Professor Baquero-Pecino obtained a double degree in Hispanic Philology, and Literary Theory and Comparative Literature from the University of Granada (Spain). He also earned a M.A. in Spanish from New Mexico State University, and received his PhD. in Literature and Cultural Studies from Georgetown University. His main research interests include Contemporary Peninsular and Latin American Literature and Culture, Film Studies, Immigration, Violence, Crime Fiction, and Trauma Narratives.
Degrees
PhD. Literature and Cultural Studies. Georgetown University
M.A. Spanish, New Mexico State University
B.A. (Licenciatura) Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, University of Granada (Spain)
B.A. (Licenciatura) Hispanic Philology, University of Granada (Spain)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
BOOK
Sicarios en la pantalla: familia y violencia globalizada en la era neoliberal. Editorial Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2023
REFEREED ARTICLES and BOOK CHAPTERS
-Entre la comedia migratoria y el cine de casting. Géneros y simulaciones en Latiner de Inés Gowland. REGS (Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades [Journal of Gender and Sexuality Studies]), Volume 47, Issue 1, 2021, pp. 113- 134.
-Asimilación e identidad migrante en la película Inocente (2012). Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, Volume 9, Issue 2, Fall 2019, pp. 44-63.
-“Spectatorship, Trauma, and Performance in Pedro Almodóvar´s Talk to Her.” Cincinnati Romance Review, Volume 44, Spring 2018, pp. 19-35.
-“Sicaresca, memoria traumática y globalización en el cine de España y Latinoamérica.” Memoria de crímenes. Literatura, medios audiovisuales y testimonios, edited by Gustavo Forero Quintero. Bogotá, Siglo del Hombre, 2017, pp. 395-411.
- “La muerte necesita pasaporte. Asesinos a sueldo en el cine español contemporáneo.” Pasavento. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Volume 4, no. 1, Winter 2016, pp.125-138.
- Otherness and Nationhood in Tizuka Yamasaki's Gaijin I and Gaijin II in “Migration in Lusophone Cinema”. Eds. Cacilda Rêgo and Marcus Brasileiro. New York: Palgrave – Macmillan, November 2014, 151-165.
-Víctimas, delitos y falta en la novela policial de Leonardo Padura in Víctimas, novela y realidad del crimen. Ed. Gustavo Forero. Colombia: Planeta. September 2014, 125- 140.
- Violencia y representaciones del espacio en O homem do ano de José Henrique Fonseca. Delaware Review of Latin American Studies (DeRLAS) 14.1. August 2013. N.P.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
-“Notas preliminares sobre literatura española en Estados Unidos.” Revista Avispero, no.11, 2016, pp. 45-47.
-“Los mil rostros de Leonardo Padura.” Razón Pública, 2015. N.P.
BOOK REVIEWS
-Baquero-Pecino, Álvaro. Review of Escribiendo la nación, habitando España. La narrativa colombiana desde el prisma transatlántico. Hispanófila, vol. 188, 2020, pp. 167-168.
-Baquero-Pecino, Álvaro.Review of After Human Rights. Literature, Visual Arts, and Film in Latin America, 1990-2010, by Fernando J. Rosenberg, Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, no.20, 2016, pp. 307-308.
-Baquero-Pecino, Álvaro.Review of Screening Neoliberalism. Transforming Mexican Cinema, 1988-2012, by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado. Imagofagia. Revista de la Asociación Argentina de Estudios de Cine y Audiovisual, no. 14, 2016, N.P.
-Baquero-Pecino, Álvaro.Review of Cali. Ciudad abierta. Arte y cinefilia en los años setenta, by Katia González Martínez. Revista E-misférica, vol.12, no. 2, 2016. N.P.
-Baquero-Pecino, Álvaro.Review of Queering Acts of Mourning in the Aftermath of Argentina´s Dictatorship: The Performance of Blood, by Cecilia Sosa. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, no.19, 2015, pp. 312-313.
-Baquero-Pecino, Álvaro.Review of El estado de las cosas. Cine latinoamericano en el nuevo milenio, edited by Gabriela Copertari and Carolina Sitnisky. Revista de Cultura Latinomericana Guaraguao, no. 49,2015, pp. 197-200.
-Baquero-Pecino, Álvaro.Review of Screening Minors in Latin American Cinema, edited by Carolina Rocha and Georgia Seminet. Revista de literatura latinoamericana Chasqui, vol. 44, no 2., 2015, pp. 350-352.
-Baquero-Pecino, Álvaro. Review of Meanings of Violence in Contemporary Latin America, edited by Gabriela Polit and María Helena Rueda. Revista Letras Femeninas, vol. 39, no. 2, 2013, pp. 278-280.
-Baquero-Pecino, Álvaro. Review of ¡Acción! Cine en Colombia. Catálogo de la Muestra del Museo Nacional de Colombia. Revista de Estudios Colombianos, no.33, 2009, pp.135-137.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (SELECTED)
Board Member, Latin American Studies Association, Film Studies Section, May 2013-May 2016.
Co-Chair, Film Studies Track, XXV Latin American Studies Association International Congress, Lima, Peru, May 2017.
Jury Member at The Americas Film Festival of New York (TAFFNY), 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022.
