ADRIAN PEREZ-MELGOSA
Visiting Assistant Professor
Frank Melville, Jr. Memorial Library N3030, (631) 632-1196
Curriculum Vitae

Adrian Pérez Melgosa is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at SUNY Stony Brook with a specialization in Contemporary Hispanic Cultural Studies. He received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Rochester. His work explores the intervention of visual and written fiction narratives on the shaping of collective identities in the Americas and Europe. His current research studies 20th century popular narratives of the Americas in search for patterns of representation of cross-cultural relationships in the continent. His book in progress, Imaginary Policies and Real Fictions: Metaphors of Hemispheric Otherness in the Americas studies the role fiction has played in providing metaphoric structures to explain the uneven distribution of economic and political power among the different communities of the Americas. He has published essays in the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Scribner's American Writers Series, Letras Femeninas, and Monteagudo Revista de Literatura Comparada.