Michael J. Horswell

Michael J. Horswell, Ph.D.

Professor | Dean

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters

Languages, Linguistics, and Comparative Literature

Boca Raton Campus

Teaching and Research Fields

Latin American Colonial Literature
Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Nineteenth-Century Latin American Literature and Culture
Andean Studies,听Indigenismo

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Sexualidades Perif茅ricas. Consolidaciones literarias y f铆lmicas en la Espa帽a de fin de siglo XIX y fin de milenio. Co-edited with Nuria God贸n. Madrid, Spain: Fundamentos, 2016. http://www.editorialfundamentos.es/index.php?producto=1633274&section=catalogo&pagina=producto&idioma=es听

Baroque Projections: Images and Texts in Dialogue with the Early Modern Hispanic World. Co-edited with Fr茅d茅ric Conrod. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta - Hispanic Monographs, 2016.听 听

Sumergido/Submerged: cine alternativo cubano. Co-edited with Luis Duno-Gottberg. Houston, TX: Literal Publishing, 2013.听 听

La descolonizaci贸n del sodomita en los Andes colonialies. Quito, Ecuador: Abya-Yala Press, 2010 (1st ed.); 2013 (2nd ed.). Spanish translation of听 Decolonizing the Sodomite: Queer Tropes of Sexuality in Colonial Andean Culture. 听Austin, TX: U of Texas P, 2005. https://abyayala.org/Abyayala2018/producto/la-descolonizacion-del-sodomita-en-los-andes-coloniales-pdf/

Decolonizing the Sodomite: Queer Tropes of Sexuality in Colonial Andean Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/hordec听

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

鈥淭he (Dis)continuities of Decolonized Gender and Sexual Identity in the Andes.鈥� In the听 Companion for Colonial Latin American and Caribbean Studies (1492-1898). 听Eds. Yolanda Mart铆nez-San Miguel and Santa Arias. London: Routledge, 2021. 419-432.

鈥橳he Museum Cross-dressed as a Museum:鈥� Neo-Baroque Language and Peripheral Activist Aesthetics in the Museo travesti de Per煤.鈥�听 Journal of Language and Sexuality 听5.2 (2016): 222-249.

"Baroque and Neo-Baroque Literary Traditions."听 Oxford Bibliographies in Latin American Studies. Ed. Ben Vinson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.听 听

"Negotiating Apostasy in Vilcabamba: Titu Cusi Yupangqui Writes from the听 Chaupi."听 Examining Heretical Thought. Eds. Jos茅 Rabasa and Jes煤s Rodr铆guez Velasco. Special issue of 听Romantic Review 听103, no. 1-2 (January-March 2012): 81-110. https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/hordec听

"Hacia un tercer cine queer: la cr铆tica de cuerpos y espacios transnacionales en听 Dependencia sexual de Rodrigo Bellot."听 Miradas al margen: cine y subalternidad en Am茅rica Latina y el Caribe. Ed. Luis Duno-Gottberg. Caracas, Venezuela: Fundaci贸n Cinemateca Nacional de Venezuela, 2009.听 听

"'Perros听 aucas' y 'Mati-umas': una lectura de la representaci贸n ideol贸cia de los Ca帽ari en las cr贸nicas."听 Encuentro nacional sobre historia del Azuay Cuenca 2007. Ed. Juan Cordero I帽iguez. Ecuador: Universidad de Cuenca, 2008.

"Transatlantic Performances of Hybridity in Sor Juana's Baroque Festival,听 Los empe帽os de una casa." Crosscurrents: Transatlantic Perspectives on Early Modern Hispanic Drama.听 Eds. Bonnie Gasior and Mindy E. Bad铆a. Bucknell: Bucknell UP, 2006.听 听

"Toward an Andean Theory of Ritual, Same-Sex Sexuality and Third-Gender Subjectivity."听 Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America. 听Ed. Peter Sigal. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003. 25-69.听 听

"Un sacrificio fundacional: el Inca Garcilaso, los sodomitas, y la identidad h铆brida del cronista."听 De amores y luchas: diversidad sexual, derechos humanos y ciudadania. Ed. Jorge Bracamonte Alla铆n. Lima, Peru: Centro de la Mujer Peruana "Flora Trist谩n," 2001. 81-103.

Selected Undergraduate Courses Taught

  • Road Movies and Travel Tales from Latin America
  • Andean Cultural Studies in Ecuador
  • Love and Desire in Latin American Literature and Film
  • Spanish Peninsular Literature and Film (taught in Salamanca)
  • Cultural History of Salamanca & Spain (taught in Salamanca)
  • Orality and Writing in Colonial & Post-Colonial Andean Literature
  • Spanish American Literature to 1880
  • Introduction to Hispanic Literature
  • Introduction to Latin American Studies
  • Commercial Spanish I and II
  • Spanish Language: Beginning, Intermediate, and Conversation

Selected Graduate Courses Taught

  • Seminario: El Barroco de Indias y sus antecedentes
  • Transatlantic Studies: Escribir en las fronteras del imperio espa帽ol
  • Introduction to Literary Theory and the Hispanic Tradition
  • Foreign Language Teaching Practicum for Graduate Teaching Assistants
  • Literatura Andina: Del Incaismo al Post-Indigenismo
  • Seminar in Colonial Latin American Literature
  • Gender and Sexuality in Spanish Golden Age Literature
  • Twentieth-Century Spanish Peninsular Literature and Film

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