Antoinette Hertel

Assistant Professor of Spanish  

Associate Chair

Latin American Literature, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Latin American Literature, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Majors in Spanish and French

COURSES

Study Abroad Programs

• St. Joseph’s College Service-Learning Program in León and Sutiaba, Nicaragua.

• St. Joseph’s College in Buenos Aires Program: The City of Borges.

• St. Joseph’s College summer language program in Alicante, Spain.

• St. Joseph’s College Study in Cuba Program. Spring/Summer 2004.

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SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS

"América Latina como mercancía: la construcción de una marca.” Destino Sudamericano. Eds. Martín Plot and Emmanuel Taub. Buenos Aires: Teseo, Forthcoming 2010. 

• “Latin America: Some Assembly Required.” Intellectuals and Academics. In HIOL: Hispanic Issues Online: Debates. University of Minnesota. Forthcoming 2010 issue. 

• “La máquina de hacer palmeras.” Escritura y esquizofrenia. Eds. Aureliano Ortega Esquivel and Juan Pascual Gay. Guanajuato, Mexico: Universidad de Guanajuato, 2009. 

• “Nueva York: Un experimento pan-latino.” Scholarly Review of Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York, eds. Agustín Laó-Montes and Arlene Dávila. In La Ciudad Futura (Buenos Aires). August 2002, No. 52. 

• “Gatita de Augusto d’Halmar: La construcción orientalista del recuerdo homoerótico.” Actas de las Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana (JALLA). Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar. Quito, Ecuador. August 4-8, 1997. Quito: JALLA, 1999. 

DISSERTATION

Title: Re-discovering America: Three Literary Constructions of Identity

I studied three fundamental models of modern Spanish American identity formed in the ontological void of the so-called “empty continent,” generated by local and global readings of the works of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Gabriel García Márquez, and Alberto Fuguet. In this text, I analyzed how essentializing and partial views of Spanish Americanness prevailed into the 20th and 21st centuries, contributing to the continuity of civilizatory practices begun in the Spanish conquest.

Dissertation Advisor: Professor Eduardo Subirats.

INVITED LECTURES

• • “La máquina de hacer palmeras.” Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, Departamento de Letras Modernas. June 9, 2009 

• “La máquina de hacer palmeras.” Escritura y Esquizofrenia International Symposium. División de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad de Guanajuato, March 18, 2009 

• “A Genealogy of Magic Realism.” Mito y mimesis Graduate Seminar, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, New York University, November 3, 2008 

SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• “Human Rights in the Humanities.” Rethinking Human Rights, Latin American Studies Association Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. June 13, 2009 

• “The Branding of Latin America: McOndotm.” American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Harvard University, March 28, 2009 

• “Transnationalism and the Displacement of Literary Space: From Macondo to McOndo.”  Latin American Studies Association Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico. March 17, 2006 

• “Beyond the Canon: From Macondo to McOndo.” Heterogeneity and Canon Formation in Latin America conference organized by the Program in Latin American Studies at The Johns Hopkins University. June 4, 2004 

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

• Modern Language Association of America (MLA),

• Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (ADFL),

• Latin American Studies Association (LASA),

• American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), 

• Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana (JALLA)