Cruz, Gerardo

Gerardo Cruz

Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies

BOOKS

Eugenia 2218: La visi贸n posthumana de Eduardo Urzaiz. Universidad Aut贸noma de Yucat谩n, 2022. [听闭

Mundos (casi) imposibles. Narrativa postmoderna mexicana. Vervuert-Iberoamericana, 2018. [听闭

SELECTED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

鈥淟atin American Autofiction. Artists as Transformers/Performers beyond Textuality,鈥澛Authors That Matter: Authorship after Barthes and Foucault. University College London. (Forthcoming, Spring 2023)

鈥淓st茅tica de lo performativo en el cine autoficcional de Alejandro Jodorowsky,鈥 Performatividades contempor谩neas: teatro, cine y nuevos medios. Visor, 2021.

鈥淒esarticulaci贸n de la m谩quina antropol贸gica en Axolotl de Julio Cort谩zar,鈥 Altre modernit脿, no. 26, 2021.

鈥淵oni Rei: construcci贸n y destrucci贸n de un cuerpo posthumano,鈥 Lejana. Revista Cr铆tica de Narrativa Breve, no. 14, 2021.

鈥淟a vanguardia, entre el fragmento y la totalidad. El valor de la traducci贸n de Joyce en revistas latinoamericanas,鈥 Constelaci贸n latinoamericana: intelectuales y escritores entre traducci贸n, cr铆tica y ficci贸n. Mantua: Universitas Studiorum, 2020.

鈥淎propiacionismo como construcci贸n del corpus textual y visual en Alberto Blanco y Joel-Peter Witkin,鈥 Seminario de Narrativa Latinoamericana Contempor谩nea-UNAM, 2019.

鈥淒eep Literature and Dirty Realism: Rupture and Continuity in the Canon,鈥 New Trends in Contemporary Latin American Narrative. Post-National Literatures and the Canon. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

鈥淟a franca mirada del viajero Vila-Matas. No lugares e implicaciones coloniales鈥, Geometr铆a fractal. Transposiciones en la obra de Enrique Vila-Matas. Universidad Iberoamericana-Puebla and Universidad Aut贸noma de Puebla, 2013.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

鈥淟a expresi贸n del momento postnacional a trav茅s de la cultura,鈥 LASA Latin American Studies Association Conference. Vancouver, Canada, May 2021.

鈥淧osthumanismo y postnacionalismo en la novela gr谩fica La Burbuja de Bertold,鈥 II International Congress of Latin American Contemporary Fiction-Universidad Nacional Aut贸noma de M茅xico. Mexico City, Mexico, February 2020.

鈥淧osthumanismo y nuevas tecnolog铆as en el teatro hisp谩nico actual: Guillermo G贸mez-Pe帽a y Marcel-l铆 Ant煤nez,鈥 Conference Performa: New Spaces/New Formats in the Hispanic Contemporary Theatre. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago, Spain, November 2019.

鈥淚dentidades postnacionales y diseminaciones culturales en la novela latinoamericana reciente,鈥 Ibero-American Institute in Berlin. Berlin, Germany, August 2019.

鈥淧erformatividad y visualizaci贸n social de G贸mez-Pe帽a: migraci贸n (in)documentada e identidad trasnacional M茅xico-Estados Unidos,鈥 International Colloquia Le theatre hors de lui. Universit茅. de Toulouse. Toulouse, France, November 2019.

鈥淐onstruction and Destruction of Yoni Rei鈥檚 Posthuman Body,鈥 The Body at its Limits. XXIV Annual Juan Bruce-Novoa Mexican Studies Conference, University of California-Irvine. Irvine, April 2018.

鈥淵uri Herrera鈥檚 Mexican North-Literature as World Literature,鈥 Colloquium Politics, Poetics & World Literature. Harvard University Institute for World Literature. Harvard University and University of Copenhagen. Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2017.

鈥淐uentos mexicanos contempor谩neos de ciencia ficci贸n: Pepe Rojo y BEF,鈥 Ministry of Culture of Jalisco State. Guadalajara. Guadalajara, Mexico, April 2016.

鈥淐reation and Crisis of Latin American Self-fiction in Aira and Bellatin,鈥 Author, Authorship, and Authority in the Age of Cultural Studies and New Media. Hermes Consortium of Literary and Cultural Studies at Charles University of Prague. Prague, Czech Republic, June 2015.

BOOK REVIEWS

Review of Narrativas transmediales. Las metamorfosis del relato en los nuevos medios digitales, edited by Domingo S谩nchez-Mesa. Philologia Hispalensis, Vol. 35, No. 2, 2021.

Review of La derrota de lo real by Pablo Brescia. Seminario de Narrativa Latinoamericana Contempor谩nea-UNAM, 2018

Review of Conversaciones en Princeton by Ricardo Piglia. Seminario de Narrativa Latinoamericana Contempor谩nea-UNAM., 2017.

Review of聽 Las sombras del novelista. AutoRepresentaciones, edited by Antonio Gil Gonz谩lez. 1616. Anuario de literatura comparada, no. 5, 2015.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH

Research Member of the French-Spanish project PERFORMA: Theatre Beyond Theatre. Contemporary Performativities in Digital Age] (2016-2019), and PERFORMA2: Metamorphosis of the Spectator in Contemporary Spanish Theater] (2020-2023). [ ]

BOOKS: FICTION

El fuego camina conmigo. Mexico: NitroPress, 2014.

C铆rculo que se cierra. Mexico: De Lo Imposible, 2013.

Tela de ara帽a. Mexico: Ficticia, 2011.

脷ltimas horas (fe de erratas). Mexico: National Arts Center and Centre for Arts and New Technologies, 2008.

SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Graduate Research Abroad Fellowships, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, 艾可直播 University, 2019.

Erasmus Mundus Fellowship, European Union, European Commission: 2013-2015.

Artistic Development Abroad Fellowship, Government of Jalisco State and National Council for Culture and Arts, 2015-2016.

Artistic Residency Abroad Fellowship, National Fund for Culture and Arts and National Council for Culture and Arts of Mexico, 2014.

Comala National Short Story Award for Young Writers, honorable mention. National Council for Culture and Arts of Mexico and Government of Colima State, 2010.

Manuel Jos茅 Oth贸n Fiction Award, National Council for Culture and Arts of Mexico and Government San Luis Potos铆 State, 2009.