ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Office: MB 2115
Phone: (510) 885-3390
Fax: (510) 885-7797
e-mail: jesus.diaz@csueastbay.edu
B.A. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 1991; M.A. University of Maryland at College Park, 1994; Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, 2001.
Professor Jesús Díaz-Caballero has experience teaching various levels of Spanish language, culture, and literature courses. Before joining the faculty at Cal State East Bay, he taught at the University of Oregon at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Besides teaching Survey of Latin American Literature from the Conquest to the present, he has developed special seminars with an interdisciplinary approach to the construction of Latin American cultural identities. He focuses his courses on the study of the relationship between social history, literature, and culture of different cultural traditions, especially about indigenous and African legacies in the Creole imagination.
His scholarly interests cover topics such as Indigenismo, Hispanic Caribbean Literature and Culture, and Transatlantic Cultural Studies. He has published several articles in different journals and participated in national and international conferences.
His book in progress entitled Los Comentarios reales y la invención criolla de la tradición incaica studies the role of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's Royal Commentaries (1609, 1617) as a foundational text of the Inca tradition and its appropriation by Creole patriotism and nation-building in the Andean area.
Recent Published Articles:
"Incaísmo as the First Guiding Fiction in the Emergence of the Creole Nation in the United Provinces of Rio de la Plata" The Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 17, 1 (2008): 1-22
"La invención del padre de la patria en los Comentarios Reales." Memorias de Jalla-2004 Lima. Tomo I. Lima: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2005: 423-435.
"Encuentros cercanos entre Cervantes y el Inca Garcilaso: los narradores en Don Quijote, los Comentarios reales y los Libros plúmbeos." Hostos Review/Revista Hostosiana 3 (2005): 227-240.
"El incaísmo como primera ficción orientadora en la emergencia de la nación criolla en las provincias unidas del Río de la Plata." A contracorriente 3, 1 (Fall 2005): 67-113.
http://www.ncsu.edu/project/acontracorriente/fall_05/fall_05.htm
"Nación y patria: las lecturas de los Comentarios reales y el patriotismo criollo emancipador." Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana. 59 (2004): 81-107.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rcll/rcll59/59pdf/59diaz2.pdf
Courses taught at CSU East Bay:
Spanish and Latin American Studies Upper Division Courses:
MLL 2410 Spanish Conversation
MLL 3401 Advanced Spanish Composition and Syntax I
MLL 3405 Advanced Spanish Conversation for Community Needs - Spanish for Teachers
MLL 3461 Introduction to Spanish American Literature: 1492-1900
MLL 3495 Latin American Civilization and Culture
MLL 4495a Latin American Migration, Culture and Identity
MLL 4495b Bolívar y el bolivarianismo
MLL 4495c Género y raza en la novela hispanoamericana del siglo XIX
Spanish Lower Division Courses:
MLL 1401 Elementary Spanish I
MLL 1402 Elementary Spanish II
MLL 1403 Elementary Spanish III
MLL 2403 Intermediate Spanish III
Campus Links
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