Alexander Torres

Alexander Torres is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in Spanish at the University of South Florida's Department of World Languages. His research focuses on Latin American literature, particularly the Bildungsroman genre and its intersections with rock culture, contemporary fiction, and ontological themes. He authored Bastardos de la modernidad (2020), analyzing rock-influenced coming-of-age novels as critiques of modernity. Currently, he explores sacred formations in modern Latin American literature and guest-edits a Bolivian Studies Journal special issue on geopoetics in Bolivian narratives.

• Teaches undergraduate Spanish courses (Beginning Spanish I–IV, Latin American Cinema).
• Advisor for the Spanish Club, fostering cultural engagement among students.

His work bridges literary analysis with cultural critique, emphasizing youth experiences in disenchanted worlds. Recent research highlights Bolivia's narrative innovations and the refunctionalization of pre-Hispanic sacred motifs in Mexican horror fiction. Torres regularly contributes to academic journals and volumes on Latin American literature.

Publications span analyses of violence in novels (e.g., Horacio Castellanos Moya's Insensatez), geopoetic formations in Bolivian fiction, and the interplay between rock music and existential themes in Mexican literature.

• Recognized for integrating cultural studies into pedagogy.
• Contributions to interdisciplinary dialogues on Latin American cultural production.