Raúl Marrero-Fente

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Awards
• Courses

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

• Ph.D.: Hispanic Literatures, University of Massachusetts, 1997 -
• M.A.: Hispanic Literatures, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1995 -
• J.D.: Law, University of Camaguey, Cuba, 1985 -

Specialties

• Colonial Latin America Literature and Culture
• Early Modern Hispanic Epic Poetry
• Latin American literature
• Early Modern Spanish literature
• Cuban literature
• Legal History
• Human Rights

Publications

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Publications

• Marrero-Fente, Raúl. De espada y verso heroico. Poesía épica hispánica del siglo XVI. Iberoamericana/ Vervuert, 2024.
• Marrero-Fente, Raúl. Obra nuevamente compuesta... de Bartolomé de Flores (1571), Primer poema hispano de los Estados Unidos. Instituto de Estudios Auriseculares/ Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española, 2021.
• Marrero-Fente, Raúl. Poesía épica colonial del siglo XVI. Historia, teoría y práctica. Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2017.
• Marrero-Fente, Raúl, María C. Albin, Megan Corbin. Gender and the Politics of Literature: Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda. Hispanic Issues On Line, 2017.
• Marrero-Fente, Raúl, Santa Arias. Coloniality, Religion and the Law in the Early Iberian World. Vanderbilt University Press, 2014.
• Marrero-Fente, Raúl. Trayectorias globales: estudios coloniales en el mundo hispánico. Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2013.
• Espejo de paciencia by Silvestre de Balboa. Catedra, Marrero-Fente, Raúl, 2010.
• Marrero-Fente, Raúl. Bodies, Texts, and Ghosts: Writing on Literature and Law in Colonial Latin America. University Press of America, 2010.
• Marrero-Fente, Raúl, Ana Forcinito, Kelly McDonough. Human Rights in Latin American and Iberian Cultures. Hispanic Issues On Line, 2009.
• Marrero-Fente, Raúl. Epic, Empire and Community in the Atlantic World: Silvestre de Balboa’s Espejo de paciencia. . Bucknell University Press, 2008.
• Marrero-Fente, Raúl. Poéticas de la restitución. Literatura y cultura en Hispanoamérica colonial. J. Cuesta, 2005.
• Marrero-Fente, Raúl. Perspectivas transatlánticas. Estudios coloniales hispanoamericanos. Verbum, 2004.
• Marrero-Fente, Raúl. Epica, imperio y comunidad en el Nuevo Mundo: Espejo de paciencia de Silvestre de Balboa. CEIAS, 2002.
• Marrero-Fente, Raúl. Playas del árbol: Una visión trasatlántica de las literaturas hispánica. Huerga & Fierro, 2002.
• Marrero-Fente, Raúl. La poética de la ley en las Capitulaciones de Santa Fe. Trotta, 2000.
• Marrero-Fente, Raúl. Al margen de la tradición: Relaciones entre la literatura colonial y peninsular de los siglos XV, XVI, y XVII. Fundamentos, 1999.

Awards

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Awards

• Elected Academic Numerary, Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española and Correspondent Member Real Academia Española (RAE), 2022
• Elected Correspondent Member, North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE), 2017
• Imagine Fund Faculty Award. Office of the Provost, University of Minnesota, 2019
• Newberry Renaissance Consortium Grant, 2014
• Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, and United States’ Universities , 2009
• Mc Knight Summer Fellowship, , 2008
• University of Minnesota Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, 2008
• Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, and United States’ Universities, , 2006
• Included in Who’s Who Among American Teachers, , 2004
• Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Columbia University, , 2003
• Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, and United States’ Universities, , 2003
• Charles H. Watts Memorial Fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library, , 2002
• Newberry Library Short Term Fellowship at the Newberry Library, , 1999

Courses

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Courses

• SPPT 8400: Imperialism and Colonialism in the Global Hispanic and Lusophone Worlds, 1400-1600
• SPAN 5526: Early Modernity and Colonialism in Spanish America, 1492-1800
• SPAN 3222: Discourses of Nation Building and Modernization in Latin America
• SPAN 3920/GLOS 3930: Global Spanish Imperialism in the 16th-century
• SPAN 3256/GLOS 3930: Human Rights in the Global Hispanic and Lusophone Worlds
• LAW 6815: Inter-American Human Rights System
• SPAN 5560/EMS 8500: Global Colonial Studies in the Hispanic World: Spanish Colonialism in Africa
• SPAN 3221 Interpreting Colonial Latin America: Empire and Early Modernity
• SPAN 5970: Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory in the Hispanic World: Spain and the Americas
• SPAN 5570 Félix Varela and the Foundation of the Cuban Nation
• SPAN 3920: Literature and Slavery in 19th-century Cuba
• SPAN 3920: Law & Literature in Latin America Independence