Dr Paul Allatson
Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning), ADMIN Academic Programs
Senior Lecturer in (US) Latino and Spanish Studies, Cultural Studies Group
DipArtsVisual (COFA), BA (ANU), BA (Hons) (UNSW), GradDipVisArt (COFA), PhD (UNSW)
Email: Paul.Allatson@uts.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 9514 2104
Fax: +61 2 9514 1578
Room: CQ01.02.16 (map)
Mailing address: PO Box 123,
Broadway NSW 2007,
Australia
Biography
After completing degrees in history and Indonesian studies, art theory and practice, and English and Spanish/Latin American Studies, Paul completed his doctorate at UNSW in the area of US Latino cultural and literary studies. Paul has published widely in the areas of Latino and transamerican cultural studies, postcolonial theory, sexuality studies, media studies, and literary and performance studies.
Paul is the author of Latino Dreams: Transcultural Traffic and the U.S. National Imaginary (Rodopi, 2002), and Key Terms in Latino/a Cultural and Literary Studies (Blackwell, 2007), and is co-editor (with Jo McCormack) of Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities (Rodopi, 2008). Paul's Latino Dreams (2002) was the first book-length study by an Australian academic to deal with US Latino (Hispanic) cultures and peoples, and the processes of Latinization that are transforming the USA and influencing international perceptions of that country. Allatson has also contributed to the key cultural debates in the burgeoning fields of Latino Studies and the new American Studies that aims to transnationalise understandings of US culture and history. Paul brings to these fields a non-US and Australian voice, and a multidisciplinary approach anchored in his training in history, languages, literary studies, art theory and cultural studies.
Paul is available to supervise higher degree research students in the following areas: contemporary US Latino cultural studies (cultural history, literary production, performance studies, cultural politics, mass-mediation, identity production, immigration debates); cultural, film, performance and media studies; transamerican studies; queer studies; and postcolonial studies
Professional
Paul is the founding and current editor of the multilingual PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies. He is also on the international editorial advisory boards of the journals Latino Studies (Palgrave Macmillan) and Nebula (University of Western Sydney), and the Writing in Latinidad: Autobiographical Voices of U.S. Latinos/as Book Series (University of Wisconsin Press). Paul is a member of the following professional associations: Australian Iberian and Latin American Studies Association (AILASA); Cultural Studies Association of Australia (CSAA); Latin American Studies Association (LASA) (USA): Latino Studies, Film Studies and Sexuality Studies Sections; Modern Language Association (MLA) (USA); National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) (USA).
Teaching Areas
As Head of the UTS: International Studies Program, Paul is responsible for the teaching and learning deliveries of the combined degree in International Studies, and the BA in Global Studies. Paul also teaches in the International Studies Program. He is coordinator of the Latino USA major within the combined degree in International Studies, and contributes to the Spain Major and the three Latin American Majors, as well as other International Studies subjects. He is a regular guest lecturer in a range of subjects in the Communication Program.
Research
Research interests
Paul's research spans the fields of Latino Studies, Transamerican Studies, Cultural Studies, Media and Film Studies, and Queer Studies. He is particularly interested in US Latino cultural history and politics (literary and cultural production, performance studies, mass-mediation, identity production, immigration debates, film representations); the formation of transnational Latino communities; US popular cultural, film, performance and media studies; transamerican cultural studies; queer studies; and postcolonial studies and transcultural theoretical traditions.
Projects
Selected Peer-Assessed Projects
Being Famous in China: Celebrities, Heroes and Public Figures
Publications
Research books
Allatson, P. 2002, Latino Dreams: Transcultural Traffic and the U.S. National Imaginary, 1, Rodopi Press, Amsterdam and New York.
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Book editorship
Allatson, P. & McCormack, J. 2008, Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities, Rodopi Press, Amsterdam and New York.
Books (other)
Allatson, P. 2007, Key Terms in Latino/a Cultural and Literary Studies, Blackwell Publishers, Malden and Oxford.
Research book chapters
Allatson, P. 2008, 'Hoy marchamos, manana votamos: Heeding the USA's Latino Future' in Gong Siyi (eds), Kuibuji Shanghai Daxue Xini Keji Daxue Xueshu Yantaohui Lunwenji, Shangda Press, Shanghai, China, pp. 95-102.
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Allatson, P. & McCormack, J. 2008, 'Introduction' in Paul Allatson & Jo McCormack (eds), Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities, Rodopi, Amsterdam, New York, pp. 9-32.
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Allatson, P. 2007, 'Introduction' in Key Terms in Latino/a Cultural and Literary Studies, Blackwell Publishing, Carlton, Australia, pp. 1-7.
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Allatson, P. 2004, 'Abraham Rodriguez, Jr' in West-Duran, Alan (eds), Latino and Latina Writers Volume 2, Charles Scribner's Sons Reference Books, Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA, pp. 971-984.
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Allatson, P. 2001, 'Hispanophone Literatures' in John C Hawley (eds), Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, pp. 229-239.
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Book chapters (other)
Allatson, P. 2009, 'Ilan Stavans's Latino USA: A Cartoon History (of a Cosmopolitan Intellectual)' in Hector Fernandez L'Hoeste and Juan Poblete (eds), Redrawing the Nation: National Identity in Latin/o American Comics, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, USA, pp. 227-250.
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Allatson, P. 2007, 'Rimming in the Pacific (A Drift in an Ecstatic Space)' in Stephanie Lawson and Wayne Peake (eds), Globalization and Regionalization: Views from the Pacific Rim, Editorial Centro Universitario De Ciencias Sociales Y Humanidades, University De Guadalajara, Guadalajara Mexico, pp. 265-295.
Allatson, P. 2005, 'A shadowy sequence: Chicana textual/sexual reinventions of Sor Juana' in Mikula M (eds), Women, Activism and Social Change: Stretching Boundaries, Routledge, London, UK and New York, USA, pp. 215-246.
Allatson, P. 2005, 'Benjamin Alire Saenz' in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature vol. 3, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, pp. 1953-1954.
Allatson, P. 2005, 'Cherrie Moraga' in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature vol. 3, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, pp. 1520-1523.
Allatson, P. 2005, 'Guillermo Gomez-Pena' in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature vol. 3, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, pp. 858-859.
Allatson, P. 2005, 'Juan Bruce-Novoa' in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature vol. 3, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, pp. 337-338.
Allatson, P. 2005, 'Mexican American Stereotypes' in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature vol. 3, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, pp. 1484-1487.
Allatson, P. 2005, 'Sheila Ortiz Taylor' in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature vol. 3, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, pp. 1688-1689.
Allatson, P. 2004, 'Foreword' in Susana Chavez-Silverman, Paul Allatson, Silvia D. Spitta, Rafael Campo, Series Editors (eds), Killer Cr??nicas: Bilingual Memories/Memorias Bilingues, by Susana Chavez-Silverman, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, pp. viii-xiii.
Allatson, P. 2002, 'I May Create A Monster: Cherrie Moraga's Transcultural Conundrum' in Teresa Hubel and Neil Brooks (eds), Literature and Racial Ambiguity, Rodopi Press, Amsterdam, NY, pp. 103-121.
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Refereed journal articles
Allatson, P. & Browitt, J. 2008, 'Introducing Hyperworld(s): Language, Culture, and History in the Latin American world(s)', Portal Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 1-23.
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Allatson, P. & Guzman, I.M. 2008, 'The Elian Gonzalez Discursive Template', Journal of Children and Media, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 1-16.
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Allatson, P. 2007, ''Antes cursi que sencilla': Eurovision Song Contests and the Kitsch Drive to Euro-Unity', Culture, Theory and Critique, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 87-98.
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Allatson, P. 2007, ''My Bones Shine in the Dark': AIDS and the De-scription of Chicano Queer in the Work of Gil Cuadros', Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, vol. 32, no. 1 (Spring), pp. 23-52.
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Allatson, P. 2006, 'Ilan Stavans's Latino USA: A Cartoon History (of a Cosmopolitan Intellectual)', Chasqui: revista de literatura latinoamericana, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 21-41.
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Allatson, P. 2006, 'Making Queer for the United States of Empire', Australian Humanities Review, vol. April, no. 28, pp. 1-15.
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Allatson, P. & McCormack, J. 2005, 'Introduction: Exile and Social Transformation', PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 1-18.
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Allatson, P. 2004, 'A shadowy sequence: Chicana textual/sexual reinventions of Sor Juana', Chasqui-Revista De Literatura Latinoamericana, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 3-27.
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Allatson, P. 2004, 'Queer Eye's Primping and Pimping for Empire Et Al', Feminist Media Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 210-213.
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Allatson, P. 2004, 'The Virtualization of Elian Gonzalez', M/C Journal, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 1-7.
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Allatson, P. 2002, ''Memory Mambo' : Cuban Memory, 'American' Mobility, and Achy Obejas's Lesbian Way'', Ciberletras: Revista de critica literaria y de cultura/Journal of Literary Criticism and Culture, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 1-16.
Allatson, P., Lu, Y., Mikula, M.H., Pratt, M. & Le Nevez, A.T. 2002, 'Average Stray Aliens': An Average Australian Conversation on Eurocentrism', Culture, Theory and Critique, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 17-31.
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Allatson, P. 1999, 'Siempre feliz en mi falda': Luis Alfaro's Simulative Challenge', GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 199-230.
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Allatson, P. 1998, '''Historia de Mayta': A Fable of Queer Cleansing'', Revista de Estudios Hispanicos, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 511-535.
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Allatson, P. 1996, 'Confounding Convention: Women in Three Golden Age Plays', Bulletin of the Comediantes, vol. 48, no. Winter, pp. 261-273.
Allatson, P. 1995, 'Policing the Picaresque: 'Lazarillo de Tormes' and 'El buscon' on Trial', Journal of Iberian & Latin American Studies, vol. 1, no. 1-2, pp. 119-127.
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Journal articles
Allatson, P. 2010, 'Review of Silvia Spitta, Misplaced Objects: Migrating Collections and Recollections in Europe and the Americas (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009)', The Comparatist, vol. 34, no. May, pp. 201-207.
Allatson, P. 2009, 'Review of Lynn Stephen, Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2007).', American Ethnologist, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 415-416.
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Allatson, P. 2009, 'Review of Ricardo L. Ortiz, Cultural Erotics in Cuban America (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007)', Latino Studies, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 526-528.
Allatson, P. 2007, ''With What Ass Does the Cockroach Sit?': Carmelita Tropicana, Elian Gonzalez, and the Greater Cuban Closet', Ollantay Theater Magazine, vol. 15, no. 29-30, pp. 67-84.
Allatson, P. 2007, 'Juan Davila: Queering the Trans-Pacific South', Artlink: Australian Contemporary Art Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 16-20.
Allatson, P. 2006, ''Hoy marchamos, manana votamos!': Heeding the U.S.A.'s Latino Future', Dialogue: Journal of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia: Special Section: Lessons from Latin America., vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 44-51.
Allatson, P. 2005, 'Review of Ann Miles, From Cuenca to Queens: An Anthropological Story of Transnational Migration (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2004)', American Anthropologist, vol. 107, no. 2, pp. 300-301.
Allatson, P. 2005, 'Review of Vicki Mayer, Producing Dreams, Consuming Youth: Mexican Americans and Mass Media (New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Rutgers University Press, 2003). In Bulletin of Spanish Studies 82.5 (July 2005): 721-22', Bulletin of Spanish Studies, vol. 82, no. 5, pp. 721-722.
Allatson, P. 2004, 'Review of Milagros Ricourt and Ruby Danta, Hispanas de Queens: Latino Panethnicity in a New York City Neighborhood (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003).', Bulletin of Spanish Studies, vol. 81, no. 2, pp. 258-260.
Allatson, P. 2002, 'Beyond the Hybrid: Notes Against Heterophilic Authoritarianism', Genre Magazine, vol. 22, pp. 191-203.
Allatson, P. 2002, 'The Wounded Body of Proletarian Homosexuality in Pedro Lemebel's 'Loco afan', by Diana Palaversich', Latin American Perspectives, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 99-118.
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Allatson, P. 1996, 'Men and Mettle: Recent Portraits by Rox De Luca', Artlink: Australian Contemporary Art Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 24-26.
Journal editorship
Allatson, P. & Browitt, J. 2008, 'Hyperworld(s): Language, Culture, and History in the Latin American world(s)', Portal Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, vol. 5, no. 1.
Allatson, P. 2006, 'Member International Advisory Board, Latino Studies', Latino Studies, vol. 7, no. 4.
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Allatson, P. 2006, 'Member Nebula Advisory Board', Nebula: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship, vol. 6, no. 3.
Allatson, P. & McCormack, J. 2005, 'Exile and Social Transformation', Portal Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, vol. 2, no. 1.
Allatson, P. 2004, 'Editor Portal Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies', Portal Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies.
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Allatson, P. 2001, '2007', Mexico y la Cuenca del Pacifico (Mexico and the Pacific Rim), vol. 11, no. 31.
Conference papers
Allatson, P. 2009, 'Mario Vargas Llosa, The Fabulist of Queer Cleansing', XXVIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2009.
Allatson, P. 2009, 'Star Spangled Trespass: Anthemic Re-Writing, Sensory Affront and the Latinization of the USA', Terpsichorean Architecture, UTS, Sydney, Australia, September 2009.
Allatson, P. 2008, 'Taco Shop Poet(ic)s: Chicanismo's Neo-Cool or Neo-Nationalism?', Poesia, Baile y Cancion: The Politics, Implications, and Future of Chicana/os' Cultural Production: National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) XXXV Annual Conference, Austin, Texas, USA, March 2008.
Allatson, P. 2008, 'Vernacular Vigilantism: Latin@s and the US Sensorium of Hate', The Popular in Spain, Portugal and Latin America: VIII International Australian and Iberian Studies Association (AILASA) Conference, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, July 2008.
Allatson, P. 2007, 'De Aztlan a Latino USA: Rius, Stavans and the Comic(al) Manipulation of the Chicano/Latino Historical Subject', After the Washington Consensus: Collaborative Scholarship for a New America. XXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Montreal, Canada, September 2007.
Allatson, P. 2007, 'The United States of Empire and the Coalition of the Willing Queer', IIS Workshop on Class and Place: Cosmopolitan Perspectives on a "Grounded Sensorium" [Regimes of the Senses], UTS, Sydney, Australia, December 2007.
Allatson, P. 2006, 'Chili Shitters, Latrinos, Coats: Latino/as and the U.S. Sensorium of Hate', IIS Workshop on Regimes of the Senses: Across Cultures and Histories, UTS, Sydney, Australia, December 2006.
Allatson, P. 2006, 'Fame and the Nation: The Borderline Case of Elian Gonzalez', De-Centering Latin American Studies, XXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 2006.
Allatson, P. 2006, 'The Other Elians: Tracking the New Trans-American Child Celebrity', Hyperworlds: Language, Culture and History: VII International Australian and Iberian Studies Association (AILASA) Conference, UTS, Sydney, Australia, September 2006.
Allatson, P. 2001, 'A Latina Dialectic of Antipathy: Latinidad in Achy Obejas's Memory Mambo', American Literature Association (ALA) Annual Conference, Boston, MA, USA, May 2001.
Published creative work
Allatson, P. 2003, Typicals/Tipicos, Monash University Museum of Art/Museo de Arte Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Melbourne, Australia/Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia, pp. 4-10.
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Broadcasts
Allatson, P. 2007, Latino/Latina, pp. 13-13.
Allatson, P. 2004, Kerry Beats Bush Here (article by Billy Freeman).
Allatson, P. 2003, Catching Up with the Latino Explosion (interview with Ebru Yaman).
Allatson, P. 2003, Latino USA Studies an Australian First.
Allatson, P. 2003, Special Report on 'Latino Today' (interview).
Allatson, P. 2002, Dorothy's Research Makes Horse Sense.
Allatson, P. 2002, What Price the Revolutionary?: May Day Icon Must be Turning in His Grave (article by Adam Poter and Kate Murray).
