News & Forthcoming Events
- International Conference - The Future of Hispanism
- London World Film Festival 2013
- Translating 'Live' Poetry
- Gained in Translation
- Dr Deborah Martin will introduce El último verano de la boyita at ISA's 'Staging the Future: Argentine Films in Dialogue' Series
- Graduate student, Kathleen Sparks awarded grant
- Alcalá Galiano Lecture
- LECTURE: Benigno Trigo (Vanderbilt University), 6 June 2012 at 11am
- Vacancy in the department
- Dr Claire Lindsay awarded a Dorot Foundation Research Fellowship
- Professor Stephen Hart's Documentary Summer School in Cuba
- Dr Jo Evans will introduce Mexican film, Miss Bala, at the Cineschool festival 2012
- Vacancy in the department
- Dr Jo Evans will discuss Pan's Labyrinth at the European Institute Film Day
- César Vallejo conference. 16-17 March 2012
- Final year student, Roberta Radu's prize-winning article
- Dept of Spanish and Latin American Studies, UCL nominated for award
- Final year student Roberta Radu shortlisted in Guardian competition
- Award for Dr. Maria del Pilar Blanco
- Alcala Galiano Memorial Lecture
- Alumni Events
Dr Humberto Núñez-Faraco
Dr Núñez-Faraco teaches an introduction course to nineteenth and twentieth-century Spanish American literature and more specialised courses on realism, the essay in Spanish America and the work of J. L. Borges. His publications include the monograph Borges and Dante: Echoes of a Literary Friendship (Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang, 2006), and several articles on the Argentinian writer. His current research interests are in the field of the literature of ideas. Future plans for publication include a companion to the essay in Spanish America and a monograph on philosophy and utopia.
Office hours:
Wednesdays 4.00 - 5.00 p. m., Thursdays 4.00 - 5.00 p. m., or by appointment.
email: uclshrn@ucl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 207 679 4332 (internal x34332)
Fax: +44 207 679 2297
1. Articles in peer reviewed journals:
‘In Search of the Aleph: Memory, Truth, and Falsehood in Borges’s Poetics’, The Modern Language Review, 92 (1997) 613–29.
‘Love, Sex, and Hell in Borges’s Early Lyrics’, Donaire, 13 (1999) 27–35.
‘History and Allegory in Borges’s “La escritura del dios”’, Neophilologus, 85 (2001) 225–43.
‘Literature and Ethics in Borges’s Early Work’, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 79 (2002) 771–89.
‘The Theme of Lovesickness in “El Zahir”’, Variaciones Borges, 14 (2002) 115–55.
‘Borges, Dante, and Barbusse: A Contribution Towards a Comparative Reading’, Variaciones Borges, 17 (2004) 199–212.
‘A Note on the Sources of “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”’, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 88: 1 (2011) 83–99.
‘La dimensión afectiva en la poesía juvenil de J. L. Borges’, Neophilologus, 95 (2011) 235–47.
‘Gauchos and Martyrs in “El evangelio según Marcos”’, Variaciones Borges, 34 (2012) 143–59.
‘Poesía y verdad en los escritos de juventud de Jorge Luis Borges’, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 89, no. 6 (2012) 645–54.
2. Chapters in books:
‘Magical-Realist Elements in José Eustasio Rivera’s The Vortex’, in A Companion To Magical Realism, ed. by Ouyang, Wen-chin and Stephen Hart (Woodbridge: Tamesis Books, 2005), pp. 114–22.
‘Borges, Tlön, and Judeophobia’, in Essays in Hispanic Literature and Culture in Honour of David Henn, ed. by Stephen M. Hart and Derek Gagen (London: Centre of César Vallejo Studies, 2008), pp. 99–106.
‘The Idiosyncrasy of Barbarism and Borges's “El evangelio según Marcos”’, in Traslados/Translations: Essays on Latin America in Honour of Jason Wilson, ed. by Claire Lindsay (London: Institute for the Study of the Americas, 2012), pp. 35–50.
‘Teaching Christian, Muslim and Jewish Themes in the Work of Jorge Luis Borges’, in Approaches to Teaching Borges, ed. by Edna Aizenberg (New York: The Modern Language Association of America) [submitted].
3. Books:
Borges and Dante: Echoes of a Literary Friendship (Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang, 2006).
Research projects
A Companion to the Spanish American Essay from Independence to the Present (Tamesis Books).
Utopía y realidad en el ensayo hispanoamericano (Peter Lang).
