Araceli Tinajero

Professor of Spanish

Main Affiliation

Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures

Building

North Academic Center

Office

6/336C

Phone

212-650-6390

Email

atinajero@ccny.cuny.edu

Araceli Tinajero

Profile

Araceli Tinajero was born and raised in Mexico City.  Before joining CUNY, she taught Japanese at the University of Wales in Great Britain and Spanish at Middlebury and Yale. She teaches at the Graduate Center and is the co-founder of the  at the Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies and the founder of The Mexican Collection / La Colecci贸n Mexicana/ at CCNY Libraries. Tinajero is the Book Review Editor of the journal Asia/Am茅rica Latina .  Araceli is the author of Orientalismo en el modernismo hispanoamericano; El lector de tabaquer铆a (Eng. El Lector: A History of the Cigar Factory Reader);  Kokoro, una mexicana en Jap贸n (Eng. Kokoro: A Mexican Woman in Japan); and Historia cultural de los hipanohablantes en Jap贸n (Eng. A Cultural History of Spanish Speakers in Japan). Tinajero is the editor of Cultura y letras cubanas en el siglo XXI;  Exilio y cosmopolitismo en el arte y la literatura hisp谩nica, and Orientalisms of the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian World. She has co-edited two volumes: Technology and Culture in Twentieth Century M茅xico [with J. Brian Freeman] and Handbook on Cuban History, Literature, and the Arts: New Perspectives on Historical and Contemporary Social Change [with Mauricio Font].

 

 

Education

Ph.D., Rutgers University.

Courses Taught

GRADUATE COURSES:

 

- Orientalisms of the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian World

- Race and Ethnicity in Latin American Literature
- Latin American Society & Literature
- Literature and Exile

- Caribbean Literature

- Introduction to Methods of Research
- Contemporary Spanish Drama
- Romanticism in Spanish-American Literature
- Spanish-American Theater
- Modernism in Spanish-American Poetry

- Spanish American Literature of the 19th Century

 

UNDEGRADUATE COURSES:

 

- Contemporary Latin American Poetry and Theater

- Gender issues in Hispanic Letters

- Spanish for the Medical Professions

- Spanish in the Business World

- Gender and Sexuality in the Hispanic World

- Orientalism in Hispanic Literatures

- Latino Culture and Literature in the USA

- Literature of Protest
- Topics in Spanish American Civilization I
- Topics in Spanish American Civilization II 
- Independent Study

- Spanish Literature of the 18th and 19th Centuries
- Orientalism in Spanish American Modernism

- Spanish American Essay
- Spanish American Colonial Literature
- Studies in Spanish American Literature
- Practice in Writing Spanish
- Problems of Spanish Grammar

- Spanish for the Health Professions

- Conversational Spanish

- Spanish for Heritage Speakers and Listeners II
- Spanish for Heritage Speakers and Listeners I
- Intermediate Spanish
- Introductory Spanish I & II

 

Publications

PUBLICATIONS 鈥 BOOKS

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  • Kokoro: A Mexican Woman in Japan. Trans. Daniel Shapiro. Escribana, 2017. (Spanish version: Kokoro, una mexicana en Jap贸n. Verbum, 2012.)

 

  • Handbook on Cuban History, Literature, and the Arts: New Perspectives on Historical and Contemporary Social Change. Paradigm Press, 2014. Co-editor, with Mauricio Font.

 

  • Orientalisms of the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian World. Escribana Books, 2014. Editor.

 

  • Technology and Culture in Twentieth Century Mexico. The University of Alabama Press, (August 2013). Co-editor, with J. Brian Freeman.

 

  • Exilio y cosmopolitismo en el arte y la literatura hisp谩nica. Verbum, 2013. Editor.

 

  • Cultura y letras cubanas en el siglo XXI. Iberoamericana, 2010. Editor.

 

  • El lector: A History of the Cigar Factory Reader.  Trans. Judith E. Grasberg

University of Texas Press, 2010. (Spanish version: El lector de tabaquer铆a: Historia de una tradici贸n cubana. Verbum, 2007. Honorable Mention 鈥 Casa de las Am茅ricas Prize, 2006).

 

  • Orientalismo en el modernismo hispanoamericano. Purdue University Press, 2004.

                            

BOOK IN PROGRESS

 

  • Asia en el Caribe / El Caribe en Asia. (100 pages completed); expected completion: fall 2024.

 

 

BOOK CHAPTERS AND ARTICLES

 

"Mart铆鈥檚 Letters to the Tobacco Workers in Tampa and Key West" in Jos茅 Mart铆 in Context, edited by Laura Lomas and Lourdes Ocampo Andino. Cambridge University Press (2024) 鈥 Under contract.

 

&苍产蝉辫;鈥溌縌u茅 leen y escriben los hispanohablantes en Jap贸n? Letras Libres, May 1st, 2022

 

&苍产蝉辫;鈥El artista Freddy Rodr铆guez, el dolor humano y su creaci贸n destructiva en su Serie Tsunami鈥. Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, Vol. 9, Issue 7, 2021. On-line

 

鈥淐igar Factory Readers in Cuba鈥 <o> future <o>, Feb. 23, 2020. On-line

 

 

鈥淟as cartas de Jos茅 Mart铆 y los tabaqueros de Tampa y Cayo Hueso鈥. Ciberletras No. 40, July 2018. 76-86.

 

鈥淟a lectura et l鈥檜sage ou l鈥檃bus de la technologie鈥 in Olmos, Miguel A., ed. Traces et projections de la voix. Douze etudes. Presses Universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2015. 119-136.  Print.

 

鈥淔ashion in Twentieth-First-Century Havana鈥 in Handbook on Cuban History, Literature, and the Arts: New Perspectives on Historical and Contemporary Social Change. Paradigm Press, 2014. 223-229. Print.

 

鈥淥rtega el humanista鈥 in Idas y retornos de una aventura literaria. Homenaje a Julio Ortega. FCE/C谩tedra Alfonso Reyes, 2012.  pp. 93-101. Print.

 

鈥淩eyes y el cine y la radio鈥 in Reyes, Borges, G贸mez de la Serna. Rutas trasatl谩nticas en el Madrid de los a帽os veinte. Ed. Julio Ortega. Tecnol贸gico de Monterrey/Orfila, 2011. 97-113. Print.

 

鈥淐uba鈥 [Fashions of] Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion. Vol. 2, pp. 285-290.  Berg, 2010. Print.

 

鈥淟os ant铆podas de ida y vuelta.鈥 Studi Ispanici, Vol. XXXIII, 2008, pp. 205-215.Print.

 

鈥淗iroshigue. La pintura japonesa como fuente de inspiraci贸n modernista鈥漣n Diplomacia y orientalismo. Fuentes modernistas.Ed. Jorge Ruedas de la Serna. UNAM, 2007. Print.

 

鈥淭he Manila Galleon in Spanish American Poetry鈥 in Alternative Orientalisms in Latin America and Beyond. Ed. Ignacio L贸pez Calvo. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. Print.

 

鈥El Siglo, La Aurora y la lectura en voz alta en Cuba, 1865-1868.鈥 Revista Iberoamericana, Vol. LXXII, No.. 214, Jan-Mar, 2006, Pp. 171-183. Print.

 

 

"Far Eastern Influences in Latin American Fashions" in The Latin American Fashion Reader, Ed. Regina A. Root. Berg, 2005. Pp. 66-75. Print.

 

鈥溌agar por o铆r hablar, pagar por o铆r leer! El lector de tabaquer铆a desde sus or铆genes hasta Las hermanas Ag眉ero de Cristina Garc铆a鈥 in Cuba: Un siglo de literatura: 1902-2002. Eds. Anke Birkenmaier and Roberto Gonz谩lez Echevarr铆a. Colibr铆, 2004. Pp. 313-327. Print.

 

鈥淎sian Representations in Spanish American Modernism鈥 Review:  Literature and Arts of the Americas, Issue 72, Vol. 39, No. 1, 2006, Pp. 145-149. Print.

 

 

"Jos茅 Mart铆 y los chinos en Estados Unidos" in La Habana Elegante - Segunda 脡poca, No. 24. Spring, 2004. Web.

 

"Haiku in Twentieth Century Latin America" World Haiku Review, Vol. 3, November 2002. Web. 

 

 

鈥淰iajeros modernistas en Asia鈥 Ciberletras. Revista de Cr铆tica literaria y cultura. Vol. 4.  January, 2001. Web.

 

 

鈥淟a China Poblana. Multiculturalism in Costume.鈥 Yale Latin America Review. Vol. 2. Winter, 2000. Print.

 

 

BOOK REVIEWS

 

Oshima, Tana. De lo errante y aberrante. Tana Oshima: Conversaci贸n con Legna Rodr铆guez Iglesias. Rialta Ediciones, 2022. Asia/Am茅rica Latina,  vol. 7,  N潞 13, (2022), pp. 78-80.

 

Ota, Seiko. Jos茅 Juan Tablada: su haik煤 y su japonismo. FCE, 2015.  Asia/Am茅rica Latina Vol. 3, No. 5, June 2018, pp. 105-108.

 

Solares Mart铆n. The Black Minutes. Trans. Aura Estrada and John Pluecker. Black Cat/Grove Atlantic, 2010. Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas. Issue 82, Vol. 44, No. 1, 2011, 178-179.

 

Lopez-Calvo, Ignacio, ed. One World Periphery Reads the Other: Knowing

the 鈥極riental鈥 in the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula.Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. Revista de Estudios Hisp谩nicos. Vol. 46,

No. 2, (2012), 366-367.

 

鈥淓l modernismo y la conquista del lenguaje鈥 on  Alejandro Mej铆as-L贸pez鈥 The Inverted Conquest. The Myth of Modernity and the Transatlantic Onset of Modernism. Vanderbilt University Press, 2009. A Contracorriente: A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America, Vol. 8, No. 2, Winter 2011, 364-368.

 

Tom谩s Harris, Cipango. Translated by Daniel Shapiro. Lewisburg: Bucknell

University Press, 2010. A Contracorriente. Vol. 8, No. 1, Fall 2010

 

Sierra, Ver贸nica. Palabras hu茅rfanas. Los ni帽os y la Guerra Civil. Madrid: Santillana, 2009. 434 Pp. Ciberletras, July, 2010. Num. 23.

 

Nagy-Zekmi, Silvia, ed. Moros en la costa: Orientalismo en Latinoam茅rica. Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2008. 237 pp. Revista de Estudios Hisp谩nicos. Vol. 44, No. 3, (2010): 733-734

 

Ignacio L贸pez-Calvo. Imagining the Chinese in Cuban Literature and Culture. Gainesville, UP of Florida, 2008. 227 pp. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, 15:2, December 2009, 168-171.

 

Contreras, Gloria. What I Learned from Balanchine. Diary of a Choreographer. Jorge Pinto Inc., 2008. Trad. K. Mitchell Snow, Lucinda Guti茅rrez y Roberto Mata. Ed. Daniel Shapiro. Pp. 144.  Ciberletras, Vol. 22, December, 2009.

 

 

鈥淓l esclavo y sus amanuenses.鈥 Autobiograf铆a de un esclavo poeta y otros escritos. Edici贸n, introducci贸n y notas de William Luis. Iberoamericana, 2007.鈥滻n Ciberletras Vol. 18. December, 2007.

 

 

鈥淟a nueva edici贸n de En el pa铆s del sol de Jos茅 Juan Tablada.  Obras VIII 鈥 En el pa铆s del sol. Edici贸n cr铆tica, pr贸logo y notas de Jorge Ruedas de la Serna. UNAM, 2006. Pp. 294. Ciberletras. Revista de Cr铆tica literaria y cultura. Vol. 16. January, 2007.

 

TRANSLATION

 

鈥淗aiku by Tablada鈥 Review:  Literature and Arts of the Americas, Issue 72, Vol. 39, No. 1, 2006. Pp. 97-99.

 

BLURBS

 

Ignacio L贸pez-Calvo鈥檚 The Mexican Transpacific, 2022

 

Axel Gasquet and Gorica Majstorovic鈥檚 Cultural and Literary Dialogues Between Asia and Latin America, 2021.

 

Ignacio L贸pez-Calvo鈥檚 Dragons in the Land of the Condor: Writing Tus谩n in Peru, 2014.

 

Floyd Merrell鈥檚 The Afro-Brazilian Art of Coping, 2014.

 

Rebecca Riger Tsurumi鈥檚 The Closed Hand: Images of the Japanese in Modern Peruvian

Literature, 2012.