Luis Valenzuela Rios Ph.D.
Faculty & Video Education Department Manager
Center for College Access and Success
Northeastern Illinois University
770 N. Halsted, Chicago, IL 60642-5972
Phone: (312) 563-7229
www.centerforcollegeaccessandsuccess.org

2934 N. Lowell Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
773-283-2343 (home), 773-870-0357 (cell)
l-valenzuela1@neiu.edu


TEACHING EXPERIENCE
College Level:
Instructor
Puerto Rican Literature (SPAN 352)
World Languages and Cultures Department, Northeastern Illinois University, Spring 2017.
This course offers a panoramic view of Puerto Rican literature, from its origins, to the literary expressions pertaining to the Latin American Avant-Garde Movement. The principal literary movements of Puerto Rican literature will be studied and analyzed, through its history, in various literary genres.
Capstone Seminar: José Martí
World Languages and Cultures Department, Northeastern Illinois University, Spring 2016.
Taught a critical study of the life and work of the Cuban poet, essayist and political philosopher José Martí (1853-1895), the Capstone Seminar for that semester.
Generaciones del 98 y del 27 española
Languages, Literature and Humanities Department, Saint Augustine College, Chicago, Spring 2015.
Taught advanced level students the principal characteristics of both Hispanic American Modernism and the Latin American Vanguard, and required intensive research exploring comparisons between the two movements.
Advanced Composition
Languages, Literature and Humanities Department, Saint Augustine College, Chicago, Fall 2012.
Taught the basic principles of Spanish language composition, based on a survey of Hispano-American literature from Iberian Baroque to Latin American Romanticism.
High School:
Teaching Artist, Arts Integration Units.
Developed arts units based on science, history, social science, language and culture in collaboration with the classroom teacher.
Antarctica Expedition to teach Antarctic climate, geological past, food web and wildlife, ozone hole and global warming. Chicago Public Schools, 2001.
Alternative Education Teaching Experience:
Digital Media Instructor, Centro Cultural Pro Música, Brazil, 1991.
Alternative Communication Techniques, Archdiocese of Montes Claros, Brazil, 1990.
Photography Instructor, ICI, Panama, (1984-1988).

ADDITIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE
Video Education Department Manager, Center for College Access and Success, NEIU (1999 to present).
Consular Agent, General Consulate of Mexico, Chicago, 1996-1999.
Executive Director, Comité Latino, Chicago, 1995-1996.
Press Attaché, Methodist University of Piracicaba, Brazil (UNIMEP), 1993-1994.

EDUCATION
Ph.D. Center for Advanced Studies on Puerto Rico and the Caribbean
Caribbean Literature Program, Advisor: Ramón Luis Acevedo, Ph.D.
Committee: Nívea de Lourdes Torres Hernández, Ph.D., Miguel Ángel Náter, Ph.D.
Thesis: “Lo neobarroco en la estética de los poemas Las huríes blancas (1886) y Ecos del siglo (1892) de José de Jesús Domínguez”, 2013 to present.
M.A. Northeastern Illinois University, IL
Latin American Literatures and Cultures, 2011.
B.A. Northeastern Illinois University, IL, 2004.
Jesuit Seminar, Panama
Theology, 1978-1981.

MEMBERSHIPS
NALIP (National Association of Latino Independent Producers), 2013.
Sociedad Nacional Honoraria Hispánica, Sigma Delta Pi, 2011.

SKILLS
Fluent in Spanish, English and Portuguese.
Experienced in effective classroom instruction using Popular Education methodologies utilized in Panamá, El Salvador, Brazil and the United States.

FILMS- Wrote and directed independent films:
“Alquimia” (2005)
“Pecado Menor” (2006)
“Radio Increíble” (2007)
“Congelado en el Tiempo” (2008)
Founder and Executive Director: Chicago Independent Film Festival (2010-2013).

PUBLICATIONS
- Macunaíma, anti-héroe latinoamericano. “Revista Consenso”, Chicago: NEIU, N˚4, 2016.
- Poesía de Beatriz Badikián. “Revista Consenso”, Chicago: NEIU, N˚1, 2010.
Cultural Magazine “Gerais de Minas”, Brazil (Editor), 1992.
- Sport Photography, Journal Clube Motor, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1990.
- “Fotografía en blanco y negro”, ICI, Panamá, 1985.

INTERVIEWS
“La independencia del séptimo arte”, N° 76, Revista contratiempo, 2010.
“Cuando la fotografía es un arte en el lente de Luis Valenzuela”, La Prensa, Panamá, 1987.
“Exercício de resgate cultural”, Tribuna da Tarde, Brasil, 1991.