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Dr. Carlos Abreu Mendoza

  • Professor - Dept of World Languages & Literatures
Portrait of Dr. Carlos Abreu Mendoza

Biography and expertise

Carlos Abreu Mendoza was born in Huelva, Spain and earned a B.A. in Spanish Philology from the University of Seville. He holds an M.A. in Hispanic Literature and a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Education

Doctorate Degree

PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures

Univ North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 2014

Master's Degree

MA in Romance Languages and Literatures

Univ North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 2009

Research Interests

  • Abreu Mendoza, Carlos. Awards for Faculty at Hispanic Serving Institutions, National Endowment for the Humanities, Federal, $60000. (Submitted: April 2023, Funded: September 1, 2024 - August 31, 2025). Grant.
  • Abreu Mendoza, Carlos (Principal). Research Enhancement Program, Texas State University, Institutional (Higher Ed), $6560. (Submitted: December 1, 2015). Grant.
  • Abreu Mendoza, Carlos (Principal). Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, Institute for the Study of the Americas, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Institutional (Higher Ed), $1500. (Submitted: May 1, 2011). Grant.
  • Abreu Mendoza, Carlos (Principal). Dana B. Drake and Isabella Payne Cooper Dissertation Research Fellowship for Spanish, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Institutional (Higher Ed), $3000. (Submitted: April 1, 2011). Grant.
  • Abreu Mendoza, Carlos. Erasmus Scholarship, Institutional (Higher Ed). (Funded: September 2003 - June 2004). Grant.
  • Abreu Mendoza, C., & Solanki, T. (2025). Sensing Migrant Romanticism: Introduction. Comparative Literature, 77(2), 137–144. https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-11626841
  • Abreu Mendoza, C., & Madan, A. (2025). The Spatial Turn. In New Approaches to Latin American Studies: Culture and Power, Vol. 2. Edited by Juan Poblete. (pp. 90–113). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003586661-6
  • Abreu Mendoza, C. (2024). Tuning the Indian: Creole Discourse, Citizenship, and Aurality in (Post)colonial Latin America. In Routledge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Latin America (pp. 278–292). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367808839-23
  • Abreu Mendoza, C. (2024). Estética y política de lo sublime en Facundo. Revista Hispánica Moderna, 77, 1–21.
  • Abreu Mendoza, C. (2023). Sound, Noisy Feelings, and the Audible Sublime in Nineteenth-Century Latin America. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 57, 403–426.
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  • Award / Honor Recipient: College of Liberal Arts Award of Excellence in Research Funding and Sponsored Programs. August 2025
  • Award / Honor Recipient: College of Liberal Arts Achievement Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activity. July 2020
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Grant and Proposal Writing Certificate, College of Liberal Arts. November 2019
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Buchan Award for Excellence in Scholarship in Spanish, The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. May 2014
  1. Editorial Review Board Member

    Nineteenth-Century Section / Latin American Studies Association

  2. Undergraduate Advisor

    Rincón Hispano Universitario

  3. Member

    Modern Language Association Delegate Assembly

  4. Organizer

    20th Annual Carolina Conferences on Romance Literatures

  5. Other

    Assessment Coordinator, Spanish Section

  6. Member

    Personnel Committee

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