Professor of English Antonio Barrenechea received a Dorothy Foehr Huck Research Award from Penn State University Libraries for the project “Luis Alberto Sánchez and the Literary Historiography of the Americas.” The project forms part of a book-in-progress “One Hemisphere, Many Nations: A Historiography of Literature of the Americas,” a first disciplinary history of its kind.
Professor of English Antonio Barrenechea will publish a new book this year on Latin American gothic cinema with Bloomsbury Publishing. The book can be pre-ordered and will be available January 8, 2026. In the book, Studies in Groovy Gothic Cinema, Barrenechea launches an inquiry into inter-American exploitation cinema-a horror cinema which captured the rise of ’60s […]
During the spring 2023 semester, Professor of English Antonio Barrenechea served as faculty liaison to Special Collections in Simpson Library. One of his accomplishments came via collaboration with Nick Onorato, a former student and communication major. A “spotlight” series on rare books highlighted UMW’s collection from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Watch the series on […]
Antonio Barrenechea, Professor of English, was recently awarded the 2022-2023 Reese Fellowship in American Bibliography and History of the Book in the Americas, from the Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. His project “One Hemisphere Many Nations: Boltonian Americanism and Literary Historiography” will explore the Herbert Bolton archive in relation to the emergence of […]
On April 11, 2022, Antonio Barrenechea, Professor of English, was an invited speaker at the University of Glasgow symposium “Fictional Maximalism and the Americas: New Voices, New Perspectives.” His presentation, “Literature of the Americas as Maximalist Discipline” discussed scholarly and historiographical encyclopedism in hemispheric American literary studies.
