People Assistant Professor
Latin American and Caribbean Lit
Cultural Studies
Faculty
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Jorge Marturano
Assistant Professor
Office: Rolfe Hall 4321
Email: marturano@ucla.edu
Phone: 310-794-5693
Jorge Marturano received his Ph.D. from Duke University (2006), and teaches Latin American and Caribbean literatures and cultural studies at the Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA. His work forucses on the relationship between prison narratives and the intellectual field during the Cuban republic and his scholarship primarily develops a perspective which historicizes the traces of interaction between intellectuals, writers, narrative fictions, and the Cuban state, as they can be found in essays and fictional narratives written during the Republican period, especially between 1925-58. His research and teaching interests include the relationship between the cultural and literary field of the Cuban Republic, the role of Cuban cultural institutions and organizations during the Cuban Republic period, culture and politics in Latin American and the Caribbean, narrative discourse and the political imagination, race and ethnicity in the Americas. He has published articles on travel narratives, Latin American novel, post dictatorial fiction, Cuban essay and narrative discourse. He has co-organized several interdisciplinary groups, including the ongoing UCLA Mellon Faculty Seminar on Caribbean Cultural History (with Robin Derby [History]), and the ongoing Latin American Institute Working Group on Caribbean Studies. He has also been member of the Black Atlantic Studies Mellon Faculty Seminar and the Film and Media Project of the Latin American Institute.
Graduate Seminars Taught:
-Spanish 244A Contemporary Caribbean Novel (Fall 2009)
- SPAN 241A Contemporary Caribbean Short Story (Spring 2009)
- SPAN 280A The Place of Narratives of Imprisonment in Latin American Literature (Winter 2009)
- SPAN 280A Cuban Literature: between the Special Period and the Diaspora (Winter 2008)
- SPAN 290 Prison Narratives and the Island (Fall 2007)
- SPAN 241A Contemporary Spanish-American Short Story (Winter 2007)
- SPAN 290 Paradigms and Spatial Representation in Cuban Literature (Fall 2006)
Undergraduate Seminars Taught
- SPAN 119A Introduction to the Study of Literature: Prose (Fall 07, Spring 09, Fall 09)
- SPAN 142 20th Century Spanish American Literature: Fiction and the Essay (Winter 2007, Winter 2009)
- SPAN 191A Contemporary Caribbean Literature (Winter 2008)
- SPAN 191A Images and Literature in Latin America, (Spring 2007)
- SPAN 191A Caribbean Literature (Fall 2006)
Additional Information
-Co-organizer of the UCLA Mellon Faculty Seminar on Caribbean Culturay History (2008-2010) [with Robin Derby (History)]
-Co-organizer of the LAI WOrking Group on Caribbean Studies (2009-2010) [with Robin Derby (History), and Liz Deloughrey (English)]
-Member, UCLA Mellon Faculty Seminar on Black Atlantic Studies (2008-2010)
-Co-organizer of the LAI Working Grou pon Cuba and the Caribbean (2006-2008) [with Robin Derby (History)]
-Member, LAI Film and Media Project Working Group (2007-2009)
