Hern谩n Medina Jim茅nez
Associate Professor and Department Chair of Spanish; Global and International Studies
Phone: 330-263-2412
Office: Kauke 208
Degrees
- B.A. in Law, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, 2002
- M.A. in Spanish, Ohio University, 2010
- M.A. in Latin American Studies, Ohio University,2010
- Doctoral Level Certificate in Cultural Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 2014
- Ph.D.in HispanicLiteratures, University of Pittsburgh, 2016
Medina檚 research specialties include 20th and 21st Century Latin American Literature, Latin American Cultural Studies, Hispanic Film Studies, Metafictional Novel, Play and Game Theory and Postcolonial Literature.
Currently he is working on a book manuscript entitled Framed-Narrative in the Global Literary Marketplace: On Self-Referentiality and Game Theory in Mario Bellatin, Roberto Bola帽o and Julio Cort谩zar which addresses the pervasive industrial reflexivity within contemporary cultural productions by presenting how new modes in the organization of self-referentiality and frame narratives engage this situation.
Notes
At the University of Pittsburgh, Prof. Medina has taught courses on special topics in literature, film and culture such as 淟atin America Today, 淒ecoding Cinematic Latin America, 淩eading Beyond the Plot: Latin American Short Stories, 淎daptations in Spanish Filmmaking: The Space between the Novel and the Film, and 淜eywords in Latin America. His professional experience includes different positions in media productions such as a literary publisher and a former TV producer for the Peruvian Broadcasting Service.
- SPAN 101: Beginning Spanish I
- SPAN 102: Beginning Spanish II
- SPAN 201: Intermediate Spanish I
- SPAN 202: Intermediate Spanish II
- FYSM 101: Reading (Beyond) the Plot
- SPAN 224: Readings in Latin American Cultures
- SPAN 31106: Adaptations in the Hispanic Creative Industries
- SPAN 31107: Politics of the World Literature: On the Question of the Hispanic Cultures
- 淏ellatin y las Pol铆ticas de la Literatura: El Valor de la Alteridad en Escritores Duplicados/ Narradores mexicanos en Par铆s. Chasqui: Revista de Literatura. Vol. 50, No. 2, Noviembre 2021, 287-308.
- 淧ol铆ticas del Juego: El caso de Autonautas de la Cosmopista de Carol Dunlop y Julio Cort谩zar. A Contracorriente: una revista de estudios latinoamericanos. Vol. 21, No. 1, Fall 2023 (Forthcoming)
- 淏ellatin: El Problema de la Locaci贸n de la Literatura (Conjeturas sobre la Condici贸n de un Escritor Migrante). En Jaimes, Hector, ed. Mario Bellatin y las formas de la escritura. Chapel Hill, NC: Editorial A Contracorriente, 2020.79-99.
- “2666 y la Representaci贸n del Trabajo Intelectual en 淟a Parte de los Cr铆ticos (Reporte sobre las Pol铆ticas del Paratexto),” Revista Iberoamericana, Vol. LXXXIV, N煤m. 262, Enero-Marzo 2018, 235-259.
- 淧edagog铆a, subalternizaci贸n y fatum en Los Olvidados (1950) de Luis Bu帽uel: Ambivalencias entre la di谩spora republicana en M茅xico y la 樏塸oca de Oro como cine nacional. A-Contracorriente: A Journal of Social History and Literature in Latin America. Vol.11, No. 2, Winter 2014, pp. 221-256.