Moisés Park
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Moisés Park
Associate Professor of Spanish and Communication Arts
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B.S. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ph.D. University of California, Davis
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 joined the Gordon College faculty in fall of 2010. He teaches language, literature and cinema. Dr. Park's main research projects include contemporary Southern Cone literature and films, poetry, Orientalism, Critical Theory (psychoanalysis, socio-materialist theory and biopolitics) and Cultural Studies. He presents mainly on Latin American literature and cinema, but has presented on topics such as the politics of martial arts films, religion, Orientalism and Asian American Studies. His latest publications include "Sexualization on 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. 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."