Christian P. Fernandez | LSU Foreign Languages and Literatures

 

Christian Fernandez

Christian Fernández-Palacios

Associate Professor of Spanish, Hispanic Studies Director, and Associate Department Chair 

Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1999
Phone: 225-578-5175
E-mail: cferna2@lsu.edu
Office: 309 Hodges Hall

Biography

Christian Fernández, has a B.A. in Literature from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, Peru, a M.A. in Political Sciences from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in South Korea, and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from Johns Hopkins University, USA. Presently, he is a Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultures at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. He has taught at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Brown University, and The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Professor Fernández has taught and lectured at numerous universities and institutions in Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the United States. He is the author of Inca Garcilaso: imaginación, memoria e identidad (2004), and Imaginar la nación: Güiraldes, Gallegos, Lugones y Borges (2020). He has edited Mis primeros ensayos (2012) by Margarita Práxedes Muñoz, co-edited Inca Garcilaso & Contemporary World-Making (2016) with Sara Castro-Klarén, and co-edited Approaches to Teaching the works of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega with José Antonio Mazzotti. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana and a co-founder/member of the Executive Committee of the Asociación Internacional de Peruanistas in the United States.

Area of Interest

Colonial Latin American studies, Indigeneity, Latin American narratives, Cultural theory, post-Colonial studies, transatlantic and comparative studies. 

Recent Teaching

  • Span 7994: Imperial Travelers: Re-Imagining Latin America
  • Span 7990: Transatlantic Visions: Early Modern Spain/Colonial Spanish America
  • Span 7991: Race, Writing and Subalternity: Reading “Indigenismo” in the Era of Globalization
  • Span 7940: Traveling Epistemologies: Transatlantic Encounters of the Hispanic Baroque
  • Span7991/CPLT7130: Magical Realism: The Novel of the Americas
  • Span 7990: Special Topics in Hispanic Criticism
  • Span 4915: Latin American Philosophy and the question of the Other

Awards and Honors

Sabbatical leave for Fall 2006; Granted by LSU

Selected Publications

Selected Articles or chapters

  • “Introduction to Approaches to Teaching the works of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. Co-edited with José Antonio Mazzotti. New York: Modern Languages Association Press (MLA), 2022.
  • “A los ataúdes, a los ataúdes: Violencia histórica, ideología y nación en la poesía de Pablo Guevara.” In Golpe, furia, Perú: Poesía y nación. Paolo de Lima ed. Lima: Editorial Horizonte, 2021. 59-71.
  • “Medio siglo con Borges, o el doble rasero crítico de Mario Vargas Llosa.” In Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana. Año 46 # 92, 2020. 451-471.
  • “Inca Garcilaso’s Biography.” in Sara Castro-Klarén and Christian Fernández. Inca Garcilaso & Contemporary World-Making. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016: 20-32.
  • “Rhetoric and Politics: Transatlantic Images and Paratexts in the Royal Commentaries.” In Sara Castro-Klarén and Christian Fernández. Inca Garcilaso & Contemporary World-Making. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016: 33-61.
  • “Discursos imperiales: Clements R. Markham, sus viajes y obras en torno al Perú.” Revista del Instituto Riva Agüero Vol. 1 # 1 (May 2016): 125-163. This article was published online in the inaugural issue of this journal in December 2015, and the paper edition came out in March 2016.
  • “In Memoriam: José Antonio Bravo (Tarma, Junín, Perú 1937- Lima, Perú, 2016)” In Letras: Órgano de la Facultad de Letras y Ciencias Humanas (UNMSM), 87: 126, 2016: 124-129.
  • “Introducción. Margarita Práxedes Muñoz: ‘Entre el temor y la esperanza’” en Mis primeros ensayos. By Margarita Práxedes Muñoz. Edited by Christian Fernández. Lima: Centro de la Mujer Peruana Flora Tristán/ Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2012: 9-35.
  • “José María Arguedas y la crítica en la encrucijada: la mesa del poder o el poder de la mesa en Todas las sangres” in Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana. Año 36 # 72, 2010: 299-316. (Special Issue on the 100 years of José María Arguedas’ birthday).

Notable Activities

  • 2021-present. Member of the Comité Consultivo of the Centro de Estudios Literarios Antonio Cornejo Polar. Lima-Peru.
  • 1995-present. Asociación Internacional de Peruanistas (Founding Member and member of the Executive Committee).
  • 2010- Present. Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana. Published by Tufts University.

 

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