Dr. Ryan Long

Dr. Ryan Long is the Interim Associate Dean of the Graduate School. He is also the Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center and a Professor of Spanish. His research focuses primarily on twentieth-century and contemporary Mexican and Latin American literature. He has written Queer Exposures: Sexuality and Photography in the Fiction and Poetry of Roberto Bolaño (Pittsburgh, 2021) and Fictions of Totality: The Mexican Novel, 1968, and the National-Popular State (Purdue, 2008). 

He is currently writing a book titled The Poetics of Place and Displacement: Hannes Meyer and Postrevolutionary Mexico. He has also written about: women photographers in twentieth-century Mexico; representations of violence and the border in contemporary Mexican literature; mid-twentieth-century Mexican literature; the Taller de Gráfica Popular; Juan Villoro; and Álvaro Mutis. 

Forthcoming is an article about the interplay between fiction and testimonio in Emiliano Monge’s novel Las tierras arrasadas. He has published interviews with Carlos Montemayor, Juan Villoro, and Bruno Montané Krebs. He also edits the Mexican prose fiction section of the Handbook of Latin American Studies.