Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, 2001. Spanish & Portuguese. Associate Professor of Latin American Literature & Anthropology.
Director of Vanderbilt In Spain (Fall 2007-Summer2008)
Director of Graduate Studies (Spring 2003-Spring 2004 & Fall 2005-Spring 2006).
Phone: (615) 322-6856 -- E-mail: carlos.a.jauregui@vanderbilt.edu
My book Canibalia (Córdoba, Spain, 2005: second revised edition: Vervuert 2008), winner of the Premio Casa de las Americas 2005, focuses on the historical redefinition and ideological values of cannibalism as a shifting cultural metaphor, in constructing and contesting Latin American identities throughout various stages of its cultural history. Canibalia addresses how the metaphor of cannibalism, the conceptual character of Caliban and the trope of consumption, have been articulated with experiences of colonialism and (neo)colonialism, appropriation of cultural difference, hybrid identity construction, and with the rising criticism of the global market and consumerism in Latin America. I have also published Querella de los indios en las Cortes de la Muerte (1557) (Mexico: UNAM, 2002), a study (with an annotated edition) of a rare theatrical version of the Conquest of the New World from the sixteenth century influenced by Bartolomé de las Casas. My recent book Theatre of Conquest: Carvajal’s Complaint of the Indians in the “Court of Death” (Pennsylvania State UP, 2008) offers an English translation of the aforementioned play, with a completely new introduction and notes.
I am coeditor of Heterotropías: narrativas de identidad y alteridad latinoamericana (with Juan P. Dabove, Pittsburgh: IILI, 2003), a collection of essays on the tropological formation of discourses of identity / otherness in Latin America. I coedited with Edward H. Friedman a monographic issue of Bulletin of the Comediantes devoted to Hispanic colonial theatre (2006, n. 58.1), and Colonialidad y crítica en América Latina. Bases para un debate with Mabel Moraña (México: UDLA, 2007). I also coedited with Enrique Dussel and Mabel Moraña Coloniality at Large. Latin America and the Postcolonial Debate, a volume on the postcolonial debate in Latin America (Duke UP--In press 2008) (FORD-LASA Special Projects Award, 2003). Most recently, I co-authored and coedited with Joseph S. Mella and Edward F. Fischer Of Rage and Redemption: The Art of Oswaldo Guayasamín (Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, 2008), the art catalog for the Oswaldo Guayasamin Art Exhibit and National Tour 2008-2009 (News Releases: The Tennessean 1, 2 & 3; Nashville Scene; Vanderbilt View ).
I am one of the editors (with Christina Karageorgou-Bastea) of the the Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies . My articles have appeared in journals such as Colonial Latin American Review, Revista Ibeoramericana, Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana, Hispanic Issues, Bulletin of the Comediantes, Humboldt (Goethe Institut) Enunciación, Revista Casa Silva, and Revista de Estudios Colombianos.
