1. PHILLIP
PENIX-­‐TADSEN
CURRICULUM
VITAE
Department
of
Languages,
Literatures
and
Cultures
5
Millwheel
Lane
Latin
American
and
Iberian
Studies
Program
Newark,
DE
19711
219
Jastak-­‐Burgess
Hall
Cellular:
917-­‐843-­‐0851
Newark,
DE
19716-­‐2550
Office:
302-­‐831-­‐2042
FAX:
302-­‐831-­‐6459
ptpt@udel.edu
Education
Ph.D.
in
Spanish,
Columbia
University,
2009
Dissertation:
“Marketing
Marginality:
Resistance
and
Commodification
in
Contemporary
Latin
American
Cultural
Production”
Committee
members:
Carlos
J.
Alonso
(Advisor),
Graciela
Montaldo,
Reinaldo
Laddaga,
Alberto
Medina,
Alessandra
Russo
M.Phil.
in
Spanish,
Columbia
University,
2006
M.A.
in
Hispanic
Studies,
University
of
Pennsylvania,
2003
B.A.
in
Spanish
and
Women’s
Studies,
Summa
Cum
Laude,
Ohio
Wesleyan
University,
1999
Professional
Assistant
Professor
of
Spanish
and
Latin
American
Studies,
University
of
Experience
Delaware,
Fall
2010
to
present.
Visiting
Assistant
Professor
of
Spanish,
Denison
University,
Fall
2009
to
Spring
2010.
Graduate
Teaching
Fellow,
Columbia
University,
Fall
2005
to
Spring
2009.
Graduate
Teaching
Fellow,
University
of
Pennsylvania,
Fall
2003
to
Spring
2005.
Publications
Book
Cultural
Code:
Video
Games
and
Latin
America.
Cambridge,
MA:
MIT
Press,
forthcoming
2016.
Articles
and
“Landscape
and
Gamespace
in
Latin
American
Videogame
Design.”
Statements,
Book
Chapters
Colección
Patricia
Phelps
de
Cisneros
(coleccioncisneros.org),
15
May
2015.
“Latin
American
Game
Design
and
the
Narrative
Tradition.”
Technology,
Literature,
and
Digital
Culture
in
Latin
America:
Mediatized
Sensibilities
in
a
Globalized
Era.
Edited
by
Matthew
Bush
and
Tania
Gentic.
New
York:
Routledge,
2015.
“True
Blood:
Colorblindness,
Blanqueamiento,
and
Vampire
Ethnicity
in
Castro’s
Cuba.”
The
African
Americas:
A
Collaborative
Project
on
the
African
Diaspora
in
the
Cultures
of
Latin
America,
the
Caribbean,
and
the
United
States.
Edited
by
Persephone
Braham.
Lanham,
MD:
Rowman
&
Littlefield
/
University
of
Delaware
Press,
2015.

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CV
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2
“Latin
American
Ludology:
Why
We
Should
Take
Video
Games
Seriously
(and
When
We
Shouldn’t).”
Latin
American
Research
Review
48.1,
Spring
2013.
Book
Reviews
“Howard
J.
Wiarda
and
Harvey
F.
Kline,
eds.
Latin
American
Politics
and
Development
(Eighth
Edition).”
Delaware
Review
of
Latin
American
Studies
15.1,
August
2014.
“Anna
Indych-­‐López,
Muralism
without
Walls:
Rivera,
Orozco,
and
Siqueiros
in
the
United
States,
1927-­‐1940.”
Revista
Hispánica
Moderna
16.1,
June
2011.
Interview
“Cualquier
cosa:
Un
encuentro
con
César
Aira.”
With
Craig
Epplin.
Ciberletras
16,
2006.
Published
Translations
Book
and
Rodríguez,
José
Ángel,
Mozarteum
Venezuela:
A
Legacy
of
Musical
Excellence
Exhibition
and
Education.
New
York
and
Caracas:
Fundación
Cisneros,
2014.
Catalog
Montgomery,
Harper.
Open
Work
in
Latin
America,
New
York
&
Beyond:
Conceptualism
Reconsidered,
1967-­‐1978,
Hunter,
the
City
University
of
New
York,
2013.
Articles
and
Palacios,
José
Miguel.
“Landscape,
Cinema,
Memory:
Nostalgia
for
the
Light
and
Book
Chapters
The
Pearl
Button
by
Patricio
Guzmán.”
Statements,
Colección
Patricia
Phelps
de
Cisneros
(coleccióncisneros.org),
September
2015.
Pinardi,
Sandra.
“The
Distance
between
Reality
and
Image.”
Statements,
Colección
Patricia
Phelps
de
Cisneros
(coleccióncisneros.org),
September
2015.
Suazo,
Félix.
“The
Divergent
Scene:
Art
and
Context
in
Venezuela,”
Tráfico
Visual,
1
April
2014.
Giunta,
Andrea.
“Tales
of
the
Avant-­‐Garde
in
Postwar
Argentina.”
Conversaciones/Conversations:
Gyula
Kosice
in
Conversation
with/en
conversación
con
Gabriel
Pérez-­‐Barreiro,
New
York:
Fundación
Cisneros/Colección
Patricia
Phelps
de
Cisneros,
2013.
Salazar,
Carlos.
“Social
Art
and
Corporate
Social
Ideology,”
Tráfico
Visual,
27
November
2012.
Rubiano,
Elkin.
“The
Bruguera
Case:
Between
Critical
and
Informative
Sensationalism,”
Esfera
Pública,
10
September
2012.
Brazón
Hernández,
Mariela.
“Between
the
Continuous
and
the
Discrete:
Dichotomies
of
the
Physical
World
in
the
Work
of
Carlos
Cruz-­‐Diez.”
Carlos
Cruz-­‐Diez:
(In)formed
by
Color.
New
York:
Americas
Society,
2009.
Jiménez,
Ariel.
“Carlos
Cruz-­‐Diez:
Body
and
Soul
of
Painting.”
Carlos
Cruz-­‐Diez:
(In)formed
by
Color.
New
York:
Americas
Society,
2009.
Rangel,
Gabriela.
“New
Mythology.”
Carlos
Cruz-­‐Diez:
(In)formed
by
Color.
New
York:
Americas
Society,
2009.
Interviews
Castro
J.,
Carolina,
“Mario
García
Torres
on
imagination,
Boredom
and
Xoco’s
World,”
Artishock:
Revista
de
Arte
Contemporáneo,
3
March
2014.
Quezada,
Lucy
and
Francisco
Villaroel,
“A
Conversation
with
Cecilia
Vicuña:
Artists
for
Democracy’s
‘Future
Archive,’”
Artishock:
Revista
de
Arte
Contemporáneo,
13
January
2014.

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CV
/
3
Portocarrero,
Florencia,
“Elena
Damiani:
‘I’m
Not
Interested
in
the
Precision
of
Maps,
or
Cartography,”
Artishock:
Revista
de
Arte
Contemporáneo,
6
November
2013.
Castro
J.,
Carolina,
“Juan
Yarur:
‘I
Have
No
Regrets,
but
There
Are
Plenty
of
Works
that
I
Wouldn’t
Buy
Again
Today,”
Artishock:
Revista
de
Arte
Contemporáneo,
20
August
2013.
In
Conversation:
John
F.
Moore,
Jr.
interviews
Juan
Uslé.
New
York
Arts
Magazine,
November
2011.
Guest,
Haden,
“Lucrecia
Martel,”
BOMB
Magazine,
Winter
2009.
Moreno,
María,
“César
Aira,”
BOMB
Magazine,
Winter
2009.
Invited
Lectures
“A
Brief,
Interactive
History
of
Latin
American
Videogame
Design,”
University
of
Pennsylvania,
Department
of
Romance
Languages
and
Literatures,
22
January
2015.
“A
Critical
Playthrough
on
Latin
American
Culture
in
Grand
Theft
Auto
V,”
International
Games
Day,
University
of
Delaware,
15
November
2014
.
“Cultural
Code:
Video
Games
and
Latin
America,”
Scholar
in
the
Library
lecture,
University
of
Delaware,
25
February
2014.
“Cultural
Ludology:
Where
Do
We
Go
Now?,”
Keynote
Address,
Video
Games
Allowed:
Symposium
on
Education
in
Pixels,
Villanova
University,
Graduate
Program
of
the
Department
of
Romance
Languages
and
Literatures,
14
February
2014.
“Cultural
Code:
The
Semiotics
of
Latin
American
Gamespace,”
Davidson
College,
26
September
2013.
Panels
Organized
“Directions
in
Game
Studies,”
a
five-­‐part
lecture
series
featuring
invited
expert
speakers,
sponsored
by
the
Interdisciplinary
Humanities
Research
Center
and
the
Game
Studies
Research
Group,
University
of
Delaware,
Fall
2013.
“Imagined
Geographies
of
Latin
American
Gamespace,”
Latin
American
Studies
Association
XXXI
International
Congress,
Washington,
DC,
31
May
2013.
Papers
Presented
“Software
Modification
as
Counterconsumptive
Practice.”
Precarious
Life
3:
Information
Society;
Culture,
Power
and
Politics
Section
workshop,
Latin
American
Studies
Association
XXXIII
International
Congress,
San
Juan,
Puerto
Rico,
27-­‐30
May
2015.
“The
Cultural
Impact
of
the
Drug
War
in
Latin
America,”
University
of
Delaware,
Global
Studies
Lecture
Series,
10
March
2015
“Forming
a
Game
Studies
Research
Group
at
the
University
of
Delaware.”
Roundtable,
Southwest
Popular
/
American
Culture
Association
Conference,
Albuquerque,
New
Mexico,
12
February
2015.
“Latin
American
Game
Design
and
the
Narrative
Tradition.”
Latin
American
Studies
Association
XXXII
International
Congress,
Chicago,
Illinois,
21-­‐24

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CV
/
4
May
2014.
“Toward
a
Cultural
Ludology:
Uses
for
Video
Games
and
Culture.”
University
of
Delaware,
“Directions
in
Game
Studies”
lecture
series,
17
October
2013.
“The
Ludic
Value
of
Culture.”
Digital
Games
Research
Association
Conference,
Atlanta,
Georgia,
28
August
2013.
“’This
is
Sao
Paulo,
brother!’:
Mythologies
of
Brazilian
Gamespace.”
Latin
American
Studies
Association
XXXI
International
Congress,
Washington,
DC,
31
May
2013.
“You
don’t
have
to
be
‘Friends’:
Why
you
and
your
students
will
‘Like’
Facebook
for
class.”
University
of
Delaware
Summer
Faculty
Institute,
July
2012.
“Contras,
Tomb
Raiders,
and
Luchadores:
Video
Games
and
the
Posthuman
Latin
American
Subject.”
Latin
American
Studies
Association
XXX
International
Congress,
San
Francisco,
California,
May
2012.
“Playing
with
the
Border:
Cartographic
Transmediation
in
‘Call
of
Juarez:
The
Cartel’
and
‘Red
Dead
Redemption.’”
American
Comparative
Literature
Association
Annual
Conference,
Providence,
Rhode
Island,
March
2012.
“The
Poisonous
PlayStation:
Political
Posturing
and
the
Productive
Potential
of
Video
Games
in
Latin
America.”
University
of
Delaware
Foreign
Languages
and
Literatures
Faculty
Research
Workshop,
March
2012.
“Gang
Land
Globalization:
Mexican
Geography
and
Identity
in
Sin
nombre
(2009).”
Latin
American
Studies
Association
XXIX
International
Congress,
Toronto,
Canada,
9
October
2010.
“Broadcasting
Global
Citizenship:
New
Media
and
Resistance
in
Cuba
and
Venezuela.”
University
of
Delaware,
World
Studies
Lecture
Series,
9
September
2010.
“Islanders
in
the
Stream:
Cuban
Bloggers
and
New
Media
at
the
Margins
of
Globalization.”
Case
Western
Reserve
University,
Department
of
Modern
Languages
and
Literatures,
8
February
2010.
“The
Revolution,
Televised:
Media
and
Confrontation
in
Contemporary
Venezuela.”
Dartmouth
College,
Department
of
Spanish
and
Portuguese,
26
January
2010.
“Making
Money:
The
Poetic
Economy
of
Arturo
Carrera’s
Potlatch
(2004).”
Columbia/NYU
Graduate
Student
Conference
on
Hispanic
and
Lusophone
Literatures
and
Cultures,
5
April
2008.
“The
Emergent
Paradigm
of
Textual
Circuitry.”
University
of
Pennsylvania
Graduate
Humanities
Forum,
27
March
2004.
“’Trust
in
Strangers’:
Revisiting
Intertextuality
In
and
Through
Pedro
Almodóvar’s
Todo
sobre
mi
madre.”
University
of
Pennsylvania
Graduate
Romanic
Association
Colloquium,
20
March
2004.
“The
Emergent
Paradigm
of
Textual
Circuitry:
Epistemological
Reprocessing
in
Digital
Society.”
Modern
Language
Association
Annual
Convention,
30

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CV
/
5
December
2003.
“’Unsuitable
for
Appearance
in
Printed
Letters’:
Critical
Exclusion
and
the
Dialogued
Poetry
of
the
Cancionero
de
Baena.”
University
of
Pennsylvania
Graduate
Romanic
Association
Colloquium,
22
March
2003.
Selected
Courses
*
Video
Games
and
Latin
American
Culture.
University
of
Delaware,
Fall
2015.
Taught
Latin
American
Civilizations
and
Cultures.
University
of
Delaware,
Spring
2011,
Fall
2012,
Spring
2014,
Fall
2014
and
Fall
2015.
*
Graphic
Transgressions:
Breakthrough
Movements
in
Latin
American
Art
and
Culture.
University
of
Delaware,
Fall
2011,
Fall
2013
and
Spring
2015.
*
Media-­‐Savvy
Populism
in
Contemporary
Latin
America:
From
Che
to
Chávez.
University
of
Delaware,
Fall
2010,
Spring
2011,
Fall
2013
and
Spring
2015.
*
(Des)articulaciones
del
Boom
Latinoamericano
(Graduate
Seminar).
University
of
Delaware,
Fall
2012
and
Fall
2014.
*
Drug
Culture
in
Latin
America.
University
of
Delaware,
Fall
2012
and
Fall
2014.
*
Resurrecting
Mexico’s
Dead.
University
of
Delaware,
Spring
2012
and
Spring
2014.
*
Spain:
Past
and
Present.
University
of
Delaware
(taught
abroad
in
Granada,
Spain),
Winter
2014.
*
New
Media
&
New
Directions
in
Latin
America.
University
of
Delaware,
Fall
2013.
Survey
of
Spanish
American
Literature.
University
of
Delaware,
Spring
2012.
*
Topics
in
Contemporary
Latin
American
Culture:
Argentina.
University
of
Delaware
(taught
abroad
in
Buenos
Aires),
Winter
2012.
Advanced
Spanish
Grammar
and
Composition.
University
of
Delaware,
Fall
2010,
Spring
2011
and
Fall
2012.
*
Contemporary
Latin
American
Culture
(Independent
Study).
Denison
University,
Spring
2011.
Cinema
for
Spanish
Conversation.
Denison
University,
Spring
2010.
Intermediate
Spanish
I.
Denison
University,
Fall
2009
and
Spring
2010.
Beginning
Spanish
I.
Denison
University,
Fall
2009.
*
Denotes
a
course
that
I
designed
and
developed
Grants
Awarded
General
University
Research
Grant
for
completion
of
the
book
manuscript
for
Cultural
Code:
Video
Games
and
Latin
America
($6,000),
University
of
Delaware,
Spring
2015.
Course
Enrichment
Grant
($1,000).
Delaware
Difference
Incentive
Program,
Office
of
the
Dean
of
the
College
of
Arts
and
Sciences,
University
of
Delaware,
Spring
2015.

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CV
/
6
Interdisciplinary
Humanities
Research
Grant
for
Development
of
the
Game
Studies
Research
Group
at
the
University
of
Delaware,
with
Dr.
Rachael
Hutchinson
($5,000).
Interdisciplinary
Humanities
Research
Center,
University
of
Delaware,
Spring
2013.
Latin
American
and
Iberian
Studies
ePortfolio
Development
Grant,
with
Dr.
Persephone
Braham
($20,000).
University
of
Delaware
Center
for
Teaching
and
Learning,
2010-­‐2011.
Teaching
Assistantship
Grants
($200
per
semester),
University
of
Delaware
Office
of
the
Dean
of
the
College
of
Arts
and
Sciences.
University
Teaching
Assistant
Program,
Fall
2015
and
2013-­‐2014.
Selected
Academic
Member,
Modern
Language
Association,
2002-­‐present.
Affiliations
and
Member,
Latin
American
Studies
Association,
2009-­‐present.
Service
Member,
American
Comparative
Literature
Association,
Fall
2011-­‐present.
Spanish
Faculty
Chair,
Department
of
Foreign
Languages
and
Literatures,
University
of
Delaware,
Fall
2015-­‐present.
Faculty
Affiliate,
Game
Studies
Minor,
University
of
Delaware,
Fall
2015-­‐present.
Faculty
Affiliate,
Center
for
Global
and
Area
Studies,
University
of
Delaware,
Winter
2012-­‐present.
Faculty
Affiliate,
Latin
American
and
Iberian
Studies
Program,
University
of
Delaware,
Fall
2010-­‐present.
Faculty
Affiliate,
Interactive
Media
Minor,
University
of
Delaware,
Fall
2011-­‐
present.
Co-­‐Director
of
the
Game
Studies
Research
Group
at
the
University
of
Delaware,
Fall
2012-­‐Spring
2015.
Senator,
University
Faculty
Senate,
University
of
Delaware,
2011-­‐2014.
Co-­‐Director,
University
of
Delaware
Study
Abroad
Program
in
Granada,
Spain,
Winter
2014.
Senator,
College
of
Arts
and
Sciences
Faculty
Senate,
University
of
Delaware,
2011-­‐2013.
Co-­‐Director,
University
of
Delaware
Study
Abroad
Program
in
Buenos
Aires,
Argentina,
Winter
2012.
Founder,
Game
Studies
Research
Group
at
the
University
of
Delaware,
Fall
2012.
Related
Activities
Live
simultaneous
interpreter
for
Latin
American
art
events
at
the
Americas
Society
and
Hunter
College
in
New
York,
including
interpretation
for
artists
Carlos
Cruz-­‐Diez,
Teresa
Margolles,
Ana
Longoni
and
Graciela
Iturbide,
Colombian
politican
and
philosopher
Antanas
Mockus,
and
curators
and
critics
Ariel
Jiménez,
Alexander
Alberro
and
Cuauhtémoc
Medina.
Curriculum
Designer
for
the
iPad,
iPhone
and
Macintosh
application
Plaza
Lingua,
fall
2011.

7. Penix-­‐Tadsen
CV
/
7
Language
English:
native
speaker
Competence
Spanish:
near
native
ability
Catalan:
reading
Portuguese:
reading