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Antonio Barrenechea
Assistant Professor of English
English, Linguistics and Communication

Ph.D., Yale University
B.A., Fordham University

Expertise
Film Studies
Comparative Literature
Literature of the Americas

Antonio Barrenechea, Assistant Professor of English, earned a Ph.D. (2004) and M.Phil. (2001) in comparative literature from Yale University, as well as a B.A. (1998) in comparative literature from Fordham University. He has contributed articles and book reviews to the journals Comparative Literature, Comparative American Studies, and Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations, and to the collection America’s Worlds and the World's Americas/Les mondes des Amériques et les Amériques du monde. He is currently working on a book project, funded by a Jepson Fellowship, which explores the incorporation of colonial archives in postwar novels from the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Besides participating in National Endowment for the Humanities seminars at the John Carter Brown Library and at Columbia University, he twice represented UMW at the National Humanities Center as a duPont seminarian.

Dr. Barrenechea is an active member of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) and the International American Studies Association (IASA). At UMW, he has created new courses in the literature of the Americas and in film studies, including “New World Writing in the Colonial Period,” “Literature and Nation Building in the American Republics,” and “Celluloid Vampire: ‘Dracula’ from Page to Screen.” He also serves as faculty advisor to the James Farmer Multicultural Center during National Hispanic Heritage Month and is a judge for the annual student film festival, “The Spectacle.”