BRIEF CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. Candidate in Spanish, University of Toronto (2022–Exp. 2026)

• Dissertation: Present Seventies: Thematic and Formal Return of the 1970s in Contemporary Latin American Cultural Production.

• Collaborative Specialization in Book History and Print Culture 

Master of Arts in Spanish, University of Toronto (2021–2022)

Bachelor of Arts (Licenciatura) in Literature, Universidad de las Américas Puebla (2015 - 2020)

PUBLICATIONS:

Para leer la eugenesia en América Latina. Susan Antebi y Beatriz Miranda Galarza, Comps. Rodrigo Lichtle Ventosa y Kristina Stajic, translators and co-editors. 17, Editorial, México.

---. “La auto-publicación: Ventajas para autores y lectores hispanos”. Entorno, vol. 2, April 2017, pp. 8–19.

PRESENTATIONS:

Lichtle Ventosa, Rodrigo. “Mirada activa en La estatua de sal de Salvador Novo”. MexicanEast. Cornell University. September 2024.

----. “Violencia lúdica en Óptica sanguínea (2014), de Daniela Bojórquez Vértiz, y Restauración (2019), de Ave Barrera”. XXVIII Congreso Anual de Mexicanistas Juan Bruce-Novoa. University of California, Irvine. April 2024.

----. “La Cleta Cartonera: Limits and Potentialities of the Expendable in Puebla’s Publishing Market”. 2024 BHPC Student Colloquium. University of Toronto. March 2024.

----. “Espacios y temporalidades inescapables: La compañía, de Verónica Gerber Bicecci, y La tierra y la sombra, dirigida por César Augusto Acevedo”. XLIV Congreso Internacional del IILI. The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. July 2023.

SCHOLARSHIPS:

Beca de Posgrado en el Extranjero, CONAHCYT (2023)

Winter Conference Grant (2023)

Joseph Gulsoy Doctoral Entrance Scholarship (2022)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

Research Assistant to Prof. Susan Antebi, Professional Development for Graduate Students in Spanish (2024-2025)

Research Assistant to Prof. Susan Antebi, Eugenics legacies in Mexico and the Americas (2021-2024)

Research project with Prof. Gabriel Wolfson, UDLAP (2020-2021)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Course Instructor, Beginner Spanish I & II, University of Toronto (2024-2025)

Invited Speaker, Spanish Literature 489 (Prof. Susan Antebi), University of Toronto (2023)

Teaching Assistant, Beginner & Intermediate Spanish, University of Toronto (2021-2024)

OTHER EXPERIENCE:

ACTFL Workshop, University of Toronto (2023)

Teaching Assistants’ Training Program, University of Toronto (2021-2022)

Manuscript evaluator, Penguin Random House (2019-2021)

Intern, Dharma Books + Publishing (June-August 2019)