Moisés Park

Research/Teaching Interests

• Latin American Literature and Cinema
• Identity
• Poetry and Music
• Popular Culture
• Asian Diaspora

Education

• Ph.D., University of California, Davis
• B.S., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Courses Taught at Baylor

• Exploring the Spanish-Speaking World (SPA 2320)
• Introduction to Hispanic Literature (SPA 3305)
• Latin American Poetry (SPA 4378)
• 21st-Century Latin American Cinema (SPA 4388)
• 21st-Century Latin American Cinema (SPA 5388)

Selected Publications

Co-edited Volume

Here Comes the Flood: Perspectives of Gender, Sexuality, and Stereotype in the Korean Wave. Ed. by Marcie Tanter and Moises Park. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Lexington Books, 2022.

Monograph

Figuraciones del deseo y coyunturas generacionales en literatura y cine postdictatorial. New York: Peter Lang Publishers, 2014.

Poetry Book

El verso cae al aula y Poemas marciales. Santiago: Editorial Amanuense, 2019.

Articles and Book Chapters

• “Anthony Shim’s Riceboy Sleeps: Metaphors of Survival in the Korean Diasporic Experience.” In Contemporary Asian Popular Culture Vol. 1: Squid Game, Utopias, and Dystopias. Edited by Yeojin Kim, Dharshani Lakmali Jayasinghe. Palgrave MacMillan Press, 2024, 151-174.

• “Latin Orientalism, Anglo-hegemony in Korean Rock: Seo Taiji’s ‘Moai’ (2009).” In Korean Pop Culture Beyond Asia: Race and Reception. Edited by David C. Oh and Benjamin M. Han. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2024, 149-170.

• “‘Warma Kuyay’ (Amor de niño) by José María Arguedas: A Dialectic Prelude to Liberation Ecotheology,” Literature and Theology, Vol. 35 Issue 3, 2021, 266-284.

• “The Latin Dragon Going Global: Marko Zaror, Martial Arts, and Stardom.” In Chilean Cinema in the 21st Century World. Edited by Vania Barraza and Carl Fischer. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2020, 129-155.

• “Gracias a la vida": Violeta Went to Heaven and Came Back Wearing a K-Pop Miniskirt,” Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, Vol. 37 Issue 1, 2019, 25-50.

• “Cyber Theology of the Problem of Evil in the Meta-narrative of Camila Gutiérrez.” In Critical Insights Series: Contemporary Latin American Literature. Edited by Ignacio López-Calvo. Ipswich, MI: Salem Press, 2017, 163-177.

• “The Latin Dragon: The Remasculinization of the Oriental Male” in Transnational Orientalisms in Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Cinema. Edited by Michele Dávila. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016, 9-32.