JosÉ Rabasa
Undergraduate Adviser in Latin American Studies
Long Term Visiting Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
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Academic Degrees: B.A. Universidad de las Américas (Puebla, Mexico); M.A. (cand) Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico City, Mexico); Ph.D. in History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
Interests: Colonial/Postcolonial Studies, Subaltern Studies, Nahuatl Poetry and Painting, History of Voice, Historiography, Phenomenology
Major Publications:
Elsewhere: Ethnosuicide at the Limits of Empire, forthcoming, 2010.
Without History: Subaltern Studies, the Zapatista Insurgency, and the Specter of History. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010 (in press).
Co-editor of Oxford History Historical Writing, vol. 3, 1400-1800, forthcoming, 2010.
Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier: The historiography of Sixteenth-Century New Mexcio and Florida and the Legacy of Conquest, Duke University Press, 2000.
Co-editor of Subaltern Studies in the Americas, special issue of Dispositio/n (1996)
Inventing America: Spanish Historiography and the Formation of Eurocentrism, University of Okalhoma Press, 1993.
L’invention de l’Amérique. Historiographie españole et formation de l’eurocentrimsme, L’Harmattan, 2002.
De la invención de América. La historiografía española y la formación del eurocentrismo, Universidad Iberoamericana, 2009.
Selected recent articles:
“Depicting Perspective: The Return of the Gaze in Codex Telleriano-Remensis (c. 1563)” in Early Modern Eyes, edited by Walter Mellion and Lee Palmer Walden. Leiden: Intersections/Brill, 2009.
“On Testimonial Documentary: The Politics of Truth, Revisionists History, and the Remembrance of the Massacre of Acteal, Chiapas” in Moving Testimonies: New Documentary Assemblages, ed. Bhaskar Sarkar and Janet Walker. New York: Routlege, 2009.
“Decolonizing Medieval Mexico,” in Medievalism in the Postcolonial World, ed. Kathleen Davis and Nadia Altschult, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
“La promesa de los estudios subalternos,” in Treinta años de estudios literarios/culturales latinoamericanistas en Estados Unidos. Memorias, testimonios, reflexiones críticas, ed. Hernán Vidal. Pittsburgh: IILI-Biblioteca de América, 2008.
“Thinking Europe in Indian Categories; or, 'Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You',” in Coloniality at Large, ed. Mabel Moraña and Enrique Dussel. Durheim: Duke University Press, 2008.
“Revolutionary Spiritualities in Chiapas Today: Immanent History and the Comparative Frame in Subaltern Studies,” in Race, Colonialism, and Social Transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean, ed. Jerome Branche. Gainsville: University of Florida Press, 2008.
"The Colonial Divide," special issue on “Medieval/Renaissance: Rethinking Periodization,” ed. Jennifer Summit and David Wallace, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Fall 2007): 511-29.
Courses offered 2009-2010:
Latin American Studies 98. Tutorial—Junior Year [fall and spring terms]
Latin American Studies 99. Tutorial—Senior Year [fall and spring terms]
Spanish 71a. Continuity and Discontinuity in Colonial Latin America [fall term]
Spanish 97. Tutorial—Sophomore Year [spring term]
Spanish 134. Tracing Voice in Nahuatl Poetry and Painting [fall term]
Spanish 218. Colonial/Postcolonial Studies [spring term]
For more information, go to the RLL course catalogue.
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Last updated on September 25, 2009
