Oscar J. Montero
Professor
Modernismo, Spanish American Fiction

email: oscar.montero@lehman.cuny.edu
phone: Lehman College - 718-960-8215
Graduate Center - 212-817-8413

Oscar Montero is professor of Latin American literature at Lehman College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of The Name Game (Chapel Hill, 1988) on Cuban writer Severo Sarduy; Erotismo y representación en Julián del Casal (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1993); and José Martí: an Introduction (Palgrave/MacMillan, 2004). He has also published articles on Spanish American modernistas José Asunción Silva, Rubén Darío and José Enrique Rodó. He has been visiting professor at Princeton University, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and State University of New York in Stony Brook, N. Y.

Selected articles:
La prosa neoyorquina de Julia de Burgos: "la cosa latina" en "mi segunda casa". Ciberletras 20 (December 2008). http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/v20/montero.html

"José Martí against Race." The Cuban Republic and José Martí. Ed. Mauricio Font and Alfonso Quiroz. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. 95-114.

Julián del Casal. In M. A. Salgado (Vol. Ed). Dictionary of literary biography: Vol 283. Modern Spanish American poets. (1st ser., pp. 76-85). New York: Thompson/Gale, 2003.

"Casal y Maceo en La Habana elegante." Casa de las Américas 225 (octubre-diciembre, 2001): 57-70.

"Casal en la tienda habanera." El sol en la nieve: Julián del Casal (1863-1893). Ed. Luisa Campuzano. La Habana: Casa de las Américas, 1999. 69-73.

"Casal and Maceo: Art, War and Race in Colonial Havana." Ciberletras 1 (August 1999). www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras

"The Signifying Queen: Critical Notes from a Latino Queer." Hispanisms and Homosexualities. Ed. Sylvia Molloy and Robert M. Irwin. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.

"Notes for a Queer Reading of Latin American Literature." Queer Representations. Reading Lives. Reading Cultures. Ed. Martin Duberman. New York University Press, 1997.

"Modernismo and Homophobia: Darío and Rodó." Sex and Sexuality in Latin America. Ed. Daniel Balderston and Donna J. Guy. New York University Press, 1997.

"Escritura y perversión en De sobremesa." Revista Iberoamericana 63.178-9 (enero-junio 1997): 249-261.

"Hellenism and Homophobia in José Enrique Rodó." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 31.1 (enero 1997): 25-39.

"Julián del Casal and the Queers of Havana." ¿Entiendes. Queer Readings, Hispanic Writings. Ed. Emilie Bergmann and Paul Julian Smith. Duke University Press, 1995.

"Modernismo y 'degeneración': Los raros de Darío." Revista Iberoamericana 62.176-7 (julio-diciembre 1996): 821-834.

"Translating Decadence: Julián del Casal's Reading of Huysmans and Moreau." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 26 (1992): 369-389.

"El 'compromiso' del escritor cubano en 1959 y la 'Corona de las frutas' de Lezama." Revista Iberoamericana 57.154 (January-March 1991): 33-42.