Ricardo Andrade Fernandez

Ricardo Andrade Fernández focuses on contemporary fiction from a sound studies approach. His research explores how historical fiction resorts to sound to represent racial, social and cultural clashes of the colonial period, particularly embodied by African, indigenous, mixed-race and feminine alterities. Ricardo’s current project, The Sonorous City: Sounds and Itineraries of the Colonial Urban Space in Latin American Historical Fiction, examines how contemporary novels and films use sound in addressing the displacements of racial, political and gender alterities that inhabited the inharmonic space of seventeenth-century cities, specifically Mexico City, Lima, Salvador da Bahia, Cartagena de Indias, and Caracas.

Before coming to ��ӽ�, Ricardo taught a wide range of Spanish courses at the George Washington University, Pennsylvania State University and Universidad Central de Venezuela, including upper-division classes such as Introduction to Hispanic Literature, Fictions and Depictions of the Conquest, Latin American Short Fiction and Venezuelan Literature. His scholarly work has appeared in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Romance Notes, Cincinnati Romance Review, and Hipogrifo. He has also worked as an Assistant Director of the Penn State’s Study Abroad Program in Ronda, Spain.

Education

PhD, Latin American Literatures and Cultures, Pennsylvania State University

MA, Hispanic Studies, Universidad de Sevilla

BA, Literature and Journalism, Universidad Central de Venezuela

Research Interests

20th & 21st Century Latin American Literatures and Cultures
Sound Studies
Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
Afro-Latin American Literature
Media Studies
Latina/o/x Studies

Selected Publications

Andrade Fernández, R. (2024). Review: Más allá de la voz. Texturas (ultra)sónicas del poder, la resistencia y el deseo. Latin American Literary Review, 51(102), 186-189. Retrieved from .

Andrade Fernández, R. (2023). Dislocating Sounds: The Unsettling Sonorities of the Amazon in William Ospina’s El país de la canela. Revista de estudios hispánicos, 57(2), 245-270. DOI: 10.1353/rvs.2023.a916253. Retrieved from .

Andrade Fernández, R. (2023). “Sepultado mi nombre queda el grito': Tonalidades del grito de Benkos en La ceiba de la memoria de Roberto Burgos Cantor. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 100(2), 219-237. DOI: 10.3828/bhs.2023.16. Retrieved from .

Andrade Fernández, R. (2022). "¿Hay algo que no te deja ir?": Ecos de Pedro Páramo en Biutiful de Alejandro González Iñárritu. Romance Notes 62(3), 579-589. DOI: .

Andrade Fernández, R. (2021). Contra los hechizos de la tele: Encantamiento y enajenación televisiva en "El mago de la cara de vidrio" de Eduardo Liendo. Cincinnati Romance Review, 51(Fall 2021), 95–113. ISSN: 2155-8817. Retrieved from .

Andrade Fernández, R. (2021). Un discípulo de Hermes en el Perú colonial: Influencia hermética en la astrología médica de Juan de Figueroa. Hipogrifo: Revista de literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro, 9(2), 583-601. ISSN-e: 2328-1308. DOI: .

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