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 Utopía gay de José Rafael Calva y La historia de siempre de Luis Zapata." Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea. Forthcoming.
“Hacia una literatura de disidencia sexual en México con dos Bildungsromane bisexuales: úܰ de Ana García Bergua y Fruta verde de Enrique Serna.” Revista Valenciana. 5.10 (julio-diciembre 2012). Print.
"Cantares de los vientos primerizos: La ironía de una novela zapoteca en español." Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea 40.16 (enero-marzo 2009): 39-48. Print.
Translations:
Gómez, Antonio. “Argentine Multiculturalism and the Ethnographic Shift in Documentary Cinema: Martín Rejtman's Copacabana.” 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 Héctor Tobar." (Book Review) El Béisman, elbeisman.com, 1 Apr. 2014. Web. 2 Apr.