Fall 2026 Office Hours
Thursdays 12:30-2:30 and by appointment
Biography
Glen Close teaches courses in Spanish American literature, culture and film. He is the author of La imprenta enterrada. Arlt, Baroja y el imaginario anarquista (Beatriz Viterbo, 2000), Contemporary Hispanic Crime Fiction. A Transatlantic Discourse on Urban Violence (Palgrave Macmillan 2008), Female Corpses in Crime Fiction. A Transatlantic Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan 2018) and Corpse Encounters in Spanish and Latin American Narrative Fiction (forthcoming from Routledge in 2027). His article “Screening Slaughter” introduced his current research on the representation of animal slaughter in documentary films. Professor Close is also the co-editor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Detective Fiction. Essays on the Género Negro Tradition (McFarland 2006) and the translator of Josefina Ludmer’s The Corpus Delicti. A Manual of Argentine Fictions (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004).
Education
PhD, Yale University
BA, Wesleyan University
