Paul Fallon

Paul Fallon
Associate Professor
Hispanic Studies
252-328-4803 (phone)
252-328-6233 (fax)
fallonp@ecu.edu
Bate 3325 (office)
Dept. Foreign Languages & Literatures
East Carolina University Mailstop #556
Greenville, NC 27858-4353

Education

  • Advanced B.A. Philosophy, Occidental College, Los Angeles
  • M.A. Spanish, University of Kansas
  • Ph.D. Spanish, University of Kansas

Courses

  • HNRS 2011 Encountering the Americas in the New South (service learning course)
  • FORL 2661: Latin American Literature in Translation
  • FORL 2666 Latino Texts
  • SPAN 1001 Spanish Level 1
  • SPAN 1002 Spanish Level 2
  • SPAN 1003 (Now 2003) Spanish Level 3
  • SPAN 2441 (Now 3441) Latin-American Culture and Civilization
  • SPAN 3220 Advanced Oral Communication Through Multimedia
  • SPAN 3340 (Now 4140) Introduction to Translation
  • SPAN 3550 Introduction to Cultural Analysis
  • SPAN 4560 Major Latin-American Authors
  • SPAN 4563/6202 Latin American Texts: Boom and Beyond
  • SPAN 4700/5700 Seminar: Revolutionary Cultures in Mexico
  • SPAN 4700/5700 Seminar: Bordering on a New Millennium
  • SPAN 4700/5700 Seminar: Gender and Technology in Mexico and Beyond
  • SPAN 4700/5700 Seminar: Literature and Media in Latin America
  • SPAN 4700/5700 Seminar: Images of Youth in 20th C. Mexico

Areas of Interest

  • Literary and Cultural Studies of Greater Mexico
  • Latino/a American Literary and Cultural Studies
  • Border Studies, Electronic and Mass Media, and Critical Theory

Publications

Journal Articles

  • “La praxis de la teoría reciente sobre la frontera y negociaciones pendientes” (Forthcoming: Revista Iberoamericana 84.265 (2018))
  • “Processing (Post)humanism, Mediating Desire: Technology in the Works of Three Border Playwrights” Latin American Theatre Review 48.1 (2014): 57-76.
  • “Controlling (border) lines: Daniel Sada’s Registro de causantes and the demands for (border) narrative” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 87.5 (2010): 585-602.
  • “Time for (a Reading) Community?: The Border Literary Field in the 1980s and 1990s.” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 25.1 (2009): 47-70.
  • “Staging a Protest: Fictions, Experiences and the Narrator’s Shifting Position in Las aventuras de don Chipote o Cuando los pericos mamen.” Confluencia 23.1 (2007): 115-27.
  • “La luna siempre será un amor difícil: Bordering on Consuming (and) Nationalizing Narratives.” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 8 (2004): 41-58.
  • “Sobre a construcción do corpo político galego en Tic-Tac, de Suso de Toro.” Anuario de Estudios Literarios Galegos 1998: 141-57.

Book Chapters

  • “What’s real and what’s not? Negotiating Questions of (Doing It Your)Self, Community and Realism in Washington Heights” ( Ideology, Politics, and Demands in Spanish Language, Literature and Film, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012). 294-305.
  • “Negotiating (a border literary) community online en la línea” Latin American Cyberculture and Cyberliterature. Thea Pitman and Claire Taylor, eds. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2007. 161-74.

Book Reviews

  • Rev. of Our Lost Border: Essays on Life amid the Narco-violence, Eds. Sarah Cortez and Sergio Troncoso, Camino Real 9 (2014): 186-88.
  • Rev. of For Tranquility and Order. Family and Community on Mexico’s Northern Frontier, 1800-1850 by Laura M. Shelton. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 90.1 (2013): 113-14.
  • Rev. of Utopian Dreams, Apocalyptic Nightmares: Globalization in Recent Mexican and Chicano Narrative by Miguel López-Lozano. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 12 (2008): 289-90.
  • Rev. of José Revueltas: Una poética de la disidencia, by Javier Durán. Chasqui: Revista de literatura latinoamericana. 34.2 (2005): 159-61.
  • Rev. of Science, Technology, and Latin American Narrative in the Twentieth Century and Beyond, by Jerry Hoeg. Studies in Twentieth Century Literature (2001) 27.1: 199-201.

Translations

  • Crosthwaite, Luis Humberto. “Pieces from Lo que estará en mi corazón.” Puro Border: Dispatches, Snapshots, and Graffiti. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos P, 2002. 59-68.