Oswaldo Estrada

Editor of Hispanófila
Director, Faculty Fellows Program, Institute for the Arts and Humanities
Caro Register
Carlos Lopez Pari
Refujio Avalos Reyes
Katelyn Smith
Brenda Quiñones-Ayala
Jhonn Guerra Banda
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 2004MA, University of California, Davis, 2001BA, University of California, Davis, 1999
About Professor Estrada
Oswaldo Estrada’s research focuses on otherness, coloniality, gender studies, and the representation of violence. He is the author and editor of several books of literary and cultural criticism, including the award winning Troubled Memories: Iconic Mexican Women and the Traps of Representation (2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title).
Professor Estrada has earned very prestigious university-wide teaching awards: the Distinguished Post-Baccalaureate Teaching and Mentoring Award in 2012, the Chapman Family Distinguished Teaching Award in 2015, and the Carolina Women’s Leadership Council Teaching and Mentoring Award in 2019. For five years, he served as editor of Romance Notes, a journal founded in our department in 1959, and he is currently editor of Hispanófila, published in our department since 1968. In 2015, he founded the book series, “Palabras de América” (Valencia: Albatros), focused on contemporary literary criticism.
As a fiction writer, Professor Estrada has won several awards. In 2020, he won the International Latino and Latin American Book Fair Prize for Las locas ilusiones y otros relatos de migración (Axiara, 2020). In 2020, he also received an award for one of his short stories from the University of Guadalajara Press, and two major awards from the 2020 International Latino Book Awards for his collection of short stories, Luces de emergencia (Valparaíso USA, 2019, 2020), and for his edited volume, Incurables: relatos de dolencias y males (Ars Communis, 2020). In 2022, his book Las guerras perdidas received a Gold Medal for "Best Collection of Short Stories in Spanish" from the International Latino Book Awards.
Personal website: https://oswaldoestradaescritor.com
Publications, Articles, & Presentations
Special Journal Issues
El Perú en el nuevo milenio. Reflexiones y propuestas en torno al Bicentenario, with Carlos Villacorta. Special Issue. Hispanófila, 192, 2021
Género y sexualidad en la literatura mexicana del siglo XXI, Special Dossier for iMex: México Interdisciplinario / Interdisciplinary Mexico, 13, 2018
Cristina Rivera Garza: fronteras abiertas y colindancias de género. Special Dossier for Letras Femeninas, 42.2, 2017
El Quijote: senderos y destinos, with Sara Poot Herrera, Special Dossier for Romance Notes, 56.1, 2016
México: Sin Fronteras / Without Borders, Special Dossier for Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, 53, 2012
Nueva Narrativa Latinoamericana / New Latin American Narrative, Special Monographic Issue of Cuaderno Internacional de Estudios Humanísticos, 14, 2010
The Survival of Literature in the Age of Globalization, 50th Anniversary Issue of Romance Notes, 50.1, 2010
Transgresiones en el tintero: nuevos narradores mexicanos, Special Monographic Issue of Explicación de Textos Literarios, 36.1-2, 2008
Awards & Honors
International Latino Book Awards, 2020
International Latino and Latin American Book Fair Prize, 2020
Carolina Women's Leadership Council Teaching and Mentoring Award, 2019
University Research Council Award, 2016
LASA Honorary Mention for Best Article in the Humanities, Mexico Section, 2015
Chapman Family Distinguished Teaching Award, 2015
Academic Excellence Award, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, 2014
Faculty Mentoring Award, Department of Romance Languages, 2014
Frank Porter Graham Honorary Member, 2013
Distinguished Post-Baccalaureate Teaching and Mentoring Award, 2012
Dissertations
Vinodh Venkatesh, “Masculine Textualities: Gender and Neoliberalism in Contemporary Latin America,” 2011 (Virginia Tech).
Esther Sánchez-Couto, “Representaciones del silencio en la narrativa femenina de España y México (1990-2012),” 2013 (University of North Texas)
Anca Koczkas, “Cartografía del deseo: transgresiones sexuales y género en la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea,” 2015 (University of West Georgia)
Francisco Brignole, “Nuevos rumbos en la novela del exilio latinoamericano de la postdictadura (1990-2014),” 2015 (University of North Carolina Wilmington)
Wesley Costa de Moraes, “Animalidades literarias en la ciudad latinoamericana del siglo XXI,” 2018 (SUNY Geneseo)
Alejandra Márquez, “Disidencias de deseo femenino en representaciones literarias y culturales del México contemporáneo (1989-2015),” 2018 (Michigan State University)
Adrienne Erazo, “Identity in Trauma: Central American Migration in Contemporary Latin(x) American Literature”, 2019 (Appalachian State University)
Etna Avalos, “Intersections of Gender and Disability in the Contemporary Latin American Novel (2000-2015)”, 2019 (MacEwan University)
Recently Directed Dissertations
2022: Francisco Y. Chen-López, “Mapping Chinese Diaspora: Chinatowns in Contemporary Latin American Literature (1963-2016).” Spelman College
2022: Sarah Booker, “Mobile Embodiments: Tracing Translation in Contemporary Latin American Narrative.” North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
2022: Andrés Porras Chaves, “El imperio en disputa: diálogos entre crónica, novela y cine en la España postcrisis (2008-2020), IE University, Madrid
2019: Adrienne Erazo, “Identity in Transit: Central American Migration in Contemporary Latin American and Latinx Literature.” Appalachian State University
2019: Etna Avalos, “Representaciones literarias de la discapacidad en el contexto latinoamericano del siglo XXI.” MacEwan University
2018: Alejandra Márquez, “Disidencias del deseo femenino en representaciones literarias y culturales del México contemporáneo.” Michigan State University
2018: Wesley Costa de Moraes, “The Animalized Latin American City of the 21st Century.” SUNY Geneseo
2015: Francisco Brignole, “Nuevos rumbos en la novela del exilio latinoamericano de la postdictadura (1990-2014).” University of North Carolina, Wilmington
2015: Anca Koczkas, “Cartografía del deseo: transgresiones sexuales y género en la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea.” University of West Georgia
2013: Esther Sánchez-Couto, “Representaciones del silencio en la narrativa femenina de España y México (1990-2012).” University of North Texas
2011: Vinodh Venkatesh, “Masculine Textualities: Gender and Neoliberalism in Contemporary Latin America.” Virginia Tech
Typical Courses
ROML 58: Mexican Women across Borders and Genres
SPAN 344: Latin American Culture. Mexico, Central America & Andean Region
SPAN 373: Survey of Latin American Literature
SPAN 379: The Aesthetics of Violence in Latina/o American Fiction
SPAN 387: Eroticism and its Metaphors in Latin American Literature
SPAN 388: Narratives of the Mexican Revolution
SPAN 747: The Latin American Novel of the 20th Century
SPAN 835: Identity in Mexican Culture
SPAN 835: The New Historical Novel of the 21st Century
SPAN 835: The Mexican Revolution