José F. Buscaglia

Associate Professor
Office: 1029 Clemens Hall
Phone: (716) 645-2191 x 1200
Email: jfb2@buffalo.edu
Website: Personal site
Caribbean Studies: Workshop in Havana

Degrees

• B.A. from Princeton University
• M.Arch. from UB
• M.A. from UB
• Ph.D. from UB

Areas of Specialization

• Caribbean history, Art, Architecture, Cultural Studies, Coloniality Studies

Publications

• Undoing Empire: Race and Nation in the Mulatto Caribbean. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota press, 2003)
• "Puerto Rico '98: Architecture and Empire at the Fin de Siècle," Journal of Architectural Education 48:4 (1995): 250-259
• "14 Mapas de precisiones imaginarias/ 14 Maps of Imaginary Precision," Intersight 6 (2001): 114-133
• "Un Moro en la Gloria: Plácido, o el color de la indecisión," (A Moor in Heaven: Plácido, or the Color of Ambiguity) Azoteas, 3 (2003): 9-15.
• "La Revolución Haitiana y la decapitación del ideal europeo" (The Haitian Revolution and the Decapitation of the European Ideal), Revista Casa de las Américas, 233(2003): 143-148.
• "Notas para ir desarmando la Historia del Caribe" (Notes to Undo the History of the Caribbean), forthcoming in Estudos Lingüísticos e Literários, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.

Current Research Projects

• Critical translation of the 17th-century Mexican narrative: Carlos de Sigüenza y Gongora's "Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez"

Frequently Taught Courses

• CRC 500: Caribbean History and Culture
• CRC 649: Caribbean Aesthetics
• SPA 328: Spanish American Culture and Civilization
• UGC 211: American Pluralism

Campus Affiliations

• Director of Cuban and Caribbean Programs
• Council of International Studies and Programs
• Associate member, Department of Comparative Literature