Staff profile

Dr Carlos Uxo Gonzalez

Senior Lecturer, Spanish program coordinator

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Historical and European Studies

HU3 207, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

LicFilologia Hispanica (U Complutense), MA (La Trobe,) PhD (La Trobe).

Membership of professional Associations

Latin American Studies Association

Area of study

Latin American Studies
Spanish Studies

Brief Profile

Dr Carlos Uxo graduated from Universidad Complutense (Madrid, Spain). He taught Spanish first in Wellington, New Zealand, and then at La Trobe University where he completed a Master by Research on Spanish literature. In 1997 he joined the Spanish Department at Dublin City University, where he worked until coming back to La Trobe in 2002. Here, he completed his PhD on the representation of black characters in Cuban literature, a topic that remains his main focus of interest. He is also interested in the socioeconomic conditions of Cuba after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cuban crime fiction, and pedagogy of Spanish as a Foreign Language. In 2009 he was awarded a Merit Citation for outstanding contribution to the teaching of Beginners Spanish at La Trobe University.

Research interests

Latin American History

- Contemporary Cuba

- Cuban literature

- Representation of black characters in literature

Teaching Units

  • SPA1BEA - Spanish Beginners 1A.
  • SPA1ADA - Spanish Advanced 1A.
  • SPA2/3CSP - Cuba in the Special Period. 

Recent Publications

Book

Edited book

  • Uxo, C 2006, The Detective Fiction of Leonardo Padura Fuentes. Manchester Crime Fictions Research Series. Manchester: Manchester Metropolitan University Press.

Book chapters

  • Uxo, C 2010, “La representación del personaje del negro en las novelas naturalistas cubanas” in Anderson, Lara & Spicer-Escalante, Juan Pablo, eds. Au Naturel: (Re)Reading Hispanic Naturalism. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • Uxo, C 2004, 'Cinco años de estudios sobre Carmen Martín Gaite. 1998-2002.' [Five years of studies on Carmen Martín Gaite] in Carmen Martín Gaite, Alicia Redondo Goicoechea (ed), Madrid: Ediciones del Orto pp. 215-226.
  • Uxo, C 2006, 'La cola de la serpiente de Leonardo Padura.' [The Detective Fiction of Leonardo Padura Fuentes] in Manchester Crime Fictions Research Series, Carlos Uxo (ed), Manchester: Manchester Metropolitan University Press, pp. 160-170.
  • Uxo, C 2006, 'Interview with Leonardo Padura Fuentes.' The Detective Fiction of Leonardo Padura Fuentes, in Manchester Crime Fictions Research Series, Carlos Uxo (ed), Manchester: Manchester Metropolitan University Press, pp. 27-37.

Articles in refereed journals

  • “Los Novísimos cubanos: primera generación de escritores nacidos en la Revolución.” Letras Hispanas 7.1 (Spring 2010): 186-198. <http://letrashispanas.unlv.edu/letras2010/Uxo.htm> <http://letrashispanas.unlv.edu/letras2010/Uxo.pdf>
  • "El negro en la narrativa breve de los Novísimos cubanos (1985-2000)." Hispamérica 115 (2010): 113-120.
  • Uxo, C 2010, “The socialization of Internet in Cuba.” Telecommunications Journal of Australia, 60.1, February 2010: 12.1-12.16.
  • Uxo, C 2009, “El acceso a Internet en Cuba. Políticas de colectivización y socialización.” Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research 15.2, December 2009: 121-143.
  • “El personaje del negro en la narrativa breve de los Novísimos.” Encuentro de la cultura cubana 53-54 (verano-otoño 2009): 247-255. http://www.cubaencuentro.com/var/cubaencuentro.com/storage/original/application/dffd442e79d63c6768d306f1ff4d7784.pdf
  • Uxo, C 2006, 'Renovación y estereotipo en la narrativa breve de los novísimos cubanos, ' Hispanitas [Centre for Afro-Hispanic Research, University Omar Bongo, Libreville, Gabon] 2 (November), pp. 109-133.
  • Uxo, C 2003, 'Tres programas de autor para distintas necesidades.' [Three Authoring Programs for Different Needs] Frecuencia L, 22, pp. 46-51.

Edited journal

  • Special edition: Cuba Today. 50 Years On. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research 15.2 (December 2009). Co-edited with Dr. Parvathi Kumaraswami, University of Manchester.

View a complete list of publications of Carlos Uxo.

Research projects

  • The representation of the black population in contemporary Cuban literature.
  • Detective fiction by Leonardo Padura Fuentes.  
  • Narrative fiction by Carmen Martín Gaite.