Timothy Wilson
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Office: Gruening 606C
Phone: (907) 474-5463
Email: tim.wilson@alaska.edu
Bio
Timothy D. Wilson is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Alaska Fairbanks whose work centers on music and identity in Latin America. He specializes in Argentina and holds a PhD in Argentine literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Doctor Wilson is known for his work on Argentine rock music and dictatorship, and his research interests in cultural studies are in the areas of government-sponsored terror and popular cultures of resistance. He can be reached at tim.wilson@alaska.edu.
Recent Publications
Wilson, Timothy. “Starmakers: Dictators, Songwriters, and the Negotiation of Censorship in the Argentine Dirty War.” A Contracorriente . 6.1 (2008): 50-75.
Wilson, Timothy. “ Argentina’s Proceso: Societal Reform through Premeditated Terror.” The Development of Institutions of Human Rights: A Comparative Study. Eds. Lilian Barria and Steven Roper. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Wilson, Timothy and Favoretto, Mara. “’Entertaining’ the Notion of Change: The Transformative Power of Performance in Argentine Pop.” Popular Entertainment Studies. October, 2010.
Wilson, Timothy and Favoretto, Mara. “Actuar para (sobre)vivir: Rock nacional y cumbia villera—algo más que shows”. Studies in Latin American Popular Culture. June 2011.
Forthcoming
“Identidades ambiguas en la música de Kevin Johansen: la no-ciudadanía del dadaísmo subtropical” in December 2011 in the journal Ciberletras.
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