Juan Manuel Espinosa
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
PhD Cornell University
Caribbean and Circum-Caribbean literature. Atlantic intellectual and sensorial history. Critical theory. Imagination, the senses and intellectual history in the Caribbean.
(585) 275-4251
411 Lattimore Hall
Research/Writing interests
Caribbean and Circum-Caribbean literature. Atlantic intellectual and sensorial history. Critical theory. Currently working on the relation between imagination, the senses and intellectual history in the Caribbean.
Publications
- “Ferdydurke on the Island: The Subject's Constricted Space in Virgilio Piñera.” Chasqui. Revista de literatura latinoamericana. (November 2011).
- “Opio en las Nubes’s Liquid World: Colombia’s Generation X Reads without a Net.” Generation X Goes Global: Mapping a Youth Culture in Motion. Christine Henseler, Ed. New York: Routledge, 2012.
Translations
- Susan Buck-Morss – “A Universal History” (Second Half of Hegel and Haiti). Forthcoming.
- Susan Buck-Morss – “Visual Studies and Global Imagination.” Antípoda 9 (2010).
Teaching
- 19th to 21st Century Latin American Literature
- 19th to 21st Century Peninsular Literature
- Caribbean Literature and Thought
