Ross Hernández

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Lecturer of Spanish

611 Sproul Hall
Office Hours
Fall 26: 11:00-12:00 Tuesdays and Thursday, Sproul 611

Ross Hernández is a lecturer of Mexican Literature and Culture at the University of California, Davis. His dissertation, Twenty-First Century Mexican Poetry Between Cultural Policy and Autonomy, analyzes the relationship between poetry, work, and the commodity form through changes in institutional models. His current work on poetry and painting explores the political uses of Surrealism in contemporary Mexico. 

Previous Experience

  • 2024-2026: Visiting Researcher in la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Benemérita Universidad de Puebla, Puebla México

Education and Degree(s)

  • Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, UC Davis

Courses

  • Comparative Literature 001 But, Sappho, It is Hard to Say Goodbye: Ancient Literature and Contemporary Variations
  • COM 003 Revolution! Modernity!: Vanguard Poetry and Realism
  • COM004: Contemporary Latin American Literature and Politics

  • SPA 172: Literatura y cultura mexicana de los siglos XX y XXI

  • SPA 153: El cuento corto en América Latina

  • SPA 155: La novela mexicana

  • SPA 168: Chicano Music and Culture

Research Interests & Expertise

  • Mexican art and literature, vanguard poetry, critical theory, and painting.

Publications

  • “Autogestión, Totality, and Subversion: The Politics of José Revueltas’ Aesthetic Theory” forthcoming in Inter-Revolutionary Latin America: Radical Literature and Internationalism from 1910-1959, edited by Anna Björk Einarsdóttir and Pavel Andrade, Palgrave. Forthcoming
  • “El realismo del surrealismo mexicano: hacia una poética del trabajo abstracto [The Realism of Mexican Surrealism: Toward a Poetics of Abstract Labor].” Panhispánica: Revista de la Cátedra Internacional de Poesía Marco Antonio Campos. Núm. 1 (1): Panhispánica, Año 1, No. 1, 2026.
  • “Poetry Is What Has to Do with the People: Institutions, Cultural Policy, and the Autonomy of the Poem in 21st Century Mexico.” forthcoming in A Contracorriente.
  • “Reseña crítica: Poeta Griega Arcaico por Luis Felipe Fabre.” Chasquí, May 2025.
  • “Reseña crítica: Bas Jan Ader: retrato de un gusano blanco por Sayuri Sánchez: Apuntes sobre el surrealismo mexicano y la brecha metabólica,” Chasqui, November 2024.
  • “A Border Run Around the Planet,” Commune Magazine, Winter 2020.