Tatiana Arguello, Ph.D.

• Articles & Essays
  • “Ecology, Blackness and Poetry: National Epics of the Nicaraguan Revolution.” Co-written with Andrew Ryder. National Epics. Edited by David Wallace. Oxford University Press. (Forthcoming).
    

     

  • "Epistemes del cauce: para pensar y sentir con los ríos, sumersión en la poesía fluvial de dos mujeres indígenas latinoamericanas.” Co-written with María Ximena Postigo. Brill-Foro Hispánico. Special Issue: Ecopoesía, ecopoéticas y nuevas políticas ecológicas en el poema. Edited by Azucena Castro, Santiago Acosta and Nuno Marques. (Forthcoming 2025).
  • “Bullets and Tattoos: War Artifacts and Prosthetics in the US Central American Literature of Salomón de la Selva and Héctor Tobar.” Co-written with Andrew Ryder. Latinx Literature in Transition. Edited by Marissa López and John Alba Cutler. Cambridge University Press (Forthcoming 2025)
  • “Creole Poetics of the Ocean: Carlos Rigby, Ecological Thought and Caribbean Diasporic Consciousness.” Central American Literature as World Literature. Literature as World Literature Series. Edited by Sophie Esch. Bloomsbury (2023).
  • “Javier Zamora’s Unaccompanied: Materiality, Citizenship and Salvadorian Identity.” Co-written with Andrew Ryder. Label Me Latina/o: Journal of Twentieth and Twenty- First Century Latino Literary Production. Special Issue Volume 12: Cultural Representations of Central American Migration to the US. (2022)
  • “War, Human Experience, and Nature in Teaching Central American Literature.” Teaching Central American Literature in a Global Context. Edited by Gloria E. Chacón and Mónica Albizúrez. Modern Language Association of America (MLA), Options for Teaching Series (2022).
  • “Franz Galich: pandillas, militarismo y nomadismo en Managua, Salsa City ¡Devórame otra vez!” TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World. Vol 9. Issue 7 (2021): Fall 2021.
  • “Las cosas del mundo están en rebelión: materialidad y guerra en la poesía vanguardista de Joaquín Pasos.” A Contracorriente: Revista de Historia Social y Literatura en América Latina. Vol 19. No1 (2021): Fall 2021.
  • “El Robocop de Castellanos Moya: las armas como prótesis de la posguerra.” Tiranas ficciones: poética y política de la escritura en la obra de Horacio Castellanos Moya. Edited by Magdalena Perkowska and Oswaldo Zavala. Special Issue of Revista Iberoamericana. Serie Nuestra América, 2018.
  • “War and Its Implications for Central American-American Literature.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latina/o Literature. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Oxford University Press, 2018.
  • “Mario Payeras: la guerra y el pensamiento vegetal en Poemas de la Zona Reina.” Istmo. Revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos 34, 2017.
  • “La construction du corps féminin: transgression et résistance dans Sa destinée rue monte au ciel.” Métissages et Marronnages dans l'oeuvre de Suzanne Dracius, edited by Yolande Helm. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2009: 44-59.

Guest Co-Editor, Special Issue for a  Scholarly Journal

• "Introducción: Derivas multi/humanas en la cultura y literatura centroamericanas" (co-editor with Juan Duchesne-Winter). Istmo. Revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos. Special Issue on Posthumanism and the Non-human in Central American Literature and Culture. Volume 34 , 2017.

• 2024: “Bullets, Guns, and Tattoos: Debility in the US Central American Literature of Salomón de la Selva and Héctor Tobar.” The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS 2024). Southern Methodist University, Dallas, April 11-14, 2024.
• 2023: “Acuerpando con el río Gualcarque: Berta Cáceres, pensamiento y denuncias líquidas.” Third Coast Central America Collaborative Inaugural Meeting, Rice University, October 20-21, 2023.
• 2023: “Acuerpando con los ríos: pensamiento, existencias y denuncias líquidas en Mesoamérica.” XLIV Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI), Athens, Greece, July 5-8, 2023.
• 2023: " Creole Poetics of the Ocean: Carlos Rigby, Ecological Thought and Caribbean Diasporic Consciousness." Latin American Concentration: Black History Month talk. University of Dallas (Irving). February 6, 2023. 
• 2022: “Bullets, Guns and Tattoos: War Artifacts and Prosthetics in US Central American  Literature.” Panel: Violence in Global Central American Literature. International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA 2022). Polarización socioambiental y rivalidad entre grandes potencias. May 5-8, 2022. Virtual.
• 2022:“Poéticas creole del océano: Carlos Rigby, pensamiento ecológico y la consciencia diaspórica caribeña.” Hermosos invisibles que nos protegen: New Directions in Latin American Studies. Conference in Honor of the Retirement of Professor Juan Duchesne-Winter. April 22, 2022. Hybrid.  
• 2022: "Care Labor and the Communal Desire to Reproduce Life: The Instructive Example of Mayan Indigenous Women.” 2021-2022 Claudia V. Camp Lecture. Organized by Women and Gender Studies, TCU. March 28, 2021. Virtual. 
• 2021: "Creole Poetics of the Ocean: Carlos Rigby, Ecological Thought and Caribbean Diasporic Consciousness." Virtual Conference: Central American Literature as World Literature. Rice University, November 11-13, 2021.
• 2021: "Artefactos y prótesis de guerra: el caso del Robocop de Horacio Castellanos Moya." Panel sobre estudios de literatura y tecnología. Maestría de Literatura de la Javeriana. 24 April, 2021. Virtual.
• 2021: "Feminist Philosophy in Central America: The Examples of Belli, Menchú, and Cáceres." The 55th annual Southwest Council of Latin American Studies (SCOLAS). 8-11 April, 2021. Virtual.
• 2020: "The Things of the World are in Rebellion: Materiality and War in the Avant-Garde Poetry of Joaquin Pasos." Modern Language Annual Convention (MLA 2020). Seattle, 9-12 January, 2020.
• 2019: "Cuando la sangre del cuerpo ausente echa raíces en la memoria colectiva: poéticas de la remembranza y documentación del 19 de abril en Nicaragua." Central American Section. XXXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA 2019) Nuestra América: Justice and Inclusion. Boston, May 24 – 27, 2019.
• 2018: "Consciousness beyond the Human: Mesoamerican Dialogues in Race, Gender, and Politics." Research "Spotlight" lunch. Texas Christian University, February 14, 2018.
• 2016: "Mario Payeras: la guerra y el pensamiento vegetal en Poemas de la Zona Reina." XXXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA 2016), New York,  May 27-30,2016.

• Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
• Modern Language Association(MLA)
• The Southwest Council of Latin American Studies (SCOLAS)
• The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)

• 2022 Maryrose Short Teaching Excellence Award.
• 2021-2022 Claudia V. Camp Faculty Research Award.