https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Patricia_Vilches
Publications:
Books:
2023. Salvador Allende and the Villa San Luis: Icons of the Just City. New York: Palgrave McMillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-18938-8.
2021. Editor and Contributor. Blest Gana at 100. Published by Open Cultural Studies.
Introduction: “Alberto Blest Gana: 100 Years Later,” no. 5, pp. 3-15. https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2021-0003;
Contribution: “Alberto Blest Gana and the Sensory Appeal of Wealth, ” no. 5, pp. 81-95. https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2021-0006.
2020. Editor and Contributor. Negotiating Space in Latin America. Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers. https://brill.com/view/title/55707.
– Selected by Choice 2020 List of Outstanding Academic Titles.
Introduction: “Dis/Locating Space in Latin America.” Negotiating Space in Latin America, ed. Patricia Vilches, 3-18. Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers;
Contribution: “La Moneda in Ruins: The Palace Tomb and Epitaph of Salvador Allende.” Negotiating Space in Latin America, ed. Patricia Vilches, 300-328. Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers.
2018. Editor and Contributor. Mapping Violeta Parra’s Cultural Landscapes. New York: Palgrave McMillan. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319693019.
Introduction: “Con fuerza, Violeta Parra: The Artist and Her Legacy.” Mapping Violeta Parra’s Cultural Landscapes, ed. Patricia Vilches, 1-10. New York: Palgrave McMillan;
Contribution: “Violeta Parra: Her Museum and Carpa as Spaces of Nostalgia.” Mapping Violeta Parra’s Cultural Landscapes, ed. Patricia Vilches, 103-117. New York: Palgrave McMillan.
2017. Blest Gana via Machiavelli and Cervantes: National Identity and Social Order in Chile. Cambridge Scholars.
2007. Editor with Gerald Seaman. And Contributor. Seeking Real Truths: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Machiavelli. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers.
Introduction: “The Enduring Power of Niccolò Machiavelli: An Overview of his Life and Times.” In Seeking Real Truths: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Machiavelli. Eds. Patricia Vilches and Gerald Seaman, 1-18. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers;
Contribution: “The Mask in the Mirror: Nicomaco as an Imprudent Ruler-Prince in the Clizia.” In Seeking Real Truths: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Machiavelli. Eds. Patricia Vilches and Gerald Seaman, 219-244. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers.
Articles:
(Accepted). “Alberto Blest Gana and the Unhappy Endings of Beautiful Men.” Hispanic Review.
2021. “A Portrait of the urban female: Sebastián Lelio’s Gloria and Gloria Bell.” Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinema, vol. 18, no.3, pp. 259-275. https://doi.org/10.1386/slac_00055_1.
2021. “When No Means ‘Yes’ and ‘No.’” Film International, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 124-135. FINT 19.2.
2019. “El tejido de la nación: El orden social, la moda y los accesorios en dos novelas de Alberto Blest-Gana [The Fabric of a Nation: Social Order, Fashion, and Accessories in Two Novels by Alberto Blest Gana]. Anales de Literatura Chilena, no. 32, pp. 35-58.
2019. “Geografías humanas y espacio del Chile moderno en las Décimas de Violeta Parra” [Human Geographies and the Space of the Modern in Violeta Parra’s Décimas]. Artelogie 13. Available: https://journals.openedition.org/artelogie/3098.
2017. “Cervantes, Lizardi, and the Literary Construction of the Mexican Rogue in Don Catrín de la fachenda.” Open Cultural Studies, no. 1, pp. 428–441. Available: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0040.
2017. “Chivalry, Materialism, and the Grotesque in Don Quijote and Alberto Blest Gana’s El ideal de un calavera.” Open Cultural Studies, no. 1: 17-31. Available: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0003.
2016. “Andrés Wood’s Machuca and Violeta Went to Heaven: The Geographical Spaces of Conflict in Chile.” Latin American Perspectives, no. 43.5, pp. 45-61. https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X16651084.
2013. “Violeta se fue a los cielos de Andrés Wood: El naufragio de La Carpa de La Reina.” [Violeta Went to Heaven by Andrés Wood. The Wreckage of the Tent of La Reina] Ed. Rosa Tapia, “Spanish and Latin American Cinema.” Revista Internacional D’Humanitats, no. 29, pp. 63-80. http://www.hottopos.com/rih29/63-80Vilches_REV-RT.pdf.
2013. “Monumental Italians: Machiavelli, Giuseppe Rondizzoni and Chilean Independence.” Forum Italicum, no. 47, pp. 346-363.
2012. “Prudenza as Spectacle: Machiavelli, Cervantes, and Their Leading Ladies.” In The Power of Place. Chasson, Robert Timothy and Thomas J. Sienkewicz, eds., 210-219. Chicago: Associated Colleges of the Midwest.
2011. “Not a Fox but a Lion: A Machiavellian Reading of Chile’s First President, José Miguel Carrera.” M/MLA Journal, no. 44, pp. 123-144.
2010. “Rocín-Antes: La vestimenta y el lujo como referentes de ascendencia social y espacio económico en la nobleza espiritual de Don Quijote y Martín Rivas” [Rocín-Antes: Dressing, Luxury, Upward Mobility and Economic Space in Don Quijote and Martín Rivas] Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, Revised 2010. Available: http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/nd/ark:/59851/bmc086r7.
2010. “Martín Rivas, Maquiavelo y masculinidad decimonónica chilena” [Martín Rivas, Machiavelli and Nineteenth-Century Chilean Masculinity] Anales de Literatura Chilena, no. 13, pp. 69-88.
2010. “Alicia Galaz: Transculturación, Ilusión y Acción humana en poesía” [Transculturation, Illusion, and Human Action in Poetry] Trilce, no. 28, pp. 34-38.
2008. “El cuerpo femenino: Efectos estéticos de política neoliberal y violencia urbana en las Décimas de Violeta Parra.” [The Feminine Body: Aesthetic Effects of Neoliberal Politics and Urban Violence in Violeta Parra’s Décimas] IXQUIC: Revista Hispánica internacional de análisis literario y cultural, no. 9, pp. 61-84.
2008. “‘Una olla de algo más vaca que carnero:’ Espacio socio-económico y conceptos de nacionalismo en Don Quijote y en Don Catrín de la Fachenda de Lizardi” [Una olla de algo más vaca que carnero: Socio-Economic Space and Concepts of Nationalism in Don Quijote and Lizardi’s Don Catrín de la Fachenda] Nueva revista del Pacífico, no. 53, pp. 121-143.
2008. “Pugna en el convento y la cocina: Los recovecos de la fe y la construcción del ‘yo’ femenino en los films Yo la peor de todas y Como agua para chocolate” [Conflict in the Convent and the Kitchen: The Crannies of Faith and the Construction of a feminine ‘I’ in the films I, Worst of All and Like Water for Chocolate] Journal of CEJ (Centro de estudios judaicos), no. 14, pp. 133-148.
2008. “La más bella de Mandalay: Construcciones de la feminidad oriental en dos poemas de Residencia en la tierra de Neruda” [La más bella de Mandalay: Constructions of Oriental Femininity in two Poems of Residencia en la tierra by Neruda] In Moros en la costa: Orientalismo en Latinoamérica. Ed. and Intro. Nagy-Zekmi, Silvia, 201-216. Madrid, Spain; Frankfurt, Germany; Iberoamericana; Vervuert.
2006. “El paraíso perdido: La ausencia, el destierro, y la memoria en la poética de Pedro Lastra” [Lost Paradise: Absence, Exile, and Memory in the Poetics of Pedro Lastra] In Arte de vivir: Acercamientos críticos a la poesía de Pedro Lastra. Eds. Silvia Nagy-Zekmi and Luis Correa, 61-80. Santiago, Chile: RIL Editores.
2005. “Rocín-Antes:” La vestimenta, el lujo, y lo material como referentes de ascendencia social y espacio económico en la nobleza espiritual de Don Quijote y Martín Rivas” [Rocín-Antes: Dressing, Luxury, Upward Mobility and Economic Space in Don Quijote and Martín Rivas] Nueva revista del Pacífico, no. 50, pp. 157-176.
2004. “Is It Your Border or Mine? Linguistic Borders, Identity, and Subjectivity, in Mexican, Mexican-American and Dominican Fiction and Film.” CIBERLETRAS 11 Available: http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/v11/vilches2.html.
2004. “De Violeta Parra a Víctor Jara y Los Prisioneros: Recuperación de la memoria colectiva e identidad cultural a través de la música comprometida” [From Violeta Parra to Víctor Jara and Los Prisioneros: Recuperation of Collective Memory and Cultural Identity through Protest Song] Latin American Music Review/Revista de Música Latinoamericana, vol 25, no. 2, pp.195-215.
2004. “Cuerpo de mujer, grandes colinas: La subjetividad femenina como geografía ecológica en la poesía de Pablo Neruda” [Cuerpo de mujer, grandes colinas: Feminine Subjectivity as Ecological Geography in the Poetry of Pablo Neruda] Ed. Luis Correa-Díaz. “Neruda, 100 años.” Sophia Austral, no. 9, pp. 51-57.
2003. “Un río para dos mares: El río y el mar como verdugos/redentores de la subjetividad afro-cubana en La Quinta de los Molinos de Nancy Morejón” [Un río para dos mares: The River and the Sea as executioners/redeemers of Afro-Cuban Subjectivity in La Quinta de los Molinos by Nancy Morejón] Nueva revista del Pacífico no. 48, pp. 217-231.
2003. “La violencia pública/íntima hacia la subjetividad del cuerpo femenino en Julia Álvarez y Rosario Ferré” [Public/Private Violence Toward the Feminine Body in Julia Álvarez and Rosario Ferré] Taller de Letras, no. 32, pp. 99-112.
1999. “The Delegate Womb: Lucrezia’s Body as Political Tool in Machiavelli’s La Mandragola.” American Journal of Italian Studies, no. 22, pp. 99-125.
1999. “Pinochet: The International Community Will Judge His Legacy.” Out of Line (A Paff Haus Press publication featuring writings on issues of peace and social justice) (Spring/Summer), pp. 13-18.
1994. “Christopher Columbus’s Voyage: A modo diverso of Perceiving the World,” in Publications of the International Conference on the Word and World of Discovery in Literature and the Visual Arts, pp. 134-144.
1990. “Carlo Emilio Gadda: Lector-espectador de la Celestina” [Carlo Emilio Gadda: Reader-Spectator of Celestina, Celestinesca, no. 14.2, pp. 93-96.
Book Reviews (Selected):
2019. Dillon, Lorna, Editor. Violeta Parra: Life and Work (London: Tamesis, 2017). Bulletin of Spanish Studies. XCVI.3. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2019.1595821.
2018. Palacios, Antonia. Ana Isabel: A Respectable Girl. Translated by RoseAnna Mueller (Montreal: Universitas Press, 2016). Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades no. 43.2, pp. 221-222.
2005. Canova, Mauro. Le lacrime di Minerva: Lungo I sentieri della commedia e della tragedia a Padova, Venezia e Ferrara tra il 1540 e il 1550. (Torino: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2002). The Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies, no. XXXVI/2, pp. 556-558.
2005, Bondanella, Julia Conaway and Peter Bondanella, Editors. Niccolò Machiavelli Discourses on Livy. (New York: Oxford World’s Classics, 2003). The Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies no. XXXVI/1, pp. 265-267.
2004. Gauderman, Kimberly. Women’s Lives in Colonial Quito: Gender, Law, and Economy in Spanish America. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003). The Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies no. XXXV/4, pp. 1246-1247.
2004, Sacchetti, Maria Alberta. Cervantes’ Los Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda: A Study of Genre. (Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 2001). The Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies, (Summer), pp. 518-520.
2002. Correa-Díaz, Luis. Todas las muertes de Pinochet según Pedro Gómez Valderrama: Notas literarias para una biografía crítica (Muncie, Indiana: Ball State University Press, 2000). Taller de Letras. Santiago, Chile: PU Católica de Chile, pp. 191-194.