Carlos Villanueva Rodas

Spanish & Portuguese Studies

214 Folwell Hall

9 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Collegiate Affiliation

I am interested in 20th and 21st century Central American fictional and testimonial literature; family narratives; social and revolutionary movements in Central America; revolutionary internationalism; colonialism and decoloniality.

Currently working on my dissertation about memory and photography of the Somoza regime in Nicaragua.

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

Licenciatura: Antropología Social, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua, 2014
Master of Arts: Hispanic Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics, University of Minnesota, 2023

Specialties

Central American literature
Memory studies
Family narratives
Colonialism

Publications

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Activities

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Activities

Research

Research Assistantship. Project “Construcción de la memoria espacial histórica del contexto arquitectónico demolido posterior al terremoto de 1972 en la ciudad de Managua”. 2012
Research Group: Grupo de Estudio Memoria, Cultura, Ciudadanía. Dirigido por Dr. Ileana Rodríguez (Humanities Distinguished Professor, Emerita, Ohio State University), 2011.

Professional

Presenter: Course “Back to the Future? Authoritarianism, State Capture and Post-Conflict Consensus in Central America's Northern Triangle”. Presentation “Honduran social movements in the 20-21st C.: 1954, 2009, and 2022”. Freie Universität Berlin. July 7, 2024.
Presenter: "Álbum familiar de Claribel Alegría: fotografía, familia y revolución”. XIV Coloquio-Taller RedISCA, “Centro(inter)Américas. Desconexiones, entrelazamientos y nuevas miradas”. Universität Bielefeld. December 11-13, 2024.
Presenter: “La memoria de las hijas e hijos de internacionalistas en la Revolución Popular Sandinista”. Latin American Studies Association Congress “Reaction and resistance: Imagining Possible Futures in the Americas”. Bogotá, Colombia. June 12-15, 2024
Presenter: “Imaginando la violencia en el ocaso de la guerra colonial: una lectura de Nicaragua Betrayed de Anastasio Somoza Debayle". Calambur Conference, 9th annual Graduate Student Conference of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, University of Minnesota. October 7-8, 2022
Commentor: “II Seminario ‘Memoria, Cultura, Ciudadanía’”. Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua y Centroamérica. 7 al 9 de Septiembre, 2011. Managua.

Awards

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Awards

The Graduate Student Language Teaching Award 2023 - 2024, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, University of Minnesota
Summer Research Fellowship, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, University of Minnesota, 2022
Fellowship for “Seminario Literatura y Violencia en América Latina – Violencia y Traducción”, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Universität Wuppertal, 2018

Courses

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