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jm.arias644@uniandes.edu.co
+57 305 710 0896
Carrera 21 N 82 - 83 AP501 Bogot, Colombia
Profile
Final-year literature student at Universidad de los Andes, one of the pioneer research centers in Latin America
and probably the top university in Colombia. Hard worker and tireless. Specially interested in critical theory
(marxism, postcolonialism) and its relationship with the Middle Ages. Right now, looking for an interdisciplinary Masters program or PhD on both Spanish/Portuguese and Medieval Studies at the University of
Cornell.
Education
UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES
Bogot, Colombia
GPA: 4,78/5
March 2016
Final dissertation: Manual para leer el mundo a partir de los astros: el engao como
conocimiento en el libro de Sendebar
PONTIFCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO
Bogot, Colombia
January - June 2011
Academic Achievements
Universidad de los Andes: Distincin de Excelencia Semestral
For obtaining the highest general average of the semester among all the Department
of Humanities and literatures (4,88 / 5)
November 2015
November 2015
April 2014
November 2013
Published translations
Machado de Assis, Jaquim Maria. Memrias pstumas de Bras Cubas. Trans. Juan Manuel
Arias. Bogot: Taller de edicin Rocca, 2015
Research experience
UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES
Bogot, Colombia
Work experience
UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES
Teachers assistant: Latin III and Latin IV
Bogot, Colombia
January 2015 November 2015
Assisting students in a wide range of topics, verbal syntax, morphology and translation,
as well as grading exams and proposing and testing virtual exercises
Teachers assistant: Spanish poetry of the 20th Century (seminar)
Helping students with the reading of difficult texts, academic writing and Spanish grammar
Grading papers and making presentations when the teacher was absent
Teachers assistant: Latin American Literature of the 20th century
Bogot, Colombia
OXFAM INTERNATIONAL
Edinburgh, Scotland
Portuguese: Fluent
Italian: Basics
References
Carolina Sann Paz, Ph.D.
Associate professor
Associate professor
Departamento de Letras
Bogot, Colombia
Email: casanin@uniandes.edu.co
Email: jcvdiniz@gmail.com
Jane Wood
Associate professor
General Manager
Oxfam International
Bogot, Colombia
Email: j.pizarro188@uniandes.edu.co
Email: oxfamshopf5805@oxfam.org.uk