Abraham Acosta

Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese

Modern Languages 546

Dr. Abraham Acosta is Associate Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. He came to the University of Arizona from the University of Michigan where he received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (2007). Prof. Acosta's areas of interest include contemporary Latin American narrative, critical hybridity, political narratology, subaltern studies, postcolonial theory, and critical theory. His book, Thresholds of Illiteracy: Theory, Latin America, and the Crisis of Resistance, is published by Fordham University Press.

Research Interests: Contemporary Latin American narrative, critical hybridity, political narratology, subaltern studies, postcolonial theory, and critical theory