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Name: Mark A. Hernández
Title: Assistant Professor
Departmental Affiliation: Romance Languages Department
Degrees: Ph.D., M.A. - University of Kansas
B.A. - Yale University
Expertise: 20th Century Latin American and US Latino Literary and Cultural Studies
Cultural and Literary Studies of Greater Mexico
Mexican Rock After 1985
Latin American Theater
Major Awards: Grants and fellowships from Tufts University, Bowling Green State University, Grinnell College and the University of Kansas
E-mail: Mark.Hernandez@tufts.edu

Scholarship & Research: Book Manuscripts

Figural Conquistadors: Rewriting the New World's Discovery and Conquest in Mexican and River Plate Novels of the 1980s and 1990s (Bucknell University Press, 2006)

Mexican Rock since 1985: Rock en español, National Rock and Alternative Beats (In progress)

Journal Articles and Chapters in Edited Books

The Disintegration of Community in Luis Humberto Crosthwaite’s El gran preténder. Issues in the Literary Imagination XXIII.1 (Spring 2000): 133-39.

The Buffoon and the Voyage of Magellan in Napoleón Baccino Ponce de León's 'Maluco'. Chasqui 30.1 (May 2001): 3-13.

Remaking the Corrido for the 1990s: Maldita Vecindad's El Barzón. Studies in Latin American Popular Culture 20 (2001): 101-16.

Restaging the Conquest of Michoacán: Víctor Castillo Bautista's Nuño de Guzmán o la espada de Dios Latin American Theatre Review 37.1 (Fall 2003): 25-42.

Las (im)posibilidades del amor : La luna siempre será un amor difícil de Luis Humberto Crosthwaite. (Confluencia: Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura, Spring 2005): 112-21.

“Mark A. Hernandez: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 21:01:58.” One Wound for Another / Una herida por otra: Testimonios de Latin@s in the U.S. through Cyberspace (11 de septiembre de 2001-11 de marzo de 2002). Eds. Claire Joysmith and Clara Lomas. Mexico City: UNAM, CISAN, Colorado College and Whittier College, 2005. 181-82.

“Chronicles of Mexico City Life: The Music of Rockdrigo González.” (Forthcoming, Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, 2007).

“Norteña à la Punk: La Lupita’s Cover of ‘Contrabando y traición’.” (Under review)

“Breaking the Mold of Contemporary Working-Class Masculinity: The Rock Urbano Music of Tex Tex.” (Under review)

Book Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries

Book review of “Cortijo’s Wake / ‘El entierro de Cortijo,’ By Edgardo Rodríguez Julía.” The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History 61.1 (July 2004): 133-34.

Encyclopedia entries on “Rockdrigo González,” “Rolando Hinojosa-Smith,” “Richard Rodriguez” and “Luis Valdez”. The Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. Second edition. Joseph S. Tulchin, editor. New York: Scribners (Forthcoming, 2007).

Encyclopedia entry on “Malinchistas.” International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Second edition. William A. Darity, editor. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale (Forthcoming, 2007).

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