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A. Alejandro Bernal
Associate Professor of Spanish

Phone:  (803) 777-6808; 777-4884 (messages)
Fax:      (803) 777-0454
E-mail: bernal-a@sc.edu

 Education

B.A.:  Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile, 1974.

M.A.:  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1979
Ph.D.: Indiana University , 1984
 
 Teaching Interests

Spanish American culture and civilization
Hispanic pop culture
20th-century and contemporary fiction
Literary tendencies and masterpieces of Spanish-America
Spanish-American literature from the Independence through Modernism
Survey of Spanish American literature
Advanced language (reading, composition and conversation)



 Research Interests


20th-century and contemporary Spanish-American narrative and theater
Studies on socio-political, cultural, and gender issues and their representations

 

 Selected Publications and Presentations

BOOK IN PROGRESS:
Poder, sexo y secreto en las novelas de José Donoso.

CHAPTERS IN A BOOK:
“Abranme el closet que no puedo respirar; a propósito provincianismo y globalidad en La esquina es mi corazón de Pedro Lemebel.” El cuento hispanoamericano en el siglo XX. Ed. Ana María Hernández de López. Madrid: Editor de Publicaciones, 2003. 35-42. (Copy not available yet).

"Borges y sus diversos dobles en El Aleph." El cuento hispanoamericano del siglo XX. Ed. Ana María Hernández. Madrid: Editer Publicaciones, 2003. 43-47.

ARTICLES:

"Sobrevivencia y reconstrucción personal durante la dictadura en Chile: Tres Marías y una rosa de David Benavente y Taller de Investigación Teatral." Revista/Review Interamericana. Vol XXV, No. 1-4, 1995.

"Jose Donoso." Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes. Ed. David W. Foster. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1994. 142-148.

"Sexo y poder en Púbis Angelical de Manuel Puig: texto narrativo y fílmico." Alba de América Vol. 12, 22- 23. Julio, 1994. 487-494.

"Búsqueda a bordo de lo desconocido: `Final del juego'/'La isla a mediodía' de Julio Cortázar." 1988-1989-1990. Selected Proceedings of the PA Foreign Language Conference. Duquesne University. Pittsburgh, PA. 29-32.

 


Professional Organizations

Latin American Studies Association of America (LASA).
Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana.
Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS). The Netherlands.

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