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Ph.D., Texas Tech University, 2024

Phone: 225-578-8287

Email: mduarte@lsu.edu

Office: 349 Hodges Hall 

 

Afro-Latin American Studies Online Certificate, Harvard University (2023)  

M.F.A. in Creative Writing, University of Texas at El Paso (2017)  

B.A. in Law, Universidad Popular de Nicaragua (2001)  

 

My research begins post-World War II, analyzing capital accumulation patterns within agro-export models in Mexico, Central America, and Brazil. Studies in Mexican and Central American contexts often focus on narcoculture and post-war scenarios. However, my research argues that since the 1950s, Mexican, Central American, and Brazilian literary production has offered critical perspectives on modernity and its consequences on land and human life.

 

My research examines literature, cinema, and art with a focus that transcends traditional cultural studies by showing how the form of these works reveals significant meanings. For example, I analyze Cristina Rivera Garza's Autobiograf铆a del algod贸n and Hab铆a mucha neblina o humo o no s茅 qu茅, focusing on the interplay between concepts of modernity and the economic phenomenon known as the Mexican Miracle. I explore how the agro-export model of cotton, aimed at generating state revenue and private investor profits, disrupted the sustainability model in Northern Mexico initially proposed by President L谩zaro C谩rdenas's government. Furthermore, I argue that the Milagro Mexicano, in response to global economic dynamics, prioritized raw material exports and infrastructure development, adversely impacting indigenous communities in Southern Mexico. I propose reading these works as literary collages, where techniques like recycling and juxtaposition are crucial. I examine how these narrative techniques challenge the traditional novel genre and reflect the complexities of Mexican modernity, providing a distinct approach within contemporary Mexican literature and culture studies. My research includes works by Cristina Rivera Garza, Balam Rodrigo, Jayro Bustamante, Jo茫o Cabral de Melo Neto, and Carlos Drummond de Andrade.

 

- Latin American Studies  

- Environmental Humanities  

- Creative Writing  

- Translation  

Books

Cuerpo fragmentado. Lector Disl茅xico, Canad谩, 2024.

Canvas of The Otherness. Leteo Ediciones, Managua, Nicaragua, 2012.  

Lienzos de la Otredad. Foro Nicaraguense de Cultura, Managua, Nicaragua, 2010.  

L铆ricos Instantes. Leteo Ediciones, Managua, Nicaragua, 2007.

Publications

Duarte Missael. 鈥淎ngelina Pollak-Eltz2 in Routledge Handbook of Afro-Latin American Studies. Taylor & Francis Group, November 2022.  

Duarte Missael. 鈥淎utoficci贸n como propuesta narrativa en Cartucho y Canci贸n de tumba.鈥� Enpoli, October 2022.  

Duarte Missael. 鈥淧easant Women Collecting Peat.鈥� World Literature Today, May 2023.  

Conferences

鈥淎ntropoceno y escrituras geol贸gicas en Centroam茅rica y M茅xico,鈥� Third Coast Central America Collaborative, Rice University, Octuber 20-21, 2023.

鈥淟as m谩quinas y la modernidad en Libro centroamericano de los muertos de Balam Rodrigo,鈥� The Southwest Council of Latin American Studies, April 6-8 2023.

Launch of the Handbook of Afro-Latin American Studies at the ALARI Second Continental Conference on Afro-Latin American Studies, Harvard University, December 7-9, 2022.

鈥淢odernidad, periferia y crisis medioambiental en Autobiograf铆a del algod贸n,鈥� The Southwest Council of Latin American Studies, April 7-9 2022.

鈥淐orporalidad y materialidad textil en El entrem茅s de los Mirones,鈥� C茅firo XXIII Annual Conference, April 8-9 2022.

鈥淎utoficci贸n como estrategia narrativa para construir los discursos de la subjetividad en Cartucho de Nellie Campobello y Canci贸n de tumba de Juli谩n Herbert,鈥� The Southwest Council of Latin American Studies, April 8-10 2021.

Awards and Grants

Helen DeVitt Jones Scholarship, Texas Tech University 

Good Neighbor Scholarship, Texas Tech University   

Eunice Joyner Gates Scholarship, Texas Tech University  

Outstanding Masters of Fine Arts Student Award, University of Texas at El Paso  

Recipient of the scholarship to study in the Cultural Entrepreneurship Program in Zaragoza, Spain. Zaragoza Foundation and Zaragoza City Hall.

Recipient of the Cultural Mobility Program for Ibero-American Cultural Professionals, from the Organizaci贸n de Estados Iberoamericanos para la Ciencia, la Educaci贸n y la Cultura, (OEI), M茅xico.

Recipient of the scholarship Artistic Residences for Creators from Latin America and Haiti in Mexico. Fondo de la Cultura y las Artes (FONCA) and Agencia Espa帽ola de Cooperaci贸n Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID).

Recipient of the second place of the poetry contest V Juegos Florarles de Centroam茅rica, Panam谩 y Belice.