Felix Burgos, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish
World Languages & Cultures Department
Whitewater Hall, Room 273
fburgos@iu.edu
Education
- PhD, Language, Literacy, and Culture – Latin American Studies, University of Maryland Baltimore County, July 2018
- Dissertation: “Memory and Memorialization Amidst the Colombian Armed Conflict”
- MA, Intercultural Communication, University of Maryland Baltimore County 2010
- BA, Philology and Languages, English Teaching. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2008.
Current Research Interests
- Memory and reconciliation processes in Latin America
- Curation, display and exhibition of difficult and traumatic memories
- Construction of immigrant collective memories in United States
- Rhetoric and Composition (Electracy)
- Social justice in the Foreign Language Classroom
Professional Activities
- Co-editor Open Access Journal Textshop Experiments http://textshopexperiments.org/
Recent Publications
- Burgos, Felix and K.A. Wisniewski “The Un-Publishable: Textshop Experiments and Composition(s) of/as Publishing,” Exquisite Corpse: Art-Based Writing Practices in the Academy Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, 2019.
- Burgos, Felix. “Transmuting Monuments.” Textshop Experiments, 3, (Winter, 2016): n: pag. http://textshopexperiments.org/textshop02/transmuting-monuments
- Burgos, Felix. “Uncovering the Campus: Memory, Space and Trauma.” Hyperrhiz, 12,Special Issue: Mapping Culture Multimodally (Summer, 2015): n. pag. http://hyperrhiz.io/hyperrhiz12/augmented-maps/3-burgos.html
Selected Presentations
- “Exhibitions, toolkits, and materials: The transmission of difficult knowledges of the Colombian armed conflict” LASA 2019: Nuestra América: Justice and Inclusion, May 2019
- “The Construction of Historical Memory in Colombia: Challenges Against Denial and Oblivion” 1st International Conference of the Center for Holocaust, Genocide & Human Rights Studies, April 2019
- “Representing Memories of Violence and Resistance in Colombia.” Connecting (to) Heritage Studies in the U.S.: A Consortium. Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, June 16-18, 2017.
- “Exploring Memory and Memorialization in the midst of Colombia’s Armed Conflict.” What does Heritage Change? Association of Critical Heritage Studies, Montreal, Canada, June 3-8, 2016.