Dr. Guillermo Romero is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese. He specializes in 20th- and 21st-century Latin American literature. Dr. Romero’s research focuses on contemporary narratives within the canon often referred to as the "literature of violence." He explores how these narratives depict a specific modern form of violence, framed through the concept of trans-political violence. By studying works by Latin American authors, he examines the literary representation of the continuum of violence that has persisted in the subcontinent since the arrival of Columbus. He particularly focuses on the predominant forms of violence in each country—such as narco-violence in Mexico and Colombia, and state violence in Argentina—and how these forms evolve into what French philosopher Jean Baudrillard conceptualized as trans-political violence. Dr. Romero's research interests also extend to Latin American history and politics, Latin American cultural studies, detective fiction in Latin America, Latin American cinema, contemporary Colombian narratives, and post-dictatorial narratives in the Southern Cone of Latin America.
