Héctor Hoyos

Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures

Professor, by courtesy, of Comparative Literature

Director, Center for Latin American Studies

Director, Center for the Study of the Novel

2008: Ph.D. and M.A., Cornell University, Romance Studies

2002: B.A., with honors, Universidad de los Andes, Philosophy

2001: B.A., magna cum laude, Universidad de los Andes, Literature

Héctor Hoyos works at the intersection of literary criticism and continental philosophy. His scholarly publications include two monographs with Columbia University Press: (2015), on ideological critiques of globalization in the Latin American novel, and (2019), on the articulation of critical theory and new materialism in the region’s cultural production. The first of these studies appeared in Spanish translation as , Crítica, 2020. (For èצӰ�� Report coverage, see .) He is a former Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin.

Hoyos has edited or co-edited article collections for , on contemporaneity, in 2014; for , on material culture, in 2016; for the Nueva América book series at the University of Pittsburgh press, on ; and for Revista Chilena de Literatura, on the twentieth anniversary of 's passing, both in 2023. Articles by Hoyos have appeared in Comparative Literature Studies, Third Text, Chasqui, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Law and Literature, Revista Hispánica Moderna, and Revista Iberoamericana, among others. He is preparing a co-authored manuscript entitled García Márquez and the Critique of Law: Rule of Affect as Constitutive Power in World Literature.

Professor Hoyos welcomes graduate applicants in all fields of modern Latin American literature and culture, from the 19th century to the present. Dialogues across national traditions are preferred. Primary subfields are the Southern Cone and Colombia; secondary include Cuba and Brazil. Current topics of interest include: contemporaneity; post-anthropocentrisms; globalization and World Literature; fictionalizations of human rights and juridical reasoning. For multidisciplinary projects, see Modern Thought and Literature.

Presently, Hoyos co-chairs the research groups , on Latin Americanist and comparative anthropodecentric thought, and Law and Literature in the Global South. He also directs the and the . His radio interview on Bolaño, hosted by Robert Harrison on Entitled Opinions, can be . A 2014 invited lecture can be ; a 2018 lecture . See also and .