Cecilia Enjuto Rangel
Professor of Spanish
Romance Languages, Spanish, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages, Latinx
Email: enjuto@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4045
Office: UO Annex 110, 1233 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: Fridays 1pm-3pm and by appt at UO Annex 110 (*I need to make appointments for my office hours because I need to open the door to the UO Annex)
Education
B.A. 1998 Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
M.A. 2002, Ph.D. 2005 Yale University
Research Interests
I welcome advanced undergraduate students, honors and graduate students pursuing research on Cinema Studies and Memory Studies in Spain and Latin America; Spanish and Latin American Modern Poetry and Poetics; Transatlantic Studies; Comparative Literature (English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish); Gender Politics; Spanish Civil War, Exile Studies and historical testimony.
Publications
Authored Books
2010 Cities in Ruins: The Politics of Modern Poetics (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press. Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures).
2026 Desde otros ojos: La política de la memoria y la mirada infantil en el cine de América Latina y España (The Politics of Memory and the Child in Iberian and Latin American Film) (Iberoamericana Vervuert).
Edited Volumes
2022 Journal dossier “Cuba y España: Encuentros Transatlánticos.” Ed. Cecilia Enjuto Rangel.Periphērica: A Journal of Social, Cultural, and Literary History. Vol. 2, Issue 1, December https://journals.oregondigital.org/index.php/peripherica/issue/view/564You
2019 Transatlantic Studies: Latin America, Iberia, and Africa. Introduction and edition with Sebastiaan Faber, Robert Newcomb and Pedro García-Caro. (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.)
Edited Volume (In Progress)
La verdad sobre el caso de José Antonio Primo de Rivera. Federico Enjuto Ferrán. Introduction and edition with Pedro García Caro. Edition of the historical memoir of the investigative judge in the trial of José Antonio Primo de Rivera during the Spanish Civil War. (Under contract with Editorial Comares)
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
2021 Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia. “Spectrality in Pa negre/Black Bread (Villaronga, 2010): Queer aesthetics and its politics of memory”, Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 317–33.
2013 Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia. “La poética de la traducción: Briceida Cuevas Cob.” (un ensayo introductorio a la obra poética de Briceida Cuevas Cob, y a sus poemas en maya, castellano e inglés). Cuadernos de ALDEEU, Volumen 25, Primavera 2013. pp. 279-300.
2010 Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia. “Madrid en ruinas: La poética transatlántica de Neruda y Alberti.” INTI: Revista de literatura hispánica. Primavera-otoño 2010. No. 71/72. Pp. 345-356
2007 Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia. “Broken Presents: The Modern City in Ruins in Baudelaire, Cernuda and Paz.” Comparative Literature. Spring 2007, pp.140-157.
2004 Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia. “Reaching the Past through Cities in Ruins: Itálica and Machu Picchu.”Colorado Review of Hispanic Studies. Vol. 2, Fall 2004, pp.43-60.
2004 Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia. “Petrified Pasts: Octavio Paz and the Representation of Ruins.” Ciberletras. http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/
Peer-Reviewed Edited Collections and Special Issues
2026 Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia. “La luz poética de Aurora de Albornoz.” Cien años de Aurora de Albornoz: Voz y memoria. Ed. Irene Díaz-Quirós Diéguez. Revista Monograma: Revista Iberoamericana de Cultura y Pensamiento.
2026 Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia. “Pablo Neruda’s España en el corazón and the Spanish Civil War.” Pablo Neruda in Context. Edited by Ignacio López Calvo. Cambridge University Press.
2023 Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia. “Economic, Political and Ecological Disasters: The Metropolis and its Ruins in Latin American Poetry in the 1960’s and 1970’s.” “Metropolis and Ruins” in Volume Four of the five-part Cambridge University Press book series Transitions in Latin American Literature. Eds. Amanda Holmes and Par Kumaraswami. Series Editor. Mónica Szurmuk. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) pp. 99-115
2022 Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia. “Nicolás Guillén y la guerra civil española.” Cuba y España: Encuentros Transatlánticos. Ed. Cecilia Enjuto Rangel. Periphērica. Vol. 2, Issue 1, December pp. 1-29 https://journals.oregondigital.org/index.php/peripherica/article/view/4642
2019 Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia. “Children’s Gaze in Contemporary Cinema: A Transatlantic Poetics of Exile and Historical Memory.” Transatlantic Studies: Latin America, Iberia and Africa. Eds. Cecilia Enjuto Rangel, Sebastiaan Faber, Robert Newcomb and Pedro García-Caro. (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019) pp. 193-205.
2018 Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia. “From Romanticism to Modernismo”. Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry. Ed. Stephen Hart. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) pp.18-35
2018 Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia. “La política transatlántica de solidaridad de Vicente Huidobro y la poética de la Guerra civil española.” La futuridad absoluta de Huidobro. Ed. Luis Correa Díaz and Scott Weintraub. North Carolina State University: Editorial A Contracorriente. pp.22-47
2014 Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia. “Weaving National and Gender Politics: A Transatlantic Reading of Rosalía de Castro and Julia de Burgos’s Poetic Projects” CENTRO Journal of the Center of Puerto Rican Studies.Special Issue on Julia de Burgos. Ed. Lena Burgos. Vol. 26, No. 2, Fall 2014. pp.156-191
2013 Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia. “La mirada nostálgica del exilio en En el balcón vacío (1962).” Exilio y cosmopolitismo en el arte y la literatura hispánica. Ed. Araceli Tinajero. (Madrid: Verbum, 2013) pp. 149-172.
2011 Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia. “Góngora, Unamuno y el 27 en clave transatlántica.” Reyes, Borges, Ramón: La vida literaria en Madrid de los años 20. Ed. Julio Ortega. (Monterrey: Cátedra Alfonso Reyes, Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey and Brown University, 2011) pp. 157-170.
2011 Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia. “Tres generaciones del exilio: la memoria guardada.” L’exil espagnol dans les Amériques. Ed. Carmen Vásquez. Amiens: Centre d’Études Hispaniques D’Amiens (CEHA). pp.41-50.
2010 Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia. “Huidobro’s Voices in the Transatlantic Poetics of the Spanish Civil War.” Rereading Huidobro: 21st Century Approaches. Eds. Scott Weintraub and Luis Correa Díaz. (Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press) pp.14-3 http://hispanicissues.umn.edu/Spring2010.html
2009 Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia. “Baudelaire y Cernuda: un recorrido por las ruinas de la ciudad moderna.” Escribir la ciudad. Eds. Maribel Ortiz and Vanessa Vilches. (San Juan, Puerto Rico: Fragmento Imán, 2009) pp.113-130.
2009 Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia. “La guerra civil española: entre fantasmas, monstruos y faunos.” “España en armas: Cultura de guerras / Guerra de culturas”. Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies. Guest Ed. Antonio Gómez López-Quiñones.Vol.5: pp. 37-55. http://ejournals.library.vanderbilt.edu/lusohispanic/viewissue.php
2008 Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia. “Entre ruinas y escombros de Itálica a Madrid: la poética transatlántica de Neruda.” Alma América. In honorem Victorino Polo. Eds. Vicente Cervera Salinas y María Dolores Adsuar. Murcia: Universidad de Murcia. pp. 232-250.
2005 Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia. “Cities in Ruins: The Recuperation of the Baroque in T.S.Eliot and Octavio Paz.” How Far is America From Here? Proceedings of the International American Studies Association (IASA) Leiden 2003. Paul Giles, Theo D’Haen, Djelal Kadir, and Lois Parkinson Zamora, eds. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi Publishers, 2005. pp. 283-296.
Other publications
2022 Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia. “The world in ruins: What poetry on ruins can teach us about our present struggles.” Red Pepper. https://www.redpepper.org.uk/poetry-ruins-machu-picchu-pablo-neruda-latin-america-climate-change/ # 237.
2021 Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia. Neruda, Pablo. E. by Tambling J. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. pp.1-4. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-625928_154-1
2021 Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia. Cities in Ruins. In: Tambling J. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. Palgrave-Macmillan, Cham. pp.1-3 https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-3-319-62592-8_152-1
2019 Faber, Sebastiaan, Cecilia Enjuto Rangel, Pedro García-Caro, and Robert Newcomb. “Introduction: Transatlantic Studies: Staking Out the Field”; “Epilogue: The Future—if There Is One—Is Transatlantic.” Transatlantic Studies: Latin America, Iberia, and Africa. Ed. Cecilia Enjuto-Rangel, Sebastiaan Faber, Pedro García-Caro, and Robert Newcomb. Liverpool: Liverpool UP. 1-18, 443-448
2019 Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia. “Ley de la Memoria Histórica (Ley 52/2007 de. 26 de diciembre)” y “Memoria Histórica.” Entradas para el Co-diccionario del Anarchivo audiovisual de prácticas de lo común en comunidades autogestionadas en territorio español. Ed. Palmar Álvarez Blanco. (Open Access- virtual research and teaching tool- open)
2015 Faber, Sebastiaan, James D. Fernández, Palmar Álvarez Blanco, Cristina Moreiras-Menor, Cecilia Enjuto-Rangel, Simon Doubleday, Luis Moreno-Caballud, and Benita Sampedro. “Forum: For Whom Do We Write? A Discussion about Format, Purpose, and Audience,” Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Vol. 40: Iss. 1, Article 8. Pp. 139-155 Available at: http://digitalcommons.asphs.net/bsphs/vol40/iss1/8
2007 Enjuto Rangel, Cecilia. “Delmira Agustini” and “Julia de Burgos.” Little Black Book of Books. Ed. Lucy Daniel. (London: Cassell) pp.104 and 374.
Book Reviews
2026 I Am My Own Path: Selected Writings of Julia de Burgos (English and Spanish Edition) (Univ. of Texas Press, 2025), by Vanessa Perez-Rosario (Editor). 440 pages. ISBN: 9781477327913 for Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas.(Forthcoming)
2026 A Planetary Avant-Garde: Experimental Literature Networks and the Legacy of Iberian Colonialism. Ignacio Infante. University of Toronto Press, 2023. 248 pages ISBN-10: 1442629746. Review for Peripherica. (Forthcoming)
2021 Ritos de pasaje. Kadiri Vaquer Fernández. San Juan, Puerto Rico: la secta de los perros. 2019. Review for Chasqui. https://chasquirll.org (November 2021) R42-44. https://chasquirll.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Chasqui-Reviews-November-2021.pdf
2014 Poemas de un bárbaro (1987-2013). Jesús Sepúlveda. Santiago de Chile, Contragolpe Ediciones, 2013, 261 pp. Review for Mapocho, Revista de Humanidades, N. 76, Segundo semestre. pp. 291-295https://www.revistacronopio.com/literatura-cronopio-689/
2012 Fugitive from Spanish Fascism. A Memoir by Miguel Domínguez Soler. Translated and with an Introduction by Richard Baker. University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point: Cornerstone Press, 2010. Review for The Volunteer. https://albavolunteer.org/2012/03/book-review-memoir-of-a-survivor/
2011 Binding Violence. Literary Visions of Political Origins. Moira Fradinger. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010. Review for MLN (Modern Language Notes) 2011, pp.1133-1136
2010 La poesía en la literatura española y latinoamericana de Garcilaso de la Vega a José Emilio Pacheco. Daniel Torres. Madrid: Editorial Pliegos, 2007. Review for Bulletin of Spanish Studies. pp. 102-103
2010 “The Political, Aesthetic, and Ethical Responses to Ruins in Latin America.” Telling Ruins in Latin America. Eds. Michael Lazzara and Vicky Unruh. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009. Review for A Contracorriente, Vol.8, No.1. pp 397-407 http://www.ncsu.edu/acontracorriente/
2007 “Crossing the river, Cruzando el río: Twenty Mexican Poets” (Review of The River Is Wide, El río es ancho. Twenty Mexican Poets, A Bilingual Anthology. Marlon L. Fick, ed. and tr.). A Contracorriente. Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 202-208
2006 “Entre dichos y desdichas: Diario de un poeta recién divorciado de Luis Correa Díaz” Anales de la literatura chilena. 7. 260-263.