René Carrasco
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Contact Information
- Office: Bldg. 47, Room 26B
- Phone: 805-756-7192
- Email: recarras@calpoly.edu
About:
René Carrasco is Assistant Professor of Spanish in the World Languages and Cultures Department at California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo. His research focuses on areas such as Latinx & Chicanx Studies, Latin American Literature & History, Mexican Literary & Cultural Studies, Native American & Indigenous Studies, Colonial Studies, and Literary Theory and Criticism.
He is the author of Grammar of Redemption: Logics and Paradoxes of Indigenista Discourse in México (University of New Mexico Press, forthcoming). Additionally, his work has appeared in journals such as Revista Iberoamericana, A Contracorriente, and Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana.
Education:
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Ph.D., Hispanic-American Literatures & Cultures, The University of Texas at Austin (2015)
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M.A., Hispanic & Hispanic-American Literatures & Cultures, The University of Texas at Austin (2010)
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B.A., Latin American Literature and Latin American History, University of California, Berkeley (2008)