2149 Lake Village DR
Kingwood TX 77339
USA

CONTACTO
Tel: (832) 293-7069
retamales.jaime@gmail.com

EDUCATION
2011 Ph.D. In Spanish Literature, University of Houston, Houston, TX.

2003 Master of Arts, Spanish Linguistics, University of Houston, Houston, TX.

1997 Post-graduate Certificate in Education, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica, Chile.
Bachelor of Arts, Spanish, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica, Chile.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2012 – Present Head Teacher, South West Key, Houston, TX
Teaching all subject to detained children in a shelter.

Spanish Instructor, Lone Star – Montgomery College, Conroe, TX
Teaching beginning and intermediate Spanish

2009- 2010 Spanish Instructor, Art Institute of Houston, Houston, TX
Teaching beginning and intermediate Spanish

Spanish Instructor, Lone Star – Montgomery College, Conroe, TX
Teaching beginning and intermediate Spanish

2008-2009 Spanish Instructor, Art Institute of Houston, Houston, TX
Taught beginning and intermediate Spanish.

Spanish Instructor, Montgomery College, Conroe, TX
Taught beginning and intermediate Spanish

Researcher, “Recuperation of Spanish Literature in the U.S.,” Arte Público Press and the University of Houston, Houston, TX.

2007-2008 Teaching Fellow, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, University of Houston, Houston, TX.

2006-2007 Faculty, Universidad Tecnológica, Arica, Chile. Duties included teaching oral
and written communication to engineering students; representing humanities department in special task force charged with increasing reading strategies among student body.

2006-2007 Faculty, Universidad del Mar, Arica, Chile. Taught linguistics and Spanish
written and oral communication to university students.

2003-2005 Supervisor and Coordinator of Spanish Teaching Assistants, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, University of Houston, Houston, TX.

2004-2005 Spanish Instructor, Language Department, Houston Baptist University, Houston, TX. Taught beginning, intermediate and advanced Spanish to undergraduates.

2003 Researcher, “Recuperation of Spanish Literature in the U.S.,” Arte Público Press and the University of Houston, Houston, TX.

2001-2002 Spanish Instructor, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, University of Houston, Houston, TX. Taught second-year beginning Spanish.

1997 Eighth Grade Head Teacher, Baldomero Lillo High School, Arica, Chile.

1996 Student Teaching Practicum, San Marcos High School, Arica, Chile.

PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES

“La importancia del viaje para las estructuras de las novelas de inmigración y exilio escritas en la primera mitad del siglo XX” The Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Conference, Houston, TX, November 2008.

“Nostalgia, desengaño y paraíso perdido en las obras de exiliados retornados” 17 th Colloquium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Linguistics, Austin, Texas, November 2008.

“El intelectual en el exilio: Dos visiones. Comparación entre los intelectuales latinoamericanos exiliados con los españoles” Céfiro’s 09th Annual Conference, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, April 2008.

“Habilidades Linguísticas Orales,” Summer School Lecture Series, Universidad del Mar, Arica,
Chile, February 2007.

“Diferencias entre un Periódico Local y Uno de la Capital,” Mid-Winter Lecture Series,
Universidad del Mar, Arica, Chile, August 2006.

“La influencia de la novela negra en la narrativa del crack: Estudio de
dos novelas de Jorge Volpi,” 15th Colloquium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literature and Romance Linguistics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, April 2005.

“El Inmigrante frente a la Ciudad,” Congress of Multiethnic Literature, MELUS (Society for the Study of the Multiethnic Literature of the U.S.), University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, March 2004.

"El Narcocorrido: Una Evolución del Corrido Fronterizo?” II Congreso Internacional
de Literatura Hispánica, , Lima, Peru, March 2003.

PUBLICATIONS

“Reconstruyendo la historia de una derrota: Literatura chilena del exilio”. Doctoral dissertation, University of Houston, Houston, TX, 2011.

“ ¿Por qué estamos aquí?.” Instructional textbook about immigration’s right for children in detention. The children are under Office of Refuge Resettlement (ORR). Published by VERA Institute of Justice and Catholic Charities, Houston, TX, 2011.

“The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latino Literature.” (Collaboration) Edited by Nicolás Kanellos. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 2008.

“Helados a Cien,” Lineas desde el Golfo, Bravo y Allende, Santiago, Chile, and La Casa,
Houston, Texas, 2005.

“Globalización del Narcotráfico, Narcocultura y Narcocorrido.” Study focusing on how the
traffic of drugs in Mexico has influenced cultural production. Article found in “Estudios
Culturales y Cuestiones Globales,” compiled by Catalina Castillión, Cristian Santibañez, and
Mark Zimmerman. Edited by La Casa, Houston, TX, 2004.

“CATAM: Experiencia y Vida” Volumes I and II. Compilation of life stories of senior citizens of the Hogar de Cristo, Arica, Chile. Published by FOSIS, Arica, Chile, 1998 and 1999.