Carlos Villacorta-Gonzales

Carlos Villacorta-Gonzales
Professor of Spanish
201 Williams Hall
207.581.2075
carlos.villacorta@maine.edu
B.A. Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (2001)
Ph.D. Boston University (2009)

Carlos Villacorta Gonzáles is a Professor of Spanish and Honors at University of Maine. He received his Ph.D. in Latin-American Literature from Boston University. His research centers on contemporary Latin American Literature specifically in poetry in the 20th and 21st century. In addition, his research also focuses on urban representation in contemporary poetry and fiction.

Scholarly Interests: Latin American Literature, urban studies, Latin American poetry and fiction, Latin American studies.

Why I Teach in Honors:
I teach in the Honors College because it is a great opportunity to work with students who want to learn more about our world and to analyze, from different perspectives, our role on this planet. At the same time, it is a good opportunity to learn from the questions and concerns of students who are just beginning their university journey and who are eager to learn more about science, the arts, history—in short, everything that connects us and makes us part of this global community.

Publications:
Editor in chief of Polis-Poesía, a journal dedicated to literature and urban representations. He is co-editor of Antología Binacional de Cuento / Poesía Perú-Ecuador 1998-2008 (Perú, 2009) and Los relojes se han roto: Antología de poesía peruana de los noventa (México, 2005). He also edited the anthology Lima Escrita: Arquitectura poética de la ciudad 1070-2020 (2021). He has published many articles on Peruvian and Latin American authors like Cesar Vallejo, Ricardo Piglia, Roberto Bolaño, José Watanabe among others.
As a writer, he also has published the poetry books el grito (2001), Tríptico (2003) and Ciudad Satélite (2007). His short stories have appeared in Spanish, English and French. His last two books are Libro de la Tentación y del Olvido (poetry, 2023) and Alicia, esto es el capitalismo (fiction, 2025).