad Student Conference February 2010 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Harvard GSAS Dept. of Romance Languages Invited Speaker, Spanish 243 “Foundational Fictions” March 2017 -led seminar on Noli me tangere, Rizal, and Philippine history of late 19th century Miami University Dept of Span and Port Invited Lecture, Spanish 315 “Introduction to Hispanic Literature” February 2017 -directed a teaching demonstration on “La mujer que llegaba a las seis,” Gabriel García

Márquez, and Colombia’s “Bogotazo” Harvard College Dept. of Romance Languages Language Teaching Fellow, Spanish 30 “Advanced Spanish Language: Four Countries and their Cultures” 2013-14 (Course Head Johanna Liander), and Spanish 50 “Writing and Performance” 2015-16 (Course Head Adriana Gutierrez)

- Designed and developed materials on grammar, literature, film, theater and culture - Graded papers, exams and performances

Harvard College Program of General Education Head Teaching Fellow Aesthetics and Interpretive Understanding 13 “Cultural Agents” Fall 2012, 2013 and 2015 (Prof. Doris Sommer and Francesco Erspamer)

- Contacted and arranged invited speakers - Composed the syllabus and designed course website - Designed interactive digital mapping tool used in subsequent semesters in conjunction with Kirk Goldsberry, formerly of Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis

- Led weekly TF and professor meetings, as well as meetings with Gen Ed coordinators - Facilitated discussion section - Wrote midterm exam - Organized field trips and end of year final project fair

Harvard College Dept. of Romance Languages Head Teaching Fellow, Latin American Studies 70 “Modernity, Culture and Politics in Latin America” Spring 2013 and 2016 (Prof. Mariano Siskind)

- Conducted course and discussion section in Spanish

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- Designed course website - Realized a full two-hour lecture on economic and aesthetic responses the 2001 Argentine crisis, including “Eloisa Cartonera” and the “fábricas recuperadas”

- Designed and developed materials for discussion section on history, economics, reproductive health, literature, film, and soccer

- Led a Pre-texts workshop, using Borges’s “Los dos reyes y los dos laberintos” Harvard College Summer Abroad in Buenos Aires Teaching Fellow, “Spanish Language and Argentine Culture” Summer 2014 (Course Head Johanna Liander)

- Taught tri-weekly literature and culture sections - Led fieldtrips, organized film screenings and realized a weeklong excursion through Corrientes and to the Iguazú Waterfall National Park

- Graded the students’ homework, exams and diary entries

ADVISING

Harvard College Undergraduate Senior Thesis Advisor, Literature Department 2013-14 (Coordinator Sandra Naddaff)

- Thesis advisor for two seniors in the Lit Department - Reader and grader for another senior in the Lit Department

New York University-Abu Dhabi Buenos Aires Student Life Coordinator, January Term in Argentina 2012

- Served as academic and emotional support for a diverse group of students (the first class of NYU-Abu Dhabi admitees)

- Organized film screenings and realized weekend tours of the city, museum visits and trips to the “estancia”

New York University Tutor at the “College Learning Center: Humanities” 2009–10

- Tutored in Spanish, Writing, Calculus, Economics, and Religion

PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

- Coordinator of Boston “School of Peace” tutoring and mentoring prog 2016-present - Volunteer at “School of Peace” in Boston, Buenos Aires, Bronx, Havana and Santiago de Cuba 2008 — 2016

- Organizer of Community of Sant’Egidio weekly friendship visits with the elderly at Cambridge Rehab Home (formerly “Vernon Hall”) 2010-present

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- Pre - texts facilitator, various art-based literacy workshops with Harvard undergrads and Boston Public Schools teachers 2012-present

- Manager of Cultural Agents and Big Bad Lab “Big Bad Hacker Jam” NW Labs, Harvard University 2012 - Participant in Occupy Harvard meetings, rallies and Forum Theater exercises 2012 - Research Assistant at Tamiment Library-Bobst Library, NYU, aided in archival investigations of radical politics and labor movements 2006 – 2008

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT - Workshop on writing Course Teaching Manual and completion of course teaching Manual for AI13 Cultural Agents 2016 - Workshop on Gen Ed Head Teaching Fellow Skills 2015 - Department of Romance Languages Annual Conference on Task Based-Communicative Language Teaching Strategies 2012-2015 - Derek Bok Center Conference on Teaching Approaches, Harvard 2012 - Pre-texts: Cultural Agents workshop, Harvard 2012

REFERENCES Doris Sommer Advisor, Head Prof of AI13: Cultural Agents Ira Jewell Williams Jr. Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies Director of the Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard University Harvard Yard Boylston Hall 417 Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 495-5273 dsommer@fas.harvard.edu Mariano Siskind Reader, Head Prof of LAT STD 70 Chair of the Department, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature Harvard Yard Boylston Hall 327 Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 495-9371 siskind@fas.harvard.edu

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Adriana Gutiérrez Course Head for Span 50 Spanish Preceptor in Romance Languages and Literatures Harvard Yard Boylston Hall 412 Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 496-1382 agutierr@fas.harvard.edu Vicente Rafael Reader Professor of History, University of Washington Smith Hall 315 Seattle, WA 98195 (206) 5430-5699 vrafael@uw.edu