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  • Juan Decastro

    Co-Chair, Literary Studies (Literature and Critical Analysis); Professor and Dept. Faculty Advisor, Lit. and Critical Analysis

    Email
    decastrj@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    B - 65 West 11th Street

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    Juan Decastro

    Profile

    I have written on diverse topics in Latin American literature: including the work of the Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa; on the way revolution and revolutionary thinking has been depicted in the region's fiction; and on the political and cultural activism of the Peruvian Marxist José Carlos Mariátegui, during the 1920s. I am currently at work on the volume on Latin American literature in the Routledge "Engagements with LIterature" series.

    Degrees Held

    PhD, Comparative Literature, University of Southern California; MA, Comparative Literature, University of Southern California; BA, English, California State University, Los Angeles

    Professional Affiliation

    • Modern Language Association
    • Latin American Studies Association

    Recent Publications

    Books:

    • The Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel, co-editor with Ignacio López-Calvo (Oxford UP, 2023). https://login.libproxy.newschool.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=3548089&site=ehost-live&scope=site
    • Borges and Kafka, Bolaño and Bloom: Latin American Authors and the Western Canon(Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
    • Bread and Beauty: The Cultural Politics of José Carlos Mariátegui(Brill, 2020; Haymarket, 2021) https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.libproxy.newschool.edu/lib/newschool/detail.action?docID=6376199
    • Writing Revolution in Latin American: From Martí to García Márquez to Bolaño(Vanderbiilt UP, 2019) https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/79553
    • Roberto Bolaño as World Literature, co-editor with Nicholas Birns (Bloomsbury, 2017) https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.libproxy.newschool.edu/lib/newschool/detail.action?docID=4742334
    • , editor (Salem Press, 2014). https://search-ebscohost-com.libproxy.newschool.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e900xww&AN=766342&site=ehost-live
    • , co-editor with Will H. Corral and Nicholas Birns (Bloomsbury, 2013)
    • (U of Arizona P, 2011)
    • , co-editor with Nicholas Birns(Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
    • (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
    • (U of Arizona P, 2002)

    Selected Articles:

    • "." Council of Hemispheric Affairs. September 15, 2014.
    • "" 16.40 (2012): 55-66.
    • (co-written with Nicholas Birns) “.”The Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa. Ed. Efraín Kristal. Cambridge UP, Cambridge, 2012. 62-73.
    • “”MLN 126.2 (March 2011).
    • “” Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/NewZealand Literature 24.2 (December 2010): 157-63.
    • “Mr. Vargas Llosa Goes to Washington.”Vargas Llosa and Latin American Politics.New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 21-28.
    • “”Latin American Research Review 45.2 (June, 2010). 5-26.
    • “”A Contracorriente 7.2 (Winter 2010). 80-91.
    • “”Iberoamericana 7.26 (2007): 7-18.
    • “”Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana 36.1 (2007): 48-61.
    • “”MLN 119 (2004): 329-43.
    • “”Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 26.1 (2001): 101-27.

    Interviews:

    • "" Former People: Bangs, Whimpers, Art, Culture, and Commentary. September 30, 2013.

    Research Interests

    Latin American literature; Latin American popular cultures; constructions of nationality; Spanish literature.

    Awards And Honors

    Prose Award in the Literature Category forWriting Revolution in Latin America.

    Current Courses

    Ind Senior Project
    LLSL 4990, Spring 2026

    Independent Study
    LLSL 3950, Spring 2026


    LLSL 2033, Spring 2026


    LLSL 2044, Spring 2026

    Past Courses

    Detectives North & South
    LLSL 2209, Fall 2025

    Fascism: History and Fiction
    LHIS 3061, Fall 2025

    Ind Senior Project
    LLSL 4990, Fall 2025

    Independent Study
    LLSL 3950, Fall 2025

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