Conference on Gender, Families,
and Latino Immigration in Oregon

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Pedro Garcia-Caro

Assistant Professor, Romance Languages, University of Oregon

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".

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.