Moisés Park

Dr. Park grew up in the capital cities of Bolivia, Brazil and Chile, speaking Korean at home, Spanish with friends and English at school. He taught in the Languages and Linguistics and Communication Arts Department at Gordon College (MA) for 6 year before joining the Modern Languages and Cultures Department at Baylor University faculty in 2016. He teaches language, literature and cinema. Dr. Park's main research projects include contemporary Latin American literature and films, poetry, Orientalism, Critical Theory (psychoanalysis, socio-materialist theory and biopolitics) and Cultural Studies. He presents mainly on literature and cinema, but has presented on topics such as the politics of martial arts, religion, Orientalism and Asian American Studies. His latest publications include "Sexualization of the Oriental Ruins: Moreno-Durán's Mambrú, the Colombian Battalion, the Korean War, Picasso and the (Marilyn) Monroe Doctrine" (2014), "Post mortem: San Salvador Allende y la autopsia histórica" (2014) and "The Latin Dragon: The Remasculinization of the 'Oriental' Male in Marko Zaror's films" (2015). His book Desire and Generational Conflicts in Contemporary Chilean Narrative and Cinema was published in 2014. His first poetry book is El verso cae al aula published by Amanuense Chile and Hebel in 2017. He is currently working on two book projects: Crónicas canutas: historias e histerias de la presencia evangélica en Chile and Machuca: 15 años desde su estreno. His second poetry project is Trilírica, a trilingual project that includes translations and poetry in English, Korean and Spanish.