Guest Speaker
2010
Dr. Pablo Brescia
Dr. Pablo Brescia is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of South Florida. He received his B.A. in philosophy and literature and his Ph.D. in Hispanic languages and literatures from the University of California, Santa Barbara (2000).
He is a contributor to and coeditor of El cuento mexicano (Mexico, 1996), Sor Juana y Vieira, trescientos años después (Mexico-USA, 1998), Borges múltiple: cuentos y ensayos de cuentistas (Mexico, 1999) and El ojo en el caleidoscopio: las colecciones de textos integrados en la literatura latinoamericana (Mexico, 2006). He has published more than sixty articles, notes, book and film reviews, interviews and translations in national an international books and in journals such as World Literature Today (Oklahoma), Revista Iberoamericana (Pittsburgh), Hostos Review/Revista Hostosiana (New York), Variaciones Borges (Iowa), Letterature d' América (Rome), Quimera (Barcelona), Caravelle: Cahiers du Monde Hispanique et Luso-Bresilien (Toulouse), Espacios de Crítica y Producción (Buenos Aires), Poligrafías (Mexico), Escritos (Mexico), La Palabra y el Hombre (Mexico), and Bulletin des Études Valéryennes (Montpellier), among others. He has also been an invited speaker to the University of Cologne (Germany), University of Texas at Austin, University of Florida, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina), University of San Diego, Universidad Veracruzana (Mexico) and Universidad de Guadalajara (Mexico).
His areas of teaching and research are the history and theory of Latin American short fiction, 20th Century Mexican and Southern Cone narrative and Colonial Mexico; he is also interested in the interrelationships between film and literature and philosophy and literature.
He is a contributor to and coeditor of El cuento mexicano (Mexico, 1996), Sor Juana y Vieira, trescientos años después (Mexico-USA, 1998), Borges múltiple: cuentos y ensayos de cuentistas (Mexico, 1999) and El ojo en el caleidoscopio: las colecciones de textos integrados en la literatura latinoamericana (Mexico, 2006). He has published more than sixty articles, notes, book and film reviews, interviews and translations in national an international books and in journals such as World Literature Today (Oklahoma), Revista Iberoamericana (Pittsburgh), Hostos Review/Revista Hostosiana (New York), Variaciones Borges (Iowa), Letterature d' América (Rome), Quimera (Barcelona), Caravelle: Cahiers du Monde Hispanique et Luso-Bresilien (Toulouse), Espacios de Crítica y Producción (Buenos Aires), Poligrafías (Mexico), Escritos (Mexico), La Palabra y el Hombre (Mexico), and Bulletin des Études Valéryennes (Montpellier), among others. He has also been an invited speaker to the University of Cologne (Germany), University of Texas at Austin, University of Florida, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina), University of San Diego, Universidad Veracruzana (Mexico) and Universidad de Guadalajara (Mexico).
His areas of teaching and research are the history and theory of Latin American short fiction, 20th Century Mexican and Southern Cone narrative and Colonial Mexico; he is also interested in the interrelationships between film and literature and philosophy and literature.