Reading Lezama’s Paradiso (book monograph) Peter Lang, Oxford, UK (series: Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas) (June 2007), ISBN 978-3-03910-751-3 pdf flyer
Book Translations
The Sister, Paola Kaufmann (London: Alma Books Ltd. 2006) 250 pages, ISBN: 978-1846880063 Buy from Amazon
The Dialogue of the Dogs, Miguel de Cervantes (London: Hesperus Press, 2004. (Book translation, with critical introduction and annotation) 112 pages, ISBN: 978-1843910657 Buy from Amazon
Articles
‘Dismantling Political Mythologies: Cabrera Infante’s Essays of Mea Cuba’, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, University of Glasgow, Latin American Studies in the UK, BSS, LXXXIV: 4-5 (2007) 497-515 (Read article)
‘The Journey into the text: reading Rulfo in Carlos Reydadas’ 2002 film Japón’, Modern Language Review 2006 (MLR 101.4 October 2006) 1027-1036 Buy from Amazon
‘Borges y Lezama: dos acercamientos a la epifanía y al arquetipo’, in Antes y Después del Quijote (cover), Asociación de Hispanistas de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda, (València: Biblioteca Valenciana, 2005), 713-723 Read Article
‘Cabrera Infante and Parody: Tracking Hemingway in Tres Tristes Tigres’, Modern Language Review (MLR, 98.3, 2003) 620-633 Buy from Amazon
Interviews:
Interview with Paola Kaufmann, author of La Hermana, April 2006 (Alma Books)
Forthcoming Publications
Critical edition of Biografía de un Cimarrón, Manchester University Press, Hispanic Texts Series – proposed release, Dec 09
‘La revolución como era imaginaria. Lezama y la política mito-poética’, Centre for Research on Cuba: Occasional Paper Series. In press (Read article)
‘Un mito es una imagen participada’: Che Guevara in Lezama Lima’s La expresión americana‘, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Vol. 87, issue 2, 2010. Read article
Papers and Talks
Seminar Series invitations:
11 February 2009 – Guantanamo Bay in Historical Perspective, School of History (University of Kent) Research Seminar Series
Dec 2007 – El activismo político de Pablo Neruda, Literatura Hispanoamericana del siglo XX, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
May 2008 – Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge
Conference invitations:
‘Testimonial Narratives from the Barracoons, from Cimarrón to Guantánamo Detainees: the Legacy of Testimonio’. The Cuban Revolution 1959-2009, Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge, 13 February 2009
‘Guevara in the Mythic Narrative’. Globalisation & Writing Conference, Bath Spa University, March 31 to April 2, 2007
‘“Todo tendrá que ser reconstruido, invencionado de nuevo”: Chic Guevara and the Pragmatic Application of Lezama’s Poetic Myth Creation of La Expresión Americana’. Presented at conference: ‘The Will to Power’: Latin American Narratives of Foundation, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, May 2006
Other conference / seminar series:
‘Cuba today’: Our history is still being written, Pathfinder Books presentation, University of Kent, Oct 2008.
‘Testimonio and the Cuban Revolution’. Cultural Memory: Forgetting to Remember/ Remembering to Forget, KIASH/SECL, Keynes College – University of Kent, Sep 2008.
‘La Revolución como era imaginaria. Lezama y la política mítica’. Cuba Research Forum 11th Annual Conference, University of Nottingham, Sep 2008.
‘Lezama’s Expresión americana – a prophetic vision of Cuban history’. Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland, Sheffield, 25th-27th March 2008
‘What is Guantánamo Bay?’ SECL Popular Lecture Series 2007-8, University of Kent, 3rd Oct 2007
‘“Debo aclarar que eso no pertenece a la categoría del realismo mágico, ni nada por el estilo”: Reinaldo Arenas and the Revolutionary testimonial’. AHGBI, Aberdeen, 2-4 April 2007
‘Robin Hood and his merry revolutionaries: Castro, Cuba and the revolutionary myth’. SECL Popular Lecture Series 2006-7, University of Kent, 17th Jan 2007
‘Beret or barber’s basin? Abel Posse and the fictional diaries of Ernesto ‘Quijote’ Guevara’. AHGBI Conference, Liverpool, 2006
‘The nature of the Archetype in the poetry of Borges and Lezama’. AHGBI Conference, Valencia, 2005
Re-written history: Cabrera Infante, Castro and the revolutionary myth’. Spanish and Latin American Seminar Series, University of Aberdeen, 2005
‘The journey into the text: reading Rulfo in Carlos Reygadas’ 2003 feature film Japón’. AHGBI Conference, Queens’ College, Cambridge, 2004
‘From Borges to Chris Morris – a refutation of realism, or why we cannot smoke Magritte’s pipe’. SML Research Seminar, University of Exeter, 2003
‘The search for the Model Reader of Paradiso of Lezama Lima’. AHGBI Conference, Glasgow, 2003
‘The symbolism of homosexuality within Paradiso of Lezama Lima’. SML Research Seminar, University of Exeter, 2002
‘The subtle drama of politics in Cabrera Infante’s Tres Tristes Tigres. Conference ‘The Human and the Machine’, collaborated by the universities of Bristol and Exeter, Bristol, 2002
‘Cabrera Infante and Parody: Tracking Hemingway in Tres Tristes Tigres’. Conference ‘Flaming Acolytes’, School of English, University of Exeter, 2001