At a glance... Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies Romance Languages & Literatures Dept. Director Latin American Studies Interdisciplinary Program at Boston College rosserh@bc.edu Lyons Hall 304 140 Commonwealth Ave Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 617-552-3828

Education and Academic Degrees:

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ph.D.
Cornell University, M.A.
College of Wooster, B.A.

Short biography

 

Fields of Research:

Professor Rosser's areas are Latin American Literature, Linguistics, and Latin American Studies. His present research interests include the increasing globalization of Magical Realism and the ongoing problem of (mis)labeling García Márquez raises a number of issues involving extensive commercialization of an authentic discourse emanating from Latin America. Imitation and blending of this discourse's original characteristics in works by disparate writers from other countries is leading to a generic kind of writing that literary marketers label in all too facile fashion as "Magical Realism", losing sight of the authentic source of this discourse and its special, culturally rooted elements.

Also of interest to Prof. Rosser are the aesthetic and political correspondences between the works Gabriel García Márquez and of the painter Fernando Botero. Specific esthetic and historical sources, including the pictorial nature of Latin American "magical realism" and elements associated with post-modernism, are keys to understanding the texts and textures of these two Colombians.

Recent Publications and Papers:

	Tú dirás: Introducción a la lengua y cultura hispánicas, with A. Martínez, J. Gutiérrez, 4th edition, Boston, MA., Thomson/Heinle Publishers, 2007.
	Tú dirás: Introducción a la lengua y cultura hispánicas, with J. Gutiérrez and A. Martínez, 3rd ed., Boston: Heinle Publishers, (2003).

"La trayectoria cuentística de Gabriel García Márquez," paper read at Northeast Conference on Teaching of Foreign languages, New York, April, 2001

"The Issues of Content: Literature and Culture in the Continuum." book chapter co-authored with E. Alexander, in A Challenge to Change: The Language Learning Continuum. New York: The College Board. 1999.

Ya verás: Gold Edition (with J. Gutiérrez, John R.). Boston: Heinle and Heinle, 1999.

"La visión fatalista de Juan Rulfo" in Pupo-Walker, E., editor. El cuento hispanoamericano, Madrid: Editorial Castalia, 1995.

Mosaico Cultural: Images from Spanish Speaking Cultures (video series). Boston: Heinle & Heinle, 1993.

"Nadie nos entenderá nunca: Los cuentos de García Márquez," Confluencia: Revista Hispánica de Literatura y Cultura. 8, 2, 1993.

Conflict and Transition in Mexico: The Fiction of Social Realism. Brandeis University, Crossroads Press, 1980.

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