Professor, Spanish
About
I came from Chile to study my Ph. D. at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which I finished by 2003. After that I worked at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville until recently. The fall of 2015 I became a faculty member at the University of Michigan where I am currently teaching Latin American modern and contemporary literature and socio-political and cultural history. I am the Chair of the Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Committee of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Chair of the MLA 20th and 21st Latin American Literature Committee.
My research focuses mainly on literary, visual and cultural forms and practices of imagination in Latin American modern and contemporary history. I develop an interdisciplinary approach to cultural and aesthetical phenomena with a theoretical emphasis informed by continental philosophy and psychoanalysis.
I also keep an active profile at Academia.edu: https://umich.academia.edu/SergioVillalobosRuminott
Recent Publications
Books
- La desarticulación. Hegemonía, epocalidad e historicidad (Santiago, Ediciones Macul, 2019)
- Heterografías de la violencia. Historia nihilismo destrucción (Buenos Aires, La Cebra, 2015).
- Soberanías en suspenso. Imaginación y violencia en América Latina (Buenos Aires, La Cebra, 2013).
Recent Articles
- “¿En qué se reconoce el pensamiento? Posthegemonía e infrapolítica en la época de la realización de la metafísica.” Debats 128/3 (2015): 41-52.
- “El poema de la universidad: nihilismo e infrapolítica.” TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, 5 /1 (2015): 106-122.https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3475x32f
- “Oscar del Barco – La crítica del marxismo como técnica liberacionista.” Papel Máquina 9 (2015): 133-152.
- “Spanos’s Polemos: An Oppositional Intellectual in the Age of Mundialization.” boundary 2, 42:1 (2015): 67-85.
