Óscar Iván Useche
Graduate Student
Óscar Iván Useche holds a B.S. in Electronic Engineering from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, where he graduated with his research work nominated for the award in excellence given by the university every semester. Óscar received an M.A. in Latin American Literature from the same university with a monographic essay entitled: "Del cine a la novela y viceversa: McOndo o la influencia de los medios audiovisuales en la nueva narrativa latinoamericana (Estudio de caso en la novela Tinta roja de Alberto Fuguet)". He recently completed an M.A. in Hispanic Literature from Indiana University at Bloomington.
Currently, his research and academic interests include the influence of modernization processes, particularly technological and economic in the literature of the restoration period in Spain; the second half of the 19th century and pre civil war Spanish literature and culture; and the theoretical and philosophical dialectic between positivism and literature in Spanish naturalism.
He has published “Anhelos de modernidad en Los pazos de Ulloa: civilización y barbarie como espacios contradictorios,” Sin Frontera 1.1 (2006). He has also presented the following papers: “Entre la realidad y la ficción: Diálogo entre historia y literatura en Fuenteovejuna de Lope de Vega,” Third Annual Graduate Student Conference on Luso-Brazilian and Hispanic Literature, Linguistics and Culture, Indiana University, February 2006; “Perspectivas sobre la influencia de los medios audiovisuales en la narrativa latinoamericana de finales del siglo xx," Thirty-fifth Annual 20th-Century Literature and Culture Conference, University of Louisville, February, 2007.
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