Glen S. Close
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Yale University
Professor Glen Close joined the department as an Assistant Professor in
2003. He has offered advanced undergraduate courses on Narratives of Youth,
Migration and Globalization, the Spanish American Detective Novel, and Revolutionary
Icons. His primary field is Twentieth Century Spanish American narrative,
particularly in relation to transatlantic dynamics. Professor Close is the
author of La imprenta enterrada: Baroja, Arlt y el imaginario anarquista
(Beatriz Viterbo, 2000), a study of the ideological and aesthetic impact
of anarchist ideology on early twentieth-century Spanish and Argentine novels.
He is currently researching hard-boiled detective fiction, and he recently
co-edited and contributed to Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Detective Fiction:
Essays on the Género Negro Tradition (McFarland, 2006).
He is also the translator of Josefina Ludmer’s The Corpus Delicti.
A Manual of Argentine Fictions (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004). A
recent article is available in Ciberletras number 15, July 2006
[http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/].
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