Dr. Filiberto Mares Hernandez

Filiberto Mares-Hernandez

Position: Associate Professor

Department: World Languages and Cultures

Office: St. Benedict Hall 322

Phone: 913.360.7739

Dr. Filiberto Mares Hern谩ndez was born in El Guayabo, Ayotl谩n Jalisco, M茅xico. He completed an A.A. in Spanish at El Camino Community College in California in 2001. He earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in Spanish Literature and Hispanic Studies from the University of California, Riverside in 2010. He taught for six years as a Spanish Lecturer at Clemson University, South Carolina. At 小草影院 besides teaching all levels of Spanish, he teaches the Spanish linguistics classes. His scholarly interests include Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Mexican narratives, Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Latin American Literatures, Hispanic linguistics, Latin American film, US Hispanic/Latino Cultures and literatures, and cultural studies. He has published articles on film and Mexican literature. In 2017 he published his first novel, El ma铆z y t煤 (Maize and You). Filiberto and his family enjoy walks by cornfields and the International Forest of Friendship.

Research Interests

Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Mexican Narratives

Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Latin American Literatures

Hispanic Linguistics

Linguistics and Social Media

Latin American Film

Urban/Rural Spaces in Contemporary Narratives

New Writing Technologies in Narratives

US Hispanic/Latino Cultures and Literatures Cultural Studies

Poetry

Education

Ph.D., University of California-Riverside, Spanish. 2010.

Dissertation: 鈥淐arlos Fuentes, Cristina Rivera Garza and Recent Rewritings of the Mexican Revolution: Memory and Resistance.鈥 Directed by Raymond L. Williams

Primary Specialization: 20th and 21st Century Latin American Literature.

Secondary Specialization: 20th and 21st Century Mexican Narrative with emphasis on Mexican Revolution and Cultural Memory.

M.A., University of California-Riverside, Spanish, 2006.

B.A., University of California-Riverside, Spanish, 2003.

A.A., El Camino Community College, Spanish, 2001.

Selected Publications

Hern谩ndez, Filiberto Mares. Salamandra. Fiction included in the Critical Storytelling from the Borderlands. Ed. Julio Enr铆quez-Ornelas & Carmella Braniger. Brill Sense Publishers, Netherlands. Forthcoming Summer 2022.

Hern谩ndez, Filiberto Mares. 鈥淪ilencio, desmoronamiento y Juan Rulfo: una lectura sobre Lo anterior de Cristina Rivera Garza.鈥 A Contracorriente: Una revista de estudios latinoamericanos. Vol. 18, Num. 1 (Fall 2020): 131-146.

Camps, Mart铆n, Coordinador. La sonrisa afilada: Enrique Serna ante la cr铆tica. Hispania, A journal devoted the teaching of Spanish and Portuguese. U Nacional Aut贸noma de M茅xico, 2017, Pp. 369. Hispania, December 2019, Volume 102, Number 4. (Book Rewiew)

鈥淓ste No Es Un Muro.鈥 Chiric煤 Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures, vol. 3, no. 2, 2019, pp. 143鈥146. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/chiricu.3.2.13.

“The Modern Bachateros: 27 Interviews by Julie A. Sellers.” Caribbean Studies, vol. 46 no. 1, 2018, pp. 224-225. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/crb.2018.0016. (Book Rewiew)

鈥淓l vendedor de mariposas鈥 Izana Editores, 2014, by Oscar Baz谩n Rodr铆guez (Review). Narrativas: revista de narrativa contempor谩nea en castellano, ISSN-e 1886-2519, N潞. 44, 2017, p谩gs. 122-123. (Book Rewiew)

El ma铆z y t煤. Novel. Independently Published, Amazon. December 15, 2017.

鈥淩epensar la lucha desde la memoria y el di谩logo: El viol铆n y Los 煤ltimos zapatistas: h茅roes olvidados.鈥 Chasqui: Revista de literatura latinoamericana. Noviembre 2010.

Conferences

鈥淐orn: Brief History, Identities, and Memes. Atchison Public Library, July 18, 2019.

鈥淧resencia鈥 de Andr茅s Francel: trastornos mentales y violencia: experiencia leyendo cuentos tolimenses en una clase de Ling眉铆stica en 小草影院, Kansas鈥 LITERATURA DEL GRAN TOLIMA, EL REGIONALISMO Y COLOMBIA CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL Y PRIMER ENCUENTRO ANUAL DEL GRUPO DE INVESTIGACI脫N COLOMBIANISTA DEL SIGLO XXI [鈥淣uevos colombianistas del Siglo XXI鈥漖, June 7, 2019.

鈥淐orn: Brief History, Identities, and the Global Impact.鈥 Faculty Colloquium Series. March 27, 2019.