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Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández

  • Associate Professor of Spanish
  • Program Head, Advisors to Minors, Placement Petitions, Take-Five

PhD, Cornell University

Office Location
420 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4257

Office Hours: On leave Fall 2024 Semester

Research Overview

Research Interests

  • Twentieth- and twenty-first-century Hispanic literatures and cultures
  • literary theory
  • Frankfurt School
  • European philosophical traditions in Latin America
  • Latin American cinema
  • the visual arts
  • the Baroque and Neo-Baroque
  • the Gothic tradition

Courses Offered (subject to change)

  • CLT 101D:  Mexico, DF: The Global Metropolis (Spring 2015)
  • SP 200:  Advanced Spanish Composition (Fall 2017)
  • SP 204:  Coming to Terms: Spanish American Literature, from Tradition to Innovation (Spring 2016)
  • SP 206:  The Invention of Spanish America: From Colonial Subjects to Global Citizens (Spring 2016)
  • SP 262B:  Cuba at a Crossroads (Fall 2015)
  • SP 262D:  Culture & Literature of the Caribbean (Fall 2018)
  • SP 266:  Brazilian Culture and Literature (Spring 2013)
  • SP 270:  The Hispanic Short Story (Fall 2017)
  • SP 275:  Marx and Freud in Latin America (Spring 2017)
  • SP 280:  The Transhispanic Supernatural: Ghosts, Witches, and Vampires in Film and Literature from Spain and Spanish America – co-taught with Claudia Schaefer (Spring 2017)
  • SP 287:  Latin-American Film (Fall 2016)
  • SP 287A:  Mexican Film (Fall 2018

Selected Publications

  • With Claudia Schaefer. "From Utopia to Uchronia: After-images of Revolutionary History in Contemporary Mexican Film." Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinema, vol. 13, no. 2, Jun. 2016, pp. 137-57. Ingenta Connect, .
  • "Seduction, Constellation, Illumination: The Afterlife of Walter Benjamin in the Writings of Sergio Pitol." Benjamin in Latin America. Spec. issue of Discourse, vol. 32, no. 1, Winter 2010, pp. 117-37. JSTOR, .
  • "All Streetcars Are Named Desire: The Lost Cities of Juan García Ponce's Personas, lugares y anexas." New Centennial Review, vol. 5, no. 3, Winter 2005, pp. 35-64. JSTOR, .