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Department of

Languages and Literatures

Carlos Burgos

Visiting Assistant Professor, Spanish

Carlos Burgos will teach all levels of Spanish language and Latin American literature, film, and culture courses. His research interests include nineteenth and twentieth century Latin American literature and politics, travel writing, film, histories and theories of globalization, and critical articulations of literature and philosophy.

Education

M.A., University of California at Davis, Latin American Literature

B.A., Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil, Literature

Burgos is currently finishing his doctoral degree in Hispanic Literature from Stanford University.

Scholarly and Creative Work

Burgos' research has focused on nineteenth and twentieth Latin American Literature, Culture, and Politics. His book Entensión (2008) analyzes how literary texts can reflect different aesthetic and social problems in the Andean national states during their formative years. Burgos has also published several articles on violence and politics in Latin America. His publication “Violence, Evil, Memory: an approach to Roberto Bolaño’s narrative” won the Blum Graduate Essay Prize in 2008. Other publications have appeared in Nuevo Texto Crítico (Stanford), Quimera (Spain), Explicación de Textos Literarios (Cal State Sacramento), Semiosis (Universidad Veracruzana), among others. He is currently writing a book on the Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño.

Teaching Interests

Burgos has taught a variety of courses at Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil, Stanford and University of California, Davis, including language courses, surveys in Latin American literature and culture as well as upper division courses in film and critical theory. In addition to teaching departmental classes, Burgos Jara has participated in team-taught seminars on politics, terrorism, and documentary films in South America.

Curriculum

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