Juan Decastro
Co-Chair, Literary Studies (Literature and Critical Analysis); Professor and Dept. Faculty Advisor, Lit. and Critical Analysis
Email
decastrj@newschool.edu
Office Location
B - 65 West 11th Street
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I have written on diverse topics in Latin American literature: including the work of the Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa; on the way revolution and revolutionary thinking has been depicted in the region's fiction; and on the political and cultural activism of the Peruvian Marxist José Carlos Mariátegui, during the 1920s. I am currently at work on the volume on Latin American literature in the Routledge "Engagements with LIterature" series.
Degrees Held
PhD, Comparative Literature, University of Southern California; MA, Comparative Literature, University of Southern California; BA, English, California State University, Los Angeles
Professional Affiliation
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Modern Language Association
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Latin American Studies Association
Recent Publications
Books:
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The Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel, co-editor with Ignacio López-Calvo (Oxford UP, 2023). https://login.libproxy.newschool.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=3548089&site=ehost-live&scope=site
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Borges and Kafka, Bolaño and Bloom: Latin American Authors and the Western Canon (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
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Bread and Beauty: The Cultural Politics of José Carlos Mariátegui (Brill, 2020; Haymarket, 2021) https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.libproxy.newschool.edu/lib/newschool/detail.action?docID=6376199
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Writing Revolution in Latin American: From Martí to García Márquez to Bolaño (Vanderbiilt UP, 2019) https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/79553
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Roberto Bolaño as World Literature, co-editor with Nicholas Birns (Bloomsbury, 2017) https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.libproxy.newschool.edu/lib/newschool/detail.action?docID=4742334
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Critical Insights: Mario Vargas Llosa, editor (Salem Press, 2014). https://search-ebscohost-com.libproxy.newschool.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e900xww&AN=766342&site=ehost-live
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The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel: Bolaño and After, co-editor with Will H. Corral and Nicholas Birns (Bloomsbury, 2013)
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Mario Vargas Llosa: Public Intellectual inNeoliberal Latin America (U of Arizona P, 2011)
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Vargas Llosa and Latin American Politics , co-editor with Nicholas Birns (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
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The Spaces of Latin American Literature: Tradition, Globalization and Cultural Production (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
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Mestizo Nations: Culture, Race andConformity in Latin American Literature (U of Arizona P, 2002)
Selected Articles:
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"Boom Writers and Power." Council of Hemispheric Affairs. September 15, 2014.
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"Vargas Llosa, el Nobel y la izquierda.Guaraguao" 16.40 (2012): 55-66.
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(co-written with Nicholas Birns) “The Historical Novel: The War of the End of the World.” The Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa. Ed. Efraín Kristal. Cambridge UP, Cambridge, 2012. 62-73.
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“‘¿En qué idioma escribe usted?’: Spanish, Tagalog, and Identity in José Rizal’s Noli me tangere.” MLN 126.2 (March 2011).
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“Australia in Borges andBuarque.” Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/NewZealand Literature 24.2 (December 2010): 157-63.
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“Mr. Vargas Llosa Goes to Washington.” Vargas Llosa and Latin American Politics. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 21-28.
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“Mario Vargas Llosa versus Barbarism [PDF]” Latin American Research Review 45.2 (June, 2010). 5-26.
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“¿Fue José CarlosMariátegui racista? [PDF]” A Contracorriente 7.2 (Winter 2010). 80-91.
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“DeEliot a Borges: Tradición y periferia [PDF]” Iberoamericana 7.26 (2007): 7-18.
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“RubénDarío Visits Ricardo Palma:Tradition, Cosmopolitanism, and the Development of an Independent LatinAmerican Literature.” Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana 36.1 (2007): 48-61.
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“Christopher Isherwood Meets Jorge LuisBorges: On the Value of South American Cultures [PDF]” MLN 119 (2004): 329-43.
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“Richard Rodriguez in ‘Borderland’:The Ambiguity of Hybridity [PDF]” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 26.1 (2001): 101-27.
Interviews:
Research Interests
Latin American literature; Latin American popular cultures; constructions of nationality; Spanish literature.
Awards And Honors
Prose Award in the Literature Category for Writing Revolution in Latin America.
Current Courses
Contemporary Latin Am Lit
LLSL 2411, Fall 2024
Fascism: History and Fiction
LHIS 3061, Fall 2024
Ind Senior Project
LLSL 4990, Fall 2024
Independent Study
LLSL 3950, Fall 2024
Future Courses
Don Quixote
LLST 3501, Spring 2025
Ind Senior Project
LLSL 4990, Spring 2025
Independent Study
LLSL 3950, Spring 2025
Latin American Women Writers
LLSL 3507, Spring 2025
Past Courses
Cervantes Prize Winners
LLSL 3022, Spring 2024
Detectives North & South
LLSL 2209, Spring 2024
Ind Senior Project
LLSL 4990, Spring 2024
Independent Study
LLSL 3950, Spring 2024