Dr. Bertín Ortega

Biography

Bertín Ortega Aguilar completed his undergraduate education at Universidad Veracruzana and holds a Ph.D. in Spanish from Stanford University. His areas of concentration include Hispanic Studies and Latin American Literature and Culture, with special interests in Mexican literature, nineteenth-century Latin American literature, Post-Colonial Studies, Cultural Studies, science and humanities, and Ecocriticism. Dr. Ortega Aguilar has taught at universities in both Mexico and the United States at the graduate and undergraduate levels. His book, titled 'Utopías inquietantes: narrativa proletaria en México en los años treinta,' focuses on 20th-century Mexican literature, and he has published articles in journals such as Texto Crítico, Nuevo Texto Crítico, Hispanic Poetry Review, La Palabra y el Hombre, Casa de las Américas, and Revista Hispánica Moderna. He is currently working on reading post-independence Latin American texts within a postcolonial context.

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