Professor Jacqueline Loss, Ph.D., 
 Assistant Professor of Spanish
Office: Arjona 214
jacqueline.loss@uconn.edu

Education

Ph.D. (August 2000), Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin.
Title: Cosmopolitanisms: From Modernismo to the Present, concentration in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish American Literature, Cultural Studies, and Postcolonial Literature.


Specialization

Spanish American Literature, Comparative Literature, Literary and Cultural Criticism
Courses Taught
  • Elementary Spanish
  • Major Works of Hispanic Literature in Translation
  • Cuban Cultures
  • Spanish Composition
  • Senior Seminar "Critical Cosmopolitanisms"
  • Independent Study "Magical Realism and the Boom: Marketing the Margins"
  • Session on Literature and Criticism on Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Fall 2001
  • Studies in Spanish American Literature "Transgressing Borders" (Graduate Seminar)

 

Publications

 Book:

Cubanacán: New Short Fiction from Cuba, co-editor of book and co-author of introduction with Dr. Esther Whitfield, Northwestern UP (2005)

Articles:

  • "The Language of the State and Market through the Discourse of the Mad” New Centennial Review, special issue on Visual Cultures, Phosphorescent Memories, (2004)
  • “ Los manicomios como crítica y como mercancía” Miradas, revista electrónica de La Escuela Internacial de Cine y Televisión (San Antonio de los Baños” 22 typescript pages. (Fall 2003). Translated from English into Spanish by Cuban Literary and Cultural Critic/Writer Víctor Fowler-Calzada
  • "Vintage Soviets in post-Cold War Cuba” Mandorla: Nueva Escritura de las Américas.7 (Spring 2003)
  • "Global Arenas: Narrative and Filmic Translations of Identity,” Nepantla: Views from South (Duke University) 4.2 ( 2003)
  • “Worldly Conjunctions and Disjunctions: On Cosmopolitanism and Nomadism in Diamela Eltit's Por la patria (1986) and El padre mío (1989),” Chasqui, November 2000
  • “Art and Economics: Focus on Cuba,” co-authored with Esther Whitfield. David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Newsletter, October/November 1999 reprinted in Virtual Institute of Caribbean Studies Newsletter, Vol.4, No.1, 2000
  • “Peripatetics, Barbarians, and Dwellers in Le Sentier: Goytisolo's Postcolonial Cosmopolis in Paisajes después de la batalla,” Dactylus: Revista de Literatura y Lingüística, Spring 1998

Reviews:

  • Review of Contrabando de sombras Antonio José Ponte, World Literature Today 77.2
  • “cholo-punks, pachuco krishnas, Irish concheros, butoh rappers, cyber-Aztecs, Gringofarians, Hopi rockers, y demás,” Review of The New World Border  by Guillermo Gómez-Peña, RiverSedge, Fall 1998

Book Section:

  • “Wandering in Russian,” NG CUBA.The Special Period and the Culture of Late Socialism. Edited by Ariana Hernández-Reguant and Esther Whitfield, forthcoming
  • Junot Díaz. Latino and Latina Writers.  Edited by Alan West-Durán. Charles Scribner's Sons, (2003)
  • Afterword to English Translation of Reinaldo Arenas's El color del verano, co-authored with translator Andrew Hurley. Viking/Penguin, 2000

Translation:
  • “Casey's Nineteenth Century and the Coclón Project,” (Víctor Fowler-Calzada), CR:The New Centennial Review, (2002)

In progress:

Book: Against the Destiny of Place, by Jacqueline Loss

Book Section: Cubanas in Solidarity: Via the U.S.S.R.  Latin American Women Write the City. Edited by Anne Lambright and Elisabeth Guerrero