Matthew Bush’s research and teaching examine contemporary Latin American narrative and culture, focusing primarily on Mexico, Peru, and Argentina. His interests include critical theory, affect studies, melodrama, historical and neo-avant-garde artistic practices, the Latin American social novel, and media and globalization in contemporary Latin American art.
Matthew Bush
Professor of Spanish and Hispanic Studies
Associate Department Chair
610.758.3087
mab508@lehigh.edu
0031 - Williams Hall
Education:
PhD, University of Colorado, Boulder;
On Sabbatical - Spring 2024
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Research Areas
Research Statement
BOOKS
Other Americans: The Art of Latin America in the US Imaginary. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2022.
Pragmatic Passions: Melodrama and Latin American Social Narrative. Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2014.
EDITED VOLUMES
Un asombro renovado: Vanguardias contemporáneas en América Latina. Co-edited with Luis Hernán Castañeda. Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2017.
Technology, Literature, and Digital Culture in Latin America: Mediatized Sensibilities in a Globalized Era. Co-edited with Tania Gentic. New York: Routledge, 2016.
SELECTED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
“Nosotros los pobres.” An entry in Lexicon of Global Melodrama. Heike Paul, Sarah Marak, Katharina Gerund, and Marius Henderson, Editors. Bielefeld, Germany: [transcript], 2022. 79-82.
“Screen Time: The Digitalization of Latin American Literature and Culture.” A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture (2nd Edition). Sara Castro Klarén, Editor. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2022. 671-84.
“Yours Truly, Buenos Aires: Affective Distributions in the Writings of Ricardo Strafacce.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. 53.2 (2019): 679-700.
“Reading the Affective Contours of the Río de la Plata: Aira, Levrero, Strafacce, and Umpi.” MLN 133.2 (2018): 411-34.
“Procedimientos de la nostalgia: Bolaño y Aira frente a la vanguardia.” Co-written with Luis Hernán Castañeda. Un asombro renovado: Vanguardias contemporáneas en América Latina. Matthew Bush and Luis Hernán Castañeda, Editors. Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2017. 221-43.
“Into the Screen: Inhabiting Media with Mario Levrero.” Technology, Literature, and Digital Culture in Latin America: Mediatized Sensibilities in a Globalized Era. Matthew Bush and Tania Gentic, Editors. New York: Routledge, 2016. 44-59.
“Imposibilidades posibles: Más allá de los medios masivos en César Aira y Mario Bellatin.” A Contracorriente 12.3 (2015): 271-95.
“Un asunto familiar: Entre afecto y violencia política en La hora azul de Alonso Cueto y Un lugar llamado Oreja de Perro de Iván Thays.” Revista Iberoamericana LXXXI.250 (2015): 15-30.
Teaching
SPAN 152 Cultural Evolution of Latin America
SPAN 213 Approaches to Cultural Productions in Spanish
SPAN 392 The City and the Country in Spanish American Narrative
SPAN 393 The Boom and Beyond
LAS/ENG/GS 202 Latin America in Fact, in Fiction
LAS/ENG/GS 302 Travel and Adventure in Latin American Fiction