Fernando A Blanco

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Fernando A Blanco

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He is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Director of the Latin American Studies Program (LAMS) at Bucknell University.PhD The Ohio State University.  He specializes in 20th and 21st century Latin American literature, culture, visual art and film. His research examines narratives of memory and violence in the Southern Cone and Central America within the framework provided by Trauma and Holocaust Studies. In his second field of interest, Sexuality Studies, he focuses on textual and cultural representations of sexual minorities and analyzes the struggle for sexual citizenship in the Latin American region.  He has authored several books, among them Neoliberal Bonds. Undoing memory in Chilean Art and Literature 2015, The Ohio State University Press: Columbus, 2015. Desmemoria y perversión: Privatizar lo público, mediatizar lo íntimo, administrar lo privado (Cuarto Propio: Santiago de Chile [2010] 2012). In addition, he has published as an editor two books on Pedro Lemebel's work, Reinas de otro cielo: Modernidad y autoritarismo en la obra de Pedro Lemebel (LOM: Santiago de Chile, 2004) and Desdén al infortunio: Sujeto, comunicación y público en la narrativa de Pedro Lemebel (Cuarto Propio:Santiago de Chile, 2010. Co-edited with Juan Poblete). He has served as Chair of the Southern Cone Studies Section, in the Latin American Studies Association (LASA).
 

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  • Arts and Humanities
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences
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