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Born in New Jersey, I spent the formative years of my childhood in Córdoba, Argentina and have lived in Spain, Nicaragua, Mexico, Peru, Costa Rica, Chile and France.  I received my Ph.D from the University of Washington in Seattle and have been at NC State since 1989, where I teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels on Latin American literature and culture.  I have been a visiting professor at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill and at the Universidad de Chile.

Books:

La búsqueda del futuro en el pasado.  La novela argentina en el siglo XXI (Buenos Aires:  Ediciones Corregidor, 2025).

Multiforme y comprometido:  Neruda después de 1956 (Santiago:  RIL Editores, 2014).

Poetas ante la modernidad: las ideas estéticas y políticas de Huidobro, Vallejo, Neruda y Paz (Madrid:  Editorial Fundamentos, 2009).

Verses Against the Darkness:  Pablo Neruda’s Poetry and Politics (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2006).

Aesthetics and Revolution: Nicaraguan Poetry, 1979-1990 (Minneapolis:  University of Minnesota Press, 1993).

Book Editions:

Tras las huellas de Pablo Neruda:  Un homenaje a Hernán Loyola (Raleigh:  Editorial A Contracorriente / University of North Carolina Press, 2020).

Co-Editor with Luis Martín Cabrera and Ignacio Álvarez, and Contributor, Homenaje a Jaime Concha. Releyendo a contraluz (Editorial A Contracorriente / University of North Carolina Press, 2018).

Editor and contributor: Mario Benedetti, escritor uruguayo contemporáneo: estudios sobre su compromiso literario y político / Mario Benedetti, Contemporary Uruguayan Author: Studies on His Literary and Political Commitments (Lewiston / Queenston / Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2008).

Books Translated and Annotated:

Hernán Loyola, Neruda’s Sins (Raleigh:  Editorial A Contracorriente / University of North Carolina Press, 2022).

Office Hours

Projects

I am currently working on a book project on the representation of fascism, dictatorships and neoliberalism in the work of Jorge Volpi, Patricio Pron and Roberto Bolaño.

Responsibilities

I am the Editor in Chief and Founder of A Contracorriente (www.ncsu.edu/project/acontracorriente), a refereed journal on Latin American studies, which is published three times a year, and which I founded in 2003.  I am also the Editor in Chief and Founder of Editorial A Contracorriente (http://editorial.acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu), which publishes academic books in Latin American studies in conjunction with the University of North Carolina Press.

Research Publications

Articles Published (since 2015):

“La política de la forma en El espíritu de mis padres sigue subiendo en la lluvia de Patricio Pron” [forthcoming in Marcela Crespo Buiturón (ed.), Escrituras resilientes.  Debates, Narrativas e Imaginarios Emergentes de la Actual Crisis Civilizatoria en la Literatura Argentina (Buenos Aires:  Ediciones Universidad de El Salvador).]

“The Confluence of Avant-gardist Form and Realist Content in Residencia en la tierra.”  Ignacio López-Calvo ed., Pablo Neruda in Context (Cambridge:  Cambridge UP, forthcoming).

“La ambición totalizadora:  el Canto general de Pablo Neruda.” Grínor Rojo and Catalina Olea eds., Historia crítica de la literatura chilena, volumen 4 (Santiago:  LOM Editores, 2025), 155-161.

Luis Correa-Díaz and Greg Dawes, “The Verse as Being in the World: Chilean Poetry Before, During and After Pablo Neruda, History, and Politics.” A History of Chilean Literature. Ignacio López-Calvo ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), 259-295.

“El socialismo y los senderos que se bifurcan: Historia del llanto, de Alan Pauls.” Revista Gramma, vol. 32, núm. 65 (2020): 3-15.

“Neruda, el anarquismo y la democracia” in Tras las huellas de Pablo Neruda: Un homenaje a Hernán Loyola (Raleigh: Editorial A Contracorriente / University of North Carolina Press, 2020), 126-155.

“1969: Sobre Fin de mundo.” Nerudiana. Nº 25-26 (primavera 2020 [published: December 2020): 73-76 [triple columns].

“Futurism in Chile.” Ed. Gunter Berghaus, Handbook of Futurism (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018), 365-372.

“Neruda en el umbral de la crisis de 1956.” Reprinted in Luis Martín Cabrera, Ignacio Álvarez, Greg Dawes eds. Homenaje a Jaime Concha: releyendo a contraluz (Raleigh: Editorial A Contracorriente / University of North Carolina Press, 2018).

“Altazor y el ‘individualismo estético’ de Huidobro.” Translated and reprinted in Luis Correa-Díaz and Scott Weintraub eds., La futuridad absoluta de Vicente Huidobro (Raleigh: Editorial A Contracorriente / University of North Carolina Press, 2018), 67-89.

“Hacia el pasado para llegar al futuro: El camino de Ida, de Ricardo Piglia.” Revista Gramma, Año XXVIII, Núm. 59 (2017; published in 2018): 133-144.

“Neruda en el umbral de la crisis de 1956.” Estudios Públicos 143 (invierno 2016): 115-137.

“El lugar de Alain Sicard.” Nerudiana. No. 18 (diciembre 2015): 29-31 [triple columns].

Invited Presentations

“La política de la forma en El espíritu de mis padres sigue subiendo en la lluvia de Patricio Pron”.  (Keynote address). Jornadas de la Literatura Argentina.  Literaturas Resilientes, Relatos de Resistencia Política, Social y Ecológica.  Universidad del Salvador (Buenos Aires), Sede de la Facultad de Filosofía, Historia, Letras y Estudios Orientales.  13 a 15 de mayo, 2024.

“’Todas las estrellas / de nuestra larga y angosta noche oscura’”:  El Escudo de Chile de Luis Correa-Díaz.  Presentación del libro El Escudo de Chile, Luis Correa Díaz (Chile/USA).  En Zoom.  Auspiciada por la Editorial Oxeda, México.  September 20^th, 2023.

“The ‘Burning Patience’ of the Witness:  Neruda and the Road to Democratic Socialism.” Elon University.  “Poetic Pathways:  Creative Writing and Oral Performance in latin America and Spain” Series. Sponsored by the Department of World Languages and Cultures; Latin American Studies; Peace and Conflict Studies; Women, Gender and Sexualities Studies; International and Global Studies; the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning; the Isabella Cannon Global Education Center; El Centro; the Department of Sociology and Anthropology; and the Department of Philosophy.  18 April 2023.

“Ideology and the Struggle Over Memory:  Brizuela’s Una misma noche.”  The Walker Institute (Latin American, Carribean and US Latinx Studies Program) / Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.  University of South Carolina. 14 February 2023.

“The Persistence of the Nightmare: Argentine Narrative in the 21st Century.” Conferences on Ecological and Political Justice in Latin America. Department of World Languages and Literatures. Elon University. 9 November 2021.

“La urgencia del pensamiento de John Beverley.” Book Launch: Urgencias del latinoamericanismo en tiempos de globalización conflictiva. Tributo a John Beverley. Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Research, Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Bolivian Studies Journal, University of Pittsburgh. 29 October 2021.

“Living Out the Contradiction: Pablo Neruda and the Avant-Garde.” Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of New Hampshire. 19 April 2018.

“A Contracorriente: History of an Open Access Journal and its Challenges.” Diamond Library, University of New Hampshire. 19 April 2018.

“Living Out the Contradiction: Pablo Neruda and the Avant-Garde.” Symposium: Intersections of the Avant-Garde: Spain, Latin America, and the Problem of the Global in the Early Twentieth Century. Department of Hispanic Studies, Bowdoin College. 17 April 2018.

“Neruda in the Midst of the Spanish Civil War.” Department of Hispanic Studies, Bowdoin College. 17 April 2018.

“Globalization and Culture in Latin America.” Lee Early College / Central Carolina Community College, Sanford, NC. 27 February 2017.

“Multiforme y comprometido:  Pablo Neruda después de 1956.”  Coordinación de Hernán Jaeggi y Pablo Ponza.  Secretaría de Extensión y Relaciones Internacionales.  Facultad de Lenguas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. 6 October 2015.

“A Contracorriente:  la historia de una revista y una editorial y sus desafíos.” Las Editoriales en el Mundo Universitario.  Coordinado por Pablo Ponza.  Secretaría de Extensión y Relaciones Internacionales.  Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales.  Universidad de Córdoba.  5 October 2015.

“Neruda en el umbral de la crisis.”  Simposio:  Leer a contraluz:  un recorrido por la literatura latinoamericana junto a Jaime Concha.  Universidad de Chile/Pontificia Universidad Católica/Fundación Pablo Neruda.  Santiago, Chile.  13-14 August 2015.

“Multiforme y comprometido:  Neruda después de 1956.”  Fundación Pablo Neruda La Sebastiana.  Valparaíso, Chile.  17 April 2015.

“Neruda.”  Nido de Aguilas International School of Chile.  Santiago, Chile. 15 April 2015.

“Multiforme y comprometido:  Neruda después de 1956.”  Fundación Pablo Neruda La Chascona.  Santiago, Chile.  14 April 2015.

Area(s) of Expertise

Twentieth and Twenty-first century Latin American literature and culture, Latin American Poetry and narrative as well as literary and cultural theory.

Publications

• La palabra de Pablo Neruda (1960-1973). Acción y poesía junto al pueblo by Manuel J. Gutiérrez y Pedro Gutiérrez Revuelta (review) , Revista de estudios hispánicos (2023)
• Neruda's Sins , (2022)
• The Verse as Being in the World: Chilean Poetry before, during, and after Pablo Neruda , (2021)
• Neruda, el anarquismo y la democracia , (2020)
• Tras las huellas de Pablo Neruda: Un homenaje a Hernán Loyola , (2020)
• Homenaje a Jaime Concha: Releyendo a contraluz , (2018)
• Neruda en el umbral de la crisis de 1956 , (2018)
• Debate: En torno a Mario Benedetti , (2015)
• Multiforme y comprometido: Pablo Neruda después de 1956 , RIL Editores (2015)
• The young Neruda. 1904-1935 , Anales de Literatura Chilena (2015)

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