Books

• Montalvo: Civilizador de los Barbaros Ecuatorianos. Una Relectura de Las Catilinarias Quito, Ecuador: Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar/ Corporación Editora Nacional/ Abya-Yala Press. Serie Magíster, 2004. [Text]

Writing of combative purpose, Las Catilinarias groups a dozen political pasquines written against the military tyrannies of the second half of the 19th century in Ecuador. I argue that Las Catilinarias is much more than a book of virulent insults as its traditional reading states. Montalvo is personified here as the civilizer of the people, and identifies tyrannies with a state of social, cultural, and grammatical barbarism. The purpose of this study is to read Montalvo's book from its ambiguos understanding of ecuadorian peoples. Montalvo affirms to defend women, indians and poor and illiterate subjects from ignorance and political corruption while at the same time he supports an elitist project of national culture that rejects the very same subjects that he appears to be defending. I mantein that such ambiguity is what today's Ecuadorian national culture and politics have not yet overcome.

• Edited book. Lecturas y relecturas. Ensayos sobre autores ecuatorianos de J. Enrique Ojeda. Colección Ideas Liebres, Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana "Benjamin Carrion". Scheduled to be published in September-October 2009.

Published and Forthcoming Articles

• “El ensayo ecuatoriano contemporáneo bajo la mira. Un balance sobre quiénes son los ecuatorianos.” Panorámica de la cultura ecuatoriana contemporánea. (Ed. Rocío Durán Barba). Invited contributor. Quito: Allpamanda Press (Forthcoming 2009).

• “Las mujeres de Juan León Mera. Autoría, autoridad y autorización en la representación romántica de la mujer escritora.” Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana. Año XXXIV, No. 67. Lima-Hanover: Latinoamericana Editores, 1er. Semestre (2008): 189-198.

• “ El discurso romántico-masculino sobre la virtud femenina: ventrilocuismo travesti, censura literaria y violencia donjuanesca en Juan León Mera y Juan Montalvo ”. Kipus. Revista Andina de Letras, No. 25. Quito: Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (2008).

• “El ensayo y la crítica ecuatoriana contemporánea (1960-2000).” Historia de las Literaturas del Ecuador. Literatura de la República, Vol. 7. Invited contributor. Quito-Ecuador: Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar/ Corporación Editora Nacional (Forthcoming 2008).

• “Sor Juana en los Andes. Recepcion moralizante y patriarcal de la poetisa mexicana en la obra de Juan Leon Mera ”. Vínculo histórico e inter-cultural: Ecuador y México (1820-1970). Invited contributor. Quito: Museo de la Ciudad. (Forthcoming, September 2008)

• Entries: Alfonso Cuarón; Alfonso Arau; Alejandro González Iñiárritu; Fernando DeFuentes: Luisa Josefina Hernández; Angeles Mastretta; Maria Cristina Pacheco and Carlos Montemayor. Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, 2 nd Edition. Invited Contributor. USA: Thomson Gale, 2008.

• "Vasconcelos o la búsqueda de la Atlántida: exotismo, arqueología y utopía del mestizaje en La Raza Cósmica." Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana. Año XXX, Nº 60. 2do. Semestre. Lima-Hanover: Latinoamericana Editores. (2004): 329-345. [text]

• "El imaginario étnico de las tiranías en Las Catilinarias de Juan Montalvo." Procesos. Revista Ecuatoriana de Historia. Nº 17, II semestre. Quito: Universidad Andina/ Tehis/ Corporacion Editoria Nacional.(2001): 79-93. [text]

• "En torno a la crítica, la literatura, los estudios culturales y los medios masivos. Una entrevista con Françoise Perus." Revista Iberoamericana. LXVI, 193. Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. (October-December 2000): 879-887. [text]

• "El pensamiento" (Ecuadorian history of ideas from the 18th Century to 20th Century). Enciclopedia del Ecuador. Invited Contributor. Barcelona-Spain: MM Océano Editorial S.A. (2000): 635-660.

Submitted Articles

• “Paradoxes in the Inca Utopianism of José Carlos Mariátegui's Seven Interpretative Essays on Peruvian Reality.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (submitted for publication 2009).


Translations into Spanish

• Fred Evans. “La sociedad de todas las voces: Los zapatistas, Bajtín y los derechos humanos,” in Alteridad. Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Ecuador, No. 5, November 2008, 44-62

• Evans, Fred. “Voices of Chiapas: The Zapatistas, Bakhtin, and Human Rights,” Philosophy Today, 42, 2000, 196-210. (Supplement Text Volume Twenty-Five of Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, ed. Linda Martín Alcoff and Walter Brogan). "Voces de Chiapas: los Zapatistas, Bakhtin y los derechos humanos" ( Spanish trans. of published English version; ready for submission).

Book Reviews

• Micrograms by Jorge Carrera Andrade. Bilingual Edition of Steven Ford Brown and J. Enrique Ojeda (Quito: Corporación Cultural Orogenia, 2007). Invited Contributor. First Draft Reviews Online, Alabama Writers’ Forum, June, 2008. [Text]

• Gender, Indian, Nation. The Contradictions of Making Ecuador, 1830-1925 by Erin O'Connor (Tucson: University Arizona Press, 2007). Invited Contributor. The Colorado Review of Hispanic Studies (Forthcoming 2008)

• El pensamiento social de Juan Montalvo by Arturo Andrés Roig (Quito: Corporacion Editora Nacional). Procesos Revista Ecuatoriana de Historia, 8 (1995-1996): 178-180.

Research Grants and Comissioned Research Projects

• “Censoring Sister Juana. Expurgation and Sanctification of the Mexican Poet in the work of Juan León Mera.” Research project sponsored by Faculty Research Grant. Assumption College, Summer 2009.

• "Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz in the Andean Region. Romantic Reception of the Mexican Poet in the Literary Work of Juan Leon Mera." Research project comissioned by the Museum of the City of Quito.: April-July, 2008.

• “El discurso romántico-masculino sobre la mujer: Parodia, censura y violencia de genero en Juan León Mera y Juan Montalvo.” Research Scholarship Grant from Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar. Quito-Ecuador. July-September, 2007.

• "The Ecuadorian Contemporary Essay and Literary Criticism 1960-2000." Research project comissioned by Corporacion Editora Nacional, Ecuador. Summer 2007.

• “Painting Racial Utopias: Muralism, Nation and Identity in Revolutionary Mexico.” Faculty Research Grant. Assumption College , Summer 2005.

• "Looking for the Remains of America: Exoticism, Utopia and Latin American Identity in the 20 th Century." Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship for the academic year 2001-2002. Faculty of Arts and Sciences. University of Pittsburgh.

• “Negritude and Indigenismo in Alejo Carpentier and José María Arguedas.” Graduate Student Research Grant (William and Flora Hewlett Foundation). University of Pittsburgh, Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS). Summer 2000.

• “Montalvo: civilizador de los bárbaros ecuatorianos.” Graduate Research Fellowship. Latin American Literature Program, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar. Academic year 1996-1997. Quito-Ecuador.

Submitted Research Proposals

• “De Atahualpa a Cuauhtémoc. El nacionalismo cultural de José Vasconcelos y Manuel Benjamín Carrión.” [From Atahualpa to Cuauhtémoc. The Cultural Nationalism of José Vasconcelos and Manuel Benjamín Carrión]. Research project submitted for consideration to the Museum of the City of Quito, Ecuador, 2010.

Other Research Projects in Progress

• Las marimachas. Subjetividad femenina y orden patriarcal en el romanticismo ecuatoriano 1860-1900 . It will be ready for publication by December 2010.

• Utopía y emancipación en América Latina. De la independencia a las revoluciones modernas. Book in progress.

• “Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz bajo censura. Expurgación y santificación de la poetisa mexicana en su primera edición moderna latinoamericana.” In progress.