POSITION: Associate Professor
CONTACT INFORMATION:
356 O'Dowd Hall
(248) 370-2069
pobutsky@oakland.edu
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
- “Peddling Pablo: Escobar is Back. Cultural Renaissance of the Capo.” Hispania 2013 (in press).
- “Sex and the Two Cartagenas in Oscar Collazos’s Rencor.” The Woman in Latin American and Spanish Literature. Essays on Iconic Characters. Ed. Eva Paulino Bueno and María Claudia André. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, Inc., 2012. 146-161.
-“ Deleitar denunciando: La narco telenovela de Gustavo Bolívar ‘ Sin tetas no hay paraíso’ marca el pulso de la sociedad colombiana.” Espéculo 46 (November 2010-February 2011): on-line.
-“ María llena eres de gracia: Fairy Tale, Drug Culture, and the American Dream.” Hispanófila 160 (Septiembre 2010): 27-41.
-“ Romantizando al verdugo: Las novelas sicarescas Rosario Tijeras y La Virgen de los Sicarios.” Revista Iberoamericana 232-233 (July-December 2010): 567-582.
-“ Borderlands and the Crisis of Mexican Identity: Reading the Short Narratives of Eduardo Antonio Parra.” Revista Canadiense de los Estudios Hispánicos 33.3 (2009): 469-489.
-“ Pérez-Reverte’ s La reina del sur or Female Aggression in Narcocultura.” Hispanic Journal 30. 1-2 (2009): 273-284.
-“ The Thrill of the Kill: Pushing the Boundaries of Experience in the Prose of Eduardo Antonio Parra.” Ciberletras (July 2007): on-line.
-“ Cultural Alienation and Colonial Desire in “Alienación” by Julio Ramón Ribeyro.” Romance Notes 67.2 (2007): 153-163.
-“ Carnivalizing Communist Cuba: Sex and Excess in Zoé Valdés’ s Te di la vida entera.” Hispanic Journal 27 (2006): 134-147.
-“ Subversive Masquerades: Performing Gender and Age in Alina Diaconú’ s Cama de ángeles .” Confluencia 21.2 (2006): 11-23.
-“ ¡A festejar! Fiestas mórbidas en algunos cuentos de Silvina Ocampo.” Texto Crítico 8.16 (2005): 79-97.
-“ Towards the Latin American Action Heroine: The Case of Jorge Franco Ramos’ s Rosario Tijeras.” Studies in Latin American Popular Culture 24 (2005): 17-35.
- “Postmodern Cityscape: Living in ‘the Zone’ in Alina Diaconú’s Camade ángeles.” Chasqui 33.2 (2004): 3-16.
-“Argentine No-Man’s Land in Alina Diaconú’s Cama de ángeles.” Thirteenth Annual Conference of Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery. ed. Will Wright and Steven Kaplan. Pueblo: Colorado State University, 2003. 123-128.
-“ Modern Martyrs: The Crumbling Weltanschauung of Elena Garro’ s Inés.” Letras Femeninas 19. 1. (2003): 160-174.
-“ From the Bottom of My Pain: Living Dangerously in El aire tan dulce of Elvira Orphée.” Letras Femeninas 18.2 (2002): 137-157.
- “ Who Speaks in a Silent Movie?: Constructing Feminine Subjectivity in Elena Poniatowska's Tinísima.” Torre de Papel 12.1-2 (2002): 82-104.