Lecturer in Spanish
Edgardo was born and raised in Puerto Rico. He earned his PhD from Boston University’s Department of Romance Studies in 2022.
His research focuses on 20th-century Mexican literature and film, specifically, the representation of revolutions and insurgency. His work explores bodily abjection as a literary and cinematic trope that enables novel, critical approaches to the study of the Mexican Revolution and its cultural archive. His publications include:
“La mula por la cámara: John Reed, Paul Leduc y el cuerpo espectral en el tiempo revolucionario”. Chasqui, Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana, vol. 50, no. 1, 2021, pp.205-23.
“Alfredo Joskowicz: Corporeal Abjection and Counterculture in Independent Mexican Cinema After 1968”, Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas, vol. 18, no. 3, 2021, pp. 351–63.
Other projects include service as Executive Board Member of Tabonuco, Inc., a non-profit organization that provides ecological and artistic education to Puerto Rican youth and adults. Edgardo is also a founding member and contributor of En Reserva, a cultural section of Puerto Rican weekly newspaper Claridad.