Dr. Hernán Fontanet

Assistant Professor I

• Email Address: hfontanet@rider.edu
• Phone: (609) 896-7739
• Fax: (609) 896-5393
• Office: Fine Arts 367
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• Mailing Address: 2083 Lawrence Road, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648

BIOGRAPHY

• Ph.D. in Spanish and Latin American Literature (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.)
• MAs from Argentina and Spain.
• Ten years of teaching experience at university levels (Buenos Aires University, Almería University, Yale University, Belgrano University, and Fayetteville University.)
• Ten years working in an international environment as a teacher, author, and publisher of educational materials (Argentina, Italy, Brazil, Spain, and USA.)
• Multilingual: Spanish/English/Italian (Dante Alighieri)/Portuguese (PUC Río.)

TEACHING COURSES

• Spanish 101
• Spanish 300 Advanced Grammar and Composition
• Spanish 320 Latin American/Latino Culture and Civilization
• Spanish 341 Latin American Colonial / 19th Century

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
 
Non-fiction-Books:

• Letras en fuga: el desexilio transatlántico imposible. The Edwin Mellen Press. Lewiston, NY, 2007 (anticipated publication)
• Poéticas de exilio: Micharvegas, Constantini, Gelman, Lamborghini, Urondo y Sylvester. Spain, February 17, 2004. Rebelion.org. Path: Libros Libres.

Essays in books or periodicals:

• "Solitude and Biobiography," Visual Poetry, US, 2005
• "Poetry, the Open Door to World Language Acquisition," The International Business Trinity: Language, Technology, and Culture, University of Connecticut, School of Business, CIBER, US, 2004. 248-252.
• "¿Quieres casarte conmigo?" Documentos para la Enseñanza del Español, New York: Office of Education and Science, Embassy of Spain, US, 2003. 35-40.
• "El Tango esta de duelo: murio Roberto Achaval" Diario Cronica, Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 28, 1996.
• "Fue sufrido y solitario, nadie lleno su soledad," (31-44).
• "La noche fue su Dios y el bandoneon su religion," (32-33).
• "Cuando recitaba el "Nocturno" el boliche se convertía en una iglesia," (36-42).
• "Para escucharlo mejor los fumadores hasta dejaban de fumar," (41-46).
• "Gardel ganó las grandes batallas después de muerto," (16-17).
• Revista de Cultura La Maga, Number 10 and 11, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1995.

Conferences:

• 2006 SCMLA Dallas, TX Convention - “Pícaros Without Borders: from the Manuscript to the Video, from El Lazarillo de Tormes to Torrente, el brazo tonto de la ley.”
• 2006 AEEA Washington DC Convention - “Discurso autobiográfico en Cartas de Mujeres en Chile (1630-1885)”
• 2006 SAMLA Charlotte, NC Convention - “Brazilian Non-Conventional Poetic Structures”
• 2006 Society for Textual Scholarship Conference, NY, NY - "Representation of the U.S.A. through Political Cartoons in the Spanish Newspaper El País."
• 2006 AILFH Convention – “Presente y futuro del ensayo femenino del siglo XIX en Hispanoamérica”
• 2006 FLANC Raleigh, NC Convention - “Non-Conventional Visual Poetry: Futurism, Slam Poetry and more”
• 2006 AATSP Salamanca, Spain - “El carnero (S. XVII) and Nueve reinas (S. XX): 362 Years of Fraud and Tricks”
• 2005 University of Connecticut, Language, Technology, and Culture, CT - "Poetry: Open Doors, Open Minds"
• 2004 Young Enterprise Association, Madrid, Spain - "Internet and the New Technologies in Sociocultural Services,"
• 2003 University of Buenos Aires, Argentina - "Spanish for Foreigners"

Study Abroad Program:

• Almería, Spain. Summer 2006. Host Institution: Universidad de Almería. Equivalent to six credit hours.
• Cusco, Peru. Summer 2007. Host Institution: Amauta Spanish School. Equivalent to six credit hours.

Related Experience:

• 2006 – 2007 Founder and Radio Show Host Dedicated to Hispanic Culture - En Voz Alta, NPR FM 91.9 WFSS, Fayetteville, NC.
• 2006 – 2007 Independent Non-Profit Documentary Film Director and Writer - Soccer and Identity, Germany and USA (project in progress)
• 2001 – 2002 Author and Publisher of Textbooks for Spain and Latin America Editorial Laberinto and Editorial Summa Cultural, Madrid, Spain.
• 1998 – 2004 Founder and Project Director of an E-Business and E-Teach Portal Site - http://www.geriatricas.com/, Madrid, Spain.
• 1996 - 1997 Argentina Textbooks Proofreader - Astrea Publisher, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

World Projects:

• Living Soccer - Documentary in Berlin 2006 WC
• Latin America Observatory
• #Study Abroad Program
• NPR Radio – “En Voz Alta”
• Humanistinen tiedekunta
• La Poesia dell’esilio nell’esilio
• El Surmenage de la Muerta
• Happenings
• Revista Malabia
• Sigma Delta Pi - Upsilon Theta
• Biblioteca Letras Libres
• Boletin Oficial del Estado (BOE)
• Exilio Argentino CEAM
• Acento Latino