CHRISTOPHER CONWAY’S SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY
Books
Christopher Conway, ed., Peruvian Traditions by Ricardo Palma. Translated by Helen Lane. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).
Christopher Conway, The Cult of Bolívar in Latin American Literature. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003). Detailed review here (PDF).
Christopher Conway, ed., et al (The San Diego Bakhtin Circle: Barry Brown, Christopher Conway, Rhett Gambol, Susan Kalter, Laura Ruberto, Tomás Taraborreli, Donald Wesling) eds., Bakhtin and the Nation (Lewisburg: Bucknell Press, 2000.) Essays by Robert Bennett, J.C. Bittenbender, Simon Dentith, Colin Graham, Peter Hitchcock, Dale E. Peterson, E. San Juan Jr., Mara Scanlon, Galen Tihanov, and Anthony Wall.
Chapters in Books
Christopher Conway, “Native Republican: Ignacio Manuel Altamirano and El Zarco, The Blue-Eyed Bandit,” in Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, El Zarco, The Blue-Eyed Bandit, Ronald Christ and Sheridan Phillips eds., Ronald Christ, translator (Santa Fe: Lumen Books, 2007: 7-35.)
“Nuestra América in English: la globalización de los Estudios americanos en EEUU.” in La literatura latinoamericana sin fronteras. Mexico: UNAM, 2005.
Articles
Christopher Conway, “Troubled Selves: Gender, Spiritualism and Psychopathology in the Fiction of Amado Nervo.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies. Forthcoming 2008.
Christopher Conway, “Sombras sublimes: Conquista, nacionalismo y subjetividad infantil en La biblioteca del niño mexicano de Heriberto Frías (1899-1901).” Siglo diecinueve (Literatura hispánica). 13 (2007).
Christopher Conway, “Entre tarántulas y dementes: Heriberto Frías, reo-narración y la cárcel de Belem.” The Colorado Review of Hispanic Studies, Vol. 4 (2006). 253-268.
Christopher Conway, “Ignacio Manuel Altamirano and the Contradictions of Autobiographical Indianism.” Latin American Literary Review. 34.67 (2006). 34-49.
Christopher Conway, “Letras combatientes: relectura de la Gaceta de Caracas, 1808-1822.” Revista Iberoamericana. 214 (2006). 77-92.
Christopher Conway, “El aparecido azteca: Ignacio Manuel Altamirano y el necronacionalismo mexicano, 1893.” Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana. 62 (2005). 125-142.
Christopher Conway, “The Limits of Analogy: José Martí and the Haymarket Anarchists“. A Contracorriente: A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America. Vol. 2, No. 1, Fall 2004.
Christopher Conway, “Próspero y el Teatro Nacional: Encuentros Trasatlánticos en las Revistas Teatrales de Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, 1867-1876.” Iberoamericana, March 2003. Iberoamericana/Vervuert, Frankfurt, Germany and Madrid, Spain. 147-159.
Christopher Conway, “Poeta serpiente: el indigenismo chicano de Francisco Alarcón.” Insula: Revista de Letras y Ciencias Humanas, 667-668, July-August 2002. Madrid, Spain. 21-23.
Christopher Conway, “Cambaceres Meets Schopenhauer: The Ontology of Despair in Sin rumbo.” Romance Notes, Fall 2002. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 65-73.
Christopher Conway, “Gender, Empire and Revolution in La Victoria de Junín.” Hispanic Review, Summer 2001 69:3. University of Pennsylvania Press. 299-317.
Christopher Conway, “Lecturas: Ventanas de la Seducción en El Zarco.” Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Año XXVI, No. 52. 2000. Lima, Peru-Hanover, New Hampshire. 91-106.
Christopher Conway, “Of Subjects and Cowboys: Frontier and History in Pedro Mir’s Countersong to Walt Whitman.” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 15.4, Spring 1998. University of Iowa. 161-171.
Christopher Conway, “Itinerario del culto nacional: el fantasma de Bolívar.” Estudios: Revista de Investigaciones Literarias y Culturales. Año 6, July-December 1998, No. 12. Caracas, Venezuela. 11-29.
Christopher Conway, “José Martí Frente al Wild West de Buffalo Bill: Frontera, Raza y Arte en la Civilización y Barbarie Norteamericana.” Hispanic Journal. Vol 19.1, Spring 1998. 129-142.
Christopher Conway, “Monumental Space and Corporeal Memory: Eduardo Blanco’s Venezuela Heroica (1881) and the Cult of Bolívar in Nineteenth Century Venezuela.” La Chispa ‘97: Selected Proceedings. Tulane University, New Orleans. 101-112.
Christopher Conway, “Espíritu de las leyes, espíritu bolivariano: apuntes sobre la diatriba en la obra de Simón Bolívar.” Torre de Papel, Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall 1992. University of Iowa. 40-50.
Edited Special Issues
Christopher Conway, ed., “España en América, S. XIX: Nueva Lecturas” for Siglo Diecinueve (Literatura hispánica) 13 (2007). Articles by William Acree, Christopher Conway, Ana Peluffo, Wadda Ríos Font, Minni Sawhnney, and Amy Wright.
Christopher Conway, Beatriz González Stephan, Eds., “Ficciones Disciplinantes,” Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Año XXVI, No. 52. 2000. Lima, Peru-Hanover, New Hampshire. 7-193.
Book Reviews, Translations, Encyclopedia Entries, Professional Commentary
“The Transatlantic Negotiations of Modernismo” (Review of Geopolíticas de la cultura finisecular en Buenos Aires, París y México: las revistas literarias y el modernismo by Adela Pineda Franco, 2006). A Contracorriente, Spring 2007.
“The Silent Hero” (Review of The Myth of José Martí: Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba by Lilian Guerra, 2005). A Contracorriente, Fall 2006.
“The Incomplete American” (Review of Overseas American: Growing Up Gringo in the Tropics) by Gene Bell-Villada. A Contracorriente, Spring 2006.
Review of Orientalismo en el modernismo hispanoamericano by Araceli Tinajero (Purdue University Press, 2003). Hispanófila, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
“Transatlantic Translation.” by Julio Ortega. Trans. Christopher Conway. PMLA, Jan 2003, Vol. 118, Number 1. 25-39.
“Professor Avatar” Inside Higher Ed., October 16, 2007.
“Youtube and the Cultural Studies Classroom” Inside Higher Ed, November 13, 2006.
“Our Office.” Inside Higher Ed., April, 2006.
“Simón Bolívar” & “The Venezuelan and Colombian Cult of Bolívar.” The Encyclopedia of Nationalism. Edited by Alexander Motyl. Academic Press, 2001. Vol II.
Editorial Boards (Peer-Reviewed Journals)
A Contracorriente: A Journal of Social History and Literature in Latin America / revista de historia social y literatura en America Latina. North Carolina State University. E-journal.
Decimonónica: revista de producción cultura decimonónica. Utah State University, The Citadel and Middlebury College. E-journal.
Siglo Diecinueve (Literatura Hispánica). Universitas Castellae, Valladolid, Spain.
INVITED LECTURES
“Magda’s Story.” Mavsmeet Keynote Speaker. University of Texas Arlington, August 26, 2007.
“Lessons from the Past: Anti-Americanism and Religious Conflict during the U.S.-Mexico War.” Conversations 06: Power. University of Texas Arlington. February 23, 2007.
“Inter-American Dialogues: Slavery, Frontier and Democracy.” Workshop, Department of English, Southern Connecticut State University, September 2, 2006.
“‘Pollos, families and nation-building in Nineteenth-Century Mexico.” Nineteenth-Century Studies Group (UNC-Chapel Hill/Duke University). Department of Spanish, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. April 2005.
“Nuestra América in English: la globalización de los Estudios americanos en EEUU.” La literatura latinoamericana sin fronteras. Departamento de Humanidades, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, May 6-10, 2003.
“Próspero y el teatro nacional.” II Coloquio de Estudios de la Cultura Mexico Transatlántico. Diálogos interculturales en la modernidad mexicana. (División de Estudios de la Cultura, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad de Guadalajara & Proyecto Transatlántlico, Estudios Hispánicos, Brown University). Expo Guadalajara, Feria Internacional del Libro, November 29, 2001.
“El Culto a Bolívar.” Facultad de Historia y Letras, Universidad Central de Venezuela. December, 1999.
“Gendered Habits: The Discourse of Conduct in Latin America.” Women’s Studies Brown Bag Lecture Series, University of Texas at Arlington, Spring 1997.
“El Wild West y José Martí: Una Visión Hispana de la Civilización y Barbarie Norteamericana.” The Fourth Annual Hispanic Forum. Hispanics in North America, 1513-1997: A Foreign Culture in the United States? University of Vermont. October 2, 1997.
“An Introduction to the Cinema of Mexico: Trends, Themes and Identities, 1896-1952.” Department of Modern Languages at the University of Texas at Arlington, Spring 1996.
PAPERS READ
“Sombras sublimes: Conquista, nacionalismo y subjetividad infantil en La biblioteca del niño mexicano de Heriberto Frías (1899-1901). LASA (Latin American Studies Association), September 2007. Montreal, Canada.
“Transnational Modernisms: Marsden Hartley and the Mexican Revolution.” III International Transatlantic Studies Conference: La Geotextualidad Transatlántica, Department of Hispanic Studies, Brown University, April 14, 2006.
“Ignacio Altamirano después de su muerte.” LASA (Latin American Studies Association), November 2004. Las Vegas, NV.
“The Cult of Bolívar in Early National Venezuela.” CLAH (Conference on Latin American History/American Historical Association), January 2004. Washington D.C.
“The Emergence of Bolivarian Nationalism in Venezuela.” MLA (Modern Language Association), December 2003. San Diego, California.
“José Martí and the Lessons of Haymarket.” LASA (Latin American Studies Association), March 2003. Dallas, Texas.
“Letras combatientes: una relectura de la Gaceta de Caracas, 1808-1821.” LASA (Latin American Studies Association), September 8, 2001.
“Gender, Empire and Revolution in the Poetry of José Joaquín Olmedo 1802-1825. ” La Chispa ‘99, Tulane University. February 25-27, 1999.
“The Land of Bolívar: Monumental Space and Corporeal Memory in Eduardo Blanco’s Venezuela Heroica (1881).” La Chispa ‘97, Tulane University. February 27-March 1 1997.
“Gender, Race and Revolutionary Violence in the Latin American Poetry of the Wars of Independence, 1815-1830.” The Powers of Poetry in Spanish, Latin American and Latino/a Cultures, University of Oregon, Eugene. October 24-26, 1996.
“La Literatura Nacional y la Imaginación Femenina en la Obra de Ignacio Manuel Altamirano.” Thirteenth Annual Cincinnatti Conference in Romance Languages, May 13-15, 1993.
“Simón Bolívar: El Americano and the Re-discovery of America.” Columbus, the New World and the Modern Imagination. Michigan State University, October 30-31, 1992.
