Consuelo Hernández

Associate Professor of Latin American Studies
PhD, New York University
MA Universidad Simón Bolívar (Caracas Venezuela)
BA Universidad de Antioquia (Medellín, Colombia)

Asbury 338
202-885-2345
chdez@american.edu

Professor Consuelo Hernández teaches courses on XXe Latin American Literature, poetry, Central América, Colombia and Afro-Latin America. She has around 50 publications in prestigious journals. Professor Hernández has published works such as Álvaro Mutis: Una estética del deterioro and has articles featured in professional journals such as: Revista Iberoamericana, MACLAS. Latin American Essays, and Revista de Lingüística y Literatura.

As a poet, Professor Hernández has published four collections of poems: Voces de la soledad, Solo de violin: Poemario para músicos y pintores , Manual de peregrine, and a bilingual collection: Poemas de escombros y ceniza / Poems from Debris and Ashes. Her poetry has been included in numerous anthologies in Latin America, Spain, Canada and the United States. She has received distinctions from the International Poetry Contest of “Ciudad Melilla" in Spain and at the “Letras de Oro” Contest at the University of Miami. She has read her poetry in many countries including at the International Poetry Festival in Medellín, the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, the Pablo Neruda Foundation in Chile, and the Institute of Iberoamerican Cooperation in Spain.

Research Interests

Professor Hernández specializes in Latin American poetry and her other research interests include Colombian and Central American studies, Afro-Latin American culture and music. She travels regularly to Latin America and is therefore deeply involved with the region.

Publications

Prof. Hernández is the author of five books and around fifty publications in journals. Some of them are:

Álvaro Mutis: Una estética del deterioro Caracas: Monte Ávila Editores,  1996. [Prólogo by Alvaro Mutis]
"Del poema narrativo a la novela poética." Tradición y actualidad de la literatura iberoamericana. P. Bacarisse. Editor. Actas del XXX Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. Tomo I.  University of Pittsburgh. 101-115.

 “Nicolás Guillén y su legado” MACLAS. Latin American Essays. Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies. Volume XVII. Virginia Commonwealth University. 2004. 50-63.

 “El Antiorientalismo en Pablo Neruda.” Revista de Lingüística y Literatura. No. 39. Departamento de Lingüística y Literatura. Universidad de Antioquia. Medellín, Colombia. Also included in Sophia. Austral. Universidad de Magallanes. No. 10. Chile.

 “La casa de las dos palmas de Manuel Vallejo: Documento de una época, una región y su cultura” Conference Proceedings. Latin American Studies Association. XXV International Congress.  Las Vegas: LASA 2004. 

"Las historias prohibidas: Una aritmética del dolor vivísimo." Los otros Roques. La poética múltiple de Roque Dalton. Ed. Rafael Lara-Martínez and Dennis Seager. New Orleans: University Press of the South, 1999. 33-53.

"Tulio Mora, archivista de América." Neoindigenismo in the Andean Countries. Edited by Silvia Nagy. Catholic University, Quito: Abya Yala. 33-61.

"Voces femeninas contemporáneas. Poesía y poéticas de Honduras." Istmo literatura. Estudios sobre la Literatura Centroamericana. Edited by Jorge Román Lagunas. Colección Centro Internacional de Literatura Centroamericana. Volumen 4. Guatemala: Improfset, 117-131.

Poetry Collections

Poems from Debris and Ashes / Poemas de escombros y cenizas. Philadelphia: Xlibris, 2006. 104 pages. [“Tumbling Rivers.”  Introduction by Herbert Tico Brown, Distinguished Professor of University of Virginia.]

Voces de la soledad. Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press, 2004.

Solo de violín. Poemario para músicos y pintores.  Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press, 2004. Also published in Virginia: Los signos del Tiempo Editores. 1997. [Introducción by Tulio Mora] 

Manual de peregrina.  Alexandra, VA: Alexander Street Press, 2004. Also published in Chile: Pentagrama editores, 2003. [Introducción by Ariel Fernández].

Awards

Some of the distinctions Professor Hernández has received include:  the Celia Siegel Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Award for Excellence in Teaching  Humanities both at New York University. The Mentor Appreciation Certificate at Arizona State University. She is the recipient of grants and fellowships from American University, National Endowment of Humanities, New York University, Universidad de Barcelona (Spain), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and the Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana (Spain).

As a poet Professor Hernández has received distinctions such as: Finalist at the International poetry contest of "Ciudad Melilla" in Spain and at the International Contest “Letras de Oro” de la Universidad de Miami. Professor Hernández has read her poetry at numerous places among them: The Festival Internacional de Poesía en Medellín, the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, the Haskell Center of Folger Shakespeare Library, La Fundación Pablo Neruda en Chile, Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana en España, among many other places.  Her poetry has been included in numerous anthologies in Latin America, Spain, Canada and United States.

Courses Professor Hernández Teaches

SPAN 705 Graduate Seminar: Reconstructing Central America.
SPAN 559 Colloquium: Colombia Past and Present.
SPAN 559 Colloquium Afro-Latin American Culture and Music
SPAN 559 Latin American Poetry
SPAN 559 Indigenismo in Andean Countries
SPAN 357 Introduction to Latin American Literature