Faculty

Dr. Pablo Alabarces received a Licenciatura en Letras from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), a Maestr­a en Sociologia de la Cultura from the Universidad Nacional de San Marti­n, and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Brighton (UK).

Dr. Alabarces is Professor of Popular Culture at the UBA's Facultadde Ciencias Sociales, where he is incharge of the Doctorado en Ciencias Sociales. He is also Researcher of Sociology at Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas dela Argentina (CONICET)

Dr. Alabarces has been Visiting Professor at universities in Argentina, Brazil,Mexico, Uruguay, Colombia,and the United Kingdom.He is regarded as a founder of the sociology of sport in Latin America. He has published ten books, including Fútbol y Patria (2002), Crónicas del aguante (2004), Hinchadas (2005), and Resistenciasy mediaciones (2008), as well as several articles in journals and books. He is currently focused on the research of popular and contemporary cultures, and writes for the national newspaper Crítica de la Argentina. He teaches "Popular and mass culture" at New York University Buenos Aires.

Dr. Adriana Amante wrote her PhD thesis on Argentine Literature of theExiles in Brazilduring the Rosas regime.

She is a researcher at the Instituto de Literature Hispanoamericana(UBA) and Academic Director of the Escuela Superior de Creativos Publicitarios. Her research focuses on Argentine and Brazilian literature, and her work has been funded by scholarships from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Instituto Camões, and the UBA. She has held the position of Visiting Researcher at New York University, University of London, and Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Dr. Amante is a member of the editorial board of the journal Las ranas (artes, ensayos y traducción). She co-authored Absurdo Brasil. Polémicas en la cultura brasileña, which won an honorary award from the Premio Panhispánico de traducción especializada de Unión Latina, 2005. She translated from Portuguese to Spanish Fernando Pessoa's El Banquero Anarquista, and, with a subsidy for Academia Brasileña de Letras and Centro de Estudios Brasileño de Buenos Aires, she translated Machado de Assis' Memorias póstumas de Bras Cubas. Her essays have been published in various books and academic journals.

Dr. Amante currently teaches XIX Century Argentine Literature at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) and the seminar "Borges and Argentine Literature" at New York University Buenos Aires.

Pablo Ansolabehere earnedhis PhD in Literature at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentine, 2008). Heteaches at the University of Buenos Aires and at the Universityof San Andrés (Buenos Aires). He is a researcher at the University of Buenos Aires on Argentine Literature. Hetaught Latin American Literature at Wesleyan University,CT, (2000-20002, 2005-2006) and at the University of Georgia, GA (2010).

Ansolabeherehas published several articles on Argentine and Latin American Literature inbooks and  journals as Revista Iberoamericana (Pittsburgh), Anales de laLiteratura Hispanoamericana (Madrid), Mora,Revista del Instituto Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Género (Buenos Aires),Entrepasados. Revista de Historia (Buenos Aires), among others. He is the autor of two books,Literatura y anarquismo en Argentina(1879-1910), and Oratoria y evocación: un episodio perdido en la literatura argentina. Bothbooks will be published in 2011.

He currently teaches“Readings of Spanish American Literature” at New York University in Buenos Aires.

Marina Artusa obtained her Licenciatura en Letras from the UniversidadCatólica Argentina and her MS from Columbia University, where she got the Henry N.Taylor Award. In addition, she was a member of the reporting team that was awarded the Association of Alternative Newspaper's Feature Writing Award fortheir coverage of 9/11 for The Local Planet.

A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Artusa wrote as a freelancer for Newsweek and is a frequent contributor to Italian publications such as Corrieredella Sera Magazine, L'Espresso, La Repubblica delle Donne, Panorama, and A. She was the recipient of a grant from the Embassy of Italy to do an internshipat Corriere della Sera's bureau in Rome.Before joining the nationally circulated Argentine newspaper Clarín, Artusa wasa Latin and Journalism instructor at the Universidad Católica Argentina.

Marina Artusa was appointed Managing Editor for Viva, Clarín's Sunday magazine, in March 2006. She has been part of Clarín since 1994 and has covered events in Iraq, Kurdistan and Jordan. She is a professor of magazine writing within the Masters of Journalism program offered by Grupo Clarín. She is currently writing about nomad communities.

Beatriz Autieri has a Licenciatura en Letras from theUniversidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), and a certificate in Enseñanza de Español como Lengua Extranjerafrom the same institution.

For the last ten years, she has taught Spanish as a Foreign Language,working both as a tutor in training courses and as an instructor at all levels.She also leads reading and writing workshops for first-year undergraduates atthe UBA. At New York University in Buenos Aires she teaches “Advanced Grammar and Composition”and “Intensive Elementary Spanish”.

Beatriz Autieri is the coauthor of two books for learning Spanish as aForeign Language: Voces del Sur/ Español deHoy – Nivel Elemental (2002), and Voces delSur/ Español de Hoy – Nivel Intermedio (2004). 

Dr. Robert Barrosreceived his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

He is the author of Constitutionalism and Dictatorship:Pinochet, the Junta, and the 1980 Constitution (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and has published articles and chapters on issues related to the rule of law and institutions. His research focuses on law and politics in democratic and authoritarian regimes; he is currently researching constitutions and regimestability in Latin America.

Dr. Barros teaches "Latin American Politics: Democracy and Dictatorship" at New York University Buenos Aires and Political Science courses at the Universidad de San Andrés.

Susana Benedek obtained her Licenciatura en Arquitecturafrom the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) in 1992, and received certificatesin Enseñanza de Español como Lengua Extranjera from the Fundación Ortega yGasset and the Speak Spanish Institute.

She currently teaches “Intensive Spanish for Advanced Beginners” at NYU in Buenos Aires and has overtwenty-five years of teaching experience. She also coordinates city tours andcultural outings for the students at NYU in Buenos Aires.

A third-generation Argentine-Hungarian, Susana Benedek remains active in Buenos Aires’ Hungariancommunity. She is a regular columnist in Magyar Hírlap, a localHungarian-Spanish newspaper; and she produces, directs, and conducts HungríaCerca, a weekly radio program. Since 2008 she has belonged to the Committee ofHungarian Pedagogical Editors.

She is the author of Beszéljünk magyarul 1, 2, 3 (Let’s speak Hungarian 1,2, 3), and Írjunk magyarul 1 (Let’s write in Hungarian I) both published in Buenos Aires in 2008. Shealso illustrated the girl-scout handbook Leánycserkészek könyve 1(1991) and Leánycserkészek könyve 2 (1998).

Since 1980, Susana Benedek has been involved in formal instruction as ascout leader, conducting or lecturing at leadership training courses in Argentina, Brazil, Austria, and the United States. Activities at the leadership training courses include program development, lesson planning, exam preparation, and coordination of group activities. 

Pía Bouzas received her Licenciatura en Letras from the Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1992. Since then, she has worked as a consultantfor international companies training people in writing and oratory techniques across Argentina, Chile, Boliviaand Venezuela. Besides teaching, she has been responsible for the program development and textbook design.

Her book of short stories El mundo era un lugar maravilloso was published in 2004 and her second book, Extranjeras, was a finalist for the Casa de lasAméricas prize in Cuba, (2008, genre short story).

She currently teaches Spanish as a second language in Universidad deBelgrano and “Critical Approaches: Reading,Writing and Textual Analysis” in NYU in Buenos Aires.

Carmen Campanario earned her PhD. in Hispanic Language andLiteratures at Boston University (2009). Herdissertation, “Theaters and Theatricality in Julio Cortázar’s Short Stories,”explores the interactions between literature and theater.

As a scholar of Latin American literature and theater, sheapproaches both fields from an interdisciplinary and intercultural perspective. She has complemented herliterary studies with theater research in Buenos Aires that includes working with Le Théâtre du Soleiltheater company, and an internship in the Teatro Municipal General San Martínduring the staging of Griselda Gambaro’s play “La persistencia”. She has also participated in several Staging, Directing, Playwriting, and Cultural Management seminars and classes with professors such as Eugenio Barba, Guillermo Heras, Emilio García Wehbi, Augusto Fernándes, Mauricio Kartun, andJosé Sanchis Sinisterra, among others. Her work in Company Management at theTeatro Stage Festival in New York, and her internship as Assistant to theArtistic Director of the Underground Railway Theater in Cambridge, MA, haveenhanced her research with a unique inter-American perspective.

Campanario is also particularly interested in the link between theater, Hispanic language and literatures, and education. Teaching isan enormously enriching experience for her as well as the natural continuity ofher scholarly passion. She has developed her teaching experience at public andprivate institutions. Boston University granted her aTeaching Fellowship that allowed her to teach Spanish for many years. She wasrecognized for her pedagogical achievements with the Outstanding TeachingFellow Award as well the honor of teaching in the very competitive MadridSummer Program. Campanario is the author of a program that entails teaching both Spanish language and Hispanic culture through theater (2009). She currently teaches "Contemporary Argentine Theater" at NYU Buenos Aires.

Vera Cerqueiras received her Licenciatura en Letras from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), and her Maestría en Enseñanza de Españolcomo SegundaLengua from the Universidad de Barcelona.

She currently trains teachers in Spanish as a Second Language, leadingworkshops, lectures, and courses; and she has served as an expert in manyinternational projects intended to share academic and technical assistance. Shewas the Academic Coordinator of the Spanish as a Foreign Language section ofthe UBA’s Laboratorio de Idiomas from 1999 to 2008, and is currently SpanishCoordinator for CIEE-FLASCO’s program site in Argentina. At New York University in Buenos Aires she teaches“Intermediate Spanish II”.

Her research focuses on the relationship between language and culture, andon the development of didactic material for non-native speakers. In order tocomplete her PhD, she is researching language representations in teachingmethods. 

Martin de Santos holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Philosophy from Princeton University and a PhD in Sociology from Yale University.

From 2007 – 2010 Martin de Santos was a visiting assistant professor in the Sociology department at Cornell University. He currently teaches “Latin American Global Scapes” at New York University in Buenos Aires as well as working as a researcher at the Escuela de Política y Gobierno at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín.

Martin de Santos is also a reviewer for various scholarly journals including Sociological Theory, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication andTheory and Society. 

Edgardo Dieleke´s thesis is entitled “Ficción y excepción:Imágenes contemporáneas de la violencia en Latinoamérica” and is expected toreceive his PhD this year from Princeton University. He haspublished various articles on cinema and Latin American literature andparticipated in congresses on contemporary film in Argentina,United States and Brazil.

Dieleke is co-editor of the the compilation Políticas del sentimiento. Elperonismo y la construcción de la Argentina moderna with Paola CortésRocca and Claudia Soria. Currently he is teaching “Tango and Mass Culture” at New York Universityin Buenos Airesand co-directing two documentaries. 

Inda Dinerstein is a highly-trained and professional teacher whose wide interests range from teaching to psychology, the study ofwhich has deepened her understanding of the learning process.

After obtaining her Licenciatura en Psicología from the Universidad deBuenos Aires (UBA), she earned postgraduate qualifications in Spanish LanguageTeaching at the Universidad de Barcelona, and became a teacher.

As a senior teacher, Inda Dinerstein has studied, taught, and lectured in Argentina andabroad for over ten years. Her experiences learning and teaching around theworld have helped her develop and refine practical testing techniques andteaching methods. Aside from teaching on-site and off-site in companies,universities, and schools, she is responsible for organizing exams anddeveloping and improving academic programs. Additionally, she has designedlanguage courses concerned with Buenos Aires’ cultural and historical background.

Inda Dinerstein currently teaches “Intensive Intermediate Spanish” at New York Universityin Buenos Aires.Inda Dinerstein is currently studying to become a German teacher at theInstituto de Enseñanza Superior en LenguasVivas "Juan Ramón Fernández".

Carolina Duek earned herPhD in Social Sciences (specialized in communication studies) at the University of Buenos Aires. She teaches “Theories andpractices of communication” at the Universityof Buenos Aires and “Global media:Latin America” at New York University in Buenos Aires. She’s a post-doctorate scholar at the CONICET (Argentina) and her research is about children, media, technology and games.

Carolina Duek has published in different national and international journals and books and herdoctoral thesis is about to be published as a book titled “El juego y losmedios. Autitos, muñecas, television y consolas” [Games and media. Cars, dolls,television and consoles]. She is part of different evaluation committees in Argentina and Latin America (Colombia andBrasil) and edits “Avatares. Revista de cultura y comunicación” at the University of Buenos Aires.

Dr. Álvaro Fernández Bravo received his PhD in Romance Languages at Princeton University and has a Licenciatura en Letras from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). He completed his postdoctoral studies at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Dr. Fernández Bravo has published numerous books and articles, among which are: Literatura y frontera (1999), Sujetos en tránsito (2003), El valor de lacultura: arte, literatura y mercado en América Latina (2007), and a new editionof Mi fe es el hombre by María Rosa Oliver (2008). His articles appeared inMargens/Márgenes, Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Nepantla andthe Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. He received several grants and scholarships, the latest being a grant for the Project “Recoveries of the Real: New Argentine and Brazilian Cinema in the Global Image World” by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), UK.

He has taught at Temple University, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidadde Mar del Plataand Universidad de San Andrés, among others. He is currently working on intellectual networks and the market of symbolic goods in Latin America and ona research project on the construction of cultural patrimonies in Latin America.

Dr. Fernández Bravo is Director of New York University in Buenos Aires where he also teaches a course “Readings in Latin America” as well as acts as Researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas dela Argentina (CONICET).

Dr. Flavia Fiorucci completed her PhD at the Institute of Latin American Studies of the University of London.

She is Assistant Researcher at the Consejo Nacional de InvestigacionesCientíficas y Técnicas de la Argentina (CONICET). She has published on thetopics of intellectuals and intellectual history in Argentina. She is currently workingon a book about the relationship between Perón and intellectuals.

Dr. Fiorucci teaches “Introduction to Latin American Studies” at NYU in Buenos Aires andIntellectual History of Argentina at the Universidad de Quilmes. 

Dr. Florencia Garramuño has a Licenciatura en Letras fromUniversidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), a PhD in Romance Languages and Literaturesfrom Princeton University,and a postgraduate certificate from the Programa Avançado de CulturaContemporânea at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

She is the author of Genealogías culturales (Rosario, 1997), Modernidades primitivas:tango, samba y nación (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2007) and La experienciaopaca. Literatura y desencanto (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2008). She haspublished extensively on Latin American literatures and cultures, and is theassistant editor of Margens/Márgenes. She received the Guggenheim Fellowship in2008 for her project “The Expanded Field of Literature in ContemporaryCulture”.

At New York Universityin Buenos AiresDr. Garramuño teaches “Comparative Latin American Literature”. She is theDirector of the Programa en Cultura Brasileña and Associate Professor ofLiterature at the Universidad de San Andrés. Dr. Garramuño is also anindependent researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas yTécnicas de la Argentina (CONICET). 

Tamara Kamenszain, poet and critic, studied philosophy atthe Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA).

Her critical work, relating to the investigation of the poetical phenomenonin Latin America from Modernity to the present, has been compiled in fourvolumes: El texto silencioso (UNAM, 1983), La edad de la poesía (Beatriz Viterbo,1996), Historias de amor y otros ensayos sobre poesía (Paidós, 2000) and Laboca deltestimonio (Norma, 2007). For these books she obtained the Tercer PremioNacional de Ensayo in 1985 and the Primer Premio de Ensayo. Gobierno de laCiudad in 1999.

She is the author of eight books of poetry: De este lado del Mediterráneo(Noé, 1973), Los No (Sudamericana, 1977), La Casa Grande (Sudamericana, 1986),Vida de living (Sudamericana, 1991), Tango Bar (Sudamericana, 1998), El ghetto(Sudamericana, 2003), Solos y solas (Lumen, 2005) and El eco de mi madre (Bajola luna, 2010). These books have all been completely or partially translated toPortuguese, English, French, and German, and have been compiled in more thantwenty anthologies.

She obtained the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1989, andthe Premio Konex and the Medalla Presidencial Pablo Neruda in 2004.

She was the Director of Extracurricular Activities at the UBA; she currentlyteaches courses, leads seminars and workshops, and gives lectures atuniversities in Argentina, Mexico, and the USA. At New York University in Buenos Aires she teaches“Literaturas de la Intimidad”. 

Axel Lazzari earned his PhD in Anthropology at Columbia University. He taught at UniversidadNacional de San Martín, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Universidad Nacionalde La Pampa, FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales), andcurrently teaches anthropology at New YorkUniversity in Buenos Aires. He is an adjunct researcher atCONICET (National Council of Scientific Research)

Lazzari is the author of many articles in journals as World Acheology, Memoria Americana,Cuadernos de Antropología Social, The journal of Latin American Anthropology. Hisdoctoral dissertation on indigenous movements entitled Phantoms, Freedom and Pluralism: the re-emergence of Rankülche Indiansin La Pampa, Argentina will be published in Argentinaby Editorial Antropofagia.

He currently teaches "Cultura, Identidad y Política en Latinoamérica" at New York University Buenos Aires.

Mariano López Seoane obtained his Licenciatura en Historía from Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). He specialized in Latin Americanhistory and culture and taught at his alma mater for two years after completinghis degree. He then moved to New Yorkto pursue his postgraduate studies. He got his MA in Latin American Studiesfrom CLACS, at New York University, and is currentlywriting his doctoral dissertation on contemporary Latin American literature.While in New York,and as a graduate student at the Spanish Department at NYU, he taught severalSpanish language courses for undergraduates.

Mariano López Seoane currently teaches “Myths, Icons and InventedTraditions” and a Topics course “La Lengua de Buenos Aires” at New York Universityin Buenos Aires. 

Silvia Luppino received her Licenciatura en Letras fromUniversidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), and postgraduate certification as Experto enEnseñanza de Español como Lengua Extranjera from the Universidad Antonio deNebrija, in Spain.

She has taught Spanish as a Foreign Language at UBA’s Facultad de Filosofíay Letras, the Universidad de San Andrés, and at other public and privateinstitutions. She taught linguistics and composition for undergraduate studentsat the UBA.

She was Academic Coordinator of the Spanish as a Foreign Language section ofthe UBA’s Laboratorio de Idiomas from 1998 to 2002. She has also served as the AcademicCoordinator of Spanish as a Second Language for Refugees, a program run by theUBA and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1998 to 2009.

She is currently the director of the collection Clásicos argentinosOriginal/Adaptación (Editorial Voces del Sur), a series of classic literaryworks by Argentinean writers including didactic material for Spanish students.

Silvia Luppino is Spanish Language Coordinator at New York University in Buenos Aires, where shealso teaches the topic course Argentina Today. 

Florencia Malbrán is a curator of contemporary art. Most recently, she curated Unseen Voices:Alejandro Cesarco and Jorge Méndez Blake at the Fundación Proa, and GianPaolo Minelli: Villa Lugano + Zona Sur, at the Centro Cultural Recoleta, inBuenos Aires.She writes regularly for exhibition catalogs and magazines.

Malbránhas held curatorial positions in several art institutions. In 2007-2008, shewas Hilla Rebay International Fellow at the GuggenheimMuseums, working in contemporary andmodern exhibitions across the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Guggenheim BilbaoMuseum, Bilbao;and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice.She has also actively collaborated with the Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo (2006), and the Museumof Modern Art, Buenos Aires (2004-2005).

Malbrán received an M.A. in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies,Bard College, New York, where she was a Bruce T. Halle Family Foundation Fellow (May, 2007). She is currently completing a doctorate in Arts and Humanities at Rosario National University, Argentina, and is a PhD Fellow at the National Council of Scientific Research (Conicet). Malbrán was Professor of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art at NYU in Buenos Aires during Fall2010.

She currently teaches "Art & Visual Culture in Latin America" at New York University Buenos Aires.

Guadalupe Molina has a degree in Linguistics from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. She also holds a diploma in teaching Spanish as a foreign and second language from the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Guadalupe teaches “Intensive Intermediate Spanish” at New York University Buenos Aires. She is also currently working both in the Language Lab as a Spanish instructor and as a teaching and research assistant on the field of Psycholinguistics at UBA´s Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. 

Dr. David Oubiña obtained his PhD in Cinemaand Literature from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA).

He was Visiting Scholar at the University of London and Visiting Professor at New York University and the University of Bergen. He is a researcher at Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas(CONICET) and at the Institute of Latin American Literature. His research interests are modern cinema, argentine cinema, and cinema and literature; he is currently researching the transformation of the notion of authorship between the decades of the 60’s and the 80’s.

Dr. Oubiña is a memberof the editorial boards of the journals Las ranas (artes, ensayo y traducción), Otrocampo (estudios sobre cine) and Cahiers du cinema España. His most recent books are Filmología Ensayos con el cineMa (Manantial, 2000, Premio del Fondo Nacional de las Artesal mejor libro de ensayo); El cine de Hugo Santiago (Festivalde cine de Buenos Aires, 2002), Jean-Luc Godard: el pensamiento del cine (Paidós,2003); Estudio crítico sobre La ciénaga, de Lucrecia Martel (Pic Nic,2007); Una juguetería filosófica. De loscronofotógrafos a la tecnología digital (Manantial, forthcoming) and El silencio y sus bordes. Discursos extremosen la literatura y el cine argentinos, entre los 60 y los 70 (Santiago Arcos, forthcoming).

He has receivedscholarships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, the British Council, the Fundación Antorchas, and the Fondo Nacional de las Artes.

Dr. Oubiña currently teaches at the UBA, at the Universidad del Cine, and "Cinema in Latin America" at New York University Buenos Aires.

Dr. Marta Penhos completed her PhD at the Universidad deBuenos Aires (UBA) on representations of South Americain the XVIII century.

She has taught at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano en Buenos Aires (MALBA),Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (Brasil), Museo de América (Madrid,España), and Universidad de Cuenca (Ecuador). She has published books andpapers on Argentine and Latin American visual culture. She is currently editinga book on indigenous art in Argentina.

Dr. Penhos teaches Latin American Art History at UBA, where she is AssistantProfessor, and “Art and Visual Culture in Latin America” at NYU in Buenos Aires.

Juan Raffo is a composer, arranger, conductor, keyboardistand music educator. In the academic field, he has received a Summa Cum LaudeDiploma in Jazz Composition from Berklee College of Music (Boston)and a Master of Arts degree in Composition from New York University,having pursued this graduate study under the auspices of a Fulbrightscholarship.

He has led various influential groups in the Argentinean contemporarypopular music scene, such as El Güevo (“The Egg”) in the 80’s and Monos conNavajas (“Monkeys with Knives,” co-led with bassist Willy González) in the90’s, which were commended by the Konex foundation as one of the top five jazzensembles in the decade spanning 1985-1995.

Simultaneously, he has worked as an arranger, keyboardist and/or musicaldirector for some of the most outstanding representatives of the last fivedecades of Argentinean popular music: Vox Dei, Moris (1960’s), Miguel Cantilo,León Gieco, Nito Mestre, Roque Narvaja (1970’s), Juan Carlos Baglietto, SodaStereo, Fontova, Sueter, Celeste Carballo (1980’s), Manuel Wirzt, Los Piojos,Divididos, Ratones Paranoicos (the 90’s), Los Gardelitos and El Bordo (2000’s).

Since 1990, he has been carrying out extensive teaching activities in theareas of arranging, composition, keyboards and ensemble workshops. He iscurrently chairman of the harmony department as well as a teacher at theEscuela de Música Contemporánea (EMC) in Buenos Aires,professor of “The Music of Latin America” at the NYU in Buenos Aires study abroad program, anddirector of the St. Andrew’s School Former Pupils’ Club Band.

He is devoted to writing his own music and organizing ensembles for itsrecording and public performance. At this moment, he is presenting his CD,“Guarda que viene el Tren / Música de Flores, Vol. 1”, and preparing materialfor “Música de Flores, Vol. 2”.

Web site: www.polloraffo.com 

Miguel Rosettiearned his degree in Literature at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (BuenoasAires, 2010). He works at the University of Buenos Aires in thecourse "Literature of the XXth century". He is s Spanish teacher invarious private institutions and works as translator. He is currently carryingout a research on "vitalist literature in Latin America". He currently teaches "Intensive Intermediate Spanish" at New York University Buenos Aires.

Dr. Gabriel Sánchez holds a Licenciatura en Economía from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, and a PhD in Economics from Columbia University in New York.

His professional and academic activities include economic research, macroeconomic and financial analysis, and business advising. His main research areas are economic growth and development, investment, technological innovation and international trade. His research has been published in prestigious academic journals and presented in national and international seminars and conferences, and he regularly contributes op-eds to the main economic and financial newspapers.

Dr. Sánchez is currently a Senior Country Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank. He also teaches “Introduction to Economic Issues: Argentine Political Economy” at New York University Buenos Aires. His previous activities include jobs at the International Monetary Fund and a teaching and research position at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He has also served as a consultant for the United Nations and the Interamerican Development Bank.

Ariel Schettini has a Degree in Literature from Universidad de Buenos Aires. He published two books of poems: EstadosUnidos (Buenos Aires: la marca, 1994) and La Guerra Civil (Buenos Aires: Norma, 2000). His work was translated to English, Portuguese and French. In 1995, he got a scholarship by the Embassy of the United States (United States Information Service. USIS) to particiapate at the International Writers Program, University of Iowa. He worked as a cultural journalist in many media of Argentina (Cronista Comercial, Radar, Los Inrockuptibles) and as cultural advisor of the City of Buenos Aires. He is Professor of literary theory at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and ArtTheory at the Universidad de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF). He published academic essays in many publications. His last book, El tesoro de la lengua - Una historia Latinoamericana del yo (Buenos Aires: Entropía,2009), is a reasoned anthology of the most canonical poems of the Spanish language.

He currently teaches "Comparative Latin American Literature" at New York University Buenos Aires.

Martín Sivak is the author of five non-fiction books about South American politics, including the biography of Hugo Banzer (El dictador elegido), Mariano Grondona (El doctor) and a portrait of Evo Morales (Jefazo), also published in French and in English as Evo Morales - The extraordinary rise of the first indigenous president of Bolivia (Palgrave2010). His journalistic and academic articles have appeared in English and Spanish book compilations. Sivak holds a BA in Sociology (Universidad de BuenosAires), a Master's degree from the Institute for the Study of the Americas (University of London) and is currently completing a Doctorate in Latin American History at New York University (NYU). He currently teaches "Introduction to Latin American Studies" at New York University Buenos Aires.

Dr. Anna-Kazumi Stahl is a fiction writer and PhD inliterature. Born and educated in the USA,she has lived in Buenos Airessince 1995 and writes short stories and novels in Spanish.

She received her doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of California Berkeley in 1995. Herdissertation focused on the theme of literature and immigration in the SouthAmerican, USAand German literary traditions. She has taught creative writing and worldliterature since 1985, starting at the Universityof California Berkeley, and, onre-locating to Buenos Aires, at the UniversidadNacional de San Martin’s English language Humanities program at Lincoln University College.She currently teaches Creative Writing at New YorkUniversity’s program in Buenos Aires, in addition to short seminars in literatureand writing at the MALBA museum, Villa Ocampo, and Casa de Letras, all in Buenos Aires.

Her short story collection Catastrofes naturales was published by EditorialSudamericana in Buenos Aires in 1997, andselected stories from this volume have been chosen for inclusion in anthologiesin the USA and Germany. Hernovel Flores de un solo dia came out in 2002/2003; it was a finalist for theRomulo Gallegos prize for new Latin American fiction and, after publication in Argentina, was also published in Spain, Italyand France.Besides fiction, Anna Kazumi Stahl has published critical work on bi-culturalidentity in Japan and in Argentina. Shecontributes regularly to the cultural supplements of Buenos Aires newspapers: La Nación, Clarínand Página/12. 

José Zanca earned his PhD in Modern History at the University of San Andres (Buenos Aires, 2009). He taught history at the University of Buenos Aires, University of Quilmes and currently he teaches history at the University of San Andres and the course “Argentine History and Culture” at New York University in Buenos Aires. He is a Researcher at the CONICET (Argentina) on religious ideas.

Zanca is the author of the book Los intelectuales católicos y el fin de la cristianidad. 1955-1966 (2006) and he has written essays in academic collective volumes. He has published several articles on religion and intellectual life in the twentieth century in journals such as Annuario de Estudios Americanos (Spain), Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos (France), Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos (Argentina), and Prismas- Revista de historia intelectual (Argetnina).