Juanita Aristizábal
- Professor of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures
- Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures Field Group
- Phone
- (909) 607-4014
- Office Location
Scott 200A
- Office Hours
- Contact Professor
With Pitzer Since: 2014
BA, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
PhD, Yale University
- Environmental issues in 20th and 21st century Latin American cultural production.
- Ecocritical theory and environmental humanities.
- Digital media in Latin America.
- Violence, representation, peacebuilding, and historical memory in contemporary Colombia.
- Innovative approaches to second language acquisition, virtual communities, and community-based and experiential learning.
- “Mundos relacionales no antrópicos en “La quema” de Andrea Mejía y “Un toro bien bonito” de Laura Ortiz Gómez.” Revista de Estudios Colombianos 61 (2023).
- “El Chocó y las Mitologías del oro.”Tabula Rasa 43 (2022): 297-322.
- “Construcción de paz y modelos de participación ciudadana en tres medios digitales colombianos: Agenda Propia, Diario de Paz y Mutante.” Forthcoming in Las fiestas de la(s) paz(es). Rincón, Omar and Catalina Uribe Eds. Ediciones Uniandes, 2023.
- “Construindo comunidade no ensino e aprendizado de Português como língua estrangeira online: Reflexões e Lições de dois epicentros da pandemia.” Educação, Comunicação e Tecnologia 3.2 (2021): 100-118.
- “Pasar por el corazón de la naturaleza: El jardín de Los caballitos del diablo.” Montilla, Claudia and Norman Valencia Eds. El manglar de la memoria. Bogotá: Ediciones Uniandes, 2021: 85-111.
- With Juliana Martínez. “ViolentTales: Cultural Representation in Colombia and Mexico.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 53.1(2019): 7-16.
- “Mausoleos y formas sin nombre: Escritura y violencia en Tomás Gonzálezy Juan Gabriel Vásquez.”Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 53.1(2019): 37-58.
- With Patrick McDermott Welch. “Rio de Janeiro to Claremont: PromotingIntercultural Competence Through Student-driven Online Intercultural Exchanges.” Hispania 100.2 (2017): 225-238.
- “Mythologies of Gold in Chocó.” Anderson,Mark and Zelia Bora Eds. Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America. Lexington Books, 2016: 21-44.
- Edited with Brantley Nicholson. “El último gramático: Ensayos críticos sobre Fernando Vallejo.” Cuadernos de Literatura 19.37 (2015).
- Fiel a su corriente: Las repeticiones de Vallejo en Casablanca la bella. Cuadernos de Literatura 19.37 (2015): 204-218.
- Fernando Vallejo a contracorriente. Rosario, Argentina: BeatrizViterbo Editora, 2015.
- “El pecado del escándalo: Dandismo y modernidad en Fernando Vallejo.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 47.2 (2013): 291-312.
2021: “Naturalezacultura en Tomás González.” Universidad de los Andes, Clases abiertas de humanidades y literatura.
2019: “Mitologías Mineras.” Congress of the Asociación de Colombianistas, Bogotá, Colombia.
2017: “Writing, Disillusion and Dissolution in Tomás González.” Congress of the Asociación de Colombianistas, San Diego, CA.
2017: “Promoting Intercultural Competence Through Student Driven Intercultural Exchanges: A Portuguese Virtual Community.”American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Southern California chapter spring meeting, Santa Monica, California.
2015: Co-Presented with Ethel Jorge. “Engaging Local and Global Communities in World Language Teaching.” American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Conference, Denver, Colorado.
2015: “Violencias en la narrativa de Tomás González.” Panel: Márgenes, Violencia y Narrativa. Latin American Studies Association Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2015: “Tomás González, Juan Gabriel Vásquez and the Curse of Violence in Colombia.” Panel: Narratives of Violence in Latin America. The American Comparative Literature Association’s Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington.