Dr Jesus Rodero

Dr. Jesús Rodero graduated from the University of El País Vasco in Journalism (1982) and English (1987). He holds an M.A and a PhD from the University of Cincinnati (1994). He joined the Department of Modern Languages at Strathclyde University in 1994. He is currently the Subject Leader in Spanish. His main research interests are in the 20th Century Latin American prose fiction, in particular the short story. Among his publications in this area are two monographs –one on the short stories of Julio Ramón Ribeyro (2000), the other on the 20th Century short story of the fantastic (2006) –, and numerous articles in refereed journals on, among others, Julio Cortázar, Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Gabriel García Márquez, Rosario Ferré and Adolfo Bioy Casares. Work in press includes a study of José Emilio Pacheco’s short stories and an article on the politics of the fantastic in Ferré’s short fiction. He is currently working on a joint research project entitled ‘Political and Cultural Paradigms of the Fantastic in Modern Hispanic Fiction and Film’.

Selected publications

 books

• La edad de la incertidumbre: un estudio del cuento fantástico del siglo XX en Latinoamérica. New York: Peter Lang, 2006.
• Los márgenes de la realidad en los cuentos de Julio Ramón Ribeyro.  New Orleans: University Press of the South, 2000.

Articles in refereed journals and books

• “Paradigmas culturales y configuración de la identidad: lo fantástico político en dos cuentos de Rosario Ferré”. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies. (Forthcoming 2013).
• “políticas de lo fantástico: compromiso intelectual y olvido en dos cuentos de José Emilio Pacheco”. Bulletin of Spanish Studies. (Forthcoming 2013)
• “The Fantastic in Bioy’s Short Stories”. In the book Adolfo Bioy Casares: Borges, Fiction and Art, Karl Posso (ed.). Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2012. pp. 129-42.
• “Lo fantástico feminista: metamorfosis y trasgresión en Rosario Ferré y Rima de Vallbona”. Neophilologus. Vol. 93.2 (2009). pp. 263-77.
• “Mutaciones trasgresoras: el cuerpo fantástico en dos cuentos de Myriam Bustos y Carmen Naranjo”. Anales de la Universidad de Goteborg. Vol. 11 (2008). pp. 243-59.
• “Cruces contranatura: etnia, clase e identidad cultural en algunos cuentos de Julio Ramón Ribeyro”. Revista Canadiense de estudios Hispánicos. Vol. 31.2 (Winter 2007). pp. 253-65.
• “Sobre los ángeles: evolución del cuento fantástico latinoamericano en el siglo XX”. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies.  Vol. 82.1  (January 2005).  pp. 85-101.