C. A. S.
CARMEN A. SERRANO
Associate Professor of Spanish
Languages, Literatures & Cultures
Latin American, Caribbean & U.S. Latino Studies
University at Albany, SUNY
PHD, University of California, Irvine
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
How artists imagine monsters, the dead and the undead, and other transgressive bodies are themes threaded throughout my research and highlighted in The Gothic Imagination in Latin American Literature and Film (2019).
Specters are the focus of my next book project. Drawing from my article, “Ghosting Indigenous Cultures: Yaquis’ Near Absence in Literature of the Mexican Revolution” (2019), my next book analyzes how the Yaqui people—a native community residing principally near the Yaqui River in northern Mexico—have been converted into spectral entities in novels dealing with the Mexican Revolution produced in the first half of the twentieth century.
Publications
Book
Serrano, Carmen. Gothic Imagination in Latin American Fiction and Film. University of New Mexico Press (2019).
Reviews:
Fuentes, Yvette. Choice Connect 57, no. 2 (October 2019).
http://www.rclweb.net.libproxy.albany.edu/TitleDetail/DetailedView?hreciid=|62104137|66136010&mc=USA
Glikin, María. Chasqui 48, no. 2 (November 2019): 57-58.
http://chasquirll.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Chasqui-Reviews-Nov2019-Edited.pdfOrdiz, Inés. "Review of Carmen A. Serrano, Gothic Imagination in Latin American Fiction and Film, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2019." Brumal. Revista de investigación sobre lo Fantástico, no 8, (May 2020): 261-264. https://revistes.uab.cat/brumal/article/view/v8-n1-ordiz.
Risner, Jonathan. "Review of Gothic Imagination in Latin American Fiction and Film, by Carmen A. Serrano." Hispanófila 189 (2020): 163-165. doi:10.1353/hsf.2020.0022.
Articles and Book Chapters
“Ghosting Indigenous Cultures: Yaquis’ Near Absence in Literature of the Mexican Revolution.” Journal of the Southwest 61, no. 4 ( winter 2019). https://muse.jhu.edu/article/750303
“Dark Networks and Pathogens Undermining Democracies: Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s The Strain.”iMex. México Interdisciplinario / Interdisciplinary Mexico 8, no. 16 (August 2019). https://www.imex-revista.com/xvi-darknetworks-pathogens/
“Death and Metaphor in Cien años de soledad, La casa de los espíritusand Paula.” Latin American Literary Review 46, no. 91 (2019): 41-49. https://www.lalrp.net/articles/abstract/10.26824/lalr.63/
“Mapping the Zombie: Diego Velázquez Betancourt’s Newfangled Zombie in La noche que asolaron Tokio.” Romance Notes 58, no. 3 (December 2018): 461-472. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/717512
“Duplicitous Vampires Annihilating Tradition in Froylán Turcios’s El vampiro.” In Latin American Gothic, edited by Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno and Inés Ordiz, 71-83. New York: Routledge, 2018.
“Gallo-Gallina: Gender Performance and the Androgynous Imagination in Elena Poniatowska’s Hasta no verte Jesús mío.” In Performing Ethnicity, Performing Gender: Transcultural Perspectives, edited by Bettina Hoffman and Monika Mueller, 133-149. New York: Routledge, 2017. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/albanyedu-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4662738
“Revamping Dracula on the Mexican Silver Screen in Fernando Méndez’s El vampiro.” In Vampires and Zombies: Transcultural Migrations and Transnational Interpretations, edited by Dorothea Fischer-Hornung and Monika Mueller, 149-167. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2016. https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/cas_llc_scholar/28/
“El vampiro en el espejo: Elementos góticos en Yo el supremo.” Revista Iberoamericana 76, no. 232-233 (July 2010): 899-912. https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/cas_llc_scholar/28/
Book Reviews
Review of Decolonizing Indigeneity: New Approaches to Latin American Literature by Thomas Ward. Invited by Chasqui 49, no. 2 (November 2020): R42-R43.
Review of Yaqui Indigeneity by Ariel Zatarain Tumbaga. Invited by Chasqui 48.2 (November 2019). http://chasquirll.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Chasqui-Reviews-Nov2019-Edited2.pdf
Review of The Chicana Motherwork Anthology. Invited by Psychology of Women Quarterly (February 2020): 135-136. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361684319861359
UALBANY PODCASTS
The Student Success Stories podcasts began as a pilot program supported by the university StAR (Strategic Allocation of Resources) program. Students' stories encourage connections with other students and offer glimpses into the experiences of their peers. They expand their understanding of opportunities at UAlbany and of campus life. Current Spanish students worked with Professor Carmen Serrano on a grant to give voice to students about university life. Listen to inspiring LLC student success stories, challenges and advice.
In collaboration with Dr. Joanna Dreby (Sociology), Dr. Alejandra Bronfman (LACS), Dr. Ilka Kressner (LLC).
WORK EXPERIENCE
January 2020-Present
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, LANGUAGES, LITERATURES AND CULTURES
LATIN AMERICAN, CARIBBEAN & U.S. LATINO STUDIES
UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY, SUNY
2013-2019
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, LANGUAGES, LITERATURES AND CULTURES.
UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY, SUNY
2010-2013
VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, SPANISH
COLGATE UNIVERSITY
2008-2010
VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, SPANISH
BATES COLLEGE
EDUCATION
PHD, SPANISH
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE
MA, SPANISH
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE.
BA/BS SPANISH AND BUSINESS
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
