Gerard Aching

Professor
Ph.D. 1991 (Romance Studies), Cornell; B.A. 1982 (Political Science), California, Berkeley.

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Areas of Research/Interest: 19th and 20th-century Caribbean literatures and intellectual history; theories of modernism and modernity in Latin America; slavery and philosophy; visual regimes and politics in Caribbean popular cultures.

Select Publications:

Freedom From Liberation: Slavery and Literary Sensibility in Cuba (Current Book Project)

Masking and Power: Carnival and Popular Culture in the Caribbean (Minnesota UP, 2002).

The Politics of Spanish American Modernismo: By Exquisite Design (Cambridge UP, 1997).

"Against ‘Library-Shelf Races’: José Martí’s Critique of Excessive Imitation” in Geo-Modernisms (Eds.) Laura Doyle and Laura Winkiel (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2005), 151-69.

“Un impasse ideológico: Carnaval, protesta social y visibilidad en una nación postcolonial” Revista Iberoamericana 205 (2003): 863-79.

"Beyond Sites of Execution: Haiti and the Historical Imagination in C.L.R. James and Alejo Carpentier" in Sisyphus and Eldorado: Magical and Other Realisms in Caribbean Literature. (Ed.) Timothy J. Reiss (Africa World Press, 2002), 103-25.