Yuri Herrera-Gutiérrez

Professor - Spanish and Portuguese

School of Liberal Arts
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Yuri Herrera-Gutiérrez

Courses

Palimpsestes; Mexican Literature; Migraciones; Spanish Conversation and Composition; Creative Writing in Spanish; Historical Novel of Latin America

Additional Info

Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years: 5  

Research

Mexican Cultural Studies, Border Studies

Degrees

  • Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Spanish, 2009
  • M.F.A., University of Texas at El Paso, Bilingual Creative Writing, 2003
  • B.A., Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Political Science, 1997

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Professor, Tulane University, 2024-
  • Associate Professor, Tulane University, 2018-
  • Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2013-2017
  • Mellon Fellow, Tulane University, 2011-2013
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2010-2011
  • Lecturer, Universidad Iberoamericana, 2009-2010
  • Graduate Student Instructor, University of California, Berkeley, 2003-2008
  • Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at El Paso, 2001-2003
  • Spanish Instructor, Lycée Charles Péguy of Orléans, 1999-2000
  • Lecturer, Universidad Iberoamericana, 1995
  • Teaching Assistant, Universidad Nacional, Autónoma de México, 1993-1994

Distinctions

  • Borchard Foundation Fellowship, 2023
  • Anna Seghers Prize, Academy of Arts of Berlin, 2016
  • Young Mellon Professorships in the Humanities Award, Tulane University, 2016
  • Best Translated Book Award (with translator Lisa Dillman), for Signs Preceding the End of the World, Three Percent/University of Rochester, 2016
  • A Legend in His Own Time Award, Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society, 2016.
  • Anna Seghers Preis, Anna Seghers Foundation, 2016
  • “Otras voces, otros ámbitos” prize, awarded to the best novel published in Spain in 2008, to Trabajos del reino, 2009
  • “Premio Binacional de Novela Fronteriza” for the novel Trabajos del reino.
  • “Programa de Apoyo para Estudios en el Extranjero” Fellowship, Mexican Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 2001

Languages

  • Spanish

Overseas Experience

  • Mexico

Related Experience

  • Undergraduate Advisor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Tulane University, 2013-2016
  • Editor of the literary magazine el perro, 2007-
  • Member of the Board of Editors of the Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, University of Texas at El Paso, 2002

Selected Publications

  • 2024. Season of the Swamp. Graywolf. Translated by Lisa Dillman
  • 2023. La estación del pantano. Periférica
  • 2020. A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire. Transl by Lisa Dillman. Shefield.
  • 2019. Diez Planetas. Periférica.
  • 2018. El incendio de la mina de El Bordo. Periférica
  • 2017. “Los objetos.” In El Malpensante. No 186.
  • 2017. “Los otros.” In Nagari Magazine. Miami.
  • 2017. “La decadencia de la familia Wilde” in Los pelos en la mano. Antología del cuento politico y social mexicano reciente. Mexico: Lectorum.
  • 2016. “El obituarita”. In Los Bárbaros.
  • 2016. Talud. Houston, TX: Literal Publishing / Rice University.
  • 2016. “Coriolano” in Lunáticos, amantes y poetas. Doce historias basadas en Cervantes y Shakespeare. Madrid/London: Galaxia Gutenberg/AOS.
  • 2015. “Los últimos”. In Les Ateliers du SAL, Université Paris, Sorbonne.
  • 2015. “Los mejores años de su muerte”, in #SomoZombis. Antología de Literatura Hidalguense para Jóvenes. México: Elementum.
  • 2015. “El sentido de la omisión. Sobre la impunidad en el México contemporáneo.” In Política común Special Issue: Radical Politics and/or the Rule of Law in Mexico. Vol 7. Web.