Michael J. Horswell
Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature
Dean, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
PhD, University of Maryland, College Park (1997)
561.297.3803
horswell@fau.edu
Teaching and Research Fields
Latin American Colonial Literature
Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Nineteenth-Century Latin American Literature and Culture
Andean Studies, Indigenismo
Books
Sexualidades Periféricas. Consolidaciones literarias y fílmicas en la España de fin de siglo XIX y fin de milenio. Co-edited with Nuria Godón. Madrid, Spain: Fundamentos, 2016. http://www.editorialfundamentos.es/index.php?producto=1633274§ion=catalogo&pagina=producto&idioma=es
Baroque Projections: Images and Texts in Dialogue with the Early Modern Hispanic World. Co-edited with Frédéric Conrod. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta - Hispanic Monographs, 2016. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1588712753/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_aY8HybENG30H6
Sumergido/Submerged: cine alternativo cubano. Co-edited with Luis Duno-Gottberg. Houston, TX: Literal Publishing, 2013. https://www.amazon.com/Submerged-Sumergido-English-Duno-Gottberg-Horswell/dp/0977028771/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426631449&sr=1-5&keywords=sumergido
La descolonización del sodomita en los Andes colonialies. Quito, Ecuador: Abya-Yala Press, 2010 (1st ed.); 2013 (2nd ed.). Spanish translation of Decolonizing the Sodomite: Queer Tropes of Sexuality in Colonial Andean Culture. Austin, TX: U of Texas P, 2005. https://abyayala.org/Abyayala2018/producto/la-descolonizacion-del-sodomita-en-los-andes-coloniales-pdf/
Decolonizing the Sodomite: Queer Tropes of Sexuality in Colonial Andean Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/hordec
Selected Articles and Book Chapters
“The (Dis)continuities of Decolonized Gender and Sexual Identity in the Andes.” In the Companion for Colonial Latin American and Caribbean Studies (1492-1898). Eds. Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Santa Arias. London: Routledge, 2021. 419-432.
’The Museum Cross-dressed as a Museum:’ Neo-Baroque Language and Peripheral Activist Aesthetics in the Museo travesti de Perú.” Journal of Language and Sexuality 5.2 (2016): 222-249.
"Baroque and Neo-Baroque Literary Traditions." Oxford Bibliographies in Latin American Studies. Ed. Ben Vinson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199766581/obo-9780199766581-0004.xml
"Negotiating Apostasy in Vilcabamba: Titu Cusi Yupangqui Writes from the Chaupi." Examining Heretical Thought. Eds. José Rabasa and Jesús Rodríguez Velasco. Special issue of Romantic Review 103, no. 1-2 (January-March 2012): 81-110. https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/hordec
"Hacia un tercer cine queer: la crítica de cuerpos y espacios transnacionales en Dependencia sexual de Rodrigo Bellot." Miradas al margen: cine y subalternidad en América Latina y el Caribe. Ed. Luis Duno-Gottberg. Caracas, Venezuela: Fundación Cinemateca Nacional de Venezuela, 2009. https://www.amazon.com/Miradas-margen-subalternidad-America-Spanish/dp/9806506138
"'Perros aucas' y 'Mati-umas': una lectura de la representación ideolócia de los Cañari en las crónicas." Encuentro nacional sobre historia del Azuay Cuenca 2007. Ed. Juan Cordero Iñiguez. Ecuador: Universidad de Cuenca, 2008.
"Transatlantic Performances of Hybridity in Sor Juana's Baroque Festival, Los empeños de una casa." Crosscurrents: Transatlantic Perspectives on Early Modern Hispanic Drama. Eds. Bonnie Gasior and Mindy E. Badía. Bucknell: Bucknell UP, 2006. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781611482348/Crosscurrents-Transatlantic-Perspectives-on-Early-Modern-Hispanic-Drama
"Toward an Andean Theory of Ritual, Same-Sex Sexuality and Third-Gender Subjectivity." Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America. Ed. Peter Sigal. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003. 25-69. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo3616886.html
"Un sacrificio fundacional: el Inca Garcilaso, los sodomitas, y la identidad híbrida del cronista." De amores y luchas: diversidad sexual, derechos humanos y ciudadania. Ed. Jorge Bracamonte Allaín. Lima, Peru: Centro de la Mujer Peruana "Flora Tristán," 2001. 81-103.
Selected Undergraduate Courses Taught
Road Movies and Travel Tales from Latin America
Andean Cultural Studies in Ecuador
Love and Desire in Latin American Literature and Film
Spanish Peninsular Literature and Film (taught in Salamanca)
Cultural History of Salamanca & Spain (taught in Salamanca)
Orality and Writing in Colonial & Post-Colonial Andean Literature
Spanish American Literature to1880
Introduction to Hispanic Literature
Introduction to Latin American Studies
Commercial Spanish I and II
Spanish Language: Beginning, Intermediate, and Conversation
Selected Graduate Courses Taught
Seminario: El Barroco de Indias y sus antecedentes
Transatlantic Studies: Escribir en las fronteras del imperio español
Introduction to Literary Theory and the Hispanic Tradition
Foreign Language Teaching Practicum for Graduate Teaching Assistants
Literatura Andina: Del Incaismo al Post-Indigenismo
Seminar in Colonial Latin American Literature
Gender and Sexuality in Spanish Golden Age Literature
Twentieth-Century Spanish Peninsular Literature and Film