Fernando Gómez Herrero
Adjunct Lecturer of Spanish
Education
Ph.D. Romance Studies (Hispanic & Latin American Studies), Duke University (1999).
M.L.S. Master in Library and Information Science, Simmons University, Boston (2006).
M.A. English, Wake Forest University (1994)
M.A. English, Salamanca University, Spain. Premio de Grado (1995)
B.A. English, Salamanca University. Licenciatura. Filologia Inglesa (1992)
Research Interests
Historical interactions between the Americas (U.S. and Latin America) and Europe, with a focus on the Hispanic world expansively understood; legacies of the Early Modern/Colonial period (1500-1800); Latin America in the Americas, with a focus on Mexico; U.S. history, politics, the connections between the humanities and the social sciences; (post/de/anti, etc.) colonial investigations; subaltern studies; philosophy of History; historiographies; legacies and projections of the “humanities,” avatars of the liberal arts; aesthetics; North-South relations on both sides of the Atlantic; inter-American and inter-European relations, including Britain; pan-Americanism; European Studies; the Global South (or projections of BRICS+), the West-and-the-rest template; Hispanic / Latin/o presence in the U.S.; Mexico-U.S. relations; intersections between Anglophone and Hispanophone societies; the connections of the "humanities" (or the liberal arts) with international relations, particularly U.S. foreign policy; pedagogy and education (secondary, university, cultural institutions) in the different nations, the embeddedness of university life in society at large, highbrow, middlebrow and popular culture; the world of museums, film, theater, photography, the inevitable impact of virtuality/digitality and AI in how we think, read, write, process information, interact with people, etc.
Courses Taught
A collection of Spanish language and culture courses at The Citadel and College of Charleston (Academic year 2026-2027). Particularly excited about one experimental course titled “American Power: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” (Citadel, 2027).
Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. M.A. Programa Instituto de Iberoamérica, Programa de Estudios Abiertos 2024-2025 (Programa de Estudios Abiertos – Instituto de Iberoamérica (usal.es)). “Tras el Ogro Filantrópico: La Escena (Latino-)Americana en los EEUU desde los 1980 hasta hoy,” (Nov. 18-21, 2024). (https://iberoame.usal.es/pea-tras-el-ogro-filantropico-la-escena-latino-americana-en-los-ee-uu-desde-los-1980-hasta-hoy/).
University of Manchester, Lecturer in M.A. in Translation (Spanish - English), Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures | University of Manchester (Oct. 2021- July 2022).
University of Birmingham (Spanish Core Communicative Skills I-II-III; Caribbean Literature and Culture; US Latino; Business Spanish, translation courses, plus second-year research and final-year dissertation projects, academic year 2017-19).
Trinity Catholic School: Years 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12 (September-December 2016).
Regis High School: Spanish 2, 3 and 4 levels, Latin 3 (academic year 2013-16).
Boston College: intermediate –level Spanish-language and culture courses (Fall 2012).
University of Massachusetts, Boston: 1) Native Peoples in Latin America; 2) Human Rights in Latin America, regular offering in Latin American Studies Program, Hispanic Studies Department (Spring 2012).
Oberlin College: 1) Intermediate-level Spanish, 2) Latin American Survey: Issues in Spanish American Literature and Culture (19th and 20th centuries); 3) (Neo-)Baroque: Culture of Excess; 4) Intermediate-level Spanish, Advanced Grammar and Composition, 5) Latin American Survey (19th and 20th Centuries); 6) Latin America Among the Disciplines (Hispanic Studies, 2009-11).
Hofstra University: Introduction to Latin American Studies, Latin American Studies Seminar (History Department, Spring 2009) & Introduction to Spanish Literature; Senior Seminar in Hispanic Literature and Culture, Interpreting the Hispanic Legacy (Romance Studies, Fall 2006).
Stanford University: a variety of courses dealing with history, politics, culture, language (1999-2004)
Publications
Books
Foreign Humanities and Foreign Affairs in the Anglo Zone in the Interregnum: Ten Critical Conversations (under evaluation).
The (Latin) American Scene, Present and Future (Im-)Perfect (anthempress.com) (Anthem Press, April 2025). 374 pp.
Good Places and Non-Places in Colonial Mexico: Vasco de Quiroga (1470-1565) (University Press of America & Edition Reichenberger, 2001). 318pp.
Articles
“Western Philosophy and the Global South: Apropos Enrique Dussel’s Anti-Cartesian Meditations,” PLI: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy (Issue 36, 2025): pp. 202-243.
“The Afropessimist never drinks the Kool-Aid of Black Enlightened Progress: A Conversation with Frank Wilderson III,” Diacritics (Vol. 50, Num. 4, 2022): pp. 72-97.
"The unsustainability of American Power: A sustained critique of G. John Ikenberry" (Part one and two): The Unsustainablity Of American Power – A Sustained Critique of G. John Ikenberry (Fernando G. Herrero), Part 2 – THE NEW POLIS (40 pages).
“Foreign Humanities in the ‘liberal West’ in the Interregnum: A Critique of G. John Ikenberry,” included in Herencies / Legacies (Univeritat de Barcelona: Seccio d’historia contemporania I món actual, 2023): pp. 426-436.
About the Philosophical Proposal of the Liminal Being (An interview with Eugenio Trías Sagnier (eHumanista: Journal of Iberian Studies, 53 (2023): 410-485) (75 pages). ISSN 1540 587. eHumanista | eHumanista - UC Santa Barbara (ucsb.edu)
“Sobre postcolonialismos maltrechos, descolonizaciones malogradas y angostamientos universitarios” (Umbral, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras, Sobre postcolonialismos maltrechos, descolonizaciones malogradas y angostamientos universitarios (uprrp.edu)). 30 pages.
“The Latino case for race and class fusion. A Conversation with Ian Haney López (Part 1): https://thenewpolis.com/2021/08/09/the-latino-case-for-race-and-class-fusion-a-conversation-with-ian-haney-lopez-part-1-interview/; and 2) https://thenewpolis.com/2021/08/16/the-latino-case-for-race-and-class-fusion-a-conversation-with-ian-haney-lopez-part-2-interview/ (The New Polis, 16 August 2021).
“The Latest American Appropriation of Western Universalism: A Critique of G. John Ikenberry’s “Liberal International Order,” included in Rethinking Sovereignty and Territoriality in the 21st Century (http://journal.thenewpolis.com/archives/1.1/index.html; Inaugural Issue, Vol. 1 No. 1, Winter 2022, Decoloniality and the Disintegration of Western Cognitive Empire): 90 pages.
“Carl Schmitt / Tierno Galván / Barcia Trelles: Perhaps (International) Law Follows (Total) War,” Postguerres / Aftermaths of War, Editors T. Abelló, G.C. Cattini & others, Secció d’Història Contemporània I Món Actual de la Universitat de Barcelona I Vental Edicions, Barcelona 2020): pp. 371-388.
“Francisco de Vitoria in Daniel Patrick Moyihan’s On the Law of Nations,” in Norteamérica y España: Una historia de encuentros y desencuentros, edited by Silvia Betti (Escribana Books, Cultural Studies, 2019): pp. 177-203.
"Hacer Acopio del Legado de los Estudios Culturales: Garcia Canclini," Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana (Año XLIII, N. 86, Lima-Boston, 2o semestre de 2017): pp. 345-356.
Article-Review “Desapegos de todo Universalismo, incluido el de Occidente” (Revista Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Año XXXVIII, Núm. 76, Lima-Boston, 2do. Semestre, 2012): pp. 471-506.
Article-Review “Sobre la crisis oficial de la política exterior estadounidense en las primeras décadas del nuevo siglo” (Nuevo Texto Crítico, Vol. XXIII, No. 45/46): 25 pp.
With John Beverley, "Are Golden Age Studies Obsolete? A Conversation with Fernando Gomez Herrero," in John Beverley, Essays on the Literary Baroque in Spain and Spanish America (Woodbridge UK: Tamesis, 2008) pp. 149-185.
"Geopolítica, Geocultura, Hispanismo," Actas del XV Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas "Las Dos Orillas" 19-24 Julio 2004 (Monterrey, México), Ed. Beatriz Mariscal / María Teresa Miaja, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, Tecnológico de Monterrey, El Colegio de México, 2007, Vol. 4 (pp. 243-256).
Interviews
In Pursuit of Europe: An Interview with Anthony Pagden (Part I) - Not Even Past; In Pursuit of Europe: An Interview with Anthony Pagden (Part II) - Not Even Past (Aug. 2023).
“Civic Humanities after the Demise of the Humanities: A Conversation with Doris Sommer,” Ciberletras (https://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/ Jan. 2022).
“Liberal Internationalism of the Anglo-American Tradition for Hard Times: A Conversation with G. John Ikenberry” (https://toynbeeprize.org/posts/world-safe-for-democracy).
“A More Expansive Atlantic History of the Americas. Interview with Jorge Cañizares Esguerra” (https://notevenpast.org/a-more-expansive-atlantic-history-of-the-americas-an-interview-with-jorge-canizares-esguerra/).
“On Global History: Avatars, Dilemmas, Partitions, Problems -A Conversation with Jeremy Adelman” Toynbee Prize Foundation (Jan 13, 2021) (https://toynbeeprize.org/posts/on-global-history-avatars-dilemmas-partitions-problems-a-conversation-with-jeremy-adelman/).
“About the Subaltern and Other Things: A Conversation with John Beverley,” Dispositio/n: American Journal of Cultural Histories and Theories 52 (vol. XXV, 2005): pp. 343-372.
Diálogo Crítico. Foreign Sensibilities (III). “Avatares de la Inteligencia Histórica con/tra sus Circunstancias Inmediatas: Entrevista con José Rabasa,” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 39 (2005): pp. 273-96.
Diálogo Crítico. Foreign Sensibilities (II). “On Avatars of Historical Scholarship of the Colonial Americas in the Home of the Brave: An Interview with Rolena Adorno,” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 39 (2005): pp. 181-203.
“Sobre la propuesta filosófica del ser del límite. Entrevista con Eugenio Trías Sagnier” (Ciberletras - Journal of literary criticism and culture (January 2005). 25 pp.
“Latinamericanism within the Marxist Tradition of Literary Aesthetics. A Conversation with Neil Larsen” (“Historia Actual On-Line,” www.online.historia-actual.com, May 2004 Issue).
Diálogo Crítico. Foreign Sensibilities (I). “Re/Visitations of (Latin) American Geographies. An Interview with Mary Louise Pratt, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 38 (2004): pp. 557-80.
“Sobre la diferencia colonial, o acerca de la emergencia de un pensamiento que no ha sido considerado como tal. Entrevista con Walter D. Mignolo,” Ciberletras: Revista Crítica (Dec. 2002): 25pp.
"Ethics is the Original Philosophy; or the Barbarian Words Coming From the Third World. An Interview with Enrique Dussel," Boundary 2 28/1 (2001): pp. 19-73.