Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón

Irvin E. Houck Associate Professor of Hispanic studies Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón received an honorable mention at the Latin American Studies Association-Mexico Section's 2023 Award for Best Book in the Humanities for his monograph, Mexico, Interrupted: Labor, Idleness, and the Economic Imaginary of Independence (Vanderbilt, 2023).

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón has published the article "La disposición censoria: las dos vidas de Fernández de Lizardi y las sensibilidades conservadoras en México” (“The Censorial Disposition: The Two Lives of Fernández de Lizardi and Conservative Sensibilities in Mexico”). The article offers a new account of the life of Mexico’s first novelist, José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776-1827), and explores structurally conservative aspects and uses of the 19th century novel.

Associated Professor of Hispanic Studies Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón’s book, Mexico, Interrupted: Labor, Idleness, and the Economic Imaginary of Independence, was published in June by Vanderbilt University Press. Mexico, Interrupted studies the post-independence elite’s obsession with the labor and idleness of the population between in their attempts to create a wealthy, independent nation. 

On February 28 and April 2, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies Sergio Gutiérrez delivered  invited lectures in the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and in University of Texas, Permian Basin. His talks, on figures of labor and idleness, respectively, in 19th century Mexican economic discourse are part of his forthcoming book, Mexico, Interrupted: Labor, Idleness, and the Economic Imaginary of Independence.

Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón wrote and translated an audio fiction story for the new season of La Brega: Stories of the Puerto Rican Experience, hailed as one of the “Best Podcasts of 2021” by The New Yorker and The New York Times. Following host Alana Casanova Burgess' prompt about taking the classic Puerto Rican anthem "Boricua En La Luna” literally, the story speculates about what would happen if someone Puerto Rican were actually born on the moon? A Zoom conversation about the podcast and the episode, hosted by the Center of Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO) took place on March 16.

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies Sergio Gutierrez Negron has published the article "La impresión conservadora: los hermanos Uribe y Alcalde y el campo tipográfico del primer conservadurismo mexicano, 1828-1836” in Decimonónica: A Journal of Nineteenth Century Hispanic Cultural Production. Halfway between biographical reconstruction and cultural analysis, this article offers a joint profile of minor printers Tomás and José Uribe y Alcalde, who were active in Mexico between 1822 and 1836. This account allows the reader to observe the inner workings of the Mexican typographical field and its relationship to the nascent economy of conservative knowledge, as well as the possibility of social mobility it provided.

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón’s most recent novel, Los días hábiles (2020), was the subject of the most recent episode of the podcast De Libro en Libro. The book was discussed by the hosts and their guest, Puerto Rican Independence Party’s gubernatorial candidate, Juan Dalmau.

The podcast is available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. 

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón published El culto a la derrota, a translation into Spanish of Brian Price’s monograph “Cult of Defeat in Mexico’s Historical Fiction: Failure, Trauma, and Loss.” 

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón published El culto a la derrota, a translation into Spanish of Brian Price’s monograph “Cult of Defeat in Mexico’s Historical Fiction: Failure, Trauma, and Loss.” 

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón was named a Letras Boricuas Fellow by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Flamboyan Foundation’s Arts Fund. The fellowship recognizes Puerto Rican writers whose dynamic work spans genres including fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and children’s literature. A first-of-its-kind fellowship, Letras Boricuas was created to identify, elevate, and amplify the voices of emerging and established Puerto Rican writers on the island and across the United States diaspora.

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón recently published a review-essay of Peruvian writer Claudia Ulloa Donoso's Pajarito, and delivered a talk on Mexican independence as part of the University of Buffalo's Hispanic Heritage at the Intersections of Culture and Crisis series.

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón’s novel, Los días hábiles, has recently been reviewed in Puerto Rican magazines 80grados and El Roommate.

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón contributed an essay to the volume Conservative Sensibilities: The Cultural Debate over Civilization in Latin America And Spain in the 19th Century, edited by Kari Soriano Salkjelsvik (Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2021). His essay, “Aesthetics, Polemics, and God: Theological Aesthesis in the Mexican Weekly La Cruz, 1855-1858,” studies a conservative Catholic newspaper which, on the eve of the Mexican Civil War, launched a programmatic project to adapt aesthetic reflection, a form of thought associated to liberal intellectuals, to conservative and Catholic ends.

Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón, assistant professor of Hispanic studies, published two scholarly articles. The first, SATIRE AND THE LIE OF POLITICS: EL MONO (MEXICO, 1833), studies the use of satire in 19th century Mexican conservative journalism. The second, LIBERTAD PARA LOS FEOS: LUCES ARTIFICIALES (2002) DE DANIEL SADA, theorizes the relationship between freedom, ugliness and embodiment through an engagement with a novel by Mexican writer, Daniel Sada (1953-2011).

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón published the novel Los días hábiles (Working Days).

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón published La proyección del neoliberalismo: Las transformaciones del cine mexicano, 1990-2012, a translation of Ignacio Sánchez Prado’s Screening Neoliberalism: The Transformation of Mexican Film, 1990-2012. The translation is the first book published in Spanish by Vanderbilt University Press.

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón gaves a book talk in Santurce, Puerto Rico.

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón publishes book of short stories Preciosos Perdedores in Puerto Rico (Ediciones Alayubia).

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón’s short story “People Who Go To The Beach Alone” was published in the Common as part of a dossier on contemporary Puerto Rican literature in the aftermath of Hurricane María. The story was translated by Hannah K. Cook '18.

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón’s short story “Escena en un restaurante de comida rápida” was included in The Hay Festival’s anthology Bogotá39: Nuevas voces desde Latinoamerica. The anthology has been published in Spain, Colombia, Argentina, Mexico, Spain, Uruguay, Perú, and Ecuador by a series of independent publishers. It was also translated into English as Bogotá39: New Voices from Latin America and published by British imprint Oneworld Editions.

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón's second novel, Dicen que los dormidos (2012, 2014, 2017) has been translated into the Turkish as Uyoyor diyorlar and published in Turkey by Cumartesi Kitapligi.

Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón, assistant professor of Hispanic studies, published a non-fiction story, titled "Juego de distancias y una crónica" about Hurricane María, Puerto Rico, and friendship in the prestigious Cuban magazine, Casa de las Américas. The non-fiction story was also re-published in Universo-Centro, a Colombian monthly distributed free of charge in Colombia's major cities.

Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón, assistant professor of Hispanic studies, contributed an essay on queer Puerto Rican literature to the volume Pierre Bourdieu in Hispanic Literature and Culture, edited by Ignacio Sánchez Prado and published by Palgrave. The essay, titled “Cruel Dispositions: Queer Literature, the Contemporary Puerto Rican Literary Field and Luis Negrón’s Mundo Cruel” (2010), offers an account of the rise and institutionalization of queer literature in the contemporary Puerto Rican literary field, the most important development in the island’s literary culture of the past decades.

Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón, assistant professor of Hispanic studies, published a non-fiction story in Clarín, Argentina's largest newspaper. In the essay, Gutiérrez Negrón narrates his time as a tele-marketer in order to reflect on youth and the exploitative nature of work.

Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón, assistant professor of Hispanic studies, reviewed three academic books on Latin American literature: Héctor Hoyos' Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel; Brian Price, et al's TransLatin Joyce: Global Transmissions in Ibero-American Literature; and, Benigno Trigo's Malady and Genius: Self-Sacrifice in Puerto Rican Literature. The three book reviews appeared in the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Sergio Gutiérrez-Negrón has published the short story “Good People” in the November issue of The Brooklyn Rail, available both online and in print.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Stud​i​es Sergio Gutiérrez​-Negrón ​has published the article "The Estate Must Be Protected! Work and the Necessity of Restraint in Roa Bárcena’s La quinta modelo (1857)" in ​​Decimonónica: A Journal of Nineteenth Century Hispanic Cultural Production. The article studies the political​ and theological​ grammar of labor in​​ a serialized novel published by a conservative Catholic writer in the eve of the War of Reform in 19th Century Mexico.