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Raúl Carrillo-Arciniega
Associate Professor of Spanish
Education
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Ph.D., Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures,
UNAM (Cum Laude)
Licenciatura in Hispanic Literatures, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras,
Research Interests
Problems of national and regional identities: Border Studies
Continental Philosophy: Spinoza, Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze, Sloterdijk
French thought in Mexican intelligentsia
Vanguards and the problem of Modernity and Postmodernism in Latin America
The Phenomenological approach in the conception of poetry in Latin American Literature
Latin American Neo-Baroque Poetry
Zen Poetry and Zen influence in Latin American cultural productions
Courses Taught
Latin American Vanguards, Poetry, Discourse of Hero and Power
Publications
Books:
Literary Criticism
Noticas del destierro: la identidad sudcaliforniana a través de la crónica. (News from the exile: The South Baja Californian Identity through the Chronicle). Raúl Carrillo Arciniega and José Antonio Sequera. (México: Eón, 2017).
La mitografía del poeta: filosofía de la sensación poética. (The Mythography of the Poet: Philosophy of the Poetic Sensation). México: Eón, 2015.
De héroes, amoríos y sufrimientos: La condición (melo)dramática de ser mexicano. (Of Heroes, Love Affairs, and Sufferings: The (Melo)Dramatic Condition of The Mexican). Newark: Juan de la Cuesta Monographs, 2014.
Huellas y oquedades: teoría de la poesía de Jorge Cuesta y José Gorostiza. (Footprints and Hollows: Jorge Cuesta and José Gorostiza’s Theory of Poetry) México: Eón, 2007.
Poetry
Afonía. (Aphony) Mexico: Eón, Escribir en el Aire, 2015.
Nauta Herido. (Wounded Traveler) Mexico: Praxis, 2009.
Novels
Tenesí Ríver. (Tennessee River) (Award Winning Novel of the State Literary Contest of Baja California Sur in 2015), México: Instituto Sudcaliforniano de Cultura/Secretaría de Cultura, 2017)
Los indomables. (The Indomitables) México: Eón, 2012.
En la tierra de Op. (In the Land of Op) México: Eón, 2009.
Articles:
Carrillo Arciniega has published more than 20 articles in peer-reviewed journals in USA, Mexico, and South America.