Bio

Héctor Hoyos is a scholar of modern Latin American and comparative literature. He writes about ideological critiques of globalization in the post-1989 Latin American novel, the articulation of critical theory and new materialism in the region’s cultural production, and related topics. His current monograph in progress examines the works of Gabriel García Márquez from a law and humanities perspective.

Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Iberian and Latin American Cultures
  • Professor (By courtesy), Comparative Literature

Honors & Awards

  • Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2015-2016)
  • Faculty Research Visit Grant, German Academic Exchange Service - Deutscher Akademischer Austanusch Dienst (DAAD) (2014)

Program Affiliations

  • Center for Latin American Studies
  • Modern Thought and Literature
  • Philosophy and Literature
  • Science, Technology and Society

Professional Education

  • B.A., Universidad de los Andes, Literature (2001)
  • B.A., Universidad de los Andes, Philosophy (2002)
  • M.A., Cornell University, Romance Studies (2006)
  • Ph.D., Cornell University, Romance Studies (2008)

Contact

  • Academic
    hoyos@stanford.edu
    University - Faculty Department: Iberian and Latin American Cultures Position: Professor
    • Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures
    • Stanford University
    • Bldg 260 Room 220
    • Stanford,  California  94305-2014 
    (650) 725-9255 (fax)

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2024-25 Courses

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All Publications

  • The War on Drugs between Exception and Legitimacy: Garcia Marquez's News of a Kidnapping LAW & LITERATURE Hoyos, H., Gonzalez-Jacome, J. 2020

    View details for DOI 10.1080/1535685X.2020.1754020

    View details for Web of Science ID 000532073200001

  • Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel Hoyos Ayala, H. Columbia University Press. 2015
  • Theories of the Contemporary in South America Introduction REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS HISPANICOS Hoyos, H., Librandi-Rocha, M. 2014; 48 (1): 97-103

    View details for Web of Science ID 000333225300005

  • Aftershock Naomi Klein and the Southern Cone THIRD TEXT Hoyos, H. 2012; 26 (2): 217-228

    View details for DOI 10.1080/09528822.2012.663969

    View details for Web of Science ID 000302615100007

  • The Lives of Garcia Marquez REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS HISPANICOS Hoyos, H. 2011; 45 (2): 473-485

    View details for Web of Science ID 000291835500012

  • Fernando Vallejo's Heretic Reason and the Right to Happiness REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS SOCIALES Hoyos, H. 2010: 113-122

    View details for Web of Science ID 000276971200010

  • Three Visions of China in the Contemporary Latin American Novel One World Periphery Reads the Other: Knowing the “Oriental” in the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula Hoyos, H. edited by López-Calvo, I. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2010: 150–171
  • La poesía de los objetos y la trayectoria: una lectura comparada y política de Doce cuentos peregrinos JALLA Hoyos, H. 2008; 1: 423-438
  • Garcia Marquez's sublime violence and the eclipse of Colombian literature 14th Congress of the Asociacion-de-Colombianistas Hoyos, H. ARIZONA STATE UNIV. 2006: 3–20

    View details for Web of Science ID 000242516000001

  • BOLANO, ETERNAL YOUTH REVISTA CHILENA DE LITERATURA Hoyos, H., Bottinelli-Wolleter, A., Monroe, J. B. 2023

    View details for Web of Science ID 001304459000008

  • BOLAÑO'S OTHER GLOBAL SOUTH: AFRICA AND ASIA AS THEME AND READERSHIP REVISTA CHILENA DE LITERATURA Hoyos, H. 2023: 315-330

    View details for Web of Science ID 001304459000015

  • The Matter of History: How Things Create the Past (Book Review) AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Hoyos, H. 2022; 127 (3): 1419-1422

    View details for DOI 10.1093/ahr/rhac242

    View details for Web of Science ID 000894442100020

  • World Literature: Twenty-First-Century Legacies ROBERTO BOLANO IN CONTEXT Hoyos, H., Monroe, J. B. 2022: 333-346

    View details for Web of Science ID 001062946700030

  • Review Essay: The State of a Field in Five Books REVISTA HISPANICA MODERNA Hoyos, H. 2021; 74 (1): 103–15

    View details for Web of Science ID 000625361300011

  • Evelio Rosero and cycles of literary creation (Book Review) REVISTA IBEROAMERICANA Book Review Authored by: Hoyos, H. 2019; 85 (268): 1099–1101

    View details for DOI 10.5195/reviberoamer.2019.7834

    View details for Web of Science ID 000487198500030

  • A Tale of Two Materialisms NOVEL-A FORUM ON FICTION Hoyos, H. 2018; 51 (1): 101–16

    View details for DOI 10.1215/00295132-4357445

    View details for Web of Science ID 000441104800006

  • History and Raw Material in Munecas REVIEW-LITERATURE AND ARTS OF THE AMERICAS Hoyos, H. 2018; 51 (1): 14–20

    View details for DOI 10.1080/08905762.2018.1485282

    View details for Web of Science ID 000441666800004

  • Global supply chain literature vs. extractivism RE-MAPPING WORLD LITERATURE: WRITING, BOOK MARKETS AND EPISTEMOLOGIES BETWEEN LATIN AMERICA AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH Hoyos, H., Muller, G., Locane, J. J., Loy, B. 2018: 33–44

    View details for DOI 10.1515/9783110549577-003

    View details for Web of Science ID 000474197000003

  • A greenhouse culture: tropics and civilization in Colombia (1808-1928) (Book Review) HISPANIC REVIEW Book Review Authored by: Hoyos, H. 2017; 85 (4): 489-492

    View details for Web of Science ID 000414161600007

  • Hemispheric Studies Tomorrow AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY Hoyos, H. 2016; 28 (3): 605-612

    View details for DOI 10.1093/alh/ajw032

    View details for Web of Science ID 000384595200007

  • Raw Material and History in Munecas CUADERNOS DE LITERATURA Hoyos, H. 2016; 20 (40): 465-476

    View details for DOI 10.11144/Javeriana.cl20-40.mphm

    View details for Web of Science ID 000393434500029

  • The material culture in Latin American literatures and cultures today CUADERNOS DE LITERATURA Hoyos, H. 2016; 20 (40): 254-261

    View details for DOI 10.11144/Javeriana.cl20-40.cmlc

    View details for Web of Science ID 000393434500017

  • Cruel Modernity (Book Review) REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS HISPANICOS Book Review Authored by: Hoyos, H. 2015; 49 (2): 389-391

    View details for DOI 10.1353/rvs.2015.0032

    View details for Web of Science ID 000356646700010

  • Fernando Vallejo's Mauditisme as Melodramatic Spectacle CUADERNOS DE LITERATURA Hoyos, H. 2015; 19 (37): 169-176

    View details for DOI 10.11144/Javeriana.cl19-37.emdf

    View details for Web of Science ID 000360494100012

  • Counterfeit Politics: Secret Plots and Conspiracy Narratives in the Americas. (Book Review) REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS HISPANICOS Book Review Authored by: Hoyos, H. 2014; 48 (2): 403-406

    View details for Web of Science ID 000337259800011

  • Being in the present. Literature and nation since the Bicentennial (Book Review) REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS HISPANICOS Book Review Authored by: Hoyos, H. 2014; 48 (1): 224-226

    View details for DOI 10.1353/rvs.2014.0003

    View details for Web of Science ID 000333225300014

  • Estar en el presente: literatura y nación desde el Bicentenario Revista de Estudios Hispánicos Hoyos, H. 2014; 48 (1): 224-225
  • Betty y la resistencia Sujetos múltiples: feminismo, indigenismo y colonialidad. Homenaje a Betty Osorio Hoyos, H. edited by Alzate, C., Solodkow, D. Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes. 2014
  • Hospitalidad e impatriación: figuras del exilio catalán en México Fractal Hoyos, H. 2014
  • Orientalism, Globalisation and Trans-Pacific Imaginaries in Current Latin-American Novels CUADERNOS DE LITERATURA Hoyos, H. 2013; 17 (34): 82-105

    View details for Web of Science ID 000210142700005

  • Orientalismo, globalización e imaginarios transpacíficos en la novela latinoamericana actual Cuadernos de Literatura Hoyos, H. 2013; 34: 82-105
  • Review of Fernando Vallejo: El cuervo blanco Revista de Estudios Colombianos Hoyos, H. 2013; 41-42: 75
  • Catholicism Encyclopedia of Iberian Postcolonialities: A Metahistory of the Practices of Material Power Hoyos, H. edited by Moreiras, A., Villacanas, J. L. Oxford: Blackwell. 2013
  • Visión desafectada y resingularización del evento violento en Los ejércitos El lenguaje de las emociones: afecto y cultura en América Latina Hoyos, H. edited by Moraña, M., Prado, I. S. Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert. 2012: 283–295
  • Mario Bellatin World Literature in Spanish: an Encyclopedia Hoyos, H. edited by Ihrie, M., Oropesa, S. Westport, CT: Greenwood. 2011: 93–94
  • Colombian Exile Writers World Literature in Spanish: an Encyclopedia Hoyos, H. edited by Ihrie, M., Oropesa, S. 2011: 215–217
  • Roberto Bolaño World Literature in Spanish: an Encyclopedia Hoyos, H. edited by Ihrie, M., Oropesa, S. Westport, CT: Greenwood. 2011: 114
  • César Aira World Literature in Spanish: an Encyclopedia Hoyos, H. edited by Ihrie, M., Oropesa, S. Westport, CT: Greenwood. 2011: 17–18
  • Cy-Borges: Memories of the Posthuman in the Work of Jorge Luis Borges (Book Review) COMPARATIVE LITERATURE STUDIES Book Review Authored by: Hoyos, H. 2011; 48 (4): 593-596

    View details for Web of Science ID 000298827000011

  • La poesía de los objetos y la trayectoria: una lectura comparada y política de Doce cuentos peregrinos Ensayos críticos sobre cuento colombiano, siglo XX Hoyos, H. edited by Caicedo, C., Ortega, O., Osorio, O. Ediciones Uniandes. 2011: 231–248
  • Movilidad social, arribismo y esnobismo en los cuentos de Tomás González y Luis Fayad Ensayos críticos sobre cuento colombiano, siglo XX Hoyos, H. edited by Caicedo, A., Ortega, M. L., Osorio, B. Ediciones Uniandes. 2011: 455–463
  • León de Greiff World Literature in Spanish: an Encyclopedia Hoyos, H. edited by Ihrie, M., Oropesa, S. Westport, CT: Greenwood. 2011: 465
  • Eduardo Caballero Calderón World Literature in Spanish: an Encyclopedia Hoyos, H. edited by Ihrie, M., Oropesa, S. Westport, CT: Greenwood. 2011: 135
  • Fernando Vallejo World Literature in Spanish: an Encyclopedia Hoyos, H. edited by Ihrie, M., Oropesa, S. Westport, CT: Greenwood. 2011: 1135
  • "WAY TO GO LITERATURE": LITERARY HISTORY AND FORGOTTEN POLICIES IN BY NIGHT IN CHILE AND SOLDIERS OF SALAMIS REVISTA IBEROAMERICANA Briceno, X., Hoyos, H. 2010; 76 (232): 601-620

    View details for Web of Science ID 000208585800003

  • Así se hace literatura: historia literaria y políticas del olvido en Nocturno de Chile y Soldados de Salamina Revista iberoamericana Hoyos, H., Briceño, X. 2010; 76 (232-233): 601-620
  • La racionalidad herética de Fernando Vallejo y el derecho a la felicidad Revista de Estudios Sociales Hoyos, H. 2010; 35: 113-122
  • Sobre la pureza del arte de la lógica, tratado breve/De puritatis artis logicae - Tractatus brevior Walter, B., Translated by Hoyos, H. 2009
  • The detective turned Snoop: Costumbrista Detective Fiction in Colombia LINGUISTICA Y LITERATURA Hoyos, H. 2009: 52-71

    View details for Web of Science ID 000216034000004

  • Del detective al fisgón: el policial costumbrista en Colombia Lingüística y literatura Hoyos, H. 2009; 55: 52-71
  • Kafka como excusa: apuntes para una lectura latinoamericana El Proceso Kafka, F., Hoyos, H. 2008: 43–56
  • Las vacaciones y el incendio Bogotá por Bogotá Hoyos, H. edited by Vargas, C. 2008: 82–89
  • Cuaderno de lectura Cuentos de la calle. Antología del cuento colombiano contemporáneo Hoyos, H., et al edited by Soler, F., et al 2007: 25–36
  • García Márquez’s Sublime Violence and the Eclipse of Colombian Literature Colombia: tiempos de imaginación y desafío Hoyos, H. edited by Zuluaga, J. E. 2007: 112–128
  • La literatura colombiana, un fraude a la nación Revuelta Hoyos, H. 2006; 2: 26 - 29
  • La Paga Los Noveles Hoyos, H. 2006
  • El lector de Oprah Piedepágina Hoyos, H. 2006; 9: 46-49
  • La Paga Cuentos en Bogota Hoyos, H. 2005: 15–25
  • Entrevista con Jorge Volpi Piedepágina Hoyos, H. 2005; 5: 30 - 33
  • Memoria falsa de Bogota extranjera Conversaciones con Bogota: 1945-2005 Hoyos, H. 2005: 250–255
  • La comuna de París, una declaración política sobre la política Metapolítica Alain, B., Translated by Hoyos, H. 2004; 36: 62-73
  • Bogotá en su narrativa: la fragmentación como lugar literario Hoyos, H. 2003
  • Observaciones para una poética de la literatura urbana bogotana Revista de Estudios Sociales Hoyos, H. 2002; 11: 66 - 72
  • La crítica de Wittgenstein a la noción de tiempo de Agustín de Hipona Hoyos, H. 2002
  • Observaciones para una poética de la literatura urbana bogotana Revista de Estudios Sociales Hoyos, H. 2002: 66 - 72
  • Fragmentos sobre filosofía del lenguaje Cantebury, A., Translated by Hoyos, H. 2001
  • Grice and Wittgenstein on Context-Dependence The Dualist Hoyos, H. 2000; 7 (1): 21-38
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