Justin Read

Assistant Professor
Office: 905 Clemens Hall
Phone: (716) 645-2191 x 1182
Email: jread2@buffalo.edu
Website: Personal site

Degrees

• A.B. in English from University of California, Berkeley
• A.B. in Latin American Studies from University of California, Berkeley
• M.A. in Comparative Literature from University of Michigan
• Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from University of Michigan

Areas of Specialization

• Inter-American comparative studies; Urban Studies; Modernist Aesthetics (Poetry and Architecture); Modern Brazilian Culture; Modern Latin American Culture; Critical Theory Publications

Publications

• "The 'New Original' English Translation of Vicente Huidobro's 'Altazor.'" Translation Review, No. 71 (2006): 61-65.
  
  
• "Obverse Colonization: Sao Paulo, Global Urbanization, and the Poetics of the Latin American City." Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 15.3 (December 2006): 281-300.
  
  
• "Alternative Functions: Joao Cabral de Melo Neto and the Architectonics of Modernity." Luso-Brazilian Review, 43.1 (July 2006): 65-93.
  
  
• "Alternative Functions: Oscar Niemeyer and the Poetics of Modernity." Modernism/Modernity, Vol. 12, No. 2 (April 2005): 253-72.
  
  
• "Manners of Mistranslation: The Antropofagismo of Elizabeth Bishop's Prose and Poetry." CR: New Centennial Review 3.1 (2003): 297-327.
  
  
• "Solar Currency: The Monetary Policy of Cesar Vallejo's Trilce." Luso-Hispanic Avant-Gardes: Modes of the Insatiable New, ed. Robert A. Davidson and Rosa Sarabia. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Forthcoming, in press.
  
  
• "Antropofagismo and the Cannibal Logic of Inter-American Studies." How Far Is America from Here?: Proceedings of the International American Studies Association First World Congress. Paul Giles, Theo D'haen, Djelal Kadir, and Lois Parkinson Zamora, eds. Amsterdam: Rodopi Publishers, 2005. 159-172.
  
  

Current Research Projects

• At the moment I have two interrelated projects: My first book, Inter:America, treats the establishment of inter-American studies, drawing comparative links between Spanish-Americas, Brazilian, and Anglo American cultures. In particular, I am examining symbolic confluences between, on the one hand, the consolidation of modern nations in the American hemisphere, and on the other, the emergence of radical poetic formalisms in modernist/vanguardist texts. A second book project, Alternative Functions, traces connections between aesthetic modernism and political-economic modernization of Latin American cities and nations over the twentieth-century, using as its foci Latin American poetry and architecture.

Frequently Taught Courses:

• SPA 311: Survey of Spanish American Literature
• SPA 320: Literatura de dictadura (Contemporary Spanish American Literature)
• SPA 415: Spanish American Poetry
• SPA 509: Latin American Cultural Theory
• SPA 512: Latin American Poetry
• RLL 625: Brazilian Studies
• POR 440: Portuguese for Spanish Speakers