ALEJANDRO MEJÍAS-LOPEZ, Indiana University Bloomington
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1995
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese Director, Undergraduate Studies Indiana University Bloomington Alejandro Mejías Lopez research combines Latin American and Transatlantic Studies and seeks new ways to approach the study of modernism and modernity in Spanish America, Spain, and Western culture more broadly. Publishes articles on modernismo, modernist fiction, and the imperial legacies of Hispanism and the book The Inverted Conquest: The Myth of Modernity and the Transatlantic Onset of Modernism (Vanderbilt UP 2010), which questions the neo/post-colonial theoretical frameworks that have sustained Latin American studies for decades and showed how a transatlantic approach can help us recognize modernismos radical modernity and its multilayered relationship with both western and global modernisms and modernities. From within the fields of Latin American and Transatlantic studies, he has pursued a critical research of a practice of transatlanticism that leaves traditional power structures in place. He is a teacher of undergraduate courses on Spanish American literatures and cultures, as well as introductory courses in Hispanic cultural history and Hispanic literatures; at graduate level, he teaches Introduction to 19th-Century Spanish American literature as well as more specialized courses and seminars on topics such as modernism, modernity, postcoloniality, transatlanticism, cosmopolitanism, and emerging theories of world literature. |