Alexander Torres

Alexander Torres holds a PhD in Latin American Literature. His first book, Bastardos de la modernidad: el Bildungsroman roquero en América Latina (2020), comprises a critique of the ontological impact of capitalist modernity from the perspective of the novel of formation, the baroque ethos, and the youth that sought to build a lifeworld with rock culture. In addition to specializing in the Bildungsroman and in popular culture, Torres’s research focuses on the contemporary literary production of different regions in Latin America, often with young and uneasy characters who are faced with a disenchanted and hostile world. He is currently interested in analyzing various formations of the sacred in contemporary literature as an alternative to the logic of capitalist ethics. He teaches at the University of South Florida (Tampa).