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Portrait of Dr. Carlos Abreu Mendoza

Dr. Carlos Abreu Mendoza

  • Associate Professor at Dept of World Languages & Literatures, College of Liberal Arts

Service Activities

Ongoing

  • Assessment Coordinator of Spanish, Assessment Coordinator, Spanish Section. August 2023 - Present.
  • Member, Personnel Committee. September 2020 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Hispanófila, Letras Hispanas, Hispanic Studies Review, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Estudios Filológicos, Res Publica: Revista de Historia de las Ideas Políticas, Hispanic Review, Revista Hispánica Moderna. 2013 - Present.

2024

  • Academic Program Director, Education Abroad Program in Cuenca, Spain. August 2022 - August 2024.
  • World Languages and Literatures Department Research Colloquium. February 23, 2024.
  • COLA Panel Series: Grant Application for Humanities. February 8, 2024.

2023

  • Organizer, Space and Spatiality in the Americas. October 19, 2023 - October 20, 2023.
  • Participant, The Center for the Study of the Southwest / ¡Fandango! A TXST Interdisciplinary Dialogue on the Southwest. September 14, 2023.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting / “Sensing Migrant Romanticism”. August 2022 - March 2023.

2022

  • Member, Spanish MA Reception Committee. September 2017 - 2022.
  • Participant, The Liberal Arts and the World Cup. A Forum. November 30, 2022.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Modern Language Association Convention / Pivot Points: "Turns In Nineteenth-Century Latin American Literary And Cultural Studies". April 2021 - January 2022.

2021

  • Editorial Review Board Member, Nineteenth-Century Section / Latin American Studies Association. May 2019 - May 2021.
  • Acting-Chair. May 21, 2021 - May 26, 2021.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Modern Language Association Convention / "Interdisciplinary, Intergenerational, Interlocutory: The Persistence of Alexander von Humboldt". March 2020 - January 2021.

2020

  • Reviewer / Referee, Wichita State University / Tenure and Promotion of Dr. Rocío del Águila. May 2020 - August 2020.
  • Reviewer / Referee, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill / Evaluation of Dr. Juan Carlos González Espitia's promotion to Full Professor. April 2020 - August 2020.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, XXXVIII Latin American Studies Association Congress / "Pivot Points: Turns in Nineteenth-Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies". September 2019 - May 2020.
  • Chair, Roberto A. Galvan Scholarship Committee. February 2020 - April 2020.

2019

  • Undergraduate Advisor, Rincón Hispano Universitario. August 2017 - May 2019.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, XXXVII Latin American Studies Association International Congress / “Independencia y representación: violencia, historia y memoria.”. August 2018 - May 27, 2019.
  • Member, Search committee for tenure track position in Spanish-American Literature and Culture. September 2018 - March 2019.

2018

  • Member, Modern Language Association Delegate Assembly. January 1, 2015 - January 1, 2018.
  • Department of Modern Languages / Presenter of the film Esperando al Mesías, Noche de Cine. October 16, 2018.
  • Participant, Sigma Delta Pi / Festival de Poesia. October 9, 2018.
  • Panel Respondent, 3rd biennial Conference of the Latina/o Studies Association Studies / “After the Fall: The Long Impact of U.S. Transnational Fields on Colombianx Cultural Production”. July 14, 2018.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, XLII Congreso Internacional del Instituto Internacional de Literatura (IILI) / "Prácticas literarias e imaginarios geográficos en Latinoamérica: coincidencias, interacciones y desacuerdos en el largo siglo XIX". June 12, 2018 - June 15, 2018.
  • Member, Roberto A. Galvan Scholarship Committee. March 22, 2018.
  • Presenter of the film La voz dormida, Department of Modern Languages / Noche de Cine. February 27, 2018.

2017

  • Presenter of the film No quiero dormir sola, Department of Modern Languages / Noche de Cine. November 14, 2017.
  • Organizer, Re-writing El Otro Lado/La Frontera: The New Latinoamericanism. November 8, 2017.
  • Participant, GADIA / El día de los muertos celebration. November 2, 2017.
  • Participant, Festival de Poesia por la Paz. October 21, 2017.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, SCOLAS / “Presentación de El infinito se acaba pronto (2015) y Wild North (2016): dos narradores latinoamericanos en la academia estadounidense”. March 10, 2017.

2016

  • Presenter of the film Salvando al soldado Pérez, Department of Modern Languages / Noche de Cine. November 29, 2016.
  • Participant, Department of Modern Languages / Festival de Poesia y Musica. November 1, 2014 - November 1, 2016.
  • Member, Honors College Curriculum Committee / Evaluation of the course “Soccer: Local Stories, Global History,” John Mckiernan-González. October 2016.
  • Reviewer / Referee, External evaluation for promotion & tenure: Aarti Madan. June 2016 - August 2016.
  • Organizer, Department of Modern Languages / Back to barataria. January 28, 2016.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, 131st MLA Annual Convention / Session 266: Re-Envisioning Bolí­var through His Publics.. January 8, 2016.

2015

  • Presenter of the film La jaula de oro, Department of Modern Languages / Noche de Cine. October 6, 2015.
  • Member, Department of Modern Languages / Committee for Review of Literature and Culture Courses. April 1, 2015 - August 2015.

2014

  • Organizer, 20th Annual Carolina Conferences on Romance Literatures. August 1, 2013 - May 1, 2014.
  • Presenter of the film Dias de futbol, Department of Modern Languages / Noche de Cine. November 4, 2014.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, “A Critique of Andean Reason, an Interdisciplinary Approach.” LASA. May 22, 2014.

2013

  • Jury member, “América Latina abreviada,” Editorial Paroxismo. November 2013.
  • Chair, “Palabras mayores, palabras vivas: tradiciones mítico-literarias y escritores indígenas en Colombia.” Reading by author Miguel Rocha-Vivas. 9th Annual Consortium Conference: Revising Visions of Latin America & the Caribbean. February 15, 2013.

2012

  • Member, “Troubled Lives of Words”. 2011 - 2012.

2011

  • Faculty liaison, Graduate Romance Association, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, UNC-CH. 2010 - 2011.
  • University Mentor, The Spanish House. 2007 - 2011.

2009

  • Organizer, “Borges at 110.”. August 2009.

2008

  • Member, “Nation-Building, Popular Culture and Marginality,” UNC - Duke Consortium. 2007 - 2008.

2007

  • Member, Spanish 105 textbook committee /Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, UNC-CH. April 2007.
  • Chair, “Artes plásticas visuales y manifestaciones literarias latinoamericanas.” 13th Annual Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures. March 31, 2007.