þÿ<html> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-16"> <title>CSLA: Alejandro Solomianski</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#CCCC99" text="#333333" link="#0000EE" vlink="#551A8B" alink="#336633"> <a name="top"> <p></p> </a><nobr><img src="http://www.calstatela.edu/images/csla.gif" height="36" width="198"><img src="http://www.calstatela.edu/images/faculty.gif" height="36" width="198"><img src="http://www.calstatela.edu/images/animate2.gif" height="36" width="34"><img src="http://www.calstatela.edu/images/bspacev2.gif" height="36" width="117" border="0"><img src="http://www.calstatela.edu/images/nspacev2.gif" height="36" width="47" border="0"></nobr></P> <table cellpadding="10"> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" width="140"> <div style="position:relative;width:176px;height:352px;-adbe-g:p;"> <div style="position:absolute;top:192px;left:16px;width:144px;height:144px;"> <img src="images/Alejandro_sleeping_edit.jpg" alt="" height="144" width="144" border="0"></div> <div style="position:absolute;top:16px;left:32px;width:112px;height:160px;"> <img src="images/alejandro_in_room_edit.jpg" alt="" height="160" width="112" border="0"></div> </div> <p><br> <a href="#introd">Introduction</a><br> <a href="#teaching">Teaching Interests</a><br> <a href="#research">Research Interests</a><br> <a href="#education">Educational Background</a><br> </p> <hr size="4"> <br> <p><a href="http://www.beatrizviterbo.com.ar/"><img src="images/identidadescover.jpg" height="215" width="151" border="0"></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.beatrizviterbo.com.ar/">Available online</a></p> </td> <td width="5"><br> </td> <td align="BASELINE"><font size="+0">College of Arts &amp; Letters</font> <p><b><font size="+3">Alejandro Solomianski</font><br> <i><font size="+1">Associate Professor</font></i></b></p> <p></p> <hr size="4"> <p></p> <p><font size="-1">Office: KH 3032<br> Phone: 323- 343 4241<br> FAX: 323- 343 4234<br> Email: <a href="mailto:asolomi@calstatela.edu">asolomi@calstatela.edu</a> </font></p> <p></p> <hr size="4"> <hr width="100%"> </P> <p><a name="introd"></a><b><font size="+0">INTRODUCTION</font></b></p> <p>I extremely enjoy teaching at CalState L.A. Our students have a real interest in learning and making the intellectual experience meaningful and related to society in order to construct a more plural and deeply multicultural community.</p> <p></p> <hr size="4"> <p></p> <p><a name="teaching"></a><b><font size="+0">TEACHING INTERESTS</font></b></p> <p>My specific fields of interest are: Latin American Cultural Studies, Colonial production of meaning, Colonialism, Post-Colonialism and Subaltern Studies. Latin American Literature and Film in general and  more specifically from the Southern Cone. Poetry and Theater are genres that I also enjoy practicing.</p> <p></p> <hr size="4"> <p></p> <p><a name="research"></a><b><font size="+0">RESEARCH INTERESTS</font></b></p> <p>Currently I am researching in the almost &quot;disappeared&quot; Afro-Argentine intellectual production and working on the ways that the cultural logic of Imperialism and Capitalism construct the &quot;High Culture.&quot;</p> <p><b>Representative Professional Activities</b></p> <p><b>Books</b></p> <table width="947" border="1" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td><i>Identidades Secretas: La negritud Argentina. </i>Beatriz Viterbo: Buenos Aires, Rosario: Julio 2003.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><i>Pred Na Hubre</i>. (obra de teatro original)&#160; Jorge Dubatti (ed.) <i>Otro Teatro Despu&#233;s de Teatro Abierto</i>. Buenos Aires: Libros del Quirquincho, 1991.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><i>Venas abiertas en la palabratina</i>. (Poes&#237;a) Buenos Aires: Ediciones Ultimo Reino, 1991.</td> </tr> </table> <p>Numerous theater companies have been performing professionally my theater play <i>Pred na Hubre</i> in different cities of Argentina since its premiere in <i>Babilonia</i> (Buenos Aires 1991). The last performances were done by &quot;Clam Equipo Teatral&quot; at the cultural center <i>Paracultural La Panader&#237;a</i> from December 2005 until April 2007 (Mar del Plata, Argentina).</p> <p>My book <i>Identidades Secretas: la negritud argentina</i> has been reedited in 2004 when the &quot;Comisi&#243;n Nacional de Bibliotecas P&#250;blicas de Argentina&quot; ordered 1600 copies of the second edition to distribute them in all the &quot;Bibliotecas P&#250;blicas Populares Argentinas&quot;. (Secretar&#237;a de Cultura de la Naci&#243;n, &quot;Pensamiento Argentino, 2004&quot;)</p> <p><strong>Articles (Selection)</strong></p> <table width="946" border="1" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td> <p><a href="images/Solomianski_imperialismo.pdf">Imperialismo y respresentaci&#243;n: anotaciones en torno al Coloquio re-pensar el imperialismo</a> (Buenos Aires 2000) y <i>Culturas imperiales</i> in <i>A Contracorriente </i>Vol. 4, # 1, Fall 2006 (86-109)</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://www.ncsu.edu/project/acontracorriente/spring_06/Solomianski.pdf">Significado estructural, historia y tercer mundo en <i>Amores Perros</i></a> in <i>A Contracorriente</i> Vol. 3, # 3. Spring 2006 (17-36)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7ercll/rcll62/62nave11.htm">Scholarly review of Armand Mattelart y Erik Neveu. <i>Introducci&#243;n a los estudios culturales.</i> Barcelona: Paid&#243;s, 2004</a>. In <i>Revista de Cr&#237;tica Literaria Latinoamericana.</i> A&#241;o XXXI, # 62 Lima-Hanover 2do. Semestre de 2005 (pp.325-329)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Las voces de la calle y la canci&#243;n imposible in Cristi&#225;n Ricci and Gustavo Geirola (ed.)<i> &#161;Dale nom&#225;&#161;s! &#161;Dale que va! Ensayos testimoniales para la Argentina del sg. XXI.</i> Buenos Aires: Nueva Generaci&#243;n, 2006.<i> </i>(37-55)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Recuperaci&#243;n. Horacio Mendiz&#225;bal: <i>Horas de meditaci&#243;n, </i>Arjentina. <i>Hispam&#233;rica </i>/ a&#241;o XXXIV/ n&#250;mero 100/ 2005. (83-98)</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>Sue&#241;o de la raz&#243;n y monstruos neoliberales en el Cono Sur. <i>The Contexts And Consequences of Neo-liberalism.</i> <i>Proceedings of the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies: 2002-2003.</i> Volume 21, 2003. ed. Doreen O'Connor-G&#243;mez. U.S.A.: Xlibris, 2005. (249-262)</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>Ensayo y utop&#237;&#173;a argentina en Horacio Mendiz&#225;bal. <i>Hispam&#233;rica </i>/ a&#241;o XXXIII/ n&#250;mero 97/ 2004. (29-41)</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>Moving <i>La Frontera </i>Towards a Genuine Radical Democracy in Gloria Anzald&#250;a's Work. Book chapter in Maria Dolores Costa ed.,<i> Latina Lesbian Writers and Artists. </i>Binghamton, NY:<i> </i>Harrington Park Press, 2003. First published as article in<i> Journal of Lesbian Studies.</i> Volume 7, Number 3, 2003. (57-72)</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Del autoritarismo a la persuasi&#243;n. Met&#225;fora y poder en el pasaje de las dictaduras a los neoliberalismos del R&#237;&#173;o de la Plata. <i>Encuentros</i>. <i>Revista de Estudios Interdisciplinarios</i> (Universidad de la Rep&#250;blica, Montevideo, Uruguay) # 9 diciembre/2003: 149-187</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Los modelos de producci&#243;n y los relatos en <i>Hombres de Ma&#237;z</i>. Identidad cultural, globalizaci&#243;n occidental y resistencia. Mabel Mora&#241;a (ed.) <i>Indigenismo hacia el fin del milenio</i>. Pittsburgh, Biblioteca de Am&#233;rica, 1998, 223-240.</td> </tr> </table> <p><strong>Critical Commentaries and Studies on My Works (Selection):</strong></p> <table width="945" border="1" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td><a href="images/alejandro_bookcover_back_3.jpg">Commentary on <i>Identidades secretas: la negritud argentina</i> by Armand Mattelart in the back cover of the book. (2003) </a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="images/alejandro_bookcover_back_1.jpg">Commentary on <i>Identidades secretas: la negritud argentina</i> by John Beverley (co-founder of the Subaltern Studies Group) in the back cover of the book. (2003) </a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="images/alejandro_bookcover_back_2.jpg">Commentary on <i>Identidades secretas: la negritud argentina</i> by Gerald Martin (President of de International Institute of Iberoamerican Literature IILI-) in the back cover of the book. (2003) </a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="images/Afro-ArgReview.pdf">Review Essay Afro-Argentine Historiography by Claire Healy. <i>Atlantic Studies, </i>Vol. 3, No. 1, April 2006, 111-120. (Routledge and Taylor; Francis Group-)</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://www.beatrizviterbo.com.ar/prensa.asp?vernovedad=322">Lo afroargentino en la historia oficial y el canon literario y cultural argentinos by Ignacio L&#243;pez-Calvo. <i>A Contracorriente</i>. Vol. 3 No. 3, Spring 2006, 107-111</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>Historical location and comment on the meaning of the play <i>Pred Na Hubre</i> by the theater company Clam in their webpage. January 2006. Available at:<br> <a href="http://www.alternativateatral.com/ficha_obra.asp?codigo_obra=5851">http://www.alternativateatral.com/ficha_obra.asp?codigo_obra=5851</a><br> From this website, click the following website address.<br> <a href="http://deliciasculturales.spaces.live.com/">http://deliciasculturales.spaces.live.com/</a><br> The study is listed at the end of this webpage.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p><a href="http://www.beatrizviterbo.com.ar/prensa.asp?vernovedad=305">Academic Review of my book <i>Identidades secretas: la negritud argentina</i> by Ana Forcinito for <i>Revista Iberoamericana</i> N&#250;m. 213, Octubre-Diciembre 2005 (1245-1248)</a></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p>Academic review of my book<i> Identidades secretas: la negritud argentina</i> by Ricardo Salvatore for <i>Revista de Cr&#237;&#173;tica Literaria Latinoamericana</i> A&#241;o XXXI, N&#250;m 61. Lima-Hanover, 1er Semestre de 2005. (269-273) available on line at the journal's website.<br> <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7ercll/rcll61/61nave12.htm">http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rcll/rcll61/61nave12.htm</a></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p><a href="http://www.beatrizviterbo.com.ar/prensa.asp?vernovedad=291">Academic review of my book<i> Identidades secretas: la negritud argentina</i> by Burkhard Phol for <i>Iberoamericana</i> (Frankfurt-Madrid) V 19 (2005) 253-254. Peer reviewed.</a></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Article on <i>Identidades secretas: la negritud argentina</i>.Cultural section <i>La opini&#243;n, </i>February 17, 2004. Argentina en negativo by Pablo Makovsky. Also available at:<br> <a href="http://archivo-elciudadano.com.ar/08-02-2004/cultura/argentina.php">http://archivo-elciudadano.com.ar/08-02-2004/cultura/argentina.php</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://www.beatrizviterbo.com.ar/prensa.asp?vernovedad=321">Article on<i> Identidades secretas:la negritud argentina.</i> Cultural section <i>P&#225;gina 12</i>, January 21, 2004: Cosas de negros by Cecilia Pav&#243;n.</a></td> </tr> </table> <hr size="4"> <p><strong>Academic Presentations (Selection):</strong></p> <table width="943" border="1" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td> <p>&quot;Desmoronamiento del mito de la modernidad. El &lsquo;Quinto Centenario&rsquo; en perspectiva&quot; at the PCCLAS 2006 Conference, <i>Cambia todo cambia &Change in Latin America.</i> California State University Dominguez Hills, November 3-4, 2006.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>&quot;Del fracaso al liderazgo de &lsquo;Occidente&rsquo;: Col&#243;n y el mito de la Modernidad&quot; at the XXXVI Congress of the International Institute of Iberoamerican Literature (I.I.L.I.). Palazzo Ducale, G&#233;nova (June, 26 to July 1 2006)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Screening of the film <i>Afroargentines</i> followed by academic presentation and discussion. Event organized by the &quot;Cross Cultural Centers&quot; and the University Student Union at California State University, Los Angeles. February 16, 2006 6:15  9:00 pm</td> </tr> <tr> <td>&quot;Inversi&#243;n de la mirada imperial en Macuna&#237;ma de Mario de Andrade&quot; Conference at the Cultural Center Marc&#243; del Pont. Buenos Aires, August 22, 2005.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>&quot;Afroargentinos, Discriminaci&#243;n y Blanqueamiento&quot; The Status of Afro-Latino Communities in the Americas (New York University and Comit&#233; Argentino de Organizaciones Afro). Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 4 to 6, 2005.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>&quot;El bramido de los excluidos: algunos textos argentinos recuperados&quot; Conference for the Sigma Delta Pi Lecture Series in University of San Diego, May, 5, 2005.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>&quot;Nation and Narration. The Feminization of Land in South American Literary Tradition&quot; in the Faculty Research Colloquium <i>Languages of Desire: Gender and Sexuality in French and Spanish-Language Literature.</i> CSULA, April, 27, 2005.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>&quot;Las voces condenadas al silencio en la historia cultural argentina&quot; in the panel on &quot;Lo real y su huella&quot; at the 2004 Latin American Studies Association in Las Vegas, October 7-9, 2004.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>&quot;La pesadilla neoliberal en el Cono Sur&quot; at the PCCLAS Conference, <i>The Contexts and Consequences of Neoliberalism.</i> Withier College, November 6-8, 2003.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>&quot;Producci&#243;n significativa estructural en <i>Amores perros</i>&quot;. Cine-Lit V Conference. Portland, Oregon, February 26  March 1, 2003.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>&quot;Genocidios discursivos: los letrados afroargentinos del sg. XIX&quot;. 2002 Afro-Latin/American Research Association Conference. Panama City, Panama, August 2002.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>&quot;Lectura de <i>Muerte y Vida Severina</i>&quot;. I Congreso Nacional de Teatro Iberoamericano y Argentino. Facultad de Filosof&#237;a y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, 8/18/1992.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>&quot;Cubanidad y revoluci&#243;n en <i>La noche de los asesinos</i>&quot;. III Jornadas de Teatro Iberoame-ricano y Argentino, Facultad de Filosof&#237;a y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 8/20/ 1990.</td> </tr> </table> <p></p> <p><a name="education"></a><b><font size="+0">EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND</font></b></p> <p><b>Ph.D Latin American Literature. 2001</b><br> <img src="http://www.calstatela.edu/images/orangeba.gif" height="14" width="14"> University of Pittsburgh<br> <dd>Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. </p> <p><b>Master of Arts Latin American Literature (minor: Brazilian Literature). High Honors 1998</b><br> <img src="http://www.calstatela.edu/images/orangeba.gif" height="14" width="14"> University of Pittsburgh<br> <dd>Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. </p> <p><b>Profesor de Ense&#241;anza Media y Superior en Letras Letras Modernas 1993</b><br> <img src="http://www.calstatela.edu/images/orangeba.gif" height="14" width="14"> Universidad de Buenos Aires<br> </p> <p> <dd>Buenos Aires, Argentina. </p> <p><b>Licenciado en Letras Letras Modernas 1989</b><br> <img src="http://www.calstatela.edu/images/orangeba.gif" height="14" width="14"> Universidad de Buenos Aires<br> <dd>Buenos Aires, Argentina. </p> <p></p> <hr size="4"> <p></p> Office Hours not available at this time. <p></p> </td> </tr> </table> Return to the <a href="#top">top</a>. <p></p> </body> </html