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Luis Correa-Diaz

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Professor, Spanish

Dr. Correa-Diaz has research and teaching interests in Latin American & Spanish Poetry, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, Human Rights, Science (cosmology) and Literature, and Digital Humanities. He is the author of a) Novissima Verba: huellas digitales y cibernética en la poesía latinoamericana (Forthcoming 2019: RIL Editores/Academia Chilena de la Lengua); b) Cervantes y/en (las) Américas: mapa de campo y ensayo de bibliografía razonada; c) Una historia apócrifa de América: el arte de la conjetura histórica de Pedro Gómez Valderrama; d) Todas las muertes de Pinochet: Notas literarias para una biografía crítica, and e) Lengua muerta:Poesía, post-literatura & erotismo en Enrique Lihn. Editor of "Poesía digital / electrónica latinoamericana: muestrario creativo y crítico." Co-editor (with Scott Weintraub) of a) "Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese Literature in the Digital Age (New Technologies and the Literary), b) Huidobro's Futurity. 21st-Century Critical Approaches / La futuridad absoluta de Vicente Huidobro, c) Poesía y poéticas digitales/tecnos/multimedia en América Latina: Definiciones y Exploraciones [e-book by Universidad Central, Colombia]; and (with Silvia Nagy-Zekmi) of Arte de vivir: acercamientos críticos a la poesía de Pedro Lastra. His poetry books are: a) ... del amor hermoso; b) impresos en 3D; c) clickable poem@s, d) Cosmological Me [Google it!; Amazon 12 ...] e) Mester de soltería, f) Diario de un poeta recién divorciado, g) Divina Pastora, h) Rosario de actos de habla, i) Ojo de buey, and j) Bajo la pequeña música de su pie.

Other publications include guest-editions, anthologies, book chapters, articles, notes, reviews, and poems in collective books and several refereed journals in Latin America, Europe and the United States. He has lectured in many universities in the United States, England, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Spain, and Germany. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Liverpool, Universidad de Playa Ancha (Valparaíso, Chile), the State University of New York-Albany, and Writer in Residence at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Keynote Speaker and invited poet at a) VIII Feria Internacional del Libro (FIL) - Quito, Ecuador, 2015; b) 13 Bienal de Artes Mediales / Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (show: "Estéticas digitales"), Santiago, Chile, 2017; c) Festival Internacional de Poesía, Granada, España, 2018.  d) 13 Festival Internacional de Poesía Paralelo O, Quito, Ecuador, 2021, e) Festival Internacional Vicente Huidobro, Santiago, Chile, 2021. 

Education:

Ph.D. Latin American Literature/Studies, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.    1998

M.A. Cultural and Latin American Studies, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.    1995

M.A. Latin American Poetry and Poetics, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.    1993

Profesor de Castellano, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.     1987

 

Research Interests:

Digital Poetry & Poetics & Humanities, Cyberculture, Science & Literature & Culture, Human Rights, Posthumanism

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