Tatiana Arguello, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

t.arguello@tcu.edu 817-257-5405Scharbauer Hall 3118

Program Affiliations

AddRan College of Liberal Arts Spanish & Hispanic Studies

Latin American Literature /
Cultural Studies

Education

Ph.D. and M.A., University of Pittsburgh, Latin American Literatures.

M.A. and M.A., with honors, Ohio University, Latin American Studies and Spanish Literature.

B.A, Summa Cum Laude, Universidad Americana-Nicaragua, International Relations and Diplomacy.

Courses Taught

LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Struggle, Resistance and Politics in Latin America
Artistic Productions of the Central American Diaspora
Outlaws in Latin America
Cinema of Latin America
Culture of Latin America
Panorama of Latin American Literature
Introduction to Literature
Introduction to Latin American Studies
Mexico and Central America through Films and Literature
Music and Literature in Latin America
Business Environments in Latin America
The Liberal Arts in Action (Team-teaching course)
Latin American Futures

LANGUAGE

Writing in Spanish
Advanced Grammar
Oral Communication
Advanced Spanish: From Global to Local

Areas of Focus

Contemporary Latin American Literature & Cinema
Central American Literature and its Diaspora
Modernist and Avant-Garde Poetry
Cultural Studies
Cultural Production concerning War and Violence
Ecological Philosophy and Writings

Articles & Essays
- “Feminist Philosophy in Central America: Global Reflections and Contributions of Gioconda Belli and Rigoberta Menchú”. Co-written with Andrew Ryder. Istmo. Revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos 50.1, 2026.
- “Bullets and Tattoos: War Artifacts and Prosthetics in the US Central American Literature of Salomón de la Selva and Héctor Tobar.” Co-written with Andrew Ryder. Latinx Literature in Transition. Edited by Marissa López and John Alba Cutler. Cambridge University Press (2025)
- “Ecology, Blackness and Poetry: National Epics of the Nicaraguan Revolution.” Co-written with Andrew Ryder. National Epics. Edited by David Wallace. Oxford University Press. (Forthcoming).
- "Epistemes del cauce: para pensar y sentir con los ríos, sumersión en la poesía fluvial de dos mujeres indígenas latinoamericanas.” Co-written with María Ximena Postigo. Brill-Foro Hispánico. Special Issue: Ecopoesía, ecopoéticas y nuevas políticas ecológicas en el poema. Edited by Azucena Castro, Santiago Acosta and Nuno Marques. (Forthcoming 2026).
- “Creole Poetics of the Ocean: Carlos Rigby, Ecological Thought and Caribbean Diasporic Consciousness.” Central American Literature as World Literature. Literature as World Literature Series. Edited by Sophie Esch. Bloomsbury (2023).
- “Javier Zamora’s Unaccompanied: Materiality, Citizenship and Salvadorian Identity.” Co-written with Andrew Ryder. Label Me Latina/o: Journal of Twentieth and Twenty- First Century Latino Literary Production. Special Issue Volume 12: Cultural Representations of Central American Migration to the US. (2022)
- “War, Human Experience, and Nature in Teaching Central American Literature.” Teaching Central American Literature in a Global Context. Edited by Gloria E. Chacón and Mónica Albizúrez. Modern Language Association of America (MLA), Options for Teaching Series (2022).
- “Franz Galich: pandillas, militarismo y nomadismo en Managua, Salsa City ¡Devórame otra vez!” TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World. Vol 9. Issue 7 (2021): Fall 2021.
- “Las cosas del mundo están en rebelión: materialidad y guerra en la poesía vanguardista de Joaquín Pasos.” A Contracorriente: Revista de Historia Social y Literatura en América Latina. Vol 19. No1 (2021): Fall 2021.
- “El Robocop de Castellanos Moya: las armas como prótesis de la posguerra.” Tiranas ficciones: poética y política de la escritura en la obra de Horacio Castellanos Moya. Edited by Magdalena Perkowska and Oswaldo Zavala. Special Issue of Revista Iberoamericana. Serie Nuestra América, 2018.
- “War and Its Implications for Central American-American Literature.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latina/o Literature. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Oxford University Press, 2018.
- “Mario Payeras: la guerra y el pensamiento vegetal en Poemas de la Zona Reina.” Istmo. Revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos 34, 2017.
- “La construction du corps féminin: transgression et résistance dans Sa destinée rue monte au ciel.” Métissages et Marronnages dans l'oeuvre de Suzanne Dracius, edited by Yolande Helm. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2009: 44-59.

Guest Co-Editor, Special Issue for a Scholarly Journal

"Introducción: Derivas multi/humanas en la cultura y literatura centroamericanas" (co-editor with Juan Duchesne-Winter). Istmo. Revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos. Special Issue on Posthumanism and the Non-human in Central American Literature and Culture. Volume 34 , 2017.

2025: “Ecological Globalities in Guatemala: Extinction and Multiplicity in Whales, Sailors and Guerrillas.” Latin American Studies Association Conference (LASA): Poner el cuerpo en Latinx América. San Francisco, May 23-26, 2025.
2024: “Bullets, Guns, and Tattoos: Debility in the US Central American Literature of Salomón de la Selva and Héctor Tobar.” The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS 2024). Southern Methodist University, Dallas, April 11-14, 2024.
2023: “Acuerpando con el río Gualcarque: Berta Cáceres, pensamiento y denuncias líquidas.” Third Coast Central America Collaborative Inaugural Meeting, Rice University, October 20-21, 2023.
2023: “Acuerpando con los ríos: pensamiento, existencias y denuncias líquidas en Mesoamérica.” XLIV Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI), Athens, Greece, July 5-8, 2023.
2023: " Creole Poetics of the Ocean: Carlos Rigby, Ecological Thought and Caribbean Diasporic Consciousness." Latin American Concentration: Black History Month talk. University of Dallas (Irving). February 6, 2023.
2022: “Bullets, Guns and Tattoos: War Artifacts and Prosthetics in US Central American Literature.” Panel: Violence in Global Central American Literature. International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA 2022). Polarización socioambiental y rivalidad entre grandes potencias. May 5-8, 2022. Virtual.
2022:“Poéticas creole del océano: Carlos Rigby, pensamiento ecológico y la consciencia diaspórica caribeña.” Hermosos invisibles que nos protegen: New Directions in Latin American Studies. Conference in Honor of the Retirement of Professor Juan Duchesne-Winter. April 22, 2022. Hybrid.
2022: "Care Labor and the Communal Desire to Reproduce Life: The Instructive Example of Mayan Indigenous Women.” 2021-2022 Claudia V. Camp Lecture. Organized by Women and Gender Studies, TCU. March 28, 2021. Virtual.
2021: "Creole Poetics of the Ocean: Carlos Rigby, Ecological Thought and Caribbean Diasporic Consciousness." Virtual Conference: Central American Literature as World Literature. Rice University, November 11-13, 2021.
2021: "Artefactos y prótesis de guerra: el caso del Robocop de Horacio Castellanos Moya." Panel sobre estudios de literatura y tecnología. Maestría de Literatura de la Javeriana. 24 April, 2021. Virtual.
2021: "Feminist Philosophy in Central America: The Examples of Belli, Menchú, and Cáceres." The 55th annual Southwest Council of Latin American Studies (SCOLAS). 8-11 April, 2021. Virtual.
2020: "The Things of the World are in Rebellion: Materiality and War in the Avant-Garde Poetry of Joaquin Pasos." Modern Language Annual Convention (MLA 2020). Seattle, 9-12 January, 2020.
2019: "Cuando la sangre del cuerpo ausente echa raíces en la memoria colectiva: poéticas de la remembranza y documentación del 19 de abril en Nicaragua." Central American Section. XXXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA 2019) Nuestra América: Justice and Inclusion. Boston, May 24 – 27, 2019.
2018: "Consciousness beyond the Human: Mesoamerican Dialogues in Race, Gender, and Politics." Research "Spotlight" lunch. Texas Christian University, February 14, 2018.
2016: "Mario Payeras: la guerra y el pensamiento vegetal en Poemas de la Zona Reina." XXXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA 2016), New York, May 27-30,2016.

Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
Modern Language Association(MLA)
The Southwest Council of Latin American Studies (SCOLAS)
The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)

2022 Maryrose Short Teaching Excellence Award.
2021-2022 Claudia V. Camp Faculty Research Award.

Last Updated: June 08, 2026

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