Jonathan Fleck

jonathan.fleck@rice.edu
https://rice.academia.edu/JonathanFleck
http://clic.rice.edu/people/faculty/jonathan-fleck/

Home: Work:
7600 Kirby Drive #125 Rayzor Hall 320
Houston, TX 77030 6100 Main St. MS-36
(310) 613 4240 Houston, TX 77005

EDUCATION

2016 Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin

Dissertation: Inventing Linguistic Democracy: Entanglements of Translation and
Race in Twentieth-Century Brazil
Dissertation Committee: Snia Roncador (supervisor), Ominiyi Afolabi, Lorraine
Leu, Naomi Lindstrom, Csar Salgado

2016 Portfolio in Romance Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin

Captstone project: Brazilian Literature in Digital Corpus: Variation and Change

2008 B.A. with Honors, Comparative Literature, University of Chicago

Thesis: Translation and commentary of Apariciones profanas by scar Hahn
Thesis advisors: Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, David Wray

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

2016-2017 Lecturer of Portuguese and Spanish, Rice University

Beginning Spanish 2 (five semesters)
Beginning Spanish 1
First-year Writing Seminar: Global Texts as Intercultural Communication

2013-2015 Assistant Instructor of Spanish and Portuguese, UT Austin

Portuguese for Spanish Speakers 1
Intermediate Portuguese 1
Beginning Spanish 1 (two semesters)
Accelerated Beginner Portuguese (UT Informal Classes)

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Articles
Translation, Race, and Ideology in Oriki Orix. Translation Studies and World Literature.
Spec. issue of Journal of World Literature 1.3 (September 2016): 342-356.

Negotiating Cross-Cultural Representation in Antonio Risrios Fetiche. Ometeca 22 (2016):

138-153.

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Book Chapters
Translation Studies in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory. James Mattingly, ed. New York:
Sage Publications, forthcoming 2019.

Article and Chapter Abstracts Accepted

An Alternate Historiography of Brazilian Anthropophagic Translation: the Suplemento
Dominical do Jornal do Brasil. Abstract accepted in Translation and/in Periodical
Publications. Spec. issue of TIS (Translation and Interpreting Studies). Issue in
preparation, expected publication 2019.

Salaberry, M. Rafael, Scutti-Santos, Hlade, and Jonathan Fleck. Implementing the concept of
pedagogic mediation with the use of language corpora for the teaching of Portuguese as
an L2 or L3. Abstract accepted for Linguistic Approaches to Portuguese as an
Additional Language, eds. Karina Veronica Molsing, Cristina Becker Lopes Perna, and
Ana Maria Tramunt Ibaos.

Book Reviews
TransLatin Joyce: Global Transmissions in Ibero-American Literature, by Brian L. Price, Csar
A. Salgado, John Pedro Schwartz (eds.). E3W Review of Books, 15 (2015): 4 pages.

Translation Theories Exemplified from Cicero to Pierre Bourdieu, by Ali Almanna, The Linguist
List, 26.397 (2015).

The Creolization of Theory, by Franoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih (eds), E3W Review of
Books, 13 (2013).

Unraveling the Real, by Cynthia Duncan, E3W Review of Books, 12 (2012): 9-11.

Translations
Poems from Profane Apparitions by scar Hahn, Metamorphoses, 18.1 (Spring 2010): 108-109.

Poems from Profane Apparitions by scar Hahn, Mid-American Review, XXX.1/2 (Fall
2009/Spring 2010): 202-203.

VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES

2017- Bilingual patient relations volunteer, Ben Taub Hospital, Houston

2016-2017 Spanish-English paralegal, Texas no nos vamos (Texas Here to Stay) coalition,
Austin, TX

2016- Translator, Immigrant Victim Service Program, Texas Civil Rights

Project (remote).

2016 Spanish-English consecutive interpreter, Cimarroneando/Always Rebellious A

Bilingual Poetry Reading and Talk with Georgina Herrera
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2013 Translator of promotional and catalog materials for UT Press

2013 Graduate Intern, Spanish in Texas Project <http://spanishintexas.org/>

2012-2015 Blogger, Pterodctilo Blog, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UT Austin

2012 Bilingual Reading Tutor, Boys and Girls Clubs of Austin

2011 Service Learning Volunteer, Instituto Steve Biko, Salvador, Brazil

2010 English Club Founder through Ingls abre puertas, Antofagasta, Chile

SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (PROFESSIONAL)

Adapting corpus data for guided induction in Portuguese for Spanish Speakers (with Hlade
Scutti-Santos). Encontro mundial sobre o ensino de portugus, Florida Internatioanl
University, Miami, Florida, 4-5 October 2017

Pass the Test: Literary Ideologies on the Brazilian College Admission Exam. American
Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, The University of Washington,
Seattle, WA, 26-29 March 2015

Interruptive SER in Brazilian Portuguese: Facts and Fictions. South Central Modern
Language Association Annual Conference, Austin Downtown Radisson, Austin, TX,18-
22 October 2014

Na Minha Fala: Negotiating Linguistic Capital in Macunama and in The Little Grammar
Book of Brazilian Speech. American Comparative Literature Association Annual
Conference, New York University, New York, NY, 20-23 March 2014

Contrapuntal Identities in Elisa Lispectors No Exlio. Latin American Jewish Studies

Association International Research Conference, hosted by the Schusterman Center for
Jewish Studies at UT Austin, Austin, TX, 911 June 2013

INVITED TALKS

Using the same authentic material to teach different linguistic topics and design different class
activities (with Christina Giliberti). Summer Workshop for L2 Teachers, Center for
Languages and Intercultural Communication, Rice University. May 6, 2017 Video
available at: <http://clicmaterials.rice.edu/2017/07/07/using-the-same-authentic-data-to-
teach-different-linguistic-aspects/>

Using Corpus Data in a Portuguese for Spanish Speakers Course (with Hlade Santos). Center
for Languages and Intercultural Communication Pedagogical Forum, Rice University.
February 24, 2017.
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Gilberto Freyre. Snia Roncadors Intro to literature and culture (Portuguese), UT Austin.
2015.

Translation Theory. Theory roundtable at the Comparative Literature Graduate Conference,

UT Austin. September 26, 2014.

SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY

2017 Organizing Committee. VI Encontro Mundial sobre o Ensino de Portugus & I

Simpsio de Portugus Lngua se Herana (VI World Conference of Teaching of
Portuguese & I Symposium of Portuguese as Heritage Language), Florida
International University, 4-5 August 2017.

2017- Co-representative for the South Central region of the American Organization of
Teachers of Portuguese <http://www.aotpsite.net>

2017 Coordinated five lecturers in 6 sections of second-semester Spanish at Rice.

2016-2017 Search Committee for Lecturer in Spanish, Center for Languages and Intercultural
Communication, Rice University

2016 Piloted Rice Universitys IDEA Course Evaluation Tool

2015 President, Graduate Association of Comparative Literature Students, UT Austin

2013-2014 Student Representative, Comparative Literature Faculty Committee, UT Austin

2012 Secretary, Graduate Association of Comparative Literature Students, UT Austin

2012 Student Representative, Comparative Literature Planning Committee, UT Austin

2011-2014 Conference Committee Volunteer, Graduate Association of Comparative

Literature Students, UT Austin

STUDENT OUTREACH AND MENTORSHIP

2017- Faculty Associate Mentor, Rice University Freshman Orientation Week

2017 - College Associate, Lovett Residential College, Rice University

2017 Judge of humanities projects, Undergraduate Research Symposium, Rice

University
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2016-2017 Portuguese Table Co-director, Lovett Residential College, Rice University

2016-2017 Prospective and first-year student outreach for Portuguese at Rice OWL days and
Freshman Academic Fair, Rice University

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

2017 Medical Interpreter Certificate Program, UT Austin Professional

Education. 40 hours

2017 Outreach intepreting workshop (medical, legal, and education), Antena

Houston. 18 hours

2017 Communication Pedagogy Seminar with the Program in Writing and

Communication, Rice University. 20 hours

2016-2017 Conversation Analysis and Interactional Competence workshops with post-

doctoral scholars, CLIC, Rice University

2016 Summer Workshops for L2 Teachers, CLIC, Rice University.

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2015-2016 Comparative Literature Graduate Excellence Fellowship, Graduate School, UT

Austin. $30,000. Dissertation support and tuition.

2015-2016 Continuing Bruton Fellowship, Graduate School, UT Austin. $1,000.

Supplemental graduate support.

2015 Tinker Field Research Grant, Teresa Lozano Long Institute for Latin American
Studies, UT Austin. $3,000. Archival research in So Paulo.

2015 Summer Dissertation Grant, College of Liberal Arts, UT Austin. $6,000.

2015 Institute of World Literature Grant, Program in Comparative Literature, UT
Austin. $2,000. Travel, lodging, and expenses in Lisbon.

2013 Tinker Field Research Grant, Teresa Lozano Long Institute for Latin American
Studies, UT Austin. $3,000. Research in Rio de Janeiro and Paraty.

2012-2013 FLAS Scholarship, Teresa Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies, UT
Austin. Tuition + $15,000. Portuguese language and Brazil area studies.

2012 Summer Coursework Grant, Program in Comparative Literature, UT Austin.

$1,300. French language study.
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2011 Summer Research Award, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UT Austin.

$2,000. Study abroad costs for Salvador, Brazil.

2011 International Education Fee Scholarship, International Office, UT Austin. $1,800.

University-wide competition for supplemental study-abroad costs.

2011-2016 Professional Development Awards, Graduate School, UT Austin. $250.

RESEARCH AND EXPERIENCE ABROAD

2015 Lisbon, Portugal (summer): participation in seminars and affinity group at the
annual meeting of the Institute for World Literature at the University of Lisbon

2015 So Paulo, Brazil (summer): archival work in the Haroldo de Campos collection
at the Espao Haroldo de Campos; participation in literary events at the Casa das
Rosas cultural center

2013 Rio de Janeiro and Paraty, Brazil (summer): poetry readings in Rio de Janeiro;
attendance at the Festa Literria Internacional de Paraty in Paraty

2011 Salvador, Brazil (summer): language and culture courses at the Associao
Cultural Brasil-Estados Unidos; service-learning at the Instituto Steve Biko

2009 Antofagasta, Chile (academic year): Middle and high-school English teacher
through the Ingls abre puertas program (Ministry of Education)

LANGUAGES

English Native Speaker

Spanish Reading: Fluent Writing: Fluent Speaking: Fluent
Portuguese Reading: Fluent Writing: Fluent Speaking: Fluent
French Reading: Excellent Writing: Intermediate Speaking: Conversational