The (Latin) American Scene, Present and Future (Im-)Perfect: Five Critical Conversations - Hardcover

by Fernando G. Herrero (Author)

The author converses with five noted scholars who have done important academic work in the United States since the 1980s. The conversations address academic agendas and university life dilemmas in the vicinity of the signs "Latin" and "Hispanic" in the United States. The volume addresses Spanish / English relations, literature and culture, history and theory (post-colonial, subaltern, etc.).

Author Biography

Fernando G Herrero (PhD Duke University) is currently Visiting Research Scholar at the Instituto de Iberoam?rica, University of Salamanca, Spain. He has taught in the United States (Duke University, Stanford University, Pittsburgh University, Oberlin College, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Boston College, etc.) and the United Kingdom (University of Birmingham, University of Manchester) in the last three decades. He is the author of Good Places and Non-Places in Colonial Mexico: Vasco de Quiroga (1470-1565).