Brandon P Bisbey, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Office:
LWH 2042
Phone:
(773) 442-4622
Email:
b-bisbey@neiu.edu
Office Hours:
On sabbatical Fall 2018.
CV:
CV-Bisbey-2014.pdf
Country:
United States
SPAN 481 Contemporary Latin American Narrative
SPAN 419 Topics in Contemporary Mexican Literature
SPAN 418 Novels of the Mexican Revolution
SPAN 378 Mexican Literature
SPAN 315 Spanish Culture
SPAN 314 Latin American Culture
SPAN 310 Advanced Spanish Grammar
SPAN 253 Composition II
SPAN 102 Beginning Spanish II
PORT 101 Portuguese I
WLC 200L Introduction to Latin American Cultures
LLAS 101 Introduction to Latino and Latin American Studies
Research Interests
Contemporary Mexican Narrative, Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture, Masculinities Studies
Education
Ph.D. Spanish. Tulane University. 2011. Dissertation: Humor and Homosexuality in Contemporary Mexican Narrative.
M.A. Spanish. Tulane University. 2007.
B.A. Spanish and Latin American Studies. University of Texas at Austin. 2004.
Selected Publications
Scholarly articles:
"Humor y matrimonio gay en Utop铆a gay de Jos茅 Rafael Calva y La historia de siempre de Luis Zapata." Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contempor谩nea. Forthcoming.
鈥淗acia una literatura de disidencia sexual en M茅xico con dos Bildungsromane bisexuales: 笔煤谤辫耻谤补 de Ana Garc铆a Bergua y Fruta verde de Enrique Serna.鈥 Revista Valenciana. 5.10 (julio-diciembre 2012). Print.
"Cantares de los vientos primerizos: La iron铆a de una novela zapoteca en espa帽ol." Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contempor谩nea 40.16 (enero-marzo 2009): 39-48. Print.
Translations:
G贸mez, Antonio. 鈥淎rgentine Multiculturalism and the Ethnographic Shift in Documentary Cinema: Mart铆n Rejtman's Copacabana.鈥 Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture 19:3-4 (2013): 340-355. Print.
Reviews and journalism:
"The Barbarian Nurseries by H茅ctor Tobar." (Book Review) El B茅isman, elbeisman.com, 1 Apr. 2014. Web. 2 Apr. 2014.
"Come Out Into the Sun." (Review of Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant by Jos茅 脕ngel N.) El B茅isman. elbeisman.com, 2 Feb. 2014. Web. 4 Feb. 2014.
"The Real Cost of the War on Drugs." (Review of Dying for the Truth by the editors of Blog del Narco) Pilsen Portal. Pilsen Planning Committee and the Resurrection Project, 4 Nov. 2013. Web. 12 Dec. 2013.
"驴Existe una 'narcoliteratura'? Entrevista con el Dr. Felipe Oliver Fuentes Kraffczyk." Pilsen Portal. Pilsen Planning Committee and the Resurrection Project, 15 Oct. 2013. Web. 12 Dec. 2013.
"On the Border." (Review of The Boy Kings of Texas by Domingo Martinez) Pilsen Portal. Pilsen Planning Committee and the Resurrection Project, 28 Sept. 2013. Web. 12 Dec. 2013.
"De zorros y erizos: testimonio de varias vidas." (Book Review) Pilsen Portal. Pilsen Planning Committee and the Resurrection Project, 4 Jul. 2013. Web. 12 Dec. 2013.
"La transmigraci贸n de los cuerpos, de Yuri Herrera." (Book Review) contratiempo 104 (mayo 2013): 5. Print.
"Una herramienta por la paz." (Review of To Die in Mexico by John Gibler) contratiempo 98 (octubre 2012): 8. Print.
Develando el erotismo cotidiano: Bisexual chic en la narrativa mexicana contempor谩nea." contratiempo 96 (julio-agosto 2012): 22-23. Print.
"Un di谩logo en NEIU: Migraci贸n y literatura." contratiempo 91 (febrero 2012): 8. Print.
Selected Performances
INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS:
鈥淗umor y Homosexualidad鈥. Seminar taught at the Universidad de Guanajuato in Guanajuato, Mexico. November 25-28, 2013.
"Towards a Literature of Sexual Dissidence in Mexico with two Bisexual Bildungsromane: 笔煤谤辫耻谤补 by Ana Garc铆a Bergua and Fruta verde by Enrique Serna.鈥 Migration, Identity and Place: An Interdisciplinary Conference in Celebration of NEIU鈥檚 Latino and Latin American Studies Program and Its New Major. 秘密研究所. Chicago. September 27, 2012.
PAPERS READ AT CONFERENCES:
鈥淗umor y g茅nero en la reescritura del M茅xico imaginario: Brenda Berenice de Luis Monta帽o y
鈥楲a jota de Bergerac鈥 de Carlos Vel谩zquez.鈥 129th Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Chicago. January 9-12, 2014.
鈥淗umor, homofobia y la integraci贸n gay a la modenridad mexicana.鈥 XVIII Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contempor谩nea. University of Texas-El Paso. March 7-9, 2013.
"笔煤谤辫耻谤补 de Ana Garc铆a Bergua y Fruta verde de Enrique Serna: Dos bildungsroman bisexuales." XVII Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contempor谩nea. University of Texas-El Paso. March 1-3, 2012.
"Humor and gay marriage in two novels by Jos茅 Rafael Calva and Luis Zapata." XVI Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contempor谩nea. University of Texas-El Paso. March 3-5, 2011.
"Campeones: el boxeador como s铆mbolo de la naci贸n en la literatura mexicana."Creoles, Diasporas, Cosmopolitanisms: Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association. New Orleans. April 1-4, 2010.
"Narradores machadianos: a ironia da escravid茫o." Views and Visions: Perspectives in Iberian and Latin American Literatures. Tulane University. New Orleans. October 9-10, 2009.
"Incongruencias (in)apropiadas: el humor negro y lo grotesco en los cuentos de Claudia Hern谩ndez." XXVIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Rio de Janeiro. June 11-14, 2009.
"Cantares de los vientos primerizos: La iron铆a de una novela zapoteca en espa帽ol." XV Annual Mexican Conference at the Univeristy of Califoria-Irvine. April 30-May 2, 2009.
"De fronteras, y de lo grotesco de la vida posmoderna." XVI Congreso Internacional de Literatura Centroamericana. Nicoya, Guanacaste, Costa Rica. 16-18 de abril, 2008.
Background
Assistant Professor of Spanish. 秘密研究所 2011-
Teaching Assistant. Spanish and Portuguese. Tulane University 2006-2011
Preceptor. Spanish. Tulane University 2010