About
My research and teaching examine contemporary Latin American narrative and culture, focusing primarily on Mexico, Peru, and Argentina. My most recent book Other Americans (2022) examines the representation of Latin America across a host of mediums including Hollywood films, Netflix series, and contemporary novels, to probe the role of negative affect in hemispheric relations. I am also the author of Pragmatic Passions (2014), which explores melodramatically framed socio-political discourse in narratives from early to mid-20th century. I co-edited the volumes Technology, Literature, and Digital Culture in Latin America (2016), examining writing practices in Latin America and their dialogue with contemporary technologies, and Un asombro renovado (2017), which analyzes the resurgence of avant-garde aesthetics in contemporary contexts. My interests include critical theory, affect studies, melodrama, historical and neo-avant-garde artistic practices, the Latin American social novel, and media and globalization in contemporary Latin American art. Education
PhD in Spanish, 2008, University of Colorado at Boulder
MA in Spanish, 2003, University of Colorado at Boulder
BA in Spanish with Minors in English and Education, 2000, University of Nebraska at Lincoln Publications
BOOKS
Other Americans: The Art of Latin America in the US Imaginary. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2022.
Pragmatic Passions: Melodrama and Latin American Social Narrative. Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2014.
EDITED VOLUMES
Un asombro renovado: Vanguardias contemporáneas en América Latina. Co-edited with Luis Hernán Castañeda. Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2017.
Technology, Literature, and Digital Culture in Latin America: Mediatized Sensibilities in a Globalized Era. Co-edited with Tania Gentic. New York: Routledge, 2016.
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
“Screen Time: The Digitalization of Latin American Literature and Culture.” A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture (2nd Edition). Sara Castro Klarén, Editor. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2022. 671-84.
“Nosotros los pobres.” An entry in Lexicon of Global Melodrama. Heike Paul, Sarah Marak, Katharina Gerund, and Marius Henderson, Editors. Bielefeld, Germany: [transcript], 2022. 79-82.
“Yours Truly, Buenos Aires: Affective Distributions in the Writings of Ricardo Strafacce.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. 53.2 (2019): 679-700.
“Reading the Affective Contours of the Río de la Plata: Aira, Levrero, Strafacce, and Umpi.” MLN 133.2 (2018): 411-34.
“Procedimientos de la nostalgia: Bolaño y Aira frente a la vanguardia.” Co-written with Luis Hernán Castañeda. Un asombro renovado: Vanguardias contemporáneas en América Latina. Matthew Bush and Luis Hernán Castañeda, Editors. Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2017. 221-43.
“Introducción: Un asombro renovado.” Co-written with Luis Hernán Castañeda. Un asombro renovado: Vanguardias contemporáneas en la narrativa latinoamericana. Matthew Bush and Luis Hernán Castañeda, Editors. Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2017. 9-18.
“Into the Screen: Inhabiting Media with Mario Levrero.” Technology, Literature, and Digital Culture in Latin America: Mediatized Sensibilities in a Globalized Era. Matthew Bush and Tania Gentic, Editors. New York: Routledge, 2016. 44-59.
“Mediatized Sensibilities in a Globalized Era.” Co-written with Tania Gentic. Technology, Literature, and Digital Culture in Latin America: Mediatized Sensibilities in a Globalized Era. Matthew Bush and Tania Gentic, Editors. New York: Routledge, 2016. 1-20.
“Imposibilidades posibles: Más allá de los medios masivos en César Aira y Mario Bellatin.” A Contracorriente 12.3 (2015): 271-95.
“Un asunto familiar: Entre afecto y violencia política en La hora azul de Alonso Cueto y Un lugar llamado Oreja de Perro de Iván Thays.” Revista Iberoamericana LXXXI.250 (2015): 15-30.
“A History of Violence: Melodrama and Mestizaje in Enrique López Albújar’s Matalaché.” Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana 41.1 (2012): 3-17.
“Cohesión y contradicción: Los excesos narrativos de Todas las sangres.” Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana 72 (2010): 277-98.
“Evocaciones de la Revolución en las adaptaciones cinematográficas de Los de abajo.” La luz y la guerra: El cine de la Revolución Mexicana. Fernando Fabio Sánchez and Gerardo García Muñoz, Editors. Mexico: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 2010. 237-76.
“Sufrimiento y retribución: La teatralidad política de El tungsteno de César Vallejo.” MLN 125.2 (2010): 369-90.
“La ley y clase social: Claves problemáticas de la armonía melodramática en La parcela de José López Portillo y Rojas.” Texto Crítico 20 (2007): 119-39.
BOOK REVIEWS
Talor, Claire. Electronic Literature in Latin America: From Text to Hypertext. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 55.1 (2021): 309-11.
Ribeyro, Julio Ramón. The Word of the Speechless: Selectred Stories. Trans. Katherine Silver. New York: New York Review Books. Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas 101 (2020): 328-29.
Lahr-Vivaz, Elena. Mexican Melodrama: Film and Nation from the Golden Age to the New Wave. Tucson: U of Arizona P, 2016. Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 41.2 (2017): 455-57.
Castro Klarén, Sara. The Narrow Pass of Our Nerves: Writing, Coloniality and Postcolonial Theory. Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2011. Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana 76 (2012): 509-11.
Parra, Max. Writing Pancho Villa’s Revolution: Rebels in the Literary Imagination of Mexico. Austin: U of Texas P, 2005. Colorado Review of Hispanic Studies 5 (2007): 229-31.
Aguirre, Robert D. Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Culture. Minneapolis and London: U of Minnesota P, 2005. Dissidences. Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism. (2006) Web.
Tuninetti, Ángel T. Nuevas tierras con viejos ojos: Viajeros españoles y latinoamericanos en Sudamérica, siglos XVIII y XIX. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Corregidor, 2001. Colorado Review of Hispanic Studies 3 (2005): 178-81.
TRANSLATIONS
Paz Soldán, Edmundo. “Mario Bellatin’s Writing Machines.” Technology, Literature, and Digital Culture in Latin America: Mediatized Sensibilities in a Globalized Era. Matthew Bush and Tania Gentic, Editors. New York: Routledge, 2016. 267-73.
Link, Daniel. “Poetry in the Age of Digital Reproduction.” Technology, Literature, and Digital Culture in Latin America: Mediatized Sensibilities in a Globalized Era. Matthew Bush and Tania Gentic, Editors. New York: Routledge, 2016. 146-60.
Antelo, Raúl. “Toward a Tensional Criticism.” Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas 40 (2007): 214-17.
Link, Daniel. “Representing Past Present.” Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas 40 (2007): 218-30.
