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Tatiana  Arguello

Tatiana Arguello

Associate Professor

  •  “Feminist Philosophy in Central America: Global Reflections and Contributions of Gioconda Belli and Rigoberta Menchú”. Co-written with Andrew Ryder. Istmo. Revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos 50.1, 2026.
  • “Bullets and Tattoos: War Artifacts and Prosthetics in the US Central American Literature of Salomón de la Selva and Héctor Tobar.” Co-written with Andrew Ryder. Latinx Literature in Transition. Edited by Marissa López and John Alba Cutler. Cambridge University Press (2025)
  • “Ecology, Blackness and Poetry: National Epics of the Nicaraguan Revolution.” Co-written with Andrew Ryder. National Epics. Edited by David Wallace. Oxford University Press. (Forthcoming). 
  • "Epistemes del cauce: para pensar y sentir con los ríos, sumersión en la poesía fluvial de dos mujeres indígenas latinoamericanas.” Co-written with María Ximena Postigo. Brill-Foro Hispánico. Special Issue: Ecopoesía, ecopoéticas y nuevas políticas ecológicas en el poema. Edited by Azucena Castro, Santiago Acosta and Nuno Marques. (Forthcoming 2026).
  • “Creole Poetics of the Ocean: Carlos Rigby, Ecological Thought and Caribbean Diasporic Consciousness.” Central American Literature as World Literature. Literature as World Literature Series. Edited by Sophie Esch. Bloomsbury (2023).

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Sohyun  Lee

Sohyun Lee

Chair / Associate Professor

  • “Entre las dos Coreas: la formulación de la identidad (trans)nacional de la comunidad “coreana” de Cuba en Jerónimo (2019).” Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World. Volume 11, Issue 2, 2024.
  • “Gestación y encarnación del horror: el cuerpo femenino como instrumento monstruoso en el cine de Balagueró.” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. Vol 22, 2018. 227-242.
  • “Monstruos (Re)productions: Mothering Patriarchy on the Spanish Horror Screen.” in Tracing the Borders of Spanish Horror Cinema and Television. Jorge Mari, Ed. New York: Routledge, 2017. 53-66.
  • “Entrevista a Daniel Quirós: la novela negra hispana en el siglo XX o el espacio rural centroamericano frente a los retos de la globalización.” with Agustín Cuadrado. Letras Hispanas. 13, 2017.
  • “El capricho de la razón: Goya en Burdeos de Carlos Saura.” Crítica Hispánica. Vol. XXXVIII. No. 1, 2016. 95-111.

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Ryan Schmitz

Ryan Schmitz

Associate Professor

  • “Gauging Trustworthiness in the Intercalated Novels of the 1605 Quijote” Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America. 45.2 (2025): 101-122.
  • “Juan Lorenzo Palmireno and the Practical Application of Humanistic Study.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 101.2 (2024): 105-116.
  • “Theory of Mind in Early Modern Spanish Manuals of Courtly Conduct.” Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature. Ed. Isabel Jaén and Julien Simon. Oxford University Press, 2016. 164-180.
  • “The Hand as Metaphor in Cervantes’s Novelas ejemplares.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 93.2 (2016): 99-112.
  • “Tracing Transoceanic Intertextualities in More’s Utopia (1516), González de Mendoza’s Historia de China ((1585), and Fernández de Lizardi’s El Periquillo Sarniento (1816).”  eHumanista 27 (2014): 300-314.

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Steven Sloan

Steven Sloan

Associate Professor

  • “Racial Identity in the 1930s Urban Landscape in the Novels of Jorge Amado, José Lins do Rego and Lúcio Cardoso.” African, Lusophone, and Afro-Hispanic Cultural Dialogue, edited by Y. Agawu-Kakraba and K. Aggor, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018, pp. 59 – 77.
  • “Federico Gauffin’s En tierras de Magu Pela (1932): A Modernist Bildungsroman, an Intertextual Dialogue with Guiraldes and Arlt, and a Reaction to the Nationalist Project.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, vol. 95, no. 10, 2018, pp. 1123–1138.
  • “Work, Art, and Bourgeois Myths in Roberto Arlt’s Aguafuertes porteñas.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies: Hispanic Studies and Researches on Spain, Portugal, and Latin America 86 (2009): 809-27.
  • “Roberto Arlt’s Alter-travelogue against the Backdrop of Rio de Janeiro.” A Contracorriente: A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America 6.2 (2009): 122-43.
  • “Writing, Public Opinion, and National Identity in the Crônicas of Olavo Bilac,” Hispanófila 153 (2008): 79-95.

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José Luis Suárez Morales

José Luis Suárez Morales

Assistant Professor

  • “Total Mobilizations, Stasis and Resistance in Alonso Ruizpalacios’s Güeros”. Special Number,Cinema and Infrapolitics. Periphērica. 3.2 (2025): 246-279.
  • "Pornographic Economies: Metaphoricity in Alan Pauls's Historia del dinero." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 58.3 (2024): 907-929.
  • "Technological Landscapes: Anthropocene and Technics in Lucrecia Martel’s Zama." Ciberletras. 50, January (2024): 95-112.
  • "Broken Topographies: Criminal Enframing and the Migration Genre in Diego Quemada-Díez’s La jaula de oro." Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamerciana. 52.1 (2023): 143-165.

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Esther Teixeira

Esther Teixeira

Associate Professor

  • Teixeira, Esther. “Ifigenia (1924) de Teresa de La Parra y La última niebla (1933) de María Luisa Bombal­: entre el legado femenino, la infertilidad libertadora y el movimiento digital contemporáneo #tradwife.” Hispanófila, forthcoming.
  • Teixeira, Esther. "Prostitución, colonización crítica y revolución teórica: La reflexión de Gabriela Leite y demás trabajadoras sexuales organizadas y el canon." A Contracorriente, vol. 22, no. 3, Spring 2025, pp. 112–141. Full text available at Academia.edu
  • Laura Murray, Esther Teixeira, and Meg Weeks. Introduction. Daughter, Mother, Grandmother and Whore: The Story of a Woman Who Decided to be a Puta, translated by Meg Weeks, Duke University Press, Durham and London, in press, September 2024. Full introduction available at Academia.edu
  • Ciriza, María del Puy and Teixeira, Esther. “On Interdisciplinary Presentism in Hispanic Studies: Notes on Service Learning with the Latino Community” Hispania, 104.1 (2021): 27-30. Full text available at Academia.edu
  • Teixeira, Esther."A narrativa de prostitutas por um viés literário: contraste entre as obras de Bruna Surfistinha e Gabriela Leite". In Climent-Espino, Rafael and Michel Mingote, Eds. Perspectivas críticas da literatura brasileira no século XXI: prosas e outras escrituras. São Paulo: EDUC [Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo], 2021. pp. 81-98. Full text available at Academia.edu 

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