Dr Ivonne Flores Caballero

Contact Details

• Telephone: (0117) 33 17501
• Fax: (0117) 331 8010
• Email: Ivonne.Florescaballero@bristol.ac.uk
• Room: 2.76 21 Woodland Road

Specialisms:

Cultural Studies, Latin American identity and otherness, postcolonial and postmodern perspectives, migration and symbolic boundaries in literature, history and anthropology.

Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bristol, England, at the Centre for the Study of Colonial and Postcolonial Societies in Latin American Studies. Research: The human body, the core familiar and the social imaginary in the work of two contemporary writers.  It aims to analyze with the tools of postcolonial theory, the influence and development of these areas in the context of Latin American migration in the U.S.

Ph D and Master in Latin American Studies from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Specialist in the Twentieth Century Mexican Literature from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México.

Publications:

Book under review: Border crossing in the writing of Oscar Acosta, Mario Bencastro and Esmeralda Santiago),Plaza y Valdés, Mexico City, 2011.

Book: The task of writing, in collaboration with the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Book: The Salvadorian migrants in a postmodern literary perspective, Editorial Academica Espanola, 2011.

Article: A look at Salvadoran migrant through literature: Mario Bencastro, in the proceedings of Jornadas Andinas de Literatura and the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, 2006.

Article: Salon Mexico, Cine Premiere Magazine, Issue 6, Mexico City, 1995.

Audited Thesis:

BA in History (National School of Antropology and History) and BA in Gastronomy (University of the Clauster of SorJuana). 

Research Presentations:

An amazed look of the border since writing of Oscar Acosta,Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2006.

A look at Salvadoran migrant through literature: Mario Bencastro,  Jornadas Andinas de Literatura, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, 2006.

Film editing and reality in the novel: Farabeuf by Salvador Elizondo), National School of Antropology and History (ENAH), México, 1998.

Moderation in the Conference: Fantastic Beasts, (ENAH), México, 2003.

Courses taught:

Literary analysis, Latino and Latin American literature, Fantastic literature, Chicano literature, Spanish and Latin American Literature, Latino migration in the U.S., Hispanics in the USA, Writing and grammar of Spanish, Literature and food.