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The University of Connecticut
354 Mansfield Road Unit 2137
Beach Hall Room 412
Storrs, CT 06269
Tel : 860-486-3997
Email: guillermo.irizarry@uconn.edu
Area of Speciality:
Latin American, Caribbean, and US Latina/o Literature and Culture. Ethnic studies in an American (hemispheric), context, and diaspora studies.
Biographical Note:
Professor Irizarry received a BA in Humanities (Drama) from the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras, a MA in Dramatic Theory and Criticism from the Florida State University, and a PhD in Hispanic Literature from the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught Latin American literature, Caribbean literature, and US Latina/o Literature at UT Austin, Bucknell University (2yrs.), at Yale University (5yrs.), Brown University (Visiting) and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His current research dals with the hegemonization of US Latinas/os and the ontological fragmentation of natoinal and ethnic identities.
Selected Publications:
José Luis González: El intelectual nómada . Editorial Callejón: Río Piedras, 2006
"Failed Modernity: San Juan at Night in Mayra Santos Febres' Cualquier miércoles soy tuya ". In Unfolding the City: Women Write the City in Latin America . Eds. Anne Lambright and Elizabeth Guerrero. University of Minnesota Press. In Press. [25pgs.]
"Cadavers Encountered: Identification and Community in US Latina/o Cultural Production." Latino Studies Journal . In press [25pgs.]
"Roberto Fernández". Latino and Latina Writers . Ed. Alan West, César Salgado et al. New York : Scribner's, 2004. 591-611.
"La traducción imposible o la inoperabilidad de la gran familia humana: a propósito de The House on the Lagoon , de Rosario Ferré, y Raining Backwards , de Roberto Fernández". Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana 32.2 (2003).
"José Luis González: El intelectual nómada y la reestructuración de la geografía nacional". La Torre 10.35 (2005): 99-117.
"Problemas de identidad: metadrama y subjetividad en Sintigo , El olor del popcorn e Indocumentados de José Luis Ramos Escobar." Latin American Theatre Review , Spring (2001): 107-25.
"La dinámica racial y el discurso antropológico en El entierro de Cortijo de Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá." Milenio 4 (2001): 177-87.
"Travelling Textualities and Phantasmagoric Originals: A Reading of Translation in Two Recent Spanish-Caribbean Narratives." Ciberletras 4 (2000). (15pgs.) http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/v04/irizarry.html
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