Dr. H茅ctor Garc铆a Ch谩vez

About

Joint Appointment, Modern Languages & Women's Studies & Gender Studies 

Director, Latin American and Latino/a Studies Program

Associate Faculty, Honors Program 

Director, Gender & Identity Issues Summer Program

Board of Directors,  

Degrees

• M.A. and Ph.D., The University of Chicago, Romance Languages and Literatures
• Graduate Studies, Universidade de S茫o Paulo and Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brasil
• B.A. with Honours, Amherst College (Art History & Spanish, Five Colleges Latin American Studies Certificate)

Research Interests

• XX/XXI Latin American Literatures
• Mexican Literature and Cultural Studies
• Gender Studies & Queer Theory
• Ibero-American Transatlantic & Postcolonialism Studies
• Latin@ Studies, Border Studies
• Contemporary Iberian, Latin@ and Latin American Cinema
• Latin American Cultural Studies and Transnationalism 

Professional & Community Affiliations

• Director, Summer Program in Palma de Mallorca (2011, 2012), C贸rdoba, Espa帽a (2013, 2014)
• Director, Hank Center麓s 2014 Chicago Catholic Immigration Conference: The Mexicans:  http://ecommons.luc.edu/ccic/

Courses Taught

• HONR 208: Encountering Latin America
• SPAN 270 & 271: Canonical Iberian Peninsular Texts, I, II
• SPAN 352: Obras maestras de Am茅rica Latina
• SPAN 389: El legado cuent铆stico latinoamericano
• SPAN 397 Literatura y cine mexicano contempor谩neo
• SPAN 480: Novelas ejemplares latinoamericanas: siglos XX/XXI
• SPAN 487: Manifiestos de narrativa 'revolucionaria' y 'dictatorial' en Am茅rica Latina
• WSGS 380/480: Queer Theory

Awards

• Sujack Master Teacher

Selected Publications

• Roberto Bola帽o, Enrique Serna and Juan Villoro: Parody, Dark Humor, and Literary Wit in Contemporary Mexican Literature, book project with US publisher  (in progress).
• 鈥� 鈥楩efu and her Friends鈥�: Performance as a method of Interdisciplinary Inquiry,鈥� group article in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (Rutgers University Press), (peer reviewed, in progress).
• 鈥淓nrique Serna and Juan Villoro: Parody, Dark Humor and Literary Wit in Contemporary Mexican
• Literature,鈥� Special Session 鈥淓l humor en la literatura mexicana鈥�, LASA, Chicago, May 2014.
• 鈥淚nverts鈥�, 鈥淒egenerates鈥� and 鈥淧erverts鈥� in M茅xico City and Barcelona: Peripheral Voices Subverting the Global City,鈥� (ACLA), NYU, March 2014.
• 鈥淧rocurando un espacio 'queer' en la narrativa de Enrique Serna,鈥� 鈥淟iteratura 鈥榪ueer鈥� contempora虂nea: subversions de la masculinidad hegemo虂nica latinoamericana,鈥� Special Session Presider and Program Organizer, 2014 MLA, Chicago, January 2014.
• 鈥淭eaching Queer Theory as a Transformative Teaching Tool,鈥� LGBT Psychology and Related Fields
• Coming Out for LGBT Psychology in the Current International Scenario, Instituto Universita虂rio de Lisboa (IUL), Lisboa, Portugal, June 2013.
• 鈥淐arlos Fuentes, una breve biograf铆a,鈥� La Raza, Chicago ImpreMedia Digital, 2nd of November 2012.
• 鈥淗e虂lice neobarroca: La imagen de Me虂xico en la narrativa de Carpentier,鈥� in Actas XXXVII IILI, Universidad de Las Ame虂ricas, Puebla, June 2008.
• 鈥淚lan Stavans and the Rise of Transnational Latino Fiction,鈥� in The Disappearance: A Novella and Stories (Northwestern University Press on-line promotional material, 2007).
• 鈥淔ilomeno: El negro subversivo como motivo histo虂rico literario,鈥� ejemplar: El siglo de Alejo Carpentier (La Habana, Casa de las Ame虂ricas, nu虂mero 238, 2005).
• 鈥淟atino presence in Illinois,鈥� in Encyclopedia Latina: History, Culture, Society (Danbury, Grolier Publishing, 2005).
• 鈥淪panglish: The Making of a New American Language,鈥� in Amherst Quarterly Magazine, Spring, 2004.