Alicia Rivero
Education
Ph.D., Brown UniversityMA, Brown University
About Professor Rivero
Professor Rivero's research interests are focused in the following areas: Late 19th-21st Century Spanish-American Literature, Comparative Literature, Literary Theory, Digital Humanities, Digital Literature and Theory, History of Ideas, Gender Issues, Interrelations of Literature and Science, and Cultural Studies. She is working on a book project, “Nature in Contemporary Latin(a) American Literature: Environment, Gender, and Race.”
Besides the graduate courses listed below, she has taught graduate seminars on various topics, for example: The Roles of the Author and Reader; Nation and the Transnational: Borders, (Im)Migration, Race, Ethnicity, and Gender; Nature in 20th Century Latin American Literature; Hispanic Women's Narratives and Feminist Theory. She has also taught similar undergraduate seminars.
She has given many given papers at national and international conferences.
Research Interests
Late 19th-21st Century Spanish-American Literature
Comparative Literature
Literary Theory
Digital Humanities, Digital Literature and Theory
History of Ideas
Gender Issues
Interrelations of Literature and Science
Cultural Studies
Publications, Articles, & Presentations
Books
Autor/lector: Huidobro, Borges, Fuentes y Sarduy (author).
Between the Self and the Void: Essays in Honor of Severo Sarduy (editor)
Journals Edited
Ometeca: Science and Humanities/Ciencia y humanidades/Ciência e humanidades (editor 2021-2016).
Hispanófila, Special Issue on Environmental Humanities (guest editor, in progress).
Special issue on “Literatura y Ciencia” of La Torre: Revista de la Universidad de Puerto Rico (guest editor, vol. 3.9, 1998).
Selected BOOK CHAPTERS
“Carlos Fuentes’ Evolution Towards Ecological Awareness in His Essays and Narratives.” Science, Literature and Film in the Hispanic World. edited by Jerry Hoeg and Kevin Larsen. Palgrave MacMillan, 2006, pp. 75-85.
“La opresión en la narrativa de Luisa Futoransky: Son cuentos chinos y De Pe a Pa (o de Pekín a París) revised" Luisa Futoransky y su palabra itinerante, edited by Ester Gimbernat González. Ediciones de Hermes Criollo, 2006, pp. 133-52.
“Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle in Contemporary Spanish American Fiction.” Science and the Creative Imagination in Latin America, edited by Evelyn Fishburn and Eduardo Ortiz, Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, School of Advanced Study, 2005, pp. 129-50.
“Scientific and Neobaroque (In)stability in Nueva inestabilidad.” Between the Self and the Void: Essays in Honor of Severo Sarduy edited by Alicia Rivero[-Potter], Society of Spanish and Spanish American Studies, U of Colorado, 1998, pp. 101-19.
“Afinidades intertextuales entre la evocación mallarmeana y la metáfora neobarroca sarduyana: De donde son los cantantes.” Le Néo-baroque cubain. América: Cahiers du CRICCAL 20. Presses de Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1998, pp. 125-36.
Selected Articles in Peer-Reviewed, Scholarly Journals
"Chiappe’s Hypertext Novel, Tierra de extracción: Digital and Ecocritical Approaches,” Studi Ispanici, special issue on La ciencia en la literatura hispánica, no. 45, 2020, pp. 385-405.
“La sutura sarduyana en El Cristo de la rue Jacob.” Hispanofila, special anniversary issue, vol. 157 2009, pp. 159-73.
“Carlos Fuentes’s Dystopia: Cristóbal Nonato.” Ometeca: Humanities and Science, vol. 8 no. 1, 2004, pp. 113-32.
“Ecocide in Paradise: The Turn of the Century in Fuentes’ ‘Las dos Américas’.” Latin American Literary Review vol. 63, no. 32, 2004, pp. 5-23.
"La mujer cibernética en 'Salvad vuestros ojos' de Huidobro, 'Anuncio' de Arreola y El eterno femenino' de Castellanos." La Torre: Revista de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, special issue on Literatura y Ciencia, guest edited by Alicia Rivero[-Potter], vol. 3, no. 9, pp. 1998, pp. 579-96.
"Complementariedad e incertidumbre en 'El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan' de Borges." La Torre: Revista de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, vol. 2, no. 6, 1997, pp. 459-74.
"La ciencia como mito en Nueva inestabilidad." Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, vol. 563, 1997, pp. 45-53.
"Columbus' Legacy in Cristóbal Nonato by Carlos Fuentes." Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, vol. 20, 1996, pp. 305-25.
"Ramón Gómez de la Serna y Vicente Huidobro: Intertextualidad." Hispanic Review, vol. 59, 1991, pp. 437-50.
"The Role of the Reader in Julieta Campos's Tiene los cabellos rojizos y se llama Sabina." Hispania vol. 73, 1990, pp. 633-40.
Articles in Selected Conference Proceedings
“El imaginario cosmológico en Pájaros de la playa de Severo Sarduy.” Escrituras del imaginario en veinte años de Archivos: Actas del Coloquio Internacional. Proc., June 1998, Centre de Recherches Latino-Américaines-Archivos, Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France. Ed. Joaquín Manzi and Fernando Moreno. Centre de Recherches Latino-Américaines-Archivos, Université de Poitiers, 2001. 321-27.
"La crónica de La Malinche en El eterno femenino de Rosario Castellanos." Conquista y contraconquista: La escritura del Nuevo Mundo (Actas del XXVIII Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana). Proc., June 1990, Brown University, edited by Julio Ortega and José Amor y Vázquez, El Colegio de México and Brown University, 1994. 587-96.
Awards & Honors
Honors
Phi Beta Kappa.
Dissertations
Thomas Phillips. “A Voice Crying Out in the Desert: Gendered Spaces in the Works of María Teresa Andruetto” (Ph.D. 2021).
Carlos Vázquez Cruz. “Evolución tecno-digital en novelas gays hispánicas: El diario de J. L. de Rei, Ondergraund.com de Rodríguez Pagán y Sudor de Fuguet” (Ph.D. 2019).
Typical Courses
Graduate Level
The Contemporary Spanish American Novel (Span. 747).
The Vanguards (Span. 745).
The Spanish American Short Story and Essay (Span. 741).
Undergraduate Level
Studies in Latin American Literature (Span. 373).
Contemporary Spanish American Prose Fiction (Span. 385).
Studies in Spanish and Spanish American Poetry (Span. 381).
Latin@ American Cultural Topics (Span. 344).