Andrés Lema-Hincapié, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Contemporary Spanish-American Literatures and Cultures

Education

Ph.D. in philosophy, University of Ottawa
Ph.D. in Hispanic literatures, Cornell University

Research & Academic Interests

Andrés' intellectual passions and fields of research/teaching are contemporary fiction (novels and short stories), philosophy, essays, and queer cinema from Spanish America. Currently, Andrés is starting three new projects at UC Denver: a small theater company for puppets, a weekly radio show, and a center for translations in the humanities.

Publications

In addition to articles on modern thinkers such as Kant and Berkeley, and ancient philosophy (Parmenides and Plato), Andrés has published extensively on Borges. He is the author of Kant y la Biblia: Principios kantianos de exégesis bíblica (Barcelona: Anthropos, 2006). In July 2008, SUNY UP published a book Andrés co-edited with Joan Ramon Resina: Burning Darkness: A Half Century of Spanish Cinema.

Academic Background

Andrés received doctoral fellowships from the University of Ottawa and the Ministry of Education, Province of Ontario (1993-1997), the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, and the University of Edinburgh (1999). He won the Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award at Cornell University (2005). From 2006 to 2008, he taught at Whitman College (Walla Walla, Washington). Andrés founded in 2003, and is the director of, "AMIGOS DEL SUR -- Institute for Cultures, Languages, and International Service (Argentina, Brasil, Colombia)."

At Cornell, Andrés cofounded the Romance Studies Film Series.

At the Universidad del Valle (Cali, Colombia), Andrés was associate professor of eighteenth-century British and German philosophy, teaching Berkeley and Kant, as well as occasional introductory courses on medieval philosophy and Latin for beginners (1998-2001).