Justin Read
PhD
Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Scholarly Interests
Urbanization and Modernization of Latin America since 1850; Critical Border Studies; Political Theory; Latin American Cultural Theory; Post-Humanism and Media Theory; 19th and 20th century Latin American literature and culture; Critical theory; Poetics; Modernism and Avant-Garde; Argentina; Brazil; Mexico
- PhD, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2002
- MA, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1997
- AB, Latin American Studies, A.B., English, University of California, Berkeley, 1995
Selected Publications
Education
- The Post-Historical Frontier (book manuscript in preparation).
- “The Silva: Composition, Decomposition and Recomposition in Latin American Poetry and Politics.” Teaching Modern Latin American Poetries (MLA Options Series), ed. Jill S. Kuhnheim and Melanie Nicholson. 2020. 43-59.
- “Speculative Non-Fiction and Post-Factual Latin America: The Non-Anthropomorphic and Non-Identitarian World of Vilém Flusser.” Paradoxa, Vol. 30 (2018). Special issue on “Latin American Speculative Fiction” edited by Debra Castillo and Liliana Colanzi. 121-136.
- “Obverse Colonization: São Paulo, Global Urbanization, and the Poetics of the Latin American City” (Re-edition). Latin American Cultural Studies: A Reader, ed. Jens Andermann, Ben Bollig, Lorraine Leu, Daniel Mosquera, Rory O’Bryen, David M. J. Wood. London: Routledge, 2017. 297-316.
- “Martial Arts in Argentina: Futurism, Fascism, and Leopoldo Lugones.” International Yearbook of Futurist Studies, Vol. 7 (2017): 136-157.
Courses Taught
- Latin American Short Story
- Latin American Poetry
- Dictatorship and Violence in Latin America
- Latin American Social Movements
- Latin American Critical Theory (Graduate)
- Borders and Migration in Latin America (Graduate)
Recent Awards and Grants
- Grants for “Fluid Culture” Arts and Lecture Series (with Prof. Colleen Culleton), 2011-12: Baird Foundation, Erie Canal Harbor Redevelopment Corporation, Microsoft Research, New York Council for the Humanities Mini-Grant, UB Office of the Provost, UB Office of the Vice Provost for Research
Affiliations
- Editorial Board, Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana
- Co-Founding Member, Lake Erie Latin American Cultural Studies Consortium
- Member: American Comparative Literature Association, Latin American Studies Association, Modern Language Association