College of Staten Island
 The City University of New York
 
  
    
  Felipe Martínez-Pinzón
Assistant Professor
World Languages and Literatures

Felipe Martínez-Pinzón
Assistant Professor

Office : Building 2S Room 207
Phone : 718.982.3667
Fax : 718.982.3712
felipe.martinezpinzon@csi.cuny.edu


Degrees :
Ph.D. New York University
B.A. Universidad de los Andes




Biography / Academic Interests :
Felipe Martínez-Pinzón is a native of Bogotá, in the Colombian Andes, but his family is originally from Cartagena, on the Caribbean Coast. His research focuses on the uneasy pairing of nation-building discourses and the representation of tropical nature during the 19th and 20th centuries in Latin America. Before coming to CSI, he taught Spanish language and Latin American Literature at New York University and has been a visiting professor at the Universidad de los Andes.

Scholarship / Publications :
Professor Martínez-Pinzón has written on the intersections between geography, politics and literature in the works of Francisco José de Caldas, on the botanical drawings of Francisco Javier Matís, the poetry of Candelario Obeso, the travelogues of José María Samper, and the fiction of J.A Silva and J.E Rivera. He is preparing his first book on the representation of tropical nature in 19th and early 20th century Colombia. He has turned more recently to analyzing the spatial imagination embedded in the Latin American war memoir. He belongs to the collective of cultural critics Crítica Latinoamericana. Martínez-Pinzón has also published two books of poetry

“Tránsitos por el río Magdalena: el boga, el blanco y las contradicciones del liberalismo colombiano en el medio siglo XIX” in Estudios de Literatura Colombiana No.29 (Julio-Diciembre 2011). Medellín: Universidad de Antioquia. 17-41.

“Umbrales monstruosos: tres operativos de la guerrilla M-19”. Lucero Journal #21. Fall 2011. Berkeley Graduate Student Journal. http://lucerojournal.com/home.aspx

“Una geografía para la guerra: narrativas del cerco en Francisco José de Caldas”. Revista de Estudios Sociales #38. Número Especial: Las oportunidades del Bicentenario. Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes. 2010. 108-119.

“La vorágine del 9 de abril: J.E Rivera, J.A Osorio Lizarazo y el Bogotazo”. Perífrasis: Revista de literatura, teoría y crítica. Volumen 1, No 2. Bogotá, Universidad de los Andes. 2010. 49-65.

"Letrados bandidos: Relato burocrático y  agencia intelectual en Alfredo Molano y José  Eustasio Rivera". Dissidences. Hispanic Journal  of Theory and Criticism. Bowdoin College.