Faculty Member Since 2020
Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodriguez is a Spanish Lecturer.
In his research, Dr. Eljaiek-Rodriguez studies cinematic and literary processes of othering and exclusion, particularly as undertaken through representations of monstrosity. He has extensively studied the transformation of the gothic and horror genres in Latin America and how directors and writers use these genres to comment on the politics of the continent. Dr. Eljaiek-Rodriguez has published in English and in Spanish since 2006, with books such as "The Migration and Politics of Monsters in Latin American Cinema" (2018), "Selva de fantasmas. El gótico en la literatura y el cine latinoamericanos" (2017), and the forthcoming "Baroque Aesthetics in Contemporary American Cinema" (2022), among others. In his native Bogotá, Dr. Eljaiek-Rodriguez began his academic career at the Institute of Social and Cultural Studies Pensar. There, he developed his interest in cultural studies and transdisciplinary work. Since receiving his doctorate from Emory University, Dr. Eljaiek-Rodriguez has worked at universities in the United States such as Lawrence University, The George Washington University, and Savannah College of Arts and Design. In addition, he has taught courses at international institutions such as the Instituto Caro y Cuervo in Bogotá.
Ph.D., Latin American Studies, Emory University
M.A., Spanish and Portuguese, Emory University
B.A., Psychology, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Elementary Spanish – SFLS 101
Intermediate Spanish – SFLS 201
Intermediate Spanish – SFLS 202
Introduction to Literary Texts. The Latin American Other – SFLS 308
Latin American Cinema
Latin American Gothic Literature
Global Horror Cinema
Cultural Migration to and from Latin America
Latin American Cultural and Political Studies
Books
"Baroque Aesthetics in Contemporary American Horror Cinema." Forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan.
"Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature." Forthcoming from Anthem Press, November 2021.
"The Migration and Politics of Monsters in Latin American Cinema." Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
"Selva de fantasmas. El gótico en la literatura y el cine latinoamericanos." Bogotá: Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colección Opera Eximia, 2017.
"La tras escena del museo. Nación y objetos en el Museo Nacional de Colombia." Bogotá: Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2006.
Selected Book Chapters
“Latin American Horror.” Global Horror Film. Trauma, Borders, and Shifting Visions. Forthcoming from Cognella Press, Spring 2022.
“Gothic in the Tropics. Transformations of the Gothic in the Colombian Hot Lands.” Latin American Gothic in Literature and Culture. New York: Routledge, 96-106, 2018.
“[•REC]-onfiguraciones españolas de la narrativa zombi”. TERRA ZOMBI: El fenómeno transnacional de los muertos vivientes. Río Piedras, Puerto Rico: Isla Negra, 133-150, 2015.
“Bloodsucking Bugs: Horacio Quiroga and the Latin American Transformations of Vampires.” The Supernatural Cinema of Guillermo del Toro. North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 146-162, 2015.
Selected Articles
“Invocación y evocación: fantasmas de la violencia en Sumando ausencias de Doris Salcedo”. Revista de Estudios Colombianos. No. 55. Enero-junio, 2020.
“Fantasmagorías bogotanas. Invención y producción de fantasmas en la Candelaria.” Revista de Estudios Colombianos. No. 54. Julio-diciembre, 2019.
“The Living Dead vs. The Dying Living. Zombies and the Elderly.” ReVista. Harvard Review of Latin America. Aging in the Americas. Winter, 2019.
“Haunted Screens: Horacio Quiroga in Dialogue with Japanese Horror Cinema.” TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, 8(4), 2018.
“El retorno de los muertos vivientes (al Caribe). Zombis en el cine cubano contemporáneo”. Hispanic Research Journal. Queen Mary, University of London. Volume 16, Issue 1. 86-102, 2015.
“Semillas de maldad. Early Latin American Gothic”. Studies in Gothic Fiction. Special Issue on the Gothic and/in Latin America. Volume 3, Issue 2, 2014.