About

(updated August 2023) Rudyard Alcocer is the Forrest and Patsy Shumway Chair of Excellence in Romance Languages and Professor of Latin American literature and culture in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He earned his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Iowa. His most recent book, Interpretaciones: Experimental Criticism and the Metrics of Latin American Literature, explores reader reactions to innovative literary exercises (UNC Press/NCSRLL February 2023; please use link below). He is the author (lead editor) of Celluloid Chains: Slavery in the Americas through Film (University of Tennessee Press 2018), Time Travel in the Latin American & Caribbean Imagination: Re-reading History (Palgrave Macmillan 2011), Narrative Mutations: Discourses of Heredity and Caribbean Literature (Routledge 2005), and several essays on Latin American and Caribbean literature and culture (most recently in The South Atlantic Review, Studies in American Culture, and Contemporary French & Francophone Studies. His current book-length project explores the concept of soledad/solitude in Latin American intellectual culture. Dr. Alcocer teaches courses in Latin American literature and culture, with a focus on the Caribbean. Broadly stated, he is interested in comparative, transnational, and interdisciplinary approaches to literary and narrative studies. Please contact him at ralcocer@utk.edu

View Rudyard Alcocer’s newest book Interpretaciones here.