Biography and education
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.
Research Interests
Featured grants
- 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.

Featured scholarly/creative works
- 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/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.
Featured awards
- 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 13, 2019
- Award / Honor Recipient: Buchan Award for Excellence in Scholarship in Spanish, The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. May 1, 2014

Featured service activities
- Editorial Review Board Member
Nineteenth-Century Section / Latin American Studies Association
- Undergraduate Advisor
Rincón Hispano Universitario
- Member
Modern Language Association Delegate Assembly
- Organizer
20th Annual Carolina Conferences on Romance Literatures
- Other
Assessment Coordinator, Spanish Section
- Member
Personnel Committee.