Robert David Aguirre
Title	Associate Professor & Associate Dean of CLAS
Office#	9408.1, 5057 Woodward
Research Area	Nineteenth-century British and American literature; the literature and culture of the Americas; material culture; colonialism and post-colonialism; autobiography.
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E-Mail	r.aguirre@wayne.edu

Education

Harvard University; Ph.D. and A.M.
University of California, Santa Barbara, B.A.

Publications

Books

Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Culture (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2005).

[Reviewed in: Studies in English Literature (2005); Journal of Trans-Atlantic Studies (2005); Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History (2005); Victorian Studies (2006); American Literature (2006); Americas (2006); Journal of British Studies (2006); Review of English Studies (2006); Material Culture (2006); Hispanic American Historical Review (2006); Dissidences: Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism (2006); Clio (2006)].

[Chapter 3 translated in Yaxkin 35.1 (2009): 217-270, journal of the Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia, Tegucicalpa].

Articles

"The Work of Archaeology: The Maudslays in Late Nineteenth-century Guatemala," in Entangled Knowledges: Scientific Discourse
and Cultural Difference, ed. Klaus Hock and Gesa Mackenthum (Münster and New York: Waxmann, 2012), 229-246.

"Mexico, Independence, and Trans-Atlantic Exchange, 1822-24," in BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century
History, ed. Dino Franco Felluga, extension of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net. Web. [accessed 9/20/2012].

“William Bullock (1780–1844): British Museum Curator and Showman in Mexico,” in The Human Tradition in the Atlantic World, 1500-1850, ed. Karen Racine and Beatriz G. Mamigonian (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2010): 223-35.

“Behind the Gallery Doors,” Publications of the Modern Language Association, 125.1 (2010), 129-133.

“Frederick Catherwood,” Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).

“On Exhibit: Mexico in 1824,” in Remapping the Humanities, ed. Heidi Gottfried et al. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2008), 161-72.

“Plutarch’s Lives,” in Classical Literature and Its Times, ed. Joyce Moss (Detroit: Thomson Gale: 2006), 301-12.

“Andrea Camilleri’s Excursion to Tindari,” in World Literature and Its Times 7: Italian Literature and Its Times, ed. Joyce Moss (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2005), 151-159.

“Richard Francis Burton and Henry Morton Stanley,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature,” ed. David Scott Kastan, et al., 5 vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).

“Agencies of the Letter: The British Museum, the Foreign Office, and the Ruins of Central America,” Victorian Studies 46.2 (2004): 285-96.

“Anthropology and Ethnology,” in The Encyclopedia of the Victorian Era, ed. James Eli Adams et al., 4 vols. (Danbury, CT: Grolier Academic Press, 2004).

“Exhibiting Degeneracy: The Aztec Children and the Ruins of Race,” Victorian Review 29.2 (2003): 40-63.

“Annihilating the Distance: Panoramas and the Conquest of Mexico, 1822-1848,” Genre: Forms of Discourse 35.1 (2002): 25-54.

“Cold Print: Professing Authorship in Trollope’s An Autobiography,” Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 25.4 (2002): 569-593. [Reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, vol. 152, ed. Russel Whitaker (Farmington Hills: Gale Group, 2005).

“Victor Martinez’s Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida,” in Literature and its Times: Supplement, ed. Joyce Moss, 2 vols. (Farmington Hills: Gale, 2002), 2:367-77.

“Richard Rodriguez’s Days of Obligation: An Argument with my Mexican Father,” in Latin American Literature and its Times, ed. Joyce Moss (Farmington Hills: Gale, 1999), 85-94.

External Fellowships

Andrew W. Mellon/Public Goods Council of Senior Fellowship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2005-06).

Andrew Mellon Research Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library (1999-2000).

Courses Taught:

Undergraduate Courses
English 3100: Introduction to Literary Studies
English 3120, English Literature from 1700
English 5250, Nineteenth-century British Literature
English 5090, Theorizing Museums
English 5270, Victorian Literature
English 5290, The Literature of Travel

Graduate Courses
English 7260, Race and Victorian Literature
English 7240, Trans-Atlantic Studies
English 7260, Victorian Travelers
English 7340, New World Encounters

Wayne State University

AIM HIGHER

Books

“Richard Francis Burton and Henry Morton Stanley,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature,” ed. David Scott Kastan, et al., 5 vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).