Dr. Brian L. Price

Assistant Professor of Spanish

Office: Greene Hall 550

Phone:  336.758.4572

Email:   pricebl@wfu.edu

Website:  www.mexlit.wordpress.com 

Education

• 2007:  Ph.D., Hispanic Literature, University of Texas at Austin
• 2003: M.A., Hispanic Literature, University of Texas at Austin
• 2001: B.A., Spanish Translation and Interpretation, Brigham Young University

 Research Interests

• 19th, 20th, and 21st Century Mexican Literature
• Spanish American Historical Novel
• Comparative Literature

 
Courses Taught

• SPN 153 Intermediate Spanish
• SPN 213  Hispanic Literature and Culture
• SPN 216  Texts and Contexts in the Hispanic World
• SPN 373  Literatures of the Mexican Revolution
• SPN 379  20th Century Mexican Literature
• SPN 379  History, Memory & Fiction

Publications

• “Juan Villoro y las crónicas nostálgicas del rock and roll.” Forthcoming publication in Materias dispuestas: Juan Villoro ante la crítica.
• “Herencias e influencias: Jorge Luis Borges y la cuentística mexicana.” AlterTexto 7 (2006): 99-113.
• “Dos piedras rodando: El rock and roll en José Agustín y Luis Humberto Crosthwaite.” Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea 25 (2005): 93-102.
• Review of Ochoa, John. The Uses of Failure in Mexican Literature and Identity. Chasqui 35.1 (2006): 163-164.
• Review of Brescia, Pablo and Evelia Romano, eds. El ojo en el caleidoscopio: Las colecciones de textos integrados en Latinoamérica. Hispanófila 155 (2008): 117-118.

 Conference Presentations

• “Where History Ends and the Corrido Begins: Popular Imaginations in Recent Literature of the Mexican Revolution”. U of West Virginia Colloquium, September 2008.
• “El placer de la lectura: Nada cruel de José Ramón Ruisánchez”. Presented at the Fondo de Cultura Económica, Querétaro, Mexico, July 2008.
• “Rosa Beltrán y las voces ilusas de la novela histórica”. Presented at the Carolina Conference on Romance Languages, UNC Chapel Hill, March 2008.
• “Terapia para agringados: El sujeto transnacional en Hipotermia de Álvaro Enrigue”. Presented at the 13th Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, UT El Paso, March 2008.
• “Un sentimiento positivo de rencor histórico: México y Estados Unidos en la novela histórica mexicana”. Presented at the Latin American Studies Association Conference, Montreal, Canada, September 2007.
• “Making a Case for a Mexican Maximilian in Fernando del Paso’s Noticias del imperio”. Presented at the 12th Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, UT El Paso, March 2007.
• “Nuevos relatos del fracaso: la novela histórica en México”. Presented at the 3rd Colloquium on Transatlantic Studies, Brown University, April 2006.
• “La sangre derramada en la obra de José Emilio Pacheco”. Presented at the 11th UC Mexicanist Conference, UC Irvine, April 2006.
• “¿Momentos estelares? Reconstruyendo el siglo XIX mexicano”. Presented at the 11º Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, UT El Paso, March 2006.
• “La estética anti-petrarquista del retrato sorjuanista”. Presented at the 15th Annual Colloquium on Hispanic Literature and Romance Linguistics, UT Austin, April 2005.
• “Las gafas de Pangloss: México en los ensayos de Rosario Castellanos”. Presented at the Coloquio Rosario Castellanos, Colegio de México, D.F., November 2004.

 Works in Progress

• Cult of Defeat: Narratives of Failure in Mexico’s Historical Imagination. Manuscript based on my doctoral work that examines the prevalence of narratives of failure in 19th and 20th century historical recreations of Mexico’s Independence and nation building period.
• TransLatin Joyce. An edited volume of essays and archival texts relating to the appropriation of James Joyce’s work in Hispanic and Lusophone literatures. I am editing the collection in collaboration with Dr. César Salgado and Dr. John Pedro Schwartz.

 Academic Service

• Director, Wake Forest Semester Study Abroad Program, Salamanca, Spain, Spring 2009
• Director, Wake Forest Summer Study Abroad Program, Querétaro, México, Summer 2008
• Freshman Adviser
• Fulbright Committee

 Awards

• Archie Grant, Wake Forest U., November 2007
• Harry S. Livingstone Graduate Fellowship, UT Austin, April 2006
• E.D. Farmer Fellowship, UT Austin, March 2006
• E.D. Farmer Fellowship, UT Austin, March 2005

 Professional Activities and Memberships

• Modern Language Association, Latin American Studies Association, Sigma Delta Pi