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Telephone: 671-552-1052
Email: gerardo.cruz@bc.edu
ORCID 0000-0002-1369-174X
Contemporary Latin American, Latinx and Peninsular literature, film and visual arts; Cultural Studies, Visual Studies; Postnationalism; Posthumanism; Spectralities; Cosmopolitanism; De/Post/Colonialism; contemporary French literature, film and arts; Creative Writing
Eugenia 2218: La visión posthumana de Eduardo Urzaiz. Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, 2022. [https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Gerardo-Cruz-Grunerth-ebook/dp/B0B4F9SBPB/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1663030380&refinements=p_27%3AGerardo+Cruz-Grunerth&s=books&sr=1-1 ]
Mundos (casi) imposibles. Narrativa postmoderna mexicana. Vervuert-Iberoamericana, 2018. [https://www.iberoamericana-vervuert.es/FichaLibro.aspx?P1=146313&ISBN=9788416922949&TITULO=Mundos%20(casi)%20imposibles%20:$bnarrativa%20postmoderna%20mexicana%20/$cGerardo%20Cruz-Grunerth ]
“Latin American Autofiction. Artists as Transformers/Performers beyond Textuality,” Authors That Matter: Authorship after Barthes and Foucault. University College London. (Forthcoming, Spring 2023)
“Estética de lo performativo en el cine autoficcional de Alejandro Jodorowsky,” Performatividades contemporáneas: teatro, cine y nuevos medios. Visor, 2021.
“Desarticulación de la máquina antropológica en Axolotl de Julio Cortázar,” Altre modernità, no. 26, 2021.
“Yoni Rei: construcción y destrucción de un cuerpo posthumano,” Lejana. Revista Crítica de Narrativa Breve, no. 14, 2021.
“La vanguardia, entre el fragmento y la totalidad. El valor de la traducción de Joyce en revistas latinoamericanas,” Constelación latinoamericana: intelectuales y escritores entre traducción, crítica y ficción. Mantua: Universitas Studiorum, 2020.
“Apropiacionismo como construcción del corpus textual y visual en Alberto Blanco y Joel-Peter Witkin,” Seminario de Narrativa Latinoamericana Contemporánea-UNAM, 2019.
“Deep Literature and Dirty Realism: Rupture and Continuity in the Canon,” New Trends in Contemporary Latin American Narrative. Post-National Literatures and the Canon. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
“La franca mirada del viajero Vila-Matas. No lugares e implicaciones coloniales”, Geometría fractal. Transposiciones en la obra de Enrique Vila-Matas. Universidad Iberoamericana-Puebla and Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, 2013.
“La expresión del momento postnacional a través de la cultura,” LASA Latin American Studies Association Conference. Vancouver, Canada, May 2021.
“Posthumanismo y postnacionalismo en la novela gráfica La Burbuja de Bertold,” II International Congress of Latin American Contemporary Fiction-Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Mexico City, Mexico, February 2020.
“Posthumanismo y nuevas tecnologías en el teatro hispánico actual: Guillermo Gómez-Peña y Marcel-lí Antúnez,” Conference Performa: New Spaces/New Formats in the Hispanic Contemporary Theatre. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago, Spain, November 2019.
“Identidades postnacionales y diseminaciones culturales en la novela latinoamericana reciente,” Ibero-American Institute in Berlin. Berlin, Germany, August 2019.
“Performatividad y visualización social de Gómez-Peña: migración (in)documentada e identidad trasnacional México-Estados Unidos,” International Colloquia Le theatre hors de lui. Université. de Toulouse. Toulouse, France, November 2019.
“Construction and Destruction of Yoni Rei’s Posthuman Body,” The Body at its Limits. XXIV Annual Juan Bruce-Novoa Mexican Studies Conference, University of California-Irvine. Irvine, April 2018.
“Yuri Herrera’s Mexican North-Literature as World Literature,” Colloquium Politics, Poetics & World Literature. Harvard University Institute for World Literature. Harvard University and University of Copenhagen. Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2017.
“Cuentos mexicanos contemporáneos de ciencia ficción: Pepe Rojo y BEF,” Ministry of Culture of Jalisco State. Guadalajara. Guadalajara, Mexico, April 2016.
“Creation and Crisis of Latin American Self-fiction in Aira and Bellatin,” Author, Authorship, and Authority in the Age of Cultural Studies and New Media. Hermes Consortium of Literary and Cultural Studies at Charles University of Prague. Prague, Czech Republic, June 2015.
Review of Narrativas transmediales. Las metamorfosis del relato en los nuevos medios digitales, edited by Domingo Sánchez-Mesa. Philologia Hispalensis, Vol. 35, No. 2, 2021.
Review of La derrota de lo real by Pablo Brescia. Seminario de Narrativa Latinoamericana Contemporánea-UNAM, 2018
Review of Conversaciones en Princeton by Ricardo Piglia. Seminario de Narrativa Latinoamericana Contemporánea-UNAM., 2017.
Review of Las sombras del novelista. AutoRepresentaciones, edited by Antonio Gil González. 1616. Anuario de literatura comparada, no. 5, 2015.
Research Member of the French-Spanish project PERFORMA: Theatre Beyond Theatre. Contemporary Performativities in Digital Age] (2016-2019), and PERFORMA2: Metamorphosis of the Spectator in Contemporary Spanish Theater] (2020-2023). [https://grupoperforma.wordpress.com/ ]
El fuego camina conmigo. Mexico: NitroPress, 2014.
Círculo que se cierra. Mexico: De Lo Imposible, 2013.
Tela de araña. Mexico: Ficticia, 2011.
Últimas horas (fe de erratas). Mexico: National Arts Center and Centre for Arts and New Technologies, 2008.
Graduate Research Abroad Fellowships, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Boston University, 2019.
Erasmus Mundus Fellowship, European Union, European Commission: 2013-2015.
Artistic Development Abroad Fellowship, Government of Jalisco State and National Council for Culture and Arts, 2015-2016.
Artistic Residency Abroad Fellowship, National Fund for Culture and Arts and National Council for Culture and Arts of Mexico, 2014.
Comala National Short Story Award for Young Writers, honorable mention. National Council for Culture and Arts of Mexico and Government of Colima State, 2010.
Manuel José Othón Fiction Award, National Council for Culture and Arts of Mexico and Government San Luis Potosí State, 2009.