Currículum Vitae

RACHEL LEE PRICE

919.452.7578 (mobile)
rlprice@princeton.edu
Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Princeton University

EMPLOYMENT

2009- Assistant Professor, Princeton University, Spanish & Portuguese Languages & Cultures
2008-2009 Mellon Post Doctoral Fellow, Brown University, Hispanic Studies
2007-2008 Visiting Assistant Professor, SUNY Stony Brook, Hispanic Languages and Literature

EDUCATION

2007 PhD. Literature Program, Duke University, Durham, NC
1997 B.A. Literature; Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1993-95 Stanford University

RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS

Comparative Atlantic and Caribbean Literatures; Cuban literature; Aesthetic & Critical Theory; Poetry; Psychoanalysis; Comparative Imperial histories; Media

Current book projects: The Object of the Atlantic: Concretude (1868-1968) (under review)

PUBLICATIONS

Articles in Journals:

- "Red: on Rewell Altunaga's Videogame "Mods"
- "Early Brazilian Digital Culture or, The Woman Who Was Not B.B." Forthcoming, Grey Room.
- "Bare Life, Vidas Secas: or, Como se morre no cinema." Forthcoming, Luso Brazilian Review (Spring 2012.)
- "From Coney Island to La Isla del Coco." Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. (20:3, Autumn 2011)
- "New Media’s New Literature." Review, Americas Society 82 Special Issue Cuba Inside and Out (May 2011)
- "The Spirit of Martí in the Land of Coaybay." Hispanic Review (Spring 2009).
- "La sombra del imperio." Res Publica, Murcia, Spain (June 2008).
- "Object, non-object, trans-object, relational object: from Concrete Poetry to the nova objetividade." Revista de Letras da UNESP, Brazil, Vol. 47 Homenagem a Haroldo de Campos: 1 (2007)
- "Animal, Magnetism, Theatricality in Ibsen’s The Wild Duck." New Literary History 37:4 (Autumn 2006)
- "Family Analysis." New Literary History 37:4 (Autumn 2006)
- "Translation, Terror, Terrorism." Printed Project 1:1, Dublin (September, 2003)

Articles in Books:

- "Martí and Sousândrade, Poets of Wall Street and the Atlantic World," in Beyond Tordesillas, ed. Richard Gordon (submitted).
- "Arquitectura, destrucción, acontecimiento," Crítica de la Acumulación, eds. Elixabete Ansa-Goicoechea, Oscar Ariel Cabezas & Alessandro Fornazzari. Santigo de Chile: Ediciones del Sur/ILAES, 2010.

Book Reviews:

- "Elusive Origins: The Enlightenment in the Modern Caribbean Historical Imagination (Paul B. Miller) (Review essay). Latin American Literary Review. Forthcoming.
- "Translating Empire: José Martí, Migrant Latino Subjectivities, and American Modernities" (Laura Lomas) (Review essay). MLN: Modern Language Quarterly, Volume 71:3, September 2010.
- "Volupunk de volutas: Boring Home" (Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo) (Review essay). Diario de Cuba, June 12, 2010.

Edited:

- "Introduction" (co-author), and co-editor, with Matt Cohen, of digital edition of Álvaro Armando Vasseur’s 1912 Poemas (Spanish translation of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass; Walt Whitman Archive, http://www.whitmanarchive.org)

Select Translations:

- "Introduction," with Karen Benezra, La Cosa y la cruz, by León Rozitchner, Polygraph, Summer 2008.
- "Preface to Poemas" by Álvaro Armando Vasseur, Alfar 89 (1951), PMLA, March 2008.
- "Epilogue" by Ambrosio Fornet, in The Initials of the Earth, by Jesús Díaz, trans. Kathleen Ross, Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.
- "The Nomos of the Earth and the Scandal of Kant" by José Luís Villacañas, South Atlantic Quarterly Special Issue on Carl Schmitt, Spring 2005.
- "Leaving Immanence: Art from Death" by Arturo Leyte, Polygraph, no.15/16, January 2005.

Encyclopedia Entries:

- "Messianism." Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, "Iberian Postcolonialities: A Metahistory of Material Practices of Power, eds. Alberto Moreiras and José Luis Villacañas. London: Wiley-Blackwell, Vol. 3, forthcoming 2013.
- "Diaspora: Concept and Theory"; "Jean Jacques Dessalines." The Encyclopedia of Africa and the Americas, ed. Richard M. Juang and Noelle Morrissette. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2008.

Other Publications:

- "On Latin America," Revista Diálogos, Brown University, Spring 2010
- "The Secession Sessions: Exchanges with Amy Sara Carroll." SECESSION, by Amy Sara Carroll. San Diego: UCSD Press, forthcoming, 2011.

TEACHING

- Latin American Literature after Latin America (SPA 342, Princeton University, Fall 2011)
- Latin American Neobaroques: Literature, Philosophy, Politics (SPA 554, Princeton University, Spring 2011)
- Contemporary Cuban Literature and Culture (SPA 350, Princeton University, Spring 2011)
- Caribbean Messianisms, Utopias and Revolutions (SPA 352, Princeton University, Fall 2010)
- Cuban Literature of Slavery (SPA 357, Princeton University, Spring 2010)
- Advanced Grammar (SPA 207, Princeton University, Spring 2010)
- Latin American Literature and Media (Princeton University, Fall 2009)
- Introduction to Latin American Cultures (Princeton University, Fall 2009; Fall 2010; Fall 2011)
- Early and Contemporary Latin American Authors (Brown University, Hispanic Studies, Spring 2009)
- Contemporary Cuban Literature and Visual Culture (Brown University, Hispanic Studies, Fall 2008; SUNY Stonybrook, Hispanic Languages and Literature Spring 2008)
- Introduction to Latin American Literature II (SUNY Stony Brook, Hispanic Languages and Literature Spring 2008)
- Advanced Grammar and Composition (Ficciones policiales) (SUNY Stony Brook, Hispanic Languages and Literature Fall 2007)
- Latin America Today (SUNY Stony Brook, Hispanic Languages and Literature Fall 2007)
- Nostalgia (Duke University, Literature Program, Spring 2004)

SELECT PAPERS AND CONFERENCES

- "Messianism," Latin American Postcolonialities: A Metahistory of Material Practices of Power," Madrid, February 8-10, 2012.
- "El primer arte digital latinoamericano," Hacking Lily, Havana, Cuba, December 7-9, 2011.
- "On Interpretation," A Delicate Art, Princeton University, November 2011
- "Waldemar Cordeiro: O Homem que não é B.B., ABRALIC, Curitiba, Brazil, July 18-22.
- "New Media and New Literature in Cuba," moderator, Americas Society, New York, May 19, 2011.
- "From Coney Island to La Isla de Coco," Cuba Futures, CUNY, New York, March 31-April 2, 2011.
- "Affect in Cuban Slavery," Department of Spanish and Portuguese Works-in-Progress Series, March 20, 2011.
- "New Media in Cuba," Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Princeton University, December 8, 2010.
- "Cuban Literary Idealism and Post-Cubanía," LASA, Toronto, October 6-9, 2010.
- "Literatura y memoria en la edad de Twitter," UNICAMP, Brazil, September 15-17, 2010.
- "Cultura y Letras Cubanas en el Siglo XXI," Book Presentation, CUNY, September 24, 2010
- "On Substitution in Lezama Lima," To Remember José Lezama Lima, Princeton University, May 4, 2010.
- "New Social Media in Cuba," Congreso Transatlántico," Brown University, April 8-10, 2010.
- "The Atlantic in the Age of the Pacific," ACLA, New Orleans, April 2-4, 2010.
- "The Uses and Abuses of the Atlantic," PLAS, Princeton University, February 8, 2010.
- "Post-Romanticism in the Iberian Atlantic," Temple University, November 12, 2009 (*invited talk).
- "Terminal Crisis of the Transatlantic?" IASI, Beijing, China September 18-20, 2009.
- "Pensar o Atlântico," UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil, July 29, 2009.
- "Da poesia concreta à poesia digital, e a questão do realismo." UERJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 16, 2009.
- "Object, Non-object, Trans-object, Relational Object: from Concrete Poetry to the New Objectivity," Material Worlds Group, April 16, Brown University.
- "Slavery, Genre and Affect in Cuban Literature." Iberian Cruelties: Imperial Legacies in the Portuguese- and Spanish-Speaking Worlds, Rutgers University, April 1, 2009.
- "Ramiro de Maeztu’s ‘Primacy of Things.’" American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Harvard University, March 27-29, 2009.
- "Cuba, Spain and Post-Romanticism." Brown University, March, 2009.
- Panel Co-Chair, "Utopias, mídias e arquitetura: estudos sobre conceitos de espaço e topografias literárias." ABRALIC, São Paulo, Brazil, July 2008.
- "Concretude." American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA, April 24-27, 2008.
- "Animal Life, Bare Life, Barren Lives: Vidas Secas." Latin American and Caribbean Studies center, Stonybrook University, April 14, 2008.
- "Códigos." Technology, Culture and the Making of Sense, UNICAMP, Brazil, November 7-9, 2007.
- Co-convener of conference "The Netherlandish Seventeenth Century and its Afterlives" (Duke University, March 2007).
- "La Sombra del imperio." II Congreso de Pensamiento Político (sobre Diego de Saavedra Fajardo), Murcia, Spain, November 12-16, 2006.

SELECT FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS & GRANTS

2011 UCRHSS grant, Princeton University
2011 Research support, PLAS, Princeton University
2010 Course planning support, Center for Religious Studies, Princeton University
2010 Research support, PLAS, Princeton University
2008-2100 Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Brown University
2008 FAHSS Research Grant, SUNY Stony Brook
2006-2007 Advanced International Fellowship, Duke University
2006 Mellon Summer Doctoral Seminar participant
2005-2006 Mellon Interdisciplinary Dissertation Writing Group participant
2002-2006 Jacob Javits Fellowship
2001- University Scholar, James B. Duke Scholar
1997 Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Calhoun Cup for Academic Excellence, Alfred B. Kernin Award for best senior essay (Literature), Henry Hart Rice Foreign Residence Fellowship, Yale University; "distinction" in both majors

RELATED EXPERIENCE

2007 Certificate in Latin American Studies, LACS, Duke University
2006 Coursework at the North Carolina Psychoanalytic Society
1999-2001 Sarah Lawrence College, New York, NY
Consultant to Board in establishing study-abroad program in Havana, Cuba
1998-2001 Social Science Research Council, New York, NY
Program Assistant, Latin America and the Caribbean; Working Group on Cuba
1997-1998 Researcher, El Consejo Regional Indígena del Cauca (CRIC), Popayán, Colombia
1996-1997 Research Assistant for Nina Glick-Schiller and Georges Fouron (towards Georges Woke up Laughing: Long-Distance Nationalism and the Search for Home [Durham: Duke UP, 2001]).

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Comparative Literature Association (2002-)
Associação Brasileira de Literatura Comparada (2008-)
Latin American Studies Association (1998-)
Modern Language Association (2002-)

REFERENCES

Sibylle Fischer, Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, New York University
sibylle.fischer@nyu.edu (212) 992-9761
Ranjana Khanna, Literature Program, Duke University
rkhanna@duke.edu (919) 668-2548
Julio Ortega, Hispanic Studies, Brown University
julio_ortega@brown.edu
Gabriela Polit-Dueñas, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas at Austin
gabriela@austin.utexas.edu (512) 232.4539