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José Luis Suárez Morales
Assistant Professor
jose.suarezmorales@tcu.eduSCHAR 3104
Program Affiliations
Areas of Focus
- Contemporary Latin American Literature & Cinema
- Mexican Literature and Culture
- Critical Theory and Political Philosophy
- Migration Studies
- Latin America and the Anthropocene
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“Total Mobilizations, Stasis and Resistance in Alonso Ruizpalacios’s Güeros”. Special Number,
Cinema and Infrapolitics. Periphērica. 3.2 (2025): 246-279.
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"Pornographic Economies: Metaphoricity in Alan Pauls's Historia del dinero." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 58.3 (2024): 907-929. -
"Technological Landscapes: Anthropocene and Technics in Lucrecia Martel’s Zama." Ciberletras. 50, January (2024): 95-112. -
"Broken Topographies: Criminal Enframing and the Migration Genre in Diego Quemada-Díez’s La jaula de oro." Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamerciana. 52.1 (2023): 143-165.
- 2026: "Technofascism: On Madness and the Twilight of Neoliberal Reason." Modern Language Association, Toronto, Canada
- 2025: "No-Futuros: El infante, migración y abolición de la política." Moving Media in the Americas. Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
- 2025: "Soberanía materna: racialización y exclusión en la plantación contemporánea en Ixcanul de Jayro Bustamante." XLV Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
- 2025: Monumentalizing Memory: Crisis, Symbolic Struggles, and Urban Landscapes in San Salvador, American Comparative Literature Association, Virtual
- 2025: Sobre la (segunda) modernización americana de Bolívar Echeverría. Latin American Studies Association Congress, San Francisco, California
- 2024: “Un antropoceno autobiográfico”. Latin American Studies Association Congress, Bogota, Colombia
- 2024: “Pinochet is dead: Is this something worse?” XXXV Congreso Internacional de Literatura y Estudios Hispánicos. Oaxaca, Mexico
- 2023: “Mexico 1999: Total Mobilizations, Stasis and Resistance in Alonso Ruizpalacios’s Güeros.”. Latin American Studies Association Congress. Virtual
- 2022 “(An)Archeological Memory: The Crisis of Democracy in Post-Dictatorship Guatemala in El material humano”. Latin American Studies Association Congress. Virtual
- 2022: “On Survival and Niche Markets: Nature and Cultural Difference in Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego’s Pájaros de Verano. Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Baltimore, Maryland.
- 2021: Literary Diremptions: Art and Urban Space in Contemporary Buenos Aires. Session: Shifting Landscapes: Maps, Borders, and Nature in Latin American. Northeast Modern Language Association Convention. Virtual
- 2019: “Introducción a la guerra civil o el final del largo ciclo teológico-político.” VI Seminario Crítico-Político Transnacional sobre el Tiqqun-Comité Invisible. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- 2018” Crisis or the Sickness of Time: Horacio Castellanos Moya and the Rise of Neoliberalism. Latin American Studies Association Congress. Barcelona, Spain
- 2018: “La bancarrota del lenguaje: dinero y palabra en La verdad sospechosa de Juan Ruiz de Alarcón.” The Association for Hispanic Classic Theater. El Paso, Texas
- Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
- Modern Language Association (MLA)
- Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA)
Last Updated: May 04, 2026