John graduated from UC Irvine with a Ph.D. in Spanish Language and Literatures with a subspecialty in U.S. Latino Studies. He works on Latin American culture with an emphasis on the Caribbean, Mexico and their respective Diasporas in the United States. He has edited a volume on Globalization in Mexico and another one on post-nationalism in Mexican cinema. In 2015 he published a book that studies the intersection of globalization, colonialism, and race in Puerto Rico and Cuba. Currently he is working on a book that deals with the treatment of rupture in Latin American cinema in addition to another work on U.S. Latina writer Cecile Pineda.
Associate Professor of Spanish
Publications
Book:
The Fantasy of Globalism: The Latin American Neo-Baroque. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014
Edited Volumes:
Mexican Cinema From the Post Mexican Condition. Co-editors, John Waldron and Emily Hind. Discourse 26, 1-2 double issue (Winter and Spring 2004).
Effects of the Nation: Mexican Art in an Age of Globalism. Co-editors, John Waldron and Carl Good . Philadelphia: Temple University Press, June 2001.
Articles:
“Ritos de la violencia y hábitos hegemónicos en tres representaciones puertorriqueñas.” Estrada, Oswaldo. ed. Senderos de violencia. Latinoamérica y sus narrativas armadas. Valencia: Albatros (Serie Palabras de América), 2015.
“Máscaras locales: Villoro en la frontera de la globalización.” In Ensayando el ensayo: Artilugios del género en la literatura mexicana contemporánea. Mayra Fortes González y Ana Sabau Fernández coordinadoras. Puebla: Ediciones Eon, 2012.
“What’s In a Name? Re-Membering Juan Bruce-Novoa.” Essays in Homage of Juan Bruce-Novoa. Voices. June 2012, 35-55.
“Killing Colonialism’s Ghosts in McOndo: Mayra Santos Febres and Giannina Braschi.”CIEHL: Cuaderno Internacional de Estudios Humanisticos y Literatura, 2010 Fall; 14:110-120.
"Re-inscribing Poetry's Potential: José Emilio Pacheco Reads Ramón López Velarde." Hispanófila. 2009 September: 154: 59-72.
“La escritura globalizada en Jorge Volpi y Cristina Rivera Garza.” Explicación de Textos Literarios. (2008) XXXVI-1&2: 40-51.
“Solving Guzmán’s Problem: ‘An Other’ Narrative of La gran familia puertorriqueña in Judith Ortiz Cofer’s In the Line of the Sun.” Bilingual Review/ La Revista bilingüe. 24.1 (January-April 2008-9): 39-49.
“Writing and Bare Life: Matos Paoli’s Political Aesthetic.” Revista Hispánica Moderna. 62.1 (Summer 2009): 93-106.
“Tato Laviera’s Parody of La carreta: Reworking a Tradition of Docility.” In Brincando el Charco: Representing Puerto Rican Identity in the Diáspora. Carmen Santiago and Edwin Torres, eds. Seattle: Washington University Press, 2008. 221-36
“Disordered Bodies and the Great Chain of Being: Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá’s La noche oscura del Niño Avilés: A History without End.” In Body Signs in US Latino Literature. Astrid Fellner, ed. Frankfurt: Ververt. 2009.
“Culture Monopolies and Mexican Cinema: A Way Out?” Discourse 26.1-2 (Winter and Spring 2004): 5-25. Special Double Issue: Mexican Cinema from the Post Mexican Condition.
"Entradas en materia: La continuidad estética entre generaciones." In Juan García Ponce y la generación de medio siglo. José Luis Rivas Vélez, ed. Veracruz, Mexico: Universidad Veracruzana Instituto de Investigaciones Lingüístico-Literarias, 1998. 133-139.
“Perfeccionando un amor a través de la creación de un tiempo perdido.” Entorno 40 (Summer 1996): 35-39.
"Uncovering History in the Post-Modern Condition: (Re)Writing the Past, (Re)Writing the Past, (Re)Righting Ourselves in Alejandro Morales' The Brick People." Confluencia 7 (1992): 99-106.
Encyclopedia Entries:
"Mayra Santos Febres." In The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel: Bolaño and After. Will H. Corral, Juan E. De Castro and Nicholas Birns Editors. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. 189-193.
Awards and Recognition

Areas of Expertise and/or Research
Latin American, U.S. Latino and global culture
Education
- Ph.D. Spanish Language and Literatures, University of California - Irvine
Contact
- (802) 656-3570
520 Waterman
Spring 2022: F 10:00 - 2:00 in-person, and virtual by appointment
Courses Taught
- SPAN 051: Intermediate I
- SPAN 052: Intermediate II
- SPAN 101: Composition and Conversation
- SPAN 140: Analyzing Hispanic Literatures
- SPAN 142: Intoduction to Literature of Spanish America
- SPAN 145: Introduction to Literature and Culture of Latin America I
- SPAN 201: Advanced Composition and Conversation
- SPAN 202: Topics in Spanish Language Study: Writing About Cinema
- SPAN 261: Hispanic Writing from the Margins
- SPAN 281: Contemporary Spanish-American Fiction
- SPAN 286: Writing Revolution: - Latin America
- SPAN 294: Modern Latin-American Cultures
- SPAN 295: Advanced Special Topics: Globalism and Puerto Rican Culture
- SPAN 296: Advanced Special Topics: Dilemmas of Modernity
- SPAN 296: Advanced Special Topics: Latin-American Women and Globalization
- AIS 196: Intermediate Special Topics: Women of Juarez
- GRS 001: Introduction to Global Studies
- GRS 095: Introductory Special Topics: Culture and Politics of Latin American Protest Music
- GRS 096: Introductory Special Topics: Globalization and Latin American Cinema
- GRS 200: D2: Seminar in Global Studies
- WLIT 016: Latino Writers Contemporary Perspective: Puerto Rican Diaspora
- WLIT 020: D2: Literatures of Globalization
- WLIT 095: Special Topics: Global Literature: Imagining Globalism
- WLIT 115: Spanish-American Literature in Translation: Latin-American Women and Globalization