Marcos Moscoso-Garay

Address: 314-255 West first street

Vancouver, V7M 3G8, BC, Canada

E-mail: marcos.moscoso@ubc.ca

Marcosmoscoso3@gmail.com

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Cellular : 604 446 0960

Languages: Spanish, English, French.

Citizenship: Peruvian and Canadian

                                                                                                                                                         

Research Areas

Contemporary Latin American Studies (Andean region): This research area encompasses an interdisciplinary exploration of the intersections between literature, cinema, history, art, politics, and society in contemporary Latin America.

Contemporary Peruvian Studies: Focused specifically on the literary, history and cinematic output of Peru in the modern era, this research area delves into the historical, artistic, political, and societal dimensions of Peruvian culture.

Women in the Arts: Amazonian Literature and Cinema: This area of research centers on the representation and participation of women in the arts, particularly within the context of Amazonian literature and cinema.

Transpacific Relations and Globalization: 16th-19th Centuries: Focusing on the historical dynamics of transpacific relations and globalization during the early modern period, this research area investigates the interconnectedness between Asia, the Americas, and Europe.

Colonial literature and culture:

Education

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

  • Dissertation: “Machines and Automatons: Portraits of Amazon Women and Their Relationship With Nature in the Literature of the Rubber Extraction Boom (1879 – 1914)”. 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 José 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

  • Summer 2025 Sessional Spanish Instructor (SPAN 222); The University of British Columbia; Department of French, Hispanic, & Italian Studies; Vancouver, BC, CANADA.
  • Winter 2024 Limited Assistant Professor (SPAN 101 and 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, CANADA
  • Fall 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
  • Summer and 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 2020 Sessional Spanish Instructor (SPAN 102); The University of British Columbia; Department of French, Hispanic, & Italian Studies; Vancouver, BC, CANADA.
  • Winter 2019-2020 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.
  • 2014-2020 Teaching Assistant (SPAN 101-102-201); The University of British Columbia; Department of French, Hispanic, & Italian Studies; Vancouver, BC, CANADA.
  • 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, X Coloquio Internacional de Literaturas Amazónicas “Tecnologías de los sujetos en las novelas del tiempo de la extracción del caucho: El burdel de la Amazonía.
  • 2023 Speaker invited. Workshop: Education and society. The University Ruiz de Montoya; Department of Education and Philosophy; Lima, Peru.
  • 2023 Speaker invited. Round table discussion: Learning another language. The University Saint Francis Xavier; Department of Modern Language; Antigonish, 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 event.
  • 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:

  • Moscoso, Marcos. “Cicatrices ironías y resilencia: voces femeninas en Las Hijas del terror después del conflicto armado peruano” Cuadernos Literarios, Peru, 2024: 118, 135. Print.
  • Moscoso, Marcos. “El burdel de la Amazonia: cuerpos patológicos y sujetos deudores de justicia.” Revista Universidad Ricardo Palma, Perú, 2024. Print.
  • Moscoso, Marcos. “Rostros Afectivos como Paisajes en las Películas Peruanas Rosa Chumbe y Magallanes.” Cuadernos del CILHA, Argentina, 2023. Print.
  • Moscoso, Marcos. “El Autor No Ha Muerto.” Cuadernos Literarios, Peru, 2016: 215, 217. Print.
  • Moscoso, Marcos. “Un Corrido Silencioso.” Cuadernos Literarios, Peru, 2009: 209, 213.

Book Chapter:

  • Moscoso Garay, Marcos. “Close-ups of Political Violence: Peruvian Female Visage as Affective Landscapes in Magallanes (2015).” In Edited Collection, Lexington Books.

Creative outputs:

  • Moscoso, Marcos. “Las mujeres del barbecho” Revista Luvo. December 2024. Online: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Xtr3FxCof_4whfU-lVoKGldQ_HV_7mTB/view
  • 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

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”.
  • Moscoso Garay, Marcos. Peruvian Poet: Novel.

 Articles

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

Names and contact information of referees

  1. Kim Beauchesne. Associate professor of Hispanic Studies. beauchesne@ubc.ca
  2. Brianne Orr-Álvarez. Spanish Coordinator. orr@ubc.ca
  3. Enrique Manchón. Retired Spanish Coordinator.  manchon@ubc.ca