Rigoberto Guevara, Associate Professor (Ph.D. Arizona) completed his undergraduate studies and attained his Master Degree at George Mason University (Virginia). He earned his Ph.D. in Latin American Literature from the University of Arizona. His area of specialization is Latin American Modernist Poetry and also focuses on Latin American Poetry of Human Rights, Spanish Poetry, Latin American Culture and History, Applied Linguistics and Latin American Narrative. Among the seminar he teaches are Latin American poetry of human rights, Ruben Darío, and Modernism. His area of research includes Latin American Modernism, Latin American Poetry of Human Rights, and Latin American Civilization and Culture.
Committee Involvement at UNL:
- Representative (Senator) to Academic Senate
Books
- Guevara, Rigoberto. Homogeneidad dentro de la heterogeneidad modernista: un estudio temático del Modernismo poético latinoamericano. Maryland: Perter Lang, 2009.
- Guevara, J Rigoberto and Alberto Acereda. Modernism, Rubén Darío and the Poetics of Despair. Maryland: University of America Press, 2004.
Articles
- "Yo soy y mi poesía es… Confesiones de dos poetas modernistas". Magazine Modernistas. Revista Digital del Modernismo 16 (2011). May 2011.
- "Religiosidad y divinidad: ambivalencias modernistas". Journal of Hispanic Modernism 2 (2011). December, 2011.
- Guevara, Rigoberto. "El silencio que incita al combate; la voz que lo termina: Chaves en el aserradero y la exhibición de la masculinidad ahí presente." Con-textos 38 (2007):51-66.
- Guevara, Rigoberto. "Denuncia y reforma en la poesía de Franciso Gavidia." Crítica hispánica. 52 (2007): 151-63.
- Guevara, Rigoberto. A Profundidad interna como refugio de las penumbras vitales: Enrique González Martínez y los demás modernistas". Con-textos 32 (2004): 35-49.
- Guevara, Rigoberto. "La conciencia mortificadora de la existencia: estudio de algunos poemas de los modernistas Rubén Darío, Julián del Casal, José Asunción Silva y Amado Nervo." Hispanic Poetry Review IV -Vol. 2 (2004):62-79.
- Guevara, Rigoberto. "El círculo opresivo de la vestidura en Naufragios." Hispanic Culture Review VIII (2002): 83-93. (Solicited)
Articles Presented at Conferences
- "Patriotismo en la poética modernista." MACHL 2012 Conference. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska. October 12 to 14, 2012.
- "Discurso religioso de algunos poetas modernistas." Céfiro's XII Annual Conference. Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. Spring 2011.
- "Octavio Paz y el Modernismo." Quinto Congreso de Cultura Popular Mexicana. Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. March 29, 2001.
- "Manifestaciones de los derechos humanos en la poesía mexicana." Cuarto Congreso de Cultura Popular Mexicana. Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. April 7, 2000.
- "Manifestaciones de la masculinidad en un texto de Eduardo Mallea". Décimo Congreso de Literatura. University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. February 2000.
- "El humor del Cipote de Salarrué." Parody, Satire, Irony, Laughter, and the Grotesque: Humor in Latin American, Peninsular, Luso-Brazilian, and Chicano Literatures. Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. October 8, 1999.
- "La vestidura como ente opresivo en Naufragios de Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca". AZLA Conference. Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. September 17, 1999.
- "La poesía humanista-reformista de Francisco Gavidia". First International Conference of Central American Literature and Culture. Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. April 10, 1999.
Other Research Activities
- Chair of Panel "Latin American Poetry: Exile, Resistance and Imagery". MACHL 2012 Conference. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska. October 12 to 14, 2012.
- Chair of Panel "Espacios Nacionales/Nuevos espacios en la literature colombiana". MACHL 2012 Conference. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska. October 12 to 14, 2012.