Óscar Iván Useche
Graduate Student
Óscar Iván Useche holds an M.A. in Latin American Literature from Bogotá’s Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, and an M.A. in Hispanic Literature from Indiana University at Bloomington. Currently, his research and academic interests include the second half of the 19th century Spanish literature and culture, the influence of modernization processes –particularly technological and economic– in the literature of the restoration period in Spain, and the tensions between positivism and religion in the Spanish naturalism. He has published the articles “Anhelos de modernidad en Los Pazos de Ulloa: civilización y barbarie como espacios contradictorios,” Sin Frontera 1.1 (2006), “Economía y crisis de representabilidad en Su único hijo de Leopoldo Alas,” forthcoming in the 2010 issue of Siglodiecinueve, “La solución de la maternidad: esterilidades contradictorias en La Regenta de Leopoldo Alas,” forthcoming in the 2010 issue of UFLR, and the review “El nuevo capitalismo y la ‘ciudad dual’: entre lo local y lo cosmopolita ante el impacto de la tecnología.” Polisemia 1.8 (2009). At the present he is an assistant editor of Revista Hispánica Moderna.
Useche has also presented the following papers “Invertir para subvertir: ambigüedad, ruptura y crisis de representabilidad en Su único hijo de Leopoldo Alas”. The Economics of Literature and the Literature of Economics in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Hispanic World. The MLA's 124th Annual Convention. San Francisco, December 2008. “La utopía contradictoria española: el espíritu territorial y la hispanidad en la modernización de España”. Myth and Mythmaking in Iberian and Luso-Hispanic Literatures. University of Chicago. October-November 2008. “El discurso científico en la construcción de la subjetividad latinoamericana: los procesos de independencia como ecos de la ilustración en la América colonial”. The Second Chimalpahin Conference: Colonial and Post-Colonial Remembering and Forgetfulness. Mexico City, October 2007. And “Perspectivas sobre la influencia de los medios audiovisuales en la narrativa latinoamericana de finales del siglo XX”. The thirty-fifth annual 20th-Century Literature and Culture Conference. University of Louisville, February 2007.
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