Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde is a visiting faculty member at the Universidad de Costa Rica, affiliated with the World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures department. He holds a Ph.D. in Latin American Literature from the University of California, Irvine, and earned his B.A. in English Literature and M.A. in Spanish Literature from the University of California, San Diego.

• B.A., English Literature, University of California, San Diego
• M.A., Spanish Literature, University of California, San Diego
• Ph.D., Latin American Literature, University of California, Irvine

His research focuses on gender studies (particularly masculinity), Latin American narrative and theater, American modernism, and nation-building discourses. His work intersects critical theory with literary analysis of key 20th-century authors.

Valverde's recent publications include analyses of authoritarianism in Latin American literature, bourgeois anxieties in avant-garde works, and intersections of race, class, and masculinity. His scholarship engages with authors like Mario Vargas Llosa, Manuel Puig, and texts addressing political and cultural identity.