Cruz, Gerardo
Gerardo Cruz
Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies
Gerardo Cruz
Ph.D.
Contact
Lyons Hall 311A
Telephone: 671-552-1052
Email: gerardo.cruz@bc.edu
ORCID
Education
- Ph.D., Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
- M.A., Universit茅 de Perpignan, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan
- B.A., M.A. Universidad de Guadalajara
- Ph.D., Boston University
Research Interests
Contemporary Latin American, Latinx and Peninsular literature, film and visual arts; Cultural Studies, Visual Studies; Postnationalism; Posthumanism; Spectralities; Cosmopolitanism; De/Post/Colonialism; contemporary French literature, film and arts; Creative Writing
SELECTED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
Actos de resistencia ante la barbarie contra el sujeto migrante,鈥� Acotaciones. Revista de Investigaci贸n y Creaci贸n Teatral, no. 51. Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dram谩tico de Espa帽a, 2024.
in From Shakespeare to Autofiction. Approaches to authorship after Barthes and Foucault.University College London, 2024.
ReCHERches. Culture et Histoire dans l鈥橢space Roman, Universit茅 de Strasbourg, 2023.
Altre modernit脿, no. 26, 2021.
Lejana. Revista Cr铆tica de Narrativa Breve, no. 14, 2021.
鈥淓st茅tica de lo performativo en el cine autoficcional de Alejandro Jodorowsky,鈥� Performatividades contempor谩neas: teatro, cine y nuevos medios. Visor, 2021.
鈥淒esarticulaci贸n de la m谩quina antropol贸gica en Axolotl de Julio Cort谩zar,鈥� Altre modernit脿, no. 26, 2021.
鈥淵oni Rei: construcci贸n y destrucci贸n de un cuerpo posthumano,鈥� Lejana. Revista Cr铆tica de Narrativa Breve, no. 14, 2021.
鈥淟a vanguardia, entre el fragmento y la totalidad. El valor de la traducci贸n de Joyce en revistas latinoamericanas,鈥� Constelaci贸n latinoamericana: intelectuales y escritores entre traducci贸n, cr铆tica y ficci贸n. Mantua: Universitas Studiorum, 2020.
鈥淎propiacionismo como construcci贸n del corpus textual y visual en Alberto Blanco y Joel-Peter Witkin,鈥� Seminario de Narrativa Latinoamericana Contempor谩nea-UNAM, 2019.
鈥淒eep Literature and Dirty Realism: Rupture and Continuity in the Canon,鈥� New Trends in Contemporary Latin American Narrative. Post-National Literatures and the Canon. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
鈥淟a franca mirada del viajero Vila-Matas. No lugares e implicaciones coloniales鈥�, Geometr铆a fractal. Transposiciones en la obra de Enrique Vila-Matas. Universidad Iberoamericana-Puebla and Universidad Aut贸noma de Puebla, 2013.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
鈥淓nvisioning the Posthuman World from Latin America,鈥� keynote speaker at the X International Conference of the Polish Association of Hispanists at University of Gda艅sk. Gda艅sk, 2024.
鈥淪onoridades de tradici贸n y ruptura. La performance musical afrodescendiente en el cine latinoamericano reciente,鈥� II International Meeting of Researchers in Afro-Latin American Studies at Universidad de Cartagena. Cartagena, 2024.
鈥淓xtractivism and Exploitation of Nature and Humans in the Posthuman Moment,鈥� 55th Northeast Modern Language Association Convention. Boston, 2024.
鈥淭he Polyphony of a Tzompantli. Migrants in the Experimental Literature of Balam Rodrigo and Juan Pablo Villalobos,鈥� II International Congress of Mexican Literature at UNAM. Mexico, 2023.
鈥�(Alter) Maternities of the Posthuman Moment in Latin American Science Fiction,鈥� Reimagining Futures: International Congress of Latin American and Spanish Science Fiction at Universidad de Alcal谩. Madrid, 2023.
鈥淟a expresi贸n del momento postnacional a trav茅s de la cultura,鈥� LASA Latin American Studies Association Conference. Vancouver, Canada, May 2021.
鈥淧osthumanismo y postnacionalismo en la novela gr谩fica La Burbuja de Bertold,鈥� II International Congress of Latin American Contemporary Fiction-Universidad Nacional Aut贸noma de M茅xico. Mexico City, Mexico, February 2020.
鈥淧osthumanismo y nuevas tecnolog铆as en el teatro hisp谩nico actual: Guillermo G贸mez-Pe帽a y Marcel-l铆 Ant煤nez,鈥� Conference Performa: New Spaces/New Formats in the Hispanic Contemporary Theatre. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago, Spain, November 2019.
鈥淚dentidades postnacionales y diseminaciones culturales en la novela latinoamericana reciente,鈥� Ibero-American Institute in Berlin. Berlin, Germany, August 2019.
鈥淧erformatividad y visualizaci贸n social de G贸mez-Pe帽a: migraci贸n (in)documentada e identidad trasnacional M茅xico-Estados Unidos,鈥� International Colloquia Le theatre hors de lui. Universit茅. de Toulouse. Toulouse, France, November 2019.
鈥淐onstruction and Destruction of Yoni Rei鈥檚 Posthuman Body,鈥� The Body at its Limits. XXIV Annual Juan Bruce-Novoa Mexican Studies Conference, University of California-Irvine. Irvine, April 2018.
鈥淵uri Herrera鈥檚 Mexican North-Literature as World Literature,鈥� Colloquium Politics, Poetics & World Literature. Harvard University Institute for World Literature. Harvard University and University of Copenhagen. Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2017.
鈥淐uentos mexicanos contempor谩neos de ciencia ficci贸n: Pepe Rojo y BEF,鈥� Ministry of Culture of Jalisco State. Guadalajara. Guadalajara, Mexico, April 2016.
鈥淐reation and Crisis of Latin American Self-fiction in Aira and Bellatin,鈥� Author, Authorship, and Authority in the Age of Cultural Studies and New Media. Hermes Consortium of Literary and Cultural Studies at Charles University of Prague. Prague, Czech Republic, June 2015.