Manuel Gutiérrez, Assistant
Professor of Hispanic Studies
- Ph.D. University of California (Los Angeles), 2009
Areas
of Interest
- Mexican Literature and Art
- Latin American Intellectual History
- Criticism and Literary Theory
Research
and Teaching
Manuel Gutiérrez has taught at the University of California,
Los Angeles, where he also completed his doctoral dissertation in 2009.
He specializes in late nineteenth and early twentieth
century Mexican literature, art and culture with an emphasis on intellectual,
political and aesthetic practices and history. His current research, Eyeing the World: Mexican poets and the
visual arts (1921-1969), explores Mexican poet-critics and their writings
on art, politics and culture in the first half of the twentieth century. He is
also co-editing a volume of critical essays dedicated to the films of Arturo
Ripstein.