Jose Luis Venegas

Assistant Professor

Education:

• PhD, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2007
• MA, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2004
• Licenciatura, Universidad de Sevilla, 2002

Courses Taught:

• SPA 213: Hispanic Literature and Culture
• SPA 359: Transatlantic Transitions: Postdictatorship in Spain and Latin America's Southern Cone

Representative Publications:

Book:

• Decolonizing Modernism: James Joyce and the Development of Spanish American Fiction. Oxford: Legenda (Modern Humanities Research Association and Oxford University), 2009.

Articles and Book Chapters:

• "Poesía, revolución y exilio: notas sobre la poética transatlántica de Octavio Paz." Forthcoming in Actas del IV Congreso sobre el exilio republicano (GEXEL). Barcelona: Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.
• “Octavio Paz y la Guerra Civil española: lírica personal y visión histórica.” Letras Peninsulares 21.2-3 (2009).
• “Unamuno, Epistolarity, and the Rhetoric of Transatlantic Hispanism.” MLN 124.2 (2009): 438-59.
• “Exile, Photography, and the Politics of Style in Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s Tres tristes tigres.” Latin American Literary Review 36.72 (2008): 107-133.
• “Writing Absence: History and Death in Borges’s ‘Tema del traidor y del héroe’.” Romance Notes 47.3 (2008): 281-289.
• “El ‘Principio de Incertidumbre’ de Heisenberg y la narración intersticial de ‘Axolotl’ de Julio Cortázar.” Hispanic Journal 28.2 (2007): 79-93.
• “Eliot, Borges, Tradition, and Irony.” Symposium 59.4 (2006): 237-255.
• “Figuring Modernity: James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Juan Ramón Jiménez’s Diario de un poeta reciencasado.” Silverpowdered Olivetrees: Reading Joyce in Spain. Eds. Jefferey Simons et al. Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla, 2003. 102-113.