Jose Pasten

Bio

I am a native of Chile.  Before coming to NCSU in 2008, I taught Latin American Literature and Culture at the University of Nebraska for fifteen years.  I currently teach courses in my specialization and I serve on my department’s Award’s Committee as well on the Post Tenure Review Committee.

Projects

I am presently working on an article on Alana S. Portero’s novel La mala costumbre.

Office Hours

• Tues: 1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. & 4:30 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
• Thu:  1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. & 4:30 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.

Research Publications

Most Recent:

— “Economic Trans/actions and Space in Camila Sosa Villada’s Las malas and Fernanda Melchor’s Tiempo de huracanes. In Non-Normative Sexualities in US Latinx and Latin American Literature through a Capitalist Lens. Ed. Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez and Michele Shaul. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2023. 67-87.

— Review of Alfredo Lèal Rodríguez’s Bolaño frente a Herralde. Relaciones económicas entre poética y edición de literatura latinoamericana (Berlin: Gruyter, 2022). Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Vol. CI, No. 7 (2024): 15-16.

— Review of Ryan F. Long’s Queer Exposures, Sexuality and Photography in Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction & Poetry (Pittsburgh: U. of Pittsburgh P., 2021). A Contracorriente, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Fall 2022): 336-41.

— Review of José Ramón Ruisánchez’s La reconciliación. Roberto Bolaño y la literatura de amistad en América Latina (México: UNAM, 2019). Hispanófila 192 (Summer 2021): 223-26.

— Postmodernism of Resistance in Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction and Poetry. Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico P, 2020.

— “El presente del pasado en las novelas de Nona Fernández.” Mapocho. Revista de humanidades 88 (2020): 124-42.

— “Malestar en la nación. ¿Qué le duele a Chile?” Revista Cronopio 91 (20 de octubre, 2020). https://revistacronopio.com/malestar-en-la-nacion-que-le-duele-a-chile-j-agustin-pasten-b/

— “Violence and Bodies under Siege in the Works of Diamela Eltit, Lina Meruane and Fátima Sime.” Hispanófila 178 (December 2016): 51-66.

— “Ni grobalizado ni glocalizado.  ¿La metrópolis de Fuguet o la metrópolis de Lemebel?” Vectores de residencia.  Eds. José Solís Opazo, Marco Valencia Palacios y Leonardo Cortés Estay.  Santiago: Universidad Central, 2015.  238-62.

— “Dialectical Geographies in Contemporary Chilean Literature: the Case of Diamela Eltit’s Narrative Production.” Romance Notes 54.1 (2014): 31-39.

Presentations

Most Recent:

— “Aproximación al concepto masculinidad en la narrativa femenina contemporánea latinoamericana.” XXXII Congreso de la Asociación de Estudios de Géneros y Sexualidades. Querétaro, México (October 5, 2023).

— “El crepúsculo de los hombres en Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego, de Mariana Enríquez.” KFLC, Lexington, KY. April 22, 2023.

— “Género, clase y espacio en Las malas de Camila Sosa Villada y Tiempo de huracanes de Fernanda Melchor.” KFLC, Lexington, KY. April 22, 2022.

— “Surface or Symptomatic Reading? The Case of Nona Fernández’s Narrative Production.” (virtual) KFLC. April 22, 2021.

— “El presente del pasado en La dimensión desconocida, de Nona Fernández.” Symposium on contemporary Chilean narrative, “Otros tiempos, ¿otras formas? Lo contemporáneo en la narrativa chilena actual.” Paris (October 17-19, 2019).

— “Ruminations on Narrative Discourse by Contemporary Women Fiction Writers from Latin America and French-Speaking countries: Nettel, Piñeiro, Belli, Darrieussecq, Nothomb, and Germain.” KFLC. Lexington, KY. April 21, 2018.

— “Notes on Contemporary Women Fiction Writers: Latin American and French Voices.”  Visiting Senior Fellow at Virginia Tech’s Residential College. March 26, 2018.

— “Mapping the Territory in Roberto Bolaño’s Short Stories.” KFLC.  April 20-22, 2017.  Lexington, KY.

— “Ruminations on Space and Place in Roberto Bolaño’s Short Stories.” SECOLAS (Southestern Council on Latin American Studies).  March 23-26, 2017.  Chapel Hill

— “Discursos sobre enfermedad en la historia chilena reciente.” LASA (Latin American Studies Association).  May 27-30, 2016.  New York.

— “Malestar en la nación: ¿qué le duele a Chile.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference.  April 14-17, 2016.

— “Towards a Postmodernism of Resistance in Roberto Bolaño’s La literatura nazi en América.” KFLC.  Lexington, April 23 (2015).

— “Bodies Under Siege in Eltit’s Fuerzas especiales, Meruane’s Fruta podrida and Sime’s Carne de perra.” Kentucky Foreign Languages and Literatures Conference.  April 12, 2014

 

 

 

Area(s) of Expertise

Latin American Literature and Culture, The Latin American Novel, The Latin American Urban Chronicle, Latin American History and Politics, Chilean History from 1960 to the Present, Narratology, Literary Theory, Cultural Studies