Assistant Professor

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Curriculum Vitae

Education

PhD, Latin American, Iberian, and Luso-Afro-Brazilian Literatures and Cultures, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

MA, Estudios Hispánicos, Universidad de Cádiz

MA, Hispanic Studies, Auburn University

BA, Filología Hispánica, Universidad de Cádiz

BA, Estudios Ingleses, Universidad de Cádiz

Biography

Francisco Cantero Soriano is a scholar of modern and contemporary Spanish literature and culture whose work lies at the intersection of poetics, exile studies, queer studies, and representation theory. His research examines how queer bodies materialize in the poetics of the Spanish Republican exile, tracing linguistic mechanisms of ethical and political embodiment. Beyond exile poetics, his work theorizes how literary and visual forms produce, regulate, and disrupt regimes of embodiment, desire, visibility and availability in twentieth-century Spanish culture.

This attention to the traffic between bodies, media, and forms also informs a series of ongoing projects. Cantero Soriano is currently preparing English translations of the complete poems of Agustín Gómez Arcos and translates contemporary poetry. He has also explored intermedial dialogue, on Leonard Cohen’s poetic affinities with Federico García Lorca, and created a “pictorial translation” of Lorca’s Poet in New York. 

His international academic training includes study and research at Rutgers University, Auburn University, the University of Cádiz (Spain), the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece) and the Siberial Federal University in Krasnoyarsk (Russia). Founder-editor of ÍMPETU, he fosters ongoing collaborations between scholarship and artistic practice.

At The University of New Mexico, his courses respond to an increasingly technology-driven culture by placing critical reading at the center of intellectual formation and cultivating close attention, interpretive rigor, and independent thought

Research Interests

• 19th-21st Century Spanish Poetry
• Poetry of the Spanish Republican Exile
• Poethics and Violence
• Lyric Theory and Form
• Body and Exile
• Feminist and Queer Studies