Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture, Presidential Endowed Chair in the Humanities, Director of the Center for the Humanities
Contact: ilopez-calvo@ucmerced.edu | COB2 222 | Website: Ignacio López-Calvo
Ignacio López-Calvo is a Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture, Presidential Endowed Chair in the Humanities at the University of California, Merced, and Director of the Center for the Humanities. He is the co-executive director of the academic journal Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World and co-editor of the Palgrave-Macmillan Book Series “Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia”; the Anthem Press book series “Anthem Studies in Latin American Literature and Culture Series,” and the Tamesis/Boydell and Brewer Press series "China and Latin America."
López-Calvo is the author of the following 9 single-authored books: The Mexican Transpacific: Nikkei Writing, Visual Arts, and Performance; Saudades of Japan and Brazil: Contested Modernities in Lusophone Nikkei Cultural Production; Dragons in the Land of the Condor: Tusán Literature and Knowledge in Peru; The Affinity of the Eye: Writing Nikkei in Peru; Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction: The Cultural Production of Social Anxiety; Imaging the Chinese in Cuban Literature and Culture; “Trujillo and God”: Literary and Cultural Representations of the Dominican Dictator; Religión y militarismo en la obra de Marcos Aguinis 1963-2000; Written in Exile. Chilean Fiction from 1973-Present.
He has also edited or co-edited 24 books: Pablo Neruda in Context (forthcoming), Los Angeles: A Literary History. (Co-edited with Michael Docherty, forthcoming); Más allá del haiku: Antología de la literatura nikkei en América Latina (co-edited with Koichi Hagimoto); Medical Humanities, Cultural Humility, and Social Justice (co-edited with Dalia Magaña and Christina Lux); The Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel (Co-edited with Juan E. De Castro); Hojas sobre las raíces: antología literaria de autores tusanes peruanos (co-edited with Rodrigo P. Campos); Refugees, Refuge, and Human Displacement (co-edited with Marjorie Agosín); Lachinoamérica: Antología de autores sinolatinoamericanos; The Oxford Handbook of Gabriel García Márquez (Co-edited with Gene Bell-Villada); Hydrohumanities: Water Discourse and Environmental Futures. (Co-edited with Kim De Wolff and Rina Faletti); A History of Chilean Literature; The Humanities in the Age of Information and Post-Truth. (Co-edited with Christina Lux); Latinx Writing Los Angeles: Nonfiction Dispatches from a Decolonial Rebellion (co-edited with Victor Valle); Critical Insights: Contemporary Latin American Fiction; The Humanities in a World Upside-Down; Critical Insights: Roerto Bolaño; Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star: Critical Essays; Critical Insights: Magical Realism; Peripheral Transmodernities: South-to-South Dialogues between the Luso-Hispanic World and “the Orient”; One World Periphery Reads the Other: Knowing the “Oriental” in the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula; Caminos para la paz: literatura israelí y árabe en castellano. (Co-edited with Cristián H. Ricci); Alternative Orientalisms in Latin America and Beyond; From the Macro to the Micro: Latin American Studies in a Global and Local Context (co-edited with Enrique Ochoa, and Pete Sigal); Building Bridges=Construyendo Puentes (Co-edited with Stephen E Lewis, Kristyna P. Demaree, Enrique Ochoa, and Pete Sigal).
