Senior Lecturer Spanish Programme
PhD (University of Montreal, Canada, 2003)
Master of Arts in Spanish (University of Ottawa, 1996)
Bachelor in Hispanic Letters (University of Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela, 1994)
Telephone: +64 3 4795995
Office: Arts 3S4
Email: adelso.yanez@otago.ac.nz
Research
My primary field of interest lies in a new approach to the study of 19th Century Latin American newspapers that describes processes such as nationalism, the urge of the citizens of new nations, and modernity in Latin America. My secondary field of interest lies in Social Realism in Latin American Literature (Puerto Rico, México, Guatemala, Argentina). Recently, I have become interested in a contemporary corpus that consists of stories and novels from the late 20th Century and the early 21st Century, covering texts that discuss death and funeral rituals. I have also worked on the presence of African slaves in Central and South American Literature, which has influenced, for instance, dance and religion, especially in countries such as Dominican Republic, Brazil, Panama, Peru, Venezuela, Colombia, and Cuba. More recently, I have conducted research on Subaltern Studies texts giving some preference to Colombian and Mexican narrative. In this corpus I have studied matters as sexuality, diversity and morality. My current project is about 3 Latin American Contemporary novels: The Discourse of the Black Novel 41 (Rogelio Guedea), The problem of the Immigration in 'The Ulysses Syndrome' (Santiago Gamboa) and What you do not know yet about the ice fish (Efraim Medina Reyes).
Teaching
SPAN231 Intermediate Spanish 1
SPAN232 Intermediate Spanish 2
SPAN243/343 Latin American Popular Culture
SPAN251/351 Latin American Cultural Travel