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 Peruvian Traditions by Ricardo Palma (Oxford University Press, 2004). I have also published numerous papers on Mexican and Latin American literary and intellectual history. My current research deals with nineteenth-century Mexico and particularly the U.S.-Mexico War. 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.
