Ignacio López-Calvo, Ph.D.
lopezcalvo@msn.com
http://faculty1.ucmerced.edu/ilopez-calvo/
Education
Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1997
Major: Romance Languages (Latin American Literature)
Minor: French and Caribbean Francophone Literature
M.A., University of Georgia, 1993
Major: Spanish
M.A., California State University, Los Angeles, 2005
Major: Chicano Studies
B.A., Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, 1991
Major: English
Professional Appointments
Selected Honors / Awards / Fellowships
Editor
Publications
Books
Edited Volumes
Articles and Book Chapters
Interviews
“The State of Interdisciplinarity in Hispanic Studies Journals.” Collaborative Invited Interview with Journal Editors. Arizona
Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 18 (2014): 35-80
Conference Proceedings
Encyclopedia and Biographical Dictionary Entries
Book Reviews
Blurbs and Endorsements
Prologues
Translations
Selected Creative Works
Book of Poetry
Poetry in Anthologies
Keynote Speaker at Conferences
Selected Invited Lectures
Selected Conference Presentations
Works in Progress
Teaching Experience
Selected Graduate Courses
Orientalisms and Modernity Cultural Studies: Race and Gender
Contemporary Literary Theory Critical Theory and Film
Feminist Critical Theory Latin Am. and Latino Cultural Studies
Cuban Exile Narratives Novel of the Latin American Dictator
Southern Cone Narrative Latin Am. Boom
Contemporary Latin Am. Prose Latin Am. Short Story
Latin Am. Avant-Garde Poetry Latin Am. Modernismo
Nation and Identity in the Latin American Novel
Sexuality, Gender and Nation in Latin Am. Novel
Mestizaje in the Works by Caribbean Women Writers
The Fantastic, Magical Realism, Historical Novel and Testimonio
Theories and Methods in the Studies of Cultures
Postcolonial Studies and the Decolonial Project
Selected Undergraduate Courses
Lat. Am. Boom Narrative World of Vargas Llosa
Caribbean Novel and Testimonials Novel of the Latin Am. Dictator
Novel of the Trujillato Lat. Am. Short Story
Colonial Latin Am. Literature Readings in Hispanic Literature
Latin Am. Literature Survey II Latin Am. Literature Survey I
Intro. to Literary Analysis Latin Am. Culture and Civilization
Spanish Culture and Civilization Narrative World of García Márquez
Rubén Darío and Latin American Modernismo Generation of 1898
Engaging Texts: Introduction to Critical Practice
Mestizaje in the Works by Caribbean Women Writers
Intro. to Hispanic Lit., Medieval-18th Century
Selected Professional Memberships and Offices
Modern Language Assoc. Lat. Am. Studies Assoc
Latin Am. Jewish Studies Assoc. Asoc. de Lit. Femenina Hispánica
Instituto Intl. de Lit. Iberoamericana Instituto Lit. y Cultural Hispánico
American Assoc. of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
Co-President of Pacific Coast Council on Latin Am. Studies
Language Proficiency
Spanish: Native English: Near-native
French: Fluent Italian, Portuguese: Reading and understanding knowledge
Selected Academic Service
Selected Professional Activities
lopezcalvo@msn.com
http://faculty1.ucmerced.edu/ilopez-calvo/
Education
Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1997
Major: Romance Languages (Latin American Literature)
Minor: French and Caribbean Francophone Literature
M.A., University of Georgia, 1993
Major: Spanish
M.A., California State University, Los Angeles, 2005
Major: Chicano Studies
B.A., Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, 1991
Major: English
Professional Appointments
- University of California, Merced, Full Professor, Step V, 2008-Present
- Director of the UC Merced Center for the Humanities 2015-Present
- History and World Cultures Unit Chair. 2014-Present
- Chair of the Merced Division of the Academic Senate. 2013-2014
- Vice-Chair of the Merced Division of the Academic Senate. 2012-2013
- World Cultures Graduate Group Chair. 2008-2011
- Faculty Chair of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts. 2010-2011
- University of North Texas, Associate Professor. 2005-2008
- California State University, Los Angeles, Associate Professor. 2003-2005
- California State University, Los Angeles, Assistant Professor. 1997-2003
Selected Honors / Awards / Fellowships
- 2015 International Latino Book Award finalist in the non-fiction category, for Dragons in the Land of the Condor: Writing Tusán in Peru
- Japan Studies Association’s Freeman Foundation Summer Institute on Japan. Honolulu, Hawaii. May 18 - June 6, 2014
- 2012 International Latino Book Award, 2nd Place, and Choice Magazine’s annual Outstanding Academic Title list (Jan. 2012), for Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction (2011)
- Academic Senate Award for Distinction in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring, 2010-2011. ($1000)
- National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar. Brazilian Literature: Contemporary Urban Fiction. São Paulo, Brazil. July 5-30, 2010. ($3300)
- Scholar grant, Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange to carry out research in Peru. Jan. 1, 2009-Apr. 31-2010. ($10,000)
- Travel grant, Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange to read a paper at a conference in Macau, China. Spring 2007 ($1000)
- Humanities Texas grant (matched by UNT) to pay the keynote speaker at a conference on Orientalisms that I organized on Apr. 21-22, 2006. ($1000)
- National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Research Award, to write ‘Trujillo and God’: Literary Representations of the Dominican Dictator. 2002-2003. ($24,000)
- E. Bradford Burns and Hubert Herring Award, for best article at PCCLA Conference (1999): “El pensamiento de Paulo Freire en Un día en la vida de Manlio Argueta.”
Editor
- Co-executive director of Palgrave Macmillan Book Series “Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia”
- Co-founder and co-executive director of Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World
- Member of the editorial boards of Rocky Mountain Review, Chasqui, Journal of History, Literature, Science and Technology, Alba de América, Cuadernos de ALDEEU, Proyecto Ensayo Hispánico, L’Érudit franco-espagnol, Ventana Abierta, Magazine Modernista, Desde el Sur (Peru), Revista Iberoamericana (Korea), Global World Literature (Korea), Series “In Extenso, Serie Creación” (U P of the U. Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Mexico), Revista Azul (Siglo XXI) (Mexico), Proyecto Argus-a (Argentina), and Migraciones. Revista sobre la identidad cultural de las Américas (Venezuela)
- Reviewed manuscripts of articles and books for PMLA, Revista Iberoamericana, MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, A Contracorriente, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Letras Hispanas, Latino Studies, Comparative Literature, Estudios del Caribe /Caribbean Studies (Puerto Rico), Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos (Canada), Verge: Studies in Global Asias, The Journal of American History, Amerasia Journal (UCLA Asian American Studies Center), Journal of Transnational American Studies (JTAS), Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, History: Reviews of New Books, Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, Bulletin of Latin American Research (UK), Bulletin of Spanish Studies (UK), Magriberia (Morocco), Temas Antropológicos (Mexico), U P of Florida, Palgrave Macmillan P., U of Pittsburgh P, and Temple U P
Publications
Books
- Saudades of Japan and Brazil: Contested Modernities in Lusophone Nikkei Cultural Production. UP of Colorado (Forthcoming)
- Dragons in the Land of the Condor: Writing Tusán in Peru. U of Arizona P; 2014. 243 p.
- The Affinity of the Eye: Writing Nikkei in Peru. U of Arizona P, 2013. 262 p.
- Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction: The Cultural Production of Social Anxiety. U of Arizona P, 2011. 264 p.
- Imaging the Chinese in Cuban Literature and Culture. UP of Florida, 2008. 256 p.
- “God and Trujillo”: Literary and Cultural Representations of the Dominican Dictator. U P of Florida, 2005. 232 p.
- Religión y militarismo en la obra de Marcos Aguinis 1963-2000. Mellen P, 2002. 309 p.
- Written in Exile: Chilean Fiction from 1973-Present. Routledge, 2001. 197 p.
Edited Volumes
- Latinx Writing Los Angeles: Nonfiction Dispatches from a Decolonial Rebellion Co-edited with Victor Valle (U of Nebraska P., forthcoming April 2018)
- Humanities and Post-Truth in the Information Age. Co-edited with Christina Lux. (Northwestern UP, forthcoming December 2018)
- Critical Insights: Contemporary Latin American Fiction. Salem Press, 2017
- The Humanities in a World Upside-Down. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017
- Critical Insights: Roberto Bolaño. Salem Press (Forthcoming, 2016)
- Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star: Critical Essays. Palgrave Macmillan Publishing, 2015.
- Critical Insights: Magical Realism. Salem Press, 2014.
- Peripheral Transmodernities: South-to-South Dialogues between the Luso-Hispanic World and “the Orient.” Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. 332 p.
- One World Periphery Reads the Other: Knowing the “Oriental” in the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. 405 p.
- Caminos para la paz: literatura israelí y árabe en castellano. Co-editors Ignacio López-Calvo and Cristián Ricci. Corregidor, 2007. In its second edition. 317 p.
- Alternative Orientalisms in Latin America and Beyond. Ed. Ignacio López-Calvo. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. 345 p.
- From the Macro to the Micro: Latin American Studies in a Global and Local Context. Vol. 17 of the Proceedings of PCCLAS Conference. 1999. Ignacio López- Calvo, Enrique Ochoa, and Pete Sigal, co-editors
- Building Bridges =Construyendo Puentes. Vol. 18 of the Proceedings of PCCLASConference 2001. Ignacio López-Calvo, Stephen E Lewis, Kristyna P. Demaree, Enrique Ochoa, and Pete Sigal, co-editors
Articles and Book Chapters
- “Magical Realism and the ‘Boom’ of the Latin American Novel.” Critical Concepts: Magical Realism. Ed. Kim Sasser and Chris Warnes. Cambridge University Press. (Forthcoming)
- “Asian religiosity in Latin American literature.” Internatiinal Journal of Latin American Religions. Special Issue: "Non-Christian traditional religions in Latin America.” (Forthcoming. A shorter version of this essay was previously published under the title Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions. Ed. Henri Gooren. Springer Publishing House, 2015. Web)
- “La crítica del campo literario y la política cultural como diagnóstico nacional en El miedo a los animales, de Enrique Serna.” Ironía y transgresión: El bisturí satírico de Enrique Serna. Ed. Martín Camps. UNAM. (forthcoming)
- “Exoticization, Mestiçagem, and Brazilian national consciousness in Carlos Diegues’s Quilombo.” Celluloid Chains. Ed. Rudyard Alcocer. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press (forthcoming)
- “El discurso y la producción nikkei en Brasil: epistemicidio, desentificación y temporalidad dividida.” Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana (Forthcoming)
- “Kate Braverman’s Palm Latitudes: A Pioneering Novel about the Chicano Barrio.” Ventana abierta (Forthcoming)
- “Worlding and Decolonizing the Literary World-System: Asian-Latin American Literature as an Alternative Type of Weltliteratur.” Re-Mapping World Literature. Writing, Book Markets, and Epistemologies between Latin America and the Global South. Ed. Gesine Müller, Jorge J. Locane and Benjamin Loy. Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2018. (Forthcoming)
- “World Literature and the Marketing of Roberto Bolaño’s Posthumous Works.” Critical Insights: Contemporary Latin American Fiction. Ed. Ignacio López-Calvo. Salem Press, 2017
- “Constructing an Ethnic Space through Cultural Production: The Case of the Tusan and Nikkei in Peru.” Le comparatisme comme approche critique. Local et mondial : Circulations / Comparative Literature as a Critical Approach. Local and Global: Circulations. Vol. 5 Ed. Anne Tomiche. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2017. 269-78
- “Translation, Unreliable Narrators, and the Comical Use of (Pseudo-)Magical Realism in Of Love and Other Demons.” Gabriel García Márquez in
Retrospect. Ed. Gene Bell-Villada. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2016. 183-94 - “Cultural Celebration, Historical Memory, and Claim to Place in Júlio Miyazawa’s Yawara! A Travessia Nihondin-Brasil and Uma Rosa para Yumi.” Imagining Asian in the Americas. Ed. Zelideth Maria Rivas and Debbie Lee-DiStefano. New Brunswick, New Jersey and London: Rutgers UP, 2016. 158-83.
- “Resistance and the Limits of National Belonging in Júlio Miyazawa’s Yawara! A Travessia Nihondin-Brasil.” Imagining Asian in the Americas. Ed. Zelideth Maria Rivas and Debbie Lee-DiStefano. Rutgers University Press, 2016. Print
- “Why didn’t Amberes Embarrass Roberto Bolaño? The Reification of Anti-Realism and an Interest in Disinterestedness.” Critical Insights: Roberto Bolaño. Ed. Ignacio López-Calvo. Hackensack, NJ. Salem Press, 2015. 189-206. Print
- “Roberto Bolaño’s Flower War: Memory, Melancholy, and Pierre Menard.” Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star: Critical Essays. Ed. Ignacio López-Calvo. Palgrave Macmillan Publishing, 2015. 35-64. Print
- “The Shadow of Magical Realism in José Luis Cuerda’s 1980s films.” Critical Insights: Magical Realism. Ipswich, Massachusetts: Salem Press, 2014. 193-210. Print (A Spanish-language version of this essay is forthcoming in Desde el Sur)
- “Colonialism as a Smoke Screen: Anti-Nationalist Discourse in Vargas Llosa’s El sueño del celta.” Critical Insights. Mario Vargas Llosa. Ed. Juan de Castro. Ipswich, Massachusetts: Salem Press, 2014. 188-200. Print
- “Julio Villanueva Chang’s Revival of the Crónica and the Profile: A Neo-Conceptista in the Twenty-First Century.” Altertexto 3 (2013): 2-15. A Spanish version of this essay was published in Desde el Sur 6.1 (Nov. 2013): 11-30
- “Refugiados y Asalto al Paraíso de Marcos Aguinis: apropiaciones y reapropiaciones del discurso palestino.” A Contracorriente 11.1 (2013): 170-90
- “The Death of the Author through False Translation in Mario Bellatin’s Orientalised Japan.” Bulletin of Latin American Research 32.3 (2013): 339–53. A Spanish-language translation of this paper will be published in Extremo Occidente y Extremo Oriente Herencias asiáticas en la América hispánica y huellas americanas en el Extremo Oriente. Ed. Axel Gasquet and Georges Lomné. Lima: IFEA-PUCP, 2015
- “Junot Díaz.” The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel. Bolaño and After. Ed. Will H. Corral, Nicholas Birns, and Juan de Castro. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. 406-10
- “El sexto and the grotesque body: The Japanese character at the boundaries of national belonging.” Chasqui 41.1 (Nov. 2012): 137-46 - Spanish version: “El cuerpo grotesco en El sexto de José María Arguedas y el personaje japonés en las fronteras del proyecto nacional” Desde el sur 4.1 (2013): 11-26
- “Latin America and the Caribbean in a Sinophone Studies Reader?” Sinophone Studies. A Critical Reader. Ed. Shu-mei Shih, Chien-hsin Tsai, and Brian Bernards. Irvington, New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. 409-24
- “Asian-Peruvian Literature.” Oxford Bibliographies in Latin American Studies. Ed. Ben Vinson. NY: Oxford U P, 2012
- “Obama’s autobiographical writing, critical race theory, and the racializing gaze.” Critical Essays on Barack Obama: Re-affirming the Hope, Re-vitalizing the Dream. Ed. Melvin Rahming. Newcastle, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. 57-82
- “Cardi’s El American Way of Death: factography and the Cuban detective novel as Cold War ideology.” Global Cold War Literatures: Western, Eastern and Postcolonial Perspectives. Ed. Andrew N. Hammond. London: Routledge, 2012. 30-42
- “El lenguaje en Gods Go Begging, de Alfredo Véa.” Ventana abierta 9.31 (Fall 2011): 30-33
- “Roberto de las Carreras’s ‘Al lector’: anxiety of influence and interest in disinterestedness.” Journal of Hispanic Modernism 1 (2010): 57-66
- “Going Native: Indigenism as Ideological Fiction in Vargas Llosa’s The Storyteller and Death in the Andes.” Vargas Llosa and Latin American Politics. Ed. Juan de Castro and Nicholas Birns. NY: Palgrave, 2010. 103-24 - Spanish version: “El anti-indigenismo en El Hablador y Lituma en los Andes, de Mario Vargas Llosa.” Desde el sur 1.2 (May-Oct. 2009): 237-62
- “Estrategias de poder en el campo cultural del Modernismo: la escabrosa relación entre Rubén Darío y Enrique Gómez Carrillo.” Rubén Darío: cosmopolita arraigado. Ed. Jeffrey Browitt and Wener Mackenbach. Managua, Nicaragua: Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua y Centroamérica, 2010. 294-319
- “De lo apolíneo a lo dionisiaco: la ‘inquerida bohemia’ de Rubén Darío.” Ed. Alberto Acereda. Cuadernos del CILHA (Centro Interdisciplinario de Literatura Hispanoamericana de la U. Nacional de Cuyo) 11 (Apr. 2009): 84-99
- “Building the nation from the outside: Flexible citizenship, American war propaganda, and the birth of anti-Japanese hysteria in Peru.” One World Periphery Reads the Other. Knowing the “Oriental” in the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula. Ed. Ignacio López-Calvo. Newcastle, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. 130-47
- “A postmodern plátano’s Trujillo: Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, more Macondo than McOndo.” Antípodas 20 (2009): 75-90. This article was translated into Korean language in Latino/Latina: luces y sombras de la cultura híbrida. Ed. Hyeon Kyun Kim and Eun A Lee. Seoul: Hanul Books, 2013.
- “Darío: ¿poeta trágico o bon vivant?” 8 Magazine Modernista (Feb. 2009)
- “Sino-Peruvian identity and community as prison: Siu Kam Wen’s rendering of self-exploitation and other survival strategies.” Ed. Evelyn Hu-deHart and Kathleen López. Afro-Hispanic Review 27.1 (Spring 2008): 73-90. Also published as prologue to Siu Kam Wen’s This Sort of Life and a Spanish translation is forthcoming with Desde el sur
- “El anticlericalismo en Herrera y Reissig.” Hipertexto 7 (Winter 2008): 77-85
- “The Spanish-Language Crónica in Los Angeles: Francisco P. Ramírez and Ricardo Flores Magón.” Journal of Spanish Language Media 1 (2008): 125-38. Spanish version:
- “La crónica en castellano de Los Ángeles: de Francisco P. Ramírez a La Opinión.” Ventana abierta 28 (Spring 2010): 66-70
- “Chinesism and the commodification of Chinese Cuban culture.” Alternative Orientalisms in Latin America and Beyond. Ed. Ignacio López-Calvo. Newcastle, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. 95-112
- “La antigüedad clásica como fuente y contexto en El esclavo en grillos de oro de Bances Candamo.” Estudios Hispánicos 41 (Dec. 2006): 169-84
- “Entre mito y realidad: Rubén Darío hacia el compromiso y la vanguardia.” Crítica Hispánica 27. 2 (2005): 225-27
- “Rubén Darío y su búsqueda de armonía en el cosmopolitismo, el monismo panteísta y el erotismo.” Miradas críticas sobre Rubén Darío. Ed. Nicasio Urbina. Managua and Miami: Fundación Internacional Rubén Darío, 2005. 109-28
- “Dos visiones contradictorias de la Iglesia Católica en la obra de Rubén Darío.” Ínsula 699 (March 2005): 17-19
- “Chicanismo meets Zapatismo: U.S. Third World Feminism and transnational activism in Graciela Limón’s Erased Faces.” Chasqui 33.2 (2004): 64-74
- “Lesbianism and Caricature in Griselda Gambaro’s Lo impenetrable.” Journal of Lesbian Studies 7.3 (2003): 89-103. Also published in Latina Lesbian Writers and Artists. Ed. María Dolores Costa. London and NY: Routledge, 2003. 89-103
- “El encubrimiento poético en dos poemas de Manuel Mantero dedicados a García Lorca.” Ojáncano 20-21 (2002): 85-95
- “La mujer fragmentada en Muñeca brava de Lucía Guerra.” Reflexiones. Ensayos sobre escritoras hispanoamericanas contemporáneas. Vol. II. Ed. Priscilla Gac-Artigas. New Jersey: Nuevo Espacio, 2002. 43-56
- “La desaparición del prefijo ‘bi-’ en la lírica femenina chicana.” Fem 224 (2001): 40-43
- “El compromiso social involuntario en la obra de Enrique Anderson Imbert.” La lógica del crítico en la creación lúdico-poética. Ed. Juana Alcira Arancibia. Buenos Aires: Corregidor, 2001. 247-56
- “Hacia una desmitificación y reconstrucción de la figura de Andrés Laguna.”Andrés Laguna. Humanismo, Ciencia y Política en la Europa Renacentista. Ed. Juan Luis García-Hourcade y Juan Manuel Moreno Yuste. Valladolid, Spain: Junta de Castilla y León, 2001. 459-65
- “Sol negro, luna roja: una lectura apocalíptica de Borges.” Borges. Nuevas lecturas. Ed. Juana Alcira Arancibia. Buenos Aires: Corregidor, 2001. 181-88
- “Rubén Vela: la lucha del poema por descifrarse a sí mismo.” 199-206. La pasión americana en la poesía de Rubén Vela. Ensayos críticos. Ed. Juana Alcira Arancibia. Buenos Aires: Corregidor, 2001. 199-206
- “La negociación de las diferencias sociales en Marcos Aguinis: descolonización de la identidad cultural judía ante la adversidad.” Revista Iberoamericana 66.191 (2000): 393-405
- “La sexualidad en la narrativa chilena en el exilio: un juego de poderes en Frente a un hombre armado, y un motivo degradante en La visita del Presidente.” Sexualidad y nación. Ed. Daniel Balderston. Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. The U. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 2000. 131-38
- “El pensamiento de Paulo Freire en Un día en la vida de Manlio Argueta.” Cuadernos Americanos 3 (1999): 183-88
- “El discurso de Ana Vásquez como respuesta al heroísmo liberador en la narrativa de Isabel Allende.” La mujer en la literatura hispánica. Ed. Juana A. Arancibia, Yolanda Rosas, and Edith Dimo. Buenos Aires: Instituto Literario y Cultural Hispánico, 1999. 97-104
- “La pasividad como terapia y mecanismo de transformación social en Realidad nacional desde la cama de Luisa Valenzuela.” Alba de América 17.32 (1999): 291-98
- “La piedra como refugio de la Historia en la poesía de Rubén Vela.” Alba de América 17.32 (1999): 85-90
- “Marcos Aguinis. El hombre y su obra. Bibliografía de Marcos Aguinis. Bibliografía sobre Marcos Aguinis.” Ed. José Luis Gómez-Martínez. The Ensayo Web Server. Jan. 15, 1999
- “El fluir de conciencia en César Vallejo.” Confluencia 14.1 (1998): 82-86
- “Los curas nuevos en La cruz invertida: la obra de Marcos Aguinis a la luz del pensamiento de la liberación.” La gesta literaria de Marcos Aguinis. Ensayos Críticos. Ed. Juana Alcira Arancibia. Costa Rica: Perro Azul, 1998. 143-52
- “Rapports entre la pensée de la liberation et les portraits de femmes dans le romanantillais.” Francographies 7 (1998): 57-68
- “El profetismo en La matriz del infierno de Marcos Aguinis.” Alba de América 16.30-1 (1998): 107-14
- “Las muertes de Lorca en la poesía española.” Alba de América 16.30-1 (1998): 149-64
- “Ariel Dorfman. El hombre y su obra. Bibliografía de Ariel Dorfman. Bibliografía sobre Ariel Dorfman.” Ed. José Luis Gómez-Martínez. The Ensayo Web Server. Feb. 12, 1998
- “La mujer en Nicolás Guillén: símbolos botánicos y animales.” Revista Interamericana 26.1-4 (1996): 117-22
- “Las muertes de Rubén Darío en la poesía española.” La Torre 10.37 (1996): 1-7
- “Lorca, Alberti e Ignacio Sánchez Mejías.” Cuadernos de ALDEEU 12 (1996): 23-29
- “Las premisas ideológicas de El Plan Infinito: el pensamiento de la liberación y el de Octavio Paz.” Narrativa Hispanoamericana Contemporánea: Entre la vanguardia y el posboom. Ed. Ana María Hernández de López. Madrid: Pliegos, 1996. 293-304
- “El discurso de la liberación en la novela de Isabel Allende.” Teología y pensamiento de la liberación en la literatura iberoamericana. Ed. José Luis Gómez-Martínez. Madrid: Milenio, 1996. 143-56
- “Constructing an Ethnic Space through Cultural Production: The case of the tusán and Nikkei in Peru.” Orient/Occident: au-delà des essenstialismes. Ed. Jean-Pierre Dubost. Paris: Garnier (Forthcoming)
- “The study of Orientalism and south-south dialogs between the ‘Orient’ and the Luso-Hispanic world.” Orient/Occident: au-delà des essenstialismes. Jean-Pierre Dubost. Paris: Garnier (Forthcoming)
- “Resistance and the Limits of National Belonging in Júlio Miyazawa’s Yawara! A Travessia Nihondin-Brasil.” Ed. Zelideth Maria Rivas and Debbie Lee-DiStefano. (Forthcoming)
- “La locura literaria como vehículo de autorrevelación cultural en La iluminación de Katzuo Nakamatsu y Japón no da dos oportunidades de Augusto Higa.” (Translation of chapter 3 of my The Affinity of the Eye). Distopías literarias (forthcoming)
- “Roberto Bolaño’s Flower War: Memory, Melancholy, and Pierre Menard.” A Less Distant Star: Critical Essays on Roberto Bolaño. Ed. Ignacio López-Calvo. Palgrave Macmillan Publishing (Forthcoming Fall 2014). A Spanish translation of this essay is forthcoming with Desde el Sur
- “The presence of Eastern religions in Latin American literature.” Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions. Ed. Henri Gooren. Springer Publishing House (forthcoming)
- “La crítica del campo literario y la política cultural como diagnóstico nacional en El miedo a los animales, de Enrique Serna.” Ed. Martín Camps (forthcoming)
- “Exoticization, Mestiçagem, and Brazilian national consciousness in Carlos Diegues’s Quilombo.” Ed. Rudyard Alcocer. Celluloid Chains. University of Tennessee Press (forthcoming)
- “Why didn’t Amberes embarrass Roberto Bolaño? The Reification of Anti-Realism and an Interest in Disinterestedness.” Roberto Bolaño (Critical Insights). Ed. Ignacio López-Calvo (forthcoming)
Interviews
- “Entrevista a Marcos Aguinis.” Alba de América 17.32 (1999): 395-404
- “‘Coloniality is not over, it is all over:’ Interview with Dr. Walter Mignolo (Nov. 2014. Part I) Transmodernity 6.1 (Spring 2016): 175-84
“The State of Interdisciplinarity in Hispanic Studies Journals.” Collaborative Invited Interview with Journal Editors. Arizona
Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 18 (2014): 35-80
Conference Proceedings
- “Unproblematic and strategic identifications of the Chicano Movement with a mythicized Aztec past.” Tradition and Innovation in Mesoamerican Cultural History: A Homage to Tatiana A. Proskouriakoff. Ed. Roberto Cantú and Aaron Sonnenschein. Munich: Lincom Europa, 2011. 193-202.
- “Esbozo de una geografía histórica en Prosas profanas.” Del rascacielos a la catedral: un regreso a las raíces. Actas de la XVI Asamblea General de ALDEEU. Ed. Santiago Tejerina Canal. León, Spain: Publicaciones de la U. de León, 2002
- “El concepto de violencia en la teología de la liberación como sustrato ideológico de la narrativa chilena en el exilio.” Conference Proceedings. Salvation and Sovereignty: Church and State in the Americas. Waco, Texas: Baylor U P, 2000. v-xix
- “La novela boliviana a la luz del pensamiento de la liberación.” From the Macro to the Micro: Latin American Studies in a Global and Local Context. 17 (1999): 1-8
Encyclopedia and Biographical Dictionary Entries
- “Julia de Burgos” (55-9), “María Félix” (95-8), “Eva Perón” (227-32), and “Ana Lydia Vega” (291-4). Notable Twentieth-Century Latin American Women. A Biographical
- Dictionary. Ed. Cynthia Tompkins and David W. Foster. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 2001
Book Reviews
- Axel Gasquet’s El llamado de Oriente (Buenos Aires: Eudeba, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2015.) Hispamérica (Forthcoming)
- Edward King’s Virtual Orientalism in Brazilian Culture (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.) Journal of Latin American Studies (Forthcoming)
- Rebecca Riger Tsurumi’s The Closed Hand: Images of the Japanese in Modern Peruvian Literature. Revista Iberoamericana (Forthcoming)
- Paul R. Mcaleer’s Hybrid Identity and the Utopian Impulse in the Postmodern Spanish-American Comic Novel. Rochester: Tamesis, 2015. Hispanic Review (Forthcoming)
- Orientalisms of the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian World. Ed. Araceli Tinajero. New York: Escribana Books, 2014. Bulletin of Spanish Studies 93.3 (March 2016)
- Kathleen López’s Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History. 20-1 China Review International: 112-17.
- The Chinese in Mexico 1882-1940, Robert Chao Romero; Making the Chinese Mexican: Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusions in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Grace Peña Delgado, Chinese Mexicans: Transpacific Migration and the Search for a Homeland 1910-1960, Julia María Schiavone Camacho. China Review International (20.1-2 [2016]): 180-91
- Maja Horn’s Masculinity after Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature University Press of Florida, 2014. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 69.3 (October 2015): 589-90
- Jerry García. Looking Like the Enemy: Japanese Mexicans, the Mexican State, and US Hegemony, 1897-1945. Tucson: University of Arizona Press: 2014. History: Reviews of New Books 44:1, (Feb. 2014): 25-26
- Literary Culture in Cuba: Revolution, Nation-building, and the Book. Parvathi Kumaraswami and Antoni Kapcia. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 48.3 (2015) 657-60
- El error del acierto. Contra ciertos dogmas latinoamericanos. Wilfrido H. Corral. Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid, Secretariado de Publicaciones e Intercambio Editorial, 2013. Chasqui 43.2 (Nov. 2014): 211-14
- Orientalism and Identity in Latin America: Fashioning Self and Other from the (Post)Colonial Margin. Ed. Erik Camayd-Freixas. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2013. Chasqui 43.1 (May 2014): 195-99
- Lectura de poesía zombi por un zombi: Poemas de un zombi / Zombi Poems (2012), de Martín Camps. Proyecto Patrimonio (2012). Web
- El norte y su frontera en la narrativa policiaca mexicana. Ed. Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta y Salvador Fernández. Mexico City: Plaza y Valdés, 2005. Alba de América 32.60-61 (2012): 501-07
- Time Travel in the Latin American and Caribbean Imagination. Rudyard Alcocer. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Chasqui 41.1 (May 2012): 191-92
- Disaster Writing: The Cultural Politics of Catastrophe in Latin America. Mark D. Anderson. Charlottesville and London: U. of Virginia P., 2001. Chasqui 41.1 (May 2012): 192-95
- The Chinese in Cuba, 1847-Now. Mauro García Triana and Pedro Eng Herrera. Ed. and trans. Gregor Benton. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2009. 17.1 China Review International (2012): 171-66
- Essays on Alfredo Bryce Echenique. Ed. Stephen M Hart & David Wood. London: Center of César Vallejo Studies, 2010. Bulletin of Latin American Research 31.4 (Sept. 2012) 519-20
- China in Latin America. The Whats and Wherefores. R. Evan Ellis. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009. China Review International 17.2 (2012): 212-18
- Ariel Dorfman. An Aesthetics of Hope. Sophia A. McClennen. Durham and London: Duke U P, 2010. 9. 1 A contracorriente (Fall 2011): 467-74
- Cipango, by Tomás Harris. Trans. Daniel Shapiro. Lewisburg: Bucknell U P, 2010. Chasqui 40.1 (May 2011): 229-30
- Theory after Theory. An Intellectual History of Literary Theory from 1950 to the Early 21st Century. Nicholas Birns. Ontario, Canada: Broadview P., 2010. Chasqui 39.2 (Nov. 2010): 201-06
- Love and Politics in the Contemporary Spanish American Novel. Aníbal González. Austin: U of Texas P, 2010. A Contracorriente (May 2010): 409-18
- The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism. Estelle Tarica (U of Minnesota P, 2008). Bulletin of Latin American Research (Journal of the Society for Latin American Studies; United Kingdom) 29.2 (March 2010): 244-45
- And What Have You Done? José Castro Urioste. Chasqui 38.2 (2009): 179-80
- “Casa de guisos y otros cuentos sobre tanta gente…” Rubén Acosta-Gallaher. Alba de América 51.52 (2008): 541-42
- The Coolie Speaks: Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba. Lisa Yun. Colonial Latin American Historical Review (CLAHR) 14.3 (Summer 2008) 314-16
- Dieciséis entrevistas con autores chilenos contemporáneos: la emergencia de una nueva narrativa. Guillermo García-Corales. Chasqui 36.1 (May 2007): 150-52
- Latin American Postmodernisms. Women Writers and Experimentation. Cynthia Margarita Tompkins. Gainesville: U P of Florida, 2006. Alba de América (2007): 551-56
- Littoral of the Letter. Saer’s Art of Narration, by Gabriel Riera. Lewisburg: Bucknell U P, 2006. Alba de América (2007): 529-33
- Lo afroargentino en la historia oficial y el canon literario y cultural argentinos: Identidades Secretas: la negritud argentina. Alejandro Solomianski. A contracorriente 3.3 (Spring 2006): 107-11
- Cultural Residues. Chile in Transition. Nelly Richard. Minneapolis and London: U of Minnesota P, 2004. Chasqui 33.3 (Nov. 2005). 182-84
- La mujer en la literatura del Mundo Hispánico. Ed. Juana Alcira Arancibia. Buenos Aires: Instituto Literario y Cultural Hispánico, 2005. Alba de América 24.45-6 (2005): 525-28
- The Self in the Narratives of José Donoso (Chile 1924-1996). Mary Lusky Friedman. Lewiston, NY: Mellen P., 2004. Chasqui 33.2 (2004): 170-73
- Mestizo Nations: Culture, Race, and Conformity in Latin American Literature, by Juan E. De Castro. Tucson: U of Arizona P, 2002. Revista Hispánica Moderna 56 (2003): 502-04
- The Scroll and the Cross. 1,000 Years of Jewish-Hispanic Literature. Ed. Ilan Stavans. Alba de América 22.41-2 (2003): 489-92
- Más allá de la pos-modernidad. El discurso antrópico y su praxis en la cultura iberoamericana. José Luis Gómez-Martínez. Revista de Hispanismo Filosófico 5 (2000): 172-74
- Ultimátum poético. Develacionismo y poesía. Guillermo Kaul Grünwald. Alba de América 19.35-6 (2000): 397-98
- Teatro chileno y modernidad: identidad y crisis social. María de la Luz Hurtado. Alba de América 19.35-6 (2000): 393-96
- Antología de la poesía femenina argentina 1960-1990. Ed. Zulema Mirkina y Yolanda Rosas. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Ocruxaves, 1996. 18.33-4 (1999): 311-12
- Barranca abajo. Florencio Sánchez. Ed. Rita Gnutzmann. Madrid: Cátedra, 1997. Alba de América 18.33-4 (1999): 319-20
- La novela naturalista en Argentina (1880-1900), by Rita Gnutzmann. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998. Alba de América 18.33-4 (1999): 321-24
- “Marcos Aguinis. La matriz del infierno.” La Gesta Literaria de Marcos Aguinis. Ensayos Críticos. Ed. Juana Alcira Arancibia. Costa Rica: Perro Azul, 1998. 273-75
- The University System and Economic Development in Mexico since 1929. David E. Lorey. South Eastern Latin Americanist 38.4 (1995): 59-60
- Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History. Kathleen López. 20-1 China Review International (Forthcoming)
- The Chinese in Mexico 1882-1940, Robert Chao Romero; Making the Chinese Mexican: Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusions in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Grace Peña Delgado, Chinese Mexicans: Transpacific Migration and the Search for a Homeland 1910-1960, Julia María Schiavone Camacho. China Review International (Forthcoming 20.1-2 [2015])
- Maja Horn’s Masculinity after Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature University Press of Florida, 2014. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (October 2015)
- Orientalisms of the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian World. Ed. Araceli Tinajero. New York: Escribana Books, 2014. Bulletin of Spanish Studies (forthcoming)
- Rebecca Riger Tsurumi’s The Closed Hand: Images of the Japanese in Modern Peruvian Literature. Revista Iberoamericana (forthcoming)
- Jerry García. Looking Like the Enemy: Japanese Mexicans, the Mexican State, and US Hegemony, 1897-1945. Tucson: University of Arizona Press: 2014. History: Reviews of New Books (forthcoming)
Blurbs and Endorsements
- In Jerónimo Arellano's Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015)
- In Fernando Valerio-Holguín’s poetry collection Rapsodia de todo lo visible e invisible (Legados, 2014)
- In Koichi Hagimoto’s Between Empires: Martí, Rizal, and the Intercolonial Alliance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
- In Juan E.de Castro’s Mario Vargas Llosa: Public Intellectual in Neoliberal Latin America (U of Arizona P, 2011)
- In Maja Horn’s Masculinity after Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature (University Press of Florida 2014)
- In Rudyard Alcocer’s Time Travel in the Latin American and Caribbean Imagination (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
- In Lee-Loy’s Searching for Mr. Chin (Temple U P, 2010)
- In Siu Kam Wen’s This Sort of Life (Lulu P. 2008)
- In Dieciséis entrevistas con autores chilenos contemporáneos: La emergencia de una nueva narrativa(New York: Mellen P., 2005), by Guillermo García-Corales
- In Juan de Castro’s The Spaces of Latin American Literature: Tradition, Globalization, and Cultural Production (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
- Collaborated with the Chinese American Museum of Los Angeles in the submission of a grant for the Getty Museum Research Initiative
Prologues
- To Citlalli H Xochitiotzin Ortega’s poetry collection Fulgor de alimentos (Mexico, 2015). Print
- To Fernando Valerio-Holguín’s Rapsodia de todo lo visible e invisible. Madrid: Legados, 2014. 7. Print
- To Gómez Manrique’s Cancionero. Manuscrito de la Biblioteca del Palacio Real (New York: National Hispanic Foundation for the Humanities, 2013 edited by José I. Suárez. ix-xvii. Print
- To Siu Kam Wen’s novel This Sort of Life. Trans. Siu Kam-Wen. Intro. Ignacio López-Calvo. Morrisville, North Carolina: Lulu, 2008. 7-34. Print
- To the study Novela y cine de ciencia ficción española contemporánea. Una reflexión sobre la humanidad (NY: Mellen P., 2009), by Cristina Sánchez-Conejero. i-iv. Print
- To the collection of poems Liberándonos (Buenos Aires: Instituto Literario y Cultural Hispánico, 2005), by Argentine poet Cecilia Glanzmann. Print
Translations
- Translated into English Serge Gruzinski’s article “Las cenizas del deseo. Homosexuales novohispanos a mediados del siglo XVII.” Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America. Ed. Pete Sigal. Chicago: The U of Chicago P, 2003. 197-214
- Co-translated, with Dr. Robert Rudder, Cristina Peri Rossi’s short story collection Desastres íntimos (Latin American Literary Review Press 2015, Intimate Disasters) and Benito Pérez Galdós’s novels Lo prohibido (Cambridge Scholars P, 2007) and Halma (Cambridge Scholars P, 2015)
Selected Creative Works
Book of Poetry
- Las sirenas del castigo. Buenos Aires: Dunken, 2005. 62 pages
Poetry in Anthologies
- Poetas y narradores de Iberoamérica. Ed. Marta de París. Buenos Aires: Georges Zanun Editores, 2007. 21-26
- Escritores españoles en Estados Unidos. Gerardo Piña-Rosales, ed. Antología (Spanish Writers in the U.S.). NY: Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española, 2007. 237-46
Keynote Speaker at Conferences
- “Nippo-Brazilian discourse and cultural production: epistemicide, de-ethnification, and split temporality.” 12th Annual Graduate Student Conference, Department of Spanish and Portuguese. April 17, 2015. UCLA Los Angeles, CA.
- “Los culíes chinos en las guerras de la independencia cubana: usos políticos y representaciones literarias.” III SICLA La Independencia de América. Primer Centenario y Segundo Centenario. Seville, Spain. Sept. 14-16, 2010
Selected Invited Lectures
- “Nippo-Brazilian literature and film: an archive of intersubjective emotions.” U of Central Arkansas. April 7, 2015, Conway, AR
- “Sino-Peruvian cultural production as a tool for epistemic decolonization.” U of Central Arkansas. April 7, 2015, Conway, AR
- “Construction and conflict of Sino-Latin American labels.” Chinese American Museum. Los Angeles, California. Sept. 15, 2014
- “El surgimiento de los discursos tusán y nikei en Perú.” Intersecciones entre Asia del Este y Sudamérica: formaciones transnacionales en la literatura y las artes visuales contemporáneas. Organized by New York University. Buenos Aires, Argentina. May 7-9, 2014
- “Contraste entre los discursos tusán y nikkei en Perú.” Arqueología, Historia y Sociedad en la inmigración china al Perú. Homenaje a Emilio Choy Ma. Lima, Peru. Oct. 18, 2013
- “Constructing an Ethnic Space through Cultural Production: The case of the tusán and Nikkei in Peru.” 4th Incheon Asia, Africa, Latin America Literature Forum: From Conflict to Peace. Seoul National University. Seoul, Korea. April 26, 2013
- “The Gang and the Barrio as Independent Counter-Nations in Latino L.A. film and fiction” University of the Pacific. Stockton, California. March 15, 2013
- “Emergence of Tusán and Nikkei Discourses in Peru.” California State University, Long Beach. Long Beach, CA. Feb. 28, 2013
- “The cultural politics of belonging: Adiós to Tears and the glocal negotiations of flexible citizenship.” 3rd Incheon Asia, Africa, Latin America Literature Forum: Finding the Global in the Local. Seoul National U., Incheon, Korea. Apr. 26, 2012
- “Proyecto de estudios sobre Orientalismo: diálogos sur-sur entre el “Oriente” y el mundo luso-hispano.” Seoul National University. Seoul, Korea. April 30, 2012
- “Writing and the Japanese body in Mario Bellatin’s fiction.” Florida International U Miami, FL. Nov. 16, 2011
- “Asia in/and Latin America: Writers of Asian descent in Cuba and Peru.” Wellesley College. Wellesley, MA. Oct. 16-18, 2011
- “Arguedas’s El Sexto and the Grotesque Body: The Japanese Character at the Boundaries of National Belonging.” U of Georgia. Athens, GA. March 25, 2011
- “The Nearest East: Asian Migration and the Latin American Cultural Imaginary.” The U of Georgia. Athens, GA. March 23, 2011
- “Cardi’s El American Way of Death: Factography and the Cuban detective novel as Cold War ideology.” Hemispheric Institute on the Americas. UC Davis, CA. Nov 18, 2010
- “El anti-indigenismo en El hablador y Lituma en los Andes, de Mario Vargas Llosa.” U Científica del Sur. Lima, Peru. March 23, 2010
- “Why study Latino literature and film set in Los Angeles?” Latino Book and Family Festival. CSULA. CA. Oct. 10, 2009
- “Adiós to Tears: The hidden history of the internment of Japanese Peruvians in US concentration camps during World War II.” Baylor U. Waco, TX. March 19, 2009
- “Imaging the Chinese in Cuban Literature and Culture: From Orientalism to Strategic Self-Orientalization.” U. of Cambridge, England. Sept. 27, 2006
- “The Chinese in Cuba: From Early ‘Coolieism’ and Erasure to a Newfound Cultural Presence.” Global Issues Lecture Series. Baylor U., Waco, TX. Sept. 29, 2005
- “Imaging the Chinese in Cuban Narratives: From Orientalism to Strategic Self-Orientilization.” U. of Aberdeen. Scotland. Jan 18, 2005
- “The Feast of the Goat, The Autumn of the Patriarch, and the anxiety of influence.” Simposio sobre narrativa latinoamericana de los noventa. UC Riverside. CA. Apr. 13, 2004
- “El eurocentrismo y el mito taíno: dos ‘comunidades imaginadas’ en la narrativa del Trujillato.” AATSP Southern California. U. of Southern California. Los Angeles, CA. Apr. 17, 2004
- “El anticlericalismo y otras contradicciones en la obra madura de Rubén Darío.” CSU, San Bernardino. San Bernardino, CA. March 12, 2004
- “Hate as a Political Tool: The Taino Myth in the Trujillato Narratives.” CSU, Long Beach, CA. Nov. 4, 2003
- “La politización del clero en La cruz invertida, de Marcos Aguinis.” U. Iberoamericana. Tijuana, Mexico. Apr. 5, 2001
Selected Conference Presentations
- “La influencia del realismo mágico español y latinoamericano en el cine de José Luis Cuerda de los años 80.” The UC Comparative Iberian Studies Working Group (UCCIS) Annual Symposium. UC Merced, Merced, California. May 1-2, 2015
- “La escritura sinoperuana: el caso de Siu Kam Wen.” Orientalismos europeos e intercambios culturales y literarios entre América Latina y Oriente: Divergencias y afinidades. Rabat, Morocco. Oct. 29-30, 2014.
- “Roberto Bolaño’s Flower Wars: Memory, Melancholy, and Pierre Menard.” Migrations and Cultural Identity of the Americas. Seminario de Identidad Cultural Latinoamericana SICLA. University of Virginia, College at Wise. Wise, Virginia. Sept. 1-4, 2014
- “Proyecto de estudios sobre Orientalismo y diálogos sur-sur entre el “Oriente” y el mundo luso-hispano.” Congreso Internacional de la AILC (Asociación Internacional de Literatura Comparada). Centre Malesherbes, Paris. July 18-24, 2013 (In abstentia)
- “From Philosophical Ideas to Social Praxis: Pedro Zulen, a Tusán Organic Intellectual?” LASA conference. Washington DC. (In absentia). May 29-30, 2013
- “Dialogues with Nationalism and Renegotiations of (Sub)ethnicity in Okinawan testimonials in Peru.” Fifth International Conference of the Latin American Studies Council of Asia and Oceania (CELAO) 2012: “Strengthening Exchanges across the Pacific.” Manila, Philippines. Oct 9-11, 2012
- “Writing and the Japanese body in Mario Bellatin’s fiction.” Building Dialogues in the Americas. 54 International Congress of Americanists (54 ICA). Vienna, Austria. July 15-20, 2012
- “La seducción de la violencia política y la inestética del caos en Mario Wong.” Diálogos Culturales entre Europa, Iberoamérica y Estados Unidos. Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. Cádiz, Spain. July 3-6, 2012
- “The influence of the Japanese notion of enryo and the haiku in José Watanabe’s Poetry.” Latin American Studies Association (LASA). San Francisco, CA. May 23-26, 2012
- “Carlos Yushimito del Valle’s Post-nationalist and Post-identitarian Universality in Las islas.” Librasia 2012. 2nd Annual Asian Conference on Literature and Librarianship 2012. Osaka, Japan. Apr. 6-8 2012
- “Kensho and Japanese Peruvian self-identification in Augusto Higa’s La iluminación de Katzuo Nakamatsu.” LASA. Toronto, Canada. Oct. 6-9, 2010
- “Obama’s autobiographical writing and deciphering.” 2010 Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of History, Literature, Science and Technology. U. Complutense. Madrid, Spain. June 23-25, 2010
- “Chinese Writing in Cuba and Peru” Association for Asian American Studies Conference. Austin, TX. Apr. 7-11, 2010
- “De lo apolíneo a lo dionisíaco: la ‘inquerida bohemia’ de Rubén Darío.” Federación Internacional de Estudios sobre América Latina y el Caribe. National and Kapodistriac U. of Athens, Greece. Oct. 14-16, 2009
- “Los japoneses en la obra de Mario Vargas Llosa.” Quinto Coloquio Internacional de Literatura: Memoria e Imaginación de Latinoamérica y el Caribe. Cuzco, Peru. Aug. 5-7, 2009
- “Refugiados y Asalto al Paraíso de Marcos Aguinis: apropiaciones y reapropiaciones del discurso palestino.” International Conference of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association. Tel Aviv, Israel. July 26-28, 2009
- “Sino-Peruvian identity and community as prison: Siu Kam Wen’s rendering of self-exploitation and other survival strategies.” Orientalismos. Symposium on Asian Influence on Spanish and Spanish-American Literature and Film. Florida International U., Miami, FL. Apr. 2-5, 2009
- “A Chino-mulatto’s identity crisis: self-definition in Chuffat Latour’s Apunte histórico de los chinos en Cuba.” 10th International Conference on Caribbean Literature. U. of Buea, Cameroon. Nov. 4-6, 2008
- “Literary Representations of the Strategies for the integration of Chinese Cubans into mainstream society.” América Latina-Caribe y Asia-Pacífico en el siglo XXI. Federación Internacional de Estudios sobre América Latina y el Caribe. Macau, China. Sept. 25-28, 2007
- “China on my mind: The new geopolitical power of the PRC in Cuban and Cuban American art.” International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas. Peking U., Beijing, China. Sept. 21-23, 2007
- “Chinese and Black African Syncretism as Seen in Cuban Literature.” 15th Annual Afro-Hispanic Literature and Culture Conference. Quito, Ecuador. Jan. 7-12, 2007
- “Chineseness and sexual desire in Severo Sarduy’s oeuvre.” LASA Conference. San Juan, Puerto Rico. March 15-18, 2006
- “Multiculturalismo, Castro y la literatura cubana.” Vernacular Conference. U. de las Américas. Puebla, Mexico. Oct. 26-29, 2005
- “La diáspora china en Monkey Hunting the Cristina García.” Latin American Studies Association. Riviera Hotel. Las Vegas, NV. Oct. 7-9, 2004
- “‘Lo hacían callados’: la imagen de los chinos en la literatura y cultura cubanas.” XXIV Simposio Internacional de Literatura. Instituto Literario y Cultural Hispánico. Hotel Crown Panamericana. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Aug. 9-14, 2004
- “From Los Angeles to Chiapas and Back: The New Mestiza in Graciela Limón’s Erased Faces.” México en el mundo. X Conferencia Anual de México. UC Irvine, CA. Apr 30, 2004
- “Written in Exile. Chilean Fiction from 1973-Present.” Session: “New Scholarly Books on Southern Cone (Chile). Post-dictatorial Literature Explained by Their Authors.” Democracy in Latin America: Thirty Years after Chile’s 9/11. U. at Albany, SUNY. Albany, NY. Oct. 10-12, 2003
- “The Testimonio of the Trujillo Era: Novel as History or Historical Documents as Fiction?” LASA Conference. Dallas, TX. March 27-9, 2003
- “La imagen de Francisco Maldonado da Silva en la literatura latinoamericana.” Instituto Literario y Cultural Hispánico. XXII Simposio Internacional de Literatura y Sociedad. U. Nacional de Educación a Distancia. Madrid, Spain. July 15-22, 2002
- “La Fiesta del Chivo y la novela del dictador latinoamericano: ¿Denuncian o promueven la dictadura?” Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica. Lima, Peru. Feb. 27-March 1, 2002
- “La mentalidad militar en la obra de Marcos Aguinis: La conspiración de losidiotas.” Session “Militarismo, politización y literatura latinoamericana” LASA Conference. Washington, DC. Sept. 7, 2001
- “The implied reader and the implicit author in Roberto de las Carreras’ Al lector.” Poetic Discourses at Play. UC Irvine. CA. Apr. 20, 2001
- “Hacia una estética de la recepción de Rubén Darío en España.” Poetic Discourses at Play: Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and US Latino/a Poetry. UC Irvine. CA. Apr. 13-15, 2001
- “El fundamentalismo y el narcotráfico en Los iluminados de Marcos Aguinis.” PCCLAS Conference. El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. Tijuana, Mexico. Apr. 5, 2001
Works in Progress
- Book-length study on Nippo-Brazilian cultural production (proposal currently under review with U of Colorado P)
- Co-edited anthology of Spanish-language non-fiction from Los Angeles (manuscript under review with Duke UP)
Teaching Experience
Selected Graduate Courses
Orientalisms and Modernity Cultural Studies: Race and Gender
Contemporary Literary Theory Critical Theory and Film
Feminist Critical Theory Latin Am. and Latino Cultural Studies
Cuban Exile Narratives Novel of the Latin American Dictator
Southern Cone Narrative Latin Am. Boom
Contemporary Latin Am. Prose Latin Am. Short Story
Latin Am. Avant-Garde Poetry Latin Am. Modernismo
Nation and Identity in the Latin American Novel
Sexuality, Gender and Nation in Latin Am. Novel
Mestizaje in the Works by Caribbean Women Writers
The Fantastic, Magical Realism, Historical Novel and Testimonio
Theories and Methods in the Studies of Cultures
Postcolonial Studies and the Decolonial Project
Selected Undergraduate Courses
Lat. Am. Boom Narrative World of Vargas Llosa
Caribbean Novel and Testimonials Novel of the Latin Am. Dictator
Novel of the Trujillato Lat. Am. Short Story
Colonial Latin Am. Literature Readings in Hispanic Literature
Latin Am. Literature Survey II Latin Am. Literature Survey I
Intro. to Literary Analysis Latin Am. Culture and Civilization
Spanish Culture and Civilization Narrative World of García Márquez
Rubén Darío and Latin American Modernismo Generation of 1898
Engaging Texts: Introduction to Critical Practice
Mestizaje in the Works by Caribbean Women Writers
Intro. to Hispanic Lit., Medieval-18th Century
Selected Professional Memberships and Offices
Modern Language Assoc. Lat. Am. Studies Assoc
Latin Am. Jewish Studies Assoc. Asoc. de Lit. Femenina Hispánica
Instituto Intl. de Lit. Iberoamericana Instituto Lit. y Cultural Hispánico
American Assoc. of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
Co-President of Pacific Coast Council on Latin Am. Studies
Language Proficiency
Spanish: Native English: Near-native
French: Fluent Italian, Portuguese: Reading and understanding knowledge
Selected Academic Service
- History and World Cultures Academic Personnel Chair 2014-Present
- Chair of the Merced Division of the Academic Senate. 2013-2014
- Vice-Chair of the Merced Division of the Academic Senate. 2012-2013
- Merced Representative, Assembly of Academic Senate. 2013-Present
- Systemwide representative, Academic Council. 2013-Present
- Faculty Chair of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts. Fall 2009-Fall 2010
- Chair of the Graduate Group of World Cultures. Fall 2008-Fall 2011
- Member of the Chancellor’s Cabinet. 2013-Present
- Co-chair of Joint Administration-Senate Strategic Academic Focusing Working Group 2013-2014
- Member of the SSHA Dean Search (Spring 2015)
- Associate Chair of the Dept. of Foreign Languages at UNT. 2009-2011
- Director of UNT’s Spanish Summer Institute. 2009-2011
- Coordinator of Spanish section at CSULA. 2006-2008
- Member, Committee on Academic Planning and Resource Allocation (CAPRA), Administration Council on Assessment and Planning (SACAP), U. of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), Graduate Research Council (GRC), University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication (UCOLASC), Campus Physical Planning Committee (CPPC), Privilege and Tenure (C&T; ex-officio)
Selected Professional Activities
- External program reviewer for the modern languages departments at Montana State
- University (2015) and University of Northern Colorado (2013)
- Member of Access Latin America and Center for New Racial Studies
- Panelist for the NEH Humanities Initiatives grant program on Sept. 6, 2012.
- Reviewer for American Council of Learned Societies in 2012
- External reviewer of the Hispanic Studies Department at the U. Colorado. Apr. 2011
- External evaluation for the promotion of Ángel Estévez (CUNY), Kathleen López (Rutgers U.), Maja Horn (Barnard College), Joan Torres-Pou (Florida International U), Juan de Castro (Eugene Lang College), César Ferreira (U. of Wisconsin Milwaukee), Francisco Manzo-Robledo (Washington S.U.), Juana Suárez (U. of North Carolina, Greensboro), Carlos Coria-Sánchez (U. of North Carolina, Charlotte), Araceli Tinajero (City College-Graduate Center, CUNY), Axel Gasquet (Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand II), and Martín Camps (University of the Pacific)
- Created and co-organized a yearly international, interdisciplinary conference on Orientalisms and East-West cross-cultural relations at Eugene Lang College (NY, 2015), Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan (2014), the Pedagogical State U. Herzen, St. Petersburg, Russia (2013), at U. of Fez, Morocco (2012); UC Merced (2011 and 2009); at UNT (2005)
- Created and organized symposium Race and Latin American Cultural Production in the Age of Globalization, at UNT (2005)
- Co-organized PCCLAS conference. CSULA, Los Angeles, CA. (1999)
- Member, organizing committees of XXI Simposio Internacional de Literatura y Sociedad. UNED. Madrid (2002); XXII Simposio Internacional Mujer y Sociedad en América. U. Interamericana de Puerto Rico (2002); XVIII Simposio Internacional. Mito, nación e identidad. Guatemala City (1999)
- Invited the following professors and writers to give talks: Ksenija Bilbija (U of Wisconsin-Madison); Walter Mignolo (Duke U); Mexican writers Octavio Hernández, Roberto Castillo, Nylsa Martínez and Eduardo Antonio Parra; David W. Foster (Arizona SU); Dr. José Ramon Ruysánchez (U of Houston); George Lipsitz (UC Santa Barbara); Juan Luis Sánchez (UC Berkeley); author and editor Mary-Alice Waters; Moroccan-Spanish writer Najat El Hachmi, Ana Gállego (U. of Granada, Spain); Mexican poet Citlalli H. Xochitiotzin Ortega; Colombian poet Antonieta Villamil; Arturo Arias (U. of Redlands); author and critic Armand Mattelart (U. Paris VIII); Cuban National Award Laureate César López; Jill Robbins (UC Irvine); Salvadoran poet Javier Alas (U. Delgado); Carl Jubran (U. of San Diego); Alberto Acereda (Arizona S.U.)
- Question Leader (2009-2010), Table Leader (2007-2008) and Reader (1999-2007) for AP Spanish Literature Exams, ETS
- Certified reviewer for the Advanced Placement Course Audit for the College Board. (2006-2007)