Daniel Herrera-Cepero

dherrera@ucdavis.edu (530) 312 8497 SkypeID: dherrera1977 Department of Spanish and Portuguese University of California, Davis One Shields Ave. Davis, CA 95616

Education
PhD in Spanish Literature, University of California, Davis, expected May 2014. Major field of study: 20th century avant-garde poetry and film. Licenciado en Teora de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), June 2008 Cousework in Filologa Hispnica taken at Universidad Nacional de Educacin a Distancia (20032005) and Universidad Autnoma de Madrid (2002) Technical Engineer in Topography (Ingeniero Tcnico en Topografa), Universidad Politcnica de Madrid (Spain), Sept. 1999

Dissertation
Thesis title: "Lorca en Nueva York y Nueva York en Lorca: diversificacin e hibridez expresiva." The dissertation investigates the impact that New York exerted on the Spanish poet Federico Garca Lorca when he traveled to America in 1929-30 as reflected in his poems, plays, drawings and a film script written during that period. Dissertation advisors: Cristina Martnez-Carazo and Marta E. Altisent.

Professional Summary
5 years of lower and upper division teaching experience Broad formation in Spanish Literature, Film, and Critical Theory Experience serving in committees, mentoring students and organizing cultural events Experience teaching US Latino Literature and Culture and Spanish for Heritage Speakers

Academic positions
Associate Instructor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Davis, September 2008present. Responsible for course syllabi, lesson planning, lectures, exams, examinations and final evaluations. Courses included: Lower division: Elementary Spanish Program (7 quarters and 2 summer sessions) Intermediate Spanish Program (4 quarters) Spanish Composition II (1 quiarter) Spanish for Heritage Speakers (3 quarters) Spanish Culture (from the Middle Ages to present) (1 quarter) Spanish Avant-Garde: Lorca, Dal and Buuel (1 quarter) Forthcoming.

Upper division:

Reader, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Davis. Responsible for exam writing and exams/final papers grading. Courses included:

Spanish 142: Special Topics in Spanish Cultural and Literary Studies - The Spanish Short Story. Marta E. Altisent, Professor. Winter 2012. Spanish 134A. Don Quixote Adrienne Martin, Professor. Fall 2010. Spanish 100. Survey of Hispanic Literature & Criticism Leopoldo Bernucci, Professor. Spring 2010. Spanish 154: The Spanish-American Novel Leopoldo Bernucci, Professor. Winter 2010. Spanish 148: Cinema in the Spanish-Speaking World in Translation Cristina Martnez-Carazo, Associate Professor. Fall 2009.

Research Assistant, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Davis. Archival research for Prof. Martnez-Carazo about the presence of Spanish film director Pedro Almodvar in American media (Summer 2010). Edition of academic papers for Prof. Leopoldo M. Bernucci published in Literatura a Ciencia Cierta: Homenaje a Cedomil Goic. Newark, DE: Juan De La Cuesta, 2011. Print.

Research interests
Spanish and Latin American Contemporary Literature. Avant-Garde Literature, Visual Arts and Film. Spanish Film. Urban Studies in Literature and the Arts (19th to 21st Centuries). Comparative Literature and Critical Theory.

Publications
Research articles: Sinestesia urbana: cine, dibujo y poesa de Lorca en Nueva York Cuadernos para investigacin de la literatura hispnica 37 (2012): 453-66. Print. "Cuento versus Novela." Ciudad Seva. 14 Dec. 2005. Web. 21 Nov. 2011. <http://www.ciudadseva.com/textos/teoria/tecni/cue-nov.htm> (also translated into Portuguese). Im a poet and I know it: Herencia literaria en Bob Dylan." Kaput 5 (2007): 38-41. Print. "Caballito de mar en el ocano insondable del amor infinito." Introduction. Contrapoesa: Antiloga de poetas reversados. By Arturo Martnez et al. Comp. Marcos Almendros. Madrid: Ya lo dijo Casimiro Prker, 2010. 69-70. Print.

Creative work: Short stories published in several anthologies and journals: Soledad in La vida es un bar (ed. Amargord); El mejor pintor del mundo in Mephisto; El Test in Revista Qi, among others. Poems published in several anthologies and journals: Nueva antologa de poesa hispanoamericana (ed. Lord Byron); Antologa potica Bukowski Club 06-08 (ed. Escalera); Mephisto; etc.

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Conferences
El hecho potico de Lorca: un viaje a Nueva York a travs de su imagen potica, plstica y flmica. II Congreso Internacional Historia, Literatura y Arte en en Cine en espaol y portugus, Universidad de Salamanca, June 2013. Desparatextualizacin de las fotografas de Poeta en Nueva York. 33rd Annual Romance Languages Conference, University of Cincinnati, April 2013. Schockerlebnis: literatura espaola al borde de un ataque moderno. 8th Annual Colloquium on Latin American and Iberian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of California, Davis, October 2012. Sinestesia urbana: cine, dibujo y poesa de Lorca en Nueva York Cine-Lit VII, Portland State University, Oregon State University and University of Oregon, Portland, OR , February 2011. El fenmeno urbano como factor decisivo en el giro expresivo de Lorca en Nueva York 6th Annual Colloquium on Latin American and Iberian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of California, Davis, October 2010 (co-organizer, moderator, speaker).

Lectures
Spanish 131N: Spanish Literature 1700 to Present. Lorcas poetry and theatre: Yerma. March, 2012. Spanish 100 Principles of Hispanic Literature & Criticism. El relato corto: Julio Cortzar, Jorge Luis Borges y Ana Mara Matute. May, 2010. Spanish 100 Principles of Hispanic Literature & Criticism. El ensayo: El laberinto de la soledad, de Octavio Paz. May, 2010. Spanish 100 Principles of Hispanic Literature & Criticism. La Generacin potica del 50. Anlisis de un poema de Jaime Gil de Biedma. May, 2009. Hijos de la democracia: la juventud espaola actual. Lecture at the Roehampton University, London, UK, 2003.

Activities in Academic Journals and other publications

Collaboration/translation. Herrera Navarro, Javier. Buuel: una introduccin. Mxico DF: Fondo de Cultura Econmica, 2013. Forthcoming. Copy-editor. Bernucci, Leopoldo M., and Tamara R. Williams, eds. Literatura a Ciencia Cierta: Homenaje a Cedomil Goic. Newark, DE: Juan De La Cuesta, 2011. Print. Copy-editor. Brjula: revista interdisciplinaria sobre estudios latinoamericanos, Number 10, Oct. 2011. Co-founder of the undergraduate journal Mephisto at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2006).

Professional development
Graduate Student Association Representative (GSA), Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Davis, 2011-2012.

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Member of the organizing committee for the Congreso Acadmico de Estudios Ibricos Comparados, University of California, Davis, May, 2012. Chair of the Peninsular Literature and Culture Panel for the 6th Annual Colloquium on Latin American and Iberian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of California, Davis, October 2010. Member of the organizing committee for the Book Day Cellebration, University of California, Davis, April, 2012 and 2013.

Fellowships and awards

One Quarter Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Fall 2012. Mishra Family Fellowship, Summer 2012. UC Davis Non-Resident-Tuition Fellowship, 2008-present. University of California-Davis Faculty Travel Grant, January 2011, March 2013, June 2013.

Memberships
Modern Language Association of America (MLA), June 2012-present.

Languages
Spanish: native speaker English: fluent French: intermediate level Portuguese: intermediate level Dutch: basic level

References
RESEARCH Cristina Martnez-Carazo, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Spanish & Portuguese University of California, Davis One Shields Ave 709 Sproul Hall Davis, CA 95616 (530) 757-7846 cmmartinezcarazo@ucdavis.edu Marta Altisent, Ph.D. Professor of Spanish Department of Spanish & Portuguese University of California, Davis One Shields Ave 711 Sproul Hall Davis, CA 95616 (530) 753-9317 mealtisent@ucdavis.edu Adrienne L. Martin, Ph.D. Prof. of Spanish & Assoc. Vice Provost, Int. Programs Daniel Herrera-Cepero TEACHING Norma Lopez-Burton M.A. Supervisor, First Year Program Department of Spanish & Portuguese University of California, Davis One Shields Ave 608 Sproul Hall Davis, CA 95616 (530) 752-1060 nrlopezburton@ucdavis.edu Robert Blake, Ph.D. Professor of Spanish Department of Spanish & Portuguese University of California, Davis One Shields Ave 222 Voorhies Hall Davis, CA 95616 (530) 758-0751 rjblake@ucdavis.edu Francisco X. Alarcn, M.A. Professor of Spanish 4 of 4

Department of Spanish & Portuguese University of California, Davis One Shields Ave 602 Sproul Hall Davis, CA 95616 (530) 752-0860 almartin@ucdavis.edu Leopoldo Bernucci, Ph.D. Professor of Spanish Department of Spanish & Portuguese University of California, Davis One Shields Ave 712A Sproul Hall Davis, CA 95616 (530) 753-4760 lmbernucci@ucdavis.edu

Department of Spanish & Portuguese University of California, Davis One Shields Ave 604 Sproul Hall Davis, CA 95616 (530) 758-2446 franciscoxalarcon@gmail.com Cecilia Colombi, Ph.D. Professor of Spanish and Department Chair Department of Spanish & Portuguese University of California, Davis One Shields Ave 612B Sproul Hall Davis, CA 95616 (530) 752-1244 cmcolombi@ucdavis.edu

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