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Current Research Projects
Current Research Projects
Dissertation: Epistemologies of the Baño: Bath Space, Affective Occupation and Public Sex(ualities) in Contemporary Queer Mexican Narrative
Dissertation: Epistemologies of the Baño: Bath Space, Affective Occupation and Public Sex(ualities) in Contemporary Queer Mexican Narrative
Description: In this dissertation, I employ a cultural studies approach to examine the relationship between bath space and practices of gender and sexuality in 21st century queer Mexican narrative. To do this, I argue for a new critical framework that borrows the concept of desire paths from architectural studies as a novel way of understanding the way(s) that space is occupied by practices of sexual dissidence. Objects of study in Epistemologies of the Baño include Ana Clavel's 2005 novel Cuerpo náufrago; contemporary bathhouse film; and the podcast CUIR: Historias disidentes.
Jotografías: Mapping Mexico through 21st Century Queer Literature
Jotografías: Mapping Mexico through 21st Century Queer Literature
Description: This interdisciplinary digital humanities project aims to visualize the construction of space in 21st century Mexican narrative through innovative Geographical Information System (GIS) software.
Publications
Publications
Conference Presentations
Conference Presentations
Articles
Articles
Hansen, Koby Bryan. “Graphic Ghosts: Reimagining Urban Violence in Augusto Mora’s Los fantasmas de mi ciudad.” Supernatural Cities: Placing Urban Identities, Memory, and Cultural Crises, special issue of Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural, edited by Rachael Ironside & Alicia Edwards, 2024. Pp. 121-136. https://www.revenantjournal.com/contents/graphic-ghosts-reimagining-urban-violence-in-augusto-moras-los-fantasmas-de-mi-ciudad/
2025
2025
“Caminos del deseo: Cruising como marco teórico para la narrativa mexicana siglo XXI.” Congreso Nuevas rutas y canon, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana - Azcapotzalco, Mexico City, MX, October 2025
“Bodies that Dance, Bodies that Desire: Erotics and Dance in Julián Hernández’s Films.” Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, May 2025
“Escuchar al baño: Bathroom Narratives and the Auditory in CUIR: Historias disidentes.” XXIX Annual Juan Bruce-Novoa Mexican Studies Conference, Irvine, CA, May 2025
“In the Steam: Polyphonic Narrative and Democratic Space in Mexican Bathhouse Film.” XV Annual Graduate Student Conference, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA, April 2025
"Meet me in the Metro: Cruising and Public Transportation in 21st Century Mexican Cultural Production." Modern Language Association (MLA), New Orleans, LA, January 2025
Forthcoming
Forthcoming
Hansen, Koby Bryan. "Difficult Traces to Erase: Audiovisual Projects Remembering the Stroessner Dictatorship." Setting the Scene: Critical Perspectives in Documentary Film in Latin America and the Caribbean, edited by Christopher Ballengee. University Press of Mississippi, 2026.
Soria, Ricardo and Koby Bryan Hansen. “Chacal.” Diccionario de Intraducibles: Género, sexualidad, sexodisidencias y feminismos en América Latina y el Caribe, edited by Moira Fradigner et al.
2024
2024
"The Anton/Antonia Problem and the Homoerotic in Ana Clavel's Shipwrecked Body." Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association (PAMLA), Palm Springs, CA, November 2024
"Con el culo: Sexual Dissidence and Anal Politics in Three Acts." Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Bogotá, Colombia, June 2024
"Sex(y) Education: The Informative and the Pornographic in Hermes and Anal Magazine." With and Beyond the Impasse: XIV Annual Graduate Student Conference, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA, April 2024
"'De México la mejor revista gay': HIV/AIDS Education and Erotics as Queer Care in Hermes." XXVIII Annual Juan Bruce-Novoa Mexican Studies Conference, Irvine, CA, April 2024
"La más mexicana: Subverting or Reifying Mexicanidad in Drag Race México and La Más Draga?" Popular Culture Association National Conference, Chicago, IL, March 2024
"Chacales, Cristo and Everything In-Between: A Look at Valerio Gámez's Art." Queer and Trans Studies in Religion, Riverside, CA, February 2024
"Epistemología del baño: cruising y ocupación afectiva en la narrativa reciente." Primer Congreso de Estudios Humanísticos, Universidad Modelo, Mérida, México, February 2024
Under Review
Under Review
Hansen, Koby Bryan. "'Y sin embargo...': Heteropessimism and the Work of Rosario Castellanos." The Spanish & Portuguese Review vol. 11.
2023
2023
"'Y sin embargo...': Heteropesimismo, transfeminismo y la escritura de Rosario Castellanos." Feminismos hoy: XIX Symposium of the International Association of Women Philosophers, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 2023
"Graphic Mexico: Violence and Youth Resistance in Augusto Mora's Graphic Novels." Popular Cultural Association National Conference, San Antonio, TX, April 2023
"Subversiones selváticas: la muerte y la sexualidad en Selva trágica y Sueño en otro idioma." Beyond (Un)natural Crises, Disasters, and Catastrophes: Ecologies of Care and "Other" Worlds-in-making, Graduate Student Conference, Merced, CA, March 2023
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