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Brian Price

Professor, College of Humanities
Spanish and Portuguese

3158 JFSB

Teaching Experience

Most of my teaching revolves around Spanish American culture and literature, with emphasis on contemporary Mexican literature, film, music, and food. I have taught seminars on countercultural music and literature, the historical novel, commercial cinema, and comparative literature.

Research

I am currently finishing a manuscript on rock and roll, literature, and film in Mexico. Once that’s done, I plan to write a history of Mexico’s rock music from the 1980s to the present. I am also considering a book on the reception of James Joyce’s writing in Mexico.

Selected Publications

Books

  •  Cult of Defeat in Mexico’s Historical Fiction: Failure, Trauma, and Loss. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Edited Scholarly Volumes

  •  The Lost Cinema of Mexico: Reading 1960s-80s Mexican Cinema Against the Grain. Ed. Olivia Consentino and Brian Price. Gainesville, FL: U Florida P, 2021.
  •  TransLatin Joyce: Global Transmissions in Ibero-American Literature. Eds. Brian L. Price, César A. Salgado, and John Pedro Schwartz. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
  •  Asaltos a la historia: Reimaginando la ficción histórica hispanoamericana. Ed. Brian L. Price. Mexico City: Ediciones Eón, 2014.

Service

I currently serve as the graduate coordinator for the Department of Spanish & Portuguese. I am also the faculty mentor for the BYU Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Club. I love running study abroad programs and look for every opportunity I can to take students to other countries.

Citizenship assignments

  •  Graduate coordinator for Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese
  • Affiliated faculty for Latin American Studies and American Studies.
  •  Organized campus visits and public lectures for visiting scholars, writers, and artists
  •  Director for 2 MA thesis committees and committee members for 8 others
  •  Regular musical performances for department public humanities events