Hi, I’m Christopher Conway (Ph.D. in Literature, University of California San Diego 1996). I’m the author of The Cult of Bolívar in Latin American Literature (2003) and the editor of The U.S.-Mexican War: A Binational Reader (forthcoming March 2010) and the Peruvian Traditions by Ricardo Palma (Oxford University Press, 2004). I have also published numerous papers on Mexican and Latin American literary and intellectual history, including “Birds of a Feather: Pollos and the Nineteenth-Century Prehistory of Mexican Homosexuality”, a book chapter appear in Building Nineteenth-Century Latin America: Re-Rooted Cultures, Identities, and Nations, edited by William G. Acree and Juan Carlos González Espitia (Vanderbilt University Press, 2010). My current research is on nineteenth-century Mexican literature and culture.
I am currently an Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Texas Arlington, where I teach advanced undergraduate classes and Master’s level classes. I am also the Faculty Co-Chair of the University of Texas Arlington OneBook Program. In this role, I collaborate with Dr. Dawn Remmers, the Director of University Advising and Student Success, to oversee the selection of a book that all incoming first year students read in English 1301, as well as a yearly topic for the UT Arlington community to discuss and explore through university programming. In the Fall of 2007, I received the Alicia Wilkerson Smotherman Faculty Teaching Award from the College of Liberal Arts at UT Arlington. I was also lucky enough to be nominated for the Chancellor’s Teaching Award in 2008.
