Stanford Humanities Center
Professor Álvaro Contreras received a PhD from University de Vàlencia (Spain), and was professor of Ibero-American Literature at Universidad de Los Andes (Mérida, Venezuela) until 2018. Dr. Contreras has written widely on 19th and 20th century political and intellectual history, Latin American literature, modernism, and avant-gardism, and across a broad corpus of Latin American literary and cultural forms. He is the author of many books, including Narrativa vanguardista latinoamericana (Latin American Avant-Garde Narrative, 2007); Estilos de mirar: Ensayo sobre el archivo criollista venezolano (Styles of Looking: Essay on the Venezuelan Creole Archive, 2012), and El poeta y la revolución: César Vallejo en el país de Stalin (The Poet and the Revolution: César Vallejo in Stalin’s Country, 2020). He is the co-author with Julio Ramos of Farmacopea literaria latinoamericana (Latin American Literary Pharmacopoeia, 2023).
Professor Contreras will teach courses in the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford, with support from the Stanford Humanities Center and the Center for Latin American Studies.
SHC Project
Genealogías de la narrativa policial en América Latina (Genealogies of Police Narratives in Latin America)
His current book in progress, Genealogías de la narrativa policial en América Latina (Genealogies of Police Narratives in Latin America) examines the relationship between literature, sovereignty, and state violence. Genealogías de la narrativa policial en América Latina (Genealogies of Police Narratives in Latin America)
