{"id":11458,"date":"2015-09-10T12:50:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T16:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=11458"},"modified":"2025-09-09T18:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T22:01:11","slug":"edgardo-tormos-bigles","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/profile\/edgardo-tormos-bigles\/","title":{"rendered":"Edgardo Tormos Bigles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edgardo was born and raised in Puerto Rico. He earned his PhD from Boston University\u2019s Department of Romance Studies in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>His research focuses on 20th-century Mexican literature and film, specifically, the representation of revolutions and insurgency.\u00a0His work explores bodily abjection as a literary and cinematic trope that enables novel, critical approaches to the study of the Mexican Revolution and its cultural archive. His publications include:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLa mula por la c\u00e1mara: John Reed, Paul Leduc y el cuerpo espectral en el tiempo revolucionario\u201d. <em>Chasqui, Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana<\/em>, vol. 50, no. 1, 2021, pp.205-23.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlfredo Joskowicz: Corporeal Abjection and Counterculture in Independent Mexican Cinema After 1968\u201d, <em>Studies in Spanish &amp; Latin American Cinemas<\/em>, vol. 18, no. 3, 2021, pp. 351\u201363.<\/p>\n<p>Other projects include service as Executive Board Member of Tabonuco, Inc., a non-profit organization that provides ecological and artistic education to Puerto Rican youth and adults. Edgardo is also a founding member and contributor of <em>En Reserva<\/em>, a cultural section of Puerto Rican weekly newspaper <em>Claridad<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4316,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4316"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25906,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11458\/revisions\/25906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}