Modern Languages
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Jose Eduardo Cornelio
Associate Professor of Modern Languages
Dr. Jose Eduardo Cornelio received his Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature and Cultural Studies from Georgetown University, Washington, DC. His research focus includes Colonial and Postcolonial Studies; Andean Studies; Indigenous representations in Literature, Painting, and Cinema; Contemporary Latin American Literature and Theories of the Archive; and Transatlantic Studies. He teaches courses in Spanish, Latin American Literature and Culture, and Common Intellectual Experience (CIE).
Department
Degrees
PhD (2016): Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Hispanic Literature and Cultural Studies (Colonial Latin American Literature).
M. A. (2011): Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Hispanic Literature and Cultural Studies.
B. A. (2004): Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Peru) Art History
Teaching
SPAN-112 Spanish Intermediate
SPAN-201 Spanish Conversation and Composition
SPAN-202 Spanish Conversation and Composition
SPAN-252 Survey of Latin American Literature/Introduction to Hispanic Cultural Studies
SPAN-335 Spanish Independent Study: Spanish Oral Conversation Through News, Short Stories, and Netflix
SPAN-340 Constructing Identities in the Andes: From Inca Garcilaso to Evo Morales
SPAN-340 Intersecting Violence: Race, Gender, and Class in Latin America’s Cultural Production
SPAN-340 From Columbus’ Voyages to R. Rodriguez’s Zombies: Critically Reading the Spanish-American World, 15th-21st centuries
SPAN-340 Abusive Sovereignty: State and Civil Society in Latin American Film and Literature
SPAN-440 “The Indian Question”: Nation-making and Discourse in the Field of Cultural Production, Peru 1880-1980
LAS-200 Introduction to Latin American Studies
LAS-332 Independent Study in LAS: Reading 2666: Literature and Femicides in Latin American Fictional Writing
CIE-100 Common Intellectual Experience
Professional Experience
Ursinus College: Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies. Department of Modern Languages, 2016-present
Georgetown University: Graduate Teaching Assistant. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 2010-2016
Georgetown University: Assistant Director of the Study Abroad Program in Ecuador. Department of Spanish and Portuguese-Office of Global Education, 2012-2013
Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI): Lecturer of Peruvian Art History and Cultural Politics and Institutionalization. Office of Education, Certificate Studies in Cultural Management, 2006-2008
Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo ––AECID: Management Assistant for Projects in Cultural Heritage and Development. Programa de Patrimonio para el Desarrrollo P > D, 2005-2009
Recent Work
Books:
Música concreta. Lima: Editorial Caja Negra (forthcoming).
“Julia Codesido: Una pintora sin ataduras”. In: Julia Codesido. Lima: Empresa Editora El Comercio, 2010 [Tomo VIII de la Colección Maestros de la Pintura Peruana].
“Venancio Shinki: fabulador de imágenes”. In: Venancio Shinki. Lima: Empresa Editora El Comercio, 2010 [Tomo IX de la Colección Maestros de la Pintura Peruana].
“David Herskovitz: un pintor anclado en el Perú”. In: David Herskovitz. Lima: Empresa Editora El Comercio, 2010 [Tomo X de la Colección Maestros de la Pintura Peruana].
Book Chapters:
“‘Los tranvías pasan su cargamento de sombreros:’ síntomas de la experiencia moderna y flânerie en La casa de cartón (1928) de Martín Adán.” In: Descalzar los atriles. Vanguardias literarias en el Perú, Giancarla Di Laura y Katia Ibarra (Coordinadoras), Editorial Nómada-Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Azcapotzalco-México, 2021, pp. 163-183.
“‘No basta adaptar un órgano: hay que adaptar todo el organismo:’ Unamuno y Ganivet sobre el porvenir de España luego del ’98.” In: Rosenbaum, Susanna y Danielle Zach (Eds). España, Norteamérica y tiempos de crisis, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares-Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Estudios Norteamericanos Benjamin Franklin, Editorial Catarata.
Articles and Reviews:
“Juan Bustamante Dueñas.” An entry in Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 19. Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America (1800-1914). Edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Brill, Leiden-Boston, 2022, pp. 509-513.
“Un encuentro entre pintura abstracta y poesía quechua. Syszlo, Westphalen y Arguedas hacia una ‘tradición peruana’ en la plástica (1952-1963). Letras. Órgano de la Facultad de Letras y Ciencias Humanas de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. 87. 125 (2016): 51-68.
“Melodrama y narrativas sociales o hacia una nueva poética de la producción literaria en América Latina.” Sobre Matthew Bush, Pragmatic Passions. Melodrama and Latin American Social Novel. En: A Contracorriente, 14. 1. (Fall 2016): 338-345.
Presentations at Academic Gatherings:
“«Mediocres imitadores de una nueva colonialidad» o de la cuestión del Perú en la escritura de Carlos Yushimito.” Paper presented at XXV Congreso Internacional de Literatura y Estudios Hispánicos, Lima, Perú, March 4th-6th, 2020.
“Una voz migrante narrando el horror: identidades zombies, marginalidad y heterogeneidades radicales en “El hijo del coronel” de Roberto Bolaño.” Paper presented at III Congreso de Internacional de Teorías, Crítica e Historias Literarias Latinoamericanas Antonio Cornejo Polar, Lima, August 6th-9th, 2019.
“‘No basta adaptar un órgano: hay que adaptar todo el organismo:’ Unamuno y Ganivet sobre el porvenir de España luego del ’98.” Paper presented at V Congreso internacional sobre los vínculos históricos entre España y Norteamérica: “Las relaciones en tiempos de crisis,” Alcalá de Henares, April 24th-26th, 2019.
“Buscando un inca, autorizando un inca: Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo y la escritura de la historia de los incas.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) 2019, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, March 7th-10th, 2019.
“Distant Allegiances: Performances of Loyalty and History of The Incas in Júbilos de Lima (1723) by Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo.” Paper presented at 2018 Midwest Modern Language Association Conference (MMLA), Kansas City, November 15th-18th, 2018.
“¿Soñará don Raimundo Herrera con archivos electrónicos? Verdad, ficción y ‘pulsión de archivo’ en El jinete insomne de Manuel Scorza.” Paper presented at XLII Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI), Bogotá, June 12th-15th, 2018.
“La parte del archivo”: feminicidios y poética de la violencia en 2666 de Roberto Bolaño.” Paper presented at XXI Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica, Quito, March 7-9, 2018.
“Sentir la comunidad”: utopía, futuro y revolución en Todas las sangres de José María Arguedas.” Paper presented at 1968 in Global Perspectives (20th Annual Comparative Literature Conference, 43rd Annual French Conference, 3rd Biannual Spanish Conference), University of South Carolina, February 15-17, 2018.
“Incas e indios en las fiestas oficiales del siglo XVIII en la Lima colonial”. Paper presented at Casa de la Literatura Peruana as part of a discussion panel on Andean discourse and literary production in eighteenth-century colonial Peru, Lima (Peru), May 10th, 2017.
“Ser un provinciano del mundo: Una relectura de José María Arguedas en clave cosmopolita (o de los cosmopolitismos vernáculos)” Paper presented at the LASA International Congress, Lima (Peru), April 29th-May 1st, 2017.
“«El problema de la universalidad, el peligro del regionalismo» o hacia una cosmopolítica andina en José María Arguedas.” Paper presented at the LALISA Conference: Peripheral Mappings: Social and Cultural Geographies from the Underside of Modernity, University of Oregon, April 13-15, 2017.
“Pensar la ‘nación indiana’: sujeto y comunidad en la escritura de los memoriales indígenas del siglo XVIII”. Paper presented at the Thinking Andean Studies: An Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Pennsylvania, February 10th-11th, 2017.
“Ay de vosotros, los indios (…) no tendréis luz, sino más largas tinieblas:” autoridad letrada, afecto y sujeto político en el Planctus Indorum Christianorum in America Peruntina (ca. 1759). Paper presented at the LASA Conference 2016, New York, May 27th-30th, 2016.