Carlos J. Alonso
Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor in the Humanities
Chair
Carlos J. Alonso came to the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Columbia in fall 2005 from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was the Edwin B. and Leonore R. Williams Professor of Romance Languages. He specializes in 19th- and 20th-century Latin American intellectual history and cultural production, and in contemporary literary and cultural theory. He is the author of Modernity and Autochthony: The Spanish American Regional Novel (Cambridge UP), The Burden of Modernity: The Rhetoric of Cultural Discourse in Spanish America (Oxford UP), and editor of Julio Cortázar: New Readings (Cambridge UP). He was also Editor of PMLA, the scholarly journal of the Modern Language Association of America, during 2000-03, and edited the Hispanic Review in 2003-05—a period that ushered in changes that led to an award by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. While at Penn, Prof. Alonso was the recipient of a Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, the university's highest award for pedagogical excellence.
At Columbia he has taught recently the required graduate seminar on "Literary and Cultural Theory" and "Theories of Culture in Latin America," and has coordinated the creation of the undergraduate course Spanish 3350, "Hispanic Cultures II: From the Enlightenment to the Present." He is currently working on a study of the lyric as a form of ideological interpellation.
Casa Hispánica 305
calonso@columbia.edu
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