Matthew Whitehouse Gordillo
Instructor of Spanish
Ph.D., Duke University, 2020
Phone: 225-578-5176
E-mail: mgordillo@lsu.edu
Office: 346 Hodges Hall
Education
Ph.D. Romance Studies, Duke University, 2020
Conference Presentations
“Indebtedness and the Domestic Dispositif in Diamela Eltit’s Los trabajadores de la muerte”. 52nd NeMLA Convention, Virtual Conference, March 2021
“El resplandor de Luzbella de Juan López Bauzá Experimentos alegóricos en islas de experimentación financiera”. Latin American Studies Association, Virtual Conference (Guadalajara, MX) May 2020
“El espectáculo del castigo y la cosificación de la mujer en El castigo sin venganza de Lope de Vega”. Segundo Encuentro Subgraduado de Investigación y Creación, San Juan, PR, April 2014
Honors and awards
Honorable Mention, Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Competition, 2019
John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute grant for the Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory, 2017
Premio Dra. Piri Fernández de Lewis for best comparative literature senior thesis, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. 2014
Top oral presentation. PESIC 2013, “Empty Stomach: The Role of Marriage in the Uroxicides of Othello.” 2013
Publications
Doctoral thesis
Whitehouse Gordillo, Matthew S. Fictional Timing: Neoliberalism and Time in the Contemporary Latin American Novel. Duke University, 2020