Spanish
Associate Professor
Coordinator and Advisor
Professor José Gomariz has published widely on Cuban literary and cultural studies, especially on José Martí and on the African Diaspora.
He has recently edited a special issue on diaspora, race and cultural identity in Cuba and the Caribbean for the Spanish academic journal América Sin Nombre. Slavery, race, and transculturation in Cuba are the main issues of his current book in-progress on the African Diaspora. Prof. Gomariz has been invited to present his research at universities in the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean. He has had faculty visiting positions at the Department of Literary Studies of the University of Havana, and as Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Professor Gomariz directs doctoral dissertations on Hispanic, Caribbean, and Transatlantic Studies.
Research Interest
Caribbean Literary and Cultural Studies
José Martí
Modernism
The Atlantic World
The African Diaspora in the Americas
Courses Taught
Modernismo(s) (SPW5195)
The African Diaspora in Cuba and the Caribbean (SPW6934)
Diáspora, Transculturación, Antillanidad en Cuba y el Caribe (SPW 6934)
The Spanish American Essay on Identity, Race, and Colonialism (SPW5365)
José Martí: Democracy, Society, and Culture in the Americas (SPW6934)
Publications
Cuba y el Caribe: Diáspora Raza e Identidad Cultural.
Colonialismo e Independencia Cultural.
Selected Publications
- Cuba y el Caribe: diáspora, raza e identidad cultural. Coordinator. Universidad de Alicante, Spain.América Sin Nombre 19 (2014). Review Giuseppe Bellini (Milano). Review Candelaria Barbeira (Mar del Plata).
- "Esclavitud, blanqueamiento y modernidad periférica en Cuba: Gaspar Betancourt Cisneros El Lugareño.” América Sin Nombre 19 (2014): 73-81.
- Colonialismo e independencia cultural. La narración del artista e intelectual hispanoamericano del siglo XIX. Madrid: Verbum, 2005. Review María Salgado (Chapel Hill).
- “Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y la intelectualidad reformista cubana: Raza, blanqueamiento e identidad cultural en Sab.” Caribbean Studies 37.1 (2009): 97-118. redalyc.uaemex.mx/redalyc/pdf/392/39213080004.pdf
- “República e identidad: Estados Unidos en las Escenas norteamericanas de José Martí.” Darío a diario.Rubén y el Modernismo en las dos orillas. Ed. Angel Esteban. Granada, Spain: Universidad de Granada, 2007. 471-87.
- “Francisco de Arango y Parreño: El discurso esclavista de la ilustración cubana.” Cuban Studies 35 (2004): 45-61.
- “José Martí” Modern Spanish American Poets. 290 Dictionary of Literary Biography. Ed. María A. Salgado. Detroit, MI: Gale Group, 2004. 196-209.
- “El reino de este mundo de Alejo Carpentier y las representaciones del esclavo en las letras cubanas del siglo XIX.” Nuevas lecturas de Alejo Carpentier. Ed. Alexis Márquez Rodríguez. Caracas: Universidad Central de Venezuela, 2004. 95-102.
- “José Martí en las entrañas de la modernidad.” Casa de las Américas. 231 (2003): 85-94.