Professor; Director, Latin American Studies
St. Mary's Hall 482S
Telephone: 617-552-2680
Email: ernesto.livon-grosman@bc.edu
ORCID
Latin American film, poetics, and travel writing
Research Expense Grant, Boston College, 2012 and 2013
Arts and Science Research Grant, Boston College, 2011
Teaching, Advising and Mentoring Grant, Boston College, 2007
Social Science Research Council, Distinguished Lecturers Series, Curator and Speaker at the Cuba Program, Havana, Cuba, 2002
听(documentary), received the following awards and distinctions: 鈥淏est Educational Film,鈥 Tulipanes International Film Festival, Holland, Michigan, August 2007; "Best Green / Outdoors Film," Connecticut Film Festival, May 2007; and the "Enviromental Film Award," Tenth International Festival Cinema for Human Rights, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2008.
The visual poem,听听(Roberto Cignoni: Message to Humanity) was a finalist in the听听(category, "Focus Argentina"), Berlin, 2010, sponsored by the Goethe Institute.
Boston College Academic Technology Innovation Grant, 2008, 2009
. Edited (with introductory essays) by Cecilia Vicu帽a and Ernesto Livon-Grosman. Oxford University Press, 2009.
. Edited and with an Introduction by Ernesto Livon-Grosman. Berkeley: University of California Press, February, 2005.
. Buenos Aires: Beatriz Viterbo Editora. 2003; 2nd Ed. 2004.
. Editor and author of the introductory study. New York: Roof Books, 1997.
听(Translated by Ernesto Livon-Grosman and Jorge Santiago Perednik.) Buenos Aires: Tres Haches, 1997.
听(2016): a brief film about the constructivist movement that started in Argentina and Uruguay during the mid 1940s. Through a series of interviews with Carmelo Arden Quin, one of the founders of the movement, the film touches on the principles of听MADI听and explores the relationship between word and image in Arden Quin鈥檚 work.
听(2014): this interview with the experimental Argentine film director Alberto Salom贸n听is an integral part of The Salom贸n Project dedicated to the preservation of Salom贸n鈥檚 work as a filmmaker. The project is also part of Ernesto Livon-Grosman鈥檚 larger research interest in preserving and making available the work of independent and amateur Latin American filmmakers.
听(2013):听documentary film presenting a history of political and cultural life in Argentina of the last fifty years through the eyes of one of the country's leading senior intellectuals, Miguel 叠谤补蝉肠贸 (1926-2014), poet, publisher and artist.
听(2007): a poetry performance that builds a narrative based on the abstract phonetic representation of different languages. The video extends this exploration through the interplay with found footage and navigates the moment of contact between word and image.
听(2006): a documentary about the socio-economics of trash recycling in Buenos Aires, written, directed and co-produced by Ernesto Livon-Grosman.
听(on poets听, Roberto Cignoni, Reina Maria Rodriguez, and Raul Zurita) to the visual poetry series sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania, ".
罢丑别听, a series of recordings and interviews in English and Spanish with poets from South and North America, co-produced at New York University by Ernesto Livon Grosman.
罢丑别听, conceived and curated by Ernesto Livon-Grosman, is a digitalized edition (enriched by a new critical apparatus) of the Argentinian intellectual journal,听XUL: Signo Viejo e Nuevo, published in the 1980s as a forum for both literary and political expression during the years of dictatorship.
Digital edition of the journal听, a publication dedicated to experimental writing published in Paris, France during the early 1960鈥榮. The journal, which was published and directed by the听Uruguayan artist and poet Carmelo Arden Quin, worked as a point of confluence of South American and European intellectuals interested in the intersection of writing and the visual arts. (For more information on Carmelo Arden Quin, see听)
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"." Edited by Ariana Huberman and Nora Flickman. Jewish Latin American Film. University of Texas Press, 2017.
"Inside-Outside: Nicolasito Guill茅n Landri谩n麓s Subversive Strategy in听Coffea Ar谩bi"听in听听eds. Elizabeth Papazian and Caroline Eades, Columbia University Press, 2016.
"," in听La Fuga听(online journal, Chile), special issue (Spring 2013) devoted to the Cuban poet, painter, and experimental filmmaker, Nicol谩s Guill茅n Landri谩n.
"Memorias privadas, im谩genes p煤blicas. La primera persona en dos documentales argentinos recientes,"听听8.29 (2008): 105-122 (special issue on the theme, "Entre-discursos: medios masivos, literatura y pol铆tica en la cultura latinoamericana").
鈥淔ilming Dissent Across the Atlantic: Havana Engages Paris.鈥 Guest lecture, Niagara University, Niagara, New York, March 31, 2016.
鈥淒ebord, the Tropics and the Making of the New Latin American Cinema.鈥 American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Harvard University, Cambridge, March 20, 2016.
鈥淚m谩genes residuales.鈥 Reuni贸n de Antropolog铆a del MERCOSUR, Montevideo, Uruguay, December 1, 2015.
Panel on Nicolasito Guill茅n Landri谩n鈥檚 Films, Respondent, LASA, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 29, 2015.
鈥淎rgentina鈥檚 Amateur Film and the Making of the Fifth Cinema: A Case Study.鈥 Society for Film and Media Studies, Montreal, March 27, 2015.Two panel presentations with screenings of听听and听听at听the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (), Ithaca College, April 4, 2014.
"Documentary Film," graduate seminar, University of Buenos Aires, Facultad de Medios y Comunicaciones, June 2013.
"All in the Family: Nicolasito's Other Way," John Hopkins University, Program in Latin American Studies, Baltimore, Maryland, April 4, 2013.
鈥淢apping the Americas,鈥 Dr. Milton Ellis Memorial Event, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, October 4, 2012.
鈥淟ooking Out to See In: Nicolasito Guill茅n Landri谩n鈥檚 Other Strategy,鈥 Caribbean Philosophical Association, Rutgers Univeristy, New Brunswick, September 30, 2011.
鈥淩ecent Trends in Latin American Cinema,鈥 panel co-organizer and paper presenter. Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Twenty-ninth International Congress, Toronto, Canada, October 6, 2010.
"" (see above), screening and lecture. Annual Espresso Film Festival, Vienna, Austria, August 13, 2010.
鈥,鈥 Visible Evidence: Seventeenth Annual International Conference on Documentary Film and Media, Istanbul, Turkey. August 11, 2010.
鈥Cartoneros鈥 screenings, with public lectures, of documentary film (see above) at the following venues: Aston University, Birmingham, UK, April 28, 2009;听, April 9, 2009 (annual Spring Arts and Lecture Series); University of California at Irvine, April 11, 2009 (鈥淐ultures of Democracy" series); the听听(LLILAS), University of Texas, March 24, 2009; the Embassy of Argentina, Washington, DC, as part of the 鈥,鈥 March 13, 2009;听, April 15, 2010. Program in Latin American Studies,听, April 4, 2013.
鈥Revoluci贸n y pop en en la obra de un documentalista cubano.鈥 Presented at the Onzi猫me Colloque international du CRICCAL, 16-18 octobre 2008, Paris, on the theme, "Transam茅riques: Les 茅changes culturels continentaux."