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Alejandro Mejías-López | Faculty
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Adjunct Associate Professor, Cultural Studies
Affiliated Faculty, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), West European Studies (WEST)
Office: Ballantine Hall 815
TEL: 856-1059
Email: amejiasl
Education
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1995
M.A., University of Michigan, 1992
B.A., Universidad de Sevilla, 1990
Specializations
- 19th-and early 20th-century Latin American literature
- Hispanic modernismo
- Transnational modernism(s)/modernities
- Transatlantic Studies
- Postcolonial Studies
- Gender and sexuality
Selected Publications
- The Inverted Conquest: The Myth of Modernity and the Transatlantic Onset of Modernism. Vanderbilt U.P. Forthcoming (Feb 2010)
- “Modernismo’s Inverted Conquest and the Ruins of Imperial Nostalgia: Rethinking the Hispanic Atlantic in Contemporary Critical Discourse.” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 12 (2008): 7-29
- “El perpetuo deseo: esquizofrenia y nomadismo narrativo en De sobremesa de José Asunción Silva.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 31.2 (Winter 2007): 337-358. http://fis.ucalgary.ca/ACH/RCEH/31/2.html
- “Reframing Sodom: Sexuality, Nation and Difference in Hernández Catá’s El Ángel de Sodoma.” Ciberletras 16 (January 2007). http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras
- “Textualidad y sexualidad en la construcción de la selva: genealogías discursivas en La vorágine de Rivera.” Modern Languages Notes 121.2 (2006): 367-90. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/mln/toc/mln121.2.html
- “ ‘Conocer y ser conocido’: Identidad cultural, mercado y discursos globales en tres revistas latinoamericanas de entre siglos.” Revista Iberoamericana LXXII 214 (enero-marzo 2006): 139-53.
- “(Re)imagining Bolívar.” A contracorriente. A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America 2.3 (Spring 2005): 147-60. http://www.ncsu.edu/project/acontracorriente/spring_05/Mejias_Lopez.pdf
- “José Asunción Silva.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: Modern Spanish American Poets. Ed. María A. Salgado. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2003. 327-35.
- “Juan Ramón Jiménez y la transgresión modernista: reflexiones críticas a propósito de sus ‘cuentos’.” Unidad III (2001): 115-27.
- “Del ‘Problema de España’ a la ‘aldea global’: Modernismo y 98 a un siglo de distancia.” El 98 se pasea por el callejón del Gato. Proceso a una generación. Eds. Pedro Guerrero and José Belmonte. Alicante, Spain: Editorial Aguaclara, 1999. 21-32.
Teaching
- SPAN 668: Postcolonial Moves: Spanish American Literature and the Hispanic Atlantic.
- LTAM526/SPAN695/CULS701: Local/Global: The Politics of Knowledge and Space in Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture.
- SPAN 670: Civilization/Barbarism? Modernity, Modernization and Periphery in 19th century Spanish American Fiction.
- SPAN 668: 19th-Century Spanish American Women Writers.
- SPAN 568: 19th-and Early 20th-Century Spanish American Literature.
- SPAN 474/498: Hispanic Literature and Society: Writing (in) the city: contemporary literature and urban space in Latin America and Spain.
- SPAN 471: Spanish American Literature I (Colonial & 19th century)
- SPAN 420: Modern Spanish American Prose Fiction: Narrating Modernity in Latin America.
- SPAN 411: Spain: The Cultural Context.
- SPAN 332: The Hispanic World II (Peninsular literature)
- SPAN 331: The Hispanic World I (Spanish American literature)
- SPAN 310: Advanced Grammar and Composition
- COLL S104: Freshman Seminar. Un/Familiar Representations: Thinking Hispanic Culture through Family in Literature, Film, and Art.
Honors and Awards
- Overseas Conference Fund Award. Office of International Programs. Indiana University. October 2007.
- Outstanding Mentor Award. Graduate Student Advisory Committee. Indiana University. 2006-07.
- President’s Arts and Humanities Initiative Research Grant. Indiana University. Fall 2004.
Current Research Projects
- Global Fictions: Modernismo and the Novel in Spanish America (1880-1930). (Nearing completion)
- Sinful Subjects, Successful Texts: Religion, Science and Nation in Early 20th-century Hispanic Gay Fiction. (In progress)
