Profs. Enjuto-Rangel and García-Caro will present their book publication, followed by a Q&A

Transatlantic Studies: Latin America, Iberia, and Africa (Liverpool University Press, 2019) emerges from, and performs, an ongoing debate concerning the role of transatlantic approaches in the fields of Iberian, Latin American, African, and Luso-Brazilian studies. The innovative research and discussions contained in this volume’s 35 essays by leading scholars in the field reframe the intertwined cultural histories of the diverse transnational spaces encompassed by the former Spanish and Portuguese empires. An emerging field, Transatlantic Studies seeks to provoke a discussion and a reconfiguration of the traditional academic notions of area studies, while critically engaging the concepts of national cultures and postcolonial relations among Spain, Portugal and their former colonies. Crucially, Transatlantic Studies transgresses national boundaries without dehistoricizing or decontextualizing the texts it seeks to incorporate within this new framework. 

Cecilia Enjuto Rangel is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Oregon. Her publications include her monograph Cities in Ruins: The Politics of Modern Poetics (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press. Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures, Vol. 50, 2010) and an edited volume Transatlantic Studies: Latin America, Iberia, and Africa, with Sebastiaan Faber, Robert Newcomb and Pedro García-Caro (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019). Through Children’s Eyes: The Politics of Memory in Spanish and Latin American Film is her second book project, and she also writing an introduction and edition with Pedro García Caro La verdad sobre el caso de José Antonio Primo de Rivera by Federico Enjuto Ferrán (Edition of a historical memoir of the investigative judge in the trial of José Antonio Primo de Rivera during the Spanish Civil War.)  She is editing also Cuba y España. Special Issue in Periphérica. (Forthcoming, January 2021), and she teaches across 19th and 20th century Spanish and Latin American poetry and poetics, film studies, transatlantic studies, gender studies, memory studies, and Spanish Civil War and exile studies.

Pedro García-Caro is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Oregon, where he is currently directing the Latin American Studies Program. He completed his Ph.D. at King’s College London and has previously taught at the University of Oxford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

His most recent work concentrates on the cultural history of transatlantic relations around ideas of republicanism and democracy in the works of Spanish intellectuals writing about Latin America. He is also completing a monograph on literary debates on mining in the Western hemisphere throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His published books include After the Nation: Postnational Satire in the Works of Carlos Fuentes and Thomas Pynchon (Northwestern University Press, 2014), a translation into Spanish of Wallace Shawn’s The Fever (Le Paquebot, 2012) in collaboration with Rafael Spregelburd, and a critical edition of the first secular play performed in California in the late eighteenth century, Astucias por heredar un sobrino a un tío (1789) by Fermín de Reygadas (Arte Público Press, 2018).