Héctor Hoyos
Héctor Hoyos
Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture
Focal Groups: Philosophy and LiteratureContact:
Pigott Hall 220
650 723 3291
hoyos@stanford.edu
Office Hours:
Wednesday 3:00 - 5:00 PM and by AppointmentOVERVIEW:
Héctor Hoyos (Ph.D. Romance Studies, Cornell 2008) is an assistant professor of Latin American literature and culture at Stanford University. He was born in Bogotá, where he studied philosophy and literature at the Universidad de los Andes. Hoyos’s research areas include visual culture and critical theory, as well as comparative and philosophical approaches to literature. His work has appeared in several venues, among them Comparative Literature Studies, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Chasqui, and Revista Iberoamericana. His book manuscripts Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel and El deber de la travesura: César Aira y la crítica cultural are forthcoming. The former is the first monographic, theoretical study of Latin American novelistic representations of globalization of its kind.The latter examines a cross-section of the Argentine author's vast oeuvre from the vantage point of cultural critique.
Hoyos chairs Cultural Synchronization and Disjuncture, a multidisciplinary forum for contemporary cultural theory at the crossroads of Latin Americanism and comparatism. He is a Delegate Assembly Representative for the Division Executive Committee on 20th Century Latin American Literature at the MLA, as well as a board member and Secretary for the Colombianists Association. In 2012-2013, he will be a faculty fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center.
His radio interview on Roberto Bolaño, hosted by Robert Harrison on Entitled Opinions, can be listened here.
CURRICULUM VITAE:
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2008: PhD, Cornell University, Romance Studies
2002: BA with honors, Universidad de los Andes, Philosophy
2001: BA, magna cum laude, Universidad de los Andes, Literature
Courses
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DLCL349Aut2011-12
Advanced survey course of key schools in literary theory, from formalism onwards. Emphasis is on the discussion of primary sources. Topics include structuralism, ideology critique, psychoanalysis, reception aesthetics, deconstruction, feminism, and post-colonialism. Readings by Barthes, Bakhtin, Benjamin, Borges, Derrida, de Man, Foucault, Freud, Iser, Lacan, Shklovsky, and Spivak, among others.
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ILAC106NWin2011-12
What is "contemporary" in Latin American literature? Which books are translated into English, and why? What to make of the gap between their publication in Spanish and their reception in the United States? The course invites students to think and write about these issues in light of translation and globalization theories. Works include a representative selection of recent fiction by Aira, Bellatin, Bolano, and Vallejo, as well as films by Schroeder and Ospina. Readings in English; Spanish originals available.
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ILAC131Win2010-11
Major theoretical debates about the construction of Latin American identities from the 19th century to the present. Readings by writers poets philosophers and historians including Rodo Retamar O’Gorman Vasconcelos Henríquez-Ureña Ramos Paz Carpentier Lezama Lima Borges and Fuentes.
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ILAC343Spr2010-11
Extensive and detailed reading of the major works and a selection of the most significant critical texts about the author. Secondary readings by Vargas Llosa Ludmer Moretti and Bloom. Topics include: macondismo magical realism canonicity representations of violence and autobiography.
