Department of American Studies Program in Comparative Literature RUTGERS 131 George Street New Brunswick , NJ 08901-1414 Email: bjauregui@amst.rutgers.edu Telephone: (732) 932-5776 FAX: (732)932- 1169 Office: Ruth Adams Bldg., Rm. 108-C Office Hours: By appointment only

Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui is Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies and the Program in Comparative Literature. His research interests include Latino/a Literature and Culture, XX^th-Century Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies, gender theory and sexuality studies, and psychoanalysis. He is the author of Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature (Palgrave, 2002), and has also published articles on sexuality, queer identities in Latino/a America, and melodrama.

Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui teaches a variety of undergraduate courses on Latin American and U.S. Latino/a literature, film, performance theory, and cultural practices. His graduate seminars include topics such as melodrama as hegemonic discourse in Latin American cultures; deconstruction and master narratives; interrogating critical concepts in gender and queer theory as they relate to a broad American context; representations of race, sexuality and gender in the cultural production of the nation; also, U.S. Latino/a identities and postcolonial theory. Presently he is working on two research projects: one on the relation of melodrama and masochism in a series of Latin American novels, films, and essays; the other on fragmented queer identities and melancholia.

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Areas of Interest:

• Latino/a Studies and Postcolonial Theory
• Gender Theory, Sexuality Studies, and Psychoanalysis
• Late-XIX^th and XX^th-Century Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies
• Literary and Cultural Theory

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