Magdalena López – Comparatistas – english version

Magdalena López

Post-doctoral Researcher

E-mail: magdalenalopez626@gmail.com

Biographical note

Magdalena_fotoMagdalena López is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Universidade de Lisboa. She specializes in culture and literature in the Hispanic American Caribbean and, more recently, on cultural exchange between Lusophone Africa and the Caribbean. She is the author of El otro de nuestra América: Imaginarios frente a Estados Unidos en la República Dominicana y Cuba (Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 2011), and Desde el fracaso: Narrativas del Caribe insular hispano en el siglo XXI (Verbum, 2015). She has published more than twenty articles on Caribbean Literature and Cinema in several journals, including Revista de Crítica de Literaria Latinoamericana, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Revista Iberoamericana, Latin American Research Review, Chasqui, Revista Encuentro de la Cultura Cubana, A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Languages and Culture, and Iberoamericana América Latina-España-Portugal. Magdalena López obtained a PhD in Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Master’s Degree in Romance Languages and Literature at the University of Notre Dame.

Main areas of research

  • Latin American Literature;
  • Cultural Studies;
  • Caribean Literature;
  • Film Studies.

Selected publications

Books

  • Desde el fracaso: Narrativas del Caribe insular hispano en el siglo XXI. Madrid: Verbum, 2015.
  • El otro de nuestra América: Imaginarios frente a Estados Unidos en la República Dominicana y Cuba. Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 2011.

Selected articles

  • “Animal Presences: Post-Revolutionary Scenarios in Angola and Cuba.” Post/Colonialism and the Pursuit of Freedom in the Black Atlantic. Jerome Branche. London: Routledge, 2017. (Forthcoming).
  • “El derrotado heroico: Eduardo Lalo y el regreso de la épica letrada puertorriqueña”. Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana XLI; 81 (2015): 371-392. More info.
  • Charamicos: una revisión de la modernidad revolucionaria dominicana”. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies6. (2015): 703-717. More info.
  • “Hacia una redefinición del desarraigo: diálogos narrativos entre Mozambique y Venezuela.” Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World 3-2 (Spring 2014): 109-126. More info.
  • Caamaño. La última esperanza armada: una subjetividad testimonial en proceso.” A con A Journal on Social History and Literature on Latin America 11, 1 (2013): 234-257. More info.
  • “Territorialidades rotas y travesías del desarraigo: Desde los blancos manicomios de Margarita Mateo Palmer.” A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Languages and Culture (2012-13): 51-71
  • “José Antonio Ramos y las ambivalencias del discurso nacionalista de la primera generación republicana en Cuba.” Latin American Research Review 2 (2011): 128-153. More info.

Some publications are available in the repository of the University of Lisbon.


Comparing We’s. Cosmopolitanism. Emancipation. Postcoloniality / CITCOM

DIIA – Iberian and Ibero-American Dialogues / LOCUS

This work is financed by national funds through the FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., within the scope of the project UIDB/00509/2020 and UIDP/00509/2020.
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