Ryan Long

Ryan Long is a Professor of Spanish and Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research focuses on Mexican literature and culture, the works of Roberto Bolaño and Hannes Meyer, queer theory, visual culture, and transnational politics. He is the author of Queer Exposures: Sexuality and Photography in the Fiction and Poetry of Roberto Bolaño (2021) and Fictions of Totality: The Mexican Novel, 1968, and the National-Popular State (2008). Current projects include a book on Hannes Meyer and postrevolutionary Mexico.

• Education Affiliations: School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

His research explores intersections of literature, politics, anti-normative sexuality, and architectural theory. He edits the Mexican prose fiction section of the Handbook of Latin American Studies and serves as Assistant Editor for the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies.

Publications include studies on Mexican literature, the Taller de Gráfica Popular, and interviews with prominent writers like Juan Villoro. Recent work includes a book chapter on women photographers in 20th-century Mexico and an article on Emiliano Monge's fiction.