Assistant Professor

Jeffrey Zamostny

Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of West Georgia

Curriculum Vitae

University of West Georgia 602 South Park Street Apt. 4

Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Carrollton, Georgia 30117

1601 Maple Street Mobile Phone: 443-***-****

Carrollton, Georgia 30118 Office Phone: 678-***-****

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EDUCATION

2007-2012 Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies, University of Kentucky

Dissertation Title: Faustian Figures: Modernity and Male (Homo)sexualities in

Spanish Commercial Literature, 1900-1936

2008-2010 Graduate Certificate in Social Theory, University of Kentucky

2003-2007 B.A. in Spanish, McDaniel College (Westminster, Maryland)

Valedictorian, Summa Cum Laude, Honors in Spanish, Honors Program

2005-2006 Programa Especial Integrado, Universidad de Salamanca (Spain)

2004 Summer Spanish School, Middlebury College

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

January, 2012-presentAssistant Professor of Spanish, University of West Georgia

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Spanish Literary and Cultural Studies

Social Theory

Gender and Sexuality Studies

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Constructing Ethical Attention in Lucia Puenzo s XXY: Cinematic Strategy,

Intersubjectivity,

and Intersexuality. Children and Teenagers in Latin American and Spanish Film. Ed.

Georgia Seminet and Carolina Rocha. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Forthcoming.

Canon Formation and Diversity: Latin American Gay Literature in the Global Market.

Chasqui 40.2 (2011). Forthcoming November, 2011.

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El malestar estomacal en La de Bringas de Galdos. Decimononica 7.1 (2010): 61-75.

Comings Out: Secrecy, Sexuality, and Murder in Michael Nava s Rag and Bone. MELUS 34.3

(2009): 183-204.

!Todos a bordo!: Viajes al tercer sexo madrileno en A Sodoma en tren botijo de Alvaro

Retana.

Divergencias 7.1 (2009): 55-60.

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

Fall, 2011 and Spring, 2009 Travel Grants for Conference Presentations, Graduate

School,

University of Kentucky

2010 Dissertation Grant, Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain s Ministry of

Culture and United States Universities

2007-2010 Multi-Year Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Kentucky

2007-2010 Daniel R. Reedy Quality Achievement Award, Graduate School, University of

Kentucky

2007-2009T. Marshall Hahn, Jr. Graduate Fellowship, College of Arts and Sciences,

University of Kentucky

2003-2007Full Scholarship, McDaniel College

2003-2007 Finalist, Maryland Distinguished Scholar Program, State of Maryland

2003-2007 Maryland Senatorial Scholarship, Senator of Maryland

ACADEMIC HONORS

Spring, 2009 Keller Award for Outstanding Research, Department of Hispanic Studies,

University of Kentucky

Spring, 2007 Argonaut Award for Valedictorian, McDaniel College

Spring, 2007 Edith Farr Riddington-Phi Beta Kappa Writing Award for Best Honors Thesis,

McDaniel College

Spring, 2007 Frank and Margaret Malone Award for Excellence in a Foreign Language,

McDaniel College

Spring, 2007 Eloise B. and Lowell S. Ensor Award for Graduate or Professional Study,

McDaniel College

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Spring, 2007 Jacob K. Javits Commended Scholar, United States Department of Education

Spring, 2007 Finalist, American Graduate Fellowship, Council of Independent Colleges

Spring, 2006 H. Samuel Case and Susan Snodgrass Case Award for Excellence in Scholarly

Research, McDaniel College

Spring, 2005 Millard Milburn Rice Non-Fiction Writing Prize, McDaniel College

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

September, 2011 The Literary Pharmacies of Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent and Carmen de

Burgos: Decadence, Queer Desire, and Spanish Commercial Literature. Mountain

Interstate Foreign Language Conference. Auburn University

March, 2011 Gendered Tropes in Spain s Short Novel Collections, 1907-1936. XIV Annual

Hispanic and Lusophone Studies Symposium. Ohio State University

October, 2010 Ethical Attention and Intersexuality in Lucia Puenzo s XXY. Mountain

Interstate Foreign Language Conference. Radford University

February, 2010 Canon Formation and Diversity: Latin American Gay Literature in the

Global

Market. Latin American Studies Graduate Student Symposium. University of

Kentucky

October, 2009 Puesta en abismo: La (in)comunicacion en Los disparates de Francisco

Goya.

Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference. Furman University

February, 2009 !Todos a bordo!: Viajes al tercer sexo madrileno en A Sodoma en tren

botijo

de Alvaro Retana. Symposium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature, Language,

and Culture. University of Arizona

November, 2008 Entre la obra y el (hiper)texto: El andalucismo islamista en Blas

Infante, un

musulman andaluz. Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association.

Louisville, Kentucky

October, 2008 All Aboard: Journeys Towards a Sexually-Dissident Subculture in Alvaro

Retana s A Sodoma en tren botijo. Border Crossings: Boundaries of Cultural

Interpretation. Vanderbilt University

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Editorships and Journal Participation

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2011-2012 Editor-in-Chief, Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispanicos.

Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Kentucky. Vol. 2: Apocalypse and the

End Times/Apocalipsis y el fin del mundo. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/naeh/

2011-2012 Reviewer, Polifonia: Revista academica de estudios hispanicos. Austin Peay

State University. http://www.apsu.edu/polifonia

2010-2011 Co-Editor, disClosure (Journal of Social Theory). Committee on Social Theory,

University of Kentucky. Vol. 20: Family, Sex, Law. http://socialtheory.as.uky.edu/

disclosure

Fall, 2010 Reviewer, Nomenclatura: aproximaciones a los estudios hispanicos. Department

of

Hispanic Studies, University of Kentucky

2009-2010 Book Review Editor, disClosure (Journal of Social Theory). Committee on

Social

Theory, University of Kentucky

Research Experience

2011-2012 Paid Research Assistant, Committee on Social Theory, University of Kentucky

Spring, 2011 Paid Research Assistant, Hispanic Kentucky Oral History Project

Conference Organization

October, 2010 Organizer of the Panel Latin American Women Filmmakers. Mountain

Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Radford University

September, 2009 Organizer of the Symposium Goya at the Equinox II. Department of

Hispanic Studies, University of Kentucky

April, 2008-2011 Chair for Panels in the Spanish Peninsular Section, Kentucky Foreign

Language Conference, University of Kentucky

Administrative Positions

2011-2012 Assistant to the Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Hispanic

Studies,

University of Kentucky

2011-2012 Vice President, Hispanic Studies Graduate Student Association, University of

Kentucky

2009-2010Secretary, Hispanic Studies Graduate Student Association, University of

Kentucky

2008-2009 Vice President, Sigma Delta Pi (Spanish Honor Society), University of

Kentucky

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Courses Offered2012Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of West Georgia

SPAN 3030 Introduction to Hispanic Literature

SPAN 1001 Elementary Spanish I

2008-2011Teaching Assistant, Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Kentucky

SPA 310 Spanish Composition through Textual Analysis

SPA 203 High Intermediate Spanish

SPA 201-202 Intermediate Spanish I and II

SPA 101 Elementary Spanish I

SPA 101-102 Lab Elementary Spanish I and II, Lab

September, 2011 Invited Lecturer, SPA 482, Spanish Enlightenment and Romanticism,

Dr. Ana Rueda, Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Kentucky

Fall, 2008 Course Leader for SPA 101, Department of Hispanic Studies, University of

Kentucky (coordinated, revised, and distributed exams; mentor to other 101 instructors)

Pedagogy Course and Workshop Participation

Spring, 2011 Course, Instructional Technology, University of Kentucky

Fall, 2010 Certificate, Written Spanish Workshop Series, Department of Hispanic

Studies,

University of Kentucky. Led by Judith Liskin-Gasparro, Janet C. Eldred, and Cecilia M.

Colombi

Fall, 2008 Course, Teaching of Spanish, University of Kentucky

Spring, 2006 Course, Metodologia de la ensenanza del espanol como segundo idioma,

Universidad de Salamanca (Spain)

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

Spanish near-native

French reading, intermediate speaking and writing

Italian reading, elementary speaking and writing

Portuguese reading

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Catalan reading

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