Pedro Garcia-Caro

assistant professor

Contact info:
Office:FR 424
Phone: (541) 346-4032
pgcaro@uoregon.edu

Degrees, years, and locations:
- Licenciatura en filosofía y letras (Filología Moderna), Universidad de Murcia, 1995
- BA (Hons), University of Surrey, 1996
- MA, University College London, University of London 1997
- PhD, King's College London, University of London, 2004

Research and teaching interests:
19th, 20th, and 21st Century Latin American, American, and Spanish literatures. Nationalism and national identity in the literatures of the Americas and Spain. Intellectual and literary discussions of mexicanidad, hispanidad and Americanness. The historical novel, the detective novel, modern and postmodern parody and satire, border literatures, hispanic literatures in the US, travel literature, cinema, translation.

PhD thesis title: "Dismantling the Nation: History as Satire in the Works of Carlos Fuentes and Thomas Pynchon".

Courses taught:

COLT 607: Undermining Empire: Novel Nations and the Americas

SPAN 490/590: Social Change, the Avant-Garde and the Mexican Revolution.

RL 410/510: Touring the Other Side: Literatures of the US-Mexican Border

SPAN 407: Nation against People: Contemporary Chilean Literature

SPAN 407: A Neo-Colonial Gaze? The Americas in Spanish Literature 1808-2003.

SPAN 328: US Hispanic Literatures

SPAN 319: Survey 20th C. Latin American Literature

Publications:
“Damnosa Hereditas: Sorting the National Will in Fuentes’s The Death of Artemio Cruz and Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49”, in How Far Is America From Here? Proceedings of the International American Studies Association First World Congress. Paul Giles, Theo D’Haen, Djelal Kadir, and Lois Parkinson Zamora, eds. (Amsterdam, New York:
Rodopi Publishers, 2005) ISBN 90-420-1756-2.

“Review of Mexicanos: A History of Mexicans in the US by Manuel G.
Gonzales”, Comparative American Studies: An International Journal, 6, June 2004.

“‘Anaqueles Caseros’: Entrevista a Unai Elorriaga”, Ciberletras, 9 (July 2003), ISSN 15231720, http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/v09/garcia-caro.html

“Lujuria Roja: Aub visto por Ripstein,” Ciberletras, 10 (December 2003), ISSN 15231720, http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/v10/garciacaro.htm

“Under Western Eyes: D.H. Lawrence’s Mexico”. Pere Gallardo and Enric Llurda (ed.) Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference of AEDEAN. (Lleida: Editions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2000). ISBN:84-8409-045-0.

“Behind the Canvas. The Role of Paintings in Peter Ackroyd’s Chatterton and Arturo Pérez Reverte’s The Flanders Panel”, Anne Mullen and Emer O’Beirne (ed.) Crime Scenes: Detective Narratives in European Culture since 1945. (Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 2000. ISBN: 90-420-1233-1)
http://www.rodopi.nl/functions/search.asp?BookId=TEXTXET+47

"'America was the only place...', American Exceptionalism and the Geographic Politics of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon", in The Multiple Worlds of Mason & Dixon, Jane Hinds, ed. (New York: Camden House, 2005). ISBN: 1571133186.

Forthcoming:
'España, última colonia de sí misma: la justicia en el exilio.' L'exil espagnol dans les Amériques. Amiens: Centre d'Études Hispaniques D'Amiens (CEHA), Fall 2007.