About
I am the author of The Other Side of the Popular: Neoliberalism and Subalternity in Latin America (Duke University Press, 2002) as well as of a number of articles dealing with critical issues such as Latin American cultural/subaltern studies; populism, cultural hybridity, and consumption; neoliberalism, literature, and violence in the Andes; postdictatorship and literature in Chile and Argentina; Central American testimonio, etc.
I am currently writing a book on biopolitics and sovereignty in contemporary Latin American literature.
Recent and Selected Publications
“The Mexican Exception and the ‘Other Campaign’”. The South Atlantic Quarterly (106:1) (Spring 2007): 129-51.
“Sovereign (In)hospitality: Politics and the Staging of Equality in Revolutionary Mexico”. Discourse 27.2 & 27.3 (Spring and Fall 2005): 95-123.
"Propiedad, pasion y vida desnuda: El Villismo y los limites de lo biopolitico (Apuntes para un acercamiento teorico al Villismo". Metapolitica 36 (julio-agosto 2004):
(http://www.metapolitics.com.mx/36/vimpresa/dossier/10.htm).
"Ortega Reading Dilthey, and Ideas on Life (1933)." Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. (Voc. 5/2)(July 2004): 201-11.
"Chimbote and the Shores of indigenismo: Biopolitics and Bare Life in El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo". Revista de estudios hispanicos 38(1) (January 2004): 43-68.
Recent graduate courses taught:
Biopolitics and Bare Life in Latin America
Mexican War Machines
1968 and the Revolution of Everyday Life
