Brian Chandler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Spanish
Office: Leutze 204
Tel: (910) 962-2299
FAX: (910) 962-7712
E-mail: chandlerb
B.A., Lenoir-Rhyne University
M.A., University of South Carolina
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Brian Chandler teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Spanish language and Latin American literature and cultures and is the recipient of the Discere Aude Award for Outstanding Student Mentoring and the Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award. His research focuses on contemporary Latin American narrative, poetry, and theater, with articles published in Latin American Literary Review, Romance Quarterly, Hispanic Journal, Ometeca, Hispania, Chasqui, and other academic journals. Currently he is completing a book project on the relationships between science and literature in contemporary Mexico.
Recent Publications
“Dis/articulations and the Writing of Aporias in Cristina Rivera Garza’s El mal de la taiga.” Romance Quarterly, vol. 68., no. 4, Fall 2021, pp. 197-208.
“Of Automatons and Androcentric Desire: Control and Commodification in Ignacio Padilla’s El androide y otras quimeras.” Ometeca: Science and Humanities / Ciencia y humanidades, vol. 25, Winter 2020-Spring 2021, pp. 49-66.
“The Scale of History in Jorge Volpi’s En busca de Klingsor.” Hispania, vol. 101, no. 3, 2018, pp. 232-242.
“Memory, Metatheater, and Intertextuality in La Madrugada by Juan Tovar.” The Coastal Review, vol. 10, no. 1, 2018
