Miguel López
Associate Professor Miguel López received an appointment in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The University of New Mexico in 1998. He offers a wide variety of courses for undergraduate and graduate students, with topics addressing representations of border culture, Indigenismo, emergent topics related to neoliberalism, and representations of dictatorship in art, among others. His research interests and areas of specialization include Mexican and Chicano literature, 20th- and 21st- century Latin American literature and cultural studies, and border studies violence and culture. He is the author of Utopian Dreams, Apocalyptic Nightmares: Globalization in Recent Mexican and Chicano Narrative (Purdue University Press, 2008).
Education
- PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Berkeley (1998)
- MA in Spanish, San Francisco State University (1992)
- BA in Spanish, San Francisco State University (1990)
Research Areas
- Cultural Studies
- Indigenismo
Country Specialization(s)
- Mexico
- Guatemala
Latin American Studies Courses
- SPAN 438 Mexican Literature
- SPAN 639 Seminar: Indigenismo
- SPAN 307 Intro Hispanic Literature
- SPAN 439 T: Neoliberal Lit & Film Mexico
- SPAN 639 Seminar: Mex Rev and Neoliberalism
- SPAN 439 La Dictadura en el Arte
- SPAN 301 T: Cronicas fronterizas
- SPAN 439 T: Frontera y Violencia
- SPAN 601 Literary Theory
- SPAN 439 Otras Fronteras
- SPAN 301 Social Fragmentation in Mexico and Guatemala
- SPAN 438 Mexican Literature: Fronteras de la violencia en la cultura mexicana
*Latin America-related courses offered during the past three years*
