Patrick O’Connor

Areas of Study

Introduction to Comparative Literature — CMPL 200

Mexican Cinema Goes International: Watching Gael García Bernal — HISP 103

Intermediate Spanish I — HISP 202

Surrealism Narrative from Center to Margins — CMPL 327

Surrealism Narrative from Center to Margins — HISP 327

Latin American Studies Capstone — LATS 400

Capstone — HISP 501

Latin American Fiction and the Narratives of the Perverse: Paper Dolls and Spider Women (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
(co-edited with Dianna Niebylski). Latin American and Latino/a Icons. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2013.
“Riding a Tandem Bicycle: Valeria Luiselli Maps the Sidewalks of Mexico City, pp. 211-231 in Kuecker and Puga, ed., Mapping the Megalopolis: Order and Disorder in Mexico City, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018.
“A Practical Daughter: Cristina Peri Rossi Reads Felisberto Hernández,” Letras femeninas, 41:2 (Summer 2016): 98-114.
“The Anxiety of the Avunculate: Lezama Lima Reads Martí and Casal,” Latin American Literary Review 33.66 (2005): 145-174.
“César Aira’s Life in Pink: Beyond Gender Games in Cómo me hice monja” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, XXV.2 (2001): 259-76.
(With Jorge Salessi) “For Carnival, Clinic, and Camera: Fin-de-Siècle Argentine Drag Culture Performs “Woman,” in Diana Taylor and Juan Villegas, ed., Negotiating Performance: Gender, Sexuality and Theatricality in Latin/o America, Duke University Press, 1994, 257-74.

CMPL 200 Introduction to Comparative Literature
CMPL/GSFS 208 Queer Beginnings 1990
CMPL/GSFS 347 Sophistication: Queer Postwar Paris-New York Connections
HISP 202 Intermediate Spanish I
HISP 318 Survey of Latin American Literature II
HISP 319 Grandes Novelas Chicas: The Latin American Novella
HISP 322 Visions of Mexican Women
HISP/CMPL 327 Surrealist Narratives from Center to Margins
HISP/CMPL 419 Big Old Funny Books: Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne
HISP 422 Literature and Politics of Central America
HISP 436 Literatures of the Dirty Wars
HISP 458 From Borges to Cortázar: Fantasy and Violence in Argentine Literature, 1930-1955
FYSP 150 Questioning Realism: The North and South American Fantastic
FYSP 187 Playing at Gods: Myth, Ritual, Theater, Story