Justin Read

Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Office: 905 Clemens Hall
Phone: (716) 645-0878
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

• Hemispheric American studies; Urban Studies; Modernism and Vanguardismo (Poetry and Architecture in particular); Latin American Modernization; Critical Theory; Political Theory; Brazil; Argentina.

Publications

• "Unicity." Telemorphosis: Essays in Critical Climate Change, Vol. 1, ed. Tom Cohen and Henry Sussman. Ann Arbor, MI: Open Humanities Press (Distributed through University of Michigan Library). Forthcoming.
  
  
• "Topofilia Porteña: Imaging Buenos Aires and Modernity in (and around) the Journal Sur." Spectatorship and Topophilia in Early Modern and Postmodern Contexts, ed. David Castillo and Bradley Nelson. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press (Hispanic Issues HIOL), in press.
  
  
• "Intermedial Maps: The Street as Site of Cultural-Political Regulation in Modern Brazil." Intermédialités. Histoire et théorie des arts, des lettres et des techniques, special issue "Bâtir / Build" ed. James Cisneros and Will Straw. In press.
  
  
• "Eulalia in Utopia: Urban Space, Modernity, and Gendered Typologies in Rubén Darío and Hilda Hilst." The Utopian Impulse in Latin America, ed. Kim Beauchesne and Alessandra Santos. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Under review.
  
  
• Modern Poetics and Hemispheric American Cultural Studies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (Studies of the Americas Series), 2009.
  
  
• "Mariátegui y la poética de 'tierra.'" Revista de estudios hispánicos, 44.2 (Junio 2010): 295-316.
  
  
• "Speculations on Unicity: Rearticulations of Urban Space and Critical Theory during Global Economic Crisis." CR: New Centennial Review 9.2 (2009): 109-138.
  
  
• "Axes of Projection: Poetics of Urbanisation and Globalisation in the Americas." The Journal of Architecture, 13.5 (2008): 607-631.
  
  
• "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

I have two main areas of research: The modernization of the Americas since 1880, and political theory of inter-subjectivity and transculturation. On one hand, I examine the role of culture and aesthetics in the transformation of Latin America into an urban (modern-industrial) region. In this regard, I view modernism (vanguardismo) as an initiatory phase of contemporary globalization, and thus an effective means to measure the success or failure of the same. On the other hand, I theorize how the space between subjects, citizens, and entire cultures has been produced in the Americas. In that regard, I am interested in how inter-subjective power differentials have been produced, reconciled, or (most likely) been left unresolved. In addition to my first book, Modern Poetics and Hemispheric American Cultural Studies (2009), I am currently at work on several others. With Colleen Culleton, I am also co-director of the UB Research Group in Cultural Studies of Space.

Recent 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 533: Argentinean Literature
• RLL 625: Brazilian Studies