EDUCATION

September 2018 - October 2022

PH.D. IN LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE WITH A SPECIALIZATION IN BOOK HISTORY AND PRINT CULTURE, UNIVERISTY OF TORONTO

2017 - 2018

MASTER OF ARTS, LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

2004 - 2011

BACHELOR OF ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF BUENOS AIRES

2004 - 2010

TEACHING DEGREE IN SPANISH AND LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY OF BUENOS AIRES

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Fall 2021 - Fall 2023

Beginner Spanish (SPA 100Y), University of Toronto, St. George

COURSE INSTRUCTOR

Winter 2021

Introduction to Hispanic Literary Studies (SPA 258H), University of Toronto, St. George

COURSE INSTRUCTOR

Fall 2020 - Spring 2021

Intermediate Spanish (SPA 220Y), University of Toronto, St. George

COURSE INSTRUCTOR

Fall 2017 - Winter 2020

TEACHING ASSISTANT

Beginner Spanish (SPA 100Y); Intermediate Spanish (SPA 220Y); Advanced Spanish (SPA 320Y) at University of Toronto, St. George and Spanish Summer Abroad, Seville, Spain

PUBLICATIONS

Peer Reviewed

Soifer, A. (2022) Under the Shadow of Catastrophe: New Millennium Argentinian Dystopic Science-Fiction. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 32.3 (2021): 325-348

Soifer, A. (2022) El mandato de parecerse a una cara: desertificación y reconstrucción en El desierto y su semilla de Jorge Barón Biza [The Mandate of Looking Like a Face: Desertification and Reconstruction in El desierto y su semilla by Jorge Baron Biza]. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. 44.2 (Invierno 2020): 509-526

Soifer, A. (July 2021) Necromercados en la narconovela argentina: Rojo sangre de Rafael Bielsa y Cruz de Nicolás Ferraro [Necromarkets in Argentinian narconovel: Rojo sangre by Rafael Bielsa and Cruz by Nicolás Ferraro]. Agradecidas señas, University of Texas.

Soifer, A. (2019) Una economía de la crueldad: Estado, organizaciones sociales marginales y necromercado en Trabajos del reino y La transmigración de los cuerpos de Yuri Herrera [An Economy of Cruelty: State, marginal social organizations and necromarket in Trabajos del reino and La transmigración de los cuerpos by Yuri Herrera]. Latin American Literary Review, 46 (92): 34-43

SELECTED CONFERENCE ACTIVITY

Refereed Presentations

Soifer, A. (27 May, 2021) Bajo la sombra de la catástrofe: ciencia ficción argentina del siglo XXI [Under the Shadow of Catastrophe: Argentinian Science Fiction from the XXIth Century]. LASA 2021 Crisis Global Desigualdades y centralidad de la vida.

Soifer, A. (9 Oct, 2020) Mercado y comercio tanatofílico en la narconovela argentina [Market and Thanatophilic Commerce in Argentinian Narconovela]. Congreso Internacional “Narcotransmisiones globales”. Facultad de Letras de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Soifer, A. (2019, June) Rojo sangre de Rafael Bielsa y el origen de la narconovela argentina [Bloody Red by Rafael Bielsa and the Origin of Argentinian Narconovel]. LV Congreso de la Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas, University of British Columbia. Vancouver, Canada.

Soifer, A. (9 May, 2019) Las femmes fatales en la narconovela mexicana [Femmes Fatales in Mexican Narconovels]. XV Congreso de Novela y Cine Negro de Salamanca. University of Salamanca. Salamanca, Spain.

SELECTED GUEST LECTURES

Soifer, A. (6 December 2019) Policial Latinoamericano [Latin American Crime Fiction], Guest Lecture at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Zacatecas City, Mexico.

Soifer, A. (5 December 2019) Ciencia Ficción Argentina, [Argentinian Science Fiction], Guest Lecture at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Zacatecas City, Mexico.

Soifer, A. (22 May 2019) Yuri Herrera: The Redeemer, public interview to Mexican writer Yuri Herrera, Toronto Public Library (Reference Library), Toronto, Canada.

Soifer, A. (8 May 2016) La fantasía del imperio: Star Wars, la construcción de un imaginario [The Fantasy of an Empire: Star Wars and the Making of an Imaginarium]. Presentation at the III Encuentro Internacional de Literatura Fantástica. Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Soifer, A. (31 July 2015) Puta, víctima o traidora: la mujer en el policial [Whore, Victim or Traitor: Women in Noir]. Presentation at Buenos Aires Negra (BAN!) Literary Festival. Buenos Aires, Argentina.

SCHOLARSHIPS, HONOURS AND AWARDS

2021

Joseph Gulsoy Dissertation Scholarship

2021

Ontario Graduate Scholarship (International)

2020

Graduate Research Development Award

2020

Friends of A&S Graduate Award

2019

Mary H. Beatty Fellowship

2019

Department of Spanish and Portuguese Travel Grant Award

2018

SGS Conference Travel Grant

2018

GEF Award

2017

Admission Award