DR. ANNA DEENY MORALES ad1414@georgetown.edu / acdeeny@gmail.com 617-270-3480 EMPLOYMENT Adjunct Professor, Center for Latin American Studies, Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. January 2016–Present. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, The Catholic University of America. September 2014–June 2015. Lecturer, Program in History & Literature, Harvard University. September 2005–2014. Visiting Lecturer, Romance Languages, Dartmouth College. September 2000–June 2001. EDUCATION Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Hispanic Languages and Literatures, December 2009. M.A. Dartmouth College, Comparative Literature, June 2000. B.A. Shepherd University, English and Music, June 1995. BOOK MANUSCRIPTS Sound Dissent: Latin American Poetry in Translation. In progress. Other Solitudes: Essays on Consciousness and Poetry. In progress. BOOKS IN TRANSLATION Diana’s Tree by Alejandra Pizarnik. Translation and Afterword by Anna Deeny Morales. Under consideration. Sky Below: Selected Works by Raúl Zurita. Translation and Introduction by Anna Deeny Morales. Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 2016. Forthcoming. Floating Lanterns by Mercedes Roffé. Translation and Introduction by Anna Deeny. London: Shearsman Press, 2015. Dreams for Kurosawa by Raúl Zurita. Translation and Afterword by Anna Deeny Morales. Almost Island. (India) Winter, 2014. http://almostisland.com/winter_2014/dreams_for_kurosawa.php Dreams for Kurosawa by Raúl Zurita. Translation and Afterword by Anna Deeny. Chicago: Arrow as Aarow Press, 2012. 1 La línea azul / The Blue Line by Mercedes Roffé. Translation by Anna Deeny. Madrid: Del Centro Editores, 2012. Purgatory by Raúl Zurita. Translation and Afterword by Anna Deeny. Foreword by C.D. Wright. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2009. ESSAYS, BOOK CHAPTERS & REVIEWS “The Solitude and Consent Language: Marosa di Giorgio and Emily Dickinson” In The Garden of Earthly Delights: Essays on the Work of Marosa di Giorgio. Newcastle, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2017. Forthcoming. “Zurita: Sobre los desaparecidos y amados.” In Fronteras, límites e intercambios en la obra de Raúl Zurita. Ed. Xavier Escudero and Benoît Santini. Santiago, Chile: Mago Editores, 2017. Forthcoming. “Sounding Zurita.” Harvard Review Online. Forthcoming, 2016. “Sonando Zurita.” In Hispanophone (Canada). http://hispanophone.ca. Forthcoming, 2016. “Zurita: On the Disappeared and Beloved.” In Sky Below. Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 2016. Forthcoming. “Things That Leave Us Speechless: Mercedes Roffé’s Floating Lanterns.” In Floating Lanterns. London: Shearsman Press, 2015. “Here Far Away: On Translating Árbol de Diana by Alejandra Pizarnik.” Twentieth Century Literary Criticism Vol. 318 (TLCC). Colombia, SC: Layman Poupard, 2015. pp. 159–161. “Here Far Away: On Translating Árbol de Diana by Alejandra Pizarnik.” Mandorla 16 (2013). “Things We Lament: Marosa di Giorgio’s Clavel y tenebrario.” Mandorla 15 (2012). Review of Ben Bollig’s Modern Argentine Poetry: Displacement, Exile, Migration (University of Whales, 2011). Latin American Literary Review. v.40:no.80 (2012). “Love in the First Person.” In Dreams for Kurosawa. Chicago: House Press, 2012. “Amor en primera persona.” In Zurita x 60. Ed. Paulina Wendt. Santiago: Mago Editores, 2011. “Afterword: Speaking from the Wreckage.” In Purgatory. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2009. 2 TRANSLATIONS OF SELECTED POETRY IN JOURNALS AND ANTHOLOGIES Selection from Identity of Certain Fruits by Amanda Berenguer. In Materia Prima: Selected Poems by Amanda Berenguer. Edited by Kristen Dykstra and Kent Johnson. New York, NY: Ugly Duckling Press, 2017. Forthcoming. Selection from Sky Below by Raúl Zurita. In Hispanophone. (Canada) http://hispanophone.ca. Forthcoming, 2016. Selection from Anteparadise by Raúl Zurita. In Harvard Review #48 (2016). Selection from Floating Lanterns by Mercedes Roffé. MAKE Literary Magazine #16 (Winter 2015– 2016). Selection from INRI by Raúl Zurita. In Almost Island (India) Monsoon, 2016. http://www.almostisland.com/monsoon_2016/poetry/bruno_bends_over_falls.html Selection from Diana’s Tree by Alejandra Pizarnik. In Pinholes in the Night: Essential Poems from Latin America. Edited by Forrest Gander. Selection by Raúl Zurita. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2014. “The Fugue” by Gabriela Mistral. In Pinholes in the Night: Essential Poems from Latin America. Edited by Forrest Gander. Selected by Raúl Zurita. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2014. “Not Anymore” by Idea Vilariño. In Pinholes in the Night: Essential Poems from Latin America. Edited by Forrest Gander. Selected by Raúl Zurita. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2014. Selection from Floating Lanterns by Mercedes Roffé. In Almost Island (India) Winter, 2014. http://almostisland.com/winter_2014/mercedes_roffe.php “The One Who Inhales Lucky Smokes” by Malú Urriola. Harvard Review Online. (February 28, 2014) http://harvardreview.fas.harvard.edu/?q=extracts/one-who-inhales-lucky-smokes. “The Pacific is the Sky” by Raúl Zurita. The Paris Review No. 201 (Fall, 2012). “Defense of Violeta Parra” by Nicanor Parra. The Paris Review No. 200 (Spring, 2012). “From the Memory and the Dream” by Raúl Zurita. Museum of Memory and Human Rights Catalog. Santiago, Chile. 2011. (Essay) Selection from La vida nueva (1993) by Raúl Zurita. Jai-Alai Magazine #9 (2012). “My Name: Akira Kurosawa” and “Dream 19 / Akira Kurosawa” by Raúl Zurita. UniVerse of Poetry online anthology. http://www.universeofpoetry.org/. Selection of poems by Idea Vilariño. Hotel Lautréamont: Contemporary Poetry from Uruguay. Eds. Roberto Echavarren and Kent Johnson. London: Shearsman Books, 2011. 3 Selection of poems by Marosa di Giorgio. Hotel Lautréamont: Contemporary Poetry from Uruguay. Eds. Roberto Echavarren and Kent Johnson. London: Shearsman Books, 2011. Selection of poems from La vida nueva (1993) by Raúl Zurita. Salt Hill Journal 27 (2011). “The Mirror” by Idea Vilariño. Harvard Review Online #5 (2011). Selection of poems from Clavel y tenebrario (1979) by Marosa di Giorgio. Mandorla 13 (2010). Selection of poems from Zurita/ In Memoriam (2007) and Las ciudades de agua (2007) by Raúl Zurita. BOMB 106 (2009). “Nicanor Parra: The Worst is Behind” by Raúl Zurita. BOMB 106 (2009). (Essay) Selection of poems from Las ciudades de agua (2007) by Raúl Zurita. string of small machines 4 (Winter, 2009). Selections of poems from Purgatorio (2007), INRI (2003), Las ciudades de agua (2007) and Zurita/ In Memoriam (2007) by Raúl Zurita. Translated for Latin American Poetry Forum, Harvard University (2004) and the Andean Poetry Summit, Tufts University (2007). Published in Andean Poetry Summit. Cambridge, MA: Asaltoalcielo Editores, 2007. “Against the Laocoon: Orozco and History Painting” by Rita Eder. José Clemente Orozco in the United States. 1927–1934. Hanover, NH: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2002. (Essay) PLAYS Sobras. Bilingual (Spanish/ English) play written in collaboration with Andrea Jeftanovic. Directed reading performed as part of Department of Spanish and Portuguese Spring Lecture Series. University of California, Berkeley, 2002. Tela di ragno. Produced by Il Balletto di Spoleto, Rome, Italy. Directed by Fiorenza d’Alessandro. Music by Francesco Venerucci. RAI International Television Production Video, 2000. Performed in theaters and festivals throughout Italy, 1999–2002. La straniera. Produced by Il Balletto di Spoleto, Rome, Italy. Directed by Fiorenza d’Alessandro and Massimiliano Farau. Performed at XX Festival Internacional de Teatro y Danza Contemporáneos, Badajoz, Spain; II Festival Internacional de Madrid Sur, Madrid, Spain; and Il teatro del commune di Abruzzo, Abruzzo, Italy. 1997–1998. Casa de América. Bilingual Spanish/ English play. Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV. 1995. The Clockmaker. Musical play. Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV. 1994. 4 INTERVIEWS “Conversación con Mercedes Roffé.” Galerna Revista Internacional de Literatura 2 (2005) 225–232. “Conversación con Diamela Eltit.” Lucero 15 (2004): 147–158. Interview conducted in collaboration with Chrissy Arce, Sara Moody, and Nelson Ramírez. “La poesía no se enfrenta a nada: conversación con Mercedes Roffé.” Lucero 14 (2003): 4–7. “El poema resiste el paso del tiempo: conversación con Jesús Urzagasti.” Lucero 14 (2003): 112–116. “Writer, tigre, ghetto nerd, college professor: conversation with Junot Díaz.” Lucero 14 (2003): 42–49. Interview conducted in collaboration with Chrissy Arce, Edrik López, and Carlos Fernández. INVITED SPEAKER & POETRY READINGS “Poetry and Atrocity: A Bilingual Reading and Conversation with Poet Raúl Zurita and Translator Anna Deeny Morales.” Clough Center, Boston University, October 24, 2016. “Sound Dissent.” Faculty Lecture and Undergraduate Seminar. Modern Languages Department. DePaul University, April 29, 2016. “Sky Below.” Reading with Raúl Zurita. Townsend Center for the Humanities. University of California, Berkeley, April 21, 2016. “Sky Below.” Reading with Raúl Zurita. David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, March 23, 2016. Discussant, “El español se traduce.” Congreso internacional de la lengua española (CILE), San Juan Puerto Rico, March 19, 2016. “Raúl Zurita in Conversation with Anna Deeny.” Oral History Initiative, Houghton Library, Harvard University, February 16, 2016. Reading with Raúl Zurita. Library of Congress, February 11, 2016. “Sky Below” Reading with Raúl Zurita. Kochi-Muziris Biennale First Artist Event, Kochi, India. December 15, 2015. Reading with Mercedes Roffé. Culture and Art in Latin American: Another Art of Transition? Symposium, University of California, Berkeley. November 14, 2015. “Traducir es sonar la poesía de Raúl Zurita.” Faculty Lecture. Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Campus Vitacura, Santiago, Chile, November 4, 2015. “Cielo abajo: la obra de Raúl Zurita.” Faculty Lecture. Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile, November 2, 2015. 5 Reading with Mercedes Roffé. McNally Jackson Bookstore, New York, NY. October 17, 2015. Reading with Raúl Zurita and Discussant at Almost Island Dialogues. New Delhi, India. February 10– 15, 2015. “Latin American Poetry Live,” Guest Speaker of Forrest Gander, Brown University. October 14, 2014. New Writing in Translation, A Roundtable, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Friday, January 10, 2014. Latina Empowerment and Development Conference, Cambridge, MA. Panelist on Pre-Professional Workshop on the Humanities, November 16, 2013. The Way is Made by Walking: Forging New Paths Through Poetry and the Visual Arts, The New Art Center, Newton, MA. November 15, 2013. “Transversal” Poetry in Translation Reading, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University. November, 2013. Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University. Introduction to José Joaquín Prieto of CASAGRANDE Art Collective. November, 2012. Houghton Library (Organized by the Woodberry Poetry Room), Harvard University. Introduction and Bilingual Poetry Reading with Raúl Zurita and Forrest Gander. October 16, 2012. Read/Write Library, Chicago. Reading of work in translation with Daniel Borzutzky. April 14, 2012. Mandorla 2012 Reading at AWP Conference. Chicago, Friday, March 2, 2012. “El arte de encontrar” / “The Art of Finding” Ediciones Pen Press Event. NYPL, NY, February 22, 2012. Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California, Berkeley. Reading with Raúl Zurita. October 3, 2011. The Poetry Foundation, Chicago. Reading with Raúl Zurita. September 27, 2011. Northwestern University. Reading with Raúl Zurita. September 26, 2011. Recorded for WBEZ Public Radio: http://www.wbez.org/story/reading-raúl-zurita-translator-anna-deeny-93026. Rutgers University. Invited Speaker at Professor Karen Bishop’s Seminar, “Theory and Practice of Literary Translation.” November 11, 2010. Harvard University. Invited Speaker at Professor Teresa Villa-Ignacio’s Seminar, “Truth or Dare: What’s at Stake in Contemporary Poetry?” October 5, 2010. Poet’s House, NY, NY. “Chile’s Dante: An Evening with Raúl Zurita and Anna Deeny.” May 6, 2010. 6 McNally Jackson Bookstore, NY, NY. Penpress Bilingual Readings. Interview and Bilingual Poetry Reading with Raúl Zurita. April 30, 2010. King Juan Carlos Center Poetry Series, New York University. Bilingual Poetry Reading with Raúl Zurita. April 29, 2010. Bard College. The John Ashbery Poetry Series. Invited Speaker and Bilingual Poetry Reading with Raúl Zurita. April 28, 2010. University of Miami. “Speaking from the Wreckage” Talk, Panel Discussion with Hugo Achugar, and Bilingual Poetry Reading with Raúl Zurita. April 23, 2010. George Washington University. Invited Speaker and Bilingual Poetry Reading with Raúl Zurita. April 21, 2010. Bard College. Translation Workshop. Professor Melanie Nicholson’s Seminar, “Spanish Literary Translation.” November 30, 2009. CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION “Mistral Out of Time.” LASA Conference, New York, May, 2016. “Translation Poetics Continuum.” Panel featured for AWP Podcast. AWP, April 1, 2016. “El amor en primera persona.” Coloquio Consagrado a Raúl Zurita. Université du Littoral Côte d’Opal, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France. October, 2015. “Sound Dissent.” Panel on “Translation and Dissent.” LASA Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May, 2015. “The Solitude and Consent of Language.” AWP Conference, Minneapolis. Panel, “A Fable of Horror,” includes Joyelle McSweeney, Daniel Borzutzky, Raúl Zurita and Valerie Mejer. April, 2015. “Lo sagrado sin Dios,” Homenaje a Raúl Zurita, Universidad de Alicante, Spain. March 2–5 2015. “The Boom and Beyond: Translation and Latin American Literature” Panel Chair, MLA Conference, Chicago. Panel included GJ Racz, Benjamin Van Wyke and Sergio Waisman. January 12, 2014. “La faz de la tierra: Anteparaíso por Raúl Zurita,” New England Modern Language Association Convention. Boston, MA. March 24, 2013. “Here Far Away: Translation and Distance.” AWP Conference, Boston. Panel Chair and Presenter. Valerie Mejer, Daniel Borzutzky and Raúl Zurita. March, 8, 2013. “Traducir la poesía de un amigo.” New York Public Library / Ediciones Pen Press Event. Presenter and Panel Discussion with G.J. Racz and Marta Luaces. Wednesday, February 22, 2012. 7 “The Broken Rhythms of Lezama Lima’s Asthma.” SCOLAS Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 10–11, 2011. “Translating Poets Alive.” AWP Conference, Washington, DC. Talk and Panel Discussion and Reading with Yusef Komunyakaa, Raúl Zurita and Valerie Mejer. February 2–5, 2011. “Raúl Zurita: Speaking from the Wreckage.” Panel Chair and Presenter. Latin American Studies Association Conference, Río de Janeiro, Brazil. June, 2009. “An Evening with Raúl Zurita.” Talk and Bilingual Poetry Reading with Raúl Zurita. Tufts University. March 5, 2009. “Consciousness, Analogy, History: Octavio Paz and T.S. Eliot.” Latin American Studies Association Conference, Montreal, Canada. October, 2007. Panel Organizer and Chair. “Como ser nadie: Marosa di Giorgio y Emily Dickinson.” Poetry in the Americas Conference. Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. April 2007. Panel Chair. “El imaginario poético de Marosa di Giorgio.” Latin American Studies Association Conference. San Juan, Puerto Rico. March, 2006. El cuerpo y la palabra en ‘La noche y las palabras’ de Mercedes Roffé.” Latin American Studies Association Conference. Las Vegas, NV. October, 2004. Session Organizer and Chair. TEACHING 2016–Present: Georgetown University, Center for Latin American Studies, Walsh School of Foreign Service CLAS 502-02: Culture and Power in Latin America 2014–2015: The Catholic University of America, Modern Languages and Literatures SPAN 537: Nunca más: Dictatorships in Chile and Argentina SPAN 520: Transamerican Translations SPAN 489: Senior Thesis Workshop SPAN 301: Society and Culture in the Spanish-Speaking World SPAN 300: Thinking Critically: Literature, Film and Media in the Hispanic-Speaking World SPAN 204: Advanced Spanish Conversation and Composition II 8 Senior Theses Advised “La identidad cultural de la crisis económica de Argentina en 2001: Luna de Avellaneda y Bolivia” by Cole Forbes. “Todos somos Peruanos: Marca Perú vende su país” by Lindsey Byrnes. “Una ciudad: sobre la apatía e indiferencia en Suite Habana y Juan de Los Muertos” by Chris Campise. “Corrupción e ignorancia: el tríptico sexual en México” by Stephanie Figueiredo. “‘Encogíase el joven’: lo grotesco por Esteban Echeverría” by Haley Finn. “Identidad e incitación: El último poema de Pablo Neruda” by Johanna Cajina Castillo. “La represión y apariencia ilícita mediante Tlatelolco: verano del 68 y Rojo amanecer” by Alejandro Tristán. “Un ser raro: el intérprete como herramienta cinematográfica” by María Thurber. “Los impotentes: Pamela Yates en Guatemala bajo la dictadura de Efraín Ríos Montt” by Flor Rivas. “Después de los años silenciosos: La Ley de Memoria Histórica y el concepto de la memoria colectiva” by Benjamin J. Ratkiewicz. 2005–2013: Harvard University, Committee on Degrees in History and Literature HL97: Turning Point: Latin America in the 1950s HL97: Dictatorships, Dirty Wars and Shining Paths: Chile, Argentina and Peru HL97: Figuring Catastrophes in Latin American History and Literature HL97: ¿Quién eres? ¿Cuál es tu patria?: Mexico, the Caribbean and Brazil HL97: Gender and Race in Latin America: From Columbus to Santos Febres HL90: Nunca más: Dictatorships, Terror and Torture in Chile and Argentina HL98: The Writer as Subject: Authority in Twentieth-Century Latin American History and Literature Senior Theses Advised “Remembering Celia Sánchez Manduley: Native Heroine, Nation’s Mother, and Curator of Cuba’s Revolutionary Legacy” by Miriam Psychas. 9 “ ‘A porra da buceta é minha’ The Women of Favela Funk” by Laila Parada-Worby. Thesis awarded David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Prize in History and Literature. “Such a Tiny Future: Imagination and Individuation in Quino’s Mafalda” by Marina Magloire. Thesis awarded David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Prize in History and Literature. “‘O que é que Carmen tem’: Carmen Miranda as Sambista, Mulatto Woman, and Essence of Brasilidade” by Meredith Steuer. “As Heavy as it Sounds: Body and Memory in Absalom, Absalom!” by Sarah Ruberman. “‘We Built a Gossamer Bridge from War to War’: Harry and Caresse Crosby, Black Sun Press, and the Framing of Knowledge” by Laura Gordon. “Narrating History: Rosario Castellanos’s Oficio de tinieblas and the Historical Discourse of the Caste War of 1869 in Chiapas, Mexico” by Casey Lurtz. Thesis awarded David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Prize in History and Literature. “The Unholy Union: Pinochet’s Public Discourse and Post-Coup Chilean Poetry” by Natalie Orr. Junior Essays Advised “The Final Authority: The Author, The Narrator, or God in Fernando Vallejo’s La virgen de los sicarios” by Melanie Lopez. 1999–2002: Dartmouth College, Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Drama Department Visiting Lecturer Intermediate Spanish Beginning Spanish Teaching Assistant Prof. Sylvia Spitta. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Fall, 1999. “Latino Borderlands,” Prof. Annabelle Melzer. Drama Department. Fall, 1999. “Modern Drama” 10 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY & COMMITTEE SERVICE University of California, Berkeley “Culture and Politics in Latin America. Another Art of Transition?” November 13–15, 2015. Organized symposium in collaboration with Dr. B. Christine Arce (University of Miami) and Dr. Teresa Stojkov at the Townsend Center for the Humanities. Guests and speakers included Beatriz Sarlo, Diamela Eltit, Andrea Jeftanovic, Carmen Boullosa, Gwen Kirkpatrick. Symposium celebrated the significant contributions of Professor Francine Masiello to the fields of Latin American Literature and Culture. The Catholic University of America Latin American and Latin Studies Committee. 2014–2015. Serve as Department of Modern Languages and Literatures faculty member of interdisciplinary steering committee for the development of LALS certificate. Graduate Committee. Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. 2014–2015. Participate in the oversight of graduate students in the Masters and Doctoral programs. Write and evaluate graduate comprehensive exams. Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Policy Committee. 2013–2014. Served as Faculty of Arts and Sciences member of the Policy Committee. The Committee helps guide the center’s development and recommends candidates for the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professorship in Latin American Studies. Committee on Instruction Board Member. History and Literature. 2006–07; 2008–2013. Served as Latin Americanist board member of committee that oversees the History and Literature curriculum and advises the Committee on Degrees. Evaluate and grade Senior Theses and Junior Essays. Chair Senior Oral Examinations. Organize and lead Senior Thesis peer evaluation workshops. Exchange Scholar. Romance Languages Department. Fall, 2002; 2004–05. University of California, Berkeley Editor in Chief, Lucero. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. 2002–03. Managed production, graphic design, and publication of graduate student journal. Issue dedicated to contemporary Latin American poetry and published the works of writers Diana Bellessi, Malú Urriola, María del Carmen Colombo, Mercedes Roffé and Jesús Urzagasti. Co-founder of CLAS Peer Writing Working Group. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. 2003– 04. Sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies. Established to promote rigorous peer editing and dialogue. 11 Associate Editor, Lucero. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. 2001–04. Assisted in the evaluation and editing of texts for publication in graduate student journal. Dartmouth College: Resident Faculty Advisor. Department of Spanish and Portuguese Affinity House. Spring, Winter, Fall, 2000–01. Developed and coordinated cultural events, invited discussants, and planned literary readings for students and faculty. AFFILIATIONS Latin American Studies Association (LASA): 2004–Present Modern Language Association (MLA): 2008–Present Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP): 2010–Present Association of Literary Translators (ALTA): 2014–Present HONORS & AWARDS Derek Bok Center Certificate of Teaching Excellence Award. Harvard University, 2013, 2014. The Stephen Botein Teaching Prize. Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, Harvard University, Spring 2009. Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship. University of California, Berkeley, 2004–05. Awarded Grant and Participant. Writing in the Americas Institute, Boston University, 2003. Graduate Opportunity Program Fellowship. University of California, Berkeley, 2001–03. Appointed Marshal. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Commencement Ceremony, Dartmouth College, 2000. Full Scholarship. Department of Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College, 1999–2000 12