Hector Hoyos
Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures and, by courtesy, of Comparative Literature
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
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Professor, Iberian and Latin American Cultures
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Professor (By courtesy), Comparative Literature
Honors & Awards
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Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2015-2016)
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Faculty Research Visit Grant, German Academic Exchange Service - Deutscher Akademischer Austanusch Dienst (DAAD) (2014)
Program Affiliations
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Center for Latin American Studies
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Modern Thought and Literature
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Philosophy and Literature
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Science, Technology and Society
Professional Education
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B.A., Universidad de los Andes, Literature (2001)
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B.A., Universidad de los Andes, Philosophy (2002)
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M.A., Cornell University, Romance Studies (2006)
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Ph.D., Cornell University, Romance Studies (2008)
2024-25 Courses
- Graduate Writing Seminar for Latin American Studies
LATINAM 397 (Win) - Materia
DLCL 221 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Modern Latin American Literature
ILAC 161 (Aut) - Seminar on Contemporary Issues in Latin American Studies
LATINAM 200 (Aut, Win, Spr) -
Independent Studies (11)
- Directed Individual Research
LATINAM 197 (Aut, Win, Spr) - GRADUATE ARCHIVAL DIRECTED READING
LATINAM 301 (Win, Spr) - Graduate Directed Reading
LATINAM 300 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Graduate Independent Study
MTL 398 (Win, Spr) - Honors Thesis Oral Presentation
DLCL 199 (Spr) - Honors Thesis Seminar
DLCL 189B (Win) - Honors Thesis Seminar
DLCL 189C (Spr) - Individual Work
ILAC 199 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Individual Work
ILAC 299 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Individual Work
ILAC 399 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Master¿s Thesis and Thesis Research
LATINAM 398 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Directed Individual Research
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Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- Asian-Latin Americans: Historical, Literary, and Cultural Migrations
ILAC 256, ILAC 356 (Win) - Introduction to Latin America: Cultural Perspectives
ILAC 131 (Win) - Law and (non-)Humanities in Latin America
ILAC 368 (Spr) - Materia
DLCL 221 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Mexican Modernisms
OSPGEN 35 (Sum) - Revisiting the Chilean Coup in Literature and Art: 1973-2023
OSPSANTG 54 (Aut) - Seminar on Contemporary Issues in Latin American Studies
LATINAM 200 (Win, Spr)
2022-23 Courses
- Borges and Philosophy
ILAC 240E (Aut) - Comics: More than Words
DLCL 238, ENGLISH 1C, FILMEDIA 38 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Contemporary Theory Lab
COMPLIT 367E, ENGLISH 367E, ILAC 367E (Spr) - Materia
DLCL 221 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Modern Latin American Literature
ILAC 161, ILAC 261 (Aut) - Senior Seminar: One Hundred Years of Solitude, A Bilingual Reading
ILAC 278A (Spr)
2021-22 Courses
- Concepts of Modernity I: Philosophical Foundations
COMPLIT 334A, ILAC 334A, MTL 334A (Aut) - Materia
DLCL 221 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Modern Latin American Literature
ILAC 161 (Aut) - Senior Seminar: 4 Boom Novels
ILAC 278A (Spr)
- Asian-Latin Americans: Historical, Literary, and Cultural Migrations
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Tania Flores, Sergio Martinez Rey, Laura Menendez Gorina, David Stentiford -
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Yurim Kim, Alberto Quintero -
Doctoral (Program)
Ethan Hill, Yurim Kim, David Lemus, Ellis Schriefer, Joe Wager
All Publications
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The War on Drugs between Exception and Legitimacy: Garcia Marquez's News of a Kidnapping
LAW & LITERATURE
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 Columbia University Press. 2015
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Theories of the Contemporary in South America Introduction
REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS HISPANICOS
2014; 48 (1): 97-103
View details for Web of Science ID 000333225300005
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Aftershock Naomi Klein and the Southern Cone
THIRD TEXT
2012; 26 (2): 217-228
View details for DOI 10.1080/09528822.2012.663969
View details for Web of Science ID 000302615100007
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The Lives of Garcia Marquez
REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS HISPANICOS
2011; 45 (2): 473-485
View details for Web of Science ID 000291835500012
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Fernando Vallejo's Heretic Reason and the Right to Happiness
REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS SOCIALES
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 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 2008; 1: 423-438
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Garcia Marquez's sublime violence and the eclipse of Colombian literature
14th Congress of the Asociacion-de-Colombianistas
ARIZONA STATE UNIV. 2006: 3–20
View details for Web of Science ID 000242516000001
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BOLAÑO'S OTHER GLOBAL SOUTH: AFRICA AND ASIA AS THEME AND READERSHIP
REVISTA CHILENA DE LITERATURA
2023: 315-330
View details for Web of Science ID 001304459000015
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BOLANO, ETERNAL YOUTH
REVISTA CHILENA DE LITERATURA
2023
View details for Web of Science ID 001304459000008
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The Matter of History: How Things Create the Past (Book Review)
AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
2022; 127 (3): 1419-1422
View details for DOI 10.1093/ahr/rhac242
View details for Web of Science ID 000894442100020
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World Literature: Twenty-First-Century Legacies
ROBERTO BOLANO IN CONTEXT
2022: 333-346
View details for Web of Science ID 001062946700030
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Review Essay: The State of a Field in Five Books
REVISTA HISPANICA MODERNA
2021; 74 (1): 103–15
View details for Web of Science ID 000625361300011
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Evelio Rosero and cycles of literary creation (Book Review)
REVISTA IBEROAMERICANA
2019; 85 (268): 1099–1101
View details for DOI 10.5195/reviberoamer.2019.7834
View details for Web of Science ID 000487198500030
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A Tale of Two Materialisms
NOVEL-A FORUM ON FICTION
2018; 51 (1): 101–16
View details for DOI 10.1215/00295132-4357445
View details for Web of Science ID 000441104800006
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History and Raw Material in Munecas
REVIEW-LITERATURE AND ARTS OF THE AMERICAS
2018; 51 (1): 14–20
View details for DOI 10.1080/08905762.2018.1485282
View details for Web of Science ID 000441666800004
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Global supply chain literature vs. extractivism
RE-MAPPING WORLD LITERATURE: WRITING, BOOK MARKETS AND EPISTEMOLOGIES BETWEEN LATIN AMERICA AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH
2018: 33–44
View details for DOI 10.1515/9783110549577-003
View details for Web of Science ID 000474197000003
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A greenhouse culture: tropics and civilization in Colombia (1808-1928) (Book Review)
HISPANIC REVIEW
2017; 85 (4): 489-492
View details for Web of Science ID 000414161600007
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Hemispheric Studies Tomorrow
AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY
2016; 28 (3): 605-612
View details for DOI 10.1093/alh/ajw032
View details for Web of Science ID 000384595200007
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Raw Material and History in Munecas
CUADERNOS DE LITERATURA
2016; 20 (40): 465-476
View details for DOI 10.11144/Javeriana.cl20-40.mphm
View details for Web of Science ID 000393434500029
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The material culture in Latin American literatures and cultures today
CUADERNOS DE LITERATURA
2016; 20 (40): 254-261
View details for DOI 10.11144/Javeriana.cl20-40.cmlc
View details for Web of Science ID 000393434500017
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Cruel Modernity (Book Review)
REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS HISPANICOS
2015; 49 (2): 389-391
View details for DOI 10.1353/rvs.2015.0032
View details for Web of Science ID 000356646700010
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Fernando Vallejo's Mauditisme as Melodramatic Spectacle
CUADERNOS DE LITERATURA
2015; 19 (37): 169-176
View details for DOI 10.11144/Javeriana.cl19-37.emdf
View details for Web of Science ID 000360494100012
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Counterfeit Politics: Secret Plots and Conspiracy Narratives in the Americas. (Book Review)
REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS HISPANICOS
2014; 48 (2): 403-406
View details for Web of Science ID 000337259800011
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Being in the present. Literature and nation since the Bicentennial (Book Review)
REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS HISPANICOS
2014; 48 (1): 224-226
View details for DOI 10.1353/rvs.2014.0003
View details for Web of Science ID 000333225300014
- Betty y la resistencia Sujetos múltiples: feminismo, indigenismo y colonialidad. Homenaje a Betty Osorio edited by Alzate, C., Solodkow, D. Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes. 2014
- Estar en el presente: literatura y nación desde el Bicentenario Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 2014; 48 (1): 224-225
- Hospitalidad e impatriación: figuras del exilio catalán en México Fractal 2014
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Orientalism, Globalisation and Trans-Pacific Imaginaries in Current Latin-American Novels
CUADERNOS DE LITERATURA
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 2013; 34: 82-105
- Review of Fernando Vallejo: El cuervo blanco Revista de Estudios Colombianos 2013; 41-42: 75
- Catholicism Encyclopedia of Iberian Postcolonialities: A Metahistory of the Practices of Material Power 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 edited by Moraña, M., Prado, I. S. Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert. 2012: 283–295
- Movilidad social, arribismo y esnobismo en los cuentos de Tomás González y Luis Fayad Ensayos críticos sobre cuento colombiano, siglo XX edited by Caicedo, A., Ortega, M. L., Osorio, B. Ediciones Uniandes. 2011: 455–463
- León de Greiff World Literature in Spanish: an Encyclopedia edited by Ihrie, M., Oropesa, S. Westport, CT: Greenwood. 2011: 465
- Colombian Exile Writers World Literature in Spanish: an Encyclopedia edited by Ihrie, M., Oropesa, S. 2011: 215–217
- Eduardo Caballero Calderón World Literature in Spanish: an Encyclopedia edited by Ihrie, M., Oropesa, S. Westport, CT: Greenwood. 2011: 135
- Roberto Bolaño World Literature in Spanish: an Encyclopedia edited by Ihrie, M., Oropesa, S. Westport, CT: Greenwood. 2011: 114
- César Aira World Literature in Spanish: an Encyclopedia edited by Ihrie, M., Oropesa, S. Westport, CT: Greenwood. 2011: 17–18
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Cy-Borges: Memories of the Posthuman in the Work of Jorge Luis Borges (Book Review)
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE STUDIES
2011; 48 (4): 593-596
View details for Web of Science ID 000298827000011
- Fernando Vallejo World Literature in Spanish: an Encyclopedia edited by Ihrie, M., Oropesa, S. Westport, CT: Greenwood. 2011: 1135
- Mario Bellatin World Literature in Spanish: an Encyclopedia edited by Ihrie, M., Oropesa, S. Westport, CT: Greenwood. 2011: 93–94
- La poesía de los objetos y la trayectoria: una lectura comparada y política de Doce cuentos peregrinos Ensayos críticos sobre cuento colombiano, siglo XX edited by Caicedo, C., Ortega, O., Osorio, O. Ediciones Uniandes. 2011: 231–248
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"WAY TO GO LITERATURE": LITERARY HISTORY AND FORGOTTEN POLICIES IN BY NIGHT IN CHILE AND SOLDIERS OF SALAMIS
REVISTA IBEROAMERICANA
2010; 76 (232): 601-620
View details for Web of Science ID 000208585800003
- La racionalidad herética de Fernando Vallejo y el derecho a la felicidad Revista de Estudios Sociales 2010; 35: 113-122
- Así se hace literatura: historia literaria y políticas del olvido en Nocturno de Chile y Soldados de Salamina Revista iberoamericana 2010; 76 (232-233): 601-620
- Del detective al fisgón: el policial costumbrista en Colombia Lingüística y literatura 2009; 55: 52-71
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The detective turned Snoop: Costumbrista Detective Fiction in Colombia
LINGUISTICA Y LITERATURA
2009: 52-71
View details for Web of Science ID 000216034000004
- Sobre la pureza del arte de la lógica, tratado breve/De puritatis artis logicae - Tractatus brevior 2009
- Las vacaciones y el incendio Bogotá por Bogotá edited by Vargas, C. 2008: 82–89
- Kafka como excusa: apuntes para una lectura latinoamericana El Proceso 2008: 43–56
- García Márquez’s Sublime Violence and the Eclipse of Colombian Literature Colombia: tiempos de imaginación y desafío edited by Zuluaga, J. E. 2007: 112–128
- Cuaderno de lectura Cuentos de la calle. Antología del cuento colombiano contemporáneo edited by Soler, F., et al 2007: 25–36
- La Paga Los Noveles 2006
- El lector de Oprah Piedepágina 2006; 9: 46-49
- La literatura colombiana, un fraude a la nación Revuelta 2006; 2: 26 - 29
- La Paga Cuentos en Bogota 2005: 15–25
- Entrevista con Jorge Volpi Piedepágina 2005; 5: 30 - 33
- Memoria falsa de Bogota extranjera Conversaciones con Bogota: 1945-2005 2005: 250–255
- La comuna de París, una declaración política sobre la política Metapolítica 2004; 36: 62-73
- Bogotá en su narrativa: la fragmentación como lugar literario 2003
- Observaciones para una poética de la literatura urbana bogotana Revista de Estudios Sociales 2002; 11: 66 - 72
- La crítica de Wittgenstein a la noción de tiempo de Agustín de Hipona 2002
- Observaciones para una poética de la literatura urbana bogotana Revista de Estudios Sociales 2002: 66 - 72
- Fragmentos sobre filosofía del lenguaje 2001
- Grice and Wittgenstein on Context-Dependence The Dualist 2000; 7 (1): 21-38