Ricardo Andrade Fernandez

Ricardo Andrade Fernández focuses on contemporary fiction from a sound studies approach. His research explores how historical fiction resorts to sound to represent racial, social and cultural clashes of the colonial period, particularly embodied by African, indigenous, mixed-race and feminine alterities. Ricardo’s current project, The Sonorous City: Sounds and Itineraries of the Colonial Urban Space in Latin American Historical Fiction, examines how contemporary novels and films use sound in addressing the displacements of racial, political and gender alterities that inhabited the inharmonic space of seventeenth-century cities, specifically Mexico City, Lima, Salvador da Bahia, Cartagena de Indias, and Caracas.

Before coming to Dominican, Ricardo taught a wide range of Spanish courses at the George Washington University, Pennsylvania State University and Universidad Central de Venezuela, including upper-division classes such as Introduction to Hispanic Literature, Fictions and Depictions of the Conquest, Latin American Short Fiction and Venezuelan Literature. His scholarly work has appeared in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Romance Notes, Cincinnati Romance Review, and Hipogrifo. He has also worked as an Assistant Director of the Penn State’s Study Abroad Program in Ronda, Spain.