Rafael Acosta
Room 2620
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Current Research & Projects
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Dr. Acosta’s current research interests examine the political and legal matrices of affect that develop around culturally relevant stories and narrative figures. His current book project, Druglords, Bandits, Cowboys and Illegality in the Mexican American Frontier, reflects on how narratives of the frontier provide a political laboratory for the political production of the center, and how these narratives are used to further political goals. |
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Research Interests
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Mexican studies, Comparative Literature, narcocorridos, political theory, Chicano Studies |
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Selected Publications
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Morales, Rafael Acosta. "The State and the Caudillo Legitimacy in Yuri Herrera’s Trabajos del reino." Latin American Perspectives 41.2 (2014): 177-188.
Acosta, Rafael. "Operación Bolívar y la conspiración en la hiperabundancia de la información." Revista Iberoamericana 77.234 (2011): 149-162. |
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Courses Taught
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SPAN 340: Textual Analysis and Critical Reading SPAN 463: National Traditions in Spanish America |
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| Education |
Ph.D., Romance Studies, Cornell University, 2014 MA, Romance Studies, Cornell University, 2011 D.E.A, Literatura Europea, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2007 Lic. en Letras Españolas, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, 2004 |
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