Marcos Moscoso-Garay

Address: 314-255 West first street

Vancouver, V7M 3G8, BC, Canada

E-mail: marcos.moscoso@ubc.ca

marcos.moscoso@alumni.ubc.ca

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Cellular : 604 446 0960

Languages: Spanish, English, French.

Citizenship: Peruvian-Canadian

                                                                                                                                                           

Research Areas

I. Contemporary Latin American Literature and Cinema. History, art, politics and society.

II. Contemporary Peruvian Literature and Cinema. History, art, politics, and society.

III. Amazonian literature and cinema from gender perspective.

IV. The Study of transpacific relations and the history of globalization during 16th and 19th centuries.

                                                                                                                                                           

Degrees

PhD Candidate 2022, Doctor of Philosophy in Hispanic Studies program. University of British Columbia (UBC).Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

  • Dissertation: “Portraits of the Amazonian woman and nature in the literature of rubber extraction.” Supervisor: Professor Kim Beauchesne            

Master’s Degree in Hispanic Literature, Art, History and Society 2011. University “Autónoma de Madrid” (UAM) Madrid, Spain.

  • Dissertation: “Intertextualidad en Los ríos profundos de Jose María Arguedas y El río de Javier Heraud” Supervisor: Carmen Valcárcel Rivera

Linguistic and cultural integration program 2009. University of Quebec (UQAM). Montreal, Canada.

Bachelor in Literature 2004. University National “Mayor de San Marcos” (UNMSM) Lima, Peru.

                                                                                                                                                             

Positions held

  • Winter 2024 Limited Assistant Professor (SPAN 101 and SPAN 102); The University of Saint Francis Xavier; Department of Modern Language; Antigonish, NS, CANADA.Winter 2024 Instructor the Spanish-American Poetry (SPAN 3331); Mount Allison University; Department of Modern Languages & Literatures. NW, CANADA.Fall 2023 Instructor Introduction to Hispanic Literacy Studies (SPAN 2090); Dalhousie University; Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies. Halifax, CANADAFall 2023 Instructor the Spanish-American Novel (SPAN 3311); Mount Allison University; Department of Modern Languages & Literatures.NW, CANADA

    Summer 2023 Sessional Spanish Instructor (SPAN 102); The University of British Columbia; Department of French, Hispanic, & Italian Studies; Vancouver, BC, CANADA.

    Winter 2023 Limited Assistant Professor (SPAN 102 and SPAN 222); The University of Saint Francis Xavier; Department of Modern Language; Antigonish, NS, CANADA.

    Winter 2022 Sessional Spanish Instructor (SPAN 101); The University of British Columbia; Department of French, Hispanic, & Italian Studies; Vancouver, BC, CANADA.

    Winter 2022 Research Assistant (Professor Kim Beauchesne) “Environmental Utopias: Hope and Crisis in Contemporary Amazonian Literature”. The University of British Columbia; Department of French, Hispanic, & Italian Studies; Vancouver, BC, CANADA.

    Winter 2021 Research Assistant (Professor Kim Beauchesne) “Bridging Transatlantic and Transpacific Studies: The Keichō Embassy and its Textual Representations in the Hispanic World (17th and 21st Centuries). The University of British Columbia; Department of French, Hispanic, & Italian Studies; Vancouver, BC, CANADA.

    Winter 2021 Sessional Spanish Instructor (SPAN 101); The University of British Columbia; Department of French, Hispanic, & Italian Studies; Vancouver, BC, CANADA.

    Summer 2021 Sessional Spanish Instructor (SPAN 102); The University of British Columbia; Department of French, Hispanic, & Italian Studies; Vancouver, BC, CANADA.

    Winter 2020 Sessional Spanish Instructor (SPAN 102); The University of British Columbia; Department of French, Hispanic, & Italian Studies; Vancouver, BC, CANADA.

    Summer 2021 Sessional Spanish Instructor (SPAN 102); The University of British Columbia; Department of French, Hispanic, & Italian Studies; Vancouver, BC, CANADA.

    2014-2020 Teaching Assistant (SPAN 101-102-201); The University of British Columbia; Department of French, Hispanic, & Italian Studies; Vancouver, BC, CANADA.

    Winter 2019-2020 Research Assistant (Professor Kim Beauchesne); The University of British Columbia; Department of French, Hispanic, & Italian Studies; Vancouver, BC, CANADA.

    2015-2019 Volunteer, FHIS Writing Center; The University of British Columbia; Department of French, Hispanic, & Italian Studies; Vancouver, BC, CANADA.

    2015-2016 Organizer, FHIS Cine Club; The University of British Columbia; Department of French, Hispanic, & Italian Studies; Vancouver, BC, CANADA.

    2014 Member of the FHIS Graduate Forum; The University of British Columbia; Department of French, Hispanic, & Italian Studies; Vancouver, BC, CANADA.

    2008 Professor of Linguistic and Literature; University Catholique Sedes Sapientiae. Lima, Peru.

                                                                                                                                                           

Event participation

    • 2023 Presenter, Simposio de la Asociación de Hispanistas de las Provincias del Atlántico (AHPA). “Primeros planos de la violencia política: los rostros como paisaje afectivo en la película Magallanes (2015)”. Antigonish, NS, Canada.
    • 2023 Presenter, I Congreso internacional sobre Derecho y Literatura en América Latina: Homenaje a Ivan Rodríguez Chavez. “El burdel de la Amazonía: cuerpos patológicos y sujetos deudores de justicia”. Lima, Perú.
    • 2023 Presenter, X Coloquio Internacional de Literaturas Amazónicas “Tecnologías de los sujetos masculinos en las novelas del tiempo de la extracción del caucho: El burdel de la Amazonía”. Tarapoto, Peru.
    • 2023 Speaker invited. Workshop: Education and Society. The University of Ruiz de Montoya; Department of Philosophy and Education; Lima, Peru.
    • 2023 Speaker invited. To learn another language. The university of Saint Francis Xavier; Antigonish, NS, Canada.
    • 2022 Presenter, Latin American Studies Association (LASA): “Ciudades modernas y familias heterosexuales. Utopias de la Amazonía en el tiempo de la extracción del cacuho”. Virtual evento (online).
    • 2021 Presenter, FHIS Symposium: “La mujer autómata en el tiempo de la extracción del caucho.” The University of British Columbia; Department of French, Hispanic, & Italian Studies; Vancouver, BC, Canada.
    • 2021 Speaker invited, Span 301. Workshop: The Peruvian indigenous situation today. The University of British Columbia; Department of French, Hispanic, & Italian Studies; Vancouver, BC, Canada.
    • 2021 Speaker invited, Span 206. Workshop: The generation that demands a new Peru. The University of British Columbia; Department of French, Hispanic, & Italian Studies; Vancouver, BC, Canada.
    • 2019 Presenter, Latin American Studies Association (LASA): “Modelos de mujer en el imaginario de los mitos de los Huitotos”. Boston, USA.
    • 2019 Presenter, 8th Latin America Research Group: Political fictions of women in “Dioses y hombres de Huarochirí”. The University of Victoria. Victoria, Canada.
    • 2019 Invited speaker, undergraduate students. Workshop: The decade of the 80s in Peruvian society. The University of British Columbia; Department of French, Hispanic, & Italian Studies; Vancouver, BC, Canada.
    • 2018 Presenter, FHIS Eighth Biennial Graduate Students: Fictions about women and nature at the time of rubber extraction (1989-1912). The University of British Columbia; Department of French, Hispanic, & Italian Studies; Vancouver, BC, Canada.
    • 2017 Invited speaker, undergraduate students. Workshop: Small picture of the landscape in the Amazon documentaries. The University of British Columbia; Department of French, Hispanic, & Italian Studies; Vancouver, BC, Canada.
    • 2017 Presenter, FHIS Seventh Biennial Graduate Students: Images of Women and the Amazon in the time of rubber boom (1989-1912). The University of British Columbia; Department of French, Hispanic, & Italian Studies; Vancouver, BC, Canada.
    • 2016 Invited speaker, undergraduate students. Workshop: Resistance and Colonialism in the Amazon. The University of British Columbia; Department of French, Hispanic, & Italian Studies; Vancouver, BC, Canada.
    • 2016 Presenter, V International Colloquium of Amazonia literatures at “Casa de la literatura”: Genesis of the coloniality of power in the Amazon jungle. “Revista Peruana de Literatura” Lima, Perú.
    • 2015 Presenter, FHIS Symposium:“El cuerpo grotesco en la película Carmina o Rivienta”. The University of British Columbia; Department of French, Hispanic, & Italian Studies; Vancouver, BC, Canada.
    • 2014 Speaker invited, undergraduate students. Workshop: “Modernidad/Colonialidad en Guaman Poma de Ayala”. The University of British Columbia; Department of French, Hispanic, & Italian Studies; Vancouver, BC, Canada.

                                                                                                                                                            

Doctoral award

  • 2022 S. President Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award
  • 2021 W. President Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award
  • 2021 S. President Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award
  • 2020 W. Graduate Covid Program Delay Tuition Award
  • 2020 W. Faculty of Arts Graduate Award
  • 2020 W. President Academic Excellence Iniciative PhD Award
  • 2020 S. Graduate Emergency Bursary
  • 2020 S. President Academic Excellence Iniciative PhD Award
  • 2018 W. Faculty of Arts Graduate Award
  • 2018 W. Honorable mention award for the best graduate poster in French, Hispanic and Italian Studies.
  • 2017 W. Student Aid Bursary for Graduate Students
  • 2017 W. Audrey B Millar Memorial Bursary
  • 2017 W. Faculty of Arts Graduate Award
  • 2016 W. Faculty of Arts Graduate Award
  • 2016 S. Graduate Student Travel Award
  • 2015 W. Faculty of Arts Graduate Award
  • 2014 W. Faculty of Arts Graduate Award

                                                                                                                                                           

Publications

Referred contributions:

  • R Moscoso, Marcos. “Rostros afectivos como paisajes en las películas peruanas Rosa Chumbe y Magallanes.” Cuadernos del CILHA. Argentina, Print.
  • R Moscoso, Marcos. “El Autor No Ha Muerto.” Cuadernos Literarios. Peru, 2016: 215,217. Print.
  • R Moscoso, Marcos. “Un Corrido Silencioso.” Cuadernos Literarios, Peru 2009: 209,213. Print.

Creative outputs:

  • Moscoso, Marcos. “V Poems together” Mnemosine 15 December. 2008: 11. Print.

Non-referred contributions:

  • Moscoso, Marcos. “Interview with Evelinne Rheault (A Female Artist Québec)” Mnemosine 2 Apr. 2009: 6,7. Print.
  • Moscoso, Marcos. “Interview with Jean-Pierre Pelletier (Poet Montreal)” Mnemosine 5 Apr. 2010: 8,9.

                                                                                                                                                         

Forthcoming contributions

  • Book chapter
    • Moscoso Garay, Marcos. “Close-ups of political violence: Peruvian female visage as Affective landscapes in Magallanes (2015)”. Edited collection, Lexington Books.

    Books

    • Moscoso Garay, Marcos (2022)“Machines and Automatons: Portraits of Amazon Women and Their Relationship with Nature in the literature of the Rubber Extraction Boom (1879 – 1914).
    • Moscoso Garay, Marcos “Montreal: collection of poems”.

     Articles

    • Moscoso Garay, Marcos. “Cartografía y ficciones del cuerpo femenino: un recorrido histórico filosófico” (essay to be submitted).