POSITION: Associate Professor

CONTACT INFORMATION:
356 O'Dowd Hall
(248) 370-2069
pobutsky@oakland.edu

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

-“ 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.