Professor López-Calvo’s primary area of study covers twentieth-century Latin American narrative and culture, with an emphasis on the Caribbean and the Latin American Southern Cone. He is also interested in Chicano and U.S. Latino literature and culture, as well as in the cultural production by and about the Chinese in Latin America.
Currently, he has two main research projects:
- “They’re Taking Over”: Social Spatializations and Anxieties in Latino Los Angeles’ Cultural Production, which focuses on the evolution of the imaging of Los Angeles as depicted in Chicano cultural production from different theoretical perspectives, including ecocriticism, post-nationalism, gender studies, and cultural studies
- The Dragon and the Condor: Literary and Cultural Representations of the Chinese Diaspora in Peru, which will offer a rigorous analysis of the cultural production dealing with the Chinese presence in Peru and its significance for the formation of Peruvian identity
In his publications, Professor López-Calvo usually concentrates on the relations between Latin American thought, human rights, authoritarianism, and ethnicity. From this perspective, he has published two books dealing with authoritarianism and ethnicity in the Latin American Southern Cone:
- Written in Exile. Chilean Fiction from 1973-Present (Routledge, 2001)
- Religión y militarismo en la obra de Marcos Aguinis 1963-2000 (Mellen Press, 2002)
His third and fourth books deal with the representation of dictatorship, Chineseness, and human rights violations in Caribbean cultural production, which are titled:
- “God and Trujillo”: Literary and Cultural Representations of the Dominican Dictator (University Press of Florida, 2005)
- Imaging the Chinese in Cuban Literature and Culture (University Press of Florida, 2008)
- Ph.D., 1997 — University of Georgia
- M.A., 1993 — University of Georgia
- M.A. 2005 — California State University, Los Angeles
- B.A., 1991 — Universidad Complutense, Spain
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