Esteban Loustaunau, Ph.D.
Professor of Spanish
Director of the SOPHIA Program
Director of the Center for Purpose and Vocation
Degrees Earned
Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 1998
M.A., The Ohio State University, 1994
B.A., Carleton College, 1992
Undergraduate Courses Taught
Spanish III
Spanish IV
Introduction to Literature: Spanish Language
Spanish Composition
Spanish American Drama
Rebellion and Reinvention in Mexico (WSM, CSL)
Introduction to Latin American Studies
Publications & Editorships
“Decolonizing Youth Culture: Guatemalan Hip Hop Dissidents in Cyberspace.” Online Activism in Latin America. Hilda Chacón, ed. New York: Routledge, 2018: 58-75.
Telling Migrant Stories: Latin American Diaspora in Documentary Film. Esteban E. Loustaunau and Lauren E. Shaw, eds. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2018.
“Imaginar la ecuatorianidad en tiempos de crisis: Cartas al Ecuador y la representación cultural de la migración contemporánea.” De Atahualpa a Cuauhtémoc: El nacionalismo cultural de Benjamín Carrión y José Vasconcelos. Michael Handelsman and Juan Carlos Grijalva, eds. Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana; Museo de la Ciudad, Quito, Ecuador, 2014. 147-176.
“De autor a compilador cómplice: Luis Humberto Crosthwaite, el mar y la supervivencia.” Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea 41.15 April-June (2009): 75-83.
“The Creation of Imaginative Reality in Juan García Ponce’s Pasado presente,” CR: The New Centennial Review 5. 3 Winter (2005): 83-104.
“Imaginarios interculturales en los límites de la integración latinoamericana,” Revista Iberoamericana LXX.207 (2004): 545-564.
“La espontaneidad como ilegalidad urbana.” Procesos urbanos y las ciudades latinoamericanas en el nuevo [des]orden mundial. Marc Zimmerman and Patricio Navia, eds. Mexico City: Editorial Siglo XXI, 2004. 375-385.
“Fuera de lugar: Desbordes locales en El llano en llamas de Juan Rulfo.” Cánones literarios masculinos y relecturas transculturales. Ileana Rodríguez, ed. Barcelona: Anthropos, 2001. 321-336.
Encyclopedia entries on Nicaraguan Popular Culture (co-authored with Ileana Rodríguez): “Alexis Argüello,” “Barricada,” “Violeta Barrios de Chamorro,” “Alan Bolt,” “Tomás Borge,” “Omar Cabezas,” “Pedro Joaquín Chamorro,” “Envío,” “Norma Helena Gadea,” “INCINE,” “Bianca Jagger,” “Dennis Martínez,” “Luis Enrique Mejía Godoy,” “Uriel Molina,” “nacatamal,” “Nicaragua, Nicaragüita,” “Nicarauac,” “Nixtayoleros,” “Editorial Nueva Nicaragua,” “Palacio Nacional,” “Palo de mayo,” and “Roger.” Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American Culture. Daniel Balderston, Ana López, and Mike González, eds. London: Routledge, 2000.
“Sergio Méndez Arceo (1907-1992).” Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society & Culture. Michael Warren, ed. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998. 791-792.
Presentations
Panel organizer and co-chair, Displaced Communities. Panel at the 42nd Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, New Brunswick, NJ. April 7-10, 2011.
“‘Siempre vamos a ser ecuatorianos:’ Testimonios of Displacement and the Limits of Integration,” at the 42nd Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, New Brunswick, NJ. April 7-10, 2011.
“La orfandad como resistencia post-comunitaria en La señora Rodríguez y Toda una vida de Martha Cerda,” at the XVI Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, El Paso, TX. March 3-5, 2011.
“Always Becoming: Immigrants Rethinking Place and Ethnicity Through Storytelling,” at the 41st Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Montreal, Canada. April 8-11, 2010.
“De autor a compilador cómplice: Luis Humberto Crosthwaite, el mar y la supervivencia,” at the XIV Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, El Paso, TX. March 5-7, 2009.
Grants and Awards
Nominated as Second Vice-President of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), elections forthcoming in fall 2015.
Sabbatical faculty leave, Spring 2015
Finalist, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Visiting Fellows Program, Harvard University, Winter 2014
Faculty Research Development Grant, Summers 2015 (forthcoming), 2014, 2011, 2009
Honors Summer Faculty/Student Fellowship, Summer 2013
SOPHIA New Course Development Grant, Summer 2013
Professional Affiliations
Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana
Latin American Studies Association
Modern Language Association
Northeast Modern Language Association
Professional Service
Member, SCOGE, 2013-present
Member, Latin American Studies Program Assessment Committee
Faculty Mentor, SOPHIA Program, 2013-2014
Co-writer, with Arlene Guerrero-Watanabe, Assessement Report, Dept. of Modern and Classical Languages and Cultures, Summer 2012
Member, Representative Faculty Senate, 2011-present
Member, Post-Graduate Scholarship Committee, 2009-present
Member, Curriculum Committee, 2009-2011
Member, Dept. of Modern & Classical Languages & Cultures Assessment Committee, 2010-present
Faculty adviser, First-Year Orientation, Summers 2010 and 2011
Teaching Faculty Member, Honors Program, Spring 2011
Teaching Faculty Member, Women Studies Program, 2009-present
Teaching Faculty Member, Community Service Learning Program, 2009-present
Teaching Faculty Member, Latin American Studies Program, 2008-present