| Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián, Assistant Professor, Spanish & Latin American Studies
Please note: Francisco-J. has left the "Romance Studies" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.
- Contact Info:
Office Location: | 219C Languages Building | Office Phone: | 919-660-3152 / 919-660-3100 | Email Address: | | - Office Hours:
- Tuesdays, 3:00 - 5:00
- Education:
Ph.D. | New York University | 2002 |
M.A. | University of Alberta | 1997 |
Licenciado | Universidad de la Laguna, Spain | 1994 |
- Specialties:
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Spanish and Latin-American Studies
Caribbean Studies Film, Media and Visual Studies
- Research Interests:
Caribbean and (Pen)Insular Avant-Gardes / Atlantic & Island Studies / Visual Culture & Film / Gender & Queer Studies / Colonialism & Decoloniality
- Current Ph.D. Students
(Former Students)
- Joanna M. Barros
- Beatriz Llenín-Figueroa
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- Paris, Cuba, New York: Wifredo Lam and the Lost Origins of «The Jungle»,
Cultural Dynamics, vol. 21 no. 3
(2010),
pp. 339-59
- Édouard Glissant: Un Nuevo Mundo de Regiones,
in Ideas recibidas. Un vocabulario para la cultura artística contemporánea, edited by Jorge Ribalta
(2010), Barecelona: MACBA (Museu d'Art Contemorani de Barcelona) [controller.php]
- Conferences Organized
- "Queer Dis-Locations", Organizer, Spring 2005
- Romancing the Humanities Lecture Series, 2003 - 2004
- "The Future of English" (Closing conference: Romancing the Humanities Lecture Series), Spring 2004
PhD, Latin American Literature, New York University, 2002; MA, Hispanic Literatures, University of Alberta, Canada, 1997; Licenciatura, Filología Española, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain, 1994. Adrián teaches courses in the contemporary and modern Caribbean, Latin America, the Canary Islands, and Spain. He teaches often on the international avant-gardes, Caribbean cinema, and colonialism. |