Global Utilities

School of Historical and European Studies

Spanish Program (with Portuguese and Catalan)

 

Dr Carlos Uxó González

Dr Carlos Uxo

Lecturer
Room: Humanities 3 207
Tel: (61 3) 9479 1110
Fax: (61 3) 9479 1453
Email: C.Uxo@latrobe.edu.au

Qualifications: LicFilologia Hispanica U Complutense, MA La Trobe

 

Teaching: Spanish Language (beginners 1A, beginners 1B, and third-year advanced), Latin American Today and Cuba in the Special Period.

Research Area:The representation of the black population in contemporary Cuban literature. Detective fiction by Leonardo Padura Fuentes. Narrative fiction by Martin Gaite.

Research Project
PhD dissertation: The representation of the black population in contemporary Cuban literature.

Research Publications
Selected recent publications:

Edited book

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

Book chapters

  • 'Cinco años de estudios sobre Carmen Martín Gaite. 1998-2002.' [Five years of studies on Carmen Martín Gaite] Carmen Martín Gaite.Ed. Alicia Redondo Goicoechea. Madrid: Ediciones del Orto, 2004, pp. 215-226
  • 'La cola de la serpiente de Leonardo Padura.' The Detective Fiction of Leonardo Padura Fuentes. Ed. Carlos Uxó. Manchester Crime Fictions Research Series. Manchester: Manchester Metropolitan University Press, 2006, pp. 160-170
  • 'Interview with Leonardo Padura Fuentes.' The Detective Fiction of Leonardo Padura Fuentes. Ed. Carlos Uxó. Manchester Crime Fictions Research Series. Manchester: Manchester Metropolitan University Press, 2006, pp. 27-37

Articles in refereed journals

  • 'Renovación y estereotipo en la narrativa breve de los novísimos cubanos.' Hispanitas [Centre for Afro-Hispanic Research, University Omar Bongo, Libreville, Gabon] 2 (November 2006), pp. 109-133
  • 'Tres programas de autor para distintas necesidades.' [Three Authoring Programs for Different Needs] Frecuencia L, 22 (2003), pp. 46-51

Memberships
Secretary of AILASA (2006-2008), member of LASA. Currently on the editorial board of JILAS-Journal of the Association of Iberian and Latin American Research and Ixquic.

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