Synopsis:
At the age of fifteen I decided to be a teacher. I enrolled in a magnate
high school for teacher training in my native Colombia, and since
then my passion for research and education has not withered. With
time, I pursued my studies in Philosophy, Social Communication, Journalism,
and Contemporary Problems Analysis. After a four-year period as an
editor for a Colombian publishing house I moved to the United States
and received my Ph.D. at Cornell University. I am presently finishing
the manuscript for my first book: "On the Dark Side of the Archives:
Nation and Literature in Late Nineteenth-Century Hispanic America."
It examines nineteenth-century nation building through narratives
that are not part of the romantic or realist traditions, especially
those associated with the critique of traditional ideals often portrayed
in decadentism and modernismo. The study focuses on the "non-canonical"
works of turn-of-the-century authors like José María
Vargas Vila, Horacio Quiroga, Clemente Palma, and José Martí,
and concludes with a study that compares the literary portrayal of
doomed societies in the nineteenth-century with the work of contemporary
authors like Fernando Vallejo. |
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