Eunice Rojas
Scholar | Professor | Author
Contemporary Southern Cone Literature and Cultural Studies
Eunice Rojas is the Herman N. Hipp Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at Furman University, where she also serves as Chair of the Interdisciplinary Minor in Latin American and Latinx Studies. She is the author of Spaces of Madness: Insane Asylums in Argentine Narrative and the co-editor of Sounds of Resistance: The Role of Music in Multicultural Activism. Her newest book, Gringos Get Rich: Anti-Americanism in Chilean Music, is forthcoming with the University of Alabama Press. She studies contemporary Latin American, and particularly Southern Cone, literature and music dealing with discourses of political, social, or cultural resistance to oppression.
Recent and Forthcoming Publications
Gringos Get Rich: Anti-Americanism in Chilean Music. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press. Coming soon!
“Madmen and Piantados: The Vindication of Irrationalism in Cortázar’s Essays and Short Stories.” Inti 97-98 (2023). Coming soon!
“The Cops vs. the Commies: Cold War Cuba and Chile in U.S. Folk Music.” Red Reckoning: A New History of the Cold War and the Transformation of American Life. Eds. Mark Boulton and Tobias Gibson. Louisiana State University Press. Coming soon!
“The Anxiety of the Other Side: Paris in the Contemporary Argentine Novel.” Paris in the Americas: Yesterday and Today. Ed. Carole Salmon. Vernon Press, 2022.
“Devouring Sons and Sinners: Ekphrasis and Intertextuality in Álvaro Bisama’s Música marciana.” Ciberletras 46 (2022), 91-106.
“Rocking the Colombian Casbah: Exposing Lives of Colombian Violence through Music.” Co-authored with Carlos García Pinilla. Human Rights in Colombian Literature and Cultural Production: Embodied Enactments. Eds. Kevin Guerrieri and Carlos Gardeazábal Bravo. Routledge Publishers, 2022.
“Cultural Codes in the Soundtrack of Catalan Nationalism 1959-2019.” Romance Notes 60:1 (2020), 207-16.
“’There is no revolution without songs’: Teaching Latin American Resistance Music in the Spanish Curriculum.” Popular Music in the Classroom: Essays for Instructors. Ed. Dave Whitt. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2020.
“A Transgendered Soundtrack of Resistance to Pinochet’s Chile: Music and the Radio in Pedro Lemebel’s Tengo miedo torero.” MIFLC Review 19 (2019), 7-21.
“Rapping for a Revolution: Latino Hip-Hop Artists and the 2016 Presidential Election.” You Can’t Always Campaign with the Song You Want:The Role of Music in the 2016 Presidential Election. Eds. Eric T. Kasper and Benjamin S. Schoening. Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2018.
“Ricardo Piglia’s Schizophrenic Machine: The Madness of Resistance in La ciudad ausente.” Hispanet Journal 6 (2013).
Presentations
“Necesitan nuestra música para ver la realidad: Ana Tijoux as Celebrity Thought Leader in Chilean TV and Film” Southeast Council for Latin American Studies. Antigua, Guatemala. March 22-26, 2023. Coming soon!
“Hey, I Know Some Songs About the Future: The Hauntology of Los Prisioneros’ ‘El baile de los que sobran.’” Southeast Conference for Languages, Literatures, and Film. Asheville, NC. March 9-10, 2023. Coming soon!
“Until Dignity Becomes Tradition: The Dawn of a New Utopia in the Songs of Chile’s 2019 Social Upheaval.” Society for Utopian Studies Conference. Charleston, SC. November 10-13, 2022.
“A cal y canto: The Use of Popular Songs in Diego Albala’s Pacto de fuga.” Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference. Greensboro, NC. October 20-22, 2022.
“Burning Down the House: Queering the 2019 Chilean Social Uprising.” Southeastern Council for Latin American Studies. Charlotte, NC. March 10-12, 2022.
“Rocking the Colombian Casbah: Exposing Lives of Colombian Violence through Music.” Congreso Internacional de Colombianistas. Online. October 13-15, 2021.
“Anti-Americanism in the Songs of Chile’s Estallido Social.” Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference. Hosted online by Furman University. October 7-9, 2021.
“One Last Bite at the Big Apple: Anti-Americanism in Manzana, the Final Album of Los Prisioneros.” XXVIII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica. Online. June 24-26, 2021.
“An Ekphrastic Understanding of Self and Nation in Álvaro Bisama’s Música marciana.” Southeastern Council for Latin American Studies. Online. April 15-18, 2021.
“Cacerolazo de canciones: Cultural Resistance through Song in Chile’s Social Upheaval.” Co-presented with Daniel Sarkela. XXII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica. Virtual. June 17-19, 2020.
“Raperas guerrilleras: El movimiento contra-hegemónico del hip-hop feminista en Latinoamérica.” III Congreso Internacional de Literatura y Derechos Humanos: Género y Cultura. Santiago, Chile. November 14-16, 2019.
“Community-building Strategies in the Soundtrack of Catalan Nationalism 1959-2018” Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference. Auburn, AL. October 10-12, 2019.
“Sampling Subversion in Chilean Hip-Hop: Víctor Jara in the Music of Subverso and Con$pirazion.” Southeastern Council for Latin American Studies. Oaxaca, Mexico. March 26-31, 2018.
“Music and the Radio in Pedro Lemebel’s Tengo miedo torero.” Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference. Knoxville, TN. October 3-5, 2018.
“The Astronomy of Protest: Seeing Stars in Chilean Film and Music.” American Association of Teachers of Spanish Conference. Salamanca, Spain. June 25-28, 2018.
“The U.S. Civil Rights Movement in the Chilean Music.” Race Poverty and Social Justice Conference. Lynchburg, VA. November 3-4, 2017.
“Así como hoy matan negros”: Using the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and Standing Rock to Teach Chilean Music and Culture.” Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference. Wilmington, NC. October 5-7, 2017.
“Water Wars: Representations of Police Repression in Chilean Protest Music.” Virginia Humanities Conference. Winchester, VA. April 7-8, 2017.
“Punk against Pinochet: Socio-political Critiques of Capitalism and Dictatorship in the Music of Los Prisioneros and Pinochet Boys.” Southeastern Council for Latin American Studies. Chapel Hill, NC. March 23-26, 2017.
“Functional Songs: Ángel Parra’s Critique of the Influence of U.S. Capitalism on Chilean Culture.” Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference. Harrisonburg, VA. October 13-15, 2016.
“The Evolution of Anti-American and Anti-Capitalist Rhetoric in Chilean Music.” Southeastern Council for Latin American Studies. Cartagena, Colombia. March 9-13, 2016.
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