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Professor of Spanish

E-mail: hernandezr3@southernct.edu
Telephone: (203) 392-6202
Office: Engleman Hall D-154

 

Education

Ph.D., New York University -- Spanish and Portuguese, 1999
M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara-Spanish and Portuguese, 1992
Lic. University of Mexico (UNAM) -- Hispanic Language and Literatures, 1990

Research Interests

Latin American Literature and culture; Film Studies; Transatlantic Studies; The literary Avant-Grade, American Studies

Selected Publications

    Books:

  • Una poética de la despreocupación: modernidad e identidad en cuatro poetas latinoamericanos. Santiago, Chile: Cuarto Propio, 2003.

  • ¡Agítese bien!: A New Look at the Hispanic Avant-Gardes (co-editor).  Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2002.

    Book Chapter:

  • "Melodrama and Social Comedy in the Cinema of the Golden Age" in Mexico's Cinema.  A Century of Films and Filmakers.  Joanne Hershfield and David Maciel, eds.  Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, 1999.

    Journal Articles:

  • "El fin de la modernidad: Pedro Páramo y la desintegración de la comunidad."  Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 78.5 (December, 2001).

  • "La calavera en el espejo: aproximaciones a la poesía de López Velarde y César Vallejo."  Revista Hispánica Moderna 51.1 (June, 1998).

Selected Presentations

  • "A Revolution of Shadows: Film, Literature, and Social Change in Mexico," XXI Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, Puebla, Mexico, April 19-22, 2007.

  • "Cine, lengua e identidad"  Día de Mexicanistas, University of Groeningen, The Netherlands, Nov. 11, 2005.

  • "Margin to Margin: The case of a Mexican Film and an Egyptian Novel," Canadian Council of Area Studies Learned Societies - "Furthering the Globalization Debate: Cross Regional Comparisons," Montreal, Canada, April 27-30, 2005.

  • "Whose Sweaty Men Are They?  Avant-Garde and Revolution in Mexico," Grand Expositions: Iberian and Latin American Modernisms in the Museum, Yale University, October 27, 2001.

  • "Corpo, Cidade, e Poesia em Carlos Drummond de Andrade," V International Congress of BRASA, Recife, Brazil, June 18-21, 2000.