Michael J. Horswell
Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature
Dean, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
PhD, University of Maryland, College Park (1997)
561.297.3803
horswell@fau.edu
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, Indigenismo
Books
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. 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
Sumergido/Submerged: cine alternativo cubano. Co-edited with Luis Duno-Gottberg. Houston, TX: Literal Publishing, 2013. 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 Decolonizing the Sodomite: Queer Tropes of Sexuality in Colonial Andean Culture. Austin, TX: U of Texas P, 2005.
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 Companion for Colonial Latin American and Caribbean Studies (1492-1898). 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 Journal of Language and Sexuality 5.2 (2016): 222-249.
"Baroque and Neo-Baroque Literary Traditions." Oxford Bibliographies in Latin American Studies. Ed. Ben Vinson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 听
"Negotiating Apostasy in Vilcabamba: Titu Cusi Yupangqui Writes from the Chaupi." Examining Heretical Thought. Eds. Jos茅 Rabasa and Jes煤s Rodr铆guez Velasco. Special issue of Romantic Review 103, no. 1-2 (January-March 2012): 81-110. 听
"Hacia un tercer cine queer: la cr铆tica de cuerpos y espacios transnacionales en Dependencia sexual de Rodrigo Bellot." 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
"'Perros aucas' y 'Mati-umas': una lectura de la representaci贸n ideol贸cia de los Ca帽ari en las cr贸nicas." 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, Los empe帽os de una casa." Crosscurrents: Transatlantic Perspectives on Early Modern Hispanic Drama. Eds. Bonnie Gasior and Mindy E. Bad铆a. Bucknell: Bucknell UP, 2006. 听
"Toward an Andean Theory of Ritual, Same-Sex Sexuality and Third-Gender Subjectivity." Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America. Ed. Peter Sigal. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003. 25-69. 听
"Un sacrificio fundacional: el Inca Garcilaso, los sodomitas, y la identidad h铆brida del cronista." 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 to1880
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