Michael J. Horswell

Michael J. Horswell, Ph.D.

Professor | Dean

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters

Languages, Linguistics, and Comparative Literature

Boca Raton Campus

Teaching and Research Fields

Latin American Colonial Literature
Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Nineteenth-Century Latin American Literature and Culture
Andean Studies, Indigenismo

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Sexualidades Periféricas. Consolidaciones literarias y fílmicas en la España de fin de siglo XIX y fin de milenio. Co-edited with Nuria Godón. Madrid, Spain: Fundamentos, 2016. http://www.editorialfundamentos.es/index.php?producto=1633274&section=catalogo&pagina=producto&idioma=es 

Baroque Projections: Images and Texts in Dialogue with the Early Modern Hispanic World. Co-edited with Frédéric Conrod. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta - Hispanic Monographs, 2016.  https://www.amazon.com/dp/1588712753/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_aY8HybENG30H6 

Sumergido/Submerged: cine alternativo cubano. Co-edited with Luis Duno-Gottberg. Houston, TX: Literal Publishing, 2013.  https://www.amazon.com/Submerged-Sumergido-English-Duno-Gottberg-Horswell/dp/0977028771/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426631449&sr=1-5&keywords=sumergido 

La descolonización del sodomita en los Andes colonialies. Quito, Ecuador: Abya-Yala Press, 2010 (1st ed.); 2013 (2nd ed.). Spanish translation of  Decolonizing the Sodomite: Queer Tropes of Sexuality in Colonial Andean Culture.  Austin, TX: U of Texas P, 2005. https://abyayala.org/Abyayala2018/producto/la-descolonizacion-del-sodomita-en-los-andes-coloniales-pdf/

Decolonizing the Sodomite: Queer Tropes of Sexuality in Colonial Andean Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/hordec 

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

“The (Dis)continuities of Decolonized Gender and Sexual Identity in the Andes.” In the  Companion for Colonial Latin American and Caribbean Studies (1492-1898).  Eds. Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Santa Arias. London: Routledge, 2021. 419-432.

’The Museum Cross-dressed as a Museum:’ Neo-Baroque Language and Peripheral Activist Aesthetics in the Museo travesti de Perú.”  Journal of Language and Sexuality  5.2 (2016): 222-249.

"Baroque and Neo-Baroque Literary Traditions."  Oxford Bibliographies in Latin American Studies. Ed. Ben Vinson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.  https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199766581/obo-9780199766581-0004.xml 

"Negotiating Apostasy in Vilcabamba: Titu Cusi Yupangqui Writes from the  Chaupi."  Examining Heretical Thought. Eds. José Rabasa and Jesús Rodríguez Velasco. Special issue of  Romantic Review  103, no. 1-2 (January-March 2012): 81-110. https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/hordec 

"Hacia un tercer cine queer: la crítica de cuerpos y espacios transnacionales en  Dependencia sexual de Rodrigo Bellot."  Miradas al margen: cine y subalternidad en América Latina y el Caribe. Ed. Luis Duno-Gottberg. Caracas, Venezuela: Fundación Cinemateca Nacional de Venezuela, 2009.  https://www.amazon.com/Miradas-margen-subalternidad-America-Spanish/dp/9806506138 

"'Perros  aucas' y 'Mati-umas': una lectura de la representación ideolócia de los Cañari en las crónicas."  Encuentro nacional sobre historia del Azuay Cuenca 2007. Ed. Juan Cordero Iñiguez. Ecuador: Universidad de Cuenca, 2008.

"Transatlantic Performances of Hybridity in Sor Juana's Baroque Festival,  Los empeños de una casa." Crosscurrents: Transatlantic Perspectives on Early Modern Hispanic Drama.  Eds. Bonnie Gasior and Mindy E. Badía. Bucknell: Bucknell UP, 2006.  https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781611482348/Crosscurrents-Transatlantic-Perspectives-on-Early-Modern-Hispanic-Drama 

"Toward an Andean Theory of Ritual, Same-Sex Sexuality and Third-Gender Subjectivity."  Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America.  Ed. Peter Sigal. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003. 25-69.  https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo3616886.html 

"Un sacrificio fundacional: el Inca Garcilaso, los sodomitas, y la identidad híbrida del cronista."  De amores y luchas: diversidad sexual, derechos humanos y ciudadania. Ed. Jorge Bracamonte Allaín. Lima, Peru: Centro de la Mujer Peruana "Flora Tristán," 2001. 81-103.

Selected Undergraduate Courses Taught

  • Road Movies and Travel Tales from Latin America
  • Andean Cultural Studies in Ecuador
  • Love and Desire in Latin American Literature and Film
  • Spanish Peninsular Literature and Film (taught in Salamanca)
  • Cultural History of Salamanca & Spain (taught in Salamanca)
  • Orality and Writing in Colonial & Post-Colonial Andean Literature
  • Spanish American Literature to 1880
  • Introduction to Hispanic Literature
  • Introduction to Latin American Studies
  • Commercial Spanish I and II
  • Spanish Language: Beginning, Intermediate, and Conversation

Selected Graduate Courses Taught

  • Seminario: El Barroco de Indias y sus antecedentes
  • Transatlantic Studies: Escribir en las fronteras del imperio español
  • Introduction to Literary Theory and the Hispanic Tradition
  • Foreign Language Teaching Practicum for Graduate Teaching Assistants
  • Literatura Andina: Del Incaismo al Post-Indigenismo
  • Seminar in Colonial Latin American Literature
  • Gender and Sexuality in Spanish Golden Age Literature
  • Twentieth-Century Spanish Peninsular Literature and Film

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