Fernando Botero

I have spent most of the past three years working with Tatiana Séeligman on
Doble vía: Comunicación en español,
an intermediate conversation textbook under contract at Cengage - Heinle Publishers

My literary research centers on Mexican poetry of the twentieth century.
I am particularly interested in the affinities between poetry and painting.

WORK UNDER REVIEW

"Poetic Sketching, Cubism and Synaesthesia in Homero Aridjis's 'Navegaciones.'"
(article)

BOOK

José Emilio Pacheco and the Poets of the Shadows
Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2001.

ARTICLES

"Conspicuous Consumption, Technology and Globalization: Life Aboard José Emilio
  Pacheco's Titanic" La Torre de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, IX: 33, 2004.

"'The Fury and Mire of Human Veins': Frida Kahlo and Rosario Castellanos."
  Hispania 87.1 (March 2004): 53-61.

"'Recibir con ambas mejillas': Rosario Castellanos's Painterly Discourse."
  South Carolina Modern Language Review 1 (Winter 2002)

"The Postmodern Twists of José Emilio Pacheco's No me preguntes cómo pasa el
   tiempo." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 34 (Winter 2000): 27-45.

"A Comala of the Mind: José Emilio Pacheco's Early Theory of Influence."
  MIFLC Review 7 (October 1997-1998): 127-36.

"Vision of the Muse in Veinte poemas de amor and Canción de la verdad sencilla."
  Chasqui  23, 1  (May, 1994): 10-17.

"'Hoy ya no caemos en aquellos errores': Mimetic Violence and Transcendence in
  Buero Vallejo's El tragaluz." Romance Notes 34, 2  (1994): 203-10.

BOOK CHAPTERS

"Enrique González Martínez" Dictionary of Literary Biography:
Volume 290 Modern Spanish American Poets II. pp. 133-40.

"José Emilio Pacheco" Dictionary of Literary Biography:
Volume 290 Modern Spanish American Poets II. pp. 235-45.

 "José Juan Tablada" Dictionary of Literary Biography:
Volume 290 Modern Spanish American Poets II. pp. 321-26

"The Devil, the Tower and the Hanged Man: The Hermetic Tarot of the Numancia."
  in de Armas, Frederick A. A Star Crossed Golden Age: Myth and the Spanish
  Comedia. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1998: 46-61.

BOOK REVIEWS

 El mundo más que humano en la poesía de Pablo Antonio Cuadra.
Un estudio ecocríticoby Steven F.White. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos
37:3 (September 2003): 657-59.

 Antonio Machado: Poesía, edited by José Carlos Mainer.
Hispanófila 122 (1998): 98-100.

 The Poetry of Francisco Brines by Judith Nantell.
Hispanófila 122 (1998): 100-102.

CONFERENCE POSITIONS

 President and Organizer, 52nd Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference,
  Furman University October 10-12, 2002

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

"'No sé cuál de los dos escribe esta página':
Portraiture in the Poetry of Homero Aridjis."
Carolina Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures,
UNC Chapel Hill, April, 2005.

"'El cuadro no pintado': Homero Aridjis's 'Navegaciones'"
SAMLA, Roanoke, VA, November 2004.

"Technology and Globalization in the Poetry of José Emilio Pacheco."
Recharging Identities: Biennial Conference on Transatlantic Studies,
Brown University, April, 2004.

 "'¡Oh bosque de pilares encantados!: On the Extensive Poem in Mexico."
  Carolina Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures,
  UNC Chapel Hill, March, 2004.

"Unity and Fragment in David Huerta's La sombra de los perros."
  Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 2003.

 "Metaphors of Death and Dying in José Emilio Pacheco's Recent Poetry."
  SAMLA, Atlanta: November, 2001.

 "Ghostly Forms in the Poetry of José Juan Tablada."
MIFLC,  UNC Wilmington: October, 2001.

"'Recibir con ambas mejillas': Rosario Castellanos's Painterly Discourse."
MIFLC, Radford University, October 2000.

 "Álbum de zoología y la ecovisión poética de José Emilio Pacheco."
Literatura iberoamericana: expectativas para el siglo XXI.
50 Internacional Congreso de Americanistas.
Warsaw, Poland: July 2000.

 "The Visual and Verbal Retablos of Frida Kahlo and Rosario Castellanos."
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 2000.

 "The Circular Swerve: Indigenous Influences and National Identity
in Twentieth Century Mexican Poetry."
MIFLC, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, October, 1999.

 "Toxic Fallout and Elemental Chaos in Mexican Poetry of the 1960s and 1970s."
  In Search of Modern Mexico: An International Symposium in Honor of Octavio
  Paz, University of Kentucky: April, 1999.

 "Ninguneo and the Politics of Intertextuality in José Emilio Pacheco and Rosario
  Castellanos." MIFLC, Virginia Tech University: October, 1998.

 "A Comala of the Mind: José Emilio Pacheco's Early Theory of Influence."
MIFLC, East Carolina University: October, 1997.

 "Time and Memory in the Poetry of Abelardo Linares."
NEMLA, Philadelphia PA: April, 1997.

"The Double Presentation of Life and Dream in José Angel Valente's Poemas a Lázaro."
  MIFLC, The University of North Carolina at Wilmington: October, 1996.

 "Quicksilver: The Play of Light and Water in Poems by Guillermo Carnero and Octavio
  Paz." Pennsylvania Foreign Language Conference, Duquesne University:
  September, 1995.

 "The Devil, The Tower and The Hanged Man: Tarot Symbolism in La Numancia."
  Golden Age Theater Symposium, University of Texas at  El Paso: March, 1994.

 "'Hoy ya no caemos en aquellos errores': Mimetic Violence and Transcendence
  in Buero Vallejo's El tragaluz." The College of Wooster: April, 1993.