Antonio Barrenechea
Dr. Barrenechea has developed research tracks in comparative literature and cinema studies. His work ranges over the territories of North, Central, and South America from the pre-Columbian era to the present. His first book, America Unbound: Encyclopedic Literature and Hemispheric Studies (University of New Mexico Press, 2016) is a study of how big novels reimagine European and Native American cultural encounters in the New World. Dr. Barrenechea is currently completing Monster, Trash, and Groovy Gothic Cinema of the Americas, a book about the intersection of horror cinema and the 1960s counterculture with examples from Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and Canada. His course rotation includes Introduction to Cinema Studies, New World Writing in the Colonial Period, Literature and Nation-Building in the Americas, and Hemispheric Fiction of the Global Age.
B.A., Fordham University; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University. UMW Directory Profile.