Jeff Barnett

Barnett teaches courses in Spanish language, translation, and Spanish-American literature and culture. His research deals with modern Latin American narrative and cultural studies as well as literary translation.

Jeff Barnett

Jeff Barnett

S. Blount Mason Jr. Professor of Spanish

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Research

  • Literary Translation
  • Latin American Narrative and Cultural Studies, with regional emphasis on Mexican, Central American, and Pan-Caribbean cultures
  • Cuban Literature and Film

Teaching

  • Latin American and Caribbean Studies
  • Spanish-American Narrative: the Boom Generation
  • Spanish-American Civilization and Culture
  • Trans-American Literature in Translation
  • Beyond the Revolution: Artistic Expression in XXth Century Mexico
  • Workshop in Literary Translation

Selected Publications

  • Translation: The Miracle of St. Lazarus: A Mystery Twenty Years in the Making. A Novel by Uva de Aragón. Trans. by Kathleen D. Bulger-Barnett and Jeffrey C. Barnett. Mango Press, 2019.

  • Bilingual Edition: Flocks/Rebaños by Zurelys López Amaya. Trans. and Foreword Jeffrey C. Barnett. Chico: Cubanabooks. Forthcoming Winter 2017. Print.

  • Article: “Remembering Cuba’s Past / Discovering its Future: Giving Voice to Memory in Uva de Aragón’s The Memory of Silence.” International Journal of Cuban Studies. 8.1 (2016), 97-108. Print.

  • Short Story: “Antes de la Malinche.” Pluma. (Primavera, 2016), 7-12. Print.

  • Translation: Fuentes, Carlos. “Litany of the Orchid.” Trans. Jeffrey C. Barnett. Exchanges Literary Journal. U of Iowa, Fall / Winter, 2015. Web. Dec. 5, 2015

  • Article: “Impaled on an Orchid: Fuentes’ Panamanian Allegory.” Exchanges Literary Journal. U of Iowa, Fall / Winter, 2015. Web. Dec. 5, 2015

  • Reviews: Vital Signs, by Pedro de Jesús. Translated by Dick Cluster. And With a Strange Scent of World: Poems 1979-1999, by Victor Rodríguez Núñez. Translated by Katherine M. Hedeen. Translation Review. 91 (2015), 69-72. Print.

  • Bilingual Edition: The Memory of Silence. A Novel by Uva de Aragón. Trans. and Foreword Jeffrey C. Barnett. Chico:Cubanabooks, 2014.

  • Article: “So Which Way is Home?: Retracing Carpentier’s Lost Steps with Xenophon’s Anabasis.” Cuaderno Internacional de Estudios Humanisticos y Literatura. Vol. XX (2013), pp.45-55.

  • Article: “El pasado secuestrado en Memorias de fuego por Eduardo Galeano.” El Español: Integrador de Culturas. Eds. Jorge H. Valdivieso and Enrique Ruiz-Fornells. Turlock, California: Orbis Press, (2012), pp.51-58.

  • Article: “Vengeance is Mine: The Role of the Fantastic in Carlos Fuentes’ Los días enmascarados.” Short Story Criticism. Ed.Jelena O. Krstovic. Vol. 125 (2009), pp.68-73.

  • Article: “The Magical as Mundane in Barnet’s Biography of a Runaway Slave.” Negritud: Journal for Afro Caribbean-Afro Latin American Studies. Número 1 (noviembre 2007), pp.65-76.

  • Article: “Prospero’s Orphans in Uva de Aragon’s ‘Not the Truth, Not a Lie.’" Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal. Vol. 5, Issue 1 (2007).