Julia Calderón
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Bradley Hall 311
(309) 677-2464
jcalderon@bradley.edu
Ph.D., Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Los Angeles
M.A., Advanced Hispanic Studies, University of Seville
B.A., Spanish, University of Seville
Professional Experience
“Asesina del género: la ficción antipolicial de la salvadoreña Claudia Hernández.” Istmo.Revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos 41, 2021: 49-69.
“Memory for Sale: Neoliberalism and Crime in Post-Dictatorial Chile in El corazón delsilencio by Tatiana Lobo.” Clues. A Journal of Detection 38.1, April 2020: 48-59.
“«El amor es cosa seria»: la novela centroamericana decimonónica como arma deadoctrinamiento sentimental.” Cuadernos de Aleph 10, June 2018: 49-59.
“The Irrelevant Mystery, the Involuntary Detective, the Melting Clue: Notes on La pista dehielo, a Neopolicial by Roberto Bolaño.” Alea: Estudos Neolatinos 20.1, January-April 2018:125-141.
“Matar al padre: psicoanálisis y simbolismo en algunas narraciones de Cristina Peri Rossi.” Erotismo, transgresión y exilio: las voces de Cristina Peri Rossi. Ed. Jesus Gomez-de-Tejada. University of Seville Press, 2017: 173-190.
Teaching
Dr. Calderón has taught a wide variety of classes across the undergraduate course of study in Spanish, from literature and culture to all levels of Spanish language, both for traditional and heritage learners, including online asynchronous courses.
Scholarship
Dr. Calderón is currently working on a book-length project that examines the ways in which Central American and U.S.-Central American authors contest neoliberal policy in crime fiction produced between 1988 and 2022. She is also interested in matters of gender and sexuality, memory and trauma, political violence, and diaspora.