David Dalton

Assistant Professor of Spanish 

PhD University of Kansas, 2015
MA Brigham Young University, 2011
BA Brigham Young University, 2009

Dr. Dalton joined the faculty as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish in August 2016, and he was promoted to Assistant Professor of Spanish in 2017. His teaching and research focuses primarily on Mexican and Latin American literary and cultural production. He is especially interested in how science and technology interface with constructs of race and gender in Mexico and throughout the world.

He has taught classes on narco literature and culture, the post-revolutionary Mexican novel, US Latinx literature and culture, the Spanish American Boom, Science and Culture in the Hispanic world, Latin American Cinema, Latin American Thought, and so forth.

Dr. Dalton is also an active researcher in the field; he has published several articles, and he will be publishing a book with the University of Florida Press in 2018.

Publications

Book

Mestizo Modernity: Race, Technology, and the Body in Post-Revolutionary Mexico. University of Florida Press, 2018.

Special Edition

Co-edited with Sara Potter. Ibero-American Zombies: Undead Colonialism, special issue in Alambique: Revista Académica de Ciencia Ficción y Fantasía, vol. 6, no. 2, 2018.

Articles and Book Chapters

“Race and Gender in the Eyes of the (Female) Child: A Comparative Study of the Narrative of Rosario Castellanos and Helena María Viramontes.” In Teaching Mexicana and Chicana Writers of the Twentieth Century, edited by Elizabeth C. Martínez, MLA. Under Contract.

“Mexican Cinema in the Buffyverse: Toward an Ethics of Transnational Adaptation and Appropriation.” Where is Adaptation?, edited by Casie Hermansson and Janet Zepernick, John Benjamins, 2018. Forthcoming. Under Contract.

“Treating Indigeneity: Medicine and Racial Privilege in ‘La rueda del hambriento’ and ‘El don rechazado’ by Rosario Castellanos.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. Forthcoming.

“Adapting the Gothic to Latin America in Carlos Solórzano’s Las manos de Dios.” In Latin American Gothic: Transposition, Hybridization, Tropicalization, edited by Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno, Inés Ordiz, and Enrique Ajuria Ibarra, Routledge, 2018, pp. 84-95.

“Immunizing the Zetas: Drug Violence and Zombie Biopolitics in Pedro M. Valencia’s Con Z de zombie.” Revista de Literature Mexicana Contemporánea, vol. 24, no. 73, 2018. Forthcoming

“Educating Cohesion: The Teacher as an Agent of the Post-Revolutionary State.” In Modern Mexican Culture: Critical Foundations, edited by Stuart A. Day. U of Arizona P, 2017. In press.

“Science and the Metaphysical Body: A Critique of Positivism in the Vasconcelian Utopia.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. Accepted pending revision.

“Unos anticonceptivos apocalípticos: Inconmensurabilidades semánticas entre la medicina y la religión en La Píldora maravillosa de Jesús Pavlo Tenorio.” Medicina y Humanidades: Revista de Medicina, Bioética y Filosofía, vol. 8, 2016, pp 83-94.

“Robo Sacer: ‘Bare Life’ and Cyborg Labor Beyond the Border in Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer.” Hispanic Studies Review, no. 1, 2016, forthcoming.

“Santería and Resistance in Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío’s Strawberry and Chocolate and Fernando Pérez’s Life is to Whistle.” Journal of Religion and Film, vol. 20, no. 3, 2016, pp. 1-34.

“Intenciones enmascaradas en la pantalla plateada. El Santo y el mimetismo imperial.” Alambique: Revista Académica de Ciencia Ficción y Fantasía, vol. 4, no. 1, 2016, pp. 1-15. ***Winner of the Jamie Bishop Memorial Award***

“Una huella mexicana en el cine español: La naturaleza mágica y resistente en Biutiful de Alejandro González Iñárritu y El laberinto del fauno de Guillermo del Toro.” Millars: espai i historia, vol. 40, no. 1, 2016, pp. 99-122.

“Imaginando comunidades en tensión: Elena Garro y el indigenismo.” Nocturnario, 13, 2016.

“Educating Social Hierarchies in Rosario Castellanos’s Balún Canán.” Chasqui: revista de literatura latinoamericana, vol. 43, no. 2, 2014, pp. 150-60.

“Una objetividad subjetiva: Paradigmas coloniales en las observaciones botánicas de Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés y José de Acosta.” Ometeca, vol. 18, 2013, pp. 122-37.