Faculty Profile for Dr. Carlos Abreu Mendoza

Biography Section

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

Dr. Abreu Mendoza’s current research focuses on the thematization of sound in nation-building nar­ratives and the relationship between aesthetics and politics in nineteenth-century and contemporary Latin American literature. He has co-edited the volume Crítica de la razón andina with anthropologist Denise Y. Arnold (Editorial A Contracorriente / University of North Carolina Press, 2018). This book aims to rethink the historical and disciplinary complexity of “lo andino” and the way in which this concept shapes key debates concerning politics, identity and territory in Latin America. Alongside his theoretical interest in Andean Studies, he continues to pursue his long-standing research in Southern Cone contemporary fiction, especially the work of Horacio Quiroga, Jorge Luis Borges, and Juan José Saer. His research has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as MLN, A Contracorriente, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, and Revista Hispánica Moderna, among others. He is currently co-editing a special issue titled "Sensing Migrant Romanticism," which was accepted by Comparative Literature and has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to finish his monograph, Audible Sublime: Literature and Aurality in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, under contract with University of Pittsburgh Press.