Foreign Languages and Literatures at UAB

Carlos L. Orihuela (Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh) is an Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages at UAB. He completed his Bachelor and Licenciate in Literature in the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos at Lima- Peru, in 1985; and his Master and Doctorate in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh, in 1993. His area of specialization is Latin American literature with an emphasis in Latin American Contemporary Literature; Indigenous cultures and Literatures; and Afro-Hispanic literatures. He has recently published Nube Gris (Gray Cloud), a selection of poems (Lima-Peru: Lluvia Editores, 2001).  Professor Orihuela has also published extensively in literary criticism.  His most recent article, "The Poetics of Nicomedes Santa Cruz and Its Challenge to the Canon of Peruvian Hegemonic Literature," appears in the Afro-Hispanic Review.  In addition to his professional work, Professor Orihuela also spends a great deal of time producing poetry, narratives, paintings and artistic photography.