Lena Retamoso Urbano
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
Office: Palamountain 409
Phone: (518) 580-5217
Email:lretamos@skidmore.edu
Degrees
- Ph.D., The Graduate Center of New York, CUNY, New York, NY
- M.Phil., The Graduate Center of New York, CUNY, New York, NY
- M.A., The City College of New York, CUNY, New York, NY
- B.A., Pontificia Universidad Cat贸lica del Per煤, Lima
Teaching and Research Interests
- 20th and 21st century Latin American and Spanish poetry
- The Poetics of Eros
- Queer Aesthetics
- Transnational surrealism
- Latin American Avant-Garde movements
- Peruvian poetry
- Transatlantic studies
- Intermedial studies on Latin American film and poetry
- The Generation of 鈥�27
- Songs from the Spanish-speaking world
- Latin American photography and documentary
- Modern fiction and poetics
- Intertextuality
Publications
Monograph
- Sacralizar lo ef铆mero: Configuraci贸n del amante y el amado en Luis Cernuda y C茅sar Moro (Forthcoming)
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- 鈥淓l cine interior en Cinema de los sentidos puros de Enrique Pe帽a Barrenechea鈥� Film and Literature in the Latin American Avant-Garde (1910-1930). Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures (Forthcoming)
- 鈥淟a configuraci贸n del cuerpo humano, de los objetos, de lo natural, del espacio y del tiempo en Jorge Eduardo Eielson.鈥� Revista de Cr铆tica Literaria Latinoamericana (RCLL), no 96. pp. 43-52 (2023)
- 鈥溾�楢polo y Dafne鈥�: Variaciones de un mito en Garcilaso de la Vega y Blanca Varela.鈥� Bolet铆n de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Espa帽ola (BANLE), Vol. 12. no. 23. pp. 61-76 (2021)
- 鈥淐onfluencias surrealistas en los poemas 鈥楬ab铆a en el fondo del mar鈥� de Luis Cernuda y 鈥榁arios leones al crep煤sculo lamen la corteza rugosa de la tortuga ecuestre鈥� de C茅sar Moro鈥�. Cuadernos de ALDEEU, no. 31. pp. 211-227. (2017)
Books of Poetry
- Luz de escombros (Light of Debris) (2023)
- Blanco es el sue帽o de la noche (White is the Dream of the Night) (2008)
- Milagros de ausencia (Miracles of Absence) (2002, 2022)
Upcoming and recent presentations
- 鈥淟uz de escombros y otros textos: Experimentando con la met谩fora鈥�. Exploring Genre and Form. New York, International Multilingual Creative Writing Conference: New York 2024. New York City, November 13-15
- 鈥淏lanca Varela: trazos de elementos surrealistas sinuosos.鈥� Approaches to Surrealism in Spanish American Poetry of the Last Half-Century. Paris, International Society for the Study of Surrealism. SURREALISMS PARIS 2024. France, October 28th-30th
- 鈥淪urreal Textures: A Journey Towards Light of Debris (2023.)鈥� Still Surreal: Glimpses of the Contemporary Omnipotence of Dream State. Paris, International Society for the Study of Surrealism. SURREALISMS PARIS 2024. France, October 28th-30th
- 鈥淐artas van, cartas vienen.鈥� Neither Here nor There; Where Then? Boston, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) 55th Annual Convention. Massachusetts, March 7-10, 2024.
- 鈥淰estigios.鈥� In Quest of Metaphor in 21st-century Hispanic Literature. Niagara Falls, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) 54th Annual Convention. New York, March 23-26, 2023.
- 鈥淓ntre el sentido y el ritmo: El poema XLIV de Trilce como arte po茅tica鈥� Congreso Internacional. Esotro d铆a: a 100 a帽os de Trilce. Lima, Grupo de Investigaci贸n en Arte y Est茅tica Pontificia Universidad Cat贸lica del Per煤. Lima, Nov.13-14, 2022
- 鈥淟ight of Debris.鈥� Multilingual Poetry Reading. Baltimore, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) 53rd Annual Convention. Maryland, March. 10-14, 2022
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