Claudio Palomares-Salas

Research and teaching interests: Latin American Literature, History, and Music; the Latin American Diaspora in the US and Canada; Transatlantic Avant-Garde Movements (1910-1920s); the Political Song in Latin America (1960-1980s), particularly in Mexico.

Education

Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2013
M.A., McGill University, 2009
B.A., McGill University, 2007

About          

Claudio Palomares-Salas joined the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures in 2014. His research and teaching interests are in Latin American Literature, History, and Music; the Latin American Diaspora in the US and Canada; Transatlantic Avant-Garde Movements (1910-1920s); the Political Song in Latin America (1960-1980s), particularly in Mexico.

Books

Mexican Canto Nuevo: Music, Politics, and Resistance (Oxford University Press, 2025)

The Spatiality of the Hispanic Avant-Garde (Brill, 2020)

All publications

Publications: Claudio Palomares-Salas

Teaching 

LLCU 248: Introduction to Latin American Cultures
LLCU 205: Investigating Nations (Mexico)
LLCU 244: Hips don’t Lie? Music and Culture in Latin America
LLCU 249: Latin Lovers: Love, Sex and Popular Culture
LLCU 311: Hispanic, Latino, Latinx? Hispanic Cultures in the US and Canada
LLCU 395: Modern Latin American Fiction

Please contact Prof. Palomares-Salas for any inquiries about our Latin American Studies minor.