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Hispanic Languages & Literatures



JOSHUA LUND

PhD, University of Minnesota
Assistant Professor

Room 1309B, Cathedral of Learning
412-624-2713
jkl7@pitt.edu





                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Joshua Lund is Director of Undergraduate Studies.  He specializes in Latin
American literary and cultural studies, with particular interest in
nineteenth- and twentieth-century narrative of Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala
and Colombia.  His recent publications include The Impure Imagination:
Toward a Critical Hybridity in Latin American Writing (2006) and Gilberto
Freyre e os estudos latino-americanos (2006, co-edited and introduced with
Malcolm McNee).  His current projects include a study of race and politics
in modern Mexico and a collaborative history of the representation of
protest in Latin America.  Recent essays include "A Large Aggregate of Men:
Garro, Renan and the Failure of Alliance" (MLN, 2006), "The Smile of the
Slave: Synthesis in Protest in Alfonso Reyes" (A Contracorriente, 2005)
and "The Business of Apocalypse" (Race & Class, 2005, with Peter
Hallberg).