Russell Cobb

Assistant Professor

Email:	rcobb@ualberta.ca
Office:	409-C Arts & Convocation Hall
Office Hours:	By appointment
Address:	University of Alberta 409-C Arts & Convocation Hall Edmonton, AB Canada T6G 2E6

Spanish and Latin American Studies

BA University of Iowa, 1996 (English and Spanish)

MA University of Texas at Austin, 2000 (Spanish)

PhD University of Texas at Austin, 2007 (Comparative Literature)

Research areas: Contemporary Latin American Cultural Studies, especially media, music, and literature. Inter-Americanism, Urban Studies, Cold War cultural diplomacy

Teaching areas: Contemporary Latin American narrative, Introduction to Latin American Studies, travel writing, popular music, literary non-fiction

Courses Taught in 2012-13: LA ST 210, LA ST 399, SPAN 455/535, SPAN 524

Outside the Labyrinth: The Premature Death of the Cold War in Latin American Literature,” in  Topographies of Transnationalism: Citizenship, Human Rights, and Solidarity in Cold War Latin America, forthcoming in summer 2011

“The Congress for Cultural Freedom’s Quest for a Magazine of Ideas in Latin America,” in Pressing the Fight: Print, Propaganda, and the Cold War. University of Massachusetts Press, March 20, 2010

“The Politics of Literary Prestige: Promoting the Latin American ‘Boom’ in the Pages of Mundo Nuevo.” A Contracorriente: A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America, spring 2008.