Alejandro Cortazar
Associate Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., The University of Iowa, 1997
Phone: 225-578-5169
E-mail: acorta1@lsu.edu
Office: 310 Hodges Hall
Area of Interest
Literature and culture of Mexico; nation building and cultural identity formation in nineteenth-century Spanish America; Hispanic women writers.
Recent Teaching
鈥淩omanticismo y literatura en el contexto nacional mexicano鈥�, 鈥淥utlaws, heroes, and the nation in 19th-century Spanish America鈥�
Awards & Honors
Juarez鈥檚 Torch and Medal of Honor, awarded by the Organizaci贸n Internacional para los Festejos del Bicentenario de Ju谩rez for contributing to the analysis and interpretation of Benito Juarez鈥檚 legacy in Mexican politics, history, literature, and culture with my book Reforma, novela y naci贸n...(June 19 to June 29, 2006); Manship Manship Research Fellowship, awarded in recognition of outstanding research in the humanities and social sciences. College of Arts & Sciences, 海角社区, for travel and research in Mexico City for the project 鈥淒iscourse of Desire and Rebellion: Nationalism and the Novels of Juan Diaz Covarrubias,鈥� summer 2005.
Selected Publications
Reforma, novela y naci贸n: M茅xico en el siglo XIX (Book), 鈥淧riests and Caudillos in the novel of the Mexican nation鈥� (book chapter), 鈥淣icol谩s Pizarro Su谩rez y la coqueta met谩fora de la naci贸n鈥� (book article).
Book Review
驴Y cu谩l es mi lugar, se帽or, entre tus actos? El drama de Rosario Castellanos. By Rosario M. de Swanson. New York: Peter Lang, 2018. MARLAS (Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies). 4.1 (2020): 203鈥�206.
Article
"Notas sobre lo ins贸lito y conceptos de antropolog铆a en Borges y Carpentier." Revista Cronopio 29 (2019): s. p.
Notable Activities
Hispanic Studies Graduate Advisor (08/2001 to 05/2003); Invited by the Benem茅rita Universidad Aut贸noma de Puebla (BUAP) to teach the short course 鈥淟a Reforma y la segunda fase del romanticismo en M茅xico鈥�, June 19 to June 29, 2006.