José Antonio Giménez Micó

I was hired in the Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics (Concordia University) as an Assistant Professor in 2000. I am an Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies since 2003. I received my Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the Université de Montréal in 1996 and did a postdoctoral research on Latin American literature at the University of Toronto in 1996-1997. From 1998 to 2000, I was Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary, where I hold an Adjunct Professorship.

I am the author of L’irruption des autres (2000), as well as of around 30 chapters and articles in Spanish, French and English (on semiotics, hermeneutics, cultural studies; on Peruvian, Latin American, Latin-Canadian, West Indian, Spanish, and French literatures) in collective works and refereed academic publications from Canada, the United States, Great Britain, Spain, France, Italy, Poland, Chile, Cuba, and Peru, as Hispanic Issues, Versus. Quaderni di Studi Semiotici, Semiotic Inquiry, Tropelías: Revista de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, Oralidad: para el rescate de la tradición oral de América Latina y el Caribe (published by UNESCO), and some others. I am a member of the Editorial Boards of the Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos and the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and served as President of the Canadian Association of Hispanists (2004-2006).

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Winter 2012 Courses

SPAN 464 ("Current Issues in the Hispanic Cultures: Spanish America")

http://www.ach.lit.ulaval.ca/JAGM/464/index.html

SPAN 470 ("Spanish America: Testimonio Discourse") 

http://www.ach.lit.ulaval.ca/JAGM/470/index.html

Education

• Postdoctoral research in Comparative Literature and Latin American Studies, University of Toronto (1996-1998).
• Ph.D in General and Comparative Literature, Université de Montréal (1992-1996).
• MA in Hispanic Studies, Université de Montréal (1991-1992).
• BA in Hispanic Studies, Université de Montréal (1988-1991).

Research and Teaching Interests

• Andean and Amazonian imaginaries (Peru).
• Latin-American cultural and literary studies.
• Comparative Literature.
• Interpretation Theory (Hermeneutics).
• Argumentation Theory.
• Discourse Analysis.

Selected Publications

Book (peer reviewed):

• L'irruption des “autres.” Analyse de trois fronts discursifs d'identité et de résistance: chicano, antillais et andin péruvien. Montréal: Balzac-Le Griot, 2000, 258 pages. Grant from the Scholarly Publications Programme of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Articles (peer-reviewed):

• Ulises Juan Zevallos-Aguilar and José Antonio Giménez Micó. “Introducción.¿Comprender la violencia?” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos (published by the Canadian Association of Hispanists) 34.1, Fall 2009, 1-8. Monograph on “Imaginarios de la violencia” co-edited by Ulises Juan Zevallos-Aguilar (Ohio State U.) and José Antonio Giménez Micó.
• “Olvidar o no olvidar la violencia:¿ésa es la cuestión?” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 34.1, Fall 2009, 165-181.
• “Rojo, amarillo y verde de Alejandro Saravia: Entretejiendo un imaginario planetario en los albores del siglo XXI.” Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies/Revue canadienne d’études latino-américaines et des Caraïbes (published by the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies) 33.66, Fall 2008, pp. 171-198.
• “Estudios hispánicos canadienses: estableciendo vínculos intramuros y extramuros.” Hispanic Issues Online (published by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies [U. of Minnesota]) 2.1: “Estudios hispánicos: perspectivas internacionales”, sección II: “Los estudios hispánicos y su cartografía”, Fall 2007, pp. 89-94. Web publication.
• “El camino de Damasco pasa por la Amazonía. Crónica de una conversión anunciada.” Tropelías: Revista de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada (published by the Center for Literary Theory and Comparative Literature [U. de Zarazoga, Spain]) 15-17, 2004-2006, pp. 59-67.
• “Los imaginarios de la violencia en La hora azul.” Boletín del Instituto Riva-Agüero (published by the Pontificia U. Católica del Perú [Lima, Peru]) 32, 2005, pp. 289-298.
• “Escrituras y oralidades. Una dinámica histórica de tensión, interferencias y apropiaciones mutuas.” Oralidad: para el rescate de la tradición oral de América Latina y el Caribe (published by UNESCO [United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization], Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, Havana, Cuba) 12, 2003, pp. 42-46.
• “Tous sangs mêlés de José María Arguedas. La modernité, un projet in-amorcé?” Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackicko (published by the Katedry Teorii Literatury Instytutu Teorii Literatury, Teatru i sztuk AudiowizualnychoUniwersytetu Lódzkiego, U. of Lodz, Poland) XLV 1-2, 2003, special issue on La modernité: théories et pratiques II, Wladimir Krysinski, ed., pp. 167-189.
• “The Deterritorialization of Knowledge in El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos (published by the Canadian Association of Hispanists) 26.1-2, Fall 2001-Winter 2002, pp. 83-105.
• “Presentación.” Estudios hispánicos en la Red. Número monográfico sobre la inscripción de la oralidad en las culturas latinoamericanas 2002. Web publication.
• “Escrituras y oralidades. Una dinámica histórica de tensión, interferencias y apropiaciones mutuas.” Estudios hispánicos en la Red. Número monográfico sobre la inscripción de la oralidad en las culturas latinoamericanas 2002. Web publication.
• “Babélicas voces del presente chimbotano, imprecisos ecos del pasado de Comala.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 22.2, Winter 1998, pp. 343-57.
• “Intertexte, interculture, interidentité. Essayer de comprendre le néo/post-colonial à travers l'intertexte pré-colonial.” Versus (published by Milano A. Mauri for the Department of Semiotics of the U. di Bologna under the direction of Umberto Eco) 77-78, 1997, pp. 99-120.
• “José María Arguedas y la modernidad.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 20.2, Winter 1996, pp. 241-65.
• “La Biografía de un cimarrón et le discours calibanesque.” Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 21.41, 1996, pp. 31-57.
• “Lorca: teatro posible e imposible.” Anales de la literatura española contemporánea (published in Spain and the USA by the Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies under the auspices of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas) 20.3, 1995, pp. 351-64.
• “À la recherche des limites perdues de l'interprétation.” Semiotic Inquiry (published by the Canadian Semiotic Association) 15.1-2, Spring 1995, pp. 91-120.
• “Le Récit en direct chez Cortázar et Beckett: Ces personnages qui lisent/se font lire l'histoire de leur propre devenir.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature (published by the Canadian Comparative Literature Association) 21.4, December 1994, pp. 597-612.
• “Diversas conexiones entre Celestina y Elicia.” Celestinesca (published by the Department of Romance and Classical Languages, Michigan State U.) 18.1, Spring 1994, pp. 35-50.
• “Todas las sangres de José María Arguedas. Síntomas de una reordenación de la hegemonía discursiva.” Lenguas, literaturas, sociedades (published by the hispanic section of the ACFAS-Association Canadienne-Française pour l'Avancement des Sciences) 4, 1993, pp. 93-102.

Book Chapters (peer reviewed):

• “Bagua -2010. Des ‘victimes’ résolus à ne plus l’être?” In L'interpellation plébéienne en Amérique latine, André Corten, dir., Ricardo Peñafiel, coll. Paris/Montréal: Karthala/P. de l’U. du Québec, forthcoming.
• “Olvidar o no olvidar la violencia: ¿ésa es la cuestión?” In Sasachakuy tiempo: Memoria y pervivencia, Mark Cox, ed. Lima: Pasacalle, 2010, pp. 145-158.
• “Pérou: oublier ou ne pas oublier, un dilemme insensé?” In La violence dans l’imaginaire latino-américain, André Corten, dir., Anne-Élizabeth Côté, coll. Paris/Montréal: Karthala/P. de l’U. du Québec, 2008, pp. 195-202.
• “Oublier ou ne plus oublier: au-delà de la ‘mémoire salvatrice’?” In La violence dans l’imaginaire latino-américain, André Corten, dir., Anne-Élizabeth Côté, coll. Paris/Montréal: Karthala/P. de l’U. du Québec, 2008, pp. 329-336.
• “Latin-Americanizing Canada.” In Canadian Cultural Exchange/Échanges culturels au Canada, Norman Cheadle and Lucien Pelletier, eds. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2007, pp. 103-121.
• “The Foxes by José María Arguedas: A Death Warrant for Peru’s Modern National Project.” Chapter 5 of Spanish and Empire, Hispanic Issues, vol. 34, N. Echávez-Solano and K. C. Dworkin y Méndez, eds. Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, 2007, pp. 96-117.
• “L'intertexte précolonial et la transculture postcoloniale.” In Citer l'autre, Marie-Dominique Popelard and Anthony Wall, eds. Paris: PU de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2005, pp. 25-39.
• “Orality and Literature in the Peruvian Andean Zone.” Chapter 48 of the first volume (out of three) of the Oxford Comparative History of Latin American Literary Cultures, Mario J. Valdés and Djelal Kadir, eds. New York: Oxford UP. 2004, pp. 471-482.
• “Caliban in Aztlan: From the Emergence of Chicano Discourse to the Plural Constitution of New Solidarities.” Chapter 12 of National Identities and Sociopolitical Changes in Latin America, Hispanic Issues, vol. 23, Antonio Gómez-Moriana and Mercedes F. Durán-Cogan, eds. New York and London: Routledge, 2001, pp. 320-351.

Grants

• 2010-2014. Programme de soutien aux équipes de recherche, FQRSC (Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture, Québec), GRIPAL (Groupe de recherche sur les imaginaires politiques en Amérique latine). Title of the project: “Expressions politiques de la souffrance en Amérique latine.” Main researcher: Martin Hébert (Anthropology, U. Laval). Co-researchers: Pierre Beaucage (Anthropology, U. de Montréal), Michel Carrier (Philosophy, Collège Édouard-Montpetit), André Corten (Political Science, U. du Québec à Montréal), José Antonio Giménez Micó (Spanish and Latin American Studies, Concordia U.), and Kristin Norget (Anthropology, McGill U.). Six national collaborators (collaborateurs): Marie-Christine Doran (U. of Ottawa), Sabrina Doyon (U. Laval), Viviana Fridman (U. du Québec à Montréal), Franklin Midy (U. du Québec à Montréal), Ricardo Peñafiel (Northwestern U.), and Natasha Prévost (U. de Moncton). Nine international collaborators (chercheurs associés): Ari Pedro Oro (Brazil); Pablo Semán, Daniel Míguez, and Alejandro Isla (Argentina); Augusto Samaniego (Chile); Silvia Rivera and Manuel de la Fuente (Bolivia); Margarita Zires and Cristina Oehmichen (Mexico).
• 2008-2011. Standard Grant, SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada), GRIPAL (Groupe de recherche sur les imaginaires politiques en Amérique latine). Title of the project: “Violence et actions directes en Amérique latine: mises en récits politiques, religieuses, identitaires.” Main researcher: André Corten (Political Science, U. du Québec à Montréal). Co-researchers: Víctor Armony (Sociology, U. du Québec à Montréal), Pierre Beaucage (Anthropology, U. de Montréal), José Antonio Giménez Micó (Spanish and Latin American Studies, Concordia U.), Martin Hébert (Anthropology, U. Laval), and Kristin Norget (Anthropology, McGill U.); nine associate researchers from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico.
• 2005-2008. Standard Grant, SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada), GRIPAL (Groupe de recherche sur les imaginaires politiques en Amérique latine). Title of the project: “Imaginaires de la violence (physique, religieuse et économique) et frontières du politique.” Main researcher: André Corten (Political Science, U. du Québec à Montréal). Co-researchers: Víctor Armony (Sociology, U. du Québec à Montréal), Pierre Beaucage (Anthropology, U. de Montréal), Viviana Fridman (Sociology, U. du Québec à Montréal), José Antonio Giménez Micó (Spanish and Latin American Studies, Concordia U.), and Martin Hébert (Anthropology, U. Laval). International collaborators: Isis Duarde (U. Autónoma de Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic), Ernesto Laclau (Centre for Theoretical Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, U. of Essex, United Kingdom), Ari Oro (U. Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), Pablo Semán (CONICET-Consejo de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina), and Margarita Zires (U. Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico).
• 2005-2008. Programme de soutien aux équipes de recherche, FQRSC (Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture, Québec), GRIPAL (Groupe de recherche sur les imaginaires politiques en Amérique latine). Title of the project: “Imaginaires populistes, transformation du religieux et consolidation démocratique en Amérique latine.” Main researcher: André Corten (Political Science, U. du Québec à Montréal). Co-researchers: Víctor Armony (Sociology, U. du Québec à Montréal), Pierre Beaucage (Anthropology, U. de Montréal), Viviana Fridman (Sociology, U. du Québec à Montréal), and José Antonio Giménez Micó (Spanish and Latin American Studies, Concordia U.).
• 2000-2004. Standard Grant, SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada).
• 2000. Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences to publish the book L'irruption des “autres.” Analyse de trois fronts discursifs d'identité et de résistance: chicano, antillais et andin péruvien. Montréal: Balzac-Le Griot, 2000.
• 1998-2000. Research Excellence Grant (Government of Alberta, The U. of Calgary).

Research Group

• GRIPAL (Groupe de recherche sur les imaginaires politiques en Amérique latine): http://www.gripal.ca/