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Dr. Héctor García Chávez

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,  MAKE Literary Magazine/Lit&Luz Festivals

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Degrees

• M.A. and Ph.D., The University of Chicago, Romance Languages and Literatures
• Graduate Studies, Universidade de São 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), Córdoba, España (2013, 2014)
• Director, Hank Center´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 América Latina
• SPAN 389: El legado cuentístico latinoamericano
• SPAN 397 Literatura y cine mexicano contemporáneo
• SPAN 480: Novelas ejemplares latinoamericanas: siglos XX/XXI
• SPAN 487: Manifiestos de narrativa 'revolucionaria' y 'dictatorial' en América Latina
• WSGS 380/480: Queer Theory

Awards

• Sujack Master Teacher

Selected Publications

• Roberto Bolaño, Enrique Serna and Juan Villoro: Parody, Dark Humor, and Literary Wit in Contemporary Mexican Literature, book project with US publisher  (in progress).
• “ ‘Fefu and her Friends’: Performance as a method of Interdisciplinary Inquiry,” group article in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (Rutgers University Press), (peer reviewed, in progress).
• “Enrique Serna and Juan Villoro: Parody, Dark Humor and Literary Wit in Contemporary Mexican
• Literature,” Special Session “El humor en la literatura mexicana”, LASA, Chicago, May 2014.
• “Inverts”, “Degenerates” and “Perverts” in México City and Barcelona: Peripheral Voices Subverting the Global City,” (ACLA), NYU, March 2014.
• “Procurando un espacio 'queer' en la narrativa de Enrique Serna,” “Literatura ‘queer’ contemporánea: subversions de la masculinidad hegemónica latinoamericana,” Special Session Presider and Program Organizer, 2014 MLA, Chicago, January 2014.
• “Teaching Queer Theory as a Transformative Teaching Tool,” LGBT Psychology and Related Fields
• Coming Out for LGBT Psychology in the Current International Scenario, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (IUL), Lisboa, Portugal, June 2013.
• “Carlos Fuentes, una breve biografía,” La Raza, Chicago ImpreMedia Digital, 2nd of November 2012.
• “Hélice neobarroca: La imagen de México en la narrativa de Carpentier,” in Actas XXXVII IILI, Universidad de Las Américas, Puebla, June 2008.
• “Ilan Stavans and the Rise of Transnational Latino Fiction,” in The Disappearance: A Novella and Stories (Northwestern University Press on-line promotional material, 2007).
• “Filomeno: El negro subversivo como motivo histórico literario,” ejemplar: El siglo de Alejo Carpentier (La Habana, Casa de las Américas, número 238, 2005).
• “Latino presence in Illinois,” in Encyclopedia Latina: History, Culture, Society (Danbury, Grolier Publishing, 2005).
• “Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language,” in Amherst Quarterly Magazine, Spring, 2004.