Fernando Blanco

Fernando A. Blanco is associate professor in the Department of Spanish at Bucknell University. He specializes in 20th and 21st century Latin American literature, culture, visual art and film. His research examines narratives of memory in the Southern Cone and Central America. In the field of Sexuality Studies, he focuses on textual representation of sexual minorities and analyzes the struggle for sexual citizenship. Among his books are Desmemoria y perversión: Privatizar lo público, mediatizar lo íntimo, administrar lo privado (Cuarto Propio [2010], 2012); Reinas de otro cielo: Modernidad y autoritarismo en la obra de Pedro Lemebel (LOM 2004) and Desdén al infortunio: Sujeto, comunicación y público en la narrativa de Pedro Lemebel (Cuarto Propio 2010, co-edited with Juan Poblete); his last book published is Neoliberal Bonds. Undoing Memory in Chilean Art and Literature (The Ohio State University Pres, 2015). He is currently working on a third volume devoted to Lemebel's visual work.